The Bridge

GnomeSlice

11:00

Porn is my favourite I think

Also if you spell FART it spells LOLK just above it

Good stuff

Kevin van der Velden

So, instead of having it have 10 symbols for 10 digits it has 10 symbols for 10 arbitrarily chosen letters?

Grace Note

Yeah food rotting is a thing. Of note though, Nayuta Fruit goes through two stages of rotting - the first stage is still safely edible.

GnomeSlice

Four letters

But yeah

Four letters

Kevin van der Velden

Well, per disk

GnomeSlice

But yeah

Grace Note

11:02

And final stage food is still edible, just has slightly reduced Energy gain and tends to give you the Food Poisoning debuff for about 200 turns

GnomeSlice

Not sure how arbitrarily chosen

Kevin van der Velden

Arbitrarily enough =p

It's a regular code lock but with different symbols

GnomeSlice

You can spell TITS which is pretty cool

Yeah

Much more amusing than numbers

Kevin van der Velden

And much less safe given that everyone is just going to make an actual word out of it

GnomeSlice

My unlock word is WHEE

you can't change it

But you can spell a lot of words with it

Kevin van der Velden

11:03

A code lock without changeable code? O.o

GnomeSlice

Yeah it was cheap. The longer version was changeable

But I don't need a six foot cable

Kevin van der Velden

Huh

GnomeSlice

Plus the everybody would just make their word PORN anyway

badp

uh

if you want to use words as your passcode AND be able to change it to whatever you want

GnomeSlice

Or BUTT

badp

11:05

why not use T9-style number conversion

Kevin van der Velden

That works

GnomeSlice

Because that sounds hard.

badp

@GnomeSlice just open the dialler on your phone in case of need

GnomeSlice

Eh

badp

The only real issue is you'd never use 1 and 0

so technically you're missing out on a fraction of bit of entropy

GnomeSlice

11:07

I don't think the cheap number ones were changeable either

Same compamy

Maybe even a word

badp

Yep, you go from 16.6 to 15 bits of entropy. OH THE HORROR

GnomeSlice

Being able to spell PORN on my bike lock is worth it

Kevin van der Velden

@badp You go from 10^N options to 8^N, with N=3 you've lost just short of half the options

badp

@KevinvanderVelden uh, number pads are just three digits?

Kevin van der Velden

Some are

badp

11:10

Well there are 4k 4-letter English words

but you don't have the full alphabet available to you on those wheels

so the potential number of words there is probably much lower

Kevin van der Velden

Also, the fewer digits you have the better, 4 digits and you've lost nearly 60%

badp

@KevinvanderVelden "losing 50%" is a.k.a. losing one bit of entropy

4-digit numpads have 16.6 bits, 4-digits numpads without 0 and 9 have 15, 4-letter words with the full English alphabet have 11.9

Kevin van der Velden

Hmm

badp

add letter constraints

and I'm afraid the only upside is literally being able to leave your bike locked with the thing reading "PORN"

or maybe "NOPE."

I'd settle for NOPE myself.

Kevin van der Velden

NOPE best thing to spell on your lock

Just NOPE-ing at would be thieves

badp

11:13

The twist is that the password is NOPE but your neck needs to extend threefold for the bike to unlock

oooooh just what I wanted for Christmas

Texenox

This is it.

I truly am a filthy memer.

badp

wat

Kevin van der Velden

Doubled experience, sounds nice?

badp

...okay

Kevin van der Velden

Are you cheating badp?

It sounds like you're cheating

badp

11:28

it keeps happening

Kevin van der Velden

I approve of this cheating

Texenox

@badp STATUS: DIRTY CHEATER

badp

It doesn't stop happening

In a hour or so I've gained 9 levels

Texenox

@badp

STATUS: D̳̻̥R̸̬̪͎̠̘̹I̴͕̜̙T͏̣͙͚͚͙̠͕Y̭̦̮͚͚͢ ̬͍̙̥̘C̪͖V̵̬̱̦̤H̘̪͓̘̲̻É͚̜T̸͔A̭͍͎͈̖̕E̵̲̲͕͓R̵̺͖͖̬

Grace Note

Levelling ain't hard at all

Though I guess maybe in the original it was

badp

11:31

None of this happens in the base game

Well okay, levelling up multiple times to strong foes does.

Grace Note

Bonus points, certain classes will also get experience for doings like walking into towns or dungeons.

badp

I wonder if I can't already take down the demon lord? Probably not. 15 barriers are way too many. But that 80% damage reduction...

no vial of acid either. Hm.

Grace Note

Better to hold off I would think

badp

actually I wonder if I can kill the demon lord with the darkness.

so long as I keep moving up and down...

Grace Note

PIRATE

badp

11:34

OH COME ON.

