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18:00
It will also make the memory leaks that appear in every odd numbered version as of late have a great impact on your play sessions
@James HAHAHA I noticed that, my game sometimes gets so laggy I have to restart it.
You think I'll have problems running it with an HD pack?
@Emerica I used to use those photo realistic textures but they just made the game run so much like crap
I run the witcher 2 all out
Misa's is a 64x64 and very nice quality.
@FAE I Like to Up-vote good questions/answers. I just take the opportunity to check one of yours =)
18:01
Or just swap to the 64x64 photo realistic.. but I think that guy did a crappy job (last I looked) of down sampling the textures to that size
I'm really digging LegoPak and BorderCraft too lol
I'm a big fan of the borderlands artwork
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@Emerica ...is that like, cel-shaded Minecraft?
@FAE Its actually a skin pack made by one of the borderlands environment artists
Its nicely done.. My brother plays with it often
@James Mother of God
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18:03
@James Oh neat\
hehe, The artist apologized in the forums for the pack falling behind while trying to push Duke Nukem forever out the door :)
I'm torn between Lego, Border, and LB (which may run like a feces)
first world problems
And it seems that the updates are a bit slow now as well because of BL2's release
I can't wait for BL2
Can you order it on Steam yet?
I am still holding out hope I wont have to get a hard copy
Not sure, I was going to get it on 360 becasuse thats where my friends play
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Q: Portal 2 You Made Your Point Achievement Problem

domdomrysI finished Portal 2 and now I'm doing the achievements. How to come back to the place in which you get the you made your point achievement? I tried with the dev console and it gets me to the right level, but I can't get the achievements. Are they like one time only achievements? Any help is appre...

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Q: What's the minimum amount of stuff you need from the surface to be self-sufficient underground?

Nick TWhat is the smallest amount of things I need to survive (feed myself, build the majority of things) without ever seeing the light of day (or dark of night) in Minecraft? Could I start in a cave with just a pick (to make things easier; yes, I could tunnel through stone given enough time) and surv...

Bioware bioware... those are the assholes responsible for Dragon Age right?
I never got into any Bioware games
Bioware made fallout right?
Wait no
18:06
@Emerica Jesus! Hate on your friends and get it on PC so you can play with us :)
@Emerica Bethesdawhatever
Bestheda or whatever
@OrigamiRobot I think it would be cool to add that to the meta discussion about why umbrella questions are bad.
@James hahaha we'll see they might just skip on it anyway
@Emerica yeah see, cant trust those 360ers for naught!
[hides his 360 behind his ps3]
@James I got BF3 for 360 then built a PC like a month later :(
So I'm stuck on 360 for that one
18:07
hehe
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@Emerica Bioware did Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect, among others
I own Call of Duty 2 on PC and XBox
I actually prefer it on XBox
@FAE so bioware gets a big meh for me, I enjoyed neverwinter
@FAE Yeah... Bioware is the company who makes games that I -want- to enjoy and just never do... except Neverwinter Nights :)
@JAmes well I just odnt want to rank up all over again on PC I'm already 45
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18:08
I loved NWN
@Emerica I do not think your characters from BL one will move on to BL2 since they are all NPCs in BL2
Jesus the transparent Minecraft texture pack basically looks like it will just instantly crash any rig
@Sterno I don't know whether I should add it to my existing answer, make a new answer, or make an umbrella question about umbrella questions...
@James Oh yeah it will be a fresh start
@OrigamiRobot One of the last two
18:10
@Sterno That's what I was thinking
Meh
Still no pre-order information on Steam
I am starting to get nervous :D
@James Yeah, the game has an official release date
They need to get together
Your existing answer is "Make them off-topic", and if it included stuff about why umbrellas are bad, it would be unclear what people are voting on
@Sterno Right
Personally, I'm starting to change my mind on if umbrellas are a good idea too. If we could just get the crap answers deleted, I'd probably be pretty happy.
18:12
... Wow
Am i reading this right? We only get Moxxi's Arena in BL2 if we buy it from Gamestop?
@Sterno THIS
Deleting objectively bad content can only do good things for our site.
@OrigamiRobot Yo dawg.
Are there any Minecraft mods that give it some objectives? Do X in Y time or with Z things?
@NickT If you find one let me know.
I've been saying Minecraft should have something like that core for a year.
you guys, the SE team is at a summit right now and we're working on coming up with names for the site (since game council was teh suck). here is what we have so far. i think you guys are probably in trouble.
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zomp?
@AbbyTMiller make a brainstorming room? Just random ideas, no critique?
18:16
zomp! get it? like... zomp! zomp dot com, you guys
(these are jokes)
@AbbyTMiller I will henceforth always refer to this site as Playzers
zblorf imo
@AbbyTMiller Lazers Much
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@StrixVaria That's catchy ;)
more pew pew, less qq
I'm in favor of an abstract (aka non-descriptive) name
18:19
MorePopLessFizz.com
otherwise people (mostly people who troll meta) will read too much into it and tear it apart
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Q: Need solution to following Puzzle

