The Bridge

Arperum

16:00

@5pike I don't know if the default options allow for loops, and installing autohotkey or whatever is too much work.

Unionhawk

@Arperum Ask @fredley, since he has done some very-not-theoretical things with pings, apparently.

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum (though if suddenly an account is sockpuppetted to 20+ rep and starts spamming we may have a good suspect)

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden If I would do such action I would do it in my own name. hiding behind socks is a sign of not willing to pay for your own actions.

Powerlord

So, I totally called the bad guy in the third case of Dual Destinies.

and it looks like Case #4 will be the typical short case to set up the background for case #5

Sterno

I'm Batman!

SaintWacko

16:04

@Arperum test

zuadc PG em<

zuadc AS em<

zuadc IT em<

zuadc HA em<

zuadc A0 em<

zuadc JV em<

Arperum

@SaintWacko One ping only.

SaintWacko

Oops

Holy shit

That script was not supposed to trigger

Why did that trigger

It's disabled

Ben Brocka

@SaintWacko's gone rouge, prepare containment procedures

Arperum

@SaintWacko TRIGGER THE RIGHT SCRIPT IF YOU WANT TO ANNOY ME.

SaintWacko

> This message cannot be edited before it has been received by the server. Please try again.

Unionhawk

16:06

Heh. Nice.

SaintWacko

@Arperum test again

Sterno

Pretending I'm Batman and beating the shit out of people never gets old.

And in the game!

Lazers

0

Q: Does the singularity require maintenace?

After a few rounds as engineer I'm pretty comfortable with getting the singularity engine up and running. During a few of the rounds however, the singularity got loose and destroyed parts of the station. Does it require any maintenance once it's up and running, or did someone just sabotage it w...

space-station-13

SaintWacko

Hm

Ah, well

Don't think it worked

Arperum

@SaintWacko Ping better. Still one ping only.

@SaintWacko I might give it a try after I get home.

SaintWacko

16:09

@Arperum Third time's a charm

Kevin van der Velden

16:20

Jeah the red squiggely lines of doom are becoming yellow (from lots of trains not going to lots of trains being delayed)

OrigamiRobot

@Sterno I couldn't get into Arkham Asylum

kalina

You earned the achievement Balls: Seems you like playing with balls, eh?

4

SaintWacko

That... did not go well

Powerlord

@OrigamiRobot >:O

OrigamiRobot

I gave it up shortly after the first boss.

FEichinger

16:27

Evening.

Kevin van der Velden

@FEichinger Lo

Sterno

@OrigamiRobot you are apparently a terrible judge of all things video game related. You need a programming update.

Powerlord

OBJECTION!

GnomeSlice

yesterday, by GnomeSlice

Party of Sin (Steam) featured on IndieGameStand

This game is pretty cool

better than I was expecting

Powerlord

GnomeSlice has a new avatar?! WHY>?!?!?!?!?!!11111

OrigamiRobot

16:38

@Sterno It was so lackluster, I don't even remember what I didn't like about it.

Powerlord

@OrigamiRobot Lackluster? Were we playing the same game?

OrigamiRobot

@Powerlord It was mediocre stealth and mediocre action

Powerlord

@OrigamiRobot Do I need to point out that this game pretty much falls into the Metroidvania classification of games?

...and of course, the strength of the Metroidvania games are both the exploration and weapon upgrades.

Yuki

cc @AllTheCanadians

Powerlord

@Yuki Eh?

Yuki

16:52

@Powerlord Just found it and thought it was funny. Definitely not relevant, but nothing's relevant on the Bridge.

Martin Sojka

Reminds me of the Crappy Canadian Thanksgiving short film. :D

Powerlord

@Yuki (The Eh was another Canadian joke)

Ugh, just glanced outside and noticed how dark its gotten... and I left my umbrella in my car

Arperum

For those interested in the pingspamtest: @SaintWacko volunteered for target by trying it out on me.

Martin Sojka

Yeah, I'm seriously considering moving my work place to South Africa or New Zealand during September to March ...

Arperum

!!!!!!!!!!@SaintWacko pingspamtest!!!!!!!!!!

How many pings did that send?

