The Bridge

MadMAxJr

19:00

Well it'll have a CD key which can be redeemed on Steam for sure. NV did that.

.... FO3 had GFWL.......

Unionhawk

You're a GFWL

MadMAxJr

@Unionhawk Sir that is disprespectful. I challenge you to VB.NET debugging at dawn.

Sterno

> One in 12 teenagers will attempt suicide, and one in six will seriously consider it.”

Wait, what now?

Unionhawk

nope

Sterno

1 in 12?

Seriously?

Unionhawk

19:01

@Sterno probably

James

@MadMAxJr I got a Pipboy edition.. Im still planing on a Steam PreLoad :D

Sterno

That seems high.

Unionhawk

Probably not

MadMAxJr

Oh that's right.. Preload.

GnomeSlice

@Sterno Or at least pretend they attempted it

MadMAxJr

19:02

I'll probably do that.

Then wait the painful hour for the damn thing to decrypt at unlock time

Then restart steam twice cause it's buggy about running right after the decrypt

GnomeSlice

You can't wait like one more night?

James

@Sterno Does seem a bit high for attempt.. but not for the contemplation part.

MadMAxJr

Our office lead is also a gamer. She has declared that sick days on tuesdays in November will be heavily scrutinized for actual illness. Vacation days however may be planned as normal.

user15026

@MadMAxJr What's November?

James

@MadMAxJr I work for Red 5 Studios

Rapitor

19:04

@MadMAxJr inb4 it uses Games for Windows 10 (or whatever microsoft is calling it)

MadMAxJr

Er.. Wait. Is it October or November release for F4?

James

We have email chains around about every game we are all actively playing :D

November for FO4

Rapitor

@James do you really?

James

I think MOST of us will just be In the office Playing FO4 on that day :D

two bugs

@MadMAxJr October for Dragon Quest Warriors!

Unionhawk

19:04

@MadMAxJr Why Tuesdays? Oh, release dates. Right.

James

@Rapitor Indeed

Rapitor

@James well damn, I quite enjoy firefall

James

@Rapitor Woot Woot

MadMAxJr

Tuesdays are game release days, so the boss is okay with folks taking time off, but you gotta burn a vacation day for it. Sick days being misused gets scrutinized by HR and 'I don't want to work today because of Fallout' isn't an illness with medical documentation.

Yuuki

Donate $1 to Game Changer and get Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut on Steam for free.

Sterno

19:05

@MadMAxJr I have a fever, and the only prescription is more Fallout.

Yuuki

> "I have a moderate case of rad poisoning."

James

Well then man just you wait until <redacted> and <redacted> cause <redacted> is going to <redacted>!!! :D

Rapitor

haven't played in a while though. Nighthawk was too.... underpowered, and Raptor was too silly stronk.

James

@MadMAxJr I explain to them its a day where my productivity will be affected in a dramatic manner. :D

MadMAxJr

@Sterno Have a silver star cause I don't feel like starring this. Read in Christopher Walkens voice. Good effort.

Yuuki

19:07

GamesPlanet - Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition for 60% off ($22.00 USD).

James

@Rapitor Honestly man, so much stuff is going on I am not even sure if that assessment is still true :D

Rapitor

@James yeah I did glance over a preview thing that armors and cores were getting reworked again. Having played since like the first set of CBTs the game is gone through overhaul after overhaul.

Unionhawk

Reddit Silver

►

James

@Rapitor That does seem to be a theme around here :D

MadMAxJr

Beware, the cybernetic porkchop of the land draws near.

James

19:10

Wish I could say more man but I dont want to break NDA the day before I go on vacation and come back to no job :D

fredley

Meanwhile, in a cocktail bar in London

James

@fredley @badp sighting?

Are they aware of the risks!?

Unionhawk

@fredley HEADCANON UPDATED

HEADCANNON RELOADED

Rapitor

yeah yeah i know NDAs are rough. I'll probably patch it and give it another go. I could never quite get "into" the game for a seriousness, but it was fun to hop in and thump for a bit, but then thumping was nerfed to the floor. and raids were on long cooldowns. so I stopped.

