The Bridge

AT the start I was very much like "meh, music is not my thing, the dude is seriously overdoing it" But then he woke up a bit and it got better. Still not exactly my thing though.

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk Would be easier to ask in a city, since density for city and rural areas differ significantly

Arperum

@twobugs They won't have an issue with lightning strikes anyway.

Unionhawk

1:36 PM

Well good news for my joke, @twobugs is in a city

Private Pansy

Otherwise, you can probably use a back of the envelope calculation to get an order of magnitude result

Arperum

@SaintWacko I'm trying to pick a color for the Luma Dice. It's hard to choose...

GAAAAH.

EVIL.

There is an option for adding another set. No. Bad. No.

Unionhawk

Dark World - Zelda: A Link To The Past... KAZOO'd!

►

Private Pansy

Assuming a population density of about 4000 people per square km, and a US population of 322 million, and 9.4 million PS4 sold, we have 116 PS4s per sq km. That gives you about 50m to the nearest PS4

Unionhawk

That seems too close

Though then again it probably averages out with people 3 feet from their ps4

Or, 1m

Private Pansy

1:45 PM

Actually, what this calculation is doing is assuming each PS4 occupies their own square of land

This is obviously impossible, since people live in hi-rise buildings

Unionhawk

Yay 3d space complicating everything

Private Pansy

So yes, the distance would be higher if you only count distance at ground level

I love how Google handles dimensional analysis. Stats are ballpark and vary wildly by time of day and whether your mom is in town.

djsmiley2k

lol

now asomeone use a mashup of google maps + nationmal statstics.

fredley

Isn't one of the Rules that any hypothetical system posited in an xkcd comic will become an actual system?

djsmiley2k

@fredley I'm relived tyhat doesn't stand for what if...

two bugs

1:54 PM

I think the issue with @PrivatePansy's calculations is that PS4s are not evenly distributed

So yes that is the mean distance to a PS4, but it's also a meaningless distance

Private Pansy

@twobugs Actually, out of all the assumptions that make up that calculation, that one should be relatively accurate

Arperum

fuckfuckfuck. Someone stop me. I don't need six extra D6's.

two bugs

Well, it's not as big of an issue as your assumption of population density

But you already noted that

Carry on

Unionhawk

@Arperum you are the only one with the power to stop yourself

Martin Sojka

@Arperum Throw all your D6. If the sum is above 1000, you don't need more.

Arperum

2:04 PM

@MartinSojka In that case I need more, I don't have all that many yet.

fredley

@Arperum I can ban you, if that would help?

Arperum

@fredley Nope. It's too late. I ordered six D6's. cc @SaintWacko

Just look at it.

fredley

USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST

Arperum

It looks so good

fredley

@Arperum Are these actually balanced? Has anyone done any serious checking?

two bugs

2:07 PM

Okay, those dice are awesome

fredley

And how bright are they? Do you need to turn the lights off for it to work?

fredley.skeptics.SE

StrixVaria

For some reason a whole bunch of Chrome extensions I had disabled reenabled themselves over the weekend.

Arperum

@fredley Nope, it's from a kickstarter. the lights turn on as you throw them.

StrixVaria

Including one of Google's April Fool's jokes that rendered every page in plaintext.

fredley

RIP @Arperum

Arperum

2:08 PM

kickstarter.com/projects/1372946489/luma-dice/description

fredley

On no, a KS link

RIP @fredley

My one weakness

Martin Sojka

Speaking of, I wanted to see where I can find miniature LEDs. Small enough to fit into a 30mm's skeleton figure's eye sockets.

djsmiley2k

Produces fair rolls - LED DICE are well distributed across each side with regard to it's weight. We have done our best to balance them, but we can't guarantee perfect balance. We can guarantee however fair rolls and no heavy skews.

lul

badp

2:30 PM

I'm sure that if you pay extra you can have loaded dice

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Borderlands 2 - Sidemissions - How to quickly go to sanctuary

We just completed the 'saving roland' mission, which was a long mission. Now we wanted to play a quick side mission and went to deliver the pizza. We defeated the turtles, but since we didn't found a way to go back or saw a travel post, we now have to go again through the 'saving roland' map/path...

borderlands-2

-6

Q: http://provasilfacts.com/

Here's the Viagra with the Mental ability Nootropics is usually known as Provasil “Smart Supplements” that's mainly because through history it would help increase established central functions which could simply fall even while we age group. Nearly the same as every wood made or just muscles che...

minecraft

0

Q: When was this quote from in Bioshock Infinite?

