The Bridge

Powerlord

14:03

@Mana I know what you need to fix that... bacon.

Mana

claps THANKS MAN. REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR INPUT.

4

badp

OH MY GOD SO MANY STARS MUST ADD MY OWN

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANA. HI.

Mana

Good morning badp.

I state this it is morning to assert my timezone's dominance over your timezone.

Powerlord

badp

@Mana Your assertion is false. Your execution is terminated.

Let me reboot you maaaaaaaaan.

Mana

14:06

...Thanks!

Powerlord

@Mana: Did you hear that? You're no longer going to be executed! :D

Mana

I know, that's why I thanked him!

badp

TZ=CET maaaaaaaaaaaana.man

Lazers

0

Q: Idenity, Game was out around the same time as Hexen

I remember it had a singleplayer and a multiplayer components. There were weapons, i remember a baseball bat that had a special attack that launched baseballs. There were power-ups that gave you powers like god mode (shot energy balls that fried opponents) or dog-mode (you turned into a dog and...

badp

@Powerlord Reboot is termination, followed by execution.

Stack Exchange

14:10

Stack Exchange Gaming Blog: The Humble Bundle

posted on August 01, 2011 by Ronan Forman

Recently the 3rd Humble Bundle was released. It’s a set of 5 games which would normally be worth $50 but can now be bought for what ever price you chose! But don’t pay less than a dollar or the developers involved don’t get a cent! Crayon Physics Deluxe A great casual game to waste your [...]

badp

Just saying.

Arda Xi

@RonanForman As long as you pay $0.05 and give everything to the developers, the developers do get a cent each.

Powerlord

@badp Reboot is termination, then killing anything that failed to be terminated, then execution.

Ronan Forman

@ArdaXi Does paypal not take stuff?

Arda Xi

@RonanForman If you use PayPal, I suppose they get a cut. I thought it was like $0.25 + 3.4%

Powerlord

14:11

@StackExchange 3 games I have, 2 that I'm not interested in... let me think about this for a minute...

badp

> There aren’t any full games in it, just some mini-games and time wasters to play

what?!

Arda Xi

1.9% to 2.9% + $0.30 USD

badp

I REQUIRE A DOWNVOTE BUTTON

Arda Xi

@badp And which game do you reckon challenges that assertion?

badp

Pretty much every single one of them?

Arda Xi

14:14

@badp Okay, let's run them one by one.

VVVVV is a Flash game. It's even up on Kongregate.

badp

VVVVVV is not a game inside something else that is different from it and thus not a mini-game, but a game proper.

Arda Xi

CPD is basically a sandbox game with some objectives.

badp

CPD is not a game inside something else that is different from it and thus not a mini-game, but a game proper.

Arda Xi

@badp I resent the usage of the term mini-game, yes.

I do agree with 'time-waster'.

badp

What game isn't a time waster?

Arda Xi

14:15

Then again, mini-game has multiple meanings.

A game inside something else that is different from it is one.

Grace Note

@badp The ones you get paid or graded to play

badp

@GraceNote That's 99.999999999999% of them, then. ;)

Just because it isn't a AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++++++ production it doesn't mean it's not a game.

Just because it isn't written in Assembly it doesn't mean it's not a game.

Grace Note

Likewise, if you make it a productive use of your time, then it isn't a time waster.

Arda Xi

@badp No. The fact they all have player retention of roughly 5 minutes does.

On average, I mean.

badp

I reject your average and replace it with my own.

Arda Xi

14:16

Every single one of these games I've played, and I'm not the only one to say this

The gameplay mechanic is introduced in the first level, and the rest of the game is just more of the same.

Grace Note

Sounds like Tetris or Puyo Puyo

badp

I've played VVVVVV and Cogs enough to know that's not true

Dunno about the rest

Arda Xi

@badp I've finished Cogs. Only played a few levels of VVVVV before I got bored of it all being the same.

Grace Note

Or, say, Devil May Cry 3.

Arda Xi

Fall, fall, fall, try to mash buttons to avoid obstacle, flip, fall, fall, fall.

badp

14:18

I mean, what about portal? Yeah, on level 1 you see you can go through the blue stuff and end out of the yellow stuff.

And it's twenty levels of that.

Right?

Arda Xi

@badp Nope.

There's the cubes, the combine balls, buttons, turrets.

And that's just Portal 1.

