The Bridge

Writer's chat going on now in The Overlook. Today, we'll look at what people wrote last week and we'll do a timed exercise for anyone who is interested.

Wipqozn

@CruelCow Mods + Room owners can delete all stars on a message.

OrigamiRobot

HI COW! dances

CruelCow

@OrigamiRobot stares silently

GnomeSlice

Bundle-In-A-Box's 'Eclectic Delights' Bundle got more games added.

CruelCow

@Wipqozn I can't think of a situation where that would be necessary?!

Jason Berkan

5:12 PM

@CruelCow If you star something extremely vulgar or rude...

Wipqozn

@CruelCow The main purpose is if someone was spamming stars just to flood the list.

CruelCow

@JasonBerkan Well then shouldn't the vulgar/rude message be deleted instead of the star?

@Wipqozn But can you see who starred? Because I'm sure I could star faster than you could unstar

OrigamiRobot

@CruelCow You'll run out of stars.

Jason Berkan

@CruelCow Possibly - I know a mod / owner removed one of my stars once - I saw it disappear. The message was slightly off-colour, but probably not flaggable.

Wipqozn

@CruelCow It could be apprioate, just not for the starred list. An example would be if you posted a video that should come with a NSFW warning, but they post the warning on a second line.

CruelCow

5:14 PM

I see. thanks for the explantions

Wipqozn

@CruelCow You only have so many stars to use in a day. I'd just wait until the spamming stopped and would then proceed to cancel the stars.

Also, nobody star this.

fbueckert

The fact that we have a star limit says sad things about the abuse of said functionality.

Wipqozn

Damn it people. You were supposed to star that!

3

It was reverse psychology.

TAKE THAT MISTER ORIGAMI FOLDING ROBOT

OrigamiRobot

Feb 24 at 22:54, by OrigamiRobot

When I run out of stars, I'll just take screenshots and do freehand stars. Then I'll post the screenshots for other people to star!

Wipqozn

Wipqozn, Nova Scotia, Canada

14.3k 22 62 140

Invader Skoodge

5:19 PM

How many stars do you get in a day?

Wipqozn

@InvaderSkoodge 20

I'm surprised one of my top tags is DayZ.

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn Gnome only gets 10 for obvious reasons.

Fluttershy

It's been over 4 hours since our last question. Someone ask something. I'm bored and need to VTC things.

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot We should probably put a limit on the number of chat messages he can post in a day too.

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn What are my top tags?

Wipqozn

5:21 PM

We should also rename him to GnomieBear, in memory of Mark Trapp.

Fluttershy, Ponyville, Equestria

10.5k 4 45 95

skyrim mass-effect-3 kingdoms-amalur-reckoning guild-wars-2 diablo-3 league-of-legends dayz

OrigamiRobot

I support all this Gnome abuse.

Wipqozn

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A: Why do some players build their buildings in a line (towards the entrance of their base)?

I can think of two reasons for this: An attempt to split up your opponents forces (some on both sides) so that you can easily overpower them. To make it easier to defend your workers. If your opponent storms your base, you can just put your workers on the side opposite they enter, giving you...

Fluttershy

Woo! Day Z, and a game whose studio no longer exists! I'm okay with these.

Wipqozn

It's my post post on Arqade!

OrigamiRobot

OrigamiRobot, Charlotte, NC

14.8k 12 66 143

diablo-3 skyrim minecraft borderlands-2 binding-of-isaac diablo-3-monk dayz

Invader Skoodge

5:23 PM

@Fluttershy The Kingoms of Amalur: Reckoning studio went under, I presume?

OrigamiRobot

WHAT? I AM NOT NEPTR ANYMORE!

Invader Skoodge

Invader Skoodge, New Jersey

26.4k 21 133 238

skyrim starcraft-2 diablo-3 minecraft xcom-enemy-unknown league-of-legends pokemon-fifth-gen

murgatroid99

murgatroid99, New Jersey

6.4k 5 26 62

binding-of-isaac mass-effect-3 wrath-of-the-lamb runescape minecraft halo-4 might-magic-heroes-6

Invader Skoodge

I have a StarCraft 2 badge? Weird.

OrigamiRobot

I want the badge for minecraft-redstone, but I always miss the questions.

murgatroid99

5:25 PM

I'm kind of surprised that Halo 4 is already one of my top tags

Fluttershy

@InvaderSkoodge Oh yeah. The studio that made KoA is bankrupt, and their CEO owes the state of Rhode Island some $75m.

SaintWacko

@Wipqozn How do you do that?

Wipqozn

@SaintWacko Post the URL to your profile.

