The Bridge

fail badp

00:09

The one bit where placement and arrangment does matter is in reactor output notes

then you want to be anal about orientation and placement, as what you output is what you then input

►

Brant

Woo, I got it

fail badp

Good, because much harder stuff awaits you :)

Brant

►

Powerlord

I must make a note to shoot Valve for breaking the TF2 Linux server.

fail badp

@Powerlord The servers did undertake a big change, replays are no small matter.

At any rate I'm so waiting for a Steam deal on this game.

Also - nite.

Powerlord

00:26

@failbadp Well, as of today's update, the beta server crashes on startup

Bob

01:06

0

Q: Help me find an old game I played in early to mid 90s. (arcade)

It was a side scroller set in medieval times. money was gotton from chests which could be used to buy weapon upgrades from a man. first boss was two bouncing concrete bricks, second boss was four bouncing concrete bricks and third was a flying dragon. a later level was set in a castle, and a late...

side-scroller

0

Q: Mac Game mid-90s

There used to be a game on the Apple (circa system 7?). Similar to a breakout style game, it involved a marble clearing blocks, revealing a picture underneath. When the level was cleared, a soundbite would play saying, "Oh yeah!".

identify-this-game

0

Q: What is this old computer game similar to the origional mario bros?

There was an old game that i believe was a mac game. I remember playing it when i was a little kid, but i never knew the name. It was similar to the old mario bros: ...

pc identify-this-game

Nick T

01:48

@Powerlord 525

What is this SpaceChem thing

Bob

0

Q: Inconsistencies between Halo REACH (game) and The Fall of Reach (book) (Spoilers within...)

In the original game, Halo for the Xbox, Master Chief is introduced to Cortana at the beginning of the game as if the two had never ever met before. Cortana is loaded into Master Chief's suit, and she remarks upon how similar the suits architecture is to the Pillar of Autumn's (the ship). Also, ...

spoiler plot halo book storyline

Brant

02:40

@NickT A puzzle game where you have to design machines to assemble molecules.

@Bob 3 ITGs in a row? sheesh.

Bob

0

Q: Are there still unknown cheat codes for Goldenetye Wii?

I just recently found out about the cheat codes for this game, and the sites I've viewed have three listed, NotIt!!!11, Inv1s1bleEv3ryth1ng and <477MYFR13NDS4R3SP13S>. Are there any other known cheats, and more importantly, does anyone know if there are more cheats to be found?

cheat goldeneye-007

Powerlord

TF2 update... charity hats this time.

Bob

03:10

0

Q: Avoiding cheap deaths in TF2

Often when I play TF2 (usually as spy/scout, but sometimes as other classes), I'll find myself suddenly blasted/incinerated/pick your own favorite way to die by something I never saw coming. Many times there's no obvious error on my part that caused this, but just plain bad luck (bumping into som...

team-fortress-2 spy

Feeds

03:41

Stack Overflow Blog: Redesigned Tags Page

Posted by Jeff Atwood on March 23rd, 2011

In the same spirit of our redesign of the users page, we felt it was time to enhance the tags page, too.

As you can see, the tags page now shows a bit more information about each tag, namely:

It is my strong belief that the tags page, at least for the first two pages, is a map of what your community is, and is not, about.

Thus, putting the tag wiki excerpts front and center on the tag page is an opportunity to educate your community, and your new users, about tags and what they are for. But even more importantly, the tags page is the de-facto map of allowed (and implicitly disallowed by omission) topics on your site. …

Bob

0

Q: Is there such a thing as too many probes?

I've been watching a lot of Day[9] videos to get better at SC2. My main race is Protoss and Day[9] loves the phrase "pylons and probes", meaning you should always be building pylons so you aren't supply blocked, and that you should always have a probe building. I'm getting better at both of these...

starcraft-2 protoss

0

Q: Desktop Dungeon bug on siege of lothlorien?

the description says that ill be able to play the siege when i gain access to all playable races. I have all races and classes(although not yet finished everything with them) and i still don't have it. Is this a bug? http://grab.by/9Eyg

desktop-dungeons

0

Q: Trouble creating water source

I am quite new to dwarf fortress and trying to create an underground farm. I know that I need to muddy the ground so I havd created thd chanel above the farm and placed a pond activity zone over it. Shortly after I get a notice that filling the pond has been cancelled because there is no water ...

dwarf-fortress

0

Q: can't remember two games I used to play as a kid

The two games I am looking for are both vertical shooters like 1942, 1943, etc... However, in these games it was not a plane thay you flew. The first game your character is a dragon, and the second game had a spaceship and you could get power-ups (much like Gradius but again it is a vertical shoo...

old-games

LessPop_MoreFizz

04:05

It's nights like tonight that I remember why I still play WoW. :)

Even if I do want to punch the designer of the achievement that we spent the night working on in the face. Repeatedly. For several hours.

