The Bridge

Lazers

20:01

3

Playing a stealth thief, I find that companions (specifically Lydia) are not useful on missions. She just keep getting us detected, so I'm forced to tell her to wait before starting a mission, which is annoying given that almost all dungeons have alternative exists that make me have to go back...

0

Q: why does my mini kit total in some chapters only show 9 when I have a total of 10

Hi I have completed most of the chapters ,except some of the mini kits. On three of the chapters so far, I have 10 of the mini kits, but the total only confirms 9. I have been through each of the faulty chapters with lego cheats to confirm that I have all 10 of the mini kits, and yet it still ...

xbox-360

badp

to get in or into the right mindset?

Ullallulloo

@badp english.stackexchange.com/questions/ask

badp

:|

John

@badp The "to" seems implied to me in the first one, so I don't really think it matters. They both sound naturally enough to me.

Grace Note

@badp Both work, really.

badp

20:05

Thanks :)

I'm trying to put up a LyX ad on TeX.SE. Wish me luck.

Ullallulloo

12

Q: When should "into" be used rather than "in to," and vice versa?

"Into" (one word) and "in to" (two words) are frequently confused. In what situations should the former be used? The latter?

grammar

badp

@Ullallulloo Not exactly my question, but an interesting one nonetheless :)

Ullallulloo

@badp All closer were closed as duplicate of that:

2

Q: "Put it into the refrigerator" or "Put it in the refrigerator"?

Possible Duplicate: When should “into” be used rather than “in to,” and vice versa? I am sorry if the question is silly, but I think I heard both options spoken by native speaker. So, which one is correct?

vocabulary

GnomeSlice

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3

badp

"I wish I were", not "I wish I was", obviously?

yeah

Oh. Today Youtube finally realized I don't have a G+ account after all

Arda Xi

20:21

@badp Err, that depends on what comes after.

badp

@ArdaXi "kidding." "I wish I were kidding."

Aeo

Not exactly related to gaming, but still an interesting read if anyone is interested. zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/…

Arda Xi

@badp Then it's was.

badp

@Aeo You mean all the PHP warnings?

Lazers

0

Q: Side-by-side comparison of AMD FX-4100 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition?

I'm putting together a new gaming PC, trying to stay around $500. Many, many people recommend the AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition, but I spotted the AMD FX-4100 for the same price. The specs look better, lower power consumption, faster clock, more cache... but the feeling I get is people are...

hardware

Aeo

20:22

@badp Not quite. lol - Below them :P

badp

Fine.

Arda Xi

Subjunctive is used with "I wish that I were" and "If I were, then..."

Fabian

With EA being evil I found another selling point for our site here: We won't ban you from playing your games if you get banned here from asking questions ;-)

FallenAngelEyes

OH MY GOD CROSSFIRE IN MINECRAFT

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GnomeSlice

That's hilarious.

FallenAngelEyes

20:28

@GnomeSlice You have to have 2 people in diamond armor play the pucks XD

GnomeSlice

Wouldn't they still die?

> President Obama releases a new tell-all book about America, a cute eight-year-old is beginning to realize how much better she is than ugly girls, and a new Facebook feature allows users to cancel their account. It's the week of October 31st, 2011.

FallenAngelEyes

I dunno

GnomeSlice

see here

LessPop_MoreFizz

Hello Chat.

user30

I am stressed.

user30

20:35

this does not happen often.

user30

this goes against my intention to be a happier and jollier person this month

LessPop_MoreFizz

I need to go to New Jersey tomorrow. Fuck everything.

GnomeSlice

@ThomasMcDonald ^

FallenAngelEyes

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm so sorry

GnomeSlice

Judging from the starred list, I'm going to assume that image failed last time I linked it.

user30

20:39

also my headphones are now totally broken

user30

well, not quite totally

user30

but the left side has snapped and is held on by tape

GnomeSlice

@ThomasMcDonald Well, shit

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FallenAngelEyes Srsly.

@FallenAngelEyes And here I thought I was done with it when I stopped dating a girl that lived in Jersey City.

FallenAngelEyes

@LessPop_MoreFizz Have to go for work?

