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Q: What game is being promoted in this Xbox Games Pass advertisement

I’ve seen this game on my Xbox home page for about two weeks now but I can’t immediately identify what it is. Selecting the advertisement takes me to a page where I’m prompted to purchase Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, but doesn’t provide information on what game was used in the promotion. Here is the ...

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Unionhawk

03:37

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I hate this

A million xp in the past few days and I'm still not even halfway to 99

GnomeSlice

04:29

When Classical meets Electronic Music | Apashe's Album Documentary

Lazers 2.0

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Q: I don't understand some of the berry names

I've been wondering this for a while now. I have been making a lot of curry in pokemon SWSH, and the names of some of these berries don't make any sense. I mean, i know a pecha berry is really a peach, and a pinap berry is a pinapple, but what's a leppa berry supposed to be?? Please read this lis...

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Lazers 2.0

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Q: Are there spiders in Metamorphosis?

I recently bought Metamorphosis, but after finding some cobwebs in an early level, I'm worried there might be spiders in the game that may or may not trigger my arachnophobia. Are there spiders in Metamorphosis?

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Elva

09:02

Morning chat

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Q: what is the command for clearing your entire world of blocks?

command for clearing whole world of blocks

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Ave

10:21

@Elva morning

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ToxicFrog

11:52

Nooooo my IRC proxy :(

Elva

=o

It stopped working?

ToxicFrog

12:13

Yeah, the library I'm using to talk to chat.se throws as soon as I call get_current_users_in_room, looks like the JS has changed on chat.SE's side

ToxicFrog

12:27

Aah, it looks like this is fixed in HEAD, I've just been very lazy about updating my deps...

ToxicFrog

12:42

It lives, it breathes, it hungers!

GnomeSlice

13:23

Terry Goodkind died io9.gizmodo.com/…

Nzall

13:34

@GnomeSlice oh fuck

Sword of Truth was the first major book series I read in English

ToxicFrog

14:05

While I have fond nostalgia for the first book, the series went completely off the rails very quickly (or rather: the author started saying the quiet part loud) and Goodkind himself was a massive shithead.

That said, I thought he was already dead

Yuuki

I think I remember putting him in the same category as Heinlein.

Which was somewhat like "People seem to like this writer but I can't fathom this outlook on the world".

Nzall

@ToxicFrog Yeah, the books quickly turned into a biting commentary on communism and neutrality

Elva

@GnomeSlice awww

@Nzall also mine!

Nzall

Since then, I've graduated to Cosmere and Dresden Files

Elva

I was way too young to read it - especially the very-very-bdsm bits but sshhhhh

Nzall

14:17

speaking of that last one: I just read the Battle Ground E-book

Like, spent all of Sunday binging it

Elva

It's soooo gooooood

Nzall

Harry just can't catch a break, now can he

Elva

Nup, he cannot

Nzall

Also, that brick joke with the anvil

Elva

Darned conjuritis :p

Yuuki

14:20

I kinda lost interest in the Dresden Files after like the third book or something. Something about introducing the Knights of the Cross made me apprehensive about the progression of the story.

Nzall

@Yuuki What were you worried about?

Yuuki

@Nzall Mostly the scale of the books. I liked it more when it was street-level stuff.

Nzall

@Yuuki yeah, it does get some serious Serial Escalation stuff

Elva

It's definitly gone uuh, big-scale... Yet it also manages to keep it kinda focussed in some ways?

Yuuki

As soon as you introduce something clearly artifact-y as "sword made from the nails of the True Cross", that's a big hint that you're heading towards apocalypse-level stakes.

Nzall

14:22

I mean, that was Butcher's plan all along

Elva

Blah how to spoiler

Nzall

he's already stated that once he's done with the 21 main series books, he's gonna do a grand finale trilogy that he called the BAT: Big Apocalyptic Trilogy

Elva

Oh right there's no spoilers in chat right?

Yuuki

I mean, good for him, but I already got that from him with Codex Alera.

Nzall

Oh believe me, Codex Alera is small scale compared to Dresden Files

SaintWacko

14:24

@Nzall Oh good, that is what we're talking about!

@Yuuki Aw, they're some of my favorite characters!

Yuuki

Oh, if it gets up to "multiversal apocalypse", then there is no functional difference between that and "end of a world" for me.

SaintWacko

I should read Codex Alera

I really enjoy the Dresden Files

Have any of you watched the TV show?

