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Q: Is there an easier way to find the Ultimate Weapon in FFVII?

LOL. NO.I'm on the 3rd disc in FFVII, and I'm at the point where I'd like to kill the Ultimate Weapon to unlock the Ruby Weapon. I already fought the Ultimate Weapon at the crater near Junon, and fought it a second time at the North Crater. But since then, I haven't been able to find it--recently, at le...

Okay so I managed to get a probe inside the core. This is the approach...
And this is what's inside...
o.o
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Q: How can I get around the Raid Boss time limit?

Ben BrockaBorderlands pulled a pretty jerk move and made the new "Raid Bosses", Master Gee and Hyperious The Invincible(s), work on a 24 hour timer. Since they drop absolute crap, ~10 crystals each time when you need >100 to buy a weapon, it's clearly ideal to cheat the clock. How can I get around the rai...

I thought our policy now was to keep these open for people playing with an older version of the game?
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Q: What do we do with historic questions that no longer make sense?

fredleyMinecraft's new (as of 1.5) water physics mean that this question no longer makes sense as a question - the situation can no longer arise. Should this question be closed/deleted?

In fact it is, and I'm voting to reopen.
People downgrade to previous versions for games all the time.
03:24
CC @Fluttershy @Ullallulloo @RedRiderX @BenBrocka
In fact a quick search reveal several resources detailing how to downgrade to previous versions of Borderlands 2.
Get The Lunar Pack: Lunnye Devitsy and Wake for $1.70 DRM-free + Steam key for the next 5 hours. http://www.shinyloot.com/the-lunar-pack-lunnye-devitsy-and-wake
03:47
@GnomeSlice What is this from?
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Q: Is it possible to reach the center of Giant's Deep?

GnomeSliceThere is a planet in Outer Wilds that seems to be made almost entirely of water. The description for this planet is as follows (taken from the in-ship computer). None of our spacecraft have ever been able to penetrate beyond the outer atmosphere Sure enough, when I try to fly my way into...

It's what's in the center.
I'm still not sure you're supposed to reach it though
I had to use a probe and it went so slowly
Also this game is amazing and you should play it
Is the alpha free?
Looks like it.
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Q: Is there any reason to *not* link?

Raven DreamerI've been playing around on the Strategy menu, now that I have a 4-person party in Xillia, and I notice that there is an AI option for "Link", which is "Always", "Often", "Sometimes", etc. From my understanding, Linking allows access to both Linked Artes and allows passive skills to be shared (s...

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Q: Minecraft say time

muncherelliI would like to be able to say the current time in game. Is this possible? I have tried things like /say &t /say @t, etc. Is this possible? I would just like to announce the current time.

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Q: What does overclocking sensors do?

GigazelleAs part of the engineering station, there are various components to a ship that you can temporarily increase performance to. One of those things is the sensor array. What does increased performance to the sensor array do, and when would be tactically beneficial to use it?

@GnomeSlice I don't really care for racing games, I was just surprised that such a polished game and seemingly popular concept was taken off Greenlight. Although 75% off does look nice.
@Yuki I just noticed you commented on it earlier that it seemed nice.
If you don't like racing games though, you should probably pass.
:P
03:56
Yeah, I've never been terribly great at them. As a consequence, I don't really like them.
I think the best I've ever done was repeatedly getting blue shells on Mario Kart.
Yes. I was that guy.
@Yuki Hahahah oh man
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A: How does (Ultra) Lucky Cat work?

WipqoznThe way the quest rewards in the Monster Hunter series works is that you're guaranteed a certain certain number of rewards per quest, and then have a chance for additional rewards. More specifically, after the fixed rewards are rewarded the game then rolls (generates a random number) to see if an...

