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MBraedley

00:00

@kalina you're not wearing the hat I earned for you :(

user15026

Can I call them to get my stats back hahahahaha

kalina

@MBraedley yes but, it doesn't go with my avatar

MBraedley

@kalina have you seen mine? He can't see a thing

kalina

@MBraedley yours looks silly, mine looks ridiculous

it's like a tiny angel with a huge hat on

oh wait, that's exactly what it is

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Should be de-reset

LessPop_MoreFizz

00:04

Huh. Since when do I get Inbox notifications about questions I've voted to close?

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Meh.

I have a full-priced PS3 game to trade in. Which game should I get?

MBraedley

@fbueckert one of the uncharted?

kalina

@MBraedley look how silly that hat is

fbueckert

@MBraedley Haven't been a fan of those.

MBraedley

@kalina thats awesome funny though

Wipqozn

00:09

Mana

Man, Amelie is a great film.

I didn't like it so much the first time I saw it, but the second time was great.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn are you out west?

Wipqozn

@MBraedley No, I'm just on /r/earthporn.

LessPop_MoreFizz

BTW, if you care even a little bit about football, there's history happening in the GB/Minnesota game right now.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn So is HRM a mess today?

Wipqozn

00:12

@MBraedley It really wasn't that bad. We got a nice chunk of snow, but it wasn't really windy. I haven't heard anything about power outages or anything. Most of the storm took place over night.

fbueckert

00:32

Oh, yay. Two downvotes on the 27th, in the exact same minute. That sounds like a grudge.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert You probably deserved it.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn Eh. I make people mad sometimes.

If that's what happens, then so be it.

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn He did. They were both from me.

MBraedley

@fbueckert can I see more of your crazy launch tower crashing rocket?

fbueckert

@MBraedley Uhh. Sure, I guess.

GnomeSlice

00:40

I need to get one of these to play Miner Wars, I think. hanselman.com/blog/…

It's apparently the best controller in history for 6DoF games.

William Hilsum

if no one knows about it... Free Dota 2 retail keys here - computergames.ro/giveaway/dota-2 - just click the button at the bottom.

GnomeSlice

Why does Steam have the authority to take over all of your bandwidth when using the internet. Everything else stops and Steam goes at 90kb/s (although I'm not sure I buy that figure).

fbueckert

@MBraedley Did you want a full screenshot, or just the .craft file?

MBraedley

@fbueckert screenshot is fine

GnomeSlice

@MBraedley Talk to @TrentHawkins

fbueckert

00:47

It's LARGER than the maximum height.

Hence why it's in the floor.

MBraedley

@GnomeSlice that would be awesome for docking in KSP

GnomeSlice

@MBraedley Oh man, yes it would, you're right.

MBraedley

@fbueckert you can use shift and scroll down to zoom out

fbueckert

@MBraedley That's maximum zoom out, actually.

MBraedley

@fbueckert you don't really need to drop those bottom tanks. You're wasting weight with the second set of mainsails

fbueckert

00:52

@MBraedley Not really; in a double stage like that, it can punch just about anything into orbit.

MBraedley

@fbueckert but your launcher weighs a lot more than it has too.

fbueckert

@MBraedley I've tried it with less. I need that extra push to throw my last stage into an orbit.

What you don't see is that top stage there is around a triple engine block; which is cargo for my space station.

So the central section on the top stage is complete dead weight.

MBraedley

I'm just saying lose the decouplers and second set of mainsails. They add more weight than the empty large tank

fbueckert

@MBraedley What empty large tank?

MBraedley

Instead of having two nearly identical stages, just use 2 large tanks. The empty tank weighs 4 tonnes, your extra staging weighs 6.5 tonnes.

fbueckert

01:05

@MBraedley Yeah, but the first stage gets dropped off entirely, so there's no extra weight at all when you initiate the second stage.

Whereas doing it your way means I'm carrying extra dead weight for no reason.

MBraedley

@fbueckert you're trading early weight for later weight I guess

fbueckert

@MBraedley Seven mainsails all on their own have a ton of kick.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert This is awesome, how badly does it slow down your computer?

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice It stutters a bit, but not too badly.

Damn near melts my parent's laptop, though.

kalina

well, that's all four underworld movies watched

GnomeSlice

01:09

@fbueckert I should set the graphical settings to the minimum, my fancy PC has trouble with my big rockets, and I don't think they're that big.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice It's the unoptimized alpha.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert Yeah, but if yours can handle that, I should turn my settings down.

It looks so niiiiceeee though.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice You should see my space "station"

It has engines. Shortly to be 12 of them.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert So does mine, but I forgot to put an advanced SAS on it... so I have to use the RCS to orient it. =[

It doesn't even look as good as I was hoping it would.

I spent so long building it too.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice ASAS won't help to really stop tumbling.