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy is catching up to us @Wipqozn. Just think how close he would be if he had Dishonored!

Invader Skoodge

@Fluttershy That's a lot of millions. What did he do?

SaintWacko

5:27 PM

SaintWacko

5.7k 11 30

minecraft dwarf-fortress guild-wars-2 terraria xcom-enemy-unknown neo-scavenger dungeons-of-dredmor

Heh, Minecraft and DF. Sounds about right

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot My zeus, you're right! I should start asking and answering more questions.

SaintWacko

roguelikes and sandboxes and strategy, oh my!

Ullallulloo

Ullallulloo, Illinois

7.4k 9 38 77

dwarf-fortress minecraft final-fantasy-13-2 ghost-recon-fs die2nite batman-arkham-city zelda-skyward-sword

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn I bet MarkTrapp left because he was disappointed that we didn't make fun of @Fluttershy enough. T_T

Ullallulloo

@SaintWacko Twins!

SaintWacko

5:28 PM

@Ullallulloo Yay!

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot It all makes sense now!

@Fluttershy Dishonored Dishonored Dishonored Dishonored Dishonored Dishonored Dishonored Dishonored

OrigamiRobot

That's the spirit!

SaintWacko

@Wipqozn I need to get that next time it goes on sale

Steam Christmas sale, maybe

John

Yay! Now I have two identical Steam icons on my desktop that do vastly different things!

OrigamiRobot

@John remember when we played that Minecraft adventure map? Those were the days...

John

5:32 PM

@OrigamiRobot Indeed. Good times...

I'm actually making another batch of that same soup right now.

We should totally do that again sometime.

Wipqozn

@John Yes.

John

@Wipqozn You wanna play with me and @OrigamiRobot?

I think we didn't start another because we couldn't find a map we liked...

But with these new command blocks, very interesting and cool things are doable now

OrigamiRobot

@John I haven't played for a long time. So much new stuff.

Wipqozn

@John Perhaps we should, but not until the end of the week.

My exams are this week.

John

@OrigamiRobot Yeah. @GnomeSlice joined our game of Marked Man yesterday (really fun, @fredley and @RonanForman made it) and he had no clue how to use anything.

Kept poisoning his allies. x.x

It was fun, though

@Wipqozn Right, right

Ronan Forman

5:35 PM

Me and @fredley were in tears from laughter.

John

@RonanForman So was I, but I wasn't in Mumble, so no one could tell.

GnomeSlice

@John Excuse me?

I won more times as MM than anyone else.

John

@GnomeSlice Yes, this is true. You were a remarkable MM, after you relearned everything :P

Wipqozn

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Q: How do I kill a pig which was turned into a zombie pigman by lightning in SMP?

no longer applicable for minecraft versions beta 1.6 and later While playing on a Minecraft SMP bukkit server, I tried using the /thor command to manipulate lightning on a few pigs with my pickaxe. But it seems that I can't kill it, I even tried putting them in a pit and hitting them with a d...

minecraft mods minecraft-smp bukkit

Does anyone know who user8949 was?

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice You're good at killing people indiscriminately at least.

OrigamiRobot

5:41 PM

@Wipqozn spif?

John

@Wipqozn No, but by the age of the question, no one noticing before now, and how well written it is, I wanna say it was someone that had some rep.

(MARK TRAPP)

(D;)

Wipqozn

@John No, he's user 2xxx.

John

@Wipqozn Okay

:(

Ullallulloo

@Wipqozn bckbck

Wipqozn

Wait, that's on chat.

I think he's actualy much lower than that on Arqade.

Ullallulloo

5:42 PM

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Q: Problem with minecraft server running on 64-bit Windows 7 computer

I downloaded minecraft_server.jar from here, and made run.bat which content is java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui. It runs well, I can connect with typing my IP, but my friend (Windows Vista - 32bit) couldn't connect to my server, even though he can connect to my Apache we...

minecraft multiplayer

Then can I disable the explosion using a plugin (bukkit)? — user8949 Jun 7 '11 at 5:04

@bckbck You can. I've edited in a link to the NoExplode plugin. There are likely to be more plugins that do this, but NoExplode seems to be exactly what you want. — lunboks Jun 7 '11 at 10:17

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn user3389 on the site.

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo :/

@John I used to play minecraft hours daily, I was pretty 'good' at it.

Fluttershy

38 Studios

38 Studios, formerly Green Monster Games, was an American entertainment and IP development company founded in 2006 by Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling and named for his jersey number. Originally based in Massachusetts, the company moved to Rhode Island as part of securing $75 million in loans from that state's quasi-public Economic Development Corporation (EDC). In February 2012, the company released its only title, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a single-player action role-playing video game for several platforms. The game got mixed reviews, some very negative and some very po...

