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16:00
Got star problems? Ask Mario for help!
That's based off what diificulty you're in
@Powerlord TOO SLOW
1 min ago, by Retrosaur
@agent86 You could always hire a plumber to do the dirty work for you
@Retrosaur Regardless of that, you get an extra ~210k points for hitting the bullseye. 10k for the bullseye, and another ~200k for Perfect+
So, calling the bullseye "useless" is entirely inaccurate.
@Fluttershy @Fluttershy You don't get 210k points for hitting the bullseye
That's a bonus that comes with completing levels on certain difficulties
16:01
@Retrosaur You're not reading what I'm saying.
The bonus points from PERFECT+, which you only get for hitting the bullseye.
Wait, is there anything to back that up
I've never gotten "extra" points for getting PERFECT+
I've had scores where I've missed the bullseye completely
yet still got a better score than my Perfect+ score
(no dancing whatsoever)
@Retrosaur You always get extra points from getting Perfect+. Your score jumps up drastically when it pops up saying "Perfect+"
You know how Bebop and Rocksteady from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja/Hero Turtles cartoon were always saying "Stomp Turtles"? I wonder if they played Super Mario Bros. a lot, seeing as how it came out in the US the same year the cartoon started.
@Fluttershy But it also goes up drastically when you get a Perfect !
I'll probably go in game to verify this for myself
@Retrosaur You do that. I'm speaking from experience though, having Perfect+'d all of World 1.
16:04
Seriously, though, if you want stars, say something funny or self-deprecating. Or about turtles and hammers.
@Powerlord Turtle hammer turtle star plz kthxbye
I like how we'd all rather argue for 15 minutes about stars rather than just star the fellow and let him be on his way.
Funny self deprecating turtle hammers
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This is why I keep coming back to The Bridge!
@Sterno Welcome to the Mothership
16:08
@BenBrocka Make it a haiku and I'm sure this room will explode
Actually, was the hammer in Super Paper Mario self-deprecating?
self-deprecating
turtle hammer is funny
how about that one?
Wow, i really broke everything by setting my date to 1970 :/
@djsmiley2k Got root?
@djsmiley2k No wonder my office seems so psychadelic.
Oh wait. In 1970, my office didn't exist.
16:12
We should set @OrigamiRobot's date to 1970
I think I'm having trouble with my NCP. All this new-fangled technology.
@fredley nope, i can't set the date via my dm.
stupid kde/gnome.
Another week, another Java exploit.
@MaksimOrlovski you do not have the 'analytical' badge, so no
think you meant the about page
@kalina I swear that badge is the buggiest on the entire site.
16:20
@Powerlord nope
You have to wait for the background highlight animation from the previous section to complete before clicking on the next one
prevents people from just clicking through the sections
works as designed imo
oooo i want it now
@fredley You'll have to buy me dinner first if you want to mess with my settings.
@OrigamiRobot I wonder how long it takes to get added to /etc/sudoers
@fredley I know that I'm normally pretty chill about stuff, but this is actually making me kind of uncomfortable. What the heck are you talking about here?
@fredley Depends on what kind of car you drive.
16:25
1 hour ago, by fredley
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@badp o
@Retrosaur Do you realize that the bullseye lets you rack up points on top of whatever you've got
@Mana @Fluttershy wanted to be a cutie mark
@OrigamiRobot I don't drive a car :-(
My bike is pretty sweet though.
I used to want to be a paleontologist, but I realized that there's really not much need for those anymore. So I decided to be a cutie mark instead.
@Fluttershy I wanted to be a paleontologist too!
16:28
@OrigamiRobot Me too!
When I was 5, dinosaurs were the shit
What was your favorite?
@OrigamiRobot T-Rex, obviously
@OrigamiRobot Grimlock.
@OrigamiRobot Archaeopteryx
Triceratops was up there though
As was stegosaurus
16:29
Psh
Euoplocephalus ( ; Greek: eu-/ευ- meaning 'well', hoplo-/οπλο- meaning 'armed' and kephale/κεφαλη meaning 'head') is one of the largest genera of ankylosaurian dinosaurs, at about the size of a small elephant. Like other ankylosaurids, it has extensive spiked armor, low-slung body and great club-like tail that are well documented in the fossil record. Description Among the ankylosaurids, Euoplocephalus was exceeded in size only by Tarchia and Ankylosaurus. Euoplocephalus was long and weighed about . It was also wide. The skull of Euoplocephalus can be distinguished from other a...
@OrigamiRobot parasaurolophus
@OrigamiRobot Euoploce-what?
