The Bridge

Sterno

14:00

I wonder how long until someone hacks the NMS servers and names every planet "Dickballs"

MadMAxJr

Honestly they'd probably just DDOS the content servers so all the planets are "Network connection issues".

GnomeSlice

there's a new meme game coming that I hate that I think looks fun

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=729148679

StrixVaria

@sequoiad This was the only good boss race.

sequoiad

and then Rare got relegated to making swear redacted KINECT GAMES!

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria They were all good

The dragon was kinda meh actually

[Diddy Kong Racing] WIZPIG Race with Krunch (and Attempts Montage)

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StrixVaria

14:03

Ok, the first Wizpig race was good.

The dinosaur race was awful, though.

As was the octopus race.

MadMAxJr

Dear nintendo, feel free to bring back F-Zero any time now.

GnomeSlice

the dinosaur race was the first time id ever been that on the edge of my seat whlie playing a video game

so intense

sequoiad

F-Zero GX is still a game I have never completed

StrixVaria

The story mode in F-Zero GX was dumb.

two bugs

@MadMAxJr "Okay, we won't" - Nintendo

StrixVaria

14:06

The racing was amazing, though.

sequoiad

that casino level where the difficulty spikes 1000%

Frank

@MadMAxJr If they bring anything back, it should be Metroid.

two bugs

The thing with Nintendo is they seem intent on keeping two of my favorite series dead - Metroid and F-Zero

GnomeSlice

@Frank They've been making metroid games

two bugs

And with Wipeout also dead there's pretty much no extreme speed racer

MadMAxJr

14:07

There was a track that was a loop. But it was angled so it was one continual flat plane. If you took the fastest car, you could accidentally hit escape velocity on one of the curves.

GnomeSlice

I want a metroid movie

except there would be like no dialogue

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Mass Effect 3: How can you destroy an Atlas with a rifle within 1 second?

When I was playing ME3 yesterday, I saw something very interesting. One of the players, playing as a turian on Silver, was tearing through all enemies like nothing. Even Atlases and Phantoms only survived at most one second even with activated barrier. He only used his rifle, and one shot seemed ...

mass-effect-3

GnomeSlice

GRIP - All Torque Trailer

►

two bugs

@GnomeSlice The only one to come out at all in the past while is Federation Force, which is not a proper Metroid game

GnomeSlice

@twobugs There were 2 released for the Wii

Ronan

14:08

What are you talking about? A new Metroid game just game out and Nintendo didn't react horribly to that at all!

two bugs

@GnomeSlice That was over 6 years ago for the most recent one

GnomeSlice

Has it really been that long

jesus

Frank

@Ronan They're even releasing their own!

...It just doesn't have Samus.

two bugs

The new one will probably be okay (The devs behind it are moderately skilled) - it's just not really a Metroid game

sequoiad

speaking of Metroidvania games... Castlevania didnt fare well in the jump to 3D

GnomeSlice

14:10

oh shit I got an Abatron alpha key

two bugs

Or the "reboot"...

I liked Lords of Shadow 1 well enough, but it was pretty flawed

2 sounds like it was a huge mess

GnomeSlice

Did you guys play Valdis Story: Abyssal City?

two bugs

I haven't but I've been meaning to

sequoiad

I replayed Castlevania 2: Belmont's Revenge the other day

two bugs

It looks really good and my friends love it

GnomeSlice

14:12

@twobugs It has problems

sequoiad

forgot how slow those games actually were to play

two bugs

Castlevania 2 is just bad

GnomeSlice

@twobugs The boss battles are retarded

I never even finished the game

two bugs

The rest are great

GnomeSlice

The final boss is impossible

badp

14:12

guys guys don't worry

two bugs

@GnomeSlice I heard the difficulty isn't balanced well at some parts

GnomeSlice

@badp played it too

badp

Nintendo listened to your plights and will* be rereleasing Link: The Faces of Evil for Wii U

GnomeSlice

@twobugs definitely not

It's a shame because there's a really great game buried under the issues

sequoiad

@twobugs not Simon's Quest

GnomeSlice

14:13

It's still worth playing

two bugs

@sequoiad Huh, I don't know Belmont's Revenge then

I thought that's what you meant

GnomeSlice

There's lots of great indie metroidvanias though

store.steampowered.com/app/293440

sequoiad

the Gameboy had an entirely different Castlevania 2

GnomeSlice

store.steampowered.com/app/350070

store.steampowered.com/app/236090

store.steampowered.com/app/343840

sequoiad

@twobugs Belmont's Revenge

two bugs

14:14

@GnomeSlice Did you ever play Axiom Verge?

