The Bridge

Derpy

12:06

two bugs

12:17

@badp You're going to have a good time watching my stream. Or else.

Derpy

Or you can just have an endless bad time

two bugs

Man this bing rewards thing is... really bleh. Literally 1,000 searches for a $10 gift card

I think it takes like 400 to even be entered into a drawing for something. 400 searches just to lose!

badp

@twobugs It'll be like watching last month tonight, with the two of bugs

two bugs

We'll be going from last year tonight (my Dark Souls 2 streams) to last month tonight. That's a huge improvement

badp

I don't know man

you're losing on iconic fright town

two bugs

12:27

I beat fright town. I didn't even stream the true tight town experience

badp

also you'll have to start again with no coupons

I don't even know if there'll be coupons

two bugs

I'm a pro at collecting coupons

badp

you'll miss out on all rebates you've already acquired

two bugs

There will be coupons.

I doubt I can finish Dark Souls 2 tonight so I might not start 3 until Friday or Saturday

I dunno if you saw it but there was some joker who tried to pvp me and I'm horrible at pvp but I owned him hard

badp

I watched almost nothing last night

Trent Hawkins

12:32

@PrivatePansy I grabbed Strike Suit Zero

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@badp I noticed

You weren't criticizing me very much

It's not the same when I'm not being berated by a haughty European

@TrentHawkins This is a fun game. Hope you enjoy it!

badp

I only provide the highest level of constructive commentary and pertinent insight

two bugs

I will definitely stream more tonight, I hope you can join me

Wipqozn

@Sterno I'm seriously considering buying a digital version just so I can start playing tonight, but then it would be a digital console version and I'm always leery for that.

Trent Hawkins

@twobugs I've been eyeing it for a couple years... Space sim games are hit or miss for me.

two bugs

12:38

@TrentHawkins It's basically just a space combat sim where you can turn into a gundam and kill people

It's quite fun for what it is

Trent Hawkins

@twobugs I gathered that; but somewhere between the controls and the feel of the combat most seem to lose me.

MBraedley

TIL I'm probably preparing my French press coffee wrong. Hopefully some of the suggestions over at coffee.SE will help.

two bugs

Ah, I can get that. Are you someone who really gets into the physics? I'm not, but I've read that a lot of space sims tend to fudge the physics to make them more accessible

Wipqozn

@MBraedley Are you psyched for Dark Souls III?!?!?!?!?!?!!

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn Nah.

Wipqozn

12:42

@Fluttershy Coward.

two bugs

I wonder how Trump feels about Dark Souls 3

MBraedley

@Wipqozn No

Overwatch, OTOH...

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Is there any reason to buy keys on the community market?

You can buy keys un (appearently) unlimted stock from the system itself. But I see soooo often people placing keys on the communitymarket, some times even the cheapest ofer starting by 0.50€ more then the price I had to pay them directly. Is there any reason that 1 should do? Or are this just o...

counter-strike-go

MBraedley

And buying a house...

And getting my Oculus Rift...

Wipqozn

@MBraedley bah

@Yuuki I've never understood Civil War Reenactment.

two bugs

12:45

I don't really get it either. Union maybe, but I don't think the confederates are really that sympathetic

Wipqozn

> Tactical battles, which may or may not be open to the public,[34] are fought like real battles with each side devising strategies and tactics to defeat their opponent(s). They have no script, a basic set of agreed-upon rules (physical boundaries, time limit, victory conditions, etc.), and onsite judges or referees, and so could be considered a form of live action role-playing game. Tactical battles might also be considered a form of experimental archaeology.

See that sounds interesting

But that's basically LARPing

two bugs

I get that to the average soldier they were protecting their homes. But the side they were fighting for is pretty much objectively wrong

MBraedley

@Wipqozn They've done the same thing at the Fortress of Louisbourg

Wipqozn

@MBraedley What geeks man

TOTAL GEEKS

two bugs

@Wipqozn Hm, this could be our chance to normalize LARPing and make it a mainstream thing

Fluttershy

12:47

@Wipqozn I'm not afraid to play Dark Souls 3. I'm just not as hyped for it as you. :P Overwatch has all of my hypes.

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy HYPE HYPE HYPE

come on @Fluttershy, be cool again

@Sterno Did you take tomorrow off work?