Also, I should really make the Gold Rathian armor then.
I might be able to make it. Not sure.
@spyder Cats are the best.
Gold Rathian + Ultra Lucky Cat would be crazy.
04:09
Maybe.
Do you know if Ultra Lucky Cat stacks with Lucky Cat?
My guess would be that they don't stack.
Ugh, why do I have such an urge to get Pokemon Rumble U?
Because Hitler. That's why.
04:33
@Wipqozn dammit I knew I was right
I should stick to my first thought more often
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Q: Is there a way to slow down the Day/Night cycle

Memor-Xwhile there is a command that you can use to set the time the problem with it is that one would have to remember to use it when it's getting late to set it back i'm looking for a while to slow down the day/night cycle, just to add a little more danger to the game when i get caught out at night w...

05:08
WOWOWOWOWOWOW
our cat just fucking broke a CFL bulb and apparently that like deadly and shit
@AshleyNunn also, kissing monkeys is bad, don't try going for a two-fer
@spugsley I've been rather suspicious of CFL ever since that one time at work where a seal on a tube failed and it spewed fire for a few seconds. Because I've had plenty of cfl's fail, though none with fire, so far. (as a bonus, I was voluntold to stay 8 hours overtime to ensure the warehouse didn't burn down)
@TrentHawkins O_o
@spugsley Best 8 hours of overtime ever - I largely spent it constructing paper airplanes and throwing them from the third floor.
I lost several of the planes. Makes me chuckle whenever I think about someone retrieving a box months later and finding a paper airplane on/beside it.
05:41
@spugsley I know it's way late, but this has some appropriate safety and clean-up directions to prevent spreading mercury and mercury poisoning. Apparently that stuff is hazardous waste and does not go with regular trash.
@spugsley Yeeeeah... Hooray technology!
@Unionhawk The EPA and Health Canada give more or less the same instructions. Go figure.
"Ventilate the room for at least 15 minutes prior to starting clean-up by opening windows and doors to the outdoors. This will ensure that mercury vapour levels are reduced before you start cleaning."
Ugh, I finally got off my butt to play Tides of Destiny again and I cleared an entire floor in the dungeon.
ooohhh... VACATE the room. don't just sit in the room and wonder what that popping noise was, what that smell is, and why it's suddenly darker.
05:47
Then power flickered and my PS3 crashed.
Progress reset~
@Yuki You're talking about the Rune Factory?
@skovacs1 Yeah.
I think I lost a level, almost 80-90% progress to the next level, and several skill ups.
I seem to run into these problems every time I decide to go back and play a game that I left after finishing the first run-through.
Although I didn't quite finish the first run-through of ToD.
@spugsley It's not that bad, it's a few mg of mercury. If you just clean it up properly and ventilate the rooms it's fine
05:53
It's unfortunate, but it happens. Power outages, system overheating, hanging, crashing, and hardware failure. It's something I'm sure everyone on The Bridge has experienced.
@skovacs1 Yeah, it's something every gamer encounters. But I reserve the right to complain and whine like a little b----!
@MadScientist It's even less if it was one of the more environmentally friendly bulbs (I think there's like a green symbol or some such).
@spyder I would so break out the family's old Atari if the various power/game mode switch handles hadn't broken off... also, most of the controllers died.
I've cleaned up quite a few broken mercury thermometers that the students seem to like to drop all the time, each of those has probably a hundred times as much ore more mercury in it than a CFL
@TrentHawkins old computers are geek porn :D
05:57
@MadScientist we did....we are worried that our cat will find a piece of it or something O_o
I think I got it all
and we aren't sure what he did after he broke it
Just check a wide area, the small mercury balls can roll quite a way on flat ground
also, i'm pretty sure we're missing a converter for the video signal... I don't think those two prongs will hook up to most modern devices.
@Yuki In my run through of The Last of Us to get collectibles, since the game is constantly auto-saving and locking out previous areas, after spending an hour to two running through an area, I mistakenly continued past an area only to realize I'd missed a collectible, but the gate was closed behind me and my save overwritten. I have no choice but to load my manual save from before I began that session and re-do the entire thing, including some pissy QTE/gallery stuff I did not enjoy.
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A: Can a 600-calorie diet cure Type 2 diabetes?

