The Bridge

StrixVaria

15:00

I haven't changed my name in a while...

I wonder if I can confuse people even though I have a diamond.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Why aren't there any hero affinities in Dota2?

In the attempt to elaborate this question: Why aren't poison-based heroes (e.g. Viper, Venomancer, Shadow Demon) immune from poison? Why does Zeus get equally damaged by lightning blasts from Maelstrom? Why isn't Doom's fiery Scorched Earth quickly melting Crystal Maiden's Frostbite? And lot'...

dota-2

Ronan

@StrixVaria Have you ever?

StrixVaria

@Ronan During the time you left for like 3 years or something.

But were still somehow room owner all along?

Ronan

@StrixVaria It was only 1 year.

@StrixVaria Apparently so.

Sterno

InvaderSkoodge

Or something like that

Ronan

15:08

@Sterno Oh yeah!

MadMAxJr

Toby Fox tweeting about Nintendo talks. Do it. Doooo it. Get Papyrus into Smash.

Ronan

I wanted to find out whether I was a room owner for my whole absence but apparently those messages don't turn up in search.

StrixVaria

@Ronan I think I removed you because you weren't around, then someone else re-added you because of the status quo.

Ronan

@StrixVaria People do like their status to be as quo as they can make it.

I once removed myself as room owner and it got readded within the day.

https://t.co/zI7GTPkp3L

Tweeted by Fangamer on January 28, 2016 at 9:51 PM

Papyrus in smash would be so good. The final smash would clearly be sans.

Lazers 2.0

15:26

0

Q: How do I find out my oxygen level in Elite Dangerous?

How do I find out my current oxygen level in Elite Dangerous? I've looked at every panel in my craft, but nothing obvious jumps out.

elite-dangerous

fredley

@Ronan His final move should be called 'Spare'

Somebody needs to make Undertale Smash Brothers

Ronan

On it!

runs home

fredley

@Ronan Here's some music to listen to while you make it

Ronan

@fredley I'm going to listen to it anyway.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria It does have multiplayer

StrixVaria

15:38

@GnomeSlice So?

GnomeSlice

So we could play together

StrixVaria

Or we could play Diablo or Rocket League together, both of which are almost certainly better games.

Or Destiny.

Ronan

I do want to make another game soon, not sure what though.

GnomeSlice

I dunno I've heard helldivers is pretty dope

@StrixVaria Since when do you have Destiny??

Unrelated

Robot Orgy Massacre feat. Laffe the Fox - Ignore the Ghost

►

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice We have talked about this already. You were confused about how I was already level 40 after only a week.

GnomeSlice

15:41

Oh, right

I remember that now

I hit 40 last time I played

Yuuki

GnomeSlice

too soon

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice I barely played after I hit 40, so my gear is still pretty trash.

We should play together sometime.

GnomeSlice

Yeah man i haven't played it in a while either

Are you titan?

Sharpless512

Was there ever a video game released on your birthday?
You can find the popular games released on your birthday here: https://www.igdb.com/bday

So, have there ever been any games that came out on your birthday? If so what did you think of them?

StrixVaria

15:43

Yeah.

GnomeSlice

@Sharpless512 Uh, hi.

Sharpless512

wassup

StrixVaria

I really like the super where you target an area from the air, then zoom down and smash the ground at the target and kill everything there.

It is super satisfying in PvP, although probably not as useful in PvE as some other ones.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria plus the perk that makes it shoot out a wave in front of you

> Sorry, we have no record of any games released on this day :'(

Ooos i gotta go back to work

GodEmperorDune

@Sharpless512 portal 2 came out on my birthday

Well month/day, not year

djsmiley2k

15:51

ahhhhhhhhh interviewe on monday

Ronan

Ooo! That site uses font awesome! Type $('div').addClass('fa-spin'); into the console!

Powerlord

I keep hearing one of my coworkers talking a "uniques machine"

Pretty sure that's not how UNIX is pronounced.

SaintWacko

Nice

Ronan

@Powerlord They sound pretty similar in my accent.

