@Sterno Yes, I actually was killing Chippies.

I made sure to keep messing around with it so we could learn as much as possible about how I was killing him.

I made a post about it, so hopefully it gets fixed soon, even though it's so fun.

Well, as long as it's for science

You monster

@Unionhawk It was definitely for science.

@Chippies even played along by testing things on his end.

@Unionhawk This is why @fredley is my favourite mod.

That's how we found that it only happens if he has a Law active.

@Unionhawk Did I mod abuse that message?

The one you just quoted.

The one by LessPop.

@StrixVaria anything for science!

@StrixVaria 22 million thorns damage? Maybe they're just making up for all the years of Thorns sucking

@fredley ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ

@Sterno It's definitely a bug.

But thorns isn't worthless even once they fix that.

It's a secondary attribute! I went through and rerolled all my lame secondaries into thorns last night.

I have close to 20k thorns now (which also scales with primary attribute).

@badp Can you not see the image or is there a deeper philosophical question here?

Good morning, Bridge

I have life drain on a legendary ring that seems to do about 8k damage/second to enemies

But I'm pretty sure I'm not getting that much life in return

I need to science it but I'm lazy.

CC @Wipqozn

TIL that there are legendaries you can only get from a Horadric Cache

If you have a PS4 you gotta get Mercenary Kings when it's out

I'm not sure how I feel about Nephalem Rifts.

@GnomeSlice cc @spugsley

@Unionhawk Did I or did I not mod abuse the post with the image? Regardless of the contents of the image?

Doing bounties is super fun, and Nephalem Rifts just feel like a really long, lame bounty.

I did not, hence I was innocent! This proves you wrong.

Although I got 2 crazy upgrades from gambling last night, so I guess rifts are ok for that.

An image I found with the caption, "When facepalm isn't enough"

@badp I'm not... sure... what... okay whatever

finalfantasybattlevictorytheme.wav

hey wait a minute...@fredley you dirty porkchop you!

Not starred for potential out-of-context, starred for EVIDENCE

@StrixVaria I like the rifts better than bounties

Yesterday I had a rift level that was just one really long, straight sewer hallway with no branches. It was the best.

@Unionhawk same

(I don't remember before the internet. Feel old)

(I do remember before the internet was a big thing though, vaguely)

Okay, my drain life ring damage enemies based on their max health (.4%/second) but heals me for 1% of my max health per second. Which for me is about 5000. Nice.

For several years for me the internet was this place where you could very slowly play Neo Pets games and not much else

Yup

I remember that crap

Man

Then, gloriously, it was a place where you could very slowly download mods for Morrowind and Unreal Tournament

:o

Then, a few more years later, we got DSL and it was like "WTF why didn't we do this a decade ago"

@BenBrocka I had a question for you earlier, did you see it?

Since you seem to know more about what's going on with Youtube than most.

@GnomeSlice just found it in my inbox; licensing is basically irrelevant to Content ID, if it comes to a manual review you should be good with proof of permission from nitrome/IGS. Only way to know if it hits ContentID is to actually upload it to youtube (even unlisted/private) and see if it gets matched

@BenBrocka Nitro Fun, not Nitrome, but right. If it's an automatic thing, it would have been matched already in the full song, right?

@BenBrocka And this is why ContentID is terrible.

ContentID usually matches quickly, if it doesn't have a match within 24 hours of finishing processing it should be fine. Impossible to know what nintendo sound effects are in the library or how well they'll match really

Well, among other reasons.

@GnomeSlice yes

> The fact that some people claim to go for 10+ hours without finding a legendary is not only not our intent, but should in fact be impossible. We added a system in the expansion that tracks the amount of time you spend fighting creatures without finding a legendary and after a certain period of time will slowly start increasing the legendary drop rate. Once a legendary drops for you, actual item not crafting recipe or material, we reset that timer.

Point is, fuck ContentID.

derp

@Wipqozn And then some. They seem to have realized they fucked up...a bunch of youtubers got letters about Content ID changes, but I didn't

@BenBrocka cool, so I guess it's okay? I wonder why it didn't get matched, you said videos were getting muted for having the pipe effect in them right?

@BenBrocka Maybe they dislike penguins.

@Sterno See, this is what happened to me at launch.

@GnomeSlice Yeah, that's what it seemed like anyway. Hard to know, Content ID never shows you the source clip, it just shows you the first part of your video it matched

I went from beginning to Inferno and farming for several months before I found a single legendary.

@BenBrocka Could the song have been matched and then successfully disputed?

Also, do music labels get special permissions or something?

of course Content ID is also retroactive, so you really can never know

@Frank I don't know why, but while I like improving the drop rates in general, something about a "pity timer" bothers me

The whole ContentID situation over at YouTube is fucked

Just, in general

@Sterno I get why they do it, though.

