The Bridge

14:00

Stupid... pathfinding

BoltClock

data.stackexchange.com/gaming/query/14342/… I wasn't aware I had 9 comments with score >= 5 before the one I just posted

Ladineko

Has anyone seen the new Lara Croft game? Is it worth buying?

BoltClock

@Ladineko Tomb Raider? I preordered it last night

Ladineko

@BoltClock Ah yeah, Tomb Raider... Is it worth it all? Cause i never seen Lara croft play with a bow before.

BoltClock

No idea, but I'm going to find out next week

Ladineko

14:05

@BoltClock Hehe, you just buy games.... and hope they are enjoyable when you play it :P

BoltClock

I'm not so worried about hearing orgasmic-sounding screams or shooting the crap out of goons as I am about wolves jumping right at me from complete darkness

But I think I'll live

Ladineko

Hehe, i think every male can enjoy the orgasmic-sounding screams and shooting some foe's.

But the game still has to be good.

And not be like Duke Nukem Forever was.

BoltClock

@Ladineko If I had an injury fetish, I would :P

kalina

@BoltClock I'm sorry, there is only one good game coming out next week, and it is called 'SimCity'

and that certainly doesn't contain any "orgasmic-sounding screams"

Ladineko

@kalina SimCity is one i will buy defiantly.

kalina

14:09

defiantly?

Ladineko

I heard a lot of the mechanics has changed

kalina

you are going to purchase SimCity in an rebellious manner?

Ladineko

Yeah, or however you type it :P

If i have too....

As in Last copy..... 3 people want it...

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Against all odds! Fight the power! I will have my game!

Michel

@BoltClock Missing 4 comments with 5+ score for me T_T

Ladineko

14:10

Ill fight for it!

kalina

interersting

BoltClock

@Michel You'll get there eventually

Michel

@BoltClock I know =)

Ben Brocka

For now-incorrect answers like this, should we edit in a note or is a comment enough?

Ladineko

@Michel patience young grasshopper :-)

Ben Brocka

14:11

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A: Fast leveling and easy experience farming

kill flesh stick again and again in the Tina special guest quest. best if your coop partner stays by her and keeps beginning the mission while you are where he spawns waiting for him with a shotgun or else. at lvl 14 its 1800exp every time. i leveled to 20 in 5 minutes. Note: If you restart the ...

Michel

@Ladineko LOL

Ben Brocka

When they're my own answers I usually edit in a thematic break and make an update

kalina

BREAKING NEWS A REBELLION BEGIN TODAY IN THE NETHERLANDS AS SEVENTEEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND THIRTY TWO WERE INJURED AS ONE PERSON WENT ON A KILLING SPREE FOR THE FINAL COPY OF SIMCITY

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Ladineko

@kalina Hahaha.

Starred.

kalina

After all of that, I'm pretty sure you meant 'definitely'

Ladineko

14:14

@kalina Thats what i mean indeed.

Michel

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jon has his on query =P

data.stackexchange.com/gaming/query/3160/jon-skeet-comparison

fbueckert

Good morning, Bridge

Grace Note

@Michel Only really valid to run on Stack Overflow, considering that's his SO ID number.

Ladineko

@kalina But yeah, i really like the change of roads that are able to bend now :)

Looks more realistic that way.

Michel

@spartacus the guy with the most bounty rewards from arqade =)

badp

14:18

12 levels, 12 perfect+'s on hard. 88 levels to go

am I ever going to finish this game

Grace Note

How many days has it been out?

Ben Brocka

Good read on Skullgirls and how games cost more than most people seem to realize

Powerlord

> Rubba dubba dub dub dub, that true?

badp

...3 days

Ben Brocka

I mean how much can hiring dozens of people for years cost? A couple hundred dollars, tops

badp

14:19

but I might burn myself out if I keep the bar at perfect+ on hard

Powerlord

@badp I think your number of days is off.

Grace Note

So, you've cleared 12% of it in 3 days, and you're doubting your ability to complete the game entirely?

badp

It's weird because hard is clearly bolt on

Powerlord

An off by one error, if you will

badp

1-1 hard is hard

1-10 hard is very easy

Grace Note

14:19

@BenBrocka "This page doesn’t exist. We’re willing to bet that it’s because you pasted in some dodgy URL that a “friend” of yours sent you. We think that means you should really take stock of your life and the people in it. After all, friends don’t send friends broken links."