Raymondthank you Dr Olorun Oduduwa for healing my that terrible disease called DIABETES, everyone who is going through this testimony should be follow me to celebrate on the great and powerful things Dr Olorun just did for me, I happen to be a patient suffering from diabetes for more than 8 months now, ...

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@skovacs1 I still haven't gotten back to actually finishing The Last of Us. I ran into some bad audio problems (unvoiced dialogue, lack of enemy sounds, etc.) and just gave up the ghost.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Maybe you should just quit Skeptics. It doesn't look like a good habit.
@Yuki It's not. I tend to just end up either confused or angry.
@spugsley Clearly the cat snickered to itself as it plotted more ways to kill you and then eat the eyeballs of your corpse.
@skovacs1 sounds like him
Dum dum dum, what do I play now?
06:02
@Yuki Play Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Vampire: Colon Cancer?
@Yuki genre?
@Yuki Fine, if you're not, like, into the whole, punctuation thing, man, then play King of Dragon Pass.
@spyder Well, I feel like playing some more of my PS3 games. I got... Lost Planet 2, Killzone 2, Disgaea 4, Lollipop Chainsaw, Dark Souls, Tomb Raider, Dragon's Dogma (vanilla, no Dark Arisen), and Dynasty Warriors 7.
Or I could just go to sleep.
@Yuki Won't you get lots of that when you're dead? It's totally overrated.
06:06
@Yuki oh. I don't like actions. I'm prefer RPG, RTS and TBS. Sometimes action/RPG
@spyder Honestly, I'm surprised at the amount of action I have in my library.
@Yuki try The Bureau
I am leaving out Atelier Meruru, Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny, The Last of Us, and Tales of Xillia off the list though.
@Yuki Do you have Resonance of Fate?
For reasons of my own, I don't feel like playing any of those.
06:08
@Yuki Play Dark Souls.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Well, let's see if Blighttown lags on my new set-up.
You will either end up playing it all night to the detriment of sleep, or throw your controller at the TV hard enough to break it, and thus, be left with no choice but to go to sleep. Win/win.
I think I'm fairly good at it, but I stopped playing because Blighttown just caused horrendous amounts of lag to the point where it was unplayable...
Confession: I honestly don't know when to refer to a problem as "lag" or "framerate issues".
@LessPop_MoreFizz Sleeping is not a win - it is clearly a loss. You only live for so long so you're already running with a deadline hanging over your head and then to waste excessive hours of that limited time inert and accomplishing nothing is clearly a failure to use this depleting resource effectively. Sleep is the enemy.
@Yuki 'lag' is network induced. It's when the problem is that your computer isn't talking to some other computer in time.
06:13
PAK FA is beautiful:
Ah, so I have massive framerate issues in Blighttown.
I need 6 more clickers before I get the last clicker achievement and associated upgrade, but they currently cost 9 trillion. I'm only getting 552 million cps so it looks like it will be quite a while before I get those things legit since the cost goes up by like a trillion or more each time I purchase a clicker. Something like ~70 trillion just to get the clickers I need. Then, for the other achievement, I still need 19 more time machines that already cost 10 trillion apiece.
<3 Kristin Chenoweth
I wonder if @AshleyNunn would like Danganronpa.
06:33
@Powerlord She said she would. I can dig up the quote.
Aug 24 at 1:52, by Ashley Nunn
@skovacs1 Oooh, I havent watched it yet - but it is on my to-watch list
Whoo, made it to Blighttown Swamps!
06:52
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Q: Loading NES Metroid with full energy tanks

Jack MI'm playing the original Metroid on an emulator. I don't want to have any advantages that I wouldn't have on a real NES, so I don't want to use savestates. I have two energy tanks. After dying, I get my password, and inputting this returns me to the nearest elevator with all my items, including ...

