The Bridge

7:02 PM

@Sterno The gameplay is exactly what I wanted it to be, but I got a little bit carried away with trying to gold medal every level and burned myself out.

There are some new modes added recently, so I'll probably pick it back up soon-ish.

Sterno

I hope it comes to mobile

StrixVaria

Next platform is PS4.

I would be surprised if it comes to mobile. The first one was on Android and I don't think it sold well.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn Yes.

StrixVaria

The UI is even more cluttered than the first one, too (14 prep stations instead of 8 max, plus 8 holding stations), so even if it is on Android it might be one of those tablet only things.

Wipqozn

@Sterno nope

Sterno

7:05 PM

@Wipqozn Okay. Combat is better but similar so I was going to say if you didn't like that one you probably wouldn't like this

Story wise and choices and all that I really dig it

And I've always been okay with the combat

It's one of the rare RPGs where I actually make choices in the game because I feel like I'm playing a character instead of doing whatever I think will give me closest to 100% completion

StrixVaria

Have you tried the coop?

I don't think I would enjoy the game alone but I might be able to convince a friend to get it and play through coop, which would go better for me.

Sterno

No, because I can't stand playing story based RPGs co-op, but I've watched people do it on Twitch and it looks pretty smooth if you're into that

Not like the old Neverwinter games where one guy starts talking to and NPC and everyone else has to sit there and wait

StrixVaria

Short of that, is there a difficulty slider that has an option between "recommended" and "cakewalk"?

Sterno

There were definitely difficulty options including what I understand to be a pretty easy mode

but I don't know the specifics

StrixVaria

Ok, I'll just do some of my own research.

I was looking at the game when it launched but decided against it at the time.

Wipqozn

7:08 PM

@Sterno excellent

StrixVaria

I really liked some parts of the first one and really hated some other parts, so it's a risky buy.

Sterno

I do remember reading on how the way the game is built so that you can kill every single NPC and do whatever you want without making the main quest impossible was born from how they designed it for co-op, so that each player had the freedom to do whatever they wanted

StrixVaria

That sounds really neat, actually.

Sterno

Okay, this is Explorer Mode difficulty:

The player gets +80% HP & +30% boost to Chances to Hit.
NPCs get -50% HP & -25% penalty to Chances to Hit.
Regular creatures don't have any crowd control spells (Charm, Mute, Freeze, Petrify etc.): only bosses have them.
Can switch up to Classic Mode

StrixVaria

So it seems that you either play on recommended difficulty or god mode.

Sterno

7:10 PM

I played on the hard mode and it's really fucking hard

StrixVaria

Yeah, I'm not into that.

I want to feel challenged but win every encounter on my first try.

Sterno

Yeah. I'm not sure where normal difficulty lands on the curve

SaintWacko

Is that available on PC?

I've heard good things about it

Sterno

PC and console I believe

definitely on PC

StrixVaria

If it's on PS4 that might make my decision for me.

SaintWacko

7:11 PM

Hm, may have to pick it up

Once I get bored with Diablo 3 again

And with Fallout 4

And finish my discworld in Minecraft

StrixVaria

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is PC only so far.

Sterno

Oh, right. it's the first one that's on console

I've been playing Grim Dawn lately

Not sure how I feel about it

Think I'll just go back to Path of Exile when that expansion hits in December

Path of Exile was a great game for me to play while simultaneously watching Star Trek or something

Plus ARPGs make me sleepy so it was a good insomnia cure

In other news, I'm glad Fortnite BR exists so that I never need to play PUBG again

StrixVaria

How is Fortnite overall?

I was interested when I heard building bases and fighting off zombies, and then disinterested when I realized that it's all transient and you have to start over from scratch next play session.

badp

7:32 PM

you know what's the worst

mortgages

StrixVaria

I have one of those.

badp

like, my bank isn't even telling me whether or not I have one

StrixVaria

Do you not know?

badp

I'm starting to panic

I have evidence I do

I have evidence I don't

StrixVaria

That sounds complicated.

badp

7:34 PM

if I didn't I wouldn't have a bank account with this bank

if I did I would've been charged a couple thousand euros on that account last month

Maximillian

Schrodinger's Panic

badp

wait

unless...

StrixVaria

Is this a new mortgage?

Avery

you probably opened the account without knowing it or smth

StrixVaria

In the US you usually skip a month when starting a new mortgage, and only get a bill for the second month after you close.

badp

7:35 PM

no, I also don't have the payment on my previous bank account

Avery

remembers how painful it was for her to open an account

or maybe not

badp

@StrixVaria it should start on the 1st.

