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DatEpicCoderGuyWhoPrograms

00:02

Hello.

Chippies

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dude finished Spelunky in under 2m minutes, insane :o

GnomeSlice

ugh, netflix uses silverlight?

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice I hear they're trying to convert to HTML5.

GnomeSlice

that would be nice

so anyway I've started The Walking Dead

finished season 1 earlier today

Chippies

it would also be nice if they updated the WiiU Netflix app...

even the Wii netflix app is better than WiiU app :/

GnomeSlice

00:12

also kd with almond milk is surprisingly good

badp

wat

StrixVaria

Almond milk is never good.

badp

> We would like you to be the first to know of an exciting update to Ohloh.net. This week, Ohloh will be changing its name to the Black Duck Open Hub.

StrixVaria

I had kd tonight, although we don't call it that in this country.

GnomeSlice

I like this kd with almond milk in it much better than almond milk itself

user15026

00:14

@GnomeSlice That really doesn't appeal to me

badp

So now they have some products called "Black Duck" and some others called "Open Hub"

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn it doesn't have to

Why the heck is netflix so quiet

I have this cranked up all the way

user15026

@GnomeSlice I realize that. I was just expressing an opinion.

GnomeSlice

chat ping just scared the shit out of me

badp

because what's better than rebrading yourself into a hypercube

user15026

00:16

Wooo, found a stream for the MLB stuff

badp

Speaking of which I must do my yearly pilgrimage to the Time Cube website

Ktash

@StrixVaria heh, yeah, and people aren't very happy about it lol

StrixVaria

@Ktash wat

Who would be unhappy about switching from Silverlight to HTML5?

GnomeSlice

Microsoft?

Ktash

@StrixVaria DRM opponents. Because of Netflix's contracts, it has to use DRM. Which means that HTML5 video has to support DRM, which is why they pushed through the spec and added it to webkit

Jin

00:22

hi

user15026

@Jin heya :)

Ktash

So people are up in arms about it, and Netflix is the fall guy

Jin

i just woke up from a nap

user15026

Naps are great

Jin

sometimes i accidentally take 6-7hr naps. but is it a nap anymore?

badp

00:26

@jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

James

@Jin Yes But! You must still go to sleep at night in order for that yes to count.

badp

Sleeping at night is the worst

Sleeping in the morning instead smells like glorious luxurious unemployment

Fluttershy

@Jin That's how I nap.

FAE

@Jin Hi, long time no see! What's your hair status?

Jin

@FAE it's touching my shoulders now i think

FAE

00:37

@Jin Woo!

Jin

actually it's longer. ha i don't ever look at my hair

Frank

Strange cat.

I start petting her, she starts purring.

Then grabs my arm and proceeds to gnaw on it.

Unionhawk

Omnomnom bored

Trent Hawkins

@Frank Standard cat. I love you and wish to eat you.

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

1

emacs

Proposed Q&A site for emacs experts, developers, power users

Closed before being launched.

2

Budaya dan Bahasa Indonesia

Proposed Q&A site for Indonesia enthusiast (citizen, diaspora). Term "Budaya" means Culture and "Bahasa Indonesia" is proper way to define Indonesian Language. Bahasa Indonesia is unity language used for more than 200.000 tribes in Indonesia archipelago.

Currently in definition.

1

Juggling

Proposed Q&A site for jugglers looking for answers about moves, styles, equipment, and history.

Currently in definition.

GnomeSlice

00:49

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment lol

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice This one isn't bad.

Juggling has a lot of technical stuff to it.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria I know, it's just funny

StrixVaria

I don't know if there's enough technical stuff for a full SE site.

GnomeSlice

Me neither

RedRiderX

Anchorman 2 is a strange beast.

Jin

00:54

GnomeSlice

@Jin comic sans

Jin

@GnomeSlice negative. Anime Ace.

GnomeSlice

That sounds somehow even worse

Lazers

0

Q: How to locate imprisoned lord to rescue him

I've been trying to locate a lord (Count Matheas) that has been imprisoned for around a month. I went through all the castles and cities of the faction that is detainning him but I cannot find him anywhere. How can I locate him so I can rescue him? Can I talk to a NPC that is able to tell me whe...

mount-and-blade-warband

Jin

it's what a lot of indy comics and English mangas use

i used it for our scifi.se promo

James

00:57

@Frank Sounds like normal cat to me.

