The Bridge

badp

11:03 AM

uh. A completely stationary nightkin is a glitched enemy, sign of imminent crash, or by design?

FEichinger

@badp Depends on where you are.

badp

oh, they're like really shitty C&D spies. Gotcha

Martin Sojka

It works for FO3, after you deactivate every IR device in your computer (no, seriously).

badp

I don't think this laptop has infrared

Martin Sojka

Most laptops do.

badp

11:05 AM

aaaaaaaand then I fell through the map.

luckily the game noticed and teleported me back at the entrance

Martin Sojka

There's a place in the Ministry of Truth in Morrowind where you can easily levitate out of the map into the grey "void". I'm pretty sure it's not intentional, but I like to pretend it is. ;)

FEichinger

@MartinSojka Surely, that's a plane of Oblivion. :P

badp

except they can fire weapons while invisible

which is... inconvenient

FEichinger

@badp I love how you experience tons of bugs in FNV. I mean, I know it's bug-ridden and all, but I've barely run into anything beyond the occasional annoying invisible wall.

badp

@FEichinger It probably wouldn't be possible without my trusty nVidia 9200

Blem

11:21 AM

my first question on biology.se and it might be better on scifi.se

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Q: Do animals exist with an uneven total number of finger?

I recently finished reading Contact by Carl Sagan. In the book they talk about a pattern in the transcendental number like pi or e, and comment that it is found in base 10 or however many fingers the race has to count with. When in the end they find a pattern in pi it is in base 11, which I foun...

Kevin van der Velden

@Blem naah, the actual question isn't scifi related I'd say

Also yes they exist, they've just had their fingers cut off =p

Private Pansy

@badp It could be the, uh, textures that doesn't make it clear the gradient is too high for you

Although I noticed the difference between a gradient that's passable and one that's not is rather arbitrary

badp

@PrivatePansy no, you can definitely navigate your way atop mountaintops in the game by tapping space and crawling left or right until it gives

consider this other one e.g.

I'm walking against it

FEichinger

@PrivatePansy FNV has tons of invisible walls and broken terrain models.

badp

That's the area with the big crane and whatnot

That's to make sure, I suppose, that you go there the normal way and kill the alpha male thing that demolishes you in one hit and has super-vision because fuck you.

Private Pansy

11:31 AM

You're attacking a super mutant? With what, and at what level?

Mad Scientist

@badp You're trying to attack Deathclaws?

badp

@MadScientist I killed a young one! For a measly 9 xp.

That's about it.

I wanted to sneak past them, maybe just run my way to the Landmark borders for fast travel

Mad Scientist

That's completely suicidal at low level, just go around that area. You're meant to go the other way around to Las Vegas (you can take the shortcut, but you can't really fight the Deathclaws at that point)

badp

@MadScientist no no no no I wanted to go to the Quarry Junction.

Private Pansy

Mad Scientist

11:34 AM

I'd really recommend to just follow the road. That way you'll encounter reasonably-leveled enemies, find your first home, encounter some of the main story

Private Pansy

Wheeee, so many spiders trapped

badp

@MadScientist I'm at Repconn Test Site

the part with the trapped ghouls.

I just wanted to, uh, explore.

like that dome in 13-G

Mad Scientist

@badp Just go to trading post next when you're done with exploring the immediate area

Private Pansy

There's technically speaking only one way out of the REPCONN test site, and it's in the opposite direction of road to Quarry Junction

I think fast travelling to Goodsprings and going from there is the more sensible option

badp

@PrivatePansy no, that's different. I wanted to reach the Quarry from that big cross thing east of Goodsprings (not pictured)

@PrivatePansy yeah, you'd think it was the more sensible option, but no, invisible walls.

what you have to do is go to Sloan then go north and (I think!) take the left dirt path, also not pictured.

with the Alpha-male deathclaw "seeing" you around corners and running at hyper speed

FEichinger

11:40 AM

@badp That is indeed suicidal.

badp

YOWO. You only walk once :P

Blem

@PrivatePansy what is the goal of the game?

or is it just a do what you want kind of thing like minecraft

badp

@Blem Fun™, I believe

Blem

@badp Oh the goal is to have Fun™, so nothing like Minecraft

3

badp

...I said Fun™

Private Pansy

11:42 AM

More like !FUN!

Kevin van der Velden

Needs more C, !C! preferably.

Fluttershy

@PrivatePansy Nice base setup! Are you near anything besides rabbits?

