The Bridge

Wipqozn

01:04

@3ventic Why do you think his account was hacked?

John

@Wipqozn because it was

If you got a message from me with a shady link, don't click it

Wipqozn

@John kk good to know. Was going to offer to message you on facebook, but seems you already know!

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How to make custom death messages

How can I make custom death messages appear when a certain death happens such as: fell from a high place to broke their bones. Please tell me how.

John

@Wipqozn Yep, I had about 10 messages on discord before the scammer even finished going down my friendslist, fortunately

currently playing damage control

Wipqozn

@John good to hear.

John

01:12

thanks. Only thing they took is my pride

Wipqozn

@John That's good. How's life? It's been a while.

Unionhawk

lmao I didn't even understand that may have not been real until @3ventic said something lol

Oh well I did check and it looks like they probably couldn't have stolen my steam account with that I think

John

if you tried to do it change your pw

i also thought they shouldn't be able to steal my account with that

Unionhawk

Hmm

Damn you steam openid

John

did "I" message you on steam?

i knowwww i can never trust openid ever again

@Wipqozn pretty good except for this debacle

but even this i got out of pretty unscathed

Wipqozn

01:25

@John That's good to hear

Unionhawk

And we're secure again

John

@Unionhawk I..do have you on steam, right?

what is your name

on steam

it looks like it unfriends anyone else who falls for it

and blocks everyone it attempts it on

so check your blocked list

Unionhawk

lmao

I'm unionhawk on steam

I guess if they can't change your password might as well make it harder to warn people

John

yeah exactly

Unionhawk

In any case it appears that my account is intact

John

01:30

another guy "I" messaged fell for it too and his account has unfriended and blocked me

that's good

i wonder how many other people it unfriended on my behalf :(

Unionhawk

Or at least no noticable changes

John

wait they're all still in the blocked list

i can get to them still

check your blocked list though

Unionhawk

I don't know where that is I'll look later

John

if it got as far as you unfriending me then it might've started on your friends already

sorry about that :(

Unionhawk

I assume it was the other way around

John

01:32

click your name at the top of the launcher -> friends -> blocked users

maybe idk

Unionhawk

I'm on mobile I'll look later

John

aight, sorry again :(

Unionhawk

Meh shit happens

Congrats they got a now invalid steam openid key

On a password that's old anyway and could use a rotation

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: My texture pack won't show up in client

I used the most recent article I could find to help with this and I'm still having trouble. I've triple checked my formatting, doing exactly as the article tells me to, but I can't get the pack to show up in my client. I haven't added any content yet since I want to make sure the pack works. I sa...

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John

thank goodness

unblock me and add me back when you get on xd

Unionhawk

01:37

What're they even after anyway

People with steam wallet balances?

John

i guess

people with expensive inventories

GnomeSlice

Space Sweepers | Official Trailer | Netflix

►

Unionhawk

@John done except I'm on your blocked list too apparently

John

@Unionhawk lol right

still working down the list, sorry

Unionhawk

Rest of my list looks normal though

Some dude I don't know and someone with a vac ban

John

01:41

uh oh, I see @Yuuki blocked and unfriended as well...

GnomeSlice

damn dude that's really shitty

Unionhawk

Ah yeah secure your steam account @Yuuki since it sounds like you also did the thing

John

I feel a little better knowing you guys did it too xd

but also worse knowing i'm responsible for it still

Unionhawk

Meh, some dude in like, ukraine or something is responsible

John

thanks, i need to hear that right now

i feel so bad

so many people on my list clicked it actually

Private Pansy

01:47

Ooof, how did it get past Steam guard?

John

best I can figure is they captured a steamauth openid session

and made it look convincing enough for people to put steam guard in

Unionhawk

Aaand emailed abuse@namecheap

John

what's that? :o

Unionhawk

Domain is a phish is probably abuse

And I looked up the whois and namecheap does the domain

Rest is whoisguard, panama city panama

Registered 2 days ago

John

oh nice

Unionhawk

01:54

Oh and cloudflare has an abuse form for which phishing is a category

And apparently there's some steam community mod you can message to report a phishing url

I wonder if that's why they only got registered 2 days ago lol

And thus I have launched my three pronged counterattack

Yuuki

All right, so what am I doing?

