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00:15
If we're going into technicalities, Valve stole from tf2wiki.net
user30
Since the content was not explicitly released under a free license.
@ThomasMcDonald That depends entirely when it was written.
Plus, I'm pretty sure they got permission from the owners of TF2Wiki first.
user30
@Powerlord Did you not see wikigate?
@ThomasMcDonald Nope. Link?
user30
The owner of TF2wiki had sold the site for something like $70k when the admins/mods decided they should get some compensation and copied everything over to valve.
user30
00:18
or that was my understanding of it
user30
It's been thrown around a lot
user30
The thread I did have a link to has been deleted.
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Q: Missing trophies in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

abahgatI almost completed AC:B but the game suddenly stopped tracking trophies. For example, I just discovered the shrine in Saint Peter's Basilica (which should unlock the Amen trophy) and nothing happened. What's even more frustrating, though, is that I wasn't awarded with any of the other trophies t...

00:35
Yay, Firefox 4 left the home button on the left for me instead of moving it to the right like a dork.
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01:01
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Q: In Daggerfall, where can I get mithril?

PandincusI've been encountering some daedra and other creatures in dungeons -- my steel dai-katana isn't cutting it any more. I know that you need dwarven or better for enemies like harpies, and mithril or better for daedra. So, where can I get mithril? I've explored a variety of weapon shops (in the pro...

01:16
Hmm, Steam uses a new voice codec for its own chat, but likely not for game servers. :/
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Q: Daily Events in Fifth Gen

RapidaWhat are the daily events that I should be attending in Pokemon Black and White? I'm mainly referring to items given out daily, swarm like events from 4th Gen, and daily battles. Feel free to include events that are weekly/seasonal in nature like the ice cream shop in Castelia City.

01:38
Greetings all, chat nub here
This is obviously a happening place atm =P
Its usually busier earlier in the afternoon.
What @brant said.
Though I try to hold it down on the night shift when I'm around by randomly dumping in images and non-sequitur links
Those museum ads were awesome IMO
Its weird how the latest versions of the major web browsers are all starting to look like each other,
@Powerlord Weird? more like inevitable.
I mean Firefox 4's interface copies HEAVILY from Opera 11.
Which copied tab locations from Google Chrome.
(Not sure where Safari is in that respect)
Safari experimented with the tabs in titlebar before Chrome existed, and reverted it after a user revolt
02:05
It's all about maximizing the amount of space you use to actually browse the web as opposed to click toolbar buttons.
I like it. It's a good thing overall.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm usually lurking, I just lack interesting things to share. :P
Oh yeah, if someone last week couldn't get the Beyond Good and Evil soundtrack, you can find it here.
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02:31
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Q: [pc]fallout 3 freezing

gunbuster363Can anyone tell me why this fallout 3 goty edition keep freezing after playing a certain time? Already updated the video card driver. Windows updated. Using win xp. Display card is ati hd48xx series. Already in windowed mode, no vertical sync, chose medium graphic details. Thanks.

 
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Q: How to criticize a teammate?

WeegeeRecently, several friends and I have been playing more competitively in StarCraft 2. Unfortunately, we all have our issues, but in an effort to try to better ourselves, our MMR, and move up in the ladder, we're trying various things to help. This has risen a big question which I have run into m...

 
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Q: How do I transfer my Pokémon?

tzenesSo I have my Pokémon from Diamond (yes I have Diamond; no I don't think it's emasculating) and I want to transfer them over to my new Pokémon Black. Seems easy enough. But here is the catch: I only have 1 DS. How do I accomplish this feat?

 
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09:14
@Arda is going to make a terrible mod.
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Q: A counter strike map with only grenades?

apoorv020I am looking for a custom CS map where you can't buy any weapons, and can fight with only grenades you pick off the ground. Can anybody link to such a map?

09:57
@Bob ...and this guy is going to use a terrible map :|
@ThomasMcDonald ugh, that's awful. I now kinda want to remove that content, and the link leading to it.
 