@Lazers The motivation for the question is because of emulation which is Off-Topic, but the question itself is about the behaviour of the actual original game. Were it not for emulation, there would be no reason for such a question other than theoretically interest in getting the game and asking about its behaviour when you load your game. I'm thinking close for being Off-Topic. Is that the right call?
Why do people respond to Lazers? As far as I know, he/she/it is a bot, right?
@Yuki People "respond" to lazers to indicate what they are talking about. If lazers spews out 3 questions and I want to indicate a comment about one of them, it's a clear way to identify which.
Ah.
I figured, but I always had that niggling doubt in the back of my mind. Thanks for clearing it up.
@Yuki No worries.
07:02
@skovacs1 Have you played Dark Souls?
It's been awhile and I can't remember what I was trying to go for with my build.
It seems like I was going for a Dex Archer build, but Googling has revealed that as kinda sucking.
@Yuki I played a bit of Demon's Souls. I have Dark Souls, but between how punishing it is and the thing where people could invade my world, I was not enthused to play. I'm sure it's fun, but with so much on my plate, I chose to pass up on that one at the time.
Understandable. Although since it's been quite awhile since it came out, I think there are fewer invasions.
Albeit with the caveat that the invaders still here are most likely the kind that are really dedicated, have tricked-out builds, and play cheap as hell.
@Lazers The fix to this is to... play Metroid: Zero Mission instead, since it's a remake of this game
I think I was also miffed that they released the PC version with added stuff that wasn't in the console versions, but I've been too cheap to re-buy it at full or even the discounted prices there have been up until now.
I don't like buying the same game multiple times. I also don't like missing out on content. Timed content pisses me off for this reason. I pay full price and often pre-order so when stuff like that gets pulled, I feel like I was shortchanged.
Oh yeah, the Prepare To Die edition thing.
I stopped playing because of massive framerate issues (mentioned above) in Blighttown before that thing came out so it sorta slipped my mind.
07:12
And then there's the DLC...Compile Heart stuff has ridiculous amounts of DLC with few bundles and when the total to buy all the DLC for the game costs double what the game did new, I get upset too. NISA publishes most in NA. I should petition them to do sales or bundles for this stuff. Neptunia's been out a long time so I don't think some DLC bundles and sales would be a bad thing.
NIS and Namco Tales developed stuff tends to be better on this front.
Is Neptunia real-time combat (a la Tales) or turn-based?
@Yuki Turn-based.
I'm thinking about getting it, but I already have quite a few PS3 games.
I should probably build my Wii U library before buying PS3 games.
@Yuki Because there are so many Wii U games to choose from.
@skovacs1 HA
07:17
@skovacs1 Yep. There's Zombi U, MH3U... oh wait, I have those already.
There's really no point in getting Mass Effect 3 if you don't have 1 and 2, in my opinion. I mean, half the gameplay value comes from the development of your inherited save file.
And I'm not really interested in any of the other games.
Including ACIII.
I was half-interested in director's cut Deus Ex HR for the extras, but then I believe I heard the DC content is coming to the PC and I lost that interest.
The only Wii U stuff I am interested in that I haven't collected (even though I don't own a Wii U) is unreleased.
I'm looking forward to X especially.
It's weird. I've noticed that most (if not all) of my male friends are getting version Y while the females tend towards version X.
Wonderful 101 looked neat, but decided I could wait on that. I have never played a pikmin game, but always wanted to get into it.
I'm getting X, myself.
Wow, I feel like an idiot.
For some reason, when you said "X", I thought Pokemon. Even though Pokemon is clearly a 3DS title, not Wii U.
And then I did a Google search of upcoming Wii U games.
Probably going to get that anyways. Looks interesting.
I ditched pokémon at gen 1. Playing through the game twice to "catch 'em all" for 151 of them or whatever was enough for me. Doing it again and again didn't seem like fun so I stopped there. The story didn't excite and it just felt like a grind quest times 151
07:29
X is probably going to be my last Pokemon game. Finally got a panda Pokemon so I think I'm good.
@skovacs1 The "reward" for catching 151 was also terrible...
I've considered going back and getting all the ones I'm missing to make my collection more complete, even if I won't play them, but I haven't had the funds available of late to pursue that. Too many more important things to buy.
Isn't he/she adorable?
And that's probably the biggest reason I'm getting Pokemon X.
The amount of pokemon is to damn high
One of the many reasons why I don't bother with it anymore
@5pike And worse, there are shiny ones and multiple genders too.
07:33
@skovacs1 reminds me of a video
I think this is it
To catch literally all possible variants of them you'd be catching like 4 times the total, making it emphatically worse.
I am sure many people have this drive
They should see a doctor
The bigger problem is that all the shiny versions takes so much more time. The better bet is to form a cabal of people and use duplication tactics to do it the most efficiently.
Are they better or only cosmetics?
07:37
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Q: Do I get normal achievements while playing hardcore?