ArihantGiven a scenario that when the the police issue a summon ticket to vehicle owner on 1st March 2012, if vehicle owner did not pay the summon within 7 working days the system must trigger a 1st reminder notification sms to vehicle owner on 8th day from the date of the summon issued. Vehicle owner ...

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This needs close votes.
"well in this culture, that word can have this meaning, thus limiting our ultimate appeal"
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@NickT Yeah, I kinda agree with you there
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18:20
People are going to semantically pick everything apart
@DerpyHooves And/or spam flags.
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@StrixVaria Both?
@StrixVaria It's not really advertising anything
@murgatroid99 It doesn't have to be advertising something to be spam.
It just has to be nonsense.
@NickT zblorf it is then
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18:21
that is not spam
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@BenBrocka Problem - how do we pronounce that?
@NickT That's your opinion.
@StrixVaria It's not nonsense. And the description of the spam flag is "This question is effectively an advertisement with no disclosure. It is not useful or relevant, but promotional."
@StrixVaria that's a fact.
@DerpyHooves zblorf
18:21
It's spam.
@DerpyHooves it's like xkcd, chosen so it has no pronunciation.
It's nonsense.
user15026
@StrixVaria Well, it isn't really. It's massively OT, but not nonsense, or promo or something the person repeated all over the place
@StrixVaria It's not nonsense. It's a puzzle
It's nonsensical that it exists here, thus it is spam.
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18:22
@NickT But then how do I tell all my friends about it in spoken conversations?
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@StrixVaria That's kinda flawed logic
@StrixVaria That's the entire meaning of off topic
@DerpyHooves zee-bee-ell-oh-ar-eff
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I can see it being off topic
I'm done arguing this point though.
zuh-blorf
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18:22
@NickT Too many syllables. XD
how about just zblf
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@NickT we are too awesome for vowels
@NickT I love these Lovecraftian names. The very act of trying to understand GSE will drive you insane.
@OrigamiRobot so...nothing would change
ProMuch.SE is still the best I've heard.
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18:24
@OrigamiRobot That is oddly appropriate.
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This is awesome :D
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@DerpyHooves The vast number of websites that drop letters (flickr, tumblr, raptr, tons of others) makes me irrationally annoyed
How about "Burning Arcade"
Ia Cthulhu! Ia Gaming!
18:25
@NickT WE'RE NOT ON FIRE AND WE CAN'T PLAY GAMES HERE THIS IS LITERALLY INCORRECT
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@FAE It drives me mad. Vowels are a lovely part of the alphabet!
@NickT This actually sounds pretty cool to me
"Cthulhu's Arcade"
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@StrixVaria Techincally, isn't there that asteroids chat thing?
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@OrigamiRobot Can work. When I think of trying to reach consensus here, I think of eldritch horrors.
18:26
I just wish we had some simple, one word name for our site. Something that defines what the site is about in one word. Like..."Gaming"
too generic
@BenBrocka gaming.com? I expect that's taken
and your "something that defines the site" is a bad idea
Zblorf's Arcade
as has been soundly proven
18:27
Fynn's Arcade.
Ia @StrixVaria The Black GIR of the Woods with a Thousand Close Votes!
"Flaming Zblorfs"
@BenBrocka How many companies have "descriptive names"? Not many. Apple? They must be a produce vendor. Facebook? They must be a photo album publisher, maybe they make class yearbooks. Microsoft? Probably a textile firm.
Metacritic maybe
General Motors, Bank of America
@NickT At least Microsoft makes software for microprocessors
FreeTVs.com
FreeMoneyAndHookers.com
18:33
@AbbyTMiller InsertCoin.com
Insert60USD.com
@NickT people might think we're just asking for money
we should just call it "GraceNote's House Of Snark" and be done with it.
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Q: Does my city really need polluting industries?

oKtosiTeI've noticed that scaring off dirty industry with high taxes does not appear to have any negative impact on my city's growth or economy. Ideally, I would only have high-tech in my city, so that I may safely mix industry with residential to reduce commute times, but when I proceed to raise manufac...