GnomeSlice

01:13

@fbueckert I mostly just want a SAS so I can rotate my station without needed to use up all of the RCS fuel...

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice You don't need a SAS for that.

You just need it manned.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I know, it has a probe head.

The biggest issue for me is that I can't apply, basically inertial dampeners. I can't make it point in a fixed direction without turning slightly in any direction.

It sucks.

Also, it let me 'abort' space debris from the tracking station before, and now I can't.

Whai

Shit, now I have a bunch of debris floating around in orbit.

@fbueckert ^ My station core ^

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice And that is why you have such trouble getting it into space.

GnomeSlice

It's unusable without the SAS though... I'm going to have to do it again.

@fbueckert No kidding, I way overbuilt it.

But I did manage to get it into orbit, with some help from @TrentHawkins.

I modified his rocket a lot though.

fbueckert

Dec 22 at 22:11, by fbueckert

GnomeSlice

01:21

@fbueckert Eh, looks sort of spindly.

Mine is a thing of beauty.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Currently, six engines, yes.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert Is this the one with the giant rack of rockets on it?

fbueckert

There are two more rockets with triple engine payloads.

GnomeSlice

Sorry, edited and didn't want to

fbueckert

Yeah, it's spindly.

GnomeSlice

01:22

Did you have to build it in orbit?

MBraedley

@GnomeSlice that's debatable

GnomeSlice

@MBraedley It looks pretty legit when all of the solar panels are retraced.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Yeah. That's at least a half dozen launches.

GnomeSlice

It looks a bit like a rolling pin right now... which is unfortunate.

I should have used static panels.

I've been writing this stupid question on the site for like two hours.

three, even.

Although I had to go eat

MBraedley

@GnomeSlice no, you should have used the large sail panels

GnomeSlice

01:26

@MBraedley I don't think they'd have fit.

MBraedley

@GnomeSlice sure they would, you just wouldn't have any windows on the pods

GnomeSlice

@MBraedley I think they'd collide over overlap or something.

fbueckert

Ok, I'm liking XCOM so far.

MBraedley

I'd still prefer separate translation and rotation sticks to the orb, but I can't seem to find any commercial offerings

Ben Brocka

Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down PetVille And 10 Other Titles To Cut Costs http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/30/zynga-shuts-down-petville-fishville-mafia-wars-2/ good riddance

Tweeted by BenBrocka on December 31, 2012 at 1:13 AM

Delicious schadenfreude

MBraedley

01:41

And gamers celebrated everywhere

Ben Brocka

Will be interested to see how much their stock drops (not that it can go far)

MBraedley

This is probably the most important NFL game today, and I have no interest in it

user15026

@BenBrocka they are a dying empire. :D

Ben Brocka

Surprised to see them shuttering mafia wars 2, one of the few games on the list I'd heard of

I wonder how muhc longer they could have held out if they didn't piss away $180m on OMGPOP

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka Acccording to the Guinness book of Records I got for Christmas, Zynga is worth more than any other social gaming company, why are they cutting costs.

Bah

Ben Brocka

01:50

Because they're dying? Their valuation went sky high, then plummeted and they're hemorrhaging money last I heard, and as I said, $180 acquisition for nothing

OrigamiRobot

@kalina I found a named exotic staff

Emberglow

Ben Brocka

Why is Google Search so much better at correcting spelling than Chrome's spell check

GnomeSlice

Whoa, this is really neat (if a little limited)

Soundmachines, an experimental set of turntables-alikes for creating music.

@RavenDreamer ^ Check out that link

Raven Dreamer

My heart is filled with love.

I love all of y'all so much right now.

OrigamiRobot

@RavenDreamer awwwwww

LessPop_MoreFizz

01:53

Hey Sharkwizard and OrigamiRoguebot, yer up again.

OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz I know I'm trying to figure out what to do.

THE FLOOR IS LAVA

LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRobot What, no it isn't

The dragon breathed fire on you.

OrigamiRobot

Oh, I missed that part.

Why? I was unnoticed?!?!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRobot He breathed on everyone.

@OrigamiRobot You can still be hit by AOE when unnoticed

OrigamiRobot

Laaaaame

LessPop_MoreFizz

01:57

@OrigamiRobot You are going to take burning damage and it is going to break your stealth I suspect

OrigamiRobot

Aww man, you're probably right...

Ugh

Well, it won't be till after he moves

Ben Brocka

Pay no attention to the burning man behind the curtain

MBraedley

Are you guys playing a tabletop RPG in chat?

OrigamiRobot

YES SHUT UP DONT JUDGE US

Ben Brocka

What's that game again?

But I have max ranks in judging!

MBraedley

01:58

Wasn't judging

OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz Also, I totally should have named my duder that

LessPop_MoreFizz

@MBraedley playconclave.com

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