The Bridge

radp

08:14

32 days left, 899 rep to go.

btw @LessPopMoreFizz, spaces are legal in the username

Arda Xi

08:45

Isn't this one really off-topic?

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Q: How do I create a microphone stand?

I want to be able to play the guitar and sing at the same times in games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, so I'm wondering how I can create a microphone stand out of common household objects. The mic stand... doesn't have to be rock solid, once the microphone is put in place the mic stand will n...

Oak

I dunno...

Oak

His goal is very gaming-oriented

Oak

And maybe that's something that will be of interest to other gamers while being considered off-topic in many other places

Arda Xi

09:18

It sounds like a question for a DIY SE

which is probably proposed somewhere

Oak

I know, it is a bit strange

Oak

But it does seem game-y to me

Oak

... if only slightly

radp

lol

search his question title on Google

Arda Xi

we're not the first result

:(

radp

09:28

The first result indeed is his solution =)

radp

10:03

Woo! I made it! I beat the effin challenge!

Now I get to have the cement mixer pursuit challenge. =D

Right after a nearly impossible time attack sprint.

...still with the same car and the same starting point. fml.

radp

10:36

Stupid positive feedback. The more you try to get the darn thing straight the more it zig zags.

In AD 2101 Limerick Was Beginning

Arda Xi

12:05

Too. Much. Dwarven. Children. twitch

radp

Stepping on your toes? Stabbing you in the back with their toy pick axes?

Arda Xi

Judging by the way the game goes now, I think they're stabbing my CPU

150 dorfs all working together to Store Item in Bag

No migrants, thank god. I have enough coming out of my previous migrants.

radp

:155911 Is the bag actually a Klein Bottle?

Arda Xi

no idea what that is...

radp

Arda Xi

12:21

I can imagine them trying to do that, but how would they make one :)

My dorfs can't even figure out how to create any kind of glass

Arda Xi

13:43

triplets!

radp

14:09

Woo! I made it to the top of the sun temple

somewhat

It was damn painful though.

Note to self: speed doesn't increase jump height for some reason.

Sekhat

14:25

@badp it does!

@badp the soup that increases your speed has helped me reach many a high places :)

radp

:155963 um, I've tried it a few times

maybe it's that I'm trying to jump in beast form

Sekhat

hmmm

radp

it's the one that has the supposedly most power

Sekhat

it's the one I use to

to get to the bubble at the top when you go out the top of the sun temple

radp

I have done the currents thing near that kind-of-stuck-turtle-thing.

heh, by "I made it to the top of the sun temple" I actually mean "I entered the top two chambers"

however, I'm still to make a jump into the second chamber that doesn't land on the ground to proceed further

Sekhat

14:31

ah :)

radp

It's really hard...

Sekhat

its all clever gear hopping :)

radp

I mean, it's all good when it serves to postpone the abyss

Sekhat

lol, the abyss isn't so much a problem

it's the body that's the problem :P

radp

I... don't like the place.

Sekhat

14:32

that gets hard

radp

Besides I'm going to fumble a lot between sun/energy/main/fish(/energy?) forms

I just wish there was an easier way :P

Sekhat

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

:D

heehee

number keys for the win

radp

I know, I know.

Sekhat

:D

radp

Weird, I thought there were more than 7 :P

Sekhat

14:46

there is

i couldn't be arsed to finish the line

radp

yeah, right

You just didn't want to spoil it for me :D

Sekhat

:P

yay, my tea is still warm

forgot I had it :P

radp

Would've it cost the dev too much to add a third water-raising gear? :(

Sekhat

yes :P

radp

instead of forcing me to all this jumping madness sort of thing

Sekhat

14:50

lol, it's annoying but once you've done it, you'll repeat it easy enough :P

tzenes

mornin

radp

'noon

Sekhat

afternoon :

C. Ross

morning

radp

:156031 It's monsters like you that are the cause of all the ultra-hard mods out there :P

Sekhat

14:53

@badp games have gotten too easy :P

tzenes

:156037 truth

radp

I don't know, after I fail at something for the sixth or seventh time I just stop playing the game itself :P

There, tried the same jump now with speed +3 and I still failed it

How many hot soups should I make, 24?

