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10:00 PM
Valve apparently decided to do Source MP (or Source 2009) first (which covers 4 games) and GoldSrc second (which covers 4 more games).
Well, the latter isn't true because only some of the GoldSrc games are operating.
 
@Powerlord Mhmmm, ok, thanks. Very weird communication strategy imo.
 
Oh right, I should mention I'm referring exclusively to multiplayer games here, as I subscribe to the hlds mailing lists.
 
Yep yep, I understood that ;)
 
Of the multiplayer games, the following games were ported to Linux: Half-Life: Deathmatch, Counter-Strike 1.6, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Day of Defeat: Source, Counter-Strike: Source, and Team Fortress 2.
 
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Q: What determines if I get a Critical Hit?

Ashley NunnCritical Hits seem to happen at random, but I am willing to bet that that is not the case and I am just missing some sort of pattern. What determines if I get a Critical Hit in a fight?

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Q: How do I get excess liquid out of a carpenter?

fredleyI want to craft something that requires water, but there is residual seed oil in my carpenter. How do I get it out?

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Q: How long do food effecs last?

user1337My poor H'ruth zealot - although very skilled in the culinary arts (Endure hunger, Butchery, Clean kill) - appears to have inherited a weakness to silver items from a recent meal. Now, this would not have been a problem since I can just unequip all the silver items... but here's the dilemma: At ...

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Q: What abilities can be blocked by sivir's/nocturne's spell shield?

Peter JessenMainly, im wondering what ultimates would be blocked, and other spells that have long casts. But if you have a list that would be nice.

 
10:03 PM
CS16 and HLDM were just finalized today.
 
Oh dear. Steam sale. Someone hide my wallet.
 
I'm surprised Valve hasn't pushed today's TF2 update yet. Maybe they're waiting for the demand from the CS16 update to die down first.
Oops, there we go.
> We're working on mandatory updates for Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. We should have them ready soon.
 
I still don't understand their communication. Anyway. It's time to Path of Exile :) Good evening, and thanks for your time !
 
@Anto They're really bad about blogging things.
 
@Powerlord Well the blog posts are always interesting (imo). But the "promotionnal" communication is weird and messy.
 
10:07 PM
"Android is upgrading..." "Optimizing app 3 of 125."
 
4.2.2?
 
Yeah.
 
@Coronus Does Cyanogen features this version already ?
 
I haven't checked to see if mine hit yet.
@Anto Not that I know of, but one of the big features was already in CM.
 
dammit dammit dammit where are you
 
10:13 PM
The long tap in the settings was in CM, afaik
hides
 
When I last put Windows 95 in a VM I dumped some representative screenshots
Now I can't find them
 
@Coronus The long tap in settings... Mhmmm, never heard of that, I'll check asap :)
 
"WiFi and Bluetooth tiles can now be toggled via a long press in the notification Quick Settings."
I think CM had that, right?
 
At any rate --
This is what that progress bar reminded me about.
I'm sure some of you recognize that!
 
@badp Is it... bacon?
(imgur is blocked this week)
 
10:21 PM
It's the completely buttonless "Optimizing performance..." dialogue box with the drumroll icon next to it.
 
Hmmm... Google Play got Estimated Time Left numbers on the download notifications? Not sure how often I've waited long enough to care.
 
It's one of the mystery meat dialogues that you'd get occasionally after upgrading Windows 95 to Windows 98, or after installing Internet Explorer 5
It took ages of disk grinding for no apparent reason, and then you find your "performance" has been "optimized" by the introduction of Active Desktop.
 
Wow. At least it was optimized!
 
I remember the drums.
 
Remember when all the cool kids thought it would be a good idea to replace your desktop with a web page, or at least have it littered for you with a bunch of ads disguised as bookmarks? Yeah, me neither.
I think they removed this "feature" in Windows XP finally?
Yeah, Windows 2000 definitely had too many of these:
 
10:27 PM
Yeah, I don't think I remember it once I got XP.
 