Brant

04:18

Which achievement?

LessPop_MoreFizz

04:38

[Stay Chill], the last one we needed for Glory of the Cataclysm Raider.

US first.

Basically, as designed, you have roughly a 4 second window in which to make the achievement happen.

It's pretty nightmarishly annoying and I can guarantee it'll be nerfed/changed within the next month or so once more people start to complain about it.

Brant

That looks nasty.

Congrats on the region first though.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Brant Thanks. :)

LessPop_MoreFizz

05:25

BTW, The Witcher is on sale on Steam for half off. If you haven't played it and like RPGs, you should.

Bob

09:22

0

Q: X3 Terran Conflict - After about ah hour (maybe less) in a brand new game X3 uses up more ram than is avialable > 2GB and become unplayable

I am running the latest version of X3 Terran Conflict (3.1) and after about 30 min - 1 hour or so (depending on what i do) I think visiting more sectors triggers it faster or is the only cause not sure, it's memory usage goes well above 2 GB. I only have 4 GB of ram, running Windows 7 64 bit. As...

x3 x3-terran-conflict

0

Q: Changing Minecraft difficulty while server is running

Is it possible to change the difficulty of a Minecraft server while it is running?

minecraft

fail badp

11:05

Sigh.

An engineer's a thankless job

Deny a cap for 30 mins, then the first spy comes and kills you thrice in a row after effortessly 'sapping' in seconds what you spent minutes to build

then proceeds to win

ohhh fuck this.

Feeds

11:26

0

Q: Why does the 'Home' button only work on meta.stackoverflow?

When on meta.stackoverflow, I can push the HOME button on my keyboard (like on other sites) to go to the top of the page. But when on any other site on stackexchange, this is not possible. (Unless you click in the margin, which is not always visible/available when you resize the window.) Why is...

support stackexchange internet-explorer-7

Bob

0

Q: Do teleporters make for a good early warning system?

I've been sitting on my arse for a while now carefully crafting my dispensers and sentries to the state of the art in area denial duties near mission critical top-secret intelligence conveniently stored in a lightweight briefcase. Once I'm done with that, however, I noticed I have really little u...

team-fortress-2 review

Feeds

0

Q: Using StackExchange as Q&A System on Current Website

I am looking to integrate a Q&A script into a large website I am working on and StackExchange would be a great fit for us. The only issue we have is the level of control we would like to have on the Q&A application itself. We would most likely want to place adverts on pages or custom HTM...

discussion editing stackexchange redirection hosting

Bob

11:56

0

Q: Is recent Minecraft broken?

The Minecraft forums seem to be filled with threads regarding a "block respawn" bug. I set up a 1.3 SMP server on my LAN, and notice this as well. All blocks respawn a couple of seconds after being destroyed, and non-local players lag tremendously. It makes the game unplayable. Has Notch comment...

minecraft bug

Powerlord

12:22

Duke Nukem Forever delayed? I'm shocked... shocked!

@failbadp It could be worse, they could decloak on the last control point in a 5CP map where you gun can't see them, then cap it. Heck, that's usually even referred to as a "Spy cap"

@failbadp But yeah, that's one of the Spy's job is sapping sentry guns. Whether they kill the Engineer or not, it still shuts down the sentry gun unless you hit it twice to unsap it... preferably after killing them.

fail badp

It's still pretty annoying :/

Powerlord

Also: nerfnow.com/comic/129 and nerfnow.com/comic/130

fail badp

You stare at this thing for a minute, then bam.

Powerlord

@failbadp It helps if your team is helping you defend your sentry.

The Pyro in particular is set up to defend against Spies. Hell, some Pyros even equip the Homewrecker, which can also unsap buildings.