John

@GnomeSlice Never said ya weren't

Fluttershy

@InvaderSkoodge ^^

James

5:47 PM

Morning All

GnomeSlice

Goddamn fucking CSS.

Wipqozn

@Ullallulloo NEver heard of him. He must be a wizard.

Krazer

@GnomeSlice it's it doesn't have anything to do with IE, it's not worth complaining about

Ullallulloo

@James Morning!

John

@James Hiya!

Jin

5:52 PM

I HATE THINKGEEK

James

@Ullallulloo @John How goes? :)

Jason Berkan

Does anyone know the seed of the world you play in the Minecraft demo?

James

@Jin :O Maybe a copy of Dead Pixels would make you feel better? :)

Ullallulloo

@James Good! :)

Krazer

@Jin What did they do this time?

James

5:53 PM

@JasonBerkan Random I believe.

Jin

I just ordered a bunch of minecraft stuff from them last week for my kids. then today they released: thinkgeek.com/product/ee3d/?srp=3

Jason Berkan

@James It's always the same for me.

OrigamiRobot

@Jin Oh man, that's pretty awesome.

Wipqozn

@Jin I'm not sure why you'd buy something frmo ThinkGeek. The stuff is so expensive.

James

@OrigamiRobot Is the demo the one that is browser only and has no survival aspect to it?

Jin

5:54 PM

@Wipqozn because some items are exclusive to them only. also i've built up a lot of thinkgeek points over the years

OrigamiRobot

@James I have no idea what you are talking about.

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot He pinged the wrong person.

He meant to ping our local Alchemist.

OrigamiRobot

@John So did you.

John

@James Pretty good. And you? :)

@OrigamiRobot Huh?

James

@John Damn Sleepie

John

5:57 PM

@James Haha yeah, me too

James

@OrigamiRobot Bah that was meant for @JasonBerkan

Jason Berkan

@James Browser only, it is survival mode and you can only play for 90 minutes.

Jin

has anyone here done 3d printing with good results?

i'm thinking about using shapeways.com

badp

dibs on 3D arqade spaceships hand painted by Jin

Jin

@badp you mean "hand airbrushed"

I TAKE MY MODEL BUILDING SRSLY

badp

5:59 PM

...I'm sorry :(

fbueckert

@Jin How about a paint shotgun? 10% of the effort, and 1000% of the fun.

badp

So air brushing is like air guitar right? runs

Jin

actually i haven't done any models in years.. so sad.

i have a back log of hundreds of Gundam models..

Wipqozn

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fredley

@RonanForman My unary adder works!

Lazers

6:04 PM

0

Q: COD Elite: Does the heat map show where those have died, or where those have gotten kills from?

Here's a screenshot of the heat map for a match on Call of Duty Elite: Now, I can't figure out if the heat markers represent where someone was killed, as opposed to where the kill shots originated. Which is it?

call-of-duty-black-ops-2 call-of-duty-elite

1

Q: Where have my scientists gone?

I've been playing the game for a few hours and I have 2 missions to high-five scientists... but I never see any! I just get tumbleweed where there used to be scientists. What am I doing wrong? Do I just need to travel further?

jetpack-joyride

Wipqozn

6:19 PM

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John

6:29 PM

@Wipqozn That fits you so well.

Ullallulloo

Old Spice level 4's out.

Lazers

0

Q: What is the effective range of 'close enough'?

What is the effective range that close enough uses to determine if a bullet will ricochet in that direction? Is it more beneficial to try to aim at the ground near the target or does it not matter where I aim as long as the bullet hits a wall of some kind? If there is only one enemy in the area...

borderlands-2

Jin

you know which game they should remake, instead of making more Street Fighter vs Whatever games?

RIVAL SCHOOL! that game was awesome

James

grumbles It seems air cooling my CPU is just not possible with this RAM :(

fbueckert

6:45 PM

Bleh. I hate having to debug something where all you get is "I broke! Fix me!"

Krazer

@James too hot or the height issue again?

James

@Krazer Width issue actually. And if I could just find some 120mmx12mm fans I might be able to resolve it with air with out having to give up my kick ass RAM... but I can not find a 12mm width fan in stock at any company I trust (amazon, frozencpu.. even newegg!)

Did a simple layout test yesterday and its literally the 10mm width of the RAM that I need to compensate for.

fbueckert

6:59 PM

Oh, yay. And even the stack trace I get isn't correct. I've been poking the wrong method.

