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04:00
@Unionhawk I want to use a trebuchet and throw many rocks at them.
SET FIST WEAPON! Woo! cc @OrigamiRobot @StrixVaria
@AshleyNunn No trebuchets present. Only frebuckets
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@AshleyNunn Aim for @FEichinger too, while you're at it.
Actually, wait until they're out of my living room
@Unionhawk There is a perverse (spurious?) logic to that.
04:02
That's...a stupid amount of Dex for a one-hander.
It assumes that recessive traits would all eventually disappear from lack of inheritance.
Which is clearly wrong.
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Q: What are the different awards I can get and how do I get them?

spugsleyAfter a versus game, the players are awarded with awards based on things that happened during the game. What are all the different awards that you can get? How do I get each of them?

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Q: Term for "having terms for everything"

d'alar'copIs there a term for the phenomenon of creating a term for every single little thing?

@AshleyNunn Everyone is all like "Waffles have little syrup holders" and I'm all like "When you use as much syrup as I do, that is irrelevant."
user15026
@OrigamiRobot Amen.
user15026
04:06
@DavidM This I like. :D
@AshleyNunn Me, too. I like the question. My answer 50/50
@Frank thanks for steering me the right way on my question, hope I left Arqade a better place :)
@jdphenix Happy to help!
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Q: When is tripe safe to eat?

ThisMustBeHaloI've recently got my hands on a few tripe rations. I've been told by a few friends that it's a good food source in the early game. Of course, I eat some and promptly begin vomiting. I know that you can polymorph the ration or yourself to make it safe to eat, but I don't really want to waste charg...

04:22
@OrigamiRobot You mean the butter craters?
I didn't know those were meant for syrup. <_<
user15026
@Fluttershy They are everything craters
I feel like my professor is going to smell the "full-of-crap" ness in this report, but I also hope that my working alone will kind of make up for it a little bit.
Either way, wheeeee I'm doomed tomorrow! \o/
Why do I do this to myself?
use the force
user image
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user15026
@Ktash Thank you for this. I am having a night that really needed kittens
New goal: run out of stars before finishing this stupid report NO THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE DOING
user15026
04:30
@Unionhawk Do I need to chat ban you so you get it done ;)
I think that would be... ineffective. I'ma just close my bridge tab
user15026
@Unionhawk Okay :)
@Unionhawk Bye!
Damn, today's the day of legendaries.
04:41
That's a butterfly on its paw
user15026
@Ktash It is holding so still
> and Snooki was confused
user15026
I had a butterfly sit on me for five minutes at the butterfly conservatory on the weekend
user15026
I also ate bugs
^ me, tomorrow morning
Y U NO
vanishes
04:43
@AshleyNunn ate bugs? At the butterfly conservatory?
I think that might be counterproductive...
user15026
@Ktash They do Bug Feast during March Break. I had honey coated crickets, and mealworm fried rice and carrot cake with crispy ants
Interesting
For a place going for bug conservation, that seems a bit odd
user15026
It was tastier than I expected
but I'll roll with it
Yeah, not sure I'd have the bravery to try
user15026
@Ktash I have a rule where I will try any food like thing at least one time
04:49
@AshleyNunn far braver than me
Also, more cute
user15026
@Ktash awwww yay :D
user15026
I like him in the bucket
Hold on, working on more cute things
(had to be done)
@OrigamiRobot if I set a virtual resistor in a circuit simulator to 0 ohms, that should be effectively the same thing as removing that resistor and replacing it with a wire, right?
user15026
@Ktash That is quite a bit of cute yes
04:52
@AshleyNunn It would have been your profile, but you are currently thwomp
user15026
@Ktash are you sayin thwomps arent cute ;)
@AshleyNunn Clearly not as much as me ;P
user15026
@Ktash perhaps :)
05:05
ughhh I'm never going to sleep tonight
damn four hour nap
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"
isn't that a beautiful quote?
@spugsley I'm probably in the same boat for different reasons, and I have an exam at 8 am. I'm basically totally doomed \o/
@Unionhawk stay up all night and crash after the exam?
Probably what's going to happen
ah college
I miss it
I think my decision to take my ADHD medicine at 11:00 pm was a good one. It'll be fully effective through the exam if I just keep this up. What could possibly go wrong?
(I take a patch-based medicine, so I can take it whenever, and still sleep if I want)
05:14
@Unionhawk ah yes my brother has ADD meds and often messes up his sleep schedule when he takes it too late
I have to take my anxiety meds in the morning for the same reason
Yeah, when I accidentally leave it on when I sleep, it gets pretty miserable. Since there's like, 28 hours or so worth of medicine in there (they recommend you use it for 9... I have never done that)
I also definitely feel the "ADHD medicine can cause dependence" thing. But it helps a lot so I really don't care.
...that kickstart at dinner was a bad idea. Holy hell this is going to be a rough night.
Diablo taken down on Torment 2.
And with that, bedtime!
05:37
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Q: where are all the despicable me 2 minion rush?