GnomeSlice

@twobugs I did not, but I heard it was the best Metroid game to come out in years

two bugs

@sequoiad This is blowing my mind

GnomeSlice

store.steampowered.com/app/233980

two bugs

I wonder if I should try to play Dust again. I didn't hate it but it felt like it was going nowhere

I also did not like the character art

Also the sidekick had a bad voice

GnomeSlice

oh shit

Heart & Slash is out on Steam now apparently

wtb

two bugs

14:19

That art looks REALLY cool

GnomeSlice

Yes

arda

@PrivatePansy you are right, but that isn't the point. That basically says that the game is not actually online except harambe planets.

MadMAxJr

@twobugs If you're not enjoying the voices or the art, probably skip it. Cause you're going to have a lot more Fidget squeaky voice till the end of the game.

arda

It might not be real, but from what we have seen, the only online interaction is indeed only harambe.

GnomeSlice

@twobugs not into furry tumblr OCs?

Private Pansy

14:21

@twobugs Yeah, it was dragging a lot

two bugs

@MadMAxJr Well I didn't hate the art but the characters just felt really low quality

Private Pansy

The VO and art were not particularly bad, but not particularly good either

two bugs

Dust himself looked fine but some of the npcs were like...

arda

( reference to kotaku.com/we-named-a-planet-in-no-mans-sky-1784882446 )

Private Pansy

@twobugs That's the feeling I got too. They look a little... clip art-esque

two bugs

14:22

VO was only really annoying for Fidget, which was probably the intention...

MadMAxJr

The entire project was rather rushed. The guy got a hand up from Microsoft because it was one of the earlier indie titles they wanted to push to console and go "See? Xbox does indie games!"

two bugs

Wasn't it almost entirely a solo project? That's quite impressive

GnomeSlice

Wait, it was?

MadMAxJr

Mostly.

GnomeSlice

Wow

that is impressive

two bugs

14:24

The weird part was I heard he was an artist who just decided to learn coding and game design to make his dream game

MadMAxJr

That's pretty much it, yes.

Private Pansy

@twobugs Navi's anime incarnation

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But the strange part is the game design is like the most solid part

Some of the art, his supposed forte, felt really iffy to me

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How do you manage the compatibility between mods in Skyrim?

In Skyrim, there are lots of mods that influence other mods' functionality. To handle those side effects, lots of them are providing compatibility patches for other common mods. Now let's get to the modder's perspective. If I target a perfectly pre-arranged mod list (such as STEP) and install th...

skyrim mods

3

Q: Can I upload all data at once in No Man's Sky?

After discovering a bunch of plants, creatures, outposts on several planets. I found that I had the option to rename and upload, or just upload them. The problem is I can only upload one at a time. This can be very time consuming, and is a bit annoying. I do enjoy the fact that I can rename ever...

ps4 no-mans-sky

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Q: What do the different levels Sentinel activity mean?

In my travels I've seen many levels of Sentinel activity(I don't know if this is the correct word, I'll edit if I'm wrong) when I discover planets. They've ranged from low to average I've even seen relaxed and normal. This is confusing to me, as there are different words for entries that, in my m...

no-mans-sky

GnomeSlice

you know what game had great art

Owlboy

owlboygame.com

If it ever gets finished

Private Pansy

14:25

@twobugs Yeah. The angles were all wrong. And there wasn't much in terms of variety - just a lot of recoloring

MadMAxJr

If I recall, all of Dust's character animations started hand drawn. Every last frame.

GnomeSlice

I really liked the art in Dust

MadMAxJr

The environments are pretty impressive too.

arda

I like art of twitter.com/GRIS_game

MadMAxJr

Even the developer wishes it had more time. Half his schedule was devoted to the animated sequences near the end of the game.

two bugs

14:27

I guess that sounded a little rude on my part. PHRASING cc @fredley

GnomeSlice

all these games I forgot about

Official Frogatto Trailer

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that game is great

two bugs

@MadMAxJr The environments are all great

Unionhawk

@twobugs cc @GodEmperorDune

GnomeSlice

@arda yes

arda

오버워치 200위가 방송에서 핵쓰다가 실시간 영정먹음 Korean streamer got banned while he uses hacks

►

AHAHAHHAHA

3:00 is ban scene, start from 2:30 or smth

GnomeSlice

14:31

Aaru's Awakening: Launch Trailer

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This game has fucking cool art