For reference, the Pyro's Homewrecker is a Pyro Melee weapon that does half damage to players, double damage to buildings, and can knock sappers off friendly buildings in one hit.

fail badp

So the Engineer's shotgun is the same as the soldier's? It did feel it packed quite some punch.

...a bit more punch than other shotguns did anyway

Powerlord

12:33

The standard shotguns are identical damage wise. The various classes do apparently have different reload speeds.

Of course, the Frontier Justice is different.

Frontier Justice + Gunslinger = gets crits from destroying your mini-sentries after they get kills/assists. :D Great for offensive engineers. :D

Whoops, I'll continue this conversation after getting to work.

fail badp

Later

Powerlord

13:12

And, of course, everything's better with bacon

fail badp

Another item. Another dupe.

bringing the amount of dupes to 7/37

This can't be casual

Powerlord

The 3DS apparently only has 4MB of video memory. And no, that M isn't a typo.

Yi Jiang

13:27

@Powerlord Well, I'd hardly expect it to be a K, or a G, so M it is!

fail badp

13:40

uh...

> Membership level for a map increases for every 25 map stamps

What does that mean exactly?

Powerlord

@failbadp All it means is that the World Traveler hat lists your "membership level" for each map when you look at it. As far as I can tell, it's only cosmetic.

Although maybe we should find the guy who has 200+ stamps to find out.

Oh right, and it's per-map, so if you buy 25 of one map stamp, you'll have a "Silver" membership for that community map, but no others.

fail badp

Another item. Another dupe.

Bob

0

Q: What is kiting?

What does the term 'kiting' mean when used for games? I've seen the term thrown around here and there in reference to a few different games. Are there specific types of games that it applies to?

terminology

Powerlord

13:56

@failbadp Dupes like you.

I actually have an extra Fan O' War now.

Of course, at this point, nearly everything I find will be a dupe.

Bob

0

Q: Making your actions properly repeatable

Should be a simple question - In Nethack often I've wanted to gain the telepathic intrinsic by eating a floating eye corpse. Normally I'll try attacking it from a distance so as not to be frozen. This time, I tried making things easier by readying a group of darts, and then trying to throw th...

strategy nethack keyboard-controls

0

Q: How do I get access to R&D sessions in F1 2010?

I'm playing F1 2010 and am not long into my career. In the garage before a race it says that you can participate in R&D sessions to get new modifications for your car to improve its performance. However, I can't see how to start an R&D session. Does anybody know how to start an R&D...

xbox-360 f1-2010

Powerlord

14:23

zzz

Oh sorry, this app put me to sleep

@badp: While not all that recent, the Brass Beast dupe you have is still new enough that you might be able to trade it to someone for other items you need.

I can't remember Arda's backpack to check it and see if he has one of those yet or not. :P

fail badp

14:49

I hate spies

I know what to do

I just can't do it

OHMYGODSPIESWHERESMYWRENCHNOIDONTWANNABUILDMYSHOTGUNQUICKNONODEMOLISHNOGODDAMMITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Powerlord

You think Spy is easy? You should try playing as Spy! :P

fail badp

It's probably not easy, but there are too many good spies :P

well, spies good enough anyway

Powerlord

Hmm... a Southern Hospitality Wrench MAY help depending on what kind of trouble you're having with them.

fail badp

Nah, my main problem is I played that map for too long today

Powerlord

@failbadp Playing on a 24/7 server? >:O

fail badp

14:58

and despite the server is supposed to have a map rotation

it has the bad idea of having people vote on whether or not they want to extend the current map

> Option extend current map has won [11/16]

Powerlord

@failbadp Ew, and they didn't limit how many times that could be done?

fail badp

The map limit is 20 captures.

I'm afraid my favourite servers list is going to get even shorter. :/

Powerlord

@failbadp Which CTF map?

fail badp

the same in this morning's question

Powerlord

I don't remember which map that was.

fail badp

14:59

2fort.

Powerlord

@failbadp Figures... they would use the oldest CTF map in the game.

fail badp

Yeah, I guess I'm reaching the point where I notice the kind of pattern here

"LOL OLD MAP ROXX NEW MAP SUXX LETS PLAY MOAR OF TEH SAME"

bang wrench on head for increased effect

Powerlord

@failbadp I've noticed that pattern. I don't know why they think that. Other than the end conditions for the newer pl maps being bugged (they don't wait for round end like older PL maps), the newer ones are generally better designed.

fail badp

@Powerlord It's not a TF2 only thing

Quake 3 has this

Quake Live has this

Powerlord

Last I checked, cp_dustbowl was the most widely played map by a large margin... and it's one of the original 6 maps.

fail badp

15:02

In CS they're still playing de_dust2

It's just a widespread thing in FPSs

Brant

More shocking is the fact that they're still playing CS.