GnomeSlice

20:41

Boomtown Takedown now on Gamersgate.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FallenAngelEyes Yeah, need to go to a graphics shop out near Elizabeth

Ronan Forman

@John Practical effects are like special effects used back in the birth of cinema.

Practical effect

A practical effect is a special effect in which a prop appears to work in a situation where it obviously could not in real life (such as a ringing telephone on stage). They do not use trick photography or post-production artifice. This type of effect is normally found in live theatre. In film, practical effect denotes an effect produced on-set, without computer-generated imagery. Special effect is often synonymous with practical effect. In contrast, visual effects are created in post-production through photographic manipulation or computer generation. Many of the staples of action mov...

Lazers

0

Q: Archimedes never activated

Following this question... So I armed the ARCHIMEDES system, hoping to see all those NCR scum get fried...according to the Wiki it is a sight to behold. However, I went through and armed everything, went up to the top of the tower and was blinded by the array adjusting itself, and....nothing. ...

fallout-new-vegas

Ronan Forman

Anyone know what race for wool we're up to?

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Yi Jiang

@RonanForman Part 2 & 3 were previously posted in the blog

badp

20:51

Mari0 becomes awesomer by the day.

then when it'll be finally out Nintendo will summarily strike it down for trademark infringment or something

Aeo

@badp Sad, but true...

GnomeSlice

So, Flotilla.

Is interesting.

LessPop_MoreFizz

New XBL update is making me want to buy a 360

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz What is it?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice Tons of on demand movies, live TV from a bunch of major cable networks, etc.

GnomeSlice

21:00

Oh.

In other words, useless to me.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Makes it very tempting to cut the cable cord and just get a 360 + XBL

Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange Gaming Blog: Race for wool 4 and 5

Ronan Forman on December 05, 2011

The last two of our first play session. In the next set see Gnomeslice’s shiny splash screen. Also our next event is on the 17th visit meta for more information.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Also, cloud storage of save files allowing you to log in from a friends 360 and pull up that awesome save with a cool thing you just did

Lazers

0

Q: Pulling metrics from StarCraft 2 Replays

Is there a way to pull from a StarCraft 2 replay, every 30 seconds, game play metrics like these : Current Unspent Resources Current Army Value Current Production Facilities ... etc

starcraft-2 replays

Ullallulloo

@LessPop_MoreFizz You don't get your internet from cable too?

GnomeSlice

21:13

For anyone wondering, I self-destructed because the deer was winning.

3

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Ullallulloo I do, but I could get just internet instead of a combo and save 30 bucks/month

badp

@GnomeSlice That screen looks oddly like Atom Zombie Smasher

GnomeSlice

@badp That's probably because it's from the same devs.

badp

the fonts, the art, the style. Same devs?

GnomeSlice

Blendo Games.

I recommend Flotilla highly.

badp

21:23

I think I tried the demo and didn't really enjoy it

GnomeSlice

Me neither. The demo doesn't let you really get going.

SHIT.

I suck at this.

Brant

Whee!

badp

@Brant Now you get paid for earning reps! ...or while earning reps. Depends.

GnomeSlice

Eleven Burning Wind.

badp

It doesn't really matter which of the two I guess? :P

GnomeSlice

21:25

There's a ship name.

Brant

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'd like to know how they handle the use case where my girlfriend is watching Netflix and I log on to my profile at my buddy's house to play rock band.

Because if they handle it poorly, I get an angry phone call.

badp

Rock Band is perhaps the wrong example, because I guess you don't have to use your profile for it?

Brant

But my achievements! And my badass Rock Cape!

GnomeSlice

I wonder if I'm still on the first page of the leaderboards for that one Nitrome game.

Lazers

0

Q: How do I start multiplayer sessions in Icewind Dale II?

When I attempt to start a multiplayer game as a host, no one can connect, even though the network connection is OK. And vice versa, when I try to connect over the LAN, I get refused. Where's the problem? How do I fix it?

co-op networking icewind-dale bug

agent86

21:33

yo dawg I herd you like tagz

@Brant Supposedly you will log your other console out.

so whoever's watching netflix will get kicked off.

