The Bridge

FAE

8:00 PM

@Ullallulloo Those thumbsticks do not look comfortable at all.

agent86

whoaaaaa

4

also did you know that viagra works on plants?

Ben Brocka

Rigid Roses! Turgid Tulips!

agent86

> If your stems stay up for more than a few weeks, you might want to contact your botanist.

FAE

@agent86 lmao

Priapism has always sounded hilarious to me.

kalina

@agent86 ooo trippy

Ullallulloo

8:07 PM

@FAE eh, their whole point is to grip, those look grippy. Looks fine to me.

agent86

@FAE like the word, or the condition?

FAE

@agent86 The condition.

@Ullallulloo I dunno, seems like you'd really start feeling the edges after a long/intense play session.

Ben Brocka

@FAE It's not as funny when you realize it can cause permanent damage, people always seem to ignore that

agent86

@FAE for a second I thought you were still talking about priapism

FAE

@BenBrocka Yeah I know, but I find a lot of things that cause permanent damage funny. :P Schadenfreude!

@agent86 Yeah, I realized the timing of that belatedly.

Ben Brocka

8:09 PM

@FAE Yeah, I dunno about those. I definitely felt those weird ridges in the Gamecube controller

I've never had a grip problem with the Dualshock controller, but I've been using them for...over ten years? Almost 15?

FAE

@BenBrocka The rounded caps that they have now work fine and are nicely grippy, I don't see how this is more advantageous or comfortable.

Ben Brocka

The d-pad does sound better though

The Vita's dpad is pretty good, and the standar dual shock has always been poor for any game that depends on it

FAE

@BenBrocka Yeah, the gap elimination will be nice. Either way, Sony's d-pad has always been better than the 360's piece of crap.

agent86

well, it's proto hardware at best and rumor mill fodder at worst, so I doubt it's the way the final hardware's going to look

second, it seems kind of like the stock xbox 360 controller's cap design

FAE

@agent86 There aren't pronounced ridges on those though, just a dip.

agent86

8:12 PM

they've got little nubs along the edge, and it isn't convex in the center

I kind of prefer it concave, tbh. the ps3 controller is a bit harder to keep my thumb on than the xbox's

Ben Brocka

@agent86 The whole middle section bothers me. The dpad sounds great, the analogs less so, but I don't think they'd be a problem

Raven Dreamer

gamemusicbundle.com , y'all!

Ben Brocka

The light and speaker look ridiculous and have dubious use, but they're probably just testing features or something. I doubt that, as is, will go live

fbueckert

Heh. Co-workers saran wrapped the boss's truck.

FAE

@RavenDreamer I want $20 level for this, but I just had an unexpectedly high utilities bill this month. :(

@fbueckert Haha what

Raven Dreamer

8:14 PM

@FAE :(

agent86

@RavenDreamer #8?!? y no #1??

that's it, you're fired. I have no shark.

fbueckert

@FAE It's his last day.

Raven Dreamer

@agent86 So I'll feel less bad when I invariably get knocked off the leaderboard.

Hehe.

FAE

@RavenDreamer If you stay in that position, I'll be totally jealous of your t-shirt.

@fbueckert And now he can't leave!

Raven Dreamer

@FAE Hehehe.

fbueckert

8:15 PM

@FAE Until he cleans up his truck, anyways. In -20 weather.

FAE

@fbueckert Oof, that'll be... fun.

fbueckert

@FAE Eh. -20 is mild.

No wind, it's not even toque weather.

FAE

Ah, if it's no wind, that's nice.

badp

@RavenDreamer bought already

FAE

Still, can't really drive around with saran wrap on your truck.

Raven Dreamer

8:18 PM

A man walks into a psychologists' office wearing nothing but Saran wrap.

The doctor takes one look and announces, "I can clearly see youre nuts"

fbueckert

@FAE Eh. You can, but I wouldn't recommend it.

FAE

@fbueckert Wouldn't you risk some of the plastic melting to your car?

I can't imagine that'd be good for the paint job.

fbueckert

@FAE If it was on the hood, yeah. You might get some wrapped around the axles, too.

It would suck for the paint job, but it wouldn't impact vehicle performance at all.

