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01:19

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Jin

01:59

I showed a friend our naming threads

he liked StageSix the best

he had a good idea though, just use a gaming word, plus a number.

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controller9

BFG33

Grace Note

02:23

@Jin Good to hear that people like Stage Six

Jin

it has a nice ring to it.. and both words start with the same letter

Grace Note

I like that it sounds like a place.

FallenAngelEyes

03:33

Holy shit, almost all the domain choices are in the negative now

LessPop_MoreFizz

emo.se

FallenAngelEyes

haha

LessPop_MoreFizz

we are the self hating SE site

FallenAngelEyes

We're gamers, self-loathing is a part of that!

tzenes

04:47

ok, minecraft is ridiculously addicting

tzenes

06:57

does anyone have a server we could use to host minecraft?

Feeds

07:46

Welcome to chat.gaming.stackexchange.com

This is a general discussion room, but please feel free to create more subject-specific rooms (a single room with every possible discussion isn't very helpful)

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For playing with chat features:

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For feedback:

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and remember; please read the FAQ ;p)

radp

08:34

not sure

radp

09:01

@tzenes You now may upvote gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/7744/…

Marc Gravell

Gaming now has a dedicated chat server

I don't plan on migrating the existing messages from this "general discussion" room (you have all been busy...), but if there are any side (more subject-specific) rooms that would genuinely benefit from migration, let me know.

I plan to freeze this room later today. After that, it will be available for review only.

So pack up your gaming rigs, tidy the cables from your über-keyboard and high-precision mouse, and head on over to the WAN party on the new server.

badp

11:53

Oh, hi.

balpha

g'day sir

badp

@RanjuV, you need 20 rep to talk I'm afraid.

balpha

I'll give hime access, hang on a sec

there ya go

we're generous on launch day :)

badp

:D

I wonder how many people will listen to the beep and decide that's morse code for 4

(or is ....- 9?)

balpha

it's from the "song" I posted yesterday -- did anyone ever remember what game it's from? :)

badp

12:01

It's probably older than I am :)

balpha

about your age, I think

badp

although I do have the impression it's a 8-bit rearrangment of a more famous tune.

balpha

ah, 1986 -- it is older than you

badp

The "song" balpha talks about

I guess inter-chat oneboxes are [status-planned]?

balpha

not officially -- but in my head, yes

radp

12:10

@Marc, when you freeze this don't forget to also freeze Game Recommendations

chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/226/game-recommendations

radp

12:26

:195013 There would be the whole domain choosing ordeal, but it's probably too much work to go cherrypick all related messages

Juan Manuel

12:53

should we add the feeds here like we had in the gaming room in meta?

C. Ross

maybe as the ticker, not the full on message feed

I've also setup a room for close/edit/etc so people who aren't interested can avoid that

chat.gaming.stackexchange.com/rooms/6/community-policing

badp

I thought the in-chat feeds was brilliant and a luxury until our site really takes off

Juan Manuel

yeah, I liked them too

badp

If you don't like them I will set them up in another room anyway.

Juan Manuel

I'll add them here, if it bothers people so much, we can remove it

:54 I'd like to put them in the most frequented room

badp

13:07

But I prefer to have them in General, as a general reminder that we also should answer questions from time to time :D

Juan Manuel

to maximize exposure

they were useful

badp

:56 Precisely.

C. Ross

yep

badp

Yeah, the initial dump is kind of ungraceful.

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@Juan, I've recreated the Game Rec room and rerouted the meta post to there

Juan Manuel

yes, I saw, thanks

badp

13:10

Yeah, the domain name ordeal probably deserves its own room.

Juan Manuel

good idea

badp

chat.gaming.stackexchange.com/rooms/7/domain-name

C. Ross

Is that still going on?

badp

:96 The top proposal right now has 2 votes

+12/-10

FallenAngelEyes

...How do I get 20 rep D:

badp

13:25

:107 Ask!

FallenAngelEyes

Oh wow, it's a different notifier beep

I'm so used to perking up at the other one

badp

Yeah, each chat site has its one.

