The Bridge

Wipqozn

14:00

But yeah, was watching another one of those "Daily show interviews trump supporters" and man. Some people. I don't even.,

Unionhawk

@Wipqozn yes that is the current refrance

Sterno

Those things are always pretty hilarious but those sorts of clips can make either side look stupid. Not that they probably had to look very hard.

Wipqozn

@Sterno yeah, it's not hard to cherry pick examples

wait, oops

Sterno

YOU GOT IT EVENTUALLY

Unionhawk

You failure

Tim Stone

14:03

"In Texas, we have big spaces, and we like to get around in those big spaces in our big cars with big air conditioners"

Sterno

To be fair, though, anyone standing outside with a Trump sign is more or less waving around a sign that says "Pick me, I'm a cherry"

Wipqozn

Interesting paper from Google about Mobile Page Speeds

3

> The average load time for mobile sites is 19 seconds over 3G connections. [...] we found that 53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if pages take longer than 3 seconds to load.

Unionhawk

Yeah, showing up to a trump rally is about as cherry pick as necessary

Sterno

Yeah. I was working on a 401k sign-up site and saw similar statistics on page load plus overall sign-up length. People drop fast. Even if it costs them money

Nzall

The big reason why so many mobile sites are abandoned is because so many devices can't multitask well

Kevin van der Velden

14:05

@MBraedley uuugh that guy

Sterno

They spent about half a million for us to redesign their existing process just because their old one was slow and cumbersome and most users just said "Fuck it" and gave up after a couple minuts

Unionhawk

And asking questions like "when was America last great" to get answers like "the Reagan admin"

RedRiderX

@Wipqozn We run a somewhat popular blog that suffers from that.

Maybe this might convince them to make some changes.

Though if you are strictly a blog its hard to make those changes if your ad providers don't back you up.

Nzall

so if I'm looking something up, having to wait 3 seconds for the page to load means I have less time to look it up

RedRiderX

I still don't think doubleclick factors page speed into click costs.

sequoiad

14:07

@Wipqozn going to have to bookmark that for later, been having an argument with a markerting person that thinks 45 seconds is a perfectly fine loading time for his attempt at a website.

RedRiderX

Though I do see that being somewhat hard to di...

Wipqozn

@sequoiad Herp derp

user15026

Working 8-4 today, getting up early was so hard but I do like that 2 hours of my day are already done.

RedRiderX

@Nzall I've had pretty basic looking sites crash my phone multiple times.

user15026

@RedRiderX same.

sequoiad

14:09

@Wipqozn very much herp derp

RedRiderX

One was for an org I work with, so I offered to help them with stuff if they wanted.

They weren't that interested :(

Nzall

@RedRiderX on my old Samsung Galaxy S+, I've recently started getting a popup during a downloaded video saying that Google Play Services has stopped working

so not even online on a webpage where ads may interfere, just while watching something stored locally

sequoiad

"but it loads fast on my computer" That's because your localhosting it and it's cached you GAAAHHHHH!!!

Sterno

ETRAOI

RedRiderX

@Nzall Hmm that sounds like a pretty SD experience at 480x800

Also ETRAOI

Nzall

14:11

@Sterno sorry, removed the TMI info

Sterno

(exactly the right amount of info)

Nzall

@RedRiderX Thing is I only started getting the popups about a month of 2 ago

RedRiderX

@sequoiad Chrome has a thing to simulate that now.

But that won't help the person who thinks 45s is acceptable...

sequoiad

@RedRiderX he. uses. IE. sobs

and blames the mythical "server" for every bit of awful wysiwyg-generated code that bugs

Sterno

I'd like to take a moment to complain to everyone about how when you get an iPhone, it automatically adds the signature "Sent from my iPhone" to all your emails until you dig into settings and disable it. That's just a dick move, Apple.

9

RedRiderX

14:18

@Sterno And starting the trend of other phones and carriers doing it.

Sterno

They're essentially putting ads in the email of the eleventy billion people who don't know how to disable it, and no one seems to get mad at them about it.

sequoiad

the outlook app does it as well :(

RedRiderX

@Sterno I get mad but I usually never end up interacting with those people in an environment that is appropriate to gripe about such a trivial thing.

Sterno

The internet was specifically created so you could gripe about trivial things.

