The Bridge

Jin

20:00

hi

user30

meh.

user30

oh, Jin's here with our lasers!

user30

hey man.

Jin

@ThomasMcDonald :)

user30

playing much?

Jin

20:00

can someone help me to ID this game.. it was a ps2 title. you set up these traps in this castle/dungeon to kill people...

Brant

Dungeon Keeper?

Jin

basically every stage is like that, people will enter from an entrance, and they fall into your traps..

user30

yay, ITG in chat.

Powerlord

@Jin Deception?

Deception series

The Deception games are a series of console strategy-RPGs created and published by Tecmo for Sony's line of PlayStation consoles, that have an emphasis on passive combat via the use of traps. There are currently four games in the franchise. Games Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness Kokumeikan (刻命館) in Japan The first game in the series, released in 1996 for the PS, Tecmo's Deception also has the distinction of playing unlike its successors in almost every capacity. It used a first-person perspective similar to the then-popular King's Field series. At the time, Tecmo's Deception ...

Arda Xi

@LessPop_MoreFizz Fairer comparison. This is to the exact same server.

Jin

20:03

@Powerlord yes that's it! thanks!

Wipqozn

That was quick

Good job powerlord

Powerlord

@Wipqozn I was looking for this game in the past.

Wipqozn

Wait a minute...

Powerlord

No, not on our site... long before StackExchange existed.

Wipqozn

I've never made this joke before with you

Now you're playing with power!

►

Jin

20:05

NINTENDO POWER

Powerlord

Don't make me punch you with my power glove.

Jin

I had that issue of Nintendo Power of Ninja Gaiden3.. it came with the scarf thing where you can make a ninja mask

Powerlord

Ooh, someone has an Industrial Festivalizer with Nuts n' Bolts. offers his Dead Cone w/ Blizzardy Storm for it

user30

Festivalizer? I dunt like it.

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald Not my favorite hat either, but still...

Nuts n' Bolts is THE most wanted Engineer unusual effect.

I'm getting it more for the effect than anything else.

user30

20:09

Well, obviously

Powerlord

I'd rather have Nuts n' Bolts Texas Ten Gallon, but Best Engy hat + Best Engy unusual effect > valueOf("Snow Cone")

Also, more Blizzardy Pyro hats have dropped. Count is up to 5 now.

user30

Nuts n' Bolts Hotrod would be worth more, surely.

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald Doesn't exist.

user30

@Powerlord :O

user30

Will do eventually

user30

20:11

SELL SELL SELL

user30

2 more offers on my 2.5 buds...

Powerlord

It may, but... still seems like Texas Ten Gallon is the most wanted hat.

user30

Peace Hard Counter for 2 buds

user30

G. Fetti Private Eye

Powerlord

I've had someone offer a Purple Energy Hotrod for my Snow Cone. Not sure if that's worth it or not.

user30

20:15

5.5-7 buds I think

user30

so, er

user30

> well just to offer i'd give green fetti big country + 2 bills hats

user30

lol

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald: The problem is, I have no idea how much my Dead Cone w/ Blizzardy Storm is.

user30

Aye.

Powerlord

20:20

Bah, I was going to bump my Trade thing on tf2tp, but I forgot... I can't log in from here.

user30

It's going slow anyway

user30

as usual

user30

I need to get a scout unusual.

Powerlord

I rarely play Scoot.

The sad part is... I've had new effect hats offered for my hat, but they're for classes that I rarely play.

When I have a hat I want to trade that's for my fourth-least played class, and I get offers for my first and third least played classes...

badp

@Powerlord I'll offer you not one, but two jarates for it.

Just because you're such a good customer

think of the possibilities: you'd be 25% closer to being able to craft your very own solemn wow!

Nick T

20:25

what's that phrase from Top Gun? "You're writing checks your body can't cash"?

Powerlord

@badp YES! Just what I always wanted!

Nick T

Son, your ego's writing checks your body can't cash

Powerlord

Let me just delete these two Solemn Vows I have in my inventory to make room for it...

user30

So, I have 2 Old Guadalajara's, do I sell or rebuild?

Nick T

Do you have the technology?

user30

20:28

Yes.

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald Meh, those are both, what, 1 ref hats? You could try your luck rebuilding.

user30

Dragonborn Helmet

user30

3 ref, sweet.

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald See? You increased its value!

user30

Luckily.

user30

20:32

to be honest I was hoping it would be a TC

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald You have like a 1 in whatever many (200?) chance of getting a TC.

user30

I know.

user30

There are 175 hats

user30

of which about 30 can't be crafted

user30

I think

Powerlord

20:40

Hmm, Blizzardy Storm is no longer than rarest Pyro hat effect. Now Stormy Storm is.

