The Bridge

Ben Brocka

18:00

@SaintWacko What level?

badp

@JasonBerkan Weird, Crawl is perhaps one of the best roguelikes for comfort and ergonomy

(It's also got a reputation for being harder, however)

fbueckert

Question:

-4

A: Why is my iron ore disappearing when mined with a wooden pickaxe?

YOU RETARD!!!!!!!! You have to have at least a stone pick. Then you use iron to mine Diamonds, Gold, Lapis Lazuli and then you use diamond to mine obsidian.

Edit, or delete?

badp

Answer:

Destroy

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert too late

Jason Berkan

@badp Doesn't mean that most of the gameplay involves discovering new things through death.

badp

18:02

The other answers already say what it does

fbueckert

Works for me. Seemed like it had an answer, so editing might have cleaned it up.

badp

@JasonBerkan That's actually the way to play Nethack and pals if you don't want to spoil yourself - which is crazy talk, at least for me

Jason Berkan

@badp Which brings us back to @bwarner's comment re: The Binding of Isaac.

badp

Should you want to give crawl another go, this page is pretty much a spoiler dispenser

fbueckert

1

Q: Keep Games in Full Screen Mode

I am playing Assassin's Creed on Windows 7. After I launch the game, suppose I get a pop-up (like Windows Update). Now the game is stuck in windowed mode, and no way to get it back to full screen. I want to... Stop games from going into windowed mode Stop Windows update / Apple Software Update ...

This question's garnering lots of Windows-type answers.

Nothing specific to gaming, from what I can tell.

TylerShads

18:07

@fbueckert sounds like something for Super User then

badp

ehhhh

what other kind of programs get stuck in windowed mode

I'm more for making the question just about AC

because this sounds like an AC bug ("no way to get it back to full screen")

fbueckert

@badp I'm alright with that; at least it's specific to a game.

@TylerShads The weird bit is that only games do the whole, "Full screen when starting, and minimize if it loses focus" type thing.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert RELEVANT DATA FOUND

fbueckert

Ok, what word triggered that script?

TylerShads

@fbueckert true

badp

18:10

@fbueckert That's part of why I much prefer playing games in windowed mode to begin with

fbueckert

@badp Ditto. I find it crazy annoying.

TylerShads

@badp how you masochist

fbueckert

Borderless windows is where it's at.

Lazers

3

Q: How do I know what all this stuff does?

This game has all kinds of items, but everytime I find one there doesn't seem to be a description. How do I know what all this stuff does?

binding-of-isaac

fbueckert

Then it acts like a normal program.

SaintWacko

18:11

@BenBrocka Around 30. I haven't played in a while

badp

@TylerShads there's nothing masochistic in wanting to be able to alt-tab when playing games. I even get to see a glimpse of chat or anything else as I play!

TylerShads

2 monitors

:D

badp

lol, as if

most games will just minimize anyway if you click on the other monitor

if you're not playing at native resolutions, they'll also stall your computer for a minute

TylerShads

never said it wont, but if someone is talking to me, i know what theyre saying as im ignoring them!

badp

then stall again for another minute as you alt-tab back in

fbueckert

18:12

@TylerShads Even with, can't do anything in any other window without alt-tabbing. And then it minimizes.

FAE

@TylerShads lol

badp

...and when you do they crash!

fbueckert

And some games react badly to losing focus, and then regaining it.

badp

In short, fuck fullscreen mode

fbueckert

...games?

TylerShads

18:13

i just have to play in 1080, but most games will clip their edges, making me do full screen to not have it clipped

fbueckert

Is that the word that's triggering it?

badp

It was focus.

TylerShads

fullscreen-windowed is a godsend

fbueckert

@badp Did you just silence @OrigamiRob?

SaintWacko

@fbueckert focus

fbueckert

18:14

@SaintWacko Boo. I guessed wrong.

badp

@TylerShads heh, I play games at 800x600 or so because my monitor is 1280x1024 to begin with and I get poor framerates for anything higher anyway

SaintWacko

@fbueckert The sheer damage output of my two Paragons is ridiculous

fbueckert

@SaintWacko That tends to happen with two capital class vessels near each other.

Personally, I prefer the whole, "Death by a million tiny bites" type.

Because "Ooh, look at all the pretty lasers!"

That, and it's fun watching the computer try to stave off death by rotating the shield around.

