The Bridge

@fredley My sister and I are targetting beginning of September for our London vacation. Think you might have some time to grab a pint somewhere around there?

fredley

@AshleyNunn Too bad, you're still on the Bridge

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn wut

MadMAxJr

3:58 PM

... Ashley, you're a cyborg. That doesn't work like that.

fredley

@Frank Looks good to me

GodEmperorDune

@MadMAxJr oh right, should be this.throw(offBridge);

fredley

@GodEmperorDune bridge.throw(self)

Frank

@fredley this.throw(off, "Bridge")

MadMAxJr

Given the sometimes heated nature of this room, I picture fredley hiring someone akin to Immortan Joe noticing one of the War Boys.

fredley

4:00 PM

@Frank bridge.throw(self, DIRECTION_OFF)

Frank

@fredley There are many ways to refactor that.

Powerlord

starts ringing a bell Congratulations on managing to pass the 1-hour mark in our teleconference that I'd required to attend without mentioning anything relevant to me!

Frank

The end result is that someone takes a swan dive off of a bridge, though.

fredley

@Powerlord Ugh. I hate that.

GodEmperorDune

You can't give commands to the bridge, the cyborg is doing the throwing

Frank

4:01 PM

Did...the monster game end early?

MadMAxJr

This is a topic for Code Golf. Minimum number of steps to throw yourself off the Bridge in code.

fredley

@GodEmperorDune I'm not a cyborg, @AshleyNunn is a cyborg. I'm a porkchop. Meatware.

Powerlord

@Frank I thought it went down for half an hour every day around now.

Frank

@Powerlord I can still see friends in-game.

MadMAxJr

It goes down for an hour due to monster labor union rules.

Private Pansy

4:02 PM

> We are performing server maintenance right now. Please come back in a few minutes to start a new game.

Frank

Oh, wait. They're all ended.

Sterno

Steam incremental is worst incremental

GodEmperorDune

@fredley yeah I realized and edited

Private Pansy

The text is hard to see because they've stupidly made the text grey on grey

MadMAxJr

Yeah, the sales we're unlocking are not all that enthralling.

Private Pansy

4:03 PM

I still don't get the card drop rates

fredley

@PrivatePansy 2 shades of grey

Frank

Missed the last milestone today, I think.

Private Pansy

What were the tags? [RPG] something something

Frank

Anime was another

Private Pansy

Ah, right. I was thinking it might be FF

@MadMAxJr Because sensible developers don't let their games be included in promotions like this. Having your game go on sale because a few billion clicks were made in a stupid incremental doesn't make for a sound business plan

Yuuki

4:05 PM

two bugs

I'm looking forward to the other conferences, but Bethesda had a good showing

user15026

So my boss is gone for a few days, I am still not trained, I am still not able to help people.

two bugs

Dishonored 2 is basically all I wanted, anyway

@AshleyNunn I'll tell you who you can help: giraffes. They ain't gonna evolve themselves.

That stinks though :(

Private Pansy

Don't you have colleagues in the same position as you who can teach you?

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn those cows need their Netflix, even if you have to manually fedex the packets!

Private Pansy

4:08 PM

Seems stupid to have a salaried worker sitting around doing nothing.

GodEmperorDune

@PrivatePansy small shops are small

MadMAxJr

I heard Gabe will be appearing at some point. Didn't Sony let him have a few minutes last time?

user15026

@GodEmperorDune starts mailing people boxes of internet

Private Pansy

@GodEmperorDune All the more reason not to have people idling

user15026

@PrivatePansy It's me and one other person in here today.

Tim Stone

4:09 PM

@AshleyNunn I can teach you how to do my work if you want to help me instead. Seems like a terrible situation to be in and I don't want you to feel unproductive.

MadMAxJr

@AshleyNunn Internet Emergency Kit: Contents - Buzzfeed article, cat pictures, DVD of a couple youtube videos, a catchy song, and a few news site articles, and a 'Don't Panic' post-it

Tim Stone

I'll even pay you if we can somehow write it off for tax purposes. :o

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How can I get rid of bodies lying outside my front door?