Brant

@agent86 Fail. :(

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice You only have 7 months left to live?

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn I dunno, it always says that.

agent86

@Brant > This means that when daddy is trying to use the “game” part of his account somewhere else, the “service” part of the account (Netflix, etc.) disappears, rendering his home machine inert. This makes sense to them, because the account is King, but this usage scenario isn’t tremendously uncommon for the sort of person who’d make use of this feature.

from penny arcade today

Brant

It's a trick question because I'm picking up an Apple TV soon to use as a Netflix frontend instead, as my launch-model 360 sounds like a freakin' jet engine. But still.

Wipqozn

21:35

@GnomeSlice oh, I thought you were actually dying. I was going to ask you for some of your stuff.

agent86

@GnomeSlice cancels GnomeSlice funeral beer bash

Arda Xi

@Wipqozn He has but a bone to pick. What were you going to ask for?

GnomeSlice

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.....what?

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi His organs? They sell for a lot on the organ black market.

or so I hear...

Arda Xi

@Wipqozn I don't know, I got my second heart quite cheap. Human too.

Well, I say human...

Wipqozn

21:38

@ArdaXi hearts are dime a dozen though

GnomeSlice

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Hey, I can relate to that.

ಠ_ಠ

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice jesus Christ

GnomeSlice

Jesus christ, that scared the shit out of me when I clicked.

Wipqozn

I had the volume turned up fairly loud and...

@GnomeSlice same

GnomeSlice

I'm wearing headphones.

Wipqozn

21:50

@GnomeSlice I lol'd

GnomeSlice

You'd better star that. For everyone else's benefit.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice I was going to, but not now.

GnomeSlice

Probably for the best.

This is going to give me a seizure.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Then stop?

GnomeSlice

Weird... that link in the star list doesn't work for me unless I middle click it.

I just get a green page if I left click it.

Refreshing it fixes it though.

@Wipqozn ...Why?

Lazers

21:55

2

Q: Can Skyrim's PS3 savegame be migrated to PC?

My PS3 Skyrim is starting to have the dreaded lag problem. I've tested Skyrim on my PC and I it works perfectly on medium settings with 60FPS@720p (and better graphics than the PS3). It is also beautiful on my 55'' plasma and the PS3 controller works once I downloaded "MotionInJoy", so I would li...

skyrim pc ps3

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice So you don't have a seizure?

skyrim is 5 questions away from surpassing starcraft-2

agent86

hm, I'm halfway to a saints-row-the-third badge

Grace Note

@agent86 No you're not

agent86

no? :(

I thought it was 100 upvotes, of which I had 55

but perhaps it's counting more than I think it is.

Grace Note

There need to be at least 100 questions in the tag. There are only 48. At best, you can be 48% as we go by a minimums system

badp

22:02

@GraceNote minimums?

agent86

sigh

Grace Note

@badp Yes, minimums.

agent86

you just had to destroy my dreams, didn't you?

badp

Oh I thought it was the fancy new name for a new way to do tag badges and stuff

agent86

YOU'RE NOT MY REAL (MOM/DAD)!

cries and runs to his room and slams the door

Grace Note

22:03

In brighter news: tzenes is one answer away from a gold Starcraft-2 badge

badp

@tzenes get to it!

Grace Note

@agent86 agent86, I am your father. Also technically your mother.

agent86

I doubt very seriously that there will ever be 100 SR3 questions, or that I'm likely to get 45 more upvotes even if there were.

@GraceNote NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

GnomeSlice

I thought @tzenes was gone.

agent86

and wait, is that even possible?

Grace Note

22:04

@GnomeSlice He's still present, just more behind the scenes.

badp

"You've found a Cheezburger collectible!
Me Gusta GhostBuster

Login to claim your Collectible.
Don't have an account? Join today!"

...

hrm. It does look cheap from outside.

Especially if permanent. I guess there's nothing really to sweat about though.

Grace Note

@agent86 penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/01/21

Ullallulloo

@badp You get one every day one the second page you go to.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Geez, Bethesda is better at telling stories through level design than anyone else in the business. It's a shame they're so objectively terrible at telling stories any other way though.

Grace Note

@LessPop_MoreFizz What about in their books?

