The Bridge

Chippies

14:00

driving with keyboard is horrible and mouse feels kinda weird on foot

Ben Brocka

Consoles being jaggy is last gen...unless you're Wolfenstein

Powerlord

Incidentally, what's the point of using PhoneGap instead of Apache Cordova directly?

Chippies

all the menus are not optimized for mouse use

all the menus treat your mouse as an analog stick

Ben Brocka

That's actually why I'm pretty disappointed--been impressed with PS4's image quality

@Chippies augh I hate that

Chippies

and it's very inconsistent, there's a cursor in some menus, and no cursor in others

the main menu makes the mouse incredibly sensitive

Ben Brocka

14:01

Does Ubi usually do bad ports? I thought this was due to stop. Dead Space 3 and BL2 were far superior ports to prior games (too bad DS3 sucked as a game)

Chippies

it's a big slap in the face for PC gamers, imho

Ben Brocka

I assume precise aiming is'nt that important outside of shooting anyway though?

Chippies

@BenBrocka I guess not, but it's still quite lame

moving cameras with the mouse is kinda annoying as well, because their movement speed is limited

so you end up having to move the mouse more than you intended to

Ben Brocka

Yeah, it is, though I personally don't mind using a gamepad in most anything not first person/cursor based. TPS is sort of a toss up

Chippies

it's playable with mouse and keyboard, but it's clearly optimized for gamepad

Ben Brocka

14:04

but that's a pretty BS reason to need a gamepad--I usually only use one when controls are more comfortable on gad (platformers, shmups)

Dishonored is also surprisingly hard to play on pad, despite not requiring too much aiming (depending on playstyle I guesss)

Chippies

yeah, I dislike having to use gamepads in anything that has shooting of any sorts

Ben Brocka

then again I have like 40 hours of mouse play on record so maybe that's why

Chippies

I tried Dishonored with gamepad for like 5 minutes and never tried it again

Lazers

0

Q: What determines if a "Street Pass" goes to your town?

So I just got my first 3DS and I'm kind of shaky on how it all works, so pardon my terminology. I want to get more workers for my town in Bravely-Default. I got something like 15 "passes" yesterday but no workers were added to my town. Then when I got to my friend's place, he was added to my town...

bravely-default

Chippies

I only use gamepads if I really have to

and in Watch Dogs I had to

at least it went well with my 25 fps console++ experience :D

Ben Brocka

14:06

I prefer gamepad for everything but reticle aiming. I like the mouse, but I dont' like keyboard as input

StrixVaria

Aiming with a joystick is the worst.

Mouse + joystick best movement.

Chippies

I prefer keyboard where precision is important

I can't play precision platformers with a gamepad for example

but that could be because I don't have a gamepad with a good d-pad

Ben Brocka

Really? I find keys much much worse for platformers, especially where 8 directional movement is a thing

StrixVaria

@Chippies Keyboards are digital, though. So for example in a platformer with a keyboard you are either running or not moving. With a joystick there may be varying speeds depending on how far you press the joystick.

Ben Brocka

Oh, if you're using a 360 pad that's why

worst d pad ever

Chippies

14:08

@StrixVaria that's why I only prefer gamepads in 3rd person brawlers or driving games

but I don't even mind driving with a keyboard in most games

StrixVaria

Driving with a keyboard is pretty bad.

Ben Brocka

oh yeah, kb/m is no good for driving

Chippies

@StrixVaria I have mastered the art of tapping

I've played NFSU and NFSU2 a lot when I didn't own a gamepad

Ben Brocka

I haven't had a driving wheel since PS2 though (and it was abandoned I never even used it...)

Chippies

I've used a wheel, but I suck with it

I'm better with keyboard, lol

Origami Robot

14:10

@StrixVaria BEN HECK MADE AN ANALOG KEYBOARD

WELL, WASD WERE ANALOG

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot That's interesting.

Ben Brocka

Speaking of, Driveclub sounds good. Literally. Sound effects.