Plus it has a story.

badp

Oh, so the bells, the pipes or the gravity flipping lines, the missions and the wrapping don't count but the cubes, the turrets and the buttons do?

How interesting

Arda Xi

@badp What, you have to play for 5 hours until you reach that or something?

badp

No, in cogs that's like the 3rd or 4th level and the other is in the second level of the VVVVVV demo

Mana

Whee, badp and Arda fight! I haven't seen one of these in a while

Arda Xi

14:20

@badp I was talking about VVVVV at the moment.

I've seen the bells and the pipes. They're the gameplay mechanic I'm talking about.

badp

I see you keep selecting out information that doesn't contribute to your point

Arda Xi

@badp Not really.

I did answer your Cogs bit too.

Powerlord

@Mana Hey, if you're making some popcorn, could you make me some, too?

Arda Xi

By Cogs' 3rd or 4th level you've basically seen all there is to it.

Grace Note

@Powerlord That does sound delicious right about now

badp

14:21

Yeah, so feel free to focus on the other half of that sentence before ignoring it saying you were talking about its topic.

Arda Xi

Everything beyond that might as well be procedurally generated.

@badp They're two completely different subjects, I'll have to focus on them separately.

badp

Right; I don't have the time for prolonged discussion however right now. BBL

grabs his share of popcorn

Mana

Oh.

That was...abrupt.

Arda Xi

@Mana Usually is.

Powerlord

@Mana: Yeah, we didn't even get that far into the popcorn.

Now we have to go watch a DVD or something while we finish off the rest of it.

Mana

14:24

Oh man, Gaming Movie Night?!

Powerlord

Oh yeah, anyone remember me talking about me Wii controller problem yesterday? It isn't the controller. The other controller + nunchuk was doing the same thing after about 2 hours.

Mana

Oh no. :(

Grace Note

@Powerlord So it's the sensor bar?

Powerlord

So, next I need to replace the rechargable batteries with regular AA batteries and hope it's just the batteries being flaky (I used the same ones in the other controller).

Arda Xi

grabs bowl of popcorn and cloaks

M'vy

14:25

Sign up to the Keyboard fanlist!! XD

Powerlord

@GraceNote Nope, because it affects the A, B, C, and Z buttons as well.

(haven't tried 1, 2, -, and +)

Grace Note

Oh my

Mana

What's the problem again with the controllers? Is it like a delay, or mismapped inputs, or...?

Grace Note

@Mana Pressing a button being recorded as holding down the button, if my memory is good

Mana

Oh, right

Powerlord

14:28

Not just that, but it ignores it sometimes when I press a button.

Essentially, input lag.

Mana

Weird, yo.

Powerlord

Well, what's really amusing is that the pointer starts jumping, too.

badp

Basically you're losing packets. Look for sources of interference.

M'vy

DECT phones, micro-waves?

badp

I'm not sure what could interfere with Bluetooth (I guess it's bluetooth right?) except more bluetooth, but I haven't really researched this

Arda Xi

14:31

@badp Anything can interfere with anything, it's just stronger if it's the same frequency.

Bluetooth uses 2.4 GHz, same as Wi-Fi.

Electromagnetic interference at 2.4 GHz

Electromagnetic interference at 2.4 GHz can affect various devices. This article details the different users of the 2.4 GHz band, how they cause interference to other users and how they are prone to interference from other users. Phone Many cordless telephones and baby monitors in the United States and Canada use the 2.4 GHz frequency, the same frequency at which Wi-Fi standards 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n operate. This can cause a significant decrease in speed, or sometimes the total blocking of the Wi-Fi signal when a conversation on the phone takes place. There are several ways to ...

There's an entire Wikipedia article about it.

Powerlord

Well, the thing is, I'd never had this problem before. And this is with the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 sitting right next to each other with the Wireless router a room or so away.

I suppose I could disable my laptop's WiFi (because I have it connected to the wired network now) and see if the problem persists.

Still, the laptop was on before I turned on the Wii, so I'm not sure why it'd be fine for the first hour or two.

Oh yeah, I need to pick up an eSATA cable before my new computer arrives.

No sense running my external drive off of USB or FireWire if the computer and drive both support eSATA.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord So long as you don't need hot-swapping of course.

Simon Sheehan

Nice. Only my laptop supports it, and I use the eSATA port as a USB ;)

Powerlord

@ArdaXi Not normally, no.

The only reason I'm hot swapping it now is I ran out of USB ports on my laptop.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord With eSATA, you need to plug the drive in before you boot, and if you remove it while it's running, it's not going to be happy.

