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> The Monk is getting a big damage buff to all Spirit Spenders.
Sweet
> So, working off this design, in 1.0.7 we're adding a new set of Rare crafting recipes that will create account-bound gloves, pants, wrists, a chest piece, and an amulet.
Step in the right direction
@BenBrocka just how explosive is that torgue shotgun?
I haven't seen a good explosive torgue shotgun in the entirety of playthrough 2
@OrigamiRobot With higher levels of primary stat than previously possible.
@badp one sec
@fbueckert They better cost a buttload to craft
more like, does it oneshot people when you shoot it in people's faces?
19:02
@OrigamiRobot I hope they don't; not everyone can afford to sink 10 million into a single craft.
@fbueckert If they are cheap to make, it could make drops worthless
@OrigamiRobot Drops are ALREADY worthless.
Then they need to make them not worthless instead of more worthless
@OrigamiRobot They're not doing anything with drops this patch.
19:03
1 min ago, by OrigamiRobot
@fbueckert If they are cheap to make, it could make drops worthless
oh shit, that's with the Bee. But still
1 min ago, by fbueckert
@OrigamiRobot Drops are ALREADY worthless.
0.01% of drops are worth something.
Everything else is shit.
@fbueckert Making something more worthless is doing things with drops
121K crit with no Bee
@OrigamiRobot The change wil be negligable.
19:05
ish. max of 171k in a few shots, always over 100k. That's from my Siren
I am done with this circular conversation
Scope isn't bad either, no sway to speak of
5 is also a good magazine
yeah, for a single shot that's pretty good
I like it, I want it!
but later.
19:06
I'll keep it for you. Don't want the SMG I take it?
yeah.
I'm already drowning in SMGs
drowning in much more fun to use SMGs :P
@OrigamiRobot I view it as being able to progress, without being completely dependent on the RNG for loot.
oh yeah, wanna purple slag transfusion?
I like it in theory but will probably never use it
And that, in my opinion, is more important than any drop devaluation.
19:08
The only reason to progress is for better drops.
20k x6
@BenBrocka You don't happen to know what the differences between ttf and oft fonts are, do you?
@GnomeSlice Mostly just that OTF is newer and generally preferred, it's basically a better TTF
@OrigamiRobot Higher numbers, so you can kill stuff faster. All in all, yeah, pretty pointless.
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Q: In Halo 4, how does one level up there specialization that they've chosen after reaching level 50?

Rexthe question is really in the title. (oops.) Is there some kind of special assignment I have to do to rank up my specialization, or do I continue to rank up normally? (I picked Stalker, and I don't know if I should continue leveling up like normal, or if there's a specific task I have to complete...

