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Evening, Bridge!
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Q: Does Syndra's Scatter the Weak damage scale with spheres?

Sadly NotSyndra's Scatter the Weak does a number of things that are a little hard to understand: (Active): Knocks enemies and Dark Spheres back, dealing magic damage to them and any enemies they collide with. The distance of the knockback increases depending on how close the affected units are to ...

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@Fluttershy Evening :D
Weekend.
user15026
00:32
I feel like playing video games but I am stuck and frustrated with everything I am playing. stompy dragon
00:48
The Arqade [QA] Guild now exists upon the face of Tyria! Message me in game to join the ranks of Arqade's Guild Wars 2 Legions!
I just got boned hard in FTL
@RavenDreamer My word.
You already have an invite.
@RavenDreamer I'm such a cool guy.
00:55
Nah, you're third resort, after FAE and Tristan.
@Sterno Sorry I can't sympathize, because I have no idea how to read that.
@Sterno Every time I see beacon I read it as bacon. Mmmmhmmm, bacon...
@fbueckert Just tried out MechJeb. It makes the game too easy IMHO.
@RavenDreamer Ding!
Congrats, houseplant.
@RavenDreamer Thanks!
01:15
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Q: How do I keep up with the power curve?

TacroyI've played through several times on Normal, and after about three sectors I invariably find that I'm utterly outclassed by every enemy ship I encounter - my weapons can't do more than tickle them before they batter down my shields and blow me up, no matter what I do. How do I keep up with the ga...

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Q: Do you have to host a game to count as beating it?

UllallullooI mainly play Dungeon Defenders by just joining someone else's game. Does beating levels like that count or do you have to host them from your tavern? I ask mainly because I want to unlock skins and stuff, but if it doesn't count for achievements or something, that'd be nice to know as well.

01:47
@agent86 We gave just about the same advice
02:20
@Sterno lol, indeed! more evidence that it's a good strategy.
I've found that my more recent plays with the retail version have seemed much harder
I get owned about halfway through every time on easy even :/
hi guys!
It's been awhile!
typically I could make it all the way to the last sector on easy previously
@spugsley spugly pls
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@agent86 really....really? Really. That's how you welcome me. Yeah.
@spugsley hey, it gets me stars. can't argue!
suddenly I remember why I've been absent
02:21
Hi Spugly!
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Q: Are PS+ Games Free Games Shareable With Other Accounts On the Same PS3?

Dog G6When I get PS+, will other accounts on my PS3 be able to access the game as long as my account with PS+ has a subscription? Or are the games only accessible to my account, even if the other accounts are on the same console? Thanks.

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Q: Shield Upgrade needs a System Upgrade

The JugWhen I first upgrade my shielding to 3 bars, I tried powering it up. However it says "Requires System Upgrade". What system upgrade do I need to power this up? I have enough reactor energy so I'm not sure what I need. Do I have to buy it from a merchant?

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Q: How do Power and Compassion affect my abilities?

Raven DreamerI know that Power increases the damage of direct abilities, Condition Damage improves conditions, and Healing Power (Compassion) improves the heal effects. But by how much? Do damaging abilities get a linear bonus to damage based on your power? (Does +1 power = +1 damage?) Do healing abilities ...

just kidding!
@spugsley :P
@agent86 :)
tackles @spugsley
Oh, hai.
Didn't see you there.
02:22
@RavenDreamer oh my :3
I suddenly remember why I decided to come back
just kidding!
OMG WHO WANTS TO SEE A HUGE ASS SPIDER?
it's the biggest spider I've ever seen: society6.com/SamanthaPugsley/Spider-VkC_Print
It's eating AN ENTIRE MOTH
@spugsley okay, no, I have to sleep tonight.
also, shameless look at my photography plug woot woot
WASNT THE SCORPION ENOUGH?!?
I found moths nesting in my panko breadcrumbs the other day
that was nasty
@agent86 ha. The scorpion. As if there was only one. How adorable.
@agent86 O-o I cook with panko all the time. Thanks for this.
@RavenDreamer That's a fake. I've seen a few shops in my day. I can tell by the pixels.
@spugsley hor goes the job search
how
@RavenDreamer well, I wasn't really looking, but I did stumble upon a paid internship with St. Jude's Research Hospital. I have an interview Monday
Oooh! Good luck!
Also, wat. You gonna make Ian do all the heavy lifting?
That's like, submitting yourself to an eternity of gloating
You don't want that.
02:27
@RavenDreamer I'm super super super busy on campus this semester. I started a student org and it's a time whore
I actually have to wake up at 6am tomorrow for it :(
02:43
That's unfortunate.
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Q: Order and chaos bugged quest

The deadric warriorWho yesterday I started order and chaos online and I've done a few quests but now I'm on the quest where you have to go to a broken wagon and speak to ninarla but the problem is....she isn't there she is in another part of the world spying on goblins

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Q: What are all the zone bosses?