This is an excerpt from the theme of a game from 1986 balpha refuses to further pin down :)

thingadongdong.com/beep.mp3

FallenAngelEyes

Haha

badp

The obvious thing to do ;D

It is uncannily similar to the very beginning Indiana Jones theme, but isn't quite it

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Marc Gravell

13:53

Hey all. Enjoying the new site?

badp

:135 It makes me long for Firefox Panorama :P

C. Ross

:135 It's shiny

balpha

yeah, you guys make sure to take your shoes of at the door, so it stays shiny!

badp

:138 Your assumption on the cleanliness of our feet amuses me

Marc Gravell

Hey, we could dig out "keen" for flagging/deleting :)

badp

13:59

Hmm, Castlevania was released in 1986 -- but the sound is completely different

FallenAngelEyes

Haha, it's driving you nuts, isn't it?

badp

:142 Nah, just perusing pages around.

If I really wanted to figure it out on my own I wouldn't have posted that question.

FallenAngelEyes

I'm kind of sad that I won't get to feel like Picard every time I'm highlighted now :P

badp

You're not banned from MSO, mind you

Cristina

The end of the audio resembles Star Wars theme a bit.

FallenAngelEyes

14:06

I still kind of hate that I have to use this chat in my browser :(

badp

@Fallen, dedicate a window to it then

FallenAngelEyes

Bleh, I want to do that even less than I want to have it open in a tab. :P I'm one of those people that prefers to have as few windows open at once as possible for what I'm doing at the time.

Cristina

So GoG.com is supposedly bought by Steam and they are going to have Baldurs Gate in store, too much information for one day :)

Jin

new room

FallenAngelEyes

14:28

By Steam? Really?

Cristina

supposedly some polish website has some inside intel

Cristina

gram.pl/news_8QjrH,m6_GOG_wykupiony_przez_konkurencje.html here is the site scroll down for english version :)

Mechko

hi

badp

Hey

Mechko

we has our own chatz now?

nice

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:38

we has a chat of our own!

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Mechko

yay!

I starred the first post! I win.

LessPop_MoreFizz

:165 answered

the short version is that the two rogues play on both teams. The other two romance options do not.

Cristina

i hate the whole lesbian thing in both ME and DAO

Mechko

@Cristina why?

LessPop_MoreFizz

:168 I hated it in ME. It felt like tacked on fanservice. In DAO it felt a bit more... legit, if only because of the gay male romance option.

Also, we need to get to work. Our Starred list is insufficiently polluted with nonsense.

chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/info/46/gaming/?tab=stars

Mechko

14:43

what is ME?

and damnit. I lost Leilana. Do I get her back at some point?

FallenAngelEyes

@LessPop: Agreed.

Cristina

in some games it doesn't feel right and legit like @LessPop_MoreFizz said

FallenAngelEyes

DAO I didn't have a problem with.

LessPop_MoreFizz

:173 Mass Effect.

Mechko

What about Fable?

ah thanks

Cristina

14:46

it's ok, you can have both female and male companions

Mechko

I had a guy hit on me last night. It was... interesting

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The single most starred post in gaming.chat 1.0:

Juan Manuel

you have to try everything at least once...

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Aug 5 at 16:11 in Gaming, by Mana None of us have any friends.

8 stars.

badp

:184 Learn from other's mistakes. You don't have the time to make them all yourself.

Mechko

14:48

@JuanManuel well I would rather try cheating on my girlfriend and guys at different times. She'd break up with me either way.

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close behind at 7:

Aug 25 at 16:01 in Gaming, by badp subjective! argumentative! CLOSE!

badp

:190 without context it's weak

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:191 I think that works just fine out of context. Better even.

:187 there's a time and a place for everything. And it's called college.

badp

:193 There's no such thing as a college here you insensitive clod!

Mechko

University is college++

btw. I'm just going to stare everything

badp

14:51

:195 and thus different from college :P

Mechko

To make our star list look bigger

Cristina

there is a difference between college and university?

Mechko

@badp yeah I suppose. I was at college until last semester now I'm at University

FallenAngelEyes

In non-American countries, yeah

Mechko

A university offers both undergraduate and graduate programs, while a college only does undergrad

in America

FallenAngelEyes

14:52

In America, we use the terms more or less interchangeably

badp

Isn't college some kind of school where people live at, instead of commuting to?