LessPop_MoreFizz

22:08

@GraceNote If you mean in game books, I find those only do a particularly good job when they form part of the narrative in a location - most of the actual text is often not particularly good, and Elder Scrolls lore is... convoluted and kind of dumb in many places.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice I rarely see him anymore, but he is around.

Grace Note

@LessPop_MoreFizz I did mean those, as all I know is that they are why Fallen hasn't finished a game yet

Brant

There was a really good article I read yesterday on this topic, which I agree with.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Brant Yeah, although I think he misses the one thing that Bethesda does supremely well

which is that they tell stories with locations and object placement pretty exquisitely

GnomeSlice

> If you have no idea what the Elder Scrolls franchise is, you are probably either (a) an adult woman, or (b) the sort of person who once beat up the sort of person who likes the Elder Scrolls franchise.

LessPop_MoreFizz

22:10

It's actually most noticable in Fallout 3, with the various computer terminals, or things like the dead stuntman in the metro tunnels

but they do it a lot in Skyrim too.

(Incidentally, this is why Oblivion felt so weak. Too many random caves that didn't really feel like they told a story in quite the same way that they do in Morrowind or Skyrim)

Tom Medley

Lego Minecraft sets!

LessPop_MoreFizz

A good example: I just cleared out a random cave in Skyrim - I walked in to find a group of Bandits being attacked by Falmer - as I move through the cave, I find that these bandits had built their hideout right above a little Dwemer ruin full of Falmer - and the Falmer had broken through, and started to kill the bandits. As I got further down, I found bandit corpses in cages with spiders, and more bandits on altars with swords sticking out of their chests, having been ritually sacraficed.

And when I got back to the bandit den on my way out, their chief walked in, asking where the hell everybody was before seeing me and attacking.

Ivo Flipse

@badp should I flag as "Not an answer" or would you prefer I annotate it as "This should be a comment"

Wipqozn

@TomMedley that just looks like normal lego blocks

Tom Medley

I'll buy literally anything if it's Minecraft endorsed

badp

22:14

@IvoFlipse Either works. I find the latter kind easier to act on if I don't have a clue of what's what really. So just boss me around - "Convert to comment on X's answer"

Otherwise what I find myself doing is Delete - Delete - Delete - Delete - Delete.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Note to self: Work on getting Minecraft Endorsed version of swap.avi produced to test @TomMedley's resolve.

Ivo Flipse

Copy that, I noticed more and more comments-as-answers question coming in

LessPop_MoreFizz

(Also, don't google swap.avi if you're at work. Or if you value your sanity. Or if you have morals.)

badp

@IvoFlipse They're more like "I CAME TO THIS PAGE BECAUSE I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. GEE HOW EXTRAORDINARY I MUST POST ABOUT IT as an answer"

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp The price of a high google page rank.

badp

22:16

@LessPop_MoreFizz And the recipe to keep it high is delete, delete, delete, delete.

At least when it comes to those posts.

Ronan Forman

Why is Stack exchange broadcasting?

agent86

@RonanForman ITS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE! GET OUT OF THERE!

Ronan Forman

What?

badp

@RonanForman is it?

Ronan Forman

According to the livestream app.

badp

22:19

"This channel is password protected"

They're probably doing something internal

If it's just a password though, we can easily get @rebeccachernoff to leak it anyway.

Ronan Forman

Or possible @GraceNote

badp

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Nov 2 '10 at 14:24, by Yi Jiang

Ronan Forman

Is that a comunity ad?

badp

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Jan 3 at 15:11, by Yi Jiang

Arda Xi

@badp Awesome. I have that picture hanging on my wall.

badp

22:23

@RonanForman It's from back in the days where chat.SE was password protected

(and in development, I assume)

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Oct 14 '10 at 5:59, by Jeff Atwood

stay strong @rchern ! don't reveal the chat.stackoverflow.com password we have entrusted to you .. and only you!

Arda Xi

I remember gossipville.

badp

@ArdaXi Nah, the password screen was actually just a ruse. They apparently validated your user account

Grace Note

Hmm...?

