The Bridge

MadMAxJr

18:00

Also if you have google maps loaded, make use of the download offline map data feature. This causes it to update the map far, far less.

Because it's powered by google map data.

murgatroid99

@MadMAxJr As I understand, Maps engineers have suggested not doing this

Unionhawk

lol there's an Instinct gyarados nearby

MadMAxJr

@murgatroid99 Interesting. Got a link to that? I'd like to know why that's not good.

murgatroid99

@taybenlor short answer: no. long answer: nooooo

Tweeted by samthor on July 11, 2016 at 6:00 AM in reply to taybenlor

Actually not a Maps engineer, but associated with Google

MadMAxJr

Okay then so Plan B: Cover yourself in USB power supplies.

Unionhawk

18:02

Ugh that's annoying...

Frank

@MadMAxJr Just got a couple of those.

murgatroid99

I would also guess that what's using a lot of battery is the constant GPS usage and update requests

Unionhawk

This query on this history table isn't showing deleted items

(it should be)

arda

@MadMAxJr doesn't work

Unionhawk

(ugh)

MadMAxJr

18:03

At this rate, I'm going to have an army of Golbats.

arda

The game uses so much battery that the powerbars can't get the percentage higher

Unionhawk

fast charging powerbars

duh

MadMAxJr

Mine did the job just fine yesterday.

arda

@murgatroid99 and 3d and unity BS

MadMAxJr

6000mAh supply.

arda

18:05

Ingress doesn't use 3d and uses far less battery in my case

Kaz Wolfe

pokemon-go discovery! Level cap seems to be 40. gaming.stackexchange.com/a/275748/76693

@arda Ingress is unity.

MadMAxJr

Ingress has public chat which just makes me sad. I'm happy to have Totally-Not-Ingress-Pokemon drop that feature.

Although I hope we get a master map like ingress/intel

arda

@MadMAxJr gochat or smth on Google play

Lazers 2.0

-2

Q: minecraft (cracked) how to join servers

Guys if anyone how to join servers with a cracked launcher please anyone say how? I tried closing and reopening the launcher. (new) it keeps saying invalid session id not really cracked or pirated I mean a friend had it but gave me his computer

minecraft

0

Q: GTA 5 ON XBOX 360 CANT SANE GAME

Every time it tells me to sign in I sign in but then it says sign in again so I do and it keeps saying sign in while i'm already signed in so i just press (B) I go to the game and then it won't save then it said it again but i'm already signed in.

grand-theft-auto-5

arda

@MadMAxJr I have a similar thing for pokemon around you (uses browser location), pm me on steam if you are interested. Not posting link here because kind of rate limited

MadMAxJr

18:08

No thanks.

djsmiley2k

@arda and in 150 days they'd be finished with no need to get outta hospital

Kaz Wolfe

@MadMAxJr pokiego.com

MadMAxJr

@KazWolfe Close enough, thanks.

arda

@djsmiley2k random pokemon

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe Honestly, that's not a very convincing argument

Why did you decide to delimit fields by 3D, 3E, and 3F?

Kaz Wolfe

18:11

@murgatroid99 take a look

12 83 C0 3D
34 64 2A 3E
F9 E8 5C 3E
BD ED 82 3E
A2 9B 94 3E
98 65 A4 3E
01 CC B2 3E
E1 1E C0 3E
15 94 CC 3E
EC 51 D8 3E
FE DE E2 3E
E9 F3 EC 3E
69 9F F6 3E
72 ED FF 3E
EE 73 04 3F
72 CB 08 3F
C0 00 0D 3F
D3 16 11 3F
3B 10 15 3F
35 EF 18 3F
57 B6 1C 3F
B4 66 20 3F
D5 01 24 3F
18 89 27 3F
B9 FD 2A 3F
D3 60 2E 3F
66 B3 31 3F
5D F6 34 3F
8A 2A 38 3F
B1 50 3B 3F
76 DE 3C 3F
FC 68 3E 3F
57 F0 3F 3F
9B 74 41 3F
D9 F5 42 3F
24 74 44 3F
8D EF 45 3F
23 68 47 3F
F8 DD 48 3F
1A 51 4A 3F

MadMAxJr

Hex. My old foe. We meet again.

djsmiley2k

@KazWolfe why does it need mah emailz?