givanseDo I get normal achievements while playing hardcore? Like reaching level 60 with two demon hunters? One in normal and one in hardcore, so that I get the "Disciples of the night" achievement (two level 60 demon hunters).

@5pike Cosmetic, as far as I can tell
But they're shiny, and so people must have them
So really just "Ohhhh, shiny"
Problem is that I have no friends so any form of duplication collusion to try and amass them all seemed futile.
@skovacs1 you could buy a second handheld and a transfer cable
I know some that did that for red/blue and silver/gold
Kinda sad
@5pike Already got that. Not the issue. I'm saying to get all of them (all genders, all types, shiny and not) would take more than just two copies to do in a reasonable amount of time.
07:40
but they at least had some shinies to show
@skovacs1 So, you don't want to collect them all?
Had I say 50+ people in on the arrangement, we could probably hammer than out in a more reasonable and structured system, but by myself, it's not happening.
@5pike You know I want to and would. This is why I dropped the series.
what do you get for collecting every variation?
@5pike Nothing except for self satisfaction
@5pike Some reprieve from my obsessive personality.
@PrivatePansy and then you think about the time you needed...
07:43
It's not an all or nothing thing, you know. You could just play it as what it is - a fairly good RPG game for handhelds
@PrivatePansy with a story, that is shit
@PrivatePansy I could. I do that with SMT stuff, but I like the SMT story better.
@skovacs1 seconded
Pokemon doesn't need to have a "mature" story. Just make it better. Something like Grandia 1
@skovacs1 Super Mario something...?
@PrivatePansy shin megami tensei
07:45
@PrivatePansy Shin Megami Tensei. This includes the Persona games if you weren't aware.
I also have some of the Megami Tensei games that made it to North America. DemiKids Black and White are suspiciously Pokémon in their implementation.
@skovacs1 The social aspect of persona takes to much space
If I want to play a social simulator, I go and play a social simulator
Played Persone 3 portable (almost at the end).
I invested more time interacting with people than dungeon crawling
after realizing that, I dropped it
@5pike Fair, but I liked the story and general implementation, despite questionable localization of the first 2 persona games.
@skovacs1 The story is cool, but the social interacting is bollocks.
@5pike That was actually added into the latter two if I recall. I believe the first 2 didn't have that aspect. I'll check.
@skovacs1 You don't need to check.
I know that they were added to 3 and 4
07:50
@5pike Too late. I was right.
The difficulty of the SMT games can also be quite brutal.
Why the localization team felt the need to remove biblical and Nazi references from the earlier ones is beyond me. On top of that, only releasing the first part of Persona 2 and making me wait all those years to get the second part remade on PSP was not cool.
@5pike True.
@skovacs1 I like a challenge, but SMT can get quite ridiculous.
@5pike Have you played Demons' Souls or Dark Souls?
@skovacs1 both
loved 'em
Made a level 1 dark souls run
Was quite easy compared to my first character
I was quite surprised,
And then twinking in the undead burg
Playing hide-and-seek with other invaders is also quite some fun
The rage messages are hilarious
07:57
Mind telling me what the hell Past Me was thinking with my build?
By "Past Me", Yuki means the Yuki of the past who played the game and then left it, forgetting what they were doing.
@Yuki I have pretty much no idea about character builds
Only thing I know - don't invest anything in Resistance
and that some spells are overpowered
