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07:02
Hi guys, where should inquire about a game identification?
That depends on how much information about the game you already have.
I've got as much as my brain can remember. I was going to post on Arqade, but I was told it was better to ask it in the chat, as there are no restrictions (other than not talking about games)
07:18
Without a screenshot or something like that, game identification questions are off topic on the site (but perfectly on topic in chat)
Well Ill go ahead and ask it here. Basically it was like a ball and pipe game. I played it back in the mid 2000s when I was a kid. It had a white background and there were (i think) a bunch of levels where you had to get the ball to hit a target or targets. there were different kinds of pipes, I remember a conveyor belt, a pipe that split a ball in two, a staircase, and pink targets. It was so long ago but you
could make your own levels I think. the targets were pink and the pipes were blue i think. Maybe they weren't pipes. they carried the ball somehow. I also remember there being brick walls and maybe some sort of spring. sorry for the vague description. ive been looking all night. it was old, like from 2004-2007
I also remember the levels could get huge and take forever to complete. There was basic physics I think. It was also 2D, as in a sort of sidescroller, or some basic perspective but no sort of 3D effects. I also remember a pig?
I think there also may have been a toilet? and some other really strange additions you could make to your contraption thing
Yeah there was a toilet thing, a door
Also I remember some sort of 2d animal, like a tiger or something that you'd hit the ball into or something
the door was green
It's not whizzball
07:55
Epic:
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Q: What self-spells or allied-spells can break riki's invisibility

Thanos DarkadakisI know that Riki is a noob hero to play. However it's very effective against noob opponents. My problem is that sometimes I'm afraid to use some spells because I'm not sure if I will get visible. Examples: magic stick changing attribute in power treads teleport urn diffusal blade Can any team...

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Q: Third Omnidirectional Tracking Link is not staying on

cornjulioxAfter the Rubicon patch went live, I noticed that the third Omnidirectional Tracking Link on my Armageddon refuses to run more than one cycle before deactivating. The other two will cycle just fine, but not the third one. I've got plenty of cap and all three are loaded with the appropriate scri...

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08:49
@kalina Hi, dear firestarter :)
09:15
@spyder Clearly, the Japanese planes are way too good in melee and should be nerfed.
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@MartinSojka Planes. Melee.
@fredley Japanese.
@Arperum Excused.
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Q: Looking for a specific hex-based free online strategy game from about 10 years ago

Pedrohopefully this counts as a valid question in this Stack! I'm trying to find an old game that had many great features. It: was a strategy MMO game was based on a Hex grid featured a fleet of tanks you could upgrade individually with resources had jump/move rules and range of fire had multiple t...

11:46
Some crazy Danes (-> iNTERCEPTOR ...) bought out 3D Realms, it seems. Why? Just let them die, please.
12:02
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@kalina Sounds harmless.
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Q: How can I get the intimidate/persuade perks?

kalinaI have just arrived in Auridon and one of the first quests I've been given involves convincing various individuals around the beach to pay up money they owe. I am given the option to Persuade or Intimidate them, or pay up on their behalf. When I select t he Persuade or Intimidate option, I get a...