Powerlord

14:42

So, if I need to plug in my Flash Drive, I tell the system to shut down the external HDD, then swap it for the flash drive (and vice versa when I'm done)

Oh, and to clarify, this drive is usually not connected to the laptop ever, it only is now because my desktop is pretty much dead.

Arda Xi

Except an eSATA port doesn't recognise a drive that's plugged in while the system's running.

Ronan Forman

Should I edit the blog post to say something like "The game aren't exactly long, the longest took me 2 1/2 hours to finish, so if your looking for something to fill you summer, this isn't where you'll find it"

Mana

@Grace Guess who just asked another Chantelise question...:(

Powerlord

@RonanForman Not sure, but you should definitely mention bacon somewhere.

Mana

0

Q: Where do I find the fishing rod?

Yesterday, I learned of the existence of the fishing minigame in Chantelise. However, I'm fighting the last boss already and haven't heard anything about fishing yet. Googling this, I determined that I need to obtain the fishing rod item to be able to fish...however, it's not mentioned anywhere h...

items chantelise

Powerlord

14:46

@Mana Checked the shops? :D

Ronan Forman

@Powerlord Is it okay if it's in code?

Mana

...really? I did, but I didn't see anything in there.

Unless I'm blind. It's possible.

Powerlord

@Mana I'm not saying that's where it is, it's just the place I'd check.

Mana

Oh.

Powerlord

I'm not very far in the game... I was just playing it while waiting for my rechargeable batteries for the Wii to charge.

Strange thing: I prefer playing PC games on my desktop that actually runs things at faster than 10 fps.

@badp: That reminds me, you use a TF2 high fps config? Which one?

Arda Xi

14:51

I still need to try out some new HUD for TF2. I've been looking at videos and I rather like... something different.

Grace Note

@Mana Done

Lazers

0

Q: What are the lyrics to Droopy Likes Your Face?

I recently bought the Minecraft soundtrack, and can't make out the lyrics to track 24 - Droopy Likes Your Face. There's clearly a voice track in the background, though I can't tell if it's English, another language, or just random noise. Can anyone make out the lyrics, or have a source citing t...

minecraft music c418 lyrics

1

Q: Where do I find the fishing rod?

Yesterday, I learned of the fishing minigame in Chantelise. However, I'm fighting the last boss already and haven't heard anything about fishing yet. Googling this, I determined that I need to get the fishing rod item to be able to fish...however, it's not mentioned anywhere how to obtain this fi...

items chantelise

Powerlord

Basically, I try to play TF2 in dxlevel 8.1 at 1280x768 with everything set as low as it can be set in the game options, and it's still not enough to raise my framerate to acceptable levels.

Mana

@Grace Thanks!

badp

15:11

@Powerlord maxframes or whatever it's called

fakkelbrigade.eu/chris/configs/cfg/maxframes.htm

The only change I've made is:

Powerlord

I'm only starring that so I can find it after work. ;)

badp

glow_outline_effect_enable "1"

Powerlord

It was funny yesterday... I was playing on a 32-player Payload server (was on pl_badwater). On offense, I was one of maybe 2 engineers. On defense, I was one of 5 engineers.

I decided to keep minisentries on defense.

I think I scored more points using minis than most of the other engys did. :D

I'm actually surprised that with 5 Engys, they managed to cap the first 3 points. We nearly stopped them on point 2, but they managed to push through.

I was smart and set my exit between points 2 and 3, so as soon as it looked like they'd get 2, I built the entrance.

I think another engy pulled his level 3 through it, and we slowed them down another two minutes there because of it.

(I also got to punch a soldier to death who didn't notice the teleporter)

Arda Xi

Time to figure out if SMB is right.

Powerlord

It was fun at point 2. I'd place a mini, pick it up, then run around the corner, just on top of the wall, drop the sentry, then jump off the wall back the way I came from.

Mana

15:26

Does anyone actually use soldier?

Powerlord

@Mana In TF2? Yes. It's like THE primary distance damage class.

Mana

I always hear engie, spy, scout, pyro, heavy, medic

Arda Xi

@Mana 'use'?

Powerlord

Being the standard class, a lot of people already play it.

Wipqozn

That's because it's boring, so only boring people play it. The Bridge is just full of super interesting people.

Arda Xi

15:27

The soldier has laserguns! How can you not play him?

