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00:18
@JackBosma Sure
Assuming I'm understanding your question, you want ty give SE free advertising?
Oh, I think I misunderstood @JackBosma
What exactly are you asking?
 
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03:19
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Q: How much HP does "Ygdar Orus Li Ox" revive you with?

StevoisiakThe "Ygdar Orus Li Ox" mutation "saves you one time if you die prematurely while not cursed". Do you stay at 1hp when you get saved, or do you get a bit of extra HP so you don't die immediately after if you get hit again?

 
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07:38
@Fredy31 fun trivia: it is quite evident that some of those trash ADS must come from the same company.
You mentioned "Homescapes". I remember an ads being reskinned multiple times...
house, random person armed with the "Plunger of Doom"
underwater shark....
some garden...
shark again...
just watch this.
it is the same "puzzle" every time.
Best part is that the same puzzle has been used for another game about fishes.
At this point I don't know if it is the same company making all these games and reusing the ads with a different coat of paint, or multiple game companies are actually paying the same ads maker only to get different versions of the same trash that has nothing to do with the gameplay.
I hope it is the first option, but I would not be surprise if it was actually option two.
08:04
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Q: What does the orange part of my health bar mean?

StevoisiakMy health bar in Like A Dragon: Ishin is divided into two sections: one red and one orange. What is the orange section of my health bar for? Is it some kind of bonus HP?

08:58
@SPArcheon lol, that guy was reincarnated into a fish
but yeh i saw someone pointing out how the ads for these games seemed to have flipped to the opposite but demoing you being a failure
like you have those dress up games where the ads used to be "girls catches her partner cheating, dress her up to make her the hottest thing and make him jealous"
i saw one example where it was that but the "player" did every wrong option and just ruined the girl
09:15
@Memor-X @Fredy31 mentioned that too
> (usually shared with some sort of challenge like "98% OF THE POPULATION CAN'T DO THIS, CAN YOU?")
showing an idiot playing the game is a way to make the whales get what they want: the gratification from being "better" than other players (even if that is just the effect of thousand of $$$ spent into pay-to-win power-ups)
Basically, they want to target the REAL idiots who see someone making egregious mistakes and think "I can do better than that! Let's install the game and show them"
@Fredy31 Cat in the box.
@SPArcheon could just get games media reviewers, the majority would that lol
10:05
@Memor-X can't argue on that. Also, if those ads seems lame, consider that roblox is plently of games like "[something] simulator" where all the gameplay is clicking the mouse to repeat the same action over and over, buying boosters to get more click etc
Cookie clicker was already a game without gameplay, and yet clones continue to pop up with even less gameplay.
 
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11:09
oh, before I forget again.
@Fredy31 I know you will appreciate this... not.
 