Krazer

fbueckert

@Krazer That's...gross.

fredley

@RonanForman

Krazer

@fbueckert IMO more so if you put accessories in your beard, then you don't deserve to have a beard

fbueckert

@Krazer If it gets that long, you should be keeping it maintained, not allowing forest animals to use it as a habitat.

Krazer

7:06 PM

@fbueckert no argument there

SaintWacko

Sigh... I want to go home and play BL2

Gunzerking is way too much fun

Jin

@SaintWacko I like my Zero 'n Siren

SaintWacko

@Jin My highest level character is Zero, but I'm having more fun with Salvador

Jin

@SaintWacko my zero was my first max lvl char. then i leveled a siren.. it was much easier.

but i like both chars, play styles are totally different. my zero is a sniper

SaintWacko

@Jin Even my Zero is only level 24

@Jin Same here. I played primarily as Mordecai in BL1

fbueckert

7:37 PM

Is it bad that I just spent two hours trying to fix a stupid error, and it turns out my stack trace was pointing me at the wrong location?

Lazers

0

Q: Why can't I link any portals in ingress?

I took over an enemy portal by destroying all their resonators. Then I deployed 7 of my own resonators, upgrading 3 of them to level 2, but it won't let me upgrade anymore even though I have more level 2 resonators. However, it won't let me deploy the 8th resonator, instead there's a link butto...

ingress

0

Q: Why cant I play minecraft without it crashing?

I try to play on one of my worlds that I made, but when I try to play it says "server error-loop hole" and then crashes. And I bought minecraft a while back and it worked fine then. Any Ideas why its "shutting me off"?

minecraft

0

Q: Do enemies ever open doors?

I've seen mutons of all kinds climb ladders. I've never see any other aliens do that. I have also yet to see an alien open a door of any kind. Do aliens open doors? (alien tech plasma doors or otherwise) Seems a bit silly if they can't :-/

xcom-enemy-unknown

Invader Skoodge

@SaintWacko I want BL2 to get cheap so I can buy it.

badp

@Jin Can you actually play Sniper properly in BL2?

I mean, if you get downed to a grenade or a barrel or anything sniper rifles hardly will see you through a Fight for Your Life

if you're at sniper range from your nearest enemy

(Maybe Zero has an ability that lets him scope in while downed?)

Jin

8:02 PM

i don't use sniper rifle when i'm down

i switch to assault rifle.

but yeah, you can play a sniper rifle fine, but it's rather gear dependent.

badp

ugh. Assault rifles kinda suck

Jin

@badp most of them do.. except for a few... what level are you now?

tiddy

You can't zoom while downed

OrigamiRobot

@tiddy Sometimes you are locked in zoom and it's awful.

tiddy

Even worse

badp

8:14 PM

@Jin 47? 48? I forget

OrigamiRobot

@tiddy The slight downward camera movement is not so slight while zoomed.

Lazers

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Q: How do I transfer to a full world in Guild Wars 2?

I want to transfer my characters from my world to a world where my friends are playing, but, their world is full. I tried many times to refresh the the world list and close/open the game but the server I want to transfer is always full. Is there any other way besides these to transfer to other...

guild-wars-2

0

Q: Using Turrets in Deus Ex: Human Revolution

I'm currently playing through Deus Ex: Human Revolution with the intent of using stealth. But I'm noticing that there's an option for me to use the enemy turrets and robots against them at certain times. Can I use these without losing the chance to earn the "Ghost" XP? Also, for the game achiev...

deus-ex-human-revolution

tiddy

I stopped playing around lvl 40

badp

...as Gunzerker, level ~8 everything else

fbueckert

@Jin I remember Roland had the ability to extend assault rifle magazines straight up to his entire ammo capacity.

I loved that ability.

SaintWacko

8:14 PM

@InvaderSkoodge It's worth it at full price

badp

@tiddy Gear rot does become brutal at that point

Invader Skoodge

@SaintWacko I have enough other games to play in the interim that I'm still going to wait it out.

tiddy

I went away for a weekend and my friends shot up like4-5 levels and I couldn't compete

All gear was over leveled

all enemies were too strong

SaintWacko

@fbueckert I had one machine gun that had 212 rounds in a magazine

fbueckert

@SaintWacko That, coupled with ammo regen, meant that you could basically shoot forever.

SaintWacko

8:18 PM

@fbueckert Yep, I had a mod which gave +10 team ammo regen :D

My machine gun regenerated ammo as fast as it used it up

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Does the commando have ammo regen in BL2?

SaintWacko

@fbueckert I don't know, I haven't tried Axton yet

My Gunzerker has a mod which gives +1.1 team ammo regen

He's only level 16, though, so I'm sure I'll find better

Jeffrey

Hey there

I'm just here for a very quick question about minecraft, anyone?