There seems to be a delay of three seconds after a couple edits.

OrigamiRobot

17:00

33 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot

I gave it up shortly after the first boss.

SaintWacko

@Arperum One

Powerlord

@OrigamiRobot Yes, which means you had few (if any) of the weapon upgrades that augment the action system you were complaining about.

Arperum

@SaintWacko bah. limiter works good then.

SaintWacko

@Arperum Yeah, they must have gotten that fixed

Arperum

@SaintWacko It was only a matter of pressing a button, since I seem to have a loop option in it...

Powerlord

17:06

Steam's weekly deals all always weird

OrigamiRobot

@Powerlord I don't remember any significant upgrades

Powerlord

Well, the explosive gel (which is technically for puzzle solving) can be used to knock down walls on enemies... or just as a generic pipe bomb type thing... or to distract enemies.

Sterno

@Powerlord You're arguing with a robot.

Powerlord

Incidentally, you get said powerup immediately after the first boss.

Can it be going home time yet?

Sterno

I can understand how you wouldn't like Batman, if you're the sort of person who hates fun.

OrigamiRobot

17:11

Wait, what is the first boss? I might be misleading you here.

Powerlord

@OrigamiRobot One of the huge hulking monsters at the end of the high security area.

Although I suppose you could consider Zsasz a boss.

OrigamiRobot

@Powerlord That's the one I was talking about

I made it outside

Lazers

0

Q: Can't change texture quality

I just downloaded Path of Exile via Steam. I looked forward to the video settings, and I found that the texture quality is locked to medium. Is there a way to change it?

steam path-of-exile

Powerlord

So, Valve, will you actually release the TF2 Halloween update today or disappoint everyone again?

It doesn't help that the Halloween update tends to be one that breaks everything.

Evil Genius is on sale on GoG right now. I wonder if it's the 1.1 version or not... probably not,.

OrigamiRobot

I also had zero monetary investment in the game so I had no reason to endure a slow buildup.

user15026

17:27

Whee, midterms!

Powerlord

@AshleyNunn Have fun!

ken.ganong

@AshleyNunn Good luck.

user15026

First one today went well, second one should go okay, music one tomorrow should be alright, and I just need to finish my forms of fantasy essay over the next couple of days. I felt like I was going to come back and be totally overwhelmed, but hey, it is all working out. Either that or I am totally wrong about what I do and don't know.

Powerlord

OBJECTION! You should be playing Phoenix Wright instead of studying!

SaintWacko

5

user15026

17:39

@Powerlord That won't get me a degree :P

James

So.... Amazon has shipped me a PS4 controller..

Anyone else had this happen yet?

3ventic

@James I would be amazed if that happened and promptly notify they got the wrong address.

James

@3ventic :O

3ventic

(I didn't order one - and won't)

James

I got the notice last night and thought it just a mis-fire... But today I see that it has left Kentucky and should be here tomorrow.

badp

17:46

best coding advice ever

waterfall2006.com/Refuctoring.pdf

3

Ben Brocka

@James Did you order a DS4 separately?

I would love to get the DS4 early actually, it's sopposed to work on PC

Powerlord

@3ventic You know it's a Bluetooth controller, right?

James

@BenBrocka DS4?

Ben Brocka

Dual Shock 4

James

Ah, yeah I did so I would have two of them... and it is what should be here tomorrow

3ventic

17:51

@Powerlord I have 2 bluetooth devices in my house. 1) ear plug and 2) my old phone that can't run anything worth controlling

Ben Brocka

@James Ah. I wanted to get one of those bundles with 2 controllers but they sold out. I think I'll just buy a second controller and a game separately

> Want it tomorrow, Oct. 29? Order within 1 hr 5 mins

well I'll be damned

they had nov 15 as recently as earlier this month

James

@BenBrocka Yeah, I am a little :D as well :D

Ben Brocka

I'd have ordered earlier if I knew

James

They had Nov 15th until around midnight my time last night

Ben Brocka

Until more games come out I'm as hyped for the controller as I am for the console, if the PC compatability is good

James

17:55

Hehe

I still like my 360 controller for my PC

Ben Brocka

I'm not a fan of the 360 layout. I could live with it if it weren't for the terrible D-pad though. If I'm using a controller on the PC it's often for a game using the d pad

Wipqozn

the 360 Dpad is literally worse than 3 Giga Hitlers.

