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15:00
10 skills? T_T
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Q: Can I do anything to improve the damage done by the demon summoned by my follower's Maximus?

BeofettMy enchantress uses the legendary two-handed sword Maximus, which quite frequently summons a large demon to fight with us. It's quite a handy proc, but I'd like to know if there's any way I can make it more effective. My enchantress' damage is quite low now, as I haven't really put much effort...

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Q: What's the difference between day and night

happy_emiI've been played this game for 20 hours and I still can't get the difference between day and night. Apart from people occupation, is there any other difference? Some random event that only spawns at specific times, for example?

@OrigamiRobot there are more than 10, you only get to have 10 on your bar
@pixel I know. That's too many.
@OrigamiRobot 5 of those 10 can be passive/triggered by traits
Oh ok. That's better.
Is that a viable option?
15:03
like on my ranger I have an ability that triggers automatically when I get to 75% health, I have a passive that increases my movement speed, etc
yeah I'm using a spec recommended on multiple other sites
or, working towards, since I'm not capped yet
I hate having to deal with a lot of active skills. Borderlands 1/2 is my dream skill system.
@OrigamiRobot Shoot things, all skills provide passive bonuses?
yeah, that's a little too much the other way
I prefer to have some choice on abilities for particular situatiosn
@fbueckert Or triggered.
@pixel Did the suspicious votes get rescinded?
15:06
@badp all the ones from lastnight did yeah
@pixel Now to see if your grudge holder is determined to make them stick.
that will require me to ask a bunch of questions
@OrigamiRobot Play TF2! It has no abilities, just guns/useable items!
@fbueckert: Didn't NC Soft give several months notice they were pulling the plug on CoH?
@Wipqozn Yes.
15:08
@Powerlord Cloaks and build tools.
But the termination came completely out of the blue, on a game that was profitable.
@badp Those aren't useable items?
@Powerlord I did. I was... decent I like to think.
Guild Wars 2 also binds abilities to items
They're still abilities :P
And they absolutely refuse to provide any reasoning beyond, "Too bad, so sad."
15:09
also, @BenBrocka, the disabling of the cel shader and contour lines did wonders for BL2. Thank you
@Wipqozn You have GW2, yes?
@OrigamiRobot Yes.
Like you said, all the cool people own it.
@fbueckert Did you see the last quarter financial report from NCSoft? It's GW2 > B&S > L1 > Aion > L2 > everything else. CoH/CoV might have been profitable, but it also was a very small fish with a very localised community, so they just cut it out.
@Wipqozn Did you play GW1?
@OrigamiRobot Yes.
15:10
20 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot
Compare the combat to GW1
@MartinSojka Money is money. If a division of your company is making money for you, shutting it down is counter productive.
@fbueckert Obviously, the Korean bosses disagreed.
@badp I figured it would; I assumed you might already be doing that. I couldn't stand the loss of the cartoony feel, myself
And then not even providing a decent reason as to why they're doing it, to the people who have been loyal for years, tells me they don't value their customers at all.
@fbueckert not quite, if there are foreseeable expenses coming up in the future (like having to create more content to keep people playing) then it's not worth it in the long run
15:12
@badp Of course I'm sure you're not picky about your graphics :P
@pixel CoX was creating content like that on a regular basis; there was a cash shop for exactly that reason.
And after moving to F2P, they were more profitable than before, I believe.
@fbueckert Did I mention they are Koreans? The decision has been made, you're supposed to silently accept that.
@OrigamiRobot Completely different. GW2 is a lot more movement based than GW1 one was, and has a dodge button. Whereas GW1 focused on having a Tank for taking damage, the focus now is on avoiding damage all together. There are skills which exist to make this easier, such as a Guardian skill which prevents all projectiles from entering an area for a short time. Another example would be a MEsmer skill which grants allies increased movement speed, and reduces the movement speed of enemies.
@badp I haven't recently, but I can check quick now if you want
@MartinSojka Did I mention I'm Canadian? And we don't do that?
15:13
@fbueckert I'm sure F2P games are a lot more work though; you have to constantly add new (pay) content, keep balance, encourage buying. It might not have been worth the effort despite being profitable
@fbueckert Canadian high-five
@BenBrocka The Paragon studio was managing it; to my knowledge, NCSoft didn't have to do anything at all.
@fbueckert Really? Huh.
@Wipqozn Canadian high-five
@BenBrocka That is my understanding of the situation; NCSoft had to do nothing but let them continue.
And it would bring in a small profit every year.
@Brant Canadian high-five
15:15
@fbueckert It won't change the fact that they expected you to do exactly that - accept the inevitable in silence and dignity. Difference in cultures and all that.
