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21:00
@RakeshJuyal Only if I want to play a game published by Uplay
@Wipqozn I love Asura racials.
@Wipqozn That implies that some are not.
Radiation Field and Golem elite skills are awesome.
Do we have ingame chat there @RavenDreamer
@RakeshJuyal hm?
Does an MMO have chat functionality?
@OrigamiRobot Oh yeah, been meaning to buy that, now that it's on PSN
21:02
Legend of Dragoon
@RavenDreamer Worth every penny.
We need an HD remake of that; the armor was absolutely gorgeous.
@RavenDreamer I could have let you borrow it when you were here.
You should get Tomba! too. Also, Tomba! 2.
@OrigamiRobot I would spend more money on gas driving 6 hours to your place and back than if I simply bought the game. :P
@RavenDreamer That's why I said when you were here.
Okay. Time to see a dame about a lease.
21:08
Didn't you just move in?
21:35
@InvaderSkoodge Restarting fixed it.
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Oh man. Gotta love first snow of the year that actually covers the roads a little. It's like drivers see snow and collectively lose their minds. I am glad I am on a bus.
@AshleyNunn We got the same here.
Not quite enough to cover the road, but a small, small sheet.
@AshleyNunn I'm glad I don't leave work until 5:30, after traffic dies down a bit.
I actually brought my umbrella today because I heard the temperatures were supposed to stay above freezing even though it was snowing.
user15026
We got enough to make stuff white. People are now driving like this is completely new and has never ever happened before.
@OrigamiRobot Stupid computers. Why can't they just work.
21:39
@InvaderSkoodge Then we IT people would be out of jobs.
Well, the support people would be.
Crystal Desert is full
@OrigamiRobot @pixel dealt with this also.
I think she started on a different server and just frequently tried to switch to Crystal Desert until it was available.
You can transfer once every 7 days for free iirc.
I am in
@OrigamiRobot Desert?
21:46
Yep
Now I have to choose a race.
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Q: Does the Mass Effect Trilogy Edition use the same engine for all three games?

JonathanI'm wondering if the Mass Effect Trilogy (the boxset rerelease of all the games) uses the same engine across all the games or if each game will use the engine that was designed with it?

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Q: What determines fleet size?

LouisI have a hostile neighbor whose fleet's are more powerful than any of mine. The problem isn't that I don't have good enough ships, but that my fleet sizes are too small. With my best ships I can only merge two at a time into a fleet. Is there a way to increase the size of a fleet?

