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Line Rider is at once a model of every man, and also an individual for whom we should hold great regard. His is a fate drawn on a blank slate, sure in path but difficult in execution. His path is frought with difficult and sometimes impossible obstacles which all end, ultimately, in certain death.

Yet, alone, he faces these tasks head on without complaint or objection. He merely blinks at such fatally dire consequences as pixel-crushing jump, staggering boredom (should he stall on course) and infinite chasm. Only by the tack of his scarf do we know his trajectory in the chalk white matrix.
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@GnomeSlice But I was watching this 2 hour and 20 minute documentary about Star Wars thats on YouTube! Much more important than answering that guys question.
Oh god he did Empire too, there goes my evening.
Y'know, The Daily may go down in history as a complete failure. It may be a horrible mistake. Or they may just have no clue what an 'iPad Newspaper' should be. Or it may end up becoming just another Murdoch Mouthpiece like the NY Post, and the WSJ, and Fox News, and all that other media that I disregard so easily. But it has given me this photo of John Hinckley Jr., out on a date. And for that, it has redeemed itself. For today.
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Q: In Mafia Wars, is there any benefit to having more than 501 members of your mafia?

JohnFxIt doesn't appear that you can use more than 501 people in a fight, is there any benefit to continuing to collect new mafia members after you reach that number?

01:57
in Rename TheRenamedException on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 2 mins ago, by Yi Jiang
@TheRenamedException 16 stars, not too hard, I'll pop in to some other rooms and ask them to star some of these ;)
Go forth, do your civic duty, and give Josh a new name by starring the best suggestions!
02:32
@YiJiang I have DONE MY PART.
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0
Q: How can I transition out of a 7-pool?

Ian CordleI tend to try 7-pools on 2 player maps, but I always lose, because I cannot transition during and out of the rush if it is unsucessful. (Terran already walled off, etc.) How can I do this?

 
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Q: Does shooting a creatures head do more damage that shooting it's limbs?

Mark RogersIn Dead Space your encouraged to blow off creatures limbs instead of just aiming for the body. Usually taking off 2 or 3 limbs will kill most creatures, but most games reward head shots more than limb shots. I'm not sure if that is the case with Dead Space, because of the importance of dismembe...

 
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07:08
Wow, I am the only user with Sportsmanship
@tzenes You must have at least one hundred answers, so it's not that easy to get one
no, there can be more than one alternate answer to your answer
but I guess that does make sense
People used to accuse me of competitively downvoting other people's answers
07:23
Today I Learned: Operating the Jabba the Hutt suit/puppet in Return of the Jedi was a team of 5 people inside. One of whose job was primarily to smoke cigars, and exhale into a pipe.
(he also operated the Bellows driving Jabbas respiratory motions with a foot pedal. And smoked.)
 
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Q: What on-line exploites are aviable and how to do them?

IAdapterPlease don't say "don't use exploits", they are done to me all the time in PLAYER matches!! I quit RANKED long time ago. Maybe only the best exploiters play RANKED, so normal people can't win there-I don't understand why they can't just disconnect Its sad that I need to fight with it in PLAYER ...

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Q: How to do/escape shoulder strikes to the body with your back against the cage?

IAdapterHow to do/escape shoulder strikes to the body with your back against the cage?

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Q: How do you run?

IAdapterFor some reason I can't do it.

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Q: How to prevent double clinch?

IAdapterGSP did that to me, I was BJ. I was holding back all the time, he clinched me once and I have blocked it, but the second time he got the clinch(I did not release the holding back button). he did it 3 times in our fight, so its not an accident, but technique/exploit.

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Q: The nickname in comments its not updated

IAdapterWhy are there only 12 Wii Demos? my previous nickname was 0101, I do know its not just text, because I get alert if some writes @myNickName P.S. I like to change nicknames once in a while and its not a BIG bug, just saying.

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Q: better support for favorite tags

IAdapterFor example I love the game ufc-undisputed-2010 and I would like to know if any new questions are asked about it(I bet I can answer most of them). Nowadays I need to manually check the tag once in a while(and it only has a few questions). I'm not going to check that tag since its not popular her...