James

@Rapitor Yeah we had a post on the forums a bit ago where Chris Whiteside asked the community to eval the game

Thumping concerns were definitely in the list and something we have taken a look into.

I am a programmer though so I don't know whats going to happen until I get a design doc I have to implement laid infront of me:D

Rapitor

19:17

@James sneak in a lil bug that eruption rounds kill all enemies on screen for me :D?

like.. 1 in a 1000 shot

James

@Rapitor LoL

Unionhawk

Just leave a comment identifying someone else as the culprit and you should be good

// it was Steve I swear

Rapitor

@Unionhawk // @Wipqozn did this

James

Haha

they would notice the source control commit log :D

Unionhawk

SHH

James

19:18

@Rapitor This one they might buy though

Everyone knows its always @Wipqozn's fault

Unionhawk

indeed

Wipqozn

Yes

Rapitor

anything to make ER more boom i'd be fine with. nothing beats a sniper rifle that shoots tank rounds

MadMAxJr

Just because you put your name on it doesn't make you moderator of it.

I put my name on the whiteboard in here and I gained no powers.

Maybe I need to draw a diamond.

Rapitor

@MadMAxJr no, use a hexagon. more sides means more power

MadMAxJr

19:21

So a circle would be infinite sides = infinite power?

Unionhawk

Yes

It's also simultaneously zero sides

So, no power

MadMAxJr

Brb, banning the oxygen around certain problem users.

FAE

@Sterno What's this from?

Rapitor

infinitely zero power

djsmiley2k

I fed a rhino today

Unionhawk

19:25

homestarrunner.com/rhinofeeder.html ?

djsmiley2k

lol no

Unionhawk

:(

Yuuki

@James Put it in the commit message as well.

> Added random chance for eruption rounds to OMGWTFBBQ everything.
>
> - @Wipqozn

Rapitor

perfect, ship it.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: "Units Store" section of in-app purchases area of "Marvel Contest of Champions" completely blank when visited

thank you for your time in advance. I've been playing "Marvel Contest of Champions" pretty religiously for the past month-and-a-half and really enjoying the game. Two weeks ago I spent $19.99 to buy some units so that I can then buy some crystals in the hopes of getting some 3-star or 4-star he...

Rapitor

19:34

hue(warning: this might induce rage)

Unionhawk

Preparing my >:|

Meh, standard stuff. This is the republican response, by the way (Jeb taking it from the "states should decide" standpoint not the "no this is flawed" standpoint though)

Rapitor

yeah, it's pretty much the religious response I was expecting

doesn't mean I didn't get a hearty chuckle out of it

Yuuki

... Can Houston just secede from the rest of Texas please?

We can be like Washington, D.C. Mk. II.

Powerlord

I'm so glad I looked up the proper way to shut down this app server remotely instead of just writing a script to taskkill / tskill it. 'cause if I'd tskilled it, I'd be done already instead of trying to figure out why the app just blatantly hangs when remotely shut down instead of stopping.

SaintWacko

Take Austin with you

I like Austin

Unionhawk

19:44

Washington D.H. (district of Houston)

Rapitor

I like Washington HD better

Powerlord

(incidentally, going in and hitting ctrl-c on the app server's console window also kills it correctly, so local shutdowns work)

Unionhawk

@Rapitor I'm pretty sure they're on Washington SUHD now

djsmiley2k

hmmm

paste the damn link :(

Unionhawk

(which I think stands for super-ultra-Houston-definition)

SaintWacko

19:45

http

Rapitor

@djsmiley2k use the upload tool

SaintWacko

Well now you just broke it

https doesn't work

Unionhawk

welp

djsmiley2k

SaintWacko

Nice

Rapitor

19:47

@djsmiley2k do you still have your hand.

