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17:00
@badp Spy 1 gets you... er... I forget. Cloak and Dagger, I think.
The etranger
I had a few items that I got without notification
Now I can fishkill.
@badp Ambassador you mean?
er, yes, that one.
Oh yeah, I see it in your inventory now that I look.
It's a nifty gun if you can aim well enough to headshot. :D
I already had one, I just crafted the dropped one and replaced it.
It's been equipped for a while.
I feel the odd urge to rename the fish "Il Tonno Rio Mare", but that's a reference only Italians would get.
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17:03
I still have a name tag to use...
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@badp You on ATF?
@ThomasMcDonald I just disconnected from their server. They're playing coldfront.
@badp Don't like Coldfront? :O
Not really, but I disconnected to craft mainly.
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arrgh fuuu
17:05
It's funny that even though I've spent a refined on the YER, I still have more metal (one more scrap) than I had yesterday.
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I forgot I had already turned my desktop on, so I pressed the power button.
user30
cue Windows shutdown
@badp Is it really a refined to make the YER? I would have thought it'd be a reclaimed.
@Powerlord er, yeah, reclaimed. The level 2 metal thing.
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C+D & rec
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17:06
I wonder if I have a spare YER, quite fancy trying the Kunai.
However, I'm saving my miscellaneous items for the next update, since Valve is likely going to throw a whole bunch of new weapons in. Again.
I may also get rid of my "saving for Melissa" pile since she hasn't expressed any interest in TF2 lately.
user30
Nope.
@ThomasMcDonald I have exactly one, but I wouldn't mind "lending" it to you
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@badp Lending to craft into another weapon? ;)
it's useless in my hands anyway
user30
17:07
I already have one, was hoping for a spare
@ThomasMcDonald that wouldn't be lending :P
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Q: Can I unlock Dragon Armor, Roxas Outfit and Axel Outfit in Dragon Quest IX? How?

KatieKThis link says that I can unlock these sets of armor by killing 100 Metal Slimes. Is this true? I would have expected to find more than just the one reference to this unlockable. Is there something else I have to do after killing the Metal Slimes? Is it just the plain old Metal Slimes in t...

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Q: How do I know what time is it?

ExtrakunThere are various events in the Witcher 2 which requires me to drop by a location by, say, 21:00hr. How do I know what it is now in the game? There's an icon next to the radar, but it doesn't give the exact time.

If I get rid of my "Saving for Melissa" pile, I have an extra Kunai...
(technically two extras, but see above about saving items)
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In other news I got a new achievement the other day
@ThomasMcDonald which?
17:09
@ThomasMcDonald I don't get achievements any more. sniff
I recently got heal 1m heal points.
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> Drugstore Cowboy
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> Have dispensers you created dispense a combined amount of 100,000 health over your career.
Although my Youtube video wasn't that far from 100 views (which is pathetic, I know)
@ThomasMcDonald oh, I've had that for a while.
17:10
@badp You play Engineer a lot, though.
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I've also nearly got the scout kills one for 2004 kills
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and I got the 1000 gibs solly as well
Good old "grind" achievements.
@Powerlord Speaking of which, I'm at 13k sentry kills
er
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I have 405 kills, 4k wrangle heal.
17:11
that's 13k repairs
1.3k kills.
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Q: Can I reactivate my Peggle Nights in-app purchase on my new iPad without being charged again?

Brant BobbyI own Peggle for iPhone and bought the Peggle Nights addon from within the app. I installed Peggle on my new iPad, but Peggle Nights isn't available. I've seen other iOS games (like 100 Rogues) that have a "check for purchases" feature alongside "purchase", but Peggle doesn't have this. If I cli...