Powerlord

Also, Valve just gave Soldier like 15* new weapons in the last month.

Arda Xi

I want to kill whomever thought up these shrinkwrap packaging for electronics.

4

Powerlord

*15 = 8

9

Arda Xi

@Powerlord Of course. Everyone knows that.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi Those things are annoying. :/

Wipqozn

15:27

@ArdaXi They really are an evil genius, whoever they are.

The Stack Exchange Blog

Stack Overflow Blog: How to Write a Great Developer Job Listing

Posted by Korneel Bouman on August 1st, 2011

Among other things, we sell job listings through our Careers 2.0 service, and we thought it might be helpful to determine some of the factors that impact the success of a listing. So we crunched through 6 months of data and these are some of the things we found.

[Note: This post is perhaps primarily geared towards companies that list with us, but we would love to get some feedback from the community on this: Do you agree? Did we miss any particular points? What is important to you when evaluating jobs? Please go ahead and comment away.] …

Wipqozn

Wikipedia doesn't list the creator, so it would appear that is knowledge which shall be forever lost in time.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn It was invented by... thinks of a sufficiently bad person... Hitler.

2

Wipqozn

@Powerlord You're probably right.

Ronan Forman

My brother just tied his demo's destruction record using the 1001 demoknights kit

Arda Xi

15:30

@Powerlord Or maybe... it was you all along!

Wipqozn

@RonanForman When I first read that, I misread it as "My brother just died"

Ronan Forman

Well he must of to get that message

Powerlord

►

Oh yeah, I forgot to check on SPUF if you can apply the 1.1 update to Evil Genius.

I remember @FallenAngelEyes wanted to know that, too.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord Oh wow. Didn't realize Evil Genius has such good music.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn The game only has like 7 songs total, 4 of which are in menus.

Wipqozn

15:34

I suppose when you have 7 songs, you make them good songs.

Powerlord

Maybe it's 8 songs. I forget.

Arda Xi

Super Meat Boy is a million times better with a gamepad.

Lazers

0

Q: GBA emulators for lion?

Are there any GBA emulators for OSX lion that I can download for free? I've tried all the others, but they have to be played on a power pc. I have a MacBook pro.

mac emulation gba

Arda Xi

15:49

It's a lot lower-res though, suddenly.

Lazers

1

Q: When is it OK to start talking about new games?

So while I anticipated some push back surrounding What new systems exist in Diablo 3?, I was surprised that the push back seemed to be about the timing rather than the fact that is was a "list" question. So I'm curious to get people's thoughts on this policy. At what point is it OK to start ask...

discussion allowed-questions

badp

I wish spies were like that little bit faster

like 105%

but then again that's only when I do play spy

Powerlord

@badp That would be a game-breaking change.

badp

like UUURGH I have this pyro dominating me just outside knife range

Powerlord

@badp Been there, done that. :/

What I really hate is when I'm within knife range of a medic, but my DR is out, and since Medics move faster than Spies, by the time I put it away, they're ahead of me.

You know, I think I actually do worse with the DR than the other cloaking devices, but I still like the DR because it requires a more aggressive playstyle.

I can also live really long lives with it, provided my timing doesn't stink.

badp

15:57

DR fits my playstyle really well

Arda Xi

Running around aimlessly?

Powerlord

I will say this, the C&D is WAY more useful when Alltalk is off.

Probably why I rarely use it on OCR servers.

Lazers

0

Q: Repopulating Multiplayer in Red Dead Redemption

Fairly new (And late) to Red Dead Redemption. When entering Multiplayer (Xbox360), there are times when there are 15 other players online in my session. Some formed up in Posses, some not. If I just go off and try to complete a Gang Hideout (or several) on my own, it seems that the number of peo...

red-dead-redemption

badp

@ArdaXi No, playing aggressively and failing often

Arda Xi

@badp Potato potato.

Jez

16:00

when written in text, that just looks like 'potato' pronounced correctly, twice

Arda Xi

@Jez That's the joke.

Wow, now I know why Portal 2 had no quick-reflex puzzles.

Powerlord

16:36

Well, the first part of my computer order has been processed.

It's in phase 1 stress testing now.

Also, why the f do other state departments think they need to mass mail all state employees? I don't care if DNR has a new place to buy hunting and fishing licenses. This is stuff that the local news should cover, not a state-wide employee broadcast.

Raven Dreamer

16:54

Is it just me, or have we had a lot of new users come through the site over the past few days?