@OrigamiRobot The 100m dash is a good one to start with.
@OrigamiRobot Asura. That way when I play with you all the content is new.
@InvaderSkoodge Charr
21:55
I am Charr.
@InvaderSkoodge @OrigamiRobot Bacon
@InvaderSkoodge Me too!
Well, at least you get Charrzooka.
charr high-five
<3 charrzooka
21:56
btw, does GW2 have something dumb like having to type in one of your characters full names in order to log on like GW1 does?
@Powerlord No, I don't have to type anything.
It remembers my login and password.
I just click buttons.
@InvaderSkoodge this
ALL DAY LONG JUST CLICKIN' BUTTONS
@Powerlord No. It uses an e-mail authentication system (optional though), which sends you a code if you log in from a new IP address.
Which is a much better system than the name thing. That was just annoying.
@Wipqozn I should probably mention I barely played GW1 and my account is completely inaccessible if I felt like playing it because I don't remember my characters name.
It's difficult to come up with a system more irritating that those RSA "authenticators" but somehow ArenaNet managed to find one for GW1!
21:59
@Wipqozn You can also use the google authenticator if you want 2-factor, I believe
@Powerlord They must have had some severe hacking problems or something, because they didn't introduce that until about 5 years in
It was fun when I returned to the game after about 2 years off and was asked for a character name
Am I stuck with the armor dyes I initially choose? Because they all suck.
Oh yay, Google Authenticator is a software authenticator for a series of devices I don't own.
@Powerlord You can use it through text messages too, I believe
@OrigamiRobot There are a crazy number of dyes in game. They work on the basis that you collect a color once per character, then can use that as much as you like.
@sjohnston Valve needs to implement that in TF2.
Damn it, paint all my hats Team Spirit!
I only have like 90!
22:02
Does this stupid question only determine my headgear?
Sadly, the mass banning of bots and some changes to drop rates have grossly decreased the frequency of dye drops. The trading post price has gone from about 2.5 silver per unidentified dye to about 15s, over the course of 2 weeks
@OrigamiRobot If it's a stupid question, it probably determines your characters intelligence. ;)
@OrigamiRobot Probably only your starting headgear. Might also affect story branches slightly.
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@sjohnston it's up to 15s?!
@sjohnston They all look stupid.
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22:03
It was like 8.5s when I flew out.
@FAE I sold a couple for 15 last night.
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@sjohnston what the heeeeeeeell
It has not stopped increasing. I am so depressed that I didn't invest, but I wasn't confident that the price would continue going up
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@sjohnston Though I do already own Abyss, so... Got it from a drop.
I did flip a couple hundred unided dyes from about 5s to 8 or 9. I was afraid to wait any longer.
22:05
I just noticed someone starred my comment about how it's too bad Metal Gear Solid never had any sequels. Glad someone agrees with me. :D
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@sjohnston I've never been good at playing markets.
@Powerlord I just appreciated the sly reference to the xkcd that was linked this morning
@sjohnston Which I also linked. ;)
@FAE I enjoy it, but I don't tend to really spend a lot of time, so I just wait until I see an obvious market.
Back in my WoW days, I made about 50,000 gold off inscriptions when that profession first came out. Of course, that's probably chump change in Panda-land
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@sjohnston Having never played WoW, I lack a sense of how much that's worth.
22:08
I invested a bit in dyes because they accidentally increased the drop rate, then acknowledged the mistake and the fix before the market noticed. So the prices dropped 30% and were pretty much guaranteed to go back up.
But that coincided with the mass bannings of bots, and the price just kept going and going and going
@FAE To give you an idea, prior to my investments, I had a couple hundred gold, and that was a comfortable amount of wealth. At that time, 50k probably put me in the top 1% of the population, maybe top .1%
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@sjohnston Whoa. o_O
I got that rich because the profession was basically broken. It introduced a resource (inscriptions) with hundreds of variations. Every player needed several of them, and they needed to be replaced every time you respecced. Additionally, there was a relatively easy mechanic that allowed you to learn a new rare one every day or somesuch. So until the rare ones were commonplace, you could easily have a server monopoly.
GW2 definitely makes it harder to play games with the market. Cross-server auctions and high fees limit you in a lot of ways
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Q: Are there any benefits to getting married?

WipqoznIn some of the previous Harvest Moon games your spouse would help you out on the farm in various ways, but this isn't the case in all the games in the series. Are there any benefits to getting married, or will my spouse just hang around my farm instead of around town?

