The Bridge

pixel

23:01

that video is funny though

Invader Skoodge

I carried a broken treadmill that was missing critical components to the dumpster not 4 hours ago and it's already gone.

pixel

I was just thinking, the zelda lead theme would be awesome played by an orchestra...

Invader Skoodge

With that and this one, I suddenly have a lot of music to listen to tonight.

pixel

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whoever linked the deadmau5 remix of Friday... lol

fbueckert

What is it about Zelda music that fires all the geek synapses?

pixel

23:15

because even as 8 bit music it's good, when played with real instruments its just epic

Invader Skoodge

It's good, but I am more partial to Final Fantasy music anyway.

It's probably just because I played more Final Fantasy games and liked them more, though.

So there's just more memory and nostalgia there.

fbueckert

@InvaderSkoodge Final Fantasy music, too; whenever I start a game, and I hear that iconic orchestra, I just settle into the couch and look forward to what's next.

pixel

I am not liking how cold it is here

worst of it is that it's only -2, and that's warm for some of you guys

don't know how you manage

fbueckert

Ok, it's official.

I now want every Zelda remade for Wii U.

pixel

lol

fbueckert

23:22

@pixel It is currently -3 here, and that's crazy warm for this time of the year.

pixel

@fbueckert my point exactly

and I bet you're not sat in your house with 2 tshirts a jumper and a jacket on

and a space heater on

with gas central heating on also

fbueckert

@pixel The furnace is going, but other than that, no.

Invader Skoodge

It is currently 43 here. I am too lazy to do the math to convert to Celsius, but it's above 32 so it's not negative.

I hate when it's below freezing.

pixel

my PC is reporting a temperature of 13 degrees inside the case

granted i've only been home an hour or so, so it will warm up over night

I need to move to a country closer to the equator

Ullallulloo

@pixel The impressiveness here depends on the scale.

pixel

23:29

@Ullallulloo it's overclocked to 4.4ghz and air cooled only

Ullallulloo

@pixel So probably not Kelvin...

pixel

oh

Celsius

Invader Skoodge

It's annoying that I have to remember what part of the world people are from when they mention temperature.

Why can't the US stop being retarded and switch to Celsius?

pixel

@InvaderSkoodge the thought never even crosses my mind until somebody questions it

:p

fbueckert

@InvaderSkoodge Because the amount of money they'd have to spend to change everything is staggering.

Invader Skoodge

23:31

@pixel I'm used to Fahrenheit, but my roommate in college was Canadian, and always talked in Celsius, so I had to learn to pay attention.

agent86

whew, finished halo 4 solo legendary. I'm tired now

pixel

@InvaderSkoodge I have had zero exposure to any other scale until I started talking temperatures in here last time

Invader Skoodge

@agent86 I heard legendary is harder on Halo 4 than it had been in previous games.

fbueckert

@InvaderSkoodge Celcius is at least logical.

Invader Skoodge

@fbueckert Well Fahrenheit isn't completely baseless.

fbueckert

23:32

Fahrenheit is just, "Eh, this means this."

@InvaderSkoodge Oh, what is it based off of?

Invader Skoodge

0F was the lowest temperature he could get something to be in his lab, and 100F was what he thought was the normal temperature of the human body.

agent86

@InvaderSkoodge I don't know about that... I think the new enemies were a pain in the ass at first, but once I had them down, it wasn't so bad.

Invader Skoodge

He was a bit off on the upper end, though. Normal human body temperature is closer to 96F.

That said, it's still completely stupid.

agent86

there were a few sections that I died quite a few times on, but nothing insurmountable. I even did a few of the weird achievements during my run, which made it harder than it should have been.

Invader Skoodge

I would like to play Halo 4, but if I try to play a FPS game with a joystick to aim, I wind up in a blind rage.

pixel

23:35

my friend's little brother is amazing at first person shooters with a gamepad

I have never seen anything like it

Invader Skoodge

Yeah it blows my mind when people are good at using the gamepad for those games.

agent86

@InvaderSkoodge I had this problem, until @EB convinced me to play MW2. I was absolute rubbish for the first month or so, going 1 kill and 12 deaths or so, but then I got the hang of it.