God I hated this screen - and mind you - that was your desktop.
 
@badp Beautiful !
 
@badp Why did you go stirring up those memories? Make it stop
 
Oh, is it going home time?
 
You had icons over it. Without drop shadows. Black text on black text.
@Coronus It's my childhood :'(
 
10:29 PM
Darn, Taco Bell isn't rolling out its Ranch Doritos taco shell until next month.
3 weeks from today in fact... the day after my birthday.
 
@badp I remember that screen flashing every time I loaded Windows until my background image woke up.
 
Anyway, home time!
 
@Powerlord Bye bye!
Now I want Doritos tacos. and I just had 2...
Has anybody played Dwarfs!?
 
@Coronus Played the hell out of the demo
 
FAE
@badp oh god I totally forgot about that
 
10:34 PM
Unrelated:
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@FAE I remember even trying to make a background webpage that didn't suck and litter it with links to all the folders - except since Internet Explorer and explorer.exe were back then the same goddamn thing opening hyperlinks to a folder would end up opening them as your desktop background.
 
FAE
@badp hahaha
 
(sorry for continued pings)
@Powerlord TF2 updated
 
This article is making me rage so hard on so many levels.
 
Jin
@badp omg stop stealing the content I stole from reddit!
 
Jin
10:44 PM
@StrixVaria that's some serious trolling there
 
@StrixVaria Yahoo Answers.
 
@StrixVaria I think you broke my brain.
 
Jin
 
If we're doing obviously stupid ones.
 
10:58 PM
TF2 is updating, should be able to get the penguin now
 
Ok, time to finish FF V.
 
I'm trying to actually finish FF7 this time, for like the tenth time :P My attention span is just too short for most RPGs
 
That reminds me, I should try to finish FF7 too. I have the same problem with atte... Ooh, cupcakes!
 
@OrigamiRobot uuuuugggghhhhhh
 
It's about 30 hours. Mass Effect fits neatly in there. Bethesda games don't so much :P
So I never finish Bethesda games without like a month or two break in the middle :p
 
11:02 PM
@Wipqozn ooooh baby rock that reset button.
 
The problem of course is if you have too long a gap in the middle of an rpg you have a "Who am I? Who are these people? What have I done? What was I doing?" moment and I usually have to just start again :p
 
Oh look, Spotify is now available in Italy
This marks the first change (for me) from my gallery of "US only" stuff in two years
 
We've got Netflix. And that's it. Off all these sites people always mention as being vitally important on internet threads
And my VPS is in the UK, so if I really wanted I could get iPlayer too
 
FAE
@badp Do you need an invite?
 
@FAE That's a good question. Do I need an invite?
 
FAE
11:08 PM
@badp I dunno, I know when it broke into the US, people needed invites for a while.
Anyway, if you do, let me know, I should be able to send you.
 
Well I'm grabbing the Android app anyway
scratches head
Oh, it seems like the Android app is a premium only thing.
shrug
 
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Q: Does overclocking mouse usb polling rate has a side effect?

emmettI have 125mhz simple microsoft mouse and have been using it oc'ed at 500mhz. it seems I face a little mouse lag. Is this possible? can forcing mouses cause problems?

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Q: How do I use lava in Minecraft Pocket Edition?

GeloDCastroid9I have a river of lava near my Base and I'm not sure what I can do with it. Any suggestions? Also any good house defense ideas to keep me from getting attacked?

 
@FAE "it broke into the US": Oh no! Call CBP and the Minutemen!
 
@Lazers Hmm, might be a better fit for superuser?
@Mechanicalsnail I think you need the http:// at the start of the URLs for it to work
 
@CruelCow I have the URL scheme. Looks like markdown is disabled for multi-line posts.
 
11:15 PM
@Mechanicalsnail Aye aye.
Also, since when is "Tribes Ascend" the "Game of the Year"?
 
Why the crap is that getting upvotes?
@TrentHawkins wins many geek points.
 
