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2:00 PM
Unfortunately, the DreamZZT homepage seems broken, but you can get it here.
No one-box for GitHub? For shame.
 
@ArdaXi I thought it was my connection. Thank you very much, Have you ever played on of them?
 
Yes! I'm finally beating @ChrisF by rep!
 
@Gigili I haven't, no.
Oh wow, how things can change. Can you tell what this is?
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@ArdaXi XP Hill!
 
@DaveMcClelland 10 years later.
 
2:07 PM
There's a nice parallelism with how well Windows XP aged
 
True. Also, check out the resolution of that second one.
 
Holy crap
 
Hmm... 4 hours left.
 
2:20 PM
@ArdaXi Until?...
 
Steam drawing, hopefully.
 
Also over here in England winds have caused turbines to catch fire, and people to die.
 
@RonanForman He goes insane and kills everyone.
 
Steam have conveniently given themselves a window of a month to draw the winners.
 
Oh, they haven't drawn that yet?
Hooray, there's still a chance for me to be king of the internet
 
2:21 PM
@DaveMcClelland How much coal did you have?
 
SHould I sort out my wish list then?
 
@ArdaXi At the end, I think I had 6 in my inventory. I smelted twice, though, so I earned like, 20 something
 
I filled my wish list with all €50 games.
@DaveMcClelland I had 38 when they were taken from me.
 
@ArdaXi i did the same, had 9
 
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Q: Tag deletion request: [tools]

Dave McClellandAs of right now, the tools tag has 18 questions, 5 of which have been closed (mostly due to asking for tool recommendations). This is not a tag that anyone would favorite or use for searching, so I'm recommending it be deleted.

 
2:25 PM
What were the first and second prizes again?
 
@ArdaXi First prize was every single game in the Steam library I think
 
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Q: Selling My Items?

ShadezguyI would like to know where I can sell my items in Skyrim as I have many things that have big value but I do not need them and wish to sell them to a trader of some sort. I would like a trader that will buy any type of item.

 
@YiJiang No, that's the grand prize.
> (b) Epic Holiday Giveaway. Sponsor will select the following winners by random drawing from all valid entries by January 3, 2012: one (1) Grand Prize, fifty (50) First Prizes, one-hundred (100) Second Prizes, and one-thousand (1000) Third Prizes. Prize descriptions are listed here. Epic Holiday Giveaway prizes will be awarded no later than January 31, 2012.
 
@YiJiang For real?
 
... I've never heard of a distinction between a 'grand' and 'first' prize
But apparently so
 
2:28 PM
I... think that first prize was top 10 of your wishlist, second was top 5.
 
Yay, I was right.
You know, I'd settle for all Trainworks DLC in my inventory.
 
feel free to send the grand prize over my way
 
I'm sort of hoping I don't win that one.
My productivity would drop to never-before-seen low levels.
 
my prodyuctivity is to low allready
 
2:30 PM
Same would go for any of those prizes except the VCP though.
 
handing in my bachelor in 9 days, need to get it up a bit
 
If I win the VCP I just have more games to hand out.
So you guys would win more than I would.
 
i dont have many games on steam, so would all be good for me
 
@YiJiang "you must also have 10 items in your wishlist at the time"
oh god. I bought stuff from my wishlist and this dropped it to 8.
I did add stuff, but only after that time.
 
I did the same, but remembered to fill it up again
 
2:34 PM
Oh well. I only had 1 coal anyway.
 
In about 2 hours we'll find out if the YouTube feed works!
 
@RonanForman gl
 
The Commodore 64 turned 30. It's almost as old as I am! :O
 
@badp Ah crap, I forgot that too
oh well
 
2:50 PM
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Q: Who can I sleep with?

