The Bridge

@StrixVaria It's the principle of the thing. I also don't like having no control over my own saves. Also, D2 is one of the games I enjoyed playing a lot while I was at home at my parents' place visiting. I could fire up my laptop and play whenever I wanted. Can't do that with D3.

Frank

Looks like Wallers are back to stacking on the player.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Doesn't stop like everybody else from not doing that.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice huh?

GnomeSlice

6:09 PM

But I guess hacking in an online game is a concern.

FAE

I didn't get SimCity either because it was always online (among many other reasons).

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Most games aren't always-online.

But I guess hacking in an online game is a valid concern.

An offline mode wouldn't hurt them though.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria I don't get it either, but at least she's stuck to her principle instead of buying it and still complaining.

Sterno

I'm watching Thor 2. Anthony Hopkins looks so ridiculous with an eyepatch.

FAE

@Sterno You can't be Odin without a missing eye, man!

Frank

6:13 PM

@StrixVaria There's also the whole, "Treating your customers like dirty pirates" angle that I don't like.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice It could, if it made piracy easier. With that said, I agree they should have added in an offline only mode.

Sterno

I'm a clean pirate.

Wipqozn

I agree with your conclusion, just not with your reasoning.

and this is the internet zeus damn it, so if can argue I will!

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Good enough for me.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria In my dream world, Ladder will have free trading.

Sterno

6:15 PM

In @Wipqozn's dream world, @badp is a Lady Sniffer.

FAE

@Wipqozn I'd potentially get it if there were an offline mode. I can't remember if they've changed the issues I had with RealID.

Sterno

@FAE Console version is offline and surprisingly fun.

GnomeSlice

@Sterno There's a console version?

Which consoles?

Xbox 360?

Origami Robot

@Sterno And full of hacked content!

Sterno

@GnomeSlice PS3 and Xbox360. Probably PS4 and Xbone too

StrixVaria

6:16 PM

Debating whether to get the console version of D3 to play while I exercise.

Wipqozn

@Sterno I'm pretty sure @badp is a Lady Sniffer in RL too. I could just be making things up though.

Yuki

Not sure if I'm remembering correctly, but weren't offline/online characters in D2 completely separate?

GnomeSlice

@Sterno Ooo. This is relevant to my interests.

StrixVaria

Or if I should try to jury-rig up some kind of way to ride a stationary bike and play PC D3 at the same time.

FAE

@Sterno I tend to dislike any game with heavy inventory management on console though.

Frank

6:17 PM

@Yuki Which is exactly how it should be.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria There are other games that are probably better to play while exercising

StrixVaria

@Yuki They were.

Sterno

@FAE Yeah. They helped it some by lowering the number of drops but making them better. But yeah.

FAE

@Sterno Also irked me that consoles get offline but PC doesn't. :/

Sterno

Particularly if you're playing with other people and you all have to take turns doing it

StrixVaria

6:17 PM

@GnomeSlice I need a game that holds my attention well and has high replayability, but that doesn't require a ton of thought.

Diablo 3 is literally perfect.

I challenge you to come up with a better suggestion.

FAE

@Sterno You have to take turns at the vendor?

Sterno

@FAE Yeah

Origami Robot

@FAE The fact that console is heavily hacked will on strengthen Blizzard's argument.

FAE

@StrixVaria ARPGs in general are good for this, I find.

@Sterno Ew.

Yuki

Dark Souls 2 in two weeks. So excited...

Origami Robot

6:18 PM

@Yuki Not PC. yawn

Yuki

Wait, it's coming out for consoles first, right?

Not so excited anymore...

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria Civ V on a tablet or set-up with a controller. It requires a lot of thought thus making time go by really quickly nad BAM, you just exercised for 2 hours without realizing it.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria Risk of Rain

Frank

@OrigamiRobot They also have control of their own save games.

FEichinger

yawn Evening.

StrixVaria

6:20 PM

@OrigamiRobot PC games are tough to play from the bike, since it's not positioned right and the screen is significantly smaller than the TV.

Lazers

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Q: How do I stop the AIs from being hypocrites?

For example, they get mad at you when you ask them to stop spying at them, and also get mad when you catch one of their spies. They get mad when you vote against their propositions and vote against yours all the time. They spread their religion all the time but doing the same to them gets them ma...

civilization-5

Frank

And it's not like they have a ranked mode at all, anyways.

FAE

@StrixVaria Do you have an HTPC or anything?

