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Powerlord

15:00

An hour until potato time?

user30

Well, I'm hoping an hour until portal-2 time

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald Can't be, that'd contradict the text below the countdown clock.

Speaking of which, people are watching that to make sure the text doesn't change... right?

user30

No it wouldn't contradict it, Portal 2 could be the final test

user30

plus this:

user30

> TWO HOURS TO NEXT TUESDAY (UNLESS OTHERWISE REDETERMINED)

Powerlord

15:06

@ThomasMcDonald Yes, because a post on an unofficial Steam group has some bearing here...

Pkaamn.S,S,b,b...wcpamfwIaatnIb

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Q: League Of Legends In Game Chat Message to all

In LoL how do you send a message to all, y'know to say gg and the rest thanks

pc league-of-legends

user30

Yes, because the guy who said it has been part of the ARG (read: Valve) since they started "taking over" accounts.

Powerlord

potato sounds so yummy... plus I have 36 regular potatoes in addition to my gold one.

user30

In other news, resurrection_pin++

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Powerlord ur a potato.

Powerlord

15:10

@LessPop_MoreFizz You used that joke once already.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Powerlord I've used it 4 or 5 times.

(I mainly just tend to find the over-the-top ARG stuff Valve does to be far too exhausting to pay attention to.)

Powerlord

"Stand by for an important announcement from the Aperture Science Emergency Surprise System." <-- they should totally reuse this quote.

That was from last year's E3. :D

user30

Yeah, I was listening to that yesterday

Powerlord

One thing I found annoying in the Defense Grid aperture science level was that at least one alien takes a random route, and may get away with one of your energy cores regardless of your tower placement. :/

Had to replay one section at least twice until it took a different route.

Fithos! Lusec! Wecos! Vinosec!

tombull89

15:30

00:29:34 :P

it got me, I pre-ordered. downloaded: 340mb/10,000.3mb...this is going to take a while.

user30

Heh, unlucky.

Wipqozn

@tombull89 I had mine pre-loaded as soon as we could... didn't want to sit around waiting around on launch day

Powerlord

@Wipqozn Same here, particularly if launch day was Friday. ;)

tombull89

I got caught up with the excitedment and the countdown clock so I went right ahead.

Powerlord

Mission Ends in 30 minutes.

Well, less than that, but eh.

user30

15:33

Decided to play through Portal.

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald Did you get the achievement for all the radios?

tombull89

what's moar awesome it's half term this week (school holiday) so instead of working when it gets released I'll be able to jump right in.

user30

@Powerlord No, but I'm at like tc5 now

Powerlord

@tombull89 ...must... not... stab...

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald Yeah, I started another play through the other day. Got to chamber 19... then I started messing around with noclip

Powerlord

15:35

The radios achievement is much more difficult than the actual game.

Come to think of it, that's what started the entire ARG thing at Valve.

user30

I just wanted to have a playthrough so I could remember it all again. :)

tombull89

the advanced challenged give me a heart attack as it is.

Powerlord

Well, the radio thing is how I legitimately heard the stuck message, where GLaDOS opens an emergency escape hatch for you.

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Q: How do Minecraft mobs behave in water?

Several questions here related to mobs and water: When mobs enter water, do they swim at the top, or will they dive down? Can mobs spawn in the water? I assume mobs can exit water one block deep, but can they climb out from a deeper sheer edge? (Players can, right?) Is there an easy way to make...

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tombull89

whats the Pkaamn.S,S,b,b...wcpamfwIaatnIb...stand for? I know it's a bot like Community, but still...

2

Wipqozn

15:39

@tombull89 that's a good question

tombull89

I expect there's some reasoning behind it but I'm not that active on G.SE

Powerlord

@tombull89 Click on his name

tombull89

heh, Bob.

Powerlord

Wait

@failbadp: What happened to the thing in his profile that explained his new name? It's showing the old one again.

tombull89

I need to go and do something IRL, so I expect to come back shortly and watch the Aperture Science Timer go from 00:00:01 to 00:00:00 to 99:59:59

user30

15:46

I've been sat waiting for the best part of 2 hours now.