Cristina

i see, thanks

LessPop_MoreFizz

In the US, while the terms technically have different meanings, they're used interchangably.

Mechko

Can someone name a University that doesn't offer a grad degree (or isn't certified to offer one?)

LessPop_MoreFizz

From a schools standpoint, a College is one division of a university that might, for instance, divide up it's science and arts programs into two separate colleges.

Mechko

14:54

Yeah a college is also a word for a dormitory

LessPop_MoreFizz

:209 Off the top of my head, no, but I can tell you that I looked at a few 10 years ago.

FallenAngelEyes

College is a word for dorm? Really?

Mechko

oh wow. You're old.

LessPop_MoreFizz

:211 that's more of a british use.

I'm old. :(

FallenAngelEyes

Ah, that'd be why I've not heard of that

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:54

am I the oldest person here?

Mechko

Well I'm here at X university in NY and most of the dorms are called such and such College

which reminds me

I have to go to algorithms

Cristina

how old?

FallenAngelEyes

NYC or upstate?

LessPop_MoreFizz

:219 If it's the University I'm thinking of, in upstate NY, then that's an attempt at aping the british style, and it's a recent decision...

:222 I'm 27.

Mechko

well if I told you where it was, you'd know within 2 miles of where I lived :-p

FallenAngelEyes

14:56

We still wouldn't know your address!

tzenes

I grew up in Manhattan

Mechko

meh true. or my name. I go to Stony Brook University

LessPop_MoreFizz

:229 Ah, SBU ripped off Binghamton then.

:229 That's more of a trend in the SUNY's though.

FallenAngelEyes

Ah cool, friend of mine went there, she double majored in astronomy and physics

Yeah, I was thinking of the SUNY's too

Mechko

@LessPop_MoreFizz hehe. Binghamton. They are crazy there. Last time I met Binghamton kids, they stabbed some guy at my college.

(undergrad)

FallenAngelEyes

14:57

lol

LessPop_MoreFizz

Also, I am like 35 minutes from you at the moment @mechko. Time to get my stalk on.

FallenAngelEyes

Haha

Cristina

stabbed...as in literally stabbed?

FallenAngelEyes

Binghamton's not that bad.

LessPop_MoreFizz

:240 was gonna say... the primary 'bad news' about binghamton is that the campus feels like an industrial park rather than a residential and academic complex

they have smokestacks!

FallenAngelEyes

14:59

Haha

Syracuse's north campus is next to a graveyard!

LessPop_MoreFizz

also, their goofy misplaced pride in the fact that the campus looks like a brain from mid air.

FallenAngelEyes

A frigging huge graveyard. It's bigger than north campus.

Mechko

Oh no it's a great school and its also in a good place. Upstate NY needs more state schools. One of the poorest areas in the US with so many expensive private schools is a bit of a sham

ok class time.

FallenAngelEyes

@Mechko: I know that pain. I got into NYU but I had to leave cuz I couldn't afford tuition. :(

LessPop_MoreFizz

:247 Upstate NY actually has a whole lot of public schools. Most of the private ones draw from out of state, and it has more to do with availiable land. I wouldn't call that a shame.

Cristina

15:00

question how many hours does a lecture have?

FallenAngelEyes

The SUNY schools are pretty affordable overall

and generally give good quality educations

LessPop_MoreFizz

I mean, just talking about the ones that you could compare to national universities, you have SUNY Bingo, Buffalo, Albany, Geneseo, Purchase. And then you have a whole TON of second tier SUNY's that just don't have the national rep of the ones I named.

and then you have the whole CUNY system as well. NY is actually pretty awesome for public education.

FallenAngelEyes

All this upstate talk is making me homesick :(

Mechko

@FallenAngelEyes I have 40k in loans altogether. SUNY costs $7000 + $3000 + $1500 a semester without a scholarship, but I have tuition waiver + 7.5k a semester TA-ship + 4000 fellowship. I'm pretty happy.

LessPop_MoreFizz

it's just that it's not consolidated into a single campus that gets lots of research dollars or a top tier athletic team, so there isn't the name recognition a lot of states top schools get.