It occurs to me that there are now 3 "hatless Engy" hats.

Texas Slim's Dome Shine (or whatever the original is called), Big Country, and Professor's Peculiarity.

Wipqozn

derp

0

Q: Searching for a Win9x Futuristic Flight Simulator Game

I am searching for an old Windows 9x (95/98 era) game: It was a futuristic - your craft was very similar to a space ship. You never went into space; or at least, I never progressed that far. It was close to a flight similator - you flew over a filled (not wireframe) landscape. The landscape w...

way to describe what a flight simulator is

Lazers

1

Q: Searching for a Win9x Futuristic Flight Simulator Game

I am searching for an old Windows 9x (95/98 era) game: It was a futuristic - your craft was very similar to a space ship. You never went into space; or at least, I never progressed that far. It was close to a flight similator - you flew over a filled (not wireframe) landscape. The landscape w...

identify-this-game windows

Powerlord

@Lazers Way to desc... oh wait, Wipqozn already said that.

Wish I didn't have class tonight. These long days are really getting tiresome.

GnomeSlice

20:58

I must be some sort of God.

Nick T

Data: "As requested, I shall now enumerate the reasons you left Jeff"

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Clearly.

badp

"The algorithm builds an array [0..n] sized on the input length"

Wipqozn

What is your reasoning for this?

badp

cringes

GnomeSlice

21:00

@Wipqozn I made a functioning Water Skiing system in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts n' Bolts.

Wipqozn

@NickT I love that episode. In Theory

Dave McClelland

@badp Wait, so it's actually of size n+1?

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice I apparently don't get the reference.

Dave McClelland

That makes the index gods sad

badp

@DaveMcClelland I guess it's so because every array position would correspond to the space in between the i-th and i+1-th token, and you need a "at the very end" position

user30

21:01

A 2 refined hat cannot have a buyout.

Dave McClelland

@badp Even still, oh my lord

badp

0 c 1 a 2 r 3

GnomeSlice

2 mins ago, by GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn I made a functioning Water Skiing system in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts n' Bolts.

Dave McClelland

hmm, i suppose

even still, that sems confusing

Lazers

21:14

0

Q: What's the most efficient way to light a plane to prevent hostile mobs spawning?

If I have a nice field cleared to muck about in, what's the best way to light it up so no hostile mobs can spawn? What if I use torches? What if I use Glowstone so it's all still flat?

minecraft

Nick T

@Lazers don't be lazy, figure it out urself

sjohnston

@NickT That doesn't really seem to be in the spirit of stack exchange

Wipqozn

3

sjohnston

Not that I believe extreme laziness is alright. That just seems like a non-trivial problem of the sort that we're good at solving

Wipqozn

2

That's enough image spam for now.

user20683

21:27

What is a good, solid economy joystick? say less than $50?

Wipqozn

@WorldEngineer I've never used a joystick before, but I've always been fond of logitech

logitech.com/en-ca/gaming/joysticks

I've bought two mice from them, and was quite satisfied.

user20683

my keyboard and mouse are logitech

user20683

the keyboard is fine, the mouse has some issues

Arda Xi

I personally am very fond of my Trust GM-2550.

I don't think it's sold anymore though.

Wipqozn

@WorldEngineer which mouse?

GnomeSlice

21:40

@Wipqozn Wh...

user20683

m100

user20683

my old one finally broke

GnomeSlice

@WorldEngineer Logitech makes excellent Joysticks.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice It's real. StFx is university in PEI.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn ಠ_ಠ

Arda Xi

21:41

@Wipqozn "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." -Abraham Lincoln

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi I demand a source.

Arda Xi

It's real. Abraham Lincoln was an American president.

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi l o l

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi Yes, I know that. Ah, nevermind.

Arda Xi

I was making a point.

Wipqozn

21:42

I no longer have one. Friend sent it to me a year ago, who was sent it by someone who goes there.

It could be a lie, but I prefer to think it is real

since it is funnier that way

Arda Xi

Just like my quote.

Lazers

21:54

-2

Q: Is there an open source replacement for minecraft that is compatible with minecraft

I am looking for a free(not pirated) way to play minecraft so I am looking for any open source game based on minecraft that is rather solid and compatible or at least on the same gameplay level with minecraft?

minecraft

GnomeSlice

@Lazers Do they mean "Comparable"?

Nick T

@Wipqozn I don't get it

Wipqozn

@NickT what happens if you hold F11?