A few months ago as I fast traveled to Whiterun to deposit some items to my home, some mages, who were apparently cultists tried to attack me. Needless to say, I put them down, and looted their bodies appropriately. Unfortunately, this has the result of their bodies still lying on the street. Ev...

skyrim

GodEmperorDune

@lazers retrosaur always leaves bodies in his wake

Private Pansy

@MadMAxJr Also, surprisingly enough the two purchases I've made this sale are from the unlocks

Arperum

4:12 PM

@Unionhawk This did cause an inbox notification though. So Science just expanded.

MadMAxJr

@PrivatePansy What'd you get, if I might ask?

Sterno

@Yuuki Why Carlton? I don't understand

Private Pansy

Creeper World 3 and SantuaryRPG

Yuuki

@Sterno I get the feeling that it's one of those new-fangled "memes".

Kids these days.

Private Pansy

One for a dollar and the other for four I think

Sterno

4:13 PM

Kids these days don't even know who Carlton is

MadMAxJr

Also, thanks Bethesda for making me go 'whew' and put Dishonored back into reserve until 'definitive edition' drops.

Sterno

Let's test.

@Unionhawk Who's Carlton?

MadMAxJr

@Sterno I'm sad I had to argue with our 23 year old mobile support guy here. He tried Fallout 1 for the first time and ranted about how it's awful, nobody could have possibly enjoyed this, let alone build a fanbase around it. I had to glare sliently until he left my desk. Kids don't know anything. >:|

Private Pansy

@Sterno *awkward silence*

user15026

@TimStone I have never considered actually quitting a job before in my life.

Sterno

4:15 PM

@MadMAxJr He needs an IRL troutslap

GodEmperorDune

@MadMAxJr I played fallout 1 for the first time a few years ago. It was great

Yuuki

@MadMAxJr To be fair, the recent Fallout entries are a rather big departure from the initial entries.

Jason Berkan

@MadMAxJr In all honesty, the UI in Fallout is horrendous, even given the timeframe it was made in.

Powerlord

@MadMAxJr Ooh, did you get him to try Wasteland 1 next? You know, the game Fallout was based on? :P

MadMAxJr

<Personal Opinion>You don't so much play it for revolutionary gameplay, you play it for the unusual, involving stories inside it. Also I wanted to beat him because he said on his first play he went around killing everyone and it was just boring. </Personal Opinion>

Yuuki

4:18 PM

Kids these days are why pacifist runs aren't a thing.

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn but monies

Jason Berkan

Wasteland was the first RPG I purchased with my own money, as opposed to pirating a copy from someone else.

GodEmperorDune

You're getting paid to hang out on the bridge

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Well, I am getting paid to make tickets for other people

MadMAxJr

I forget, isn't it possible to non-combat Fallout 1 with stealth, computers, mechancial, and charisma?

user15026

4:19 PM

I just hate that I am disappointing people by not being able to help

Tim Stone

@AshleyNunn :(

GodEmperorDune

:(

MadMAxJr

Because I recall you can talk The Master into the fallacy of his plan and he gives up.

Yuuki

@MadMAxJr I believe so.

GodEmperorDune

@MadMAxJr yeah you can

MadMAxJr

4:20 PM

"My supermutants will take over the entire region!" "Your supermutants are sterile." "WHAT?"

Jason Berkan

Yeah, you can finish Fallout without combat. I think there are some sidequests you have to skip, though.

user15026

@TimStone I keep getting told "It's a high learning curve, you'll get it", and it's not really about my intelligence level or confidence level - I have those in spades. it's just that I am not trained so I don't know how to help people and I feel horrible that tehy are paying me for something I am not providing. I want to help people~

Private Pansy

Is there documentation? Go and find the dustiest corner of the office, and look for the thickest book

Jason Berkan

The roleplaying aspect of Fallout is one of its strongest points.