SternoSWTOR seems to have many romance options, and many opportunities to flirt with NPCs. Which NPCs & companions can you sleep with? Looking for a breakdown by sex & class where appropriate.

 
user30
@Lazers Excellent question.
 
user30
> I am a professional video game developer working for Electronic Arts Tiburon as part of the EA Sports label. I am credited in a variety of franchises including Madden NFL Football, NCAA Football, NASCAR, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and MMA.
 
user30
and user number 32!
 
user30
(sorry, just someone I came across while browsing the site)
 
My wishlist I padded out to 30 back for the Summer Sale, and I try to maintain it at that.
 
3:06 PM
@ArdaXi: I downloaded tar.gz but linux doesn't seem to be able to open it. =\
 
@Gigili Did you unpack it?
 
Weird, something might've gone wrong on their end. You can try redownloading.
Although... are you running Ubuntu?
 
Yes, Ubuntu 11.10
 
3:16 PM
THE BACON SHALL RISE AGAIN
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@agent86 lol
 
@ArdaXi "Wrong architecture 'i386' ". Thank you anyway, I'll probably drop that.
 
They only seemed to provide i386 binaries. Otherwise you'll have to build from source.
 
time to go home and make some bacon, cu later people
 
3:33 PM
 
that video fails to mention - the quest giver doesn't care how many critters you kill, that's not the quest.
 
3:52 PM
@Badp This question is nearing the point where it could use some comment pruning. George's comments are unnecessarily hostile, and while none of them are offensive, they aren't useful and they're certainly rude. gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/45365/selling-my-items/…
 
@bwarner obliged
 
@agent86 Every sport ever in Pong form?
I can't believe it took me until that one to... yeah
 
0
Q: Can I play Dragon Age 2 without playing Dragon Age Origins?

HarryI have played about 3 hours of Dragon Age Origins before I decided that I didn't like it. I read some reviews of Dragon Age 2 and thought that I would give it a shot. I'm well aware of the internet's preference for DAO to DA2, but my personal preference is for small scale, self contained stories...

 
@YiJiang you were thinking maybe there was an atari game about the magna carta? :)
 
@YiJiang I never had an Atari, so I didn't catch it until Obligatory Educational "Game"
 
4:03 PM
@agent86 after sufficient exposure to the AVGN... yes. Very much yes.
 
the checkers one is pretty obvious :)
 
is the box art original though?
 
I recognize most of the box arts
"Wrong Button" was "Missile Command", for example
 
4:18 PM
@badp yes, I think they stole the art and renamed the games.
 
0
Q: My Madden Ultimate Team is stuck

AdanionAlright, I just started playing an Ultimate Team because I want the last few achievements for the game. Right now I have a bunch of 50-60 rated players from the starter pack and a few players from playing the demo before launch. My problem is that in my very first game my Right Defensive End got ...

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Q: Is there any way to keep windowed Skyrim running whilst tabbed out?

victoriahI'd like to be able to tab out on loading screens so that I can click links on my second monitor and read things etc.

 
Motorbike Kid vs. The Hot Rod Menace sounds like my kind of game.
Also, I think the art on the Atari game covers actually looks really nice.
 
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Q: Tag Synonym Request: [PS1] -> [Playstation-1] ; [PS2] -> [Playstation-2] ; [PS3] -> [Playstation-3]

Raven DreamerIn doing research for this question, I found out that the Playstation console tags have a bit too much redundancy in the curent tagging system, with their abbreviated forms not being attributed to the full name of the consoles. (Or vice versa. I'm not sure which should be the prime tags)

That's from June and we still haven't merged any of those tags?
 
@Powerlord Mana and I weren't moderators at the time.
So you'd have to ask @badp.
or @Juan.
 
@Powerlord uh... I guess it fell through the cracks
 
4:33 PM
@Mana I totally had a dream last night! I dreamt we were roommates, and I was watching you go for the 50-kills in a row without dying achievement on some FPS. (I know it was you because you had Karkat's head)
 
to be honest I'm not sure I see the value in the renaming
then again Raven can now fulfill his own feature-request destiny
 
@badp It's not renaming. and are separate tags with separate questions
 
@Powerlord blech.
 