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald At least you'll be able to play it the moment portal 2 released (assuming that's what it is), some of us have to wait till we leave work (like me for example...=()

Powerlord

@Wipqozn and me.

I may skip lunch to leave an additional half-hour early.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord I can't :/ I car pool with a family member, no need to wait for them. Otherwise I might do the same.

Grace Note

@Powerlord Fixed.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord I can't :/ I car pool with a family member, so need to wait for them. Otherwise I might do the same.

Powerlord

15:50

and by "skip lunch" I mean eat it at my desk

<Announcer> Mission ends in 10 minutes.

So, stuff I expect to download on Steam today: Portal's last bit, TF2 bugfixes for crashing issues with the new patch.

user30

Deploying Aperture Science Emergency Surprise System in 7 minutes.

Powerlord

Yes, I don't know why I'm quoting the TF2 Announcer.

Besides that she's the human version of GLaDOS.

Wipqozn

wikis down, in case nobody noticed
http://valvearg.com/

tombull89

@Wipqozn saw earlier

is there a USA timezone that hits midnight in 4 minutes time?

Wipqozn

it's counting down to 7am I think (in some timezone)

tombull89

15:56

the site says "The time is near, humans. But it is not here yet. Tomorrow you will be given the final test."

so it's going to be "tomorrow" somewhere.

Wipqozn

In that case i assume it is set to the timezone of the aperture science building, or something along those lines

tombull89

00:02:30

Powerlord

@tombull89 It said that since yesterday (PDT) sometime.

tombull89

@Powerlord ah right, didn't see it with the previous text before.

I'd love to see the hits on that page at the moment.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn We already know it's counting down to 04/15/2011_9AM, which implies PDT.

user30

15:58

deploying surprise in 90

tombull89

it's 5PM GMT/UTC so nothing special there

well, here goes.

user30

5pm UTC+1

tombull89

:D

BRB.

user30

inb4 massive anticlimax

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald part of me hopes so, since it would be hilarous

user30

16:00

deploying surprise in 3, 2, 1

Wipqozn

oh man. here we go

Powerlord

So, anything interesting?

Wipqozn

5...

3...

user30

yes

tombull89

F5

user30

16:00

09:00 – Hello again.
09:00 – I’ve been waiting a long time for this.
09:00 – I know it’s arriving later than expected.
09:00 – But I have a message for you:
09:00 – April Fools.
09:01 – I’m joking.
09:01 – Seriously, though:
09:01 – You’ve been surprisingly competent at
09:01 – generating electro-chemical energy to jumpstart the system.
09:01 – But now we need raw computational power
09:02 – to speed up the reboot process.

user30

http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/

tombull89

fnarr fnarr

Powerlord

So, we need to do @home processing?

tombull89

I think...I may need to get a particular sack.

user30

No, it's on potatoes

user30

16:01

Need to get loads of potatoes before it launches.

Powerlord

I have 36 already... :/

Wipqozn

those dicks lol

user30

And the sites down

Powerlord

Wait, those look like the number of people playing each of those games.

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald works for me, or do you mean the wiki?

tombull89

16:03

-blink- i have audiosurf? o.O

user30

@Wipqozn It went down temporarily

Powerlord

@tombull89 ...did it just give all the games to people or something?

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald ah ok. didn't notice

tombull89

@Powerlord haha, no, I must have bought it ages ago and forgot/not installed it

user30

The potato count just dropped by 40k

Powerlord

16:05

Well, if just playing the games helps, I'll probably continue my way through The Ball's levels. Unless I need to continually unlock the old potatoes.

tombull89

the bar above the clock just filled...

Powerlord

....and I can't see the bars any more.

Wipqozn

think it was a glitch,

user30

@Powerlord same.

tombull89

@Powerlord also same

Wipqozn

16:06

back to normal..

Brant

So if a sh*tton of people start potato farming, we get portal 2 early?

tombull89

potatoes back up to 119,076

Wipqozn

@Brant basically

Brant

Those progress bars are worryingly empty.

Powerlord

@Brant Yes, they are.

I've noticed that some bars that have lower numbers are still farther ahead.

I wonder why that is...

user30

16:09

I think it's simultaneous people running a game rather than potato count.

