The Bridge

user15026

4:00 PM

@Sterno they said they don't like to bite them, gosh

5pike

@MadMAxJr Or the chips we see are the standard format.

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah, this is san frantokyo after all

MadMAxJr

You're telling me that logic doesn't apply to cartoons? D:

Sterno

@AshleyNunn You're right. Step 1, CLEAN fingernails, removing the concern. Step 2, bite them

I bet there's another question about how to clean them

Kevin van der Velden

No, we're telling you that it might be the SD card of that place

user15026

4:01 PM

@Sterno probably

Chippies

Former SimCity artist is modding buildings into Cities: Skylines

MadMAxJr

Hmmm.

Yuuki

@Chippies >"Overall, this coal power plant is a deviation from the original style," writes Shannon of his coal power plant. "This asset introduces a nice dirty brown brick in to the game's overall neutral palette."

MadMAxJr

Time to stop whining about imaginary data storage formats and work on incredibly boring work request forms and data validation.

Yuuki

Cities: Skyline is now 1000% more Real™.

MadMAxJr

4:04 PM

I enjoy watching people build dams in Cities and 'oops, flooded the city.'

Sterno

I didn't know you could flood the city

I might need to actually play this now

MadMAxJr

I've seen pictures. People sink their city in half-building height water.

Kevin van der Velden

You can also really easily do it by accident apparently

Jason Berkan

My son was amazed last night, when a fire started by itself in SimCity 4. "I didn't even go into the Disasters menu, Dad!"

Kevin van der Velden

The official wiki has a note added by developers to save and backup that save before building a dam

user15026

4:06 PM

@JasonBerkan haha nice :)

MadMAxJr

Who needs a police force when the SWEEPING WAVES OF NATURE can wash the crime right out of a dirty city?

Yuuki

@MadMAxJr "waves" implies repetition when it's really just one big event.

SWEEPING FLOOD OF NATURE is more appropriate, I think.

Unionhawk

Waves imply periodicity (that's a word right)

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Yeah, it is.

Unionhawk

YUS

Yuuki

4:09 PM

Also, a case in which one cannot sits because one does not fits.

MadMAxJr

I vaguely recall building cities in SimCity 4 exploiting the 'neighboring city' options...

Pipe in all of your water from out of the city. Export your garbage. Build no residential areas, forcing people to commute from the city nearby. In doing so, you couldn't generate crime. Ever.

Unionhawk

Can we get a feed that is just /r/aww (that's not a good idea don't take this suggestion seriously)

Matt Giltaji

@AshleyNunn interesting, thanks for looking it up

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk I second an @Awwww! bot

user15026

@MattGiltaji I wanted the rep :P

MadMAxJr

4:11 PM

awwwwbot should only post when it detects drama, debate, or frustration in the channel.

LIFEHACKS DETECTED. BEGIN KITTY BOMBARDMENT.

Matt Giltaji

@MadMAxJr sounds like we need a lifehack for that awwwwbot

Unionhawk

I don't think you realize how much /r/aww does things

I'm pretty sure my professor's car is sentient

GnomeSlice

Takeout

Matt Giltaji

@Unionhawk does it call your professor "knight rider"?

Unionhawk

He's just telling this story about how his car is/was just having weird electrical problems

So I guess that's not the same as sentience

But, you know

0

A: How to kill Dozers effectively?

with the new update with rocket launchers if you hit a dozer from any side of his head it is a insta kill

THIS GAME HAS FUCKING ROCKET LAUNCHERS NOW

WHAT

Matt Giltaji

4:15 PM

> i'm afraid i can't let you do that @Unionhawk

Unionhawk

PLEASE TELL ME THAT ISN'T $10 DLC

Kevin van der Velden

Doesn't tell @Uni the bad news

Unionhawk

(if it is DLC, then it's not an update buddy)

(that's called DLC)

@KevinvanderVelden Of course, we're talking about Overkill here

Fucking, grenades were DLC

John

I want a Baymax.

Kevin van der Velden

With or without kungfu chip?

Matt Giltaji

4:18 PM

@John gizmag.com/big-hero-6/36122

CMU professor talking about building a real life baymax

John

@KevinvanderVelden Why not both?