Amit JokiI need to find all the secret areas in Despicable 2 Minion Rush. I've already found Disco area in Gru's lab. I need help in finding the secret area in Residential and El Macho's Liar

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
it's so lateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
user15026
I am awake toooooooooooooooo
@AshleyNunn Oh! How is kitty today?!
user15026
@spugsley Back to his chaotic derpitude
I'm drinking some decaf chai in hopes it will help me feel relaxed. I have been so anxious this week for like no reason
@AshleyNunn hehe yay :)
user15026
05:41
I think he was just like having an upset tummy
where is @FEichinger aka my lumpy pumpkin?
@AshleyNunn yup yup :) kitties can act really strange when their tummies are not right
I think I'm actually going to end up not sleeping. Because at this rate, and sleep I'd end up getting would not be good sleep. And I think I can power through it all with the help of powerful stimulants.
06:21
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Q: Terraria IOS NPC

RynoDoes anyone know how many Npcs are in the IOS version? I've already check the wiki, but it only tells me about the Pc version... Is there the same amount of NPCs or what?

 
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08:18
Morning Bridge!
user58869
morning
08:35
Good morning, people!
@Unionhawk Where morning is a relative thing for you?
Don't judge me
@Unionhawk Ha, not like I have much right to speak on that one, I'm a regular offender of normal sleep patterns.
At this rate, I'm basically @FEichinger for the day.
@FEichinger is way worse though, but he just doesn't sleep or something.
09:33
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Q: Dwarven Sword of Devouring

Mr Mystery GuestIn Skyrim, I've accidentally lost the Dwarven Sword of Devouring needed by Calcelmo. I have tried to craft a Dwarven, one handed sword, enchanted with 15 points of Absorption - which should equate to "devouring", but Calcelmo won't take it from me (literally). I know I can steal Mercers sword of...

09:46
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Q: Why some cardinals have their names in yellow?

PuciekIn Europa Universalis 4, on the Papacy screen some of the cardinals have their names in yellow color, what does it mean?

09:58
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Q: I forgot where I died the last time

user1306322I was scouting random paths yesterday and got mobbed by a bunch of strong enemies. Today I don't remember where they finally got to kill me. I had a ton of souls and humanity on me and it'd be a shame to lose it. Is there any way to find out where I last died?

10:45
> Apparently I'm running Nvidia drivers on my AMD video card. Maybe that's why some things stutter...
How the...?
@Frank Woah really? Nice.
@Unionhawk It can happen if you forget to uninstall when switching cards..
Totally late to this conversation, but ah, what the random button on xkcd turns up
(cc @DavidM etc)
@spugsley Yeah, that @Wipqozn guy is the worst. What a jerk.
11:10
Never bring a half-sword to a spear fight (?)
@Unionhawk I have no idea what you were even trying to INB4
But anyway, I was asleep at that time
@KevinvanderVelden Oh, well you entered the room. Somehow.
So it was an inb4 of the form "inb4 spugsley". Which usually only works on spugsley, really.
@Unionhawk yeah my PC isn't always reliable when I tell it to hibernate
Sometimes it just wakes up after a few minutes
@fluttershy they changed magic a bit in dark souls 2 as well. Your number of casts per spell is now tied to the relevant stat (faith for miracles, int for sorcery). You also need to invest more points into attument to get spell slots.
11:31
@Unionhawk whooops
@Unionhawk It should, yes. Works that way in Multisim IIRC.
In other news, I want to go home and play Dark Souls 2.
Huge surprise, I'm sure.
@FEichinger Wouldn't have seen that anyway.
@KevinvanderVelden you can try the lastwake command to see what turned it back on : sevenforums.com/tutorials/122012-lastwake-command.html I had that problem too, sometimes it's a program, sometimes it's just a weird motherboard/driver/mystery
My last motherboard did that, now my new one just never auto-sleeps. I just turn everything off now since booting is like 20 seconds
@BenBrocka huh nice, unfortunately it can't find anything
@KevinvanderVelden has the PC woken up by itself in the current session? Lastwake is cleared on reboot
12:04
@BenBrocka jup
Huh. Still might want to run it immediately after a wake. Might also try and disable any non-keyboard device from waking your PC in case the mouse is getting jostled or something
Problem is, I go to bed and then wake up and it's back on
So I don't see when it wakes up
You could make it auto-play Amon Amarth on startup, so you'll notice when it does.
While I approve of this idea in general that won't work because I turn my speakers and monitors off seperately
I did not play DS2 last night :(
12:20
@Sterno Monster!
I want work to be over mostly because I want to be on the train reading Words of Radiance because it's great.
Oh my
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Q: How does encumbrance work?