@badp, @Powerlord - I agree - Viva la Dead Ringer!

Arda Xi

When did they start limiting how much people you could mention?

Raven Dreamer

How many people you could mention? No clue.

Arda Xi

@RavenDreamer Right.

Raven Dreamer

Also

Diablo III is going to have a real-life money version of the Auction House‽

Powerlord

New TF2 update coming this afternoon.

Raven Dreamer

17:01

Of what‽

Powerlord

> We will release an optional update this afternoon. It will fix the crash bug caused by the Righteous Bison. It will also throttle the diagnostic spew about invalid positions / angles. We'll look at the specific types of entities causing the check to trigger and fix them to avoid it. The spew is alerting us to entities with suspicious positions / orientations, and helped us identify the crash.

This may only be Linux server related, since it's from the Linux server mailing list... not sure.

Raven Dreamer

I think I'm just going to start dropping interrobangs into everyday conversations.

Powerlord

@RavenDreamer WHAT‽

badp

@Powerlord This is like the fifth fix for the victory pack?

Raven Dreamer

@Powerlord - I think you mean "WHAT‽"

Powerlord

17:03

@badp Something like that.

Raven Dreamer

Great. Your ninja edit makes me look redundant.

Powerlord

I can't even see the inverted version: ⸘

badp

I can.

Raven Dreamer

I cannot either.

And suddenly "cannot" suddenly doesn't look like a word to me.

Powerlord

This computer is still WinXP, though... without international support stuff installed.

I saw this image on a message board and lolled

2

bwarner

17:12

New business plan: Create the Diablo section of the Wall Street Journal. Track exchange rates, prices for various commodities, trends in item prices, etc

Grace Note

Nice plan

Powerlord

New wide-area wireless standard was announced... IEEE 802.22

IEEE 802.22

IEEE 802.22 is a standard for Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) using white spaces in the TV frequency spectrum. The development of the IEEE 802.22 WRAN standard is aimed at using cognitive radio (CR) techniques to allow sharing of geographically unused spectrum allocated to the Television Broadcast Service, on a non-interfering basis, to bring broadband access to hard-to-reach, low population density areas, typical of rural environments, and is therefore timely and has the potential for a wide applicability worldwide. It is the first worldwide effort to define a standardized air inter...

It sounds like, in the US at least, it uses the now-abandoned analog TV spectrum.

> So if I pick one up at Best Buy should I change the password and enable WPA? Or allow my neighbors in a 12,000 sq mile radius to share my connection? I like sharing, it seems neighborly.

badp

I didn't know Best Buy sold carrier grade equipment

Powerlord

@badp They don't, it was a joke.

badp

O_RLY

badp

17:37

dorkly.com/video/19873/… (slightly NSFW)

So I had 22 reddit karma

I linked to my blog post about the items

get 8 upvotes and get 8 downvotes ( :( )

...and my karma is now 26.

Ronan Forman

I can do maths me!

Wipqozn

Where are the stack exchange minecraft servers hosted?

Ronan Forman

17:52

The ip's in the minecraft talk room but you'd have to ask @Thomas for the host

Wipqozn

will do

thanks

Lazers

0

Q: In which language was X3tC originally designed?

Since egosoft is a German developer, I wonder if X3TC was developed for German or English play originally? I'm asking because basically I want to know which language I should pick with German being my mother language while I prefer original language versions, but that's probably too subjective...

x3-terran-conflict language-pack

0

Q: How can I get past corruption?

I have a golden pickaxe and mostly complete golden armor. I also have an enchanted boomerang. I'd like to go find the dungeon, but while I can make short work of most individual monsters, I can't get past the swarms of monsters that descend on me whenever I reach the corruption that exists on e...

terraria

Arda Xi

@badp So, erm, not sure if you're still interested, but SMB is definitely much easier with a gamepad.

Also.

All Humble Indie Bundle #3 customers get a free copy of Steel Storm: Burning Retribution! http://t.co/NcNDZka

Tweeted by humble on August 1, 2011 at 5:05 PM

badp

@ArdaXi 'kay, do you actually need to be able to fling yourself in arbitrary directions?

Arda Xi

@badp Hmm?

It still only works in four directions really.

It's just that, the whole game plays better with a gamepad.

The whole reflex-movement type thing is much easier.

Powerlord

18:08

Figures, hitting reload on the error page just reloads the error page not reconnects to chat.