@RavenDreamer And then, after the achievement was obtained, we kinda, nudged a little closer together, and...?
 
fixed.
 
4:35 PM
To add to the problem, Sony uses both names in advertising and stuff.
 
@Mana No, actually, we got interrupted when I got an image text message from my idiot congressperson.
I showed it off and we laughed about how much of a douche he looked.
 
@RavenDreamer Nice
 
I've merged in and in to match the current abbreviation scheme
 
He was in the Captain Morgan pose, in front of a TV, with massive amounts of JPEG artifacting.
 
which doesn't address Raven's feature-request, but still fixes the problem
 
4:36 PM
@badp I think the feed doesn't work.
 
@RonanForman Nope, but I can't think of a reason why.
 
@FallenAngelEyes No... there isn't. But I'm about as meek and mild as can get. I may not know much, but I know that I should never be involved in BDSM.
 
well let's give it the time to do a couple more lazer rounds
 
@badp So and are parent tags?
 
4:38 PM
@FallenAngelEyes to match and the such
 
@RavenDreamer That's a point. Even subs and bottoms need to have the assertiveness to recognize bad situations.
 
if we don't like it, swapping synonyms around is a one click action
 
I just thought we usually preferred full names over abbreviations
 
@FallenAngelEyes returns to backing away slowly. I'm going to stop thinking about this now.
Oh, @badp! I beat Binding of Isaac for the first time, yesterday. It was glorious!
 
@RavenDreamer I'm trying to figure out what this is in response to
 
4:40 PM
@RavenDreamer grats! I'm still unable to get quite there yet.
 
@Mana haha me too
 
@Mana Well, start with Tim Stone's quote from the starred list.
 
I also beat BoI over the holidays - it kinda feels like a waste though
 
@RavenDreamer patpats
 
5 hours ago, by FallenAngelEyes
@RavenDreamer Hey, there's nothing wrong with that!
 
4:41 PM
like if you've got good items and successfully beat Mom, the knowledge that if you'd ever done it before you'd be continuing to play is painful
 
@IanPugsley Heh, well, depends, I suppose. More chance for items!
 
@RavenDreamer oh yeah, I mean I unlocked a million new things
 
@RavenDreamer where is the obligatory @powerlord joke mentioning that it's weird you're having such a crazed-out response to BDSM when you have engaged in vast amounts of Super Meat Boy already?
 
@badp Powerlord was away getting lunch. Leave a message after the beep.
 
also, Anomaly Warzone Earth updated... it's not clear what it did update though
 
4:43 PM
@badp I make an exception to dominating myself.
I tried The Kid's Xmas chapter last night. I went at it for a good 10 minutes, then said, "Screw it, I shouldn't have started this after midnight. I'll do it in the morning".
 
blech, that chapter is terrible.
 
I finally got my ship, in SWTOR.
It's fancy!
 
Dec 13 '11 at 16:04, by agent86
I'm not much for punishing video games. If I wanted to pay money to be be beaten and punished in my relaxation time, I'd... well.. let's just say there are other ways to accomplish that goal.
 
oh, that's what BDSM stands for.
 
@Mana Beating D..? Supermeatboy and M..?
 
4:46 PM
@badp Close enough.
 
@badp Beating Damn Super Meatboy
 
Being Dominated by Super Meatboy
 
Being Dominated by Sniper Machete?
 
@Powerlord 10-foot Kukri hax
 
Speaking of TF2, I forgot to record a replay yesterday.
 
4:47 PM
@Powerlord I now wish the Disciplinary Action's name started with an M instead.
 
@badp Beat Dat Supah Meatboy!
 
@badp You could use Soldier's Mantreads instead, though it's not as awesome
 
How's it hanging, Dave?
 
@DaveMcClelland It is however pretty damn humiliating.
 