Sterno

@StrixVaria The single player version gets boring fast

badp

or rather, I need one on the 1st.

StrixVaria

I'm refinancing my mortgage right now. I paid the bill on my old mortgage due on Nov 1 already. We close next week on the new one, and the next bill is due Jan 1. I "skip" the normal payment that would be due in December. Similar happened with rent/new mortgage when I moved into the house in the first place.

So if it's brand new you may just have not gotten the first bill yet?

badp

7:37 PM

The payment I'm talking about is a 0.5% surcharge for there being more than 3 months between getting the offer and starting the mortgage

Avery

> The word mortgage is derived from a "Law French" term used by English lawyers in the Middle Ages meaning "death pledge"

nice.

badp

I mean this section just says I need to pay 0.5%

it doesn't say I need to pay 0.5% on the day of the 3rd month

but I still have panic

and it's friday at almost 9pm

so that's good

StrixVaria

Getting news of potential financial trouble on Friday evening is the worst. I got a $8900 bill from the IRS on a Friday evening last month.

I couldn't do anything about it for the entire weekend, so I just spend the whole weekend panicking.

badp

mainly things got bad this afternoon when the bank staff told me "I don't have a mortgage"

which

technically

is correct

since I don't have one that is active today

I'm still 100% debt free

but ambiguous as fuck

and they refused to give me any more information

Avery

id theft stuff maybe?

MBraedley

7:47 PM

Oh, I remember the days I was 100% debt free like it was ~~yesterday~~ May 2016

Avery

is it worth staying 100% debt free?

MBraedley

May 17 '16 at 12:45, by MBraedley

Guys guys guys, I'm (almost) a homeowner now!

Avery

I mean

like

eh

I'd rather rent than get in debt I guess

user15026

@StrixVaria That's awful

user15026

I don't know if I am ever going to be debt free again :/

MBraedley

7:51 PM

@Avery But just think, in 23 years, I'll be debt free again!

StrixVaria

@Ash It was because I made a mistake while filing and they double-counted a bunch of income, I refiled and I owed $130 instead, which was a huge relief.

Maximillian

My bank has informed me Mario Coins are not a legitimate currency.

user15026

@StrixVaria I am glad that worked out for you, because I can see how that would be a big panic out of nowhere

Avery

@Maximillian ofc they aren't

StrixVaria

@Ash The timing was the worst, too, because I had literally just written a giant check to have my kitchen remodeled.

Avery

7:52 PM

You gotta pay in moons now.

user15026

@StrixVaria Woooorst day ever

StrixVaria

Also my water heater broke that day and flooded my basement :P

No joke, that all happened in one day.

Everything is fine now, though!

Yuuki

hmmm

StrixVaria

@Yuuki :(

Sterno

So my wife just spent like 4 hours baking cookies and individually wrapping/labeling them for some bake sale

Which might raise like $50

And I'm like "Why don't we just donate $50"

user15026

7:56 PM

@StrixVaria wow, that's rough

Sterno

and apparently I don't understand women because she says you have to do this for mom networking or something or the other moms will hate you

I mean we probably spent $50 on ingredients for these cookies. It was 32 bars of chocolate and 3 bags of chocolate chips plus eggs, sugar, etc

Plus 4+ hours of time

I don't understand

StrixVaria

My wife insists on baking all desserts we bring places herself instead of just buying one on the way.

Yuuki

Does she like baking?

StrixVaria

I would never do that, but I think that's more understandable, as her desserts taste better than store-bought.

Sterno

@Yuuki no

StrixVaria

7:58 PM

@Yuuki My wife doesn't love it but she'd rather bake than cook.

Sterno

Apparently there's this whole unspoken war between moms who work and moms who don't, too

Like both sides hating themselves and each other. supposedly. I DON'T KNOW

Maximillian

Secret War.

StrixVaria

@Sterno I spent a week home with my wife and the kids and it was almost a relief to go back to work, but before I did that I thought it was going to be relaxing.

Sterno

I definitely have seen both sides talking shit about the other though. It's so weird.

StrixVaria

They both envy the other not realizing that both sides are shitty.

Maximillian

8:00 PM

They're just waiting for Barb from the PTA to get out of the pack, then they'll shove a business heel right into her skull.

My child is best child because: Junior Advanced Reader Program.

StrixVaria

It's train time, which means it's Oathbringer time. Hooray!

Sterno

@StrixVaria I know that feel. My wife works lots of weekends, 12 hour shifts, so some weekends it's just me and the kids both days, and I look forward to Monday usually

Maximillian

@StrixVaria I am going to pretend this means you have a two handed, magical sword just for boarding the train.