GodEmperorDune

Hang on, let me check my leeniques box

StrixVaria

15:53

Every time someone mentions awesome fonts I change the local font for the Bridge to Impact and then get sad that I can't make everyone else enjoy this like I am.

As a mod, I should be able to make everyone use Impact.

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: DD: Dark Arisen: community only talks about PS3, why not 360?

I've noticed the dragons dogma community only talks about PS3 and not Xbox 360. Is there a reason for that? Is there a difference between the PS3 and 360?

dragons-dogma dragons-dogma-dark-arisen

Ronan

@StrixVaria Font awesome

StrixVaria

@Ronan Does it have Impact?

Ronan

@StrixVaria No.

That's not what it is.

StrixVaria

Lame.

Ronan

15:55

It's a html library for doing glyphs and things.

StrixVaria

GodEmperorDune

@StrixVaria that would be so difficult to read on mobile

Powerlord

Ffff, almost forgot boring web call that I have nothing to contribute to is in 2 minutes.

Ronan

@Powerlord Sounds fun.

No wait. I'm thinking of the other one.

StrixVaria

@Ronan Actually this spinning is pretty cool.

Powerlord

15:59

@Ronan Attendance is mandatory.

two bugs

Yay, I live

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs grats

Ronan

@twobugs Close one. You we're just @onebug for a while there.

MadMAxJr

mostofabug

Wipqozn

ugggghhh xccccooooommm 22222222

djsmiley2k

16:09

INTERVIEWWWWW

Wipqozn

@djsmiley2k good luck

djsmiley2k

Monday

I do need to dust off the suit tho :/

Powerlord

Manager present at meeting admitted that he hasn't come into the office yet.

MadMAxJr

Xcom2: Now with snakes!

Wipqozn

Okay, I'm officially sick of waiting

@Jin, make it tomorrow please

Jin

16:16

@Wipqozn wat?

two bugs

.today{ day: friday !important }

Wipqozn

@Jin XCOM 2. I want to play it now.

Jin

@Wipqozn you 'n me both...

two bugs

Oh, did I miss some drama? Aw :(

Jin

i read good reviews about it.. i hope they fixed the crazy bad rng...

i tire of "95% headshot.. miss"

djsmiley2k

16:18

i got unterview @twobugs

Ronan

@twobugs Yeah. I changed my name.

Yuuki

Unionhawk

RIP @OrigamiRobot

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk I miss him

MadMAxJr

I used to buy MTG cards like that..

GodEmperorDune

16:19

@Jin yeah i had a heavy that would pull off a hit on 20% chance, but the sniper with 95% would miss

two bugs

@djsmiley2k Nice! Good luck!!!

djsmiley2k

sounds right to me

Ronan

I don't think you understand how probability works.

GodEmperorDune

@Ronan this happened many times

djsmiley2k

you mean i don't understand how i hit the 5% miss every time?

@twobugs now nervous

two bugs

16:21

There are definitely games that display inaccurate hit chances. I don't thing X-COM 1 was one of them though

djsmiley2k

Previously I thought I could only just get there for 8:30 starts

GodEmperorDune

hey where is the forman?!

djsmiley2k

however once we move house, although it's futher, the bus's run from 6am! \o/

Unionhawk

@Ronan murdered @RonanForman

WAIT A SECOND

HOLD ON

Powerlord

Yay, someone forgot to set the new ownership data on roads for a village -> city migration. Which means bad data went out to all our agencies.

two bugs

16:21

For example, Fire Emblem 7 (GBA one) displayed hit/crit chances but it was "seeded" based on your previous moves

Unionhawk

1 hour ago, by Ronan

lands on people who change their name

djsmiley2k

first @oriagami and now ronan.... :O

he's killing us all off

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk yeah isn't @Ronan the bad guy in guardians of the galaxy

two bugs

I say "seeded" because it was deterministic

djsmiley2k

you know, I need to re-watch that film

MadMAxJr

16:22

XCom 2 will be 'fun' the same way Dwarf Fortress is 'fun'.

djsmiley2k

my friends have a habit of watching with teh volume turned down so low i can't hear anything :/

@MadMAxJr 'you will die'

Unionhawk

@twobugs You mean they didn't even do RNG by frame counter or anything?

djsmiley2k

'loosing is fun'

Ronan

@Unionhawk It all makes sense now!