Wipqozn

I assume it won't be released too early then

user30

Everyone run TWETW, it requires the least

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald hmm yeah, that makes more sense

Powerlord

store.steampowered.com/app/15500 has the highest despite one of the lower user numbers.

Which game is that?

Brant

@ThomasMcDonald Ah, I thought it was potatoes earned in that game thus far.

@Powerlord: TWEOTW

user30

16:09

@Powerlord That one.

user30

It could be

Powerlord

Hell, would just running the title screen count? :D

Wipqozn

it does say computing power, and by buying the game we reboot

Powerlord

I like the title screen music for TWEOTW

Wipqozn

the potatoes are barely mentioned on the page,..

everyone, launch every potato pack game you have

Powerlord

16:10

Potato Sack Pack plus Portal 2 are still part of a bundle deal on Steam, I assume?

@Wipqozn That's what I was thinking.

Brant

Also, there's the banner at the top that kind of explains it all:

user30

09:01 – You’ve been surprisingly competent at
09:01 – generating electro-chemical energy to jumpstart the system.
09:01 – But now we need raw computational power
09:02 – to speed up the reboot process.

Brant

user30

makes it sound like the potatoes are full done, and all we need is people running the games

Powerlord

Oh blah, the background is hidden on me.

Brant

16:11

I bet it's counting player hours.

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald yeah. If I wasn't at work... I'd launch it up

user30

maan, I was hoping to play it tonight..

Brant

Steam measures those anyway.

Powerlord

media.steampowered.com is blocked in my adblock rules, as my employers also block access to it.

Wipqozn

Everyone should just launch killing floor, and go nuts

Powerlord

16:12

I'll likely play The Ball or Amnesia's campaign instead.

Wipqozn

those numbers are not changing at all though :/ if it was people playing, you think ti would be changing

Brant

Pretty genius marketing campaign on valve's part though.

Powerlord

But if you need a KF server, kf.ocrtf2.com is always running with no funny quirks!

Brant

"Play these indie games, dammit!"

Powerlord

Normal difficulty, Long game.

Wipqozn

16:14

"those numbers" meaning the status bars next to the games

Powerlord

@Wipqozn They change when I reload the page.

Brant

A ton of people probably have most of those games sitting in their steam list from some sale or another and have never even launched them, so this is a good reason for them to actually try them out.

Powerlord

TWEOTW went from 61 to 72 CPUs.

Brant

(well, I do anyway, so "a ton" is valid for a sample size of 1)

my bet is that it's measuring cumulative hours played since the page went live

Wipqozn

@Powerlord must have just been the first few that are not changing then :/

Brant

16:15

which is something that steam tracks anyway

so it'd be easy to do

Powerlord

When I get home and finish dinner, I'll see which ones have the lowest bars, and if they're one I like, I'll play it.

Or I could cheat and launch all 13 and leave 12 sitting at their title screens.

Brant

steam probably only tracks one at a time

Wipqozn

@Powerlord sounds like the best plan :P

Powerlord

Likely whichever is listed as the one you're playing in your Profile, but just in case...

Wipqozn

none of the games are CPU intensive either,

Powerlord

16:17

I have a quad core.

Besides, the menu ones won't be doing much, and I can mute them.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord same. So I should let my computer take one for the team...

Powerlord

Too bad I can't have Steam running on two computers at the same time

Oh hey, that reminds me, I still have giftable copies of a few of these games that I already have.

Not Killing Floor, as Melissa wanted that one and I gifted it to her, but I still have... lets see... Audiosurf, Super Meat Boy, and Cogs I think.

user30

Okay, the bars are the amount of time spent playing the game

Powerlord

App 12900 has a shedload of players now.

Which app is that one?

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald just guessing, or did you test it ?

user30

16:23

Audiosurf

user30

@Wipqozn According to the IRC topic.

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald oh ok

tombull89

audiosurf has gone from 501 to 2358

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald I'm glad. Because I don't particularly care for it, so the more people that do that one, the less guilty I feel for playing something else.

user30

Killing Floor is going to take absolutely ages

Wipqozn

16:27

@ThomasMcDonald yeah :/

scatch that. It's probably based on how long the game is

Brant

meh

I have no doubt that as we closer to 90% complete, a horde of people will switch over to whatever game is needed

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald I'm surprised... I would have thought that one would have a larger community of people playing it.