I hate bullet points. They're so ugly.
@Wipqozn You're a bullet point.
@RavenDreamer Wait, what?
really?
that's... different
@Fluttershy and now I feel a need to watch a bunch more superhero stuff to verify this. :-P
12:58
How does the new democracy/anarchy thing work in Twitch Plays Pokemon now?
it seems like every x minutes democracy turns on, until it's voted off the island
@OrigamiRobot whoa, whoa, whoa
So I'm playing D3 and legendaries drop and I get all excited
yeah, just not sure how the votes are handled. It looks like anarchy is just voted to the top of the list, so instead of a vote struggle it's the new Start9?
And then I remember they'll be useless in a month and I get all sad.
13:03
@BenBrocka well since they would be in democracy at the time yeah it's just whenever anarchy becomes the most voted for command
@Sterno It's funny because you're sad.
@Wipqozn It's funny because your face!
@BenBrocka Democracy every hour, but it only takes one simple vote for anarchy during that to switch it back.
@Sterno whoa, whoa, whoa.....Whoa
13:08
@OrigamiRobot Thanks.
@OrigamiRobot I guess maybe that's better than the vote. Less wasted screen space/people's time on voting on something that's unnecessary like 98% of the time
Buzzfeed is really the worst.
then again it activates very often...does it usually get turned off within a couple minutes?
@BenBrocka It's way better.
@Sterno You would believe these 15 ways Buzzfeed is the worst
13:09
@BenBrocka I believe so, yeah.
@BenBrocka Until now, I've seen it deacticated with the first vote.
@BenBrocka This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. And This.
@Sterno I counted those just to make sure.
Now I'll have to intentionally put the wrong number in things like that in the future, just to bother @Wipqozn
@Sterno @StrixVaria @spugsley @Wipqozn The Skeleton King is guaranteed to drop a legendary right now if you reset quest progress, but they're going to fix that so we need to exploit make use of that while we can.
13:13
@OrigamiRobot You have to reset quests and play the act through from the beginning.
I'm waiting for my daughter to wake up. I should go kill The Skeleton King right now.
So that I can earn a legendary and be happy and then remember it will be worthless and be sad.
@StrixVaria Yes
Oh. I probably don't have time for that before she wakes up.
@OrigamiRobot Fancy. I would probably get templar only legendaries, knowing my luck.
Does everyone have to do that, or can one guy get to the boss and then 3 more join in?
13:15
Why is it even possible to get templar only stuff pre expansion? That's terrible game design.
@Sterno You can probably do that.
Well, I might as well get started then.
@OrigamiRobot They're going to move it to Diablo, so if you play through all 4 acts you get a guaranteed legendary.
@StrixVaria That sounds painful
@StrixVaria Yea.
13:15
@Sterno I played through with 3 people yesterday where the host reset. The host got 1 legendary, I got 2 legendaries, and the other person got 0 legendaries.
So I have no idea.
@Arperum I still don't understand why you don't like being able to find things now that will be useful later.
I get annoyed just by the NPC chatter getting in the way of my murder sounds.
@OrigamiRobot I just don't like it that they are pushing the expansion from ingame.
I keep getting blocked at "Checking Battle.net for updates"
D2 never contained LoD drops, hell, I can't name a single other game that drops expansion stuff in the basegame.
13:17
boo
2 days ago, by Origami Robot
If you're still playing Diablo after the expansion comes out and you don't have the expansion, you're doing it wrong.
@Arperum So why spend energy caring?
@OrigamiRobot I know. I preordered. It still annoys me.
The only thing that annoys me is the way it teased me thinking it was somehow already installed when it showed me the class and the expansion name the first time I loaded it up
@OrigamiRobot Because it is terrible design.
@Sterno You can select a templar in character creation too.
@Arperum In a situation where my above statement wasn't true, sure.
13:19
But then you can't make the character because need for upgrade blahblah.
@Arperum And just not enter a name
But it is true so why bother caring?
@OrigamiRobot It feels like D3 is some FtP game that wants to tease you into buying the paying part. Except it isn't FtP.
The only other game I can recall immediately that comes close to being this obnoxious (fuck spelling) about "pay me" was runescape. And even that was less. You couldn't get member only items as a free player.
The part I didn't like was the 2-page intro they showed you after the patch, that showed all the new features of the expansion you can't play yet.
@StrixVaria Not surprised, marketing
13:22
And the part where they keep pushing a BUY THIS UPGRADE NOW in your face. I preordered a physical copy. SHUT UP ABOUT IT.
OH MY GOD THEY ARE STILL TRYING TO TEACH CUT I WILL ALWAYS HATE YOU DEMOCRACY
this is what I hoped would happen. It's really not necessary to use democracy for this
@Arperum For any of the areas @StrixVaria and @Sterno mentioned, sure, but being able to get the items early is only directly benefiting you.
I'm sad my barbarian sucks so bad at killing treasure goblins. I spend most of the time chasing them trying to hit them
I'd rather find expansion crafting mats than the legendaries that will be useless when the expansion hits.
13:25
@OrigamiRobot This is the best way to look at it.
