The Bridge

fredley

4:02 PM

This user requires prompt burnination: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/26786/hiigue

James

@Fluttershy @EBongo @BenBrocka I got a second Emerald Dragon last night!! :D

Ben Brocka

@James still hate you

Didn't get a single one after half a month of breeding the same 4 stupid dragons. I really really don't like how the gemstone dragons are turning out

There's not much fun about breeding the same pair every day for a full month

James

@BenBrocka ಥ_ಥ

@BenBrocka I expect Pearl dragons to be available now.

They interestingly enough let you collect 12 gemstone dragons, so what are the chances they have one for each month? :)

Ben Brocka

@James probably not, no app update yet

James

Pearl have been mentioned in loading screens and such for aw hile

My bet is they are just month limited.

Ben Brocka

4:06 PM

Yeah, depends on whether the dragon's in the code yet though

no mention of them on the wiki yet

I also have to wait a full year for the Diamond dragon, my birth month, so that's extra lame

James

@BenBrocka Yeah I have to wait for Jan

Ben Brocka

84

Politics

Proposed Q&A site for objective discussion and questions about governments, policies and political processes.

Currently in commitment.

(this is sure to end well by the way)

James

@BenBrocka Oh god, Kill It With Fire!!!

Ben Brocka

@James A commie like you would say that

James

@BenBrocka :P

@BenBrocka Go pet your emerald dragon :P

Ben Brocka

4:11 PM

I can't because you elitists TOOK OUR DRAGONS

@BenBrocka :D

@fredley TCO

@badp Thanks

@fredley oh wait, you wanted hiigue destroyed? I thought you were requesting it for yourself. whoooops

:-P

fredley

@badp Haha

John

4:26 PM

So, what should I name my new alt?

My main is already John the Green

fredley

@John Are you the John Green?

Lazers

-1

Q: Iss Diablo 3 Speed worht it?

Is Diablo 3 Speed worth it or an outright scam?

diablo-3

fredley

@John Green the John?

John

@fredley Er.....

Wipqozn

19

Q: Are alternative Minecraft servers worth it?

I have a Minecraft server running on an Amazon EC2 instance, and the instance is bogged down regularly by the server's high requirements. I recently came across a page listing alternative Minecraft servers, many of them touting the reduced overhead of their server versus the Mojang server. Howev...

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@Wipqozn: My question is trying to acknowledge that there may be tradeoffs with using an alternative Minecraft server v. the Mojang one - features v. performance being the two primary issues. I wasn't asking for a line-item breakdown of all alternative servers listed; rather was pointing to that page as an example set of possibilities. I was hoping to hear back regarding specific servers and their advantages and disadvantages from people who have experience with them. I'm willing to refine my question along these lines; let me know. — fbrereto 8 mins ago

Not sure how I feel about that, so I'll just leave it here/.

tortoise swoosh

user15026

4:31 PM

Thank you, captain obvious:

user15026

0

A: Is there a limit to the number of Star Coins I can get from Mystery Boxes?

Do you guys wanna know how to get ninty star coins for the end of world eights castle? Well, I'll tell you. So first, you need to go to the first world. Then, you see if you got all of the star coins. if you didn't, find the rest. Next, keep doing that for the rest of the levels on world one. Nex...

murgatroid99

@AshleyNunn "to get enough star coins, check all of the places where star coins are and then get them if you don't already have them". Yeah, that's pretty useless

Raven Dreamer

@agent86 It is now my goal to

Cuddle ALL the things!

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user15026

@murgatroid99 Boil it down further "STAR COINS. FIND YOU SOME."

badp

@AshleyNunn so downvote, right?

John

4:38 PM

@RavenDreamer backs away cautiously

murgatroid99

@badp yes

user15026

@badp That's what they're for :)

John

Spiral Knights has decided to invert my capslock key. So, I can either yell at all you people, or at random people in an MMO. Decisions, decisions...

5

agent86

@RavenDreamer clearly star bait. (also clearly, I took it)

FAE

@John ...lol

Raven Dreamer

4:40 PM

So First Day of Work; I found out company policy encourages 9 hours M-H so F is a half day.

Thus, I am here.

John

@RavenDreamer M-H?

Raven Dreamer

Monday to tHursday

John

@RavenDreamer Just checking.

user15026

@RavenDreamer Very nifty.

Raven Dreamer

Oh, hot damn! I think the UPS guy just dropped off an internet for me. BRB.