Ben Brocka

I wish I could use the Wii U pro controller on PC...without it being a hellish nightmare, that is

getting a DS3 to work is bad enough

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka I love the Wii U Pro layout

Wipqozn

Yeah, I really like the WiiU pro controller.

It's so comfortable.

Ben Brocka

17:59

The Wii U pro is comfortable, wish more Wii U games used it, too. I use it exclusively for virtual console games, and for any wii u game I don't need the gamepad for

Such a good d pad, Nintendo's always been good at those. Wii excepted

Wiimote's d pad was okay

OrigamiRobot

I love the gamepad layout too

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I started a new game as Denmark. It's so weird going from my end-game Spain, which was making 100 gold per month and had over 140 force limits, to starting Denmark with 3 gold per month and a forcelimit of 14.

user15026

@Wipqozn awww, muffin

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn I thought we were going to play together? :(

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot but you're at work.

OrigamiRobot

18:01

:((((((((((((((((((

I want to dominate the world side by side, but I can't ask you not to play

What kind of monster would try to deny someone EUIV?

Tim Stone

The ~~worst~~ best kind.

OrigamiRobot

I'm glad the AI in this game isn't smart enough to think "Oh, our truce with the Ottomans ends next month. Oh, the Ottomans are moving all their troops to our borders. Hmmmmm......"

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I'd feel guilty if you weren't at work, but you are, so guilt free!

user15026

We are getting a tour of second life by some guy who is germany right now and it is just weird and awkward

Ben Brocka

@OrigamiRobot I dislike using the gamepad because of the size and battery. Weight's a little annoying too

SaintWacko

18:06

@AshleyNunn I've heard that's a pretty good description of Second Life :P

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn That reminds me of this professor that I hate.

Fucking OpenWonderland. such a terrible piece of software.

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka I just rest it in my lap like I do any controller. Or on top of Carter if he's in my lap.

Ben Brocka

Yoink

OrigamiRobot

The battery is annoying, but I'm right by an outlet so I just leave it plugged in.

Ben Brocka

I charge via the dock

user15026

18:08

@SaintWacko Yeaaaah

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka Carter likes to knock stuff around too much for that.

user15026

@OrigamiRobot Poor squished cat :P

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka lmao

James

So the Wii U pro is just a horizontally inverted PS3 controller? Thumbs up instead of down?

Ben Brocka

@SaintWacko He's lucky it got the fish's tail and not his hand

user15026

18:18

A lot of this "presentation" is "where are you?" "I am here" "no really I cant see you" "I AM RIGHT HERE"

Ben Brocka

@James It's more like a symetrical 360 controller with a solid Dpad instead of that circle garbage

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka Yeah

James

I thought swapped PS3 was fitting [shrugs]

user15026

@James I sense a colour theme.

Powerlord

@James The Wii (non-U) Pro Controller is basically a PS2 controller.

James

18:20

@AshleyNunn LoL Isnt it a lack of color theme? :D

SaintWacko

@Powerlord Looks to me like a Wii U without the screen

James

Yeah that is some weird angle or swapping rotationness

and I have to say I prefer the 360s dpad

The ones with nothing between the arrows cut into my fingers when I have to do diagonals... but that could just be me

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SaintWacko

I just want a Steam controller

user15026

@James You have a point ;)

James

18:26

@AshleyNunn :D

OrigamiRobot

@James Depends on how you look at it.

user15026

AUGH DIALUP NOISE WHY

user15026

(Suddenly this entire room was full of loud dialup sound)

Lazers

0

Q: How can I run the benchmark tool in Arkham Origins?

I'd like to run a benchmark for Batman Arkham Origins to see how changing settings affects frames per second. I can't see a benchmark option in the menu like previous games, am I missing something? I should perhaps explain that this is on PC, downloaded from Steam.

pc batman-arkham-origins

Wipqozn

Oh snap. I can start to annex my vassal now.