Nothing major, granted, but killing a studio that brings in money year after year, and you having to do nothing for it sounds like a wrong decision.
@fbueckert NCSoft owns Paragon Studios.
@Powerlord I am aware of that.
Bloodshot stronghold always is an unpleasant area to clear out
@badp Didn't see anything special
15:16
@MartinSojka Culture difference this: Never buying NCSoft ever again.
Well turns out I don't have the Midas' touch
In fact, Paragon was started by NCSoft to manage CoH/CoV when Cryptic left to develop a competing MMO.
(Retrosaur got 10 keys some time after playing with me)
It might be time for me to get GW2. Who will play with me all of tonight?
@badp Ah ha. :P
That'd have been pretty nifty
15:17
@badp You can just run like hell until the miniboss, kill him and run like hell till you reach bloodshot ramparts
Yeah I didn't get the 10 keys either
It's ALL minibosses
Isn't there just one? The nomad guy
so the super badass maniac isn't a miniboss?
@OrigamiRobot In how many hours does tonight begin, and when does it end?
because he's just killed me twice
15:19
@badp Not really, you can run past him. Though I guess that's a lot easier with Phaselock
I meant miniboss as in it's literally impossible to proceed before killing them (IIRC the door is closed until the boss nomad dies)
@OrigamiRobot If you can hold out til the 18th of December, I'll help you level in GW2!
The Humble Bundle sets a proud example for all of us.
After all, they've been disguised and under cover for 2 years before finally backstabbing all the indie devs they've pretended to support in the past.
@OrigamiRobot Depending on timescales and what not
I will
15:21
@Powerlord what?!
I will be playing from 5pm GMT until <I pass out>am
I need to get ready for class. tortoise swoosh
@Powerlord Do something to advance game development and promote indie developers... Until someone big comes along and puts a stop to it?
@Wipqozn Starts in 5 hours. Ends when I fall asleep.
So, 11pm until <you go offline>
15:22
@Fluttershy Exactly! \o/
@pixel For you, yes.
Due to me not lasting past midnight lastnight, I expect at least a 4am finish for me
Has THQ bought Wolfire?
preferably later since I can't play games between 9am-12pm
due to the sun shining in my eyes
@pixel time zones help a lot when discussing absolute time.
15:23
The important thing is who wants to play with me while I'm low level.
(as opposed to "5 hours from now" which is relative)
@badp I wouldn't be surprised if we saw less Indie in the Humble Bundles hereafter.
@Powerlord I live in +0, I don't need to specify timezone
@OrigamiRobot Level scaling, dood! Whoever joins you will be low level too! =P
@Fluttershy They've stated they might be doing 7 next month
15:24
@Fluttershy wat
I really don't see why this bundle spells doom for all other bundles
@OrigamiRobot if I go to your starter area, I will scale down to level 3 or w/e
and as we move through the gameworld I will keep rescaling to the level for that area
@pixel Not everyone lives in +0, and 9am for those of us in other time zones is not the same time as 9am is in +0.
regardless of what level I'm at
@OrigamiRobot Say you're leveling in a level 3 zone, and I took my 80 there, I'd be put at level 3 with stats scaled appropriately. =P
15:25
For instance, I'm in -5.
Still, is that fun or profitable for you?
@Powerlord Good point. To avoid confusions we should all use the Correct Earth Time.
Yes and yes.
@OrigamiRobot yes, the XP curve per level in this game is weird
@badp Why would we use corrupt earth time?
15:25
Interesting.
@OrigamiRobot There will always be a market for the crafting materials acquired throughout the game. So, low level farming is still profitable.
I got to level 15, finished my starter zone, and moved onto the next starter zone because I was too low level to continue my story quests
Who said anything about Corrupt Earth Time? That's like Burundi or something
so I've done one full starter zone, and I'm half way through the starter zone for the next race
and you get XP for literally everything in this game
except healing
but since there are no dedicated healers it's not a problem
Are services like running people to new areas still things?
15:27
not that I've seen
but assuming I'm understanding you correctly, it wouldn't work properly anyway
@OrigamiRobot What game did you play that has that?
@Powerlord GW1
I hate it when the Inbox tells you that you have a new message in chat, but when you click to see it nothing is there
15:28
since whoever is escorting you would be scaled down to an equivalent level for that area
If it's something that was deleted, I want to know what it was even more
so they wouldn't be overpowered
@Sterno somebody linked you a copy of Friday
@OrigamiRobot Oh... I thought you were going to say WoW, but they finally just moved the boats on the Alliance side directly to the capitals.
@pixel Why would anyone ever delete that?
@Sterno blame badp
15:30
@Sterno Oh, right.
Today's Friday
Nobody follow Youtu.be or bit.ly links.
Don't give me that. I've linked nothing!
Or anything from @Sterno or @Pixel.
@Sterno yet.
@fbueckert hey, that's not fair
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Q: Can all enemies be suppressed?