Avery

@Sterno wait you didn't know that?

not to bash or whatever but I thought that everyone pmuch knew that

but yes both sides have valid points

though I think that it's pretty ok and maybe even good to work as a mom

Maximillian

Being a mom is largely unpaid work with terrible hours.

Unionhawk

8:04 PM

Hmm

Sterno

My wife got Oathbringer on audible

and the text version is a pdf

:(

Unionhawk

Verizon has pixel 2 for 50%

With trade in

35 a month for 24 months on xl regular price, so...

I might do this thing

Or cheaper for regular but I like the xl

It's the same size as my 6p

Technically I should find a cheaper phone maybe but 50% on pixel is pretty good

Maximillian

I went with the Moto X4

It's just $399, hardware is fairly capable.

Unionhawk

Assuming they give me full trade in value on my nexus

Maximillian

Google Fi gave me back $110 for my Nexus 6.

Unionhawk

8:16 PM

@Maximillian see, but 50% on pixel brings it in that range

Maximillian

Only thing I don't like about current gen phones is everybody making the backs of phones glass.

Just make sure you don't get a first wave Pixel 2. Apparently they had OLED burn-in issues.

Unionhawk

So that's part of how I'm justifying it

Not just because Google phones are cool and I need to be cooler than @TimStone

Both of those things are true though

Maximillian

Uniphone, the only phone that can scream at things.

SaintWacko

I'm happy with my original Pixel

@Sterno Oof

Anyone else getting Pixel Buds?

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Can you use two Star Cards with the same name at once?

In Star Wars Battlefront 2, Star Cards power-up your character on the field: I was wondering, can you use two Star Cards with the same name at the same time, and stack their abilities?

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Unionhawk

8:34 PM

@SaintWacko my Nexus is dying at 40% consistently

Maximillian

Oh no. A BF2 question.

Someone bought it guys, we lost.

Avery

modflags post

Yuuki

@Lazers2.0 You have to buy the ability to use duplicate cards for $10. /s

badp

8:59 PM

@MBraedley I mean the path to being debt-free again is pretty obvious for me

sell house, go back to parents'

@Maximillian might be a pirate copy. It's actually probably the more likely case

indeed we should stay on the safe side of things and close all battlefront 2 questions as piracy support.

5

it's the only way to be sure.

Maximillian

The game was modded by the developer to not have microtransactions. We do not support modded BF2 </sarcasm>

Yuuki

"Oh, see this computer runs on AC power, I only know about DC computers."

Avery

@Yuuki -1 picture of text

:pls: bridge is not /r/pics

Yuuki

(Excuse may not work in Washington D.C.)

Maximillian

There's a 1 in 8 chance Dicaprio can fix your TV.

Avery

9:15 PM

@Yuuki also it's not the same thing

I mean, software devs are people who do most of their work on the hardware stated, so they might be more knowledgeable about them than the average person

however, dicaprio mostly appears in movies. He doesn't do his work on the hardware stated, even though he appears in it.

murgatroid99

I think the analogy is more that software developers create code, which can be executed on computers, and Dicaprio creates movies, which can be played on TVs. Each has a job that is associated in some way with that hardware, but in both cases there is not a reasonable expectation that having that job requires or involves expertise in that hardware.

Avery

from that aspect it's a good analogy, but in practice it's not really true imo

SaintWacko

Yeah, I think there's a much better chance that a software developer could fix your computer than that DiCaprio could fix your TV

murgatroid99

It's still not a reasonable expectation.

Like sure, maybe there's a 1% chance that a random person could fix your hardware issue, and a 10% chance that a random software dev could do the same, but it's still not their area of expertise, and not their job

SaintWacko

9:30 PM

Stop being reasonable, we're being pedantic!

The Bridge has a long and glorious history of pedantry, and we are upholding that tradition!

Avery

we're all redditors here

user15026

nope.

SaintWacko

@Ash wat

user15026

@MBraedley I finished reading Artemis today. Very different from the The Martian but it is pretty good.

Avery

@Ash (I know, I was referencing this)

user15026

9:35 PM

@SaintWacko I have pretty much 0 use for it as a thing

user15026

@Avery okay, sure.

Sterno

+pedantry

Chippies

Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition is free for a limited time on humble bundle

Yuuki

9:51 PM

If "pedantry" is being anal about small things, is "podantry" being anal about foot things?

Mostly /s.

