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13:03
I'm going to try to just forget about how awesome SimCity looked and focus on XCOM.
@Wipqozn 5456 minutes.
@Mana trollfaces, you suck at them
@Hex Yeah, how did anyone even notice?
Morning, Bridge
Hex
Hex
@SaintWacko Afternoon
@SaintWacko The menus didn't change
13:11
@Hex Did you get your name from Discworld?
Hex
Hex
@SaintWacko Nope, and I'm quite a shameful person who haven't read those books (yet).
@Mana I would have gone for a rickroll video
@Hex Aww, darn. And yes, you should read them immediately
My absolute favorite series
@Hex Shameful
Hex
Hex
@SaintWacko I know! It's on my far too long to do-list which I will never finish. Too much work, too little play.
13:14
you know what, guys. I think I'mma start a new world in Minecraft or something!
so novel!
nevermind, minecraft.com is still down
details
minecraft.com is always down.
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Q: Which herb provides the highest chance to mill Misty Pigment?

pixelMisty Pigment is a reagent gained from milling the new herbs added in Mists of Pandaria required to make Starlight Ink, which is used in high level inscription for the creation of Scroll of Wisdoms and Darkmoon Cards, amongst other things. Each of these herbs has a chance to mill down into Misty...

Minecraft.com was built with redstone and will be online as soon as they find the one torch they put in the wrong place
13:18
@Mana You are worse than @Wipqozn
@badp You should start a server!
I want a server to play on
@SaintWacko I'm sure @Ronan has one
The Arqade server appears to be down. Hm
@Ronan I summon thee!
This is Friday, so @Sterno will be by with his drive-by Youtube linking.
Just a heads up to NOT click on any of links today!
13:24
@fbueckert Why not?
@SaintWacko Because it's most likely going to be trolling, what? Rachel Black or whatever her name is?
@fbueckert Oh, right. Yeah, something Black, I think
@SaintWacko So yeah. Just a warning to everybody.
ah, classic "large biomes" minecraft
spawn at the bottom of an ocean
13:29
You can trust my links to be XCOM Countdowns though.
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@badp You just need an island and exactly one tree.
@fbueckert Claudia Black?
@StrixVaria Unless, of course, said link points to Youtube instead of here
@MartinSojka I haven't the foggiest.
@MartinSojka Helga Black
Hex
Hex
13:31
@SaintWacko Jack Black?
@BenBrocka Specifically, she has an assassin-specced (or something like that) Orc rogue. Bad to the bone. At least it isn't a Fallen ...
@Hex Yeah, I think that's it
@MartinSojka If they think that's bad they should see all the people I burn in Borderlands 2. It's funny when they scream
@BenBrocka Politics is just stupid
@BenBrocka Or when they get electrocuted
"Ahh ahhh my face is burning off" And I'm just laughing my ass off
13:34
@BenBrocka You, sir, are disturbing to listen to occasionally.
@BenBrocka Well, I once killed (a) God, then fed his body to the mudcrabs ... just because I could.
Hex
Hex
@BenBrocka Best one is when they yell "I SMELL DELICIOUS" as they burn to death
@badp All in a day's work for a Siren
@Hex I know, that's so hilarious
@badp Welcome to Borderlands.
Rats are awesome to burn
13:35
@fbueckert I do have borderlands
(1)
It induces the psychopath in all of us.
Yeah, but some have more psychopath than others in them :P
Well if you don't like the sound of people screaming, don't play Siren
@BenBrocka If you like the sound of yourself screaming (in berserk rage) play Brick
@SaintWacko NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
13:38
@SaintWacko lol, brick
@StrixVaria I'm more talking about his RAAAAAA! RAAAAARGH! RAAAAAAGH! while he's berserking
@SaintWacko He was in Borderlands 1, right?
That was so hilarious in couch coop, all you can hear is him yelling
@StrixVaria Yeah
I think that's who I played.
13:39
Also I NEVER DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@BenBrocka Ahaha, I heard that so much
(repeat 5 times every minute)
Seriously though we need to onebox this.
@SaintWacko I played splitscreen with me as Lilith and a friend as Mordecai. He is such a drama queen when he's dying
Also Why! Whyyyyyyy
@BenBrocka Yeah, I know, I mostly played as Mordecai :D
13:41
I didn't really like the sounds of the other classes in Borderlands.
One of the main things that makes me not particularly want Borderlands 2 is that I can't play as whatever Brick was again.
@StrixVaria Gunzerker's similar but without the melee focus...which very few people seemed to like anyway
You can melee spec Zero though
Of course, I also heard a lot of burnt screaming as Mordecai, as my main weapon was a Volcano sniper rifle
I preferred the Orion, though I had a Volcano
I had a Hellfire for fire damage
Burned people up good
@BenBrocka I never did find a Hellfire
What I was really wanting was a Hyperion Bitch
The Bitch didn't sound that great really
13:44
I don't remember its bonuses
but there was something about it that was nice
I usually used an Anarchy, Orion, Hellfire and either a Defiler or Caustic Crux
It got more stable after it fired like Hyperion guns in BL2...which isn't very useful IMO
I had a Volcano, a really nice purple explosive revolver, a Hornet, and a slow firing but hard hitting Jakobs sniper rifle
@BenBrocka Yeah, as soon as I see that on a a gun I mark it as trash
I miss the Anarchy
@SaintWacko yeah, they sway like crazy by default. useless snipers
Was that your question asking about Anarchy in BL2?
Yeah
There's a couple guns I'd like to find to see if they can replace it, with 2/3 bullets per shot
I don't even care if they nerfed it a bit, that gun was just so fun
13:47
@BenBrocka Just that class name sounds fun, actually.
Maybe I'll ask for BL2 for my birthday or Christmas so I don't have to spend $60
People are always asking me what I want anyway.
@StrixVaria you still go berzerk but instead of punching you wield 2 guns
It's way worth $60
@BenBrocka I don't doubt that, but I've bought a lot of games recently.
I need to tone back my spending.
@StrixVaria How's your prison doing, by the way?
@fbueckert Haven't had much time to play this week. Wedding planning and such.
Hm sounds like the Slagga might be a fair Anarchy replacement
13:55
I will have time to play tonight, though.
@StrixVaria Cool. Let me know if you figure anything new out.
A sink in the kitchen is a good thing, by the way.
@fbueckert If I still have a kitchen when I load :P
@StrixVaria Heh. Yeah. Surprisingly, my kitchen hasn't run out of knives. And I don't know why not.
Right now I'm torn in an internal struggle between really, really wanting the new SimCity (not even out until February, but still) and really, really not wanting to have to get Origin.
@BenBrocka Definitely
13:58
@StrixVaria also it's weird to see you not as Gir. Especially with Origami not Gir either. Gir losses are near 100%!
Also, There's a sale on it right now
@SaintWacko Do you have it? PC?
@BenBrocka You can blame @OrigamiRobot for this gravatar.
relationship between review score and sales, from penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/…
although to be fair eedar uses that aggregate review score as a "good proxy for game quality"; you can pretty much read it as "good games sell more lol."
@BenBrocka Yep, preordered the Vault Hunter's edition. I wanted the Ultimate Loot Chest, but Amazon screwed up and didn't let me know when it was available
@StrixVaria Borderlands 2
@BenBrocka Remind me tonight
Steam is blocked at work -.-
14:08
I'm going to kill the tag.
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Q: How does the "gamma correction" feature affect my gaming experience?