djsmiley2k

haha yeah

they were really gentle

user15026

@djsmiley2k Duuuuude

djsmiley2k

yes, was awesome

FAE

@djsmiley2k RHINO

that's so cool!

djsmiley2k

YES

HUGE

LIKE A WALKING ROCK.

user15026

19:51

This is cooler than when I fed a giraffe. (It did wrap its tongue around my hand which was delightfully gross.)

djsmiley2k

hehe

we did giraffes too

user15026

They have such long tongues!

djsmiley2k

Few years ago we did tiger feed, that was..... I think more awesome, but this is was great as we met LOADs of animals

FAE

@djsmiley2k That sounds like it would be awkward

djsmiley2k

@AshleyNunn and they like black!

@FAE the tigers?

user15026

19:52

@FAE >.>

djsmiley2k

It was different, as you can't touch/get real close like you could with these

FAE

@djsmiley2k Giraffes. I was uh, being crude.

djsmiley2k

Oh ;D

FAE

@AshleyNunn See, you get me!

user15026

@FAE I couldn't explain to my boss why I laughed >.<

FAE

19:53

@AshleyNunn Oops. <_<

djsmiley2k

hmmm

FAE

@djsmiley2k You can preface the link with ! to force it to onebox

user15026

@FAE It's okay, I was like "internet" and he nodded

djsmiley2k

\o/ ty @FAE

FAE

@AshleyNunn haha, awesome

@djsmiley2k No prob! :)

@djsmiley2k Also omg this pic

djsmiley2k

19:55

The roar, she did, when taking this, even made the keeper jump

Sterno

@FAE It was 3 links deep in something I was reading about Wil Wheaton. one sec

FAE

@djsmiley2k Wow, those teeth

djsmiley2k

Yeah, you can understand how a tiger ripped off someones arm in a single swipe.

Sterno

This had the stat, but wasn't the source: avclub.com/article/…

badp

@djsmiley2k WHO WANTS A BELLY RUB? IS THAT YOU?

djsmiley2k

19:56

That was two years ago.

:D

badp

because, um, there's a rock over there, and I thought that, um, maybe...

djsmiley2k

Today we did VIP zoo experience.

which was going around before the place opened, letting the dholes out, feeding the rhinos and giraffes

badp

maybe you should go have a good time with that rock. See? Right over there. No, my finger is not the rock.

djsmiley2k

meeting some of the other animals.

Sterno

It's a good thing teenagers are awful at everything.

FAE

19:57

@Sterno Oh, Project UROK, I've heard about that. The statistic doesn't surprise me, sadly. I was a 1/12 as a teen too.

djsmiley2k

I hope no one is afraid of snakes.

FAE

@Sterno Little harsh there, man.

Unionhawk

posts snakes SNAKE WARNING

badp

@djsmiley2k I'm more afraid of where my headcanon of you has gone

I think I've lost it

permanently

FAE

@djsmiley2k So prettyyyyyyyyyyy

badp

19:58

sobs uncontrollably

Sterno

@FAE It's how I cope with the fact that I have two children who will someday be teenagers, and that statistic makes me wet my pants.

djsmiley2k

@FAE it was beautiful

Unionhawk

@Sterno You should probably change your pants then

djsmiley2k

I reccomend anyone who can do this kinda thing, and knows the place they are going is good, to do so

Sterno

Luckily the successful suicide rate seems to be like .012%

badp

19:59

@Sterno Yknow, I wanted to make a dark joke here but...

I think you can make it yourself :P

two bugs

My headcanon of @badp is that in a previous life he was like a train from Thomas the Tank Engine but a really bad one and now he is constantly being punished

Sterno

Oh, wait, that was overall, not teen

badp

@twobugs wait, wait, previous life?

Is this real life?

Unionhawk

@twobugs That's like the second or third weirdest headcanons I've ever heard of.

djsmiley2k

even if it costs lots and lots

Powerlord

19:59

facepalm

djsmiley2k

I want to know what badp's headcanon of me was previously...

badp

Me too.