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15:08
@Batophobia Did I see traditional dungeons?!?!
Pretty sure I did
Holy shit does that trailer go hard
@Wipqozn Really, if BOTW was 'emptyness' this one seems fucking full to the brim
Like I don't think there would be enough action scenes in BOTW to fill such a trailer lol
@SPArcheon The Game Theory video I linked goes into this: Why you see a bunch of ads that are similar, but not the same is usually because those making the ads make like 10 variants, throw them all online, and then they see which one has the best conversion, then do another wave focusing on what worked
15:24
Actual Zelda in the trailers, but that last line has me worried
Really, seeing how much she is in cutscenes, i guess the 'she is falling out or reach' is a bait
It could be a skyward sword thing again though
it will happen once in the whole game so they can put it in the trailer, but most of the story you are side by side with her
True
Also, why is link such a dumbass that he got rid of the master sword between games?
because I have the feel you are not starting with it
Also I'm hoping the Zelda becomes Hylia thing isn't going to happen, considering the design for that new character
yeah the yellow tear we see in her hands reminds me of something, cant put my finger on it tho
Is it the tears of hylia from TP?
those you have to collect in every town
15:30
There's only so many ways you can design glowy tear shaped objects
What I mean is that I've seen that before in zelda
just cant figure out where
ahhhh
yep
God I played SW once a decade ago, explains why I could not figure out where I saw that lol
15:55
@Fredy31 nope, my point was that either Homescapes and the Fish game are made by the same company or both paid the same scammer for the ads.
It is not just the same "style".... it is the same ads with a different character.
the "sequence" of the "rooms" is the same, the "obstacles" are the same... just with a different art style.
@Ronan The "scalper only collector edition" artbook was leaked.
Multiple pictures of Link with different outfits, no alternate "Zelda" versions.
So, very low chance she is "playable" - most you can hope is intermissions "Paper Mario's Peach style"
@Fredy31 The artbook shows some sort of bottled messages on a page, so best hopes I have for Zelda at the moment is this:
@Ronan oh, yes, Narukami's Wisdom. @Fredy31 :P
@SPArcheon WHY IS EVERYTHING GENSHIN IMPACT? AND IF IT IS GENSHIN IMPACT, IS IT THEN ALSO MY LITTLE PONY?
16:17
It's a magatama, it's like you haven't even played Ace Attorney
(They're a real japanese thing)
@SPArcheon Oh yeah I know there's not a playable Zelda. I'm just hoping for her not to be dead and or missing for all but 5 minutes of the game
@Ronan Said before, I had a Zelda game plot planned for years now, quite sad I won't ever get something similar.
I went as far to give a significance to Deity Link sword....
So I guess that we won't see a game that has Zelda tag along either (think Medli in WW)
Average player: Zelda is a pain! I can't climb mountain because she falls down every two second, all the game is an escort quest, my day is ruined.
Me: I will gladly take the long way around while I search for a glitch to avoid the "remove Zelda follower" cutscene
The closest we got was Spirit Tracks, which is why I included dead as a modifier
@Ronan I assume you know about the Ship of Theseus, right?
so... if you take Zelda and replace her with an armor....
@Fredy31 Not my fault if they recycle characters from the show.
We've had kidnapped, in a crystal, asleep, turned to stone, in hiding and then kidnapped, dragged around and also in a crystal because of time travel, turned into a puppet, left in a basement and then kidnapped, left in a church and then kidnapped, and dead and a puppet at the same time
16:37
@Ronan then on the other hand......
Oh, I forgot two
In a dream about a whale, and generally incorporeal
I'm also not counting Cadence of Hyrule where she's playable
@Ronan well, Zelda has a new tablet in this game if you look at the art. And for some reason Nintendo avoided focusing on that so far.
Yeah seems like she's doing something while the game is happening, I just hope it's not all off screen
So... based on the precedent games... she will probably become Link's new Net Navi on the Sheikah slate 2.0
"players wanted Navi back and playable Zelda, best we can give is Navi Zelda on Link new smartphone"
Really, we will get playable TINGLE in a main game before playable Zelda.
Best Scenario:
Link is on Hyrule field / sky, Zelda is underground. You can swap at designated points (communication towers maybe?). Zelda can't use any weapon, her gameplay is based on avoiding monsters (think swordless Link in WW). She can trigger ruins underground that are required to progress on the sourface OR get powers that Link can use (and may not actually be required)
16:53
@SPArcheon Does the tingle tuner count?
@Ronan ... I would have expected something about "Ruupee Land is a main game, it explains Tingle origin"
atlas, there is one specific page in the artbook.
@SPArcheon If I'm not counting Cadence I'm definitely not counting Rupee land
126, Zelda alone in a cave.
seems odd for a cutscene, could be actual gameplay.
best hopes we have right now.
Maybe she does SOMETHING.
Probably it will be less than 2 hours gameplay in the whole game but... better than nothing.
And if she has a "playable model" we can at least hope for a dlc
 
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20:41
Anyone here able to help me with this?
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Q: How can I require reviews from a specific group for only the main branch?

SaintWackoIn Azure Dev Ops, I was able to set it so that PRs into the develop branch just required an approval from anyone, while PRs into the main (production) branch required approval from a specific set of high-level approvers. How can I do the same thing in Github?

 
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22:21
@SaintWacko Something to do with a codeowners file
@Ronan Yeah, that's what I ended up doing
I should probably go answer my question
Add a CODEOWNERS file specifying that our senior-devs group is the owner of all files
then on the main branch check the box to require a review by codeowners
I'm just annoyed that there wasn't just a box for "Require review by <select from list>"
I really like github's UI, but their branch protection stuff is sorely lacking
You can't even set protection rules at an organization level! It has to be repo by repo

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