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00:01
@GnomeSlice Because it queues up the update for some later time, which means when I sit down at my computer to play PoE, it's not ready to play
It wouldn't be so bad for most games, but PoE takes forever to update
00:29
@SaintWacko set PoE update priority to high
should help
@Elise Holy shit, is that new?
@SaintWacko it's been an option for as long as I remember
@Elise I guess I've never looked at the per-game update settings
Thanks!
no problem, hope it fixes your issue :)
00:56
@Elise however the current functionality of updates being queued for a later time is something recent and it's sorta an annoying "work around" to set every game's update priority to high just to make sure they get patches queued when you connect, not several hours later after you connect
more so when clicking "Update Now" on several games then just reschedules them
@Memor-X eh, as someone who doesn't turn my PC off, I've seen this happen a lot for a long time now
idk how it decides which games to update and which games to just let sit
granted alot of my updates take a couple of seconds but it's very inconvenient to boot up steam and click+wait for each game that's been queued, more so for offline mode when once queued any game marked to be updated can not be played until it has been updated
Is it just me, or does Steam really hate it now if you Alt+F4 out of games?
@Frank how. i know some games still allow it and some don't (and DeadCore you have to Alt+F4 to get out of the game)
Both Stellaris and UFO don't close properly if you use Alt+F4.
UFO thought it was running for basically the last week straight.
01:09
@Frank that might explain why Stranger of Sword City now says it's already running when i run it from the local .exe when it didn't before
though i can still run it fine via Steam
i generally shut down properly but with Stranger of Sword City i just quit out when someone in my party dies because the enemy i am fighting is way too powerful (no real indication if they are, their "Level" in their name means jack because my Avg Level 3 Party's been slaughtering Level 9 Baby Hydras)
not worth the time to go back, revive and rest at the Guild to get the heart back to then grind some more to push forward
@Frank you sure it's not just a game issue?
some games just don't unhook from steam when closed with alt+f4
many games close properly with alt+f4
you can always click the "stop" button in steam if it didn't turn off properly
@Elise Tried that. The executable wasn't even running.
Steam still said it was running.
@Frank sometimes the executable is masked in steam processes in task manager
@Elise Checked that, too.
Closed Steam.
Rebooted. Still said it was running.
after rebooting? :O
that's... weird
doesn't even make sense
01:16
Rebooting Steam.
oh
Had to reboot the computer for it to work again.
anyone know where the Announcement's link on Steam Pages have gone? ie this kind of page, i used to find it via document.querySelector(".early_access_announcements span a") when i would scrape for the RSS Feeds but now it's coming up Null for all my games that i've previously gotten RSS feeds for (ie. Factorio and Rabi-Ribi)
and can't just generated based off appid because for like Rabi-Ribi it's https://steamcommunity.com/games/rabi-ribi/rss/ while Factorio it's https://steamcommunity.com/games/427520/rss/ and they 404 if you don't get it right (no page forwarding if you use the appid)
01:32
@Memor-X idk what the difference between rss and non-rss link is, but both steamcommunity.com/app/400910 and steamcommunity.com/app/400910/rss work just fine for Rabi-Ribi
I think the problem is that you're using /games/ instead of /app/
@Elise rss is xml
when you open that you get an xml output
reason why i'm looking for the announcements link is because the page has a "Subscribe to RSS Feed" link which is what i need to scrape for my script to generate the XML that i can then import into RSSOwl
02:13
that outro tune was an unexpected surprise. just made me smile remembering that song
02:31
First episode of Arqade Saves The World? is done!
Just uploading it now.
03:04
> Over the years, players have uncovered 15 of these [generation] ships drifting among the stars. None of them have contained any survivors. Until now.
Holy fuck
04:02
@Frank did @Wipqozn die?
@Dragonrage You'll have to watch it to find out. :P
04:16
@Frank will you edit a link into the question with the playlist?
@Dragonrage That's the plan.
My internet sucks, though. It takes as long to upload as it does to record.
04:52
Still processing, but it's bedtime.
Interested parties can check it out once it's done here: youtu.be/ZiaoJ9mMhpU
05:43
@Frank blocked for being a duplicate?
user15026
@GodEmperorDune yeah same
06:05
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Q: Why was the protagonist of the original Pokemon Games (Red/Blue) given the name "Red" in future iterations?

BenWhen I first started playing the Pokémon games, it was alongside watching the anime series in the morning before school. So when I first started playing, my character was named "Ash", and the rival was "Gary". However, within the games, the default names suggested "RED" and "BLUE", for names for...

06:25
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Q: Where does the term "dropship" come from?