@MattGiltaji :D

MadMAxJr

@Unionhawk Payday 2 is becoming a very, very sad joke. They're doing everything but making LEVELS.

Lazers

0

Q: Preventing mobs from taking damage from explosions

I've been working on a concept for an arena-style players-vs-mobs mini game in vanilla minecraft. I'm looking for a way to keep mobs from taking damage from creeper explosions using commands and command blocks. Does anyone know of a simple way to do this? I've already tried placing non-player mob...

MadMAxJr

The amount of recycled content presented as new content is getting gross. And that's not even taking into account how most of the audio assets are directly ported from Payday: The Heist

Unionhawk

> the 19th DLC pack for Payday 2

19!

MadMAxJr

4:20 PM

Admittedly though the miniguns and rocket launchers are hilarious. However rocket launchers are dumb dumb dumb. Can't open a safe. Can't hurt a car.

Kevin van der Velden

@John 2 Baymax-es? Sure why not!

Make one say ouch

Unionhawk

19

Hang on, let me get an official count

MadMAxJr

The minigun is sort of hilarious because you can get a short barrel version.

Unionhawk

Okay, so let's begin by comparing the game itself to its GOTY edition, $79.99 for the GOTY edition of a $29.99 game

Which means that the DLC is more than half of the price

John

@MattGiltaji @AshleyNunn Someone already asked

Unionhawk

4:22 PM

(also if you buy Payday 2 at full price you're doing it wrong that mess has been free weekend 75%+ off so many times)

Yuuki

@Unionhawk I would be fine with this if the DLC didn't drastically alter the game as the Payday 2 DLC has.

MadMAxJr

I'm not even concerned about the price anymore. The content you are getting is: Gun parts hidden behind absurd acheivements. Guns that render other guns obsolete. Gun DLC that is sub-par to out-of-box guns.

Sterno

The real question is why you weren't bored of Payday 2 a week after it came out

Unionhawk

@Yuuki I mean, some of it is just dumb

MadMAxJr

They expect you to play PD2 like it's some kind of horde game / tower defense game at this point.

Kevin van der Velden

4:24 PM

@John read your pings =p

Unionhawk

16 paid DLC packages

@MadMAxJr Yes

James

Sooo

John

@KevinvanderVelden Oh I don't see those when I go straight to the chat room from my bookmark without stopping by the site.

James

If I preordered a game but just because I wanted it not because of what it came with if I preorder it, thats ok right? :)

John

sorry @AshleyNunn @MattGiltaji

MadMAxJr

4:25 PM

I don't mind the character DLC stuff... I kinda like playing as Jacket, talking through a tape recorder

But TLDR; Payday 2 is "Buy this DLC, do stupid hat tricks 20 times or you can't get the acheivement locked content you bought."

I'll be less whiny when they give us actual stuff to /play/.

Unionhawk

8-ish of them are weapons packs 5 are heists, 2 are characters, and I cannot count apparently

Yuuki

I stopped with Payday 2 before the grenades thing came out.

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk this is not news

Unionhawk

Yes, I am just complaining

Again

I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO COMPLAIN DAMMIT

@Yuuki When they made stealth what it is now, I uninstalled the game. It's ridiculous (but maybe more realistic?)

But ridiculous

James

Ah

You are talking about Payday 2 DLC?

MadMAxJr

4:29 PM

Grenades were kind of a stretch for 'really? For bank robberies?' but now it's just silly.

Unionhawk

They've got so much range and they hurt teammates too

MadMAxJr

Oh you can stealth mod all kinds of guns! ONLY TWO OR THREE ARE VIABLE.

James

I looked at it all together and if you take out the character packs (2 of em ya pay for I think? maybe 3?) its still about 60 bucks and ... what is left is so not a $60 game... They played a long pay to play game ad it seems to have worked out for em

Probably release a new map or weapon pack or character when they see a 10% drop in average gamers over a week.

MadMAxJr

Maps do have a good bit of replay value, due to randomization. But once you've played each map a dozen times? That's it unless you're into acheivement farming.

