The Bridge

Lazers

07:01

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Q: Where can I get cheap soccer jerseys?

I don't need world soccer shop or the teams' sites. i'm talking about jerseys that sell for under 30 or 40 dollars.

pocket-clothier

FEichinger

@Lazers Not sure if spam or actual game feature.

user15026

@FEichinger spam.

Arperum

@AshleyNunn Or just retarded user. Other question: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/128823/…

user15026

@Arperum Thats true

Arperum

@AshleyNunn What should I flag for?

user15026

07:04

@Arperum ....off topic, I suppose, if you cant VTC

FEichinger

Flag for spam, burns it faster.

user15026

@FEichinger neeeeeergh, I dont like that idea

Arperum

I can't VTC yet. And it will probably be like that for a while, making proper answers requires effort.

user20683

I can make proper answers

user20683

even to stuff I don't know

user20683

07:07

like "How do I operate a hot dog stand?"

Martin Sojka

@FEichinger From the game wiki: " To acquire more goods, you must purchase them from clothing companies with medals, a special currency that is harder to acquire than money."

user15026

@Weston.h buy hotdogs, sell them to people who like them, tadah

Martin Sojka

So the question makes either no sense, or is spam.

user15026

@MartinSojka It has nothing to do with the game, trust me, I have played it extensively

user20683

Make sure to include mayonnaise or whatever that stuff is if I want to sell them to the Dutch. All the fixing for Chicago, make sure to have some tofu ones in California. It really is all about audience. You're right.

user15026

07:10

@Weston.h Gotta know your toppings...

user20683

yep

Martin Sojka

If you're in Germany: Take a half year course in economics and relevant laws, acquire three different certification (food processing, hygiene and privacy policy), and pay your local Turkish or Russian Mafia branch some "insurance money" on top of that to remain in business.

user15026

@MartinSojka or you know, just make yourself a hotdog, enjoy it, and fuck the rest.... :D

user20683

@MartinSojka There's also the small matter of actually licensing the cart if I remember correctly.

Martin Sojka

Yeah, the paperwork can easily amount to a big binder per year even if all you want to do is to sell hot dogs.

Arperum

07:17

gaming.stackexchange.com/users/52090/…

I kinda not really liking to do his, but did Dragoness gave a second bounty to Guilo?

FEichinger

@Arperum Yep.

gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/124434/revisions

Arperum

Together with the earlier things Retrosaur found, that seems a lot like rep transferring to me.

FEichinger

Yep.

The other bounty was "caught" thanks to @badp refunding it and doubling it up (which eventually expired, thankfully).

Arperum

What's the best way to bring this case (again) under mod attention?

user15026

@Arperum flag with a custom reason

FEichinger

07:21

Custom flag against the question.

Arperum

@AshleyNunn @FEichinger Done.

badp

07:38

@FEichinger Oh ffs

FEichinger

@badp Hm?

Lazers

0

Q: Why doesn't Age of Mythology work in windowed mode?

I have a PC running Windows 7. I installed and play Age of Mythology and its expansion, the Titans. Since the computer I have is much, much more advanced than even the maximum supported graphics settings in AoM, and I often multitask, I want to run it in windowed mode. As it is, the game runs in...

windowed-mode age-of-mythology

Lazers

08:28

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Q: In Game Dev Tycoon balance Design and Technology bad?

I notice when my staff design and technology where far apart it gives me high ratings but at the end when I have alot of research and money I upgrade my staff into balance or more. Example Design:900 Technology:900 it gave me a bad score from now on. While before they skills were Design:800 Tech...

game-dev-tycoon

Blem

08:44

Bacon!

I mean good morning!

Kevin van der Velden

@Blem well, bacon does lead to a good morning so... bacon!

Arperum

@Blem Bacon!

badp

@Blem the keys are like, right next to each other.

Blem

09:03

@badp yea, I often make that bacon.

i mean mistake

Lazers

0

Q: Where can I farm legendary loot midgets in Borderlands 2?

I would like to farm legendary loot midgets to get better weapons. However, I have no idea where they would spawn. Do they spawn in particular boxes? If so, where can I find these boxes. A linked video (if you can make one) would be much appreciated

xbox-360 borderlands-2

0

Q: How can i help ezic/ What are the risks?

how can I help the EZIC star organization? In other words, what are the oppotunities to help them?

papers-please

spyder

09:48

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901614

Bug 901614 - Adopt Tor as a feature in Firefox

Lazers

1

Q: What are the DLC spells/characters, and how do I use them?

