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Lazers

00:04

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Just a simple question here. I just watched a SL1 on NG+ kill Fume Knight with a rapier hitting for 500dmg with a rapier and gold pine resin. I also watched another player with 40str/40dex and a twin blade with gold pine resin hit Fume Knight for roughly 600 per. My SL is 130, I'm pure melee wit...

dark-souls-2

meme scientist

@StrixVaria You play USF4?

What's your character of choice

StrixVaria

@memescientist Only starting recently.

I've only learned Ryu.

meme scientist

Nice, nice

good starting foundation for fg fundamentals

I answered your question in depth about Cammy's EX Hooligan

StrixVaria

On ranked I waver between 300-500 player points, but I've gotten up to around 1500+ battle points as Ryu.

meme scientist

@StrixVaria It's BP that matters, not PP

StrixVaria

00:06

Which only tells me that BP aren't a good measure of anything, because I'm terrible.

meme scientist

:C

Ryu is a great character

StrixVaria

BP seem to be a measure of how much you use a character, rather than how good you are with him.

Oh I actually really like using Ryu.

I've messed around with a bunch of other characters but the idea of learning a new one seems daunting.

I'm going to stick with Ryu until I get a better win ratio.

meme scientist

What's your choice of Ultra?

u1 or u2

I'm going to guess and say U1

StrixVaria

Whichever one is the Shoryuken.

I don't remember whether it's 1 or 2.

meme scientist

u2

StrixVaria

00:08

U2 is easier to input for me, and it's better for punishing mistakes (which is the only way I use it).

meme scientist

Yeah

StrixVaria

Most of the time when I attempt the U1 input I wind up doing an EX shoryuken which is awful.

I also don't really know any good combos, except c.mk->fireball/tatsu

So I have to wholly rely on footsies to win.

Combos in SF4 are crazy hard. Coming from Marvel, they feel impossible.

Frank

I put on Godzilla as noise while working on my model. Verdict: people were completely unneccessary.

Lazers

00:26

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Q: How Do You Change Your Minecraft Player Name?

Please, I really want to change mine but I don't know how to! Please help!

minecraft

RPi Awesomeness

Woo! I have a working Portable Raspberry Pi Touch Camera! Yay!

This is a pic..w. a weird filter

Private Pansy

Looks like threshold + invert filter

Lazers

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Q: My Minecraft 1.8 always crashs! Help me!

I downloades the Minecraft 1.8 (The Bountiful Update), and play it for 1 hole week, without problems. I closed the launcher, open, played, EVERYTHING WAS GOING WELL! But today, when I click on the launcher "PLAY", the game start downloading, and when the MOJANG screen appear, the game crashs, and...

minecraft

Private Pansy

feature-request Rename Arqade.com to ShittyMinecraftTechSupport.com

Frank

@PrivatePansy status-declined

Private Pansy

00:36

Actually, just spin out the minecraft tag onto it's own site

Frank

@PrivatePansy There's been numerous Minecraft proposals on Area51

RPi Awesomeness

@PrivatePansy It's called Cartoon. Comes with the software you install to make the Raspberry Pi camera board run

Private Pansy

@Frank None of them celebrate how shitty it is in its name

The shittiness must be implicit in its name

Frank

@PrivatePansy When you get a game that popular to children, and we get a rep for problem solving, mixing the two gets us a crapton of low quality questions about users uninterested in anything but fixing their problem.

RPi Awesomeness

@PrivatePansy Hey! Minecraft is actually a lot of fun

Private Pansy

00:43

@RPiAwesomeness Fixing RandomJavaException errors from users with neither the ability to spell properly or know how to formulate a question beyond copy and pasting an error log is not

Frank

Our only solution is to ensure that the users provide enough information to make a solvable question, and enforce our quality standards. Don't hesitate to downvote and/or close questions.

RPi Awesomeness

@PrivatePansy No, you're correct there.

Frank

Someone should actually make a canonical meta post of minimum required information in order for us to help them with their Minecraft questions.

GnomeSlice

NSFL Dog Spider

if somebody did that to me I would probably literally shit myself

NSFL?

RPi Awesomeness

01:00

Not Safe For Life?

Not Safe For Living?

BAH! AFAIK you can't get a Full ATX FM2 Mobo :P

Curses

Lazers

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Q: Loot all from chest

I consequently happened to have all items from a chest moved to my inventory while I was quickly Shift clicking them. It really looked like a Loot-all hidden feature being activated. Similarly, once all items hoped from hot-bar to my inventory - again during Shift clicking. So far, I haven't p...

minecraft

RPi Awesomeness

Not sure...is this full ATX? newegg.com/Product/…-13-1‌30-758--Product

Journeyman Geek

@RPiAwesomeness: looks like it

Frank

@RPiAwesomeness Now there's a proper motherboard size.

Private Pansy

01:16

Graphs! Look at dem graphs showing how our product is arbitrarily better!

RPi Awesomeness

@Frank I figured...it's kinda expensive for my basic build though...