@fredley Well harmed head
Oops, wrong one
Edmontonia was an armoured dinosaur, a part of the nodosaur family from the Late Cretaceous Period. It is named after the Edmonton Formation (now the Horseshoe Canyon Formation), the unit of rock it was found in. Description Edmontonia was bulky and tank-like at roughly 6.6 m (22 ft) long and 2 m (6 ft) high. It had small, ridged bony plates on its back and head and many sharp spikes along its back and tail. The four largest spikes jutted out from the shoulders on each side, two of which were split into subspines in some specimens. Its skull had a pear-like shape whe...
YAY
"please install this untested software on this customer's site"
16:30
Dinosaurs make @kalina happy
"yeah I did, now their live system is down"
"erm..."
QUICK, MOBILISE THE DEVELOPERS
who are all in meetings
10/10, love this company
FAE
FAE
@fredley Me... four!
smart developers are smart
@kalina They did that on purpose.
FAE
FAE
It was the first profession I remember wanting to do.
16:31
@JasonBerkan obviously
you might just be getting a sudden promotion to the dev team @kalina :P
Mmm. Gotta head to Taco Bell for lunch and get me some horse meat before it's all gone.
@fredley Ankylosaurus with spikes!
@Sterno nom nom nom
@badp I wouldn't fit in with the development team
16:32
3 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot
What was your favorite?
My focus on user experience is too high
@kalina Here's a dinosaur in a suit for you:
@fredley oooOOoo
@OrigamiRobot T Rex would eat Ankylosaurus for breakfast!
Wow, only Three Taco Bell restaurants in the entire UK?
We have more than 3 just between here and home.
16:33
@Fluttershy I have to question what sort of decision making results in being "I want to be a picture on someone's butt"
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@Powerlord There are only so many horses.
@fredley Good thing Ankylosaurus isn't my favorite.
FAE
FAE
@OrigamiRobot Same as @fredley's.
@BenBrocka clearly pressure from the tattoo industry
@BenBrocka Poor life choices.
16:33
@FAE You guys are boring.
@OrigamiRobot You didn't even say anything about mine. =(
plus, merchandise opportunity for little girls! I'd be surprised if Hasbro didn't sell cutie marks :P
FAE
FAE
@OrigamiRobot Though I thought Plesiosaurs were neat.
@Fluttershy That's because T Rex already ate it
NOM NOM NOM
@badp shudder
16:34
@FAE Disqualified. Not dinosaurs.
@BenBrocka A 7yo suddenly comes to you and "MY CUTIE MARK LET ME SHOW YOU IT"
@badp HNGGGGGGGGGGGGG
@badp at which point I promptly run
As an adult male, unattended children are horrifying
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FAE
FAE
@OrigamiRobot I also liked Brachiosaurs for some reason. Do you remember "Definitely Definitely Dinosaurs" at all?
@fredley If you're going to pick a theropod, at least pick Carnotaurus. They had spikes on their heads.
16:36
Pre-Load Tomb Raider Now!: http://bit.ly/XsaAhw
@Mana Did you actually think @fredley had cameras zoomed in on you in RL?
@OrigamiRobot I can't hear you over the sound of T Rex EATING YOUR DINOSAUR
@badp Pre-Load Tit Raider now?
@Wipqozn wouldn't be the first time!
@fredley IT CAN'T BECAUSE OF THE SPIKES
16:37
I mean, that is the focus of the game right? They've gotten rid of every other pretense.
@Wipqozn No, but Facebook, right?
@Powerlord You clearly haven't seen anything about the new Tomb Raider.
(Side note: I've only seen the Conan O'Brien review of it)
@FAE I don't think I read that one. For sauropods, I liked Siesmosaurus.
16:38
@Mana True.
@fredley ~The man they call Jayne~
@OrigamiRobot I'M EATING YOU FROM BACK TO FRONT
FAE
FAE
@OrigamiRobot No, it was a toy brand, that was very silly because it had cavemen paired with the dinosaurs, but I remember I had the brachiosaur.
@Fluttershy Didn't they give her the Metroid M treatment?
Since when is THAT a windows 8 logo?
16:39
@Wipqozn Elaborate?
I mean, there were several scenes in the Conan review of it which are clearly intentionally showing off Lara's cleavage.
@Fluttershy Take a strong character and make her really weak, and make it so all that weakness is due to her being female.
As opposed to, you know, the strong character Samus was before, where her gender didn't matter at all because it didn't.
@Wipqozn Making her a sniveling pile that just repeats the word "baby" constantly?
@Wipqozn No. They took a strong character and made her weak, but her weakness isn't due to her gender.
@BenBrocka I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM MY MAN FIRST!
"CAN I PLAY USE MY ANTI-POISON ARMOR PLEASE MISTER SIR?"
"DAMN IT SAMUS NO!"
16:41
Glad I never got that game. Hopefully they make another "be a badass and go shoot stuff" game to balance it out
It doesn't help that this is the second remake of the first Tomb Raider game.