Going to reboot my linux server to an updated kernel.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord SE doesn't understand that server error is 5xx, not 3xx.

Powerlord

I swear, Ubuntu releases a new kernel at least once a week.

@ArdaXi Apparently not.

Someone pointed out to me earlier that the 12,000 square miles thing earlier isn't as impressive as it sounds.

Since that would mean a base station only has a 62 mile radius

Lazers

0

Q: Help IDentify This Game

Okay so this game is defiantly from 96 back - it was a rpg type game kind of like diablo - all i can remember is being able to summon creatures. it looks kind of medieval and i think it had a few classes - it might of even been like Dark stone it wasn't necessarily a dungeon crawlers it was more ...

identify-this-game

Powerlord

OK, wtf, why is my server responding to ping on its primary IP, but SSH isn't up, nor is it listening for connections on its other 4 IPs.

This is what I hate about administrating remote servers.

I can't see what the server is actually doing.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord This is what I like about VPSs.

Even if SSH goes down, I get virtual KVM.

Powerlord

18:24

@ArdaXi Yes, that'd be nice.

Machine is responding now

sjohnston

Wow, there is a storm raging here, and the windows in 75% of the offices are leaking profusely...

Grace Note

@sjohnston You should patch up your memory, then.

sjohnston

18:40

indeed

Simon Sheehan

Sounds like somethings wrong if that many are leaking. Bad cocking job? :P

Grace Note

Caulking, I think, you'd want to say

sjohnston

+1 for sexually explicit homonym confusion.

And yeah, the windows were replaced less than a year ago, so I'm guessing that was not done very well.

badp

@Powerlord 62 miles' radius is not impressive?

Powerlord

@badp Well, yeah, but 12,000 square miles sounds way more impressive.

Simon Sheehan

18:52

@GraceNote Ah thanks, wasn't sure how it was spelt.

Powerlord

62 miles being approximately 100km.

Oh, and that's just the radius, so double it for the diameter.

badp

Perhaps 100km is a bit too wide, actually.

> the approximate maximum bit rate is 19 Mbit/s at a 30 km distance

Consider that 512 kbit/s is barely enough to stream YouTube at 240p

And it's 1/38th of your available bandwidth.

I hope you have more than 38 customers in a 30km radius...

Mana

19:45

Hey.

Arda Xi

Mana.

Mana

Hey Arda.

You work with C at all?

Raven Dreamer

Really gaming? Are we so uninteresting that we've taken to starring LoLCats?

Mana

Harsh words.

Arda Xi

@Mana I have. Not a lot, though.

Raven Dreamer

19:49

@Mana what's up? I program. C's not my strong suit, but I can give you my best effort.

badp

I got the "kill three snipers in a life" achievement

on the same sniper

<3 dead ringer

Mana

Oh, no, I was more just curious.

Right now I'm just looking at how the C compiler translates C code into asm

Raven Dreamer

That's funny. My eyes saw "Arda" and read that as "Powerlord".

Powerlord

@Mana I'm being forced to deal with C++ for SourceMod extension development. Does that count?

Mana

heh

FallenAngelEyes

19:50

Hey guys, how is Dungeons of Dredmor? I saw Drake was asking a lot of questions about it.

Mana

@Fallen I was meaning to ask the same thing

Raven Dreamer

Drake asks a lot of questions. Peroid.

FallenAngelEyes

It's pretty cheap on Steam :o

True enough

Raven Dreamer

►

Arda Xi

@Mana I've programmed in both, but I wouldn't know how a compiler works to be honest.

How do you clear Steam Cloud data?

FallenAngelEyes

20:00

@ArdaXi I'm... not sure if you can. You can overwrite, but I'm not sure about clear entirely.

Wipqozn

@RavenDreamer Sound slike the US patriot act.

People don't need to actually be terrorists, we just need to say they might be.

Powerlord

Yay. My computer shipped a few hours ago, \o/

Wipqozn

websites don't need to be engaging in illegal activity, we just need to say they might be.

Powerlord

So, Diablo 3 requires a constant Internet connection.

Did Activision Blizzard join Ubisoft when I wasn't looking?

FallenAngelEyes

Yeah, not thrilled about that either

badp

20:10

3 concurrent dominations might be my record

Powerlord

@badp As which class?

badp

Any. I got it as engie tho

Nope. I appear to have dominated 4 people in a single life as a Heavy

wtf, I suck at heavy.

It's like my second least played class with a mere 7 hours.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord That's annoying.

