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Q: What gaming keyboard(s) will work with Ubuntu?

jgbelacquaI've been looking at gaming keyboards to use on my 11.04 Desktop. Microsoft has a few popular ones (e.g., Sidewinder X4, X6), but the programmable function keys appear to be unusable without the Windows software. Another choice in my budget is the Cyborg V.05. It seems about right for my needs,...

 
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Q: How can I find the actual seed code for my map?

WarfaceWhen a map is created randomly, how can we find the seed that it has generated ? I want to find some cool map in single player and when I'll find one, I want to get that seed and create it on my SMP server.

 
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Q: Game page problem on Facebook

Lynne IngramBanksWhen I go to Garden of Times game, I get redirected to a page that reads: You may have checked an expired link. The page you requested was not found! Did I somehow cancel this page instead of "HIDING some post"? Can I get access to the game again?

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Q: Are the gas cylinders the same as gas grenades in Deus Ex: Human Revolution?

CyberSkullI'm doing a new run in Deus Ex: Human Revolution (going for Pacifist and Foxiest of the Hounds) and I was wondering if the gas cylinders you find lying around count as the knock out gas found in the gas grenades or if it is lethal. I'm in the opening sequence and using the cylinders seems to be ...

 
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Q: Gambling / slot machines: do you know of innovative games?

NorbertI'm tired of traditional slot machines ("Las Vegas") you see in casinos. There are hundrets of games, but all are varieties of the old spinning wheels games. Do you know of any other machine or game types? I mean entertaining games AND that are completely based on luck (not on skills "flipper")....

morning all
@FallenAngelEyes Afternoon
How goes?
Munching on cookies
oooh what kinda cookies?
09:39
Chocolate chip, miniature ones. I don't really want to look at the nutritional contents right now...
Oh gosh, 7% fat for one portion, and three portion in the entire packet. And I ate the entire packet...
Hahaha
Don't worry, think of it as training to achieve that stereotypical gamer physique!
 
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Q: How do I place a bed in minecraft so no mobs spawn?

DemonicMushyIs what way do I put the bed and how must the surroundings are in order for mobs to not spawn when I am sleeping?

Why is the exact duplicate link missing here?
@Mana Because for some reason there's an edit war going on over the post? gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/29771/revisions
Woah, what the hell?
@Mana Because it was rolled back
I think you need to tell that one user that adding nonsense tags is frowned upon
Clearly.
Comment, lock, wait a few hours or so
11:14
It's quiet now, no real need to lock.
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Q: Will I miss anything important if I turn the sound off?

jaminjaIn the Dwarf Fortress options menu, the Music and Sound option allows you to set the desired volume, however this is a single option that will turn off both music and sound is set to 0. For the moment I would like to play without the music on, but as a new player, I'm a bit worried that I might ...

posted on September 08, 2011 by racer

you get such a huge volume of questions here, It is probably hard to manage, especially with all the "off topic" ones cluttering up the place. Have fun in your mom's basement today! thank for the answers! Handheld dilemma.

@Lazers WTF was that?
@YiJiang Hard to say, really. It was either a sarcastic insult or a polite thank you that tried to make a joke and had it backfire miserably.
Either way, left a comment, closed and deleted.
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Q: What's build number of the leaked cancelled Half-Life port for Dreamcast?

SiPlusAsking this because can't launch the build by myself. Attach a keyboard to your Dreamcast. Open any map in the leaked Half-Life build for Dreamcast. Press ~ to open the console. Type "status". Tell me the 3-digit or 4-digit (I think in 2001 it's 4-digit) number that the console will say (or tel...

12:06
Woho, finally got the pacifist achievement on Deus Ex: HR!
@mordi2k Congrats man!
@Mana Thanks:) Wasn't as hard as I thought it would be!
user19161
12:22
@Mana Changed my name this time.
@Jasper Oh cool.
user19161
@Mana How is your modship so far?
Pretty cool, pretty relaxed. No big drama yet.
user19161
Good. Hope you do well in your studies too.
Thanks!
12:28
@prosay what the hell were you thinking here? gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/29771/revisions
@badp Did you do the special @@ thing?
yeh.
Neato!
13:05
@badp oh i know demonicmushy and we were just playing around
13:24
oh dear
@ProSay In the future, can you please not have fun on our poor tagging system? It's really confusing when something like that happens and it spams up the front page for no reason.
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Q: Redstone torches spasming out?