THANKS AL GORE

user15026

@Sterno Blackberry also does this and it makes me crazy

Kevin van der Velden

14:26

AAH, I can't counterflag my own messages =[

user15026

I haven't figured out yet how to turn it off on my Blackberry but it makes me crazy

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden already clear

Kevin van der Velden

I figured most people wouldn't accept "UUUUGH that guy"

Wipqozn

@MBraedley TELL ME SIR. Any interest in going to an escape room in sackville tonight? My buddies nd I are looking for a fourth since one of our friends had to back out.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn No, I've got other plans with friends.

Wipqozn

14:29

@MBraedley yeah figured. Late notice on a friday.

MBraedley

Otherwise, I'd be in.

Wipqozn

@MBraedley I'll keep that in mind. I've never done one, but they seem like fun. Not sure why I've taken so long to get around to it.

Sterno

I need to find out where @Wipqozn is going and pay them to lock him in and just play this for an hour.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn they're fun

Wipqozn

@Sterno IT wouldn't be that hard to find out based on the information included in my above link combined with knowledge of where I live which you can find via facebook

Sterno

14:32

I'm already exhausted just thinking about looking that up.

Kevin van der Velden

Is it this one: escapeartistshfx.com

MBraedley

@KevinvanderVelden That'd be my guess

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden Correct

Kevin van der Velden

\o/ selecting "escape room in sackville" and rightclicking to search works again

Sterno

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Ronan

14:35

I knew your real name was Sterno!

MBraedley

@KevinvanderVelden didn't even qualify it with an area. Pretty sure there's an escape room in Sackville, New Brunswick, to say nothing of other Sackvilles

Wipqozn

@Sterno lolololol

did you actully send that, @Sterno? Because I wouldn't put it past you.

Sterno

How else am I going to find out their rates for kidnapping and torture?

3

MBraedley

@Sterno Technically, it's just forced confinement (I think that's the legal term), not kidnapping

Sterno

Well, I don't know what the full range of services they offer is until I ask!

Yuuki

14:43

@MBraedley Well yeah, they're not running a kindergarten.

MBraedley

@Yuuki NO! No dad jokes.

Unionhawk

Why is the extent of "look I made an IoT thing" videos just "I hooked an LED to an ESP8266"

MBraedley

@Unionhawk But what about when they also add a button!?

Wipqozn

I demand more dad jokes.

Unionhawk

@MBraedley It took me a really long time to find even "I hooked an ESP8266 to an arduino" which is what I need

Sterno

14:46

@Wipqozn niceonedad.com

Unionhawk

I sincerely hoped that was just niceme.me

I'm not sure if I should be disappointed

Tim Stone

'No need for destroying USSR, it could have been reformed' - Putin http://on.rt.com/7q32 https://t.co/h4l7dCL6Iv

Tweeted by RT_com on September 23, 2016 at 2:38 PM

Welp :|

Unionhawk

What? Putin wants to rebuild the USSR? Who could have fucking guessed

Wipqozn

I can't wait for a world where Putin and Trump are both world leaders

Nzall

@Wipqozn My mother says like once a week "2017 will have Putin, Trump and Erdogan, the world will end", after which I usually say "Erdogan really is not in the same league as Putin and Trump"

fredley

14:49

Twitter potentially being bought out by Google

I really hope that if they do, they rebrand it Google Buzz

Yuuki

@fredley No no, Google+.

Kevin van der Velden

What was the old twitter-like thing that google had, was that google buzz?

fredley

@Yuuki Replace all @ signs with + signs

@KevinvanderVelden Yes

I have this mug:

Unionhawk

Oh shit I remember Google Buzz I think

God damn

Literally 6 years ago

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk huh, you must be older than I thought

fredley

14:53

That one where it automatically followed the top n contacts from Gmail, regardless of whether those people were your Boss, your Ex, etc.

Unionhawk

Well now you know I'm probably at least 19 (13+6)

fredley

I used Google Buzz

As in, I sent a ~~tweet~~ buzz with it

sequoiad

@fredley how many people saw it?

fredley

@sequoiad Probably just my ex and my boss

MBraedley

I used Buzz. And Wave. And still kinda use +, albeit only as a glorified RSS feed.

fredley

14:55

@MBraedley Are you a Google employee?

sequoiad

@fredley sounds about right

MBraedley

@fredley No

fredley

@MBraedley The evidence contradicts your statement

StrixVaria

@MBraedley I used Wave a lot.

