The Bridge

I'm not a big roguelike guy either

Q: Dying light dockets - hom many can I send?

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How many dockets can I send to my game from a) dying light companion app b) dockets website, where you enter codes If I send two packages from app, will I receive only one? If I enter few codes and then run a agame, will I get all of them? And is there a way to get dockets from app faster than ...

dying-light

Haha, nice, he uses programming fonts for the interface, looks like you can select between a bunch

like Proggy

gridsagegames.com/cogmind/ui_preview.html

How to fold your shirts.

looks nice, but 30$ is a bit much.

I don't feel like paying 1/2 price of an AAA on an alpha.

5:04 PM

Will drop on full release to $20

20$ is a considerable price.

but I'm not sure if having your release price lower than alpha price is good marketing.

Blem

depends on how many hours of your life it is going to eat

Darkest Dungeon is $25

> "Buy it. I regret getting Darkest Dungeon early access, but this is completely different. I really think this game could join the pantheon of top RLs. This game has the playstyle of DoomRL, the depth of ADOM, and incredible eye candy."

Blem

@ardaozkal it hold back people who are not sure and would give you a bad review based on a non finished product

Hmm, makes sense

5:06 PM

@Blem This, more or less

Q: How to testfor a player positively even if the player is dead

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I'm working on a map that has four teams red, Blue, Yellow, and Green. I have this command in a repeating command block /testfor @e[team=Yellow] I have one of each of these for each team. When a player dies they're still on the team, but when they die the command block comes out negative as if th...

minecraft

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Q: Are season passes no longer downloaded on Xbox One?

Previously, for instance for Battlefield 4, you had to download the season pass for the game to recognise your rights to the extra dlc's. For both Fallout 4 and The Division (which arguably hasn't come out yet) I bought the big packages that included the season pass. I can see the season pass i...

xbox-one

Darkest Dungeon is worth every penny

Granted, I didn't play until right before launch but I've had a lot of fun with it

@GnomeSlice Wow. The depth of ADOM? Hardly.

Oh. He's talking about Cogmind. I thought Darkest Dungeon

@Sterno I dunno, they've been working on it for like 2 years

@Sterno Yeah

Comment retracted

Any reason to get Cogmind now until waiting until it has more polish?

5:16 PM

@Sterno Nope.

Unless you want to pay $10 more

And get a forum badge you won't care about anyway

It's likely coming to Steam at some point too

I'd probably have already bought it if it were on Steam

Cogmind sounds neat but I'll wait for the official release

And/or Steam

I've never really been big into RLs though

before buying

They just seem overwhelming and I don't really like the concept of dying a lot as you figure things out

@GnomeSlice there is a promise of steam keys, I'd guess that they already have their sub.

5:18 PM

Yeah I suck at them too

> Steam keys are a limited-time offer only for the intial alpha access sale. As per Steam policy, we cannot offer these indefinitely (they will be removed from the offer at some point, but while shown are still valid). Note that these cannot be issued until Cogmind is on Steam, which will not be until the game is at or near 1.0, some time in 2016.

> Also, it's likely but not guaranteed that Cogmind will be available through Steam. When the time comes, in the case of Improved/Advanced tiers Steam keys go out to the owners of each copy of Cogmind.

@GnomeSlice Have you played it yet?

@Sterno I have not, and even if I had I would probably not be the best judge because I suck ass at roguelikes

But I have been watching it for over a year

Q: CSGO Server only loads de_dust on start

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Hello i own a server on SerenityServers for csgo but i can figure out how to make another map load first instead of de_dust. i have played with the autoexec.cfg the server.cfg maplists mapgroups gamemode_servers but it wont work plshelp

counter-strike-go hosting counter-strike

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Q: Singstar disc swap on PS4?

The PS3 Singstar had a functionality that allowed you to swap out your disc for a PS2 disc, allowing you to play those songs on PS3. Is it possible to do the same on PS4 with either a PS3 or PS2 disc?

ps4 singstar

Maybe 3 bridge person can team up and get the 60$ one.