Nick T

fullscreen/not-fullscreen

badp

@Wipqozn ...are they going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars into masturbation privilege deprivation devices to avoid incurring thousands of dollars of expenses in semen removal?

and more importantly did I need to know?

:P

Wipqozn

22:03

@badp Yes, yes you did.

@NickT which makes it appear as if the image is shaking

Nick T

oh

sophisticated humor is lost on me

badp

scumbag STS

send email about new strings

go down for maintenance

Wipqozn

@NickT earthquake

Nick T

2

Q: What's the most efficient way to light a plane to prevent hostile mobs spawning?

If I have a nice field cleared to muck about in, what's the best way to light it up so no hostile mobs can spawn? What if I use torches? What if I use Glowstone so it's all still flat?

minecraft

was I that unclear as to what I want?

Mana

YES

I GOT IT WORKING

\o/

Four monitors!!

3

LessPop_MoreFizz

22:11

@Mana dassalottamonitors

Mana

But so worth it.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Also, the new Das Racist album is now on Spotify.

It is fucking awesome.

Mana

Oh, cool!

But I'm not going to listen through Spotify because Canada

GnomeSlice

@Mana That statement seems unfinished.

Mana

also because it doesn't support the artists-- pirates the album

LessPop_MoreFizz

22:13

@Mana It'll show up everywhere else on Tuesday. :(

@Mana Pretty sure DR specifically put the album on Spotify a week early as a promotional tool, which means they did it specifically to support themselves.

Lazers

0

Q: What was the ultimate resolution of "The President Is Missing"?

"The President Is Missing" was a computer game back in the paleolithic era, roughly 1986, IIRC. It had a conspiracy theme, and was accompanied by a cassette tape of evidence. It was great fun, but I never unlocked any sort of definitive answer as to what the whole game was about. Does anyone els...

classic-games

0

Q: Can I play my Minecraft Classic Levels in Minecraft Beta?

Before I bought Minecraft Beta I made some huge structures in Minecraft Classic. Can I import these levels into Minecraft Beta somehow?

minecraft minecraft-classic

Mana

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh.

GnomeSlice

Oh man. This is so much fun.

FallenAngelEyes

Spotify's also historically pretty horrible at paying artists royalties

GnomeSlice

Banjo-Kazooie N&B waterskiing is the shit.

FallenAngelEyes

22:16

GnomeSlice

It's awesome because I'm piloting the boat even though I'm waterskiing behind it.

Mana

@FallenAngelEyes That's what I meant

I was actually thinking of that same image when I said that

FallenAngelEyes

Though that graph was made before they changed their business model earlier this year

Mana

oh.

FallenAngelEyes

I have no idea how much that has changed things

LessPop_MoreFizz

22:17

@FallenAngelEyes Yup, and it's why I don't use Spotify. But in this case, they're actually being used by the artist as a promotional venue, so I'm okay with it.

badp

@GnomeSlice Oh. I thought you were on the motherfucking boat :(

FallenAngelEyes

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, I getcha

GnomeSlice

@badp ಠ_ಠ

FallenAngelEyes

That chart apparently doesn't include last.fm because their royalty system is pretty incomprehensible

Mana

@FallenAngelEyes It's the one right above Spotify, 'innit?

GnomeSlice

22:20

Study: Women always answer their phone unless... well you know.

@FallenAngelEyes Yes it does.

Mana

@LessPopMoreFizz Oh, Bombay Bicycle Club's new album is out and it's really good, I'd highly recommend listening to it and their first

It might not be your cuppatea but meh

user30

Oh, I think they're playing somewhere local soonish

FallenAngelEyes

@Mana Ah, missed that. There's a quote on the article that's from where the author said: "As ever, this was incredibly difficult to research. Industry figures are hard to get hold of. Some are even secret. Last.Fm’s royalty and payment system is beyond comprehension. (If you can explain it to me, please get in touch)"

user30

but I've already spent enough on gigs and stuff for the rest of the year now

Mana

Shoot, I billed an order from Amazon to the wrong address. Any way to change the billing address?

user30

22:24

[amazon.SE]

FallenAngelEyes

you've already put the order through?

user30

oh

Lazers

22:36

1

Q: In the game "Skate"...what in the world is Jason Lee (The Coach) saying?

I was watching the demo to Skate the other day, and there's a voice actor (clearly Jason Lee, of My Name is Earl Fame) who kept repeating something like "ki ki kia" from time to time. Clearly this is some kind of skating lingo. Does anyone know what he's saying, and what it means?

skate-2

Nick T

Is there a "A Few Good Men"/Game of Thrones image macro?