Chippies

Grand Theft Auto 5 for PC may release November 14, according to retailer

Lazers

01:12

0

Q: Question about Seed of Tree of Giants

Sorry for the vague title, I want to know about two things concerning this item in Dark Souls 2. After the first invasion, is this item guaranteed to spawn? Generally the wiki states that this is a 10% chance top spawn after each invasion. However this seems off because after the very first pla...

dark-souls-2

James

@Chippies Bah, inferred dates! :D If I went on those amazon should have shipped me stuff Years ago :D

Chippies

@James this kind of stuff has been correct on multiple occasions and well, november is the month when all the major games are being released

Jin

anyone tried Swordsman online?

Lazers

0

Q: Is Xenonauts deterministic?

Is Xenonauts deterministic with a predetermined seed for a savegame or is the dice rolled each time completely new when a random event occurs. That means: If you load an earlier save and repeat all actions exactly the same as before, will the result be exactly the same?

xenonauts

Frank

@Jin I got a better picture of my Banshee. There was a backdrop close to our table at the con this weekend.

Lazers

01:26

0

Q: How do I avoid night missions?

I had some trouble getting good results in night missions, because my team has a severe disadvantage due to the lowered field of view. I guess I could simply avoid this by waiting for a specific time before sending in my troops. During which time of day is a night mission triggered?

xenonauts

Frank

Jin

@Frank much better!

Powerlord

02:56

@GnomeSlice indiegala.com/giveaways

(and other people too)

Lazers

0

Q: Can i get back an item i lost?

I placed arueils bow in a chest at nightcaller temple when I came back it was gone what do I do oh by the way I don't play on pc I play on xbox

skyrim-dawnguard

RedRiderX

03:24

So I finally watched the Dark Knight

The only complaint I have is that they pretend that Gordon's daughter doesn't exist, which bums me out immensely.

Lazers

03:45

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Q: What's the fastest way to make money in Sleeping Dogs?

I'm trying to make bank in Sleeping Dogs. I've been doing the cockfights, which are sort of random. Is there an established method of making money that has a really good return on investment?

sleeping-dogs

0

Q: At what level should I worry about putting materia into my gear?

I have been primarily working on gathering classes with my highest being level 37. I've been leveling them so quickly through leves, I'm afraid the materia would only be wasted. I've just been focusing on HQ gear when I upgrade.

final-fantasy-14

FAE

04:43

@Jin Yay!

Lazers

05:10

0

Q: Any benefit to setting CPU affinity for a game?

Would there be any possible benefit in setting the CPU affinity for a game? Like Starcraft 2, for example. I've heard suggestions to do this, such as choosing real cores only (no hyperthreaded cores), choosing cores of a certain number, choosing "matching" cores, etc., and that there's benefit t...

starcraft-2 technical-issues

LessPop_MoreFizz

05:23

@AshleyNunn Did you find a way to watch the Batting Practice Championships?

user15026

05:45

I did. Turns out MLB.tv was streaming it for free, they were just hiding that fact. It was boring as heck. I don't get why people went and watched it live.

Ktash

I enjoyed them when I was a kid

it was always cool to see the power hitters smack 'em out of the park

I'm sure I'd find them less enjoyable now though lol

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Ktash It is literally competitive batting practice.

user15026

@ktash it was fun for like a couple minutes watching the first guy but after that I just got bored. I don't know if that is partially because I am not really into baseball or what

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn That said, I stand by my suggestion of getting work to pay for a shared amongst people who work with you subscription to mlb.tv and the similar services from NBA/NFL/NHL

Basically, they all cost about 100 bux/year and let you stream any game that is not on local tv in your area.

user15026

Oh yeah I am totally going to suggest it. I know we have one for UFC fights, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility

Ktash

05:59

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, but when you're a kid, the hitting is the fun part. The waiting and the pitching and all that is less enjoyable then getting some action with a fun homerun (which you might catch if you're there)

user15026

@ktash yeah it seemed like a thing a lot of kids were enjoying from what I saw

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn Als, MLB.TV just kind of rules. It's a super polished service and works really well and I'm so happy with it.