@Feeds replied!
09:02
@badp I totally misread that first question
@Fabian I didn't give him the reply he wanted obviously
though usually people spam on ingame chats for their hacks, so if he doesn't know of any there probably isn't any to begin with! ...either that, or they're painfully obvious.
I meant the meta question, but I like your answer to that cheating question ;-)
@Fabian btw I do have that book, it's scary
(I stopped reading halfway, because after all it is Windows only)
 
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I deleted my answer because it's Windows only
oh well
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You know that stupid fast run of Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance?
It's now half a second shorter.
11:02
> "Dracula has risen again? sigh ...Dammit. Hold my beer, I'll be right back."
 
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Now we know what a Nethack TAS would look like
(this is a roguelike after all)
Hi! :)
hey
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Q: Minecraft: Automated Wool farming

Gabriel SchreiberI would like to set up some way of autmatically farming wool from sheep in Minecraft. I have a farm, but unfortunately, sheep do not shed wool when they die. So all I get is leather, feathers and eggs. There was a suggestion involving pressure plates, dispensers and snowballs, but there is no mor...

@ArdaXi I wish his luck manipulation involved less idle turns :)
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Q: Can I rename my offline profile in Battlefield 2?

tjrobinsonI'd like to rename my offline profile in Battlefield 2. The offline profile is the one I use for playing over a LAN. I see there are two options: Modify a file/registry setting somewhere to rename my offline profile Manually create a new profile, trying to remember the settings from the curren...

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Q: Where is the fusebox?

MechkoIn COD: Black Ops Zombies, where is the fusebox and how do you get there in Kind der Toten?

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Q: DC Universe Online (PS3) Accept License terms

TZHXEvery time I start up DC Universe Online, it requires me to scroll through and accept the license terms - even when they haven't changed since I last played the game. Is there any way to avoid this?

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Q: Can't post bounty on non-SO meta sites

marcogI found this post, which shows when this meta gained the ability to post bounties. However, this doesn't work on other meta sites. I realise there's a problem in that rep is copied from the main site, but is there no other way we can allow for bounties to be posted? Especially for a site in early...

@Feeds Erm, what's the point?
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Q: When I try to ask a new question, the form is filled out with details of a question I asked earlier

StrixVariaI clicked on the Ask Question Mothership on the parent site, and the form was already filled out with information for a question I have already asked. I asked that question days ago. I'm not sure whether this is Chrome trying to be helpful and remembering the data I filled out or something rela...

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Alright, so we'll try with 2 THCs and see how it goes I suppose!
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Q: 2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat: 8pm UTC on the 7th and 2am UTC on the 8th

Rebecca ChernoffIn connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary. I am working with the can...

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@ArdaXi using bounties as flags
Oak
Oak
As active as this chat already is, @RebeccaChernoff, I think it will be okay
@RebeccaChernoff I can always stay up till three tomorrow night.
Oak
Oak
Hmm, your username used to be shorter :)
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Q: How do I take some RAM and use it towards Dedicated video memory for my Nvidia graphics card?

Noah RaineyI have a Nividia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 graphics card... so it's quite old... it only get's by default 64MB of dedicated memory. I go into the bios and see if I can up it and it won't let me... however, from the Nividia control panel I see I have up to 1071MB of total available graphics memor...