TylerShads

@badp oh....well that explains a lot

badp

@TylerShads all I really needed to say was "nVidia GeForce 9200M"

TylerShads

18:23

@badp shudder

Ladineko

Yaahoo!

badp

Good news: shift-tab works under Linux

Bad news: shift-tab "works" under Linux

SaintWacko

@fbueckert I get that from just my Paragons

In total I have 34 lasers on the two ships

FAE

Why was @OrigamiRobot suspended for linking to tvtropes? O_o

SaintWacko

Also, I think it's time for me to go to war with the hegemony now

@FAE o.0 Really?

badp

18:29

@FAE He was suspended for making his bot reply to every single mention of "focus", "productivity" or other keywords with a random unrelated link to TvTropes (he literally used the random link service)

...for 30 minutes

12 left.

kalina

wooo

free wifi on train

FAE

@badp ah I see

badp

I like literally clicked the "flag as spam" button on the message

kalina

@badp I approve of this mod abuse

fbueckert

Oh, hey. Canada's debating whether to regulate mobile plans some more.

Last change they made was ensuring that consumers knew what they were getting into when they signed the contract.

Now they're looking at capping contract terms and unlocking phones, it seems.

badp

18:40

You make it sound like it's a bad thing.

fbueckert

@badp No no! This is (so far) a good thing.

Anything that makes the mobile providers scream is a good thing in my books.

Sidenote:

bobsbugsbegone

1

Website URL needs removing.

badp

Sure.

fbueckert

> The draft code says the carrier must provide the consumer with the means to unlock the device after no more than 30 days of service, at the rate specified in the contract.

Nice! I can tear Rogers a new one to get my first cellphone unlocked, if this goes through.

@badp Or straight up destruction. That works, too.

OrigamiRobot

@badp Good thing it's not every single mention, but you obviously wouldn't have any way of knowing that. It's ok though, it's not like you could have asked me about it first. Or said something when I said in chat that I was going to do this. Or after I said I had done it. Or after I tested it in chat.

badp

Two mentions of unrelated keywords, two triggers

OrigamiRobot

18:44

Yea there's no way a random number can be less than three twice in a row.

badp

Look, I'd already warned chat about this when somebody wanted to make a *turtle to your *tortoise

and while *tortoise is kind of amusing, RELEVANT DATA FOUND is just noise

OrigamiRobot

Right, which is why I made is work only 20% of the time. Like I said, you could have just said something first.

badp

My apologies for not being transparent enough

Retrosaur

@LessPop_MoreFizz Overzealous anti-racists are worse than racists. Implying black people speak that way is inherently racist

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Retrosaur No. Just... no.

SaintWacko

18:51

@fbueckert It is time. I'm going to go to war with the entire system

Retrosaur

Associating lingo like "bandonkadonk" to black people is racist in its own way

fbueckert

@Retrosaur Just...leave it alone, dude. It ain't worth it.

LessPop_MoreFizz

But, not going to have this conversation right now and not here.

Retrosaur

Alright, how's the weather.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Anyone else watch House of Cards on Netflix yet?

Retrosaur

18:51

At least, where you guys are all at

fbueckert

@Retrosaur For February, not too shabby!

SaintWacko

@Retrosaur Not too bad here

LessPop_MoreFizz

I'm 9 episodes in, and holy shit it's great.

Retrosaur

You guys get blizzards in?

SaintWacko

It was really nice yesterday, but a bit colder today

fbueckert

18:51

It's only -9!

SaintWacko

@Retrosaur Nope, not east coast

Retrosaur

o.o

-9 Do you live in Canada or something?

SaintWacko

Had a short thunderstorm come through night before last

fbueckert

@Retrosaur ...Yes. Yes, I do.

Retrosaur

I knew it!

Muahahahha!

fbueckert

18:52

@Retrosaur It's not like it's any great secret.

Retrosaur

Oh yeah, guess what I found last night

@LessPop_MoreFizz's address!

just kidding

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Retrosaur I wouldn't be surprised if you did.

Retrosaur

:C

>@Retrosaur is a stalker

Just curious, why are there no moderator elections this year?

Are these moderator decisions or community decisions?

badp

Stack Exchange decisions

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Retrosaur The mods were asked by staff if they felt they needed more hands on deck to handle the moderation load. It was deemed that our current team is sufficient.

If traffic/flags increase dramatically, if our current mods activity level drops off, or we have a few resignations, they'll reevaluate

Retrosaur

18:57

@LessPop_MoreFizz Ah....okay. So based on the amount of activity within Arqade, the elect the appropriate amount of Moderators. Okay.