Ktash

Haven't watched them in years, and don't plan to, but I did enjoy them when I was younger

LessPop_MoreFizz

The main advantage of the Home Run Derby is that it's a cheaper ticket than the actual all star game.

user15026

@lesspop I was impressed with what I saw.

Ktash

06:01

@LessPop_MoreFizz If you care about the results, sure. But as a kid, I just wanted to see some powerful people hit some homeruns

user15026

Like I didn't use the paid service but I used their stream for the derby and it was great

user15026

@ktash I did like seeing the only guy whose name I recognized (and that's only because I have a smidgen of knowings about the Jays)

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Ktash but they're hitting batting practice pitches. By the time I was like... 8, I knew that they might as well have been hitting off a tee.

(Primarily because I had been to a game, and y'know, seen batting practice, and watched a dude like Steve Sax hit 15 out of the park like it wasn't no thang.)

@AshleyNunn Bautista was the captain for the AL team!

(He does mash a whole lot of dingers.)

Ktash

Again, all I cared about was seeing some homeruns. I wasn't in it for the quality, just the thrill of it :)

But I don't really watch baseball much these days

I'm told it is tough to watch the mariners anyway lol

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Ktash And I'm saying that I knew it was a sham after I got to a regular season baseball game an hour early once ever. :P

@Ktash The Mariners are pretty good this year!

Ktash

06:06

@LessPop_MoreFizz Hahaha, that's always how the season starts. But at the end of the year, it always ends in disappointment lol

LessPop_MoreFizz

(Unfortunately, they share a division with an A's team that has a shot at breaking both the Yankees and Mariner's records for winningest baseball team ever, and also with an Angel's team that has Mike Trout.)

@Ktash No, the season has started terribly for the mariners and finished worse for years now. They are a legit team this year.

They have the shit luck of being in a nasty division, because they'd be a playoff lock if they were anywhere but the west coast.

Everything has really been coming together, and they have the pieces to continue to contend for a couple of years.

Ktash

Meh, like I said, I don't watch. Just hear things around town

Sounders and Seahawks are the big hits

Though I don't follow much of them either

LessPop_MoreFizz

Mariners are probably going to be the AL's second wild card this year. They are third in a division with the two best teams in baseball, by a margin of over 6 wins, and would actually be in first in a few other divisions.

user15026

Yeah, when it comes to baseball I don't know much.

user15026

Well, I know enough to know why I made guys at my work laugh the day I accidentally graded the Cubs winning the world series

user15026

06:10

(it was a misclick on a page refresh)

Ktash

@AshleyNunn Haha, I'm sure this'll be the year ;)

user15026

Lol yeah probably ;)

LessPop_MoreFizz

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I love when John Darnielle writes really sweet singsongy songs that are actually incredibly mean and spiteful.

user15026

Haha I like that! Not sure what is up with the weird banana picture though

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn Yeah, I got no clue about that.

user15026

06:14

(I have a couple ex people I wanna send that song to)

LessPop_MoreFizz

I just love how mean this song is.

user15026

It is gloriously mean. And like it sounds like it shouldn't be but it is! And I love it.

LessPop_MoreFizz

The absolute winner above all else though, for mean Mountain Goats songs though, is this one:

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(it is much less subtle, because it is about a divorce.)

user15026

Less subtle but totally mean and I am likely awful for liking it

LessPop_MoreFizz

And now I will round out the trifecta with my favorite spite song ever:

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(Which is not by the Mountain Goats.)

@AshleyNunn No, not awful at all, it is basically the biggest hit the Mountain Goats have and is a rousing singalong number at all Mountain Goats shows.

user15026

06:19

That is glorious. There is a country-ish song called "I pray for you" that falls nicely in this mean song list but a lot of people don't know it because ewww country and whatever.