Invader Skoodge

We have a 360 at work and the general rule is that Halo is only played if one specific guy isn't there.

pixel

it feels so unnatural to play like that

agent86

up to that point, I was a PC FPS'er almost completely

pixel

23:36

mouse for FPS for ever

Invader Skoodge

@agent86 MW2 was the most recent FPS game I tried with a gamepad, too. I gave it a fair chance (beat the whole campaign, got up to level 40ish in multiplayer), but it was just too frustrating.

pixel

FPS with gamepad is the reason they were slowed down as well

agent86

@InvaderSkoodge were you playing vs mouse/keyboard users? m/k'ers will kill gamepad users all day long.

pixel

you'd never be able to compete against keyboard+mouse in a fast paced FPS

Invader Skoodge

@agent86 I expect not. I was playing on a 360. I don't think that supports mouse/keyboard.

agent86

23:37

on console, the playing field is more or less level, except for the modded controllers and other customizations...

Invader Skoodge

I got the game for 360 because all my friends had it for 360.

If I got it for PC, I wouldn't have been able to play with them.

agent86

you are the alternate universe me then

fbueckert

@agent86 And that's why they have separate servers for them.

pixel

I have a keyboard and mouse for my dreamcast

agent86

where I turned left, and became a console FPS devotee, you turned right and spurned the controller's advances.

@InvaderSkoodge this was pretty much the reason I got XBL Gold. I couldn't convince my little group to play TF2 on PC :(

Invader Skoodge

23:39

@agent86 I saw some console TF2 when Orange Box was first released.

fbueckert

@agent86 Rather than cave to your tasteless peers, you should have spurned them.

Invader Skoodge

Nothing made sense.

Sentries in the sky, snipers in untargetable locations shooting you through walls, madness.

agent86

@InvaderSkoodge yeah, it's a hot mess of not-being-patched-due-to-expensive-MS-patch-rules

Invader Skoodge

@agent86 Is it still that way?

agent86

they promised patches for a while, and then finally threw up their hands and went "deal with it"

@fbueckert unfortunately, I got sucked in pretty heavily. co-op with competent folks is a rare pleasure.

@InvaderSkoodge I assume so, as I've never heard anything since. I didn't play TF2 on xbox, personally. I owned orange box for PC

Invader Skoodge

23:42

Orange Box was so good.

agent86

the xbox versions of L4D and L4D2 charge for the expansions, too.

pixel

ok so, I have a question

it's about smartphones

agent86

they get one for free, and then after that you have to pay :(

pixel

if you could have any smartphone, what would you choose and why?

fbueckert

@pixel Android.SE

agent86

23:43

(again, owing to MS rules - it's not crazy DLC prices, but it's still $$$)

pixel

(I am about to get a new phone)

@fbueckert not sure why android.se would be relevant for all smartphone questions

fbueckert

@pixel I was being a smartass. Any phone worth getting should be using Android.

agent86

@pixel I have no help, sadly. I have the Worlds Dumbest Smartphone. It runs Java or somesuch.

pixel

ok so @fbueckert is biased towards android, and @agent86 still uses a nokia 3310

agent86

@pixel I think it's a LG Rumor Touch.

I would buy an iPhone, but in the past I've been disappointed by the value proposition for apple devices. I also am cheap.

I will probably upgrade to an android phone whenever my current grandfathered discount plan is discontinued

up till then, it's shitty-java-phone for me

pixel

23:46

I was playing around with an android based phone earlier, and it didn't feel as polished as an apple device

agent86

on the other hand, iOS has some pretty awesome game opportunities, from what I understand.

pixel

but I don't really want an apple phone

I thought about getting a windows phone

agent86

oh god no

that's like buying a luxury Kia

microsoft has fumbled so heavily in the mobile space that I've got no respect for them

Tim Stone

I dunno, I have a friend who has a Windows phone and really enjoys it. I've got an iPhone 4 myself, which is incidentally the only Apple product I've ever owned.

Oh, no, I had an iPod once upon a time.

pixel

well I have an ipod touch

agent86

23:49

I've got an ipod, and the wife's owned 2 iPods and 3 macs now.

pixel

but in order to do anything I wanted to do with it I had to jailbreak it

Lazers

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Q: Up-to-date mod guide for TES Morrowind

There used to be a good blog about modding Morrowind that some day I would have liked to step through to mod this excellent game, but I've simply had no time. Last time I checked, it was down, though... The URL was: http://www.somethingfornobody.com/2011/morrowind-modding-guide/ If anyone knows...

Tim Stone

The answer of course is to wait a few months and get a BlackBerry L-series, just because you can.

pixel

I would never get a blackberry

or anything with a physical keyboard

badp

Control Core Angel get

fbueckert

23:56

@TimStone Guh

Research In Motion is spiralling the drain.

Krazer

@pixel What are you looking to do with a new phone?

Tim Stone

@pixel The new phone(s) actually don't have a physical keyboard, apparently.

pixel

@Krazer good question, not sure of the answer, I just want a new phone

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