@Frank After the first day, I've given away or salvaged every legendary I've found.

@OrigamiRobot I've found several decent ones. A 6.0% Crit Chance Nagelring, some shoulders that make all the rest of my gear indestructible, a set fist weapon, you name it.

@BenBrocka Ew, that is awful.

@Frank The ones I find are decent too, but not for my character. It'd be great if I didn't have to salvage or give them away.

(Also, indestructible is a worthless affix)

@OrigamiRobot I wish we had a bit more stash space.

@OrigamiRobot It takes up one slot, for all my items. I'm not using them, but I thought it was neat.

@FAE It's a shame because Jetpack Joyride by them was great and non-naggy, and had a super cheap $1 "double your coins" thing which was the only permanent upgrade. It was still a fairly grindy endless runner but it was quite playable without paying or only paying $1. They upped the price of doubling coins but it's nothing like the prices in that new game

@Frank My stash is practically empty.

those microtransactions listed are like $100 before you've even bought any coins which are surely necessary

@OrigamiRobot I have a whole page almost filled up with nothing but found legendaries.

To be used...later, I guess.

All the legendaries I was saving besides 1-2 are now worthless because I can't get rid of their garbage affixes for good ones.

@Frank I haven't even unlocked the third stash slot and haven't had an issue with space. Then again, I find that if an item isn't usable by me or an alt, and I wont use it for a different build, I trash it - legendary or otherwise.

and those 1-2 will be a 1% increase in damage

@Doc I have one page that's basically nothing but crafting materials and gems.

Another for rares, and the last for legendaries.

Oh God Now I can make it look like work

@BenBrocka Yeah, JJ was really reasonable, I felt. :(

@Frank I've got one page for crafting/gems (which only takes up about 3/4ths of the page, the rest of the slots are filled with magic find gear) And one page of legendaries and such that I'm passing off to alts or holding for second builds.

I'll get a lot more enjoyment out of that $40 with Dark Souls 2 or MtG

@OrigamiRobot And that's fair. I'm not saying you have to play the expansion.

@OrigamiRobot I figure between Crusader and Act V, it's worth the money so long as I enjoy the new class

With BoA, it was already an uphill battle. And now, everything I've been looking forward to in spite of that is turning out to not live up to my expectations.

@OrigamiRobot As always, it's Blizzard telling us how to have fun, because always online, and must preserve the sanctity of balance.

I care 0% about always online. OK, make that 1% for theorycrafting.

Yeah, always online doesn't bother me either. In a game like Diablo 3 I'm always going to be online anyways.

@OrigamiRobot unless it's the shoulder that makes everything indestructible

I certainly understand why it bothers some people though.

@Krazer Still worthless.

@OrigamiRobot So if Blizzard changes the Mystic so that it can reroll for the entire pool of affixes, that's enough to make you come back?

Repairing is so cheap now.

Always online bothers me A) for when it negatively harms the gameplay experience (for when it's used to force "social" features a la new SimCity) B) in general because it makes a game inherently time-limited. I don't like games to disappear entirely when the servers shut down even if the game is mostly online multi anyway. Prefer stuff like UT99 where you can at least host your own server, even if no one's playing

@Frank Well now that I've decided not to get it, it's going to take a lot more than that to win me back.

Hey, does anyone remember in TF2 which of the Scout secondaries are usable in Medieval Mode? I want to say Mad Milk, but I'm not sure about Bonk, Crit-a-Cola, or the Cleaver thing.

@OrigamiRobot Fair enough.

I'd check the TF2 wiki, but work is blocking it this week.

I'll likely have plenty of other games to occupy my time by that point.

@BenBrocka Yeah, only online bothers me when there's no good reason for it.

If the game wasn't always online, an intrepid modder would have already been on the job to make Loot 2.0 better than what it used to be.

I expect Dark Souls 2 to take up a considerable amount.

@Wipqozn And without the AH, there no longer is a good reason for it.

@Doc This and the new class looks like a lot of fun

@Frank For Diablo3 it doesn't bother me because it's te kind of game where I'm always going to be online. I don't think I ever played Diablo 2 offline. even if I played solo I'd still make my character on battle.net.

@Frank This is what pisses me off. Their whole argument for always online was because of the RMAH, and now that it's going away, why are they keeping it always online?

@Wipqozn And I'd love it if they segregated it.

Allegedly leaked image of Amazon's controller for their alleged settop box. Looks gross

@SaintWacko How else can they track everything you do?

@Wipqozn I used offline D2 to cheat in items to mess around with, but I only played seriously on bnet.

@Powerlord Yeah I think it's punch, cola, milk, and guillotine

@OrigamiRobot This

But as it stands, we have the worst of worlds with Blizz calling all the shots, and deciding what we can and can't do.

