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15:01
I heard the bridge likes bad puns
@Frank And it is wonderful
@Frank This. I love that he even describes the exact kps^2 acceleration
And that his space battles are realistic
There's none of this "sit a kilometer apart and shoot at each other" that you see in star wars, and even star trek
They engage at ranges of millions of kilometers
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Q: How to deal with quicksand

Young GuiloIn Oceancraft a new block is called quicksand which you slowly sink into until you start being dealt 1 heart of damage per second. It kills quick and there is no way to avoid death. Is there anyway I could maybe prevent myself from experiencing this horrible death?

@Lazers don't walk in the quicksand. hth
@Unionhawk @StrixVaria If a friend dies, and you get a revenge mission, does it have a red border? In Shadow of Mordor, I mean.
@Fluttershy Revenge missions have red icons.
I'm not sure if that's what you mean by "border".
15:12
@SaintWacko And it's very realistic, so much as it can be with future tech.
@StrixVaria It's black inside the actual icon, but it's a red symbol. Do I have to unlock revenge missions first? :o
I thought that might be it when I saw a mission to kill a Captain I had just killed a few minutes before.
@Fluttershy Maybe? Some scrub killed me and got promoted. I didn't catch his name
@Sterno Ah, gotcha.
I was just curious due to my above questions and statement. :P
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Q: What's this RTS game with a gray/blue building with black spheres floating on top of it?

Matthijs WesselsI am trying to remember a game I used to play. The only thing about it that I remember is that is was an RTS game (hey there is nog rts tag?) and that it had a specific building in it. The building was gray/blue of color It had black spheres/planets rotating around on top of it. It also had a...

We should get a TV channel and broadcast questions and answers on teletext.
It shall be glorious.
15:19
@badp I would be fine with this.
Most of my deaths recently were to some super-ghul
Also I have no idea what teletext is.
1 min ago, by badp
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Teletext uses scanlines that TV would otherwise ignore to transmit data on a cycle.
It's basically as if every TV channel had its own embedded website, with pages numbered 101-899, except this was done in the 70s or so.
You just need to wait for the signal to carry the page you are interested in.
People even used it to download programs. Those pages look funny.
I'd always wondered how closed captioning worked
Closed captioning is on page 777, usually.
15:24
@Sterno I always just assumed it was magic.
@badp 888 in UK
must be the imperial number
@Rapitor Telesoftware, baby!
Good old test page
Look how proudly Double Height text is presented
@badp looks broken
Always somewhat up to date!
@MattЭллен You guys gave up on Teletext anyway :(
15:36
monsters
Such nostalge
we got "the red button" instead.
Also making large-format print graphics with an underpowered machine is sheer hell
@MattЭллен 90% of decoders and TVs sold here don't support that anyway
I gave up TV a while ago, so I'm not up on what the hip kids do these days
youtube and iPlayer satisfy me
15:38
The only things I basically watch on TV are news and sports
To its credit, Sky now sells unbundled online-only access to sports and movies and whatnot (hello, 'murica), but it ain't cheap or complete.
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@badp 999
Did @MattЭллен just ruin Everything?
Bah! Why can't you ban mods?
He's like the new Wipqozn
Let's try this again.
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15:46
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@fredley Ruiner.
FIFY
15:47
THE WORLD IS AT PEACE
sigh
AL HAIL BDAP, HAILER OF HER- NOOOO
@GraceNote :o
@Wipqozn only in the best possible way: blundering around like someone who doesn't know what he's doing
not just like in fact
@Wipqozn hail bdap
15:47
ALL HAIL @BADP
@Wipqozn That is correct
Also the question was
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Q: What's the mechanic behind building destruction?

PhilippSince version 0.25, the buildings of the space center can be destroyed by flying vessels into them. What exactly are the mechanics behind building destruction? Do buildings have a hidden impact tolerance stat like parts? If yes, how high is it for each building? If no, what other mechanics deci...

