The Bridge

9:03 PM

legit much, so pro, wow

@Lazers2.0 I don't really like this question. Metas change (sometimes frequently), and what's best might not be objective or absolute.

Chippies

@MBraedley seems like the second half of the question could be on-topic (what team combos are used the most), but I also doubt we have access to such information

Avery

@Chippies but yeah you have new gen games too. A single PSX rom is around like 600mb just by itself

I only have one PSX rom, and it's the only PSX game I actually played on the real deal: crash bandicoot

holy hell was that game hard

Chippies

@Avery well, literally every NES game ever made is well under 200mb or a lot less if they're zipped (mine aren't)

Avery

mine aren't zipped either. But I have variants and nearly every romhack available too

Chippies

9:09 PM

I have all NES, SNES, N64, GB, GBC, GBA, NeoGeo, Sega Genesis and a few PSX games on a 32gb SD card and I still have a fair bit of space left over

I tried to get rid of variants and romhacks because 99% of the time they're garbage

Avery

to compare, I have 43k files, you have 47k

@Chippies yeah I have a good-bad nes folder

Chippies

I have 758 files in my NES Roms folder. That's about as many NES games ever released

I might be missing a few that I don't really care about anyway

but that was a price I was willing to pay to not have to manually get rid of duplicates of other regions and variants, etc

GnomeSlice

Robotic support brings freedom to paraplegics - Tek RMD

►

Chippies

of the couple thousand roms I have for the old consoles, maybe a hundred are worth even playing

GnomeSlice

train wifi sucks hopefully that video is informative about it

Avery

9:12 PM

@Chippies yeah lol same

Unionhawk

@Chippies I did shadow of mordor with a controller. You can do it with a mouse though

I typically prefer to play that style of game with a controller though

Chippies

@Unionhawk I do too, but the controller severely handicaps my bow use

Unionhawk

This is true

Chippies

and the game just feels better with a controller, so it's like I have to sacrifice something to play the game

Yuuki

It's harder to 360 noscope on a shield with a controller.

Unionhawk

9:21 PM

All speedrunners use keyboard and mouse, for the most part

Mainly for one bow heavy fight

Chippies

@Unionhawk makes sense, it is the better way of controlling the game

the controller just feels more comfortable

Idk, I'll probably try keyboard and mouse whenever I get in the mood to try the game again

last I played, it was frustrating, because the enemies seemed to have an unfair advantage

and I wasn't even far in the game at all

Unionhawk

I need to reinstall which will take a long time

My main complaint about shadow of mordor is its fucking huge as far as download size goes

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Avery

lol

Unionhawk

STOP BEING SO USELESS OK PANIC

JESUS

Chippies

9:24 PM

@Unionhawk it's not that bad considering the size of other modern open world AAA titles

but it's still a big chunk of space

Unionhawk

That's true enough I guess

And it's a fairly large open world too

Chippies

this guy was my arch-nemesys, the reason I quit the game

Unionhawk

You have to exploit his fear of burning

Chippies

easier said than done

Unionhawk

That's the only way

Yuuki

9:26 PM

@Unionhawk Once he burns, doesn't he lose all of his immunities?

Unionhawk

@Yuuki yep

Chippies

doesn't help that whenever I fight one of the guys, 3 more show up within the next minute

Unionhawk

@Chippies "ambusher" is the worst attribute

Yuuki

Zelda to stream Zelda tomorrow.

cc @Uni

Unionhawk

Oh fuck he's "fear only" and "fast runner"?

Jesus Christ

Chippies

9:27 PM

yeah, the RNGesus didn't want me to play the game :P

Unionhawk

Casual play will always spin up one particular guy who keeps killing you

Chippies

it wasn't even so much that he was the issue, it was that whenever I fought one of the guys, if I didn't kill it within a minute or two, more of the big baddies would show up

it's like they all are patrolling the same route and eventually show up in the same spot

Unionhawk

There are a few attributes that cause them to look for the player when they're fighting

And stuff like that

Chippies

@Unionhawk I wish the game was better at explaining that

I assume ambusher might be one of those?

Unionhawk

I think so

Ambushers are nasty

My top 2 nemeses were ambushers

Chippies

9:30 PM

I think whenever I decide to play it again, I might just start from scratch

I can honestly say that Shadow of Mordor is (can be) harder than Dark Souls

it was for me at least

MBraedley

I'm slowly coming to the realization that playing ME:A on release day is probably going to be impractical. Stupid end of fiscal year.

Also friendly reminder: it's tax season, everyone!

