The Bridge

fbueckert

2:00 PM

@Sterno You're not going to let that go, are you?

Sterno

@fbueckert When it stops being amusing to me!

@StrixVaria I was thinking:

►

fbueckert

I'm glad I'm a source of amusement to you.

pixel

@YiJiang not sure that screen is optional btw, the Steam on launch one that is

Sterno

Oh, fine, if it bothers you I'll go back to mentally pronouncing your name as F boo eee kert

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pixel

@Sterno thats how it sounds in my head too

Sterno

2:06 PM

I'm sorry. MARSHAL F boo eee kert

fbueckert

@Sterno I actually wasn't being sarcastic; you didn't mean it in a derogatory sense, so I'm fine with it.

Sterno

Seriously, you need a gunslinger avatar now. Or one of those old west badges

Trent Hawkins

Don't worry, if his Marshal badge goes to his head I can go upstairs and make him say terrible terrible things.

fbueckert

@TrentHawkins ...

Sterno

Grace Note

2:07 PM

Wait, Trent Hawkins?

fbueckert

Remind me to cut you off the internet, Trent.

Grace Note

As in, pilot in Tyrian?

Trent Hawkins

Dude... someone got it.

first time ever... I love you Grace Note.

Grace Note

I love the fact you have a Tyrian name reference

Wipqozn

@Sterno I have one of those!

Sterno

2:08 PM

So, Torchlight 2 in a few hours.

pixel

oh didn't you hear?

its been delayed until 2013

Lazers

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Q: How can I deploy bombs more effectively?

Having gained access to my first ship with a bomb slot (The Gull) and using it for a while, I realized that I couldn't use the weapon effectively. Ships carrying bomb mounts usually have it dead center, and launches them straight ahead instead of dropping off the sides like missiles. Because ...

space-pirates-and-zombies

fbueckert

Speaking of TL2, isn't it time for another game grant or something? It's been quite a while since our last one.

Grace Note

Maybe but maybe not

Sterno

Yeah, I'm hoping to break $1k of free stuff from Gaming.SE before the year is out!

fbueckert

2:15 PM

@Sterno I'm hoping to break >$10, outside of top user swag. :P

Martin Sojka

XCOM would be an obvious candidate.

fredley

:6222295

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Grace Note

Not enough star on that star

The Stack Exchange Blog

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Joel Spolsky on September 20, 2012

We’ve all heard the stories of seemingly trivial patents being used to mug technology companies. There was the patent on the “Interactive Web” which a troll named Eolas used to extract $521 million from Microsoft–until a jury in East Texas threw out the patents. There are the four patents Lodsys is using to send threatening letters to software developers everywhere–trivial patents that Google says never should have been granted, in fact, Google and Oracle have submitted mountains of prior art to show that the patents should be invalid. …

Sterno

@fbueckert I never got my top user swag. I'm swagless!

fbueckert

2:25 PM

@Sterno You're trying to break a solid grand in free stuff. I'm not feeling sorry for you.

Martin Sojka

I just realised ... Dwarf Fortress zombies are magma-proof. Oh Armok... this could get interesting if any such show up.

fbueckert

@MartinSojka Magma should still burn off any flesh it comes in contact with.

Ullallulloo

@fbueckert Magma kills by either burning off fat, bleeding them to death, or drowning them.

I don't know how the zombies work, but if they don't have to breath and either don't have fat or blood, they would be invincible.

Martin Sojka

@fbueckert Not in DF.

At least, not as long as it is moving.

fbueckert

@MartinSojka Well, there's your problem; why are you allowing them to move?

Martin Sojka

2:31 PM

Oh, I'm just preparing for the future ...

fbueckert

@MartinSojka Then the action required is clear: Do not allow them to leave magma.

...I've been trained too well. I just flagged a non-answer without thinking about it.

And I get nothing for it anymore! Nothing!

And I continue to hate and loath Sharepoint. Stupid thing breaks and stops working without telling me why.

fredley

@fbueckert If you're going to use that as a profile, please use this tarted up version (I had to finish the other one quickly, so it's a bit slapdash!)

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fbueckert

@fredley Very nice

Lazers

0

Q: How effective is the Optical Chaff shoulder unit in AC5?