Kaz Wolfe

@djsmiley2k unsure

Wipqozn

@fredley I'm so excited for what will essentially be a non-shit version of Lifehacks

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe OK, that is suspicious, but not convincing. If you interpret it as 3 or 4-byte fixed-width numbers, they don't really seem to follow any pattern or correspond to anything in game

Wipqozn

18:15

and htere, followed and have my upvotes @fredley. HAVE ALL MY UPVOTES.

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 They're CP multipliers. I'm still looking at how to interpret that.

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe Have you tried decoding it as a repeated packed varint?

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 I have not.

There's also this dump of required EXP, but I see no delimiters.

00 E8 07 B8 17 F0 2E 90 4E 98 75 88 A4 01 E0 DA 01 A0 99 02
C8 DF 02 D8 AD 03 E8 FB 03 F8 C9 04 88 98 05 A0 8D 06 C0 A9
07 E0 C5 08 80 E2 09 A8 A5 0B D0 E8 0C A0 EF 0F 98 B9 14 B8
C6 1A 80 97 22 F0 AA 2B A0 F7 36 E0 91 43 F0 B2 52 D0 DA 64
80 89 7A A0 CB 98 01 C0 8D B7 01 F0 F0 E4 01 B0 F5 A1 02 80
9B EE 02 E0 E1 C9 03 E0 EA C3 04 80 B6 DC 05 C0 C3 93 07 80
DA C4 09

it doesn't delimit into perfect 4-bytes

Sterno

@Wipqozn I'm pretty sure we can make it shitty!

Kaz Wolfe

though it does delimit into 41 perfect 3-bytes

murgatroid99

18:20

It is varints

Wipqozn

@Sterno Well yeah, but unlike Lifehacks it actually has a chance, whereas Lifehacks was doomed from the start, since the very idea made no sense. Also I bet we can make your dad shitty.

murgatroid99

The first two numbers, decoded as varints, are 0 and 1000

Kaz Wolfe

PPROTOBUFS GRRR

murgatroid99

And the next is 3000

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 How are you decoding the varints?

Unionhawk

18:21

magic, probably

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding

Kaz Wolfe

i hate protobuf

Sepia Lazers

-1

Q: When does it become necessary to create a new community for a specific game?

As many games grow (more specifically, pokemon go) the content of arqade has become mostly pokemon-go based. Should we create a new community for just those games? Or should we wait for the popularity of those games to die down?

discussion

murgatroid99

MSB indicates whether it's the last byte in the number, so you drop each MSB, then reverse the resulting 7-bit groups

@KazWolfe It's an efficient data encoding, so it's good for bandwidth

Kaz Wolfe

so convert to binary.

badp

18:23

so there are three numbers, and the third is three thousand

@KevinvanderVelden confirmed

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe To be clear, I meant that to be "most significant bit"

badp

Pokemans confirmed in @KevinvanderVelden

murgatroid99

@badp The first 3 numbers from that blob of binary are 0, 1000, 3000

badp

yes.

@KevinvanderVelden confirmed.

Kaz Wolfe

can there please be like a script or something I can use to varint?

murgatroid99

18:28

I don't know

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do I unlock additional trading carts for the Palico trader?

Similar to the farm and Wycoon from previous games, Monster Hunter Generations has a "generate items for resource points" feature. In this game it takes the form of a Palico Trader where you can send off your Palicos to trade with other towns, and they come back with items. However, you only star...

monster-hunter-gen

Sterno

There's Poop In My Soup is on sale on Steam for $.69, just in case anyone was curious.

Arperum

@Sterno That's the next thing you're going to annoy people with?