Unionhawk

AHA (read this in a Zoidberg voice that's how I wrote it)

djsmiley2k

16:23

or do you mean 'the bugs add to it'

Unionhawk

NOTHING GETS PAST ME

I AM THE ALL KNOWING @UNI

MadMAxJr

X-ray spotted!

Unionhawk

BOW BEFORE MY ALL-KNOWLEDGE

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk so who owns isuniwrong.com

Ronan

@Unionhawk On an hour delay of course.

Yuuki

16:25

@Unionhawk I was about to ask why not RNG based off system time, but I realized that that could be spoofed.

Unionhawk

It can but it's frame perfect

So that level of RNG manipulation is TAS-only

But many games do that!

Ronan

It depends on whether you can rewind as part of the game mechanics or not.

MadMAxJr

TASBot Plays Xcom

I would like that.

GodEmperorDune

TASBot Plays urmom

Unionhawk

@Ronan No because the frame counter is still going up

StrixVaria

16:27

Twitch Plays XCOM.

MadMAxJr

"You see, by moving the troopers into a block and firing a rocket, we shift the memory value so that all the sectoids now have party hats. This is critical for the next glitch."

Ronan

@Unionhawk Yeah, I meant whether making them per-game deterministic or not.

StrixVaria

@MadMAxJr Also it moves the wall over by a few subpixels so that line of sight is opened for the sniper.

fredley

@StrixVaria You monster

MadMAxJr

"And so we just turned 4 troopers into plasma hover shivs..."

fredley

16:29

@djsmiley2k grats

djsmiley2k

ty

two bugs

@Unionhawk To my knowledge, no

djsmiley2k

now for me to stress til 15:30 monday when it's all over :D

two bugs

It had some neat effects, like making it so save scumming gave the same result unless you changed the order you did things in

But... you could still save scum

Ronan

@twobugs Yeah that's why I was thinking they did it.

two bugs

16:32

I mean people still thoroughly abused save scumming, you just had to be a little more careful about it

Arguably parts of hard mode were designed around (ab)using the arena

Ronan

@twobugs Like if you know you're going to miss this next shot you don't take it and spend the action healing and things?

two bugs

Well, you could just have the healer move first and then retry the shot

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Closed before being launched.

Ronan

@twobugs Oh right yeah. For some reason I was thinking it was on a per character basis.

Yuuki

Ugh, I still don't know if I want to pre-order XCOM 2.

two bugs

16:38

I preordered it and I'm going to preload it right now

MadMAxJr

It'll be a nice break from Monster Hunter for me.

Until I start carving sectoids and wearing them as hats.

two bugs

I had a chance to eat a Whataburger on my trip. They're pretty amazing. Great chain, glad they don't have them here because they're dangerous

Dragonrage

@Wipqozn yes, actually i was

two bugs

(Also extremely high in sodium, which is extra-bad for me)

Ronan

@twoslugs

Sterno

16:39

@Wipqozn are you preloaded yet? IS YOUR HYPE METER CORRECTLY CALIBRATED?

Powerlord

sigh What is it with Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code both using TextMate's language addon stuff? The docs for this format seem poor at best.

Sterno

I SHOULD NOT NEED TO CLICK "NO TO ALL" TWICE IN A ROW, VISUAL STUDIO

Unionhawk

whaaaaaat

(Jalapeño Bacon-Wrapped Chocolate-Covered Pretzel Rods.)

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Sterno

yuck

Unionhawk

NO U

Sterno

16:43

YES ME

fredley

@Sterno NO TO HALF

KEEP CLICKING NO TO HALF

ONLY EVER REDUCES NUMBER OF DECISIONS BY HALF

Dragonrage

well fredley is here, but the turtle isnt.