18:50
Are we still trying to find a better name than Game Counsel? :)
@James yep. It looks like the current favorite is "zblorf"
apparently. I think people kind of dumped on that as an idea.
Hehe, I think Ill just call it 'Gaming SE'
And SE stands for Special Edition of course ;)
@James It would be nice to have a name that matches the URL without having to say 3 whole words
You can't even tell someone how to get here without having to say "gaming dot stack exchange dot com"
The length of the name doesnt bug me really.. gaming.stackexchange works for me
18:54
@murgatroid99 s.tk/games
Maybe we should just push StackExchange to buy se.com?
@James that'd be sweet, for a 2 char domain they probably want eleventy billion dollars though
or e.com so we can go gaming.s.e.com :D
@Ullallulloo I did not know about that (well, I probably did in the back of my mind somewhere but I didn't think of it)
@BenBrocka Yeah curse that thing called money
18:56
ooh, jeez, GOG.com has been heavily promoting Botanicula, and selling preorders, and now on release day it's part of a new humble bundle with pay-what-you-want pricing. Ouch.
Why back in my day domain names were free and just a first registered first served sort of manner :)
just get gaming.se, but then people have to learn swedish
@Blem I was about to suggest .se
at the very least it would be neat as a redirect
Ya know, Democracy may not always work, and it may be designed to make half the people annoyed all the time.. But it is 100% amusing to watch :)
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19:18
@agent86 Ooooh Botanicula's out??
@James Until the nutjobs win.
Note to self: Do not combine "nutjob" and "douchebag" in that way again, please.
I initially compared my scores in Orcs Must Die to the others in my friends list and kinda felt depressed
...then suddenly there was nobody else on the later levels' leaderboards from this site
@FAE and a new humble bundle, with it + machanarium + samarost, with proceeds benefiting rainforests.
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@agent86 I already own 2 of those games in the bundle but I'll buy it anyway
@agent86 Makes me wish I had $5.
19:21
with Ullallulloo being the last one to give up
@badp I was way behind on score until I read about how the scoring actually worked. then it became quite easy to shoot ahead of all my friends
suddenly... moderators. moderators everywhere
(before I started)
@Sterno Yeah, I know, I'm not supposed to headshot all the things, but...
it's oddly satisfying.
@agent86 Yo
@agent86 I can start thinning the herds if you'd like.
19:22
Also sometimes I prefer to do the earlier levels by hand while I rack up monies for my beds of improved spikes
@Mana I am so glad Tavris died again.
@RavenDreamer I hear Juan is old and slow, start with him.
those really are 'set it and forget it'
Ah, but I hear @agent86 is burdened by children, and is oft distracted.
@RavenDreamer yo dawg, I herd you like thin herds so I put a herd in your herd so you can thin while you herd
19:24
Gesundheit.
@RavenDreamer Oh my god YOU SPOILED IT FOR ME.
by the way I have no clue about them comment flags
SPOILERS.
trying to read through that stuff makes my head hurt.
@Mana This is yesterdays news. Way to not be up to date.
19:25
@Mana Maaaaaan that is so not cool.
Have you read the Bible yet?
Jesus dies.
@RavenDreamer Damn it, man.
@Mana Don't worry! He comes back in Bible II
@OrigamiRobot Bible II: The Search for Jesus?
the needs of the many... outweigh the needs of the few... or the one... UNLESS ITS JESUS, y'all!
@FAE This reminds me of Bunnicula
19:27
the needs of the many... the needs of the few... screw'm both... Jesus electric boogaloo
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@OrigamiRobot I had a bunch of those books as a kid
This is really cool:
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Q: How to get and play prince of persia (for DOS) in Windows 7?

HasanI would like to play prince of persia (the first one, which were for DOS). Is this any way to do it on Windows 7? And, anyone knows how can I find the game?