/me quits and returns to the savepoint.

Sekhat

@badp I tried to record doing it for you, but fraps murders my frame rate

radp

Brings it down to 18 for me :/

Sekhat

hmm

think I got it

cool

now I'll just upload it to the tubes

though by the time it's done you'll probably be gone

30 minutes

the video assumes you've jumped into the second chamber on the right :)

radp

15:14

er, I jump in through the long vertical pipe

then struggle to get on the first gear, then struggle to get on the second, then jump on the third, skip the fourth (not by choice) and end in the horizontal section.

Sekhat

yup, then keep going right

:P doesn't matter if you miss the gear

radp

From the horizontal section I jump and land on the ground.

Sekhat

you can get back onto them from the floor in there

radp

All the gears are out of reach.

...

Sekhat

they ain't

as my video will show

radp

15:15

Okay.

Sekhat

17% uploaded

radp

Wait, since you're going through so much trouble

let's do it properly

"How do you get to the very top of the Sun Temple?"
«The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed.»

WTF?

Sekhat

lol

meh, 26% and apparently still 27 minutes to go

radp

It's okay, I'm not leaving :)

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Q: How do you get to the very top of the Sun Temple?

After painstakingly finding out that yes, the main character can climb through the vertical pipe in the leftmost area of the Sun Temple through a tight sequence of jumps, I've managed to jump my way to the horizontal pipe between the two topmost chambers. Yay. However, when I jump from the pipe ...

spoiler aquaria

← left right →

right?

:D

Sekhat

:D I'll post the video here, then I'll answer the question :)

and I'll have to create a gaming SE account :P

radp

15:23

In other news, we're reaching 6k views/day

Sekhat

gaming.SE or the chat? :P

radp

gaming.se

And now for something completely unrelated, mormon porn. (~SFW)

Sekhat

lol

question is, is uploading this file going to make playing MW2 impossible :P

radp

Not if you're doing your QoS properly

I can even torrent and play Quake Live at the same time while keeping it playable (somewhat)

Not like I play Quake Live anymore.

Sekhat

:P

one thing I never understood. The windows 7 snap thing, that snaps windows to the edge of your desktop is great, except when you have two monitors

the connecting join between the two monitors doesn't snap on either side

radp

15:32

Yeah, well, theoretically you just have one large virtual monitor. So there's nothing you're snapping to.

Practically, Win-Left and Win-Right work in the way you ask.

FallenAngelEyes

Evening all

well, almost evening-ish

Sekhat

one game of TDM on MW2 later and still 7 minutes left

looking at the previews youtube is generating, it's pretty much at the end of video

radp

If you have to look at the clock to decide what greetings you have to use, you're doing it wrong I say!

Sekhat

just say moo

that works anytime of day

radp

I'll go with "Ave"

Sekhat

15:43

Aftermorning works too

@badp why Ave?

radp

It's Latin.

+25% cooler!!

Sekhat

lol

radp

Anyway, I define "afternoon" what's between lunch and dinner.

...and have dinner at 9pm typically.

Sekhat

I guess I did the same. Growing up dinner was always 6pm, so evening for me is after then

FallenAngelEyes

dinner for me growing up was 9pm-10pm yeah

I eat earlier nowadays, around 8pm

Sekhat

15:47

►

@badp there you go

FallenAngelEyes

Prevening works though! (yay Big Bang Theory)

radp

If you customized the video title, it didn't stick

I had this problem too when I put the race video up

Sekhat

nope, forgot to change it

not that it matters too much

LessPop_MoreFizz

:156088 I prefer pornsfw.com (not entirely truly SFW, but no nudity anyway.)