G_GlockCan all enemies be suppressed? For example, can you successfully suppress a Cryssalid or will they simply take the hit point and destroy you?

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Q: Games like Civilization?

BhupendraI have been playing civilization for a while and I like that kind of genre where you build stuff and progress. civ4 bts is my favorite. Can you tell if there are similar strategy games like civ? AOE comes to mind. Also games that are similar to commandos (another strategy game).

@fbueckert Your problem is that you feed the trolls.
15:31
@fbueckert I never click links from them anyway.
@Lazers , kill with fire!
@Lazers Kill!
@OrigamiRobot Guild Wars 2 newbie walkthrough < Explains the combat etc
@pixel You were a wholehearted instigator of this; don't like it, don't do it.
@Lazers Just because some people argued that if we'd kill the tag entirely we'd magically no longer get questions!
15:33
@fbueckert I think you just classify me outside of the 1% of people you like, it's fine, I get it. I can deal with your hatred.
@badp They just find another tag that meets their needs.
@pixel No, there's no hatred.
I'm just pointing out that you joined in the fun of trolling with Friday links; it's completely fair to point you out and warn others about it.
@fbueckert on my scale of "love" and "hate", it's obviously not love :P
@pixel If there's no in-between, then, yeah. It's definitely not love.
@fbueckert "in between" allows grey areas
@fbueckert What part of obsessing yourself with Friday is fun?
15:36
Are you guys gonna get a divorce?
@badp It's Friday... (Friday)... gotta get down on Friday!
@badp It's not. It's annoying.
I'm not getting you down @pixel, sorry. Now stop humping my leg already
Hence why I warn everybody about it.
why do we even have a tag anyway
@badp you are getting me down
15:38
@pixel Well, yeah, that's the point. There is more on the feeling scale than a binary love/hate.
scribbles notes for @Mana's fanfic
I need more Mana!
I'm out of Mana.
The @pixel's a Spy!
iSpy
15:41
Speaking of TF2, I was thinking about writing a plugin that waits a random amount of time, then plays one of the announcer's unused lines.
the new product from Apple
Particularly the ones from the WAR update... like "Friendship has been detected"
STOP HIDING BEHIND COVER WHEN YOU DOWN ME dammit
sigh, Mad Mike now spawned with a badass shield
38 minutes
15:56
How much is GW2 now?
Still €55 right?
@badp All I have to go by from here is the Google Shopping preview. I saw a result for $25, but it looks like a guide now.
@OrigamiRobot like 44.99 or w/e
but if you get a GW2 key from elsewhere you can save like 10-15
@OrigamiRobot $60.
Finally an answer from your own currency!
Huh, it's pretty cool that Humble Bundle got a major publisher on board. But a little disappointing that they dropped their anti-DRM, pro-Mac/Linux stance for it.
16:07
@InvaderSkoodge Worth it?
I've spent close to 60 hours in it already, and I'm not bored yet.
@OrigamiRobot I'm not sure you could get more subjective than this question
$1/hr is pretty good, and it's only going to improve.
@OrigamiRobot If you like MMOs, worth it. No subscription fee.
whole range of things needs to be considered, like personal circumstances, financial circumstances, favourite types of games, the amount of time you'll play it, your favourite type of cupcake, etc
16:08
If I end up never going back to D3, I can turn those items into GW2 items (but dont tell)
@OrigamiRobot I am using GW2 to get WoW out of my mind
@pixel I'm mainly using @InvaderSkoodge to reaffirm the decision I already made.
@OrigamiRobot x)
With any luck you get to join the Crystal Desert server tonight then
@pixel That looks really creepy for some reason
@OrigamiRobot wasn't going to say
16:10
@pixel I enjoyed WoW a lot, but I could never go back now
@OrigamiRobot How does that work?
@sjohnston I am currently doing a bunch of things I don't want to do to stop myself from being enticed back
@fbueckert d2jsp
like avoiding skype altogether to stop people talking me into going back
I sold my minipets in GW1 for Diablo 2 items
16:11
@OrigamiRobot Ahh. Just item trading.
@pixel is there an active Arqade guild on Crystal Desert?
@sjohnston I've heard of there being a guild
@sjohnston pretty much everybody from here who plays is on crystal desert
but since GW2 lets you be in multiple guilds at once, it's more of a placeholder I think?
I never joined a guild in GW1
I wasn't sure if Arqade people actually played together, or if they were in separate guilds. I would definitely switch servers to play with Arqade people
I'm in a completely random timezone in comparison to everybody else on Crystal Desert
16:14
My name was Fdisk Mbr so I made my own guild so i could have DOS in front of my name
and a cape
so I haven't seen any of them online yet
@pixel Is that an NA or EU server?
which isn't a problem much yet, since I'm ridiculously low level
NA