I'm seeing Nickelson saying "You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall", then Tom Cruise saying (looking) like OK, then a shot of The Wall

dunno how well that would go over

but I lol'ed

FallenAngelEyes

@GnomeSlice Seriously, we do not need a "gibberish" tag, wtf

GnomeSlice

@FallenAngelEyes =[

Nick T

yes we do

haven't you seen those questions?

oh god, the humanity

FallenAngelEyes

@GnomeSlice No cookie for you >:(

GnomeSlice

22:44

=[

Nick T

Did you see that unedited ITG question?

user30

Hahahaha.

FallenAngelEyes

In our attempts to cleanup the useful tags we have, that one's not gonna help things yo >_>

Nick T

damn

user30

That was a great question

Nick T

22:45

what happend to it

GnomeSlice

ipla yed a gaem anndit ha zombeis innit wat th fuk wuz it?

user30

6

Q: NES/Famicom SideScrolling Series, with a 'Tongue' element?

I recall playing an old NES (Famicom to be precise) which had some cartridges with no apparent english title on them. I'd appreciate any help in identifying these games. One was a side scroller, with loooong stages - called scenes. The game had strange physics, and was populated by monsters wh...

identify-this-game nes famicom

Nick T

@ThomasMcDonald Rev 1

yesterday, by Nick T

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user30

I thought this was a pretty decent cleanup attempt earlier

FallenAngelEyes

Well apparently that's someone whose first language is not English

user30

22:47

@FallenAngelEyes Well yes, but still

FallenAngelEyes

@ThomasMcDonald I find mistakes from not having English as your first language more forgivable than "lol can u help me plz i dun no what im doin" and the like.

GnomeSlice

3 mins ago, by GnomeSlice

ipla yed a gaem anndit ha zombeis innit wat th fuk wuz it?

FallenAngelEyes

@GnomeSlice Yeah, that's not a language barrier, that's an ambition barrier. :P

GnomeSlice

@FallenAngelEyes Hahahaha. :P

user30

@FallenAngelEyes I don't think it's the mistakes aren't forgivable, I think it's more that it was amusing.

GnomeSlice

22:51

Not sure I completely got the joke, but hahahaha.

user30

particularly in the fact that Mr. Gnome cleared it up without feeling the need to add ~~stupid~~ hilarious tags to it

GnomeSlice

@ThomasMcDonald I couldn't think of any good ones.

I DID add the famicom tag.

And created it.

Also, I'm not sure which the OP meant they had played.

NES or Famicom.

bluh bluh bluh

Lazers

0

Q: What do the bands on the door mean?

In Blue Lacuna, I've found a door containing a series of buttons labeled with tiny pictograms of objects and creatures from around the island. Adorning the door at eye-level is a series of six colored bands directly on the wood. From left to right, the colors are red, yellow, black, white, blue, ...

puzzles interactive-fiction blue-lacuna

GnomeSlice

interactive-fiction? Really?

FallenAngelEyes

@GnomeSlice It is an actual genre, but given our revamped genre tagging policy, we should probably remove those tags

GnomeSlice

22:56

@FallenAngelEyes I wouldn't call it a genre. That's like saying "French" is a genre of music.

puzzles is the genre tag there.

badp

Tomorrow I'm totally going to write that BNF is the Boyce Neumann Form

GnomeSlice

@badp ._.

badp

(It's really the Backus Normal Form. I ought to be able to tell where the hell 'Boyce Neumann' came out of, but I can't Google ain't helping)

user30

btw, shouldn't osx be os-x?

badp

nope

I mean, yes, Apple does put a space

user30

22:59

yep

user30

also, the tag wiki is wrong

user30

as mac -> osx

badp

Super User doesn't care so meh.

user30

but yet removing that would leave nothing left :P

badp

@ThomasMcDonald We accept suggestions! 2 precious reps await you!

4 if you change the full blurb too!

user30

23:01

ooh, that'll push me up to a nice round number as well

GnomeSlice

Dammit, I just spent the time to take a silly screenshot to exploit the technical meaning of a question, and just realized it had been closed.

Well, shit.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice No, IF is actually a fairly specific genre.

user30

if a game is exclusive to one platform, it just has a game tag right? no platform tag?

FallenAngelEyes

Okay, I removed the tags from those questions and left a comment on the most recent to let the poster know why

LessPop_MoreFizz

Interactive fiction

Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games. In common usage, the term refers to text adventures, a type of adventure game where the entire interface can be "text-only". Graphical text adventure games, where the text is accompanied by graphics (still images, animations or video) still fall under the text adventure category if the main way to interact with the game is text. It can also...

GnomeSlice

23:03

@LessPop_MoreFizz Pretty sure MOST video games are Interactive, and Fictional.