I still need to play it

Unionhawk

@arda Too bad that isn't twitch otherwise that'd be additional banning

(you are not allowed to stream games in a manner that is against that game's TOS, which essentially just covers cheating)

Private Pansy

Aha! Apparently to get Trello to display dates the correct way, you have to switch language from English to English UK

arda

Kevin van der Velden

@arda I wish this was english so I could watch the chat explode

arda

@KevinvanderVelden same

GnomeSlice

14:33

towerofsamsara.com/desktop.html

Unionhawk

Or so I could read what the actual message says

I'm just going to imagine it says "BATTLE.NET: GTFO (you have been permanently banned from Overwatch)"

Frank

@arda Someone's browsing Kotaku.

arda

@Frank yep

Unionhawk

Since, you know, Blizzard takes a one shot one kill approach to bannings

arda

@Unionhawk well actually...

Unionhawk

14:35

@arda Cheating bans, anyway

arda

In case of Diablo 3, you can buy game license again after getting banned to play again, but all your progress is wiped

why do that? you get to keep your battletag.

Unionhawk

@arda I see

arda

IDK if that applies to overwatch though

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Can I start over in No Man's Sky?

Just as the question title asks. Is there a way to start over? No spoilers here, but after a certain point in the game I wish I had done something different, so I'd like to perhaps start over and make some different decisions based on my current game play experience.

ps4 no-mans-sky

Unionhawk

I'm sure they also have the capability for temporary bans for people that do stuff like exploiting the lucioball glitch (that has been fixed)

arda

14:37

They banned people who exploited a glitch before. Permabanned.

Private Pansy

@arda It was kind of obvious

two bugs

@arda Pretty sure it doesn't

arda

@PrivatePansy just kind of?

Unionhawk

@arda Well, they did give a warning

two bugs

Are you talking about the blood shard glitch?

Kevin van der Velden

14:37

From what I've read it's a weeks ban for the lucio giltch

two bugs

Which was clearly a glitch?

Private Pansy

I'm surprised it took the system so long

arda

No, hellfire

MadMAxJr

Coming soon: Annoyance bans. You can still play Overwatch but Reinhardt is trying to tell you a story about this one time 20 years ago the entire time you're playing and he forgets some parts.

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden Heh

Sterno

14:38

arda

us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/18719278521

> We have deployed the final fix as of Patch 2.3.0a that prevents exploitation of the Hellfire Amulet. We have also issued account actions against players who were found to be abusing this exploit. For more information, please refer to the post below.

Unionhawk

The lucioball glitch is also seeing some bannings but hopefully not serious bannings because it's not a competitive mode or anything

two bugs

I don't see a problem with banning people who are abusing something that is clearly broken

Equipping multiple passives from the hellfire amulet is very clearly not intended and gives you a huge advantage

Unionhawk

Meh, especially on lucioball, I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt in the sense of people going "wait is this really possible tries it uh......."

arda

what was the glitch?

Kevin van der Velden

14:41

Yeah, but I am fine with giving people who play multiple games that way a weeks ban

Unionhawk

@arda There was a short window before the game started where you could press "H" to change to any hero.

fredley

Meanwhile, in NSFW geolocation services

MadMAxJr

Blizzard will create the department of pre-cheat. If they get a sign you could cheat, they'll just ban you in advance.

arda

@Unionhawk ah, like the the bot bug in csgo

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden They probably have the numbers on this too now that I think about it

Kevin van der Velden

14:42

Of course they do =p

arda

(you could take a bot before competitive games or smth and you wouldn't be teleported to spawn after round end)

two bugs

@Unionhawk For Lucioball, sure

But I doubt they banned people who did it once or twice

GnomeSlice

@fredley lol?

Unionhawk

There are certainly more serious exploits out there

arda

ALSO GOD DAMNIT WHY DID I ENGAGE WITH TRUMP FANS?! My phone and watch is going crazy from replies. I've yet to receive death threats but blocked some that mocked my picture.

Unionhawk

14:44

You have made a grave error

arda

Private Pansy

@fredley Apparently the whole of Singapore likes between Bush Monkey and Bush !@@#$

fredley

Every non-hyperbolic tweet is from iPhone (his staff). Every hyperbolic tweet is from Android (from him). https://t.co/GWr6D8h5ed

Tweeted by tvaziri on August 6, 2016 at 7:20 PM

two bugs

@fredley Hahahahahahaha

Unionhawk

@fredley holy shit

two bugs

14:46

Ugh Surface why does the charging icon not update anymore (yes I've tried the commonly recommended stuff)

Private Pansy

@fredley Lets go and test this out

Unionhawk

@twobugs -1 WHAT HAVE YOU TRIED

two bugs

OH wait, maybe it works now?