Especially Pyromancy
I read some forums that suggest that I may have put too many points into Dex.
@Yuki if you are still considering anything about the Neptunia series, know that they are similar to Disgaea stuff in the overlevelling and side dungeon stuff, and consequently get quite grindy, depending how you play. I would argue they also suffer from cheezy dubs, but I hate most dubs so that might be a biased opinion. The story and characters are charming and the mechanics are solid.
If it's similar to Disgaea, I'll have to pass. I still haven't finished Disgaea 4.
08:04
@Yuki Get great scythe (best dex weapon)
Most forums seem to say to just put points into STR/DEX to fulfill weapon requirements and then pour the rest into VIT/END because lightning weapons are ridiculous.
And they don't scale with stats at all.
@Yuki You can bypass the over-levely stuff - I believe it was optional. It's not as ridiculous as Disgaea. Max level is only 99 vanilla, and if you buy the level cap DLCs, it's 999. This is why I said that it depends on how you play.
That's the problem: I love grinding. The chief reason why I haven't completed Disgaea 4 is that I spend endless amounts of time in the Item World.
@Yuki 999 < 9999 and I personally feel Neptunia is more generous with XP.
I mean, I played Disgaea 3 on my friend's PS3. Playtime: 100+ hours. I'm still on Chapter... 3 or 4?
08:09
not this generous though.
I didn't realize there were such simple exploits in Disgaea. I should go back and try some of these.
Oh god, it isn't the leveling that's the addiction for me. I have to try and capture/recruit every Resident out of every item I get.
And going for more Residents results in more items...
It's a vicious, vicious cycle.
Oh hey! That's Outrageously Ridicolous Character Sheet: The Game
@badp actually, it's number 4
@skovacs1 Are all 4 like that?
@badp Yes. As well as some of the spin-off games.
Disagea has more stats than you can shake a stick at.
It's a statistician's wet dream
08:16
@skovacs1 are they all meaningful?
@5pike I think the defensive stats become more and more useless as you grind.
Mugen Souls is the same way, I think, but the leveling becomes worse because of pawns and rebirth stuff. To max stats in that is a trying amount of effort best left for end game.
Unless you go up against one of the bosses.
Disgaea games, as a rule, tend to turn into one-round blitzes by the time you get to the post-game content.
@5pike They all have an effect, yes. The amount of the effect varies, but as you become more ludicrous, you don't use most of them, no.
@Yuki True. I did some research into this for a question once. It was pretty confusing.
@Yuki I mostly think back to the original where the item collection was simpler, but the leveling was more work.
Disgaea games have so many mechanics, it's easy to get lost.
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Q: I am getting 'Username is longer then 16 characters' when attempting to log in to a Minecraft Server

BOBI have Minecraft, and when i try and join a server, it says my username is longer than 16 characters. I think it is trying to use my full email address. Is this the case? What else would cause this error, and what options do I have to try and resolve this?

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Q: I have the Pope and the Curia in my pocket, but they wouldn't excommunicate anybody! Why?

mindcorrosiveI have "generously supported" the Holy See through smart investment of my Papal influence, all cardinals now respond to every single whim and desire of mine, and there's a fellow Catholic nation or two that keep getting on my toes that I'd like to punish by excommunicating them. However, I coul...