I would be interested

5:21 PM

I just bought that tier and will be gifting @GnomeSlice a copy in a minute

Not sure what I'm doing with the other one yet

@Sterno You don't have to do that!

I know.

Actually I've poisoned @Sterno and unless he gift @GnomeSlice Cogmind I will destroy the antidote

The other one will probably be a reward for someone completing Bad Rats 2 or Galactic Hitman or something

So he does, in fact, have to do that.

5:22 PM

What's Galactic Hitman?

A terrible game that I bought gift copies of when it was on sale for $.50

googles oh boy

*buys galactic hitman*

*both for gnome and self*

Yeah I've heard of this

Haha

@GnomeSlice $0.49 game, widely considered to be one of the worst games on Steam

Is Galactic Hitman Really The Worst Game On Steam?

5:22 PM

Yeah I've seen it

just forgot the name

wow.

I have 1453MB free space on my pc

Space Beast Terror Fright Demo Trailer

Galactic Hitman that doesn't suck

I'm pretty sure every other shooter is "Galactic Hitman that doesn't suck"

Wow. Cogmind is only 16.6 MB

@Sterno ascii

5:26 PM

Still.

history of japan

/cc @KevinvanderVelden

Cogmind hijacks your mouse when you alt-tab out

Think I'll stream this

@Sterno Yeah just noticed that

@Sterno You can run windowed though

@Sterno Options > Disable Auto-Cursor fixes it

Should I use wheels or legs?

Kevin van der Velden

5:31 PM

@badp "And no one was allowed in, except for the dutch"

Yay dutch people!

Playing Cogmind

Not sure this stream is wroking though

@Sterno I hear it but don't see it

Q: Any way to expand max multiplayer limit MCPE

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Me and my friends play Minecraft Pocket Edition together sometimes, but when there are more than 5 people we can't get them to join. If you can use a PC to help do so, that would be appreciated too. So essentially my question is: Does anyone know of a way to bypass the default player limit on...

minecraft minecraft-pocket-edition minecraft-server

Weird

@GnomeSlice same

5:35 PM

Weird. Can't get it to show up. Oh well. Stream cancelled

Try twitch?

I think I like the tiles better than ASCII mode

Blender Warrior

Anyone have an Xbox 1?

But that could just be because I'm not old

Blender Warrior

@AshleyNunn You still living?

5:38 PM

I died.

@BlenderWarrior Ask your question, it'll be answered if someone has it/knows it

Blender Warrior

@ardaozkal Oh okay..

So I have an Xbox 1 but for some reason, I can't get my games to stream live on Twitch?

ruh roh

@BlenderWarrior that seems like a good question for the main site.

Okay, I don't have the brainpower to deal with this game atm

5:43 PM

@Sterno Apparently if you fuck with too many things on the terminals it detects 'suspicious activity' and locks them

oops

the sound design is awesome in this

I died

Fluttershy

Why are people giving money to Digital Homicide? lol First @Wipqozn, now @ardaozkal. Is there some meme I'm missing?

Temper Tantrum best game.

> this kid is good. he must be using those things called proxy or something.

lmao, everyone should check out mr robot.

5:59 PM

@Fluttershy @Sterno is giving money to them

@Unionhawk No he didn't

Fluttershy

@Unionhawk Is Galactic Hitman the new Bad Rats?

@GnomeSlice Well he gifted it to me, anyway

So I'm assuming he at least gifted it to @Wipqozn

I died

this is hard

@Fluttershy Yes.

I bought gift copies at $0.49 each and sent them to some people

I can live with them getting the 30 cents or so per copy from me after Steam takes its cut

Fluttershy

6:05 PM

Gotcha. I was mostly just curious, because I was hoping that Arqade users had enough sense to not play anything by Digital Homicide. :P

I might need to play TOME4 again

There's a whole new campaign coming out for it soon

reasonstovotetrump.com

@GnomeSlice I feel like the "we need to talk" link should do something, but it doesn't

Q: What tactics to use for final fight?