GnomeSlice

just double check your acc, @John seems to think you might have got it

Or something

I think I'm good

Unionhawk

If you logged into steam via the link @John sent, change your steam password

Yuuki

Probably, how am I securing my account?

Just change password?

Unionhawk

And check your blocked list

Yuuki

02:08

Ah, am I unblocking John?

Unionhawk

Affirmative

And if that's the only anomaly you're probably good

John

02:22

also deauthorize all other sessions @Yuuki

and check your blocked list, it seems to block everyone it attempts to scam, and unfriends the ones who click it

so you may be missing friends

like me

sorry guys :(

Yuuki

I think you were the only one blocked and I don't think I'm missing anyone on my friends list.

John

anyone it unfriends is still on your block list so you can get them all there

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How can I see the seed of my friends SMP in Minecraft?

So I want to get the seed of my friends SMP to find a slime chunk, I tried using NBTexplorer but the world wasn't there. Any ways I can get the seed (anything works)

minecraft-java-edition

Memor-X

saw a trailer for Superman and Louis, assuming it's CW because Clark looks like the one from Elsewords but not sure if it's now in the Omniverse or a Post Crisis world. anyway, main thing is that the trailer looks to be showing off what looks to be Doom Guy

first Zod in Man of Steel looks bulky like a Gear from Gears of War, now someone who looks like Doom Guy. next we'll find out that Master Chief "John" was Lex Luther all along lol

Yuuki

02:46

@Memor-X Is that a typo or the actual title?

Unionhawk

@John Changing password should do this I think

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do I get Terraria, but without steam

I dont want to pirate, but I dont have a steam and my parents probably wont let me have one

steam terraria

Memor-X

03:28

@Yuuki yeh typo, supposed to be Lois

John

@Unionhawk There is another button specifically for that so idk

Unionhawk

04:21

@John yeah I found it thanks to a cool website called arqade

John

@Unionhawk oh yeah i've heard of that website

Unionhawk

15

A: How can I log out of Steam remotely?

You can now log out on all other computers by clicking the "Deauthorize all other devices" button at https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage.

Lazers 2.0

04:37

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Lazers 2.0

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Lazers 2.0

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Lazers 2.0

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3ventic

13:14

@Wipqozn got a phishing link from the acc from someone typing like a 13-year-old

Lazers 2.0

13:34

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Q: I want to know how i make this command

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Ronan

13:57

I was going to ask if I should be offended that I didn't get messaged, but it looks like I am friends with @John

Must have just been offline at the time

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: city-siege game from the 1990s

I remember a game that had been as a demo on a CD in a GameStar in the late 1990s or early 2000s. It was some sort of city-siege / Strategy game set in something like china. I think it used an isometric view or free spinnable at a fixed angle. I also remember that you could use some rather strang...

game-identification

0

Q: How does upgrading socketables work?

I've read the Torchlight 2 wiki page about transmuting and looked around elsewhere. I understand that in order to upgrade socketables, one needs to bring three socketables to a transmuter. In my experience, transmuting three level-8 "specks" of different types results in a different (randomly-gen...

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Trish

14:10

@Lazers2.0 what's the problem with my question? I gave all I remember about the game... (though off by some 2 years...)

Ronan

We need some kind of image or dialogue or something so that people can confirm they've got the correct answer

Otherwise it's just a bunch of people guessing random games until you say "I think that might be it"

Trish

@Ronan goddangit, I am digging through what is accessible on the GameStar archive, but the CD listing (what was on a disk) is behind a paywall because it tends to be on page 121-130....

Ronan

I was just about to suggest that

Trish

it was a demo, and I think I can pinpoint it to 2001 to 2003 based on other games and covers I remember from that time, but I can't get the CD listing

Ronan

Maybe also have a look through en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_real-time_strategy_video_games in case something jogs your memory

Trish

14:22

I don't even know if the game ever go released... I just got the demo, and remembered the silly sky-lantern siege weapon.

ok, it was. 2001... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms:_Fate_of_the_Dragon

Ronan

I'm surprised you remembered it from that short wiki page, but congrats

Trish

I googled a picture.

and the number of historical Strategy games set in asia is like 3 in the timeframe: Shogun, that one, Sangokushi Battlefield

Trish

14:49

the latter was never released in europe, and online only.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Find home in hardcore minecraft with reduced debug information?