WipqoznIn the previous games encumbrance impacted certain movement based actions, like rolling, and worked on a breakpoint system. However I've heard Dark Souls 2 no longer uses a break point system, and my experience in-game seems to suggests this as well. How does encumbrance work in Dark Souls 2?

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Q: What factors influence movement speed?

MondrianaireIn the original Dark Souls, movement speed was only affected by equip load. In DSII, they introduced a stat called 'Agility' that influences movement speed but also still have equipment load. How is movement speed calculated in Dark Souls 2?

My question now has two dup votes on it, but it's not a dup. They're seperate questions.
Encumbrance effects things more than movement speed, and movement speed is impacted by more than just encumbrance.
Your comment should hopefully mitigate that, we can just reopen if it gets closed. At first glance as a morrowind player I thought you were pointing out they were dupes (this is why I rarely vote to dupe for games I don't play)
@BenBrocka comment was actually made before the second vote. I'm mostly just posting this here in case one of your DIRTY FILTHY HEATHENS voted to close it.
13:05
@Wipqozn I worked until 11:30pm. Now I have to work all weekend. DS2 will probably have to wait until some time next week. My life is a failure.
@Sterno Wow, that really sucks.
I have plans tonight so I won't get to play much, and I sort of have plans tomorrow too.
I know. Not being able to play Dark Souls 2 is literally worse than Hitler.
@Sterno I concur.
On the plus side, I'm working so much overtime I might be able to take a day or two off when the D3 expansion releases.
Although honestly playing D3 for a full day in one stretch sounds really boring
@Sterno that's handy
@Sterno I was really into D3 again for about a week, but on Sunday I went to play and just lost all interest.
which is nice, because Dark Souls 2 is a lot better than D3 anyways.
13:09
March 25th will renew your interest for one more week.
@Sterno I'm not going to bother picking up the expansion.
Because everyone in here will be talking about it nonstop
@Wipqozn Bookmarked so I can use it to prove you're wrong later.
I suspect I'll still be playing Dark Souls 2, plus I'll likely get a new video game for my birthday on the 20th.
@Wipqozn After finding more things I don't like about the expansion, I don't think I'm getting it.
Will you finally be 18?
13:10
@Sterno Your face is going to be so red.
You youngsters.
@Sterno 24.
wait, no, I'm 24 now.
I'll be turning 25.
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Yay Yoshi's new Island comes out today! That makes for a good start to my day, thinking of awesome things.
I think.
When you no longer remember how old you are, you're old.
cc @Kalina for confirmation
13:10
@AshleyNunn I'll probably get that on my birthday.
@AshleyNunn Amazon isn't shipping that one early so I have to wait until tuesday for it
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@wipqozn I still find it weird you are younger than me.
@Sterno I turned old after 18.
I'm not sure what their logic for shipping games early is, if it's game-by-game or what. MGS will be here on release
I find it weird that @Wipqozn wasn't alive when Ghostbusters came out.
user15026
13:11
@benbrocka a friend is coming to pick me up so I can go get it from Microplay
And probably watched things like Power Rangers
@AshleyNunn Me too.
@Sterno I totally did.
I was playing a trivia game with some younger friends and they could name all the teletubbies.
I've never felt older. Or more wanting to leave a place.
I was originally thinking of asking for the new donkey kong game, but then I realized that I'd rather have yoshi so I can play it at work.
@AshleyNunn I need to scope out some physical stores some time...see what used games I can get cheaper than online
13:13
@Sterno I can, but I have a lot of cousins who are a lot younger than me.
I saw more Nick Jr in high school than anyone without kids should have to.
@Sterno I saw that show once. That is some weird shit
And not like Sesame street, weird if you think about it weird shit. Even as a kind that was WTF
@AshleyNunn I'm just glad that he's slightly older than me
Like, 2 and a half weeks
Huh. Apparently twitch streamers have a ton of options for subscribers. A ton more than I ever realized.
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Q: Minecraft 1.6.2 mods textures problem!