animusonA lot of games often include a gamma correction feature when you first start playing the game. It's often some sort of symbol or image on the screen with a sliding bar, where you're supposed to adjust the slider so that the symbol is just barely visible. Normally, this makes the game very, very d...

What should I do with this thing?
What about this one?
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Q: "Glowing item" mod for Fallout 3?

David KriderI've played through Fallout 3 about 5 or 6 times now. The one thing I really would like is a mod that causes the "collectible" items (like books and bobbleheads) to glow, like in BioShock. I've read in a couple places that there are a lot of good mods for the game. I've tried looking around, and ...

Pokes Onebox
Hm...
I think I broke it
Get rid of that question mark and everything after it.
@SaintWacko Yeah, that's a mod recommendation
@StrixVaria Heh, thanks
What should that one question be tagged with?
It only has the tag.
14:15
Oh, I commented on that one!
We don't have anything for or or anything like that.
Must not have realized at the time that mod recs were OT
What's the format for putting a tag in chat?
[tag:tagname]
You can also use it on the site.
You can use [meta-tag:tagname] for tags on meta.
Zynga Is Getting Absolutely Demolished Today $ZNGA by @jyarow http://read.bi/SBJy67
@BenBrocka Wow. Losing 20% of your stock value in a single day has to hurt.
14:20
@StrixVaria I think the best tag for that would be
:P
Unsurprising, their third quarter was awful and they admit they drastically overpaid for OMGPOP
Only because there isn't a
@SaintWacko It's been down a couple of days. @ThomasMacDonald is the one you need to ping
@BenBrocka I hope this means the entire model of "free2play" non-games is failing
@ThomasMacDonald
14:21
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Q: Star Wars KotoR UI mod

IustinIs anybody aware of a mod / tool for Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic that changes the UI? I've started playing and I find that every time I go to the inventory / map / etc. I am finding it rather hard to see what's around. It's breaking the game for me very much and I am not enjoying no w...