Some people just like to watch the world burn.

5

Disclaimer: I've already completed the game, so I know what to expect in the final mission. That said, the fight right at the end was (almost) a complete balls-up. I managed to And that was just on Rookie. So, I'm wondering what the best approach is for that fight, for my second playthrough...

xcom-2

That is not a dupe of "How do I win a fight without using consumables"

The guy was asking the other question because of the final fight, but that was not all his question was about

Either that or the other question really needs to be rewritten to be focused on just the final fight

Oh, hey, there's even a meta about it

Wipqozn

6:22 PM

Those are completly different questions.

Well, I had the opposite opinion of @fbueckert on how to handle it, so I knew everything was okay.

I... what?

(those are gigabytes)

I refreshed a bit: I apparently write 20 gigabytes every second.

I'm not sure what to do with my gaming time now. Cogmind was too complicated to get into right now. I stalled out at character creation on Wasteland 2. Decision overload. I should finish Tomb Raider, probably. Pillars of Eternity with the White March expansion is currently installing.

It's too bad The Division wasn't fun. That would have been perfect.

I still can't figure out why I bought Cities: Skylines.

main site down for anyone else?

Tim Stone

@Sterno It's the fault of someone in here, surely, because I bought it too

6:29 PM

@GodEmperorDune main site? Arqade is ok for me

@Sterno Because you needed to balance out SimCity 2013's existence in the world?

se and so too

@ardaozkal weird, i'm getting a cloudflare 522 for arqade

Tim Stone

I like those types of games but haven't put more than a few minutes of time into it

@TimStone Almost certainly @Wipqozn and @StrixVaria

6:30 PM

Then I have the game for you

@GodEmperorDune ah, cloudflare fu again.

ehh, its back now

Three words: Hungry Cat Picross

Tim Stone

@Sterno shakes fist

shouldiblamewipqozn.com

6:30 PM

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tuesdayquest.logicart

I spent hours in 5 minute bursts on that game.

StrixVaria

@RedRiderX I can't pass up a Picross game.

This got me into Picross

Damn you @RedRiderX!

I like how in rise of the Tomb Raider, you decode messages these giant monoliths that always amount to "someone hid something nearby", and then like 10 feet away you dig up some coins

I always hated games that had three strikes and you lose, but this you can just play around with it.

6:33 PM

I know when I hide my satchel of coins, I like to build a giant monument right next to the hiding spot

StrixVaria

I think I did every puzzle in Armor Picross during chemistry class in college.

And the microtransactions are pretty alright.

You just pay for no ads.

@Sterno Never lose your keys again with this one weird tip! Archaeologists HATE it!

Wipqozn

@Sterno I think @origamirobot is to blame too

He's dead now, though RIP

@Sterno Legend Ironman?

@Wipqozn I'd rather wait for mods in a year

Q: My name wont pop up for my brother on minecraft pe

6:36 PM

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Plz help I have minecraft pe version 4.0 and here is my problem I can join my brother but he can't join mine my multiplyer is on we are on the same wifi he has a kindle and I have a nook I bought my minecraft pe app but he got his on aptoide PlZ HELP its sooooo Boring if they can't join my world ...

minecraft-pocket-edition

@RedRiderX This is a different picross than what I'm used to.

Yeah totally.

Wipqozn

@Sterno That's legit

user15026

@RedRiderX I loved this game. I played the crap out of it.

@AshleyNunn Yeah I've only recently passed you in number of sardines.

2

user15026

6:40 PM

I am a sucker for picross games

@AshleyNunn I tried a couple but I was always to dumb to do the logic in my head so the strike system was always a pain for me.

I really like this game's way of doing it though.

Frank

@Sterno Now you can play Fire Emblem!

Also I look forward to competing with all of you in the sardine leagues.

Q: How to delete data off skylanders?