StrixVaria

Seriously, @GnomeSlice, if you can come up with a console game to play from a stationary bike that's a better fit than D3, I'll buy you a game on Steam.

Frank

Or any sort of incentive TO hack.

Wipqozn

6:20 PM

Also, can you play D3 with a controller on PC? you might be able to do some craziness and get a cord going through your house to a TV in your excercise room.

StrixVaria

@FAE I don't know what HTPC means.

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn No

Wipqozn

so you can have your pc going on the tv.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria I don't know what kind of games you like

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria Home Theater PC

StrixVaria

6:21 PM

@OrigamiRobot I still don't know what this means.

FAE

@StrixVaria I shall take that as a no!

StrixVaria

In theory I could probably connect my computer to the TV using an HDMI cable.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria A PC you put movies and shows on instead of buying cable and you hook it up to a big TV

Braiam

@StrixVaria a PC dedicated/to be used as home theater...

StrixVaria

But the Mouse/Keyboard input while riding a bike is really the bigger challenge.

FAE

6:22 PM

@StrixVaria No wired 360 controller?

(For PC I mean)

StrixVaria

@FAE Doesn't work with D3 for PC.

I do have one, though.

FAE

Well I meant for potentially other games.

Origami Robot

3 mins ago, by Origami Robot

@StrixVaria Risk of Rain

Sterno

Time for more D3

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Tower-Bloxx-Deluxe/…

@StrixVaria marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Trials-HD/…

FAE

6:23 PM

@GnomeSlice He'd break something.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria What kind of games do you like?

@FAE Heh.

I love Trials

FAE

@GnomeSlice I don't think that's a @Strix game.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts n' Bolts

It's actually a really fun game on its own merit

I haven't played my Xbox in a long time

I should.

@StrixVaria Minecraft Xbox edition.

@StrixVaria Megabyte Punch

...actually I think that one is PC only.

StrixVaria

You are failing so hard.

GnomeSlice

But you can use a controller, so...

StrixVaria

6:27 PM

I have 400+ hours in D3.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria I'm used to it.

StrixVaria

Do any of these games come close to 400+ hours of gameplay?

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Play another game.

@StrixVaria Minecraft, probably.

Yuki

Modern art is so silly.

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice The point is to get one game that will last me for a long time.

GnomeSlice

6:27 PM

Also I probably have a few hundred in Banjo Kazooie

StrixVaria

Also I hate Minecraft.

Minecraft is not a game.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Eh, depends on what you do with it.

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice There are literally no objectives, no goals, and no rewards.

It is a sandbox.

GnomeSlice

Make your own goals.

StrixVaria

I don't even know how they are able to add content to Minecraft as slowly as they do.

GnomeSlice

6:29 PM

Heh

@StrixVaria They're too busy out buying supercars and models

FAE

@GnomeSlice Some people don't do well with sandbox games.

FEichinger

@Yuki "You know, if it looks like trash, maybe it shouldn't be an exhibit."

Chippies

I wish I could have stayed with D3 longer than I did. Lack of any endgame goals made the game into a boring grindfest

FAE

@FEichinger ~art~

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Well, if you like D3 so much, then probably get it on consoles and play it again while you work out.

You'll have to start over though, won't you?

StrixVaria

6:30 PM

@GnomeSlice Which is what I said in the first place.

Yeah but I like starting over.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria I didn't realize how much you liked it.

FEichinger

@FAE And that right there is why I am absolutely not an art person.

Chippies

D3 on consoles is so much more fun

GnomeSlice

You probably won't like anything I can suggest as much.

@StrixVaria What about Skyrim?

StrixVaria

I have like 120ish hours in Skyrim.

It definitely gave me a lot more entertainment than most games to, but I'm bored of it now.

Chippies

6:32 PM

mmo's are good

StrixVaria

I feel like the worst gamer, because most games I play for 10 minutes and then never touch again.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Get Crackdown, Crackdown 2, and/or Just Cause 2

Wipqozn

@Chippies It needs to be something that plays well with a controller.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria I do that too... it sucks.

StrixVaria

Then every 5 years a game will come out that I'll play for hundreds and hundreds of hours.

GnomeSlice

6:32 PM

I used to always play my games to completion.

Before I started PC gaming.

Chippies

@Wipqozn oh, I missed that part...

StrixVaria

I've been pretty good about finishing games on my 3DS recently, but that's because I have 2 hours every day where I can either do literally nothing, or play games on my 3DS.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria Play Super Hostile Maps by Vechs

GnomeSlice

I have hundreds of hours in the Crackdown games.