Elva

Honestly though, it still feels very person-driven, he does stuff because his friends are in danger, not because the world is

Yuuki

@SaintWacko I wouldn't say I disliked the characters specifically, but more that I was/am worried about what they represented.

Elva

@SaintWacko I have

SaintWacko

14:25

@Yuuki Ah, that's fair

Nzall

@Yuuki What did you think they represent?

SaintWacko

@Elva I know it gets panned, but I really enjoyed it

Yuuki

@Nzall The "hey, there's going to be a major shift in the scale of the conflict in these books" hint?

Elva

It was a good series in my opinion (if memory serves). Would have been great with another season or two to get going

Spoilers: The biggest battle ground so far is a city

Hrmm is the spoiler room open? We should move there

Nzall

@Yuuki Well, it scales up slowly, but there does end up being a shift towards bigger threats as the story evolves

Whereas Harry in the earlier books deals with rogue wizards, werewolves and vampires, in later books the threats come from far more powerful things, and in the last 3-4 books the overarching threat over the entire series has been revealed

ToxicFrog

14:41

@SaintWacko I bailed on Dresden Files a few books in but I enjoyed Codex Alera, would recommend

MBraedley

14:53

@SaintWacko I enjoyed the show as well, but I was informed that I might not hold that opinion had I read the books.

Niro

@GnomeSlice I just finished this game the other day. Surprised at how short it was, but I picked it up for $1, so I guess that's fine.

Elva

@MBraedley it's not so bad as the jarring disconnect between the sword of truth and legend of the seeker, but it is rather different

It's definitely not just the books but on tv

ToxicFrog

I'm just wrapping up Remnant from the Ashes, which is a fun game (Diablo 2 × Myst × Resident Evil 4, basically) brought down by an incredibly poorly thought out weapon upgrade/difficulty scaling system

Yuuki

15:12

@ToxicFrog I just likened it to Dark-Souls-with-guns-but-not-Bloodborne. And I definitely agree that the difficulty curve is all over the place.

Some bosses are super easy and then you get a spike out of nowhere and then it's not nearly that hard again.

ToxicFrog

Aesthetically it has some Dark Souls vibe but I think that comparison is pretty misleading overall, because it doesn't handle like souls at all.

Like, stamina isn't used for attacks, there's no blocking, melee is seriously de-emphasized (and underdeveloped) while ranged clearly got all the attention, weapon mods replace spells, there are no corpse runs, all levels and most loot are randomly generated, and there are no corpse runs

I mean, you have the whole "resting at a bonfire refills your healing and respawns enemies" thing, but apart from that...

The thing with the difficulty curve is that all areas are scaled to your estimated power level (based on your weapons and armour) with a level floor for each level, except it scales based on the most heavily upgraded item you have for each slot

So if you have a +5 sniper rifle but you put it in your backpack to try out your new +2 sporebloom, it will still scale as if you had a +5 weapon

And if you put lots of upgrades into your weapons while neglecting your armour, enemies will scale up with that, so now you will hit comparatively harder but also die in one hit.

And you can't ignore upgrades because of the level floor.

So all it really does is (a) act as a sink for scrap (which is barely used otherwise) and iron (which isn't used at all) and (b) penalize you for wanting to experiment with different loadouts.

(it does mean you can briefly get ahead of the scaling by entering an area so that it generates, then leaving, upgrading your gear, and returning -- the area won't scale up further once you've visited it for the first time. But the next area will then scale up to match your upgraded gear.)

I actually found the difficulty to be pretty even, they did a good job with the tuning -- but they could have gotten the same result by fixing every zone at level 2 and removing weapon/armour upgrades as a mechanic entirely.

Yuuki

15:37

@ToxicFrog Melee is definitely underdeveloped but one specific build is pretty strong.

I maxed all my healing talents and healing effectiveness and used Riven.

I drain-tanked the Undying King, the guy couldn't kill me.

Sure, blocking isn't a thing but I never did much blocking in Dark Souls anyways so maybe I feel it's more similar to Dark Souls because of my playstyle.

ToxicFrog

15:52

I never did much blocking either, but I relied heavily on chaining dodges into attacks which is something you flat out cannot do in this game.

The melee movesets are a lot less developed.

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Q: Retrieve chat log during game

I am trying to develop an application that needs to retrieve the ingame chat during your own game. This can't be done by storing my own inputs because I want to retrieve game chat from all players in my team (so just the team chat). I have tried to use tesseract to read the text from an image but...