@fredley can you answer something for me about lifehacks?

seeing as that you are a trusted lifehacker

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Share raid lockouts between your characters

I like to collect mounts and I have 6 alts and my main character, I would like to farm mounts in all my characters, like Invencible from 25H Lich King, but if i clear the entire raid with every character, it'll take just too much time, is there a way to share the lockout from my main character to...

world-of-warcraft

Dragonrage

hmm interesting, i have almost rep capped again on lifehacks because of @AshleyNunn's question

Jin

^ what's the police of answering that question.. if there's a perfect answer on /r/wow already?

reddit.com/r/wow/comments/2usvqn/how_to_farm_old_mounts_quickly

Ronan

16:47

@fredley You just need to make every decision twice as fast as the previous one.

two bugs

I've had more of a chance to play FF-Explorers, it's interesting

fredley

@Jin Link to /r/wow, quote relevant section

two bugs

@Jin IMO it means you have a perfect answer to cite and get some free rep

Jin

@fredley so.. quote the whole thing?

fredley

@Jin If neccessary

two bugs

16:48

I would do the following: summary, quote block (if applicable), and a link

Dragonrage

@Jin quote the most relevant parts, or what is necessary to accurately answer the question imo

Unionhawk

Is it bad that I saw /r/wow and thought doge? Yes?

two bugs

So FF Explorers is about learning specific abilities, customizing your loadout, and using basic attacks to keep your stamina up

Dragonrage

but i forget who said it, but asking questions that have answers that can be easily googled isnt a bad thing, as we are trying to provide good google'able questions and answers

two bugs

Biggest gripes: a lot of the abilities and mechanics seem to be story gated

I get that you don't want to overload new players, but you also don't want to gate mechanics that I would say are important to the flow of the game

Also the graphics are nice but are pretty decidedly low-fi compared to something like Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, which is really pushing the 3DS

You'd think this would work in FF Explorer's favor by giving it a silky smooth framerate... but not really. It dips.

Yuuki

16:52

@twobugs Wow, low-fi even in comparison to Monster Hunter?

The series that consistently has people refuse to play it on account of "what are these, PS1 graphics?"

two bugs

...Really? I think Monster Hunter 4 U is a super pretty game

If someone says 4U is ugly I will slap them very hard

Yuuki

@twobugs The graphics talk has been lessened somewhat since it's moved to handheld.

But you'd be surprised at the amount of graphics complaints on the console games.

two bugs

But I mean... Explorers has more of a cutesy art style which for the most part works well. It just means the actual player models look pretty silly

(Thankfully the armor design seems pretty decent)

Yuuki

The real question: do they have feet?

two bugs

They actually redesigned some of the Eidolons in significant ways. Ramuh is now a lion-thing.

Yuuki

16:54

(I hate you so much sometimes, FE: Awakening)

two bugs

Yes, it's not quite that bad. They just look... weird

The character creation frustrated me because you see your character naked and they look really bad

(Thankfully this is not something that happens during gameplay)

Difficulty is pretty low but weird. There's this strange mechanic where you fill up a bar and then get a semi-random power up. Some of them are VERY overpowered

Dragonrage

@fredley do you know what consensus for troll answers is on lifehacks? ive seen them deleted before, as they were getting a lot of upvotes.

two bugs

Also I've had times where Shiva just dropped me from full health and it was like "Oh, okay"

fredley

@Dragonrage I posted many of them

That is my consensus

@Yuuki I thought you were talking about Fei Awakening for a sec there

Dragonrage

@fredley like the sitting on a bagel one and jumping on a bagel

Kevin van der Velden

16:57

@Dragonrage the only answer on lifehacks.se policy you'll get from @fredley is "Burn it all"

Dragonrage

those got deleted

fredley

@Dragonrage Those were deleted.