> Now astronomers think they know how this happened, and it means that Uranus has been pounded really, really hard not once, but twice.
@FAE Yay aliasing!
I wish there was a unit of measure for lightning-thunder seconds
so that I could ask Google to convert that in meters
19:41
Pretty sure you mean miles
'MERICA.....
Oh god, I feel bad for laughing at this article but it's just so damn stupid.
@badp it's time. So why would it be anything other than seconds?
@RavenDreamer because it actually measures distance
We call that velocity.
the distance between you and the nearby lightning that just cut off power to your house.
In my case that was three seconds.
19:43
@badp Isn't it just the speed of sound?
@RonanForman shouldn't it be the speed of light minus that? I dunno.
brb dinner
Meh, pretty sure you could just multiply the time between light and sound by speed of sound
pretty sure google can do that
@badp nah, lighntning makes the thunder. Speed of light only factors into the original duration of the ionization of the air.
1020m away.
19:58
or 3 x 340m/s
@tiddy Light is so fast it doesn't make any practical difference.
I might have misunderstood your point, where you proofing light negligibility or solving for distance
@tiddy I did both.
@RonanForman Yes, I was trying to understand that comment
Light is so fast it doesn't make any practical difference.
regarding why you said that
@FAE I've seen that at museums where they just have it in a dark room and use a fast strobe
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20:04
@NickT Neat :D
@tiddy Well you need to take the time it takes for the light away from the time it takes for the sound, but as the light is practically instant, you're doing t*340m/s - 0. So you get t*340m/s.
No I know, I was simply confused why you responded the way you did
You are just very thorough and like to draw. I know this now
@RonanForman here, have a star.
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Q: How can I soar like an eagle (in the Icarus Factor skill game)?

BrysonicMy best distance in Icarus Factor to date is just over 100m, but some people on my friends list have made it well past the 300m mark. Does anyone have any tips on going the distance? Is there a specific method for flapping that works best?

(That said, speed of light wouldn't be irrelevant if I had measured the lightning-thunder difference down to the thousandth of seconds... and I wanted the distance measurement down to the single meter. Alas... :) )
Also, I'm not sure how it is possible, but the current indie royale is better than the current HIB
20:21
New TV! AT Last!
@RonanForman Xm as in "X meters"?
So biiiiiig.
Need to get a new cable box now. This coax thing aint cutting it.
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@LessPop_MoreFizz Yay!
20:22
@OrigamiRobot Why?
@RonanForman Who does that?
@OrigamiRobot What?
@RonanForman Writes units outside the variable
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man, why have I really felt like singing the past 2 days
@FAE Not enough RB
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20:24
@OrigamiRobot 'strue. Think I might go sing some after I eat dinner.
@RonanForman And you are inconsistent with your multiplications symbols C+
@OrigamiRobot Where?
I just called the cable company trying to get them to remove my unused and unnecessary phone service. Doing so would make my overall bill go up
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Is the edit the asker made here sufficient? I haven't played Wasteland so I'm not really sure of the scope of what he's asking:
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Q: What lore exists for the Desert Rangers?

fbreretoWhat lore exists from the original Wasteland with respect to the Desert Rangers? Here's what has been mentioned about them as found in the upcoming Wasteland 2 project: And lastly I wanted to include a description of the Desert Rangers background, as many players are not familiar with them: ...

@Sterno Yeah, cable companies are stupid.
Just unplug all your phones and pretend.
20:28
@FAE I'm not an expert on Wasteland, but the edit definitely helped
Re: botanica, this shit with the red ball is why I hate these games
I can drop all premium channels (encore, showtime, hbo, some HD channels I never watch) and my phone service, and it'll only get my bill down from $144 to $129
hate
$11/month for a DVR. more hate
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@Sterno Yowch
@Sterno did you talk to retention?
tell them you're leaving for a competitor, do a bit of research on current deals online, and tell them you can't afford it
20:31
@IanPugsley I talked to whoever handles their "remove services" call.
Unless I go satellite, I have no other high-speed internet options here
@Sterno yeah, you don't want that - tell them you'd like to cancel
@IanPugsley I shall try again tomorrow!
@Sterno most people care about TV more than Internet - tell them you're looking into DirectTV (or whatever satellite provider is around you)
@Sterno Or just drop the whole thing.
make sure your Internet service is what you want, but in general they're not going to counter your arguments, just tell them you can't afford it until the bill gets low enough :)
20:33
@Sterno yeah, tell them about the wonderful deal you're getting elsewhere, and they'll generally go "well, we'll give you $20/mo discount for 6 mos!"
lather/rinse/repeat in 6mos
These sound like excellent plans. Well, maybe not @OrigamiRobot's.
Also helps if you have a sexy phone voice
they'd rather take some of your money than none of it
I had that experience when trying to cancel xbox live (which is a ridiculously obscure process)
The TV comes on the internet nowadays, not so much the other way around
20:34
@Sterno I get by just fine.
And don't underestimate the value of requesting in person and flashing some chest hair
@OrigamiRobot you're a robot, so you can just hack things for your TV and internet
@tiddy needs moar tom selleck
I prefer to be legal about it, or yes, I could save a ton on my cable bill
Media companies HATE legal users
I guess to a robot though, it's not hacking, it's just asking your fellow computers for some entertainment
20:36
@agent86 robots care very little for the morality/legality of mere humans
morality or mortality
@IanPugsley I didn't say anything about morality, just that what we would consider to be "hacking" they probably just view as "conversation"
beep boop porn please boop beep
@agent86 why do you hate capitalism?
capitalism, or US Capitalism
Oooh, my first flag!
and... more
20:38
@NickT I <3 capitalism, except for the parts where you other people get money.
Cause one is based in theory, and one is what happens when you introduce something they call "people"
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Q: TF2 Server connection problems