I have purchased the two DLC packs for Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 (The Xbox 360 version, if that's significant.) Problem is, I can't actually find the spells or characters, having made the purchase. Where should I be looking?

xbox-360 lego-harry-potter-2

0

Q: HDMI connection with 360 not working, but confirmed to work on other TVs?

OK, so here's a tricky question for someone with any knowledge in this department. I have been playing with my Xbox on a computer monitor for a long time because I have no Wired Internet in my room (don't own a wireless router). Now I want to put it back in my room and plug it into my TV. So t...

xbox-360 monitor hdmi

Blem

10:06

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Lazers

10:38

1

Q: How do I build mastery pages for general use?

When I first started playing LoL I read quite a few guides on Mobafire, and made my mastery pages based on those. I managed to make up to twenty (the current max) mastery pages, and now I can't make anymore. So clearly I need to start making my mastery pages for more generalized use (jungle/tank/...

league-of-legends

FEichinger

10:59

-2

A: How to get the most bang for my buck in naval bombardments?

This link here explains about ships. I'll also explain the link below; Trade Ships Since this question doesn't talk about trade will will void this. Light Ships Rather, their focus should be supporting heavier ships and setting enemy vessels afire from a distance. These light ships c...

This is...awesome. — Dragoness 13 hours ago

wat².

Arperum

@FEichinger Hey, you gotta support yourself in hard times and wrong answers.

FEichinger

@Arperum When I saw it first, it had only that comment and an upvote. It took me three times to even reasonably understand what that answer is supposed to tell me.

I figured "the usual" and downvoted it because I felt it was very convoluted - I don't own the game so I have no idea if it's valid. Now I see the subsequent "It's wrong, dude." comments and I'm like ...

spyder

Blem

@FEichinger dual account?

spyder

imgur.com/gallery/2o6AG5A

FEichinger

11:14

@Blem We established "Pretty damn likely." quite a while back.

It screams collusion regardless of the amount of actual people involved, though.

Arperum

@Blem And proof keeps piling up every now and then.

FEichinger

Very targeted bounties, "This is a good answer" comments, mysterious upvotes on crap posts ...

I'd be very surprised if there isn't something pretty sketchy going on.

Lazers

0

Q: How can I safely dig straight down?

I know you should never dig straight down but there are rare occasions where I don't really want to make a slow mine downwards. Sometimes I just want to dig down, find diamonds and come back up with the satisfying thought that I just found a vein of diamonds but half the time I end up falling int...

minecraft

Arperum

@FEichinger The good thing is that he won't get this bounty, get at least 6 more upvotes without extra downvotes will take more then available for him.

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:05

@shanodin That's how it should work. However, in practice, some of this site's users don't really follow that guideline, especially people who love downvoting. Some downvote due to hating a certain category of questions, like all lore questions, and some downvote due to comments of a user unrelated to the question at hand. E.g. gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/128463/… If other downvoters do that (and it is indeed not against site policy to do so), then One-One is free to (up/down)vote this question for any reason he deems valid too. — galacticninja 2 days ago

UGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

FEichinger

Oh, for heaven's sake ... NOYB2, is it?

LessPop_MoreFizz

He's been around much longer than noyb

and this isn't really a new pattern

FEichinger

But he's getting heated now.

For what it's worth, I agree on a few points there (such as that downvoting based on category is stupid). But the general sentiment and his "Oh my god, you're all so evil and we have to fight it!" attitude is just crap, period.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FEichinger always has been

Lazers

0

Q: Why is my AE storage bus not inputting items?

I have barrels hooked up to my AE network using AE Storage Buses. If I remove an item that is stored in these barrels using my AE Access Terminal, it removes a stack of the barreled item and puts it into my inventory. If I insert a stack of the same item, into the AE Terminal, it puts the stack i...

minecraft-feed-the-beast

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:10

@FEichinger The only category of questions that I categorically downvote is 'stupid'.

That said, there is very little daylight on the venn diagram between 'stupid questions' and 'lore questions'.

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm talking about people flat-out equating "lore" and "stupid".

There are good lore questions and a load of out-of-the-blue-with-no-apparent-train-of-thought-that-led-there stupid lore questions.

Sterno

If the end result is that people stop arguing about whether or not a downvote or upvote is "correct", I call it a win.

FEichinger

@Sterno Definitely.