I jumped down onto koth_sawmill's point when a Heavy, Medic, and Spy were on it. Backstabbed both the Medic and Heavy while the enemy Spy ran away from the point, stopped the cap at 0:00 on both clocks. I died shortly afterwards, but thanks to my actions, we won the round. \o/
 
4:49 PM
@badp Indeed
@RavenDreamer My office is cold and I'm awake before noon. :/
 
@DaveMcClelland I woke up in a different bed than I was expecting today!
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Literally, if I'd jumped down one second later, we would have lost.
 
That's actually less interesting than it sounds - I forgot I went back to my apartment lsat night.
I need to work on my short term memory.
 
@RavenDreamer At first I was like :D but then I was like :|
 
@RavenDreamer :(
 
4:51 PM
Still makes for a decent OOC star.
 
@RavenDreamer sharks tend to have one track minds
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with the track being MURDER.
 
@OrigamiRobot Will it blend bleed?
 
@RavenDreamer Don't breathe this?
 
@RavenDreamer At least you didn't then wake up back in the bed you were expecting, after dreaming you were in that bed and waking up elsewhere.
 
4:52 PM
@DaveMcClelland eww, shark smoke.
 
@GraceNote It's actually even worse than that. I woke up, was not surprised to be where I was, decided I'd sleep for four more hours, and in those intervening four hours, completely forgot where I was.
Clearly it was the dreams of @Mana that confused me so.
 
@RavenDreamer I wish I could decide to sleep for four more hours. I miss college :(
 
I dunno, that doesn't sound much worse than being thoroughly convinced a dream world is the real world because you dreamed about the real world while in the dream world, and knowing that the real world was a dream because certain aspects didn't completely match.
 
@RavenDreamer Did you think you were going to wake up in @Mana's bed?!
 
@DaveMcClelland Classes start up again next tuesday!
@DaveMcClelland I did think we were roommates.
 
4:54 PM
@GraceNote I think you must be the best proof that we're actually not part of somebody's dream, because 1) if it was, it'd be yours and 2) you'd have noticed by now. You must be pretty good by now at recursive dreamings.
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@RavenDreamer Roommates or "roommates?"
 
@GraceNote This is like that movie thing that everyone always talk about.
 
@DaveMcClelland Which is the one that implies nothing about sensual shenannigans?
 
@RavenDreamer Neither, it was a trick question. There would be sensual shenanigans aplenty
 
@Mana I still want to see that.
 
4:55 PM
@Mana I'd be more impressed if Inception didn't come out like a dozen years after the fact.
 
@Mana Titanic?
 
Besides, you know you'd like rocking it out as "Murdoch Jaeger", being friends with the reincarnation of Benjamin Franklin in a world of clockwork souls.
 
@Mana Oh, I thought you were talking about that movie where you wake up on the same day, everyday, seemingly forever until you, uh, fuck the hot chick? I forget, but I can't be too off.
 
@GraceNote Which movie is this describing? It sounds sort of like the dream equivalent of The Truman Show
Is it What Dreams May Come?
Or Vanilla Sky?
 
@DaveMcClelland This wasn't based off of a movie
 
4:56 PM
@badp Groundhog Day
 
Or a bunch of other dream related movies that I've only seen parts of
@GraceNote Oh, then you're blowing my mind
 
@badp Nonono, he already did that a few times, it didn't end up mattering until he actually decided to become a nice person and do everything right for selfless reasons.
 
@DaveMcClelland Ikaruga: The Dream
 
@badp I will add it to my mental list of movies I want to watch but will soon forget about
 
@DaveMcClelland Not a movie. It's that shmup where you toggle your ship's color between white and black to hit black and white
 
4:59 PM
@DaveMcClelland The whole thing is a bit meaty, so I could instead talk about the dream where there was a movie based on my exploits of robbing the riches of the afterlife by concocting an elixir to fake death.
 
Oh my, that's quite the indirection.
 
