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5:00 PM
@fredley I'm dissapointed. I was expecting this to have been edited to a rebecca black link.
 
@Wipqozn You wouldn't have clicked it anyway
 
@fredley Yeah, I'm too clever and handsome.
 
@fredley you now owe the internet oracle a Booleanphile unboxing and review video
 
2 things: When you want to delete a folder structure via FTP, you have to traverse client-side. Also Wordpress is huge!
 
@fredley D:
 
5:01 PM
@badp It's going to take me a while to get through all those layers
I'm very sad I can't find a BooleanFactory
 
I am requesting feedback on my Incremental Tower Defense game
 
Man, Simplify has a ton of awesome talent.
 
@Batophobia you butt
 
@Batophobia You incremental everything.
@Rapitor Read links before you click.
 
*giggle*
 
5:09 PM
@Batophobia UGH
 
Don't trust anyone.
 
Sorry @Batophobia
 
@Arperum I'm a monster :)
 
@Batophobia fail, no auto play
 
@Batophobia Stop taking credit for my awfulness!
 
5:09 PM
@Batophobia I didn't click though.
 
@fredley and his modabuse....
 
@Batophobia It WAS a good link. And then...bad.
 
I was wondering why the "edited" icon was there...
 
Speaking of incrementals, has anyone run into any new ones?
 
Let's try that again: Incremental Tower Defense
[Don't tell @fredley about that one so he can't change it]
 
5:12 PM
@Batophobia ...
 
@fredley ಠ_ಠ
 
@Batophobia Is thee a way to block the path of the enemies?
 
@Arperum No, if the path loops back to the spawn
But you have to kill a certain number before moving to the next level
 
@Unionhawk um, no
 
5:15 PM
Yep
 
@fredley why would you ever think introducing a new Friday link is a good idea?
 
@Batophobia But the path they are taking doesn't use like 80% of the field
 
@Arperum Maps are randomized, so some may be longer and more spread out
 
Alright, better map generation
 
5:17 PM
clear save doesn't seem to work either.
 
Yea it sometimes work and sometimes doesn't
 
@fredley Either way this is your fault
 
The awards screen is kinda akward to close too. You have to press a half hidden button.
 
And @Wipqozn's fault
 
Either way, I'm out. going to go look at some people using instruments.
 
5:22 PM
@Batophobia It's hard to tell for sure, but my existing towers don't seem to be upgrading when I buy an upgrade
 
@OrigamiRobot @Yuuki Newsletter just now out
 
@murgatroid99 True, only towers you build afterwards are improved. Those upgrades persist Ascensions though so when you get new map your towers are better from the start
 
@Batophobia that's really unintuitive
 
Alright, I'll have them update
 
That's not how upgrades work in any incremental I've ever played or any TD game I've ever played
@Batophobia OK, cool
@Batophobia Also, I have 5 upgrades available to purchase and there are a couple of formatting issues: the upgrade descriptions are getting squished together, and the buy buttons are misaligned with their corresponding descriptions
 
5:29 PM
@murgatroid99 screenshot?
 
Well, I bought one
@fredley That's an impressively non-suspicious link
 
@murgatroid99 thank you
Chrome does a pretty good job of pointing out the actual domain when I hover though
Which makes me think it probably wasn't worth the time it took to set up
 
@fredley That's basically the exact tactic phishers use, so they probably want to do anything possible to avoid it
 
5:32 PM
@murgatroid99 Yeah
In fact, my AWS account is probably being closed down as I speak
 
@fredley ADFLDKLkadl;askd
 
@Wipqozn OMG IT WORKED
 
ZEUS DAMN IT @fredley.
Well played.
 
I HAVE MY TEARS
 
I didn't even look at the link. HOW COULD I BE SO FOOLISH?
 
5:34 PM
@Wipqozn ALL THAT EFFORT WASTED
 
I WAS TOO BUSY WATCHING A MOVIE AND DEBUGGING CODE
 
BASIC MULTITASKING FAIL
 
I will never live down this failure.
 