Two more close votes needed.
@BenBrocka Seeing as how they were only paying for users, and most promptly jumped ship the instant the studio was sold, yeah, I'd say they overpaid.
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Q: How can I farm Jimbo Hodunk?

Ben BrockaJimbo Hodunk drops a rare SMG I want, the Slagga. I don't recall ever fighting him, and if I did I don't remember where. How do I find Jimbo Hodunk? Does he respawn? Do I have to chose to fight against the Hodunks in that questline to fight him or does it matter?

@MadScientist Doubtful; Zynga's lunch is just getting eaten in that regard
@fbueckert I figured they were paying for "talent", which doesn't make much sense when "talent" means "a generally good game that happened to get very lucky"
@fredley Oh, well that explains why I couldn't connect yesterday either. Although yesterday it was at least showing up in the list
You can't aqui-hire luck
14:25
@SaintWacko Yeah, something bad's happened :(
I was half way through a really epic build session too, so frustrating!
@BenBrocka That's probably the way they spun it, but everybody just saw them buying the studio as buying their userbase.
@fredley I have a tendency to join a server, build a few awesome things, then stop playing
@fbueckert Not sure how valuable their userbase ever was, even without jumping ship; it's one game, not a platform or a group of users with connected ads
Last one I was on I built a treehouse and tree-garden in the jungle, a tower rising out of the ocean with a big glass dome under it, and a two-spawner cave spider grinder
I'm not sure how valuable "From the minds of OMGPOP" ever would have been to them. People bought draw something for the game, not the name
14:27
@SaintWacko I have a tendency to build things way larger than is sensible. I like to kick back by turning a mountain into an epic castle.
@BenBrocka I think the idea was to try to monetize Draw Something along the lines of their other crap, or migrate their players over to other games.
@fredley The biggest thing i ever build was a glass and lightstone tower which went from bedrock to skybox
Wait, actually, my cavern may have been bigger
@SaintWacko Harvesting that much lightstone was a feat
That's a real deficiency of my current castle, lots of pumpkin/torch lighting
On one server I started digging underground, and whenever I hit lava I would encase it in glass
Only a few glowstone blocks
14:28
@fbueckert Did DS even have in app purchases?
We need new moderator elections. Mana, Raven, agent, and Oak are pretty much never here any more. Juan helps out but is mostly invisible. So we have badp. It's a lot to do for one person.
I eventually had a cavern so big that on max view you couldn't see the other side
I guess you could monetize buying colors...
@StrixVaria I agree.
@BenBrocka I believe so, but I've never played it.
14:29
Then I put grass on top of the lava, and bridges between the little grass islands
It looked amazing
@SaintWacko Daaaw
@fbueckert I downloaded the free version, and Zangya aquired them the next day...I deleted it
Actually, I think I still have that world sitting around somewhere...
@BenBrocka And therein you have the response of most of their userbase.
Zynga does NOT have a good reputation at ALL in the gaming world.
@SaintWacko I tend to go for basic designs, in excess.
14:30
@BenBrocka Is that why it showed up in the google play 25 cent sale?
My castle has alot of towers
@fredley Ah, I like making more complex designs, mostly made to look awesome
@StrixVaria Chat presence and handling flags are not necessarily correlated
But of course usable as well
@SaintWacko I like grandiose, but minimalist. I like to put a fair bit of time into making things regular and 'sensible'. I'm a bit of a perfectionist
14:31
@SaintWacko lol. Maybe their stock will be in the sale next:
@BenBrocka It's certainly headed that way
If mine.SE ever comes back ( ahem @THOMASMACDONALD ahem ) take a look around
@fredley Got any pictures?
@SaintWacko No :(
:(
I was going to show you a few things I've built, but the bastards in IT blocked photobucket
@fredley Yikes, that staircase looks scary to climb
Doesn't really do it justice. Since then I've made it much larger, replaced all the cobble with stone brick, built surrounding villages, massive caverns etc...
@SaintWacko It is :-)
@MadScientist I haven't seen a flag handled by any of the 4 I mentioned were not present in quite a long time.
@SaintWacko Oh well, if you find a server let me know
@StrixVaria I see @agent86 around a decent amount.
14:35
@fredley Will do. I'm debating whether to go check on the forums or wait for mine.se
@SaintWacko Mine.se is quiet, and used to have a few nice people around, but I haven't seen anyone for a while
That would be so intense.
@GnomeSlice I have both of those games.
@fredley Well, I can't do anything here anyway. They've done something that makes it so I can't log in to server
@fbueckert Arrrrtrgh I need to play NMH
14:38
@StrixVaria Could be, there is a big mod dashboard with the number of different actions and flags handled, so SE can easily see if too few mods handle all the stuff. I expect that badp would contact SE if he was handling all the flags alone
@MadScientist Fair enough.
Can we please kill this now?
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Q: What features to look for on a all-in-one simplistic gaming mouse?