I lolled at how many kills minis can get when people don't pay attention.
@Powerlord They're evil. EVIL.
Got 3 kills in a row with a mini-sentry on cp_5gorge point 4
Scout kills, I have a whopping 81.
user30
17:12
Is the pyromancer achievement broken?
I immediately destroyed the mini and built a new one so I'd have 6 revenge crits.
@ThomasMcDonald Is that the 1 million fire damage one?
@ThomasMcDonald Which one? I have Steam in Italian.
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@Powerlord Aye
No, 1m fire damage isn't broken.
I'm at 222k
That one never displays the correct number from outside the game. I've never figured out why.
If it displays 0 for you, that's why.
17:13
Why don't you display achievements in game?
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because I'm not ingame yet.
That's an awesome feature.
I'm somewhere near 600k fire damage, but I'm not sure.
I loved grinding the double jumps one.
DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!DIN!
@badp Double-jump kills one is the harder achievement. :(
17:14
@Powerlord Not the one I'm talking about
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I displayed the grind achievements, yes, but I haven't updated it since with the ones I'm closest to
I need ONE MORE KILL for a Scout achievement... technically, two more kills.
@badp I know... I was pointing out that the other one, the kills while double-jumping one, is harder.
First Blood, Part 2 (4/5)
Except I hate Arena mode.
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TF2
Y U NO LAUNCH
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You can't 'prepare to launch' for ever
The best part is, kills on Dead Ringer Spies count towards that total... killed a DR Spy twice (once fake, once real) to move that from 3/5 to 4/5.
17:15
I have 1k double jumps, 10 conquests, be lame and capture last point, peaceful capture (which I "cheated"), run for 25km, destroy 3 incomplete toys, capture all 3 ints (which I think I also "cheated") and destroy 3 tele entrances.
Since the first one gave me the First Blood buff.
user30
I think I cheated my first lot of achievements :/
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> Finish a round as an MVP on a team of 6 or more players 10 times.
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4/10.
@badp Well, the achievements are really broken down into a few types: Ones you can cheat for by playing on an empty server, ones that require you to do things your class wouldn't normally do, ones you need a lot of skill/luck for, and ones you just grind.
17:16
by cheating I mean, "got from playing on an empty server while waiting for SE Game On to start"
@ThomasMcDonald Note: This also counts if your team loses. :D
I got 1/10 MVPs as soldier.
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> Craft the Saxton Hale Mask.
So, as long as you place in the top 3 on your team of 6 or more people...
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Is this still possible?
17:18
@ThomasMcDonald Perhaps on the next Sep 31st
@ThomasMcDonald Yes, but you need to get people to trade you the masks, or wait for Halloween for the holiday to happen again.
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oh..
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> Achieve 100,000 YouTubeâ„¢ views for your movie.
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Now that's not possible
Time limited achievements suck.
17:18
@Powerlord Isn't it a new one every time?
@ThomasMcDonald Worst. Achievement. Ever.
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@Powerlord might have to buy some traffic for that one
@ArdaXi They add new Halloween achievements each year, but the old ones are still there, too.
@Powerlord But very smart/evil from Valve's part.
Mann Manor can be used to get all 8.
Candy Coroner works on both KOTH Harvest Event and CP Mann Manor.
17:19
Then again, the TF2 team is very Lawful Evil.
My "best" TF2 video has 31 views. :/
Then again, my best youtube video is a bit over 2k, with the second at 383.
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Hmm, we should totally do a clever replay video
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and upload it on my account
@ThomasMcDonald If you're going to submit it for a Saxxy, you need to do it today.
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Meh, that advanced options pane is the same one as before
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17:20
As predicted yesterday
I wonder when Steam is going to have achievements for itself.
@Powerlord I submitted the pyro sentry one as best revenge.
For science.
@badp Heh.
I need to sort through my videos... probably get an editor to edit them in, since save as video no longer works for me.
(thanks btw Valve)
Perhaps they'll give an ugly hat to who took part. Perhaps not. Whatever.
Certainly they'll give goodies to the winners, and the mannconomists will be happy.
@badp Well, the Advanced Weaponiser server has a trophy as a weapon, so I figured they'd add that in or something. :D