TRY AND DO OTHER THINGS AND CLICK LINKS -> REBECCA BLACK
My day is complete now
I'm going home
 
I will never forgive myself.
 
5:36 PM
@Arperum Alright, V1.1 is up with better map generation and an X in the top right of the awards display
 
I'm impressed that @Sterno has you guys doing his dirty work for him.
 
Which work? Trolling Lifehacks? RB videos? Linking that Zelda song to @AshleyNunn?
 
RB videos.
Don't click on anything in the star list.
 
@Sterno Zelda song?
 
@Wipqozn I'm glad you asked!
cc @AshleyNunn
 
5:39 PM
@Sterno Oh that video
IT's pretty rad
 
@Batophobia When you fix upgrades, I would suggest storing the net stats for each tower type somewhere and then having each placed tower only reference the tower type.
@Batophobia Oh, another thing. Because it doesn't matter if enemies get to the end of the map, I would suggest having towers shoot at the weakest enemies.
 
@murgatroid99 I was debating on having end-of-map enemies take your money or something
 
@Batophobia I don't think that would work. At least with the current balancing, I would have ended up pretty early with a steady state of having no money.
I think it was around level 2 that I stopped being able to kill enemies before they got to the end
 
Yea doesn't seem very idle-friendly that way, does it
 
5:53 PM
@Batophobia My point was that I have enemies running around from 5 levels ago because my towers never shoot at them
 
The towers target the first enemy to enter their range. If more than one, first on in the list of enemies, which should be lowest level
 
So this new OoT any% route looks like it could be workable (but the timing is closer than they thought)
 
@Batophobia What do they retarget when that enemy leaves range?
 
@murgatroid99 Loops through list of enemies and targets first one in range
 
And requires VC which... makes tricks like HESS really hard
(and will take adjustment for current runners)
 
5:57 PM
@Batophobia I think the problem is that the later enemies are faster, so at any particular time, the lower leveled enemies are less likely to be the earliest one that entered range
 
@murgatroid99 Hopefully with the towers improving as you upgrade it should help a bit
 
@Batophobia It won't help with that particular problem, but they're more likely to just kill everything, which also helps
 
@murgatroid99 Longer range means more likely for lower ones to be picked up
 
@Batophobia No, it doesn't
 
bah just put towers everywhere :)
 
6:00 PM
Because higher speed enemies are entering and leaving range more frequently, they are always more likely to be fired on, no matter how big the range is
Wait, what does "ascend" do?
 
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@murgatroid99 v1.2 is up and has towers pulling from the common stats so upgrades boost towers already built
 
@Batophobia Great
 
@murgatroid99 @Batophobia What game?
 
Yeah, this OoT route is definitely workable thanks to some setup. The RNG has been more or less been reduced to a straight up 1/4 (or so, I'm probably calculating that probability wrong) chance it will work per try, rather than the chance of the drop rate and also factoring in unworkable drop locations as failures
 
6:08 PM
I scrolled up a bit but could not see the name
 
57 mins ago, by Batophobia
Let's try that again: Incremental Tower Defense
@fredley modabused my first link
 
Oh god, an incremental....
I am not sure if I have recovered from Clicker Heroes yet.
 
I'm looking for feedback if you care to play
 
Your game?
 
yes
 
6:10 PM
@Wipqozn DAMNIT! On any other site this would be considered baiting. You should feel worse than you normally do.. Worse than @Sterno...
 
Actually no I lied there are still unworkable positions
 
@Batophobia One thing I think would be nice: a "total living enemies" counter. And probably also a counter of the number of placed towers of each type
 
@fredley @Wipqozn This, so very much of this.
 
@murgatroid99 Turns out towers were not targeting the lowest level enemies. Will push this with 1.3 in a bit
 
@fredley DAMNIT! Eff you too!
 