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I have some files I want to put I a skylander (non skylander files). I am using the portal of power (giants) as a rfid reader with driver. How do i use it to access the .bak files.

6:55 PM

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

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Aliens

Proposed Q&A site for people who are interested in, study and believe in the existence of extraterrestrials.

Currently in definition.

possibly has already been posted

Portal is a pretty nuts run

All bhops and oob

this had more camera hugging as it were

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment AYY LMAO

7:02 PM

"the SoC uses an integrated liquid vapor cooling system."

wat

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment supernatural?

Dual pixel cameras as in they capture 2 pixels?

Or 2 pixels per pixel?

@badp old

@djsmiley2k urmom

nOW, if it's using 'external'l liquid then I'm intereted

also can't type appently

7:05 PM

@djsmiley2k Preferably while you're making phone calls.

-1 wont buy

:D

'AURGH MY FACE'

@Unionhawk dunno, Ars Technica also uses scare quotes without qualifying

@ardaozkal of course, it's Samsung, it's shit.

So, accidently finished FFVII :/

@djsmiley2k now you are a free man

7:07 PM

lol nah

need to take on the weapons etc

and that means some stats grinding first.

@djsmiley2k YOU ARE A FREE MAN. FOREVER

Nope

PUT IT DOWN

SIR, PUT THE GAME DOWN

*opens up photosho*

what's photoshop got to do with anything?

7:12 PM

@badp Could just be a fancy way to say that it uses a heatpipe

7:26 PM

finished mrrobot. I feel empty.

Watch Red Dwarf

7:44 PM

oh my god

I was checking the pictures of the "Red Dwarf"

I saw my english teacher

Q: Why are my analoge sticks not working properly?

8:01 PM

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I have 3 Xbox One controllers, one of which works fine. However, the other two have an issue with the analogue sticks. For some reason, when they aren't being touched at all they act like they're being pushed up. This makes it incredibly hard to play first person shooter games in particular, as t...

controllers xbox-one

My graphics card is approaching the inevitable :(

It crashes randomly (weirdly, it crashes on low-requirement games more often, like terraria), and I just got a triple crash.

8:15 PM

No, JavaScript is "weekly typed." Anything written more than a week ago is incomprehensible to edit and has to be retyped from scratch.

Tweeted by FakeUnicode on February 19, 2016 at 9:17 PM

Simpsons on DRM

gta-online rockstargames-social-club

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Q: HelpGTA 5 social club

Can anyone please help me. I have created a rockstar account and from what i can see on My Daughters iphone she is in the social club, however when she tries to log in on her xbox 360 a measage says shes not authourised to join the social club and to read the privacy agreement? If any of you lov...

That's... not about DRM.

I'd edit it to "Opening a game with DRM be like", but edit time is over.

murgatroid99

It's about security, in general

Voice Souls - Ornstein and Smough

8:22 PM

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Yes, that is Dark Souls with voice controls.

@Yuuki Without watching the video I'm just imagining it like the Pokemon anime where they just yell "dodge it!" for every attack

@Yuuki and I thought it couldn't be harder!

Oh hey today is Yearlingx4

@Unionhawk congrats!

Here is your yearling cake!

9:00 PM

Device overflow

Hmm... how do I mock/test a catch block that honestly shouldn't be hit?

try {
        SecretKeyFactory skf = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA512");
        PBEKeySpec spec = new PBEKeySpec(password.toCharArray(), salt, ITERATIONS, KEY_LENGTH);
        SecretKey key = skf.generateSecret(spec);
        byte[] result = key.getEncoded();
        return result;
    }
    catch(NoSuchAlgorithmException | InvalidKeySpecException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

And I have only 80% code coverage on tests because I can't figure out how to hit that catch block.

IDK, but replacing "NoSuchAlgorithmException | InvalidKeySpecException e" with "Exception e" might work.

@Yuuki Mock one of those calls to raise a NoSuchAlgorithmException.