It will take 6 years.

user15026

18:36

Sounds....fun?

Ben Brocka

@James maybe it's because I grew up with SNES but I always prefered the cross. Xbone is doing a cross now too

The PS Vita's d pad is NICE though and I really hope the DS 4 has that clicky feel to it

James

@BenBrocka Hehe NES + SMB3 == Cut Thumbs

That is what I hated :)

Ben Brocka

If it weren't for the size (it's portable anyway) the Vita's d pad would be my fav

@James SNES was much easier on the thumbs, so is the Wii U. Only the PS3's controller cuts into my thumbs much, and only after a while with d pad heavy games

3DS a little too

James

@BenBrocka Yeah they rounded the edges out but the memories still remain man :)

Ben Brocka

I just like the tight, technical feel of a good digital pad

Mega Man X is my ideal test for a digital pad

FAE

18:41

@BenBrocka This happened with me after playing Injustice for a while on it. Fighting games tend to be the worst for this for me.

Ben Brocka

Yeah, fighting games are rough on your hands too. Part of the appeal of a stick

I unfortunately still can't roll very well on stick though

Wipqozn

@BenBrocka That sounds liek a good test/.

Ben Brocka

Will probably take the opportunity to finish MMX2 once I get it, come to think of it

Lazers

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Q: Is paying more gems a better gamble?

In Castle Clash, you can buy a random hero with 150 gems or three random heroes with 450 gems. Is there any benefit to saving up 450 gems rather than paying 150 gems three times? Perhaps better odds at getting higher class heroes? Castle Clash's website indicates that paying gems for heroes give...

castle-clash

0

Q: What game is this from (isometric)

I found this list of the 25 best horror games and I was intrigued about which game the title image is from? http://www.gameranx.com/features/id/14616/article/best-survival-horror-games/ It is the isometric looking shot with the escalators.

technical-issues

3ventic

@Lazers ITG!

user15026

18:49

@Lazers Does that picture count as enough of a thing to make it acceptable?

FAE

@3ventic Technically allowed because it has an artifact, according to our rules.

But like... it may just be a photoshopped image used for a header, who knows. :/

3ventic

@FAE Exactly

I guess no one wants to make the tag though

user15026

@3ventic There is a game-identifcation tag

ken.ganong

Even if we don't accept it in the end, that seems like someone truly attempting to follow our rules.

OrigamiRobot

@FAE Not according to my rules. Downvoted

3ventic

18:53

@AshleyNunn Oh

ken.ganong

@AshleyNunn I added it.

user15026

@OrigamiRobot How so?

OrigamiRobot

@AshleyNunn I never agreed with the "It's ok if it has a picture" thing

Wipqozn

@ken.ganong You did, but I added it first so the community automatically rejected your edit. DENIED.

ken.ganong

@Wipqozn cries

user15026

18:54

@Wipqozn Mean turtle

Wipqozn

I personally thing ITG are just a stupid brand of question we should never answer, so I usually downvote. I'm satisfied with just the robot downvoting though.

They just seem so useless.

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn This

Wipqozn

In fact, even when we allowed all of them there was only one ITG I ever upvioted

ken.ganong

@Wipqozn I don't know about useless. Sure, only really useful for the person that asked it, which is arguably not our mission, but not useless.

user15026

They are only useful to the poster.

Wipqozn

18:56

And that's because the person wrote, like, a fucking essay describing a bunch of details about the game and even made a picture.

user15026

Which kinda sucks.

user15026

@Wipqozn I remember that one

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn Was it my fish-activities one?

Wipqozn

There was so much effort and detail put into the post that I just couldn't help but upvote it.

3ventic

They might be useful if someone googles that same image in search of the game's name and ends up finding it here

ken.ganong

18:58

It is interesting that scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification is very well received but gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-identification is so poorly received. It really confused me as a new user.

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot No. I think it was by a low-rep user.

OrigamiRobot

@ken.ganong That's because SciFi is awful.

user15026

@ken.ganong Different sites have different cultures, and there is some adjustment.

Wipqozn

Yeah, SciFi and Arqade couldn't be any further apart in terms of the questions we allow/like.

WQell, they could be.

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