19:15
@BenBrocka For everything? Just this font came with both, and the readme says he recommended using the ttf, but I thought otf was newer.
@GnomeSlice I suppose it depends how well each is made, I'd guess he's recommending TTF for compatability. If you try and open each in Windows you should get a preview before installing either though, so see if you can tell and difference (pay attention to the highest/lowest point size the most)
@BenBrocka Where does it show those?
Just the largest and smallest sizes used in the preview?
> This archive contains 2 font formats: OpenType(OT) & TrueType(TT). I recommend installing TrueType(TT). Install the other format if you absolutely require it.
Yeah, 12 and 72 should be sufficient usually, though some fonts have hinting issues below 12 (protip: don't use fonts below 12 point anyway)
Hm, not sure why he'd explicitly be against OFT. Maybe ask on Graphic Design?
The feck, it won't let me delete the ttf file. Says it's open in another program.
I was viewing them in a font manager, but I can delete the OTF, and I closed it anyway
erp9ueilvkjbeoririufvd
That's the second one it won't let me delete
fucking won't even let me move it WTF WIDNOWS
Windows you dumb hunchback
I hate when windows does that to random crap
19:22
@BenBrocka Last semester when I was working with PHP, windows would randomly decide I didn't have permission to move, edit, or modify some of my .php files for no reason. It happened twice.
Anyway, I actually did have the font preview open, so now I can delete it. No idea why the first one still won't though.
Permissions are even worse
@BenBrocka What font manager do you use (if any)?
Just windows default fonts tool. The only special fonts I work with are webfonts (and unfortunately I usually avoid those due to poor rendering on win/chrome)
shakes angry fist and Chrome's font rendering
Only ten items in my siren's backpack! I think that's the smallest it's been in a long long time
@BenBrocka Chrome's font rendering doesn't seem to be bad everywhere. I'm not quite sure how it works, but it looks mostly fine for me. But I've seen computers at school where anything written in the URL bar was an unreadable mix of colours and lines and blank space.
@GnomeSlice It's mostly noticeable on (ironically) google web fonts. Lots of stuff that renders fine on Macs/Linux will render too thin or missing some vital pixels at various point sizes. It's gotten better but still not great
I think it might be on par with IE9/10 at this point, but those aren't perfect either
For common fonts installed on windows it looks just fine though, it's only when you get exotic stuff that you'll notice it
19:28
I have far, far too many items...
@BenBrocka Chrome 27?
The dev channel's on Chrome 25 at least for Windows.
I don't know where the 27 came from
At any rate it'd be a lot more fun if they were using roman numerals
"Chrome XXVII"
@badp oh, if you want to max that "for the horde" challenge my mechro can (temporarily) loan you a bit over 2 million
19:32
"Yeah, but it got fixed in Chrome XL. It's a regression in Chrome XVIIIL and it'll be fixed in Chrome XIL."
"You can't call it Chrome XIL! Roman numerals don't work like that! It's Chrome XLIX. Also "XVIIIL?" REALLY?"
Things would be so much more interesting.
I'm just wondering if Firefox will manage to beat Chrome's version number
Finally! I get to replace this level 28 mod I've been using for weeks
Anyone use Turtle shields?
@fbueckert Overall is looks cool
@BenBrocka would you call this a sans-serif font? Or serif? Or neither at all.
@GnomeSlice That's a tricky one, I'd say sans serif though because of the lower case. The accentuated lines on the caps aren't really proper serifs
I not every font really has to be one of those.
19:43
@GnomeSlice Sans serif
Some of the letters have serifs
Damn. Snowstorm undid all my previous shovelling.
but most of the text doesn't
This is clearly not a font designed to be used in all-caps either
at least to me
@badp @BenBrocka One more: what about Coco?
@badp They have fancy lines, I'm not sure I'd call those serifs. The A doesn't have it's "feet" for example, it just has a non-standard swoosh at the top
@fbueckert you should move south, it's 72 and sunny here. trade in your snow shovel for a lawnmover
19:46
yeah, but the A has some kind of serif at the top.
lowercase are completely serif-less though.
@GnomeSlice I'd say sans if I had to pic
@sarge_smith One word: Medicare.
so those few serifs that are there just seem like embellishments rather than aid to legibility
Super stylized but again, not the standar serifs
@badp yeah it's just some flair for the caps
@fbueckert We're working toward the universal healthcare! I doubt it'll ever really happen though.
19:47
@fbueckert I don't know how that word applies.
@sarge_smith He probably already has a lawnmower. It doesn't snow here year-round, you know.
@GnomeSlice Neither, it's that special kind of hell that isn't either and that needs to be used at 20 points or more or something
@gnomeslice I know, I meant use amounts
I mean, I see no serifs
but calling it a sans serif for this reason... ehhh...
@sarge_smith Canada has universal heath care. Anyone can get treatment, regardless of whether or not they have an ability to pay for it. Here in the states, that is not the case.
19:50
@GnomeSlice Also the text clearly states it's sans serif on that one :P
ehh. Now that I watch carefully I see leetle tiny serifs
@BenBrocka Ah, haven't looked at it in a while, just wanted to show it to you guys.
That's what I figued.
Okay, now I have a better idea of how this works.
The edges where serifs would be at are actually rounded, I wouldn't call those serifs
@BenBrocka They kind of bulge outwards.
ahh... wasn't aware @fbueckert was in the far north... snow might be a reasonable trade off for free medical care
19:51
look at h, w, x, y.
@GnomeSlice the wikipedia typography articles (if you can find them) are pretty decent
It's almost invisible.
@sarge_smith Sweet, sweet, Canada.
eh, not even w maybe or x or y.
Definitely on h.
or maybe it's just my eyes.
@BenBrocka It's just my eyes.
Argh, skype, y u no popup notifications when minimized to tray
19:53
@badp I see they had to change the maze up a bit to get it to work.
@badp It's just the font's standard rounding on h
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Q: Home - Story, facts (and non-speculative interpretations)

Jonathon WisnoskiSo I have played through Home, and while I tried to be as complete as possible I know I missed a few things, and I think at least some of what I missed was important. So I thought we could try to combine all the facts here and come up with a comprehensive list of things you can find out in Home....

