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fbueckert

23:00

@Ullallulloo Yeah, I know. It makes zero sense whatsoever.

Powerlord

Valve added The Tuxxy to TF2

I wonder what that's a promo for!

> Cosmetic items purchased in the store moving forward can be used in crafting

Hmm...

John

Waaaaait a second. Did @MarkTrapp quit?!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@John Quit what?

John

@LessPop_MoreFizz The site.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Huh. He no longer shows up in the users list.

John

23:08

A search of /users doesn't find him

Yeah

LessPop_MoreFizz

It appears he did nuke his account.

John

Also here

GnomeSlice

I hope it wasn't because of me.

John

gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/76258/revisions

His name has no link in that rev history

Powerlord

@John In other words, yes.

Mad Scientist

23:09

Mark deleted his accounts on most SE sites (maybe all now) some days ago

John

@Powerlord That's what I was afraid of.

@MadScientist Any word on why?

Ullallulloo

Shoot. I'm gonna lose tons of FFXIII rep now...

Mad Scientist

@John No details, really.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Took 2 weeks to kill them all, but looks like the last of my Stack Exchange accounts has finally been deleted & its contributions anonymized

Tweeted by itafroma on November 29, 2012 at 9:25 PM

John

Huh

Well that's a bummer.

@LessPop_MoreFizz RIP @MarkTrapp

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Invader Skoodge

23:13

What's he got against SE?

Does anyone know?

I was actually thinking recently that it's been a while since I've seen him.

John

Whoa browsing his tweets reveals he's super mad

Wes

@InvaderSkoodge I guess you could ask?

John

Eff @StackExchange. Silently requested account delete; they decided to disclose my previously anon votes to everyone: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/156507

Tweeted by itafroma on November 22, 2012 at 10:10 PM

murgatroid99

I'm not going to post it, but he did just make another tweet

John

@murgatroid99 I bet Gnome will love that. ._.

Ullallulloo

23:16

@murgatroid99 ...

@GnomeSlice ...

GnomeSlice

Took 2 weeks to kill them all, but looks like the last of my Stack Exchange accounts has finally been deleted & its contributions anonymized

Tweeted by itafroma on November 29, 2012 at 9:25 PM

Oh goody

Wes

Has anyone seen the #1reasonwhy hashtag on twitter. It is gaming related. I have mentioned this in other chats in the SE network. I think there should be a place that it can be dicussed.

GnomeSlice

It's not my problem if he can't deal with people who get on his nerves.

Invader Skoodge

25GB to get Metro 2033, Darksiders, and Red Faction: Armageddon.

John

@GnomeSlice Bad @GnomeSlice.

Plz to not name call.

LessPop_MoreFizz

23:18

@GnomeSlice I'll just have to troll you twice as hard now.

Ullallulloo

@InvaderSkoodge Yep, and I have like 10 free right now. =/

John

He really should've seen that coming.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@John I'd hope he did and just didn't care.

Otherwise, he's dumber than I thought he was.

John

@LessPop_MoreFizz I can totally picture him raging at this right now.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@John I got the stare of disapproval tweet within moments of the ban, so yeah.

John

23:20

Cue angry Steam messages in 3.....2....

pixel

at a guess, his arqade account got deleted on the 23rd

John

> Stack Exchange, a service I devoted literally years of my life to improving, has been going in a different direction than I would like for the past several months.

Powerlord

plus.google.com/107485877062152067451/posts/jQzpvHwYQVE

pixel

I hope I did nothing to provoke him leaving

Powerlord

That does show some... problems.

John

23:23

@Powerlord Yeah, I'd say that's probably the most info we're gonna get

@pixel Me too.

pixel

it certainly looks like they really pissed him off on the way out though

LessPop_MoreFizz

@pixel I got the sense over time that his dissatisfaction was mainly about moderation and policies related thereto. As a result, he sought to cut himself away from MSO and many other sites. After the fiasco with his MSO account deletion, he flipped and cut off all of the rest. (And justifiably so.)

John

I think there's only one thing left to say here.

:(

LessPop_MoreFizz

@John There's one other thing to say, which is that this is at least 7 or 8 literal hitlers worth of sad. :(

John

@LessPop_MoreFizz He said he requested MSO deletion last, actually

Lazers

23:25

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Q: Does enlightenment stack?

Does the monk buff enlightenment stack with other experience buffs? For example say you've got the rested bonus and an heirloom that gives 10% more experience gained, would this add up to 260% experience gained? Or if you have the rested bonus would the 50% be calculated as 50% of 200, making the...

world-of-warcraft

John

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'll try to stick around long enough to fulfill a few of those.

pixel

@LessPop_MoreFizz yeah I got a feeling he was unhappy but we weren't really on long-discussion-terms

although I agree completely with stack exchange's lack of care for privacy

murgatroid99

@pixel They usually do care about privacy, and it looked like the information was revealed by a technical bug and they didn't intend to do it.

pixel

@murgatroid99 I'm not going to discuss why I know they don't care, but I'm going to say that's not the only "technical bug" in the system.