Wipqozn

@Chippies He wants a game to play while he exercises.

GnomeSlice

6:33 PM

Also Crackdown will motivate you to get in shape.

FAE

@FEichinger Haha, I am an art person, but I'm cognizant enough to recognize that some stuff is just pretension for pretension's sake.

James

Drat

GnomeSlice

Because you're a dude who can lift cars.

James

I hate it when an unanswered question of mine starts giving me badges for view counts

Wipqozn

@FAE Like that girl who put a ca- wait, I'd rather not scar everyone for life.

GnomeSlice

6:34 PM

@StrixVaria

►

Chippies

Dark Souls plays well with a controller and can be played for a long long long time...

doubt you'd do any good at it while exercising, but hey...

FAE

@Chippies Not @Strix's kind of game.

GnomeSlice

Crackdown is pretty much the only one I can recommend that you might actually like.

It's so fun

StrixVaria

How did TPP finish Victory Road in less time than they spent on the ledge trying to get into the 8th gym?

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn I already know what you mean T_T

Wipqozn

6:35 PM

@StrixVaria Democracy.

@OrigamiRobot I made sure I wrote just enough so anyone who heard about it would know what I meant.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Mass Effect.

I've heard it's pretty good.

Wipqozn

Seriously, I hate democracy mode. It should be only be turned on if they get stuck at something for a long time. Not always an option which people put on after 30 minutes.

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn I HAD REPRESSED THAT YOU JERK

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot You're welcome.

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn I saw it.

StrixVaria

6:36 PM

Oh fuck all trains to NJ from NYPenn are canceled today.

How the fuck am I going to get home?

Wipqozn

Being stuck at that ledge for a few days after the third gym was hilarious.

@StrixVaria can your wife pick you up?

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn lol my wife driving to NYC.

That will literally never happen.

Wipqozn

Also, you could stay in a hotel overnight and take atrain tomorrow night?

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria brt

Wipqozn

Expensive, but better than sleeping on the street.

FAE

6:37 PM

@StrixVaria D: No warning?

StrixVaria

@FAE There's a drawbridge stuck open.

FAE

@StrixVaria Damn.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Charter a plane

Wipqozn

surely the Google Offices must have some sort of sleep over den.

They have 12 gyms or something.

They must have a bed.

Or a car you can borrow. Or a helicopter.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria If you're into tactics games: ninjabee.com/games/bandofbugs

Looks like it has online multiplayer.

Origami Robot

6:39 PM

SHUT UP ESO I DON'T WANT TO PLAY YOU

Wipqozn

I'm totally rocking out in the office to the system shock 2 soundtrack.

Dancing in my chair. It's awesomely fantastic.

GnomeSlice

Speaking of rad game soundtracks, has anybody bought Super Motherload yet?

supermotherload.bandcamp.com

Game is at the top of my Steam wishlist.

FAE

@GnomeSlice @SaintWacko did.

GnomeSlice

Do want

@FAE Oh yeah, I remember that.

I forgot.

The soundtrack is seriously excellent.

I may end up buying it before the game

Chippies

@GnomeSlice is Super Motherload a sequel/remake/whatever of that digging game?

Wipqozn

6:42 PM

@GnomeSlice I'm not sure what that is, but I bet the system shock 2 one is better.

GnomeSlice

@Chippies Yes.

@Chippies supermotherload.com

Chippies

@GnomeSlice cool! waits for it to get bundled

GnomeSlice

It's on Steam now.

@Chippies Probably never going to happen.

I sugg'd it on IGS knowing full well it won't happen.

Chippies

@GnomeSlice it's 10% off RIGHT NOW. It's gonna get bundled.

GnomeSlice

@Chippies Launch discount.

Chippies

6:44 PM

@GnomeSlice everything gets bundled.

I learned it the hard way

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Dungeon Defenders can become a pretty big time sink too.

@Chippies Minecraft.

Origami Robot

3

Chippies

@GnomeSlice mostly kids play Minecraft

GnomeSlice

@Chippies Is that relevant somehow

Chippies

@GnomeSlice everything is relevant. Didn't you learn physics?

GnomeSlice

6:46 PM

@StrixVaria Phantasy Star Universe

@Chippies I think you meant 'Relative'.

Chippies

@GnomeSlice that's irrelevant.

GnomeSlice

You're irrelative

Chippies

You're relatively irrelevant.

