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alexanderpas

00:50

cheezburger.com/View/4019739392

Mana

01:04

oh shit web apps is out of beta

time to check the site...!!!

My god. This is beautiful.

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Mechko

08:40

god damnit. Not only did I not finish my Theory homework, Season 2 of Lost is no longer on netflix on demand, so I can't even gainfully procrastinate

badp

09:04

You do know that if it wasn't for Starz, Netflix on Demand would only have years old stuff, right? :)

search ars technica for starz and netflix, you should find a related article explaining why

later

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badp

10:44

Oh God

I just tried the Rhythm Zone demo and confirmed I really have no business with rhythm games

where by rhythm I mean "hit the right key at the right time"

badp

11:32

protip: if you're going to implement idle protection, make sure you remember to set the health back when you go out of it

protip #2: if you're going to implement idle protection and set the health back from 500 when going out of it, make sure one can't enable idle protection while idle protection is enabled, thus setting the value of previous health to be returned to at 500

badp

12:00

gaming.stackexchange.com/abilities/

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badp

14:38

Collision detection in racing games: BAD IDEA

Suddenly the game is all RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM

GnomeSlice

Is there somewhere I can go to learn the basics of the Chat system?

badp

:5379 chat.gaming.stackexchange.com/faq

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LessPop_MoreFizz

18:35

"Until can develop it to please and so great to raise up. Please note that Joomla disease is avenging carriages."

Google Translate now does Latin.

That is the final two sentences of a lorem ipsum block.

Apparantly they had Joomla in ancient rome.

badp

19:21

:5393 No wonder Rome eventually fell to the PHP barbarians!

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badp

20:26

can you confirm all links in this answer are world-readable, please?

A: First person shooters with 1st party stats sites like Bungie.Net

Well, the guys at Valve also are stats junkies. Steam provides stats for: Steam itself (global stats) Day of Defeat (global stats) Half Life 2 Episode 1 (global stats) Half Life 2 Episode 2 (global stats) Team Fortress 2 (global stats) Alien Swarm (profile stats) Conter Strike: Source (profile ...

sjohnston

@badp I can confirm that they all go to some gaming-related site, because they all redirect to the block page here at work :)

badp

whoops :)

Arda Xi

I don't get why this answer was accepted

Q: Alien Swarm: How to make a server for more than 4 people?

I know there are Alien Swarm dedicated servers for 5 or 6 players. How do I create a game for more than 4 people? It may be simple game or by dedicated server.

badp

I know that I was right in keeping my answer

+46 rep :D

Still I'll put Oak's above mine

Arda Xi

And both above mine.

Oak

20:34

I'm always above. What are you talking about?

Arda Xi

As is reflected in the votes.

:5409 gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/8049/…

Oak

I don't have any answer in that question...

Arda Xi

@badp he only edited it

Gets me a lot too

It was BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft's answer.

Oak

I mean, if I would have an answer there, it would have probably been the accepted one anyway :)

Arda Xi

acts like he didn't read that ;-)

sjohnston

20:40

I'm curious, does anyone know how to pronounce "Pflughoeft"?

Arda Xi

20:51

:5418 I have an idea.

LessPop_MoreFizz

21:37

:5418 I could probably not embarass myself saying it aloud if I needed to.

badp

Pee-flu-ghoul-foot?

Arda Xi

I was thinking more like Pfl-uh-g-hoof-t

LessPop_MoreFizz

the majority of the consonant cruft is silent if it's pronounced how I think it is

i.e. fleu-hofft or some variant there of.

I may have the vowel stresses wrong, but I'm reasonably confident about that.

see also, for ex:

Pflugerville, Texas

Pflugerville () is a city in Travis and Williamson counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 16,335 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 39,653. Pflugerville is a suburb of Austin and part of the Austin–Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Pflugerville is located at (30.446122, -97.623989), 14 miles (23 km) northeast of downtown Austin along FM 1825 (Pecan Street) in northern Travis County. Pflugerville is situated northeast of the Colorado River. According to the United States Census Bureau, t...

badp

I'd throw in a schwa.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Oh great. It oneboxes the wikipedia article and the Pronounciation just vanishes.

:5438 yea, but I was too lazy to screw with unicode to get it wright.

badp

21:48

:5439 I'm blaming templates for that :/

btw, /ˈfluːɡərvɪl/

LessPop_MoreFizz

:5442 well yea, I could copy paste it. But I was trying to provide an example.

badp

And you complained about the pronounciation vanishing...

I pasted it for you.

LessPop_MoreFizz

:5444 Yes, I complained because it means the wikipedia oneboxing is dumb.

DUMB.

badp

Nah, it's done so to skip stuff like {{stub}}

Arda Xi

Shouldn't pronunciation be {{subst:}}?

badp

21:52

I'm not enough into Wikipedia to know

I wouldn't, though.

source sez, '''Pflugerville''' ({{pron-en|ˈfluːɡərvɪl}}).

tzenes

flu-hoft

Arda Xi

:5452 Yeah, I know it is, I just thought it'd be better if it was

tzenes

:5418 flu-oft

tzenes

22:11

I've noticed that we seem to have an affinity for PC games

do you think its because you are at your computer when you play them?

LessPop_MoreFizz

:5457 In my case, it's because the only modern consoles I own are the Wii and DS (and iPhone I guess). I haven't had questions about anything I play on the DS, I haven't picked up a new game for the Wii in a year.

tzenes

I play a lot of 360 games, but I rarely have questions about any game

I have been playing more and more DS though

like I picked up FFTA2

LessPop_MoreFizz

I didn't like FFTA, so I've completely ignored FFTA2

last DS game I picked up was DQ9

I keep forgetting I can actually fix my typos in SO chat.

tzenes

I hated FFTA

LessPop_MoreFizz

and fall back on old IRC/IM habits.

tzenes

22:15

but FFTA2 is a little better, its more plot driven

but they do still have the races

and in fact, they added some

which I didn't really like

LessPop_MoreFizz

I also just don't need more handheld games these days.

like, unless it's a AAA title that I'd want to play no matter the platform (ala DQ9), I just have zero interest.

because why should I play an 'okay' FFT game just because I can take it with me when I can instead take my phone out of my pocket and play Words With Friends. Or The Incident. Or Shining Force. Or Carcassone. etc.

but mainly Words With Friends. Because oh sweet mother of god am I addicted to scrabble and scrabblealikes.

Arda Xi

:5475 Isn't Carcassonne a boardgame?

LessPop_MoreFizz

:5477 Yes, and there is a fantastic iPhone version of it, with internet play and hotseat play and a pretty good AI.

tzenes

I think I keep playing FFT games because I'm nostalgic for FFT

LessPop_MoreFizz

Scrabble is a boardgame too. But that doesn't make WWF less absolutely amazing and addictive and oh god where has all my time gone at least I know all these big words now.

or, to be more accurate, small words. Words more than 7 or 8 letters long almost never help you win. 3 and 2 letter words on the other hand, are the key to victory.

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