SaintWacko

@Jeffrey Ask away

Invader Skoodge

No, ask here.

Best community promotion ad.

Sterno

8:44 PM

Downvotes don't have anything to do with rules violations. Question closure votes have to do with rules violations. Downvotes can be for pretty much anything. — Sterno 1 min ago

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I don't know why that's always confusing for people.

Lazers

0

Q: Where is the WiFi antenna located?

Where in the body of the Nintendo 3DS is the WiFi antenna located? To try to get more StreetPasses, I place the 3DS in an indent on my car's dashboard when I'm driving. Which part of the 3DS do I have to ensure is above the metal cage of car for the best chance of success?

3ds hardware streetpass

SaintWacko

Man, it's been a long time since I've worked with C

Invader Skoodge

@SaintWacko Having only used Java now for 3.5 years, I would have a really tough time going back to C.

Not just because of memory, but also because "wtf where are my classes?"

SaintWacko

@InvaderSkoodge Same here, I've only used C++ before, and that was in high school

Invader Skoodge

C++ was my language of choice before I took this job, so I think I might do ok in C++. The memory management would be annoying but doable.

Sterno

8:48 PM

Not much call for C++ these days. Everything is web apps

Invader Skoodge

I hate PHP so much, though.

SaintWacko

@InvaderSkoodge I'm not looking forward to doing all this without classes

This is for mainframe programming

Invader Skoodge

I do web stuff with Java + Tomcat right now.

GnomeSlice

PHP can climb a wall of dicks.

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Krazer

@GnomeSlice whoa whoa no need to go that far.

What troubles you?

Invader Skoodge

8:49 PM

PHP is everything that is wrong with every programming language, all neatly tied up into one programming language.

GnomeSlice

@James Is it a Steam copy?

tiddy

i'm still on ruby

James

Alright, resorting to an AIO water loop for my computer

@GnomeSlice Yes it is

GnomeSlice

@James I still don't own it anywhere. If he's willing, I'd take it.

Wipqozn

This is enjoyable read about Transformers 2

OrigamiRobot

8:53 PM

@InvaderSkoodge What are you doing in C that needs classes?

Wipqozn

@Sterno Oh my zeus yes.

That bothers me so much.

badp

@OrigamiRobot ALL THE THINGS

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Why do you like reading things people have written about whey they think you shouldn't like something so much?

Wipqozn

I swear there are people on this network that don't think you should down vote anything unless you cab also VTC it. IT pisses me off so much.

badp

I mean, classes are the only thing C has. Kind of. Veeery kind of.

Wipqozn

8:55 PM

@GnomeSlice Because it's funny to see them pick apart terrible movies?

I'm not sure if you've noticed @GnomeSlice, but I like bitching about things I hate.

@badp C doesn't have classes.

badp

struct

@Wipqozn As I said, veeeeeeery kind of.

Wipqozn

That's not a class.

@badp Well, you're a silly face.

badp

@Wipqozn eh, it's good enough for C++.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Eh, Revenge of the Fallen didn't have a very memorable plot, but It had nice visuals, music, and nostalgia factor.

Invader Skoodge

@OrigamiRobot Everything should have classes. I program in Java.

GnomeSlice

8:56 PM

Didn't like it as much as the first one though.

OrigamiRobot

Let me rephrase: What are you doing in C that isn't embedded and what kind of embedded thing are you doing that needs classes?

badp

@InvaderSkoodge "When you have a hammer in your hand everything looks like nails?" :P

GnomeSlice

> There's a slutty Decepticon?

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice I don't think you could call what Transformers have a "plot".

GnomeSlice

> Yeah, she's a real ho. The Decepticons apparently have an incredibly powerful slut-making program, because she has it down, man.

@Wipqozn Eh, it was alright.

Still good for some time if you want an action movie on a massive scale.

Invader Skoodge

8:58 PM

@badp That's why I qualify statements I make on this topic with "I program in Java."

badp

@InvaderSkoodge Then you should hate Java

Krazer

@GnomeSlice I thought I was watching a Terminator movie during that bit

GnomeSlice

@Krazer Heh.

badp

@InvaderSkoodge In Java, classes aren't classes and functions aren't classes.

GnomeSlice

Man, there are zero unattractive women in those movies too.

badp

8:59 PM

I'm still amazed Java doesn't let you do basic stuff such as passing functions as arguments

GnomeSlice

And whoever that blonde chick in the third one was, she was even better looking than the last one.

Invader Skoodge

@badp I like Java, but that's probably mostly because I'm comfortable in it now.

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