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Trish

15:06

even found a way to get a screenshot of the unit I remembered XD

Trish

15:32

@Ronan NOW I am pissed... I had pinned it down to ONE magazine 6 years and that it must have been a demo at some point, together with more items... I even found the original demo disk once I could pin it down.

Unionhawk

@Unionhawk and now flagged by cloudflare

Trish

15:53

"it must be on one of these disks and contain this that and that" should be limiting enough... :/

Nzall

16:08

@Trish let me clarify why we need an original "artifact" from the game

memories are fleeting, you might remember things wrong, and chances are you will remember things wrong

however, screenshots etc from the game don't decay and change over time like memories do

Trish

@Nzall "Is on a disk from MAgazine X in the years A to B" does not decay either.

Nzall

@Trish does it? That's your memory that tells you that it's on that disk, and that might be wrong

Trish

72 issues of Gamestar appeared between 1998 and 2003. 4/2001 (title: Black & White) had the demo.

Nzall

Because I doubt that if you actually had the disk that contained the game and could find the game on it, you'd ask the question

@Trish you remembered it was on that disk based on other games you remember being on those disks, but what if you misremembered from when those games were?

Again, we can't make any distinctions between memories. They are all fleeting and prone to changing

Trish

@Nzall I wuld have to, even if I would have found that disk because I do no longer have a CD drive. I know I once had the complete 2000-2002 years, because I dumped off those paper issues to a friend 2 years ago. But GameStar did not list all contents on the disk labels as the photo I added shows.

Nzall

16:16

@Trish We still wouldn't allow the question though

Because there are A TON of games on those disks, like dozens in total

so we'd have to have another way to know what game you were talking about, and then we're to gameplay and graphics, which are memories

Trish

The "Historical strategy" "Asia" genre is tiny

Nzall

@Trish you might remember it as being a historical strategy game set in Asia, but again, that's your memory

It might as well have been alternate history in a world conquered by the Chinese in 400 AD

and you thought it was historical strategy set in Asia

Trish

@Nzall of which there are exactly 0 games in existance.

Wrigglenite

Game identification questions are not allowed without a screenshot or something else tangible

That's all there is to it

Nzall

@Trish that was just an example. Let's turn it around: let's say you misremembered the game as being what I proposed, but it turned out to be a historical strategy game set in Asia

Wrigglenite

16:20

I'm glad you found the game you were looking for, but the question can't be asked here

Nzall

We wouldn't know what game you were talking about

Trish

you both DO realize that a) nobody told me about the policy but instead just voted down b) voted down the correct answer, c) NEVER LEFT A REPLY and d) if I hadn't been an experienced SE user, I would not have sed chat to get help?!

Wrigglenite

The close notice has all the necessary guidance

Trish

which came well after I answered and withot names for who voted.

Nzall

@Trish you're an experienced user and you didn't bother to read the help section to see if your question was allowed?

... Did you just flag my chat message because you didn't like it?

Trish

16:24

@Nzall there is no warning attatched to the game-identification.

Nzall

> USE WITH CAUTION: Only ask if you have a screenshot, video, or audio clip from the game you want to identify.

literally there in the Tag Wiki

gaming.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic

> Requests for game identification based on personal recollection alone. Read here for more information on the close reason, and read here for some helpful tips on how to identify a game when we can't help.

Trish

@Nzall No comment, vote to close without names of who voted... that is not how you should react to someone joining the stack.

Unionhawk

I actually did not know the system hid the names, the box suggests that it should be visible to the asker

In any case that's not really relevant, how does knowing that I cast the fifth and final vote help in any way?

Trish

@Unionhawk it is most decidedly NOT.

@Unionhawk it helps to know who to ask what IS the error.

Unionhawk

You can ask anybody with the reopen votes privilege

Trish

16:40

lemme try to extract the MOST obscure information from that game files from the demo disk then...

(if I can get the ISO to run)

Wrigglenite

Your question is off-topic

That's all there is to it

Trish

@Wrigglenite in the shape asked

Wrigglenite

And now that you found the game, you don't need to ask the question anymore

I hope you have a pleasant day

Trish

@Wrigglenite actually, the tone of how I was handled did ruin a fine evening.

All was fine with Ronan pointing me to the list that actually helped. But everything else?! decidedly not fine.