Unionhawk

@Chippies it's an interesting flip: instead of the player getting weaker upon death, the enemy gets stronger

Chippies

@Unionhawk Dark Souls 2 did a similar thing (make the player weaker) and I hated it

but shadow of mordor just went over the top

Unionhawk

Well like even 1 has "if you die you have to either burn humanity or not have help this fight up to you"

Chippies

it seems like if you're good at the game, you get to faceroll it, but if you suck at it, you will get completely destroyed

@Unionhawk eh, I never cared for summoning people, I soloed the whole thing

dark souls 2 actually made your character have less health, which was actually a dick move

in dark souls 1 if you died, but learned something, you could get better and progress

in dark souls 2 if you died, but learned something, your hp got lower, so even if you got better, it might not be enough now

GnomeSlice

9:36 PM

dark souls 3 gives you an hp boost when you're embered, but your health doesn't get progressively shitter the more you die as in ds2

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum simulator VR

Chippies

@GnomeSlice I heard DS3 is pretty good, I'll probably buy that when it's cheap. I doubt I'll ever finish DS2 because I just didn't enjoy it at all

GnomeSlice

@Unionhawk does completing coop reverse hollowing in the first one, i forget

Unionhawk

Iunno

GnomeSlice

DS3 feels like ds1. way more fun to play than ds2

Unionhawk

9:37 PM

Online was broken last I played

GnomeSlice

environments are kinda weak though

@Unionhawk theres a mod for that

Chippies

@GnomeSlice you have to be human to do coop, so what do you mean by reverse hollowing?

Unionhawk

O

GnomeSlice

been doing invasions again

@Chippies oh right, only in ds1 though

yeah forgot about that

i just use the free humanity exploit so i forget how it all works

Chippies

you can summon people in DS2/3 while hollow?

GnomeSlice

9:38 PM

fire keeper soul op

@Chippies i mean be a summon

i dont think you nees to be human even in ds1 for that

Avery

@KevinvanderVelden hahaha nice

Chippies

@GnomeSlice I'm not sure, I only did coop with you a couple times

GnomeSlice

small soapstone in ds2 is how i usually went human

but ds2 also has all the rings of life protection

so once you get a few bosses in you just always have enough souls to repair them

Chippies

souls are technically a limited resource in DS2

MadMAxJr

DS2 was made by a different team inside the company if I recall.

GnomeSlice

9:41 PM

nope

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Except that it is stoner rock, and I don't like that.

Chippies

@GnomeSlice after you kill same mobs a certain amount of time, they stop respawning

GnomeSlice

you can infinitely farm a few places by using bonfire ascetics

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum shush, that can probably be modded

GnomeSlice

notably, the giant king boss

Chippies

9:42 PM

which is why some areas have so much mobs that just swarm you and it's super annoying and frustrating

GnomeSlice

has a bonfire ascetic in it so every time you use one you get one back

Chippies

it's like they specifically threw too many mobs so you can slowly decrease their numbers by dying over and over while killing one or two at a time

GnomeSlice

and i dont think there is a bonfire level cap

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Well, it has no effect on monster stats after +7, IIRC.

GnomeSlice

yeah

no

it still respawns them they just dont get harder

my roomate is at like +37 on the giant lord

Yuuki

9:43 PM

Yeah, that's why I edited it to "no effect on monster stats".

GnomeSlice

gets like 1 million at a time

yeah he was like im gonna farm all the souls in the game

and he farmed out most of them 10 times lol

Memor-X

10:04 PM

does anyone know if there is a way to view what the Zoom Level is in Notepad++?

MadMAxJr

Nope, I just see a 'reset to default' in mine

Yuuki

> attempt easy introductory program
> fail horribly

Memor-X

@MadMAxJr yeh, the problem is that i think the settings have messed up...somewhere...i think. i started it up this morning and saw the text looked smaller and when i did a reset to default it didn't change, i zoom in once and it looked right but the default set it back and i was sure the settings here at work are the same i have at home. so i was going to check what the zoom level is at home just in case if i accidentally did Ctrl + Mouse Wheel at home and not noticed

Yuuki

CONFIGURATION ISSUES NEED TO GO DIE IN A FIRE

Memor-X

10:19 PM

@Yuuki yes they should

Yuuki

I like having errors in my code. It means I'm working with something I wrote and messed up on. I can find the mistake and yay, it's like solving a puzzle.

Config issues mean I can't even test my own code to see if I put things together correctly.

MadMAxJr

@Memor-X Are you on a Windows 10 laptop and sometimes use a docking station?