FallenAngelEyes

videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/… I was surprirsed to read this, didn't know MW2 was that heavily played

Sekhat

15:52

@FallenAngelEyes I'm not suprised it's that heavily played. I am suprised it's that heavily played on the XBOX.

FallenAngelEyes

lmao @Lesspop, reminds me of that flash vid or whatever that made the rounds a couple years ago

@Sekhat: I don't play CoD at all, but what FPS's I do play, I prefer to play on PC, personally. I'm just not that good anymore with FPS on console.

I feel like I lack a lot of precision when not using keyboard+mouse

Sekhat

@FallenAngelEyes likewise

FallenAngelEyes

And I started out as a console gamer too. I didn't really start PC gaming til post-2000.

radp

Oh God please make it so there is a save point there

please please please

FallenAngelEyes

haha, what are you playing?

Sekhat

15:57

@badp and heres my answer

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A: How do you get to the very top of the Sun Temple?

The gears aren't quite out of reach. The lowest one in the middle you can just touch. If you can jump onto it from the right angle, The right angle is easier to get if you jump onto it wrong a couple of times and let it drop you, you can then jump from that to the gear on the right and back ...

FallenAngelEyes

Ah, Aquaria. I should finish that game, still only in the beginning.

radp

+25

Arda Xi

I still have that from the Humble Indie Bundle

FallenAngelEyes

Same

I've done some stuff, got access to the cave and dark form, but haven't gotten much further

Arda Xi

Not the best games I've donated to the EFF for, but great against boredom :)

FallenAngelEyes

16:00

Indeed.

I already owned World of Goo on wii but I had no qualms paying for that again

Samerost 2 is an incredibly funky little game

Lugaru didn't pull me in that much

Penumbra Overture I've enjoyed so far, but I just haven't taken the time to sit down and play.

Sekhat

seems I bought 3 of the games in the Humble Indie Bundle seperately before they were bundled :P

FallenAngelEyes

Also I think it's kind of silly that you can only have night vision when you're crouching >_>

Sekhat

@badp hope that's helped :)

FallenAngelEyes

I really should play more Aquaria, felt like it had a lot of depth.

Sekhat

@FallenAngelEyes maybe, but it keeps the atmosphere of the game going. If you could see everything all the time, the atmosphere would be ruined.

radp

16:03

:156190 It has -- now I have to go back there and leave the bubble on the other side, just to make sure I'm not missing on anything :D

FallenAngelEyes

Yeah, I agree, I just think it's hard to justify mechanically, when everything else feels fairly realistic

radp

and I found the problem in my method -- moving with the keyboard.

You're just going to go back and forth with WASD jumping

Sekhat

@badp yes, that makes it harder to control :P

FallenAngelEyes

I read that they're making a new series, Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Sekhat

@FallenAngelEyes Aye, not sure what I think about it yet

FallenAngelEyes

16:05

I don't know much about it, have you played it?

Sekhat

but I'll certainly try any demos they spit out

nope, just read the info on their website

FallenAngelEyes

ah okay

Sekhat

right, I'll see you all later guys

FallenAngelEyes

later!

radp

Later and thanks!

lol... Dumbo Octopus.

Arda Xi

16:23

Hmm, I'm thinking about getting Black Ops

To get away from the really deep games, that is

Sekhat

16:37

Black Ops does look good :)

the single player at least

radp

And finally I've hit the Frozen Veil =)

bbl

Arda Xi

:156386 I think €50 is a bit much though (not sure what the exact price is)

Sekhat

17:14

@ArdaXi same price as most console games non? makes sense that the price is the same across the board, despite PC games usually being £20 or so cheaper

Arda Xi

:156498 I don't play games on consoles, so I wouldn't know

I really only play PC games

Sekhat

most of my game playing is on the pc, but it is good to have a console too. Nothing quite like sitting round the tv with a couple of mates having a laugh and a few beers :)

Arda Xi

I don't play enough games to make an investment in a console viable :)

I do have a Wii though.

radp

18:24

I'm so happy I spent 10 minutes going back and forth to a save point before taking on King Jellyfish

(and failing)

Macha

Which game?