Portali5tRecently, whenever I have tried to download custom maps in TF2 when joining a server, it stops the connection, prompts me to blacklist that server and says something about "couldn't CRC map." does anyone know what that means?

I just marked them all as invalid as if I can't read them then I don't care
It's disappointing that since hitting 10k, nothing in here gets flagged!
I wanted to see the drama
You could start flagging everything and see how many 10k/blues you can get to show up
20:40
Okay, Act 3 really isn't easy
I probably want to five-skull Act 2 before I try Act 3.
Or search for borderline naughty-words and flag those month old messages
@Sterno We can let Gnome run amok again?
@Sterno it's relatively underwhelming. like if Transformers was really a movie about two kids smashing toy robots together and then getting mad about whose would have won.
@agent86 I would watch that.
you think things are going to explode, but mostly it's just slap fighting, immature bickering, and eye-roll worthy commentary.
@OrigamiRobot do I have a deal for you! I'll even pay you to watch it so i can go get some food and watch a movie instead.
20:50
@agent86 I'll babysit your kids all day.
They'll only burn themselves a couple times before they figure it out.
@OrigamiRobot done. if you have to let one die, make sure the blood doesn't end up on the carpet.
what is this I don't even
Whoever decided it was weird for dudes to babysit? I'll watch kids shows and pretend to be a dinosaur all day.
As long as the kid can use the bathroom on his/her own.
@RonanForman Did you had time to create that draw?
@agent86 Why is it TNG, but with Kirk and Spock?
20:57
@Sterno this was confusing me as well. that's a pretty classic doctor incarnation, as well. I'm pretty sure there was another cover I saw with the current doctor on the bridge of the enterprise-D
@FAE I don't want to click this link, but I already have.
Wow
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@agent86 You're welcome!
They somehow managed to make Patrick Stewart look lame
20:59
@Sterno he looks pretty patrick stewart-y to me. it might just be that close proximity to the tardis makes practically everything else look lame
Today, I made a plea with the Spiderweb Software forum users to check out Gaming.SE and post some Q&A about Avernum
I have not been overwhelmed by the response.
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I'm not sure what.
21:00
@agent86 Yeah, the problem is who he's next to. And what haircut that guy has
@RonanForman Magus from Chrono Trigger in his "80's rad" phase riding the boat from Wind Waker?
@Agent Kamina from Gurren Lagann
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@RonanForman I need to watch that still
@RonanForman gesundheit
@Michel Like it?
21:08
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Q: Are there any strategies for getting better weapons/items in Realm of the Mad God?

JeffI am constantly dying in this game, and I would like to be able to equip myself better/more swiftly. I haven't found any rhyme or reason to the way enemies drop weapons yet. Are there any specific ways I can go about finding better items/weapons?

@RonanForman Yeap!!! =) Thanks for your hard work =)
@LessPop_MoreFizz You ever play Lost in Blue?
@OrigamiRobot Neg.
Wii is mainly just a Netflix and Xenosaga box.
Well then that's all I have to say on that...
21:25
@LessPop_MoreFizz it didn't look too bad
I think "comment" there really means adding a line that says "@poster: you didn't think about this and that."
@badp It's not. It's a useful contribution. But it's a useful contribution that should be a comment.
21:39
@LessPopMoreFizz you still playing' swtor?
@RavenDreamer I wasn't, but they just gave me a free month, so I might log in at some point.
Oh. I was going to ask how the new legacy race thing worked.
Of course, I'm not elligible for a free month, apparently, so :(
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21:57
@LessPop_MoreFizz I hear the 1.2 patch is supposed to be rolling out some decent stuff

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