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Unionhawk

I like that hyrule warriors is giving us an accurate Purah, biologically older but chronologically younger than she was in BotW twitter.com/TristanACooper/status/1313480781520670721?s=19

Yuuki

16:08

I also like that Impa isn't a cut-and-paste of OoT Impa.

She actually looks like Paya's grandmother.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Echo Echo xbox one

Echo Problem. Turtle beach xbox one mic . This annoys my friends. Please help menter link description heree .

Yuuki

16:30

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> Action-Fantasy Film 'Jiu Jitsu' - Starring Nicolas Cage - About an ancient order of expert Jiu Jitsu fighters facing alien invaders in a battle for Earth every six years. Cage’s character and his team of Jiu Jitsu fighters band together to defeat the Brax, the alien leader.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: I tried to find word in Mount Anthor but it seems that I have read the word, even though I haven't had that word. Why?

I noticed that I have only one word for ice form. Arngeir does not show me any more words. So I look up the web and try to find those words my self. I went to https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Ice_Form It says that the words are in Frostmere Crypt, Mount Anthor, and Saarthal Because I already ...

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Lazers 2.0

17:10

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Q: inviting friends to your server minecraft java

I know that if you create a single player and then change it into a server you can invite your friends to play together, but i wanted to know if i can change the settings so that only my friends who i invited are allowed to join. Just incase someone ramdomly found my server and went inside to des...

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Sterno

17:34

@Yuuki But why though?

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MBraedley

18:38

@Sterno Because Nick Cage needs money

Private Pansy

It is very on brand for him though

Lazers 2.0

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Q: I was wondering about skins in csgo

Is it possible to somehow apply and remove skins on your equipped weapon using commands through the in game console, or do you have to change the files in csgo?

counter-strike-global-offensive

Sterno

19:00

I child-proofed my house, but they still get in.

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Wipqozn

@Sterno I laugh at this

@Sterno Are your kids doing Trick or Treating this year?

Or shall you HOLD OFF due to Covid?

Sterno

While I think it would probably be 99.9% safe, they're not doing it.

If I had them in school right now, then I'd say no problem

Wipqozn

I thought schooled reopened? or did you hold them back?

since I'm pretty sure skydrift is old enough to be schooling. Grade 1 or 2 I thought.

Sterno

We're doing remote schooling

Wipqozn

That's great

Sterno

19:08

It's a thing, for sure

:P

We're part of the 20% or so in the district who went remote. The other 80% are back in schools physically

Wipqozn

lol basically it 's just great you can school y our kids in a more safe manner than tossing them into the school it self

I'm sure the actual remote thing is a nightmare.

that's how my bosses oldest cihild finished school last year. Remote. Sounds like it was quite the disorganized mess.

Sterno

The numbers being reported for positive cases are actually lower than I would have expected so far. I think only 9 students at the elementary level so far

We'll see what happens over the winter

Remote is better now than it was in spring when they had to jump to it with no notice, but it's still rough. My kids are also at the age though where it's not like they're trying to learn calculus

Wipqozn

I think we only have 1 active case in the province right now. Schools didn't experience a blow up. THanksgiving is this weekend though, so we might see a blow up after that if people travel outside of the province for it.

SaintWacko

We actually pulled my son out of the public school system because their virtual learning was crap

My daughter's going in to middle school and they've been doing great

Sterno

What age is your son?

SaintWacko

19:21

He just turned 9

Sterno

Did you mean your daughter is going in physically, or is she still virtual and doing great? If the latter, what do you think the difference is?

SaintWacko

My daughter is in a charter school, so they use a different system

Sterno

Ah

MBraedley

Well, I let a bug slip through code review (someone else made the changes, I reviewed). Luckily not a critical bug.

Sterno

Meanwhile, the high school has had 64 positive cases so far since mid-August

And honestly, I'm surprised that hasn't spread and accelerated too.

SaintWacko

19:24

She's still virtual and doing great. The teachers are more engaged, and they're using a virtual school product rather than just trying to teach virtually

If that makes sense

We put my son into Epic and it's so much more organized

And they're using a virtual curriculum as well

MBraedley

@SaintWacko Along the lines of using all of Google Classroom vs only using GMail and Google Meet?

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How do the new Rocket League ranks match up to the old ranks?

