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Still, you can see the dieresis on the U.
If you were on OSX you'd just type Option-U (for umlaut) then press U.
Great, now Word 2010 is refusing to do the Ctrl+: U trick.
Oh right, that's because I was missing the shift key (: is shift+; on US keyboards)
Übercharge
20:12
I have an important announcement: BACON!
That is all.
@Powerlord ...grumblegrumblegrumblegrumblegrumble...
@GnomeSlice ...grumblegrumblegrumblegrumblegrumble...
[tag:MURDER]
SeeWhatIDidThar?
@GnomeSlice i see what u faild thar
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@failbadp Of course, you're an expert at failure
20:20
@failbadp Busted. :(
Besides, is so tasty.
@Powerlord Yes, but I like to keep my failures varied if I can help it.
^...Is it just me, or is that showing users/passwords?
@failbadp Oh, you may not need these, but the TF2 Beta has training modes for Demoman, Spy, and Engineer now.
@failbadp nah, it uses über -- which is really irritating, because it also uses blutsauger instead of blütsauger. Stupid... inconsistent... fake-German German Medic...
20:22
@Powerlord Nice.
I may have already linked this, but there it is again.
The Demoman one wasn't that useful, but I can see how the Spy and Engineer ones might be useful.
The funny thing is... the Spy one never allows you to use the Revolver. :D
Cloak, Sapper, and Knife yes, but not your gun.
@RavenDreamer There is no umlaut in blutsauger in german
They really need to add a Medic one at some point.
isn't it Blüt?
20:25
@GnomeSlice That's showing Tumblr's passwords for stuff like the SMS service they use, their database, etc. Not user passwords.
Oh, well. I guess my German's rustier than I thought.
@Brant Isn't that...ungood?
@RavenDreamer No, Blut just means blood
It's nothing that probably wasn't immediately deactivated, but it's pretty damn LOL-worthy.
@Fabian yes, I realize that. I just thought it was spelled with an umlaut.
20:25
Of course, everyone knows that the various accents in TF2 (at least in the English version) are intentionally bad, right? ;)
The Australian Sniper is done by an English voice actor. My roommate, who's from western Europe, could tell that it was faked.
@GnomeSlice that's pretty epic, actually
Bad German accent, bad English accent, bad Australian accent, bad Russian accent, bad alternating between French and Spanish accent... the only ones that sound right are the 3 US accents, and even those sound a bit off at points.
By French/Spanish, you mean the spy?
'cause that's supposed to be French / intentionally ambiguous.
I believe.
I only call it French/Spanish because he uses words from both.
"ma petit cheufleur" or whatever
20:30
@RavenDreamer "You disgust me. Morbidly Obese. Fat got your tounge? HAHAHAHAHA! "
"This is scout, I love rainbows!"
"Your precious sandvich won't save you now, fattie!"
Bob
Bob
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Q: Best game engine 2D for iOS

AdelinoHi, which is the best game engine 2D for iOS? But i really need a game engine that allow me to modify the game code because i need to control the multi touch events. I have a framework that detect with is the gesture that the player make and i need to test this framework of gesture recognizer in ...

@RavenDreamer Isn't it "This is Scout, rainbows make me cry, over!"
...Are we trying to fill the starred list with TF2 quotes now?
20:33
They need to go back and update Heavy and Medic to have new domination sounds.
"awww... you almost healed me to death that time!"
@GnomeSlice Like it has been for the past week, you mean?
"Happy Trails, labourer!"
Particularly since the guy who voices Heavy still does new TF2 voice work (and did so for Poker Night at the Inventory)
I heard that the guy who voices the Medic in TF2 is no longer doing voicework for Valve.
Which is a shame, since they junked the version of Meet the Medic while it was in production.
"Dominated, you fatso-ass fat-headed fat man!"
20:34
"So your deadly skill is jogging? Mine is murdering people"
"Awwww.... Too bad it wasn't a pie-eating contest!"
"Ahahaha, you live in a van!"
"May I borrow your earpiece? 'This is Scout, rainbows make me cry, over!'"
"Here lies Scout: He ran fast, and died a virgin."
@Powerlord You mean this
"Your deadly skill is jogging? Mine is ing people."
"We all knew you were a Spy!"
"Kaboom indeed, you drunken wretch!"
Isn't there one about "shutting you up?"
@GnomeSlice It seems you succeeded
@Fabian Swish
20:37
"Scotland is not a real country. You're an Englishman in a dress!"
"I murdered your toys as well!" -- old Spy quote that may not actually be used any more.
@Powerlord 'd *
Don't feel safe, there is this nice button "cancel stars" ;-)
"They can bury you in the Tomb of the Unskilled Soldier!"
Why don't we have a migration path to gamedev.se yet?
20:39
"Your mouth wrote checks, my bullets cashed them!"
@RavenDreamer cheques*
@Brant We don't have that many questions migrated to there yet
I think either one is acceptable
@RavenDreamer It would appear so, most of the time.
"Good lord, you fight like a woman!" (to the Pyro)
The ambiguous-gender Pyro that is.
Fun fact: The TF2 tips shown when loading a map have a 50% chance of referring to the Pyro as "her"
20:41
Indeed!
"Words cannot express how much I HATE FRANCE RIGHT NOW!"
Also, what's up with the Geisha wig for the Medic? I thought for sure that'd be a Pyro item, like Madame Dixie is.
"Your white flag does not stop AMERICAN BULLETS, Frenchie!"
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A: How to counter a sniper in TF2?