Grace Note

Moderator elections are determined, in both presence and slot count, by evaluations done by the Community Team roughly once a year on things like flag load and moderator activity levels. We may also check in extra conditions, and emergency elections may happen in the event of a moderator stepping down or a massive and unexpected activity surge happens.

Retrosaur

And how do moderators "step down"

Grace Note

@Retrosaur They ask, we oblige.

Retrosaur

Do they hand in a resignation letter to the SecState?

oh, okay.

fbueckert

@GraceNote We've handled surges in activity via gaming contests fairly well, so it would a pretty massive and consistent surge to really trigger it, I'd think.

Retrosaur

18:59

Would this be posted in private (via email) or done as a meta post?

badp

We were asked privately first.

We didn't make the call, however.

Retrosaur

Ah, okay. Wait, privately?

Grace Note

@Retrosaur Either way, it's the moderator's choice how they wish to approach us.

Retrosaur

Oh, okay.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Retrosaur SE admins have a variety of ways to talk to moderators privately.

Or to you for that matter.

Grace Note

19:00

@Retrosaur I made the decision to ask the moderators what their thoughts were in this particular instance.

Retrosaur

Sorry for the barrage of questions, I'm just curious about how the whole mod process works

And, pertaining to the charity stream

How many of you play TF2?

fbueckert

@Retrosaur A little. Haven't in months, though.

Jason Berkan

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm through the first five episodes. Good show, so far.

Ben Brocka

@badp What did you dooooo

Ullallulloo

@Retrosaur I think just Powerlord, badp, and I do very much, although most have at some point.

Retrosaur

19:10

I was thinking for the charity stream, we could do a 10 person MvM server

9 people if we're using the replay bot

agent86

@Retrosaur once upon a time I commanded a sprawling tf2 empire. nowadays I largely ignore the game and its hatz

Retrosaur

@agent86 Then gimme all your hats (I'll pay you handsomely.....in hats)

Ben Brocka

@SaintWacko should be almost at the end of the game then. I think I beat the final mission around 30

Retrosaur

But honestly, the easiest way to do this

agent86

@Retrosaur I retired primarily hatless

Retrosaur

19:11

@agent86 brb, looking through inventory

We could do Wave 666 though. This would provide newbies with more money

Ben Brocka

@agent86 I only got hats after I stopped playing

Retrosaur

how is that possible @benbrocka gimme yo hats

agent86

@BenBrocka they were crazy rare when they first arrived. there are many more avenues for acquiring hats nowadays than there used to be.

Retrosaur

@agent86 Oh my god......8 years of service?

fbueckert

@Retrosaur I think you're underestimating how long some of us have been gaming.

Retrosaur

19:14

@agent86 Can I have your Treasure hat?

I'll provide Gift Wrap and Hats

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert All my life?

agent86

@Retrosaur I don't believe that one is up for exchange, unfortunately.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot From birth, straight to controller in hand.

Retrosaur

:C I've been looking for a bounty hat to complete my demopan set.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Pretty much.

Ben Brocka

19:15

@agent86 I think most of mine are from buying games which happen to have tie-in hats

agent86

I traded away my earbuds during one of the holiday sales, that was a good trade imho

Retrosaur

For what? Games?

agent86

@BenBrocka I have a few from this method, I think I have the spiral knights hat and the xcom hat

Retrosaur

earbuds.....I wish I had one

OMGOMGOMG

@agent86 Can I get your Area 451 hat

Wipqozn

@agent86 You're such a sweetheart.

Retrosaur

19:16

I'll trade for it

I'll give you Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble

agent86

@Retrosaur stop trying to take my hats! can't a guy live in peace in retirement with his modest collection of hats (that does not include the modest pile of hat)

Lazers

0

Q: How do I get across the water to defeat the second hanging skulltula?

I'm in the first temple of Skyward Sword. I've defeated the first hanging skulltula there, how do I make it across the water to reach the other one and get the treasure chest?

zelda-skyward-sword

0

Q: Setting some requirement for bounty points

I've made a rather controversy question about lore in TES series. So if anyone doesn't give a complete answer that I wanted, I'm thinking of putting a bounty on this question. The question is: Can I state in my question, in order to get the bounty the answer must be XXXX[insert requirements] ? F...

discussion bounty

Retrosaur

@agent86 You said you retired, but I see a rescue ranger in your inventory.