Kevin van der Velden

@MBraedley I'm thinking of getting the valve thing

MBraedley

@Wipqozn Did you?

Kevin van der Velden

The whole room bit sounds cool

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I can't afford to take work off as I just started a new job

And I'm not as hyped as you guys

Wipqozn

12:48

@MBraedley Yes. I'm getting up early, so I can get to the store when it opens at 7am.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn Bestbuy?

Kevin van der Velden

So you'll have beaten it tomorrow evening?

Wipqozn

@MBraedley Walmart. Best Buy opens at 9.

@KevinvanderVelden No

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn Weak

Wipqozn

I can't wait until 9am, that's crazy

two bugs

12:49

Speaking of Best Buy, I need to get some advice from @Chippies on Ultrawide Monitors since my Best Buy has a 10% (!!!!) cashback thing for this month

If I could snag a nice monitor I might as well

Chippies

@twobugs what's your budget?

two bugs

Lots.

Wipqozn

PROTIPL Just steal a TV from a homeless shelter for orphans

Chippies

I have only used one ultrawide monitor myself and I probably wouldn't recommend it unless you're on a really tight budget

two bugs

I am a single software dev in my 20s with no dependents. It's time to make bad decisions!

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Wipqozn

12:50

@twobugs That is the perfect time to make bad decisions

MBraedley

@KevinvanderVelden My apartment can't handle room scale all that well, although my original top pick house would have. My current top pick doesn't have an office big enough, but the family room is right there. Mind you I pre-ordered the Rift before even looking at a single house.

Chippies

as for a high budget, there are some options available, but it's hard to tell for sure, because there's new monitors being released all the time and the prices differ a lot

also, with a high budget, you will probably get something with either gsync or freesync and which one will depend on what your gpu manufacturer preference is

two bugs

@Chippies Ah, okay. Anything in particular to look for?

Kevin van der Velden

@MBraedley I've recently redecorated my living room (where my PC is also located) and now should have enough room

MBraedley

@twobugs On the flip side:

yesterday, by MBraedley

@djsmiley2k You don't have to think about retirement, just saving for retirement. It's never too early to start saving.

two bugs

12:51

I haven't been monitor shopping for a while (seriously like 4ish years)

Kevin van der Velden

@twobugs o/ same here

two bugs

@MBraedley Yeah of course, I'm not THAT bad about making decisions :)

Chippies

@twobugs what gpu do you have and do you have a gpu (amd/nvidia) preference?

two bugs

Last time I was monitor shopping for LCDs I had to really pay attention for Ghosting

MBraedley

@twobugs I'm still one of the ones who starred that.

two bugs

12:53

@Chippies Right now I'm on NVidia but for my next build I'm heavily considering AMD since they've got some good stuff going on

New build will be relatively soon

Not this month as I want my finances to stabilize a bit

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn I'm cooler than the other side of the pillow, like Billy Dee Williams. I just don't have enough hypes to give for Dark Souls 3. That said, DS1 has rekindled my love of the series, pun intended.

Chippies

@twobugs AMD does have some good stuff going on indeed :P If AMD is planned in future, look for something with freesync technology

freesync enabled monitors are better anyway, because they don't have the limitations that gsync does

two bugs

Will do. Do both companies support Freesync, it's just not as optimized for Nvidia?

Wipqozn

OMG WHY AREN;T I LISTENING TO THE SOULS OSTS

WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME

@FREDLEY WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

Chippies

@twobugs no, nvidia at the moment does not support freesync, even though it is an open standard

Wipqozn

12:54

THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE

Chippies

you can however use the monitor with an nvidia gpu, just without the freesync functionality

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy WEll, you'll always be cool in my heart. Even if you are a coward. I am happy to hear you didn't dump your DS1 playthrough.

two bugs

Ah, I see. That kind of stuff Nvidia does is really scummy I think

And, from what I gather they've been slacking on the tech front

Chippies

freesync (and gsync) allows the synchronization of monitor refresh rate and framerate of gpu, so you don't get screen tearing and it's super smooth looking

two bugs

They just kind of cram more processing power in without refining architecture

fredley

12:55

@Wipqozn sozzles

Chippies

in the last couple years I have grown to dislike nvidia

@twobugs gsync is proprietary nvidia tech based on a displayport standard, which requires monitor manufacturers to license it and also needs a device built into monitors

Wipqozn

@fredley TIL a new word

Also I'm making a grcoery store run on the way home to stock up on everythingI need, including snacks

fredley

@Wipqozn ha

Wipqozn

My mother also agreed to make me supper for tomorrow. I'm either going to buy her chocolate or baileys as a thank you. I'm honestly not sure what she'd prefer.

