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08:19
Aaah XKCD
> Before you spend $3 billion on plutonium, take note: Plutonium's critical mass is about 10 kilograms. So while you could fit 300 kilograms of it in a shoebox, you could only do so briefly.
I'm sorry that spoiled that amazing cutscene towards the end @Kevin! Back to the drawing board!
@badp pff, why use boring plutonium when you can have plot-device-ium
Half Life 3 Has Been Last Delayed [0] Days Ago
@Kevin plutonium is far from boring
@badp plot-device-ium is so much cooler! It can glow! It can hum! It can do whatever you want it to do!
I'm pretty sure Plutonium glows underwater!!
As for humming, 10 kilograms of Plutonium will do much more than just humming
...or glowing
08:32
Glowing and humming are both kinda different from exploding, intensity is a thing that matters =p
Well then you shouldn't be calling it an "explosion" to begin with :P
@badp no no, it can glow before the exploding bits, it's dramatic or something
or whatever it was your brothers used to end games with
@Kevin just set the explosion to be underwater
Just think of the tension! The gravity gun doesn't work underwater! (...or does it?)
@badp it'd probably create a bunch of really dense water and shoot it like a bullet?
so you're going to have to stop the plutonium by flinging Briefcase McTie dude clones at it
EXCEPT THEY ARE ALSO MADE OF PLUTONIUM! PLOT TWIST
08:37
Riiight
Well there's also the part where you make the player duel G-Man in a game of Yahtzee
You can still use that one
... I just took ~an hour to generate a friggin pdf that consists of 179 renderings of the same 404 page...
oh god why.
You're just going to have to use Uranium instead for the die
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Q: Are there any consequences/effects from not using blinkers?

RandomizerSo, yes. I'm using blinkers when turning right or left in the road, just like what I should do IRL. I just want to ask if there're any events that may occur if I don't use them, like problems in driving, penalties in delivery, etc.

