The Bridge

Frank

23:00

@Yuki That's the pre-order bonus.

Yuki

@Frank That's... not much of a pre-order bonus. To be honest, I never really liked Cloud all that much.

Blem

Frank

@Yuki Remember, clothes make the lady in this one.

All your stats and whatnot are derived from your clothing.

Yuki

What, does the Cloud outfit give you +10 to your brooding skill or something?

Blem

@StrixVaria Grats!

Frank

23:05

Ladies and gents, my avatar (for however long I decide to play FF XIV)

Blem

nn people

Yuki

@Frank Is FFXIV subscription-based?

Frank

@Yuki Indeed.

Lazers

-1

Q: I can't get in to the College of Winterhold?

Well, I couldn't get into the College of Winterhold. When I tried I persuaded her to let me in. She gave the magelight spell and told me to cast it. Well, I did and now she doesn't give a s**t of what the heck I can do. She just stands there talking.

skyrim

Yuki

@Frank Ugh, I can't do subscription-based games right now.

Wipqozn

23:06

@Frank You're making it harder and harder to resist buying it.

FAE

@Yuki hahaha

Frank

@Yuki Play the demo.

You'll see.

@Wipqozn I need someone to play with!

Buy it!

Wipqozn

@Frank I am so very tempted, but I don't have time for an MMO right now. I've got some other games on the go.

Frank

@Wipqozn So do I! Didn't stop me!

Wipqozn

Banished comes out in a few weeks now

Frank

23:08

I'll keep posting screenshots until you buy it.

Wipqozn

It's just so pretty.

What job are you playing as?

Frank

@Wipqozn Not a clue yet. I just got through character creation.

Fluttershy

That was mine from when I tried it out after it went to ARR. :P

Frank

@Fluttershy What server do/did you play on?

Fluttershy

@Frank I don't even remember. Only played it like once during the free trial period I got as a legacy player.

user20683

23:11

If I still played MMOs, I might be tempted. There are good reasons why I don't play MMOs

Frank

I like the fact that race plays zero part in stats.

That way, you don't have to choose the exact right race to play a class perfectly.

Lazers

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Q: Dwarf fortress - trading list too long to find items

When I open the Trade Depot there is a list of thousands of items, not alphabetized. Is there a way to search through the list without manually scrolling?

dwarf-fortress

Fluttershy

@Frank They do play a small part.

MBraedley

Just putting this out there, but I think "Minecraft won't start" and "Minecraft crashes" and "how do I install <some Minecraft mod>" should all be banned.

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Fluttershy

Well... Sorta. The Sun-themed Mi'qote had a higher Dex than the Moon Mi'qote. I forget what they were called exactly.

user20683

23:13

@GnomeSlice Any word on the FTL expansion?

Frank

@Fluttershy The base race does not. The sub-race does, slightly.

Fluttershy

@Frank Yeah. That's the thing. Sub-race. Which is silly.

Frank

My kitten thinks sitting on the laptop is a good place to be.

Trent Hawkins

@Frank Better place than my laundry as I'm attempting to fold it.

FAE

@WorldEngineer I used to play CoH more than some people worked in a week. :(

Frank

23:14

@TrentHawkins She does that to me, too.

FAE

@Frank It's warm!

Trent Hawkins

@FAE me too.

FAE

@TrentHawkins Also warm!

user20683

@FAE Former WoW addict and EVE player.

user20683

I really shouldn't be allowed to play EUIII either.

FAE

23:15

@WorldEngineer Oh no, EvE! D: How many accounts did you have?

user20683

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Wipqozn

@MBraedley Those questions do tend to be of very low quality in general.

FAE

I've a friend who had 3 accounts concurrently for a while.

Fluttershy

@FAE I used to do that with WoW.

Frank

Gah! There's no summoner class! Why can't I summon stuff to do my dirty deeds for me!?

FAE

23:17

@Frank Aw man, pet classes are the best.

GnomeSlice

@WorldEngineer So far it's just 'early 2014'

Frank

@FAE I mean, the Arcanist class gives me that look that previous FF's had as summoner (horn and all!), but it says all I can summon is Carbuncle. :(

FAE

@Frank Maybe you earn more through leveling?

GnomeSlice

Blast 'em is now available on Steam

Wipqozn

@Frank huh? I could have sworn there was.

and I was right!

RedRiderX

23:19

where was that screen cap of that "I wanna be the vampire" question?

Frank

According to the Internet, Arcanist is it.

Ahhhhhhh. I have to cross-class to open up Summoner.

Neat! I bet that'll be fun.

FAE

@Frank Yay, at least you have an option!