Terry ChiaI know some zones have "zone bosses" that provides quite an epic fight as well as a reward chest at the end of the event. Sunless, Shatterer and Claw of Jormag are the three i know of. Does anyone have a more complete list of zones and their bosses?

03:11
@agent86 I think overall it feels about the same, though I've run into a few ships with supershields, which I hadn't seen previously
@spugsley Is it a baby-punching organization?
Steve Smith's Guide to Baby Punching should be required reading for it.
You can’t just go punch a baby right away. You gotta watch them for a bit, so you can pick up on their tendencies. No need to rush. Like this one time, I noticed that whenever this one lady said HOORAY to her baby, the baby raised her arms. That opens up a great path for your fist.
03:55
I really need to stop playing Dungeon Defenders.
> I’ve punched a lot of things: women, cars, walls, dogs, mirrors, bathroom stall partitions, antelope, Ken Lucas’ stupid face, vaginas, and car rental clerks. BUT BABY PUNCHING IS THE BEST PUNCHING YOU CAN GET.
@MBraedley My take is to use it only for things you can already do yourself.
It takes the tedium out of things you know how to do.
 
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05:14
Hi chat.
Hey @Mana:
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Q: Mods in Minecraft single- and multi-player

AhiruAt the beginning I would like to apologize for the mistakes that I made below ^^' I have a question about mods for Minecraft. I fumbled on the internet recently and I liked a few of them. I would like to play with them a little bit, but it is one thing that bothers me. The person with whom I pla...

 
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09:34
/me is still surprised that Black Mesa actually released. First TF2, then DNF, and now Black Mesa. What are we supposed to make jokes about taking forever about now?
I guess HL3, but it's pretty clear Valve isn't actually working on that to any great extent, unlike the others.
10:10
@Macha Suggestion:
Elite 4 (sometimes written Elite IV) is a video game proposed by Frontier Developments, specifically by David Braben. Third sequel Elite 4 will be the third sequel to 1984's Elite, a game that Braben and his former associate, Ian Bell, wrote for the BBC Micro computer, and which was ported to most other platforms of the day. The first two sequels, ' and ', were released in the 1990s, after Braben and Bell had had an acrimonious falling out. David Braben has stated production of Elite 4 is ready to begin after the release of The Outsider. During a lecture in June, 2009, Braben confirmed that...
10:30
/me is so bad at FTL.
@MartinSojka Hadn't heard of that one before now
@Macha is it?
Haven't they said a lot that they have other priorities? First L4D2, then Portal 2, then Dota 2.. And of course TF2 always
L4D2 shipped, Portal 2 shipped, CS:GO shipped, Big Picture shipped, New Community shipped, Workshop shipped, Greenlight shipped, Steam for Mac shipped
A lot of resources are freeing up in these months
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Q: How do you breed a Paper Dragon in Dragonvale?

EBongoBackflip studios has announced the one year anniversary of Dragonvale will include a limited dragon called the Paper Dragon. What is the best dragon combination to breed it and what is its breeding time?

Sure, there's still TF2 and DOTA 2 and Steam for Linux and Alternate Reality and Big Picture for Mac and whatnot
but the only one Valve game that's actually in the works right now is, most likely, Half Life +1.
10:39
Until Valve says "Right, we're working on HL3/HL2:E3 now", it's not in the same category of DNF/Black Mesa IMO. Yes it's taking forever, but they're not saying it's nearly done or claiming to be hard at work on it.
@Macha They don't want to claim it because they already made the mistake too many times in the past.
It's a fact, though, that Valve has just finished working on a lot of other stuff.
Who knows, maybe Half Life 3 will be the launching title of the Steam Console in 2016 :P
Speaking of HL, BM is like 70% downloaded. I've only ever played the MP of HL1 :P
11:00
lol, RPS linking directly to TPB, probably a first.
TPB is a cheap and easy way to host your games and make them trivially searchable from a platform a lot of gamers know anyway, so why not? :)
@Macha McPixel
12:47
@RonanForman looks like a nice game, but a bit expensive compared to what you get imo
@Blem I'm pretty sure the games can last much longer, I only got to sector 2.
Oh hey! Torchlight 2 can be preloaded on Steam. =D
@RonanForman That's a nice pink colour you painted your rooms in.
@MartinSojka It means they're low on oxygen.
@RonanForman I know. ;)
13:10
@fbueckert I just logged on to D3. Weapons way better than mine are super cheap
13:29
@Sterno I love when that happens!
> You control a spaceship and you mission is to not die for a bit.
@RonanForman your*
You can edit it you know.
@RonanForman I'd prefer to just point out your mistake.
13:54
@LessPop_MoreFizz <3
14:05
@Mana How goes Guild Wars 2?
Haven't been on in a week -- my life is become school.
> Last year there were 21 anti-heterosexual hate crimes committed in the US. In other words, 21 people were targets of crime because the offender was angry that they were not gay.
@Mana Yes, I see that on your Facebook.
@YiJiang Source?
@Wipqozn I posted that after I wrote the chat message. I rather liked the sound of it.
@Mana I see.
14:17
I SAW SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IN A REFLECTION TODAY. IT WAS...MOI.
swoons
@Mana Huh? You saw me today?
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Q: Does mega creeps give less experience?