It's definitely 881-99-9119 not 881-999-119
I'll now seek shelter from @GraceNote in some kind of bunker, hoping the bunker I hide into isn't @GraceNote.
15:49
@fredley It's not. The video disagrees.
That would be a classic @GraceNote move.
Actually...hm.... @fredley might be right..
there is a pause after 99.
112 is the common emergency telephone number that can be dialed free of charge from any fixed or mobile telephone in order to reach emergency services (ambulance, fire and rescue, police) in numerous European Countries, including all member states of the European Union, as well as several other countries in the world. In some countries other numbers previously used also continue to be available; e.g. 999 and 112 both function in the UK. In the United States, some carriers, including AT&T, will map the number 112 to its emergency number 9-1-1. In some cases calls to emergency numbers can be made...
@Wipqozn As far as the music goes that's correct
Aww. There was a lightning deal on the Zelda strategy guides.
For $80. Totally claimed, though.
15:52
01189998819991197253 should be the universal telephone number. Besides my first girlfriend, it's figuratively the only phone number I can remember.
I was totally gonna make @FAE aware of it.
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Q: In Alien: Isolation, can save-reload help with achievements?

KeithThere are five achievements in Alien: Isolation relating to not doing certain things: Mercy or Prudence? Completed the game without killing any humans Just out of Reach Contacted your team and escaped Comms without being attacked by an android Hide. Run. Survive. Completed "Th...

@fredley That is a really long phone number
@fredley your first girlfriend had 867-5309?
@Sconibulus Her name was Jenny
15:55
I feel like I'm missing a joke.
Oh, it's a song
@murgatroid99 But easy to remember!
@Batophobia cc @Sterno @StrixVaria and @JasonBerkan
16:01
I'm struggling to see how this question plays to our expertise:
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Q: How can I legally purchase games for an arcade cabinet I'm making?

CalI'm building a custom arcade cabinet, which I'm thinking of putting in a local bar. I know to do this legally, I need to purchase the arcade games or maybe license them. All of the information I've found so far is only pointing towards the option of pirating the games (downloading them). Does any...

Not sure how the roomba didn't delete it.
@Frank Did you just call me a roomba?
@fredley If your name is Community, then yes. Yes, I did.
@Frank *glares at @Frank*
Are we asking for delete votes? If so, I'd like delete votes on everything in the mod tools: gaming.stackexchange.com/tools
Get to work you lazy 10kers.
I sure as hell don't want to know what a mod stool is.
16:06
NOBODY WANTS TO MESS WITH MOD STOOLS
@Wipqozn even the recently reopened category?
@murgatroid99 Especially the recently reopened category!
@Frank <3
@Wipqozn I used all my votes.
For reference, though, this is why downvoting is important; questions that have positively scored answers, even if they're off-topic, are protected from deletion.
@Wipqozn I USED ALL MY VOTES TOO
@OrigamiRobot ಠ_ಠ
cc @fredley mod abuse hamstare into my above message
I believe if those answers are downvoted to zero, Community will auto-delete them on the next pass.
THAT'S A LOW BLOW
@Batophobia Accurate
@fredley standards++;
@fredley Thank God. I'm still saddened that we are using 25 year old technology for movies.
16:11
@fredley -1 for subjecting me to a Phantom Menace clip
gif (the file-format, not the concept) needed to die at least 5 years ago.
@Sterno *Tron
@Batophobia Tron is just bad. Not insultingly bad.
Didn't scroll down
But is it pronounced jiffy or giffy?
I'm gonna go with giffy
16:13
@fredley jiffy
Does clicking to level up heroes count against the Libertas idle bonus?
hard g giffy
@Batophobia Nope
Only damage clicks.
Real gifs gif silent like lasagna
16:14
@fredley Isn't it a V?
@JasonBerkan Say out loud: "gif v"
@fredley so ifs?
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Q: Watch Dogs PS3, Act2 scene 9 Uninvited. Game freezes when accessing the computer. Why?