The RNG can totally screw you over.

@GnomeSlice That's possible, hard to know the full story if you didn't upload it

Blanket statement

And still will; there's no guarantee that any legendaries you get will be useful.

Probably because if they balance around that idea, then it's less about luck and more about grinding for the right number of hours (which in the long run, works out the same, but is psychologically different)

@GnomeSlice music labels tend to get access to content ID, but partnerships no longer prevent Content ID matches if that's what you mean

They should just make it so monsters only drop Legendaries.

@BenBrocka Hrm.

@Frank My legendaries have all been useful! I've salvaged them for enchanting materials so I could reroll stats on my good legendaries!

Man, I want to go home and play Dark Souls 2.

In general, isn't the most frequent action taken by a copyright claim of any form a "This is ours now, thank you for the ad revenue"?

@Sterno That's not useful. :P

@Wipqozn Didn't you already beat that twice?

@Unionhawk Funny thing is, I gave up on television a few years before I had access to the internet, when I was 14 or so.

REminds me I really need to make videos this weekend

@Sterno I'm currently on my third playthrough.

I rather read books.

@MartinSojka I never started television.

@Frank Actually, it's very useful. Two so-so legendary weapons became big upgrades for me yesterday when I rerolled sub-standard stats into sockets.

@MartinSojka I was never that into TV aside from sundays with simpsons

and saturday morning cartoons when Pokemon was on. I think we only got a season or two though

@Sterno I thing I DO like is that rerolling stats on legendaries just takes mats; never cash.

@Frank Oh interesting.

I'm pretty sure it took cash too

Not much. Like 50k I think.

My first playthrough I dual wielding Falchion, in my second game I was a mage, and in my third playthrough I'm using a claymore (normally two-handed, but carry around a shield). I'm making use of a bow on my non-mages as well.

I wanted to reroll a stat on a legendary ring I found yesterday and it took some crazy high topaz that I didn't even have a jeweler high enough to make yet.

Though the price seemed to go up with each reroll

@Sterno The ones I've rerolled took just mats.

I had to reroll the pig sticker 5 times to get a socket

I had to reroll my gloves like 25 times to get crit chance.

I might switch to the Sun Sword once I unlock it, not sure. Has good scaling, so might try it out.

Although, it was level 60 legendaries, so your mileage may vary.

@StrixVaria Even yellow rings need those gems, I think

Now they're trifecta gloves! (Although each stat is about at the bottom of its possible range.)

I also think I'll do a dual wielding caestus playthrough next too. I should play NG+ at some point too.

I need to rework my gear so that all the stuff that can have +elemental damage has it

I got my Crusader up to 425k unbuffed DPS last night.

If anyone's got a lightning weapon with dex and a socket, I'd be mighty interested in it.

As long as a monk can use it, and it's one-handed, anyways.

@StrixVaria man, my monk hasn't even broken 100k (lvl. 66)

Wheeeee more map exploits

Make your own 2048

(valve pls to fix)

Bridge 2048, make it happen

@StrixVaria With 23 million thorns damage, why do you even care about normal dps?

Or is that only right when you activate it?

@Sterno This is only for like 2-3 seconds at a time on a cooldown.

CC @fredley

@StrixVaria Some crafting plans also need the highest level gem as material. I found a plan for some set, but I doubt I'll be crafting it anytime soon as I would need one gem per item for the set

And it's also a bug that I assume will be fixed and I don't want to rely on forever.

@StrixVaria So it's on a @Chippies-killing timer?

out of curiosity, how does the game even show multi-million damage numbers?

like, Borderlands 2 has those big red Ks

@badp Just like normal numbers but with more digits

@badp 23,xxx,xxx where the Xs are actual digits but you don't care about it.

And the unique crafting materials seem to mostly drop from rather rare spawns, so getting them is also a big issue

:(

seeing those red k's was really something

Youtube's Content ID system updated recently again

A big breakthrough in badassitude, if you will

Disgaea shows all numbers at the bottom (maddeningly without separators) but with K, M or B when appropriate

> Misuse of ContentID is extremely rare

Showing M and K would be cool

ಠ_ಠ

ಠ_ಠ

@StrixVaria You need to get into a Nephalem Rift, hit a Power Pylon, and then activate your thorns thing and take a screenshot.

You might be able to break 100 mil

2048: Bridge Edition

@BenBrocka actually with all the BL2 dlcs and legendaries and slags and crits etc. did you ever get to whatever's there after the k?

I just grabbed the names of some people in chat.

@Unionhawk We wish

@Wipqozn y u no use pics

@GnomeSlice Lazy

WHY AM I THE 2

@Wipqozn Y U NO USE GITHUB?