I wasn't a Google employee yet.

I had to make a Google+ when I started here and I've never touched it since.

Kevin van der Velden

@MBraedley Their health insurance doesn't pay for re-cloning?

sequoiad

14:56

I used Google+ once

fredley

@StrixVaria I used Wave, it was good but didn't have enough structure to be useful.

MBraedley

I wish I had been able to use Wave more, because I thought it was really interesting.

sequoiad

and only once

fredley

I deleted my + account after years of non-usage

StrixVaria

@fredley I liked the real-time collaborative editing, but docs has that now anyway so I'm pretty fine with the way things went.

Unionhawk

14:57

I mean I'm glad they learned a lot about live collaboration with Wave and brought those things into docs

fredley

Now something in Google Now wants me to reenable it which is annoying

@StrixVaria Yeah, a lot of the collab stuff that made it into docs/sheets/etc. came from Wave afaik

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria I just want email to die already

Nzall

I'm going home. I just hope that they will keep Twitter as it is now

or at least not break it

StrixVaria

@KevinvanderVelden Email as a protocol is the worst, but Inbox is a pretty nice UI for it, so if you're not doing the coding part of it it's not so bad.

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden I bloody well don't, it's one of the few remaining modes of communication that's a protocol, not a service.

MBraedley

14:58

@KevinvanderVelden This is why I wanted Wave to be successful.

Nzall

I want to keep using Twitter, damnit, I don't want to be on social media under my own name

MBraedley

@fredley Wave was built on a federated protocol IIRC

fredley

@StrixVaria The fact it is a protocol, and decentralised is important though.

@MBraedley I'll build you on a federated protocol.

StrixVaria

@fredley Yes.

fredley

The thing about email is that, although it's shit in a lot of ways, you can build whatever you want on top of it, and it will never go away. Can't do that with WhatsApp/Twitter/Facebook Messenger/whatever. You totally hand over control.

StrixVaria

15:01

I don't want email to die unless a better protocol replacement comes along, yes, I agree with that.

But I still want a better protocol to replace it.

fredley

Click this link if you want to feel bad about humanity

3

MBraedley

@fredley Yes, I agree that we need more (open) protocols rather than services. But using open protocols means your service won't be as profitable, since you can't force people to use your service.

fredley

@StrixVaria Yeah. Would be interesting to design an email replacement protocol, for sure.

sequoiad

when Youtube started wanting to post comments under my display name from Gmail, that was a step too far for me

fredley

@MBraedley Yes, some more great reasons why email is a good thing.

StrixVaria

15:03

I refuse to rate anything on the Play Store because it's tied to my real name.

GnomeSlice

@fredley Well they've got something with "why do we take celebrity opinions so seriously" tbh

but that's savage

fredley

@StrixVaria Yup, or review places on Google.

Wipqozn

@fredley On the bright side, it proves why feminism is a thing that needs to exist.

fredley

@GnomeSlice ...I don't think you understand, she's not just 'some celebrity', she's a UN Goodwill Ambassador.

@Wipqozn Yes, 'bright' side.

GnomeSlice

I thought she was an actress

fredley

15:04

@GnomeSlice You can't be both?

GnomeSlice

what qualifications does she have

fredley

@GnomeSlice What qualifications do you think would apply?

GnomeSlice

Idk about that stuff

it's still a pretty shit way to say it

fredley

@GnomeSlice And she does, which is why she's a UN Goodwill Ambassador :-)

Wipqozn

She went to brown university, which is one of the most prestigious schools in the USA.

like why are you assuming she's not qualified?

Being an actress doesn't suddenly mean you're not qualified to do anything else

GnomeSlice

15:06

at is an ambassador of goodwill?
A goodwill ambassador is a person who advocates for a specific cause (e.g. a country or an organisation) on the basis of their notability.