Sekhat

18:45

@badp always a good idea. But the closest save point shouldn't of been 10 minutes away

radp

*5 mins

I hadn't found the red crystal on that "sector" yet

and by the radar it was quite far away

so I had to backtrace

Arda Xi

in Gaming on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Sep 4 at 18:33, by Macha

Which game?

radp

:156593 Aquaria.

Arda Xi

ah, of course

Macha

@badp kk

radp

18:47

bbl, dinner.

Macha

19:16

Yup, I'm a game nerd. I just remarked after seeing the new Linkin Park video how like Ezio the singer looked.

radp

back

Macha

Oh, and flash is crashing every time I Ctrl-R a youtube video...

radp

what would ctrl-r do?

Macha

Refresh the page

radp

[status-norepro]

Macha

19:26

[chrome]

How do you get the tag formatting?

[test]

radp

it's just for [status-]

:/

Macha

[status-chrome]

Odd

radp

[status-chrome-7]

Macha

[status-chrome-5]

Arch are usually pretty up to date, so that's rather odd.

radp

Well, Chrome 5 is the latest on the stable channel

The beta channel has Chrome 6

The dev channel has Chrome 7

Macha

19:29

Isn't Chrome 6 released now?

Arda Xi

I thought it was

radp

possible?

On my Ubuntu partition I use the nightlies

they're quite stable.

Yeah, there's the risk of a bad day, in which case I grind my teeth and use Firefox instead

but I would never use nightlies on Windows, they don't autoupdate on their own.

aww, I got distracted and I missed the glitching moment in this TAS

Macha

TAS?

Hardly The Abridged Series :P

radp

tasvideos.org/WelcomeToTASVideos.html :P

Arda Xi

Their 0-star SM64 video is amazing

radp

19:35

►

This one is amazing.

Arda Xi

What the? "Original" quality?

radp

I guess they got tired of TASers uploading 1080p quality recordings of a 320×240 screen

Arda Xi

Well, the problem is that if they don't the audio is still encoded

radp

Actually I have no idea

Arda Xi

:156912 You should try listening to a song or whatever that is uploaded in HD, then listen to the difference between 240p and HD

radp

19:43

We're talking about sound made by MIDI synthetizers or similar, right?

Arda Xi

Depends on the game.

The game you linked also has recorded soundbytes

radp

What is amazing about that run is that he races so fast the game can't keep tabs on his lap and race times.

and the speed reached is not a glitch.

and he spends half the run braking so that his speed does not become high enough that he starts moving backwards

Arda Xi

Does that happen when your speed reaches the limit of numbers the CPU can handle, and it turns into a negative number?

radp

the limit is 16384

so I guess the answer is no.

Details

FallenAngelEyes

20:24

Cool, using google voice to call my parents

this'll save me having to make an international call every week

LessPop_MoreFizz

Google Voice is pretty nifty.

Arda Xi

:(

Ivo Flipse

20:58

I like @CRoss's suggestion here:

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A: How do we widen our range of games?

Personally I'd say this is a very natural thing given the moment this site launched. Just two months after E3, normally no AAA titles are released until the end of September, so they can get attention before the holiday season. Starcraft 2 however, is an exception and actually quite predictably...

> See'ing how many of those are sequels, maybe we should get some questions about the previous games up ahead of time. It wouldn't hurt my feelings to pull out Civ 4 and see what questions I have.

LessPop_MoreFizz

I'm not sure how true that prediction is though. Other M is out now, as is DR 2 (I think), which points to there possibly being some other factor in our narrow range of inquiries.

(i.e. the userbase isn't large or broad enough to have a truly broad base of questions just yet.)