Fluttershy

Someone ... How are a user's top tags determined?

Raven Dreamer

On the users page? Rep / that time period.

I think.

Fluttershy

8:24 PM

@RavenDreamer Oh. That makes more sense. I was curious as to why Kingdoms of Amalur was one of my top tags when I had so many other upvotes in different tags.

Ben Brocka

Really? Thought it was upvotes

totally looks sorted by score

hover over the number to the left of the tag

Raven Dreamer

@BenBrocka Yeah, but if you're on the users page, it uses /week / quarter / all to pick the tags.

Ben Brocka

Oh on the user's page? yeah that seems to be limited to that time period. Not sure about the rep thing though

That seems like an overly expensive query

The actual reputation math is pretty nasty

Raven Dreamer

@BenBrocka OH! By the by. I have my mic this weekend.

We could totally borderlands 2 it up, and I won't be your mute sidekick.

Powerlord

@RavenDreamer Did they forget that only half the series is on Steam?

Ben Brocka

8:29 PM

@RavenDreamer Sure, I should be able to

Powerlord

Anyway, turns out that upgraded Ubuntu server 10.04 to 12.04 is a pain in the buttocks.

tiddy

@Powerlord How so

Raven Dreamer

@Powerlord Runner 2 is the only game being given out. The rest is soundtracks.

(But, at any rate, I fully expect the rest of the games to make it to steam, eventually.)

Powerlord

@tiddy You mean how so upgrading? Well, for one, do-release-upgrade would only do the first part and I had to apt-get dist-upgrade force to continue. And I had all sorts of conflicts I had to manually sort out. Then I had to purge the MySQL packages and reinstall them because it randomly decided it wasn't going to work.

FAE

@RavenDreamer I thought they tweeted once that the full collection wouldn't be available for PC?

tiddy

8:32 PM

Ah sounds like you had some bad luck

Powerlord

I can't install python3 or python3.2 because they just bomb with an error.

Raven Dreamer

@FAE They also tweeted that they wouldn't release the soundtracks ;P

Plans change, etc.

Powerlord

Setting up python3.2-minimal (3.2.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Sorry: TypeError: 'optimize' is an invalid keyword argument for this functionSorry: TypeError: 'optimize' is an invalid keyword argument for this functionSorry: TypeError: 'optimize' is an invalid keyword argument for this functionSorry: TypeError:

etc

Ben Brocka

@RavenDreamer Soundtracks should always be released!

FAE

@RavenDreamer True. I don't know what to do. I've bought all the GMBs thus far, and I'd like to give them more money. On the other hand, I already do own the soundtracks because they came with the Wii bit.trip complete version. On the other other hand, you can get Runner 2. On the other other other hand, Runner is one of my least liked games out of the bit.trip games.

And on the other other other other hand, I don't have a lot of disposable income this month due to unexpected bills.

Raven Dreamer

8:34 PM

@FAE I would wait, then. It'll be on a steam sale eventually if you still want it! :D

FAE

@RavenDreamer I know, but I like the GMBs. Argh.

Raven Dreamer

@FAE It's okay. I was able to support the GMB more than I usually do, so you can like them vicariously through me!

FAE

@RavenDreamer But I don't get a handy digital version of the OSTs this way!

Raven Dreamer

@FAE I'm sure you can wink and nudge and pine and pout and figure something out.

Ahaha!

FAE

@RavenDreamer >_> @ rhyme

Raven Dreamer

8:38 PM

@FAE Unintentional.

I wouldn't rhyme like that, the meter is all wrong.

Powerlord

@RavenDreamer When I say boom, boom, boom, you say bam, bam, bam, no pause in between, come on lets jam!

StrixVaria

@Powerlord Everybody say heyo.

Raven Dreamer

And now I have the cupid shuffle in my head...

Powerlord

Anyway, now that I upgraded VGMusic's server to Ubuntu 12.04, it'd better have a new enough git client that this script works.

Then again, I can just do this stuff on my 12.04 game server if I had to

It IS my SourceMod test box after all.

I'm currently splitting my NativeVotes SourceMod plugin out of my BuiltinVotes SourceMod extension repo... and converting it from svn to git at the same time.

