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@StevenJeuris oh!
@LessPop it's annoying if you do, as all the tooltips are using the keyboard buttons.
You're at that point!
Just hit the space bar or enter IIRC.
You're choosing which save file to use!
If I am lucky it says this bunk is empty after a while, and it asks me to press space ... after which nothing happens
@RonanForman Yeah, that's annoying, but the camera is sooooooooooooo much more manageable with sticks.
Might just be that I played it first on PS2 though.
What are your machine specs?
00:02
pfuh .. and now I got some weird video bug ... n/m it looks to be a bug indeed
TF2 update inbound
Something tells me Valve's about to nerf the Spycicle into uselessness before I've had a chance of using it
will try again after a reboot tomorrow
bedtime now! cya
@Wipqozn Looks like I'm going to have to pass on the future video projects.
@Raven You around for some LoL?
Ha!@
@agent86 Got a crown!
@GraceNote Uh, let me double check.
00:10
Ooh, congrats on getting a crown
Yeah, I have time for a Dominion game.
Not so much a classic.
Dominion is good. I've been having fair luck. Actually winning for once.
Booting up now
I probably should've noticed this way earlier, but is it me or the homepage background is some kind of advent calendar?
with a new thing added every day
It's not like the previous additions didn't go unnoticed, but this is getting regular
(I don't have a problem with this.)
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Q: How does Five-Finger Discount works?

OakThe ability description reads: You can 'purchase' items from the store for as cheap as free. Don't let Brax catch you at it though, or he'll send his Dread Collectors after you. The wiki agrees: Five-Finger Discount allows you to steal an item from Brax's shop by destroying the pedestal...

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Q: Manic Minor for Zx Specturm

Loki AstariWhen I was a mere youth I had a Zx Sepctrum: One of my favorite games was "Manic Minor" But I am stumped as to the name of the Sequel to this game.