FAE

4:44 PM

@RavenDreamer Yay!

Raven Dreamer

(Or not. You know how the internet can get)

user15026

@RavenDreamer Oooh

fbueckert

We have an <untagged> tag now?

John

@fbueckert Always have. It's a system tag.

Added to questions whose other tags have all died.

Raven Dreamer

Ahhh, it wasn't an internet.

fbueckert

4:47 PM

Good to know. You learn something new every day.

Raven Dreamer

Curse you, Land's End Catalog, for the senseless taunting that you engender!

user15026

I want this keyboard:

user15026

Lazers

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Q: What changes between difficulty levels?

I've been playing through Future Soldier on Veteran, but sometimes someone watching me will comment about how much harder it is on Elite, like how that guard would have seen me, or that there was another person there with them. Said person is not known for their veracity though. What actually cha...

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0

Q: When can I get the conversations for the Stay Awhile and Listen achievement?

The achievement says to "Listen to all of Deckard Cain's conversations." In order to not miss any, I'd like to know when they become available and if and when they are no longer available.

diablo-3 achievements

badp

@AshleyNunn with twelve purple pieces of poop for function keys?

user15026

5:00 PM

@badp They're blue.

badp

@AshleyNunn Blue poop.

Ben Brocka

Those are clearly blue pieces of poop

badp

@AshleyNunn You can see what one of them looks like when stepped upon on keypad 0 too.

user15026

@badp They're blue slimes and they are cute.

badp

@AshleyNunn And the blue poop slimes are stacked on keypad Enter.

Ben Brocka

5:01 PM

@AshleyNunn this looks shooped

badp

ready to be eaten by the headcrab on keypad plus

or is it a barnacle? Who knows!

at any rate, I didn't know you were into blue slime poop :P

user15026

@badp Hey, don't judge me!

badp

@AshleyNunn Yeah. I tried that with bronysm, it didn't go too well

user15026

@badp What if I ask nicely for no judgement?

badp

If I said just another word, suddenly chat would be full of blue poop slimes for the next three months

FAE

5:03 PM

@AshleyNunn Are those porings?

badp

@AshleyNunn but I can't say another word :(

Ben Brocka

@FAE They're slimes from dragon quest

badp

oh balls, I just did. gg

Ben Brocka

Another word

agent86

user15026

5:04 PM

@FAE Dragon Quest slime keyboard, intended to be used with your Wii

FAE

@BenBrocka Aaah okay. Not that I've ever even played RO, but those are what I thought of first.

@AshleyNunn Gotcha

badp

...you lost me at wii

agent86

@AshleyNunn wii? keyboard? wat?

just in case you wanted to drink your blue slime

user15026

@agent86 For surfing teh intertubes on your TV with your wii

agent86

@AshleyNunn do you have to know the friend code of the website you wish to visit?

badp

5:06 PM

the friend code for gaming.stackexchange.com is LAZER

user15026

@agent86 Probably. And you have to enter it by hand every time.

badp

if it asks for a number, try @Raven's reputation

FAE

@badp It changes too quickly!

badp

@FAE well I guess we'll have to make another website with just the reputation then.

Add 10 to it for good measure

agent86

today is donut day?

why was I not informed?

cmon people :/

fbueckert

5:11 PM

@agent86 Today is sushi day.

bwarner

Good luck to everyone in the Diablo 3 contest! May someone other than @Raven win!

agent86

@fbueckert this is terrible. we can't do sushi and donuts on the same day. I vote to move sushi day to a different day of the year

@bwarner since this technically includes me I must support this message.

FAE

@bwarner lol

fbueckert

@bwarner Thanks! I'm not really interested in anything beyond the graphics card for the gems. And I have the best chance I can get!

agent86

ugh, 25% chance is not instilling confidence.

bwarner

5:13 PM

@fbueckert Looks like all 6 gems gives you about a 1 in 4 chance

agent86

I need to practice my "didn't win but I'm happy for you clap"

badp

I reject your donuts and replace them with my pizza

agent86

claps with a wan smile

user15026

Now I want donuts but my only option is Tim Hortons. :(

badp

@agent86 that smile is wan, try using a warm smile instead

murgatroid99

5:15 PM

@bwarner I thought it gave you about a 25 in number of entrants chance (and at least 200 people have entered)

bwarner

@murgatroid99 There are about 600 gems, and there will be 25 winners. So each gem is approximately 1 in 24. But once somebody wins, the rest of their gems don't count anymore.