Typical wippy question.
I approve
22:18
WTF these controls are weird
@OrigamiRobot WASD?
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Gotcha.
@sjohnston No, I just want to to move to my target
@OrigamiRobot what is your name in game?
the one with the . in it
@OrigamiRobot Like a click-ground-go-to-there option?
22:20
@OrigamiRobot Hold right click and you can move like it's a FPS.
@pixel OrigamiRobot.6503
@InvaderSkoodge I want it to automove to my target
I know how to use the camera
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@OrigamiRobot There is no autofollow in the game.
You just have to move yourself manually. You're going to want to be doing that anyway, as mobility is very important.
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^this
That's fine. I'll do what I want when I get there. I just want it to get there.
22:22
Are there games that have that?
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@InvaderSkoodge GW1 did and he's played GW1.
@InvaderSkoodge Yeah, lots of games do
Ugh all the transparency in the UI. It hurts my brain.
now I just need to work out where to find you
I hate this game already.
22:23
ha
We all do too, but it's a cult and we're mandated to say we like it until you get it.
on a serious note though
how do I find @OrigamiRobot in the game world?
I don't know where "Fury of the Dead" is.
that's what I just said
Oh that might be the starting instance for Charr.
Before you even go to the real world.
22:25
@InvaderSkoodge Once you get the mandatory brain surgery and behavioral reprogramming, you really love it.
ok so what instance will he be going into after that?>
zone*
Plains of Ashford is the first Charr zone.
Outside the Black Citadel.
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Black Citadel and Plains of Ashford.
that is on the other side of the world...
@pixel Use Asura Gates.
22:27
@pixel: Lion's Arch has an Asura Gate to the capital city of each race.
ta
Mists -> LA -> Everywhere
Dear GW2, when I am right clicking, I want A and D to be strafe
@OrigamiRobot Welcome to pain.
Keybindings?
22:31
@OrigamiRobot Dear @OrigamiRobot they are.
@InvaderSkoodge Not for me. They still turn my character
That's dumb.
Blurg. HATE shovelling.
I tried rebinding A and D to strafe rather than turn, but that's another whole load of suck
@fbueckert Protip: Don't live in Winnipeg.
22:32
now you can only turn while you're not holding the W key
for whatever reason
@InvaderSkoodge Protip: free medical benefits.
also, wat.
@fbueckert There are other places in Canada.
@InvaderSkoodge ALL of them (minus the coasts) will have snow.
And the coasts have stupid high costs of living.
Use your low cost of living to buy a snowblower.
22:33
huh, I never had an issue with the GW2 controls. We must play different types of games or something.
@badp yea I did that and restored to defaults. Now the thing I complained about is fixed.
I have the right mouse button held down 90% of the time when I play GW2.
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@fbueckert Ontario has less snow!
@AshleyNunn For now.
@InvaderSkoodge indeed
22:34
@sjohnston When in combat, A and D should be strafe.
@OrigamiRobot oh. eh. I never could get moving to something I could grok in those three days of GW2.
That's mostly why I just spent those hours holding W while fucking around in places I wasn't supposed to fuck around in.
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@fbueckert we never get the crazy amounts you do and it is a lot less cold!
@OrigamiRobot I just made them always strafe. I never want to turn with the keyboard. I always want to strafe.
@AshleyNunn True. But family is nearby!
@sjohnston then at some point you want to go straight... along a bend
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22:36
@fbueckert that is a good reason then. :)
@badp ?
mouse turn
#1 MMO skill
OK, I've got these controls mostly figured out.
@sjohnston If this wasn't mentioned yet, Blizzard later changed this mechanic to make learned Inscriptions permanent, but there are still hundreds of them in the game.
I hate double click to attack
Anyway, going home time was 10 minutes ago, yet I'm still at work. I must fix this.
22:40
@pixel say something to me so I can friend you
@sjohnston #1 MMORPG skill is learning that attacking somebody is backwards from all non-MMO RPGs for no reason
@Powerlord Yeah, they improved it. Did they let you keep your inscriptions for more than one spec also?
@sjohnston Yes, but you need to use a reagent to change your equipped inscriptions to one of the others you learned.
Oh, and the reagent changes at level 80 to one that's like 100 times more expensive.
@badp As in "target, then use skill" rather than "use skill, then target"?
@sjohnston That's what I assumed he meant.
22:42
@Powerlord COOL. It is super fun to spend lots of money every time you want to do a different activity!
checks in more changes
@sjohnston Well, your second specialization stores them separately, and there's no charge if the inscription slot is currently empty.
Oh, and respeccing empties your equipped inscriptions too.
(but not the learned list)
@sjohnston Yeah, I didn't figure it out until somebody told me. I was like level 7
@badp Oh, I thought you'd played an MMO before... they all seem to be like that.
@badp I am sort of surprised by the level of animosity I have seen re: MMO interfaces in here lately, but maybe my extensive playtime has ingrained that sort of stuff in me
@Powerlord A couple hours of WoW
the free trial
22:44
@badp WoW works the same way, though.
@Powerlord Well that might be part of why I lasted only a couple hours.
So that couple of hours of wow was probably pretty fun for you too :)
The other major complaint I had, the completely useless minimap, also seems to have been addressed
Anyway, homing go.
either that or I didn't install the Crazy Awesome Super Numerous Buttons EXTREME GRAPHS EDITION HUD whatever thingy that addresses that.
22:46
Fare thee well, @powerpigeon
@badp You just have to install one of the 19 different wow add-on managers, then a couple of map mods. It's super-simple. Of course, it also adds a chicken-themed UI and neon pink skill countdown timers.
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Q: How would I solve the Twins Riddle in Qasir Al-Wasat?