Nzall REPEATEDLY insulted my memory of 4 very general things. I would understand such if I would have described... "pixelmess game with a surprisingly fluid character jumping down corridors to safe a princess that needs two disks." Because one fact missing in the statement that makes the game properly identifiable in that only the pirated version of Prince of Persia wouldn't fit on one 3.5 disk.

Sepia Lazers

17:01

-1

Q: Be more friendly!

Yes, a game-research question should contain a picture or something.. I had remembered a Demo was on a CD that is dated A to B in Magazine X and the genre as well as setting. So I asked my case. I had managed to wittle it down to about 6 years of the magazine when I asked, I knew the title of the...

discussion closing

SaintWacko

@Trish It wasn't a personal insult. Human memory is extremely fallible. Therefore, we do not allow game identification questions based purely on memory, and that is the end of it. We don't make exceptions, because then everyone will ask for an exception.

Unionhawk

well and it's also that we don't all have that same reference point so a voter won't know what they're looking at is right unless it's an accepted answer

Trish

@SaintWacko the way he formulated it, it WAS.

also, let's suppose someone heard... a talk about *a game written by Jordan Mechner* in which someone mentioned a game that played upside down if the floppy disk was inserted upside down. I know you know which game that is. Not allowable, right? Because memory is fleeting. But if you can point to the talk, you don't need to ask the question.
It's Karateka on Apple II btw.

Wrigglenite

This is not the place to discuss our policies

The appropriate place for that is Meta

Trish

17:18

I do not discuss the politic. I fight that one user repeatedly insulted me.

Wrigglenite

This also not the place for that. Feel free to flag messages you think are offensive if you think they should be flagged.

John

17:30

@Ronan I logged them out before they were done hitting my whole list

Nzall

17:59

@Unionhawk Wooh boy, I just went for dinner and come back to a load of drama

Honest question: did I really say something wrong during the past conversation?

Trish

@Nzall YES.

You formulated it in neither a kind, nor a friendly way, insinuating I could not remember 3 things. THAT hurts.

Nzall

@Trish 1) I was talking about the general reason why we don't allow memory-based identification questions: we don't know if the user remembered the circumstances correctly, and if they for some reason had a wrong memory of the event, we have no way of knowing that

If it makes it clearer: the "you" was not meant as "you, Trish", but rather, "the person who asks a memory-based identification question"

Trish

@Nzall That would have given your answer a totally different tone. Because you know tone is not a feature that text contains. You is the person one talks to in a chat, not usually "A Querrant".

Unionhawk

@Nzall I think in general it would be more helpful to point someone to resources to find an answer if needed, and the better rationale is closer to "because only the asker can verify that an answer is right"

Nzall

@Trish That's probably an artifact of the way I talk. I tend to have a more clinical and detached way of discussing impersonal stuff like policies and rules

Rest assured: it was not my intention to insult your memory

Trish

18:17

Arquade decidedly lacks a question about Karateka... someone should ask the most asked Broderbond Customer Support question of 1984: WHY is my copy of Karateka playing upside down?

GnomeSlice

youtube.com/…

SaintWacko

18:51

@GnomeSlice Well that's pretty damned cool

Trish

urg.... there is no Karateka Tag. Nor an Apple II one. Or a Broderbund one....

Ronan

Some of the tracks are pretty similar, but others have whole sounds that are absent from the in game versions

Trish

Which tag to use if the real one doesn't exist?

Unionhawk

@Trish you can just use like pc or something and someone with permissions will create an appropriate tag

Trish

it was Apple II...

Unionhawk

18:57

@Trish I understand that, but since we don't have an appropriate tag yet and can't have an appropriate tag until you ask your question, just ask it with a placeholder tag and someone will fix it after the fact

It's just one of the quirks of how we use tags

Trish

yea... I used the other Mechner game.

@Unionhawk would you mind? gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/381695/…

Unionhawk

@Trish I'm actually on mobile and for some reason the system doesn't let you create tags on mobile, but someone will get it before I get home I hope

And if not I'll get to it when I get home

Lazers 2.0

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Q: minecraft server error

I've been getting this error for a very long time while trying to create a minecraft server with my friends. this is the error code: 06.02 20:50:53 [Server] main/INFO Environment: authHost='https://authserver.mojang.com', accountsHost='https://api.mojang.com', sessionHost='https://sessionserver.m...

minecraft-java-edition technical-issues

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Q: Is the Upside-Down "feature" of Karateka endemic to the Apple II?