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11:48
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Q: How can I see how many league games I lost in Starcraft 2?

sthOne change in patch 1.3 was that "Loss counts are no longer displayed in Profile and Ladder pages for players below Master League." Are they displayed anywhere else? While I might understand that I can't see this information for somebody else, I would really like to know how my own win/loss rati...

12:07
Good afternoon all
Sorry I haven't been about, been quite sick the last week and a half.
oh man
that sucks :(
Yeah, I had some sort of weird bug which was completely fucking up my equilibrium
So I got severely dizzy whenever I laid down or whatnot
to the point where I'd have to like, run to the bathroom and puke >_<
geez
well, glad you feel better
Thanks, me too
Been keeping an eye on the chat pins and meta as much as I could, but mostly had very little energy :/ Anything new and exciting going on?
shrug I'm not really the one to ask, I haven't really been here much this past week either
School hasn't been kind with its scheduling of various assignments
12:15
Blegh
12:57
@FallenAngelEyes >_<
Heya @badp. ...Why are you fail?
No particular reason and many general ones
btw @FallenAngelEyes
It's official: I'm going to make a terrible Erasmus student by the Vrije Universiteit.
user30
@failbadp Yeah, that was my understanding wrt/tf2wiki, I'm sure there's probably something else behind it though
13:12
:o you're coming to Rotterdam?
Well, Amsterdam really
6 months, possibly Sep-Feb
cool, exchange student or what? :o
Yep. Erasmus
nice :) Congrats!
Thanks
13:25
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Q: Migrating Project Management questions

amelvinThe Area 51 public beta for Project Management is not getting enough questions, avid users or visitors. After a good discussion on meta-SO yesterday about the direction of SO, it seems that subjective questions are a better fit for targeted SE sites, leaving SO for objective coding questions. ...

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13:46
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Q: Flying helicopters in GTA IV using the keyboard

Matt ChanShort of buying a gamepad, what can I do to improve my control of helicopters using the keyboard in GTA IV - The Ballad of Gay Tony? I am stuck on a mission where I have to blow up a yacht and then chase and take out three moving boats. Whenever I press a key, the movement becomes too much to han...

14:35
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Q: How to criticize a teammate?

WeegeeRecently, several friends and I have been playing more competitively in StarCraft 2. Unfortunately, we all have our issues, but in an effort to try to better ourselves, our MMR, and move up in the ladder, we're trying various things to help. This has risen a big question which I have run into m...

I'm kind of waffling on whether this really belongs here
I see subjective problems, as well as answers being equally valid problems.
But then I don't really agree with allowing a lot of the questions on here either, so...
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Q: Does the Rock Band 3 Squier lock you into playing notes/chords a certain way for the game?

FallenAngelEyesI know that the Squier Stratocaster for Rock Band 3 uses a semiconductive fretboard to read your finger placement in order to interpret the notes you are playing, rather than actually using the sound/tone of the strings. The guitar is still not available in the EU and I do not own the Mustang, so...

14:55
@FallenAngelEyes If you gather your thoughts, please feel free to open a Meta discussion on it. I've likewise been concerned about it.
@Grace will do
How've you been, @Grace?
I've been good, but can't stick around long. Gotta finish this stuff up.
Ah okies! Glad things are going well
15:29
obliges
I mean, come on, '4bunkers' - that's like the Fallout equivalent of 4chan isn't it?
@FallenAngelEyes Ask yourself, would it belong on a "Gamers.SE" site?
yes it would!
Do we need a Gamers.SE?
No we don't!
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15:59
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Q: Marking health/medical questions as off-topic

FallenAngelEyesWe have a few questions tagged health on the site, and most of them concern issues that come up during gaming. Only one of these questions actually pertains to health in game (the type that's represented by our beloved logo). There was recently a short discussion concerning potential liability in...

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16:36
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Q: Adding game logos to their respective tag

DelphyI think it would be a nice feature to have all game tags, e.g. World of Warcraft, to have their little logo to the left of the tag like in StackOverFlow with the Adobe logo. World of Warcraft

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Q: What is the Sequence in Drop7?

BlakeIn Drop7's Sequence mode, what is the full sequence of discs that are dropped? Has this been documented by anyone? I've seen mentions that there definitely is a sequence to the numbers, but not exactly what it is. I'm assuming the person seen in the below video did figure out the sequence if they...