I just finished playing this game and I love the quotes from the Lutece Twins. I found this quote from here: Robert Lutece: I told you they'd come. Rosalind Lutece: No, you didn't. Robert Lutece: Right. I was going to tell you they'd come. Rosalind Lutece: But you didn't. ...

bioshock-infinite

1

Q: Hearthstone, Secret missions?

In Hearthstone you can unlock some gold bonus, if you reach specific goals. For example reaching level 10 with every character. So does anyone have a complete list of all the bonuses for any secret quests?

hearthstone

StrixVaria

Final Fantasy 15's release date was announced to be announced on March 30th.

two bugs

@StrixVaria Japanese release? Or worldwide?

badp

fire up the hype countdwn hype countdown

StrixVaria

@twobugs I presume both will be announced on that day.

badp

2:42 PM

prepare your wallets for prepreorders

two bugs

Oh, I misread

StrixVaria

@twobugs As was intended!

two bugs

Curses, foiled again by reading

StrixVaria

Because that's the same conclusion I leapt to when I read the headline.

badp

but aren't you excited about being excited about waiting

StrixVaria

2:44 PM

@badp I'm not going to get as hype about FF15 as I did about D3, and since there's no way FF15 will be worse than launch D3, that is a double bonus since when I get it I'll be pleasantly surprised that it's at least a decent game.

Instead of in denial as I force myself to keep playing for 2 months while everyone around me gives up.

two bugs

The FF15 demo was weird

badp

is it going to be another mmorpg thing

StrixVaria

No, this one is single player.

two bugs

It had some really neat parts but some pretty janky and low fps parts

Singleplayer road-trip JRPG

I'm going to have a lot of fun trolling my friend with this announcement announcement

StrixVaria

The difficulty idea sounds interesting. Instead of just scaling enemy HP, you change the whole combat system to one that is more/less forgiving.

At least, that's how they described it. I haven't seen an actual example yet.

fredley

2:47 PM

Portrait monitoooooorrrrrrr

Maximum overchat

two bugs

Scaling HP/damage is really boring to me

It makes more sense in say, Diablo, where the whole endgame is basically a math problem

StrixVaria

@twobugs This is why difficulty in TES games is stupid.

badp

@StrixVaria "At nightmare difficulty the combat system changes to navigating dialogue trees through bullet rhythm hell minigames with screen distortion in order to talk @fredley into not destroying your account."

two bugs

@StrixVaria Yeah, I get really bored of them after I survive the initial start-up because they do not have satisfying progression or challenge or combat

StrixVaria

@badp I kind of like the idea of a bullet hell/menu navigation hybrid fight, like the end of Sans but more fleshed out.

fredley

2:49 PM

@badp Don't forget the Pony Stampede

badp

@StrixVaria I kinda wish the attacking segments were based on the actual song rhythm à la Mother 3

but I can imagine that there really aren't suitable libraries for that game maker thing

two bugs

3:07 PM

Haha, people on Reddit are still furious that someone misplaced a decimal in Destiny patch notes several months ago, but Fallout 4's Killshot perk is still bugged by a higher order of magnitude

badp

I'm still miffed about the 5 second sappers

That is infinity orders of magnitude too many

Unionhawk

@twobugs There's a sub called something like /r/LowSodiumDestiny which is exactly what it sounds like

badp

even if it was quickly patched to be one too many fewer

Unionhawk

(a destiny sub where saltiness is off topic)

Martin Sojka

@twobugs Fixed in the 1.3 beta patch, IIRC.

two bugs

3:09 PM

@Unionhawk Seriously? That might actually be tolerable. The main /r/DestinyTheGame is fucking horrible

badp

@Unionhawk lots of chlorine?

djsmiley2k

saltiness?

two bugs

It's just people screaming nonstop and frequently outright lying about Bungie because they're mad

djsmiley2k

well, hmm

i need to make a titan and hunter now

:/

badp

you guys don't get it. complaining is three quarters of the fun

Unionhawk

3:11 PM

It was featured a week ago and it's fantastic that it exists

djsmiley2k

This isn't fun

I'm waiting for someone to come around to give quote for moving all our stuff :/

they 10 min late so far.