@OrigamiRobot like pressure sensitive or what? My main problem with WASD is you can't roll your finger along diagonals properly, plus I don't like the shape as much. Much prefer a good Nintendo or (recent) playstation d pad

wiimote and gamecube d pad need not apply

Origami Robot

benheck.com/11-25-2012/…

Ben Brocka

blocked by work

Origami Robot

►

@BenBrocka HALL EFFECT SENSORS

Ben Brocka

14:15

@OrigamiRobot Ooo that looks nice...but I wonder if it works well along with mouse though. Borderlands 2 sees that a controller is plugged it and basically forces you into gamepad mode (by hiding the mouse cursor! AUGH)

StrixVaria

@BenBrocka The first time I launched Borderlands (the first one), I had a DDR pad plugged into my computer, and it would only accept input from that.

It took a while to figure that out, actually.

Ben Brocka

I wonder if they make gaming keypad things that let you do that

@StrixVaria if I left my PS3 pad in it would let me use the mouse, but the mouse was invisible. Sorta the worst way to do it

Origami Robot

I SAW SOMEONE TRY TO PLAY SOME SHOOTER WITH A GUITAR HERO CONTROLLER.

IIRC, STAR POWER WAS THE TRIGGER

Ben Brocka

SSFII Turbo at dawn, with DDR mats

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot That's the best.

Private Pansy

14:18

@StrixVaria Playing a shooter by dancing sounds... interesting

Origami Robot

OF COURSE, THERE WAS NO CAMERA CONTROL

Ben Brocka

@PrivatePansy first person dancer

Introducing Sticks to the Sonic Boom franchise! Get to know Sticks at http://bit.ly/TVtWio #sonicboom http://t.co/ZM5s3EZfSQ

Tweeted by SEGA on May 29, 2014 at 2:00 PM

new, gross, sonic character

(that or it's not new and I'm just out of the loop, could be either)

Origami Robot

BACK IN MY DAY, EGGMAN WAS CALLED ROBOTNIK

GET OFF MY LAWN

Ben Brocka

yeah even if it's the original name I hate "Eggman", robotnik is simply a far better name

Lazers

0

Q: League of legends leona

I just bought Leona as my new support in league of legends and I don't really know a lot about her. I need to know the rune page and the masteries for her. I even need some tips and tricks which I can do with Leona.

league-of-legends

Ben Brocka

14:35

Exciting news! From now on we will now be offering 2 games per platform on PlayStation Plus! http://t.co/aU3Ac1fKbg

Tweeted by Envisager_ on May 29, 2014 at 2:29 PM

agent86

@wipqozn is creepy

2

Lazers

0

Q: King Quest 6 alphabet translator?

I recently bought the entire Kings Quest game pack for Windows XP, and the game did not come with the owners manual. I cannot solve the part that requires the alphabet translator on the Isle of the Sacred Mountain w/out it (In Kings Quest 6, To Heir is Human). I am specifically looking for the pa...

king-quest sierra

Private Pansy

14:52

Comixology is giving away Lumberjanes #1 for free today! What the junk!

GnomeSlice

A Valley Without Wind | 0KNP9-XQJ2X-LARV9

fredley

@agent86 @Wipqozn has a freakishly long neck

agent86

here's a cat gif to soften the blow of @wipqozn's creepy neck

GnomeSlice

Today's Listening | classical/acoustic piano

CC @Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz Hahahahahahahahaha

Lazers

15:11

0

Q: Gearing your Templar with class opposite?

When leveling a new character as a INT based class (Witch Doctor, Wizard, Etc...) how does one go about gearing the Template? Since Loot 2.0 and Smartloot it's not as easy to get stat gear for something besides your main stat. So doesn't that make it very difficult to gear someone like the Templa...

diablo-3

0

Q: Invading a friend while he is playing

I would love to do a hack or trail mission against one of my friends. How can I invade a friends game?

watch-dogs

0

Q: Sprinting in Watch_Dogs

Is there a way to sprint in Watch_Dogs? It seems that different NPC's run with different speed and some of them are just way faster than other ones. I noticed it after knocking out a few criminals(side missions?). The first few were really easy to chase and knock out, however after some time, th...