17:15
@FallenAngelEyes D:
Being sick sucks to say the least lol
I got NUG somehow over the last two days, despite having gone to a dentist one day prior and being told my hygiene is good.
Just warning, don't follow links any deeper than the one I gave you. Pictures get nasty.
Eat your greens, kids.
17:35
on a lighter note!
I always find it funny...
17:48
Woah, nice! "A Classroom Experiment with Minecraft": http://t.co/315TMSu (by @MinecraftTeachr)
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Q: Dragon Age 2 - Choosing a Character Class

gprimeI am deciding on which class I want to play in dragon age 2. Originally i chose a male warrior and was going to be a Tank. But now i see that Aveline is a tank and is one of the major characters in the game. So other than a tank what class is a good choice? Mage DPS Mage Healer Rogue Dual Blade ...

18:04
Holy crud, they UNBLOCKED Gaming where I work. :D
lol, but the login page is blocked.
Hmm, I'll log on elsewhere in the network, then.
Damn, that didn't work.
what a conundrum ...
...should have known, since cross-network logins are broken here that I wouldn't be able to log on to Programmers and get it to work on Gaming.
cross-networks logins still require the login page to work
@CRoss Oh
...Gaming's main page works, but I can't view questions anyway.
why is only the login site banned?
18:11
...thanks work!
@RonanForman Well, apparently it isn't. It appears to be the other way around. The main page is unblocked, everything else is blocked.
Correction, main page and images/stylesheets
I thought you said you were the IT guy at your work anyway...
@RonanForman I work in IT. My entire department works in IT.
and they don't trust you with the internet?
@RonanForman Of course not, they think we'll visit gaming sites and such instead of doing work. I can't imagine where they'd get that impression!
18:27
The guy who created OSX left Apple. Makes me wonder if this means OSX will die after the next version and be replaced with "Desktop iOS"
Who?
Wasn't OSX just NeXT+Aqua?
@Brant Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Mac software engineering. Worked for NeXT, then Apple.
Lead OSX developer if The Register's article is anything to go by.
Hey reddit people, how do you do that thing where you customize what subreddits show up on the front page or whatever? I don't really see anything in the preferences.
user30
@Brant Go to subreddit.
user30
Hit "frontpage +", or "frontpage -" respectively.
18:39
ah
user30
Alternatively, go here: reddit.com/reddits
oh, there's a link on the right side of the redditbar(tm) at the top
I wonder if with all those fancy kinect and stuff, you can bring barrel rolls as a form of input.
'to jump, bring your legs to your chest. You can still barrel roll to move horizontally while jumping.'
'to duck bring our legs behind your neck. This makes it convenient to jump-crouch.'
This conversation has a disturbing lack or pork products in it.
mmm... Ham.
18:44
They're on their last . :(
are we tip-toeing around the forbidden word? The one that sends @Powerlord into a frenzy.
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Q: How to start a New Game Plus?

Alex BassonHow do you start a New Game Plus in Infinity Blade? I see it mentioned on walkthroughs, but no one ever details how to achieve it. Moreover, it seems to be a necessary prerequisite to mastering items more than once. I've never seen it come up as an option, either in the game itself or through ...