@BenBrocka Whoa. That's cool
A Prime style game would be cool for Wii U, though I know they ended that trilogy...
@BenBrocka I own it, but have yet to play it. I just can't bring myself to do it. Whenever I go to play it I just get angry about how much they ruined her.
@BenBrocka Turns out it runs red flag linux with that as the desktop background
16:42
@SaintWacko Seems like something they'd use if 8 continued the Areo styling
I really should fix that, though. I hear it's a good game if you just close your eyes and ears whenever there is a cutscene.
@Mana you have pictures of your arse in Facebook. Fascinating
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@Wipqozn I had never heard of it until people started complaining about it. I don't think I could get over the bad story
@Wipqozn Yeah, Metroid M was extremely fun to play, but the ability "unlock" mechanic was stupid
@badp I'm looking for them now.
16:43
@RonanForman > Improved /effect - via Amplifier is no longer capped at 4
> Improved /effect - via
Amplifier is no longer capped at 4
You can now remove effects by running /effect <player> <effect> 0
@Powerlord It's meant to be a reboot of the franchise, and somewhat of an origin story for Lara.
@badp No, come on. Any picture that has my back towards the camera will have my arse in it.
@Wipqozn gooby pls
that's kind of how your butt works.
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@RonanForman Balls to chat formatting. Basically /effect is fixed.
16:44
@Mana Ooooh, a nudist. The more you know
No luck guys. All he uploads are pictures of his face.
I mean, what kind of horrible abomination game is next... a Metal Gear game without Stealth? Oh wait...
Resident Evil without Zombies?....
@Powerlord Apparently Revengeance is actually a pretty good game, somehow?
@Powerlord It's a spin-off
16:45
@Powerlord So much vengeance, you can't just hide
@Powerlord Metal Gear Solid is still about stealth? I thought they stopped doing that after 3.
@Wipqozn Stealth is totally a thing in 4, it's just possible to do most sections by shooting everything. But you'll also give Snake PTSD (seriously)
@Mana It's apparently a good game... for the Bayonetta series.
IIRC you start hearing Liquid's voice and vomiting after killing enough people
Which shouldn't be a shocker since it uses the Bayonetta game engine and was developed by the studio that did Bayonetta.
16:47
@djsmiley2k aka Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6.
@BenBrocka wat
@Powerlord Does it feature hair dresses?
@badp Well, you're not supposed to kill everyone
@badp Dunno, haven't played it.
Though it's actually pretty fun
I'd totally buy a no-cutscenes version of MGS 4. Should have been an option
Though they can keep the scene with Raiden being a badass
@BenBrocka Monosodium Glutamate 4: Buns of the Patriots aww, you fixed the typo.
16:49
@Wipqozn indeed.
What other ones are there
I should give the MGS another try sometime. I tried it back in High school, but wasn't all that into it. My tastes have changed since then, though. Might be worth trying again.
FF game without a giant sword?
I should play MGS2 all the way through sometime
I got the first one for Gamecube but could barely get through the first few areas
@Wipqozn To be honest, I think the 2D Metal Gear games are a good way to start. They're on the second MGS3 disc (or the MGS3 main menu for the HD collection)
Note that the HD collection is missing MGS1, though (the third game in the series)
FAE
FAE
16:52
@Wipqozn It's one of those series that I feel like I can't get into now because I missed out on the start.
@FAE Which is why they released the HD collection. Again, load MGS3 and choose "Metal Gear" from the main menu.
@BenBrocka Which is the more graphically advanced version of MGS, but with added controls from MGS2. Which probably just complicate things.
I'm still saddened they couldn't port Twin Snakes to the other platforms and include it in the HD collection. :(
@Powerlord What was up with that, anyway? What did Twin Snakes get released for?
@ShotgunNinja GameCube.
@Powerlord Ah, that's why.
The GameCube's internals are drastically different (and drastically simpler) than any of the Playstation or PSP versions.
@ShotgunNinja It was by Silicon Knights, but included redone cutscenes... and characters whose mouths actually move.
16:55
@Powerlord I liked the controls for MGS 4 better, though I'm not sure why. Just felt much less clunky, but it was basically standard 3rd person shooter controls + stealthy stuff
With the Playstation, you have to choreograph a ton of processors and memory banks just to get the damn thing to move.
With the GameCube, you have a fairly simple pipeline architecture, from core processor to graphics chipset and sound chipsets.
But the thing is... Twin Snakes is running on a ported version of the MGS 2 engine. What was stopping Konami from using the MGS2 engine and porting the character models and cutscenes into it?
@Powerlord I remember being amazed by mouths that moved in Onimusha
I just think the lack of Twin Snakes (or hell, even the original MGS) in the HD collection while including every other game in the main series was just a mistake.