Ktash

@AshleyNunn that sounds familiar

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn I like this Jawbreaker song mainly because the refrain at the end of "IF YOU HEAR THIS SONG ONE HUNDRED TIMES IT STILL WON'T BE ENOUGH" is just so... venomous.

user15026

@lesspop it is so nasty and terrible and I love it.

LessPop_MoreFizz

here, have a happier song, going back to the Mountain Goats:

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(If you don't like this song we cannot be friends anymore and I am being pretty serious about that.)

user15026

@ktash it is one of those songs that my mom was like "you need this" and I sing it in my head when people are stupid

Ktash

06:25

The sun'll come out.. (sorry about video quality. Best I could find)

user15026

@lesspop I am not sure why I like that song but I do because like one line just made my brain go yes this is true and also I am a sucker for story type songs

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn WHEN YOU PUNISH A PERSON FOR DREAMING HIS DREAM, DON'T EXPECT HIM TO THANK OR FORGIVE YOU?

THE BEST EVER DEATH METAL BAND OUT OF DENTON WILL IN TIME BOTH OUT PACE AND OUT LIVE YOU.

Ktash

Hmm, if it is this, it is not what I was thinking of

LessPop_MoreFizz

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^ John Darnielle is basically the single greatest american songwriter still working today. Especially if you like story songs.

user15026

@lesspop yep that's the line.

LessPop_MoreFizz

06:27

^ ^ /filed under songs that can make me cry under the right circumstances.

user15026

@lesspop I love story songs.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn You should listen to large quantities of Mountain Goats songs!

user15026

@ktash that's it. I remembered the band had a weird name :p

LessPop_MoreFizz

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user15026

@lesspop I have said it before and I will say it again, you are a dangerous man when it comes to recommending me music.

LessPop_MoreFizz

06:33

It took all the coke in town... to bring down Dennis Brown..

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The music video for This Year is pretty great too.

user15026

I've heard the Dennis Brown one before. I like it.

user15026

@ktash the other day my sister bought all the seasons of Boy Meets World and now we are working out way through it when we hang out. It holds up pretty well. Better than saved by the bell (which she bought the first season of and we were just like holy crap why did we watch so much of this as kids)

Ktash

@AshleyNunn BMW does pretty well. The early seasons can be rough, and it shows its age a bit, but it is funny, and there are some great moments

LessPop_MoreFizz

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Lazers

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Q: My bin folder is missing

I LOOKED EVERYWHERE FOR MY BIN FOLDER (EVEN IN THE TRASH) BUT I CANT SEEM TO FIND I ANYWHERE. I LOOKED AT THE OTHER ANSERS PEOPLE SAID TO DO BUT THAT DIDN'T WORK ETHER PLESE HELP ME.I AM USING A MAC SO MAYBE SOMEONE WHO MIGHT KNOW WHERE MY BIN FOLDER IS AT PLESE HELP. THANKS

minecraft

Ktash

06:37

The two parter "A Long Walk to Pittsburgh" is just amazing.

Some of my favorite TV

user15026

@ktash yeah, it holds up nicely. Still makes me laugh.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Last TMG song I'll link and then i am going to go buy myself a Hamburger:

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^ SOOOOOO GODDAMNED SAD.

Ktash

@AshleyNunn Yeah, it is always good for a laugh. And the serious ones can be overdone, but a very good (imo)

user15026

I would agree with you.

Ktash

It is my all-time favorite show

LessPop_MoreFizz

06:42

Better version now.

Ktash

but, as you know, I'm a hopeless romantic, and they hit me right in the feels

user15026

Unrelated: it is twenty to three in the morning and the upstairs people decided to do laundry so now there is washer noise right by my head (it goes my bed then a wall then the washing machine ). I know the lady works shift work but really? 3 am laundry?

Ktash

@AshleyNunn Reminds me, I need to do laundry...

user15026

@ktash your hopeless romanticism is one of the things I love about you

Ktash

@AshleyNunn D'aww, thanks.

LessPop_MoreFizz

06:44

Oh god I had forgotten how utterly heartbreaking this version of Shadow Song is...

:( :( :(

user15026

No problem. Okay, gonna try to sleep despite this laundry stuff because I have adventures to have tomorrow!

Ktash

@AshleyNunn Good night and, good luck!