GnomeSliceSticking with the Pyro is a pretty safe bet, as [s]he is the shortest. Note that yes, the Engineer and Demoman both keep below the white line, but neither of them are standing perfectly straight Happy Hunkering!

"Oh look, he shape-shifted into a dead guy!"
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Too bad some of these domination quotes don't play in the game more.
Like you rarely hear the Spy dominating Pyro ones.
20:43
or Scout dominating Heavy
^ Oh man.... My life is ruined.
@GnomeSlice Since I can't read this answer at work, did you post something new to it, or is there a new comment on it or something?
@Powerlord No, but it was relevant to the issue of the pyro's gender. By 'relevant', I mean that @Powerlord ner-quoted @Raven's comment on it a minute ago.
5 mins ago, by Powerlord
Fun fact: The TF2 tips shown when loading a map have a 50% chance of referring to the Pyro as "her"
Raven: "Fun Fact: The announcements on the start page, when referring to the Pyro, have a 50% chance of using "she" and a 50% chance of using "he". Everyone else is (obviously) listed as male"
Oh oh, oh oh oh. Oh oh, oh oh. Oh oh, oh oh oh, the right stuff.
I prefer this:
20:49
@RavenDreamer Is this a remix of something? Or is it original.
@GnomeSlice The Mortal Kombat theme.
As long as we're posting TF2 videos...
@Powerlord Oh god, no.
^ TF2 Scout Advertises the Slap Chop
Oh you did NOT just post that one.
^ TF2 Heavy Sells Kaboom!
20:54
@GnomeSlice I was JUST searching for that one to reply to the Slap Chop one. :P
@Powerlord I had a feeling. :P
@Pwerlord > I don't think you're going to be ready for this one...
^ "The Heavy Is a Trololo!"
That one is actually much better than it sounds.
...Well, not really...
"Ohh, that slaps me on de knee!""
Bob
Bob
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Q: Red-Dead-Redeption: Is there anyway to "win" the side "trap" missions?

JohnFxIn RDR as I roam around the country I often come across mini-side mission like recapturing a stolen horse or fending off a stagecoach robbery. However, there is one "mission" type that I'm not sure how to handle. Usually it is some sad-sack injured person or some woman calling out to me for hel...

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Q: What can i do with a WoW installation?

acidzombie24I tried WoW and didnt like it. The installation is a few gigs and i was wondering if there is anything fun i could do before removing it. Such as browse materials, characters, sounds, etc. What can i do with it?

Game Devs want to know if we want this question. Yay or nay?
Hullo, @Grace. :)
@GraceNote I say yay.
I'd say yay as well.
It seems on topic for us... and there are mpq viewers out there.
21:01
Out of all of the demographics I can think of, Gamers would have the best knowledge of "what you can do with WoW".
Assuming WoW still uses mpq packages.
@GnomeSlice That's what I (and apparently some users in the comments there) thought. Well then, I guess I'll be moving it then.
Yeah, I imagine we could do something with it.
(Hey, what happens to the votes on migrated questions? They get removed if the person who cast the vote doesn't have an account at the destination, right? Or do they all get removed?)
They vanish.
I thought so.
21:06
@badp It was a little storage room for asthethic purposes :P
@Macha er... okay? (I lost context.)
The 20 dwarves in one room finding booze
Sorry, got the reply just after signing off into my SE box last night.
@Macha Oh, I see. I'm still baffled by that, what happened to the one character per square????!!
@badp Doesn't exist for idlers or something apparently. Most full square had 8 characters.
They've moved out of the room, but observe - one with two dwarfs on a single tile:
Bob
Bob
21:44
0
Q: How do I serve a fast ball in Wii Sports?

splattered bitsI recently replaced our damaged Wii Sports disc after a year or so of it being out of commission. My son and I have been having a lot of fun playing together. When we play tennis, I'm getting vague recollections of being able to serve an extremely fast ball, but it's been long enough since I've...

sigh
waiting for 30 mins for sister, 30 mins away from home
entertain me
10 mins still
<3 radio
</3 4km of radioless gallery on way back
21:59
Burrito Rage is a Thing.
ah, some good ole action. Thanks
Oooo, I have tools on Writers.SE! I forgot that it only takes 2k on beta sites
@sjohnston On private betas it's even easier, and then a few days later they take the toys away again.
@Fabian Yeah, that's always a little depressing
But the most useful part of the 10k abilities, the list of pending edits, is not active on beta sites. That one I really missed on Skeptics, before we had moderators.
Bob
Bob
22:30
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Q: 98% notes hit, 9 note streak, lots of notes go clunk

Cosmic FlameI've been playing co-op Guitar Hero 3 on my Xbox 360 recently and have noticed something a bit odd. I have two guitar controllers, the Les Paul that came with Guitar Hero 3 and the Xplorer that came with Guitar Hero 2. The Xplorer always seems to perform worse, no matter who is playing it. A l...