And maybe also an InvalidKeySpecException.

@Ronan Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how right now.

My Google Fu isn't helping very much.

@Yuuki Oh you can't work out the actual mocking?

9:08 PM

@Ronan Yeah, I think that's part of it.

@Yuuki What's in the constructor for that class?

Is it worth it to mock the entire thing if the error handling is nothing but printing a stack trace? What is there to test?

@MadScientist I apparently need a test to actually hit the catch block.

Kevin van der Velden

Solution to getting 100% code coverage. Have no code

i.e. just remove the stacktrace printing

Does printStackTrace throw an error?

9:16 PM

@Ronan I can't really think of a situation where it would.

@Yuuki In which case I'd remove that catch anyway, otherwise it'll catch that error and just continue.

@Ronan SecretKeyFactory.getInstance() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException and skf.generateSecret() throws InvalidKeySpecException so I have to try/catch those.

Although I guess I could put throws Exception in the method header.

@Yuuki Yeah, but is your desired functionality to eat that error and continue as if nothing happened?

@Ronan Well, it's a password salting method so not quite but essentially yeah.

If I get those exceptions, there's literally nothing I can do further.

@Yuuki If there's nothing you can do further then you should crash, not continue.

Kevin van der Velden

9:20 PM

Yes. So throw the error to the user

on error resume next-programming worst programming

CC @PHP

So I should put throws Exception in the method header and then crash in the catch block whenever this method is called?

@Yuuki Yeah, or just not have a catch block at all, I'd go with the latter.

@Ronan How do you not have a catch block at all when the compiler refuses to compile until you catch that exception in some way?

@Yuuki Saying that the whole method throws an exception is also a solution.

With checked exceptions, you either have to deal with it, or bubble it further up.

github.com/djsmiley2k/smileys-random-tools/blob/master/…

9:25 PM

@Yuuki You could choose a different algorithm

bad code best code

bindly accept the file \o/

@MadScientist I had enough trouble convincing one team member to accept password hashing rather than his attempt at password encryption.

@Yuuki Run?

Eating the error up doesn't seem like a good choice here. If you can't fix it, catch it somewhere above where you can show an error message to the user

Just as far away from that team as possible.

9:27 PM

haha

@Ronan beat me to it

RUN AWAAAAY

@Ronan I'd rather not eat an F in my last semester.

You're storing the users password.... why?

@Yuuki Well, in that case, do whatever it takes to just get the hashing in, even if it is ugly ;-)

Particularly for the so-called "capstone" class.

@Yuuki Haha, that doesn't sound good.

Yeah if you put throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException in the method header it should compile.

9:29 PM

I'm blessed with the ability of knowing when someone knoiws more than I do

and if they don't, I generally don't listen to them :/

This seems like a good example why people tend to hate checked exceptions, it doesn't look like a good solution for this issue

I really can't imagine a situation where these two exceptions are thrown.

@Yuuki Blame java.

Which is part of why I'm really confused as to why I need to write a test that hits that catch block.

@djsmiley2k you host your website home?

9:32 PM

@ardaozkal yeah

Hmm, I'd do that too but ports are very limited in turkey.

Even if I host it, no one will be able to access it.

:O

(just saying: yes, my firewall and port redirections are correct)

> They should get Nolan to direct the next Star Wars so he has to build a real Death Star to avoid using CGI.

9:36 PM

The lengths that Christopher Nolan goes to to avoid using CGI are really frickin' ridiculous.

Quite crazy.

Fun fact: Left click -> shoot Ctrl -> shoot without animations

@Yuuki I think you usually wouldn't write one, there is simply nothing useful to test here

@MadScientist Yeah, but "100% code coverage, blah blah blah".

Oh, CTRL doesn't drain ammo too, nice.

@Yuuki Tell your professor exactly what they can do with their code coverage.

9:44 PM

I'll speedrun this, put it to youtube and refund this.

Seems a bit disingenuous, personally.