The Bridge

fredley

11:00

@badp It's a comment at best. Does the Zom-Boss actually have a pancreatic weakness?

kalina

awww

server downtime for maintenance

badp

@fredley That would make the post an incorrect answer?

kalina

I'm surprised how well EVE runs over an RDP

real testament to how it's such a fast paced thrilling game

fredley

@badp Well I guess so.

badp

@fredley So is it an answer?

fredley

11:02

@badp I'd say it's a comment, not an answer.

It provides useful information about the question, but it doesn't comprise an actual answer

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

11:18

@badp The entire question is kind of terrible. Crazy Dave makes all sort of nonsensical comments for comedic effect. Most of them are meaningless, as is this one.

Lazers

0

Q: What is 'Tackling'?

I have started playing EVE Online and I'm working through a set of suggestions I have been given by a friend who has been playing EVE for a while to get setup to actually play the game in some capacity as quickly as possible. One of the things that has been suggested to me is that I learn 'tackl...

0

Q: Important and recommended skills for a pilot just starting out?

I have just started playing EVE Online and I was wondering is there are any skills that I should learn as soon as possible that will open up more of the game and/or increase my survivability in New Eden. In particular I'm looking for skills I should pick up, but anything else that I'm missing is...

eve-online

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

There really isn't a question here.

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm sorry, you chose a pony for your avatar, your argument is invalid

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2

It'll be gone tomorrow anyway, after Winter Bash is over

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone :(

0

A: Community Promotion Ads - 2013

Still not enough ads afaiac

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

11:35

Do we want another OpenTTD one?

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You wanna make?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Sure, why not. I just need to download the game again...

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Haha. I want to make an RPi one, just trying to think of a good ad

A direct link to this question could be good

Mad Scientist

@kalina If you're looking for something fast-paced, EVE is the wrong game.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@fredley The image is simple enough - just grab an image of the board and slap the logo in the center or on the corner

The only question is what to write on the ad and the title text

fredley

11:44

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yes I know. I think I've got something though.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Found this image while searching:

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Nah

Lazers

0

Q: Can you still become a vampire when you have Sanguinare Vampiris but drink a health potion?

I was trying to become a vampire by letting Alva hit me with her vampiric drain spell but people were also shooting me with arrows and I was about to die, so I drank some minor health potions so I could live. Can I still become a vampire or do I have to try and catch the disease again?

skyrim

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hmmm, thought I might need to use the facehoof image again, so here's one resized to 300px width, the max chat can handle

The original looks kind of jagged. Firefox doesn't do very well with resizing pictures

fredley

0

A: Community Promotion Ads - 2013

OrigamiRobot

12:35

Duuuupe

Lazers

12:54

0

Q: Using Urban Terror 4.2, how can I connect to a 4.1 server?

I've just downloaded, installed and configured Urban Terror 4.2.009. And I would like to go play on Sexy CTF server 1 which, as far as I know, is a Urban Terror 4.1.1 server. Contrary to what I expect, this server isn't visible in the servers list of my client. What can I do to make it visible ?...

networking urban-terror

0

Q: Outposts vs new cities in Fallen Enchantress

What a point of build outpost instead of cities? It seems there is no penalty for having a lot of cities, so why waste pioneer on outpost?

fallen-enchantress

badp

13:05

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You didn't even use the same pony in your avatar!

I liked yesterday's weird curve sorta thing much more. It was subtle enough that I didn't get it and clear enough that those in the know got it.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

8 hours ago, by Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hmmm, I got a cupcake hat. I wonder if I can switch my gravatar so that it looks as if Pinkie Pie is eating the cupcake.

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Hats end tomorrow anyway.

Now you've given me a reason to look forward to hats going away, dammit!

You monster.

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

kalina

@OrigamiRobot what?

OrigamiRobot

> I have started playing EVE Online

kalina

13:17

well sorry that everything else exceeded my boredom levels

if it's any consolation, this game is going to kill me with boredom

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina You know, I've never played Portal 2's co-op, mainly because I had nobody to play with

I should probably find a partner sometime

For the game, I mean

Steam is still leaking memory

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I've never played Portal 2

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Great! Uh, you have the game, right?

kalina

yes, but I played the first one to death so it will take a long time until I find firing portals at walls fun again

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I've always assumed that everyone who has the game already played it ages ago, together with the co-op

OrigamiRobot

13:20

You monster.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

If you, uh, decide to play the game sometime, ping me and we can try playing the co-op

kalina

yay I have a new ship

more setting waypoints coming up!