watch-dogs

Ben Brocka

@agent86 it looks so alarmed when it starts attacking it

Yuuki

15:30

What does it say about the maker when a pizza tastes better cold than it does hot and fresh out of the oven?

fredley

@Yuuki I blame your tastebuds

@Yuuki Sort your tongue out

Yuuki

I blame it on the pizza maker being terrible. And a chain.

user15026

@Yuuki Then either the pizza is broken or your tastebuds are

user15026

because cold pizza is yuck

fredley

Reheated pizza can occasionally be better than original for sufficiently low-quality pizza

I'm sure @badp can educate us in exactly how wrongly we're doing pizza though

Ben Brocka

15:36

I...kind of hope there's no sufficiently bad pizza to satisfy that criteria

Yuuki

I just had an altogether bad experience with pizza yesterday.

Ben Brocka

unless it was like, undercooked the first time

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice listened to a few seconds of this. Seems nice, but not what I'm in the mood for right now.

I do like it though.

fredley

@BenBrocka Dominoes in the UK falls into this category

Wipqozn

Right now I'm in a Chopin mood:

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Actually I wonder if I ever burned my Chopin CDs to this PC.

Don't think I did, because it kept showing names in Japanese. Really weird.

Ben Brocka

15:44

@fredley I'm suspicious of your assertion that Dominoes can be made good

Frank

Dammit, people, don't make me want pizza!

Ben Brocka

brilliant

fredley

@BenBrocka Not good, better

Ben Brocka

runs off to twitter

Wipqozn

fredley

15:46

That is what a pizza should look like

Wipqozn

also cc @frank on all of these

MBraedley

@Wipqozn has it right

That last one looks delish

Wipqozn

Oh zeus, now I want pizza.

Frank

@Wipqozn No bacon, no onion. One has mushroom, so it sorta evens out.

Wipqozn

@MBraedley It does.

Frank

15:48

I don't want pizza for lunch! Quit trying to make me want pizza!

Fluttershy

Wipqozn

MODS ARE ~~ASLEEP~~ ABUSIVE AND LAZY, POST PIZZA!

Ben Brocka

Googles "Turtle Pizza recipe"

MBraedley

@Wipqozn Is that someplace local?

Wipqozn

@MBraedley Probably not. I just googled pizza.

It looks so good though.

fredley

15:50

Wipqozn

I really want a slice of pizza now. Zeus damn it @Frank, I blame you.

~~@Fluttershy~~ @Frank is a monster.

user15026

I am trying to resist the lure of pizza

fredley

@Wipqozn Incorrect, you have nobody but yourself to blame

There's a wikipedia edit-a-thon happening here in half an hour, so I have free pizza anyway :D

Wipqozn

@fredley I can't be blamed for being an ass, it's just who I am! @Frank is at fault for giving me material to work with.

@fredley You're the worst.

fredley

@Wipqozn Are you calling @Frank an ass-enabler?

Wipqozn

15:52

@fredley Yes.

fredley

@Wipqozn Noted

Frank

@Wipqozn I take no responsibility for your inability to properly troll.

Lazers

0

Q: Any gold card perks?

If I create a golden card, are there any special perks in battle? I am just wondering since I am planning to level Anduin to 15 and get the golden Mind Blast and I want to know if there are any perks. Thanks!

hearthstone

Ben Brocka

The change marks a watershed moment in Facebook's history and the end of a dream — Mark Zuckerberg's dream — of a world where everything you eat, do, play, pin, visit, or listen to gets automatically shared to Facebook in real time.

This was always the most ridiculous crap

Lazers

0

Q: I have a few problems with the game, followed by some suggestions.

I love the game and all, but I have some questions. 1.How can you do multiplayer on it without turning the hotspot on? I have an android and it is a serious problem.What am I supposed to do? Buy an IPad just for the game? 2.I try to search the way to spawn in villages on minecraft pe 0.8.1. I fol...

half-minute-hero

Sterno

16:02

@OrigamiRobot They never say "Yeah, I'm as bored of this game as you are."