Cool i guess

Wipqozn

she's travelled around the world for womans rights causes

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn all I said was the thing asking why we give celebrity opinions so much weight in our culture makes sense to me

is that okay

can I go back to work

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice please do

Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice NO. NEVER

YOU ARE STUCK HERE >:(

fredley

@GnomeSlice Her maiden speech is pretty good, if you haven't read it

GnomeSlice

15:09

seems more like a problem they have with her and not with women

Sterno

fredley

Meanwhile, at the IgNobel Prize

Sterno

Guys

MacGyver is on tonight

Someone watch it and mock it so I don't have to

Unionhawk

No

sequoiad

15:29

new MacGyver?

screw that

Wipqozn

@Sterno Just build someone to watch it for you out a paperclip, a rusty nail, and a piece of paper.

Yuuki

Oh my.

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn And bubble gum.

Wipqozn

@Yuuki Is this the future

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Looking at comments, it has an operational time of 10 minutes.

So not quite the future, but we're getting there.

Unionhawk

15:45

lol this website is old

> Make sure the router you buy supports the latest version of Wi-Fi, known as 802.11g

Chippies

@Sterno this is giving me a deja vu...

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki the limiting factor is still the thing it has always been, how to power it long enough that it's useful

Chippies

@sequoiad that can be circumvented. I'm not sure about other google places, but Youtube definitely allows you to post comments with your made up nickname, rather than your real name

sequoiad

@Chippies yeah, I did find out how to change it back pretty quickly but it wasn't obvious

Chippies

@sequoiad Fair enough, but it is a google service, so it doesn't surprise me that you have to use their service (google search) to find out how to do it :P

sequoiad

15:56

And it's not a change I think they should have made without giving you the choice on login

MBraedley

@Yuuki I was waiting for the inevitable crash that didn't come. 2/10

Trent Hawkins

@sequoiad But new MacGyver might lead to more Stargate goodness...

MBraedley

@TrentHawkins Then the actor will become jaded, want to spend more time in SoCal, and all but quit the show.

sequoiad

and I'm not sure my tear ducts can deal with another Daniel Jackson death

Trent Hawkins

Although, considering the last rumblings I've heard about Stargate involve a sequel to the original movie that screws/ignores the SG-1 continuity... yeah, screw MacGyver.

Kevin van der Velden

16:07

@sequoiad is currently rewatching stargate sg-1

Lazers 2.0

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Q: If I get to lvl 100 legendary in a skill but have no attributed points to the skill is it worth it?

I've made it to level 100 on lockpicking but I have not attributed any points what so ever to the skill. If I go legendary it will reset me to 15 but will I get any points out of it to use on another skill?

skyrim

Lazers 2.0

16:23

0

Q: How to fix "social club failed to load due to an incomplete installation" error in GTA V

i just downloaded GTA V Repack by Corepack. I had to wait 7-8 hours to install it. After copying crack files, when i launch it, it shows me this error in the loading screen: i searched the internet for a really long time but couldn't find a solution. Please help. Thanks in advance.

grand-theft-auto-5 rockstargames-social-club

sequoiad

@Lazers2.0 crack files... corepack... illegal copy.

SaintWacko

@Lazers2.0 You know, someday I'm going to remember that the filter here blocks Arqade...

Kevin van der Velden

No you won't

MBraedley

@SaintWacko I have a link to QR extension for these express purposes

SaintWacko

@MBraedley Ah, that's smart

MBraedley

16:37

@SaintWacko chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/anything-to-qrcode/…

Tim Stone

i don't really have a full argument here BUT... https://t.co/AotB6ug5X6

Tweeted by cwarzel on September 23, 2016 at 11:18 AM

Like the Madden Curse, but for terrible people!

Wipqozn

@TimStone gotta be honest, this one is going over my head

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Bunch of the people in the image either are in Congressional hearings for being an amoral f--k (John Stumpf) or they're supporting and donating a lot of money to Donald Trump (Peter Thiel).

Wipqozn

@Yuuki cool, thanks

Didn't even know who most of thoe folks were

Probably because I'm an uncultured pleb

arda

16:52

@GnomeSlice

Yuuki

John Stumpf is CEO of Wells Fargo and Peter Thiel has been rumored to be Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court despite his only experience being about one year as a judicial clerk.

I'm sure he's a smart guy. I just want my Supreme Court justices to have some more substantial judicial experience.

badp

@TimStone but the EU must go

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki I mean, it's only a for life position with no method of getting rid of him. He'll have plenty of time to get experience!