Ben Brocka

►

Heyoooo

Powerlord

8:50 PM

btw, if you want to see something funny, watch the Gaming CX video of PaRappa the Rappa.

Fun fact: The game is in English even in Japan.

Ben Brocka

That's not uncommon for low-text games

At least it wasn't. Plenty of old cartridge era games where most/all the menus were in English, only story-based text was in japanese

Powerlord

@BenBrocka PaRappa the Rappa isn't exactly a low-text game.

Ben Brocka

Never played it

Powerlord

►

Incidentally, this is the video I was talking about earlier. :D

badp

9:13 PM

@BenBrocka -1 not enough 'y'

fbueckert

Wee, now to jam some fast changes into a client's project, to convince them we've been busting our asses all week working on their stuff.

SaintWacko

Sooo many hats

Powerlord

@SaintWacko TF2?

SaintWacko

@badp There's not much 'y' when Steve says it either

@Powerlord Towns

Powerlord

Oh yeah, should I make my penguin look normal, with a patch across one eye, or wearing a gas mask?

SaintWacko

9:25 PM

@Powerlord Patch

Powerlord

I still think it's funny that the penguin gets attached to your bu... er... belt.

Also, thanks do-release-upgrade for disabling all repos except the main one. Including the security update repo

Ben Brocka

@badp The stress is mostly on the o

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka Ooh, I should make that my message tone :D

badp

9:45 PM

@Powerlord I guess it wasn't translated for the completely opposite reason, actually

Powerlord

@badp Which makes more sense. Also, the beat matches up to the lyrics.

badp

besides I don't quite think the Japanese generally suck at English, do they?

(although I've seen some atrocious pages)

Lazers

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Ben Brocka

They seem to like english and skill with the language seems to vary widely

And apparently lots of people there really just like how latin characters look, so allegedly that's how come so many nonsense Engrish T-shirts etc get made. Their form of chinese "tribal" tattoos in the US

Recycling

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Krazer

10:00 PM

@BenBrocka Latin letters? like medieval gothic font faces?

Ben Brocka

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badp

@BenBrocka but then they use arabic digits

Ben Brocka

Does anyone not use arabic digits anymore?

user15026

Yay. Package mailed, proper ramen bought, non-terrible candy acquired.

user15026

@fbueckert If there is jam involved, may I suggest strawberry? :P

Lazers

10:23 PM

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fbueckert

@AshleyNunn I DO prefer strawberry jam.

Powerlord

Going home time!

@Powerlord Don't forget to update your nativevotes repo to the GitHub version when you get home

fbueckert

Aww. Zynga and EA settled their lawsuit.

So much for watching the fur fly.

StrixVaria

@fbueckert What was it about?

fbueckert

@StrixVaria EA sued Zynga over their blatant ripoff of, "The Ville".

And made it sound like they were standing up for the little guy.

StrixVaria

10:36 PM

@fbueckert Oh right.

fbueckert

Zynga countersued, words were exchanged, blah blah.

StrixVaria

Well, Zynga deserved to get sued. EA isn't "the little guy" in any sense, though.

fbueckert

And they settled. Somebody gave somebody else a truckload of money to make it go away.

user15026

@fbueckert Strawberry is my favourite.

StrixVaria

I love it when it's 4:50 on Friday and your boss comes over and says "we have a production issue and need to make a fix tonight; can you own it?"

FAE

10:47 PM

@StrixVaria uuuugh

Coronus

@StrixVaria I hate that.

Wipqozn

3

Coronus

So sorry.

StrixVaria

@Coronus Oh yeah actually I meant to use that word.

Well it's out of my hands now. I did my part.

Now it's time to stop thinking about work.

Coronus

And if you could come in on Sunday, too... that'd be great.

MBraedley

10:50 PM

@StrixVaria Yes, have a ~~beer~~ rum and coke

StrixVaria

@MBraedley I don't like beer or rum.

I think we've been over this.

Coronus

@StrixVaria Have a scotch?

StrixVaria

I don't really drink.

MBraedley

@StrixVaria Screw that, I'm not editing a second time.

Coronus

@StrixVaria Gotcha. Tequila it is! ;)

FAE

10:51 PM

@StrixVaria Wouldn't know it by that edit history. :P

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