6:12 PM
Now that upgrades affect everything, my game is starting to look like a light show
 
No link is safe today
Especially starred links
 
Indeed
Well I have clicked them all
Usually, they are a nice selection of cat images and an article or two
A good way to start the day, like a bowl of wheaties..
But today.. TODAY! ... A lot of jerks in this channel :P
 
No, always
 
There
 
9 hours ago, by Unionhawk
This is the bridge. What do you want
9 hours ago, by Unionhawk
Because you can't have it
 
6:14 PM
So annoyed I Unstarred throwing @Wipqozn off the edge of the table.
 
clear save does nothing @Batophobia. I screwed up and wanted to refund my turrets or just start over. can't do anything
 
@Rapitor Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Click it a bunch but I'll see if I can make it better
 
@Batophobia You might want to make the later guns a little cheaper. I've gotten to the point where my spitball towers have better stats than any other tower, and they still only cost half as much as a sniper tower.
 
manual spawner also seems to do diddly
 
@Rapitor There's a max number of enemies that increases per level
@murgatroid99 Or make upgrades cost more
 
6:21 PM
@Batophobia even with all the upgrades I can buy, the total power still isn't that much. Most enemies still take multiple complete circuits to kill
 
Maybe I should buff the later towers
 
@Batophobia probably. If DPS is proportional to speed, my spitball towers have the same range as a sniper tower and 5 times the DPS
 
@James Nooooooooo, but those were stars about me!
 
@Wipqozn Yup, and you both lost em :P
 
is this right...? seems like a lot
 
6:26 PM
@James First I fall for @fredley's obvious trick, and now this.
This is the worst day ever.
 
all of my other upgrades are still in the mid/low hundreds
 
Wow at all of the variations of B1 skip for OoT
 
@Wipqozn ლ(゚д゚ლ)
 
and now its 90k.
 
@Unionhawk Did your prof ever get back to you?
 
6:27 PM
@Rapitor How many have you bought?
 
it says level 2
everytime i refresh the page the cost increases
 
ah
well
that's not right
 
@Wipqozn Not yet we'll see. He doesn't have an office, so... We'll see I guess.
 
@Unionhawk He lacks an office? Uh oh, that means he's likely filled with bitter resentment against the world, just waiting to feast on the delicious tears of unsuspecting students.
 
wellp I ascended. probably shouldve included a confirmation of sorts lol
 
6:38 PM
IS THIS A NEW INCREMENTAL
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH‌​HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 
@StrixVaria It's okay. You just need to choose not to play it.
 
The only winning move is not to play
 
you know you want to
 
@Batophobia I really don't.
 
6:40 PM
Nope
 
help develop it by breaking it!
 
Incrementals are the worst.
 
I have no idea what's going on but there are numbers on my screen and they are going up.
6
 
not-turtles are the worst
 
@StrixVaria It's already too late for you
 
6:41 PM
RIP @StrixVaria
 
If you back out now then you'll have wasted those 3 minutes you spent increasing those numbers.
 
I already can't deal with orange pixels and now green pixels are spawning.
 
damnit @Batophobia I keep accidentally clicking ascend
 
@StrixVaria It's OK. If they get to the end they just go back to the beginning
 
@Rapitor stopit!
 
6:44 PM
@Batophobia stop making it popup and replace the position of the spawn button!
 
or enjoy your scrap
valid point
noted
 
43 mins ago, by murgatroid99
Wait, what does "ascend" do?
 
replaces with Clear Save
muwahahaha
 
@murgatroid99 get scrap. does a thing
 
Click it for SCIENCE!
 
6:45 PM
@Batophobia That sounds like a way for someone to escape.
@Batophobia: Put an upper limit on the numbers, and mak it so once you beat the game you go into a NG+ where the limit of those numbers increases. So in order to beat the game they need to max out all the numbers, requiring them to beat it multiple times. It'll be an endless hell from which none can escape.
 
My income has slowed to a crawl because I can't kill any of the things and now there's just a constant stream and they're never dying.
 
oh and in NG+ all your numbers reset to the defaults
 
@StrixVaria you'll slowly get money
I mean, you will slowly kill them
 
@Wipqozn It's kinda like that already. Ascending makes number go up faster and without other boosts from it you'll take forever to get to real big numbers
it's like NG+ infinite times
 
@Batophobia Okay. So long as everyone in the bridge is trapped in an endless incremental hell, I'm happy.
 