Basically a 360 controller without all the silly "ergonomic" design, like 90% of recent 3rd party/bad android console contorllers

@BenBrocka That looks awful.

It looks both ugly and uncomfortable.

@Krazer Ah, OK. I'm making a plugin to allow changing allowed weapons mid-game, so...

Then again, the WiiU gamepad looked really uncomfortable and it's actually quite comfy.

@Wipqozn I wonder if people HOLD these things after they think "well let's make it a 360 controller but change it enough we don't get sued"

I wanted to have the Medieval list as one of the options.

(since changing tf_medieval requires a map change)

@Wipqozn Wii u pad has softer, smaller curves

If you look at the "butt" it's fairly ergonomically shaped

Always online has no effect on me in D3, but I recognize that it is 100% pointless now.

@BenBrocka Looks like the designer went "Well, I added the hamburger button, my work here is done." and then the manufacturing people decided to make the rest of it like an awkward block because that was easiest for them.

@TimStone I think The One has the hamburger now too doesn't it?

Actually, I'm making this slightly smarter than Valve's logic by doing allowed weapons by classname instead of index, so when they do things like add holiday versions and reskins, mine automatically allows them.

@OrigamiRobot It's a lot better than it used to be. Months ago I would regularly get latency in excess of 900ms

Yeah. Hamburgers for everyone!

I bet that d pad is ass

I'm hungry now.

jovicailic.org/2013/05/linux-gets-frozen-what-do-you-do

> It’s possible that you’ll have problem to reach all the buttons you need to press. I’ve seen people type reisub with their nose

It looks like the cheapest of cheap plastics.

I wonder what that unmarked? button in the middle is

@fredley Huh, that's interesting

@fredley I'm getting a 508 Unused error from that page

Which button is the hamburger button?

...or I was, reloading it gives me the page. Weird.

I wonder if it's real then, their "android console" or more likely amazon content set top box. People are already clamoring Amazon could disrupt the console space, but if their Android App store is anything to go off of..

@Powerlord It's top of HN, that's probably the sound of a tortured server

@BenBrocka Oh, I just thought it was the Umbrella Corporation logo, but now I suppose it's just the reflection of the overhead lights in the room.

@fredley On the macbook, the multitouch touchpad supports up to 11 touches with some custom drivers. One of my friends set up a gesture with it, and to trigger it, he would place all of his fingers on it, then tap it with his nose

@TimStone yeah I thought it looked like a radiation warning sign off-center but I think it's a relection

@SaintWacko lol

@SaintWacko I really want to do that

That's silly.

@TimStone, why you so silly?

Because I'm so hungry :(

I want a burger now. :(

@TimStone silly @TimStone That's a double not a single

A burger from a very specific place.

I would also like a burger.

@Krazer TECHNICALITIES

But this place is an hour away, closes at 3, and only takes cash.

Oh. It IS a nuclear warning sign button

@BenBrocka Oh

Huh

I...have no idea what that's for

Oh, no it's not

I assume it's the power button, but

It's a globe

Those are continents

@BenBrocka That looks like a bad Xbox 360 controller clone.

Oh...browser button?

Probably

@Powerlord 90% of third party controllers and non-big-3 controllers are 360 controller clones

uncomfortable ones, for the most part

Oh, no, nevermind

It is a radiation symbol

wtf

oh, so it's totally a 360 clone then

just blockier

Uncheck 'sanity'

> An arcade game where you date helicopters for world peace.

> A war game where you experience the clumsiness of internet memes by toying with gravity.

> A simulation game where you deconstruct princesses on an airship.

Pick a game concept and participate in the insanity game jam

Oh God

I just got this

> An online game where you downvote the very fabric of reality with fire.

> An FPS where you club forests and you have to be stealthy and stuff.

@fredley Oh, @kalina!

@kalina is officially a randomly generated insane game

@fredley!

That pings you, right?

With the exclamation point

@SaintWacko it does

@fredley K, I've been wondering that

@SaintWacko!

> An action game where you drag and drop conspiracy theories and also you are a bear.

I think any non [A-Za-z0-9] character signifies the end of the username

@Arperum Hahaha

> An experimental game where you avoid puns wearing different costumes.

so pointy

@Arperum So... Costume Quest?

@fredley It's okay, mordern distributions decided some SysRq features are actually security risks and REISUB got binned as a result.

@Powerlord I was thinking the same.

I'm really hating the way Blizzard is handling the patch/expansion

"but what if people punch in the button to kill a process that's hogging up the most CPU and RAM and has the most child processes and that was the screensaver?"

> A social media game where you enslave statues TO THE EXTREME.

> A tycoon game where you unlock world-spanning abominations but you have no arms.

"but what if people press the sysrq incantation that shows the current content of the CPU registers?"