FalseFlashI have just started playing 1.6.2 moded Mc it works fine but most of the textures are messed up most notable was Ic2 (Eg. no furnace gui's only black and purple!) Also Nei( Not enough items ) text is all messed up. Some mods I have include: Ic2, Nei, Backpack, Weapon Mod, Minimap, and Buildcr...

Praise Helix it's pi day
13:25
I swear I am going to punch the first person who points out it's pi day in class today.
@Unionhawk IT'S PI DAY
@Unionhawk Did someone mention you already that it is Pi day?
@BenBrocka You don't count because 1) you already did it and 2) I can't actually punch you, for various reasons.
@Arperum See reason 2 above
user15026
I only like pi day because mathsoc on campus gives away pie
@Arperum It has been mentioned almost Ï€×10 times
13:29
@FEichinger But it should be mentioned especially to @Unionhawk. Seems he seems to have a need for that.
@Arperum The main reason is that the person I think is going to point it out is a particularly annoying person, as well.
@Unionhawk In that case: punch away.
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Q: Minecraft PocketEdition

user71735Why can't I move when I join a Zircon. I already typed this word /register (password) into the chat but auth protection says I'm not allowed to use this command.

@Lazers ?
ALso: @Wipqozn I blame you for making me feel old.
13:31
@Arperum Why, when you could blame me or @FEichinger?
@Lazers Why did you what the what.
@Unionhawk Because this.
21 mins ago, by Wipqozn
I'll be turning 25.
I'm turning 26 in 8 days.
I'll be turning 20 the day after he turns 25.
@Arperum Fantastic.
@Unionhawk it's my sisters birthday!
Her birthday happens to be on pi-day
@AshleyNunn next year they better be giving the mother of all pies
13:32
@Unionhawk Oh wow. I didn't realize you were young enough to still be in diapers!
LOLOLOL I'M SO FUNNY
@Unionhawk I'm used to you and @FEichinger being younger, that's ok, but @wipqozn was older than me in my headcanon.
@Arperum Ha.
@Arperum do you know how that feels? to have the fabric of your headcanon destroyed under your very feet?
I love destroying people's headcanon of me.
Just like the day I found out @Arperum and @KevinvanderVelden are, in fact, not the same person.
13:34
@badp Yup. It is terrible. Because suddenly everything you know is wrong.
puts @FEichinger back into the ignore list
Because they're always so far off with their headcanon.
@badp Whyyyyyy would you ignooooore meeeee?
@FEichinger You are just some old never-sleeping 18 year old German. Also: long hair.
@Arperum Very long hair.
@FEichinger self preservation
13:36
@FEichinger How long is very long?
But there's still more to kill your headcanon with.
Lots more.
@Arperum I can sit on it.
@FEichinger There is always more to kill headcanon.
@FEichinger fancy. Longer then mine, mine comes to somewhat over half my back.
Long hair is the worst.
LONG LIVE SHORT HAIR!
REVOLUTION!
SHORT LIVE LONG HAIR!
Close enough.
13:42
I might not be going on my trip to FL right after RoS launch after all.
But I still would have a week off work...
I gotta agree with the paperbot, long hair is the worst.
@StrixVaria I don't think I'm getting RoS...
FAE
FAE
@OrigamiRobot :(
@OrigamiRobot That's silly, but it's your decision.
I already preordered it.
@StrixVaria The improvements put me on the fence, then the bad stuff I read pushed me to the "no" side.
13:44
@OrigamiRobot What's the bad stuff?
Is it still because of the BoA nonsense?
@StrixVaria Legendaries always rolling 4/2 Primary/Secondary and the Mystic not being able to reroll a secondary into a primary.
@StrixVaria AFAIk that you can't mystic a secondary thing on your item into a primary thing.
FAE
FAE
@FEichinger Your hair is that long, really?
I consider not being able to make secondaries into primaries a good thing.
@FAE Yep. Well, when I don't have it bound.
13:45
The whole primary vs. secondary thing is pretty dumb.
Most of the secondaries are meaningless.
@StrixVaria I consider that one of the worst things ever.
FAE
FAE
@FEichinger Nice. :)
I just consider items to have 4 primaries and that's about it.
It's the same as if items were able to roll 4 stats total.
@StrixVaria That'd be fine if Legendaries weren't guaranteed to have 2 secondaries.
It artificially limits the customization, for no other reason than, "Perfect items are stupid"
Also, Good morning, Bridge
13:46
Morning
@Frank It's not artificially limiting customization. If there were 10 affixes that were all as beneficial to you as the primaries are, but there were only 6 slots and no secondaries existed, then would you be complaining that you couldn't get all 10 affixes on one item?