Frank

@BenBrocka This would've been a marketer's wet dream.

user15026

@Lazers augh there is so many problems here

user15026

@BenBrocka " Automatically posted stories from apps like Pinterest, Farmville, Spotify, and RunKeeper are going to show up less and less in the News Feed, and Facebook will discourage developers from adding auto-posting to their apps at all."

user15026

Hallelujah.

Sterno

@BenBrocka I do not understand

Ben Brocka

16:06

@Frank yeah a few companies basically 99% built themselves on the spam at the verystart

@Sterno 2 PS+ free games a month instead of (roughly) one previously

@AshleyNunn followed by some suggesions

SaintWacko

GODDAMNIT

Ben Brocka

same

SaintWacko

Playing Captive Minecraft, and a Silverfish converted a block I was standing on and dumped me into lava

Sterno

@BenBrocka Ahh, free. That makes more sense

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice Oh hey, neat. :3 Thanks, I think!

Frank

16:11

@BenBrocka So they're probably screaming bloody murder at this.

Ben Brocka

@Frank FAcebook's been quietly deemphasising it. Apparently a ton of people marked the autoposts as spam (they were and still are)

the "feed" in the top right used to just be wall-to-wall Spotify posts, often 10 from the same person in a row

Frank

@BenBrocka I know I do.

Right before I hide it from my feed entirely.

Panic Bomb

Have any of you guys noticed this? gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/169746/…

Ben Brocka

@Frank same

Panic Bomb

It's a direct copy-paste of a Yahoo Answers question from 6 years ago, by a user who has no apparent history of doing this and seemingly no concern for rep-farming. It's a valid question, more or less, but the circumstances are just really strange.

Ben Brocka

16:15

@PanicBomb those things were the worst.

Chippies

Major bricks were shat atop Chicago's Willis Tower

Frank

@PanicBomb It is kinda funky.

Ben Brocka

I'd call it plagiarism since it's clearly copy-pasted

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy Did it work for you?

Frank

@PanicBomb His last question before that one is from two years ago.

Panic Bomb

16:22

Yeah, it's a pretty low-activity account. Just strange. The only thing I can think of is just pure laziness.

Ben Brocka

yeah, it's weird for sure

Lazers

0

Q: I just lost my save game in infinity blade 3

I played until level 82 almost every skill is on. The game often complain that I login as a "different" user. I have no idea what different user is that game talking about. I often don't have access to the net. I don't even know whether my game is saved at icloud or not. Then I just turn on the...

infinity-blade-3

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice It did!

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy =]

whereismyheartgame.com is released

Frank

I'm pretty sure our stance on plagiarism is to delete it, either right away, or after giving the user a chance to add attribution. Since we don't have an answer to it, and it seems an almost straight copy/paste, we should delete it.

Ben Brocka

16:32

can't cast delete votes yet. Guess it'll have to be closed

GnomeSlice

Finally, our game was greenlit! Now we can put it on kickstarter!

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice THAT IS NOT THE ORDER

Sepia Lazers

0

Q: How to handle long answers?

If an answer is quite long how should we handle them to please the eye (improve readability)? For reference my answer: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/147281/20751 which includes many solutions for the problem with different benefits. I am not pleased with the length of it but I think it is q...

discussion

Ben Brocka

That the Harmonix layoffs mentioned a bunch of games as not being affected, but omitted Chroma makes me suspect I know which team got hit :/

Tweeted by MOOMANiBE on May 29, 2014 at 3:41 PM

noooo why didn't they downsize the Kinect one instead

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka WHAT

Ben Brocka

16:42

> According to Harmonix, today's layoffs don't affect any games that are currently in production at the studio, which include Fantasia: Music Evolved and the Kickstarter-funded title Amplitude.

I would assume Chroma would be in current production of course though

GnomeSlice

Maybe they put it on hiatus to work on Amplitude?

Ben Brocka

According to another story I guess Chroma isn't doing too well

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria It's how more and more people are doing it these days, which is why I'm not a huge fan of Greenlight anymore.