@agent86 If a Modest Pile of Hat is what you require, i believe I have what you want

SaintWacko

@fbueckert

agent86

@Retrosaur I retired from the empire(s) I used to assist with. I occasionally play. I want to play some MvM at some point, but I just haven't had time

OrigamiRobot

19:18

I am disgusted by your hat lust.

agent86

@Wipqozn <3

Retrosaur

A true gentleman is one who does not go without hats

agent86

also this week... new computer, woo

Wipqozn

TIL Adwaita, the turtle, was born before Mozart, before the French Revolution, and his death was announced by CNN. His estimated age was just over 250 years. He died in 2006

OrigamiRobot

@Retrosaur Virtual hats mean nothing.

4

agent86

19:19

@Wipqozn did you guys know each other?

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Yup, that's how I play.

Retrosaur

@agent86 We are all nothing technically

Nothing comes from nothing, nothing returns to nothing.

OrigamiRobot

@agent86 If they did, I'm sure @Wipqozn was a constant disappointment.

Retrosaur

@agent86 How would you like to retire with a bunch more stuff? I'd like to trade for your V. Kritzkrieg and the V. Sandvich. I see you have a lot of spares.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Have you defeated a Hegemony SDF?

fbueckert

19:20

@SaintWacko Nope. Haven't even tried.

I don't even have a single Paragon, let alone two.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Yeah, they didn't even get through my shields :(

At one point I had two Onslaughts fighting my Paragon flagship

Retrosaur

@Agent86 I'll pay you handsomely, you dashing rogue.

agent86

@Retrosaur if I have spares of something, I'd be open to trading. I can't at the moment, so think up an offer and ping me about it later on.

Retrosaur

Alrighty then.

@badp I'll give you Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble for your Torchlight voucher :3

huehuehuehuehue

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot How did you know that?!

OrigamiRobot

19:25

@Wipqozn Because we're BFFs (don't tell @spugsley, she'll be jealous)

Retrosaur

asdfmovie6

I'm late, I know

@Wipqozn confirmed for Brian

Wipqozn

19:37

@OrigamiRobot I'll try not to brag about it.

@Retrosaur what?

Retrosaur

Oh, and I just got Dota 2 for $0.01

Somebody selling it on Steam Marketplace

Ben Brocka

They've been giving out those DOTA 2 invites like something amusing to give out in large numbers

Retrosaur

Yeah, but at least I have copies I can give to others. Speaking of which, I noticed you don't have Dota 2 @BenBrocka

badp

@BenBrocka shift-tab

Ben Brocka

Someone gave me a copy and I awkwardly thanked them while sending the copy to someone else

not a MOBA/verbal abuse fan

badp

19:42

also the additional garbage on the screen didn't go away after pressing shift-tab

@BenBrocka There's now a bot with a stock of 16 thousand invites according to /r/gamedeals

Retrosaur

Also @BenBrocka Would you be interested in trading some of your TF2 stuff?

Ben Brocka

@badp Wow

badp

See reddit.com/tb/18acqo

At any rate I like to shoot those invites off in random directions to unwilling people

Retrosaur

@BenBrocka I am extremely intersted in trading out for your Hard Hat

fbueckert

@badp Note: If you send one my way, I'm blocking you on Steam.

badp

19:45

ne'ermind

Retrosaur

ya

I would love to get my filthy hands on your Aperture Science Hat

For science of course.

Anyways, I have a class soon

Nice chatting with you all

I hope to become more mature

badp

@fbueckert You can recycle gifts on Steam and no one will have to know!

Retrosaur

under @badp's guidance and intellectual wisdom

and under @badp ever nurturing gentle care of me as his job as a tutor

fbueckert

@badp Or I can just shorten my friends list to people who don't send me junk. And that makes less work for me!

badp

@fbueckert It's okay, a cursory check says you're not on my Steam friends list anyway

fbueckert

19:47

@badp I AM in the Arqade group, however. Can you gift to non-friends?

badp

@fbueckert It's not as easy

I can put in any email address, or choose one from my friends list (Steam tells you who owns and who doesn't own the game as well)

fbueckert

@badp Mostly, I just gift to @TrentHawkins, so I'm not up on my options for gifting outside the friend zone.

So it's possible, just more difficult.

Ben Brocka

You downgraded @TrentHawkins to friend-zone? Harsh

Lazers

1

Q: Why would I want to turn of the Ring of Basilius?