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

1

Malayalam language

Proposed Q&A site for linguists, teachers, and students wanting to discuss the finer points of the Malayalam language.

Currently in definition.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do i stop animals like wolves, eagles, bear from starvation? in dwarf fortress

i try to put the wolves in a pastures that didnt work. I tried butchering animals to provide meat for them still it didnt work. I need help!?

dwarf-fortress

two bugs

People will rant that they aren't getting enough content in their game with no monthly fee. Then they'll rant that the free content doesn't count. Then they'll demand we get DLCs after they screamed and cried about the Year One DLCs

djsmiley2k

the house of wolves was terribad

two bugs

3:13 PM

It just... blows my mind "This game I've played for several thousand hours doesn't have enough content"

djsmiley2k

yah that's true

I don't know wtf they expected from bungie tho

two bugs

@djsmiley2k I disagree, it could have been better but it brought some really great features

djsmiley2k

Halo's aren't exactly the epitome of map designers.

1 and 2 were meh, corridors

3 was 'wooo bright colours, still linear'

two bugs

What really bothers me is how frequently people on that sub straight up lie and then upvote each other

djsmiley2k

4, was 'We tried to be like 3 but better, but we don't know what made 3 sell'

:D

The enemies on 4 were.... wut, and then the same enemies/names are in destiny, XD

two bugs

3:15 PM

Someone made a fake Bungie Support account and just posts "Haha we are Bungie, we are evil xD"

The main sub for Destiny is seriously the most toxic community. If I was working as a community manager at Bungie I would have killed people by now

djsmiley2k

meh, kids.

two bugs

I had to stop visiting it because it just made me so mad that every day someone was demanding Bungie release their entire business strategy for the next 10 years

djsmiley2k

reddit tho

it's not like this place,...

Sterno

The Witness keeps hurting my brain.

djsmiley2k

I'd say this civilized place but I didn't want to go too far

K, wtf is this 'The Witness' game

can someone give me a run down on why it's currently the 'big thing' ?

I notice people aren't talking about undertale anymore, so it's taken over from that it seem

Sterno

3:18 PM

It's puzzles. Lots of puzzles. All the puzzles.

two bugs

The Witness is a new open-world puzzle game by the guy who did Braid

The idea is you figure out how to solve puzzles and then you can travel to new areas using your knowledge of certain tricks

Sterno

Don't worry. On Friday I'll start talking about XCOM2 instead

StrixVaria

@Sterno This looks pretty neat but I don't think I'm up for that many puzzles.

two bugs

Same concept as Antichamber except nobody else played that amazing game :(

StrixVaria

TBH The Witness looks like it's better executed than Antichamber, just from the puzzling perspective.

Antichamber is neat because it breaks physics, but that also makes it really difficult to remember how to get from place to place.

Ohnana

3:21 PM

@twobugs i rage quit that game

my partner finished it tho

two bugs

I loved Antichamber, was one of my favorite games of 2014

StrixVaria

I liked the idea of Antichamber more than I liked actually solving its puzzles.

Yuuki

@djsmiley2k This confuses me. Halo is linear. Halo has always been linear. Why would you ever play a Halo game and expect anything other than linear FPS?

Sterno

Sample puzzle from The Witness

Wipqozn

I plan to pick up The Witness once it goes on sale. Or over the summer.

Sterno

3:22 PM

Except eventually you figure out that the real puzzles are the ones you don't even know are puzzles

Wipqozn

Key thing is I'm busy with Diablo 3 now, and xcom 2 comes out soon

StrixVaria

@Sterno I'm sure there's some context leading up to this that helps you understand what you're even supposed to do here.

two bugs

@Wipqozn Yeah, that's my current plan

Wipqozn

@Sterno Just like Braid

Sterno

@StrixVaria Yes, although in that particular case, the context leads me to believe that's unsolvable (which almost certainly isn't the case)

Ohnana

3:23 PM

@Sterno wtf

djsmiley2k

errr wtf?