Powerlord

@Brant I assumed he's referring to both CS and CS:S, both of which have de_dust2

fail badp

It's like, "man I've invested a ton of hours in knowing this map very well... the other maps, I don't know them enough, so I get owned there. Getting owner sucks. Let's stay here."

Powerlord

I mean, look at the most recent TF2 maps... pl_frontier_final is actually a really good map. I like some of the changes they made since it was a custom map. Makes it less stalemate-y between points 1 and 2.

plr_nightfall_final... hated this map when it was a custom. Still hate it.

fail badp

It makes me want to put a Dick Server online. Forced map rotation, no popular maps, forced scramble every 2 rounds. Except nobody'd play there.

Powerlord

15:04

koth_lakeside_final - Actually seems to be really popular. It's kind of hit and miss, but eh.

In case you're wondering why I dislike nightfall, it's too busy and too long. Each section of the map is as large as plr_hightower, and yet there's 3 sections to it.

@failbadp I would laugh if you did that.

fail badp

Ideally, it'd allow people to vote.

"Winning option: extend current map. Immediately switching to next map..."

Powerlord

You can remove Extend Current Map from the options.

In SourceMod's mapchooser (and its variant mapchooser extended) I believe there's two cvars for Extend Current Map. One specifies whether rtv will have Extend Current Map as an option. The other specifies whether Extend Current Map will be in the "end of map" vote.

Oh yeah, TF2 Beta adjusted map voting yesterday. I meant to check that out... but Valve screwed up the Linux server on me; it crashes on start on my server.

fail badp

In similar news

Valve had like 20 servers online on Beta

the update brought them down

they're still down

Powerlord

I sent them a copy of debug.log, which basically gives them a gdb backtrace... but with no symbols.

Not sure if I'd need symbol files from Valve to resolve those or not.

fail badp

I just found a server with frontier, one of the "main" maps apparently

it's even with dev commentary

after 10 seconds the server changed map for no apparent reason as point B was conquered

Powerlord

15:15

...frontier has dev commentary?

But yeah, Frontier was added as a new Community map in one of the February updates.

pl_frontier_final... we removed pl_frontier from my server's maps directory as soon as it was added, then changed the version on the nominate list to the official version

C. Ross

is it TF2 this saturday?

Powerlord

@CRoss I'm not sure. :/

LessPop_MoreFizz

DNF is delayed. I am shocked and disappointed by this totally unexpected development news.

C. Ross

@LessPop_MoreFizz Salivates over D3 ... DNF .. what? someone cares?

LessPop_MoreFizz

I'm mainly waiting for The Witcher 2 personally. I just find DNF delays to be hilarious.

Ah well, another month of relevance for The List

Powerlord

15:25

3 hours ago, by Powerlord

Duke Nukem Forever delayed? I'm shocked... shocked!

2

Honestly, I'm not so sure I like DNF being limited to 8 players in multiplayer.

Particularly since it has a Capture the Fl... er... Babe mode.

4v4 just seems wrong for CTF.

Particularly since I didn't start playing CTF games until UT, which was 8v8

C. Ross

@Powerlord Wonder how that will affect it's rating ...

Powerlord

Oh hey, since the Radeon numbering had nearly wrapped around, I wonder if I'll be able to dig out a Radeon 7900 from storage and sell it for a bundle on eBay.

Brant

15:50

hahaha

Powerlord

For that matter, nVidia's numbering already wrapped around, but they at least always refer to their products as GT or GTS or GTX whatever.

Bob

0

Q: In Just Cause 2, how can I make the military's life harder?

So I've been playing Just Cause 2 for a little while now, and what I've discovered is that the military really doesn't like me too much. In fact, they keep sending men to kill me! I'm interested in preventing that from happening. As Xemu mentioned in his answer here, it is possible to decrease...

just-cause-2

fail badp

@CRoss Isn't its rating 17 already anyway?

Brant

16:06

Obligatory Penny Arcade reference.

fail badp

Oh god.

This is no good.