Lazers

07:26

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Q: How to play PC Minecraft with a Controller? (its for my girlfriend, PROMISE)

Ok so don't get annoyed at me, I play minecraft on PC, I have two accounts and i am giving one to my gf, She loves minecraft but only on xbox atm, but i wanna play with her and i refuse to play xbox. How can you make the PC version closer to the xbox version with the controller and an easy cra...

minecraft

Arperum

07:38

@Lazers Because playing with a controller is for girls or something?

tombull89

I was gonna download the BF4 DLC Dragons Teeth before going to work but it's release at 9am #firstworldproblems

@Arperum dunno

5pike

@tombull89 Oh man, DLC time again? Haven't even played naval strike yet.

tombull89

@5pike I did play some Naval Strike - Carrier Assault was dissapointing after 2142's Titan Mode and while the maps were fairly decent for Rush it was hard to find a server running them.

Arperum

@tombull89 I personally don't care. I recently got myself a controller, and it makes platformers such as SMB a lot easier.

5pike

I wonder if I can motivate my friends to play BF4 again. Playing alone is fun but gets frustrating quite fast because nobody covers your back. With a full squad of friends things change dramatically.

I'm going to pester them after work.

tombull89

07:57

@5pike None of my friends play any more either - I've got to know a few regulars on the servers I play on the most and join in on them if they're in-game. Makes it a bit more fun.

The CTE is DICE LA making up for lost time, but I think it's still too little too late.

Lazers

0

Q: Can a dragon realises your immune to magic?

If I have enchanted my armour to be arour that is 100% resistent to both fire and frost and encounter a dragon, will that dragon be able to notice it's shout attack is not affecting me and resort to melee, or will it shout reagardless of the fact that it is not doing damage?

skyrim

5pike

> our players have been pivotal in giving us valuable feedback

Bullshit DICE, all you did was ban them from the forums

tombull89

I never used BattleLog Forums.

because fuck that.

5pike

@tombull89 Ye, it's a toxic cesspool, but there are some threads that have valid complaints/suggestions, but the amount of banned people in those is astonishing.

Things could have changed, but I'm never going back to those forums.

tombull89

I prefer the Battlefield 4 Sub-reddit. Some of the DICE guys make an appearance sometimes, and it's a lot better community-wise

welp, 7.2GB of Dragon's Teeth. Here goes nothing.

5pike

08:09

@tombull89 I don't visit reddit, but I guess that's right. They probably just ignore the forums.

@tombull89 Ah, god damnit. Games get to big these days.

tombull89

My Battlefield 4 folder is 40GB, and the CTE folder is another 29GB

5pike

@tombull89 I'm not at home, but I guess mine is also around 40 GB.

Kevin van der Velden

Morning chat

5pike

Morning @Kevin

Arperum

08:25

@KevinvanderVelden Mroninger!

Kevin van der Velden

That bad huh?

I mean, mine had so many typos the typos cancelled eachother out but

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden It's only the annoying parts that are left in the project I'm on now, and deadline is in 2.5hours :p

Kevin van der Velden

Oh joy =p

I get to go get my new car from the dealer tomorrow D:

5pike

@KevinvanderVelden new (used) car, or new car?

Kevin van der Velden

@5pike new (used), definitely used =p

Great, now youtube is giving me ads for cars: I ALREADY BOUGHT A CAR AND I CAN'T AFFORD A NON-USED CAR

BlueBug

08:44

what's the best way to remove old screen protector from laptop screen?

Kevin van der Velden

I have no idea :D

You should be able to just peal it off?

BlueBug

I have tried to do so with my nail and credit card. Futile attempts.

Kevin van der Velden

Hmm

Only thing left is fire, just burn it to the ground

For safeties sake also burn the house down

Or wait... this isn't aliens, this is just a screen protector

No idea then

BlueBug

already burning house down wait.. no? this is not how I am supposed to do?