@badp It'll be added to the list of games of the same idea, then :)
@GraceNote This... makes my head hurt
 
@badp "That shmup"? More like "best shmup"
 
@Mana Wish it had a better name honestly. At least something more mnemonic.
Had to look it up on a list or something
 
@badp Blame the Japanese.
 
5:00 PM
Also Jamestown was disapppointing difficulty-wise. I completed the whole thing on Judgement today.
 
@GraceNote Is that the one where you fall in love with the personification of Death but can never be together because you are immortal
 
@Mana I found I love the music in Jamestown more than the game itself.
 
had nothing on Touhou.
@badp yeah, the soundtrack makes the game.
 
Basically, in the afterlife (which everyone speaks Chinese but the architecture and clothing is Japanese, apparently), you get an amount of riches for your life in death in approximation to your deeds and fortune during life, though some must be paid to access. Two friends and I crafted a medicine that would temporarily kill us and render us ghosts, we'd use it to collect a vast fortune from our future, then we'd run off with it back to our life and be super rich.
 
Jamestown's soundtrack accompanied much of my reading of Inheritance
 
5:02 PM
The actual dream happened 300 years after the fact - I was talking to a bunch of thieves who were... doing the deed in my car... who I apparently shot first instead of asking questions, at any rate I told them about the riches of the afterlife so I could get them to stop haunting me, and mentioned that they made a movie about my exploits.
 
although I'm not sure I know why I mention it since it doesn't seem anybody else here has read that book
 
@GraceNote Didn't you see Back To The Future Part 2?! Do not use time-travelling for profit!
 
@Mana I don't think he was time traveling, I think he was dreaming about the past. Or the future. Or the futurepast.
 
@Mana It's not quite the future, more that yet to come. But apparently not, since I guess concocting a medicine to cheat death for money also includes, well, evading death.
So it's like I didn't even get that future so it's like stealing money from that which will never come to pass? It gets very philosophical if you stop to think about the ramifications of robbing your own afterlife.
 
5:04 PM
@GraceNote Simply, economy is a cross-dimensional zero-sum game.
And that's how inflation is born!
 
@GraceNote Since all money in a capitalist system equates debt, it's not much of a leap to steal from your afterlife. You're basically just creating money out of nothing, which is where money always comes from.
 
How philosophical.
 
@ArdaXi I never understood how that system succeeded at anything, and yet, it still runs...
 
Click on it this time!
 
@RonanForman chuckles
 
5:08 PM
@badp I think lasers is broken too.
 
@GraceNote Ever heard of "delaying the inevitable?" That's what the system is based on.
 
So it is
 
@RonanForman Cool intro
 
@MarcoCeppi GnomeSlice made it!
I'm so proud of him. ;_;
 
@Mana That's mean, don't give him false hope.
 
5:31 PM
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Q: What happens when a mission offer expires in EVE Online?

user17683I just started out in EVE Online, and finished the beginner tutorial. Next I got sent to another station with lots of agents to teach me more about combat, mining, etc... I clicked on several of the agents and now see that each agent I talk to puts a mission offer in my journal. I didn't accep...

 
user30
This made me chuckle. Again.
 
user30
Can you answer this? Who can I sleep with? http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/45370/who-can-i-sleep-with #swtor
 
@RonanForman I still think the intro is a little long at 15 seconds
 
user30
Hrmph. Demon Lord again. Except on Hard he has 220k health.
 
user30
I do not see this ending particularly well.
 
user30
5:39 PM
We'll see.
 
user30
Awww yeah.
 
This is probably the best 10 hour video ever made (And yes, I know I've posted this before):
 
@Raven - you realize that with that title edit you've radically altered the focus of the question, right?
 
"I would strongly suggest narrowing this down somewhat. "
ಠ_ಠ
 
Yes, but there are multiple directions of narrowing.
It could just as soon have become "What NPCs can an Imperial Agent successfully seduce"
There's a reason I didn't do it myself.
Preserving intent is important.
 