$79

Frank

@RPiAwesomeness According to the box, it's military class.

Seems kinda like overkill.

Private Pansy

@Frank That's just a designation the manufacturer came up with

RPi Awesomeness

@Frank exactly what I was thinking. Issue is, as far as I can see, that's the lowest you're going to go for a FM2/FM2+ full ATX mobo. I'm pretty sure I'm going with either an AMD a8-6600K or AMD Athlon X4 760...not sure which yet...

Private Pansy

It's not actually military spec or anything. And anyway, I can tell you that military machines are exactly the same as the ones you use in your office

I should know. I've spent far too much time staring at them

Frank

01:21

@RPiAwesomeness If that's the best price you can get for that CPU spec, you may want to downgrade the CPU spec.

RPi Awesomeness

A8 is better in the CPU comparisons, I'll probably end up going with it

But...I've got another almost 2 months to research and decide.

Private Pansy

Newegg China sells... Crabs

RPi Awesomeness

I understand they are quite tasty!

Bah.

Is there any way to search on Newegg and say not this?

Private Pansy

They are, but I'm not sticking a hairy legged crab on my motherboard

RPi Awesomeness

xD...no, I don't think that would be a good idea. He might eat a Diode or something.

StrixVaria

01:27

@OrigamiRobot @Frank I just got the 6-set Firebird bonus. My damage just constantly stacks, so the longer I attack a single target, the more quickly it takes damage. Against a rift boss I just got up to 30m damage ticks.

Frank

@StrixVaria Yep. Monks need a bonus like that.

StrixVaria

I only have 5 pieces with RoRG, and my gloves are trash, so I still need to roll some more set pieces to keep optimizing.

Frank

Because our best build relies on a specific gem, and spamming a mantra.

StrixVaria

Conviction?

RPi Awesomeness

lol..I have no clue what y'all are talking about

Frank

01:29

@StrixVaria Any.

It's all about spending spirit so that Taeguk stacks keep on ticking.

StrixVaria

What does spamming the Mantra accomplish?

Taeguk... I think I've read that but I forgot what it does.

Frank

> Gain 0.5% increased damage for 3 seconds after spending primary resource. This effect stacks up to 20 times.

Gain 0.5% increased Armor for every stack. (Requires Rank 25)

StrixVaria

That doesn't sound like a fun build tbh

Frank

Yeah, I don't like it either.

But if you want to break level 30+, that's all we got.

StrixVaria

I can't get over level 20, although I should try now that I finished the set bonus.

I did a level 18 rift like 20 seconds too slow yesterday.

Frank

01:32

My personal best is level 24.

StrixVaria

In a party with you I think we did 22 or so.

My WD is not built for speed clearing, though.

To me GR is more of a way to farm for gems than an actual end-game goal in itself.

Frank

@StrixVaria Yeah. 22 I'm comfortable handling by myself. It's the bullshit affixes that get me at 24 and higher.

It's all the, "LET'S PUT KNOCKBACK/NIGHTMARE, AREA DENIAL #1, #2, AND #3" all on one chamption.

And then instant death.

At least T6 bounty bags now have a guaranteed chance of an act legendary.

StrixVaria

I can probably take T4 now.

But it would be slow and dangerous.

Frank

On the plus side, I've gotten my mini-Conduit to Rank 18.

StrixVaria

Wreath of Lightning is so fun. I have that on my non-Seasons monk.

I'm using the poison one on my seasons Wizard.

Frank

01:38

I plan on using Bane of the Trapped, and Simplicity's Strength once I get the sockets I need.

Fluttershy

01:51

60 hours so far this week! Still two days to go. Yayyy money.

Frank

@Fluttershy Yeah, I know the feeling.

I've been on call non-stop for several months now.

Mana

meh

being a mod became really difficult after a certain point. I felt detached from the community when I was busy with work, and the more detached I felt the less motivation there was to keep stopping by here.

That's why I quit after the new mod election, it was clear that I would never regain the same drive to do things here as I used to have.

Tim Stone

Nooo, not @Mana's drive!

I am getting sushi /cc @Wipqozn

Frank

@TimStone That sounds like a fantasy doomsday engine.

RPi Awesomeness

02:16

@Frank You built PCs before...what do you think is a reasonable price for a mid-range ($500 budget) motherboard? $50-$70?

Journeyman Geek

@RPiAwesomeness: have you taken a look at the current falcon and logical increments guides?

RPi Awesomeness

@JourneymanGeek No! I looked at them late last year, I should check them again. Thanks for the reminder!

Journeyman Geek

@RPiAwesomeness: in which case also take a look at the ars and tech report build guides

(since they go in depth to why specific choices were made)

RPi Awesomeness

Thanks! I've been looking for guides like these...problem is, lots of them are outdated already

Journeyman Geek

@RPiAwesomeness: the tech report one was last updated in july

and that's usually a good starting point

The system I have now is completely unlike the system I originally speced ;p

I switched motherboards, storage, video card....

mainly cause I designed a system for parts a generation older

Private Pansy

02:29

Ars recently updated its system guide

RPi Awesomeness

Ugh. this laptop is sooooooooooo slow.