Sterno

Which means I must need more context even though I thought I had it all for those puzzle elemnts

Ohnana

unless i can shoot the puzzles I'm not interested

:D

djsmiley2k

braid made me rage tho

because i knew 'what' to do, I just couldn't physically pul it off

two bugs

What pissed me off about Braid was the missable Stars

That was stupid

djsmiley2k

3:24 PM

hmmm

why were they missable?

Yuuki

Someone sold their entire CS:GO inventory and bought an actual AWP. (slightly NSFW picture at the end)

djsmiley2k

click!!

two bugs

@djsmiley2k One required you had a puzzle not yet solved

Ohnana

@Yuuki omfg

two bugs

You had to arrange the pieces in a specific way, which you can't do after solving it

djsmiley2k

3:25 PM

@twobugs oh eww.

yeah

makes a door or something?

or the star itself?

two bugs

Star itself.

djsmiley2k

/me googled it at the time after getting annoyed.

infact that might be what made me eventually quit

two bugs

Another one you just had to wait for

Which was dumb

djsmiley2k

I want to try fez again shortly, tho I'll surely suck.

(again).

two bugs

I mean the secret ending was cool for Braid, but the stars were dumb

I couldn't get into Fez at all. That game bored me and kept hard-crashing my Xbox so I stopped

djsmiley2k

3:27 PM

you sure it was actually crashing?

Yuuki

Is FEZ one of those games that fakes a hard crash because "lol fourth wall"?

two bugs

@djsmiley2k Yes, I am.

@Yuuki Also yes.

badp

@Yuuki yes

two bugs

My game hard locked during the "fake" crash.

Yuuki

... I hate those games.

djsmiley2k

3:30 PM

youch

D:

badp

@Yuuki hey at least it doesn't fake system UI like that other game...

djsmiley2k

Game Designers: Inspiring the next generation of phishers

Ohnana

@twobugs lmao

djsmiley2k

hmmm

so the first time this quote person tried to come round she had an emergancy and couldn't

today she's running late, (And now late for the time she said she'd be here by) :/

I'm starting to think maybe we should use someone else :/

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do I open this door on the west coast?

I came across this door on the west coast, and I thought I already understood all these puzzle elements, but I don't see any way it can be solved. My understanding of the rules involved here are: I'm interested in the solution, obviously, but more so I'm interested in if I'm missing or misu...

the-witness

djsmiley2k

3:41 PM

wow...

This question is protected so I can't provide this as a proper answer, but I feel the desparate need to tell you this trick. Wait until nobody is around, then unscrew some of the christmas crackers until you find one with one of those plastic rings inside. Print off a ring measuring thing from the internet and measure the plastic ring. Put the ring back and make sure that you and your wife pull that exact cracker at dinner and make sure she tries the ring on. Jokingly ask her if it fits ok or if it's too small/big. Based on your observations, make an educated guess at a ring size to go for. — Pharap Dec 20 '15 at 15:42

Actually now I think about it @twobugs I think it did that to me the first time

I was like 'oh a fake crash, cute.'

'k, how long is this crash thing going to take..... hmmm....'

2 min later 'ffs, stupid thing'

SHES STILL NOT HERE FFSSSSS

I've sat here now for 45 min waiting ffs

Sterno

WTF is a Christmas cracker, and why do they have rings?

two bugs

You pull on both ends and they make a little pop and have a crappy cheap treat inside

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do you link artes together?

Some artes are able to used back-to-back to get some pretty good combo's in. What's the general rule on which artes can are able to be linked? Do you have to use a level 1 then level 2 then level 3 of any arte? Is it the opposite? Do you have to use a level 3 to a level 3 in a different arte set?

tales-of-symphonia-hd

two bugs

Alternatively: you pull on both ends and they fall apart with no pop

GodEmperorDune

@Sterno oh i thought it was a pejorative name for white santa

4

GnomeSlice

3:56 PM

@twobugs You have to make sure you grip it by the blasting strip

two bugs

I think I had the same convo with @AshleyNunn but I've only ever found really cheap Christmas Crackers here in America so you typically get 1 dud per pack

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do you unlock hidden artes?