Team Fortress 2's replay saving feature requires Quicktime.

QUICKTIME.

Of all software.

maaaan, I don't want to be the change hater here but...

f#%&ing hell I don't want any frikkin' quicktime on my computer.

C. Ross

@failbadp I would expect so

Brant

That's a shame.

Powerlord

16:49

@failbadp Really?

Jeff

I asked a question on the gaming stackexchange and it has over 3000 views, I was wondering if any admins here could tell me why/where it got all these views from, just out of curiosity

4

Q: Is there any point in collecting puzzle pieces in Donkey Kong Country Returns?

This is very similar to this question, except mine is about puzzle pieces (although I'm curious for a more satisfying answer to that question as well). Does anyone know if there are rewards (other than getting image gallery or music gallery stuff updated) for collecting all the puzzle pieces? Al...

wii dk-country-returns

Brant

hmm, I don't know if moderators have access to any referral information...

Maybe it's just a good question that gets a lot of google traffic. :)

It's fifth on the page when you search for donkey kong country puzzle pieces.

One of my questions has a ton of views even though it doesn't really have a good answer, just because it shows up super high when you do a google search.

Jeff

it must be that they're google friendly questions

Brant

17:04

The question has been around for a few months, too. Most questions get a fairly steady trickle of traffic over time even though they're nowhere near the front page.

Jeff

I wonder how much of that trickle traffic is from stackexchange or from a search engine such as google

Brant

Probably Google. Google is the source of something like >90% of traffic on SE. (It's mentioned on the blog somewhere)

Jeff

thats a lot!

LessPop_MoreFizz

The ability of Wikia sites to crash my browser on a daily basis just makes me hate them more and more.

Powerlord

HEY! Why doesn't Wikia have a site about bacon?

LessPop_MoreFizz

17:19

It does.

bacon.wikia.com/wiki/Bacon_Wiki

It's a pretty lousy wiki as wikis go.

Powerlord

@LessPop_MoreFizz OK, it scares me that it actually exists.

Brant

Meh, anyone can start up a wikia site

Ivo Flipse

17:40

►

Our traffic definitely is nearly exclusive from Google or direct traffic

Powerlord

18:33

I need to add this line to my quotes list: "The GPL(3) was invented because people didn't like how others were using GPL(2) code. We don't approve, so now we're going to take our ball and go home."

"And people are surprised that nobody wants to play ball with that kid any more."

GnomeSlice

18:53

2 days ago, by fail badp

Okay I should no longer need the ghetto login link. Sorry, @Gnome

@failbadp It's not working again. :S

CBC Literary Awards, 2011 http://t.co/vXbAahZ via - Congratulations to my cousin Megan Adams for her WINNING short story! #CBCLiteraryAwards

Tweeted by GnomeSlice on March 24, 2011 at 7:01 PM

Bob

19:19

0

Q: Suggestions for online table top games

Hey all! I have been planing MMOs, RPGs, and MUDs for a longtime, but I have never played any tabletop games. While talking to a guy at a games workshop he mentioned that if I was interested in starting up some casual tabletop gaming that I might be able to find some online versions of them. D...

role-playing-game dungeons-and-dragons

Powerlord

@Bob Flag for move!

Oh wait, "online versions of them"

Ronan Forman

@Powerlord Game-rec so flag for close!

Powerlord

@RonanForman Ooh, good point.

Weird, NewEgg doesn't have any Asus Sabertooth P67s in stock.

I wonder if they didn't get the B3 stepping versions yet.

(I was trying to figure out what was different between Asus Sabertooth P67 and the P8P67 Deluxe boards)

Sadly Not

God it must be discouraging as a new user to get your first question closed.

What's the return rate from new users asking a game-rec question?

Ronan Forman

@SadlyNot It's their fault for not reading the faq...

Sadly Not

19:34

Who have more than 1 or 101 reputation?

Ivo Flipse

well put @RonanForman

Sadly Not

@RonanForman: Yeah, but we shouldn't scare off all the kiddies. Just curious

I mean, a 1 reputation user was likely to never return anyways.

Ivo Flipse

I honestly don't care @SadlyNot, the site focuses mostly on Game FAQs, recommending simply isn't part of that

Sadly Not

But if say a 30 rep user asked one then never returned ... that would be unfortunate.