00:22
@badp Sadly, you're probably right
Oh lovely, TF2 backpacks aren't visible through Steam right now
@badp Is that why the TF2 items tab has disappeared from my Steam inventory? o.0
I just got around to looking at peoples backpacks in the Trade thread... and I can't see 'em
um, that's ever so slightly worrying
"Introducing the Great Team Fortress 2 Winter Inventory Reset!"
Can't see them through online tools either.
"Feel what it is to be a new TF2 player! YEARLY!"
"Didn't you get tired of having the same hats and the same weapons and same arrangement over and over again? NO LONGER!"
"Now you can get excited about a Dead Ringer dropping again! Like it's your first one! Because it'll be!"
00:31
Chances are it's because they're adding more new items. I believe someone mentioned a ring?
@badp Honestly, if it wasn't for the idea of people losing items they bought, that actually would be pretty neat
user30
@Powerlord Kokatu said so.
@DaveMcClelland cough unusuals cough
@badp Exactly... I think this whole tf2 item economy is completely stupid
People have paid thousands of dollars for a virtual hat with fire on it. That's stupid, it's a damn video game
Using Kotaku again after all these months only reminds me why I left the site in the first place.
user30
00:34
@Powerlord Also schema tracker says very little about a ring.
user30
I think.
@ThomasMcDonald What it does say is that it's a craft item and not a hat/misc.
Is TF2 updating for anyone else right now?
nope
Team Fortress 2
- Added community-created winter items to the drop lists, the craft tables, and the store
- Added the Spirit of Giving
- Gifts from Secret Saxtons and Piles o' Gifts now have a chance to grant a gift in addition to whatever item they would have granted normally
- Fixed hearing the deny sound while rotating a sentry during placement
- Manmelter balance tweaks:
- Added particle effect on muzzle that appears when ready to fire
- Increased projectile speed while maintaining the same travel arc
> Gifts from Secret Saxtons and Piles o' Gifts now have a chance to grant a gift in addition to whatever item they would have granted normally
00:41
so no, no spycicle or new-engie-wrench nerfs
DROPS GET!
@badp I can't see what's changed, other than the Burgundy banner. I noticed that.
@RavenDreamer The HAT DASH thing didn't use to have a wizard hat
or is it me?
I have no clue.
@RavenDreamer woooooo, congrats :D
@badp Uh, yes it did.
It had 36 hats before, with the 4 new SWTOR hats, it has 40.
00:46
Feeling the financial pinch this holiday season? Need to free up a little cash to get that perfect gift? http://cats4gold.com/ is the answer!
(30 normal, 6 secret)
@Powerlord but was that hat on the Gaming background?
I really don't remember it.
@badp Oh, you meant in the background? I don't remember.
Also, I need to check the wording on something in SWTOR for a question.
So, I just got a coupon for 50% off a game that's 75% off during the Christmas sale.
@Powerlord I have one of those too.
SO Stupid.
Would rather have coal.
It's for Hacker: Evolution, btw
I'd rather have coal, too.
00:50
Does 7 coal gets you a game or just yet another generic gift?
@badp 7 coal gets you a gift. could be a game. Could be 33% off a valve title.
blech
The only thing you are guaranteed not to get from 7 pieces of coal is more coal.
@badp Eh, some people would rather have the 'sure thing' than enter a contest I suppose.
I mean, if I were to lose 7 entries from that giveaway, it'd only be for the guarantee of a free game
even if it's just a €1 or €2 game
It's a scratch off ticket with pretty good odds of winning back your 2-3 dollars versus entering the power ball with a small chance at 65 million.
00:53
\o/ Yay for Valve screwing up the version numbers returned by the master server.
Updater says my servers are up to date but the master server says "wrong version trolololol"
Smaller risk, smaller reward.
and still a chance of 'no' reward on either side of the puddle.
except each coal is already a scratch off ticket
@badp no, coal is the power ball ticket.
not sure why you'd rebuild a scratch off ticket with 7 scratch off tickets
@badp So you can fail three times!
00:55
@badp coal is a small chance at the big prize. turning in 7 coal is a fairly good chance at a smaller prize. That prize might not even be enough to cover the cost of the ticket - after all, you're gambling - and even a big win isn't going to be massive, but you're much more likely to get something.
@LessPop_MoreFizz every achievement gets you (in order of value) a game, coal or a coupon (worse than worthless). You can trade in 7 coal for a chance of... coupons, really.
It still doesn't make sense.
@badp no, you trade in your 7 coal for a chance of a game. If you don't get a game, well, at least you got a coupon.
Or you can save the coal, because each piece of coal you have is an entry into the grand prize contest.
By contrast, you can hold onto your coal for a chance at lots of games. If you don't get lots of games, you get jack shit.
and note that it's each piece you have, use them and lose them.
00:58
yes, except the coupon is already jack shit
Small risk, small reward, (with a consolation prize), big risk, big reward.
unless you manage to like accrue three coupons on top of a sale or something for the same game
(is that even possible?)
@badp I'm not denying that your assessment of the value is wrong, I'm saying that you're responding to a different incentive than someone who would turn in their coal.
I think your problem is you don't want it to be gambling.
But it's gambling.
@LessPop_MoreFizz oh okay
00:59
See: My prior metaphor about powerball vs. scratchoffs.
If I have 3 dollars to spend on a lottery ticket, I can buy a power ball ticket, which has long odds and a huge jackpot, or I can buy a scratch off ticket, which has slightly less long odds of winning a few hundred bucks, and very very good odds of at least winning back 50 cents out of the 3 bucks I paid for the ticket.
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Q: Occasional spawning with full health

Teo.skToday while I fought the Twins with my friends, I noticed that sometimes when I re-spawn, I don't get 100 health points like usually, but my health is instantly 400hp full even without visiting a nurse. I'm not aware of any item that would allow this. It happened approximately 1 of 3 times I died...