Unionhawk

@twobugs VTC as not a problem you are actually facing

two bugs

VTC as duplicate of Pokemon Go

GnomeSlice

14:47

@fredley I found my house

arda

fredley

@GnomeSlice probably not a good idea to post your address

Unionhawk

Wow, Johnson wins 1 electoral vote is up to 1.1% in polls+ and 3.4% in polls only

Private Pansy

@fredley Hmmm, does the web interface not have those?

two bugs

@Unionhawk #longshotjohnshot

That's the best I could come up with on short notice

Unionhawk

14:50

I, for one, am in favor of a potential ron paul situation

arda

@PrivatePansy no but this account apparently filters: twitter.com/RealRealDonaldT

two bugs

Update: no, charging system tray icon not working

Sigh

fredley

Literally Android Hell

4

GnomeSlice

I think we all need to prepare for either Hillary or Donald in office

two bugs

Well, right now it's overwhelmingly Hillary

GnomeSlice

14:51

Overwhelmingly?

two bugs

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#plus

Unionhawk

Statistically speaking

GnomeSlice

Unless they succeed in bribing Trump enough for him to step down

two bugs

Yes, overwhelmingly

Private Pansy

Roll a d6. If you get a one, Donald Trump is your president. That's not overwhelming.

two bugs

14:55

That's overwhelming but in a different sense

fredley

@PrivatePansy That's not how it works

arda

@PrivatePansy tweetdeck has it

two bugs

Basically Trump does not have a reasonable path to 280 right now

That can still change, of course

Private Pansy

@fredley In about one out of every six simulation they ran Donald Trump came out as the next PoTUS.

two bugs

Well my charging thing seems to be working now so whatever

badp

14:58

arda

tempted to write a site to check if it was posted by trump himself and fill it with ads and post it to /r/the_donald

Private Pansy

> Plus, the iPhone tweets out event times. That’s a staffer job. C’mon.

fredley

@PrivatePansy If Trump wins the presidency I'll eat ~~my hat~~ a cyanide pill

Private Pansy

Ah, that's something a computer can't quantify

And it is just as telling

two bugs

@fredley What flavor do you prefer?

I'm partial to the almond ones, myself

badp

15:01

@twobugs sweet relief

Private Pansy

> Please understand that I recognize the ridiculousness of all this. I've expended a great deal of time and coding effort—enlisting a literal Harvard scholar —to figure out how often a presidential campaign tweets on an iPhone.

Hahaha

badp

though they're now launching the new fredxit flavour

arda

@fredley no worries he will nuke ROW before you could even eat one

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Unable to sign in through Google into Pokemon Go

The mobile device I am using is the HTC one M7 and when I try to sign into the game through Google, I am left stuck on the loading screen. I have previously played Pokemon Go with the same Google account and mobile device and only now do I encounter this problem. When I attempted to sign into the...

pokemon-go android

two bugs

The Sun almost started WW3 back in the 60s

Tim Stone

15:04

Jerk sun

fredley

@twobugs Literally took me most of the article to figure out: "Oh that Sun"

two bugs

@fredley I forget you guys have goofy names for your periodicals

@TimStone Look man, Solar flares are just a natural part of the stellar life cycle and it's not a sin!

fredley

@twobugs You guys have a goofy word for "newspaper"

Unionhawk

Hmm

Tim Stone

@twobugs It will be when we have a Carrington Event sequel. Only solution is to blow up the sun before then

Unionhawk

15:07

the plot thickens on this weird issue

arda

why am I not surprised hillary is at top?

two bugs

@fredley We call them "wordypapers"

@Unionhawk Doctors hate it but local moms have discovered a trick?

Local Mom Discovers One Weird Trick To Summon A Great Old One

MadMAxJr

Eldritch clickbait.

two bugs

Mortals hate her!

sequoiad

wonder what clickbait would be called within the world of harry potter

wandbait?

actually no, that sounds dodgy

MadMAxJr

15:14

Well if messages go by owl...

I would assume clickbait are pidgeons banging on the window.

two bugs

Rita would probably be all over it

MadMAxJr

Or it would be a monster, Clickbautus.

sequoiad

or random heads appearing in your fire and yelling "A Death Eater walked into a bar... you won't believe what happened next!"