I'm just saying that he does have a point, somewhere in that mess of pointless arguing. It's not a point that should matter anywhere, but it's a valid point no less.

badp

We already have a definition of a "stupid" lore question, and it's "is not actually covered by the canon"

like "What taste is the cake in Portal 2?"

and we don't downvote those, we close them.

FEichinger

@badp Exactly.

Arperum

12:18

@badp Did someone ask that or is it made up on the spot?

badp

@Arperum the latter

Sterno

You can have a stupid question that is not off-topic.

badp

I have never understood, and it is unlikely I will understand, the stance where a lore question has to change the way you play a game to be a good lore question

Sterno

And now I want to know what kind of cake it is.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp No, plenty of other lore questions are perfectly on topic, but are also stupid.

Sconibulus

12:19

@Sterno Insanity core gives you the recipe

badp

@Sconibulus whooops, wrong example then.

:P

although the canon makes it clear the cake is (spoiler alert!) player-flavored

more than anything else

Sconibulus

I think it contains fish-shaped volatile hydrocarbons and sediment-shaped sediment if I recall correctly

Sterno

geekychef.com/2010/09/delicious-and-moist-cake.html

skovacs1

@badp with chocolate icing.

LessPop_MoreFizz

0

Q: How does the hero knows the identity of Belial?

In Diablo 3 our hero will state that a certain person is Belial. How does the hero know? It's the plot question rather than the game itself. Also, if possible, I'd like the "official" reason. For example, the idea that Belial can teleport is a speculation, not official reason why we know th...

diablo-3

This is a Very Stupid Question.

Sterno

12:24

Ahh, good old "poke the plot hole", a staple of SciFi.SE

Arperum

@Sterno Just don't get your poking stick stuck.

Sterno

Sounds uncomfortable.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp You know as well as I do that just about anything gets through that rule by asking "Is $STUPID PLOT HOLE ever addressed?"; the primary purpose of the nothing from outside the game rule is that it keeps us away from dumb questions about usually dumb tie-in novels.

It doesn't usually help at all with truly dumb lore questions.

Sterno

I just want you all to know that I appreciate this Monday Morning Drama.

Sconibulus

oh... tie-in novels...

Sterno

12:31

minor though it may be

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz actually I'm pretty sure I supported the dumb tie-in novels; it should not support the "is plot hole addressed"

I don't usually look at question open/close matters because I tend to disagree with a large portion of the community and it's better for everybody involved if I let somebody more in sync with the community on the matter keep an eye on it

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp Pretty sure we've explicitly banished questions about dumb tie in novels to scifi.se

badp

like, yes, if it's flagged I'll intervene but I don't look at review questions

Sterno

It seems problematic to judge a question's on-topicness by what the answer to the question is.

badp

@Sterno it's not so much "what the answer is" but "is there an answer?"

Sterno

12:33

@badp Same problem.

badp

(where "there is no answer" is not an answer, but a close vote)

Sterno

So I can only vote to close poke the plot hole questions if I know for sure it's a plot hole, and can't VTC any if it's actually addressed in game?

badp

@Sterno well, don't we apply kind of the same reasoning to unreleased content stuff? There is no answer about those, so we close them. If there would be an answer it'd necessarily speculate on unreleased content and thus we close the question. This is so we prevent the question from getting answers. And that's the whole point of closing.

@Sterno that's how I understand it.

Sterno

Yeah, but it's really easy to determine unambiguously if a game is released or not.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp "Answerability" is a terrible metric for question cromulence, and ought never be employed. This is why I'm fond of just outright closing any question about unreleased content, because it sidesteps the "Is this answerable" nonsense.

Sterno

12:35

By what you said, I'd VTC that one that @LessPop_MoreFizz just linked.

FEichinger

@Sterno How is it still a plot hole if it's addressed in the game?

LessPop_MoreFizz

...I really need to actually write down this meta post I've had dancing around in my head for weeks.

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz but it's the very same criteria! The question is not answerable. It's just easier to apply.

Sterno

@FEichinger That's my point. It requires knowing the answer ot know if it's actually "poke the plot hole". Though to be fair, you can still play "poke the plot hole" and get answers that are more justifications than actual explanations.

badp

Ease of application never struck me as a requisite for policies. If questions could be closed and opened by Turing machines, they would

Knowing what you're talking about is always a requisite for voting on posts

Sterno

12:38

@badp Well, the end result then is you can't just have a meta policy that says "We close these", because you're going to get all the people with close votes arguing about whether or not the question actually has an answer.

badp

@Sterno If there is an argument - if somebody actually answers the question - then there is an answer, right?