So 6 gems comes out roughly to 1 in 4 (though I really haven't done the math)

Actually looks like we're up to almost 800 gems now

So I guess it is closer to 1 in 5.

murgatroid99

@bwarner that only works if people earned 6 gems, but over 200 people earned perfect star, and that's a lot more than perfect ruby

agent86

@badp wan: showing or suggesting ill health, fatigue, unhappiness, etc.: a wan look; a wan smile.

badp

@agent86 yeah, I suggest warm instead.

agent86

@badp negative!

badp

5:18 PM

@agent86 well. okay. warm-looking.

bwarner

@murgatroid99 Yah, but they all get thrown in the same pool. At least as far as I understand. So each gem is worth the same, regardless of how many people earned that particular one.

badp

or waπ, people won't be able to see the difference on Verdana italic!

bwarner

"Each Gem you unlock gets you one entry into a drawing for prizes."

badp

@Sterno but does it do IRC?

agent86

@bwarner I think this is the way it works as well.

murgatroid99

5:20 PM

@bwarner I know that. What I mean is that there are a lot more people total than assuming 6 gems per would indicate, so when someone wins less than 6 gems are removed

@bwarner the probability of winning is probably close to 25/(number of people), and number of people is at least 200

bwarner

@murgatroid99 No, because that would assume everyone has the same number of gems. The few people with all 6 have a much better chance than those with only 2 or 3.

fbueckert

@murgatroid99 Either way, the contest motivated me to really participate. And I've learned a lot about how D3 works in the process!

bwarner

A single gem would give you about a 3% chance of winning (not accounting for removal). So 6 gems should give you somewhere around 18% (though I know it doesn't quite work like that).

murgatroid99

@bwarner that's true. It still matters how many people there are total, because that determines how many gems are removed from the pool when someone is chosen

Raven Dreamer

@bwarner you sure? I thought it was less than that.

Ronan Forman

5:25 PM

Okay, my code is done! All I need to do is draw out every single letter!

bwarner

@RavenDreamer What was less?

I know it ends up being less than 18%, because you can't just multiply probabilities like that.

Raven Dreamer

@bwarner chance of winning per gem.

Yeah, I just calculated again with the current stats.

.5% chance to win, per gem.

1/196

bwarner

@RavenDreamer No, that should be right. If there were a single winner, it would be 1/800=.00125%. But there are 25, so it is .99875^25 chance of NOT winning, or roughly 97%.

Again, not counting for removal.

Raven Dreamer

Ah. Math error on my part.

I'm not quite sure what I did, but it was wrong.

Rachel

I think everyone who got Act IV done should get a prize. ActIV was hard!

agent86

5:31 PM

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Q: Is it possible to estimate the odds of winning a multi-entry contest, when I don't know the breakdown of entries?

Suppose I am entered into a contest, with the following rules: Every person may get up to 6 entries All the entries will be pooled, and no fewer than 25% of them, but no more than 25 will win I know how many entries I have (the maximum, 6) Each person can win a maximum of once, regardless of th...

probability

bwarner

Clearly still not as good as your 1 in 3 chance on the monitor. =)

@agent86 Heh

agent86

seems like the kind of thing that should be possible to compute

Rachel

@agent86 I'm creating an account there just to upvote that question ;)

Kappei

@Rachel getting to Act 4 is your prize!

I'd be glad if I manage to do act 3

agent86

@Rachel inorite? not that I have any particular incentive for wanting that to be the rule... :P

murgatroid99

5:32 PM

@agent86 "no fewer than 25% AND no more than 25" is contradictory I think

bwarner

@Rachel Everyone who got to Act 4 will get a prize. Its just that it might be a t-shirt.

Raven Dreamer

@agent86 should just calculate it at 25 prizes, since that's what's going to happen.

bwarner

@murgatroid99 Yah, should be no MORE than 25%. Although since we know the number of entries, it is really just 25.

agent86

@murgatroid99 mmm, both conditions must be satisfied, yeah? no fewer than 25% of the entries will be selected. also, no more than 25 total will be selected.

Raven Dreamer

Just switch it to 25!

@Rachel Why, whatever do you mean? I hit that in 4 days! ;)

bwarner

5:34 PM

@agent86 It isn't possible to satisfy both of those since 25 is fewer than 25%.