ProSayIn my server when i place redstone torches and work on something else while on the same chunk the redstone torch can sometimes flicker even when on its own.

> HTC sues Apple using Google patents
Well, now we know why Google acquired Motorola.
@Powerlord OHHHHHHHHHH MAAAAAAAAAN
13:43
I need to get into Webgl
Ive been only doing canvas stuff for the last few years
@BrettWhite Steam gift worked. Thanks!
@mana
ok sorry
No worries bro.
@AnnaLear Yeah! Awesome, I'm glad! Sorry about that mess
@Brett Any idea what's going on with the Dead Island gifts? None of the people who signed up for the grant have gotten them yet.
13:52
@BrettWhiteΨ No worries. I think it surprised both of us. I've never known Canadian Amazon to suck that badly.
I don't mean to stress you out since I know the process is a pain and you're not actually the one who buys the gifts(as far as I am aware).
hrm
gaming blogoverflow ain't loading
Oh, now it did
@Mana Have none of the four gotten them? I know we had problems with Steam; they didn't like us using the same credit card to send multiple gifts back to back. I know one of them went through, then the rest failed.
I was told that the rest went through, but I can check and make sure
@Brett Oh, my bad. Probably one of us has gotten it then but AFAIK Fallen and I have not gotten the game yet. Unless you don't get an email when you get the game?
@Mana You should get an email. Right? I've never received a Steam game, but I think you get either an email and or a notification when you log in
13:59
They need to get Dead Island fixed :?
I want to play it
@BrettWhiteΨ @yx_ got his Dead Island but afaik @Mana, @TheQ and I have not
I have no email as of yet
Last night the servers were down when we tried to play :?
@BrettWhiteΨ I know you get an email notification.
@yx said he got his like a week ago
Yeah, just checked Steam and I haven't gotten it.
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Q: Change the weather on vanilla SMP?

ProSayIs there any command to change the weather on SMP, because sometime i just want to experiment with stuff and the rain gets in the way.

Rain ALWAYS gets in the way.
 