Sterno

No, that's old

And I assume by "annoy" you mean "give a wonderful gift to"

Kaizerwolf

@Sterno is it as good as Shower with your Dad Simulator?

murgatroid99

18:32

@KazWolfe Best guess at the moment: make your own proto file with a single message that just has a repeated uint64 field, then craft the serialized message with that hex dump and decode it.

Sterno

I play the real life version of that so I don't know

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 this is why i hate protobuf

Ellesedil

Did I miss all of the Pokemon Go chat this morning?

Kaizerwolf

my steps still won't register right, everything stays at 3 :\

Ellesedil

I see some people playing with Hex values.

Dragonrage

18:34

@Ellesedil @badp hates Pokémon Go, so he put a hex on it, and now everyone is trying to figure out how to decode the hex to remove it.

Ellesedil

Heh

@Dragonrage I already saw this question: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/275646/…

Kevin van der Velden

Probably something with lots and lots of 3s

Unionhawk

How did you guess

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe It's good at what it does. Like anything, it's not good at everything

Ellesedil

There's a level 7 gym near my work with all vaporeons and gyradoses in them.

High level CP too

Unionhawk

18:36

jolteon go

Ellesedil

weakest one is a 1465 vaporeon

Yeah, no kidding

Kaizerwolf

@Ellesedil I'm already seeing 1000+CP Snorlaxs at all the gyms around me

Ellesedil

Or grass

Unionhawk

JOLTEON GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

two bugs

My vaporeon is an absolute DEMON

Kaizerwolf

18:36

go Sparky

Ellesedil

@Kaizerwolf I've seen one at a gym near my house

Unionhawk

YOU'RE A DEMON

two bugs

He's at about 900 and regularly takes down 1400cp stuff

Kaz Wolfe

protobuf is horrible in every way

two bugs

I might be slightly exaggerating

Unionhawk

18:37

Actually come to think of it, are there any demon pokemon out there?

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe It really isn't

Kaizerwolf

Coffagrigus

Ellesedil

@Unionhawk I don't think so.

Kaizerwolf

maybe

Ellesedil

Not gen 1, anyway

Unionhawk

18:37

This feels like an oversight

two bugs

@Kaizerwolf So demonic you can't trade it on the GTS (unless it has a nickname)

Ellesedil

If there was a ghost/fire dual type, you'd be pretty close though, no?

two bugs

Or at least you couldn't. Haven't checked recently

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 So, I need to define an int32 repeated field?

two bugs

@Ellesedil The candle line

Unionhawk

18:38

or maybe a good thing because there are already churches who think pokemon encourages devil worship

Kaizerwolf

@Ellesedil Chandeleur is the one you're looking for

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe I'd go with uint, but it probably doesn't matter. I'm trying to do it myself

Ellesedil

Wow

Kaizerwolf

he's the only one ever I think

Kaz Wolfe

message Message {
optional uint32 number = 1;
}

Ellesedil

18:39

I didn't play after gen 1, and barely watched the TV show after gen 1 too, so I'm not up to speed on Pokemon numbered 152 and up.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do I duplicate jackal model tag in Halo PC campaign without exception errors?(Not Custom Edition)

I am experiencing difficulties with what I believed would be a relatively flawless method of reintroducing two jackal shield colors(blue and yellow) into the campaign. What I did was open and expand the map in question in eschaton 0.8.1, and open (not expand), a second map to extract the tag from...

halo-combat-evolved

Kaz Wolfe

?

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe repeated uint32 number = 1 [packed=true];

Ellesedil

@KazWolfe What are you trying to code?

Kaz Wolfe

@Ellesedil The hell that is Protobuf

Dragonrage

18:41

@Unionhawk vaporeon can actually easily kill an equal level jolteon

Ellesedil

Haven't messed with them ever.

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe Hey, it's not our fault you got half of a decoding without the original .proto file

Unionhawk

@Dragonrage wat

Ellesedil

@Dragonrage Maybe if the Vaporeon is attacking a defending Jolteon.

An attacking Jolteon should make short work of it, though.