wokIn Qasir Al-Wasat: A Night in-Between, I have solved the Twins Riddle by sheer luck. I'm trying to understand how the solution makes sense. There are several colored pressure plates and I can activate three of them simultaneously. How does the solution make sense? How can I solve the riddle witho...

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Q: Is it possible to know how many shields are deployed to on a portal in ingress?

BanditoBunnyOn the ingress intel map http://ingress.com/intel I can see how many shields are deployed on both friendly and enemy portals. Is it possible to see how many shield and of which levels are deployed to an enemy portal in ingress tactical - ingress app. As far as I know I can only see whether the ...

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Q: Is there an easy way to get invites? I'm Canadian. :(

Pete RockwellProof that I'm Canadian: Sorry if this is not a good question to ask or the right place to ask it. See how Canadian I am? Also: This is my first day on StackExchange. I'm a Reddit refugee. Please forgive me as I figure out how things work around here.

@sjohnston but does it give me a graph of awkward eye contacts with NPCs over time?
You have to enable it on the third settings tab
@InvaderSkoodge NO
22:50
@RavenDreamer You need to invite @pixel and @OrigamiRobot to the guild.
@InvaderSkoodge Welcopme
Listen I didn't make the video.
If anyone is on the fence about Kerbal Space Program:
for some reason "Well, cop me" sounds like the beginning of a folksy exclamation to me
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@InvaderSkoodge He's not the only one that can invite. We all have invite permissions, iirc, so you should too.
22:53
Ok let me figure this out then.
...
Someone just asked a question to see if we could see how Canadian they are...
@Lazers @James
@fbueckert Yeah.. And just because Lazar's reported it does not make me ... less :)
@James No, but you're pointing out a question that presumably everybody already knows about. :P
@Lazers This needs to be closed ASAP. Don't know if we can salvage the user yet
22:58
@fbueckert ... Ill not bring up who thought a 2yr old question needed to be brought up apparently dismissing the people who were around when it was asked and all other 2000ish people who have seen it and being ok with it :P
@James Eh. Different situations.
@fbueckert Sooo only a snarky remark for me and not @MBraedley eh? (See how I am canadian with the Eh in there? :P)
@InvaderSkoodge I don't know their IDs.
I had pixels, for a short time.
I already took care of it anyway.
but I went to sleep.
23:01
I didn't realize I could invite them at the time.
Oh, well then. Good work!
@James I've only got enough snark for one person.
You got it first. :P
Wait, did I miss something?
@fbueckert LoL.. Ill remember that and make sure Gnome is around before talking to you again ;)
@MBraedley @fbueckert clearly pointed out that lazars already posted the question, so people already knew about it being crappy ;)
@James @Gnome doesn't get snark. He gets severe disappointment.
23:02
@fbueckert Ill hedge my bets man and see if some snark can go that o way :D
@James Besides, @MBraedley referenced @Lazers post. Which makes it NOT redundant.
@James Well excuse me for not reading the entire chat
I just said out aloud, "Who the hell is jmfsg"
@badp Dammit, @jmfsg! Quit changing your name!
@MBraedley LOL No worries there, he did not feel the need to tell you that lazars already posted the question when ya mentioned it.. Just me ;)
Hehe, Ill keep with seeing @badp and not refresh my screen :D
23:05
@James Hint: it's not @badp
@fbueckert :O What you say!?
... Wow I can not even think of the other moderators names... we have. @badp.. @AshleyNunn... @agent86... @Oak ... Which does not come up.. Did Oak change his name or was he a mod to another site!?
Ouch.
No love for RedShark?
@RavenDreamer Tons O.. enough that I did not feel the need to ping your name in case you were busy after oak didnt show up :D