@OrigamiRobot The part that annoys me most is where they allow expansion stuff to be in the way of the gameplay of the basegame. That's bad. Heck, some people don't want to buy/can't buy the expansion. And those get it constantly shoved into their face.
Also, I wonder how the one guaranteed legendary for playing the whole game will work out.
@Arperum Well, a lot of games nowadays feel very much like FtP games. TESO comes to mind, for example.
That is, how popular and useful it will be.
@Sterno I tried out my Barbarian last night and I felt like I couldn't do anything compared to the Wizard I was playing with.
13:26
@Arperum Those people should feel bad for playing vanilla.
Sounds like a nice way to make it worthwhile to play through the game again.
Act 1 isn't so bad if you just run past everything
@StrixVaria Yeah, playing with your wizard, I felt that way too :P
I dislike Act 2. I just find the setting boring.
The one thing I'm good at is standing in a group of elites and not being too worried about dying
@Sterno My 2 best characters pre-patch were my Witch Doctor and Barbarian, and neither of them is really fun any more.
13:27
I should play tonight with only my demon hunter to get him to level 60. He's level 50-something now.
@OrigamiRobot No, Blizzard should feel bad for treating their paying customers bad. Name me one other game where they stuff the expansion into your face all the time.
If we play together again we should crank up difficulty.
I switched up the Barbarian to a tanky build, where he just distracts enemies and doesn't die.
I succeeded in doing that, but I don't think the Wizard actually needed that to kill things.
@Arperum I guess I just don't see how getting potentially useful things is bad.
Pre-1.05, my wife played a wizard and I was barb. I'd use my taunt and do my best to block doorways and have everything beat on me, and she'd just murder it all with her DPS that was 10x what mine was
13:28
@Sterno I started a new character with @frank a couple days back on master. it felt like a proper challenge.
I've also been playing a wizard. Only level 14 right now. Also,I agree about the witch doctor. I have mine at level 34 and I'm just not having fun playing it. Not sure why.
I actually enjoyed playing as a DH last night.
DH is a lot of fun.
I was surprised; pre-patch DH was just awful.
@Arperum Yeah, I'll probably be doing that with Crusader
13:29
@OrigamiRobot I understand your point, it's not about the potentially usefull items, it the principle of shoving the expansion into the face of people who can't get it for reasons.
I've been using multishot, but I tried out the cluster shot + stun rune th eother day and it was really useful against bosses.
I only ever got one character to lvl 60 and that was a wizard...
@Arperum Those people should l2diablo better
@OrigamiRobot What if they are poor and got the basegame from a friend/raffle/whatever. And can't afford another 40 euros for the expansion?
@Arperum Just have more money.
13:31
@Arperum Then they should just stop playing.
@OrigamiRobot You're such a goose.
If the basegame was made FtP, I would accept it, but it isn't. It's just blatant moneywhoring.
@Arperum I...don't agree with that at all.
@Arperum Now you're just making zero sense.
@Wipqozn I have the money. some people just don't. Fourth world is terrible.
13:32
I agree with you that having items thrown in you can't use is silly, but moneywhoring? I don't agree ith that.
@Arperum What if they plan to make the base game F2P after RoS launch, but just haven't announced it yet?
That's actually an interesting idea.
@Arperum I know, I was being sarcastic.
Get your internet sarcasm metre fixed, geez.
@Wipqozn They are basically constantly nagging about "BUY THE EXPANSION CHEAPASS"
Just saw my first cursed shrine
@Arperum Which is the message they should be sending.
13:34
my barb does not have the AOE to clear waves fast enough for that
@StrixVaria That would be interesting. Very non-blizzard, but interesting.
against ranged guys, anyway
@Arperum Yeah, I have absolutely no expectations of this.
If someone won just the base game in a raffle, that was a shitty raffle.
@Sterno I cleared all the waves and missed one guy in the 5th wave because I didn't see him.
I had plenty of time to murder his face, but I was just standing there wondering why I hadn't won yet.
13:35
I do okay against non-ranged guys
I prefer the "Kill at least 100 enemies" cursed chests.
Ranged ones just involve too much chasing around
Especially the one in the spider cavern, since that one is easy mode.
And then you get 2 chests as a reward.
I haven't properly completed a cursed shrine yet. Too much playing with low level chars on highest difficulty available.
The cursed shrines if you fail to clear 5 waves, you get literally no reward.
13:36
Of all the things you have to complain about, you are undoubtedly choosing the one that will benefit the most people, including yourself.
@StrixVaria Some gold and xp IIRC.
Also what is there to spend gold on now?
I've accumulated +4million from where I was pre-patch.
Also, The Godfather is such a fantastic film. If you haven't watched it you should.
Just felt like putting that out there.
@StrixVaria That's at least four times more then I ever owned at any point. I'm pretty sure I never owned a million gold.
@Arperum My wife has 150m because she only spent 300m of the fortunes she got from stupid lucky drops.
I only have 13m.
13:39
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Q: What is the name of that awesome running game?