Yuuki

Wait... Hitler's in Transformers 5?

badp

why wouldn't he?

Wipqozn

17:04

@Yuuki and then hitlert was a transformer all along

badp

Hitler-T, the baddest Hitler ever

GnomeSlice

@arda woo

SaintWacko

Yay, my first change was merged into master!

MBraedley

Jesus christ, Oracle logs, why do you have to get so big?

I just deleted something like 20GB of old logs from our dev server.

GnomeSlice

17:19

@Yuuki Ugh

Q: If trump and Hillary were on a sinking ship, who would you save

A: America

Sterno

17:30

I can't even imagine who would be running in that situation.

MBraedley

@Yuuki There's a reason why most SCOTUS justices are appointed after serving in a federal appeals court.

Kevin van der Velden

Oh hey, the farscape/stargate cross-over episode

MBraedley

@KevinvanderVelden 200? Not quite a cross-over episode.

Sterno

whaaaaat?

Kevin van der Velden

@MBraedley details =p

MBraedley

17:33

Still a good episode though.

Kevin van der Velden

Same person

Sterno

Farscape is one of those shows where you start watching, recommend it to all your friends halfway through, keep watching, and then regret ever having recommended it to anyone.

MBraedley

You're nearly finished then.

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah, season 8 ep 12

MBraedley

@Sterno I don't know, I still enjoy the 4th season.

Kevin van der Velden

17:35

@Sterno I dunno, I don't recall it ever going that bad

Sterno

You are objectively a terrible person.

Yuuki

@Sterno At least that's better than Heroes. Start watching, recommend, get to second season, search for "brain bleach" on Amazon.

MBraedley

I know that's not a popular opinion, but the three parter near the end of the season is some of my favourite TV.

Sterno

@Yuuki Probably

I just tried googling "farscape granny paint-shaker orgasm" hoping to find a terrible scene in season 4 that convinced me it was time to stop watching, but the clip didn't turn up, and I never should have googled that from work

4

P.S. - Don't Google that.

MBraedley

@Sterno Okay, I'll agree that granny wasn't the best character.

Sterno

17:38

However, season 1 did have the quote "The imperfection is yours", which I'm sad never really caught on as a meme.

GodEmperorDune

@Sterno wat

@Sterno farscape predated memes though

Sterno

It might have been something equivalent to a paint-shaker but not an actual paint-shaker

GodEmperorDune

i remember one of the later seasons of farscape consisted entirely of wat, but they made up for it with the last season

Sterno

17:55

There were only 4 seasons

And the awful TV movie thing at the end where Rygel was pregnant

Seriously, that show just kept getting worse

StrixVaria

Flash Season 2 is coming to Netflix soon. Is that worth watching?

I was bored to death by Arrow Season 2.

Sterno

Depends if you liked season 1. I'd say overall it wasn't as good

But probably still "good enough" if you liked season 1

StrixVaria

I did like season 1.

I'll give it a shot.

Sterno

I also saw season 1 all at once and season 2 an episode at a time, which may have tainted how I feel about it

StrixVaria

Yeah, binging tends to be better because you don't have a week to forget why you should care.

I remember being really interested in finding out what happened in the season 1 cliffhanger, but now I don't care.

Sterno

18:02

Season 2 is pretty much entirely about that.

StrixVaria

Ok, cool, sounds like I should watch it then.

I'm sure once I get back into it I'll remember why it was interesting.

GodEmperorDune

@StrixVaria i liked arrow season 2 but was super bored by season 3

i think it was deathstroke's charming accent

Sterno

I liked season 2 of Arrow as well, but felt like that show has been getting worse every season.

Particularly the action scenes. Ugh.

