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9:00 PM
@FAE That may be why I don't often play MOBA games. Winning is not the be all end all of life.
 
@FAE Yeah, MOBA communities are the absolute worst.
This is why I stay away.
I might get sucked into LOL soon though after resisting for ages. A friend just got a job working for Riot. :/
 
FAE
@LessPop_MoreFizz <_< Can I give you my referral link? :D
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz it's fun enough to try out the free champions, and we play it now and again for Game On
it's possible to play without becoming one of them
 
@IanPugsley It's not about becoming one of them, it's about interacting with them.
@FAE And I'll ping you if/when I ever decide to play. Not gonna happen just yet.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz And this is why I don't ever play Call of Duty or Halo.
Maturity is apparently in the "nice to have" category.
 
9:03 PM
@GnomeSlice I seem to remember them emailing me download instructions.
Someone on D3 just friended me "because they saw my username on that list on reddit". Did the Gaming.SE list make it to reddit?
 
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@fbueckert I won't play those games, especially on console. You pretty much need voice for those games and I absolutely refuse to voicechat with PUGs.
Those playerbases do not tend to be female-friendly.
 
@FAE Remember that whole kerfuffle about the fighting game scene being sexist? That was an amusing read, in the sense of "This is such a trainwreck. But I can't stop watching."
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz we usually just play coop vs. AI, all GSE bros and ladybros
 
FAE
@fbueckert Ugh, yeah, I read that.
 
@Sterno ... I hope not.
 
9:06 PM
@FAE I see how it is!
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Definitely not someone I recognize. His name is LEBENSFORM. All caps
which means he's cool
 
FAE
@IanPugsley Yep, cuz I totally refuse to talk to and spugs all the time man
 
@FAE that just means you're a hypocrite :P
 
Didn't get a job I wanted today, drinking heavily and playing Minecraft to compensate
 
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Q: How does Blood Star work?

Ian PugsleyThe Succubi in Acts III and IV have energy orbs they toss your way that give you the debuff "Blood Star." Blood Star states: A curse that reduces Monk and Barbarian Armor by 50%, and causes Wizard, Witch Doctor, and Demon Hunter skills to do casting cost as damage back to the caster. As ...

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Q: How to defeat Rakanoth as a Demon Hunter?

OakI play a Demon Hunter with high DPS but average defense. I usually rely on Caltrops, Vault and the Templar to evade enemies, but I can usually take a few strikes if need be. However, Rakanoth, the melee boss towards the beginning of act 4 (in the Library of Fate, just off the Gardens of Hope 1st...

 
FAE
9:13 PM
@fredley Sorry to hear that :(
 
@FAE Sucks pretty hard. Oh well
 
@fredley not sure if I should feel sorry for you or envy you...
 
The feedback they gave was honest, and they invited me to reapply once my coding was more fluent
@Blem Self Pity Whiskey is not something to envy
 
I share a wall with the kitchen of the dorm i live at and i can hear people drinking and having fun and i should be going to bed because i got work in the morning :/
 
@Blem Screw work
 
9:16 PM
@fredley seconded
 
as much as I currently do not enjoy my work they do pay me excessive amounts of cash so have to go work
 
@IanPugsley Work is fairly mindless at the moment anyway, I'm on fixing up our website, lots of mindless html/css/js fixing
 
I did my first coding today after nearly a month at my new job
 
@Blem Language?
 
Java
 
9:21 PM
@Blem My sympathies :(
 
I don't mind java, it is the J2EE I am not a big fan of (mostly because there is a large part of it I have not had the time to understand), but today was just java programming and some jsp debugging
@James the people you should really have sympathy for are the people who have to work with VB
 
@Blem I have no sympathy for people who work in a language even the creator of it will no longer support :)
 
@Blem Java's ok
 
Java on the other hand.. id say blind leading the blind but its more like deliberately evil leading the sheep.
 
@James "There are 2 types of language, those that people bitch about, and those that people never use"
 
9:25 PM
late to the current CLOSE THIS CLASS OF QUESTIONS party, so review and upvote if you deem worthy:
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A: Are "Contact Support" comments/answers appropriate?

agent86I think "Contact Support" is a fine answer when appropriate - if it's a known problem that can only be solved by contacting support, then hey, that's the answer. Sometimes people ask questions with simple answers, and that's okay. Closing questions because the answer is "seek support via the ...