@Dragonrage You should probably ask this on Lifehacks meta

two bugs

The lifehacks policy seems to be "If it could be found funny as a human, kill. If it could kill a human, upvote"

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Frank

@twobugs Based on the 3U version, I find the textures of 4U a little pixelated.

two bugs

Ultimately I've put like 5ish hours into FF:Explorers and I still feel like there is a lot more that the game just hasn't deemed I'm worthy to experience yet. That's kind of frustrating. I wish there was a faster-track. Regardless, I'm having fun, but I'm not sure I can really adequately rank the game yet

@Frank I only had the 3U Wii U edition. That looked pretty good overall but there were some things that just clearly did not have high resolution versions

(And it had more FPS dips because Capcom didn't really care, apparently)

Unionhawk

17:01

@twobugs (incidentally I modflagged the one "set fire traps in your house" and it was actioned)

two bugs

@Unionhawk So they're actually removing answers that will definitely kill people? That's an improvement I guess

Unionhawk

Yes, and that's one of the more unambiguous reasons for removing an upvoted answer

"jump on your bagel" is less unambiguous but it's still not ambiguous

two bugs

I don't want to get on my high horse here but... it's not like a bad answer on Arqade is going to get you killed for following it (shut up do not try to loophole this)

Unionhawk

BUT ALT-F4 is shot

two bugs

"How can I wake up on time?" "Get shot with a gun" <- that is actually dangerous

Lazers 2.0

17:04

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Q: How do I make a custom map for a certain person?

I want to share my custom map with TBNRfrags, but I'm not sure how to do it. Does it take a special plug-in, or site? It would be great if there where a world ID, or something, that I could just give to him. But if there is not, I'm open to anything else.

minecraft hosting

Tim Stone

Ugh, just trolled myself

two bugs

"How can I light a fire in a stupid way that will probably get me killed?" "Open up a battery and screw with the chemicals!" <- this is also dangerous and bad

Unionhawk

Also an Awful Human is not testifying in congress right now. I seriously hope they get him on securities fraud.

Tim Stone

"Why in the hell does my credit card have over $1000 in pending charges?! calls bank Oh, I accidentally paid rent with the wrong card"

user15026

@TimStone Well, at least it was you, and not something worse

user15026

17:05

@Unionhawk ???

Tim Stone

Indeed!

Feel a bit silly now though :P

Unionhawk

@AshleyNunn That one guy with the face and the awful smile all the goddamn time who increased drug prices and whatnot

Seriously, all the goddamn time

Sterno

I hate that guy with the face.

Dragonrage

@TimStone you should do what i do, any charge over 1$ sends me an email

@fredley @Wipqozn meta.lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/2643/…

Sterno

@Wipqozn @StrixVaria youtube.com/watch?v=fo_AlvNvfa8

TLDW: XCOM2 has a character pool where you can create characters that all your games will pull from when recruiting new guys

You can import/export these.

So theoretically one of us could create every Bridge member, then we could all import that.

It's names/looks/etc, not stats

Dragonrage

17:12

wait so someone flagged a question asking about untangling headphones as a dup to a question about preventing headphones from getting tangled

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno I vote that happens so I don't have to spend too much goddamn time on it

Sterno

@KevinvanderVelden Me too

I vote @Wipqozn does it. Instead of playing the game, he should spend the first 5 hours making an awesome Bridge character pool

You can also make people in the character pool VIPs only

(which basically means the NPCs that you escort, etc)

Lazers 2.0

17:30

0

Q: Where is the location of last torch in this location?

I cannot found any torchlight left in this area yet the room is still marked as incomplete. Can someone tell me where is the location of the missing torchlight?

unepic

MadMAxJr

Seven AM, wake up in the hangar, gotta go downstairs, gotta equip laser rifle.

Cover by the boxes, cover by the doorway, gotta make my mind up, which cover shall I take?

GnomeSlice

17:51

@Fluttershy I would much prefer a physical copy, is it limited run or something?

hope not

StrixVaria

@Sterno I heard about this, sounds amazing.

Sterno

I can't wait to make @Wipqozn an overweight balding woman.

GodEmperorDune

@Sterno plus we can blame @Wipqozn if the NPCs fail to live up to the hype

StrixVaria

18:07

Another cool thing about Codex (RTS-style deck-building board game by my favorite board-game designer) is that, since the turns are asynchronous, if other Bridge people got it we could play each other.