Chris DaSilvaEvery time I go to access the PC that is connected to the video system in the mission Uninvited, its says system loading, loads about halfway and then it stops and the game just stops. I can still access the game menu and the PS menu, but the game fails to continue past that point. Whats wrong?

@fredley JIF V. I guess if you slur it, it'll sound like jiffy.
16:15
@Batophobia Quite. That is not a gif, that is jif.
@fredley Everytime somone calls gif as "jif"
@JasonBerkan gif. With a g. Like give or git or gimp etc.
Ha, replied to a future post
@fredley Yeah, I'm not going to get into how wrong your wrongness is with regards to your wrong pronounciation of gif.
16:16
@Wipqozn That's not a gif or jif.
Stupid no-longer-a-turtle
@JasonBerkan The G is for Graphics
2014, The Year of the Delay.
@Batophobia A turtle for me. CSS ftw.
@fredley I was alive when GIF was created. I know what it stands for.
16:17
@JasonBerkan So was I
@fredley I was trying to start a peanut butter chain. It failed.
@Wipqozn that video was made for you
I slept in until 12:00 today, wow.
not working today
Pretty sure it's been linked before, but I'm too much of a rebel to care.
@MBraedley that's pretty rad
16:22
@Wipqozn mental_floss rocks
@Wipqozn There's more than just that one, too.
@Wipqozn I find it funny how all the comments are "you're not trying hard enough".
I thought the entire point of a "lifehack" was that it was supposed to be easy.
No the entire point of a lifehack is to annoy @Sterno
Also, what kind of monster eats milk and Oreos with a fork?
What kind of monster eats Oreos? Or milk?
16:31
Not sure if trolling or is actually a monster
typography is freaking difficult
Okay, so /r/gaming is full of assholes
@GnomeSlice This is why you go to smaller gaming subreddits.
@GnomeSlice No way.
Like /r/Nintendo.
Every time I try to post there I'm like maybe this time it will be different
16:36
The understatement of the century award goes to...
@GnomeSlice Also, someone did submit that link about a day or two before you.
I did a search, the last one was from like a year ago
Although that was to /r/Oculus.
@GnomeSlice I'm honestly not seeing the "assholes" here.
16:38
@StrixVaria Well somebody downvoted my super helpful comment.
SOME ASSHOLE
@GnomeSlice Two people. Things start at +1.
Also it's because you write advertisements like a marketing robot.
The guy fucking didn't watch or read anything, he just looked at the price and asked 'why is this is expensive, what's the difference' and he's getting upvotes.
'didn't read lol, tell me what this is'
Also, Bayonetta 2 demo is now available on Nintendo eShop.
oooooo
16:47
Oct 6 at 15:51, by Batophobia
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I will have to atleast get the demo just for that
@Batophobia Perhaps not the most diplomatic message, but that's pretty good.
With all the hate people give the WiiU, I think that's an acceptable response
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Q: How do I play @Almo's Pick a number game?

WardyThe rules are sooo complex .... He says I have to pick a number that noone else picks but I don't know what numbers other people picked so it's really confusing. Any ideas? Links: Almo's Profile The Game Prototype

Does this really count as a video game?
@GnomeSlice Honestly, it could use a little more explanation than "it has motion control" to explain why it costs 3 times as much as equivalent existing motion control devices.
Do we have a meta discussing our definition of a game?
16:54
@Batophobia It's clearly a game, but whether it's a "video game" is debatable
Let me rephrase, then
Do we have a meta discussing our definition of a video game?
@StrixVaria I SOMETIMES THINK HE MIGHT BE
@Batophobia Maybe. But in many cases borderline questions have to be discussed individually anyway
I'm having trouble finding a meta that would discuss that.
I don't think something that happens exclusively outside of said "game" doesn't really count.
The only interaction is inputting a number, based on whatever outside research you did, and then waiting to see if you "won".
I've a feeling a number of games involve things that are outside of the game itself
16:59
I'd call that betting/guessing without a reward.

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