GodEmperorDune

they should do a season of arrow entirely on lian yu

Sterno

Really they just need to cut his team back down to him plus 1 or 2 more. The more people on the team, the less I care about each episode

And the more it's hard to believe that everyone can be a martial arts master after a few months of training

GodEmperorDune

18:07

@Sterno seriously

by the time the tv news announced "oliver queen is the arrow" i figured that everyone in the city already knew

badp

WHA
BLR
RAG

CAN YOU FIND THE SCRAMBLED WORD

Sterno

Whablrrag

GodEmperorDune

@badp it's friday, friday, gotta whargarbl on friday

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Minecraft 1.10.2 Mob drops

I'm trying to make a Spider to drop only certain items without it normal drops of string and eyes but nothing i do works, i've tried unluck effects changing gamerules like entitydrop and mobloot but i still get them, this is the command i'm using. /summon Spider ~ ~1 ~ {HandDropChances:[0.5F,2F]...

minecraft minecraft-commands

Yuuki

@Sterno Welcome to DC Comics, where everybody without superpowers is in the running for best martial artist in the world.

And even some who do have superpowers (looking at you, Black Canary).

Kevin van der Velden

18:18

tv black canary doesn't have superpowers

StrixVaria

It's wharrgarbl, not whargarbl.

Learn your memes.

Yuuki

I thought at least one of them had super yelling?

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: At what point do the number of lives turn into coins/crown?

It was a long time ago when I was just a little kid, but I remember visiting my Aunt's house where they had an NES. They also had the classic Super Mario Bros. Once while I was playing the game, my Aunt showed me the notorious Life Cheat. I remember after letting the cheat work its magic for...

nes super-mario-bros

Yuuki

@StrixVaria Or whablrrag.

badp

@StrixVaria too many things break when you have 10 characters

Sep 14 at 13:19, by badp

W   G   L W   B WRGAR WRAB WR    WRGAR WRAB WRAL W
 H R A B  HRGAR H   B HGR  H   B H   B HGR  H R  H
  A   R   A   L A   L A  L AGARL A   L A  L AGBE ARGARBL

one of the Rs had to go

it only helps with the B

where I had to cheat a little

arda

18:34

Rooting android phone: is it worth it?

badp

if you can run 7, not really...

arda

They just released 6 for this

badp

the main reason for me was being able to change the screen DPI

an option which is now built into the software

I guess the second best thing would be busybox...

arda

This phone has too much crapware I can't re/move and I want to remove them and idk, be able to move some apps to sd card and stuff

I'm mostly concerned about warranty, but meh warranty in turkey sucks

StrixVaria

W   R   L W    B WRGR WRGR  WRGR  WR    WRGR WRGR  WRGB W
 H RGA B  HRRGAR HRAB HRA   HRA   H  LB HRAB HRA   H A  H
  A   R   A    L A  L A  BL A  BL ARGAR A  L A  BL ARRL ARRGARBL

6

Seems fine to me.

arda

18:37

this phone has a structural issue that happens to some, and the warranty folks don't even replace that for free

badp

how about

if it really needs be

W   RG   L W    B WRGR WRGR  WRGR  WR    WRGR WRGR  WRGB W
 H R  A B  HRRGAR HRAB HRA   HRA   H  LB HRAB HRA   H A  H
  A    R   A    L A  L A  BL A  BL ARGAR A  L A  BL ARRL ARRGARBL

StrixVaria

I considered that.

It looks fine.

Sterno

Alright, guys. Baldur's Gate 2, Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition, Pillars of Eternity, or Avadon 2 next?

StrixVaria

@Sterno Divinity: Original Sin is garbage, so that.

badp

anyway, +1, wharr?garbl

Sterno

18:38

@StrixVaria Why would you want me to play garbage? I didn't gift you Bad Rats, did I?

badp

@Sterno Pregnant Elsa Foot Check-Up

StrixVaria

@Sterno Actually I think you might enjoy it for the reasons I didn't.

Sterno

I actually got about halfway through it the first time.

StrixVaria

I really liked the combat system, but I really didn't like the scripted encounters.

Sterno

the non enhanced version, anyway

I did find the story painful though

StrixVaria

18:40

It's one of those "make sure you quicksave before the battle and before each turn in the battle" games.

Where the combat winds up being more of a puzzle than a fight.

Sterno

@badp I'll queue that up for my daughter.

StrixVaria

But that is mostly because of the way the encounters are structured rather than because of the combat system itself.