Different people will prefer to gamble in different lotteries, and while you could probably mathematically figure out what the greatest return on your 'investment' is (hint, it's taking your chances on the longer odds), some people will, entirely rationally, choose to take the smaller risk and smaller reward.
I would not doubt that the odds of getting a game from the random gift is substantially higher than seven times the odds of winning the grand prize giveaway.
I dunno, 7 coals means you've already got like 10 chances at a free game
01:02
@badp 7 coals is 7 chances at the grand prize.
7 coals is 7 failed chances at a free game
@badp Steam has a whole lot of users.
because you got coal instead of a game in the first place
yeah, I mistyped.
@badp the point is, are your odds of that free game better than 7 times the chances of winning something from the big drawing? Almost certainly.
I can see that, but really, your rebuild is going to give you 33% off Valve games.
01:04
But! Is that free game worth enough to you to be worth giving up the chance to have won the grand prize? Well, that depends on just how risk inclined you are.
@badp possibly. And it's possible the 7 coal I hoarded doesn't win the grand prize drawing.
Personally I should just consider that I've already won the huge jackpot once. <_<
You're playing the odds either way. Which odds you prefer to play is up to you.
@badp You have?
The only way to win is probably just giving coal away
@badp I think this fact is distorting your perception of just how slim the odds of winning are - it really is a very very longshot, and you really are super lucky.
01:06
@badp won a Steam draw before?
@LessPop_MoreFizz No, I'm actually saying the odds of winning it twice are basically null
@GnomeSlice He won the first one they did.
@badp You might be surprised. There are lots of lottery winners who have gone on to win again multiple times.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I didn't know that. What was the prize?
@LessPop_MoreFizz The only reason I won that drawing was because it was the very first one and to enter you (basically) needed to be in the Steam beta and have added enough games to your wishlist. That first time, my odds were much, much, MUCH better
@badp How so? Is there anything in the rules that prevents it? Your odds of winning this time are just as good as your odds of winning last time were.
The Gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy (because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913), and also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that if deviations from expected behaviour are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process, future deviations in the opposite direction are then more likely. For example, if a fair coin is tossed repeatedly and tails comes up a larger number of times than is expected, a gambler may incorrectly believe that this means that heads is more likely in future tosses....
(Well, actually, they're worse for the reasons you mentioned - the entrant pool has certainly grown thanks to the wish list feature not being brand new, etc.)
But the point stands.
@badp Right, but that has nothing to do with the statement 'the odds of winning it twice are basically nil'. Your odds of winning this time are identical to what they would be if you hadn't won before.
01:08
Ooh, are we discussing the Monte Carlo Fallacy?
@GraceNote Eh, it came up.
@badp If you win every game on Steam, can I have Farming Simulator?
@LessPop_MoreFizz (is it fallacious to think that the number of people who win twice is much smaller than the amount of people who win once? I know I'm not going to win that one, but...)
@GraceNote I wouldn't say we're discussing it.
I think I'll vanish before I start gushing about the paper I wrote on it.
01:09
@badp No, but that's not the same as the gambler's fallacy.
To wit, I apparently spent a good portion of my college years writing about gambling. Like, every semester.
@GraceNote You damn tease
@GnomeSlice They'd all be attached to his account
@badp More like "It's nothing that isn't covered by the Wikipedia article, probably, so it'd be boring"
@badp Yes, the odds of a rare event occurring twice are smaller than those of a rare event occurring once. But that doesn't make the event occurring a second time less likely once it has already occurred once.
01:10
You, know, I bet the guy who wins is going to be getting a crapload of people emailing him/her wanting to buy the account.
@GnomeSlice which is why winners aren't announced
unless like you send snail mail
(if this is even possible during this edition of the giveaway)
@badp It is.
Wait, I got picked for the closed beta of Hi-Rez Studios' newest game?
I never even got Global Agenda downloaded...
They're required by law to allow postcard entries.
@LessPop_MoreFizz No, I wasn't speaking of postcard entries, I was speaking of sending snail mail to receive the list of winners
01:12
@badp Yeah, they're required by law to do that as well.
I see.
Given that it's a law requirement, I imagine they'll just give you law-required information (say, name and surname?), and certainly not a link to the relevant profiles
@badp That'd be correct.
and since I know my name and surname I can say that if this data is published to the internet it's not in a place where Google can see it
yay for paranoia
@badp You likely waive certain privacy rights by accepting the prize. Fairly standard in the click through agreement yadda yadda yadda
@LessPop_MoreFizz Yes, I know. That's why I checked
I'm just saying there doesn't appear to be anybody posting names of steam giveaway winners on the internet just to make a point
(if there is they started late)
oh look. I got a free secret saxton.
...to give the first charge to my Spirit of Giving. That doesn't explain wtf that is
Oh, it's like a dueling badge, but for gifts given.
A strange misc precisely.
Heh.
01:24
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Q: Fixing quest bug in Skyrim (PC)

user16886I have been given a quest by the Companions to kill the Warlocks of 'Crossroads Watchtower' aka 'Falkreath Tower' for the quest 'Trouble In Skyrim'. However I already cleared this tower pre-quest and now when I go to the tower the quest target just hovers over the area where the enemy, a necroman...

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Q: What is Surge Rating?

PowerlordI recently found a Relic slot item that says "Use: Increases Critical Rating and Surge Rating by 50 for 20 seconds." Critical Rating deals with Critical Hits, but what is Surge Rating?

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Q: Taking the third Pokemon?