@Arperum a civilized tool for civilized plutonium-based dispute resolution
08:40
@badp I misread that originally and thought you were saying make G-Man duel with Yathzee from zero punctuation...
Nah, he's the commentator
I am in favor of that
Also it's important to make sure that your 404 page works in Netscape 2 for OS X 9.2 @Arperum
did you try Lynx 0.4 for FreeBSD 4?
@kevin and then all of the plutionium causes a plot distortion field and the game ends with Gaben doing the conga with Chell around a L4D witch and all of the Meet The Team shorts play in the background all at once, with G-Mod-style G-Man yelling "I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE STAIRS DOG"
The game then freezes as the sound loops "gabengabengabengabengabengabengabengabengaben" and you are returned to the desktop
Sure, seems legit
You're going to be awesome in a couple thousands years
08:49
@badp The issue is that some shit on a website got moved to a subdomain, and I have to unbreak it. it's some goddamned .asp website af course...
throw plutonium at the problem until it goes away
@badp I'm now regenerating the goddamned pdf after I did a modification...
Now waiting for an hour...
Can't you regenerate it with 1 404 page?
Seems smarter than waiting an hour =p
Though, does minecraft work on your PC?
@KevinvanderVelden I have not enoguh willingness to find out how the whole pdf shit thing is built up. It generates html pages and then turns these into pdf's and then throws all these pdf's together in one big pdf. And that is already more then I wanted to know.
@Arperum Oh well, to the internetz!
08:58
@Arperum that's a nice crate of tentacles you have on hand there
@KevinvanderVelden Hmmm. I'm at a client though, but no-one else is on this floor and I'm in a corner where they can only see my screen when they come for me.
@badp Indeed. I poked a bit at the base url it uses for it's pdf-generation, and I'm hoping that fixes it...
@KevinvanderVelden My work laptop has an i7 and 8Gb of RAM, can't seem to find any information about any usefull GPU though.
@Arperum Probably integrated into the cpu
@5pike probably.
Nvidia NVS 3100M it seems.
lol, my modification seems to have fixed the pdf generation. Now it only takes 10-15 minutes to generate + it has actual content.
09:07
so now I'm generating the other pdf's I know about, and see how well that works.
@5pike It seems like it should be possible. Not going to do it though, because that would be pretty bad for my productivity in the longer run too...
09:23
so long as you can deliver Powerpoint presentations at glorious 1080p 60fps standards...
(I might have spent too much time on /r/pcmasterrace...)
(brb, /r/pcmasterrace)
10:22
I wonder if @Sterno gave birth yet.
@Wipqozn no, but his wife did
11 hours ago, by spugsley
@LessPop_MoreFizz three babby punches. my pary are with the father.
That is in reply to a picture of @Sterno's new offspring
10:39
I can't believe no one starred it.
Congrats @Sterno! Glad to see it all went well.
@Wipqozn He got stars and a pin for his baby day post already.
@Arperum Yeah, but he deserves more stars.
What's the point of having kids if you can't get a bunch of stars for it?
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@AshleyNunn I really do. I've just been playing so much EO3.
@Wipqozn, I need a new book! What were you guys reading again?
The Bridge
@KevinvanderVelden Daughter of the Empire. Part of a trilogy.
10:50
@badp The Bridge - A Story of Insanity and Inanity.
@Wipqozn cool, thanks! I'll see if the bookstore has that today
@KevinvanderVelden Don't forget pedantry and drama
@5pike well, you provided the pedantry =p
The Bridge is the gift that keeps on Well Actually
(inb4 "The Bridge is the gift that keeps on Well Actually'ing")
@badp it's Well Actually-er-ing, duh
The Bridge 2: The Re-Well-Actually-er-ing
10:56
@KevinvanderVelden It's a good read. Trilogy is: Daughter of the empire > Servant of the Empire > Mistress of the Empire. I'm on Servant, and @AshleyNunn is on Mistress. I haven't been reading, been playing too much EO3, haha.
This is the complete reverse of last week. Last week and the week before I literally did nothing but rea,d and basically did no gaming. today it's al EO3 and no reading.
@KevinvanderVelden Have you ever read any books from Feist? He has quite a lot of rather good books.
@Wipqozn were you room owner last week?
Although his newer work is not that good :(
@Arperum most of the riftwar cycle
@KevinvanderVelden That's the one that starts with Magician, right?
Ok, then you'll have some useful background.
The empire trilogy is a story about Kelewan.
The riftwar Legacy books are also quite good.
@badp I probably was at some point.
Can somebody look up for me if The Purist runs end at Mom's Heart or at Sheol... or at Isaac?!
@Arperum I'm planning to read the magician trilogy at some point too.
11:03
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Q: King slime biome requirement

IdsThe King slime spawns instead of a slime in the outer part of the map, according to the wiki. Does the king slime also have a biome requirement, or does it just need a biome that spawns slimes that can be upgraded?

Starting from the Darkwar saga, stuff goes down badly though. IIRC I stopped reading his books somewhere around that point. So I haven't read demonwar and Chaoswar trilogys yet.
@Wipqozn Do it. And the trilogy about Krondor too (riftwar Legacy), and just any of his books featuring Jimmy the hand.
@Wipqozn you should, it's good!
11:33
Oh hey, it's that @GnomeSlice guy!
I hear he's a real winner!
I can't believe it's taken me a week to make that joke.
I'm so ashamed.
@OrigamiRobot Awesome! Why is that a human hand in the image? Did you made this one?
@Michel fake hand for convincing people he's not a robot, don't trust him!
@GnomeSlice: Do me a favour. Send me a link for Unity of Command on steam, that game you posted earlier. That way I don't forget about it the next time I'm home.
A quick glance at it makes me want to take a longer glance at it when I have the time.
@KevinvanderVelden after so many movies about Robot rebellions, I don't trust not even a toaster
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Q: Backdating a map from 1.7.x to 1.6.x

DarkDestryI have seen some megabuilds on PMC and would like to use it in a 1.6.x server however the map in question is a 1.7.x world. The question is what are the blocks that can potentially dissapear if i backdate the map? I can understand that moving out of the already generated region would cause shear ...