Unfortunately that mindcanon has been erased permanently, forwards and backwards in time

Powerlord

Apache Commons Daemon, which is for making Windows Services from Java programs...

Sterno

Whew. Teenagers are lowest. Old people are highest.

djsmiley2k

lo0l

Powerlord

20:00

if you use --PidFile to make it write the process ID to a file, will grab an exclusive lock on said file.

FAE

@Sterno It's terrifying. Stuff like untreated mental illnesses and bullying can make you feel isolated and desperate. Support them growing up, try not to stigmatize mental illness, and hopefully, by the time they're teens, there will be somewhat decent mental health care coverage in the US. There's lots of factors, some controllable, some not. Brain chemicals can be dumb.

Powerlord

...meaning that no tools, such as ones to run tskill on the process ID, can read said file

djsmiley2k

@Powerlord so you can't read it?

:D

Unionhawk

@FAE yeeah

Powerlord

> The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Sterno

20:01

@FAE You're saying trapping them in a bubble and not letting them interact with others is probably not a long-term option?

Rapitor

brains are dumb

badp

Wait, are you mentioning mental health problems in general or..?

I probably don't want to know. :S

FAE

@Sterno Is it a hamster ball? Hamster balls are fun.

Unionhawk

@FAE I'm now imagining the logistics of fitting a human child in a hamster ball.

Sterno

amazon.com/Outdoor-Playball-Incred---BallTM-Inflatable/dp/…

DONE

FAE

20:02

@Sterno ...now I want one

djsmiley2k

don't forget the white tigers!

FAE

@Unionhawk Depends on if your requirements are "whole" or not

Unionhawk

Oh yeah, that's a thing

FAE

@djsmiley2k Oooooh

djsmiley2k

not albino

Unionhawk

20:03

@FAE That's where my brain ended up and I was like "no that's not an option and that would still not work"

FAE

@Unionhawk I have 3 words for you and those 3 words are "Will it blend?"

...I'm sorry, I only got like 2 hours of sleep last night.

Rapitor

@FAE dark, I like it.

FAE

@Rapitor Little kids are squishy.

Unionhawk

@FAE Given the overall goal, a blender seems counterproductive, no? :P

Tim Stone

@FAE I uh...I'm gonna move you down on the list of potential babysitters.

FAE

20:04

@Unionhawk Blend, pour!

Unionhawk

@TimStone To be fair, this is my fault

Tim Stone

That was a given, but.

FAE

@TimStone Aw. I'm actually pretty good at it too! I will draw them little Mass Effect doodles.

Tim Stone

...RANK RESTORED

FAE

I'll leave explaining what a Quad is to you though.

badp

20:09

Quad? They know what Quad is.

It respawns every 45 seconds, usually in the middle, and when active you deal 4× damage.

However the real cool kids play Q3A and quad only does 3× there.

1v1 me scrub reactor rg only

murgatroid99

Someone on BCG literally just asked "In Magic, if a card is green and red, is it also 'non-green' and 'non-red'?"

I'm trying to figure out why such a question would even make sense to them

badp

Clearly the card is colorblind and the question is loaded

Ban them

(or they think that the card is non-red because it's not just red)

murgatroid99

@badp yeah, that's basically it

badp

(like imagine if you were dumb enough to code in the color of a card using a single enum, you would use RED_GREEN which is not RED or GREEN)

murgatroid99

@badp which would be dumb, because there are 2^5=32 color combinations

badp

20:16

are all color combinations legal?

murgatroid99

yes, and there are existing cards for all possible color combinations

two bugs

If you were going to use a single enum for card color, you would just use GOLD as the color and then have another field for composite colors

But that would be annoying too

Yuuki

So, Ben Affleck is producing a film about the FIFA scandal.

murgatroid99

The simple way to do it is to just keep a set of elements of the 5-color enum

badp

@murgatroid99 Set<Color> getColors()?