Dragonrage

according to that, vaporeon bascially wrecks everything

Unionhawk

18:43

goddammit

this is a stupid game

two bugs

@Unionhawk Yes

Ellesedil

Dodging is still a thing though, right?

Unionhawk

SUPER EFFECTIVE DOES 1.25

HWAT

Dragonrage

@Ellesedil there is dodging yes

@Unionhawk not very effective does .8

two bugs

Immunities are gone, too

But I assume people knew that by now

Kaz Wolfe

18:44

@murgatroid99 The raw:

\000\350\007\270\027\360.\220N\230u\210\244\001\340\332\001\240\231\002\310\337‌\002\330\255\003\350\373\003\370\311\004\210\230\005\240\215\006\300\251\007\340\‌305\010\200\342\t\250\245\013\320\350\014\240\357\017\230\271\024\270\306\032\200‌\227\"\360\252+\240\3676\340\221C\360\262R\320\332d\200\211z\240\313\230\001\300\‌215\267\001\360\360\344\001\260\365\241\002\200\233\356\002\340\341\311\003\340\3‌52\303\004\200\266\334\005\300\303\223\007\200\332\304\t

Unionhawk

I knew that

Goddammit so it doesn't even matter about type effectiveness in this game

since 25% is awful

two bugs

It does, it's just the type that is effective is Vaporeon

Unionhawk

AWFULLLLLLLLLLLLLL

two bugs

I had a hunch this was true after my Vaporeon was a demon

Unionhawk

This game is stupid

Officially

murgatroid99

18:46

Got it!

And you were right. There are 40 entries

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 How.

varint seems to hate me as much as I hate it

Ellesedil

Well, I have 3 Vaporeons right now. I have hatched a 1717 CP Lapras over the weekend.

two bugs

Pokemon Go: A game where everything is made up and only Vaporeon matters

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe Protobuf.js is a nice way to do this quickly.

Anyway, the experience required for each level is:

1: 0
2: 1000
3: 3000
4: 6000
5: 10000
6: 15000
7: 21000
8: 28000
9: 36000
10: 45000
11: 55000
12: 65000
13: 75000
14: 85000
15: 100000
16: 120000
17: 140000
18: 160000
19: 185000
20: 210000
21: 260000
22: 335000
23: 435000
24: 560000
25: 710000
26: 900000
27: 1100000
28: 1350000
29: 1650000
30: 2000000
31: 2500000
32: 3000000
33: 3750000
34: 4750000
35: 6000000
36: 7500000
37: 9500000
38: 12000000
39: 15000000
40: 20000000

I'm pretty sure that's cumulative

Kaz Wolfe

thank you.

badp

18:50

@Unionhawk It is dangerous to go alone. Take this:

Kaz Wolfe

now i'd like to know actually how to do this so I can learn how the hell protobuf works

murgatroid99

Here's the increment per level:

2: 1000
3: 2000
4: 3000
5: 4000
6: 5000
7: 6000
8: 7000
9: 8000
10: 9000
11: 10000
12: 10000
13: 10000
14: 10000
15: 15000
16: 20000
17: 20000
18: 20000
19: 25000
20: 25000
21: 50000
22: 75000
23: 100000
24: 125000
25: 150000
26: 190000
27: 200000
28: 250000
29: 300000
30: 350000
31: 500000
32: 500000
33: 750000
34: 1000000
35: 1250000
36: 1500000
37: 2000000
38: 2500000
39: 3000000
40: 5000000

badp

don't you normally need some form of specification files to parse protobuf anyway?

I guess that in this case you were able to guess the format pretty easily

murgatroid99

message Decode {
  repeated uint32 value = 1 [packed=true];
}

That's what I used to decode it

Unionhawk

Well, I have an eevee primed to go vaporeon

Dragonrage

18:52

@Unionhawk i got one evolved yesterday. it hit 1293 cp on evolution

Unionhawk

not double damage is really wat

Kaz Wolfe

but what format was the message itself in?