Private Pansy

There's a spider nest one screen to the left, and every night they come out and randomly poke at my wall

So I made about a dozen traps to farm them

Fluttershy

Keep an eye on the nest. If it gets 3 tiers, you may end up dealing with more than just spiders.

Private Pansy

I know. There's also a pig village in down to the left one screen space. The cluster of berry bush is part of the village. I fenced it off for my own use

Also, the master circuit breaker went off in the house and switched everything off

Which is rather annoying

Thank goodness for autosave

Fluttershy

11:54 AM

D:

StrixVaria

Is there a way to "win" Don't Starve? Or is it just play until your inevitable loss and stave it off as long as possible?

Martin Sojka

@StrixVaria Play until you're bored.

fredley

Not Constructive - a site for content that is unacceptable for SO

Private Pansy

There is adventure mode, reaching the end of which can be considered "completing" the game

FEichinger

@fredley wat.

fredley

11:58 AM

@FEichinger It is what it says it is

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley could be neat, I know I've seen some really interesting questions that just do not work on stackexchange. Mostly list questions though.

Course, the difficulty will be finding an interface for such questions that does work.

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden I wonder if they'll use Discourse

Ironic if they did

Kevin van der Velden

phpBB

phpBB EVERYWHERE :)

FEichinger

@KevinvanderVelden vomit

badp

@fredley likely, after all

fredley

12:05 PM

@KevinvanderVelden We should migrate the bridge to phpBB

Then I could have loads of cool gifs in my signature

And important things like an importance meter

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley And giant custom smileys! :D

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden animated gif smileys

FEichinger

:rotfl3dlarge:

Kevin van der Velden

@FEichinger pff no, thats the :-p icon

LessPop_MoreFizz

Not sure how anyone could say Don't Starve doesn't have an objective. It has a very clear objective and it's right in the title.

FEichinger

12:10 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz "Starve"?

LessPop_MoreFizz

You play until you lose, and how long you last before you lose amounts to a 'score', which you can then compare to that of others or try to beat or whatever.

I mean, nobody complains about a lack of objectives or an 'endgame' in Tetris.

Sconibulus

I haven't figured out what to do with fully half the items yet

Martin Sojka

Now I have an idea for a game with a similar goal: "Don't Discover America" You're Christopher Columbus. If you discover America (as opposed to an alternative way to India/China), you lose.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@MartinSojka ... that seems somewhat counterproductive. Your options become "Never leave Europe" or "Die at Sea".

Martin Sojka

@LessPop_MoreFizz It is, however, historically accurate. Historically Christopher Columbus failed.

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:19 PM

@MartinSojka Well, yes. He failed to discover an alternate route to india or china. Your win condition is historically inaccurate.

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz No, that was the accurate condition.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FEichinger Right, but the only ways to achieve the win condition are historically inaccurate.

Martin Sojka

It's a fun thought experiment to "design" such a game. You'd have stats like "Common Sense" and "Geography", and the lower they are, the higher your chance you'd actually be able to convince anyone to let you stop bothering them and go on your ill-fated voyage.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Wow. Night Vale is #1

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz Why, yes, obviously. If history differs from the original plan, naturally you can't conform with history if you're shooting for the plan.

fredley

12:30 PM

New Oatmeal is epic

LessPop_MoreFizz

1

Q&A Site

Proposed Q&A site for a language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.

Currently in definition.

3

Ummmmmmmmm, isn't that what SO is?

Or maybe Programmers.se?

Ben Brocka

I was so hoping it was a site with no topic other than "Q&A"

LessPop_MoreFizz

@BenBrocka Me too.

@BenBrocka Not that "It is for programmers" is much of a topic.

FEichinger

I'm inclined to add "wat." as an example question.

Gaming Topics From Outside

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Q: hover game windows xp

I can't seem to remember the name of a game, which I used to play on Windows XP. I don't think it was available as a part of the OS but rather a third party game. The game included driving hover (Hovercraft) and jumping distances, firing missiles (which when hit another hover caused the victim's ...

3d hover windows-xp gaming

Ben Brocka

12:38 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, but it's like the 40th dupe of Stack Overflow on Area 51

FEichinger

@GamingTopicsFromOutside identify-this-game on SO? lol

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FEichinger How much you wanna bet some idiot tries to migrate it?

@FEichinger And it's answered!

Sterno

By himself

LessPop_MoreFizz

Ooooh, an SU dupe, that's a bit more novel.

1

Computer Hardware

Proposed Q&A site for questions and answers on hardware installation, configuration, support, repair, compatibility and connection and everything to do with hardware

Currently in definition.

OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz It took him a whole 5 minutes!