galgaleshA few years ago (3 or 4 I think) I played an awesome sidesrolling multiplayer running game on kongregate. You were a little funny dude, You had to race against other people in different levels. You could collect hats (and also shoes, I think) and you could bump questionmark-blocks to get special...

@StrixVaria Is the blacksmith useful now?
Also, isn't the mystic intended to be a money sink when it releases? note: I have no idea what it is aside from being a money sink.
@Wipqozn Crafting is more useful, yes, but you're limited by mats which you accrue slower than gold.
Combining gems is also cheaper.
Removing gems from sockets feels more expensive, though.
I need to get more weapons with CD on them while I can.
Mystic seems really nifty.
@OrigamiRobot I am planning on embracing the new item system. Since a level 70 weapon with no CD is going to outpace any level 60 item no matter how much CD it has, I'm not going to bother trying to stock up now.
I hope there are more options for crafting amulets and rings in the expansion.
13:42
CD?
@Wipqozn Crit damage
@Wipqozn Crit Damage
Crit damage can no longer roll on new weapons.
@StrixVaria Yea but it will take time to get those level 70 items.
I never hit max level pre-patch, but was Crit damage the best way to increase DPS?
13:43
@OrigamiRobot I also plan to start a Crusader the instant the game launches and play as nothing else until it hits 70.
@Wipqozn Weapons couldn't roll crit chance, so you got crit damage on those.
You put crit chance on other items, since you need both for high DPS.
@StrixVaria I've been thinking of doing that too. I haven't looked at it too much, but it's supposedly similar to Paladin which was always fun.
My WD has like 45% chance to crit with like 460% bonus crit damage.
Oh my
@Wipqozn I just like to be able to play as any class.
I have all 5 classes at 60 right now.
After I get the Crusader to 70 I'm going to need to get everyone else to 70.
I can understand how you got 400 hours out of the game.
The crusader is the first class that actually uses shield,s isn't it?
monks and barbs never used them iirc.
13:45
@Wipqozn I used a shield for a long time on my Monk.
But they're not optimal, really.
@StrixVaria Really? I thought monks were fists or two-handed.
All classes can use shields, but they just tend to have better options in that slot.
Nowadays, though, I've noticed survivability is a bigger deal than it was pre-patch.
It used to just be all about killing fast.
So shields were worthless for that.
I know they could all use shields, but were never a good choice.
I could potentially see shields making a comeback.
Did they ever "fix" inferno mode just being dying in 1-3 hits? (before they removed it that is)
13:47
Crusader, though, only has the option of what's terrible on other classes: weapon+shield or 2-handed-weapon.
@Wipqozn Yes, with monster power Inferno was finally playable.
It was easy mode unless you cranked up the monster power, actually.
How is torment?
Torment 1 is fine. Probably like Inferno MP1-2.
I've only played on Torment II a little and it's pretty slow for me.
I can kill stuff eventually, but it's not as efficient.
Oh good, torment has a scaling system.
It goes up to 6.
I was worried it would just be one setting, which would have been dumb.
13:50
From what I hear, on Torment 6 I could probably manage to kill some whites monsters, if there weren't too many of them.
Okay, I'm looking forward to max level then. I was worried that Torment would just be one difficult, like the others. which would be really boring IMO.
@StrixVaria Sounds like a torment 6 character started from lvl 1 would be a mad challenge.
@Arperum Yeah, definitely.
@StrixVaria Is it bad that my first idea now is to do just that? But I don't have torment unlocked on hardcore. Not even master, even though I did beat normal difficulty in hardcore before.
@Arperum Master is unlocked when you beat Diablo (I assume in order to get it retroactively you have to have beat him on Hell), and Torment when you reach 60.
@Wipqozn If you get RoS, there's also "Adventure Mode" to play at the end-game, which is more of a free-form mode where you have bounties and nephalem rifts which sounds really awesome.
13:55
@StrixVaria Ah, never got to 60 on HC, and died somewhere in act 3 nightmare with my best try.
With scaling enemies, I imagine hardcore just got a lot more difficult.
I only ever got to level 9 on hardcore because I'm not hardcore.
@StrixVaria I got a wizard to 30something and then got wiped because bad swarms of mobs. And the monk in the game was having issues himself. So I ended up dead due to being over confident.
I actually like hardcore. It gives quite the rush if you survive something stupid you got yourself in.
@StrixVaria I'll probably pick up RoS on release. Probably.
I'm enjoying Diablo 3 a lot more now than I did on release.
I thought my largest problem was the lack of skill trees, but it seems I was wrong.
the poor loot system was my main problem.
I'm hoping my RoS copy arrives on time.
The loot system is so much better now.
14:00
I liked that there was some filtering on the run. Grabbing everything feels wrong. Why do you even need to click on it to pick it up anymore? you want to take everything anyway.
I do pick up literally everything now, to salvage.
I feel like that might not be the best.
But hey, I know that that point is pretty unpopular. I loved the looting system from Titan Quest.
@StrixVaria Also, don't forget I can reroll the +damage on my CD weapons.
@OrigamiRobot Oh true.
I haven't paid much attention to the Mystic at all.
It was complete trash before. Seriously. The drops were so terrible, and because level restrictions were too low (i.e. getting stuff at level 30 which required level 20) it was always better to just use the AH. Once you used the AH once you would never upgrade in-game again, because your AH gear would be just so much better.
14:01
I played that with xMax mod (way more spawns) so I always left a whole mountain of random crap behind. I really loved that.
It completely ruined the game for me. In fact, the more I thought about it I realized that the point where I just got bored of Diablo 3 was when I used the AH for the first time.
@Wipqozn The only time I used the AH I had a way better drop ~5 minutes later.
@Arperum When I used the AH the gear was leaps and bounds better than anything I had.
I can't wait until my shift is over so I can go home and play Diablo 3.
Actually, I'll probably watch the second half of the Godfather first. I started watching it last night, but only got about half-way through before I went to bed. I was so tired.
It's nice that the Godfather Part 1 has a natural stopping point half-way through.
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Q: Portal 2 DLC download no steam