Unionhawk

> I like how all the Sochi jokes translate to Rio.

lol

two bugs

My phone has been on for 4 hours and it's down 40% :|

It's also been completely idle

@Samsung pls

Frank

15:18

@twobugs Chrome eats battery power, for some strange reason.

sequoiad

still another 3 hours until I can Demon Hunter sigh

two bugs

@Frank According to battery usage it's almost entirely "Android OS"

I don't even have Chrome open on my phone

arda

reached 10 gold badges \o/

two bugs

(Using my SP4 for chat and SE)

Frank

@twobugs Rebooted lately?

two bugs

15:20

Yup, but I might as well again

This only started a week or two ago

@sequoiad Illidan Did Nothing Wrong

(It was weird how he and his lieutenants were bad guys in TBC for no real obvious reason)

sequoiad

@twobugs yeah, never understood why we had to kill him at BT

TBC had a lot of that though

two bugs

And how the Naaru, beings of Pure Light And Goodness or whatever had us kill someone who was trying to fight against the prime antagonists of the series

I think the whole Illidan "redemption" thing adds a lot more texture to the story overall though

sequoiad

questlines that made no real sense

Unionhawk

lol

two bugs

Because we have: -Naaru not 100% good or at least not infallible

sequoiad

15:23

@twobugs have you read the Illidan novel?

two bugs

and -More character development for Maiev who was pretty flat

I haven't, but I might

sequoiad

do so if you can

tells the events of TBC from Illidan and Maiev's viewpoint

two bugs

That sounds neat

The Demon Hunter questline is pretty good, I like it

sequoiad

some very good development of Demon Hunters, Illidan's motivations etc in there that i won't spoil

two bugs

I like the whole "We're willing to fight the legion By Any Means Necessary" which in a fantasy context means they're like giving up their humanity and stealing demon powers

It's not super original, but it's a fun flavor

Unionhawk

15:25

what

Are these people real

two bugs

Hm?

Unionhawk

3 mins ago, by Unionhawk

lol

two bugs

Yeah I'm reading it now... it's pretty amazing

sequoiad

@twobugs the novel also goes a lot into how DH's are created... and I believe feeds into the DH intro in-game

two bugs

Stats are important! Everyone needs a basic stats overview.

sequoiad

15:26

so yeah, read it

two bugs

I am going to read this thing cc @Ash

Unionhawk

lol and I'm getting an ad for my company on the WaPo article

two bugs

Damn I'm reading that Unskewed poll site

That's a real riot

> that the percentage of Democrats and Republicans should be equal, or that there should be more Republicans.

"This sample is too representative!"

sequoiad

hmmm, yeah that would make a fair poll 'to make it super-equal, we only asked 1 supporter of each candidate, and, well, it's a tie.'

user15026

@twobugs what thing

fredley

15:37

If Trump wins I'm going to be so mad

Unionhawk

otoh, if trump wins, then at least we can no longer claim that Brexit was the worst vote of 2016

8

cc @fredley

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk what that's not how phrasing works

@Unionhawk but if the vote doesn't turn out how we like it, we can always claim it was rigged

Unionhawk

That's a good point

Kevin van der Velden

I like how stargate atlantis seems to think that a scale of millions in a galaxy is a lot

Also I'm at the episode with the evil asgards CC @MBraedley

GodEmperorDune

@KevinvanderVelden i'd link to the relevant tvtropes article but its too dangerous

Private Pansy

15:45

@KevinvanderVelden Millions of... stars? Planets? People?

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy people

MBraedley

@KevinvanderVelden But I'm Thor, not some Assgard

Private Pansy

Okay yes, that is a little small

MBraedley

@PrivatePansy Give the lore, it's actually reasonable

Kevin van der Velden

I mean yes, they're in a galaxy where they're basically prey but still

Private Pansy

15:47

Oo, I got another boxed cat

Kevin van der Velden

@MBraedley Also Assgard

GodEmperorDune

@KevinvanderVelden lol, butts

MBraedley

Shucks, the Canadian lost in the round of 16 (women's fencing - foil). It was a close match.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Did the compatibility requirements change?

I downloaded Pokemon Go through the google play store in July. With the recent (mandatory) update (august 8, version 0.33) the play store now says "Your device isn't compatible with this version." The official source for compatibility appears to be this page My device is an SM-P900 tablet runni...

pokemon-go technical-issues

fredley

I'm so jealous of @Wipqozn

He gets cc'd with all these sick burns, all I get is Archer and Brexit

GodEmperorDune

15:59

@fredley ok, i'll start ccing you on sick burns too

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