They've made it so you need Death's Breath to upgrade the blacksmith, but you can't get Death's Breath yet

> A mobile game where you tickle barbarians and the sound effects are gameplay hints.

@SaintWacko pushy as fuck. It is terrible indeed.

PROTIP: IF I CAN TYPE SYSRQ INCANTATIONS ON THE KEYBOARD OF YOUR COMPUTER, I ALREADY HAVE PHYSICAL ACCESS AND IT IS ALREADY OVER.

@SaintWacko I personally have also a hate for the expansion only items that are dropping already.

@Arperum Not just that it's pushy, but that it makes it completely impossible to upgrade the crafters right now

@SaintWacko Yup. You should not see any merntion of the expansion in the basegame.

So I've maxed out the upgrades, and although I could easily run Inferno and upgrade it pre-patch, now I have to wait til the 25th to be allowed to upgrade my crafting

It's bullshit

Oh, although I guess all the upgrades I can do require expansion levels to use

so not quite as bad

@SaintWacko Wait, why are the crafters impossible to upgrade?

@BenBrocka Games for Amazon Kindle

> A role-playing game where you pilot spaceships with bears but it's all explained in the end.

> A god game where you colonize abandoned towns with gunpowder.

"colonize"

@SaintWacko No, the old maxlevel of your blacksmith was level 10, they just added new levels for the expansion.

@badp Strictly speaking, not necessarily. You may have access to the keyboard or a dumb terminal and the actual computer may be locked away somewhere.

@Yuki Because they require Death's Breath, which can't be acquired

@Arperum And yeah, I just realized that

@SaintWacko Ah, I'm at that point.

@badp "kindle tinderbox" was one of the better name suggestions I heard for that

I must have already done the "tome" upgrades

after "kindle fire"

I thought I hadn't

@SaintWacko I'm just a bit irked with so many hotfixes, you'd think by now they've tested enough and you've got things down

> An FPS where you reinvent restaurants and you're a spider.

@SaintWacko tomes don't exist anymore.

I thought the Death's Breath replaced the tome stuff

@Powerlord then and only then it makes sense to disable SysRq+B to forcibly reboot the computer, then.

@Arperum Ah, they made the tome upgrades just cost money?

@SaintWacko my tomes turned into those tear things.

> A mobile game where you breastfeed cupboards and everyone in the game hates you.

because otherwise I can just pull the damn plug out.

@Yuki o.0

It shouldn't be the default.

@SaintWacko yup, and way less then at the start of the game.

> An adventure game where you monetize candy with the power of javascript.

@SaintWacko sounds like it's a demonic essence replacement for high lvl crafting

@Arperum Ah, okay. I take back my material related bitching, then. I misunderstood

So... you're RP'ing King.com in this game?

@Krazer Yeah, it is

@SaintWacko It's still horrible that it's already in place in the basegame. The basegame should be the basegame, and not some stupid demo for the expansion. Or it should be free.

13 more levels until 60...

> A shooting game where you plop down gnomes (also, sports).

@Arperum Yeah, that's annoying too

> A shooting game where you rethink jewels by changing the terrain.

How would you do that?

@Arperum Raise and lower the terrain to make the jewels roll around?

@Yuki I have a stash full of rares that's collecting dust perhaps there's something there that you can use once you hit 60

@isthisbetter What?

@SaintWacko That's not a shooting game.

@Arperum you are in the jewel. The terrain is destructable and by shooting it you can change how the jewel sparkles

Why did you ping me three times

@Arperum Oh, didn't see that

> A god game where you stop breathing if you don't destroy farms and also it's kind of a dating sim.

Alright, you have a gun that changes the terrain

@GnomeSlice Why not?

@SaintWacko Oh, awesome, Planet Explorers is on Steam now

> A horror game where you lead ascended beings in binary.

@GnomeSlice Doesn't matter, got starred

@fredley I said it first.

> A social media game where you point your gun at golems until you die.

Why can't someone make a game about hamburgers and buttons?

> A turn-based strategy game where you collect gold from factories through cultural superiority.

lol

> A sim game where you kick blocks with love.

Kick them with love.

I find nothing wrong with the fact that D3 expansion drops are already dropping. Lets you get a head start if you plan to play it. If you don't, you can trash the stuff (or give to a friend who's getting it I guess).

> A tycoon game where you cure jokes with gunpowder.

Proof that every joke is increases by adding explosions.

no fair

@Krazer Burger Time?

@Doc It basically makes the basegame worthless. Since everything is pointing at look expansion. you cheap clod, why didn't you buy it already?

> A horror game where you procedurally generate enchanted furniture through naval warfare.

@Arperum In what way does it make the basegame worthless? Everything you could do before is still there, you can just see some of what buying the expansion will get you (such as the next upgrade for blacksmith)