AzulShivaI'm talking about those things: They fly about in the sky, and when they land, enemy soldiers come out of them and try to kill you. Almost every video game has them, yet there is no such thing as a "dropship" in modern military. Where does the term come from?

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Q: Where can I find the currently available Spinda form and when it changes in Pokémon Go?

JanSpinda has been around in Pokémon Go as a field research reward for something over a year. Since then, Spinda forms change at more or less fixed intervals (typically monthly). Spinda remains only accessible by field research. In my experience, the tasks giving Spinda have increased significantly...

 
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10:14
Morning chat
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10:36
@Elva morning
evening
11:04
Hey Memor, how's the future?
@Elva wet and a bit chilly. unfortunately the heavy rain seems to have passed which i really wanted to come in later so i can sleep to it
how the past for you @Elva
11:36
I see sooome blue sky between the clouds so that's nice
It's snowing this morning
Not the good kind either
There's good kinds of snow? :o
@Elva powder snow is amazing (idk if that's a correct term) super fluffy
Also woohoo the first time in 12 years I've gone more than 16 hrs without smoking... I feel like dying but idc
For sure
Good for you bud, that's really inspiring
12:09
@Jutschge Great job! I imagine the first day is the hardest.
I saw The lighthouse last night. Movie was weird, but I really liked it.
@Unionhawk That's pretty nifty. I really need to boot that game up again soon. I'm still in the process of slowly making the trek back to civilization.
12:33
@GodEmperorDune Bah. I'm not familiar enough with Youtube to know where to find things. Here, try this one: youtube.com/watch?v=sttmnS9tlxo
Gosh darn @Frank can't even spell my name right!
TRAGEDY
Hue
Duolingo Hitman
@Wipqozn Looks right to me!
@Frank I'm really confused, though. Is Malcolm supposed to be Dragonrage...?
OHHH OKAY now I get it
After I jumped ahead 20 minutes in the video
12:44
@Wipqozn Geez! I even explain it as it happens!
My RL name is Bryan, so when you started calling that "Brian" soldier "wipqozn", I was really confused.
@Frank yeah but I'm half working half listening
@Wipqozn Serendipitous naming.
(Also, I spelled that right. Yay?)
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@GnomeSlice it asked me what die means today and told me to practice.
 
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14:25
@Ave I have an e-ink screen hat!
14:37
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Q: Name of this game?

findthegameWhen I was a child, I used to play a Gameboy Color game. I can't remember the name, but I can remember these things: The colors are quite simple, similar to this one: It is a shooter game + platform game. In order to shoot, you must press the shoot button (it i...

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@Elva yay, I want pics!
I'm at work! :p
It's just a blank screen
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which one did you get?
A 2.7 inch one
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waveshare or pimoleoni?
14:46
Waveshare
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neat, same as mine
Might ask a friend if they want to 3d print a housing at some point :o
15:09
oh hey hockey stuff on my US internet?
More likely than you would think, I guess.
15:43
@Yuuki @Dragonrage preview.redd.it/…
It's Jhin Xhao
I get it but it looks so wrong.
> The vastaya page was just updated to say that no new vastaya have been born in a few centuries or more
Wait, so Xayah and Rakan are a couple hundred years old?
mmm doesn't feel like it
Character ages in general are kinda weird. Did you know that Jax is apparently around 4,000 years old?
Vlad is somewhere between 1500-3000 years old, Leblanc is 1000, Fizz is supposedly prehistoric
Is Fizz a Yordle now or is he still not a Yordle?
Officially he's a yordle.
Well, yordles are weird because they literally come from another spacetime, so measuring ages for them is bound to be confusing.
And as far as I know, it's still a toss-up as to whether LeBlanc is a singular person.
16:19
@Yuuki she is just a magician who can create clones and alter her image at will, and is one of the leaders of the black rose along with Vladimir
@Dragonrage But I think it's left ambiguous as to whether LeBlanc is one individual or some sort of legacy passed down from leader to leader.
@Yuuki only for people in universe. she even allowed her clone to be executed to make people think she is dead
@Unionhawk i mean, was anyone expecting that to actually be good?
👉🆗
16:37
@Unionhawk I have had such at a hotel once and they were amazing
I had a whole bunch of them for breakfast
like, they were about as good as homemade
now I'm hungry, I wish I had this machine at home
@Elise I would agree, but I also live in a household that doesn't make pancakes.
So YMMV on "as good as homemade" there.
@Yuuki my wife makes them very rarely when she's in the right mood
but her cousin is a semi-professional cook and her pancakes are about as good as my wife's
pretty sure pancakes are fairly simple to make 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Q: What if you have the Dragonborn DLC?

user239772What if you use the “Bend Will” shout on a dragon and fly there? It should work, right?

although we make waffles more often than pancakes, because we have a waffle maker machine-thing
16:56
@Elise Does it signal when the waffle needs to be flipped?
@Frank no, you pour the batter in it and it cooks it from both sides at same time
@Elise We've got one like that. My wife hates it, especially after we used one of those flipper ones in a hotel.
like this one
I don't use it so I can't comment from experience, but my wife likes it
and it does a good job 🤷🏼‍♀️
waffles taste fine
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Q: What are all the ways I can lose in 8-bit Adventure Steins;Gate?