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Is there a stack exchange for everything?
lol, in a comment about the patents Google transferred to HTC, someone said this:
> It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.
@Wipqozn bitcoin.stackexchange.com - yes. yes there is.
@Powerlord I thought that was the reference made in the Ars article title
wtf is bitcoin?
user30
@LessPopMoreFizz I give that perhaps a few weeks
15:20
@ThomasMcDonald That's optimistic.
@Wipqozn Better that you don't know.
@Wipqozn New age crypto-something underground currency
YO YO YO I'M MC BITCOIN$ AND I'M HERE TO SAY / RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON
@LessPop_MoreFizz wut
@Wipqozn It's a fictional currency. And by fictional, I mean has even less backing than your traditional fiat currency.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I love Yelling Bird
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@FallenAngelEyes afaik?
@BrettWhiteΨ As Far As I Know
@FallenAngelEyes Oh, yeah, duh, that's uh, that's what I assumed it was. yeah, yeah that's the ticket
dykjfic? (Don't you know jargon for Internet chat?) :P
@LessPop_MoreFizz This is flipping me out, man! I can't make heads or tails but I think I like it
@Powerlord OCID!
@Powerlord Of course I do?
@BrettWhiteΨ I do not have Obsessive Compulsive Internet Disorder! (btw, what ever happened to the game Acrophobia?)
15:29
@BrettWhiteΨ RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL
@Powerlord Yes you do! YES YOU DO!
You know, it turns out the US having a First to Invent policy may work in Nintendo's favor over the latest patent they're being attacked with over the Wii's controller.
They have a Japanese patent that predates the US patent they're being sued over.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Hahahahahahahaha
@Brant RON PAUL
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@LessPopMoreFizz you a Ron Paul supporter or something?
Based on your D&D image I was thinking you sound like a Ron Paul supporter
@Loktar No, I think Ron Paul supporters are generally pretty ridiculous and I like to make fun of them.
Also, Bitcoin.
heh I feel the same about D&D !! :O
I can't wait to install that on my new MacBook cutting board
Argh, how do you do strikethrough?
I think @powerlord figured it out at some point?
user30
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---text--- produces text
yo people
can has peer review?
user30
possibly.
user30
need to be logged in
15:42
@Brant Yeah, you need to login first
It's TF2 stuff though, so fret not if you aren't in this hat simulator thing yet.
(Who woulda thought.)
user30
oh god
I don't even remember what my login is.
user30
quickfix?
Oh yes
@Powerlord powerlord
user30
@Powerlord That would be powerlord.
15:43
btw @Brant if you want a login to the blog I can arrange that for ya
(or Thomas can)
It's not like I know the difference between Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber
gah, I fail at the youtube embed yet again
excellent
just beat HR, got pacifist
I see what yahtzee meant about the terrible end game though
and just the ending in general
blah
@Wipqozn Indeed, the endings are terrible.
I dislike you for getting pacifist.
I dont know how I didnt :(
I got pacifist and foxiest today! :D
15:57
@mordi2k yahtzee was correct hen he said the ending was just jensen saying "I'm awesome, and made the right choice."
theres only one instance I can think of, if a robot self destructs next to an enemy and kills them (after I have knocked them out) does that count against me?
during the battle with Malik that happened
I wouldn't even say it was a ending...
@Loktar Nope, it doesn't count against you.
hmm maybe I will post that as a question.
@Loktar During the malik battle, I believe it doesn't count. However, I think during all other encounters it does
ah ok
well wth then..
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@Wipqozn It doesn't.
well that sucks then.. I never used weapons other than none lethal
oh well
@Loktar Did you kill any of the gards in the last boss fight?
ill stop crying about it
nope
used the taser
wish there was a way to check the status of the achievment
then I could load up to a point before I guess
There is a hard way.
Check all the bodies x)
lol
16:00
you're not the first to not get it.
I may load up from the malik rescue again
and go from there
@ThomasMcDonald when you go heavy vs heavy, what's the range of damage per bullet you typically deal?
It sounds like it might be glitchy
You can just get Malik killed as well.
I know one person killed someone with a tranq irfle
16:01
It doesn't matter for the achievement.
God damn, I think I just broke the game :( HUD position is way off.
oh wow really?
I shot people in the head with the tranq
AS have I. It would appear it will glitch every now and again./
Yeah, it glitches sometimes.
ohw ait
Did you kill anyone during the opening sequence @Loktar?
oh crap.... I bet I did :(
16:06
lololololololololool
OMFG
no big deal
lol man that sucks
just go back, and redo
LOL yeah
16:07
then just do the rest of the game from that point
hahaha yeah ill get right on that :?
bah that sucks
I didn even think bout that
you only need to redo everything after that, including that
It's not that bad doing the game over tho, only takes like 4-5 hours.
oh ok, so like just everything after the very beginning then?
at least I dont have to start it from the opening sequence :P
16:08
Think of it as a speedrun!
yeah Ill probably do it in a few weeks
I was very underwhelmed by the ending
so it made me a bit jaded
Hm
@Loktar I feel ya.
I might have to rethink the bit where I say a heavy + quickfix medic has the upper hand on a heavy + regular medic
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Q: What effects does the weather have in SimCity 2000?

Yi JiangThe window showing the currently selected tools also displays the weather. I know that certain weather like tornado warning are indication for random disasters, but what effects does the other, everyday weather like sunny, cloudy or raining have on the city? I'm playing the DOS version on DOSBo...