I am sitting here trying to decide which leftovers I want to eat.
Nope, there is Oak he just isnt around for autocomplete I guess... Hmm.. and Raven has shown up... Mana is completeable.. so is GraceNote..
@fbueckert Ok, I give up.. Who is it?
23:12
Swapping the terms of the cross product changes the sign, right?
user15026
@raven what are your options for leftovers? Or did you already choose?
I did. I went with Toasted Sub
@fbueckert never!
@jmfsg Fess up to whom you are!!!
I have Fried Chicken and Beer. Life is Good.
23:23
@James I have multiple personalities, and they are all Abraham Lincoln
Is our site technically known as "The Arqade"?
Weird.
@RavenDreamer That made me laugh a bit when I read it as well
@jmfsg ಠ_ಠ
user15026
Hahaha I know who you are @jmfsg based on the avatar!
@AshleyNunn Oh Oh! Tell Tell!
user15026
@LessPop that does sound like an awesome combo!
user15026
23:24
@James nope. :) this is more fun ;)
(I had a dublin burger and a sam adams :))
@AshleyNunn Not for me :(
@James That much is obvious. He's Gnomeslice
user15026
@James also an excellent choice for foods!
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@James :(
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23:26
@jmfsg I think I know what the first three letters stand for, but am lost on the last two.
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@James augh no not kittens kittens are so cute and look so sad and augh kittens. weak against kittens
@AshleyNunn Clearly it stands for Stargate.
oh, never mind.
I know what it stands for.
I am also having like a huge deja vu moment here.. except for the kittens :D
user15026
@James weird. Also, awww kittens!
23:29
I think I know what the first two letters stand for, if my memory from 2 years ago serves
@badp If @Gnome ever becomes a mod, I fear for us all.
user15026
@James nooooo no more kittens help my resolve is weakening
@MBraedley So the person in question changed their name to this before eh?
This is at least the second time
And I just cheated
23:31
@James The fact that you don't recognize the gravatar saddens me greatly.
What do you guys think of this suggested edit?
@fbueckert That is the part that is bugging me. I remember this exact name from before I even remember that damn shotgun.. but I cant remember the name! :(
@AshleyNunn This beer is pretty good too. (Leinenkugels Lemon Berry Shandy)
The main thing it does is unnecessarily link to an unanswered question, and I can't help but think that someone's just trying to piggyback off my answer to get more attention to the other question
@James Take a look at his twitter. It'll all become clear
user15026
23:33
@lesspop that sounds amazing. I have a jealous. I can't find anything that awesome here.
@AshleyNunn I bet you could get this up there. Leinenkugel is from Wisconsin and has fairly broad distribution.
But I am now out of Lemon Berry Shandy. So it is time to move on to the vanilla Porter
Ooh, beer. I should go grab a BC winter ale. Wish the local winter ales were available at the LCs
user15026
@lesspop Waterloo seems pretty limited in what we get here. I should check Toronto, but that's a bus trip.
@AshleyNunn You are right, this is much more enjoyable :)
user15026
@mbraedley we have a localish brewery that makes a winter stout that is a double chocolate cranberry stout. It is pretty yummy.
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23:36
@James awww nooooo sad kittens.
I think I'd enjoy Miner Wars 2081, but it's constant internet requirement means I won't be picking it up.
@AshleyNunn The Freddy, NB microbrew has a nice winter warmer, but I want to try one of the local ones
user15026
@mbraedley I like to try local stuff as I can. :)
user15026
its fun, just trying random stuff.
23:38
@AshleyNunn Tell me!!! :D
@James Dude. Check the profile.
Seriously, it's easy.
Not if you are me apparently
Read the profile, read about 4 pages of tweets now