NolonarI just purchased a copy of Steins;Gate Elite for Switch, which came with a download code for 8-bit Adventure Steins;Gate. Since I've already played Steins;Gate on PS Vita, I decided to play 8-bit Adventure first. At first, I expected the game to be like the original Steins;Gate, in that you can'...

Why is it vertical?
17:00
@PrivatePansy for storage
@PrivatePansy so you can pour the batter inside it
@PrivatePansy Was just gonna ask.
you pour it in, it cooks the waffle and then you open it to take the waffle out
17:11
@Dragonrage So he makes anywhere from 7 to 10 dollars per box and drives 250 miles minimum.
Wonder what the margins are on that.
@Yuuki it says he can fit 100 boxes in his ford focus. that's a $700 to $1000 profit
gas costs are near irrelevant at that point
(not really, but they're low enough relative to profit)
@Elise its not california, so gas prices are probably reasonable
Gas prices anywhere not in Texas or bordering Texas are kinda ridiculous, from what I've heard.
@Dragonrage idk what's considered reasonable, but I live in a Canadian province with some of the highest gas prices and it costs me roughly $50 CAD to drive nearly 400km
actually, it costs less than that, because $50 is almost a full tank and that would only use 3/4
Most tanks are 8 gallons, right?
17:14
36L in my car, iirc :D
I got 12 gallons in mine
a ford focus seems to be about that, 12-14
Yeah wait, looks like average is 13.
8 gallons seems really low
8 gallons is what, like 26L or so?
@Yuuki my car is 15 gallons
I drive a corolla, which probably has one of the smallest tanks you can have in a car
17:16
@Elise in california gas is around 1.5 CAD per liter
at least where i live
or $4.20 USD per gallon
@Dragonrage oof, in our town they regularly get up to 1.4'ish, but I think right now they're around 1.3'ish
We're at 1.05ish right now.
most other towns around here ar at least 5-10 cents cheaper than our town
Gas is like $2-ish USD/gal around here but we literally live on top of refineries.
Which, if you were here in March, you would know might be good for your wallet but not so good for your lungs.
@Dragonrage Now if only you had a gas tax of 16.4%.
17:34
is that $0.69
gas tax is included in the price anyway
If $4.20 is after-tax, then 19.6% gas tax.
17:57
I mean, I'm fairly practiced with Soulsborne and I think some older arcade games are definitely harder but 1) that was the point: to get you to spend more quarters and 2) this is literally just about the pun.
Dammit StackDriver, when I paste in a search string separated by spaces, I definitely don't want to search each word independently
Why does Google of all company suck so much at log searching
@PrivatePansy Because they went paperless.
(Has Google gone paperless?)
18:14
@Yuuki 4.20 is after tax
i think tax is around 12%
Oh damn the review guy fell through his attic @Sterno, a definite 0 experience on the rating scale
@Yuuki pretty much yes. I've gotten very few pieces of paper in my entire time here
18:32
goes to Atelier Discord to get some gameplay tips
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
 
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20:25
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Q: How to understand botw map?

user239788I kinda don't get how the map works in botw, is there a way for me to view it in an easier way? is there a way to indicate if an area has mountains or other stuff from the lines shown in the map? Or its just random? Idk how to explain but hope sm1 understands

20:57
Cc @ash @Yuuki @Wipqozn
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@GodEmperorDune facedesk
user15026
nooooo staaaaaaaahp
for (var all in tents) {
}
for (var all in purposes) {
}
let all;
for (all in tents && purposes) {
}
21:04
Ow
@Ash I mean, it's your own fault for spending time with us. YOU KNOW WE'RE TERRIBLE PUN LOVING PEOPLE.
Just the worst, really.
user15026
I know but do you gotta keep proving it lol
I mean we've got expectations to meet
Quotas to fill
@GodEmperorDune I used to have a folder that consisted only of pictures of one of my friends in various multi-story buildings throughout the world.
It was Wong on so many levels.
21:15
If you say his full name was Sum Ting Wong, I'm leaving chat
@MageXy Hi leaving chat.
I'm @Yuuki.
Ow ow ow
Since, we're on the topic, I need to re-post one that I made earlier today.
> Real life is overrated, imaginary lives are mathematically proven to be more radical.
> My girlfriend is like the square root of -100. A solid 10, but also imaginary.
21:40
oh the dusk trilogy is coming to Switch?
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Q: How can I have game-specific Steam in-game browser homepages?

senpaiIt seems the option to set the homepage for Steam's in-game browser only allows for one URL. That said, I would like to know if there is a way to enable a different homepage for different games. For example, I'd like to have a CS:GO esports site as my homepage when CS:GO is running, but want some...