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using the '5-30' damage numbers from the wiki:
(for one random walk, actually this is better than the average I see when I hold F9)
If the quickfix medic hits uber 1 second in the fight though, it pretty much becomes a coinflip
@badp Does the quickfix not overheal?
(and this is without crits)
@DaveMcClelland The quickfix can only hold overheal, not build one.
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@badp Ahh.. I didn't know that. Interesting
Dispensers also hold overheal by the way
Yo.
16:12
@badp really? That's neat.
@RavenDreamer Yup. Heal a engie by his dispenser and he's going to stay at 180 for a while
Same with the cart on payload maps
@Mana Hey. We're talking about the best hat simulator on Earth. Wanna join? :P
Yo, quick question: if I have a credit card balance that reads $<value>- , does this mean that I have extra money on my credit card?
Note the minus sign
@Mana Negative balances are usually in parentheses, but I suppose that might make sense too?
16:15
If I'm reading this correctly it does but I'm not sure if I should trust eHow
You still playing League of Legends, Dave?
@Mana Maybe a good question for the personal finance and money stack exchange?
@SJOHNSTON JUST TELL ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I don't know. I haven't seen that before
@Mana MONEY.SE
16:17
Okay. Well, I shall have to figure this out.
Excel can be fun
It's a coinflip if I decide to hit uber at 130 hp and I have a reaction time of 0.2 seconds
I have it on good ____ that Gaming has the best mods ever!
and the damages are randomly spread between 5 and 30
authority
yes, that's the right word
16:20
Damnit, why is it so hard to think of words some times?
Recall failure! D:
Google bought Zagat? That's... an odd one.
Za-wat?
Zagat Survey (, rhymes with "the cat") was established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of restaurants by diners. For their first guide, covering New York City, the Zagats surveyed their friends. As of 2005, the Zagat Survey included 70 cities, with reviews based on the input of 250,000 individuals reporting over the years. In addition to restaurants, Zagat guides rate hotels, nightlife, shopping, zoos, music, movies, theaters, golf courses and airlines. The guides are sold in book form, as software for personal digital assistants and mobile phones...
I guess Trip Advisor was too expensive
@badp Slightly different business model.
Also, Zagat is slightly less tourist oriented. At least in theory.
16:30
They're probably going to use their data to improve Maps
@Mana /s/Maps/Places.
More specifically, they're trying to kill off Yelp.
oh, right
See also, what happens now when you search for a restaurant that used to have a Yelp result at the top of the search.
Basically, they're trying to buy credibility here.
lol
7700967 Fixed weird submit buttons
9b3639f fixed the input class for width
ac3fdc9 affects-me-button for the outstanding reports list in the feedback form?
620cf7e small comment
77c08aa Merge branch 'dev' of code.ondina.co:ondina/cp into dev
ee0677b Created DNS module and basis
3b58f33 Added updated styles for controls and dropdown
e29e6061 No ID is required
4cda3b Moving forward to 0.5 as when DNS completes we'll be a 0.5 release
45fe891 Integration of API shit
d851f46 DON'T STOP ME NOW!
895612f I'M HAVING A GOOD TIME!!!!
<3
@badp That is pretty incredible
16:42
"Even Last.FM couldn't stop me now"
@Mana it was a lot of fun
My girlfriend recounted the story of when she got home from work - around the 38th hour awake. I was jumping on the couch dancing to that song in my boxers with one sock on and my t-shirt backwards
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Q: Are those Animals Chickens or Ducks?

ProSayMy friends and i just can come to a decisions; are those chickens, chickens or ducks and those ducks, ducks or chicken?