Rachel

@agent86 I edited your rules to say "there are only 25 prizes", although I need someone to approve it first :)

@RavenDreamer Not me, I had to work to get Act IV! :) (actually, technically it was "stop working" to get ActIV)

murgatroid99

@agent86 say n=200. No fewer than 25% means at least 50 and no more than 25 means at most 25. So (x>=50 and x<=25), which is impossible

agent86

> All the entries will be pooled, and at a minimum 25% of them, not to exceed 25 entries total, will win

bwarner

So are all the upvotes from this chat?

agent86

is that better?

bwarner

5:35 PM

Like Raven said, the 25% is meaningless since there are clearly 800 entries. It is just 25.

murgatroid99

@agent86 how about "the minimum of 25% of the total and 25"

Rachel

I figured since you gave specific numbers as to the entry counts, you might as well give a "max of 25 prizes" rule

Raven Dreamer

@agent86 Just put it at 25. In any formula, the number of prizes is going to be a constant value.

agent86

sigh

bwarner

Unless you want the formula for what would've happened if only 50 people had entered.

Raven Dreamer

5:36 PM

Calculating the number of prizes is trivial - you're more concerned with the other bit, yeah?

Rachel

If I have the math right, you have somewhere between .765% and 4.59% chance to win

agent86

mostly what I want is a nap, some liquor, and some chocolate. not in that order.

Rachel

The .765% is based on if every other entry is a single entry, and 4.59 is if every other entrant has 6 entries

Raven Dreamer

@Rachel 1 entry gives you a 3% chance to win, so you're doing something wrong.

Rachel

@RavenDreamer Hrrm ok bad math :)

That's wrong anyways, sin cewe know that there aren't more than 42 people with 6 entries

murgatroid99

5:39 PM

@RavenDreamer I thought that was with the assumption that nothing gets removed from the pool

user15026

@agent86 Enough chocolate flavoured liquor to make you want to nap, perhaps?

bwarner

@murgatroid99 IT is, which means the actual chance is even higher than 3%

Raven Dreamer

@murgatroid99 Right. So it's 3% +. Which is still more than Rachel's .75%

murgatroid99

@RavenDreamer right

agent86

@AshleyNunn mmm, this is acceptable.

Kappei

5:41 PM

@RavenDreamer 3% per entry is quite high

not saying that is wrong

just that that's a good chance

Raven Dreamer

@Kappei Considering we started with 25% per entry ;P

bwarner

I tried doing the math with removing 3 gems per winner, and it still comes out to about 18% chance of winning with 6 gems.

Rachel

Where's the 3% coming from? That's not making sense to me :)

bwarner

@Rachel See my post about a half screen up

Kappei

If nothing changes, considering 6 entrants, how many monitors will be awarded for Act 4? 1 or 2?

Raven Dreamer

5:44 PM

@Rachel 25 entries divided by the 768 individual entries.

bwarner

@Kappei My understanding is 2.

Raven Dreamer

I think they said "traditional rounding" which would mean 1 for 5 or 2 for 6

er. Wait.

Rachel

@RavenDreamer But don't you have 6 entries of 768 entries? Not 25?

Raven Dreamer

I have no idea.

@Rachel 25 prizes divided among 768 entries. 3% of a prize each, hence, 3% chance.

agent86

the only things I know at this point: I am bad at statistics.

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Rachel

5:46 PM

@RavenDreamer >.< My brain is fried

Raven Dreamer

:4800448 It means there's a 3% chance someone with one entry will be a winner if other entries aren't removed after winning.

murgatroid99

@RavenDreamer wait, I thought the 3% came from repeating the drawing 25 times

bwarner

@Rachel You calculate multi-event probabilities like this by calculating the chances of the desired outcome NEVER happening, and then subtracting from 1.

@murgatroid99 Correct.

Raven Dreamer

@murgatroid99 Ayup. Fixed.

bwarner

So if there was one winner, a single gem would have 1/768, or about .1% chance of winning.

That means you have a 99.9% chance of losing. But if you do it 25 times, that ends up being a 97% chance of losing, or a 3% chance of winning.

murgatroid99

5:49 PM

@bwarner 1/768 is closer to .1% (which is .001)

bwarner

@murgatroid99 Oops, thats what I meant

Kappei

Are we sure that gems aren't removed once their owner has been chosen? That would change the outcomes

Raven Dreamer

@Kappei It's also an order of magnitude harder to predict and calculate.