Ivo Flipse

go watch some reviews if you want recommendations

Sadly Not

19:35

I never read the faq. It's a timely thing to do that most people will ignore. Just the way it is

Ivo Flipse

it would be, but would he be interested in asking our other questions?

Sadly Not

@IvoFlipse Yeah I don't like game recommendations

@IvoFlipse If he has more than 1 rep then yes, he likely will.

Or 101 for those users on other stackexchange sites.

Ivo Flipse

well that can be from asking a game-rec and not yet having been recalculated :P

Sadly Not

@IvoFlipse Not having been recalculated?

Not sure what you mean.

Ivo Flipse

global rep-recalculations take care of illicit votes, like sock-puppets, deleted users and/or deleted/closed questions

Powerlord

19:39

@IvoFlipse Really? I thought they took care of murder. My mistake.

2

Sadly Not

Meaning?

Ronan Forman

@SadlyNot well go read it now gaming.stackexchange.com/faq

Sadly Not

@RonanForman: Bah, when I trip a wire I'm not supposed to I'll read :)

Whatever, question won't be answered anyways. I doubt those statistics are available for viewing.

Or will change anything.

Powerlord

@SadlyNot Basically, any suspicious looking voting, such as one person voting up only answers that one specific other person posted are removed... assuming you were asking about the illicit votes/sock-puppets part of that.

Sadly Not

Yes I was.

I didn't get how it related to higher rep users asking game-rec questions then leaving the site after it gets closed.

Powerlord

19:46

Of course, all sites on SE got all their reputations recalculated just recently... I forget why though.

Sadly Not

I mean that higher rep could come from illicit voting. But if the recalculations are done correctly then no one with more than 1 rep will have any rep that they didn't deserve.

And are potentially valuable.

Re-reading that hurts my head. Maybe the meds are kicking in.

Powerlord

This joke has been censored for your safety.

Sadly Not

How kind of you :)

@failbadp Sneaking in for the kill.

bwarner

Thoughts on whether I should change my comment on gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/18915/… to be an answer instead? I generally try to avoid answers on questions that are going to be closed.

Sadly Not

@bwarner If it answers the question it doesn't hurt. Imo.

Powerlord

20:04

:727020 I agree completely.

Bleah, that joke falls flat, since it won't put in the button if the other post is deleted before you reply.

fail badp

20:20

Sorry, I posted that in the wrong window

~

3 hours ago, by Powerlord

@failbadp Really?

@Powerlord Yes, really. The really frightening part is the error message

To fix the issue it suggests you to restart Windows.

That's almost certainly because the Steam installer will install Quicktime for us together with TF2...

~

3 hours ago, by Jeff

I asked a question on the gaming stackexchange and it has over 3000 views, I was wondering if any admins here could tell me why/where it got all these views from, just out of curiosity

@Jeff We do have some info, but it's pretty coharse

Those views are probably not from Google, however

Powerlord

20:42

So, I have this ultra important question to ask...

What sounds good for dinner?

fail badp

@Powerlord Risotto with saffron and liberal quantities of Parmigiano Reggiano. Served with red wine, or beer if it needs be.

Today, it needed be. Hmm.

Powerlord

@failbadp Making that sounds suspiciously like work.

fail badp

If you do cook it yourself, then it'll taste better.

(I didn't.)

user30

SpaceChem is awesome.

user30

Unfortunately, it seems that once you get past the first training missions the difficulty ramps up considerably.

user30

20:46

LET ME FEEL CLEVER GODDAMNIT.

Powerlord

I'd have to get the ingredients for Risotto first. I don't think I have any Saffron, and I suspect I'm out of any types of cheese at the moment

Well, no, I take that back... I think I have some Extra Sharp Chedder

user30

What is this, cooking.se?

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald Yes.

Would you rather us talk about murder ?

(Note: I've been using tag:murder instead of tag:bacon for most of today, although I think I used tag:bacon once...)

fail badp

LOL

Suicides count for Laddy Macdeth

Powerlord

@failbadp Which achievement is Laddy McDeth again?

fail badp

20:52

Kill 50 enemies with direct hits from a grenade launcher

Powerlord

Wait... how do you hit yourself with a direct hit from it?

I was under the impression direct hit meant no bounce.

Oh, speaking of Demoman, I have yet to get some Demoman achievements that should be easy... like the Scottish Sap (or whatever the "kill engy + sentry + dispenser" one is)

Also, the "Do 1 million Fire damage" one for Pyro takes freaking forever.