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness I think it also depends on your cpu. AMD cpu's have cheaper motherboards than intel cpu's

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies Probably. That would make sense :)

According to Logical Increments my $500/$550 budget is a good PC. :D

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness does that include a graphics card?

or are you sticking with integrated?

oh, I looked at the Logical Increments builds in 500'ish $ range

that's pretty good stuff

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies That includes a graphics card. No SSD though :( Later upgrades most definitely will be happening.

Chippies

02:32

too bad canadian prices are shit

RPi Awesomeness

And, the CPU he chooses is one of the ones I was considering! I'm learning! Yay me!

Chippies

my issue with budget cpu's is that cpu is the hardest to upgrade

RPi Awesomeness

@JourneymanGeek Could you link me to those reports? I'm not sure what I'm looking for...

Chippies

so I personally would want a good cpu to future proof a little

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies Meaning...a beginning build will have a :P CPU that will be hard to upgrade?

Chippies

02:35

@RPiAwesomeness the issue with cpu is that in most cases to upgrade a cpu you also have to upgrade motherboard. With the DDR4 coming soon, it's possible that you'll also have to upgrade ram

depending on how soon you upgrade

Private Pansy

Ars System Guide from August 2014 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/…

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies That's sorta my thinking. Also, I'm not going to be doing much gaming, so that takes the requirements down a notch. I will need less of a GPU than most builds...probably.

Chippies

the GTX750ti is a beastly gpu

RPi Awesomeness

DDR4... I've heard about that

Chippies

@Jennybeans has one in her old PC and it's awesome

RPi Awesomeness

02:36

@Chippies As in good?

Alrighty!

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness very good

for the price and power usage it has amazing performance

RPi Awesomeness

Better than the other R7 256?

Also...do I really need the GTX750 Ti?

Chippies

if the price is same, then R7 265 is faster, but draws more power

yes

the non-ti is based on old architecture

RPi Awesomeness

Ah

Chippies

the price difference should be miniscule between ti and non-ti

the ti version is more future proof, because you can overclock it more if you have the need for it in the future

the non-ti version is slightly slower and runs at higher clocks

RPi Awesomeness

02:39

Yes, $40 bucks for newer isn't terrible...

Chippies

hm well

750 non-ti is 40$ cheaper than ti?

how long do you plan to use this PC and do you really care about playing really demanding games?

RPi Awesomeness

according to the guide...yes

Chippies

in few years you might just replace the gpu :P

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies As long as I can...I'm only a Sophmore in HS... Thus the cheaper build...

And no, I'm not planning on play really demanding games within the next year at minimum. My parents suck that way.

Chippies

anandtech.com/show/7764/…

RPi Awesomeness

02:42

Another dilemma...do I really need 8GB RAM..

Chippies

as opposed to... 4GB?

again, depends on what you want to do with the PC

I would personally not go under 8gb, but depending on what you do, you might be good with 4gb

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah, or 6

Chippies

6 would have to run in single channel mode, which isn't much of a performance drop, I guess, but I don't like it

lol

StrixVaria

@RPiAwesomeness I wouldn't go under 6.

Chippies

I doubt 6gb would be much cheaper than 8gb though

and 8gb would have enough headroom for most uses

StrixVaria

02:44

It's been a long time since I've specced out a computer (5 years? 6?) and 4 felt small even then.

Chippies

@StrixVaria I beat Far Cry 3 on 2GB DDR2

so, even under 4gb can be used

but yeah, for general use, 4gb is not ideal

RPi Awesomeness

oo...I just hate this laptop. 512MB is not enough.

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness oh god, no it's not

anything under 2gb I'd consider unusable

RPi Awesomeness

I figured. I'm going with 8 (unless I get a deal for more :D)

Chippies

that explains why you're on XP though

8 is the optimal number until more games switch to proper x64 and start using more memory

my laptop has 12gb, only because it came with a better HDD and a bluray drive (which I've never used) for only 50$ over the 8gb one :P

I don't run out of memory, except when chrome leaks memory

which is like, all the fucking time!

although, it's only certain sites that does that... cough bridge and facebook

RPi Awesomeness

02:52

brb..weirdkeyboard C

Chippies

I re-opened bridge and facebook and my memory usage dropped by 4gb...

RPi Awesomeness

Okay....that was weird.

I kept not being able to input anything and capitol Cs would pop in randomly...

@Chippies As I was trying to say...No, it isn't.

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness odd

RPi Awesomeness

I'm on this crappy-as-balls iBook G4 w. 512MB RAM 'cause my main laptop (Toshiba Satellite A105) died.

@Chippies no kidding

My other laptop wasn't great...but it could handle 3 tabs without lagging out.

Core 2 Duo...2.5GB RAM.

It was liveable. This hell-pit?

I dunno

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