17:34
in The Tavern (General) on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 31 mins ago, by Rebecca Chernoff
Doing 2 town halls for Gaming. Oy.
@badp Not enough links!
@ArdaXi Can't link there.
room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, which is arming its lazers as we approach orange alert condition. Nominate now or "never." Embarass the candidates Monday 2100 CEST or Tuesday 2100 EST
However, I like my topics baked to perfection.
CEST?
room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, which is arming its lazers as we approach orange alert condition. Nominate now or "never." Embarass the candidates Monday 2200 CEST or Tuesday 2100 EST
Fixed
As everyone knows, 2200 CEST == 2000 UTC == 2100 CET
sigh.
FYI, it's winter.
18:21
room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, which is arming its lazers as we approach orange alert condition. Nominate now or "never." Embarass the candidates Monday 2100 CET or Tuesday 2100 EST
@ArdaXi So? Even if nobody uses that timezone in practice, it's still there.
CEST is UTC+2
@badp Yes, but it is useless to pick CEST as the reference point in winter.
@ArdaXi It's only winter in this half of the world!
The other half does not use CEST
It's winter there. (CET)
They probably use it, they just don't want to admit it and call it other names.
18:24
Notably because the other half is not in Central Europe.
I don't think they even use DST. Well, Namibia does.
So? EET is CEST for the shy.
That has nothing to do with the half of the world where it is currently summer.
@ArdaXi really, the issue is with how awesome CET really is
@badp True. Any good moderator is either in CET, or @GraceNote.
Grace Note thinks of EST as CET -7 anyway
18:27
Apologies in front to @Oak, I do want to note I think you are in CET until proven otherwise.
Isn't he?
That's why I say, I do believe he is.
Well, even if he lived in the UK he'd still use CET six months a year.
That's just how awesome CET is.
The British can't stand that and call it with a different name out of pride, obviously
silly "BST" thingadongdong
2010-02-06T18:28:45Z
2010-02-06T19:28:45  C
@Nyuszika7H Still not there
18:31
@badp Huh?
Oak
Oak
Why not just use UTC?
@badp Use jQuery.timeago()
This chat room was created <time class='timeago' timedate='1970-01-01T00:00:00Z'>January 1, 1970 0:00 UTC</time>.
18:47
@Oak UTC is artefact. CET is natural.
@badp yea
Interesting how the acronym UTC was actually decided.
Oak
Oak
UTC should be the only time zone anyone ever uses :)

Where Americans silently accept the manifest superiority of GMT+1.

Dec 17 '10 at 12:53, 8 minutes total – 21 messages, 3 users, 1 star

Bookmarked Dec 17 '10 at 13:02 by badp

Community consensus disagrees!!
It is also very interesting to see how obsessed some people are with the time.
18:51
@ArdaXi Man, time.is claims my clock is 2.4 seconds early. 2.4 seconds early! I almost wanted to cry.
@badp I see no Americans accepting this conclusion.
They have multiple clocks all over the world synchronised using satellites to average out the picoseconds of difference.
Falsified excerpt is falsified.
@LessPop_MoreFizz They also do not deny it
(as you can see if you click "view context")
unable to come back they silently accepted the self-evident truth
@ArdaXi And let me tell ya, they're all 2.4 seconds late!
I'm not really a fan of self-evident truths.
18:54
EST is clearly the superior Time Zone.
Lies! Slander! Libel!
One of the above!
@LessPop_MoreFizz How can "UTC +6" be superior?
I could see "UTC +0"
but even then nobody really uses it because CET is that awesome!
Indeed, CET is so awesome we have to take turns using it.
Oak
Oak
Wow, WinEdt is one of the worst programs I have seen recently. I can't believe this is the industry standard.
@Oak Doesn't Kyle work on Windows?
Oak
Oak
Lots of other alternatives
But my instructor works with WinEdt
19:02
I see.
Oak
Oak
Turns out there's also an eclipse plugin
@Oak Yeah, Eclipse has plugins for pretty much everything; many are not as good as Java's though :(
(...probably because Java needs those plugins so badly.)
Oak
Oak
It's also much easier to deal with Java than, say, C++
Everything is... structured
Anyway this plugin isn't half-bad
It's the only TeX editor I've seen to date that automatically builds (and sends to preview) files, without my intervention
19:23
@Oak As you type?
QWOP on iPhone Free For the Next 48 Hours http://bit.ly/edyO6O
Oh boy oh boy oh boy.
Would anyone actually ever pay to play QWOP?
@GnomeSlice Oh girl oh girl oh girl.
OH NO.
It requires the 3.1.3 software update. :(
That should be the favicon of Gaming.SE!
19:29
We've had this discussion before.
@Nyuszika7H Too complicated.
Think 16x16
How do I update my iPod software, anyway?
@Nyuszika7H Eww... who spilt the gloss all over the 16-bit goodness?
@GnomeSlice Huh, what's so complicated?
Here we go…
That's not even recognizeable
@StrixVaria I think it is
19:37
Honestly I do think the favicon should match the icon better than it does right now.
Just not...that.
Yeah, maybe that isn't the best choice…
It's better than I could do lol
But that's why I'm not an artist
xkcd.com is grossly overpowered in Favimon.
It has its own category.
Favimon?
@StrixVaria Favimon
19:44
@GnomeSlice I truly hope you haven't made questions on the main site about that like you did with Progress Wars.
Not I.
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Q: What site characteristics generate stronger favimon?

sjohnstonIn Favimon, what characteristics of a website correlate to favimon stats? E.g. Higher traffic affecting health or number of pages on the domain affecting attack. Some sites (like Google) that I expected to be heavy hitters are surprisingly weak, so I'm looking for a more scientific method of fi...