Sterno

For instance, I'd consider the answer to this to not really be an answer.

"The hero knows because he's not a moron"

badp

@Sterno That answer doesn't actually cite the canon tbh and really stinks of speculation

"He just has to know right?"

Sterno

That's not a canon-based answer... that's a justification for the most likely path of getting from Point A to point B

You can do that with most poke the plot hole questions unless they're gaping plot holes

badp

(downvote)

Sterno

12:42

Coincidentally, after watching Olympus Has Fallen on Friday, I googled about some of the plot holes in that movie and my main hits were Movies.SE

Sconibulus

Whee! S.E. is the number 1 source for fridge logic!

Sterno

I'm not clear what the difference is between their plot-explanation and plot-inconsistency tags.

Sconibulus

Well, explanation could be, "Can you help me understand why this happened" where inconsistency might be "If he had that giant rocket launcher, why didn't he blow up the bad guy 10 minutes in"

although, I'm not on that site, so I can't be sure

Sterno

The more I look at Movies.SE, the more I think it might be worse than SciFi.SE

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OrigamiRobot

@Sterno Them's fightin' words!

Sterno

12:47

@OrigamiRobot For your consideration:

2

Q: Were the direct references to Die Hard and Under Siege made on purpose?

While Olympus Has Fallen was in its main theme and overall plot quite similar to many action movies of that kind, there were two particular scenes that I understood as direct references to two genre classics: The scene where Banning meets the traitor Forbes reminded me very much of the scene in...

analysis reference die-hard olympus-has-fallen under-siege

OrigamiRobot

T_T

Sterno

Let me rephrase that as "Does this derivative action movie simply steal from other action movies, or is it specifically paying homage?"

Let's classify this under: WHO THE FUCK CARES and NO ONE CAN ANSWER THIS ANYWAY

(unless it's in director's commentary, I guess)

That the question exists is not what makes me sad. The sadness is for the upvotes. Always for the upvotes.

Martin Sojka

Well, there may be some interview with ... whoever the hell did that movie. That damn Swabian again, I guess.

Just checked and funnily enough it isn't. Strange, it has explosions and seems somewhat patriotic.

Sterno

It'd be hard to make an unpatriotic movie about enemies taking the White House unless it was from the non-US point of view.

That said, I have no idea who or what Swabian is or what you're talking about. :)

Martin Sojka

@Sterno Emmerich

He's a Swabian, from Sindelfingen.

Sterno

12:57

I guess I don't know directors enough to care where they're from.

or to know them as "that damn Swabian"

He made the other White House Gets Taken Out movie

Martin Sojka

@Sterno That's to differentiate him from that damn Rhinelander (Boll).

Sterno

I like Uwe Boll. He cranks out shitty movies for all the video game IP, and it's all under one director instead of a bunch. This is helpful to me because it makes them really easy to identify and avoid.

Martin Sojka

.. or alternatively gift to all the friends you want to lose.

Sterno

@MartinSojka No, I use The Room for that.

StrixVaria

Budget $20 million
Box office $1,900 (original box office run)

Gaming Topics From Outside

13:08

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Q: Playing games from windows

I need to ask you a question . First of all sorry for my poor english , please try to understand me and if you post an answer please don't use "rare words" . I use Ubuntu 12.04 . Before that I used Windows 7 . I have changed nothing from the hardware since I upgraded to Ubuntu . The games that...

windows games

Sterno

@StrixVaria That budget sounds inaccurate.

Ben Brocka

@Sterno I assume one is "I don't get it" and the other is "I think I get it but WTF how"

Sterno

cracked.com/funny-3268-tommy-wiseau

Without a hint of irony, he says, "We submitted The Room to the Academy Awards. We didn't get anything, but we filled in the application and submitted it... I'm proud we did that."

Fluttershy

13:28

@LessPop_MoreFizz I wish is was possible to ignore people on the main site. His passive-aggressive vote-martyr bullshit is annoying.

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy Who are we talking about?

I have a pretty good idea though.

fbueckert

Good morning, Bridge

What did I just walk into?

Is @Fluttershy being shifty again and talking about me behind my back?

Wipqozn

@fbueckert Probably.

@fbueckert I have 79 Diablos cortex.

Sterno

I agreed with @fbueckert at least twice last week. It was a terrible week.

fbueckert

@Sterno I felt the urge to set stuff on fire several times. Sadly, I had to restrain that impulse.