Kevin van der Velden

Well it might be, not entirely sure

You really need an expert ~~arsonist~~ screen-protector-remover

BlueBug

08:50

I JUST DID IT KEVVIN

OH YES FINALLY

I tried to pull it from the side, bottom corner

and somehow it rolled off so easily

ok time to go buy myself new screen protector. Peace bros V_V

Kevin van der Velden

Cya

Blem

09:33

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fredley

09:50

@MBraedley Maybe, but given 'rollover' isn't a mobile thing I'm not certain how it would work

Potato Salad has hit $50k

badp

My 17th rarest Steam achievement apparently is "Win the game on Normal" for Bit Trip Beat

and I have unlocked 2,144 achievements

I wonder how it feels for a game developer to know that only 3.9% of your players finish your game

Lazers

0

Q: Why do high elo junglers not buy boots?

After watching some jungler streams,this is a question that came to my mind.Why do they buy boots after finishing the jungler item most of the time?I know it makes killing camps faster,but on the other side you can not gank as efficent as you would do with boots since you are not only slower when...

league-of-legends competitive-gaming

badp

...a 45 minutes long game I might add

5pike

@badp Is that pong like game?

badp

@5pike Yes, that's the single-paddle pong like game.

My second rarest achievement is for getting about 400 beats in a row (I forget exactly how many) in that game

5pike

10:00

@badp Can't play that game. Somehow it irritates me.

badp

Wat. The numbers don't add up

Oh! I messed up along the way but not enough to lose my multiplier

That's normal mode, so that's 735 beats alright

Lazers

0

Q: How to reset chapter in Max Payne 3

I'm currently in Chapter 8, on cemetery fleeting with Passo. At one point in the mission you stumble upon a group of goons and Passo tries to bypass them, but he's found. After that starts a quick event, where Max has to dispatch group of 8-10 people, wielding automatic weapons. You have roughly ...

max-payne-3

Blem

10:41

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Wipqozn

The full name of the game is Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. all the Shin Megami Tensei games have a subtitle as well. Not sure what the best way to rename the tags would be. Poking around online suggests that MegaTen is a common abbreviation for the game among the fanbase, so a format of megaten-subtitle could work. — Wipqozn 8 secs ago

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn clearly the best way to solve this is to ban all questions about games with names longer than 8 characters. Incidentally this will also solve the problem with crappy Minecraft questions.

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden 25 characters.

That damn tag limit.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn No, 8 characters, FREE US FROM THE CRAPPY MINECRAFT QUESTIONS

Wipqozn

I, for one, hold every @StackExchange employee personally responsible for the character limit on tags.

but I hold @GraceNote more personally responsible than the rest.

badp

10:47

@Wipqozn Go for it

Sometimes I wonder if getting us enabled for unicode tags wouldn't help

or if it wouldn't hurt

Kevin van der Velden

@badp just encode the characters in some convoluted scheme where we use all those non-latin schemes of letters to encode the latin letters

badp

@KevinvanderVelden Punycode tends to result in much longer output than romanization

Kevin van der Velden

And then add javascript to parse the random bytes to latin text

Wipqozn

@badp Done

Also, afk, so try not to miss me too much guys.

Kevin van der Velden

@badp well, if we get 25 chinese characters there'd be way more options than 25 ascii characters (7*10^29 times as much at a lowball estimate)

So in those 25 chinese characters we could encode quite a bit of data

badp

10:54

@Wipqozn D:

Grace Note

11:09

@Wipqozn You will rue this day, y'know.

Stack Exchange

Grace Note has removed Wipqozn from the list of this room's owners.

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Wipqozn

@StackExchange Nooooooooooooooooo, foiled again!

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden Most of those combinations are nonsensical though, just like random combinations of English characters

Chinese is a more compact language though

Wipqozn

In other news, I recently learned of the existence of a ccg game called Legend of the Five Rings:

Legend of the Five Rings (collectible card game)

Legend of the Five Rings (L5R) is a collectible card game created by Alderac Entertainment Group in 1995. L5R takes place in the fictional empire of Rokugan from the Legend of the Five Rings setting, where several clans and factions vie for domination over the empire. The card game shares some similarities with ' but has its own game mechanics and flavor, providing "passive" win conditions like the Enlightenment Victory, as well as a version of Magics goal of destroying the opponent. Games can be very long, with some matches lasting hours. A major distinctive feature of the game is the ...