user30
17:22
I can't wait until the disable hats option appears
I haven't looked at the AW trophy model, but it looked a bit similar as I recall.
@ThomasMcDonald Good luck waiting for that, since it'll never happen.
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@Powerlord Heh
@ThomasMcDonald Wait, did you mean server option or client option?
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Either would do me fine
server option will definitely never happen, client option... dunno.
17:24
@Powerlord Sourcemod.
@ArdaXi Yes, I meant in srcds. I realize that SourceMod already has a plugin to remove them.
@Powerlord On the client, it's harder.
Wait, that's not the plugin I meant to link to.
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if impossible now
There's an older one to remove them.
It'd be quite easy for Valve to add a client setting to not draw them. I just doubt they will.
Oh right, this is the plugin I meant to link to.
...and that extension is broken right now. Whoops.
17:31
Hats are useful in game too
For example I usually can tell @ThomasMcDonald from other soldiers with not great effort
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heh
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@badp come play, decent map
It's connecting, just a sec.
Right now I'm really easy to tell from other Engineers because I'm wearing a new hat that there aren't that many of yet. :D
17:52
I must note down this guy's use of dispensers to block access to nests, which is effective
or at least, I haven't found a counter for as a spy
@badp Yes, it is. :/
You can also use it on 2fort to block the spiral staircase to the intel room, near your spawn.
@badp You could hide behind the dispenser and constantly sap it, but you'd probably die when it goes down.
Either I don't get this kind of attention, or I've always underestimated the amount of spychecking going on in TF2.
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Today's deal looks like another skip
@ThomasMcDonald What is it?
Remember, the other thing is that sentries can not shoot through dispensers. Which you may be able to take advantage of.
18:08
Oh wow, I got sniper achievements.
3 arrows and no kill and pin a heavy to a wall.
18:18
Ha, I finally beat the damn Kayran. Died probably 15 times or more.
@badp The hard one is to kill a Heavy and Medic with your bow.
That was my last Sniper achievement. :/
@Fabian Yeah, I'm learning that Witcher 2 is not a casual game
Yay! I can't wait to get it.
although I feel like part of the difficulty is in the iffy controlls
oh :(
18:22
Certainly not, I just got comfortable with the normal combat controls, but the boss fight is a completely different beast.
:O
@sjohnston That's not good to hear.
I don't mind the controls that much, certainly Geralt got a bit slow, but it works pretty well most of the time.
@Fabian I remember in the first one I pretty much glided through the first chapter and then got to the flaming dog ghost boss and got pwned about 15 times in a row
@sjohnston That was the most evil difficulty spike I've ever seen in a game
18:24
@Fabian They're not that bad, they just make you feel slow. If I'm going to be a bad-ass, I'd like to feel like a bad-ass while I'm fighting. Instead, I feel big and ponderous
@Fabian Have you ever played Demon's Souls? I hear that has difficulty spikes like that.
Of course, that's just difficult in general.
RUN STRAIGHT THROUGH. :3
@Powerlord No, I only heard about it
I think the biggest problem with the difficulty is just that the tutorial doesn't explain anything
The ghost dog boss fight was weird. It was so hard, and I failed repeatedly. Then I applied some potions and it was suddenly very doable. The problem was mostly that I didn't realize that was vital, as it hadn't been vital up to that point.
@Fabian Exactly. If you do the right stuff, the difficulty is perfectly reasonable. Too bad you probably don't know what the right stuff is.
I got through the prologue without using consumables and any signs beside Aard (I thought I had to unlock the other ones), but I needed quite some luck at some points.
18:27
I don't really mind that though
I think difficulty is something that has been largely absent from video games lately and I feel like it's the sort of kick that can make a game more interesting.
Hmm, OnLive isn't limited to the US.
I like those RPGs where you have to be careful where to wander, like the Gothic series. I had a similar moment in the Witcher 2, when I decided to go into the forest without a silver sword ;-)
It's not World of Warcraft everybody can be a winner just keep trying mode, and I appreciate that. Sometimes, however, I would like a friggin clue
Anyone here ever play La Mulana?
@ArdaXi hmm, last I had heard they were looking at a data center in Belgium, but that looks even better
@sjohnston This is Luxembourg. I'm reasonably close to that.
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Excuse me?