Also, there seems to be somebody systematically downvoting all my questions. Never more than one or two a day, but it's still happening.

They're roughly halfway through. It'll be interesting whether or not they're willing to take the rep hit for answers once they finish with my questions.

Lazers

13:36

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Q: Why can't I sleep in houses that i own & why does taking things from them count as stealing?

I've bought 3 houses. The first was Breezehome. Everything was normal. I then bought Vlindrel Hall. When I first went in, I saw that everything in the house was marked as stealing if I took it and my bed was marked as owned. I went on to buy Honeyside, and it was the same situation. I then we...

skyrim

Sterno

@fbueckert Must be someone with low rep. Anyone else would realize the 100-200 rep tops it'll end up costing you in the long run is completely meaningless.

fbueckert

@Sterno Could be. It's pretty minor, just slightly annoying.

Sterno

You need to instead relish this. You clearly annoyed someone enough that they stayed mad over multiple days and will let this affect their life enough to make downvoting one or two of your questions a day part of their daily routine.

So your annoyance at the downvotes is nothing compared to what they're feeling.

fbueckert

@Sterno I never thought of it that way.

I've annoyed someone to the point of deliberate stealth downvotes.

Ben Brocka

Reads star list then quietly backs out of room

fbueckert

13:41

Now I'm just curious as to who it is.

Sterno

That or they're a world class troll and would be messing with someone else if it wasn't you. I'd focus on the happier possibility.

fbueckert

@Sterno They might as well focus on me; I've got thick skin, so I don't really care.

Also, bad suggestion for the day!

-31

Q: Increase upper limit of bounty

Bounty upper limit of 50k because 500 seems outdated and cheap. If newbie gets a good answer in more power to them. Edit. Think of it like Jeopardy. Remember about the turn of the century when the rules changed and you could win longer than one week. It was a good change. All time Jeopardy ...

feature-request bounty

Wipqozn

@BenBrocka Don't worry, @AshleyNunn is probably sleeping.

FEichinger

> Maybe if this gets to -100 I'll take it down.

Sterno

@fbueckert This is my favorite part:

500 I'm asking for 3000 on one question right now. I have the answer working and won't share it till I get 3k for it. Don't think me bad I'm still participating its just on one question that the community and blogs can't answer yet.

FEichinger

13:49

Well, let's help you get there, then, shall we.

fbueckert

@Sterno That was the part I was focusing on, too.

"Gimme rep bounties, or I won't answer your question!"

Sconibulus

Wow... he really doesn't get this network

Blem

@fbueckert NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm missing 4 rep to downvote!

Sterno

@Sconibulus Yes he does. He's trolling.

fbueckert

@Blem Ding!

Blem

13:52

YES! thx

fbueckert

@Blem That's a good idea, by the way.

One-boxing Kickstarter would make @fredley spend ALL his money.

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Sterno

His other question is a request for a custom badge because he's so damned awesome.

FEichinger

@Sterno Why, but isn't he staggeringly awesome?

Sterno

stackoverflow.com/revisions/18426982/1

@fbueckert Thanks. This was a nice way to start the day!

fbueckert

@Sterno You're welcome.

OrigamiRobot

13:59

I haven't gotten a serial downvote reversal. Better start a meta.

cc @fbueckert

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot For the number of votes, it's not worth it. I'm curious as to who it is, but not to the point of needing someone to look at it.

Grace Note

Speaking of @fredley, I've wanted to poke him about his game a bit.

Blem

@fredley I just want to ping him also!

Grace Note

If you suspect someone might be performing vindictive or fraudulent voting against you, please consider contacting us through the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page.

Even if the count is not so much to make a definitive analysis at the moment, at the very least we can keep an eye on the situation to see if it persists.

Martin Sojka

@GraceNote I'm not the one suffering from this (... at least as far as I am aware), but if I were, my question would be: Don't you guys have better things to do? :)

badp

14:04

Sigh

Try crazy file transfer shenanigans, all network connectivity goes down

3ventic

@MartinSojka If one's life revolves around making people lose few rep on SE, that's pretty lame.

badp

Go to help desk, they say "check cable number", report cable number, they say "looks okay, here's a replacement cable"

Grace Note

@MartinSojka My job is a very large number of tasks all centered around fostering a happy community. Investigating ill situations is as much a part of the job as lecturing folk and writing giant meta posts and working on our newsletter.