Probably because I tend to use my Axtinguisher, which isn't fire damage...

sigh Only 1 more kill for Scout's First Blood, Part 2 and I'll finally finish that one off.

Oh, and another Medic yesterday got killed after we'd killed two enemies for the "Assist another medic in killing three enemies without dying" one.

I actually had some people almost not realize I was a Spy yesterday. I killed their Engineer and then followed them up to the point. I was waiting for the Medic to move away from the wall before stabbing him, but someone twigged to the fact that the capture counter didn't match the number of players on the point.

Either that or they twigged because I wasn't building anything.

fail badp

@Powerlord Dunno; sometimes I die while fighting off somebody

Bob

0

Q: Was there a playable helicopter in the first Grand Theft Auto?

In the very first Grand Theft Auto, I remember there being a picture of a helicopter (I think it was in the instructions) but I never found it in the game. Did it exist and was it playable?

grand-theft-auto

fail badp

then when I respawn, din! +1 to Laddy McDeth progress

Also - HALP

Powerlord

@failbadp Well, if you killed them with the grenade and yourself at the same time, that might be why.

fail badp

21:00

the 24/7 servers spawn faster than I can blacklist

@Powerlord That's what I read of it

Powerlord

@failbadp btw, I'm assuming you know you can face your own Engineer buildings and right-click to pick them up?

fail badp

yeah, I know

Powerlord

Oh, and right-clicking while you have a building out rotates it before placement.

fail badp

I have some trouble doing that with teleporter entrances

or while upgrading those

Powerlord

Oh, one other thing, the direction of a teleporter entrance doesn't matter... but the exit direction does.

For whatever reason, you can't upgrade teleporters if you're on one side of a door and they're on the other, even if the door is open and you're close enough to hit it.

I suspect that's so you have to leave your spawn room. :/

Lately, I've been playing Engineer more, but even on defense, if I'm not the only Engy, I use the Gunslinger/Mini-Sentry and help other Engies build their guns before building mine.

fail badp

21:04

Why can't one build in his own spawn room?

Powerlord

@failbadp Because enemies can't destroy them if they're in your spawn room.

fail badp

@Powerlord eh, usually I only do Engineer if no one else does that, and even then on CTF only, so when others do show up I have a dispenser mk3 to help 'em up with

Powerlord

@failbadp btw, you are aware that you can not only hit your own stuff to make it build faster, but also hit ally Engineer stuff to make it build faster?

Oh, and if you ever get a Jag, its build-speed bonus is for hitting things while they're building/redeploying rather than a passive effect. Which isn't clear from the item description. :/

On the bright side, it means you can use a Jag to help other engineers' buildings build faster, too.

If you switch Engineer melee weapons, all your stuff gets destroyed. It sucks, but it's there to fix a glitch in the game that allowed people to build level 3 mini-sentries.

Yay, 15 minutes before I leave, and another dev is all like "Hey, check out this code and see if you get any conflicts." This is why I don't listen to my peers. >:|

I'm not going to get these conflicts sorted out in the next 15 minutes, and they left as soon as they messaged me.

fail badp

@Powerlord I found out with the Engineer's tutorial

Powerlord

@failbadp Ah, you did that in the Beta?

fail badp

21:17

Yeah

I hated that I didn't find out earlier

Bob

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Q: Good non-headset mic for a casual gamer

Hi. I'm a casual gamer, but I'm getting to the point where when I game I wish I had a mic. I have some very nice headphones, so I don't want a mic mounted on a headset, but I'd like something fairly cheap and decent quality. Can somebody suggest a good non-headset mic for a casual gamer?

microphone

user30

user30

inelegant_solution++

Oak

Didn't connect to this game. It felt less like a puzzle game and more like an engineering game

And I do enough engineering as it is...

user30

It gives me a headache.

Sadly Not

21:25

Should we be redirecting game-rec and shopping-rec people to chat for recommendations?

Bob

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Q: Why does Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery ask for your Twitter Password?