6:48 PM
I'm not!
 
You should make the incremental play Rebecca Black in the background.
@Unionhawk You will be.
 
Nope.
 
Not light blue pixels!
 
I'll be the only one not trapped on Mister @Batophobia's Wild Ride.
 
Nope
 
6:50 PM
Is the optimal strategy just to stack all the towers on the tightest corner?
 
@murgatroid99 v1.3 is out with lots of updates, like the "#of each tower" stat (in tower info box) and targeting lowest enemies first. Also buffed more expensive towers
 
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@StrixVaria Not necessarily. When tower range increases, the retroactive optimal placement changes
 
does rocket have aoe @Batophobia?
 
@Rapitor nope, everything just hits its target
 
6:54 PM
ok
 
Was debating on adding projectiles and AoE and such but got lazy
 
@Batophobia How do I actually reset my game?
Clear Save doesn't seem to do anything
 
Clear Save should work better in v1.3
oh come on
I'm not entirely sure why it doesn't work...
 
heh
 
Oh
Now it completely broke
 
6:56 PM
@murgatroid99 Oh true.
 
And unbroke
 
But you're still likely going to wind up with most towers in a tight cluster.
 
I blame @Wipqozn for the button not working
 
My spitballs just kept upgrades after ascending. Intended?
 
@Batophobia well,I did modify the code when you weren't looking.
 
6:58 PM
@StrixVaria yes
 
kept upgrades are nice
 
So, what does scrap do?
 
They're crazy OP right now, but I don't mind that.
 
@murgatroid99 boosts a lot of things
 
@Batophobia Another suggestion: when placing a tower, don't unselect that type of tower. In other words, let us place more than one tower of a type at a time
 
7:03 PM
man screw Clear Save buttons
 
how often does the game save?
 
often
 
@Batophobia clear save is easy to implement! setLocalStorage( saveKey, null );
 
maybe too often? like its saving just after clearing. so nothing happens
idk
 
@KevinvanderVelden window.localStorage.clear(); window.location.reload();
 
7:05 PM
ascending seems to work
 
@Batophobia also an option
 
@KevinvanderVelden Look at the github changes to it, I've tried everything I can think
going to lunch, maybe it'll clear my head
 
Got a link? I've missed the first half of this conversation =p
 
@KevinvanderVelden clearSave(){ // go tell @fredley to do something about it }
 
7:08 PM
@Rapitor oh, didn't notice that was on github already
(Though I was looking for this link github.com/Batophobia/ClickerDefense )
 
My spitball range is ludicrous.
 
@StrixVaria mine is at 10
 
Same.
With an attack of 10 as well.
 
@StrixVaria mine only have an attack of 9
Oh, now it's 10
I just got a spitball range up and it didn't go up
 
7:18 PM
cap is 10 probably
 
If there's a cap then the upgrades should stop appearing.
 
hm, idk
 
For @Sterno, courtesy of my Mom on Facebook:
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\o/ life hacks! \o/
 
7:21 PM
@JasonBerkan sorry, you're gonna have to disown your mom
 
@KevinvanderVelden You wouldn't believe how close I've been to ignoring her on Facebook.
 
@yuuki - regarding movie night 2: on a torrent site I know, big hero 6 seems to be already available.
 
Cam version probably
 
@Batophobia I was spam-clicking on "spawn" and then it moved the spawn button up and made me accidentally click on "ascend" instead. :|
 
@KevinvanderVelden No, 1080p and 720p
 
7:25 PM
@5pike yes, 1080p camera =p
 
@KevinvanderVelden Doubt it, this site usually only has movie quality
 
Aight, download it to see!:D
 
Holding down enter with the spawn button highlighted is a good way to blaze through early levels.
 
that works?
I'm on lvl 32 so everything is an endless stream anyway
 
7:47 PM
the game is very upset
 
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@GnomeSlice simplify kick apparently?
 
Yeah I've never actually gone through their whole catalog before.
I always forget how much awesome shit they have
 
lol
 
8:07 PM
@KevinvanderVelden Any ideas on how I might ensure Clear save button working?
 