Fluttershy

> Summoner acquires the Ifrit-Egi at level 30, Titan-Egi at level 35 and Garuda-Egi at level 45.

FAE

@Frank This makes me miss my Masterminds. :(

Frank

@Fluttershy But Summoner's not a base class.

Fluttershy

23:20

@Frank Right.

Frank

@FAE Yeah, me too. :(

My Ninja/Poison MM was my only level 50 villain.

FAE

@Frank I still have all my bind files too, just in case someday... someday...

Fluttershy

@Frank That's how it was for something like, say, Tactics, or V, right? You had to unlock other jobs first?

Frank

I loved him. I made him opening day. Even named my minions after the Ninja Turtles!

Wipqozn

Minion Masters are the best type of character to play as.

Frank

23:22

@Fluttershy For Tactics, I don't recall.

FF V was all crystal-based.

Find shards, get jobs.

FAE

@Frank Haha nice.

@Wipqozn They're one of my faves. I also like assassins and control classes.

Wipqozn

@FAE Control is fun too.

I made two minion masters in the original guild wars.

FAE

@Wipqozn This is why I loved Dominators in CoH.

Frank

Character creation complete!

FAE

You could lock them down, then kill them. It was lovely.

@Frank Nice graphics.

Frank

23:24

@FAE Yeah, the game is gorgeous.

I have everything cranked, though.

Aww, the loading screen has a mailman moogle.

FAE

@Frank awww

Yuki

@Frank Dammit, you're making me research FFXIV.

Fluttershy

@Yuki You accidentally a word in your most recent Fallout New Vegas answer.

Yuki

I wanna be a Scholar now.

Wipqozn

@Yuki @Frank is a terrible influence.

FAE

23:26

I can't do a pay MMO.

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Yuki

@Fluttershy Then go edit it. I'm too lazy to open a new tab.

FAE

It's so tempting.

Frank

@Yuki Good! I need people to play with!

Fluttershy

@Yuki Mmkay.

Wipqozn

Guys, don't buy it, it'll make it harder for me to resist.

Yuki

23:28

@Wipqozn Help me resist then.

Wipqozn

@Yuki MMOs r dum

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn Jokes on you! I already bought it. Some years ago. When it was just Final Fantasy XIV.

FAE

But I have so many games and I'm bad at that whole "don't play so much that I neglect eating" thing...

Fluttershy

So I don't have to buy A Realm Reborn. :P

FAE

I played a seriously unhealthy amount of Aion when it released.

Arperum

23:32

@Yuki I won't buy it for sure, I have a habit of not buying games with a monthly fee. And I don't plan on breaking with that habit.

user58869

swtor: juggernaut or marauder? i did jedi on my first time round and chose sentinel (flipped a coin) and it was fun, however, i became curious about the darkside so i roled sith, so far it's great, but i've heard that sith marauder is the same as sentinel, and i sort of dont care, i want to go marauder, but i'm not sure, anyone done it before?

Yuki

I normally have no problem with resisting the urge to buy subscription-based games. The problem is when friends get it. I like playing games with friends.

Frank

@Arperum The last one I bought was CoX.

Also, I need people to play with!

user43095

@LessPop_MoreFizz Fair enough.

user43095

@MBraedley Anyone who asks that should immediately explode.

Frank

23:35

I can't wait until we get our first VR MMO.

Arperum

@Frank CoX?

Frank

@Arperum City of Heroes/Villains

Arperum

@Frank Ah, never played that.

Anyway, bedtime. Night Bridge!

Yuki

@Frank It better not be any Sword Art Online type of s--- though.

I don't want to be stuck in a game for the rest of my life.

Frank

@Yuki Of course not.

FAE

23:39

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RedRiderX

@Yuki It would be rather thrilling though

FAE

CC Doctor Who fans

Coronus

@Frank That would be cool, but I certainly wouldn't want to be an early adopter on that stuff.

RedRiderX

@FAE Hah yeah I saw that yesterday and thought it was pretty funny

FAE

@Coronus Something could go horribly wrong and you could get sucked into the simulation!

Coronus

23:41

@FAE Oh, wait. See, I watch too much anime. I immediately thought SAO/Log Horizon. :P

FAE

@Coronus I've seen neither of those.

Though I'm hearing somewhat interesting things about SAO.

Coronus

@FAE Trapped in the MMO. No Log Out button.

FAE

Though part of what I'm hearing is "ideas are better than execution".

RedRiderX

Death is for realsies.

Eh the first half of S1 is pretty good.