I'm going to try to keep my pitching of this game to an acceptable minimum, but I'm as excited for this as I was for Diablo 3.

Ok, time to go ride a train for a while instead of being miserably sick at work.

Sterno

Remind me in 2 years when it's completed.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria That sounds cool

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Church / Temple area puzzles

I activated all the lazers in the game but not that one in the city. I managed to open all doors in the tower with the lazer in the city but not the first one. My problem is that kind of puzzles: Usually there is a "simple" puzzle of any kind which acts as a tutorial for the others. I hoped to...

the-witness

StrixVaria

@Sterno He's shipped all his previous kickstarters on time. This one is scheduled for November this year.

Sterno

Okay, one year!

StrixVaria

18:20

I will.

Sterno

It's a card game, though, right? How would people on The Bridge play together?

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice I'm honestly not sure.

Sterno

I need to find time to play Time Stories.

StrixVaria

@Sterno It's asynchronous so as long as you can see your opponent's board state you can execute your entire turn. Could be done with pictures of the board or something.

Sterno

Australian jerks are already playing XCOM2

GodEmperorDune

18:23

@Sterno did retro post a question about the meaning of the ending yet?

Wipqozn

@Sterno Those jerks

GodEmperorDune

jeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkks

Wipqozn

@Sterno Yup. preloadedit on my SSD last night.

Grace Note

Grargle

ardaozkal

Wee! My pi is here!

MadMAxJr

18:31

Pi can do some neat stuff.

Mine is a streetpass relay for my 3DS.

Powerlord

@GodEmperorDune Let me know so I can downvote it.

Sterno

I really wish Bridge meta drama would happen soon if it's going to happen. I need my full attention on XCOM2 come midnight.

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Powerlord

Dear Project Manager, if you have questions about if a database server is going to be down tomorrow ask the DBA not the development team.

MadMAxJr

Dear Sterno, I don't like the way you pester the channel to come up with Meta drama. I'm posting this to Meta.

Does that work?

djsmiley2k

drama about drama?

MadMAxJr

18:35

Drama about Sterno demanding drama

ardaozkal

@Sterno I'd post a troll link and say something trolling about it and start a drama, but I have none on hand.

Here have a steam key instead, I have loads of those: K23K5-JG36E-G5JBK

Sterno

@MadMAxJr Weak but acceptable.

MadMAxJr

@Sterno You have now met your drama quota.

ardaozkal

Turkey.

Guess the country XCOM 2 costs the most.

GodEmperorDune

@Sterno we had big drama last night

Sterno

18:48

@GodEmperorDune That's what I was referring to.

Is there a way to search Twitch for streams currently playing a particular game?

Unionhawk

Yes

twitch.tv/directory

Or, more likely, twitch.tv/directory/game/XCOM%202

Sterno

Thanks.

I found it indirectly before you linked it, but couldn't find a link to that on their main page

Powerlord

@GodEmperorDune We did?

And I MISSED it?

Sterno

And @fbueckert was never seen again.

GodEmperorDune

@Powerlord yeah, frank and strix

SaintWacko

18:52

Yeah, I missed it too

Unionhawk

It was temporarily resolved through careful deescalation of force yes

Sterno

Man, I have a hard time watching Twitch. So many of these people are showboating for their webcams. I want to punch their faces.

djsmiley2k

like 'ooo look, I have boobs' ?

Unionhawk

There are some bad layouts out there

fredley

Nostalgia

Sterno

18:56

More like "I cannot shut up for even 3 seconds"

djsmiley2k

Oh

I hardly talk while streaming

(and I don't hjave a cam)

Unionhawk

@Sterno I mean

SaintWacko

I keep forgetting I need to get a webcam

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs does good streams

Unionhawk

Some of these people, this is literally their job

MadMAxJr

18:58

The only part that irks me while streaming are the bots that wander into your channel, to accuse you of using a stream bot, so you'll google what a streambot is, in hopes that they get you to look at their pricing/rates because the bots only target extremely low watcher channels.

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