@GnomeSlice iTunes.
@badp Foiled again.
@GnomeSlice Seeing his avatar reminded me I kind of expected him to run for mod.
@StrixVaria He still can enter
19:49
@Strix Try xkcd.com in Favimon.
@badp I know; I expect some last-minute entries still.
@GnomeSlice Pass.
@StrixVaria Favimon isn't as silly as Progress Wars.
It's an actual game.
@StrixVaria @Mana
Amazing that "It's an actual game." is one of its advantages
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@StrixVaria It's like Lay's potato chips.
You can't eat just one.
Although I'm not 100% sure how that correlates with Favimon...
@StrixVaria Surely, it helps.
20:00
@badp I think the times are wrong in the room description. The second town hall is 2100EST on Monday, not Tuesday.
@StrixVaria uh... color me confused, but I'll trust you on it
room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, which is arming its lazers as we approach orange alert condition. Nominate now or "never." Embarass the candidates Monday 2100 CET or 2100 EST
Because of that pesky "The day changes over at midnight", it'll be Tuesday in Europe but still Monday in this hemisphere
CET?
Super Feed Me has been coming soon for like a year now.
I wonder if it will ever been released...
@tzenes Yes.
Central European Time
20:08
isn't that like GMT+1?
@tzenes yes
badp's a fanboy of his own time zone
and isn't EST GMT-6?
so how could they both be 2100?
@tzenes it's kinda backwards but yes
@tzenes There are 2 of them.
20:08
@tzenes There are two different town hall chats, that's how
ah
that was not clear
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Q: 2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat: 8pm UTC on the 7th and 2am UTC on the 8th

Rebecca ChernoffIn connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary. I am working with the can...

I see, but when you say 2100 CET or 2100 EST, it sounds like you're listing the same event in two time zones
not two events in two time zones
We get 2 town halls, we're just special
Suggestions welcome
20:10
perhaps if you used the phrase "either at"?
it makes the topic longer, so I'm okay with it.
combo fail ×8
nice
It's really a shame, because this looks like one of the potentially greatest games for the iDevice.
20:11
room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, which is arming its lazers as we approach orange alert condition. Nominate now or "never." Embarass the candidates Monday, either at 2100 CET or at 2100 EST.
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Q: How to connect heart monitor to Kinect?

IAdapterI tried to do it like they do on video, however the light on the heart rate monitor is always blinking and it is not recognized. Any ideas?

resists temptation to replace "on video" with "as seen on tv". Barely.
@GnomeSlice that looked cumbersome
@badp Not compared to the original it doesn't.
@GnomeSlice Does the plant move even more awkwardly in the original?
@badp There aren't really any physics in the original.
20:16
It looks like the perfect answer to the question "Why wouldn't a sack of potatoes move even if it could?"
On a side note, Nitrome looks like it has 2 new games out since the last time I visited. One of which was selected by Indiegames.com as a browser game pick.
@GnomeSlice That looks like it has a lot of potential to be TASed
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Q: How to make kinect save profile in EA Active?

IAdapterI always have to re-create the profile and it even says I need to go wo profile manager and then i can change lead and ... i gain nothing. how to make it remember me?