The unit with the highest rating has an optical chaff effect rating of 35. There isn't any description as to what this does specifically besides that it affects lock on capability. How does the other AC feel this effect? Is it like flash rockets in that it completely disables locking for a peri...

armored-core-v

0

Q: How to kill someone in Minecraft using the console

In the server console I tried kill <playername> But I get [INFO] You must specify which player you wish to perform this action on. Is this even possible?

minecraft minecraft-smp

0

Q: Does burning damage stack in any way?

I am trying a guardian build which revolves around burning as many foes as possible for as much damage as possible. However, when I quickly use two burning skills, I notice only one burning icon on the foe. Does burning stacks in any way? Or does casting two burning spells on the same target amo...

guild-wars-2

Jin

bah I wasted all my eridium on ammo clip upgrades, totally didn't see there's a backpack slot upgrade..

agent86

2:46 PM

@fbueckert welcome to my world!

fredley

@fbueckert Time to start setting your own goals, with no reward system at all. Ever played Minecraft?

fbueckert

@Lazers Sidenote: We had one question tagged armored-core-5 and one tagged armored-core-v prior to this question. I've re-tagged them all to armored-core-v, as that was first.

@fredley KSP.

Minecraft for rocket scientists.

fredley

@fbueckert Kerbal Space Program?

@fbueckert Or Rocket Science for Minecrafters?

fbueckert

@fredley Yup

Trent Hawkins

@fbueckert get minecraft, install tekkit mod... build nuclear reactors.

fbueckert

2:50 PM

There's so many plugins and whatnot you can add into KSP to turn it into your very own playground.

@TrentHawkins Nope. You play Minecraft. I don't.

Martin Sojka

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A: Tagging games with numbers as series

My thought, using your specific megaman example (which seems to be a good example), is to not use roman numerals ever, and to provide a console context when needed, and you should be able to distinguish between all of these. So the three games you mentioned would be: [megaman-5] [gameboy] [megam...

fredley

@TrentHawkins Tekkit is insane. Does any single person understand everything in there?

Trent Hawkins

@fredley I sure as heck don't.

pixel

@fbueckert should synonym -5 to -v

fredley

@TrentHawkins I've been watching the YC series on it, there's so much stuff. They've barely covered 10% in 40 episodes (although it is YC - most of the time it's dicking around rather than MC)

Martin Sojka

2:52 PM

@fredley Unlikely, in particular their choice of brass recipe is totally insane in my eyes.

pixel

@MartinSojka what about games where the game developer uses roman numerals?

fredley

@MartinSojka Because it's wrong?

Martin Sojka

@pixel We don't.

Ullallulloo

@MartinSojka Oak's is more upvoted.

fredley

What are people mostly like to use for teh Googles?

fbueckert

2:53 PM

@fredley I would assume the game title.

pixel

@fredley the actual game name as it appears in the game

Grace Note

@pixel Unless it's something like the Vth Vanguard, I'd be inclined to still use our own numeric script

pixel

ie: final fantasy xiii-2

because final fantasy 13-2 looks stupid

fredley

Question II/2: Is Google clever enough to know that v == 5?

Jin

is it true that there will be a final fantasy xiii-3?

fbueckert

2:55 PM

sigh Alright, I'll go through and re-tag all those questions. Again.

@Jin Yup

pixel

but, I would create synonyms for the other version of the name

Martin Sojka

@fredley Because their explanation makes no sense. It's basically "Zinc is useless otherwise" (not, it isn't, it's as useful as you want to make it; besides, that's from the same guy who added Tungsten in there, which has exactly zero use) and "brass and bronze aren't clearly separated (correct, but irrelevant - some bronzes also contain zinc, but all brasses necessarily do).

Grace Note

@fbueckert Don't

pixel

@fbueckert get a mod to tag rename

Grace Note

If they're all in one tag, we can just change the name of the tag

fbueckert

2:55 PM

@GraceNote They are.

Ullallulloo

@Jin Not what their calling it, but yes.

Grace Note

@fbueckert Done

Ullallulloo

@fredley Definitely.

pixel

I can't wait for final fantasy xiii-2-2-1

Grace Note

@pixel Honestly, to me? They both look pretty stupid

Ullallulloo

2:56 PM

Still might give more weight to others.