Memor-X

@MadMAxJr at work it's a Windows 10 PC. my home computer is Windows 7

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki not my fault you configured it incorrectly

read the docs

Memor-X

home PC however doesn't connect to the internet so Notepad++ wont get updated. this might have been a background update that messed things around

GodEmperorDune

10:22 PM

Memor-X

@GodEmperorDune a shame the world isn't like that

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X yes, it is an ideal to strive for

Memor-X

@GodEmperorDune yes, especially the free food! (cultural inclusion is also good)

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X better food is a fantastic reason to encourage diversity

among many others of course

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Did he just invite himself over for dinner?

How rude.

GodEmperorDune

10:26 PM

@Yuuki i think he invited himself over to their house, not necessarily to dinner

Yuuki

Still rude.

GodEmperorDune

when you have gratuitous amounts of privilege you can get away with stuff like that

Memor-X

@GodEmperorDune yep. colour, race, language, belief, they may vary significantly but aside from the obvious the one thing we all have in common and can share with is that we all eat food

Avery

@GodEmperorDune nice

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Lag in a certain part of a Minecraft server

So on this server, I am a moderator on there is a lag spot so bad it freezes your game instantly, and it crashes. It only lags in this one spot, but once you get stuck in it, you can't get out. Even if you get back on after it crashes, it freezes right away. There is also no warning before you hi...

minecraft-server

MadMAxJr

10:44 PM

Color, race, language, belief, ketchup or mustard on a hot dog. These are the things that divide us.

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GodEmperorDune

@MadMAxJr also PCMR vs console

MadMAxJr

@Memor-X Hmm. I had a user profile issue that caused wonky Notepad++. Right click the desktop, display settings. Do you have red font under the 'change the size of text, apps, and other items' setting?

It'll advise you to log out or something for changes to take effect.

If that is there, something is screwing with the display sizes of your windows profile.

This happens for me when I boot my laptop away from desk, it has a laptop profile setting. If I dock it while it's on, it keeps these custom settings which look awful on my desktop screens, so I have to log out and back in so it loads a desktop sizing profile.

Memor-X

@MadMAxJr nope. it's 100% on both screens

it's just Notepad++ that looked smaller. Command Prompt, Chrome, everything else is fine

resolution on both screens is also the same at home (1920 x 1080)

Avery

@MadMAxJr depends on the mustard

if it is good spicy mustard, omgyes, if it is bad mustard, no

GodEmperorDune

i need to actively keep my politics out of my work stuff

i just started this business justification for building a utility with "when $other_utility outputs files, it's not sending its best...."

they're bringing parse errors, they're bringing unbalanced parentheses, and some, i assume, are properly formatted

Dragonrage

11:16 PM

i once bought pop tarts for my brother on amazon prime, now amazon thinks i need to feed my addiction and placed a button on my home page to instantly buy pop tarts

Yuuki

@Avery Also depends on the hot dog. Sometimes, with a good wurst, I'll eat without ketchup or mustard.

@GodEmperorDune I was so tempted to bring up Ryan's tweet about health insurance and the healthy subsidizing the sick during lunch today. I am proud of myself for resisting.

user15026

@Dragonrage hahaha you never know when you might really need a poptart

Memor-X

@Yuuki i've read too much manga that i read the second and 3rd frames the other way around at first

user15026

@GodEmperorDune lunarbaboon makes me so happy.

Yuuki

Lazers 2.0

11:24 PM

0

Q: Can't waypoint stores barber ammo shop ect

My son has GTA 5 ps4 online we have the map on bottom of screen but shops (barber, ammo store, clothing store, ect) are not showing up on side of screen. All that shows up is his house garages CEO business. How can we fix this?

grand-theft-auto-5 ps4

murgatroid99

@Yuuki He got a lot shorter in the last panel

user15026

@Yuuki warm water on the lid totally works.

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 I mean, he's an eldritch abomination. I'm sure he can twist himself into all sorts of alien geometries.

@Ash Be sure to have a towel though because water makes the lid slippery.

Memor-X

@Yuuki ahhhh, who's hands are those?

user15026

11:49 PM

@Yuuki this is true

Yuuki

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Minigame plugin help! Many problems!

There are so many minigame plugins for Minecraft, I am using one that I cant find a specific name for so here is the link https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/minigames.19687/ my problem is that when I click on a sign to get my loadout it says, "Loadout does no exist" BUT IT DOES. I looked myself a...

minecraft-server

Dragonrage

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