Kappei

@RavenDreamer yeah, I know

Raven Dreamer

And yes, you can't win more than once, so your entries should be removed

Kappei

5:54 PM

@RavenDreamer so it should be higher than 3%

Raven Dreamer

@Kappei Yes.

Rachel

It just doesn't make sense to me >.<

See this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheet/…

Raven Dreamer

how much higher? Hard to know without a degree in statistics.

Kappei

@RavenDreamer and some hours of calculations

Raven Dreamer

@Rachel There's 25 prizes, not 1.

There's your problem

James

5:56 PM

►

New episode is awesome :D

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Q: When can I get Adria's conversations for the Bewitched achievement?

The achievement says to "Listen to all of Adria's conversations." In order to not miss any, I'd like to know when Adria's conversations become available and if and when they become unavailable.

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Q: When can I get Leah's conversations for the More Than Stories achievement?

The achievement says to "Listen to all of Leah's conversations." Because some of these are missable, I'd like to know when Leah's conversations first become available and if and when they become unavailable.

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Raven Dreamer

@James Is that Felicia Day and Wil Wheaton?

James

@RavenDreamer And Sandeep and Steve Jackson

Kappei

@James a Munchkin-themed Tabletop episode with Felicia Day?

Raven Dreamer

@James Not on the thumnail

Kappei

5:57 PM

head explodes

James

@Kappei Yes indeed!

And next episode they do Castle Panic

Rachel

@RavenDreamer I can't figure out how to add percentages to figure out your real percent chance to win... lol

James

Which is an awesome game we play quite often :D

Ronan Forman

Coding is tedious.

font = {
    'A': [
        [0,1,1,1,0],
        [1,0,0,0,1],
        [1,1,1,1,1],
        [1,0,0,0,1],
        [1,0,0,0,1],
        [1,0,0,0,1],
        [1,0,0,0,1]],
    'B': [
        [1,1,1,1,0],
        [1,0,0,0,1],
        [1,1,1,1,0],
        [1,0,0,0,1],
        [1,0,0,0,1],
        [1,0,0,0,1],
        [1,1,1,1,0]],
    'C': [
        [0,1,1,1,0],
        [1,0,0,0,1],
        [1,0,0,0,0],
        [1,0,0,0,0],
        [1,0,0,0,0],
        [1,0,0,0,1],
        [0,1,1,1,0]],
    'D': [
        [1,1,1,1,0],

I'm doing that for every letter, both cases.

James

@RonanForman ಠ_ಠ

Kappei

6:00 PM

Later guys! Good luck with the contest!

Rachel

So... assuming I have 6 tickets I have roughly a 20% chance to win? docs.google.com/spreadsheet/…

I have no clue if I did that math right, but that seems too high

No clue if you can add percentages like that too

Dave McClelland

@RonanForman I don't suppose you can use the unix banner command?

tiddy

@Rachel Yeah that is incorrect

Rachel

@tiddy I'm fairly sure it's wrong, but I'm not sure the right way to figure this out :)

tiddy

Well if they remove a winner from the pot each time they draw

it would be 6/(784-n) n being round # after 1

murgatroid99

6:07 PM

@tiddy but it depends on how many gems each winner has

tiddy

I am not prentending to know how the contest works

Are gems a multiplier?

Raven Dreamer

@murgatroid99 If only we knew how many distinct users were in the contest!

murgatroid99

@tiddy 25 times they do the following: draw 1 gem; the owner of that gem wins; remove all gems owned by that winner

@RavenDreamer somebody must know that

tiddy

@Rachel What's your act

murgatroid99

there's also the fact that people with more gems are more likely to be picked (and have their gems removed from the pool)

Rachel

6:10 PM

@tiddy I'm taking into account removing winning entries in the spreadsheet

@tiddy And I completed Act IV :D

murgatroid99

@Rachel but the amount of removed entries at each drawing is unknown

Rachel

@murgatroid99 I'm trying to figure out best-case (every one 6 entries) and worst case (everyone has 1 entry)

tiddy

Am I reading this right? 25% of total winners PER act?

murgatroid99

@Rachel best case is that 25 people have 6 gems, and you are one of them

Rachel

The spreadsheet I'm looking at has a section for best case, and worst case

murgatroid99

6:11 PM

and then only people with 6 gems are picked

Rachel

@murgatroid99 Perhaps I should have said "best odds" and "worst odds"

not best/worst case :)

murgatroid99

@Rachel oh, right, your case is equivalently the best case

Rachel

So it's correct that you have roughly a 20% chance at winning?

murgatroid99

@Rachel I actually think this might be right

tiddy

Well best odds would be if every gem winner had the max gems

Definitely not the case

murgatroid99

6:14 PM

@tiddy it could be possible

tiddy

It isn't, looking at the gem winning numbers show it's pretty wide open

murgatroid99

@tiddy what?