@ArdaXi I drove through Luxembourg for 20 minutes once
@ArdaXi Showing off, are we?
@Arda looooooooooooooooooool
@Mana strangles
:<
18:30
@ArdaXi Get off my lawn! ;-)
@ArdaXi What's really impressive is that you haven't learned to lie about your age any time such a service demands it.
@Fabian Seriously, 16 is too young?
@sjohnston I can, but I won't.
Now, that's a moment where stars should be going to Arda.
@ArdaXi I have no problem lying to corporations. I figure they lie to me all the time.
@Fabian Because of that get off my lawn comment, I feel obliged to repost this
18:31
@Mana Isn't that @sjohnston?
@Mana I am so proud of you for that. Favorite chat thing ever
@ArdaXi That is what the kids see as I yell "get off my lawn" at them
Those damn kids.
@ArdaXi You've been lying to us all along; you really are 12! bans
Because my grasp of reality is limited at best, I aim a keyboard as though it were a firearm. Rather than frightening them, they find me comical. Additionally, I am a unicorn in real life.
(from the neck up)
Playing their Mario Galaxies and their Sonic Colours. Back in my day, we played Nethack and Dwarf Fortress. AND WE LIKED IT.
18:33
@badp I really dislike that rule, fortunately I haven't had to ban someone for that.
@badp So?
@Fabian You do know people can no longer claim they're below 13 on their profile page.
But they can mention it in chat or elsewhere
@Mana Well, anyway, it's better to be a kid and act like an adult than it is to be an adult and act like a kid.
I mean, I was on Second Life when I was 12.
Haha, oh man. I actually just turned 13, 7 days ago. That's kind of amusing.
18:35
@Fabian It's not really a rule as much as it is a law.
@ArdaXi What's the law? You have to be 13 to use the internet?
Looks like I made it in the nick of time, eh? eh?
@sjohnston Yep. COPPA.
...oh, wait.
I understand why SE has to do it, I still dislike it
18:36
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) is a United States federal law, located at (). The act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information by persons or entities under U.S. jurisdiction from children under 13 years of age. It details what a website operator must include in a privacy policy, when and how to seek verifiable consent from a parent or guardian, and what responsibilities an operator has to protect children's privacy and safety online including restrictions on the marketing to those under 13. While children under 13 ...
wait really? 13 to use the internet? Geepers.
> While children under 13 can legally give out personal information with their parents' permission, many websites altogether disallow underage children from using their services due to the amount of paperwork involved.
@Mana I have, but I kind of got annoyed with it kinda quickly.
@sjohnston You'd need a whole stack of paperwork to legally have personal information of people under 13 years in the US.
Raising my child is going to be difficult.
18:37
@Mana I thought you were in Canada?
oh
hey, you're right!
I am in Canada! When did that happen?
See? This is why you seem like a kid.
Well, I'll go back and slay some more monsters
@Mana You're so naïf.
u r
18:39
@ArdaXi, you're so hell bent in picturing Mana as a kid, it's really the other way round
@badp The kid is a Mana?
heh, Arda wants to picture me as a kid.
It. Expains. Everything.
@Mana Just to feel better about myself, don't worry.
OoO
@Mana I'm still at the age where it sucks to be young.
Somewhere around 20 you go from 'young' to 'old'.
18:40
18, I believe.
@Mana Nah.
or maybe not where you are
@Mana Officially, yes, but I'm talking about socially.
glad to see you listened to my complaint
I'm really just calling all of you old.
@Mana Did you realise that Revenge of the Sith came out more than half a decade ago?
18:42
@Arda Half a decade ago?
Yep.
@Arda Yep?
@Mana
Another one then. @badp Did you realise Shrek came out 10 years ago?
Young girl's rendition of Chell
@Mana You don't have to hide. We know you made it.
18:44
@ArdaXi Even better example: Doom is older than ArdaXi is!
You're just jealous of my amazing artistic talent.
@Powerlord I hate you.
Only 2 years though.
@Powerlord At first I thought I could use the best part of the chart on you.
Turns out you're not 36. Quite close, though.
Hey, just because I need 6 bits to store my age now...
I'm 100000 years old... in base 2 I'm fine!
@Powerlord s/fine/old/.
Of course not just in base 2.
@ArdaXi Yeah, except you're 10000 years old, so you can't comment. :(
I'll have to remind my mother she turned a million years old this year. Again, in base 2.
Bleah, she won't care. I'll have to remind dad about that.
18:54
@Powerlord You mean 1000000, not a million. It only works when written! (And written as the number, not the word).
@MatthewRead Fine then, no for you!
@Powerlord I'm basically vegetarian by necessity, so that's not much of a threat. Sad times.
@MatthewRead necessity?
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Q: My joystick is not working in fifa 11 when playing