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badp

1-9 hard is... very hard; had to take a shortcut there

Ladineko

FINALLY, i hitted max level again in World of Warcraft.

Powerlord

And since @badp is ignoring me, I'm going to point out that Runner2 came out 2 days ago. Less, actually, because it wasn't activated on Steam until roughly 10am PST/6pm GMT

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote Apparently the bit of the URL I chopped off was needed, fixed

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot No, not yet. You?

badp

14:21

@Powerlord You're not being ignored

SaintWacko

Morning, Bridge

badp

This is the third solar day I've been playing Runner 2

Michel

Diablo 3 was the moment when the site reach it's record in bounties "2012-5-80-5800-2146"

Powerlord

@badp My point still stands that it came out less than 48 hours ago.

djsmiley2k

btw how to do bold?

badp

14:23

__duh__

Powerlord

**bold**

Ben Brocka

*s work too

fbueckert

@Michel There was a contest where one of the requirements was to award a bounty. So we got lots of bounties.

badp

1-11 looks already like hell

Powerlord

@BenBrocka I'm not sure why would even work, since MarkDown doesn't use for anything as far as I'm aware.

Ben Brocka

14:25

I prefer them to underscores expressly for the purpose of disagreeing with @badp

badp

@Powerlord underscores and asterisks are interchangeable

(you can't mix them, but you can use either)

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord Maybe SE added it because it works in some other markup thing

Powerlord

@BenBrocka Apparently they have.

Speaking of which, have I mentioned one of the biggest wtfs with MarkDown? Sites randomly add crap to it.

Michel

@fbueckert I Know, I won a videoboard thanks to that.

fbueckert

@Michel I still haven't won anything beyond a t-shirt. :(

Ben Brocka

14:27

Adding stuff to it is fine, I just hate that SE uses 3 different parsing methods (posts, comments, chat) and many of the discrepancies don't make sense

No bullet points in comments? Of course. No multi-line markdown in chat? ...why

badp

Original markdown syntax mentions both asterisks and underscores

Michel

@fbueckert Was the month that my Ex-wife broke up with me. I should have some luck in compensation.

fbueckert

@Michel Ouch. That sucks.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BenBrocka I think the comment syntax is the same as chat's

Michel

@fbueckert Shit happens. The whole story is very sad, but what ever. =)

badp

14:30

almost. Comments don't do ---this--- or superpings

Ben Brocka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Not quite. For instance --- works in chat but not comments

Michel

I save it to make people cry (even my boss xD)

badp

but it's very close

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Anyway, Torchlight is great for some mindless fun. 16 hours to go. What now?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Hello again chat.

Michel

14:31

@LessPop_MoreFizz hellow

Lazers

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Q: JXD S7300 Retroarch

Anybody knows how to set the input controllers of my JXD S7300 on RetroArch emulator? The native emulators of this tablet, use to fail in the directional controls.

android

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hmmmmm

This is the achievement you get when the game crashes

SaintWacko

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Ooh, are you just starting DoD?

badp

13%

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

No, I've finished it

Powerlord

14:41

Since I can't see the image, is it an achievement because the game crashed, or is it or is the achievement causing the game to crash?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Because

SaintWacko

@Powerlord because

badp

The image reads, "Suddenly The Dungeon Collapses". 41.9% of the players have it

SaintWacko

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh, okay

Ben Brocka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's a cute/concerning way of handling it. I remember Sonic 3D blast had a crash handler that would instead take you to the level select

If you jostled the cart it'd end up on that menu on most cases, which resulted in me being mean to my Genesis since I wasn't very good at that game

kalina

14:42

@BenBrocka this is a good read

Mana

@kalina u r

kalina

@Mana you like reading me?

how cute

Mana

It's really difficult sometimes

kalina

intentional

Shotgun Ninja

howdy*

badp

14:46

maaaaan

you should get runner2

good stuff

Shotgun Ninja

@badp is it better than bit.trip runner?

badp

I couldn't stand Bit Trip Runner. Runner2 is... just better in pretty much every way

Mana

u r

badp

only gripe I have with it is bonus chance

Mana

oh god what's wrong with me

badp

14:47

@Mana oh you

Shotgun Ninja

Wasn't there just some post about how someone wanted purchasing advice regarding whether to buy runner1 or runner2?

and it was downvoted to oblivion?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Every time I start Bit.Trip Runner I get a Steambot UAC. The game runs fine even if I refuse the UAC

kalina

@ShotgunNinja yes

it was a retrosaur post afaik

Shotgun Ninja

@kalina Right, that's it.

kalina

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Q: What are the main differences between Bit.Trip Runner and Bit.Trip Runner 2?