Raven Dreamer

@murgatroid99 The gem distributions aren't uniform

murgatroid99

@RavenDreamer but it could be the case that at least 25 people have 6 gems and that they all win

that's what matters for this calculation

Raven Dreamer

@murgatroid99 I suppose it could.

murgatroid99

6:17 PM

@RavenDreamer that is the best case scenario

the worst case is that each winner has 1 gem

tiddy

On the prize page you can see the gem winners

But anyway rachel has less than a 1% chance of winning per drawing

As would any 6 gem winner

her odds on act 6 however, are pretty strong

murgatroid99

@tiddy you can see who won which gems? where?

tiddy

can't see who, just numbers

on the act page

Earned by: #

murgatroid99

@tiddy I know that. What is your point?

tiddy

in the best case scenario all the numbers would be the same

murgatroid99

6:26 PM

@tiddy but only the number of gems owned by the people who win matters.

Lazers

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Q: Max gold find %?

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Q: When can I get Haedrig's conversations for the Hassling Haedrig achievement?

The achievement says to "Listen to all of the Blacksmith's conversations." Because some of these are missable, I'd like to know when Haedrig's conversations first become available and if and when they become unavailable. The Weary Blacksmith seems particularly missable.

diablo-3 achievements

Rachel

If you want to know your chances of winning a Graphics card, go here

Its editable by anyone now, so you can edit B1 and B2 to view your chance at winning :)

Raven Dreamer

Hm. Does it really only vary by 2%?

Still a 1 /5 shot for 6 gems

tiddy

That spreadsheet is wrong

You don't sum the odds

It's a fallacy

Rachel

@tiddy What do you do with them?

murgatroid99

6:29 PM

@tiddy you do if the events are mutually exclusive, which they are

Raven Dreamer

@Rachel Your answer is a bit misleading. The best case is possible, because even though only 42 folks have the perfect ruby, 42 > 25, so the best case would mean 25 people with 6 gems, which would seem to be possible.

Rachel

I was checking in the math.se chat, and they said that was correct, although I do agree it might be misleading :)

@RavenDreamer You're correct, I'll update that :)

tiddy

Indeed

fbueckert

6:47 PM

@Rachel Wow. I didn't think my chances were that good.

Rachel

@fbueckert I didn't think mine were either :)

fbueckert

I just got my last gem earlier today. Wasn't honestly expecting to get it. But, hey, hope springs eternal.

May is finally done, so the Diablo fever should be dying down now.

Lazers

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Although SE in general considers tags to be equal, we have atleast 2 tags that I know of - story and achievements - that are only valid when paired with another tag for a particular game or series. However, the code for suggesting related links doesn't take this into account. So for e.g., if I a...

feature-request

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Q: Inferno Act 1 Gold Farming, Skeleton King vs. Butcher

I farm act one a lot with my friends, act 2 is slow going and takes forever to kill all the mobs that run, but my question is, do you guys get a lot more cash from doing Butcher runs than Skeleton king runs? We usually go back a quest or two so we get 5 stacks, lots of drops and gold pick ups. ...

diablo-3 money farming

user15026

7:03 PM

I love the beginning of the month because then Nintendo releases new games on Club Nintendo. :D

Raven Dreamer

Next question: How likely is an Act IV winner to win at least an Act II prize?

And final question: How likely is an Act IV winner to win either an Act II prize or the 6-gem raffle?

fbueckert

@RavenDreamer These are separate entries; no intersections.

Rachel

@RavenDreamer I've used more time than I should have away from work figuring out gem odds :)

Raven Dreamer

@fbueckert This is true. However you can still calculate the probability that someone will win anything other than a T-Shirt.

Rachel

@RavenDreamer The other drawings should be simpler since everyone only gets 1 ticket. Just divide 1/#Entries to figure out odds for individual drawings

Then um... add them together :)

Raven Dreamer

7:14 PM

Why am I convinced you can't simply add them together?

murgatroid99

@RavenDreamer because anyone who wins gets their tickets removed from all lower levels?

that should still be pretty simple though, since the total number of tickets removed by winners at each level is constant

Lazers

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Q: When can I get Covetous Shen's conversations for the Everybody Loves Shen achievement?