Simon SheehanSo with each of the Pokemon games, you generally start with three choices of Pokemon - a Fire, Grass, or Water type. You chose that, and your rival usually chose one that was of the most powerful against you, eg: Fire against water. I recall that there was a point in a version of Pokemon where y...

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Q: How do I keep from going bankrupt in Civ 5?

GBCI'm new to Civ V but have played Civilization since the beginning. I recently won my first prince level game as the Egyptians, beating England with a time victory. From the onset, bankruptcy was my greatest threat. I maintained a small enough army not to suck my treasury dry. I built markets...

user30
(the bottom line is no free keys)
oh look, I dropped a dueling game
And I'm back
now sits on 10 dueling minigame rounds he'll really never use
oh god, the festive lights blink
I didn't know
01:38
So I'm officially in the looks for a new comp... my 2½ year old one starts to be slow.
A new company?
Do we need another startup?
computer
yeah right
you know what is it you need
a new door
points at the airlock, wide open
Hey, when I'll have another computer, my old one can make office of one... until I crash through it.
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Q: Is there anything I can do other than have an Honorable Death?

Doozer BlakeIn multiplayer for Assassins Creed: Revelations, I'm wondering if there's anything I can do other than counter another assassins attempt on my life and take an Honorable Death. If I time the counter better and manage to get it in time, can I truly counter the other assassin and kill them, or is H...

01:53
@Fredy31 We're going to put sensors on it, for those who are unable to operate doors
@badp Please enjoy your trip through this door.
02:09
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Q: How to disable attack animations for Civ 5?

erikvoldWatching animations like planes attacking a city takes about 20secs, which is very painful to have to watch over and over again, is there someway to disable the animations?

0
Q: Which is better; dual-wielding or fighting with a shield and weapon?

ArasanI want a comparison between dual-wielding one-handed weapons and fighting with a shield and one-handed weapon. I would like the comparison to include: Which is easier at lower levels? Which will benefit more at higher level? Which is easier to use when fighting dragons? Definitive answer on whi...

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Q: What's the fastest way to rile up an angry, murderous mob to poison for Mosh Pit?

agent86For the achievement Mosh Pit, I have to poison 10 guards at once. I attempted this last night by breaching the palace walls and having 3 sets of Janissaries attack me at the same time. Despite flinging Desura bombs as if they were full of candy, I didn't manage to get 10 of the poisoned at once...

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Q: Did the original Super Mario Bros. contain a running glitch?

MahnaxThe best version of Super Mario Bros. I have found online is located here. However, the game contains a glitch. If you run continuously, Mario's legs will stop moving for half a second or so, while he is still moving forward. Did this happen in the original NES version of the game as well?

I'm not sure how to handle these types of posts yet, should I just flag it right off, or leave a comment?
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A: Can anything be done with the cloth dropped by zombies?

MikeHaving the same problem.. and with cactus had about 135 cloth and died with 1 gold sword with no armor shit is crazy Cloth must be something to be used 2 create armor but i dont know where the "craft thingy" is

@RedriderX Comments are always good.
@GnomeSlice That's what I thought, but this is pretty far off base. Should I let sit for a while or just zap it for uselessness?
@RedriderX Would what be worth it? You could probably flag it too.
But comments are always good.
@GnomeSlice Whoops didn't make it to clear.
02:18
@RedriderX I saw that one too...didn't quite seem flag worthy as it appears to add something.
@John Oh, whoops umm... already flagged it sorry :(
@RedriderX Why are you apologizing to me? That's perfectly fine; you're free (and encouraged) to flag content that you feel needs flagging. :)
@John It just seemed to me to be totally off base.
@RedriderX I do agree that's it's definitely not as high quality as I would prefer.
@John I guess it might of worked as a comment.
02:22
@RedriderX IMHO, it definitely deserved comment state rather than answer, but the guy didn't have the rep to post comments, I would've felt bad stealing credit for the info had I posted the comment, and I wasn't sure if that info was important enough to not risk losing, seeing as I don't play the game. :P
@John Yes I see your point. I guess mods wouldn't have a way of shoe-horning it into a comment while giving the guy credit?
@RedriderX Actually, I think they do.
@John Oh, well, okay then.
Could I now ask a totally random and unrelated question?
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Q: After a horse's owner is dead, is it still a crime to take his horse?

ArasanIf the owner of a horse(NPC) dies, and is horse is roaming around, can you take it, or will it still be stealing? If it is stealing, is there any way to make the horse yours if the original owner is dead?