Ben Brocka

How to make SMB3 free to play

fbueckert

@GraceNote I thought your whole job was writing giant Meta posts about how we're all getting it wrong. :P

badp

14:06

Take replacement cable to desk - the non-desktop side of the existing network cable was sitting outside of its slot - literally one centimeter away from the number I'd read two minutes earlier

Ben Brocka

(it's exactly what you'd think)

@fbueckert writes a giant meta post about how this is wrong

badp

._.

I dunno if I can write this down to tunnel vision, or if it's just me being dumb.

fbueckert

@badp I've done that before.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I assumed 7 downvotes were mostly trivial, but if you want me to complain more I will gladly do so.

fbueckert

It's the reason I try to ask the simple things first, just in case.

Ben Brocka

14:09

@badp I've never had a non-broken ethernet cable fall out of it's slot...was the "clip" thingy broken?

badp

@BenBrocka nope

I guess it wasn't clicked all the way in

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot It's your choice if you think it's trivial or not.

badp

and it was just... universe karma that made it come off in the middle of my crazy file transfer shenanigans

Grace Note

The main thing is that if it's enough to spur you to consider writing a meta post, you should probably contact us instead.

badp

(.deb package over base64 over xen console, over ssh over ssh)

Jason Berkan

14:12

Mission Accomplished.

3ventic

These kinds of pictures make me feel so small..

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote Oh I was joking about the meta post. I do think it is just vindictive downvoting as it came after I downvoted a lore question and most of the downvotes are on posts over a year old.

Ronan Forman

@BenBrocka The weirdest thing was that the thing I disliked in that was players earning 1-3 stars for their score.

Martin Sojka

@3ventic ... and then you realise almost every single ball in the lower two-thirds is a nuclear explosion. One which is still going on and will be doing so, in some cases, for billions of years.

Ben Brocka

@RonanForman The thing I dislike most is the implicit touch controls, but I assume that's deliberately not touched on

3ventic

14:16

@MartinSojka exactly.

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Ha. Haaaaaa!

Ben Brocka

Also "craftables" pretty much always mean trouble in F2P games, let alone "rare craftables"

Ronan Forman

@BenBrocka How would you have made the controls?

Ben Brocka

Craft 200 turnips for a chance at a red turnip! Craft 20 red turnips and unlock...Original Character, Blario!

Martin Sojka

Acceleration sensor? Jump if you want Mario to jump. ;)

Ben Brocka

14:17

@RonanForman I would have made it for a device suited to a bi-directional platformer, so basically anything with physical controls

OrigamiRobot

Do I need to go into details of the evidence or is "Y I SRL DOWNVOTE!" enough?

Lazers

0

Q: State of decay survivor mission count

In State of Decay, how do I find out how many mission I have completed with a selected survivor? I can't see to find that statistic. I am not sure if that is because I that statistic is not available to the user or that I have not

xbox-360 state-of-decay

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Q: I cannot locate my Mardek 2 save file

I was playing Mardek on kongregate.com, and decided to move to a different site. So I went to check my flash app data folder and the chat.kongregate doesn't have my save information? I tried to clear out the folder and see if it was still there, and my save still worked on the site, but I have n...

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Q: Best vehicle for each stage in Hill Climb Racing

In Hill Climb Racing we have several vehicles and several stages. Different vehicles have different performances on the same stage, and I'd like to know what are the best combinations to maximize distance in each stage. Also, what is the best combination vehicle-stage to farm coins?

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fbueckert

Apparently, the Chinese military believe Pacific Rim is American Propaganda in disguise.

Ronan Forman

My dislike at the stars is that 1. Every game does the same thing and 2. It's not obvious how to maximize your score. So the stars would seem random.

FEichinger

@fbueckert You sound surprised. Why is that?

OrigamiRobot

14:18

@fbueckert Isn't propaganda inherently in disguise?

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Extra background helps give us a place to start the investigation, but we've worked from less, for better and for worse.

Ben Brocka

@RonanForman Yeah, that's lame too. Though in some games you actually physically grab the stars, like Cut the Rope, I find it's okay there

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Depends on how much the media is controlled by interested parties.

Grace Note

In simpler terms, the more information we are given, the more we can work with. Hey, it's kinda like how it's better when questions have as much data as possible.

Ben Brocka

But whenever I see a list of levels and 3 empty stars on each I generally assume I'm in for a bad time

Ronan Forman

14:20

@BenBrocka That is true, he should either change platform or change the play style, but considering this is an exercise in making SMB3, he can't do the latter.

fbueckert

If you control all the media, and they're not allowed to print/report anything you don't approve of, does it really need to be in disguise?