GnomeSlice

Inky email client is now available for iOS, and free for a limited time

@Lesspop

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice wat

GnomeSlice

16:45

@Fluttershy I guess I understand why they're doing it, but.......

user15026

@Fluttershy That is messed up

GnomeSlice

The way I see it, people don't want to invest all of their time into making a game unless they know for sure they'll be allowed to distribute it on Steam... so they go for greenlight first. It's kind of a self feeding system.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Or you know, they should make games that don't suck and fund them and make them awesome AND THEN greenlight

user15026

Otherwise it just gets flooded with shit

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice ironically all these people rushing to steam with the "if it's not on steam it won't sell!" mentality are part of the reason being on steam no longer guarantees success for small projects

GnomeSlice

16:48

@BenBrocka Yes, that's true.

Ben Brocka

though in the end at least it'll mean you can download those games over steam, since manually re-collecting installers is a huge pain in the ass

GnomeSlice

Steam is no longer guaranteed success at all for anybody.

Ben Brocka

not that mass-installing games on Steam is THAT much better. Really wish they'd fix that

GnomeSlice

The steam download scheduler is completely broken

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice I'm not sure this is the right link

GnomeSlice

16:50

@SaintWacko it's not

fuck sake

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice you mean how it picks what to download? I don't even care about that

GnomeSlice

inky.com

@AshleyNunn can you use your mod powers to change that link to inky.com for me?

6 mins ago, by GnomeSlice

Inky email client is now available for iOS, and free for a limited time

@BenBrocka Well, I do.

Ben Brocka

But it takes like 5 clicks + all that mouse movement per game to install. It's a nightmare to put a sizable library on a new PC

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka There's a question floating around here somewhere about that. There's a way to install a bunch of stuff at the same time

Or you can just back it up from the old computer

user15026

@BenBrocka yeah the market is just flooding.

GnomeSlice

16:52

@badp halp pls

I need an ~~adult~~ mod

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice ಠ_ಠ

Ben Brocka

@SaintWacko that's not optimal either, because Steam doesn't really know what's installed until you try and run it then

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Oh hey, you're a mod. Abuse your powers and fix my message link for me.

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice slow

GnomeSlice

thx

Slow is my middle name

StrixVaria

16:53

BRB renaming @GnomeSlice to @SlowSlice

4

Ben Brocka

GnomeSlowce

GnomeSlice

plsno

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice And then you have wonderful games like The Floor is Jelly, games that have been polished and completed prior to going on Greenlight, that can't get greenlit.

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy yep

It's pretty broken.

I wish people would just stop shitting themselves over steam and sell/buy games in other places

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice I refuse.

GnomeSlice

16:55

@Fluttershy The problem is you!

►

such art

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice soon enough steam will be totally open I think, so at least this fuckery will disapear

the current situation really helps no one. The "curated store" whiners are already displeased and the extra chaff won't hurt anyone at this point

meanwhile, the "greenlight cycle" is a huge pain for developers

Fluttershy

I HAVE A JOOOOOOOOOB

9

It's an absolutely disgusting job, and I'm going to hate it so very much, but it's a job.

fredley

@Fluttershy What's a joob?

Fluttershy

@fredley It's like a job, but it sounds funnier when you say it.

fredley

@Fluttershy Oh cool!

Origami Robot

17:04

DISGUSTING JOBS USUALLY PAY WELL

fredley

@Fluttershy It's not that abatoir one is it?

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy TIL you were jobless before. I thought you still worked at that mill I was afraid you wer going to die at.

fredley

Fluttershy

@fredley It is...

fredley

@Fluttershy :(

Fluttershy

17:05

Starting Monday, I will be working on the "kill floor" of a slaughterhouse. ._.

fredley

What bit of abatoiring are you doing?

@Fluttershy Are you the knocker?

user15026

@Fluttershy I mean yay job?

Fluttershy

@fredley That the one with the bolt gun?

@AshleyNunn .________.

fredley

@Fluttershy Yup

Fluttershy

Hopefully I get a call from one of the other, better places I've applied.