Cause half of those acheivements are NOT happening in standard play scenarios

James

If the game had come with a 7 day heist (Does one even exist yet?) Then fine.. but just with the Ability to do a 7 day heist? Pft

I am Really looking forward to GTA V Heists

MadMAxJr

4:31 PM

Three day heists are about the limit.

Unionhawk

@James Dude, a 7 day heist would take 8 hours

James

Which is the game I preordered just to have it.. Having never played online Ive no idea the value of the 500,000 bucks they give out

@Unionhawk Doesn't have to. That all comes down to design man

MadMAxJr

And now they're pulling 'we pulled day 1 out of a three day heist as it's own heist! ITS NEW!' no it is not stop telling me it is. :|

GnomeSlice

@Sterno have you beaten Ziggurat yet?

Unionhawk

@James most of the time it's easier to stealth things so if you get caught, it's a RESET

(back to the start of the day)

@MadMAxJr Pulling the train heist out is a good change

MadMAxJr

4:33 PM

The train heist got a revamp with ziplines, so I'm less angry about that.

Unionhawk

WHY AM I TALKING ABOUT THIS GAME STILL I UNINSTALLED THAT MESS A YEAR AGO

MadMAxJr

Art Gallery and Cookoff are the ones I'm complaining about.

Sterno

@GnomeSlice No. I've been to the end boss 3 times and got him really close twice (and got completely crushed the other time)

It seems pretty dependent on what weapons you get there with

I had some shitty poison weapons on my last attempt and they just burned him down way too slow

Unionhawk

@MadMAxJr If art gallery is what I think it is (day 1 framing frame) that actually sounds interesting

MadMAxJr

I'm just worried they're going to do something even more stupid like 'ten story tall swat cop raid boss'

GnomeSlice

4:33 PM

Poison him then spam staff

MadMAxJr

Yeah, it's day 1 framing frame.

Sterno

I mostly run into trouble when those assholes show shoot a bunch of homing red pellets or whatever come out

MadMAxJr

Cookoff is Day 1 Rats

Unionhawk

That actually sounds like a thing that could be cool

GnomeSlice

@sterno if you get really close to home your spread shot on alchemy does a shitload of damage

Sterno

4:34 PM

Alchemy was grenades

@GnomeSlice My staff was what did the poison. I had the viper staff.

GnomeSlice

Yeah the demons are really hard

Sterno

Spell was I think poison as well

GnomeSlice

Viper staff is probably my favourite one

Lazers

0

Q: Are pedestrian walkways purely cosmetic, or do they help encourage walking instead of driving?

Does creating a network of pedestrian walkways increase the number of citizens who choose to walk or take public transportation instead of drive?

cities-skylines

0

Q: How much damage does Magic Weapon, Greater- and Crystal Magic Weapon add?

All three sorceries add magic damage to your weapon assuming the weapon can be enchanted. Is there a formula that shows exactly how much damage such an enchantment provides (and does it vary with weapon types)?

dark-souls

GnomeSlice

The poison spell is okay, the mega spread does good DMg if you get super close

He's hard to get close to though

The other green staff is good against him.

Rapitor

4:35 PM

the perfect US road trip?

Sterno

Oh good, my network is being shit again and dropping every message until I retry 2 or 3 times

@GnomeSlice Maybe, but it did pretty shit for damage on him. I mean, it was okay, but not as good as other staves. And then none of the minions would drop green mana after that

GnomeSlice

The one that just shoots one shot with high rof

Sterno

It's good I don't work at a tech company where we rely on solid internet.

GnomeSlice

Weird, I haven't actually lost to cepheus

Sterno

@GnomeSlice Yeah, that one's awesome but I've only seen it in two games (where I didn't make it to him)

GnomeSlice

4:36 PM

I've beat him all 3 times I've made it that far

fredley

@Rapitor Assuming you want to see the one biggest attraction in each state, and not the second biggest attraction in any state

Sterno

At this point the entire rest of the game seems pretty easy, but that boss destroys me

GnomeSlice

What really? That's like the most common staff

It's the one it shows you using in the end cinematic

Sterno

@GnomeSlice I swear I have shit luck. I keep telling you how the shrines curse me a ton and you've only had it happen twice. I don't even use them anymore it go so bad

GnomeSlice

I haven't tried hard mode yet or endless

I don't use the grey shrines

Thy always curse me

Sterno

4:37 PM

I don't either.