Chippies

when nvidia announced gsync, amd demonstrated the displayport feature (which they called freesync after) that was available in laptop monitors for a while before gsync was announced, just no one made use of it

fredley

12:58

@Wipqozn Chocolate baileys?

Wipqozn

@fredley Mayube

two bugs

I remember reading Nvidia has really bad DX12 support, but that's still an emerging technology

Wipqozn

She's making and delivering me supper, and probably a dessert too, and likely enough for two meals. My mother rocks. I gotta do something for her.

oh baileys is only $30 according to NSLC internet

that's cheaper than I expected

badp

jQuery is perfect and does all the things

2

Wipqozn

has no idea what alcohol costs

Chippies

12:59

@twobugs from the very few benchmarks available, nvidia has no gpu's that scale well with the dx12 improvements, while AMD gets like 40% or higher performance boost

two bugs

@badp Can jQuery help me plan my retirement?

badp

                var ids = this.find(".selector")
                              .filter( function(_, t) { return t.checked })
                              .map( function(_,t) { return t.dataset["id"] });
> ["28808"]

fredley

@badp $('#badp').fadeOut("slow");

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Fluttershy

@Wipqozn Nah, man. I'm killing Nito tonight. Still trying to decide if I want to redo the DLC stuff, or just finish the base game, since I never have before.

badp

ids.find("28808")
> []
ids.index("28808")
> -1
ids.indexOf("28808")
> ids.indexOf is not a function
ids.includes("28808")
> ids.includes is not a function

everything is terrible

two bugs

13:00

@fredley I'm dying

Chippies

@twobugs this bit I think you got backwards, because AMD is the one with fairly old architecture, while nvidia's current gpu line is on a newer architecture

Sterno

@Wipqozn I did

Chippies

yet AMD still manages to beat nvidia as their drivers improve

Sterno

@Wipqozn Why are you playing the console version? I'm going to be 3 hours ahead of you just on load times alone

badp

what is wrong with this piece of garbage

two bugs

13:02

Probably, I just remember reading in the past that AMD was innovating while Nvidia was kind of stagnating but just making numbers bigger

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy jUST GET TO CAPS LOCK

Chippies

@twobugs to be fair, AMD has always been innovating while intel and nvidia were just in it for the money (it's more complicated than that, of course)

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy Just get to final boss, nd then decide if you wnt to DLC.

Sterno

I need to figure out which WalMart is near @Wipqozn and buy all their copies of Dark Souls III

Wipqozn

@Sterno big TV. ALso my computer chair is broken.

Fluttershy

13:03

@Wipqozn See, if I do the DLC, it will be before the Sif fight. So I'm more or less stuck after Nito.

Sterno

@Wipqozn That loading screen after YOU DIED is going to be so big on that big TV

Wipqozn

@Sterno It is

I always buy souls games on consoles

Chippies

@twobugs couple things you should look for in a monitor is probably an IPS panel, freesync and support for 100+ hz refresh rates, if it's within your budget

Wipqozn

the sony ones to be specific

Chippies

those would be the 3 things I'd want in my monitor :P

I only got 1/3 :(

Sterno

13:06

@Wipqozn It must be hard to be so wrong about everything all the time

Derpy

@Sterno taunt him with the Lord of Cinder figurine

Sterno

@Chippies And 1440p. So good.

Private Pansy

@badp You need to add .get() to the end of that

Chippies

@Sterno eh, it's good, but requires a fair bit more of gpu performance to run at native resolution, especially at 21:9

Private Pansy

Because $.fn.map returns a jQuery object even if it is only wrapping arrays, so you have to unwrap that using .get()

Wipqozn

13:07

@Sterno You get used to it

Sterno

That's why you also get a GTX 980 Ti

Chippies

also 1440p at 21:9 has even more compatibility issues than 1080p at 21:9

Private Pansy

The jQuery object is only array-like, which is why you can access it like an array, but fail when you try to use any of Array.prototype's function on it

Fluttershy

Oh wait, I can do Seath! So I have a little bit of time to decide on the DLC stuff.