According to Jason Scott, 1984 saw Broderbund's Customer Service answer the following error quite a lot. The question came up because Jordan Mechner and the company found it funny to increase the manufacturing costs for an easter egg: My screen is upside down! How do I fix that?! Of course, the...

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Nzall

19:19

@Trish I've edited the tag in. it's the least I could do after our discussion

GnomeSlice

19:39

How Metroid Fusion Creates Fear

►

Trish

@Nzall thanks... but... I don't get it... what is wrong with a well constrained question, that asks about one feature for which I provided evidence on one system but could not find to exist in another?

GnomeSlice

This is an interesting watch even if you havent played the game

really good analysis

Trish

@GnomeSlice jason scott or the Karateka upside down?

GnomeSlice

What?

metroid fusion not karateka

Oh, I'm talking about the youtube video I just shared

Trish

@GnomeSlice that channel did neither look at Karateka, nor Prince of Persia, both of which used rotoscoping to create the most fluid movement of their time. They pretty much were the forerunners of motion capture...

GnomeSlice

19:46

Cool?

Unionhawk

@Trish I'm not the downvoter and I don't know who is but my guess is someone doesn't think it's a useful question. I think it's fine personally

And for information there are 0 close votes and as far as I'm concerned this is probably on topic

Trish

@Unionhawk certainly as much as "are clothes in Oregon Trail useful"

it might be obscure, because you'd need to get an original copy of any of the systems and try to run the disk upside down... but... certainly answerable...

Unionhawk

For sure

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: So I’m on a school iPad right now and they won’t let me play Minecraft😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Why don’t they let me play Minecraft on a school iPad

minecraft-java-edition

Raven Dreamer

20:33

@Wipqozn After 300+ hours

Wipqozn

@RavenDreamer STop shaming me and my small hour count!

SHAAAAAME (on me)

Also that's awesome

Raven Dreamer

347 hours... lol.

Less than Monster Hunter World, though.

And tbf, that play count is inflated, b/c there's definitely a lot of tabbed out with the game paused in there. :D

Wipqozn

@RavenDreamer Gotta idle for them hats

Raven Dreamer

Double-pope crown is the best.

Wipqozn

I've been playing a lot of roguelike the last couple months

Raven Dreamer

20:37

(Except not actually. That thing is hella ugly)

Wipqozn

What was the last achievement you got?

Raven Dreamer

Death Did Us Part (as shown), but I was saving that because it was so easy.

Wipqozn

ah okay

that's why I wasn't sure

Raven Dreamer

The ACTUAL last one was, "have a lover save you from a murder attempt"

Took me 3 days before I found a setup.

Wipqozn

BAsically it's a really easy one, so I didn't think it woudl be last haha

Raven Dreamer

20:39

Mother of us All was definitely the longest, but the hardest was actually "Form Portugal", at least for me.

Wipqozn

nifty! Was there been any word on an expansion yet?

Trish

@RavenDreamer you took 300 hours to murder your spouse? I managed in 30 minutes... ok, I started with a terrible spouse and had to make my son inherit my spouse's kingdom after removing his half-siblings...

Raven Dreamer

Nope! But I really hope it adds some more commerce aspects to things. I like developing things up, but building the same 3 buildings in every county got boring.

Trish

motehr of all is TERRIBLE... you have to constantly destroy old-bori uprisings....

Wipqozn

@RavenDreamer That would be nice.

Raven Dreamer

20:46

Yeah, I was lucky enough to do it when you could ask people to convert and they'd auto-convert their capital county at the same time.

Once that got patched, I'd imagine it's a lot harder.

Yuuki

20:59

hmmm what to do today

atelier, ffxiv, could buy valheim...

could do some apex solo

Trish

21:33

@Yuuki Sid Meirs Civilisation For Networks.

Unionhawk

I'm doing some vatsim atc because I saw a few planes in and outbound at one of the airports I'm certified at

I should be getting my major ground student soon though so I won't have to just take tiny airports all the time lol

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Q: How come when I try to join my friends server on my iphone it says ‘unable to connect to the world’?

It lets me join their server on my ipad and xbox though. And we are on the same version and my wifi works

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Lazers 2.0

22:32

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Q: How do you set durability AND add a enchant onto a item?

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