@Batophobia no, but then I haven't looked =p
 
Right now it does an endless loop of trying to clear the save and reload the page
 
Anyone know how I can disable autocorrect in skype? It changes the dutch word for good into geode, and has into lifts
THAT IS NOT HELPFUL
 
error
 
 
8:10 PM
1 hour ago, by Yuuki
@KevinvanderVelden clearSave(){ // go tell @fredley to do something about it }
 
1 hour ago, by murgatroid99
@Batophobia Another suggestion: when placing a tower, don't unselect that type of tower. In other words, let us place more than one tower of a type at a time
 
@murgatroid99 useful in start of game where its just spam everything down, but later it wont be..
 
@Rapitor It would be useful every time I ascend
 
that's my point
 
@GnomeSlice You know music...do you have any suggestions for EDM/Dubstep that would work well as video outro music?
 
8:17 PM
@RPiAwesomeness what kind of video
 
@KevinvanderVelden Das lifts done geode!
 
@GnomeSlice Well, it's a tutorial
 
@djsmiley2k no
 
Gimme a bit
 
Thanks :D
 
8:18 PM
:(
 
I'm looking over Monstercat & Approaching Nirvana albums now, but I knew you liked music and so figured I might get some good recommendations that I otherwise wouldn't have :)
 
@Rapitor Oh, true...I'd forgot about him!
 
I mean without getting artist permission you won't be able to use much except royalty free stuff
 
@GnomeSlice Obviously
 
Nitro Fun from monstercat gave IGS permission to use one of his tracks commercially
 
Even with permission sometimes using music gets messy
 
@GnomeSlice Yeah, isn't any song on a monstercat release?
 
If you don't intend to monetize then it's slightly cleaner, usually, sometimes, but even still...
 
"The Corvette will be the largest player-piloted Federal Ship"
 
8:22 PM
@RPiAwesomeness ?
No like we had to contact him and ask if we could use it.
He said yes.
 
@GnomeSlice Ah
 
@murgatroid99 v1.4 pushed, place same tower as long as you got the money
I think Clear Save button should work now as well. And Ascend button should no longer push Spawn button up
 
Thank god today is Friday. Trying to track down the cause of the crash(es) has been a serious PITA. I think I've managed to eliminate a good chunk of possible causes though (basically it's not any of the main loops in any of the threads, as far as I can tell).
 
what's going on?
 
8:29 PM
Turns out it actually was all @Wipqozn's fault
 
Just got the new on call policy.
It's....OK. Not perfect, but decent.
 
@RPiAwesomeness $15 a month for their entire music catalog?
wow
 
I guess
 
Like I said, it also depends on whether or not you intend to monetize
 
@Unionhawk Yup.
And, with 3 subs, I'm not planning on doing so :P
 
8:34 PM
So with that the policy is "have a license, or don't, but if you don't you'll get a content ID claim. Please credit in either case."
All content ID means is that the video will have ads going to them
Which isn't that scary provided the system is used accurately and correctly
 
Crapo. I just realized that I used Approaching Nirvana music in my intro on my first video without attribution! QUICKLY! EDIT THE THING BELOW THE VIDEO!
 
8:50 PM
nifty lightshows
 
So the new OoT trick probably won't change 100% even if it's allowed.
 
@Batophobia another idea: for the spawn button, have a toggle to spawn constantly
 
@Batophobia pretty much all of my stuff is condensed into one beam of death
 
@murgatroid99 It already has an auto-spawn, the button is merely to speed things up for the people that like to click things
 
took 45 levels for them to finally start to get past
 
8:54 PM
@Batophobia I mean: have an option to auto-spawn at the same rate as selecting the spawn button and holding the Enter key (which is really fast)
 
@murgatroid99 Maybe I should just make the auto-spawner speed up faster
 
@Batophobia pls no
 
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What I want is the ability to spawn them very fast while also doing something else (like placing towers). Not to have them spawn very fast all the time
 
8:57 PM
holy butts 150k for sniper level 2?
 
@Batophobia You should also make later ascensions harder to get.
 

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