Grace Note

Yeah no

Doesn't quite work that way for you, haha

(That also recovers the Demon Lord's health, had you done some measure of damage)

badp

@GraceNote ...

Tim Stone

Surprise!

Grace Note

As a general note you don't usually want quick kills on the demon lord. The only real benefit of a quick kill is "Less time for everything to go wrong later on", but long runs are how you really score out

Kevin van der Velden

confetti

Ronan Forman

11:37

@TimStone Gaaah!

badp

@GraceNote well, yes. My best scoring run got to 800km. But the end goal is killing the demon lord, right? At least for now.

Grace Note

Yes. There's actually a little tracker at the bottom of character creation now, that gives you ideal objectives for your progress in the game.

badp

actually "defeated the demon lord" is the only goal that I've got as completed

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Where is the concert? (I've been covered in confetti at least four times this week because bands keep shooting the stuff into the public)

badp

huh...

so did I buy it or did I not buy it

Grace Note

11:40

Do you have a horse following you?

badp

ah, it asked me later if I wanted to or not.

dunno what the text in yellow brackets is about, then.

Grace Note

You only have 921 silvers anyway

badp

@GraceNote hence the confusion about the text in yellow brackets

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum I dunno, there's bound to be one somewhere

Grace Note

Yeah I think the D isn't supposed to be there

badp

11:41

unless that means I get to have him in the starting castle or something

Grace Note

Nope

Oh, but speaking of the starting castle

You've looked at the renovation system yeh?

badp

Haven't had the chance to look at the actual renovation screen yet

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden True, Although, it's tuesday, there are not many festivals on tuesdays. Confetti shooting class shows are generally in open air on a festival.

badp

huh, the demon lord loses barriers faster.

It used to be 15, 12, 9, 6, 5, but now he's attacking me for the second time and he's already down to 9

or maybe I'm miscounting

Grace Note

Nah, they sped it up for Stroll

Grueling Campaign brings it back up to only 3 dropped per encounter though.

badp

11:51

ooooh finally something resembling a plot.

I didn't get far enough in the base game I suppose.

Grace Note

Lots of plot to be had

badp

This is the first time I get a sidequest

Grace Note

Oh?

badp

Yeah.

Unless The Father Looking for his Daughter is plus-only? I wouldn't know.

Grace Note

That's plus-only

Most of the other allies are from base

Lazers 2.0

11:55

0

Q: 3 PS4's in the house with 3 separate psn plus accounts

So we have 3 PS4's in the house (My husband, child 1 & child 2) They all have their own PSN Plus accounts. Instead of buying 3 PSN plus 12 month subscriptions can I get a family subscription that will cover them all?

psn

badp

uh. 15 barriers, 9, 9 again?

maybe in this version I do have to start chipping them off manually

Grace Note

Nope

badp

ohh now when you sense a kindred spirit they actually show up on your map.

Grace Note

In most runs, unless I just feel like pasting the Demon Lord early, I never touch the barriers until they drop to 5.

badp

ALLY GET

Grace Note

12:00

Who did you get?

badp

Dosey

wait

Grace Note

Yay Dosey~

badp

no.

"Charisma Lv. 1 required"

Grace Note

Oh wait PIRATE

badp

Oh well.

I DON'T NEED NO STINKING PARRRRRTY

jesus level 35

oh well.

I SAID I DON'T NEED NO STINKING PARRRRTY

Rapitor

12:15

o/

badp

12:35

Apparently this is a thing

Unionhawk

I THINK I HAVE A BREAKTHROUGH

badp

ITEMS FOUND
-----------------------------------
Breakthrough   1, probably

two bugs

@badp Haha. I get random Steam scams like this from time to time

One was "hey can u add my brother hes lagging go to stermcomrnuitnithy"; etc

They're not even really trying with the URLs

badp

I guesst stearncornrnunity was already taken

Unionhawk

ON TODAY'S EPISODE OF "WILL @UNI'S CODE WORK BEAUTIFULLY"

WE PREPARE TO BE DISAPPOINTED

two bugs

12:41

Man, this API is so stupid I can't even be mad anymore

So I'm creating a script for the server, written in python

It works fine on my machine, using the provided testing environment.

I can upload it to the server, still working fine

MBraedley

@Unionhawk It's not going to work because you have caps lock on

two bugs

But if I try to run the script on the server, which is made by the same people who made the testing environment, I get an error.

Unionhawk

Ah crap you're right

And I just realized it won't work anyway

two bugs

The error is "invalid return type"

Unionhawk

nuuu

two bugs

12:44

Also our water cooler is out of water so I have to walk like a quarter of a mile to get water that is drinkable :|

Unionhawk

hrm

OH

badp

@twobugs ...in python?