@MarcoCeppi Oh man, I never felt more awake at 7am than the one time I spent all night away hacking at my Bachelors' thesis no one cares about anyway.
Weird stuff, weird stuff.
Yeah, after a while it seems the more tired you are the more alert and energetic you are. I ordered Chinese food around hour 30 and sprinted down the apartment hall to pick it up
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@MarcoCeppi Yeah, essentially once you hit a certain point in sleep deprivation, your body decides that it isn't going to get any and it should stop trying to convince you otherwise, and kicks the adrenaline into high gear to let you get through whatever is keeping you awake.
(Note, while you feel more awake and alert at this stage, it's a state that is not all that dissimilar to severe intoxication, and you should not attempt to do things that actually require you to be very alert like driving.)
(Also, you will eventually crash very abruptly, and very hard.)
Right, I shut myself in and ordered out for food
(Other noticeable side effects of that adrenaline surge are a high susceptibility to panic attacks, a tendency towards generally manic behavior, and otherwise 'extreme' reactions to most stimuli. Because you're essentially in a full on fight-or-flight mode.)
@Mana I just checked our steam account, the other 3 gifts failed. Failed! Steam is wonky. I'm going to get them purchased again
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@BrettWhiteΨ Failure.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I'd like to see the form submission code I'd end up writing in that kind of state.
@BrettWhiteΨ Just came in to post as I got the tag notification from the previous chat. I definitely didn't receive mine either.
if (!isValid()) { deleteAccount(); /* GRAAAAAAH*/ }
@Brant I can't speak to that, but if I dug around, I could probably find some of the old college papers I wrote in that state... they are... ugly.
I seem to specifically recall one on the french existentialists that somehow detoured into a prolonged exploration of Homer Simpsons embodiment of the Nietzschean ideal or some such...
I... did not do well in that class.
@TheQ You're right, we purchased it and I just checked our account; the transaction failed. Steam has been really difficult with us gifting multiple gifts to different users back to back.
@TheQ But I'm on top of it! We're re-ordering them today, logically they should gift just fine.
17:04
@BrettWhite Not a problem here, just wanted to let you know. I've had trouble with gifting through Steam before, so I'm not at all surprised.
@BrettWhite You're awesome!
@BrettWhiteΨ You could be running afoul of some fraud-prevention trigger. Creating a new account and using a credit card to gift games to a bunch of other people is kind of suspicious.
@Brant yes it is. I am pretty sure that Amanda, who handles the credit card, got Steam on the phone and talked to them, or emailed with them at least
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Q: technology to choose for games development

BhupiI am an application developer (JAVA/J2EE), now I want to go for games development also, can somebody suggest me which technology I should go with like Java, C++ or some other? What are the prerequisites? And what is the process of a 3D game development; like first the models is designed in MAYA ...

Closinate!
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@BrettWhiteΨ When I ran into this problem, it was my bank blocking it, not Steam.
They had a sale like 2 years when the then-$40 Orange Box was on sale for $5. I gifted 3 copies before it started rejecting them.
Of course, now if I wanted to do that, I'd just add money to my Steam Wallet in one larger chunk, then use that to buy them.
Although... I've forgotten where the option is to add money to my Steam Wallet outside of Team Fortress 2
@Powerlord Your account
@Powerlord Oh yeah, I should have Amanda investigate the Steam Wallet thing
The problem is, I think Steam Wallet transactions are still limited to $100.
@BrettWhiteΨ Received the email for the gift now, yay! :D
@FallenAngelEyes Great! One more went through!
user30
17:27
Yeah, I had an issue where I tried to put through two transactions in quick succession (they both failed) and it blocked my account for a few hours, although that was on the steam side.
@BrettWhite Got mine as well. Thank you!
@TheQ Great, I'm glad that worked! Amanda is great too, I thank her on your behalfs :) Behalves?
@BrettWhiteΨ Thanks to Amanda as well! :D
Yes, thanks to her as well
Now... the painfully long download time begins.
@TheQ how long does that take on average
17:33
Not sure what it would be on average, but it's looking to be about 3.5 hours here.
I actually saw someone complain about how bad their "broadband" was (quotes theirs) because it took them 45 minutes to download a game.
And the game was tf2 :P
@BrettWhite Oh my god it worked. IT WORKED
user30
lol
@Loktar No, actually they didn't say, but the implication was that it was Civ V.
Or some other game where they had to "download it despite buying it in a box at the store"
The irony there being that Valve doesn't even do that for their own games.
17:37
So what game have you just got?
@Mana You got it too?
@Mana The Steam gift, I mean
yeah bro
Wow! TF2 is fixed!
This is amazing!
@RonanForman ...it was broken?
17:39
The menu music plays for more that a second now.
It still takes ages to join servers though. :(
Oh, @mana! Congrats!
Ugh, stupid instructor doesn't say what docs she wants, just "A description of what will happen when each element is used." So... written description? Psuedocode? Flowchart?
I meant to congratulate the other day, but I forgot.
I'm referring to the fellow who made negative remarks about you censoring him. Is this your first time as a mod of someone accusing you of being corrupt?
In just 50 days, Valve will give us a new Halloween map... maybe.
I hope its sooner
17:52
> NBC viewers were introduced to an innovative new television show called Star Trek on September 8, 1966—exactly 45 years ago today.
Star Trek is 45 now? :O
@Powerlord Did you just self-xkcd891?
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