John

@murgatroid99 They deal with that kind of scenario all the time, though, and they did this differently.

Ullallulloo

23:29

@John Because losing thousands of votes is a big deal.

badp

@BenBrocka Red Faction Armageddon also appears to have a lot of breaking of things.

Including my soul with the 10 fps I'm getting out of it

John

@Ullallulloo Yeah, they still could've, yaknow, tested it or something.

Ben Brocka

@badp how crappy is your PC?

badp

@BenBrocka Two words: GeForce 9200M

Martin Sojka

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A: Where are my Minecraft saves located?

hgfd hqehk ebuvhbq3euvhbgru3hbvgy31bvgyh31b gvh 13hgv 31hgbfyg34bf

That's an ... interesting take on the problem.

Ullallulloo

23:32

@badp ~~That's better than the recomended...~~

murgatroid99

@pixel well, I guess I'm not sure what you mean, since I've never noticed any privacy leakages that weren't fixed

Ullallulloo

@MartinSojka Wise words by this "poop".

Ben Brocka

@badp I don't recognize any mobile graphics card names. Let alone nvidia

badp

@BenBrocka okay - twice as slow as an Intel 3000 HD

Powerlord

@BenBrocka nvidia went back to 100 after the 9000 series... and is back up to 600 now.

Ben Brocka

23:34

How does your rig run BL2?

Ullallulloo

Oh, I have no idea about mobile cards.

badp

@BenBrocka 15 fps, except in the "assassinate the assassins" area where I get an eye watering 30

Ullallulloo

GnomeSlice says that poop is funny.

Martin Sojka

Speaking of this question, isn't there a way to force-accept some answer when the original question asker got MIA?

badp

(roughly; I don't actually have FPS counting software installed)

murgatroid99

23:36

@MartinSojka no.

badp

This is obviously with all settings to the minimum

murgatroid99

@MartinSojka It's been suggested about a hundred times on MSO, and downvoted and rejected every time.

badp

Antialiasing? Motion blur? SHADOWS? Please, none of that

Ben Brocka

@badp ouch. No wonder you don't do so well :P. Is it actually smooth?

Martin Sojka

@murgatroid99 I assumed as much (... but MSO gave me some error about upgrading ATM, so couldn't check). Meh.

Ben Brocka

23:37

have you done the super performance tweaks to get every frame out of it you can?

badp

@BenBrocka As smooth as 15fps can be.

@BenBrocka Nope

Ben Brocka

@badp try some of this? gamefront.com/how-to-improve-borderlands-2-with-ini-file-tweaks

badp

Like, I still have shadows in BL2. Or textures. You can turn textures off right? Like in Quake 3?

Ben Brocka

You could turn off textures?

how would that even work?

Martin Sojka

@BenBrocka Of course you could. That's how all the top players played the game.

badp

23:39

@BenBrocka You just have lightmaps

Ullallulloo

I turned basically turned shaders off in Oblivion on my old computer.

pixel

@badp Don't think you can in BL2

should be able to turn off shadows though?

badp

@pixel It was mostly a joke

↑ quake 3 no textures

pixel

yeah that's what my quake 3 looked like when I played

Ben Brocka

@badp wouldn't the lightmap be more intensive than texture rendering?

badp

23:40

@BenBrocka It's static...

As you can see it's much less detailed and mostly gets the job done anyway

(I still had textures on my guns though)

pixel

strangely, that's actually water

Ben Brocka

It looks trippy. Like something you'd see as a stylized game nowadays

badp

@pixel heh.

pixel

(the flat mass at the bottom of the stairs)

you can see the plants

Martin Sojka

If I remember correctly, the lightmap in Quake 1-3 was what we would call "vertex colouring" today. One colour per vertex of geometry, and the static one didn't have many of them.

I might confuse it with something else, though. It's rather late here. :)

pixel

23:43

@MartinSojka what time is it there?

Martin Sojka

@pixel 19 hours after I woke up.

pixel

;p

I haven't had more than 4 hours of sleep per day since tuesday

I'm debating if I stay up to play with the Americans or go to bed

have a feeling tonight that if I don't get to bed voluntarily that it will probably happen without my choice

LessPop_MoreFizz

@pixel Keyboardface is an attractive feature to cultivate.

pixel

@LessPop_MoreFizz apparently I looked "tired" today

badp

also

What happens in BL2 when you die without any money:

pixel

23:47

free rez afaik

badp

Ullallulloo

Not me, but this is basically how I played Oblivion.

Invader Skoodge

@Ullallulloo It's like it's really Morrowind!

agent86

@badp permadeath.

LessPop_MoreFizz

TBQH, I'd be more interested in a Borderlands hardcore mode w/ Permadeath.

Powerlord

23:58

> 3DS crossover Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney is out today in Japan

So... where's the English release?

Wipqozn

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