Dragonrage

also, vaporeon using water gun will do 1.0x damage against something that is not very effective

murgatroid99

And then I just manually crafted a message with the given binary data. It's a packed repeated field with field number 1, so the first byte is 0A, and there are 123 bytes in the encoded field, so the second byte is 7B.

Kaz Wolfe

wtf how the hell

murgatroid99

18:53

I just took those two bytes and appended the entire binary dump you gave

Ellesedil

@Unionhawk Now that you've said that, it's going to be a jolteon :p

Kaz Wolfe

you're speaking in tongues, man.

protobuf is just a mystery to me.

murgatroid99

> Each key in the streamed message is a varint with the value (field_number << 3) | wire_type – in other words, the last three bits of the number store the wire type.

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 so i have 00 E8 07. How can I make this readable?

Dragonrage

@Ellesedil you can force it to evolve to the eeveelution you want it to be

Unionhawk

18:54

@Ellesedil If it is going to be jolteon, then I have a downboat and a comment to leave on a particular answer here

Ellesedil

@Dragonrage How!?

Unionhawk

Which is even better

Ellesedil

I have to go look it up

Unionhawk

33

A: I caught an Eevee, in which of its evolutions will it evolve?

According to this post on the /r/pokemongo subreddit, you can force your Eevee to evolve a certain way by changing its nickname before evolving it to: Pyro to evolve into Flareon Sparky to evolve into Jolteon Rainer to evolve into Vaporeon (These are the names of Eevee Brothers from the TV se...

Dragonrage

name it Rainer for vaporeon, Sparky for jolteon, and Pyro for flareon

Unionhawk

18:54

so far verified

KutuluMike

you have to name it after the appropriate Eevee

arda

24

A: How can I force my Eevee to evolve into the Pokemon I want?

The Eevee Brothers from the anime were named Rainer, Pyro, Sparky and they owned a Vaporeon, Flareon and Jolteon respectively. If you nickname your Eevee either Rainer, Pyro or Sparky, your Eevee will evolve into that desired Eeveelution! Sparky = Jolteon Rainer = Vaporeon Pyro = Flareon...

Ellesedil

cool

arda

mine was marked dupe but I believe that it looks better

Ellesedil

Well, I got lucky then. 3 Vaporeons, 2 jolteons, and 1 flareon so far.

two bugs

18:56

PoGo seems pretty pointless

arda

@twobugs yes

KutuluMike

all games are pointless

Unionhawk

no

shut up

arda

I was getting bored but met some people just after they got the gym I just got after someone just got it, the convo between us was fun :)

KutuluMike

urmom is pointless

Ellesedil

18:57

There are some games that allow players to be constructive.

two bugs

Given how spread out the 'mons are geographically I don't even see a point in collecting

MadMAxJr

My game is more pointless than your game.

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 ??

Unionhawk

This is more than just pointless in the "dehh games are all wastes of time" sense

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe Sorry, it's a little complicated, and I cheated a little

two bugs

18:57

I'm speaking from my perspective - this game just seems silly and not interesting to me

Like, every part of it is really shallow

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 So I have 00 E8 07 and I want to decode it. How can I?

Unionhawk

@twobugs ALL GAMES ARE SILLY AND UNINTERESTING - people, I assume

Lazers 2.0

4

Q: Is dodging an effective strategy, and if so, how can I use it most optimally?

I have been able to dodge a few attacks here and there in different battles, but by and large, the most effective thing to do to win a gym fight seems to be spam tapping my screen as fast as I possibly can. Is dodging effective, and if so, how can I use it effectively (i.e. can I dodge secondary ...

pokemon-go

0

Q: Games with player-written AI

In what games player have opportunity to help AI by writing rules for its behavior? So the result of play determined more by these rules than "manual" playing.

pc

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe Sorry, time for lunch

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 grr

protobuf, just bloody do things that i want

two bugs

18:59

@Unionhawk These people are in hell now

Unionhawk

Yes

Ellesedil

Why would someone want to use Protocol Buffers and not json?

Is it because it's not self-describing?

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