CawasWhat should we look for in a gaming mouse that would also be used for other stuff? Obviously any gaming mouse will work fine for anything else, but, for instance, I wish to have 2 axis wheel for horizontal scrolling (use it a lot on internet browsing and image manipulation and yes, i'm on a mac)...

He's edited it somewhat to remove some of the shop-rec stuff.
Thoughts?
@SaintWacko KO
user15026
@fbueckert Don't like it, cast the last close vote.
14:47
@fredley FATALITY
@SaintWacko Sadly not deleted, so merely a KO for now
:(
user15026
I always feel an odd sense of delight when I am the last close vote on something
@fredley Oh, true
@AshleyNunn "So much power!"
user15026
@SaintWacko grins It's even worse on Libraries, where I can be the ONLY close vote. XD
@AshleyNunn It's like everyone else has expended a lot of energy weakening the final boss, but you get to strike the kill-blow
user15026
14:49
@fredley Exactly!
@AshleyNunn You held the question's life in your hand, and snuffed it out
:P
user15026
@SaintWacko Aw, now that makes me sound like a monster
@AshleyNunn Not if the question was bad, it doesn't!
user15026
@SaintWacko This is true.
It was eeeeeevil
user15026
14:50
@SaintWacko It deserved to diiiiie
@AshleyNunn Justice is served.
user15026
@SaintWacko And balance is restored to the universe
@AshleyNunn I've already voted to close, pre-edit.
@AshleyNunn When it was posted, I heard a sound as if millions of brain cells cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
@AshleyNunn Yeah, I hate that sometimes
14:53
@SaintWacko all the crappy questions will look up and shout "Save us!"...and I'll look down, and whisper "No."
@fbueckert what features to look for isn't strictly bad. "What factors to look for" is certainly the right way to go with it
FAE
FAE
Good afternoon all
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Q: Sigil of Wisdom, and Sigil of Power

Robert A PalmerI just got the Quest to Collect Ten Sigils of Power and 10 Sigils of Wisdom from the Black Prince. Wondering if I can do LFR to get these items or if I need to do normal version of the raids to get them.