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The idea of playing anything with Pix--- kalina terrifies me. She'd always be either a minute ahead of you, bored with you and how slow you are, or a minute behind you, bored with the game and how stupid it is :P

kalina

@badp this isn't true at all

badp

Plenty of people are terrified of things that aren't true at all

kalina

13:26

ask @OrigamiRobot, I've spent hours standing around idling while he's done <something> without even asking what it was he was doing

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Well she is playing a MMO right now.

kalina

not just any MMO

I am playing EVE at 1fps via RDP

completing missions that have time limits on them without any issue at all

OrigamiRobot

@kalina I am easily distracted.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I suppose it is a slow game

kalina

@OrigamiRobot I know you are

OrigamiRobot

13:27

But it was never hours

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Why don't you play DEFCON in real time mode if you need a game to play during office hours?

Mad Scientist

To be honest, it is rather hard to actually fail the tutorial missions

OrigamiRobot

Unless I was sleeping.

kalina

@OrigamiRobot not in one go no, in total though :p

OrigamiRobot

Yes, easily

kalina

13:28

@MadScientist mmmh, I honestly have no idea what to do in this game, I am just clicking on stuff

@YiJiang'sEvilClone normally I'd play WoW, but since I quit WoW and can't get GW2 to work, my options are quite limited

recently I have watched a lot of mythbusters but now the IT department are back in they'd notice me transferring the files here

badp

btw @YiJiang'sEvilClone you're missing arguably the best part of the game

OrigamiRobot

I never played Portal 2 co-op either

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Maybe, but it's really hard to play co-op by myself

@kalina But they won't notice you playing a MMO remotely. Right.

A harddisk in your pocket would have more bandwidth than whatever your office can provide anyway

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone it's just an RDP session

Dhaval Kariya

:D

Gaming Topics From Outside

13:40

0

Q: Change / Choose install path for a .deb

I would like to know if it is possible to choose where a .deb file will be installed, or if it is possible to move it after the installation to another directory without troubles for the app. I am asking that because I am running Ubuntu on a 32Go's SSD, and I would like to install some games fro...

installation 12.10 xubuntu games deb

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I could play it right now but... I kinda know the solutions

that'd ruin it

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Yeah, and I don't really want to waste your time

Just looking around to see if anyone's interested. I still need to download the game, which would take a few hours

badp

I'm not being productive today anyway

kalina

@badp this

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I'm trying to be productive

Lazers

13:58

0

Q: N/A Fighting game from 199X

When I was going to primary school, there was an arcade saloon in city where I go there and play games. There was this fighting game which I play often but too bad I don't know it's name. Only thing I remember about the game, one of the characters was a female and wearing a bunny girl costume. Ei...

emulation fighting-games

OrigamiRobot

@Lazers I'll light the torches. Someone else can get the pitchforks.

Rakesh Juyal

Hola

Anyone of you ever hosted a game server?

any game server?

Raven Dreamer

@gnomeslice whoa. You just blew my mind. That was one of the reasons I stopped playing torchlight,! Got tied of holding alt all the time.

Rakesh Juyal

TorchLight! Should I play it?

I like COD like games.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Torchlight isn't a FPS

Rakesh Juyal

14:08

oh

Anyways, back to my question.

Have you ever hosted any game server?

Ronan Forman

Yeah, mainly minecraft though, why?

Rakesh Juyal

Because I host a game server ( MW3 ); and yesterday a guy came in my server and did a UDP Flood on my server.

And it crashed ( DOS attack )

What can I do?

0

Q: How to guard against UDP floods?