What are the differences? Besides the graphics changing, what are the main features of Runner 2 that separate it from Bit.Trip Runner?

runner2 bit-trip-runner

badp

14:48

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The UAC process makes shoes for orphans, you monster

Shotgun Ninja

@badp They need callouses.

Powerlord

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The first time you run a game on Steam, it asks for a UAC to run the DirectX installer, among other things.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina It is kind of sad that this is becoming a genre.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Powerlord Yeah, but this one is popping up every time I run the game

kalina

@LessPop_MoreFizz at least he's not gameaddict

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:49

It was bad enough that Gnomeslice Posts were a thing.

badp

ARGH GOLD 29 OF 1-VAULT

LessPop_MoreFizz

N.B. Not every post made by Gnomeslice was a Gnomeslice post.

kalina

@LessPop_MoreFizz obviously

Mana

Gnome had a few pretty weird posts, but he was a pretty good user on the main site, I thought.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Mana Yeah, for the most part.

kalina

14:50

@Mana I like GnomeSlice

Mana

And he still messages me with things that are mistagged or that need to be blammed

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Mana Which is why most posts by Gnome were not Gnomeslice Posts.

djsmiley2k

/me has never known him, but his avatar has scared me.

badp

well, if we exclude the boob period, he never gave trouble on the main site

Mana

@badp must we?

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:51

But a Gnomeslice Post is a pretty clearly identifiable Thing with common characteristics, and there were a few of them.

badp

@Mana sometimes I forget flagging is a privilege

kalina

I still think the length of his ban is too long, even after it was shortened

fredley

@RonanForman StarveTheBeast

badp

@Mana I'm afraid so

but let's not get distracted here

LessPop_MoreFizz

> A growing number of us are convinced that Sarah Palin is the only one who can heal and re-unify our country. But first she must return to her motorhome and resume her cross country tour. She will have to visit cities both large and small, being careful to speak only to real Americans, dispensing her sage advice and folksy, homespun common sense solutions. We can be a great nation again if we all follow the "Palin Path".

Real Internet Comment.

badp

14:54

Ben Brocka

@kalina The difference between comments on that article and earlier articles (before people bothered to read the cost breakdown) is stunning. On the plus side, that indicates that at least SOME people actually read the article

Mana

Palin Path sounds like her Ultimate Finishing Special

like, if Palin was in a fighting game. and stuff.

Ben Brocka

@Mana I think there was a Flash fighting game with presidential candidates or something a while ago

Mana

oh, I'm sure there are at least like 500

kalina

so I'm sat in the office extremely hot, complain about the aircon being on 'heat' mode, get told to take my top off

Grace Note

14:57

If not a flash game, then probably at least a mock up of either a battle screenshot or a character select screen.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Mana Also the "return to her motorhome" phrase sounds like it's the beginning of a real pilgrimage.

kalina

I'm sure there is a formal complaint in there somewhere

LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina That's harassment claim territory.

kalina

sure, I'll just start coming to work in a bikini

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np

Grace Note

@LessPop_MoreFizz It quite certainly is.

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:58

@Mana Relevant. (Sadly the game itself is no longer on the internet.)

Ben Brocka

Dawwww

LessPop_MoreFizz

Hostile environment sexual harassment

In employment law, hostile environment sexual harassment refers to a situation where employees in a workplace are subject to a pattern of exposure to unwanted sexual behavior from persons other than an employee's direct supervisor where supervisors or managers take no steps to discourage or discontinue such behavior. It is distinguished from quid pro quo sexual harassment, where a direct supervisor seeks sexual favors in return for something within the supervisor's powers, such as threatening to fire someone, or offering them a raise. Quid pro quo has been recognized as actionable for deca...

badp

@BenBrocka Difficulty: Normal?

Ben Brocka

@badp They're at the right level

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