I understand why companies do things like that, to stop piracy, but doing something which also punishes people who paid for the game isn't the way to go about it.

Powerlord

Essentially, your Diablo 3 characters are saved on the Battle.Net servers. Even for single player games.

badp

@Powerlord That brings the game from 'meh' to 'blech' for me

FallenAngelEyes

20:15

And people used to mod characters and stuff for D2 a lot and that's not going to be allowed for D3

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes Of course not. Then you wouldn't have to buy equipment from the real money auction house.

FallenAngelEyes

It's like the whole banning people in SC2 for modding/cheating at their single player games

Ok, for MP, that's completely understandable

but your single player experience doesn't impact anyone else negatively

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes YOU'RE CHEATING ON YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS!!!!

@ArdaXi: See? There is a company that cares about their achievement system and cheaters who unlock them that way.

Well, OK, Microsoft does too on the Xbox 360, as if they catch you cheating on achievements, they'll reset your gamescore and label you a cheater. :P

badp

That's because of the ill conceived idea of gamerscore

on Steam there's really no point in getting all achievements except personal satisfaction

Wipqozn

@badp Which is what achievements should be.

Powerlord

20:20

Blizzard gives out... wait for it... wait for it... AVATARS for its achievements!

Or at least for the SC2 ones.

badp

@Powerlord AMAGAD SERIOUS BUSINESS

(can you upload your own?)

Powerlord

@badp No.

badp

@Powerlord I hate it when they do that.

Powerlord

SC2 only allows you to use the avatars you unlocked or four default ones (two male, two female)

badp

"CHOOSE BETWEEN ONE OF THOSE SIX UNIQUE AVATARS"

lol. I guess I overestimated them.

Arda Xi

20:23

@badp Steam Summer Sale? TF2 items?

Wipqozn

The avatars are based on your number of wins though, which I think is a nifty way of doing it.

badp

I assume that here, by avatar, we're talking about that usually square image by your name

rather than, what do I know, model skins

Powerlord

@badp Yes. Since SC2 is an RTS and you don't have a character representing yourself...

FallenAngelEyes

You are the HAND OF GOD

Powerlord

Come on Valve, you said you'd have an "optional" update this afternoon.

I'd like it if you released said update BEFORE the time my servers get players.

Arda Xi

20:37

Why on earth do I have a game called Speedball 2: Tournament?

sjohnston

@ArdaXi Steam sale goggles? (like beer goggles, but for games)

Arda Xi

@sjohnston Nah. I remember now. Some Polish site gave away Steam keys for it.

Okay. How do I set all TF2's settings to default?

Ronan Forman

@ArdaXi Delete TF2 download it again?

Arda Xi

@RonanForman Tried. Steam Cloud redownloaded my settings.

Ronan Forman

HA!

Simon Sheehan

20:42

@ArdaXi Start with -autoconfig in the parameters

Arda Xi

Alright, judging by the fact TF2 is now running in tiny tiny window, that worked.

Simon Sheehan

yep

Arda Xi

Many thanks!

Simon Sheehan

No problem, enjoy :D

Arda Xi

Or... hrm. It doesn't seem to have touched anything other than graphical settings, let me try it out in-game.

Simon Sheehan

20:45

@ArdaXi Which settings do you want restored?

Arda Xi

@SimonSheehan config.cfg, so controls, visibility of weapon.

My weapon is still invisible now.

Simon Sheehan

Invisible?

Arda Xi

Yes. Not drawn.

Simon Sheehan

Ah. Have you gone to options > keyboard and hit "use defaults?"

Arda Xi

Yep, only touches controls.

Well, I managed to get it drawn.

Simon Sheehan

20:48

Still invisible?

Arda Xi

...yes.

I enabled drawing!

Simon Sheehan

i got an idea

Arda Xi

Ah. Fixed.

Simon Sheehan

Oh? what'd you do?

Arda Xi

I clicked cancel instead of OK -.-

Simon Sheehan

20:49

Lol xD

Arda Xi

Only thing is that my gamepad won't quite work, but that's no major concern.

Powerlord

Also, don't forget to remove -autoconfig from TF2's startup, or it'll reset the settings again the next time you start.

Arda Xi

I did immediately.

Simon Sheehan

Indeed.

Lazers

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Powerlord

20:59

rolls his eyes

Seriously SourceMod? You use a lookup to get the name of a UserMessage that is the same in every single Source-based game that supports it?

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