@StrixVaria The only one worth anything is sockets, and that's a primary on armor.
The fact that there are more possible good affixes than can exist on one item is a GOOD thing.
@StrixVaria That, yes.
Artifically limiting it to two different pools is not.
One is useful. The other is useless.
Having 10 good affixes but only 6 possible slots per item is THE EXACT SAME as what we have now, where there are 5-6 good affixes and only 4 slots per item.
I agree that the primary vs. secondary thing is stupid.
So just ignore secondary shit, since it's meaningless, and you have a good system.
13:48
@FAE Very annoying at times.
@StrixVaria Except there are more than 5-6 good affixes.
@StrixVaria Except that secondary affixes make up a third of the affixes on any single item.
Making up to two affixes utterly useless.
@OrigamiRobot So you have X good possible affixes, and Y slots per item, and Y is less than X.
FAE
FAE
@FEichinger Why so? For care purposes or other reasons?
Thereby ensuring that any item you have is not as good as it could have been.
13:49
@Frank You have 4 affixes to play with, and 2 nonsense bonuses.
@FAE Both.
No, it's not as good as it could have been, because there are only 4 meaningful slots for affixes.
@StrixVaria Loot 1.0 beats out Loot 2.0 on that front alone.
FAE
FAE
@FEichinger My hair's long enough to sit on as well, so I feel you on the care part.
@Frank Loot 1.0 sucked ass because 99% of items were worthless and 1% of items were unaffordable.
Best-in-slot items are the worst possible thing for an ARPG.
Or any game.
13:50
@StrixVaria And if the RNG gods smiled on you, the items you could get were better than you can get now.
Loot 1.0 had no customization at all.
@StrixVaria Neither does Loot 2.0.
That's an expansion only process.
@Frank Loot 2.0 has insane customization.
Without the Mystic.
I have had a million times more fun with itemization in the past 2 weeks than I had since the launch of the game.
@StrixVaria Oh? What stats can you change without the Mystic?
@Frank WHAT STATS COULD YOU CHANGE IN 1.0 WHAT IS THIS ARGUMENT IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE
13:51
@StrixVaria ... until half or more of them are "best in slot". I like RPGs (mostly pen & paper ones) where your exact weapon choice is purely cosmetic; you deal damage (and status effects) because of your skills, not your tools.
I completely changed my build due to an item I found.
@StrixVaria YOU'RE THE ONE ARGUING IT HAS INSANE CUSTOMIZATION!
IT DOESN'T! IT HAS NONE!
Build customization based on items*
Amended.
The fact that I can find two different weapons, that are each good but only if I use different skills, is a great thing.
You are complaining that something that never existed doesn't exist the way you want it to.
@StrixVaria I like that they added new affixes.
I don't like that they've artificially limited the utility, "because we know what's fun"
@StrixVaria My purchase of the expansion hinged on being able to reroll the items that were garbage due to poor itemization into good items. With the primary vs secondary thing, I can't do that.
13:53
Every game design choice is artificial if you think like that.
@StrixVaria They've changed the existing system. More affixes, less utility.
I just can't wrap my head around either of your arguments. I'm not going to bother trying to convince either of you any more. I'm just going to play and enjoy the game, because for me it's a huge improvement.
@StrixVaria Loot 2.0 is a good thing. I agree. What I don't agree with is that it's the best thing since sliced bread.
The items you can get are not NEARLY as useful as what you could get in Loot 1.0, due to this stupid primary secondary crap.
@StrixVaria The only new affix worth anything to me is "elemental skills do +X% more damage", but if I have to take a >15% hit in overall damage just to get it, what's the point?
Gross. Halfbrick's F2P design seems to be getting worse/"more optomized for monetization" over time
FAE
FAE
13:57
@BenBrocka Is this really for a real game and not a parody of F2P?
Yes it's halfbrick's new game
If I got the expansion, I'd have fun with it for about a week until I hit the gear wall again. That's not worth $40 to me.
> It's like comparing Java to C and claiming they're the same because they both use an equal sign for assignment.
I lolled when I read this sentence.
@OrigamiRobot To be fair, I'm having fun with just the base game. Legendaries are falling out of the sky for me.

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