11:54
Okay, Bridge, your job is to entertain me until my brain wakes up. Can you do that?
@MBraedley Yes
@Wipqozn You're not doing a very good job so far
@Wipqozn Stop shilling for your work
@MBraedley ssshhhh
11:56
And actually, I've already read at least one article this morning
@MBraedley Then read some more. I need some of those sweet, sweet views.
I'm working on our Tis The Season special right now. Launching November, but we need it done by September.
You need 2 months of leeway?
@MBraedley No, but advertising starts selling ad space in September so the want it done for then.
Or at least close enough to done so they can sell
12:19
Peep is the worst
Peep was the worst years ago
It still is
(exceptions abound, but they're all mutually worse than one another)
@Michel I MADE THE PREVIOUS ONES I SHOWED YOU
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Q: What to keep in mind when playing againt each class?

PierreFrom experience (rank 11), I've noticed that there are a few cards that are essential to know (and to expect) from classes. For example, you should expect a combo "unleash the houds" with "buzzard" from a hunter at turn 5. You can also expect an AOE spell that deals 4 damages to every minions fr...

18 hours ago, by Origami Robot
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THAT'S MY KNEE AT THE BOTTOM!
12:21
holy shit you need to beat Isaac for The Purist?! I can hardly reach Mom.
12:35
@KevinvanderVelden MY ROBOT HANDS LOOK JUST LIKE HUMAN HANDS
I WAS BUILT TO SIMULATE A REAL HUMAN
@OrigamiRobot Too bad they aren't robot fists.
@OrigamiRobot I like the rifle.
@Wipqozn YOU CAN'T SEE IT IN THAT PICTURE, BUT THE CLASP ON THE SLING IS THIS:
@OrigamiRobot Is that a lock?
YEA, YOU TURN THE MIDDLE PART TO OPEN IT
12:44
@OrigamiRobot Doesn't seem all that secure
@CapslockRobot I assume you too are now hooked on the hour of thrilling adventure, a day later?
@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm listening to Jefferson Reid, Ace American
@OrigamiRobot RIP.
This tour of duty has left me with anxiety problems and a bad sore throat
On the bright side I now sound like the narrator from Bastion
@PrivatePansy Record some Tom Waits covers while you can.
12:53
So I saw someone posting a Heijbits comic earlier, so I'm going to share some more of their awesome comics. Just for @Frank.
also this, but that one lacks puns so it's not @Frank approved.
@OrigamiRobot I'm really impressed on how much you guys can do with such tiny things ... I can't do that (I don't have patience for not even origami ...)
I think I need to get out of Missouri.
@Fluttershy why?
@Fluttershy I'm not sure what the context of this is, but I agree.
You and @OrigamiRobot should probably just move to Nova Scotia together.
@Michel I JUST USED TAPE AND SPRAY PAINT
13:07
@OrigamiRobot you didn't craft like @Frank ?
I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT
By craft, I mean put together little pieces that, if I had to do for over 3min, I would kill the first person that I came across.
I TOOK ONE OF THESE APART, PAINTED IT, AND PUT IT BACK TOGETHER
@Michel @Wipqozn I live about 2 hours south of Ferguson. The place where the police are really, really screwing up.
@Wipqozn If it's coming from you, chances are extremely good that none of it is approved.
13:11
THERE IS ALREADY A HUGE NERF MODDING COMMUNITY SO THERE ARE PLENTY OF GUIDES ON DISASSEMBLY/REASSEMBLY
@Fluttershy I'm not sure what's going on in Ferguson, but my point of moving to nova scotia with @OrigamiRobot still stands.
@Frank the first two contains puns though.
@Fluttershy I'm guessing that this is re: events in Ferguson?
Wipqozn approved puns!
> Police Fire Tear Gas and Stun Grenades in Ferguson After Reporters Arrested
@Wipqozn They're @Wipqozn level puns. Which are universally bad.
Jwell then
@wipqozn I like the level of self awareness where the author gives the stink eye at his own puns
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Q: PS1 Castle based RPG game

imameepoI remember playing a game on ps1 in which we have to lead a "girl" through a castle as she lays traps and fights bosses we have to lay traps like poison gas normally in shape of a square... first boss is a "hot head"... in latter comes a "shogun" as a mini boss... lots of traps to choos...

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Q: Is it better to use PS4 with a 1080p 24'' screen or 2K 27'' screen?

Koray TugaySo the question is clear I think. I already have a 24'' 1080p monitor that I use with PS4 but I want to buy a 27'' screen. The thing is I will use it for my PC as well so I am considering a 2K monitor. Will it look worse than 1080p due to upscaling? Is it better to stick with 1080p screen? I ...