I'm almost out of, "volunteers" to act as bullet sponges/fearless heroes.
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21:59
@Frank oooh ooh pick me I could hug gun things
@Frank Oh I meant to apply for that position
I mean add myself to the list
@Ash Perfect addition! Heavy munitions expert with questionable aim makes for perfect entertainment.
user15026
Yay!
Just need everybody to sign up on the Meta, so I know in which order to replace promote people.
@Wipqozn makes for a fine damage sponge. He is, by far, my most injured character.
@Frank which meta?
22:05
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Q: Let's play UFO! Create your character!

FrankWelcome to the first in a (hopefully) ongoing series of...watching me play games? I'm going to be playing a very old series titled UFO. Introduction First, a little bit about the series. It's made up of three games: Aftermath, Aftershock, and Afterlight. They all sort of follow a loose tim...

@Frank how do you like a taste of your own medicine @Wipqozn
@Dragonrage So far, you've managed to not blast him in the back when something's bearing down on you.
@Frank i shall have to work on this
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Q: What did I miss in skipping Hitman: Blood Money?

Silent AssasinI have played Hitman games my whole life now, but didn't get a chance to play blood money and instead played absolution. I feel I might have skipped something and don't like the feeling I screwed up the plot. I played all games almost completely (except codename:47) and was thinking someone cou...

@Dragonrage Ironically, the better you get, the less chance it'll happen.
So far, the most entertaining moment is having someone turn a corner straight into a couple aliens. It made for an interesting time.
22:22
@Ash Sadly, the closet thing I have to a hug gun right now is a basic shotgun. So nothing to make go boom, yet.
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SOmeday, someday the boom will come
@Frank okay, made a post
@Frank are there fire-based weapons?
@Nzall I don't recall. Maybe?
like, a flamethrower or incendiary grenades or something like that
Probably plasma based weaponry. Does that count?
22:24
yeah, I guess
You'll get it when you read the post
I did. Things that are hot. Got it.
yeah
The second game allows different ammo types. I think incendiary ammo is one of them.
hmmm stealthy rocket launchers?
@Yuuki I can try to come up with a creative interpretation.
Stealth is a stat, after all.
22:38
@Frank Ooh, me!
I will never not get tired of this bookmark.
The fact that it takes place over a mere 7 minutes is the best part.
23:11
@Yuuki hue
@Frank what are you playing? I saw you post a link to your video on youtube, but it wasn't done uploading/processing yet, and I lost the link since
@Elise It's in the Meta post now.
It'll be a link to a channel, once I figure out how that stuff works.
I never go to meta unless it's linked here, so I have no idea what's going on. meta.gaming I assume?
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Q: Let's play UFO! Create your character!

FrankWelcome to the first in a (hopefully) ongoing series of...watching me play games? I'm going to be playing a very old series titled UFO. Introduction First, a little bit about the series. It's made up of three games: Aftermath, Aftershock, and Afterlight. They all sort of follow a loose tim...

@Frank ah, nice
I'd be more than glad to volunteer myself :P
I'm generally the stealthy assassin / long range sniper type of person. Staying out of trouble keeps me alive
23:17
1 hour ago, by Frank
Just need everybody to sign up on the Meta, so I know in which order to replace promote people.
You'll fit right in with @Dragonrage, then.
Man, all this enthusiasm makes me want to play some more.
user15026
Do iiiiiiiiit
I envision many, "hold my beer, I got this" moments.
@Frank I signed up
Yay! I have enough for a full squad!
And some spares for when body armor wasn't enough.
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Q: What if you can't start the deatbrand sid quest?

Josh WhitemanI've tried starting the deathbrand side quest but it won't start plz help

23:57
> Gamers under 18 will be banned from playing online between 22:00 and 08:00. They will also be restricted to 90 minutes of gaming on weekdays and three hours on weekends and holidays.
> Gamers eight to 16 years old can spend up to 200 yuan (£22, $29) per month, while those between 16 and 18 years can spend up to 400 yuan on their gaming accounts.
Probably a good thing.
Gaming culture in the East is very different to gaming culture in the West.

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