I like ranged, dual wielding, and rougish classes. What profession covers those the most?
thief
can use bow, stealth
all classes can dual weild
16:20
Can't dual wield bows
-.-
Unless you have fours arms
now you're just being silly
thief can also use pistols. So options that include ranged attacks are shortbow, pistol/pistol, sword/pistol, dagger/pistol
16:21
I almost made a GURPS character with four arms to dual wield bows.
pistol/pistol is basically like playing the elevator lobby scene from the matrix, all of the time
I've never seen The Matrix
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@OrigamiRobot I er what?
@OrigamiRobot you have more important things to be doing tonight than playing GW2
@sjohnston And don't care to
16:22
only the first one though
I know all those words, but that sentence doesn't make sense.
It looks boring.
wow
@OrigamiRobot ...And now I have lost respect for you.
I think I just involuntarily twitched then
16:23
Watch the first one. Don't worry about the rest, but the first is sort of required watching.
For the same reasons 300 was boring.
I don't think I've ever read any of those words in relation to this subject
The Matrix had such an effect on action cinematography that pretty much every action movie for the next decade copied major aspects of it.
@sjohnston I hate the slow motion time freeze crap
@OrigamiRobot normal bridge banter aside, the first one is probably one of the most significant movies of its kind
16:24
And the flying
there is no flying in the first one
ignore matrix 2 + 3
they were cash ins
the first one is standalone
it was clearly written as a single movie
Still looks boring.
@OrigamiRobot I also didn't like 300.
@InvaderSkoodge he listens to you, tell him what you think of the first Matrix
The first Matrix movie is the god of movies.
It's the only movie I'm always in the mood to watch.
16:25
^ I didn't prompt that
@pixel Matrix 2/3 suffered from George Lucas syndrome. They knew they had created something special, but were unable to understand how they had done so, and were completely unable to replicate that effect.
@sjohnston 100%
The first movie was exactly that - something special
Matrix 2/3 weren't terrible. But they weren't anywhere near the first one.
Matrix 2/3 were terrible as Matrix movies
@InvaderSkoodge Right
16:27
as action movies they were ok
@InvaderSkoodge No, The Fifth Element is. I will fight you.
@OrigamiRobot That movie is also high on that list.
@OrigamiRobot The Fifth Element has nothing on The Matrix
user15026
I have only ever seen the first Matrix movie. It was okay.
16:27
#2 they said "Crazy philosophy was what made Matrix awesome. Let's focus entirely on that." #3 they said "well, crap, that didn't work. Crazy action must have been what made Matrix awesome. Let's focus on that."
(the last row is relevant)
@pixel Looks like we wont be playing GW2 together.
@sjohnston I loved #2 for that.
@OrigamiRobot I never said the fifth element was bad, I think its a very good movie
I just think the Matrix is so much better
and you don't have the relevant experience to disprove or argue with that statement
Does The Matrix have Bruce Willis?
16:29
@OrigamiRobot rofl
@pixel I find the Fifth Element fascinating. It has that rare quality where every individual component of the movie is remarkably cheesy, yet it comes together into a very pleasing whole.
@pixel Or Milla Jovovich?
@sjohnston oh yeah, I love that movie, but I still think Matrix is better
@OrigamiRobot I was going to say...
anyway, hometime, bye
@pixel I only like her in that movie. I like Bruce Willis in every movie.
@OrigamiRobot Milla Jovovich has participated in more shitty sci-fi than Uwe Boll
I cannot respect her, despite fifth element
16:31
31 secs ago, by OrigamiRobot
@pixel I only like her in that movie. I like Bruce Willis in every movie.
@OrigamiRobot I would have agreed with this, up until they decided to keep making Die Hard movies
The Matrix trilogy suffered greatly, mostly thanks to Warner Bros. The original idea was to film a trilogy, ending with Neo realizing he is The One. WB said "That won't work as a trilogy. Make it a single movie." So they did. The movie was so successful, WB said "Well, we screwed up! Get us that trilogy!" That's what I've always heard anyway.
That is not to say that I like every movie Bruce Willis is in.
@Fluttershy Interesting, if true. I haven't heard that before
@OrigamiRobot Ah. This is a useful distinction
@sjohnston And it's more accurate to say I like Leeloo instead of Milla Jovovich.
16:33
> Amazon, Google slash cloud storage prices more than 25 percent
Seriously though, @OrigamiRobot The Matrix is a must watch for any sci-fi fan. Regardless of your dislike for the bullet-time stuff, it needs to be watched. By everyone. At least once. Seriously though, skip 2 and 3.
Hopefully Google has better uptime than Amazon does.
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Q: Does the shiny encounter rate ever reset?