Ronan Forman

@BenBrocka You know where the stars come from, that's the important bit.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I know, I just didn't know how much information you already had access to. Like I'm pretty sure I don't need to give links to the downvoted posts. They're all on the same day and are the only activity for said day.

Ben Brocka

@RonanForman Yeah, but SMB3, even as a relatively easy platformer, would be very annoying to control without major "reworking", which would almost certainly mean dumbing it down (or making it a completely 100% different game)

Unionhawk

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Ben Brocka

14:21

It would probably be something like "canabalt but mario" since the endless runner thing seems huge in mobile

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Turn it into one of those Marble tilting games for the control scheme.

Ronan Forman

@BenBrocka What about touch the right side of the screen for right, left for left, both for jump and... I don't know about crouch and shoot fire.

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Oh, it's more like grouping and such, things that aren't obviously in one giant cluster for me to see on your profile.

Ben Brocka

@RonanForman Still too slippery

Ronan Forman

@BenBrocka Slippery?

Ben Brocka

14:23

Shantae was only playable on iOS because it's a much slower paced platformer

Martin Sojka

Somebody needs to make a turn-based platformer.

Ben Brocka

you need precise controls for a game like SMB3. Touch controls are far too easy to touch too early or too long (or worse, in the wrong place) and generally increase reaction time (since you can't leave your finger literally on the button)

OrigamiRobot

I am mainly upset that my rep is no longer a multiple of 5.

Ben Brocka

So at best it's like playing SMB 3 while highly intoxicated. Though in reality I could probably play SMB 3 drunk on NES and have a better time controlling than sober on touch controls

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot Go downvote some answers.

Ronan Forman

14:26

@BenBrocka I'd have to test these controls before I could comment on that.

Which is something I'm not going to do.

Sconibulus

@MartinSojka I think I saw a link to one of those earlier today

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Right now I'm trying to think of what would be the most frustratingly high-reaction platformer that I could suggest porting to touch controls.

But then I remember that, in some odd turn of events, they ported Dodonpachi of all things to iOS and I still don't know how it is that people actually have a positive opinion of it.

fbueckert

@GraceNote Shmups of any sort would suck. Your own fingers would obscure the screen.

Ben Brocka

@RonanForman You can try 'em out on an emulator, granted emulator virtual controls aren't quite as good as manually rejiggered touch controls....but manually fixed controls are only slightly better

Grace Note

@fbueckert See the line immediately following, though to be fair I imagine that most folk would use a stylus for that (but that said, that'll still obscure a thin line and that's all you need obscured to die in a game like Dodonpachi).

Sconibulus

14:31

I think it was called something like RocketCar

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote Bullet hell shooters work surprisingly well on touch actually, because all you really need to do is move and sometimes tap to bomb (and in most cases, autoshoot)

Most shmups on mobile use "relative touch", so you press your finger anywhere and your ship follows the movements of your finger, not the finger itself

As long as the game is primarily movement based rather than precise button pressing based it works far far better than most genres do on touch

Martin Sojka

@Sconibulus Bump, for example. Randomly generated levels too.

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote as far as platformers, pretty much anything that isn't a one button "hold to run" or "tap to jump" it doesn't work for shit. Stuff like Jetpack Joyride works well, but it's not really a "platformer" per say

fbueckert

@GraceNote I can't say I've heard of Dodonpachi.

Grace Note

Tyrian with a mouse drove me nuts for precision movement so I'm not sure that I'd feel that much better with a touch control, but I haven't tried it.

Ben Brocka

14:33

Monster Dash is quite a bit more platformy...and quite a bit more annoying to control because of that

Grace Note

@fbueckert It's one of Cave's more commonly known curtain fire shmups, generally involving very weird timelines and the eventual not-actually-eponymous angry bee boss at some end point who will flood the screen with bullets.

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote It feels a lot better than mouse control IMO, you get a really good feeling of how much you need to move. However it'd be a nightmare on iphone or whatever because of the dinky touch surface

Grace Note

@BenBrocka One thing I do know is that the iOS port does actually allow you to unlock Hibachi (the aforementioned angry bee) so at that point you get to flood the screen with bullets yourself so...

Ben Brocka

Don't have dodonpachi actually

I do love Hitogata Happa for letting you do something similar though

GnomeSlice

There's this guy that comes into the lab every night to play LoL and he's kind of creepy.