SNBRI know that when the creeps are mega they only give half the normal amount of gold. Is there a difference of the amount of experience gained by killing a normal creep and a mega creep ?

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Q: Is there any way to recover a deleted minecraft file

mrminecraft3000I accidently deleted my minecraft save file and i want to get it back. I have heard that if you right click on the saves and click properties yo can get your save folder back but i dont see anyway of getting my save back from that. Plz can someone help.

Hate crimes, as a legal definition, are retarded
Well, and as an activity, too
Scroll down to the "anti-hetrosexual" row
14:34
@YiJiang only 21?
user15026
@badp Well 21 reported.
I mean, that's at least one order of magnitude less than mass shootings
@badp Anti-*hetro*sexual hate crimes
@YiJiang in the United States, which is a pretty big place.
is it so hard to see the scene? "I'm into you, Yi." "uh... uh... uh... uh... I'm not gay." "What do you mean? You're totally gay!" "oy!" "I KILL UUUU!!!!!"
14:39
I hate you blue circle.
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A: How can I beat the final boss in Faster Than Light?

Dreagefinal boss needs serious nerfs on form 2. I have already quit the game due to how badly balanced he is. So far if the people that made FTL make another game, i'm not buying it till they see how stupidly strong their final boss is. The whole game is balanced, but its 100% luck based if you get goo...

Does any part of this "answer" actually answer the question?
user15026
Holy crap. I answered a question for the first time in like forever.
user15026
@YiJiang I have no idea. I want to say no, but a lot of that might just be my brain going OMG ranty wall of text
Nope - I just went through it line by line, deleting each line of rant
I was left with nothing in the end
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@YiJiang Fair enough. That is what I suspected might happen.
user15026
14:46
Okay, now off to the grocery store with me to buy a bajillion lemons. Like 30.
@YiJiang Only in the sense that he's basically saying "He's impossible to beat", which isn't true
@AshleyNunn I answered one the other day too, I was so proud of myself. It even had screenshots :D
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Q: How to position for a team fight?

SNBROur dota team seems to be quite good on everything except team fights, that is because our carry get targeted first and killed before he is able to damage. How can our carry, healer and others position in order to avoid the opponents targeting the carry first and counter the opponents when they t...

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Q: How is XP divided when some party members are already level 99?

Jonathan DrainSuppose three of my party members are already level 99, but one isn't yet. When I get XP, does it all go to the one who isn't level 99, or is it split four ways and wasted on the other three?

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Q: What does Spare Change do?

Jonathan DrainLocke gets an ability called Spare Change: Activated after second monster appears in BMS and deals damage equal to current points. Be prepared to pay for it, though! What does it mean, pay for it? What's the cost?

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15:21
@TimStone mine wasn't that fancy. :p
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Q: Sound in Final Fantasy X

KenAccording to various sources (like this), FFX features multi-channel audio: Dolby Pro Logic (gameplay) and Dolby Digital 5.1 (movies). I have my PS2 connected to my surround sound receiver via Toslink, which reports that it's receiving digital 2.0-channel (a.k.a., stereo) in the form of 48k PCM,...

15:45
@annalear god damn you for beating me to that exact edit.
I blame trying to do it from my phone.
16:03
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Q: Can I back up and restore my FTL save file?

agent86FTL shares many similarities with roguelikes, especially in that you can't save and load your game easily. However, you can save and quit. Sometimes I get into a really good position and then die due to some random bad luck. Occasionally I'd like to experience an event multiple times to see ...

 
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Q: Can't end a flight when using MechJeb

MBraedleySo after it was suggested in chat, I decided to download and try the Mechanical Jeb plugin. During my trials so far with MechJeb, I've been setting up my staging such that the MechJeb module is discarded prior to re-entry. A strange thing happens when I disconnect this stage: it disappears. Af...

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Q: Pipe Maze - Can a player have no chance to get the money?

Fredy31In the minigame PipeMaze, can a player have no chance, with the maze given, to get any money? This is pipe maze, if you don't know what it is. ...