I just used the ones you pay for.

GnomeSlice

And you still get cursed a lot?

That's weird

Sterno

The buffs are often only temporary, and the negatives are game-long and awful

GnomeSlice

Have you unlocked the perk that disables punishments?

Sterno

And then there are the "half good, half bad ones" where the good is "more green mana" and the bad is "but 20% less health"

Not a fair trade

No

GnomeSlice

It's good

Yuuki

4:39 PM

@Rapitor Houston is not on the first route. Sounds about right.

Unionhawk

what

Yuuki

Not sarcasm, by the way. There is very little to see in Houston, tourist-wise.

GnomeSlice

Hull hogan vs shark?

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Specifically, Katy Perry halftime show shark.

GnomeSlice

Uh, okay

Unionhawk

4:40 PM

Which we can assume to be left shark

Yuuki

That went big really fast.

Unionhawk

Because, it's the internet

fredley

@Unionhawk Most of my questions are about the wallpaper

GnomeSlice

Oh is that the thing with the shark who sucked at dancing who wasnt actually that bad

Yuuki

@fredley ... Good point.

GnomeSlice

4:40 PM

Everybody was like lol terrible

Serverfrog

@Unionhawk Thats right shark. See at his arm

GnomeSlice

But idk he mostly did it right

StrixVaria

I've gotten to the point in swarmsim where they stop using number names and just use exponential format :(

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Not exactly its fault. Apparently, (s)he was brought on at the last minute.

And didn't know any of the choreography.

GnomeSlice

Why do you know that

Yuuki

4:41 PM

Reddit.

GnomeSlice

Why do they know that

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice AMA.

GnomeSlice

With Katy perry?

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Supposedly, it was with the sharks.

fredley

Mar 4 at 14:00, by StrixVaria

Why am I still playing this?

Yuuki

4:42 PM

Which, I guess, isn't really verifiable but whatevs.

GnomeSlice

Wtf?

Why

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Because Internet.

Matt Giltaji

@StrixVaria i always turn everything to exponential format as soon as i can

fredley

@Yuuki why?

StrixVaria

@MattGiltaji I don't because that's way less interesting.

Unionhawk

4:43 PM

@fredley It's at SXSW, probably not the weirdest thing

fredley

@Unionhawk You could have just said Austin

StrixVaria

I'd much rather see that I have 3 duotrigintillion than 3e99.

Unionhawk

@fredley I don't know where SXSW is other than in Texas!

Well, I do NOW

Yuuki

@fredley Because Katy Perry wanted her own dancers instead of the people who were originally signed on to do who had practiced for quite some time.

fredley

@Unionhawk It's weird, it's in Texas: It's in Austin

Yuuki

4:44 PM

And apparently, the AMA was with the palm trees, not the sharks.

GnomeSlice

Why did you bother to check that

Unionhawk

Because

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Because I had to inb4 [citation needed].

Kevin van der Velden

3 mins ago, by Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Because Internet.

@StrixVaria I have no idea what a duotrigintillion is, I do know what 3e99 is (mindboggingly big, but 1000 times bigger than 3e96)

Matt Giltaji

@StrixVaria i guess i never studied the number name stuff in school, exponential gives me a better view of what the differences are between the various numbers.

that and i giggle at sextillion

StrixVaria

4:47 PM

I've learned the number names from playing incrementals; I didn't know them before.

MadMAxJr

Adventure Capitalist will teach you big number names fairly quickly.

GnomeSlice

What a useful skill

StrixVaria

It's just less boring to me, and the actual quantity of numbers past like 1e10 is beyond human comprehension anyway.

Matt Giltaji

i used to think the whole "significant digits" thing was bs... incrementals taught me otherwise... when you are pulling in 1e86 meat per second, a trillion more or less doesn't mean a damn thing

GnomeSlice

@Sterno do you have the spell yet that shoots the red homing bolts like those demon assholes

I love that one but it doesn't always do what you want

The one that shoots the homing skull is fun too plus it does splash damage

Long fucking reload though

Chippies

4:51 PM

@GnomeSlice are the bolts actually like demon assholes? Is there a screenshot for it?