Ben Brocka

14:37

But it's "super powered" characters are actually pretty specialized and require more skill than you'd think (and they are crazy expensive so you can only buy a few)

GnomeSlice

Campus security just came in and arrested him for something.

Crazy

Ben Brocka

Guess he got...ganked

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GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka HAH

I've never seen someone get arrested in person before.

Grace Note

I feel like listening to some Dai-fukkatsu after all this Dodonpachi talk that I started.

Oh, wow, a MARDEK 2 question. I hadn't expected to see any of those here.

It's also one I'm curious enough to know the answer to, too.

Ben Brocka

Ouya should do like flash sites used to do. Pay $5k-10k for free, exclusive titles.

Tweeted by zarawesome on August 26, 2013 at 2:23 PM

This tweet has more sense than everyone involved with Ouya

GnomeSlice

14:45

@BenBrocka I don't get it

Ben Brocka

Flash game sites would regularly (and probably still do) pay developers a small sum of money (a few $K) for them to develop flash games that would only be released on their site, or have exclusive content on their site, so you would use their site to play that game because Newgrounds or Kongregate wouldn't have it

Armor Games does it a lot, many of their games have extra content on armorgames.com or only exist there (legitmately, anyway)

GnomeSlice

Oh, crazy

Ben Brocka

Not that crazy, they'd make it back in ads/whatever

fbueckert

Is it possible to enforce an exclusive for Ouya?

Ben Brocka

And it's a much more sensible approach than Ouya's, which is basically "make a kickstarter promising to be ouya exclusive, AND reach your goal, THEN we'll give you money. Later."

Which is basically "perform a miracle that clearly proves you have no actual need of Ouya funding, then we'll give you Ouya funding. Also neuter your sales potential massively. Thx"

badp

14:50

I need the help of a German speaker for legalese clarification

3ventic

@BenBrocka That sounds like a terrible idea from Ouya

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka polygon.com/2013/8/23/4650294/…

Ben Brocka

They seem to think they are legitimately in competition with major consoles and thus exclusive to Ouya is no more debilitating than exclusive to Xbox/PS

badp

> voraussichtlicher inländischer Jahresarbeitslohn

GnomeSlice

> "If Ouya wants to be truly indie-friendly it needs to allow indie developers to spread their wings if they find success on the platform," he wrote. "Exclusivity should not be part of that, especially not for a console that is unlikely to be able to support a developer on its own. Ouya should be the console you also release your games on."

badp

14:51

Is this my yearly expected income or my expected income this year

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert No, look at Towerfall

badp

Google Translate says yearly but I want to make sure.

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice yeah, I don't like their focus on exclusivity. It's dangerous for devs, and it's antithetical to the "open" thing

Private Pansy

Ohai

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert Depends on your contract, but generally they ask for timed exclusivity at the least, something like 6 months I though

> "Only allowing console-published developers to release a game on Xbox means that indies are basically forced to go through either Microsoft Game Studios or — ironically — PlayStation to be able to launch on the platform."

fbueckert

14:53

@BenBrocka I mean, you, as the developer, can only develop for the Ouya, but wasn't the whole point of Ouya to provide a single open platform? If it works for it, it should work for basically any and every Android device.

Martin Sojka

@badp Yearly is correct.

Ben Brocka

Leave it to MS to continue to find ways to push people to Playstation

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka He can't see the link.

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert Yeah, but you'd have to find some way to grab the APK and sideload it onto an android device. And even then it might depend on some Ouya framework or something; not sure if their physical controller uses standard Android or a framework of some sort

Never bothered looking into the details of making an ouya game

At it's pre-retail release the excitement among devs was it was so easy to port to Ouya. I think that's where the focus should be

badp

@MartinSojka Okay. So that's 1-1 for each interpretation of the sentence

Martin Sojka

14:58

@badp Well, it's not a sentence ... Anyway, "Jahresarbeitslohn" means "yearly salary" or "salary for one year". "Salary for this year" would be "diesjähriger Arbeitslohn" or more likely explicit "Arbeitslohn für den Zeitraum von 1. Januar 2013 bis 31. Dezember 2013 einschließlich."

badp

@MartinSojka The context is the "Antrag auf Erteilung einer Bescheinigung für das Kalenderjahr 2013 für beschränkt einkommensteuerpflichtige Arbeitnehmer"

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