The Bridge - 2015-03-31 (page 9 of 11)

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9:00 PM

@Yuuki it's been a rough day for carebears like you

@Jin I have homework to do and Story of Seasons to get anyways.

I didn't want to play StackEgg anyways! (cries)

@Yuuki it's only internet pixel loot... sweet sweet pixel loot

I'll play Bloodborne. At least it's PRETTY while it slowly makes me die inside.

Oh snap.

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Q: Skyrim- Getting Gold

Okay, I've sold everything I could, went into a lot of caves, and killed lots of bad guys. I'm still out of gold. The explanation: I've bought the Windhelm house, which took all my money. So, I've done everything that I could think of. Any more ways to get easy gold anyone?

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Q: How do I quickly and easily kill the WoF

As a pre hardmode ios terraria player, I think it's new nescasarry to kill the WoF (wall of flesh) sooner or later. I have full crimtane armor and a LOT of different accesories. I am building a platform. I have a nights edge and I will reforge all of my gear. Plz help me I don't know how else I c...

9:03 PM

@MadMAxJr I don't think that word means what you think it means

@Jin kind of, but not fun

and. Story of seasons is now downloading.

sooner or later Nintendo will learn what pre-loading is...

@Rapitor is it like going to the store early in the night

@badp Inconceivable!

@MadMAxJr I will point out that I am the Sicilian here

SURPRISE!

@Rapitor Physical copy > digital

9:06 PM

Nintendo wants you to /always/ know that there is a bankers pen chain between them and the game you bought at all times.

@Frank lies and slander

Thanks to Steam, I think I'm done with physical copies of any media.

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@JasonBerkan Me too, except for special editions

TIL spaghetti grows on trees

@Frank This is how I feel about consoles. PC, on the other hand...

9:07 PM

@JasonBerkan Admittedly I wouldn't mind a source-engine copy of my room with digital-physical box copies of all my purchases.

@Rapitor When it comes to property rights, I'm afraid it's very, very true.

Ugh, this is so frustrating

I want to try out Ubuntu Touch!

And those rights trump any convenience I get out of digital goods. At least, for console systems.

@SaintWacko I've tried enough of it in the "emulator" inside 15.04

it looked like a mess.

@badp Recently?

9:09 PM

A couple weeks ago.

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Q: WWE 2K15 not downloading

Im trying to download WWE 2K15 but when it starts to download it says can't download WWE 2K15. I know I have the storage room, what can I do?

Hrm

It's not really an emulator, I mean.

Well, maybe it's a good thing it's not working, then

I'm just going to start pretending that Mako (Aku, General Iro) laughs at me when I die in Bloodborne. Maybe that will inspire me to conquer evil better.

9:10 PM

@MadMAxJr i thought of the horribly controlled mass effect vehicle, but w/e works for you

@MattGiltaji The planet lander from 1?

@MadMAxJr yeah

it was called the mako

i remember the "you have died" music playing when i crashed that thing every damn time

I thought of the code name for one of the nexus devices

... Don't they just named them Nexus? Nexus 5, 7, 10?

The Nexus 4 is codenamed Mako

They all have codenames, too

9:12 PM

Didn't know that. Huh.

The original Nexus 7 is also grouper

My 10 has held up pretty well.

and its software is nakasi

Yeah, my 7 is great

HALF-LIFE 3 (Honest Game Trailers)

My son dropped it on the ceramic tile floor the other day. The back popped off, but other than that it was fine

I was not happy, though

Especially since he had been told not to mess with it

9:14 PM

Google can't cure your state of not-happy.... Yet.

Kevin van der Velden

I'm just gonna post it here cause it's about games (and I wanna show it off cause it works :D) Map gen for my game I'm building!

Questions 4 Answers 4 Users 3 Quality 3. UPVOTE!!!
Questions 4 Answers 4 Users 4 Quality 3. DOWNVOTE!!!
Questions 3 Answers 4 Users 4 Quality 4. ASK!!!
Questions 4 Answers 3 Users 3 Quality 4. ANSWER!!!
Questions 4 Answers 4 Users 3 Quality 4. UPVOTE...

Kevin van der Velden

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That's.... round.

Kevin van der Velden

It is

9:14 PM

Looks like you sawed a planet in half.

And it's dungeons. Dungeons all the way down.

Kevin van der Velden

You start in the center and work your way outwards, if I'm letting you gen something this large the size is probably be called "Are you serious?"

Is it a maze

Spam

Commence burning

we'll be lucky if this run is under 300.