The active ability of the ring is Toggle controls only whether armor bonus applies to non-Hero units. I tried turning it off and on, but it did not affect its effect on my hero. Is there a downside in leaving it always on? When should I switch it off?

dota-2

badp

(Guess who's next~)

fbueckert

19:51

@badp If you want to be blocked, knock yourself out.

badp

@fbueckert oh you egocentric you

StrixVaria

@badp You already gave it to me; I just put it in my inventory instead of redeeming it. Please don't send me another one.

badp

@StrixVaria I'll... try to keep it in mind

LessPop did the same, too, and so did Yi.

Jason Berkan

I think the key takeway here is that most people don't want DOTA 2.

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria We got a trade to work out!

badp

19:55

@JasonBerkan That would also include me

OrigamiRobot

I forget easily

badp

(although I did try playing it at least once.)

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Oh yeah. I still want to do that.

Wipqozn

Ladineko

Anyone here who can invite people to ingress (activation code)

Wipqozn

20:09

Lazers

20:23

1

Q: Where can I find what option I chose in the Deal with the Bandits quest?

I accomplished the bandits quest in normal difficulty, and for some character build reasons, I need to recall which option I chose (save one of them or kill them all). Does it appear somewhere ? I couldn't find the information in the "journal" (let's call it that way), under the world map.

path-of-exile

Gaming Topics From Outside

20:35

0

Q: Troubleshoot home network congestion

I have a home network consisting of 1 wireless router connected to the internet, and then a number of clients directly connected to it on both ethernet and wireless, as illustrated below: All clients are on the same /24 net (192.168.1.0-255). On each device internet connectivity is working ver...

networking wireless-networking streaming gaming

Blem

I started playing Skyrim with dawnguard dlc active and i am now at the point where i have to choose between becoming a vampire or joining dawnguard, what do people think i should do?

Coronus

Ah, Skyrim

Blem

►

StrixVaria

There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.

This is mind-bogglingly true.

OrigamiRobot

Really Math?

Coronus

20:48

@StrixVaria This makes me cry.

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot ?

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote A flag.

Grace Note

@StrixVaria My favorite part is and will always remain the Admin's response.

fbueckert

@GraceNote I read thedailywtf.com; I'm sadly used to people doing the strangest things to make stuff work.

user15026

@fbueckert you also have some horrifying stories of your own.

Coronus

20:53

@fbueckert Like the tower that would pop out its CD ROM drive if it lost connection to the server. It was situated right in front of the server's reset button.

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko Perfect

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Is it sad that I have to account for lowest common denominator most of the time, and my users still manage to break it?

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot What message was flagged?

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn I'll accept "Queen"

fbueckert

@Coronus I'm like my own version of thedailywtf, all by myself!

Wipqozn

20:54

@OrigamiRobot I...what. I...what?

user15026

@fbueckert that's impressive that's what that is.

fbueckert

Seriously, read some of my stories from my profile.

Grace Note

@Wipqozn Actually, a little bit of context goes a long way.

StrixVaria

@Coronus This is amazing.

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Because that's what happened most of the time. If I hurried something along because I didn't have time to do it properly, and specifically mentioned that something wasn't done right yet, and not to use that bit, invariably some moron would use it and complain to the bosses that I didn't do my job.

Fluttershy

20:56

Alright everyone... Question time. A friend of mine has an old PC tower that he's not using. How easy would it be for me to build my own PC using a stock HP tower?

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I immediately thought of the band, but I guess it could be a slur. I don't know the context.

StrixVaria

@Fluttershy So you're going to buy all new guts and keep an HP case?

badp

@Fluttershy I guess it depends on how much you're going to keep

user15026

@fbueckert people are special. Holy crap.

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria Pretty much. Yeah.

badp

20:57

@fbueckert button2.hide()? :P

StrixVaria

The case isn't even the expensive part of a computer.

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy You're only saving ~$50 there.

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot Every little bit helps.

OrigamiRobot

Just letting you know.

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Especially the time I pulled a twelve hour day getting stuff moved over and fixed. 12 hours wasn't enough to do everything, but at that point, I'd had enough. Been at work since 4 AM. Wanna go home and sleep.

StrixVaria

20:58

What's your total budget for the computer?

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot Oh, well then. I assumed you checked the context before complaining.

fbueckert

I got about an hour in before I got called and yelled at to get back and finish the job.

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn Psh, I just like complaining.

Also, Math has a history of stupid flags.

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot That is true.

fbueckert

Even though I had done the critical bits, and they could survive without some functionality for a whole day.

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