@Powerlord If that's the case, then it's likely a licensing issue. Nintendo is really, really reluctant to let anything be taken away from them.
16:59
MG's numbering is 1, 2, Solid, Solid 2, Solid 3, Solid 4. Solid was the only one missing from that list.
@ShotgunNinja MGS1 still had its PlayStation version.
Which is on PSN even now.
Anyway, I have a meeting to get to, so I'll BBL.
I hate using assembler macros
Also, Twin Snakes had a Nintendo DS port or something, if I recall correctly; they probably held onto its license for that. Never mind.
@fredley Whoa, that's awesome
17:02
Pretty sure @Sterno would appreciate it
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@fredley Who wouldn't?
@fredley I see what you did there
@ShotgunNinja I've been doing this for months, still funny
To my stunted sense of humour anyway
Anyone got fancy mousepad recommendations? The Arqade one is unacceptable
17:10
that reminds me. I need to try out the new mousemat my brother got me
and really should invest in a new mouse.... concidering I get paid.... NOW.
@djsmiley2k The logitech G500 is wonderful, and cheaper now since there are newer versions (that IMO don't look nearly as comfortable)
@BenBrocka Excellent DLC opportunity
PRESS Y TO SKIP THIS CUTSCENE ($1)
Alright @badp... I just beat a level on hard, perfect+, no checkpoint, while dancing my ass off, and I still didn't beat your score. o_o What's the secret? =P
@Fluttershy what level?
I'd seriously pay them $5 to be able to auto-skip all cutscenes and skip the "loading" for each chapter. It makes replay so painful
17:13
@badp A Windy Interlude
I didn't even dance
Bro do you even dance?
also Mana's got me beaten on this level
and so do you
@fredley Doesn't really affect the map, but neat.
Are we good to play this weekend, with 4 maps of course.
@BenBrocka @fbueckert DOES
17:18
Penny Arcade needs to upgrade their servers. I've received way too many 503s from them in the past few days.
HTTP Error 503 - Service unavailable: Please contact the system operators of the Web site (e.g. your ISP) to determine why the service is down.
I obviously didn't just copypaste that :3
Yeah Penny Arcade's servers seem to suck
@RonanForman Wanna help me with FTB in a while?
@OrigamiRobot Sure, I'm sorting stuff out atm, but it's not important.
@RonanForman I'm not home for another hour or two.
17:23
@OrigamiRobot Oh okay, I can then too.
@BenBrocka For the hosts of multiple national-scale conventions based solely around the profits and material at the focus of their comic series, their websites should be far more stable than they are.
@RonanForman Did you ever get the snow map worked out?
@OrigamiRobot I think it's done, but if you want to edit it you can.
@LProd Wait, they tell you to contact your isp to figure out why their site is down?
@RonanForman I was just curious.
17:25
blame it on them ---> checkupdown.com/status/E503.html
:3
@ShotgunNinja And for geeks they should really know people who can operate a server better
Fuck you Wikipedia!
@Fluttershy I've tied @Mana's score simply by playing on Easy and dancing my ass off
This is why I'd rather not play on score
Indeed my score is the 60th best on the leaderboard
with Mana 59th
Top score is a whopping 1,547,000. I have no idea how to get there
Maybe dancing on normal?
I don't feel like trying
That might be my highest rank so far. =3
@Fluttershy oh, that level. Yeah, I ought to do a perfect+ on the bottom path
I do have the perfect+ but on the upper path
17:37
@badp That's what I did. Perfect+ sans checkpoint on the bottom path.
You get like 50k bonus points for jumping the checkpoint.
Back to my efforts to Triple Perfect+ the entire first world...
...or I could just improve my score by dancing on easy
to 1,268,000
I'm happy it didn't improve by as much as I feared
This however is enough improvement for this to happen:
I'll cherish the moment, knowing that it won't last
(also, wtf does schlortz 1973 mean?)
@Fluttershy Retrosaur is unfortunately correct in mentioning that dancing past the finish line gets you that much or more
@badp You can dance once you've passed the finish line? O_o
yes
Well shit...
I don't know if it counts for points
why risk?
also I'm fairly happy with this:
guess what I did for my 35th place on the leaderboard?
sigh
you know what would be rad? A lowest score leaderboard
17:50
cries all I want is a >= 3TB external HDD with USB-only power. Is that too much to ask?
@BenBrocka Why?
Power cords make it a massive inconvenience to back up multiple devices or move around in general
Also cords are ugly and I hate them
fun fact: cordless stuff has more cords than corded stuff
The why was mainly in reference to the "external" part.
bah
collect 6,000 points ingame
level score: 108,000
17:57
@OrigamiRobot Backups

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