SisirMy vinyson joystick not working when i am trying to play the match. But it works outside of the game when i am selecting menu etc. I think i am doing something wrong. I am very new to this joystick stuff. Can you help?

@Powerlord Yep. I could care less about murdering fluffy animals and all that
19:02
What's the opposite of vegetarianism?
Carnetarianism?
I care about murdering plants!
How do you even justify something like that?
I just realised why I hate MMOs in general. I just downloaded a file, disguised as an installer which actually just downloads the installer whilst installing crapware, which then installs the patcher which downloads pretty much the entire game all over again.
@ArdaXi Reminds me of steam. Except steam doesn't have crapware
@MatthewRead Steam downloads and installs the game.
It doesn't download an installer that downloads the game.
Which downloads an installer that downloads the game.
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19:23
@ArdaXi Steam itself
@ThomasMcDonald Not as redundant.
@Arda What actual crapware did you get? All the MMOs I've played in recent memory have just downloaded the patcher and used that to download/update the game. Seems reasonable to me
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@ArdaXi Not as over-exaggerated.
I guess you could download a 15 gig installer right off the bat (which will have to be patched extensively after installation)
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Q: How do I find roommates?

NickI've created my first structure in Terraria and I've included all the important items that my guide told me to include so that someone moves in. This includes: walls a door a chair a table When do NPCs move in? The guide also told me that there are certain extra requirements for special NPSs ...

19:33
@sjohnston Pando Media Booster.
@ArdaXi Depends on the game, but you're correct in general.
@sjohnston No, what I would suggest is only download those patches.
Like, have one downloader that only downloads the latest files.
Like EVE Online does it.
@ArdaXi What MMO is that anyway?
@Powerlord League of Legends
@ArdaXi Wow, I didn't even think LoL was an MMO, but rather a bunch of individual 5v5 games.
Maybe I'm mistaking it for its parent DotA, though.
19:40
@Powerlord You're right.
It has all the bad characteristics of an MMO though.
Anyway, as for Crapware, I seem to recall Turbine MMOs install Pando Media Booster... whoa, hey, how about that... LoL installs that too.
For reference, Turbine MMOs include Dungeons & Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online/
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Q: How do I fly an "excellent mission"?

ManaAfter one level of Freespace 2's main campaign where I completed all my objectives, I was told that I had "flown an excellent mission" when I clicked on the Recommendations button. However, on other levels even when I complete all the objectives successfully I'm simply told that there are "no rec...

 Bacon

Yes, yes they did.
@Powerlord pfft. more like primary objective
Daily Quest maybe
19:56
ha
I don't know if you play WoW or not, but I thought that'd be funny to link to. :D
I rode the WoW train for a long time, but I got off a few stops ago
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, Everything Is Better With Bacon is one of 5 random Cooking Daily Quests in the Horde capitol city of Orgrimmar.
I hear the last major update added daily cooking and fishing quests to the other four (two per side) non-Burning Crusade capitols.

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