GnomeSlice

17:06

@Fluttershy WTF

Fluttershy

@fredley Maybe? I dunno. I may just be the one hosing down all the blood and poo and stuff. ._.

fredley

@GnomeSlice This is how meat works

user15026

@Fluttershy hug

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy will be a vegetarian before the week is out.

also please don't ever talk about your job

user15026

@GnomeSlice Eh, some people can handle it - I know a guy who does his own meat (birds, cow, whatever)

Wipqozn

17:08

fredley

@AshleyNunn Yeah, our neighbour farms sheep for meat, but an abatoir is quite different. I think you become hardened to it after a while.

GnomeSlice

►

This looks neat, at a glance.

user15026

@fredley Yeah, you kinda get used to it apparently. (I used to know people who worked the slaughterhouses, as well)

user15026

Apparently after a while it is a job same as any other

Fluttershy

I just hope it pays well. My interview was all of 5 minutes before I was promptly rushed out the door, leaving no time for questions. :(

agent86

17:15

no squirrel is safe

Wipqozn

@agent86 NSFW

agent86

@Wipqozn you mean NSFS - not safe for squirrel

user15026

@Fluttershy Here's hoping.

agent86

urgh, I don't think I could work a job involving blood

Wipqozn

@agent86 Every job involves blood.

Jason Berkan

17:18

@agent86 I know I couldn't. I did not even finish reading yesterday's What-If.

agent86

yet another way in which I am inferior to a bag of bacon :(

Wipqozn

@agent86 You're inferior to a bag of inferior.

agent86

@Wipqozn :(

@JasonBerkan I got through it, but I was glad for the squirrels

last night I started ep 4 of wolf among us and there was a bit of icky injury stuff there that my wife couldn't look at.

she just sat there while I took care of it myself

user15026

After my PSW work I am a lot more okay with blood/injury/waste for humans.

agent86

@AshleyNunn what is a PSW, just so I know to avoid it

having kids has made it much easier for me to deal with poop though, I will say that

EB and I have invented a whole set of words describing various poop-related occurrences.

if I wasn't sure I'd gross all of you out, I'd totally let you in on our secret vocabulary. it's awesome.

Origami Robot

17:23

@agent86 CC @spugsley

I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE FACT THAT ANIMALS ARE KILLED FOR FOOD AND I'VE SEEN PEOPLE DRESS DEER AND SUCH, BUT I'M NOT SURE I'D WANT TO SEE THE ANIMALS ACTUALLY BEING KILLED.

user15026

@agent86 Personal Support Worker

agent86

@AshleyNunn yeah, no, I hate people. 99.999% of people.

StrixVaria

1

A: Can you shoot while driving in Watch_Dogs?

You can shoot while driving, its farther in the game once you hit 53.6% you automatically can drive and shoot, its more of a game mod/cheat. Also i heard that if you beat all driving tasks to 100% it will let you shoot out of car.

Can anyone confirm whether or not this answer is accurate?

user15026

@agent86 It is a hard job. I applaud people who can stick with it longer than I did.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN SURE MAKES IT SOUND LIKE COMPLETE SHIT

StrixVaria

17:30

It also disagrees with every other answer.

I wonder how it got an upvote :/

agent86

richard pryor and maya angelou, rip both of them :( (NSFW language - n-word)

badp

@Yuuki What are you talking about? Fridge cold pizza is awesome.

If the pizza was bad when it was hot though it's a different matter.

The worst place for a pizza to be is lukewarm.

StrixVaria

Leftover pizza goes into the toaster oven. It's so much better crisped up that way than it is cold.

It took me a lot of experimenting to come to that conclusion.

agent86

yes, toaster oven or skillet or regular oven > microwave for reheated pizza

badp

17:45

Fridge cold pizza is the green choice.

also super fast! Just take it out and nom.

agent86

Krazer

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agent86

@Krazer yeahhhhh, brings back memories

Lazers

0

Q: What weapons can't be bought in stores?

After buying every weapon available in weapon stores, I have found the U100 machinegun during the final weapon crate side mission. Are there any other weapons that need to be found in the world rather than being bought in a store?

watch-dogs

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