MadMAxJr

@AshleyNunn I had this problem when I was working for a software company. I was asked questions that only years of knowledge of the product could answer. Is there an internal company email system, perhaps any product/software experts you could talk to? Are any of your coworkers able to coach you?

Private Pansy

4:22 PM

Bonus if you find a sign on the cupboard, like "Beware of the leopard"

user15026

@MadMAxJr Nope, nope, nope.

user15026

Boss is the only one who can train (seriously, it is me, him, and one other guy, and someone needs to be on the phones and helping people)

user15026

So I am just kinda making a ticket pile when I can't help.

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn maybe there are old tickets that have the details of what was done to fix it?

SaintWacko

@PrivatePansy Ha!

MadMAxJr

4:27 PM

Yeah, if you have access to the system, study old tickets, pray there are work notes.

Yuuki

They may or may not be taking out skills in Fallout 4.

Either that or they're using a Skyrim-like system where skills aren't increased by point distribution after level-up.

Private Pansy

@Yuuki Can't see them doing that. They can't streamline it so much that everything is derived from SPECIAL

Yuuki

@PrivatePansy They might be replaced with perk-based checks.

Private Pansy

Also, the guy leaving INT at 1 is hilarious

Yuuki

Or calculate a check based certain percentage combinations of your SPECIAL stats.

Like replacing a Guns skill check with a check based on your combined Intelligence, Agility, and Perception with differing weights.

GodEmperorDune

4:30 PM

@PrivatePansy and maxing luck

Rapitor

@Yuuki that seems like it is just like fallout3?

Yuuki

@Rapitor No, Fallout 3 had skills, IIRC.

MadMAxJr

I'm sure skills are there, just not in the demonstration.

Rapitor

it used the SPECIAL mainly.

also microsoft's is starting now

user15026

@GodEmperorDune I've tried datamining tickets, no luck there :( No one here makes notes on anything.

Rapitor

4:32 PM

E3 stream

MadMAxJr

Microsoft will probably formally introduce their Gears of War division and the Gears of War collected remaster

Yuuki

@MadMAxJr Probably, but the question may be whether it's a traditional system (level-up, put points in things, a.k.a. traditional Fallout) or action-based system (Elder Scrolls).

MadMAxJr

Oh and HALO HALO HALO NATHAN FILLION HALO HALO HALO

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn ugh that sucks

Rapitor

wow, they are starting with 343?

Yuuki

4:33 PM

Yay, I have three monitors at work now!

@Rapitor Gotta tackle that Bethesda/Fallout 4 right out of the gate.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki way jealous

Frank

I'm watching the Supergirl pilot. I'm kinda enjoying it quite a bit.

Rapitor

@Yuuki guess so...

user15026

@GodEmperorDune I am the first person who hasn't been trained by just watching people for a couple weeks.

Yuuki

Epic battles. Epic scale. Incomplete sentences.

Rapitor

4:35 PM

yeah arbiter!

Unionhawk

@Arperum science intensifies

Rapitor

i like how they are taking the gears route of squad mates.

Yuuki

No sprinting?

Rapitor

yeah there is.

Unionhawk

Sprinting is for games that have sprinting

Yuuki

4:41 PM

@Rapitor Is it an armor ability like in Reach?

nope

@Sterno pass

16v16? Interesting.

@Frank is that online somewhere?

Rapitor

@Yuuki 16v16vE

Frank

4:42 PM

@GodEmperorDune Torrents.

Lulz

@Rapitor PvPvE?

yep

Is that Pv(PvE) or (PvP)vE?

Rapitor

probably that one

Unionhawk

4:43 PM

k

Yuuki

Hmmm... new IP?

Unionhawk

Hwat? Xbox? New?

OOO

SICK BURNS

Yuuki

A girl and her dog?

A girl and her big robot?

Rapitor

a girl and her ball

Yuuki

Hopefully, a girl and her giant robot?

Powerlord

4:45 PM

I don't know why, but creating a char * then immediately passing it to a function without declaring a size makes me think I've coded something wrong.

Yuuki

I just want someone to say "shut up and get in the giant robot".