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Q: Is it possible to become the Thane of both Imperial and Stormcloak controlled holds?

ArasanI understand that there is the possibility of the Stormcloaks capturing a hold, or city, such as Whiterun. Is it possible to be both the Thane of a Imperial controlled hold and a Stormcloak Hold, if you are allied with neither faction?

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Q: What is a good way to manage multiple characters (pc)?

ResorathOn Skyrim PC, it seems very difficult to manage multiple characters. Their quicksaves overwrite each other and you have to trace back the date of when you last did a "full save" to load a different character. Outside of swapping the save files, is there a better way to manage multiple character...

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Q: Battlefield 3 piloting tips please

JackDoes anyone have any good tips on being a pilot on battlefield 3 please help me im a noob lol got the game yesterday but I've got nearly all the unlocks and have nearly got be Below radar

@RedriderX Fire away!
02:32
HOW is chat rep calculated? I find it kind of random.
@RedriderX Total sum of your rep on all SE sites, including the ones under 200.
SO and MSO chat being exceptions to this rule.
Your SO points count everywhere except MSO and your MSO points count everywhere except SO, but no other site counts for SO or MSO chat.
@John Oh, okay, and cumulative badges too right?
@RedriderX Looking at my profile, no. My chat badge counts match the badge counts for my chat parent user.
@John Oh, well, it is kind of random then isn't it? :/
@RedriderX Heheh yeah a lot around SE is/appears random.
Spiral Knights just said it had finished downloading. So I launch it and it downloads more stuff. -_-
02:37
@John Kind of like the Internet in general, eh?
@RedriderX Quite. Although I find parts of SE nice little havens from the madness of..."Out There". :P
@John Quite.
Oh man, just got 25% Arkham City
That's nowhere near as good as the 100% off I already bought it for thanks to gaming <3
Awwwww. The name "John" is already in use in Spiral Knights.
Time to use one of my other pseudonyms.
@John Yes I imagine it might be a bit common. ;)
02:40
You can't use numbers in a Spiral Knights name?! :(
@John Say What?!
Is it possible for an answer that was auto-converted to community wiki to be unconverted?
@RedriderX Which can be quite handy sometimes. ;) And confusing in others. :P
What about 733T?!
@DaveMcClelland Only by a mod.
02:42
@badp @GraceNote are either of you around?
"John" is my only name without numbers. I would hate to break consistency.
@DaveMcClelland Those aren't our only mods, you realize. ;)
@John They're the only mods in chat :)
@DaveMcClelland True, but chat is not necessarily reflective of who's online. :)
@John good point.
@DaveMcClelland Thanks again for the games, btw!
02:43
@DaveMcClelland Can't you flag it and say that you want it changed?
@Mana @Raven Are either of you around?
@RedriderX Probably. I'd rather just yell at them directly :)
@RedriderX He can. No guarantees it'll be approved though and he might be out the flag weight.
@John You're quite welcome! I'm glad to clear out all that crap from my inventory
@RedriderX Essentually, pinging them here would have much the same effect.
Gah! I thought the "Random" button would give me an acceptable name! Not randomize the garb I had just picked out! D:
@John Say What?! Wow, that's kind of "random". :P
02:46
Yay! "Johnthegreenguy" worked! To bad they wouldn't let me capitalize anything but the first letter.
@RedriderX ...
App store profiteers are the worst.
@John What, it's just a bad pun.
@RedriderX A bad pun that I couldn't think of anything to respond to with. :P
@John Don't be afraid of the puns, they are just as cautious of you as you are of them.
@RedriderX I feel like I should find that funnier than I do.... is there another pun in there?
02:51
@John No, it's just a terrible joke you should be very afraid of.
@RedriderX Ok. runs screaming
@John Thank you.
Its like the attack of the green avatars in here
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Q: Can I still fight for one side or the other after forging the truce in "Season Unending"?

BobIn Skyrim if I haven't done any of the missions to join the imperials or the stormcloaks or signed up for them, can I do so after completing the quest "Season Unending"?

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Q: What is Steam rating and what does it do?

Anna LearI just noticed that apparently Steam has a rating and mine is 0.6: 0.6 what? Is that good? Bad? Should I be forever embarrassed for having posted a screenshot?

user15026
It's apparently easier than Kermit thought to be green, at least in here.
02:55
@MarkHenderson Yeah I really need to make me a gravatar.
Any of you seen this yet? black-aperture.com
@MarkHenderson What, HL3?

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