For example, Lloyd has this hidden arte: Lightning Thrust Sonic Thrust used 200 times, Elemental Damage Lightning Do you have to use Sonic Thrust 200 times with a lightning damage weapon equipped, or just 200 times and then equip a lightning weapon and then it will unlock? If I unlock this art...

tales-of-symphonia-hd

0

Q: Set Traps in Balder's Gate

(I am referring to the Enhanced Edition of Balder's Gate.) Thieves have a "Set Trap" ability they can place points into. I have seen the statistics on how much damage/what effects these traps have but I cannot seem to figure out how putting points into the skill helps it. I suspect it makes it...

baldurs-gate-enhanced

two bugs

Or at least I seem to

Private Pansy

Well here you don't get Christmas crackers at all, so no disappointment!

GnomeSlice

Yeah i mean sometimes they just don't work, but if you take the strip out and yank it it usually goes

scares the shit out of the cat

two bugs

3:59 PM

Clearly @Sterno and @PrivatePansy are wacky roommates

GnomeSlice

unless she's old and deaf like mine

Private Pansy

@twobugs Starring in the least interesting sitcom in the history of mankind

two bugs

"Hey Sterno, you ever going to start that game?" "No" Seinfeld theme

GnomeSlice

I should have expected the ending in the Mad Max game to be like it was

djsmiley2k

finally arrived.

two bugs

4:16 PM

Yay progress, but I might have to rewrite a portion of this database query :(

fredley

Meanwhile

Yuuki

I Hate the Lord of the Rings

►

Ohnana

@fredley john green on mental floss == perfect

Yuuki

> The Agile Scrumfall of the Ring

Sterno

I have never before seen a Christmas cracker

I've also never heard of something that makes noise like that referred to as a "cracker"

two bugs

4:24 PM

@fredley These videos always make me wonder... do people who initially post these lifehacks even try them? Or is it just "Hey, this might work, let's have other people test it for me!"

@Sterno It's a firecracker without the fire

Nate Kerkhofs

Is Dragon's Dogma on PC similar in difficulty to Dark Souls, or is it easier?

two bugs

Easier.

Nate Kerkhofs

I'm considering getting DD, but it looks similar to DS, and I'm not keen on getting that because they say it's hard

two bugs

It's more open and leveling makes a big difference. You will encounter some difficulty early on, but get a few levels under your belt and everything will go a lot smoother

Dragon's Dogma is also really not very similar to Dark Souls at all

Nate Kerkhofs

aren't they both 3rd person action RPGs?

two bugs

4:27 PM

Yes, but that's a very broad genre.

Dragon's Dogma focuses more on an open world with cities, NPCs, quests, etc.

Party combat rather than solo

Many more RPG mechanics

Nate Kerkhofs

About that party combat: how does that party system work? I've noticed that you can rent party members from your friends, right? how does that work, exactly?

two bugs

The party being you, your AI buddy, and two people you can pick up through an in-game matchmaking (or just use your friends)

Basically, it'll pick a few guys around your level to suggest but you can specify criteria to search for

Really helps if you're trying to look for a party member that fills a specific role

Nate Kerkhofs

does the keyboard/mouse combat work properly?

two bugs

Haven't tried it with KB/M, I used a controller

Matt E. Эллен

@fredley 29 was worth the wait.

StrixVaria

4:33 PM

@Sterno Is it just Bridge drama you like, or general Internet drama? This Fine Bros thing is pretty entertaining.

Unionhawk

Woo class de facto cancelled

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: The door to the room of petrified woman is closed! How can I open?

I play Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the Fist Sin and already were in that room with the petrified woman, but after some story progress I actually wanted to go to this area again.. ..but the door is closed. How can I open this door on my screenshot? Any clues? I think I didn't used the 'Fragrant...