user2778712I want portal 2 dlc. Where to download it (no steam)? I think it is free. If it isn't please give me the link of cracked eidtion.

14:09
My skeleton king drop
@Lazers NOPE
It's sad that those are barely a damage decrease for my barb
@Sterno Int bracer drop playing a barb.
The new system is working.
Well, I guess it is free
Account Bound makes me sad
14:11
@Unionhawk Portal 2 without steam is HACKS.
@Arperum Also true.
@StrixVaria Sarcasm, or is int actually good for a barb...?
@Wipqozn Sarcasm.
I assumed it wasn't, but I've never played a barb.
okay, good. My sarcasm detector isn't completely broken.
39 mins ago, by Wipqozn
Get your internet sarcasm metre fixed, geez.
14:12
@Sterno Reroll when the expansion comes.
So the way it works is if you play Act 1 from the start you get aguarenteed legendary from the skeleton king?
Get rid of either of the two secondary affixes.
also, that reminds me, how does quest resetting work? Does it just set your quest back to the start of the game, or does it just remove all your quests and make you play the whole game again?
So, when do you start getting cosmic legendaries? And once you start getting those once an hour, dimensional legendaries?
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Q: Breath of Fire IV - Why do the endless ask if you need there help?

SchlaWienerDuring the game the party meet some of the endless (The dragons, e.g. Sea Dragon / Grass Dragon). If you meet one of them and Ryu talks to them, they ask you, if you need their help. If you answer yes, Ryu can use their powers during the round based battles from time to time. However, if you ta...

14:21
@Wipqozn If you click reset quests, then yes.
@StrixVaria Which does what? Maybe I'll google it.
@Wipqozn It resets all your quest progress, so you have to start from the beginning.
You can't skip around until you actually get that far again.
@StrixVaria Okay. I'll probably never click that button.
Come RoS that's solved by adventure mode, though.
Once you get to level cap it's not that big a deal either.
Because for now what else are you going to do?
At least if I reset every time I get to the end, I am playing more different content.
Rather than just doing A1 or A3 over and over.
That's true.
In fact it's only A2 that I'm not huge on.
Mostly because of the deserts.
14:24
The wasps aren't as bad now.
That last desert though before Kulle is just the worst.
It's not thewasps. I just find the setting really boring.
how did they already get so many phone numbers in TPP? Easily the worst part of Gold/Silver
@BenBrocka spamming A.
@BenBrocka But how else is Youngster Joey going to tell you about his Rattata? It is very important that he update you on the status of his Rattata.
was that still in HG/SS? I forget
14:29
Good morning, Bridge
@BenBrocka I think they tweeked it a bit in the remake, but it was still there.
the battle maison/restaraunts, while kinda boring, are a better solution. The versus seeker was also clumsy but at least opt-in. Would prefer some sort of equipable "come at me bro" item that reactivated trainers passively but optionally, ideally with level scaling
I wish I was home playing Diablo 3 right now.
I blame @Sternold.
Also @Fluttershy.
I wish I was home sleeping and getting paid to be home sleeping.
Act 2 is the worst because it's full of enemies who run away from melee range
Also, treasure goblins seem to be immune to slow now, making them even more impossible for me to kill solo with my Barbarian
@StrixVaria You should owner @Wipqozn. He hasn't been de-ownered in days.
14:54
I swear @GraceNote has notifications set up for that or something.
@Sterno A user script to do this would not be hard
Actually...
while(roomOwners.length > 0){ roomOwners.get(0).remove(); };
@fredley This removes all the room owners, not just @Wipqozn.
@StrixVaria I fail to see a problem here
o...key
@fredley mod abuse!

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