Sterno

@StrixVaria I didn't find it that bad, but you're right, I do tend to enjoy those types of games

Honestly, unless the combat is really tough, I get bored of most RPGs. It's why I struggle to get through JRPG type games, since tough is usually defined by "grind some more"

arda

meh, trying kingroot

Sterno

Though I do like JRPGs on mobile devices since mostly I'm just playing to kill time on those

StrixVaria

18:43

I'm not sure what difficulty curve I would even prefer in an RPG anymore. If the combat is hard enough that I have to try encounters multiple times, I get frustrated. If the combat is easy enough that I'm not challenged, I get bored. Both are bad.

I like Disgaea 5 because it's not about "do you win or lose" so much as it is about how creative you can be with how you win.

That's a good tradeoff I think.

badp

@StrixVaria have you played Momodora 4? It struck a wonderful balance for me

StrixVaria

@badp No, let me look into that now.

badp

I guess it's kinda not an RPG

but the term is so diluted nowadays anyway

StrixVaria

Oh, I think I saw a speedrun of this at *GDQ.

It looked pretty neat.

Sterno

STOP DILUTING IT MORE YOU MONSTER

badp

18:48

Still have to watch it

@Sterno let it go

Chippies

0 STRINGS BASS SOLO

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Sterno

Pong is my favorite RPG Roguelike

badp

@Sterno you get faster and faster as you play, then you die and you must start over. LGTM

StrixVaria

@Sterno It's a good start to an incremental game but I wish there were upgrades that let you get more than 1 point at a time.

badp

@StrixVaria the point acquisition speed increases

StrixVaria

18:53

I am starting to come up with ideas for a vs. mode incremental pong game and I need to stop.

badp

Also I was thinking about pacman

gg

nextmap

Sterno

Roguelike RPG Pacman would be really easy. STOP

Pretty sure we could work "typing game" in there too

and some FMV

StrixVaria

I don't know if I would ever be able to stop playing a typing/incremental game.

MadMAxJr

Keep typing or your hero dies.

That's the game.

Sterno

If your typing doesn't stay over 50 ~~mph~~ wpm the bus blows up.

MadMAxJr

18:58

Every MMO/Incremental ever.

MMO - SMBC Theater

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Sepia Lazers

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Q: Can we have less "Unclear what you're asking" close votes?

Consider Sign in problem with Google in Pokèmon Go, and the two close reasons: Unclear what you're asking Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking. See the How to ...

discussion closing

badp

Capcom decides SF5 needs to run as root

> Capcom installs capcom.sys in your system32\ folder. Seriously

SaintWacko

Wat

Yikes

MBraedley

@badp What does it need to do that for? Everything a game needs should exist is user land

Tim Stone

19:15

lolololol https://t.co/LjOyTPXs8s

Tweeted by Helios748 on September 23, 2016 at 6:16 PM in reply to Helios748

Arbitrary kernel code injection is a feature, not a bug!

MBraedley

@TimStone Again, why does the game need to be able to do that? Is it streaming commands directly from a server or something? Because that would be, you know, bad.

Sterno

There is no reason the game needs to be able to do that.

Tim Stone

Yes

Sterno

I forgot to add Wasteland 2 to my list of RPGs to play.

Lazers 2.0

19:37

-1

Q: WatchDogs 2 Hacker notebook-bag to buy?

Does anybody know if there is already something like that available or soon to be buyable? I found a Watchdogs 1 hackerbag - but this one here of WD2 looks wayyyyy cooler!

watch-dogs

Unionhawk

.@Helios748 A cookie for the first person to write a cheat installing itself/evading detection by patching the anticheat using said syscall

Tweeted by DrDaxxy on September 23, 2016 at 6:40 PM in reply to Helios748

SaintWacko

19:53

@Lazers2.0 Not remembering yet

arda

dragon rage %30 off

Cc @Dragonrage

Nzall

Note to Activision: This is how you price an older game you scumbags

6 year old Battlefield only costs 2.49 EUR

13 year old Call of Duty game still costs 20 EUR

Unionhawk

Well regular price like 20, currently on sale

Nzall

@Unionhawk BFBC2 regular price is half that of Cod1

Lazers 2.0

20:24

0

Q: Can i play multiplayer Wiiu games on a gamepad and a wii remote?

I'm buying a wii U with a gamepad, and i have money leftover to buy a wii remote alongside it, which i was going to do, but then i read somewhere that i need TWO wii remotes to play multiplayer on the wiiu. Is that true? I'm mostly interested in play super smash bros, but things like mario kart...