That question sounds like a list question
@Powerlord Some list questions are fine for the site. But this one I think is just far too broad. Or something.
It doesn't help that the game Home is intended to be open to interpretation.
And, in fact, if you fail to find some of these things, the game treats them as if they'd never happened.
(If you've played Clock Tower, you may know how that works)
That reminds me, I need to play home. Also, finish Silent Hill 3.
Also, I need to get wood.
20:02
If silent hill gives you wood you've got problems
I need to finish... er... I won't list all 200+ games.
When I was younger and all I had were consoles, I would play a game until I finished it completely before playing anything else. Now my ADHD is so bad, and I've gotten so into Indie Games that I often don't play more than five or ten minutes of any given game (at least, not at first). x_x
It sucks.
@BenBrocka but the nurses!
WHAT THE HELL
I just downloaded intellipoint for my mouse, and the default action for the wheel button is 'flip' whatever that is. There are no options for middle click or wheel click.
The version I had before reinstalling my laptop had one...
Wait, there it is.
Why isn't that the default?
@Wipqozn the nurse with no faces made out of rotting flesh?
20:16
@BenBrocka Yeah man. Rotting flesh is so hot.
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Now I feel the urge to play Wind Waker, except with a keyboard and mouse... it's going to be terrible
That does sound unpleasant
@badp up for any BL2 today?
@badp ...I didn't even know you could get it for PC.
@GnomeSlice You can't. But you can get Dolphin.
20:25
@badp I don't know what that is.
I'm guessing it's an emulator or something.
A Wii and GC emulator, yeah.
Obviously the game cube controller has two analogue sticks so...
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Q: How safe is it to play on snapshots?

LazloBased on experience and general stability, would you say it is safe to play your main world on a snapshot build of Minecraft? I am aware there's no guarantee of world integrity (but then again, neither is there any on the stable builds), but the question remains. Have you encountered irrecover...

21:02
@BenBrocka elmer fudd would have a field day
@BenBrocka There's a relevant Merlin clip, but I doubt it's been uploaded anywhere yet.
@BenBrocka Is there any way to save my game in harvest moon without sleeping?
Does anybody here know what the legal age for sex in the US?
I thought it was the same as for drinking, etc.
Is it not 21?
@GnomeSlice You'd really risk a flag for something a 2 second google search can tell you?
21:14
@GnomeSlice It's called the "age of consent"
Oh, it's not the same in all parts of the US?
If it's 'age of consent' that is.
Oh, what.
@GnomeSlice No.
That's silly.
Huh, maybe the age of consent is lower than the drinking age in Canada too, I don't actually know.
Huh. It's apparently 16 here.
Crazy.
@Fluttershy Depends which game. But usually no. There is in ANB though
@BenBrocka Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.
21:23
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Q: How come every time I try to go on my friends towers it always auto quits?

user39848How come every time I try to open up to my friends tower it always auto quits on me??? I'm just trying to go on my friends tower but it always just goes back to my apps on the home page and quits out of tiny towers!?

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Q: Home - Story, facts (and non-speculative interpretations)

Jonathon WisnoskiSo I have played through Home, and while I tried to be as complete as possible I know I missed a few things, and I think at least some of what I missed was important. I know it is ambiguous on purpose and people are encouraged to make their own story, but if you actually have a 100% complete pla...

NARQ
@Fluttershy Hmm, thought I voted on that already.
Am I the only person who doesn't downote every post I cast a close vote on?
@GnomeSlice Yes
21:46
That's not what they're for.
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Q: Vulgarity and Harassment in SWTOR

BryanIs there a way to log a portion of /General chat? The server I play on is rife with vulgarity and harassment which I find unacceptable. Those mentally deficient enough to, rather than PLAY the game, use the word F*CK repeatedly should suffer the consequences of their insipid behavior. I'm not ...

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Q: How do I know if there are any other player in my city?

SalmanI applied for an invite as soon as Ingress was released and got an invite soon enough. However past few days I am roaming in my city and I do not see any activity from any other player. Just asking, is there anyone else from Dhaka, Bangladesh?

@Fluttershy it's just how it's always been, you writei n your diary to save. ANB was the first I'm aware of that lets you save any time, which is nice
@GnomeSlice depends why. Dupes? Usually not. TL? Maybe not. NARQ? I'll usually DV
22:01
My dwarf civ has had a vampire queen.
And apparently the current queen is an elf?
@RavenDreamer o.0
Actually, she's listed as "Elf Trapper", so I guess that could go both ways.
Cacame Awemedinade!
I'm looking into legends now.
Tosid Ceilingslap is the vamp queen (though I suppose the vamp-ing could have happened post-queendom.
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Q: What are the pros/cons of renovating a faction building for a particular faction?

EBongoAt some point in the game, neutral "Faction Buildings" can be renovated for one of the three factions: Courtesans, Thieves, or Mercenaries. Other than getting quick access to that particular faction, is there any advantage or disadvantage inherent in this choice? Also, can I change my mind later?

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Q: How do I browse between my portal keys

SalmanIn items screen I see Portal Keys (2)- that I have 2 keys. However it seems I can only select, view or get a fix on the first portal. I don't see any way to select or view the second key. (which means I can recharge the first portal from anywhere but not the second) How do I access the other keys?