5

GnomeSlice

@Chippies =[

Chippies

@GnomeSlice I'm sorry =[

GnomeSlice

6:47 PM

@Chippies How do I make a tank in Blender

Chippies

@GnomeSlice make a rectangular prism

then add another one on top of it, but make it smaller

GnomeSlice

A master kendo sensei discusses how timeless notions of stillness and movement come together through the modern lens of Japanese sword fighting.

Chippies

then add a cylinder

DONE!

GnomeSlice

How the fuck do you even make a shape

I hate Blender

Chippies

I told you so.

GnomeSlice

6:51 PM

I decided in school to never ever do 3D again.

Now I remember why.

I'm also not motivated enough to learn any of this shit

Chippies

I decided in University to never ever do University.

GnomeSlice

That was probably a bad move.

Chippies

You face is a bad move =[

GnomeSlice

=[

Chippies

University is stupid though

GnomeSlice

6:52 PM

Super Springbreak Speedboat Hero SD is dead =[

Chippies

I do have a software technician diploma though

if I didn't, I'd probably be kinda forced to do university

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria You can also get Torchlight on XBLA

FAE

@GnomeSlice No mods though on console, neh?

GnomeSlice

@FAE Eh, I've never used mods on PC either.

Game is perfectly acceptable out of the box.

Ben Brocka

dammit I missed them exiting victory road

let me guess, democracy the whole way through

Wipqozn

6:58 PM

@FAE Most games don't have mods on consoles though, so it's kind of a moot point.

Torchlight is good, so I second it as a recommendation.

FAE

@Wipqozn Well I mean mostly that Torchlight's got a lot of good mods and is made to be mod-friendly.

Wipqozn

Yeah, but this is for helping @StrixVaria find a game to kill time with on a cycle bike.

Doesn't need a bunch of mods.

FAE

I didn't use too many, but QoL ones for like increasing Potion stack size were really really nice.

Yuki

Well, I just found my least-favorite depiction of Captain America.

GnomeSlice

The LEGO Movie producer is making a Minecraft film

Yuki

7:03 PM

It's especially galling when you find this comic.

badp

Achievement unlocked: find 17-pages "paper" from 7 years ago, do not barf on it

GnomeSlice

@Yuki wtf

Yuki

@GnomeSlice The first one's Ultimates, the second one's probably main universe.

Yeah. American comics are messed up.

Unionhawk

@Yuki To be fair, given that he's an American from the World War II era, it fits his character.

Yuki

@Unionhawk Yeah, it's like he's literally going against himself: "I hate it when people call the French 'pussies'." "You think I'm gonna surrender like a French pussy?"

badp

7:06 PM

What version of Dropbox are you guys running?

GnomeSlice

@badp The one on the website

badp

I've got 2.6.6 on Ubuntu but I think it's fairly broken.

Ben Brocka

@Yuki the different universes occasionally have very different interpretations of characters

Yuki

@BenBrocka Yeah, I understand that. It's just so... ugh.

I can't explain it.

Lazers

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Q: How are diseases spread?

My village of about 350 was short on laborers for my new expansion, so I accepted 30 nomads in the town hall. Almost immediately, there was a cholera outbreak. I was not worried, as I'd dealt with diseases successfully before, and I had two hospitals with physicians and plenty of herbs. However t...

banished

badp

7:09 PM

@GnomeSlice "The one on the website" is 1.6.0, you unhelpful person.

GnomeSlice

@badp I mean I just use it in browser.

badp

Okay; dear people who have the Dropbox client installed: what version is it?

Chippies

@badp where does it say version number?

Origami Robot

@Yuki The Ultimates universe is really messed up.

Chippies

I can't seem to find it

badp

7:11 PM

@Chippies In the settings, I think

Chippies

2.4.11, it's in account tab

Origami Robot

List of people I know to have engaged in cannibalism in the Ultimates:
The Blob
Sabertooth
Magneto

badp

Thanks

Grace Note

Switch video back on, Zapdos is using Take Down on a Cloyster. Hooboy.

Ben Brocka

@OrigamiRobot Hulk too

badp

7:12 PM

Well I guess that means that as broken as my Dropbox setup is, it's still doing auto-updates

Origami Robot

@BenBrocka Yep, forgot that one.

Ben Brocka

Magneto, really? I don't recall that part

Grace Note

Oh, that is indeed not just any Cloyster. This is the E4. I thought they had their own battle music but I guess not at this gen.

Yuki

Chippies

I don't even see an option to enable/disable automatic updates in Dropbox... Maybe mine's so old it didn't have that...