Arda Xi

2

badp

@GraceNote You don't remember those days? 'cause those were the days. At least on the MSO tavern.

Ronan Forman

22:27

Someone star that so I can.

Arda Xi

@RonanForman Star what?

Grace Note

@badp I don't even know what we're talking about

Ronan Forman

@Arda That.

Arda Xi

@RonanForman Why couldn't you star it otherwise? Conversely, why would you star it?

Ronan Forman

You can't star on the mobile site, and why does anyon star anything that I don't post.

@Grace Football and shoes, that should get both your genders interested.

Arda Xi

22:31

@RonanForman Who knows.

badp

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Dec 12 '10 at 21:25, by radp

Ah, massive nostalgia. Those were the days.

Arda Xi

@_@ ALL GLORY TO THE BALPHATOAD

badp

ALL GLORY TO THE BALPHATOAD

Arda Xi

Hm. I've never been in the Tavern.

John

The Tavern seems dead every time I visit.

badp

22:35

It hasn't been the same in months

besides, rchern got employed and so a major part of the room (making fun at her expense) kinda ended there.

Arda Xi

We can't make fun of people who get employed?

Ronan Forman

Why do we need the tavern this is where all the fun is at.

badp

No, but the employed person has less time to come back at you and go 'oy'

@RonanForman It is now.

Arda Xi

@badp I thought that was her job description.

John

Oy!

Happy now?

Wipqozn

22:37

@badp Your name used to be radp? That's pretty rad.

Arda Xi

Nobody but @Wipqozn and maybe @RonanForman will get that, and even then only tangentially.

John

I don't get it.

2

Ronan Forman

I saw that episode.

Arda Xi

@John Well, you're not @RonanForman or @Wipqozn, so my prediction's correct Jack.

Ronan Forman

I'm not sure why it's relevant though.

Arda Xi

22:39

@RonanForman It's not.

I just wanted to shake my fist at @John.

Ronan Forman

I see.

Arda Xi

And Barrowman is a John.

Wipqozn

@RonanForman @ArdaXi was trying to make a joke, but failed.

Arda Xi

'Twasn't a joke.

John

Did you just call me Jack?

How dare you call me my name!

Arda Xi

22:42

@John Whatever you say Harkness.

Ronan Forman

Interestingly I've started saying oy when I get hurt or something in games. I hope I didn't catch it of rchern

John

Oy!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn He was @badp before he became @radp

John

@Arda I never played FNV. Is he/it a John also?

badp

I've been @radp for a few weeks on meta.

A few boring summer weeks.

Wipqozn

22:45

@ArdaXi You read calvin and hobbes?

Arda Xi

@John What?

@Wipqozn Apparently.

John

@Arda Google harkness.

The first result is a character in Fallout: New Vegas.

Arda Xi

John

Oh I didn't scroll down that far.

That explains everything.

Ronan Forman

THIS CHANGES NOTHING!

John

22:50

He's a Jack and a John. Just like me.

Arda Xi

@John Can you die?

John

@RONAN But reveals everything.

Ronan Forman

Your name's John Jack?

John

@Arda No.

Ronan Forman

Jack John?

John

22:51

@RONAN Also, apparently my autocorrect hates you.

Ronan Forman

I hate auto-correct too, so it's fine.

John

@Ronan oh come on, you're British. You should know the connection between Jack and John.

Arda Xi

@John Ooh, wanna test that theory?

John

@Arda Sure. How do you propose we do that?

Ronan Forman

@John But Jon-Jon is also a name.

Arda Xi

22:52

@John John Barrowman plays the character of Captain Jack Harkness on the revival of the British television series Doctor Who. That's the link.

@John Well, I've got a blunt object here...

John

So I saw. Dr Who is British?

I never knew that.

Arda Xi

What.

Doctor Who is British, yes.

John

Dr = doctor

Ronan Forman

@Arda if you move your mouse back and fourth fast enough, maybe you can knock his monitor onto him.

@John Doctor is neede for the annogramm.

Brant

The main character of Doctor Who is The Doctor.

It's not Dr.

Arda Xi

22:57

@John What's hword?

dworh, horwd?

wohrd?

Ronan Forman

We've lost Arda.

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