The ranks in Rocket League have changed slightly after going F2P: Changes aren't only happening at the top. We're working to soft reset the rest of the ranks to account for incoming players picking up Rocket League for the first time. This means Ranks will shift closer to the median Rank (close ...

Mad Scientist

20:05

Poseidon/Zeus is a really nasty combination. My dash did more damage than my weapons in this case as it was the only one with the Poseidon boon until just before the final boss.

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Q: Learn 2 Fly Money Glitch

So today I was playing Learn To Fly 2 (Learn 2 fly), and the game stopped for a few minutes. when it restarted, I had over three billion dollars! How would I replicate this to get rich?

Private Pansy

I found a neat combo where Zeus/Artemis combo meant my bloodstone would continuously zap nearby enemies, and Athena allowed me to defect enemy projectiles, so I just shoot bloodstones out and dash around dodging enemies until they get zapped to death

This unfortunately doesn't work in the Styx - the levels are too tight to dodge and you need to destroy the enemies faster

Mad Scientist

The Athena dash is extremely good

Poseidon absolutely destroys enemies in Styx

Private Pansy

The combo worked so well in the Elysium boss fight I nearly finished it without taking damage. Then completely failed in the Styx. So lesson learnt there.

Wipqozn

@MadScientist yeah I love Poseidon

Mad Scientist

20:19

Witch Island was my biggest problem in this run, without any reflection this is a nightmare

@Wipqozn Generally yes, but I once made the mistake to take him with the fists

I liked the Demeter cast at first, but now I mostly find it too slow and too much effort for the passive damage.

Private Pansy

I feel like I'd never be able to use the fists - it just requires dodging skills I don't have

Mad Scientist

Using the fists helped me to learn to dodge, so I could finally beat the final boss

My biggest success before was with Exagryph and cluster bombs, which does tend to cause enough visual distraction that you can't concentrate on dodging

Private Pansy

I only reached the Styx once and I realized I probably should build for it from the start now

The levels are so different and quite unforgiving

Mad Scientist

You know that you can heal from the poison?

You don't have to build for Styx, you just have to get used to it

Private Pansy

20:36

You don't get the HP back, no?

But yeah, maybe that

Mad Scientist

the yellow fountains stop the poison

you don't get the health back

Private Pansy

It's just I didn't expect to have to fight in such close quarters.

Probably over-relying on ranged is a mistake

The game definitely wants you to get gud

Mad Scientist

Ranged can work. But if you don't have overwhelming dps you need to dodge the stuff there somewhat

the biggest barrier for me wasn't Styx, it was the final boss

@PrivatePansy how many escape attempts do you have?

Private Pansy

I think... 12? 14?

Mad Scientist

My first win was somewhere above 30, though I think I was worse there than the average

user15026

20:54

Grabbed Hades for Switch because I had some Gold Points kicking about. So I shall try it tonight and see how absolutely terribly I do.

Yuuki

oh yeah, baldur's gate 3 out today

well, "out"

it's early access

Private Pansy

I'm mostly in awe at just the production value of the game. I thought they were crazy to fully voice Pyre, seeing how every game creates a branched path, but Hades is an order of magnitude more impressive

I'm at the stage where I can reliably fight to the first world boss, and she has not repeated a single line of dialogue

user15026

Wow, that's pretty great

user15026

I look forward to dying a million times, this looks like one of those games I think I will like even though I will be roundly bad at it

Mad Scientist

@PrivatePansy I'm at run 73, and there is still always new dialogue in each one

@Ash there is a god mode in the setting that gives you some damage resistance

not so much that it would break the game

Wipqozn

21:19

@Ash Dying a lot is kind of the point though, so it's fine

Unionhawk

I should grab hades

user15026

@MadScientist Ywah, thats one of the reasons I picked it up

Unionhawk

It is one of those games that understands that you're dying which is fun

Like bosses will comment about how they've killed you several times already

user15026

21:55

That's pretty great, I like that

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk Yeah. I like how the "casual" death is for these immortals.

It's such a great premise for a roguelike, where repeatedly dying fits the narrative

Dragonrage

22:28

we actually had someone ask a proper game-id question. amazing

GnomeSlice

RIP Eddie Van Halen

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Was Half-Life controversial for casting the US military as the enemy?

In the original Half-Life, Marine Corps units storm the Black Mesa facility a little while after the resonance cascade, with orders to kill not just the invading aliens, but any human witnesses as well. They become perhaps the primary enemies for the player throughout the middle section of the ga...

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