Sterno

12:45 PM

Man, we close that faster on our gaming site than they do on their site where it's clearly way off topic

Go us

I was going to flag that as off-topic for SO but honestly I'm not sure which off-topic reason applies

OrigamiRobot

We are great. Especially me.

Sterno

They need one that's just "GTFO"

OrigamiRobot

Probably because I'm a robot.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRobot WOOOO NIGHT VALE NUMBA ONE.

24 mins ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz

Sterno

I hate This American Life.

FEichinger

12:48 PM

@Sterno I don't think any of their default ones does.

Which means you can't do anything about it, unless you've got close-vote rep on SO. Go, system changes!

Sterno

I flagged it as the top one anyway

OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yusssssssssssssssssss

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yayyyyyy! \o/

fredley

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Sterno I quite like it tbqh.

But then, I am an avowed listener of public radio.

Sterno

12:55 PM

Well, I hate most things. So there's that.

Fluttershy

Anyone hoping for anything in particular in today's sales?

badp

The Steam Complete Pack

Sterno

Man, I think even SciFi would have closed that question by now.

badp

All games in the store, 99% off

ALL TWO THOUSAND OF THEM

Sterno

@badp That would be the worst thing that could possibly happen, because then I'd have to get them all, and 1% of ALL would be a lot.

Fluttershy

12:57 PM

@Sterno Has there ever been anything closed on SyFy?

Sterno

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Q: Is there a website that shows which SF book/film awards there are?

What website references the SF awards that are awarded to SF books and films?

movie books awards

First one I found, and it was closed by @MarkTrapp!

Fluttershy

Also, I say SyFy because, to me, they are not worthy of SciFi. They are like the SyFy channel.

Sterno

So I'm willing to stop looking and postulate that since he left, nothing has been closed.

Fluttershy

A sound theory.

badp

@Sterno neighbourhood of $500 or so

Sterno

12:58 PM

@badp Really? Hrm...

Nevermind, 99% off sale sounds great.

Fluttershy

I get my hard drive and monitor on Wednesday! :D

Sterno

Plus, I could make back $5 on the 50 cards I'd sell!

badp

25$ * 2000 * 0.01 = 500$

@Sterno bargain of the millennium

FEichinger

@Fluttershy scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3A1

Fluttershy

Well... I say that. It's more accurate to say that I will be ordering my hard drive and monitor on Wednesday.

Sterno

1:01 PM

@FEichinger Stop ruining the SciFi hate with data.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp I recall a valve employee screenshot at some point of a steam library with All Games in it

FEichinger

@Sterno Hush.

Fluttershy

@FEichinger Wow. That isn't even a full page. O_o

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz steamcommunity.com/id/loktar00

LessPop_MoreFizz

> Well, I got an email from a major TV network last night asking to buy Night Vale from me, so I guess that? (I'm not going to sell it to them.)

badp

1:02 PM

well, 25$ was a gross underestimate anyway

Ben Brocka

@badp I think I deleted your last youtube comment while trying to reply to it. I don't know why the font looks off in that video, it should be a 4:3 480p recording of a 480p and should have stayed at exactly that resolution the whole process

badp

make it 1,096 * $40 * 0.01 = $438.4

FEichinger

@Fluttershy What? For me it's 39 (12 at 50 per) pages.

StrixVaria

The Walking Dead doesn't seem to have quite the same impact when you're roleplaying the character mindset of "Me first. Always."

badp

@BenBrocka not just that, like when you fall at 1:00 there's a bunch of white horizontal lines that "blink" as you fall

Fluttershy

1:04 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh wow. That would be.... interesting.

I wouldn't mind seeing a TV version of We're Alive, now that I think about it...

Lazers

0

Q: What does the "dxlevel" config setting do in the TF2 Linux client?

Title kinda says it all ... Linux doesn't have DirectX. I don't know if Valve made some kind of compatibility layer, or did a proper port to OpenGL (I expect the latter). Either way - does this setting do anything (for the Linux client)?

team-fortress-2 linux

Fluttershy

@FEichinger It is 15 questions for me.

badp

the video gets better later on

FEichinger

@Fluttershy That's ... weird.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy I mainly just want the weather to be a live performance by a band in front of a greenscreen displaying various weather related imagery.

FEichinger

1:08 PM

@Fluttershy Got any ignored tags on syfy, maybe?

Ben Brocka

@badp Huh, that does look like nearest-neighbor bullshit. I'll check and see if it's the source file or how it was produced when I get home. I always try and get the edges of the recording pixel perfect to avoid stuff like that

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