@StrixVaria Unfortunately, it's been close to a year since the trailer was released.
One of the YouTube comments is pretty discouraging as well.
> They stopped developement due to it not being able to work right with the IPhone or ITouch
I can't imagine an input method that would work well for that.
20:19
The trailer seemed pretty complete.
Man, I love Nitrome.
Their games always feature such interesting mechanics.
This is the newest addition.
@GnomeSlice Not surprising :)
@badp Really? I shouldn't think it would be that difficult.
You could do it with mouse input easily enough.
Not that I'm the expert.
@GnomeSlice Yeah, but fingers lack precision and hinder visibility
@badp But it doesn't seem like you need to be super-precise.
And they could make the small grab-points have a slightly larger clickbox.
uh, those "grab points" are merely suggestions
(at least for the first level)
20:27
I'm talking about the places where it shows the plant climbing upward using a number of small circular grabby things.
@GnomeSlice yeah, those are optional, so their size changes perfectly nothing :)
@badp Wouldn't it make it slightly easier to it a larger target?
@GnomeSlice it would if it was a target in the first place :)
@badp Well, they could make it so that pressing near one of them automatically links to the object.
What about on the Nintendo DS?
I've always wondered why they haven't done anything on that platform yet. Most of their games would port incredibly to the DS.
@GnomeSlice The stylus might make it easier there indeed
20:35
I still think it wouldn't be as bad as you think on iDevice.
@GnomeSlice Well the project was killed for some reason
20:46
@badp It's really hard to say. Nitrome doesn't seem to have very good interaction skills with their fans.
Oak
Oak
@ArdaXi as you save
@Oak Huh?
Oak
Oak
@ArdaXi didn't you ask about the eclipse tex plugin?
Oh, right. (Might help to click the reply button if you're going to do context-less replies)
Oak
Oak
Nah, the reply button is for sissies
20:55
@Oak makes note
@Oak so how's your civ5 diagram improvement attempt going?
Oak
Oak
@badp decided to go with an arrowless design instead :)
@Oak hm. And?
Oak
Oak
Also decided to add what the actual promotions do
So it takes time :)
wow, are you trying to fix information overload by showing more? :)
Oak
Oak
20:57
(and I have whiney students complaining about their grades, takes some attention)
If it works it'll be epic.
@Oak Just give them A++, makes all the whining go away
Oak
Oak
Be nice to students? That's against the university's policy :)
I also duplicate them, as you can see
Since "siege" is tier 1 for ranged but tier 2 for melee
Does anyone else have a problem with the Chat box on the gaming page?
> The Bridge - 49 mins ago - badp
Clearly, @badp isn't the last one to post.
Oak
Oak
It occasionally acts funny for me as well
It's been like that for about a month for me.
Oak
Oak
21:02
It's also 49 min ago by badp for me
Funny, having it open in another tab, it just updated to '19 sec ago by Oak'
I refreshed, and it's back to '50 min ago by badp'.
cached stuff I guess
@GnomeSlice It probably just assumes that at any given time, there's a large probability @badp was the last person to speak.
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Is anyone here familiar with the term SEO ?
Wait a minute, I'm gonna go ahead and guess Search Engine Optimization .
21:18
@GnomeSlice Yep
Also site enhancement oil. Hmm, that'd be an awesome name for an SEO product.
Ok. So my web publishing professor has noted that we need to do something with that on our websites.
I find it sort of counter-productive that I learned HTML and CSS last semester only to build a site using weebly this semester.
Not that I'm complaining.
@GnomeSlice That mostly involves making sure it reads well as plain text (sans-design) and having proper meta tags. (Really only description and title)
For simplicity, I usually assume SEO means GO.
Seeing as optimizing for Google is optimizing for Bing too (and by extension Yahoo)
@GnomeSlice One of the eternal ironies of SEO is that googling for it will provide you with some of the worst results imaginable.
Though Wikipedia is at the top these days, which is nice I guess.
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Q: Are there any coding-training games for android?

syntheticbrain I'm looking to increase my coding/development ability. Due to a rubbish commute I have lots of minutes here and there - sometimes without signal - currently wasted rather than spent. Is there a training game that will teach me a language (any will do - or even just basic concepts) through litt...

@Feeds I was just about to close as game-rec ;-)
Argh, I hate nested questions
@ArdaXi Ew, yahoo.
@GnomeSlice Yahoo = Bing.
@ArdaXi Ew, yahoo.
21:56
@GnomeSlice You mean "Ew, Bing."
@ArdaXi What's the difference?
@badp There isn't any, that's the point.
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