Wipqozn

@Sterno I hope your PC gets a virus

@Sterno Go here! Totally legit and safe

Private Pansy

13:08

Very common mistake, and I have no idea why jQuery doesn't automatically unwrap when it returns a plain array instead of DOM elements, but there you go

two bugs

@Chippies Cool, thanks!

badp

@PrivatePansy if it actually did kinda behave like a container it'd be more helpful I suppose

fredley

@Wipqozn pffft

badp

but thanks for the assist

two bugs

I've usually bough souls games on consoles before but now that it's a simultaneous launch I don't see a point.

Sterno

13:10

@Wipqozn NOT EVEN THE RIGHT DAY

badp

you bougher

Wipqozn

@Sterno TOO LEGIT 2 QUIT

two bugs

The PC versions end up looking better and having lots of fixes from the community

Sterno

Who would star a Friday link on a Monday? That's awful.

3

two bugs

I guess the downside is PVP has more hackers

Private Pansy

13:10

@Wipqozn I LITERALY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IZ HAPPENING

two bugs

@Sterno My alignment is Chaotic-Friday

4

Some bugs just want to watch the world get down on Friday.

MBraedley

@Sterno It's effectively Friday for @Wipqozn, since he's taking tomorrow off.

fredley

@twobugs I'm more Friday-Neutral

Private Pansy

@badp jQuery is a container. The entire idea behind jQuery is to wrap around DOM element(s) to give you a friendlier interface to work with them

Sterno

@MBraedley That's not how it works. Otherwise I'm quitting my job so that I can link Friday every day

two bugs

13:11

@fredley Alignments do not work that way!

Private Pansy

The only problem is it's pretty much only useful as a container for DOM elements

MBraedley

@Sterno I'm not saying it's a valid reason

two bugs

Friday is on the Good - Evil scale, not the Lawful - Chaotic scale

fredley

@twobugs this

Wipqozn

@Sterno It was probably your mom

Private Pansy

13:13

$('#friday').remove();

Chippies

I'm off until thursday, so I can play all the games I want.

As long as I want to play the games from last year, because I work minimum wage job and can't afford new releases

Sterno

@Wipqozn SHE WOULD NEVER

two bugs

That's probably better than buying games you never get to play at full price

Chippies

@Sterno except on a friday?

fredley

@PrivatePansy $('.friday').remove(); FTFY

Private Pansy

13:15

@fredley Oh, right

Chippies

@twobugs eh, debatable

Wipqozn

@Sterno I bet your mom LOVES starring Friday on Mondays

Chippies

I mean, you'll probably retire early and will have lots of time to play games then

unless you keep making bad decisions :P

Sterno

@twobugs You're right. I should buy games I never play at 50% off. Then I can have twice as many games I never play

two bugs

@Sterno Exactly. You earn more steam cards and levels that way.

Sterno

13:19

@Wipqozn I hope when your mom brings you dinner, she trips over the power cable for your PS4 and breaks it, rendering you unable to play DS3. And I hope she spills the food all over you. And that someone is there to take pictures and laugh. And maybe some scary clowns, too

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Fluttershy

And some socks.

Sterno

He does need socks.

What kind of mother lets him wear socks like that?

fredley

It would be amusing if @Wipqozn left his socks on his PS4, causing it to overheat and be unable to play DS3.

Wipqozn

@Sterno omg lol

I'm legit laughing out loud

my coworkers were asking what was going on

that's actually hilarious

two bugs

He tries to put his DS3 disc in but instead inserts his socks and his PS4 catches fire

Chippies

13:23

@Sterno trips over the dirty socks seems more plausible

Wipqozn

But luckily my mother won't be tripping over any cords

How's your daughter feeling? Does she seem to have the sniffles at all @Sterno? I sure hope she doesn't get sick!