FallenAngelEyes

@ThomasMcDonald In general, you don't really need to use the platform tag even on multi-platform games unless you're asking about a problem/feature specific to one version

user30

@FallenAngelEyes Yeah, I thought so, cheers.

FallenAngelEyes

:)

GnomeSlice

2 days ago, by GnomeSlice

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice And when I play Duke Nukem, I am playing the role of the Duke, but it isn't an RPG.

GnomeSlice

23:05

@LessPop_MoreFizz It's certainly fictitious.

FallenAngelEyes

@ThomasMcDonald Actually, what do British people usually say in respond to "cheers" being used as "thanks"? Do you say "you're welcome" or just let it be?

GnomeSlice

It's just a poorly named genre, is all I'm saying.

user30

@Fallen From what I've experienced, generally nothing.

user30

but then I wouldn't say many people respond to 'thanks' either

user30

ofc it could just be that my generation are rude and inconsiderate

FallenAngelEyes

23:06

Ah, hm

lol

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice a lot of genres are 'poorly named.' And while you can quibble over the literal definition of the words used to refer to it, the fact is that there is an established technical convention in place, and doing so isn't going to help you have a constructive conversation on the subject with someone that does use that convention.

user30

perhaps "it's alright" (or alrate/alreet where I am) would be the most frequent response in my county

badp

[Window Title]
Error Opening Printer

[Main Instruction]
Windows cannot connect to the printer. The local print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler or restart the machine.

[OK]

ಠ▃ಠ

user30

﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz That really wasn't my intention.

@badp +1 for Chrome.

@ThomasMcDonald +2 for Chrome.

(✌ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

user30

23:08

◔_◔

user30

@badp so what about mac hardware questions then?

user30

seeing as mac maps onto osx

user30

do they go under that tag as well?

badp

Do we have mac hardware questions?

user30

waits for joke

user30

23:12

sort-of

LessPop_MoreFizz

4

@badp Yes we do!

badp

Could've brought this up on meta when we discussed the merge, eh?

Now it's too late for me

recall me tomorrow

@LessPop_MoreFizz WoW account not required

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp I haven't looked at Meta in a day or two.

4

Q: How do I use function keys on a Mac?

I recently switched my whole system to Mac OSX (Snow Leopard 10.6) from Windows 7. Now I've installed WoW and imported my old configs/addons without any problems, besides that my keybindings from F1 to F7 are completely overriden by some Mac functions like brightness/sound/keyboard backlight etc....

osx keyboard

user30

to be honest I only came across it through looking for tag wikis to improve

LessPop_MoreFizz

3

Q: How do I use my iMac as a "monitor" for my Xbox 360 and my Wii?

I ditched cable a long time ago and have been making do with Netflix, Hulu, and iTunes for my television needs. The displays on the new iMacs these days are big enough and high enough quality that I think they should be perfectly adequate for my gaming purposes, too. I will be upgrading to one of...

xbox-360 wii osx monitor

GnomeSlice

23:26

►

YOU MADE ME DO THIS.

user30

191

Biblical Hermeneutics

Proposed Q&A site for professors, theologians, authors, and anybody else interested in an exegetical understanding of the meaning and proper application of the Christian scriptures.

Currently in commitment.

user30

biblical whats?

GnomeSlice

@ThomasMcDonald Hermeneutics. I forgot what it means... uh....

Shit. I can spell it at least.

Nick T

23:48

A skeleton archer shoots me near a cliff, all my wolves run off the cliff and die trying to reach it. Yay.

-3

Q: What should I tell my children about Santa?

Is it wrong to lie to my children about the existence of Santa? When they get older how do I explain to them that I was lying? How can I expect them not to lie when I confess to them that I had been lying about Santa's existence?

children

Lazers

0

Q: Tropico 4: What do the minister traits mean?

When hiring ministers you get to see their intelligence, courage, and leadership. For the average citizen these control: ability to learn their job, likeliness to become a rebel, and chances of becoming a faction leader. What role do they play for ministers? Is it better to hire an intelligent ...

tropico-4

0

Q: Can I run Diablo II on Mac OS X 10.7?

I planed on buying a digital copy of Diablo II to prep my left click muscles for any potential beta access to Diablo III in the near future. Despite the requirements stating that Diablo II can run on "Mac OS X 10.3.9+", the installer gave me "You can't open the application installer because Powe...

osx diablo-2

0

Q: Can you disable automatic memories?

I have recently been playing sims 3 including all expansions so far. Generations has memories, which is great, except that everything seems to be a memory. Every time the game come up with a memory, I just click on the close button. But for some reason, it gets added to my scrap book. I like the ...

pc sims-3

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