Any of you fine folks ever play it before?

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy this is what javascript is for! Javascript parses the tag and turns it into entire stories of latin text :D

badp

11:14

To be honest they could just give tags numbers and map them to the actual complete correct full tag name

Kevin van der Velden

Also, TIL, dodos are basically pigeons o.o

badp

or whatever other shim (gaming-sucks-fake-tag-000)

Kevin van der Velden

@badp noooh! We must make it as convoluted and error prone as possible

Private Pansy

That would work if unicode tags were universally enabled

badp

but... not gonna happen it seems

Kevin van der Velden

11:15

@PrivatePansy well yes, this is a what if unicodes were enabled for arqade

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn I've seen it played

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I've been reading up on it, and it sounds fun. I haven't seen a game yet though.

badp

With the set of non-Unicode characters that SE allows in tags a back of the python console calculation says we could have

>>> (26+10+6)**3
74088

...tags

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn I saw no reason to play it instead of MtG, but that's partially because I am super heavily invested in MtG

badp

We have less than 3420 in total

casperOne

11:18

Hey @badp, been a while.

badp

Yo @casperOne. What have you been up to?

Lazers

0

Q: Can I reset my followers' skills?

Is it possible to reset and re-select the skills that I want my followers to have? I want my Templar to be able to heal more, so I would like to change the skills that I originally selected for him.

diablo-3

badp

EVO keeping you busy I assume.

casperOne

@badp Did you watch Evo by chance?

badp

Nope, sorry.

I was half hoping to catch links to relevant VODs naturally roaming around chat though

Wipqozn

11:19

@OrigamiRobot I haven't played MTG in a while. I like the multiple victory conditions that L5R has.

casperOne

@badp I provided live data/statistics support to the production, I was embedded in the production, we had stats on stream and in house integrated into the production. It was at least a five month initative that I was at work constantly on.

badp

@casperOne Oh wow. That sounds awesome.

Origami Robot

MtG has that too, it's just that one is particularly common

badp

I'm kind of a sucker for those things

fredley

nyctaxi.herokuapp.com

casperOne

11:22

@badp Here, watch this:

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That's during SF4 grand finals, I'll find some others with some more meaty facts.

That said, I was hoping that there were some people in here that watched it, and was hoping to get feedback from them.

Maybe ask for a pin of the query.

badp

@casperOne @Ben certainly has

casperOne

@badp We noticed @ben tweets during Evo, he was one of the few people who knew of the initiative, and was waiting for it.

Blem

@fredley need to be able to link to specific fares so you can share them

casperOne

If any of you watched Evo 2014, I'd love to get feedback about the "Fight Facts". I run One Frame Link, the provider of those facts. Thanks!

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badp

@casperOne Here, have a pin.

casperOne

11:37

@badp Thank you, much appreciated, very much appreciated =)

badp

and now it fits in the sidebar

casperOne

11:50

@badp Well, I haven't been away from SE that long, I remember how things work =)

badp

btw @casperOne how does the community feel about double finals?

because I feel like that's by far the weakest point of any double elimination tourney

casperOne

@badp You mean a grand finals reset?

badp

I mean when the guy from the losers' bracket wins and... he must win again

casperOne

We're absolutely fine with it, it's a byproduct of the double elimination format. If the person from the winners bracket loses, why should he not have the chance to fight again like anyone else who was knocked into losers?

badp

That's what I understand is going on here

@casperOne because then it's not a final game.

Final literally meaning "last"

casperOne

11:57

So, we call them "matches" because matches have multiple games.

So it's the Grand Final match

Now, it's not the final match, I agree

We just call it grand finals reset

badp

I dunno it feels odd to me to have a big game where one player has such a huge advantage over the other

and the final is the only place where this happens

casperOne

How do they have an advantage?

badp

in all other games in the double elimination format, people are on even grounds

@casperOne Basically they're playing first to 2 with one side starting with one free win

Sure, Louffy still won

casperOne

@badp Wait, other tournaments, if the loser wins, then they are champion, they don't have resets?

badp

No, I'm talking in general about double elimination

I've run a few such tourneys and the way the final game works always put me off

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