I don't trust 3rd party apps with my password, but I'm curious about what it does once it has it? Spam tweets? Connect with your friends? etc...

ipad

Oak

@SadlyNot I'm against it, chat sucks for recommendations. Still, something is better than nothing; maybe we should redirect them to gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/11164/… or gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/15424/… or gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/11736/…

fail badp

Chat doesn't suck for recommendations if people who don't suck at recommendations are online

Unfortunately, I suck at recommendations

Oak

It sucks because the audience is just the people who are online at that moment - averaging 10-20 in this room - and the maybe 2 or 3 or back-check the transcripts. In Internet terms, that's nothing

Sadly Not

@Oak Are there any links for shopping recommendations as well? The ones you provided are game-rec exclusive.

Oak

21:34

Hmm, looking at gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/18919/… I read it as "Fabian is sadly not Oak. Christ, tzenes!"

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Powerlord

BLEAH, I hate dealing with Subversion's idiotic conflict resolution.

I'm heading home.

Sadly Not

@Oak I miss playing League of Legends where my screen name made some pretty funny sentences.

Glad to see one again :)

@Powerlord: You should switch to CVS >:D

Then all your previous troubles will seem minor!

Fabian

@Oak I could change my name to Oak, but that would get pretty confusing here ;-)

Oak

@SadlyNot shopping recommendations can be reworded, so they don't need this. e.g. "what's a good mic" can be reworded to "how to choose a mic".

@Fabian Please don't, we already had a user named Oak, and he was active on chat, too

Sadly Not

@Oak Aha, so they are salvageable by nature.

fail badp

21:37

New item. New dupe.

Oak

You wouldn't believe how many messages I had in my inbox.

Sadly Not

Is he F_Oak now?

fail badp

Plus, a gift from somebody

Oak

@SadlyNot yes, he was very nice and changed his username

fail badp

@Oak eh, if people really do need us to do game recs then it's all they can get I'm afraid

Oak

21:39

@failbadp well I honestly think that linking to these three questions is actually more useful than directing people to chat, but of course chat is better than nothing and I'll happily help anyone coming here; I'm just saying that I don't see it as particularly useful.

Sadly Not

Maybe the Bridge isn't an appropriate place

A rec room might make more sense

Whether anyone would idle there or not is another question ...

In that case I'll redirect them to those answer links in the future.

sjohnston

@SadlyNot We had a rec room for a long time. It was a ghost town.

Sadly Not

@sjohnston Then that's a no go.

LessPop_MoreFizz

OMG IT'S AN @OAK

fail badp

@SadlyNot no

Chat rooms need activity to be useful

A separate ad-hoc room would be less active

hence less useful

We tried that; it didn't work.

Oak

21:55

@LessPop_MoreFizz what did I do?

fail badp

@Oak You showed up.

It's been a loooong time.

How have you been?

I've been really busy being dead.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Oak What @badp said.

Oak

@failbadp bummer, what killed you?

fail badp

@Oak Excessive GLaDOS quoting

Oak

And yes, I've been investing less time here and more time on my thesis

LessPop_MoreFizz

21:58

Probably a wise investment.

Oak

And the last weekend I was unavailable for the game session

Though the idea in general is cool

Though pings should be considered...

@LessPop_MoreFizz yea, my rep income is also lower now

LessPop_MoreFizz

Heh. You can make Geralt moonwalk in The Witcher.

@Oak So is mine. :(

fail badp

@Oak It's hard enough to find a ~~decent~~ non 24/7 server :/

Oak

@badp indeed, a problem

Wait a sec, you changed your prefix... @badp no longer pings you?

LessPop_MoreFizz

See, this is what I said.

Should be badp the failure

to keep pings intact IMO.

Brant

22:06

on the other hand, it means that we get to mentally associate him with @fail

win-win really.

fail badp

22:18

Another item. ANOTHER DUPE.

Bob

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Q: What makes a game a game vs a puzzle?

Definitions of games vary considerably - what are the key features that make something a "game" vs a puzzle? Is it repeatability? Rules? Competition (even if just with yourself?) what? To illustrate, perhaps, what features would be required of a crossword or sudoku application to make it into a...

game-mechanics

LessPop_MoreFizz

CLOSE POLICE. KILL IT WITH FIRE.

FUCK YES NEW WALLPAPER FOUND.

Bob

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Q: I now have a tag that I can not remove

I saw that the RELATED TAGS section allowed drag and drop... so I dropped one into the add to favorites box and clicked Add. now the incredibly long uri is in my interesting tags section and the overflow setting is such that the remove link is not visible. Checked against IE 7.0.5730.13 and Chrom...