Really good, even

Yuki

@RedRiderX Not in Log Horizon. There's respawning there, but you lose your memories when you die.

RedRiderX

23:43

second half was more meh with a lot of really awkward feeling romantic bits.

Yuki

Also food is tasteless in Log Horizon.

RedRiderX

@Yuki Oh ok.

Frank

@FAE Second season coming out this year!

RedRiderX

@Yuki Aww.

Frank

@Yuki Unless you do it the right way.

Yuki

23:43

@RedRiderX They actually solved that one fairly quickly though.

I do like the classes better in Log Horizon than SAO though.

Frank

I'm just glad that graphic fidelity is proceeding so well. We should hopefully cross that uncanny valley soon-ish.

Yuki

Would definitely be the shielding class (kannagi?).

Coronus

I need to catch up on that one. Haven't seen it in a few wweeks.

FAE

I hadn't heard of Log Horizon at all.

RedRiderX

Me either

Yuki

23:45

@FAE Yeah, it's not as well known as SAO.

I like it more though.

FAE

@Yuki How come?

Yuki

It's probably because it doesn't have nearly as much fanservice as SAO.

badp

@Frank ehhhh. I'd much rather see less MMOs and more cheating dolphins

RedRiderX

@Yuki You mean the rear shots and stuff?

Yuki

@RedRiderX Probably. I haven't really watched SAO, but I hear there's a lot of fanservice.

Frank

23:46

@Yuki The political-ness that they pull off is pretty good.

RedRiderX

I don't know what you might mean by fanservice

badp

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RedRiderX

I just recall the ugh facepalm moments of weird sexually-related stuff.

FAE

@RedRiderX Fanservice

RedRiderX

Oh ok

well yes there is a bit of that

Frank

23:49

I think SAO handled the romance pretty maturely.

RedRiderX

more in the second half of s1 them the first

Frank

Most anime is like, "GAAAAAH! YOU LIKE EACH OTHER! STOP BEATING AROUND THE BUSH!"

RedRiderX

@Frank Well yes the romance but not the ass shots.

Lazers

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Q: The Amazing man-#1

I have a fully updated 0.8.1 Alfa mindcraft PE that I get on to.I looked up a server and Server and Tryed to play on it, it will load but right when I get to the land my player starts to glitch and start to wack out. I can not leave the starting position and after 4 or 5 min. Of trying it logs me...

minecraft

RedRiderX

when the female protagonist's rear is covering like half the screen does that qualify as fanservice?

Frank

23:50

@Lazers I have no idea what that title has to do with the question.

FAE

It's mostly used for gratuitous sexual visuals that don't really add anything to the story or plot.

Yuki

@RedRiderX Typically, yes.

RedRiderX

Well then

Yuki

I like the way skills work in SAO, but I also like the classes in Log Horizon.

Coronus

@FAE For me, it's about the mystery of what's going on with the "world".

FAE

23:51

Not outright pornographic, but still not really necessary.

Coronus

@Yuki I like the description of the skills in Log Horizon. Especially the tanky ones.

FAE

@Coronus Ah okay.

Yuki

@Coronus I like how only one of the three tanking classes uses a shield.

badp

> (Click image for high resolution version, to read all the juicy details.)

HUSSSSSSSSSIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

RedRiderX

@Yuki I don't like the dropping-my-sandwich-makes-it-blow-up bit.

That would be so annoying

Yuki

23:52

@RedRiderX Wait, what?

FAE

The description for the Humble Roguelikes Bundle:

> Six roguelike games. Get your reflexes ready. The Humble Weekly Sale features a variety of games that will challenge your dexterity.

RedRiderX

@Yuki The guy dropped his sandwich and it died instantly.

In SAO

Yuki

@RedRiderX Oh, then I wouldn't know.

I know bits and pieces from the wikis, mainly gameplay mechanics, but I haven't really watched any of the episodes.

FAE

Hm. That's... not really one of the main characteristics of a "roguelike". O_o

RedRiderX

It was in like a bag and everything

Yuki

23:53

I read a bit of the light novels too.

RedRiderX

Ah okay

@FAE Yeah that's... yeah

But some of these games are twitch games a bit

Teleglitch is somewhat

Frank

Heh. "This fine, upstandin' young lady is me dear departed grandma's sister's neice's cousin's closest companion."

I'm liking this already.

FAE

@Frank I read this as "closet companion"

RedRiderX

Hah

Frank

@FAE There's enough s's there to make that mistake.

FAE

23:56

@Frank Yeah, it all kind of blurred.

Frank

Oh, wow. My equipped weapon is a book, and you can see the bindings flop open when I pull it out.

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