FAE

20:17

@badp White, Blue, Red, Black, Green

murgatroid99

@badp Set<Color>

@badp Try "mtg colors"

FAE

aka WUBRG

(U because 2 Bs would be confusing)

badp

@murgatroid99 The first regular search hit is from wizards.com, yeah.

Matt E. Эллен

GRUWBy baby, yeah

badp

but even there google's playing favourites!!

two bugs

20:18

Couldn't you just store the colors as a binary vector (assuming a defined ordering)

murgatroid99

@twobugs a 5-bit binary vector is functionally equivalent to a set of elements from a 5-element enum

badp

@twobugs bitfields are kinda slow to access, but I dunno how java sets are like for enumeration either.

One's lots of maths, the other's a few memory accesses.

two bugs

@murgatroid99 True, I guess I was looking at it as making the color type more expansive, but there isn't really any reason to do that

murgatroid99

@twobugs If that's needed, you could just add an element to the enum

badp

by default that's 8 or 10 memory accesses, which I guess are cheap.

two bugs

20:20

C++ has a special binary vector, if memory serves, and I got some good performance off that back in school

murgatroid99

They did once consider adding purple, back in Future Sight, but they decided against it

badp

so, anyway... even white and black is legal?

murgatroid99

@badp yes, any possible combination

two bugs

@murgatroid99 Where would it even have fit on the color wheel?

murgatroid99

@twobugs between blue and black, I think

two bugs

20:21

If someone says "in the middle", I will slap them

murgatroid99

I think they just decided that that role is adequately filled by Blue/Black cards

two bugs

Interesting

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Is there an english language patch for Fallout 3?

I have Fallout 3 GOTY on Steam and it's in german. Low-violence version doesn't bother me, but the fact that I can't change the games language to english. I want to play the game as it was intended to be and not with the poor german replacements of word jokes etc. So does anybody know where to ge...

steam fallout-3 fallout language

murgatroid99

And that they couldn't do enough to make Purple it's own unique color

two bugs

I haven't followed MTG for a while, how are they dealing with power creep?

murgatroid99

20:22

@twobugs rotating formats, I guess

Standard is the primary tournament format, and you can only use cards from the last two years in those tournaments

two bugs

It seems like with rotating formats you'd still see some power creep, just less so than a no holds barred constructed

badp

I guess that they could still go outside the color wheel, sorta like you can be chaotic-neutral-evil in ADOM but then there's chaos which kind of cancels out all three

murgatroid99

And there's also the fact that there are many cards from older sets that have no modern equal, in terms of power

Like Counterspell

two bugs

True. I guess I've just been pretty conscious of power creep in card games recently after getting back into Hearthstone

They've added some pretty powerful cards

murgatroid99

There is some power creep of creatures as opposed to non-creature spells, but I think that the fact that everyone has access to the same card pool limits the negative effects of that

two bugs

20:27

Alright, gym time

badp

20:41

@murgatroid99 rarity

murgatroid99

@badp Even if you control for rarity, there are creatures now that are more powerful than they would have printed 10 years ago

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How do I cancel out of the third person view after using the dragonator?

In Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on the 3DS, when you hit the dragonator there are a few seconds when the screen switches to a third person view. I thought that this was just how it was, but in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEvrdz5IH_0 Rasan4eva immediately switches back to the regular view afte...

3ds monster-hunter-3-ultimate

spugsley

UM THANKS A LOT @Unionhawk FOR THAT DOLAN

BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I JUST LOVE DOLAN

user15026

I jsut saw a gif of a guy with NERF darts stuck to his eyes

user15026

I am HORRIFIED NOW

murgatroid99

20:55

@badp For example, the next upcoming set has a common 1/1 flyer for {U} with an upside. That's almost unprecedented at that rarity

@AshleyNunn I just assumed those were artificial eyes

Unionhawk

:D

badp

@murgatroid99 I know some of those words

Powerlord

So, I taught another one of my coworkers how to play Fluxx today. \o/

badp

THIS IS EPISODE 5 OF THE SECOND SERIES

I THINK I HAD THAT FIGURED OUT ALREADY

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