@RonanForman Yes. Don't you dare.
@Powerlord :/
18:46
@Powerlord Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....
grumblegrumblegrumblegrumblegrumblegrumble...
tags really do stand out in grumbles
As well they should.
grumblegrumblegrumblegrumblegrumblegrumble...
first you then you and then you
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18:49
I keep wanting to do the TF2 Spy dominating Scout line, but we did that the other day.
@Powerlord woah, I just looked at that, freaky!
yesterday, by GnomeSlice
"Your deadly skill is jogging? Mine is ing people."
yesterday, by GnomeSlice
"Here lies Scout: He ran fast, and died a virgin."
@Powerlord Mine's drawing crappy pictures until they die of eye pain
@RonanForman Speaking of eye pain, I hear Nintendo is having second thoughts about basing games around the 3D effect the 3DS offers.
18:52
@Powerlord Oh joy. Oh happiness.
@gnome no. I say ham and mean it.
@failbadp what.
Wait wait.
The 3DS is ACTUAL 3D?
I thought it was internal 3D.
@GnomeSlice no it's a hollow pun
for example consider ham on cream on penne, with parmigiano and, if you're really feeling adventurous, peas.
grumble mumble.
18:54
I thought the gimmick behind the 3DS was that it watched your face, and depending on how you rotated the device in your hands, the view 'inside' the game moved.
@GnomeSlice no that was the DSi
mumble grumble bundle.
I thought the DSi was just a DS with a camera on it...
@GnomeSlice That would be WarioWare Twisted...
But anyway, the 3D for the 3DS is done by projecting slightly different images to each eye to fake 3D depth by tricking your eyes.
and it doesn't work on a specific percentage of the population... myself included.
oh man.
like 10pct? I don't know if it'd work on me, but 1/1 people I asked couldn't see it.
This is new to me.
I was certain that the 3DS was internal 3D...
how do you find out is it just playing the 3DS
I've never been able to see stereoscopic images either. Essentially, my vision is strictly 2D, although you do learn to estimate distances using other information.
Like how far headlights are apart.
@Powerlord so it's not just 3DS 3d it's all 3D?
19:05
@RonanForman Right.
If it wasn't clear by what I said earlier, I have no depth perception.
@Powerlord surely the demoman would be a more suitable avatar then?
@RonanForman Hah!
I'm collecting stars today!
@RonanForman For that one reason? Why? I game I play the most is TF2, and the class I play the most is Spy... having clocked something like 600 hours as Spy.
Whoops, 562.2 hours
no depth perception > mono-scopic > one eye > eye patch > demoman!
19:15
@RonanForman I don't have just one eye though.
YOU ARE BOTH MONOSCOPIC!
@RonanForman I thought you gave up! In fact, your original post said as much before you edited it...
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Q: inbox empty in system-wide stack exchange notification bar

PatrickAbout ~2 hours ago I noticed an alert on my notification bar that there was a response somewhere on the SE network. I clicked on it and the inbox was empty. It has stayed empty since and I've logged out and back in and logged on in three different browsers. I found this bug request (Broken St...

19:53
So, I hear the companies that make up the RIAA are suing Limewire for $76 trillion USD.
Which, incidentally, is 30-something times the global GDP per year.
We just actually got a bacon question on skeptics
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Q: Can bacon actually help to remove splinters?

FarmBoySome claim that bacon can help to remove splinters. Is there any good evidence that this makes sense? For example: http://www.susangaer.com/studentprojects/splinter.htm http://www.myhomeremedies.com/topic.cgi?topicid=278

It somehow reminded me of here
@Fabian I can't imagine why.
neither can I, funny that.
19:58
@Powerlord If those downloads weren't available, people would have printed up enough money to buy all those tracks. Scientific fact.
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Q: Base stats for all vocations at level 99 in Dragon Quest IX?

Chad BirchI'm currently trying to decide on what will be the "main" jobs for my characters in DQ9. Does anyone have a chart showing what every job's base stats (before bonuses from skill points and seeds) would be at level 99? Since abilities are shared between jobs, picking a main job is mostly just about...

Was Itanium ever really alive?
@Brant I refuse to answer that question so that Intel doesn't remotely detonate my machine.
OK, so I was writing some code, when it suddenly told me "You must construct additional Pylons" except that I'm doing stuff in Java and not Python, and I'm bored and making up crap because this testing is the most boring thing ever.
Got all that?
20:27
@Powerlord have you ever used pylons?
@tzenes Nope... I've only barely touched Python.
Unless you're asking if I've played StarCraft as Protoss, in which case I can say yes.
20:48
catch (InsufficientPylonsException ex) { pylons.Add(new Pylon()); } finally { 4Gate(); }
4
I can't remember if C# methods can start with a number, but I don't care quite enough to check
21:02
Downloading map... item_test.bsp
@failbadp item_test.bsp should already be installed...
Valve added it in the Mann-conomy update to help people test new items... not sure how it works, though
I still find some of the weapons on that one modded server kinda funny.
Advanced Weaponiser, that was the mods name.
A Spy knife that doesn't undisguise you on a successful backstab, and doesn't kill the enemy either. Instead, after 4 seconds they go into a stunned state, and after another 4 seconds they die... or something like that.
Rocket Launcher that could be guided (to a certain extent)
Bleah, bored!
@tzenes You should know that my friend is the one who has only 1 DS.
@Powerlord It's a fucking waste of time
@Powerlord One room. Both team spawn in the same area. No sentry-free zone. One box provides instant full-heal and full-ammo to everybody
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21:17
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Q: Should one-time events always be closed as "too localized"?