@badp I've never seen an M. IIRC I've done ~1000K

I hope @3ventic is happy he's twice the @GnomeSlice.

But even Disgaea shows up to 4 numbers so it may take >10m

@badp ?

I made myself 2048. I also made @Sternold one of them.

btw

@Wipqozn Also ... I feel left out! :(

just to ruin @Wipqozn's plans:

var tile_contents = ["Gnomeslice","3ventic","AshleyNunn","MBraedley","Unionhawk","fredley","badp","StrixVaria","Sternold","Ben Brocka","Wipqozn"];

@FEichinger you should have been higher up on the chat activity list when I was looking for names!

SPOILER ALERT!

@Wipqozn Tsk!

Luftrausers makes me wish I were much better at Asteroids. I love the game but the control scheme is still a bit weird

@BenBrocka Yeah, one of the guys I watch has explicit permission from a guy to use his music, but someone else is still claiming that stuff.

@GnomeSlice I put your name in first.

@Wipqozn Hmmmm... Okay.

Then I started with me at 2048 and worked my way down.

Also being the 2 means my name is there more than anybody else.

Seems appropriate

@GnomeSlice Just like your recommendations!

:P

runs

@GnomeSlice Yes. You're spamming up the 2048 box.

@Unionhawk A couple labels decided to just content ID ALL music they've licensed, even if they don't have exclusive licenses. This basically amounts to copyright enfringement

<3

@badp I don't do that any more.

@Wipqozn =[

@BenBrocka Pretty much yeh

@badp I was just getting ready to post that too!

also this is even more recent

"You can use our music" 2 seconds later "YOU USED OUR MUSIC? Well, we'll let you keep your video up, but it's ours now. FYI"

@Unionhawk Welcome to Youtube's kowtowing to the DMCA.

The most hilarious one was when Millbee's account got reinstated, his network accidentally claimed all of his videos, including his vlogs

@StrixVaria I FINALLY GAMBLED A RING I CAN REROLL INTO TRIFECTA

IT'S THE BEST EVER

NOW IF I COULD JUST ROLL CRIT CHANCE INTO MY LEGENDARY HELM...

@Frank It's really much worse than DMCA. DMCA doesn't require preemptive theft of suspected content

REROLLING LEGENDARIES IS SO EXPENSIVE (AS IT SHOULD BE)

@BenBrocka Hence why I said their kowtowing to it.

It goes far beyond the safe harbours of the DMCA.

Can we calibrate the Outrage Machine a little better? Please?

I need so many more Death's Breath.

I use them up SO fast.

(the Millbee situation is another story altogether >_>)

@LessPop_MoreFizz Taking statements out of context and then getting outraged about them is a time-honored tradition in America.

@sterno this is well beyond even that though.

This is comical levels of missing the point.

Missing the point: America's pastime

Also, I made a Zero edition.

I'm sure someone less lazy could remove the colours too.

And the score

What Colbert was doing was basically saying "You don't think The Redskins are racist? Oh. Well then, I guess you don't think this widely agreed to be grossly insensitive racist caricature of Asians is a problem either... What's that? You do? Well then, maybe think twice about redskins!"

Or keep it in and make it update, but have it go +0 every time

Oh, I love the Steam forums for GCIII.

@Wipqozn Use that image url

@Frank GET BETTER AT THE GAME SO YOU CAN PLAY ON HIGHER DIFFICULTIES

@GnomeSlice Yeah, just thought of that,

thanks

NOT TO IMPLY THAT I CAN PLAY ON HIGHER DIFFICULTIES

@Wipqozn All tiles should merge

That would require a total and dedicated rewrite

(likely trivial, but, eh)

I got a Sternold tile

This is beautiful. So beautiful.

@OrigamiRobot FF X is my current focus.

RoS takes a distant second.

New and improved!

With thanks to @GnomieBear

FINAL FANTASY WORST SERIES

So these past two days, I've been told to repeatedly warn everybody in my little sub-unit in the army not to talk or make idle speculation about certain events that may be confidential and/or under investigation, under the threat of persecution of military law

@GnomeSlice good job!

@OrigamiRobot Like Diablo's any better.

@FEichinger People don't just expect Minecraft style pricing, they get angry when it's not.

@FEichinger aaaand comments immediately miss the point

To the extent which we have to sign off on acknowledging we were informed of this

@Frank I think @OrigamiRobot hates Final Fantasy because of the name.

@Frank NICE FALLACY, BRO

And of course, in typical army fashion nobody has actually been told what certain events are

@OrigamiRobot The only fallacy here is your face.