Chippies

@Fluttershy I'm awake and available for Nightfalls whenever you are

Avery

Hm

Maximillian

I keep looking at Destiny 2, but then I scroll up and click Diablo 3.

Avery

What's our stance on x-y problem, and answering the real question of asker instead of the one on question text/title?

(this is the question, I want to answer and talk about how they can actually get it to work on macos as that's the problem they're facing)

Chippies

@Avery the question is about games in general, with the specific game being supplied as an extra if it helps with the answer. Are you answering how to get the particular game working or how to install steam?

Avery

10:00 PM

@Chippies well, I can do both.

like here's how you install wine, here's how you install steam in it, and bonus: here's how you get the game running in it

Chippies

@Avery eh, I can see this being useful, but not everyone might agree

Avery

eh I guess I'll take a shot at it tomorrow

Chippies

@Avery not to rush you, but it already has an accepted answer, and imho, the longer you wait, the less likely you are to get positive reception

Avery

eh it's 1am and prepping to go to bed

Chippies

once a question gets an accepted answer, I feel like most people stop checking their question anyway

@Avery yeah, go to bed, it's more important than an answer to this random question :)

Yuuki

10:11 PM

Avery

@Yuuki needs more jaypeg

Yuuki

@Avery Do I look like I know hwat a jaypeg is?

Chippies

@Avery I thought you were going to bed ಠ_ಠ

Avery

@Yuuki it's jpeg but cooler

@Chippies I am already on bed, though I need to take care of a thing or two before I sleep

Chippies

memes are not important!

Avery

10:26 PM

It's less about memes and more about explaining smth to a friend

djsmiley2k

yey PSN just died

Avery

Same with discord

djsmiley2k

orly....

i wonder if it's something larger.

Avery

Thankfully I know what to do

BlueBarren

Do I still have Skype installed my Vita?

Maximillian

10:35 PM

You still use a Vita?

BlueBarren

define use

I mean, I remember I have it occasionally

Aside from ACIII:Liberation I beat every game I had for it

Yuuki

Avery

uugh discord is still down

I'm going to sleep

@BlueBarren probably

BlueBarren

Yeah this outage is upsetting

@Avery I actually deleted skype on my Vita

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djsmiley2k

10:49 PM

Annnnnnd it's back

StrixVaria

11:07 PM

"Please move a refrigerator, stove, and dishwasher yourself into position during the day on a Tuesday when you have work." - My idiot contractor.

user15026

11:17 PM

@StrixVaria O.o what no isn't that their job

StrixVaria

@Ash Yes.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: When can I promote an advisor?

In update 1.23, the one released alongside Cradle of Civilization, advisors were given personal religions and cultures and the ability to be upgraded. It seems like I can almost never upgrade an advisor though. I've seen it a few times, but right now I can't upgrade any of them. The changelog sa...

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StrixVaria

Anyway, I responded very politely telling them that that's their job.

We are physically unable to move a refrigerator with the manpower in our house anyway.

So it's not getting moved by us one way or another.

user15026

Yeah, no. That's why you pay the people the money, so they do that sort of stuff

Yuuki

@StrixVaria ... isn't this like the sixth time they've wanted you to do their job for them?

At some point, you need to start sending them invoices.

StrixVaria

11:26 PM

Around that.

It's insane.

I've never had a contractor even imply that I should do anything before.

Because that's why I'm giving them money.

If I wanted to do it myself then I wouldn't give them money to do it.

Yuuki

@Nzall Man, if Monster Hunter: World as microtransactions, I'm gonna be so pissed.

DanmakuGrazer

@Yuuki Most likely will have DLC

Stickers, gestures, maybe cosmetic armor

Yuuki

DLC is more macrotransaction than microtransaction.

DanmakuGrazer

Yeah

I'm okay with most DLC

Though I prefer expansions to horse armor

But once you've bought it, that's it

You won't be tempted to buy more when you run out

That's what breaks microtransactions for me

There's no upper limit

Yuuki

Technically, the upper limit is your credit line.

Lazers 2.0

11:49 PM

0

Q: How to share worlds between platforms with Minecraft Better Together

I have read that with the new "Better Together Update" (BTU) it is now possible to create a world on one platform and then continue playing it on a different platform. However, I am having trouble finding details of how this is supposed to work to determine if it would do what I am hoping it wou...

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Q: Melee in Star Wars Battlefront II

I've just started playing Star Wars Battlefront II, and there are a lot of differences between this game and the 2015 game, especially the melee. In Star Wars Battlefront 2015 the melee did 50 damage and was very slow. In the sequel the melees are much quicker and seem to do much less damage. I w...

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