Nick THow can I craft the Golden Wrench in TF2? seems like a perfectly legitimate question someone might want to Google, with an answer that won't change (with any more likelyhood than an SC2 or WoW question would). There should be some distinction made between questions about one-off events with last...

@failbadp Well, yes, it's intended for weapon makers to give themselves a weapon, then spawn bots to test it on.
For that matter, since Valve doesn't allow people to assign custom attributes to weapons they contribute via the TF2 Contribute site, it's more for testing weapon models than behaviors.
Time to go home.
21:38
At any rate, @tzenes, if you need assistance in transferring from 4th to 5th, the offer still stands. I'm out, later all. ♪
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Q: I'm stuck in limbo in Undead Nightmare

Lucas McCoyNo missions are showing up in RDR: Undead Nightmare. All the towns are safe, but no new missions show up. The last mission I completed was Filth & Entertainment. I can't get into Mexico. What should I do?

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Q: Why am I not learning anything from Minor Inscription Research?

Nick TI have a scribe (aka: "inscriptionator") in WoW who hasn't learned any new glyphs from minor research for the past few days. Does this mean I've learned all the minor glyphs, or is the research just give a chance to learn and I'm unlucky?

Hrm. Gothic 2 for €2.5.
I'm not in the genre so meh.
22:11
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Q: Bug in age on Stack Exchange profile age?

middaparkaMy age is correctly reported on my SO profile but on my main Stack Exchange profile page I appear to have aged somewhat. (Or perhaps it's a homage to Douglas Adams.) Anyone else suffering from this, or I am just stuck twixt dimensions?

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Q: What is essential difference between First Person Shooter and Third Person Shooter?

anonymousObvious difference is placement of the camera - from the eyes or observing from above. But is camera difference enough to prove them separate genres. It is usually an adjustable option (i.e. switch camera to 3-rd view, switch to 1-st view). Are there other differences between FPS and TPS? Is TP...

22:24
@GraceNote OOOOH, you're the friend
22:42
@NickT: Out of curiosity, what is your current Inscription skill?
More TF2 Beta changes... time to see what changed.
@Powerlord Mine's maxed!
@Brant My only Inscriptionist is like 315ish.
Which isn't bad for someone who hasn't been to Outland yet. :P
Inscription is a license to print money on my server. Lots of glyphs sell for 100g+
Of course, it was on a character I wasn't playing often, so I kept forgetting (when my account was active) to do the last minors.
@Brant Well, yeah, the prices got jacked up as soon as Cataclysm was released and Inscriptions became a "buy once" item.
Shocking that the prices haven't been driven into the floor though, considering how cheap they actually are to make.
I guess because the volume is lower there isn't as much downward pressure on the market.
22:58
@Brant Well... like I implied, the entire sellers market colluded to drive prices up.
Interesting that it happened almost everywhere though. I wonder if there are any servers out there where the inscription market turned into a barren, radioactive wasteland
(funny that I used that phrase to describe it. I just finished looking at these photos of Chernobyl.)
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Q: Where can I see my achievement list, on the PC version of Dragon Age two, purchased through Steam?

blueberryfieldsI purchased DA2 through Steam, and I've earned some achievements during play. Where can I see a complete list of the achievements I've earned - they don't show up in my steam account?

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Q: Online Community of PSP/Xbox gamers ?