GnomeSlice

RMB one shots most enemies though

Not quite @Chippies

They're smaller and go way faster

Yuuki

@MattGiltaji Huh. Now I'm interested in using incrementals to teach sig figs.

GnomeSlice

Fun shit

Sterno

@GnomeSlice I got it once

GnomeSlice

Which one

Rapitor

4:54 PM

and now for some good ol' rage

Sterno

Well, I actually got both once.

The homing skull one was cool

GnomeSlice

The skull of xanatos or whatever

Yeah it's fun

It's great against carrots too

But I mean so is alchemy

Sterno

@GnomeSlice The depressing thing about my most recent loss was that I had 5 points in damage reduction and a good health pool

I just had crap for damage output

GnomeSlice

Porcupine bomb is best alchemy by far

Sterno

@GnomeSlice Until you get to the end boss

Matt Giltaji

4:55 PM

@Rapitor ffffffffffffffffffffff

GnomeSlice

Ugh, from divine punishments?

It's good on him too

You can hit him and poison his minions

If you get close the threebomb move does lots f damage too

It's great for killing minions from far away

If you hve alchemy mana use reduced you can spam the shit out of it

I think all 3 wins I had the porcupine bomb

I've also only faced the golem boss once and I got rekt

Yuuki

@Rapitor What I hate most about this is that it's coming someone who's supposed to represent Texas.

GnomeSlice

Have you beat him?

Yuuki

I can understand this BS coming from a far-right Republican from almost any other state (except Florida, I guess).

But TEXAS?

Sterno

@GnomeSlice No. I've only run into him once. And he's really been the only boss that was hard, once I knew what I was doing.

(and not counting the end guy)

GnomeSlice

4:59 PM

2 of 3 wins against Cepheus I had healing amulet

Matt Giltaji

@Yuuki he is running for pres now, trying to represent iowa and new hampshire rather than texas

GnomeSlice

Third time I had awesome damage though

Sterno

@GnomeSlice I've had it once. I usually get the shitty speed boost one, but sometimes I get a poison one that doesn't seem to do much damage

GnomeSlice

Boss minions don't drop health potions so its hard to get him down before he kills you

Yuuki

Texas at one point or another was NASA. There's a reason why each space mission called home to Houston.

GnomeSlice

5:00 PM

I've never used the poison one but I found it once. Kept my hp one

Brb almost home and gonna eat

Unionhawk

Okay, so I have an internship this summer. So that is good

Wipqozn

Matt Giltaji

@Unionhawk grats, what will you be doing?

Feeds

Wipqozn has added Jason Berkan to the list of this room's owners.

StrixVaria has removed Wipqozn from the list of this room's owners.

Unionhawk

@MattGiltaji It's an IT internship, so... I'm not really sure, but we'll see

StrixVaria

5:07 PM

IT internship = gruntwork setting up computers and conference rooms and stuff that the salaried IT people don't feel like doing because it's boring.

Matt Giltaji

@StrixVaria depends on the shop, but for the most part, yeah

Feeds

fredley has removed StrixVaria from the list of this room's owners.

Unionhawk

At the career fair it sounded like they treat it more like a co-op than most but we will see

Feeds

StrixVaria has added StrixVaria to the list of this room's owners.

Wipqozn

vimeo.com/106226560

@StackExchange I'm so oppressed.

Matt Giltaji

5:09 PM

even if it's crap work, professional networking and getting real experience on your resume is well worth it

Unionhawk

Yes

Matt Giltaji

@Wipqozn yay for professional drivers

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn This is fake. Notice the sequences of identical vehicles on identical paths.

I CAN TELL BY THE PIXELS

murgatroid99

@StrixVaria It's most obvious if you look at the multiple identical bicyclists and runners

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria Yes

Unionhawk

5:13 PM

pressure--

AND TO THINK I DIDN'T PLAN TO GO TO THE CAREER FAIR

WHAT AN IDIOT

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk Fuckin' starbait

you know what? No

NO STAR FOR YOU

StrixVaria

Career fairs seemed like a huge waste of time to me.