The room broke, and refreshing the error page didn't bring me back here!
Who designed this crap anyway?
18:15
Why didn't it one-box anyway
Hmm
@badp The API doesn't return anything for that answer, so my guess is that it's using data that was locked in pre-transition.
@TimStone I still blame rchern, shush.
An acceptable option
SE is read-only/down for server relocation
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ooooh, I didn't know Gravatar accepted size arguments greater than 128
Finally Brant's avatar gets the space it deserves.
18:31
Yay.
Whenever I came across a windows xp box with the default wallpaper, I'd always change it to that.
Also, SE is back up.
(The placeholder page had a meta refresh! Handy!)
18:48
That's frustrating.
I turn fast weapon switching on in Black Mesa and it turns itself back off again instantly.
@StrixVaria X-Com not being out yet? I know!
@Sterno That too.
That's what I really want to play.
Even watching a FTL let's play makes me want to play X-Com, not FTL.
Just because the crew members have names and can die.
Sorry, I can't hear you over Borderlands 2 being released on Tuesday
Boring
Yes, chat will be boring without me
18:50
Unless they fixed how boring the loot was in Borderlands 1, I'm not buying
Buy Natural Selection 2 instead.
I have owned Natural Selection 2 for almost 3 years.
I still probably won't play it even though it's coming out soon.
YOU GET A GOLD STAR.
@Brant It's black on my screen.
I pre-ordered it years ago as well, but I never played it because it was basically an alpha back then. It's great now.
18:52
I bought it because one of my college buddies who I never talk to any more told me how amazing the first one was.
I have no clue how it works.
It's like humans vs. aliens in some tactical map or something?
It's an RTS/FPS hybrid with asymmetric teams.
One player on each side commands the team from a top-down RTS view, everyone else is playing an FPS.
That does sound like it could be really good.
Maybe I should install it.
Or is it not out yet?
Here, watch this:
If you preordered it years ago, you've got beta access already.
Anyway, it's $25 and I got it plus some other awful-looking indie game for way less than that.
If you buy it now, you have to wait for release in October.
18:55
Watching that video now.
Find your preorder key and stick it into Steam, you're good to go.
Oh neat it's already in Steam.
I cannot recommend this game highly enough.
Multiplayer only?
Yeah.
18:56
I'm going to get raged at hard while I figure out wtf is going on.
It's a bit confusing at first, yes, but generally the community is pretty helpful.
It's probably better now since it's not released yet.
It will go to shit soon enough.
More experienced players tend to tell you what to do instead of just rage at you, unlike some other communities (*cough*MOBAs)
Is this the game where the aliens infest the area they control and stuff?
And it dynamically retextures the map as they go?
Yeah.
There's another TB video where he plays aliens, and a third where he shows off the commander gameplay
The cool part is how different the teams are; aliens aren't just marines-with-different-textures
19:00
That's good to hear.
Aesthetically I really like the aliens so far.
@StrixVaria Do any WD use Acid Cloud?
@OrigamiRobot I do.
It's the best AoE damage from range.
I got a helm that increases crit chance of it by 8%
Ehhh
It is a good sweetener, but it won't make the item great on its own.
135 Int, 57 Vit, 49 Res all, 31 Fire Res
19:03
Socket?
I'm sure it'll sell, but you probably won't get a fortune for it :/
I've discounted ever getting a fortune on anything
@Brant Holy crap this game looks amazing.
@Lazers Huh. Never run into that before.
19:14
It is!
So anyone can just jump in the command station?
Yep.
Well, one person at a time.
It looks like the commander can give orders to the players on his team.
If your commander is a doofus you can vote to eject them pretty easily, but sadly a poor commander spells certain doom for your team.
How's that appear if you're one of the players who gets the command?
19:19
Like this:
That's the one I'm watching now.
The alien commander can't give direct orders, but they can set waypoints and build defensive structures around the map.
I'm probably going to avoid being commander for quite a while when I start playing.
I wouldn't say you should avoid it, but don't do it for the first time in a public game. Try it out on your own just so you learn where all the buttons are.
There's a training menu option.
19:22
It's not really that hard, but it sucks when somebody who has no idea what they're doing jumps into the comm chair and screws your team over.
That's just a bunch of links to youtube for the time being
Ah ok.
I'll watch those later.
No better way to learn than to jump in and fail.
This is what my 3 month old daughter has to say about my plans to play X-COM next month.
20:11
operation: mother-in-law buys xcom for me has completed with SUCCESS!
pre-ordered, even, and in my steam account.
@agent86 If only preorder = early access
inorite?
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Awww, I had a good game going until the enemy ship blew up while my Mantis raiding party was on board.
@Sterno FTL?
@MBraedley Yeah
I was playing the Federation cruiser, which auto-fires a shield-piercing beam weapon every 40 seconds. I wasn't watching and it blew up the enemy ship with my crew still on board.
It went downhill from there fast.
21:40
Is it just me, or does SE have server problems ATM? I can't see my notifications, for example.
 
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5 hours ago, by badp
SE is read-only/down for server relocation
Buh, why did it take me so long to try out 'Defenders Quest'.
It's great.

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