MBraedley

7:15 PM

@Yuki hehe

badp

@Chippies There probably isn't one

Grace Note

...ouch.

Ben Brocka

I miss black Cloyster. I get the Jynx change but changing Cloyster was dumb

badp

but for some reason Dropbox is not behaving as it should on my copy of Ubuntu, so I was wondering.

@GraceNote What happen !

Origami Robot

@BenBrocka Black pearls are things.

Chippies

7:16 PM

@badp I'm on windows, so I can't help you with that :>

Grace Note

@badp Pidgeot made a brave effort with Sky Attack on Lapras but it wasn't a kill, so double Blizzard KO'd

badp

@Chippies Ha! Joke's on you. You already helped!

Grace Note

Prior, though, Pidgeot did use Mirror Move to Doubleslap Jynx to death.

Frank

Runners are the worst. Even after their tweaking.

Chippies

@badp dammit! I didn't want to help!

badp

7:17 PM

@GraceNote What you say !

Grace Note

It's all up to OMASTAR now.

badp

Were they going again at the Elite Four?

Grace Note

To take down a Lapras with a bit over 50 HP

Yeah, apparently.

badp

Do these four respawn?

Grace Note

Yes, you have to make it through all four

badp

7:18 PM

Hm.

Grace Note

TPKO and we failed to even get past Lorelei.

Almost made it but no, we didn't make it.

badp

I'll watch xkeeper's "instant replay"

Ben Brocka

they have to make it through 5 actually

Yuki

►

... What the actual f--k.

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Well, yeah, there's that too

GnomeSlice

7:19 PM

@Wipqozn Ping me when you get home.

I got you something.

badp

@Yuki Good ole TASes

Ben Brocka

This will probably take longer than the ledge + victory road. Democracy or no

This team would be iffy with a human controlling it (especially with, effectively, no items)

What level is lapras? Is she doomed?

Grace Note

56

Ben Brocka

what?! when did that happen?

Oh I meant our lapras not lorelei's

Grace Note

Oh, you mean our Lapras

36

Wait, no, 36 is ATV. Lapras is 27

43 for Omastar, 49 for the Fonz, 66 for Pidgeot, 67 for Zapdos

Ben Brocka

7:26 PM

Oh, ATV and Lapras will never get experience here then. Probably not omastar either due to lorelei

Should probably grind in the end era of victory road

Grace Note

Here we go, Zapdos is using Thundershock

Ben Brocka

well Zapdos will get good xp at least

Grace Note

68 now. Also Lapras gained a level from switch mania against a sleeping Dewgong

But now we're derping with Take Down on Lapras and we might lose AA-j

Ben Brocka

did lapras get ice beam?

Grace Note

Blizzard

Oh, ours? No

Surf, Sing, Strength, Mist

Powerlord

7:30 PM

►

o_O

Grace Note

We mirror'd Blizzard and now Lapras is wiping everyone out again.

Though he's whiffing Hydro Pump (a lot more than he ever whiffed Blizzard, geez)

Ben Brocka

stupid bulky lapras

Powerlord

...so, are we liveblogging the TwitchTV Pokemon stream now or something?

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord Have been for some time.

Ben Brocka

and have been off and on for like two weeks

Powerlord

7:33 PM

You realize that my statement had (what I thought was an obvious) implicit "why" in there.

GnomeSlice

store.steampowered.com/app/65710

Lmao at the user reviews

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Can't see it. Stupid work block.

GnomeSlice

Lazers

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Q: How do you get the different color birds in flappy bird?

I personally am terrible at the game, but my friend has a knack for it, he is really frustrated that he can't get the other color bird(s), Why?

flappy-bird

Powerlord

...did I really make such a dumb mistake as the one I see here?

GnomeSlice

7:40 PM

►

Powerlord

if (GetForwardFunctionCount(myForward) == 0)
{
RemoveFromTrie(myForward, voteCommand);

Forwards and Tries are different data types. >_<

I'm... um... not working on TF2 stuff at work or something

(Incidentally, this is why I dislike working with non-typed languages)

Lazers

0

Q: Can you turn off the light bar detection feedback?

In Thief on Playstation 4, the controller's light bar lights up heavily when the player moves into light. I find this very annoying. Is there any way to turn off this feedback? I know that the controller light itself can not be turned off completely and I don't want to do that, but the feedback ...

ps4 thief

fredley

10/10

Frank

Dammit. Can't use use in my PHP. Version's too old.

Ben Brocka

Oh wow they reached the second fight already

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