5:50 PM
I suppose it depends on how narrow your definition of "romance" is.
 
The original question was about sex, not love.
 
You have, however, convinced me to roll up an imperial agent.
@LessPop_MoreFizz It's a bioware game. That is their definition of "romance".
 
Banging' Darths. Left and right.
 
The Sith Inquisitor Mentor reminds me of the Lodge of Sorceresses from The Witcher 2
 
Back to work with me. Remind me to explain just how awesome the Agent is to you tonight.
 
5:54 PM
@Wipqozn And I still agree with you.
 
@RavenDreamer Darth Zazsh? (sp?)
 
@Powerlord Yeah.
General chat has been pretty spoilertastic.
I can't wait to get to kill her. :/
 
@RavenDreamer I'm about to head to Alderaan, and I still haven't killed her.
 
@Wipqozn I've managed to trim 4 seconds off it, that's literally all I can do.
Okay 5, that's it.
 
6:16 PM
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Q: Identify side scrolling mid 90s early 00s. Dragons with weapons attached to them

ShreddThis was either a SNES or Sega based game, cant remember. you could play it solo, or mulitplayer. i think i was some sort of RPG. vividly remember one scene (maybe a boss) a large green dragon with a rocket launcher and other weapons attached to him. as you blasted him the weapons would becom...

 
@Lazers ugh, vague ITGs need to dieeee
 
no kidding
I was like "Turok? Spyro? ...fuck this, I'm out"
 
@RonanForman 5 seconds is a huge difference
10 seconds isn't too bad
15 is just way too long
 
I read them, and sometimes I'll think about it or do a search, but most of the time it's like... either I remember the specific scene you're describing or I don't
I don't understand how most of those ITGs aren't "too localized"
there should be a template or something, I thought I saw a good one over on xkcd once
 
6:44 PM
@RonanForman I was screaming "3, Ronan, 3!" for like a solid minute. But yeah, now you have me wanting to see what happens next.
Btw, who's the guy who started having the GSE Facebook like their own posts? ಠ_ಠ
 
@John I do not know of this.
 
@RonanForman I'm going to guess it was @GnomeSlice because it was his blog post and he liked it too.
 
@John ^this
 
So, @GnomeSlice please don't do that.
 
Oh, their own posts by G.SE, doesn't that look like G.SE liking a G.SE post?
 
6:47 PM
@RonanForman Yes.
And it looks bad.
 
How do I get it so that I can like a post, clicking the like button makes the page like it as I'm admin.
 
@RonanForman There should be a button like "Use Facebook as Ronan" somewhere.
Unless it's different across the pond.
 
Who does it say is liking the first post?
 
@RonanForman The Puzzle Agent video?
 
@RonanForman Gaming.SE
 
6:51 PM
It says G.SE
 
Yeah.
Then something's up.
 
@RonanForman I recognize 3 of those admins. Who are the orange guy and the guy on the far right?
 
@John I'd rather not disclose that information.
 
@RonanForman Ok.
 
Now who likes the post?
 
6:55 PM
@RonanForman No one.
Now GSE again.
 
Great, so which ever side of that button I'm on, I can't like it as me.
 
@RonanForman Simple, have @Wipqozn remove admin of the page from you. :P
Then you like it, and have @Wipqozn give it back.
Although @Wipqozn might not be the best guy for that.... he'd probably see how long he could troll you before giving admin back...
 
That's anything but simple.
 
@John I was the one who gave @ronan admin in the first place, why would I troll him with it?
 
@RonanForman Well I'm afraid there's no way I could help you...
@Wipqozn Because you're you. And because you won't make me a room owner.
 
6:58 PM
@John oh, right. I forgot about that for a minute,.
 
@Wipqozn Not to troll, if I were to not be an admin facebook would have to let me be me.
 
@John You want to be a room owner?
 
@Wipqozn Yes.
 

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