13:13
@LessPop_MoreFizz holy shit
@LessPop_MoreFizz You guess correctly!
@Wipqozn It's Bad. Real bad.
I have procured Daughter of the Empire CC @Wipqozn
13:18
Welcome to Missouri, the place where the Bill of Rights died.
@less whatever happened to the right to gun ownership to defend yourself from own-government oppression?
Just shoot their horses down!
@badp That's only for white people. :(
@LessPop_MoreFizz well jeah, guess what that right was intended for?
@KevinvanderVelden Shooting limeys
Gotta make sure the King of England knows he can't have our stuff!
@LessPop_MoreFizz Almost!
Or just read the URL, it gets the topic across
13:23
@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, no, that's a degree of revisionism with which I am uncomfortable. The second amendment was quite popular with abolitionists of the day as well.
> According to Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson during a briefing on Wednesday, the officer who shot Johnson was injured during the encounter. One side of the officer's face was swollen, Jackson said.
Still I find the idea of a bunch of people with rifles attempting to stage a coup d'etat from the bottom lovely
Yes, it's true, the right to bear arms was used to enforce slavery. But it has been used to do all sorts of horrible things.
well, it's a good thing that officer responded with equal force! oh...wait...
@badp It worked once!
@Wipqozn Of course, since the PD still won't release the name of the officer in question, we have no way to verify this claim, and won't until the swelling has inevitably gone down.
13:25
Seriously, wtf. Self-defense means responding with equal force, not shooting someone 8 times after they might have punched you in the face, and are in the process of running away.
and I say might, since the entire story of being assualted is very suspect.
They say war never changes anyway
The kid assaulted a police officer for asking him to go on the side walk?
Have spearmen flank the tanks from the hills
Even if the kid did attack the officer, and it was unprovoked, you still don't shoot him dead, because that's not how you respond to situations.
People with rifles will take the grenades head-front
13:26
@badp It works in Civilization!
Going for your gun to kill should be the absolute last resort.
@LessPop_MoreFizz not living in america I've gotten all my information about it from the internet
Finally horses from the riverside evade the RPGs
But that seems well reasoned and is not the only reference to it
@Wipqozn In the militarization of today's police forces, they're getting a, "It's them or us" mentality.
13:27
(I do feel the need to say explicitly that I don't believe that was the only reason for the second amendment)
@LessPop_MoreFizz I can understand if they wanted to withhold his name until they finish their investigation, but if that's the case they should say nothing about what happened in the incident until they're done. They shouldn't start claiming an officer was assaulted if they haven't finished investigating yet.
The only obvious solution is to consider the police there enemy military
They're basically armed and equipped to the same standard anyway
@badp They're actually MORE heavily armed than military forces in occupied territory.
@badp plenty of people from the military tweeting that the po... what @Frank said
I'm aware
13:34
It's true.
@Fluttershy Are you saying @badp is a person capable of being aware of things? Lies
Well, this whole situation is completely fucked.
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Q: What is the difference between waveclear and pushing power?

Philipp SanderAs discussed in the comments of this answer, what is the difference between waveclear and pushing power?

@KevinvanderVelden I'm saying the "police" in Ferguson are better armed and armored than I was when I was in Iraq. :P
@Fluttershy never let logic stand in the way of misinterpreting something for semi-humorous effect
13:41
@Fluttershy Looking through some of those pictures, I honestly thought they were soldiers, and the military was called in. Wasn't until I saw the "SWAT" logo I realized they were police officers.
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Q: Borderlands 2 - Maya or Gaige your experiences?

XDroidie626Okay so I finished my Pyscho and now wanting to move onto a new character, I am tempted between Maya and Gaige, but I am looking for some help on the subject. Which is better for end game and damage? or should I say which is the better preferred among the community? I find both good in concept b...

> (pictured: mugshot of the professor in question. not pictured: where his hands are and what he's doing with them at the moment)
@Powerlord More like "Don't put irrelevant stuff, like your favourites, into your documentation."
14:09
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Q: Reallocate Stat Points at SL90

idkfaSoul Level 90 VGR 16 END 21 VIT 15 ATN 6 STR 21 DEX 31 ADP 21 INT 7 FTH 5 I would like to reallocate my stats. I played Dark Souls with a pure Dex Build and for PvP (and PvE) I would like to try some miracles, hexes, ... I looked up some builds however most of th...