TomDo you know cool web sites of gamers community ? I know GamePlus.TV in france, still too young & small but very promising ... Cheers

user30
@Bob Hmm, thats interesting. He appears to have built that site.
self-link, ban!
@ThomasMcDonald How can you tell?
user30
@Brant Clicked through to the website listed in his profile.
user30
23:12
It's featured on the homepage
@ThomasMcDonald So, did you Flag the question for moderator attention?
Personally, I only voted to close as Subjective/Argumentative.
<3 being able to vote to close now. :D
Hmm, I wonder if editing his question to remove the link was too bold of me. I don't actually speak French, so I don't really get the context that his homepage is linking to the site in...
TF2 beta updated
and also, "too young and small" is hardly a glowing endorsement a spammer would make...
... but oh well, NARQ!
33 mins ago, by Powerlord
More TF2 Beta changes... time to see what changed.
23:20
@Powerlord So what changed?
@failbadp Don't know, Valve still hasn't posted the changes.
I know koth_badlands got updated. Detonator has a new sound effect. No idea what else.
So have you had a chance to try this coach thing?
user30
TF2 beta is just a push to get me even closer to my 40gb/month cap.
Eric Smith said "We're working on posting the notes. They should be there soon." roughly 22 minutes ago.
Oh, apparently you can now sort your backpack by rarity.
I guess I can remove from my favorite tags list now, since I don't even remember the joke that resulted in it being added anymore.
23:24
I blame Maaaaaaaana
I keep reloading the TF2 Beta Update History topic to see if it has been updated, but it hasn't yet. :/
23:35
@failbadp Might want to skip TF2 Beta at the moment... all backpacks were reduced to one page, so you may end up losing some items.
@Powerlord whoops.
I probably have then.
@badp I'm confused as to why there was a problem with my TF2 spy answer. I gave you a reference to the article and then used the pieces that applied to you. I gave credit to the site, and only used a portion of it. Well within the rights of 'fair-use'
@Aardvark Well, had it been blatant I'd have deleted the relevant bits straight away :)
Still it's quite the extensive citation
true, because its a list of each class
its a better answer then just a link. The information was from a wiki, I used only the part about each class identifying a spy, and gave credit... Not sure how I could have gone about doing that any better
Oh I absolutely agree that it beats a bare link
23:40
This was your edit:

I'm not comfortable with copypasta of unclearly licensed material... would you mind rephrasing?
I'd have preferred having no copy pasting at all however, given that we can't even copy paste content from Wikipedia of all sites, if we wanted to get all technical; the TF2Wiki even lacks a clear content license...
even so, I think it falls well within the category of fair use due to the fact that it was only about 1/10th of what was on the page
I'm just curious. In the future when I find something that I think will be valuable in answering someone's question. How do you want me to handle it? Steal the ideas, reword it and try and pass it off as my own? Or use a fair amount of it with credit and citation
At any rate -- let's refrain from using h1 (aka # Title #), those titles are really huge otherwise.
@Aardvark Citation plus summary is what I usually do when I find that an outside page answers adequately
If you can only find bits and pieces around however, I see no problem fleshing out a full answer "stealing" ideas and maybe giving links to sources
nevermind ideas cannot be stolen
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Q: How long does the SpaceChem demo last?

BrantI'm on level 3-2 (Danopth, Split Before Bonding) of the SpaceChem demo. When does the demo end? The official website doesn't have any info.

Upcoming question: How the hell do I beat level 3-2 of SpaceChem?
This game messes with your brain.
23:47
@Brant Youtube often has many solutions thanks to the autoupload button
however
the solutions online for that one mostly don't work because the rules for bond+ and bond- interaction have changed
I've uploaded a video of this one level myself though.
I don't see how it's possible without, like, 4 more bonders to drag around
You drop the molecule on the bonder, bond-, bond-, bond- then bond+ and sync with the other waldo which proceeds to output.
Wait, I thought the output had to match the layout of the diagram exactly
@Brant no, not necessarily.
I didn't know you could have both Hs on the same side of the O=O
well, that changes things.
23:51
As the second lesson explains, so long as the bonds are right the actual layout doesn't matter
Now you can go back and optimize the hell out of everything :D
I hope the freehanded circles let you see the light
That part of the training should be placed later, closer to where it actually becomes important to remember. :(

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