 
@James you don't get to choose the language that other people write there code in
 
@Blem Yeah but I do get to choose whom I give sympathy to or not :)
@fredley That is probably one of the worst quotes I have ever read :)
 
@James Stroustrup
Who I had dinner with the other night incidentally. Amusing man.
 
@James so because someone is forced to interact with a language they do not like you will not sympathies with them?
 
@Blem Correct
@fredley Just happened to be in the neighborhood ?? :)
 
9:28 PM
@James He's doing a guest fellowship in Cambridge at the moment
 
@fredley Nice :)
 
He turned up to my college's compsci annual dinner
 
@agent86 Agreed
 
@agent86 feel free to give this a read and give me your opinion.
 
Stupid mouse!! Stop Double Clicking!!!
@Wipqozn Curse you 10kers :P
 
9:30 PM
Apparently the pre-scripted dialog doesn't handle back-tracking very well.
 
@TimStone Dude, You can get two Tyreals to show up in Act 4
 
On the plus side, I get to pretend the Templar has gone insane and is now talking to himself in Tyreal's voice.
 
And they both leave you high and dry at the same time
 
Hah :D
 
 
9:39 PM
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Q: What is Fuel used for in Ninja Fishing

JimIn Ninja Fishing for iOS, I seem to have figured a bunch of it out, drop a line, and as is reeled in you want to hook fish and then cut them up for gold. There is fuel in the game which is the only thing I can't figure out. What is it and why do you need it?

 
9:54 PM
@Wipqozn Toldya so!
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I didn't realize it split off either.
I just thought frost arrow added more damage + snare.
 
@Wipqozn No! It Splits and Pierces!
Which is what makes it so amazing
In a narrow corridor, it's basically Multishot but better
Elemental Arrow is so amazingly good
 
Lol, just earned a silver badge for this:
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Q: As a Wizard, what weapons and item attributes are worth picking up?

fredleyPlaying as a wizard, should I worry about the type of weapon that I am using? (E.g., 1-handed vs 2-handed, wand vs dagger/axe) What item attributes (on armor, jewelry, and weapons) would benefit Wizards the most? (E.g., Intellect, vitality, life-leech, reduced ranged damage, life per hit, chance...

 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Bat Companion + Frost Elemental Arrow == Ooooness?
 
Awesome Molten Arcane Enchanted Vortex.
 
10:07 PM
@James Pretty much.
Until you get your hands on Screaming Skull or Nether Tentacles anyway. :P
 
@James Double clicking mouse? Are you Etho? o.O
 
@RonanForman Haha, No.. I just have a mouse that is annoying me :)
would love to replace it with a touch pad
but, there are no good touch pads.
 
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Q: Can I get a bigger basket?

Joe WreschnigIn Atelier Totori I missed getting the bigger basket until I was about 90% of the way through the game, even though you can trigger the event for it fairly early. It was... sad. I have just started Atelier Meruru and this time I want to get any such event as early as possible. Can I get a bigger...

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Q: Do master-level players use build orders frequently?

ClarityForceIs it a very common practice to execute a specific build order in a master league? I wonder if it's really a standard way of playing, or players just improvise efficiently without using any builds at all.

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Q: How do I bring a Mii to help my Mii that is trapped in the cage?

user26656I just started playing Find Mii on the 3DS and I can't get very far at all. When I hire a wanderer most of the time it just runs away from the thing it encounters and then I have to use coins to get another one. At this rate I will never get far in this game. How do you get a Mii to play the game...

 
@RonanForman He is the only person who made a mob spawner I created as well though, was fun and not obtrusive :)
 
10:21 PM
@fredley and Python.
 
@Wipqozn Python is nice. Hope you're not using it on large projects though
 
@fredley Why is this?
 
@Wipqozn It gets nasty
lack of types is a bad thing
it's not rigid enough
 
I'm currently working for the company that owns Yellowee, which is built on Django, and I'm finding it to be rather excellent.
 
10:32 PM
@agent86 Hmm some of the big name f2p didnt make the cut it seems.. wonder how many $20's they sent that way to be avoided :D
 
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Q: How can I create a score overlay for replays?

ayckosterHusky and Day[9] use similar score overlays (see image) in their shows. How does this work? Can I use any image I want for this? How are the names inserted and how do the scores get updated (e.g. 1:1)?