I host a game server from my laptop and make it public, so that everyone can join. But yesterday a guy joined and started hacking in my server ( using aimbots ). So I asked him to stop it or I will kick you. He replied if I kicked him he will do a DOS attack on my server and it will crash. I kick...

router udp denial-of-service

kalina

WOO MINING IS SO FUN

I am totally going to spend all day every day from now on mining at work

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Do I need to block you? I cannot start playing Eve

kalina

you don't have to play EVE

so there is no need to block me

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

14:18

@OrigamiRobot I think the sarcasm detector is faulty here. *pokes at buttons*

Mad Scientist

@kalina Your work must be really boring if mining is more fun ;-)

OrigamiRobot

@kalina If you keep reminding me about it...

sarge_smith

@origamiRobot Eve want you to play... It misses you... It loves you...

kalina

@MadScientist blah

@OrigamiRobot blah

@YiJiang'sEvilClone blah

consider yourself blah'd

OrigamiRobot

I NEED AN ADULT

4

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

14:19

@kalina Oh no, not the blah!

kalina

@OrigamiRobot you're in the wrong place to find an adult

OH NO

MY CARGO HOLD IS FULL

WHAT SHALL I DO

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina RUN! RUN! RUN FOR THE HILLS!

Mad Scientist

@kalina Throw out all the useless ore, put some ammo in your cargo and go shoot stuff

3

Ben Brocka

Shoot your cargo at stuff

fredley

votes and votes (if you like them) please.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

14:23

Open Excel and create a spreadsheet detailing your plans to create bank runs and artificial monopolies. Mathematical!

fredley

Thank you!

OrigamiRobot

STOP TALKING ABOUT EVE I ALREADY HAVE A JOB

Ben Brocka

Get a second job, hippy

sarge_smith

but that job can't possibly be as fun as SPACE MINING!

Mad Scientist

There is something that is more fun than mining, and that is shooting helpless miners ;-)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

14:29

0

Q: Is Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door a JRPG or normal RPG?

I've played this game a lot on my PC after losing it for the GameCube, but I can't seem to find information about it. But, is the game a JRPG (Japanese RPG) or normal RPG?

untagged

This is so weird

Ender

0

Q: Is Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door a JRPG or normal RPG?

I've played this game a lot on my PC after losing it for the GameCube, but I can't seem to find information about it. But, is the game a JRPG (Japanese RPG) or normal RPG?

untagged

Is this even on topic?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Ender Jinx!

Ender

Great minds think alike Yi!

sarge_smith

Why wouldn't a game classification question be on topic?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

It's certainly not the sort of question that would keep me up at night thinking about

Ender

14:30

LOL

you know? loosin sleep and biting ur fingernail type stuff.

Ronan Forman

It's not even a real question. Game classification sucks, we all know that.

sarge_smith

It's an easy answer... but it's the sort of knowledge that the layman probably doesn't have

Lazers

1

Q: Can we use bot worms in an online game?

Me and a friend got Worms Revolution and one of our favorite tings to do is play in a game with all non-player slots filled with CPU worms for more carnage. In local multiplayer this is still possible, but if you can do it in online multiplayer we haven't found out how. Is there any way to creat...

multiplayer worms-revolution

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I think I can count the number of good migrations from RPG.SE on one hand

Ben Brocka

Why must the ninja rope in Worms Revolution suck :c

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

14:32

@RonanForman The only objective definition for a JRPG is that it came from Japan

Wipqozn

@Ender @YiJiang'sEvilClone It's on topic, it's just stupid and pointless question. Just down vote it.

Ronan Forman

@YiJiang'sEvilClone How is that a half way decent way to classify something.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@RonanForman Well, it is in the name

Ben Brocka

@RonanForman It's not, but most of the JRPG vs Western RPG argument isn't "half way decent" either

It's mostly actually a discussion between action RPG vs turn based or anime vs realistic styling, either of which are exclusive to either region

sarge_smith

or you could say that the title isn't a location tag, but rather a style tag

just like bubblegum punk doesn't mean you are chewing gum while you sing

kalina

14:37

@MadScientist that would be mean, if those miners are me I'm not even tabbed into the game while I'm mining

Wipqozn

67

Q: Please stop using Programmers.SE as your toilet bowl

Stack Overflow users have been using the "off topic - belongs on Programmers.SE" close reason as an alternative to all the other close reasons. It'd be helpful if people actually read the FAQ and the guidelines for six subjective questions before voting to migrate questions like: What's your fa...