Heh, this is great
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11:31 PM
Oh, obviously.
The Tux isn't tradable.
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Wee! We now have Companion Cube ice cubes!
 
The enrichment center reminds you that the weighted companion ice cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak. (it can, however, freeze your roommate's hand as he holds it up to the light in an attempt to better facilitate an in-focus picture of the weighted companion ice cube)
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@fbueckert That is awesome. :D
 
@TrentHawkins Yeah, it was cold. And we still got a sucky picture.
 
11:36 PM
Godammit, I have never been so angry
I can't get the Linux promo for TF2 :C
 
Dude. It's not tradeable.
Let it go.
 
I know that. But it will be. Look at buds, those things are...
 
Buds were tradeable.
 
I wish I had friends who used Linux AND played TF2
I really like the Linux Penguin though. I thought about making a bootable USB drive, but I don't have any USB over 20 gb
 
Oh, I do have Linux and TF2 in working order! Give me your username and password and I'll report you to Valve for breaching the subscriber agreement.
 
11:38 PM
Namely, over20 GB to fit Steam files and TF2 files (which are like 12 gig)
Thanks @badp. Thanks...
 
@badp You're so kind...
 
You're most welcome. squeezes the tux on his back
 
I honestly wish I could get one of those penguins >:C
 
Hmm... Still tempting.
 
badp removed me as a friend on steam too :C
 
11:39 PM
@Coronus I'd rather fix the underlying problem
@Retrosaur Not at all, I just logged out of Steam
 
@Retrosaur Not me.
 
@badp Oh, nevermind. Found it.
 
@Retrosaur You found the way to run TF2 on Linux?
 
@badp A CRAFTABLE FISHCAKE? NO WAY
 
@Retrosaur wat
 
11:41 PM
You have the fishcake before it was made noncraftable via Slot TOkens
But damn, I wish I had a penguin. I also find it odd that Gaben didn't have a "Windows represent" anywhere
Sidenote, please upvote BenBrocka's answer
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A: How do manufacturer traits affect items besides weapons?

Ben BrockaYes and no. They don't have a distinct, certain feature each item will have like guns will. But the most important thing to note is brands do not have unlisted shield/mods/artifact effects, unlike guns. Non-gun parts are less iconic of the brand, but certain things still hold true: Maliwan shi...

 
@Retrosaur Uh, then it was non craftable for a long time
 
Yeah....I wish I could get a fishcake without buying SpaceChem
 
because I certainly took my time to complete those Spacechem missions
@Retrosaur Spacechem was in a Humble Bundle.
 
Yeah, but when they came out with achievements and stuff, the Fishcake was craftable because of a glitch
I meant that the Fishcake could be crafted using Slot Token-Heavy, Slot-Token Sandvich
instead of having to use the Moustachium Bars
So people had clean Fishcake's.
 
I didn't do that
 
11:44 PM
Your fishcake is tradable and craftable
 
I got the crafting materials legitimately by copying the solutions from YouTube and then pieced the things together
 
oh.
lol you have so much ref
 
@badp Tux is cute!
 
Why not make a bunch of Craft Hats
 
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Q: Random parts of map on MC server dissapear/reset

GabeI'm furious with what just happened, the (Bukkit) server I'm working on deleted almost half of something I spent hours building. Does anyone have any clue what could have caused this? I logged off and everything was fine, restarted the server, then when I logged back on it was just gone. Note: W...

 
11:45 PM
I NEED A TUX
I HAVE A LACK OF EXPENSIVE BUDS SO I NOW NEED TUX
 
because craft hats are worth less than the refined
@Retrosaur Get Wubi
 
If you consistently craft quadwranglers, you should be good to go
 
Le sigh... I'll be on the Linux laptop tonight, it looks like.
 
Many thanks @badp
Wait, where can I download this? ANyone have an update link
 
..."now kiss!"?
 
@badp Speaking of opening webpages as desktop backgrounds github.com/elis/desckit
@badp Now kiss!
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone "Sorry, this tree took too long to generate."
 

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