@Wipqozn NO, THAT'S JUST A JOKE I THINK IS FUNNY

@Wipqozn Heh, the yellow ones still glow

@Frank THAT'LL SHOW ME!

@Unionhawk Meh, I don't think it's so much a "We want cheaper alpha!" than a "A hundred bucks? Are you fucking kidding me?"

So of course guess what happens when I warn everyone to stop making idle speculation about something which nobody has any rightful idea of in the first place? They make idle speculation, duh

@Frank Oh snap!

@PrivatePansy But you are constantly talking about not talking about them, so everything's fine.

@OrigamiRobot Sure will!

But seriously, can we refrain from criticizing people's choice of games?

@FEichinger Some of the "overpriced" alphas were included at the same price as Kickstarter tiers and they don't want to piss off their backers by going "hey you immediately get the same access at the same time for less if you didn't bkac us like a sucker!"

Was @PrivatePansy message deleted by the military?

@Wipqozn I can neither confirm nor deny this

this is why 2048 is not as good as threes

@FEichinger And the obvious, traditional developer answer is "No I'm not fucking kidding you, you can wait if you don't want to pay to be in the alpha."

@PrivatePansy Need-to-know is fun!

@BenBrocka And that's nonsense. There is a difference between fundraising and retail. "We have to honour our backer tiers!" is bullshit in that light.

Mind you, I don't give a shit about what price they pick - it's their choice. But the reasoning that this is "because Kickstarter!" is a) part of why people still think of Kickstarter as a glorified pre-order platform and b) fucking nonsense.

@FEichinger Early access still isn't retail price

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IS THAT YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW THE THING YOU MIGHT WANT, BUT DO NOT NEED TO KNOW, AND YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT WANTING TO KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW IS NOT COOL.

It's military law vs. human nature. Guess which wins out.

@FEichinger It kind of sounds like you do give a shit.

@BenBrocka It doesn't need to be retail price, but it isn't fundraising. In Early Access, people are buying the game - they aren't "funding the development" anymore. That's what Kickstarter was for.

@PrivatePansy I think what you should've done is powerpoint your sub-unit to death.

As I said, for all I care they can ask for two hundred bucks - none of my business how much they ask for in return for the product. But they are selling the product, nothing else.

This would've drained all will to know, or live, from everybody in the radius of 5 miles.

@FEichinger Either way it's going to be a shitshow on the steam forums, so what does it even matter?

Early access is totally used as "funding continuing development" and also how many devs deliver the "early access" tiers, which is why it makes perfect sense to price it the same. They promised early access for a certain price. If you want that same access at the same time, you pay the same price

Oh, it's just my slow internets

@BenBrocka Then it has no business on a retail platform.

Exactly. In early access, the game is still not done

@badp Yeah, that'll do. Drone on half an hour about each person's performance review, then insert critical military sekreeeets into the middle of next year's budget resource forecast

That's the point of early access

@FEichinger you can ignore Early Access, lots of people do. IT is NOT a traditional retail platform. It's very new and weird and if you pay without knowing it's new and weird you...well you shouldn't be doing that

@FEichinger Nobody is forcing you to buy it.

@PrivatePansy Are you sure responsible disclosure protocols are not subject to responsible disclosure protocols?

@BenBrocka The point is that fundraising and retail are two separate things, and should be kept separate. Otherwise people get butthurt their Kickstarter didn't work out and "scammed them", or that Early Access is asking for too much. These things need to be distinctly different.

@badp I have no fucking clue about how meta the army's, what is it, Official Secret Act

@FEichinger People are going to get butthurt no matter a company does.

@FEichinger What the turtle said

@PrivatePansy oh, I see. The Official Secret Act is Officially Secret. That's satisfactorily meta.

If EA started rescuing kittens and puppies from fires then the internet would find a way to hate EA for it.

This is all wonderfully kafka-sque

What am I doing again..?

(Alternatively, super injunctions may also be injunctions served by lawyers dressed in superman costumes. At least that's what the BBC's Friday Night radio comedy program tells me)

It lead to @Wipqozn!

@3ventic I like how much larger @badp is compared to everyone else.

I'm kind of a big deal.

Pfft, who's this @badp guy anyway?

@Wipqozn and you couldn't use our gravatars? Disappointed.

Times New Roman is bankrupting our country, thanks Obama

@GraceNote I FOUND OUT THERE'S A WAY TO CONVERT MULTIPLE LINES OF ATTRIBUTE TEXT TO MULTITEXT~

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I'VE EVER RECIEVED

But are they going to let you do that?

@TimStone I rather think about the amount of money they could be saving on font licenses - or rather, if it wouldn't be cheaper not to print anyhting at all

YES

I ALSO BOUGHT AN MMO MOUSE TO BIND AUTOCAD COMMANDS TO