@PrivatePansy ERROR: NOT MTG
@OrigamiRobot But it is signed
@OrigamiRobot Pairing pretty pony princesses together is much more fun anyway
Also that game sounds hilarious
So, I've been thinking... Poodle Hats.
and then I started thinking of Weird Al.
@KevinvanderVelden Which automatically takes it from Near Mint to Slightly Played. tsk tsk tsk
@Lazers You can't nail down damage, mainly because it depends heavily on what weapons you're using and the associated playstyle. Using Gaige, I deal more damage than my brothers' Maya and Zero, but only when I'm within about 5 feet of an enemy. I do next to no damage when I'm further away.
@OrigamiRobot is a signed card worth less than an unsigned card in MTG?
@KevinvanderVelden When selling cards, typically yes.
14:36
Well, it does make it harder to play the card
Not many people care about signed cards.
On the other hand, this is a card game that expect you to print out your own cards
I don't care if a card is signed unless I'm the one who got it signed in the first place
And then I'm not getting rid of it anyway
I don't care if a card is signed unless it prevents me from reading the card, at which point I throw it away and get a new one.
14:40
Also, in play, having perfectly identical copies of a card gives a slight advantage.
@OrigamiRobot having every card marked in a way only you can see gives a bigger advantage =p
@KevinvanderVelden That's why card sleeves are usually required for tournament play.
@Wipqozn Then mark the sleeves.
user15026
Good morning Bridge-ians. Today my cat goes to my friend's house for his cat-cation while I go camping. I would take him after work tomorrow, but that is too busy. I am going to miss him because he is cute and derpy.
@AshleyNunn :(
14:45
@AshleyNunn but then you'll get him back and can watch his cute derpy-ness again!
@AshleyNunn when I move out I'm going to miss the cat I'm not taking with me.
@AshleyNunn Why not bring your cat camping? It could work, you don't know
@MBraedley I feel like this would be a terrible idea.
@Wipqozn Terrible idea is best idea.
@Wipqozn People bring their dogs camping all the time. It can't be that different...
14:49
@MBraedley Dogs are a lot easier to control than cats.
a cat would just wander the woods, probably get hurt, and you'd leave without it.
@Wipqozn ... or just meow "Screw you guys, I'm going home." and do just that.
See also the story of Minosch (#4 on the list).
user15026
I know people who have taken cats camping on leashes and stuff but they say it is much much harder than taking a dog.
@KevinvanderVelden Yes, but that's cheating
cats do not like being kept on a leash. at all
@AshleyNunn Yay camping!
14:56
@OrigamiRobot yes, I fail to see the issue =p
@OrigamiRobot Only if you get caught.
@5pike No, it's always cheating. It's only a tournament disqualification if you're caught. :P
@5pike My parents have about the same idea whenever they are gaming online for real, and I'm really disappointed in them because of it.
FFS, they are over 60, they should have some idea why cheating in competitive games is wrong.
user15026
@arperum I have seen a few who handle it okay but they have been leash trained from very small kittens.
@MartinSojka Yeah, cheaters kill the fun for pretty much everyone.
14:59
Just found a nice little site. It lets you download Steam mods without using Steam: gaddons.org/workshop
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Using it to mod my DRM-free Dungeons of Dredmor
There's supposedly a script that adds a download button to Steam, but I can't get the site to load
Playstation TV launches on October 14th!
Two months from today!
@Frank \o/
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Q: "Serial voting was reversed"?

FabiánI don't even understand what happened or what's going on. Screenshot: For starters: What is serial voting? It costed me points.. Did I broke rules of the site or something like that ?