Now it may be that in 3 weeks we get flooded with Civ 5 questions, but that would point to us still being too narrow in our userbase, just a different kind of narrow (i.e. we have too many strategy game enthusiasts, and not enough people playing console platformers/shooters)

Ivo Flipse

it's too bad I'm not buying any new games until after my vacation at the end of the month

but I could ask some more casual game questions

but I'm convinced that the holiday season will lead to more questions, even if I have to ask them myself

plus you shouldn't underestimate how well we get indexed by Google

if a new game comes out

we instantly start asking loads of questions

they will be indexed immediately and very highly ranked

LessPop_MoreFizz

:157008 It's not a google issue per se. I think it's more that core gamers already have established expectations of where to go for this sort of information, and breaking into that expectation for information about more linear games is difficult.

Ivo Flipse

you'll be amazed, I can assure you

the same happens on Super User

LessPop_MoreFizz

I think the SE model is at it's strongest for a game like Starcraft, which has a significant multiplayer meta-game and has a substantial base of knowledge availiable that isn't easy to collect in a gamefaqs style text file.

Ivo Flipse

21:07

as soon as there isn't an answer and you're stuck, you're going to google

I think it's also perfect for any gamefaq question

I don't want to read the whole walkthrough (think of spoilers!)

I just want to know how to get past this darn boss ASAP!!!

LessPop_MoreFizz

I'm not saying that it isn't. I'm saying that I don't search GOOGLE for how to get past this boss. I go to Gamefaqs for the game, find the largest walkthrough in terms of file size, and Ctrl-F my way through it.

Ivo Flipse

which is why you gain rep here, for answering questions

but I can assure you that we're outliers here

not your typical gamer

> Welcome to App Inventor!
> The Google account that you are receiving this email on has been given access to App Inventor.

lol I'm going to have some fun :P

Arda Xi

Heh, I got an invite to that, but I much prefer working with Java than with blocks

Ivo Flipse

well it's just to experiment a little

Arda Xi

Yeah, it is a fun way of programming :)

Ivo Flipse

21:21

I need to make a mockup app that shows how you I could write amnesics for patients/clients using a webapp, app inventor suits that purpose :P

Arda Xi

the fun thing is, for newcomers it's much easier than programming, and for programmers it's harder :P

Ivo Flipse

any way, see you tomorrow :P

radp

21:37

So I was playing Altitude as part of the free weekend a few months after my demo account expired

I joined a friend ingame straight away

...before refreshing on the controls

it was a "football" match

after some unsuccessful WASD'ing I figure out the mouse thrusts and F fires and proceeded to get top kills for four games running while accurately avoiding to touch the ball

my teammates ragequit when, after a while, I asked what the pass button was :D

I even scored a few goals by uncerimoniously ramming my plane into the net :°D

Arda Xi

I've always found the controls for that game extremely confusing

I bought it as part of some indie pack which included 2 or so games I wanted for less than the price of one

radp

A/S/D for attacks is the typical control layout of a football simulation game, I think

surely not handy when you try to move via WASDing

radp

22:36

Thankless work.

C. Ross

why edit a troll?

radp

To fully appreciate his work.

Arda Xi

Oh wow. Kudos

radp

I actually hope this is a worker in mid age crisis who's struggling to find a job and has formed his own awesome conspiracy theory

C. Ross

looking at his name?

radp

22:39

Maybe, such pervasive editing from a non native who takes the train to commute can get him thinking!

:157118 Looking at his name, it sounds like a long rant.

It actually was a stream of consciousness.

C. Ross

That's what I'm saying, he screams troll

radp

That means trolls help me with my English.

Actually -- trolls usually write in perfect English and come back after people reply to them.

C. Ross

that's one tactic

radp

I don't think this particularly one will. If he does there will be lulz.

btw, did I get the attribution right here ? :-}

it was such an awesome work of art I just had to save it in its original, unadulterated glory.

C. Ross

lol

alexanderpas

22:54

:157131 you know you can link directly to an answer too: stackoverflow.com/questions/652587/…

radp

I know I know..

However, I flagged the question for hate speech and it may very well disappear at any given time.

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