Mechko

15:02

I get to go upstate in October

FallenAngelEyes

That's pretty nice @Mechko

If I took out loans to cover what I would have needed to stay at NYU, it would have been around $160,000 for 4 years

And I didn't really want to start my life out that far in debt :/

Mechko

I'm excited. I miss upstate too. it gets in your blood. I lived in Australia for 10 years. Upstate is still 'home'

LessPop_MoreFizz

:261 Sounds like me and my undergrads end.

I need to go back to school :/

FallenAngelEyes

I should've slept in the library like my friend Steve :P

Mechko

@FallenAngelEyes yeah. I know what you mean. My dad made the decision for me, but I got lucky and got scholarships.

ok really class time

FallenAngelEyes

15:04

Later!

I moved over to the NL in the middle of my undergrad education, so nothing can transfer :/

So I've got to start from scratch

LessPop_MoreFizz

our new chat beep is the best chat beep. I just turned on notification for every posting just to hear more beeps.

FallenAngelEyes

lol

I can't keep it on for every post because I never get anything done

I had it on for all posts the first few days and whenever I heard anything, I had to check the newest messages :P

Cristina

you all are ComputerSci majors?

LessPop_MoreFizz

:276 NO

:276 I was a Media Studies/Urban Studies DM

FallenAngelEyes

I've never studied a lick of compsci

Ok, that's a lie, I did a month of C while at NYU

tzenes

15:07

its largely a waste of time

Cristina

computer science?

tzenes

I think there were 2 computer science classes that were worth going to

Networking and OS

and that was largely because they had nothing to do with programming

DB might have been a good class if my professor didn't teach it as MySQL 101

Cristina

SQL shrugs bad memories from last semester

FallenAngelEyes

I couldn't program my way out of an infinite loop.

Cristina

the teaching assistant wanted 3 or 4 versions of the same query and didn't explain some core concepts

LessPop_MoreFizz

15:11

:288 Funnily enough, when I took my one programming class ever in high school, I did nothing but hide infinite loops into everything I wrote to annoy the teacher when he went to run them.

FallenAngelEyes

Haha, nice

Cristina

we had programming tasks, but also lectures about electrical engineering :(

badp

I have thermodynamics also!

Cristina

you are lucky i had quantum theory =.=

badp

I'd rather have quantum theory =D

Cristina

15:17

don't hate it or anything but freshman year and quantum theory don't mix well

FallenAngelEyes

Too much drinking?

ducks

Cristina

too many things that were badly explained, and that's about the summary of higher education in Romania.

FallenAngelEyes

Gah! I'm seeing so many of my Steam friends playing Civ V already!

It doesn't release here for another few days sob

LessPop_MoreFizz

I am Being Responsible and not buying Civ V

yet

FallenAngelEyes

I... I was bad and got the Collector's Edition

Regular game was 50 euro and CE was only 75 euro, so I sprung for it

If I was in the states, I probably wouldn't have paid $50 more for it, but I found this acceptable

Cristina

15:26

@Fa

Cristina

damn type...where are you from fallen?

FallenAngelEyes

If you want a complete answer, I was born in South Korea, I grew up in Upstate NY, and I now live in the Netherlands.

badp

chat.gaming.stackexchange.com/rooms/7/domain-name

↑ I want this topic to die so hard

Cristina

me too

Cristina

yey Demo on Steam

Cristina

15:29

4GB...ouch

LessPop_MoreFizz

:312 I want a pony made of lava.

FallenAngelEyes

What I want to know about Civ V is if Leonard Nimoy is in it

Cristina

no :(

FallenAngelEyes

D:

That makes me sadface

Cristina

oh yeah can't even download the demo, Americans stop hogging all the bandwidth, give Europe a fighting chance

badp

15:33

doesn't crafting a bad and a bag give a larger bag?

Cristina

is the laughter sound coming from here?

FallenAngelEyes

It's the voices in your head

Cristina

just realized The Joker is in my head :(

Cristina

wow civ5 has dx11

LessPop_MoreFizz

:323 you mean chests in minecraft?

badp

15:43

:328 yup

LessPop_MoreFizz

put two chests down on the ground next to each other, they'll merge automatically

badp

oh.