discussion off-topic programmers-se

sarge_smith

@kalina that is what makes you such easy sweet meat :)

Mad Scientist

@kalina You're probably in high-sec, with the new mining ships suicide ganking is much harder from what I've heard, so you're probably not in a lot of danger

kalina

new mining ships?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Wipqozn They don't migrate very often, so it's not a big problem. I do think it'll make for a better experience on the part of the newbies asking questions if the mods doing the migration can pop in to this chatroom and just ask if the question is a good one for this site

Mad Scientist

14:39

They completely changed all the mining ships and added some new ones recently

kalina

oh I'm still just using my starter ship

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Can you ping mods in chat who are currently not in the room?

SaintWacko

I wonder if I installed ubuntu on my N7, if I could play DF on it

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I think it works in comments, but I don't know if chat works

SaintWacko

Also, @kalina, did you start playing EVE?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

14:47

@SaintWacko DF is a pretty CPU demanding game.

Mad Scientist

@YiJiang'sEvilClone only if they were in the room recently, or if you are a mod yourself and can superping

SaintWacko

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah, I'd have to modify the init to limit it to pretty small fortresses

fredley

@SaintWacko Use a VNC program

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Also, doesn't the game itself need to be recompiled for the ARM architecture?

Wipqozn

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I think we had this discussion with them before, and the conclusion was to ask us before migration. Perhaps they didn't listen.

SaintWacko

14:48

@fredley I've thought about that, but the constant data usage would be annoying

Wipqozn

@MadScientist I was under the impression mods will always be pinged.

fredley

@SaintWacko It probably wouldn't be that much.

SaintWacko

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I really wouldn't know. I'm afraid I don't know as much about hardware related things as I do about software

Mad Scientist

@Wipqozn Mods are not supposed to ask before migration every time now, the rejection of bad migrations is much easier now, so there is no real need for that anymore

Ben Brocka

Yeah, if you get a bad migration just downvote and close it

Wipqozn

14:50

@MadScientist Link to how migration rejection works? I'm curious.

Ben Brocka

@SaintWacko Unless you're on cellular data it's not that big a deal is it?

Mad Scientist

@Wipqozn If a migrated question is closed, the migration is rejected and undone

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka Exactly, anywhere I wouldn't be able to play DF on my computer, I'd be on cellular data

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=44368.0

Wipqozn

@MadScientist Sounds good. Thanks for the info.

Ben Brocka

14:51

@SaintWacko Oh, hm

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12 mins ago, by Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Wipqozn They don't migrate very often, so it's not a big problem. I do think it'll make for a better experience on the part of the newbies asking questions if the mods doing the migration can pop in to this chatroom and just ask if the question is a good one for this site

Emphasis on the bit about user experience

SaintWacko

@YiJiang'sEvilClone > Will it run on a jacquard loom modified to weave 80x25 text mode using a custom 'video card' connected to a cluster of pocket calculators running BeOS?

Is there any way to aim a block quote at another message?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@SaintWacko I sure as hell hope it runs on this pocket abacus I have here

fredley

@SaintWacko What country are you in?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@SaintWacko No, unfortunately not

SaintWacko

14:53

@fredley United States

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Bah

fredley

@SaintWacko Ah, I can't really advise on good mobile data plans.

For a fiver a month here you can do very well.

SaintWacko

@fredley o.0

Wow, that'd get you a couple hundred minutes here

and no texting, and no data

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

A fiver is... $5? Or 5 pounds?

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone £5, and I slightly underestimated.

SaintWacko

Oh, well, I probably won't bother installing ubuntu until they release the firmware images for ubuntu mobile

fredley

14:55

For £12.90 you can get unlimited data

~= $20

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12.90 British Pound Sterling equals 20.97 US Dollar according to Google

That's really nice

Ben Brocka

@fredley closer to $30-$50 here

Powerlord

@Wipqozn Fun fact: Programmers.SE was originally intended to be SO's "toilet bowl" and changed to something else after definition

fredley

Last chance to back

Powerlord

In fact, I said as much in the comments of that very question

Hell, I forgot to check the latest Steam Flash sales this morning.

Hope I didn't miss anything good.

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