Fluttershy

All I can picture is @Wipqozn taking the plastic off of the DS3 case, opening it, and the disc inexplicably catching fire.

8

Wipqozn

That would be terrible

Kevin van der Velden

I'm looking at monitors now and I blame @twobugs and @Chippies

Wipqozn

I would probbly cry

Fluttershy

13:24

Like that Homer Simpson gif where he's making cereal. But it's @Wipqozn and Dark Souls 3.

Wipqozn

and then drive to walmart, and be like "what even the fuck"

Chippies

@KevinvanderVelden I hope you're looking at ultrawide monitors :P

Kevin van der Velden

(Also me already planning to buy a new one)

Wipqozn

I wonder if my mother will want to watch me play Dark Souls 3 atlal when she comes over

She'll probably be like "let me see this game you're playing"

and then I'll die

and she'll be like "you're not very good at this"

badp

@PrivatePansy it's failed horribly

Wipqozn

13:24

and I'll be like "thanks mom"

two bugs

@KevinvanderVelden I love that we all troll each other in buying things

Chippies

@Wipqozn and then she's like "here, let me show you how it's done" and beats the game for you

two bugs

Tech companies should pay us since we greatly increase their sales

Us being The Bridge

Kevin van der Velden

@Chippies I am looking for a nice high res one so I can move my main monitor one to the right replacing my old 1680x1050 one

Fluttershy

My parents seem to think video games are for children. I've been debating whether or not I should sit them down for the opening of The Last of Us.

Lazers 2.0

13:25

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Q: How to make/ put objects in the air? (Mine craft)

So I was making a game for fun, JUST TO LEARN ABOUT CODING IN MINE CRAFT, and then when I was looking on High - Pixel's game that he and his friends made, I discovered this area and I wanted to find out how to do this for the future if my friends want to make a map! Any help on doing this (BTW if...

minecraft

Kevin van der Velden

So no ultrawide is probably not on the list due to size constraints

Though having 2 portrait mode screens... hmm

Chippies

@KevinvanderVelden high res, as in, higher than 1080p?

two bugs

@KevinvanderVelden It Begins

Kevin van der Velden

@Chippies 1440p

badp

@KevinvanderVelden two portrait mode widescreen sorta-masterrace

Chippies

13:26

@KevinvanderVelden well, there's always 1440p ultrawide monitors... ;)

badp

the only thing that I've seen taking properly advantage of portrait screens is Unity

Kevin van der Velden

2160p is overkill for a ~24inch screen

badp

everything else assumes the only thing you might want to do to windows is put them in the left and right halves your screen

Chippies

badp

as opposed to top-bottom

Chippies

13:27

that looks beautiful

Kevin van der Velden

Ultrawide is 21:9 right?

Chippies

@KevinvanderVelden yep

fredley

@Chippies This is the correct way to screen

Chippies

why does everything look so much longer in portrait mode?

fredley

@Chippies long monitor is loooooooong

3ventic

13:28

I have an Asus PB287Q, which has been pretty good in my use

Kevin van der Velden

They start at 650 euros for 1440p height

badp

because 9:16 is kinda ridicolous

Kevin van der Velden

And theey're 34 inch which is about 8 to many inches

Sterno

@Wipqozn You're a monster.

Chippies

@KevinvanderVelden 34 inches for ultrawide is about the height of a 27'ish 16:9

Kevin van der Velden

13:29

Width is however what I'm constrained in =p

Chippies

well, yeah, ultrawides, surprisingly, are ultra wide :P

Sterno

@Wipqozn Oh, your mom definitely likes to watch.

fredley

@Chippies urmom etc. etc.

Kevin van der Velden

Chippies

@fredley urmom is 21:9

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@KevinvanderVelden that's a nice looking setup

Kevin van der Velden

13:30

Holy fuck my old phone was a potato

@Chippies it's now actually not a mess!

But it was when I took that picture

@badp can confirm

3ventic

Mine is the opposite... It's now a mess, but wasn't when I took this picture

badp

I am a messpert

Chippies

my desk is always a mess, due to no storage space within reach, other than the desk

Kevin van der Velden

@badp we should play cards against humanity and other boardgames IRL again sometime

badp

@KevinvanderVelden yup

Kevin van der Velden

13:32

I can confirm that @jochem is not dead

fredley

@3ventic Maximum overpotato

3ventic

Cheap phone with potato camera

Chippies

I can't fit a 2nd monitor on my desk :/

need a bigger desk

Private Pansy

Nice Groot

Does it dance?