Unionhawk

wait no

ITEMS FOUND
-----------------------------------
Breakthrough   0, probably

two bugs

@badp Yeah, well it's actually "invalid return value" although it works fine on my computer

Like not just "eh, it runs", I can actually examine and test the output and it's fine.

It just won't do it on the server

Kevin van der Velden

Things you shouldn't have to ask but kinda still feel the need to "So, do you happen to know if our boss made a backup before he started working on the production server?" (The answer was no, he didn't know, and also as I later found out, no he didn't)

badp

12:46

@twobugs oh it's a library

Unionhawk

I think...

this may work?

And I may be able to cut out one line?

badp

ITEMS FOUND
------------------------------
Excess lines        1, perhaps

Unionhawk

I don't have caps lock on this time so that may help

two bugs

What really bugs me is my python script is literally 20 lines, this is super simple stuff but I keep getting 99.98% of the way to a working solution and that last 0.02% is some undocumented caveat about human sacrifices

Unionhawk

VICTORY

two bugs

12:48

Okay, I'm going to try something really dumb. This will probably work.

Okay, stupid solution works in local testing. If this works on the server I'll have a very unpleasant look on my face.

Unionhawk

Will that face look like this?

>:|

two bugs

Yes, and that is currently my face

I have to wrap it in some stupid thing for absolutely no reason

Whatever. It works.

Kevin van der Velden

Heh:

in Game Development, 4 mins ago, by Jon

Unionhawk

So now I get to figure out lambda expressions to figure out why and by what magic KeyValuePair.OrderByDescending works

two bugs

@KevinvanderVelden >:^|

Kevin van der Velden

12:57

Guaranteed to work some of the time!

MBraedley

@Unionhawk What language are you working in?

Unionhawk

C#

Yuuki

13:17

@KevinvanderVelden 0.3% of the time, it works every time.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Why do Beyond Earth alien units attack settlers/explorers?

I have just purchased Sid Meiers Beyond Earth and am loving it even with its somewhat negative reviews. However, there are some differences that I can't understand. From what I know, aliens are initially indifferent to humanity, or basically neutral. That being said, I have had several instances ...

civilization-beyond-earth

badp

uh

Unionhawk

hu

Yuuki

uh

badp

apparently there are dark nayuta fruit that will poison you

but if you let them rot

...they become overly ripe nayuta fruit

and those won't

Yuuki

13:28

Yeah, it's not all that uncommon.

Although potatoes work in reverse.

badp

MAKE SURE YOU ROT YOUR FRUIT BEFORE EATING THEM

Unionhawk

@Yuuki I feel like this is the "in reverse" case

Grace Note

...eh?

The progression should be Nayuta Fruit -> Overly Ripened Nayuta Fruit -> Dark Nayuta Fruit

badp

uh. I found straight dark nayuta fruit in a volcanic area

Unionhawk

Did it ripen in reverse?

badp

13:30

after a while I got a "food rot" warning, and I got an overly ripened nayuta fruit

Grace Note

Are you sure it was the dark one that rotted and not a normal one sitting in your inventory?

badp

I dunno, maybe it wasn't dark to begin with

Grace Note

Press W to check the message log

badp

I was sitting at 8% energy so I don't think I had one?

two bugs

Oh man, reading this articles about the republican primaries is reminding me of the best thing from the last election cycle: when Herman Cain quoted a Pokemon movie but attributed it to "a poet"

badp

13:31

@GraceNote ne'ermind

Martin Sojka

And that game right here is why I love the Ren'Py community:

TB & Genna Play John Cena's Sexy High School Adventure

►

Grace Note

Oh god no not here too

Yuuki

Persimmons are also chalky and bitter as f--k when "ripe".

badp

@MartinSojka Ren'Py is the one Christine Love uses right?

two bugs

I love Ren'Py for allowing people to make these incredibly creative games

Martin Sojka

13:32

@badp Among many other people, yes.

Unionhawk

Awwww, Shucky Ducky!

►

Grace Note

@badp One of the advantages of Nayuta Fruit over other food items that might give more energy, is that they have this two-stage rot cycle. So that gives them more potential longevity since Overly Ripened Nayuta fruit is still a very nice 50% yield

Yuuki

You have to let them sit until they're almost rotting and squishy before they become sweet.

Unionhawk

That man was special

Grace Note

(Also Dosey apparently has no qualms with Dark Nayuta Fruit)

badp

13:33

btw, yeah, what's up with the renewed interest about Cena?

Is this 2008 again?

two bugs

@Unionhawk He should run for everything ever. I hope he always loses but his campaigns are a goldmine.

badp

uhhh... I met the father who lost her daughter twice in the same run.

gg

Grace Note

You'll do that and then you'll find the daughter but then you won't see him ever again, probably

I once had Albert, one of the potential allies, spawn. Then he got murdered by bears before I found him. Then not 10 steps later he spawned again.