22:42
@RavenDreamer: Seriously, though, it's a TF2 question. You knew I had to reply eventually. :P
Even if I don't play Medic that often.
Stupid Valve... put a setup time on cp_well, then remove the setup time on cp_well, then put the setup time back and make a Scout achievement tied to it existing so you can't remove the setup timer to make it like EVERY OTHER 5cp map.
@Powerlord at least they settled the matter down for good.
I like it when Kongregate's contests are for achievements I already have.
@failbadp Basically, Scout has an achievement to get a kill before the round starts on cp_well... however, the only way for Scout to get over the wall on cp_well is to use the knockback from the Force a' Nature gun to jump over the wall... Oh right, Valve nerfed that, so I don't know if it's even possible now.
Oh wait, you can hope a Demo or Soldier jumps over the wall and that you get the kill on them.
@Powerlord Yeah, I saw that once you made me peruse the achievement list
That's not the dumbest achievement in the game. That honor goes to any one of the "get 1 million blah damage" or possibly even to the "Get a melee kill during a sticky jump / rocket jump"
What's a slot token about?
22:51
No wait, my bad... the Kill 5 stunned players one is the dumbest. It's for a class with no stun ability.
@failbadp It's used to craft weapons that go in specific slots.
1 scrap metal + 1 slot token + 1 class token = random weapon for that class/slot combination.
big effin' yawn.
Class tokens have another use... 1 Class Token + 4 Refined Metal = hat for that class.
Of course, 4 refined metal is a lot, since 1 refined = 3 reclaimed, and 1 reclaimed = 3 scrap, and 1 scrap = 2 weapons for the same class.
One thing I don't quite get is
Wait, did that double=post?
Not now.
22:54
I got a weird timeout error on that.
So, I have the heavy's warrior spirit and brass beast
So I hit retry and then there were two.
When I hover each I get at the end a list of items
@failbadp Those two are part of a set. Having all 3 set items gives you a bonus.
The hibernating bear (in green)
The brass beast (in gray)
The buffalo steak sandvich (in gray)
The warrior's spirit (in gray)
I don't have the first and fouth, I have the second and third... so does this stuff make any sense at all?
22:56
"The hibernating bear" <-- set name. The other three are the items in the set.
Oh. I see.
They turn... either green or yellow if you have them equipped.
Yellow, I think.
Yeah, I haven't equipped any because they kinda suck.
The Heavy, Medic, and Demoman sets only require items. The Sniper, Spy, Scout, Pyro, and Soldier sets require specific hats, too.
You should have seen the rage when those were announced.
Oh, I can imagine
22:59
Now, the thing is, they arguably have better set bonuses. The Sniper's bonus is that they can't be headshot. Pyros move 10% faster (but take 10% more damage from bullets). Spy decloaks silently but shows up for half a second if touched by an enemy while cloaked.
That's half a second after you stop touching them.
By default, for all but the first 6.5 seconds of the Dead Ringer, cloaked Spies show up with their team color when touched by an enemy. This includes all the time with the other 2(3) cloaking devices.
Given the amount of grinding required it's kinda heartbreaking and yet nice to see that every bonus comes with a malus
except that the malus often ends up making the whole thing kind of pointless
Well, every other set has the drawback being that the items kinda suck.
The sniper set I mentioned? You lose your secondary slot and your primary sniper rifle slot is one that can't headshot.
Demoman set? You get a grenade launcher that does way more damage than before, but doesn't bounce... and only has two shots.
And by doesn't bounce, I mean the grenades shatter without exploding if they hit anything other than a player.
smacks StackExchange Stop giving me the reply/cancel thingy!
Rather than me explaining every set, here's a link: wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Item_sets
I looked at the Engineer sets from the same contest these 8 sets came from... and it's not hard to figure out why Engineer has no set yet.
Some of the "sets" were just alternate versions of one of the Engineer buildings, rather than replacing the loadout slots he has now. Oh, and this was after Valve made the comment that they weren't changing buildings around in updates.
23:18
@Joe Behymer if you can see this I would like a moment of your time
@tzenes You need to remove the space from the name.
he has a space in his name
@tzenes Yes, and @ calls don't support them. That's why when I reply to fail badp, it shows up as @failbadp
@JoeBehymer if you can see this I would like a moment of your time
and @Atwood allowing spaces in usernames is a bad idea
That's JeffAtwood actually. ;)
Ouch, Duke Nukem 3D is only going to support 8-player multiplayer.
Glad to see they've caught on that it isn't 1995 any more!!!
23:47
Oh yay, TF2 update with unknown contents
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