That means I'll have to make a larger shelter.

FallenAngelEyes

Wow Civ V's manual is 233 pages o_O

badp

yay, a boomer right out of my shelter.

I'm sure he can't wait to blow shit up

Cristina

i miss Nemoy

FallenAngelEyes

15:46

I read the new guy is apparently Morgan Sheppard

Cristina

wow 5 fps

Cristina

gaah have to change settings

Cristina

does anyone know if Civ V uses more than two cores?

LessPop_MoreFizz

16:17

:334 Have you made the proper Floral Offerings?

badp

It actually didn't blow up

I went out of the shelter and sworded him to death

Three jumping baddies right out my shelter, scheduled to burn in 3, 2, 1...

balpha

16:32

@badp you've got your (correct) answer

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A: What is this sound from?

Sounds like Space Quest I to me...

badp

Thanks

So are there terrain types that are water proof in Minecraft?

LessPop_MoreFizz

16:50

Stone should be?

the water mechanics are... strange tough.

badp

Yeah.

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LessPop_MoreFizz

you can make a bucket to move water as well if need be.

badp

The water always seems to be flowing.

LessPop_MoreFizz

If you want to move water permanently, use a bucket

C. Ross

very strange interpretation of fluid dynamics there

LessPop_MoreFizz

17:03

news.com.au/technology/…

itunes.apple.com/us/app/words-with-pirates/id393624931?mt=8 BEST. GAME. EVER.

sadly released a few days late. :(

C. Ross

:360 Knights can't carry swords because it would be a knife crime?

what is wrong with the Brits these days ...

LessPop_MoreFizz

17:25

Words With Pirates is THE BEST GAME

badp

o.o

wordswithpiratesestimators.com

LessPop_MoreFizz

:368 wut

badp

If it's TEH BESTESTEST GAME EVAR we might as well choose it as a domain name :)

LessPop_MoreFizz

i am okay with this.

badp

18:22

Tag Synonym -- vote

→ save-games ← saves ←

I'd rather have save-files but alas, that's something for diamonds to change.

Juan Manuel

is meta.gaming.stackexchange.com down?

LessPop_MoreFizz

No.

Juan Manuel

hmm

LessPop_MoreFizz

also, bookmark: downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Juan Manuel

the comments here are hilarious

us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/842870#blog

what does "nerf" mean?

Arda Xi

18:39

Wait.. you can't play offline when the servers are down?

Juan Manuel

apparently

Arda Xi

Oh wow.

badp

:384 opposite of perk

Juan Manuel

so, make it weaker?

badp

yep.

Juan Manuel

18:42

thx

LessPop_MoreFizz

:389 yea, though generally the opposed term used with reference to game balancing is 'buff'

:389 Essentially, nerf weapons are soft and harmless. When something is nerfed it is 'softened' and made less useful.

Juan Manuel

great, thanks

Mechko

Damn. I have to TA in 20 minutes. Office hours listening to students complain about their own stupidity :(

Arda Xi

Nerfing usually makes people angry (then again, all changes do)

Nerfing just more so than others

Mechko

Well the people that get angry when something is nerfed are usually the ones who base their entire strategy upon something overpowered

Arda Xi

18:46

I only tend to get annoyed when patches change the entire game (TF2)

FallenAngelEyes

@Juan: you didn't play with any Nerf toys as a kid?

Arda Xi

I don't think they're very popular outside the US

Juan Manuel

:400 English is not my first language

FallenAngelEyes

Ah, didn't know where he was from.

Juan Manuel

so, yes, but they are not called like that :)

FallenAngelEyes

18:47

Nerf's become pretty popularly used especially in online gaming

aaah gotcha

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Q: Little Big Planet - how do I get people to join me to solve puzzles?

Possible Duplicate: How do I play a level online with other players in LittleBigPlanet? When I'm navigating the planets, I see an indicator that shows how many people are on that board. How do I get one of them to join me? Is there a lobby of some sort that I'm missing?

I believe that one's a dupe

badp

Is it me or daytime is much shorter than night time in Minecraft?

FallenAngelEyes

Er, what do you mean?

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