The achievement says to "Listen to all of the Jeweler's conversations." Because Shen's conversations seem to change quite frequently, it seems like it would be easy to miss a lot of these, so I'd like to know when Shen's conversations first become available and if and when they become unavailable.

diablo-3 achievements

Sterno

@fbueckert i.stack.imgur.com/wnGmQ.jpg

That just made Act 2 a lot easier, even with it's crappy DPS. Only was 200k on the AH!

Rachel

@RavenDreamer I'm convinced you can't just add them together too also, but I don't know what you're supposed to do with them lol

Gaming not on Gaming

7:29 PM

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Q: Huble Boundle - Amnesia does'nt start

I have a problem with amnesia game. After Intro and clicking continue button few times, when game is supposed to start it crashes. Here is console output: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA...

games alsa

murgatroid99

@RavenDreamer I think it's something like P(winning act 4)=1/4, P(winning act 3)=P(not winning act 4)*(1/4), etc (as long as none of them have over 100 entrants. Then the last number changes a little)

Raven Dreamer

@agent86 (CC: @rachel ) the latest edit on your cross validated needs to be rolled back.

murgatroid99

P(winning act 1)=P(not winning act 4)*P(not winning act 3)*P(not winning act 2)*25/(number of entrants-(number of act 4 winners)-(number of act 3 winners)-(number of act 2 winners))

Rachel

@RavenDreamer I already submitted an edit to clarify the rules

murgatroid99

except that everyone gets the shirt anyway, so that doesn't matter

DavRob60

7:41 PM

maybe some of you could help answer this :

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Q: Why do some Salarians have a handle on their chest?

Salarians are one of the council species in Mass-Effect. Some of them have some kind of bottle opener shaped handle on theirs chest: This feature doesn't seem motivated by any biological appendages: Does it have any purpose, or is it just decoration?

aliens video-games mass-effect

user15026

So much removing!

DavRob60

@AshleyNunn Removing are free on Friday.

user15026

@DavRob60 YAY FRIDAY XD

Beofett

Good news for D3 Witch Doctors: us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5271506353?page=19#366

user2334

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user2334

7:50 PM

crap

Raven Dreamer

@DavRob60 The answer is an aethestic one - it's to give the Salarians a more distincitve appearance. There's no deeper meaning. It's there so you can more recognizably identify a Salarian as Salarian.

Rachel

@Beofett Yay!! Much needed :)

DavRob60

@RavenDreamer any quote to back this?

Beofett

@Rachel Indeed! I'm even more excited to try out some of the CC pet builds I've been reading about once I can get loaded up on freeze/stun/blind/immobilize-on-hit gear

Raven Dreamer

@DavRob60 It's not a quote. It's a principle of design. It's also the best answer you're likely to get. There's a reason these kinds of questions aren't allowed on Gaming.

Lazers

7:53 PM

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Q: Highest Magic Find Item Rating Available?

Just wondering how much magic find can you stack as part of your equip and comfortably farm Diablo?

diablo-3

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Q: When can I get The Stranger/Tyreal conversations for the It's Just Us achievement?

I just realized the achievement title was a pun on "Justice." The achievement says to "Listen to all of the Tyrael's conversations." Because Tyrael is always running off and disappearing, making it hard to talk to him, it seems like it would be easy to miss a lot of these, so I'd like to know wh...

diablo-3 achievements

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Q: How does Download Later work?

I bought a few games on the eshop today, and selected a few demos. I set them all to Download Later, and then I closed the lid of my 3DS. I figured that would work, as Download Later requires the 3DS to be in sleep mode - but 20 minutes later, all of the games and demos still are at 0% downloaded...

3ds

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Q: Can I find out how many Dragons I have killed?

I can access the stats and see how many dragon souls I have collected, but I've been killing dragons all over the place, sometimes ones I've already beaten that therefore don't give off a soul. Is there another statistic that I have missed that will tell me how many I've dispatched, or should I...

skyrim

Raven Dreamer

@DavRob60 It's also the real reason for your quarian question: You can't see through the quarian's masks because the model beneath is not textured. And it's not textured because there's no reason for it to be (as all quarians in ME1 always had helmets). (The corollary there is that it then became a bit of an in-game joke, so in future games they could have done so, but did not)

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