08:23
@skovacs1 Roughly how many (compared to say, DwarfFortress with its 19 attributes, about 90 skills and 30 personality traits)?
eh. I think Dwarf Fortress is more about organized, deterministic, emergent chaos than aggressive minmax heaven
I'm wearing this shirt right now
@MartinSojka 12 base stats, each with its own affinity stat, 4 elemental affinities, XP and Level, 86 spells, every weapon gets XP and proficiency level, 54 weapon skills, a couple currencies and then there's the building mechanics and map mechanics that also have even more values to keep in mind. I'm sure I'm missing some, but that's just a rough of it.
I'm just interested in stat-heavy RPGs and life sims, that's all. Gathering what systems they use, which stats, and how they work together.
@PrivatePansy As benefits a hardcore military truck driver.
08:38
The real trouble of the Disagaea and similar stuff is the tendency for stats and things to go into the millions. It's ludicrous and when you get to the higher values, most become rather useless. The larger part is the plethora of characters and town-building aspects they later added in.
@MartinSojka Unfortunately I don't think I'll ever be able to wear that and drive
(The reason why I can talk to y'all right now is because I called in sick today. Too sick to drive, not sick enough that I have to be stuck in bed kind of sick)
@PrivatePansy Yeah, I know that kind of sick
@MartinSojka I... prefer the original
@MartinSojka Is that supposed to the P&S? I'm not sure what this is from.
08:44
@skovacs1 "Humanised" fan art for MLP, I think. Just found that randomly some time ago and remembered it now.
@MartinSojka Oh. Okay That was not apparent to me, but I see it now. I don't follow side (non-story) characters like Lyra and stuff much so it didn't click.
@MartinSojka The horror, the horror!
@spyder You're scared of girls in swimsuits?
KittenSeitz on deviantArt has a bunch of it too, now that I look through my history. Some of it rather well done, too. Some very much NSFW, before you go looking. Example for rather SFW:
@skovacs1 I hate humanizations
08:47
@spyder They're whatever. If you take them, ignoring any connection to the source material, they can be far more enjoyable...at least if they're well done.
@skovacs1 unfortunately, I do not have "unsee" button
Not the best humanization I've seen. I mean, I've seen better cosplay costumes, so...
I just take it as a picture of a human and all my hangups just fly away. I think the Celestia one isn't as good as the other one, but that's probably just my preference for the style.
You have not experienced airport security until you've experience Israeli airport security
So much swabbing
@fredley How bad was it?
08:53
@fredley Did you at least get his/her number?
@Arperum It took hours
First a long queue, then you are questioned thorougly about all the stamps in your passport (When were you in Morocco? What were you there for? Do you know anyone there?) etc. Then you put your check in bags through a scanner. Then, if you are unlucky (like me) you take your bag over to another queue where it is unpacked, everything is swabbed (including your hands and feet) and run through a machine. If this goes ok, you may proceed to bag drop.
@fredley do you feel violated?
Then there's another round of passport checks - more questioning. Then you go through the whole procedure again with your hand baggage, complete with unpacking and swabbing.
Yeah ... my brother already said that if he'll ever go to Israel (or the USA), he'll get a second passport, without the Iranian stamps in it. :D
I forgot to mention, our coach was stopped on the way into the airport, we all had to get out and show our passports, and the hold was searched.
@fredley Do they expect you to cut of your fingers, and implant a gun instead?
@MartinSojka We had one person with Libyan, Syrian, Lebanese and Jordanian stamps (in her British passport) and a Jewish surname. She was there for 4 hours.
@Arperum To be fair, I was never patted down. I could have hid ceramic knives on my person quite easily.
@kalina Oh hello
@kalina That I did not expect
I wonder when they will realize that you don't need a weapon to hijack a plane
don't "oh hello" me all casually
I will set fire to you
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08:58
@kalina D'awwwwww ❤ You're back!
all the pings
@kalina Ah, the old @kalina is back!
no, I'm @Sterno
we've covered this already
@kalina Salutations fiery one
08:59
@FEichinger The people who get huffy about this stuff don't pay enough attention to the media outlets where this was covered. I'm sure there's some other social issue someone is trying to distract from and so this was passed along to them.
@kalina Well yes, but so is everyone here, so it doesn't matter
This is pretty much how I imagine the @kalina household to look like

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