22:11
Erush Mosuskeskal
Okay, I take that back.
I have an elf vampire queen.
What the crap is wrong with my civ? They've had at least 2 vampire monarchs...
And the very first king was a dwarf necromancer.
Oh, I see. He ran away from the kingdom and became a necromancer. Still alive, and has published about a zillion books.
22:41
For once, I explained a down vote:
-1, this answer is so vague as to be useless. Including a Penny Arcade comic as upvote bait doesn't improve that. Make it a comment, IMO. — LessPop_MoreFizz 21 secs ago
WOAH WOAH WOAH when did this go live:
@LessPop_MoreFizz Few days ago
@LessPop_MoreFizz I don't see that.
@fbueckert Mouseover your gravatar on your profile
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A: Disable gravatar on Stack Overflow

Jeremy TunnellWe will be rolling out an alternative to Gravatar in the next couple of weeks. You'll be able to either use Gravatar or upload your own picture from your computer - or switch between the two whenever you like. This feature is now live: Please try it out and report any bugs you find.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Interesting.
22:53
Oh man, Animated avatars, enjoy them while they last until the fix goes live I guess?
too lazy to animate a red shark with moving eyes or something
Geez, this civ has just had plain bad luck
Lose their first king when he decides to be a necromancer
Their next queen gets cursed with vampirism, and rules until she's slain.
Hey sharkwizard, go conclave and move one step
so that I can inspire you
Succeeded by their son, who rules 10 years then dies in battle
he dies, a random human becomes king
@RavenDreamer It's already fixed anyway, that onebox just has the pre-fix image. :P
until he gets cursed into becoming a wereiguanna, and flees, abandoniing his kingship.
22:56
@TimStone the comment on MSO was only a day old and said 'next few days'. Figured there might be hope.
We could have all had animated LAZER-firing profile images. Such a shame. :(
Ugh, 45% packet loss. I hate my internet.
@LessPop_MoreFizz on it
@RavenDreamer Wooooo.
Oh, and because a few people in here might appreciate how absurd this is:
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 2 days ago, by Tim Stone
@PopularDemand So I guess asking questions in the blog comments wasn't enough, and someone decided to try and repurpose a Meta tag wiki instead.
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23:09
@TimStone Saw that in the TL. Hah
WHY IS FTL SO MUCH FUN OMG I CAN'T STOP
@BenBrocka I just shook my head...I can't imagine why they thought that would work, and I can't believe that they did it accidentally.
@OrigamiRobot It is a quite enjoyable game.
@Wipqozn How good are you at Chivalry?
@OrigamiRobot Good enough to kick your ass.
23:12
@TimStone yeah I'd love to know how that thought process worked out
@Wipqozn Yeah, but that's easy, he's awful
@IanPugsley I've heard.
@Wipqozn That's not necessarily that good.
I'm okay, and I'm also improving.
In other news, I'm going to go play chivalry.
and then "my internet connection was lost"
23:16
@IanPugsley just lurks in chat waiting for opportunities to insult me.
@OrigamiRobot You can use your second action now, you have been inspired
WTB stars list when viewing chat on iPad
Anyone have some iPad game recommendations?
@Sterno Just switch out of mobile view. iPads should be big enough to view the desktop version
@Sterno Bastion was ported to the iPad
@Sterno jetpack joyride
23:27
@YiJiang'sEvilClone awesome thanks
Oh, hey! They have final fantasy games for the iPad
@Sterno If you haven't played FF 5, you owe it to yourself to try it.
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Q: Is there any reason not to farm Terramorphous on Normal mode?

Ben BrockaWe just confirmed that Terramorphous is significantly harder on True Vault Hunter Mode, however his drops appeared to be pretty much identical. Roughly the same number of each rarity of item, still level 50 in both modes. Aside from completing the mission for that playthrough, is there any benef...

@fbueckert FFV is one of my favs, especially of the 2D ones
@BenBrocka Mine, too.
Love the job system.
@fbueckert Also Gilgamesh's theme, one of my fav FF music tracks of all time
@Sterno They just put the DS remake of FF 4 out for iOS iirc. Which is a fantastic fully voice acted remake that you ought to play if you haven't.
@Sterno THat said, the absolute best game on iOS is King of Dragon Pass.
Square Enix pricing I guess?
Get King of Dragon Pass and play it again and again and again and again and again.
I mean, it sounds like it's worth the Square Enix pricing.
23:46
@badp Indeed. Stupid Squenix prixing.
@LessPop_MoreFizz have it. Have no idea how to play it.
@Sterno Read the manual. it is very long and very helpful.
oh look there's some final fantasy titles on the play store too
Well this is just great. I got halfway done with cooking dinner, when I realize I cannot find my broth. (I'm making a stew).
This will not do, not at all.
so yeah, I could get myself "FINAL FANTASYII" for €7
(sic)
23:52
Is The World Ends With You any good?
@Sterno I don't know.
Oh, Ghost Trick is awesome if you didn't get it on DS
And shantae is a pretty fun metroidvania
@Sterno For DS, yes.
For iOS...not so much.
@BenBrocka What else can you get it on?
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