Chippies

No, it's the worst actually

he has absolutely no weight in the base

so he tips over super easily

it's a bobblehead

Private Pansy

13:36

Well, nothing a little blu tac can't fix

Chippies

but if you even touch its head, it tips over

Kevin van der Velden

Ductape can fix that!

Chippies

meh, it's fine if I don't touch it, and I don't

Kevin van der Velden

But it's groot! How can you not touch groot

3ventic

I used to have one of the monitors halfway off my old desk because the desk was too small

Chippies

13:38

It's just sliiiightly further than I can reach without leaning forward

that's enough of a reason not to touch it

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic then it fell?

3ventic

nah, it was okay

Chippies

@3ventic as long as the stand is on the desk, shouldn't be an issue

except I have speakers and that creates a space issue

3ventic

@Chippies most of the stand was on the desk

Chippies

do none of you have speakers?

I'm not seeing any on those photos

3ventic

13:39

only as part of the TV, which acts as one of my monitors

Private Pansy

I don't have speakers, no. I just use headphones

3ventic

the middle monitor has some really crappy ones built-in too

Kevin van der Velden

@Chippies on my potato there's this green LED, that's the power indicator

The subwoofer is on the floor

And uuh the left speaker is rather obviously positioned

two bugs

Speakers are out of the question for me, I have a really irate neighbor who gets mad about any noise whatsoever

3ventic

I never use speakers though... often can't have others hearing what I'm listening to

Chippies

13:40

I like my speakers, they're not as exhausting for prolonged use and don't make my ears hot

two bugs

If I put speakers in he would probably try to kill me (and my superior combat knowledge from years of Anime would result in me defeating him)

Chippies

I want to buy a subwoofer, but a good one is gonna be around 300$...

Kevin van der Velden

I have a crappy one =p

But then, it's a 10+ year old 5.1 surround set by logitech

Chippies

I tried using the subwoofer from my wife's 2.1 set and it was disgusting

Kevin van der Velden

Of which I only have 1 thing lugged in because my motherboard doesn't support more

Chippies

13:41

cheap 2.1 speakers are the worst

it's the main reason why I used to hate speakers

I used to have a cheap 2.1 system and it gave me a headache at low volumes after 15+ minutes of music

my current speakers don't have such issue

Kevin van der Velden

Bloody hell they still make the thing

I have a set of Logitech X-530 5.1

They're surprisingly decent for the size

two bugs

I haven't really done any gaming on my Surface Pro 4 yet, but I tried to run 3 GoG games and so far two of them failed to start

Private Pansy

@twobugs Which three games?

two bugs

The two that failed were Unholy Heights (doesn't even open) and Shogo (Opens but there seems to be a problem with the config)

Baldur's Gate opened and ran fine from what I played

Sterno

@Wipqozn 9 hours

Kevin van der Velden

13:52

@PrivatePansy hey unsounded

fredley

@PrivatePansy vintage adapter

Private Pansy

@fredley Should be fine - the outer plastic ages much faster than the things inside

Although I should replace it at some point

fredley

@PrivatePansy Or clean it?

Private Pansy

It's not dirty - the plastic itself is yellowing

As old plastic is wont to do

fredley

@PrivatePansy fair enough

Also UK plugs?

Private Pansy

13:57

@fredley Yeah, Singapore uses UK plug at 110-220V

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Is there a pattern of removed skin parts that is connected to wearoff percantage?

I know that the weapon skins have an internal wearof scale ranging from 0 to 100. I'm wondering, (since I own a awp hyperbeast with ~25% wearoff which just looks on playerside like factory new ~ minimal wear. But on the back side its kinda... "battle scared"), is there a pattern for each weapon t...

counter-strike-go

Private Pansy

One of the many things the British left behind

fredley

@PrivatePansy In fact, almost everywhere people are using british plugs. While we were empire building, we kept changing the socket design every few years to a new standard. The plethora of slightly different plug sockets in different countries depends mostly on when we arrived and when we left.

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