Kevin van der Velden

This was mostly a test of how my map gen would handle something this large

9:16 PM

@KevinvanderVelden You now owe the internet oracle the shortest path from a corner to the opposite that only uses black pixels.

Kevin van der Velden

@badp 90% sure there isn't one

The title of the game is "That's okay, You have explosives". The point is to blow the walls up =p

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Circular bomberman

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah

With bomb crafting, and particles, and fancy light effects

Is the plan

Bomb DLC, Bomb Season pass, Bomb microtransactions!

Kevin van der Velden

Right now I've got basic rendering and mapgen working

(The map is written directly to a png right now)

@MadMAxJr heh doubtful, I am planning to release it for sale though

9:19 PM

@KevinvanderVelden mspaint disagrees respectfully

Kevin van der Velden

When it's done in a year and a half

@badp Nice!

Hmm. There's a title opener. 50s educational video reel. "Golly. What's wrong Billy?" "I'm stuck in a gigantic maze." :( A big, suit-sleeved arm reaches out and pats him on the shoulder. "That's okay. You have EXPLOSIOVES" fanfare

@badp considering that the border of every block is black, that's not surprising

Kevin van der Velden

Hold on, let me get the intro screen from the 7 day roguelike entry I'm working on

@murgatroid99 indeed. You could just go from leopard to leopard area.

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The red pixels are reachable from a corner.

9:20 PM

@MadMAxJr Or have the hand that drops from the ceiling in Zelda leave you some bombs

See that wall over there Billy? Follow two simple steps. Bomb and away!

Good luck Billy. You're now on your way to freedom and democracy. ~fin~

That said, the starting area is unreachable.

@badp I notice the center is not red

Kevin van der Velden

@badp ha! Nice

@KevinvanderVelden so I guess you need 1 bomb

9:21 PM

You only need one bomb. It just has to be big enough.

@Rapitor :(

at least we pulled off the flag properly this time

@KevinvanderVelden Is it an incremental game?

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria No.

:(

@Rapitor What exactly is the strategy on flags?

Kevin van der Velden

9:23 PM

@StrixVaria I can make an incremental thing in it if you want?

@KevinvanderVelden Numbers must go up.

@KevinvanderVelden yes pls

@Yuuki use them like we just did

when there are a lot of 0s

@MattGiltaji pffft

we should've waited for stats to go red

not just blank

never hit close

9:24 PM

now we need answers + quality high to get traffic up, then just keep things balanced

only hit users if they are really bad

Kevin van der Velden

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CC @MadMAxJr

@KevinvanderVelden paper needs to be more burned in the corners

or just vote on everything

good job guys

@MattGiltaji I'd put a happy face sticker right after that. But I'm also not a designer for a reason.

Kevin van der Velden

9:25 PM

@MattGiltaji paper was something I randomly downloaded. This was for a "make a game in 7 days" challenge

@KevinvanderVelden ah

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah, real version is gonna have better art

Also more than 1 type of terrain (as seen in the picture above, each color is a different "biome", I've got plans for some more)

dammit we lost our traffic

You see the bombs are symbolic for the development of mankind and the walls are symbolic of walls. - Peter Molyneux

never hit close

9:27 PM

stop trying to close

fffff

eff

yeah its over 300 by now

IT'S OVER THREE HUNDRED

wtf, restart votes?

9:28 PM

NO RESTART

all stats are almost maxed out

who is trolling us? where is @Wipqozn?

like why wouldn't we close now?

It's Lifehacks seeking vengance because @Wipqozn

we have plenty of questions and low quality.

9:29 PM

we need to pump quality, stop upvoting everything

close isnt worth it because we lose 2 for 2. downvoting gains 1 for just a "tick" of damage to users

also traffic is flat. KIND OF LIKE ARQADE

where is the post for close vote is not a super downvote?!

6 hours ago, by Yuuki

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Q: A Close Vote is not a Super-Downvote. Please don't use it as one

So, yesterday a dumb question was asked.. It was closed as Not A Real Question in less than an hour, and reopened mere minutes later. This isn't the first time that this has happened. It usually results in lots of arguing and acrimony and generally all comes out of a simple misunderstanding. The...

discussion closing voting

Every time Super Downvote is mentioned, I'm going to hear it in my head like how Super Hexagon is pronounced on the title screen.

9:32 PM

@badp We need another Skyrim

@Yuuki yes, this needs to be in the stackegg

to be fair, we recovered from aprilpocalypse

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so "flat" is, in retrospect, good.