Jin

I haven't played FF xiii, is it that good?

pixel

the first remake of the second remake of the second remake of final fantasy 13

Grace Note

The Roman numerals don't make it look any better

pixel

obviously

fredley

@Ullallulloo Then we should be consistent, excepting edge cases if there's a good argument (as there seems to be for ff)

Jin

2:57 PM

wtb FF VII-2....

pixel

@GraceNote the roman numerals are used by the company that developed the game, who are we to question how they want to call their game?

fbueckert

@Jin Do you like JRPGs? How about a linear path until you're 80% done the game? If you said yes to both of those, then yes, you'll like FF XIII.

Koviko

This website is cheating me out of my badge.

Martin Sojka

@Jin If you like 3D movies and can stand a whiny, unsympathetic and depressing main character, yes.

Koviko

I'm pretty sure I had 98 days consecutive

pixel

2:57 PM

this particular discussion is to discuss whether we tag our questions according to what the developer called their game or go with actual numbers, the discussion is pretty stupid :p

Koviko

And then it didn't register me for a day.

-_-

Ullallulloo

@Jin Depends on who you ask.

Jin

@fbueckert that sounds like ff7 - ff present..

Grace Note

@pixel We aren't questioning it, we're simply adhering to a numeric scheme, which we already took into account what the developers wrote versus how you still read it

Jin

I don't even remember any recent jRPGs that are not linear

Martin Sojka

2:58 PM

@pixel We had this discussion; I linked to it. You might not agree, but those are the current results.

fbueckert

@Jin FF7-12 gave you the illusion of choice. 13 takes even that away.

pixel

@MartinSojka the question you linked has an answer which disagrees with yours and agrees with mine while having the most votes

but I wasn't arguing

I was actually laughing at the FF naming scheme

Ullallulloo

@Jin On the other hand, FFXIII-2 is not very linear.

Martin Sojka

Well, the result is that we have civilization-5 and similar since then; that's the status quo.

pixel

@MartinSojka using the question you linked, what do we do with questions for megaman X?

Grace Note

3:01 PM

@pixel Since X isn't 10, we use X

fbueckert

@pixel X doesn't stand for a roman numeral. Therefore, we use X.

pixel

just saying how awfully unintuitive that reads

fbueckert

@pixel I don't see it; seems pretty simple to me.

Grace Note

Doesn't seem unintuitive to me. Megaman X has no roman numerals in its title, in the same way Neptunia V doesn't have a roman numeral in its name. They just have letters that happen to look like roman numerals

pixel

I'm not saying I don't get it

Jin

3:04 PM

and Gundam X has nothing to do with 10 either.

pixel

so, what would you do with recent final fantasy games?

Martin Sojka

Also, XIII actually has a Roman numeral as its name, not as a counter - so it stays that way.

Grace Note

So by adopting a system that avoids using roman numerals sometimes, and instead just use our numbering system, then it avoids confusion with roman numerals whenever people use I, V, X, C, and M for anything that isn't a roman numeral

pixel

the ones with the mixed roman numerals and actual numbers

Martin Sojka

What's wrong with ff-13-2?

Grace Note

3:06 PM

Diablo 2 isn't any less the same name as Diablo II.

Koviko

Wait... We are debating about roman numeral tags vs number tags? My 100 days consecutive badge is on the line here! Y U NO LISSIN?

pixel

whoever asked if google understands that XIII is 13 and vice versa - yes it does it on the fly

Jin

btw, my new fav gif i.imgur.com/WQ8JX.jpg

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Grace Note

I lost mine at 93 days in, yes you got 5 days further but still, we sometimes lose, pick yourself back up

@Jin That's a jpg, sir

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Martin Sojka

... though if we could actually use real Roman numericals in tags, as in "Final Fantasy Ⅶ" instead of "... VII", I'd be for that.

Jin

3:07 PM

@GraceNote a gif in disguise...

fbueckert

@Jin That's pretty cool.

pixel

that is pretty cool

Jin

that is pretty cool

pixel

@Jin did you call it a jpg to get around people filtering gifs? :p

Jin

@pixel i honestly don't know why people name their gifs jpgs

Lazers

3:18 PM

2

Q: Does X3:Albion Prelude still have a private sector?

In Terran Conflict, you could get a private sector. (As well as a Headquarters for that sector. You could put the HQ anywhere, but in the private sector seems the best place to put it to me.) Since Albion Prelude is just a plugin/expansion to Terran Conflict, does it still have the private sector...