Rapitor

from the guys he did metroid prime series, so it's probably good.

Yuuki

Shut up with the empty platitudes and get to the game details.

murgatroid99

@Powerlord did you assign a string literal to it? Is it an out parameter?

Rapitor

there it is

Yuuki

4:47 PM

Oh, that's big.

Powerlord

@murgatroid99 It's an out parameter.

SaintWacko

Oh

Okay

Now I'm going to buy an Xbox One

Unionhawk

Oh?

Rapitor

@Unionhawk native backwards combatibly.

murgatroid99

@Powerlord in that case, I think you should still allocate a buffer

Unionhawk

4:48 PM

@Rapitor Oh

murgatroid99

If you just do char *x; f(x), you're passing junk data

Yuuki

@Rapitor Kinda sorta. Apparently, putting in the disc will prompt a download.

At least that's what I got from it.

Unionhawk

@Yuuki hahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah what

Yuuki

Oooo, shot at Playstation Plus.

user4704

It sounds like developers must approve their games for backwards compat

murgatroid99

4:50 PM

@Powerlord Though, if you're doing char *x; f(&x);, that should be fine

Rapitor

@Yuuki yeah, the game still needs to be "restructured" i guess to the XB1 stuff

Powerlord

@murgatroid99 Well, the problem is that the size of this is also being passed in from an array, but iirc C++ only does constant-sized arrays.

user4704

so that's interesting and maybe all the download is for

Rapitor

so that's understandable

user4704

shrug

user4704

4:50 PM

i already sold all my 360 games so whatever :D

Yuuki

Elite controller for Elite gamers. So l33t.

murgatroid99

@Powerlord That's what new is for

Rapitor

tehfuck is with that dpad

Yuuki

Whoa, swappable components?

murgatroid99

29

A: How to create a dynamic array of integers

int main() { int size; std::cin >> size; int *array = new int[size]; delete [] array; return 0; } Don't forget to delete every array you allocate with new.

Unionhawk

4:52 PM

@Yuuki official controller of Major League Gaming

SaintWacko

IT BEGINS

Rapitor

oh great more fallout hype... i don't need this

MORE FALLOUT 4 HYPE.

HYPEHYPEHYPE

too much hype

4:52 PM

Context?

MadMAxJr

What? No, Bethesda was done talking yesterday?!?

Unionhawk

@StrixVaria -context

Yuuki

Sole survivor of Vault 111? Way to spoil things, Todd.

SaintWacko

Whaaat

Pip boy on my phone

Nice

MadMAxJr

Oh, this is old news.. Okay

Unionhawk

4:53 PM

You're an old news

Jason Berkan

I downloaded the Fallout Shelter game on my phone yesterday, but all it does is crash. I guess my phone is too old.

MadMAxJr

No Fallout Shelter on the Play Store. >:|

Yuuki

@MadMAxJr Apparently it's coming.

Unionhawk

RIP

Powerlord

Oh, hmm, apparently it's common practice to copy the char array from the other side.

I should probably point out that this is passing code from SourcePawn to C++ (and vice versa)

MadMAxJr

4:55 PM

The only thing that wasn't confirmed for me is intro by Ron Perlman. :<

user15026

@JasonBerkan What is that?

Rapitor

dubstep lazer

SaintWacko

wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub

Dat uncanny valley

Jason Berkan

@AshleyNunn kotaku.com/fallout-shelter-announced-out-tonight-1711317184

SaintWacko

They eyes needed some work

Jason Berkan

4:56 PM

I'd know more about it if I could play it.

two bugs

I will take it upon myself to play it and report back to The Bridge

Powerlord

I guess I don't have to worry then, as the array is technically already initialized on the other side of the interface, so I just need to pull it over (and, of course, push it back when I'm done)

Unionhawk

iOS WHY T_T

T-T

two bugs

iBola has never felt so good

SaintWacko

Because they hate freedom

Unionhawk

4:57 PM

T-T T-T T-T <- the tears of The Bridge

Yuuki

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