Hi FAE!
We're waging a war against crappy questions
FAE
FAE
@SaintWacko So just another Friday then?
14:57
@BenBrocka Yeah, I know. He's going about it the right way, so I'm trying to help him salvage it.
@FAE Yep, no one wants to work on a friday
FAE
FAE
Hehe
Also, I'm trying to decide which book to read next
I read Variable Star on Wednesday, Time for the Stars yesterday, and I need something to read today
@fbueckert The worst parts I see in it are the "on bedsheets" bit and exact DPI numbers which make it seem too specific
Also if you're looking for a high performance gaming mouse and using it on an irregular surface you are severely misunderstanding the point
@BenBrocka I use my Orochi on the couch, but I at least have a mousepad
14:59
Like buying an awesome car, filling the gas tank with sugar and seeing how well she drives
@BenBrocka Threw a comment on it. I think I hit the high points of what needs changing.
@BenBrocka Anything beyond optical tends to work well on more or less anything; yeah, it's severely misusing a gaming mouse, but it's not going to complain if you're not using it in optimum conditions.
@fbueckert made an edit. As asked it was sort of poor but I don't think the idea of the question is off topic. Though he's clearly thinking wrongheaded about a couple things
@BenBrocka I agree with you there; the idea itself is good. It just needs some cleaning up so that it doesn't sound like a shopping recommendation.
@fbueckert lots of people also overgeneralize "shopping" to "anything that could be remotely related to shopping is bad" when it really means "asking which exact mouse to buy is bad"
@BenBrocka I read the blog post Jeff made about shopping recs. The idea is to ask what to look for, not what should I buy, as answers to the latter change quickly. Whereas if you ask what features to look for, then answers are timeless.
Or as timeless as it can get in technology, anyways.
15:11
Also the title sucked, just noticed that
not sure if I improved it
@BenBrocka Yeah, I like that.
Now it's a decent question.
Guess what I found in my bed last night? Hint: It was not the Swedish bikini team.
Flagged as offensive? Really?
FAE
FAE
@Sterno ...Did... did someone really just flag this? o_O
I mean, if bugs freak someone out, just ask me and I'll delete the image
I am offended that it was not a swedish bikini team
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15:20
Already getting flagged, and I haven't even worked in my Rebecca Black link for the day yet!
This week has involved worrying my daughter had a tumor, finding out thankfully she (probably) doesn't, having her get an ear infection, and then finding out that my house apparently has bedbugs. It's shaping up pretty nicely.
On top of that, @Mana's XCOM troll totally got me
FAE
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@Sterno Geeeez. Is everything okay with her now?
@FAE Yeah, getting over an ear infection, but that one is normal for babies. The scare was because we noticed one pupil was a lot larger than the other, which can often indicate some seriously bad stuff. But after taking her to a specialist they think it might just be natural for her, kind of like having one arm slightly longer than another.
FAE
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@Sterno Aaah, gotcha. I'm glad to hear it's all okay then. She'll get to look especially inquisitive on occasion!
In adults when you see it, it usually means head trauma or brain tumor (assuming they haven't had it their whole life)
@FAE O.o
15:26
@BenBrocka I didn't know bikini teams were a thing. You learn something every day I guess
She'll look awesome in Halloween photos!
@Sterno Safe for my work, but probably not for others
FAE
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@StrixVaria pretty much!
Also: Wow
Oh, hey, better yet!
The Swedish Bikini Team was a group of American female models who appeared in an advertising campaign for Old Milwaukee beer. These commercials ran for several months in 1991 in the United States, playing with American stereotypes of Scandinavian women being blonde and having big breasts. The premise of the commercials was that a group of bored or thirsty men were "saved" by the Swedish Bikini Team. Other commercials would focus on a group of men male bonding on a hunting trip and saying "Guys, it does not get any better than this", to which a narrator would say the man was wrong and an Old...
15:28
> The Swedish Bikini Team was a group of American female models...
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Q: What's the fastest way to farm Black Shards?

Jonathan DrainI only have one Black Shard. I've found a boss in Chaos Shrine who drops them, but the song usually ends before I can beat her, even with my good team. The other shards, I've been able to get two at a time easily and fight multiple bosses in one song. Is there a better way to grind for Black Sha...

@StrixVaria The bikinis were Swedish.
As a sidenote, this is now much better than it was, and should be re-opened.
@fbueckert Did you see this revision of it?
@Sterno NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
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EVERY TIME
15:33
@Sterno Did you just try to hide the Rebecca Black link behind a bit.ly?
@fbueckert No comment.
I didn't even look. I just clicked. WHY
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FAE
FAE
@StrixVaria ahaha
2 hours ago, by fbueckert
Just a heads up to NOT click on any of links today!
Oh, yay. Missed a word in there.
@StrixVaria The best part is that I used the same version of the video that you linked 2 hours ago.
15:35
@Sterno I was just copying a link from badp a little while before.
I didn't actually pay any attention to it.
You can blame whoever originally trolled me with this a few months ago in here.
Now I just pay it forward!
over and over again
@Sterno Like Haley Joel Osment!
That kid had a career once. I better check wikipedia and see if he burned out and got hooked on drugs
Have you guys seen the massive troll today? It's open source!
In 2010, Osment signed for a leading role in the comedy film Sex Ed from MPCA; he's to play a college graduate who wants to teach algebra, but ends up as a sex education teacher while a virgin himself.
His career isn't over, exactly, but it's definitely running downhill rapidly.
Someone is flag happy today
Double flag happy?
15:39
@Sterno Someone*s*
Stupid markup failure.
Hi, I like pie.
@RolandTaylor You should be a poet.
Notice: Please, stop flagging random posts. Use flags for serious issues.
This is The Bridge. There are no serious issues.
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@StrixVaria what if told you, I'm a writer :)
15:40
So many stars
@Alenanno Welcome to the Bridge!
@fbueckert Thanks. :)
@RolandTaylor I would ask why you added an extra comma in that sentence.
@Sterno Tell the flagger that. :)
@Alenanno I don't know, they flagged me too, so I doubt they'd listen. :)
15:41
@Alenanno Anything goes here, usually. :P Apparently some people are a little bit more picky today than usual.
@fbueckert I noticed lol
@Sterno Me too :P
Protip: On short links, add .info to the end of it to pull up its info page, so you can see where it goes without actually following it
15:58
Blarg. More Sharepoint bashing.

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