Unionhawk

How to get stars: 1) Be @Uni 2) Make self-deprecating jokes

StrixVaria

I've gone to 2 as a student and 2 as a company representative, and they seemed like a huge waste from both sides.

Unionhawk

@StrixVaria I literally got an offer from just my interaction at the career fair

So

Matt E. Эллен

5:16 PM

throws bees @Uni I'm so bad at throwing bees.

StrixVaria

@Unionhawk Huh.

I guess that's for an internship, though.

I never did any internship stuff.

Unionhawk

Yes, there is that

Fair enough

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk An offer for n interview...? or an actual "come work for us offer"?

Unionhawk

@Wipqozn An actual come work for us

Wipqozn

Don't get me wrong, I think you're pretty rad, but hiring someone just based on interactions on a job fair seems od

Then again I've never really been to one before, so what do I know

Yuuki

5:17 PM

@Wipqozn Even if it's fake, it feels oddly comforting.

Unionhawk

It probably also had something to do with the fact my mom works there, maybe a little

I didn't open with that, they figured it out

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk UNDERSTOOD

Unionhawk

And then remarked after I left that it's nice to have someone not open with that

Because seriously you think you're going to get a job if your main interest motivation is your parent works there

gtfo

I dunno, all I know is I have an internship

Wipqozn

Well that's pretty rad

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Eh, you're more likely to get a job if your parent works there, but I'll agree with the "if your main interest/motivation is your parent" thrust of the argument.

MadMAxJr

5:22 PM

Paid or unpaid internship?

Unionhawk

Paid

Not great, but not terrible

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Nice.

MadMAxJr

If you have family that works there and you're expecting to be hired, expect nepotism rules/laws to prevent you from working with or under family in the company.

Unionhawk

Sure

I'd rather not anyway

Yuuki

@Unionhawk I can't imagine the thought process of people who would.

Unionhawk

5:24 PM

I can't either

Like

Yuuki

Then again, their parents are probably different from mine.

Batophobia

Matt Giltaji

@Batophobia mario is gonna be pissed

Batophobia

Aug 9 '13 at 23:17, by badp

THANKS OBAMA

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn THIS WAS NOT MY STAR. I REFUSE TO STAR THIS.

Unionhawk

5:35 PM

@OrigamiRobot Are you running shield boosters or something? I'm still confused how you survived 4 vipers pretty much alone. I mean, I understand you're better at this game than me, but...

Sterno

All my image uploads are failing

How am I supposed to link gifs in chat?

This is awful

Wipqozn

@Sterno Just post them directly?

that could work.

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk YOU AND @TimStone HAD WEAKENED THEM SOME AND THEY WEREN'T ALL ATTACKING ME AT ONCE.

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno unless you're creating them you can try upload from web

Origami Robot

PAST THAT IT WAS JUST THREAT PRIORITIZATION: ATTACK THE ONE ATTACKING ME

Unionhawk

5:45 PM

I told myself I needed to bind a "select next hostile ship" key and I never did

Because highest threat becomes useless once missiles enter the field of play

Origami Robot

I DIDN'T GET HIT BY MISSILES TMK

Unionhawk

@OrigamiRobot Probably because your shields stayed up

As soon as my shields dropped I had an incoming missile

I don't know if it hit or not I was to busy boosting away from mass lock

The whole time I was like "OH GOD OH GOD PD DO YOUR JOB"

Because missiles still do pretty hefty hull damage

Obviously

But they do almost no shields damage

But I'm more talking about the dumfries 7km away that kept being selected as highest threat

Sterno

Unionhawk

Or seekers that didn't even have target lock on me

Sterno

I ask the important questions so you don't have to.

2

Wipqozn

5:51 PM

@Sterno You're a hero.

Batophobia

44

Q: Why does saying "Swiper, no swiping!" three times prevent Swiper from swiping?

In Dora the Explorer, Swiper often tries to swipe an object that Dora and Boots need to reach their destination. If they confront him and say "Swiper, no swiping!" three times before he reaches it, he'll say "Oh, man!" and leave. However, I've seen in some episodes they only manage to say it once...