 
FAE
@agent86 Hey, I recognize that screenshot, that's Free Realms
 
man, adding this eSATA drive is really helping. I'm so freaking smart
 
faster than the computer's internal drive, I take it?
@FAE /wave
@agent86 ...great. Now I've been sucked into reading the Star Trek Tribble Breeding guide.
 
FAE
@RavenDreamer hola
 
10:48 PM
It takes me a sec to read foreign words, so whenever someone types "Hola!" I think they've typed "Holla!" for a moment.
 
FAE
@RavenDreamer I will probably never ever use the word "Holla!" if that helps you parse at all :P
 
Ah, but you're not the only one who uses "Hola!", so that doesn't solve the underlying issue ;)
 
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Q: The Great Gaming Stack Exchange Clean-Up of 2012

Wipqozn Let's Get This Party Started Considering the positive response to Oak's meta, I think it's about time we begun a clean-up similar to the one happening at Stack Overflow. If a tag is clearly burnable, please add it. For those tags in the gray area, please post an answer asking for it to be add...

 
@Wipqozn do you just not like numbers 1, 2, 4, or 5?
 
FAE
@Wipqozn Still don't know how I feel about nuking #6 stuff until search is improved
 
10:55 PM
@RavenDreamer I took them from Oak's meta.
@FAE We can always just remove it, and then get to it after we've cleaned up the other tags.
 
If you say so. But the Four Cartel has its eye on you.
 
There. I removed no.6.
Oak mentioned something too, so we can just get to it after we've cleaned up the rest of the tags. Give it it's own meta discussion to see what people think.
Only thing I'm not certain about is if I should throw something in there about not clogging up the front page, or if we should just not worry about it.
 
FAE
@Wipqozn Reminding people not to flood the frontpage is pretty much always a good thing
 
It's a shame we didn't do this a couple weeks ago, since it would have be drowned out by diablo3
hm, what's a good number to shoot for?
as in,if you see ~x questions bumped up due to this, hold off
 
FAE
My own personal rule is I only do batch edits in 5's until they're pushed off the frontpage, but YMMV.
 
11:02 PM
Blam. 4 done.
All without touching the front page
Because crazy moderator powers or somesuch.
 
@RavenDreamer how did you manage that?
I thought mods couldn't do silent edits, or mass delete tags.
 
I didn't
They were all World of Warcraft tags... so I merged them.
 
oh, ha
clever girl shark
 
you totally made the edit I was about to make in what could only be described as an egregious abuse of mod powers
That's from Jurassic park?
 
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Q: How do you talk in general chat?

CardellWhat is the slash command to speak in General chat on Diablo 3?

 
11:08 PM
@RavenDreamer Yes.
Although I often get mixed up and think it's from Alice in wonderland.
Feel free to use your magically merge powers on @RavenDreamer.There's currently only 13 questions left, and they are all on skyrim. I just burned the other ones.
How does the merge work @RavenDreamer? Does it just delete the tag, and re-tag all the questions that had it with the merged tag?
 
@Wipqozn Far as I know
 
In that case, for tags where the majority of them are all on one game we could have the non-mod users go around burning the tags on the questions not about that game, and then mods would just handle merging those tags. Would be quicker + less clogging up the front page.
 
Done
@Wipqozn Sounds like a plan
 
@Wipqozn Does that sound fine to you as well @Oak, @agent86, @mana, @badp, and @juan?
Although I only think half of them will get that ping.
 
Nope. We're mods. We always get pings, you needy ingrates.
 
11:18 PM
Ah, excellent.
 
11:34 PM
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Q: How does the Playstation 2's EyeToy compare to the 360's Kinect

ryansworld10Just as the title says, how does they way the Playstation 2's EyeToy calculates where things are compare to how the 360's Kinect does it?

 
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11:53 PM
@agent86 Aww, no mention of Smurfberries or SnoopyBucks... :(
 
@Wipqozn it may seem as though I'm avoiding commenting on this subject. don't be fooled - this is 100% accurate. I burned out on tags a while back, so it's going to be a while before I am a useful source of tagging opinions :)
 

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