By the way I don't know if they were in base, but, uh, be careful of bears.

badp

A few golems have been taunting me

Grace Note

Do you have an axe?

badp

13:36

Actually I do now

Grace Note

(I know the answer is yes if you're a pirate but I don't know if you're still a pirate)

badp

Not currently a pirate, but this swordmaster does have an axe

Grace Note

Axes have lower base combo than swords and spears, but they do bonus damage to all hard targets. That includes walls, doors, chests, skeletons, and the point here, golems.

badp

oh good.

just what I wanted for christmas

Grace Note

Yesterday, good heavens yesterday

I had a world that went:

Coast -> Desert -> Coast -> Desert -> Desert -> Coast -> Desert

badp

13:38

I forget what's special about coast

more sand?

Yuuki

@badp There are wizards.

Grace Note

Coast is still sand, but also has tons of water is the actual main point. But in my case the issue was ENDLESS SAND

Yuuki

They specialize in making magic cards.

Grace Note

Let me pull up my replay and tell you how many KM worth of nothing-but-sand I had to traverse.

Yuuki

If you gather them all, you might get a reward.

two bugs

13:40

Hm, Canadian company just got a patent for a 20km space elevator

Jason Berkan

Current plan: Deliver Tim Horton's to the ISS.

Grace Note

Okay, started at 635km

two bugs

Space elevators are going to be really interesting

Grace Note

Ended at 1004km

badp

> Defeated Tough Snow Hare!

Grace Note

13:42

So 369km of SAND

badp

yeeey. At least I got 5 level ups for my sin.

@GraceNote ugh. At least you got a buncha level ups

Grace Note

That was one of my Painless runs, too, so that was an amusing thing

badp

Is... is that not taking damage ever?

Grace Note

Painless being a perk you can unlock which raises your Heroics Level at the end by 80%

badp

Oh.

Grace Note

13:45

In exchange, you cannot see what your current health is, or how much damage any enemy does to you

You can see your maximum health and also healing numbers are visible, and at the start of each new day you'll get an update on your current health that turn. But otherwise, well, you don't feel pain so you have no idea how much you're hurtin'

badp

Bear got

Grace Note

Watching the replays afterwards you can see how stupidly close to death you get. I had one clear run (that 1700-some Heroics Level clear I linked earlier) that apparently at about 40km, a bear reduced me to 1 HP.

badp

sigh. Level 26, and still only have 120 HP

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Minecraftpocketedition username double § problem

On minecraft PE I accedently typed in two § instead of one § for my username and whenever I try joining a server it says invalid name and I can't change my username! Why?

minecraft-pocket-edition

badp

wait.

wat.

Grace Note

13:52

Those aren't mountains

badp

yeah I know.

"Toll Collector"

JUST WHAT I WANTED FOR CHRISTMAS

Unionhawk

IT'S LIKE CHRISTMAS MORNING - @badp, probably

badp

At least there's shopping I can do

Unionhawk

You mean you didn't do your Christmas shopping yet?

Sterno

@JasonBerkan At first I thought that said "to ISIS" and I was trying to determine what the desired outcome was.

badp

13:54

I do get a souvenir though!!

Grace Note

The souvenirs tend to be really nice

Unionhawk

@Sterno To make them experience consistently mediocre coffee, I'd imagine

badp

I guess packhorses don't count towards "recruit an NPC"

Jason Berkan

@Sterno To get them stuck in the drive through line, unable to do anything bad.

Grace Note

@badp Has to be an "ally", not a "cooperative NPC"

badp

13:56

OH HEY CHRONOS IS NO LONGER USELESS

Grace Note

There's a town NPC that will explain the difference, but to save you the trouble - cooperative NPCs are just NPCs that wander the map and generally follow you. They're still their own entities and can do things like "Not Swim" and "Not Climb Mountains".

Sterno

$.87 is a pretty good price for a game.

badp

> This is your chance to defeat the enemy

okay.

Sterno

Maybe this can be @Wipqozn's prize when he beats Rad Bats

badp

maybe if I just keep rushing forward?

Grace Note

13:57

Time is by turns, unfortunately

two bugs

@Sterno What game? Or is it intended to be a mystery for the rest of us

Grace Note

Allies, meanwhile, occupy the same tile that you are in and move with the same mobility you do. They take action when you do, and can intercept back and side attacks. Also they can build relationships for GOOD STUFFS

Sterno

@twobugs One Way Heroics. The one @badp and @GraceNote are talking about.

badp

then I guess the dog ally also doesn't count, since I do have that perk unlocked

Sterno

Or are you guys doing One Way Heroics plus? That's BIG MONEY

two bugs

13:59

@Sterno Don't reward him!

You should send him into a misery spiral where every game he earns is worse than the last

Grace Note

@Sterno Plus

Rapitor

Texas

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@Yuuki

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