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@James I can't decide if I want to because I like all the kittens
@James That's really sad.
@Wipqozn Yup
23:41
Blah, mystery TF2 and HL2 and Source SDK 2007 update
@Wipqozn Hence the kitten pictures
@James Wow. Just...wow. Sorry, dude. I thought it was obvious.
@James: Would it help if I told you that @jmfsg stands for Juan Manuel Formoso, Senior Geek?
@Wipqozn MY SECRET IDENTITY!
user15026
@wipqozn ah, that's the last two letters!
23:42
I would make such a lousy super hero :(
@Wipqozn No cause that is what his profile and twitter page say :P
@jmfsg You didn't even wear a mask! You just changed your name tag.
user15026
@James because that's who it is!
@Wipqozn Is that a screenshot of a screenshot in an image editing app?
@AshleyNunn o.O We have a mod... name Juan?
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23:44
@James yes!
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Poor @jmfsg so under appreciated
@James you noob
@YiJiang No idea.
@AshleyNunn I mostly work in the shadows
@jmfsg Like a Ninja!
23:46
@James ...who? :P
@James He's been going as @JQAn lately.
Ooo! JQAn!!!
Now that name I remember! LOL
@James I think it's time we traded @James in for a newer model...
@James Sorry, dude, but you really should've seen that coming.
Although, to be fair, I got @Jin and @jmfsg mixed up when the naming change first happened.
Confused the hell out of poor @Jin.
I could change it to @Jin...
Oak
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@James well, I was pinged after all
Plus, mods are always pingable if you use two "@"
@James He was actually the one to propose the site...
I thought that was mod only power.
23:49
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@fbueckert Dude, I have people on my youtube channel telling me they were right about me building my base near spider dens because of stealth changes to the game done 1-2 weeks After I made my base. @Wipqozn's snark is already a passe :)
@@Oak NO!
Oak
Oak
@RavenDreamer really? my bad, then
@James Your short attention span concerns me.
@Oak @@mana is this true?
23:49
I could... delete
Please to be remembering who I am.
@Oak It didnt autocomplete with 2 either.
I could... delete all of you
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I HAVE THE POWER!!!!!
Oak
Oak
@James well, in any case just one "@" was enough to ping me
@jmfsg No you can't. I've already been deleted!
23:50
@Oak So I see ;)
Sorry for the pinging!
@jmfsg I don't think you could actually destroy our usernames. :P (I COULD IF I WANTED TO... MUAHAHAHAHA)
@fbueckert Huh?
@fbueckert How did anything I say lead to a short attention span?
@James I implied it from your statements. Roll with it, dude. :P
@jmfsg Touché, sir.
Well played.
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Q: What are the differences in ingress portal shield types?

agrysonI have collected a few different types of shields, with different colours and of differing rarity. I assume the rarer shield types are more powerful in some way but I can't find any information on it. Question : What different types of shield are available and what are the differences between ...

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Q: Homestead quests are missing

BeatMeAccording to this guide, every homestead quest from 18 on is missing. I thought they might be in later sequences, but no one popped up until the very end. What did I miss?

23:54
@fbueckert :P Just cause I am at work, chatting here, two IRC channels and an IM going over a design for a minecraft mod... :P
@Ullallulloo All bow to @jmfsg, founder of Gaming.
@Wipqozn Screw that noise. I bow to nobody.
@fbueckert I'm sure @jmfsg will edit that to change your opinion before long.
@Wipqozn If it's a creative edit, I don't mind.
23:56
@InvaderSkoodge Back at'cha.
@InvaderSkoodge I just watched that the other day. Good movie.

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