C-dizzlePretty much just what the title says, does the shiny rate reset? If it does, what are the factors that make it reset? Does my 1 in "X" chance of encounter begin from the start of the game, or every time I power off/on my DS and reload my saved game? I haven't been able to find any evidence that ...

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Q: How can I mine less while finding more diamond?

SuperSpyI always mine in caves but, I always show up empty handed when it comes to diamond. I need a more efficient way to mine while using less resources.

@Fluttershy I have negative interest in The Matrix.
When Reddit and other websites are knocked offline for the better part of a day because your cloud storage service dies (ala Amazon's EC2) your reputation is going to take a hit.
16:35
I believe they are/will be testing soon for indications that our existence is a computer simulation
@Fluttershy This might be one of those things that suffers if you didn't see it when it was new. It has been copied so heavily that watching it for the first time now, it would probably feel very flat and derivative.
@Lazers Dupe.
@Lazers "Pay someone else to mine for you."
Better yet, use mods or creative mode to generate infinite diamond
@Lazers Why would a 1 in "X" chance ever reset?
Unless it's a counter of some sort.
If I have a 1 in 6 chance of rolling a 1 on a die that's not loaded, I'm still going to have a 1 in 6 chance of rolling a 1 every time I roll it. To think otherwise is the Gambler's Fallacy.
16:40
@Powerlord Happily, game mechanics may not work exactly like a dice.
> Fully loaded new 27-inch iMac will cost over $4,200—before tax
I lolled
@fbueckert Isn't that the same guy that was brought up yesterday about Skeptics?
@Powerlord Indeed
I've been reading some of his other stuff on meta sites.
It is easily fulfilling my facedesk quota.
I'm trying to figure out how he got to 40k rep on Physics.
16:46
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Q: Create Ubuntu game with html5?

Mahdi SafarlooI created a html5 game , how to publish this in Ubuntu softwar center ? Html5 apps support in Ubuntu !!!

@Powerlord You don't have to be intelligent to be knowledgeable.
@Fluttershy haven't heard this before, but tbh if they had made a triology out of the first movie the story would have been very slow
It would have been the climatic ending the trilogy required though
@Powerlord by being the next Isaac Newton, duh
@RakeshJuyal Good morning
16:55
@CodyGray:The reason is because I am right, and all of you are wrong, as I am sure you all recognize already. It is incumbent on people to reject the majority in all cases, since majority vote and popularity contests are always a form of oppression. I am sure you already all know this, and I am sure all of your disagreements with me are insincere. It is embarassing to debate obvious points with people who are doing politics, it only serves as a warning to others--- devils be here, stay away. My writing sounds very good, because it is very good. I'm a pretty objective evaluator of my own stuff. — Ron Maimon May 24 at 7:41
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, that was the impetus for posting the link to the meta question.
By coming from that viewpoint, he shows he doesn't care at all for anyone else's opinions, and to hell with disagreement.
@OrigamiRobot We have a member with that attitude, I wonder if they're related
@pixel user28015, or whatever?
no the DOTA2 player
@pixel Hate that guy.
16:56
@pixel ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ME?
@OrigamiRobot If I was talking about you, if would be obvious.
Remember that guy who called me PaperBot? I remember whatever he was ranting about being ridiculous.
@pixel I know, I just wanted to get more pings.
you should rename to that, it's a good name
How do you guys keep your game cd key secure? Like if you just misplace it then what?
mental note to self: do not ping OrigamiRobot
@RakeshJuyal Steam
16:59
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