@badp what is aprilpocalypse?

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So, who'll guess where Skyrim is in that graph ;-)

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9:33 PM

@badp That was Panda, or?

Users are least priority. unless everything is 4 or users is red, don't even bother with them

@MadScientist yeah

@Rapitor Now you're talking like a real developer.

@Rapitor top answer says "maximize everything in order"!!

2 people voted restart.

3 people.

@badp :answer is wrong and meant to throw other sites off the track

9:34 PM

Come vote.

@badp answer was posted before the game was figured out

too lazy to post answer

for duck shake, restarters no restarting

Kevin van der Velden

Hmm... crap, I have an idea of how adding an incremental to the game could actually be a fun feature CC @StrixVaria

traffic is finally building

basically. Questions need to be high, they affect the rate answers decay. Quality and Answers increases traffic (which boosts progress immensely). Users are just a byproduct that needs to be watched, but they don't affect much (just a slight progress bar boost)

9:37 PM

@Rapitor this needs pinning

@Rapitor is it possible to bump stats over the "maximum"?

@badp nope.

because it's clear the game tracks each stat more accurately than on a -1 to 4 scale

0.5

it "refreshes" it.

9:39 PM

@badp ppcg thinks so

Is the vote result applied before or after decay?

so if everything is at 4* its best to just do questions or quality

doing nothing will apply decay to all (bad news)

this run looks like it will be around 290-300.

i edited the "how to win at stackegg" answer to mention the downvote, not close vote strategy. hopefully that will help

or not, because everyone is still hitting close

#close

@badp #stoptrollingyourownsite

FOR DUCK SHAKE

9:47 PM

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@Rapitor i think we just need to pick the right answer quick and let fgitw provide guidance

should've -1'd

also this looks well below 300

@badp it takes a while to get the last 10% or so

yeah, we are doing quite good now

@MattGiltaji oh?

9:50 PM

@badp because people get bored and leave, then it can sometimes get disrupted

restarters no restarting

push those stats to 5

also because the restart bots kick in at 95% or so

@MattGiltaji sigh

@KevinvanderVelden woooooooooooo

9:53 PM

closers, no closing

@Rapitor I'M SO SORRY! I DIDN'T REALIZE A TIE WOULD MAKE IT RESTART

PLEASE FORGIVE ME ZEUS

@Wipqozn y u do dis

@Wipqozn you're terrible.

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Q: Playing as Random on SC2 matches will unlock Racial portraits too?

If I win, for example, 1300 1x1 Solo matches online using "Random" as my race of choice, ill have the last Random portrait that is the Hybrid Destroyer unlocked. However, let's say that from those 1300 games, on 750 of them i randomly pick Terran as race. This will make me earn the Battlecruiser ...

starcraft-2 achievements

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Q: Pillars of eternity monk armor

I chose a monk and am struggling to make him viable early game. With his limited array of skills and the melee requirement he seems uniquely fragile. I also cant find much of a downside to running him in medium/heavy armor save for a small damage nerf. Is there any reason not to armor up an ear...

pillars-of-eternity

1 hour ago, by Wipqozn

If we don't finish No. 1 in StackEgg I'm going to delete my account.

9:55 PM

gut bye

What is StackEgg?

@StrixVaria open the site

Oh, I even saw that before and ignored it because it looked like an ad.

I like the downvote option.

2

It appeals to me.

@Frank and here i had you pegged as a closer

9:57 PM

@MattGiltaji For two hearts of quality, sure.

nicely done everyone, we have a good rhythm now

But if only one is needed, not much point in doing so.

@Frank two negative hearts of questions tho

@Frank Apparently, don't ever close.

I'm betting that we end at 254 days

9:57 PM

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I'm betting we restart at 253 days

Guys, we're still in third palce.

Code golf is at 6 (fuck those guys), and Anime is at 5!

You all suck.

@Wipqozn I guess we restarted?

@Wipqozn you got us restarted

@MattGiltaji No I didn't

I got Lifehacks to restart!

Man if I only I could get my hands on somebody responsible

9:58 PM

and here come the bots

The restart vote bot is back.

That was ages ago

gfycat.com/ColdWarpedGraysquirrel

for posterity

@Wipqozn its happening now

@MattGiltaji talking about me restarting lifehacks

9:59 PM

if it's just one bot then we're fine

@Wipqozn PPCG just hit 7

that vote has been there for a while

@Wipqozn oh ya

It seems the bot only comes out when the site is close to finishing.

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