What's "Playstation TV"?
"Best of Twitch.tv's PS4 section"? ;)
@MartinSojka isn't it their response to Xbox TV?
15:12
... what's "Xbox TV", then?
@MartinSojka Essentially a Vita, minus screen, and controls, with a TV out.
nintendo TV :D
So a Vita you plug into your TV permanently.
so they turned the vita into a console? thehell is the point of that
wat
15:16
@Rapitor Hey, I'm looking forward to it. I like the option of playing my portable games on my big screen.
@frank you seem both very excited and very appalled by this technical wonder
@badp Not sure where appalled comes from.
It would've been easier surely to embed a vita in a PS4
@badp But it would also be a ton pricier.
@frank well your description of it is pretty appalling
@frank well your description of it is pretty appalling
I've been effectively appalled by it
Oh hey chat timeout quirks
15:18
Double Kill.
@Frank YOU COULD PROBABLY JUST REPURPOSE AN EXISTING HANDHELD FOR THAT.
@OrigamiRobot If it had a TV out to do that, yeah.
@Frank Except it costs half the Vita's cost and I seem to recall seeing something somewhere about 3 free downloadable games with it?
The Vita doesn't have that, I'm pretty sure.
@Frank THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT MAKING
15:19
So what controller do you use?
The PS4's?
@badp It comes with a Dualshock 3
Although it's compatible with the DS4 as well
So basically it's a PS2.5
At least the screen can be cleanly scaled up to 1080p with 4x pixel scaling
My mistake, if you want the version with a Dualshock 3, it costs another $40ish USD
Otherwise, it doesn't ship with a controller.
(the $99/€99 version also doesn't come with a memory card)
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, I'm not cracking open my Vita to do that.
@Frank PROBABLY CHEAPER TO BUY A USED VITA AND FRANKENSTEIN IT
AND MORE FUN
I BET YOU CAN GET ONE WITH A BROKEN SCREEN FOR REALLY CHEAP
15:33
@OrigamiRobot My kind of fun doesn't run into electronic engineering.
At least, not yet.
Quicker and easier to just buy the box.
EH, LOOKING UP PINOUTS AND DOING SOME SOLDERING ISN'T REALLY ENGINEERING
@OrigamiRobot For those with the experience, no.
I've never soldered anything, nor do I have the equipment to do so.
It'd probably cost me more than the box would.
FAE
FAE
Good afternoon all
soldering isn't hard
FAE
FAE
15:39
This is adorable
user15026
@FAE waves
@FAE and mildly terrifying
@FAE Why is there a PC cooling fan stuck on it?
@SaintWacko FOR COOLING, OBVIOUSLY
15:41
Also @FAE, if you're still looking for Fimo clay in holland Pipoos sells it, and it has lots of stores (and a webshop!)
FAE
FAE
@KevinvanderVelden Oh thanks!
user15026
Yay! Then you can make tiny things!
@Rapitor APPLY HEAT, APPLY SOLDER, STOP APPLYING HEAT
FAE
FAE
Oh, there's one in Rijswijk, that's super close.
TOO MUCH SOLDER? APPLY HEAT, APPLY DESOLDERING BRAID
FAE
FAE
15:43
@OrigamiRobot There's those bulb suction thingies too or is that what that's called?
@FAE THOSE ARE PUMPS.
I'VE NEVER HAD MUCH LUCK WITH PUMPS. BRAIDS, ON THE OTHER HAND, ARE MAGIC.
I couldn't really get pumps to work either, braids ftw
Though @OrigamiRobot probably has more experience with soldering than I do =p
MY UNCLE HAD A FANCY DESOLDERING GUN THAT USED A VACUUM. IT WORKED OK, BUT SEEMED LIKE WAY TOO MUCH TO DO WHAT A LITTLE COPPER BRAID DOES
I have a cheap springloaded thing I mostly use to shoot wads of paper
@KevinvanderVelden EVERY TIME I'VE USED ONE OF THOSE, IT SUCKED THE COPPER PAD OFF TOO
RUINED A WII MODCHIP THAT WAY
FAE
FAE
15:49
@OrigamiRobot Do you just touch it to the excess solder and it sucks it up via capillary action?
FAE
FAE
Ah okies.
> Sweeping Wind

Weapon damage increased from 30% to ---60%--- 105% per stack
Wow. Sweeping Wind is getting over triple the DPS.
And with the seasonal Monk item, you can get up to ten stacks.
Which officially catapults us into silly territory for damage from a single skill.
@AshleyNunn otherwise known as the "emergency baby kill switch"

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