I guess if KF is in last place tonight, I'll play that instead.

Brant

it sure as hell will for the next few days.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord except it needs a lot of hours till it maxes out

@Brant in a few days... the game will be out regardless :p

Powerlord

Which one is this one? It has over 4000 users right now.

user30

16:32

KF

user30

and a very small percentage bar

Wipqozn

@Powerlord Can you not view the steam store ?

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald and yet, it's not the shortest bar.

@Wipqozn Nope, work blocks it.

user30

True.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord oh ok, gotcha

user30

16:33

I'm playing aaaaaaa. because I've never played it before :/

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald Enjoyable game.. for a bit

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald That's one of the games I don't like from the set.

user30

Well, I'll do my bit to push it up a little

Powerlord

Aaaa, Cogs, and 1...2...3... Kick It are the three that I'll likely uninstall immediately when this thing is over.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord Cogs just terrible ? or just not your type of game ?

Powerlord

16:36

@Wipqozn It's a sliding block puzzle game, except with gears and pipes.

With timers and move counts.

user30

Just going to set everything loaded and then go for a walk

Powerlord

And of course, you're graded on how few moves and how little time you take to complete them.

I found even the easier levels in Cogs to be frustrating to get done in the time limits they give with the move limits they give.

user30

c'mon computer, you can run all 13 games at once

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald Start the one with the lowest bar first, in case it only does track one. ;P

FallenAngelEyes

Evening all

Wipqozn

16:38

@Powerlord I see I see. I thought about picking it up... but was mixed :/ Since it just seemed like it would get old after 20 minutes.

Powerlord

Even better, I could copy all the games to my laptop, start them all there, then use my desktop to play WoW. :D

Wipqozn

Is defense grid any good ? That is one I keep meaning to try :/

Powerlord

@Wipqozn It's a tower defense game. It's pretty good if you like that sort of thing.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord Anything special ? or is it just a flash game with prettier graphics?

Powerlord

@Wipqozn ....flash game with prettier graphics sounds about right. :P

Granted, there ARE quite a few types of towers.

Ragnar

16:40

@ThomasMcDonald Aww, you revoked your gift? :(

Powerlord

and aliens.

user30

@Ragnar I did?

Wipqozn

@Powerlord haha ok, that's why I've been holding off on buying it.

user30

Uh, okay, I'll send it again later.

Powerlord

RUSH was surprisingly fun, though.

user30

16:41

Computer is unresponsive now, not usually good for running 13 games at once.

Powerlord

Especially when you figure out the proper solution to one where the obvious solution = failure.

Ragnar

@ThomasMcDonald Yeah, when I click the email link, it says that the pass may have been revoked.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord Yeah, I bought that during the sale - right after I bought TOki TOri. Have yet to play Rush,... but I was meaning to buy taki tori for awhil. Glad I did: Excellent game.

Ragnar

@ThomasMcDonald Oh, well, either way, thanks for trying in the first place.

Brant

@Wipqozn It's a XBLA port.

Macha

16:42

Opinions on bit trip beat, killing floor or defense grid?

user30

@Ragnar I'll send it when I get back

Powerlord

@Wipqozn I've only gotten through the Forest easy levels and the Aperture Science Bonus levels, so I need to play that more.

Ragnar

@ThomasMcDonald Well, sure, thank you.

user30

> 08:57 - Default boot scheduled to finish in <span id="console_clock">71:23:18</span>

user30

Hmm. ±_±

Brant

16:42

Defense Grid is okay, it's pretty (see above comment) but nothing revolutionary in the tower defense department

I played a few hours and then forgot about it

Wipqozn

@Macha bit.trip beat is good... killing floor is great with friends, and have not played defense grid

Powerlord

@Macha Bit.Trip BEAT is kinda fun, but can get annoying at times. Essentially, you're playing a 1-player game on Pong, but the various balls all have special properties.

user30

ah man, if you refresh the source code, you can see the time getting less and less

FallenAngelEyes

Everyone still potatoing I see?

Powerlord

<3 KF. I like it better than L4D/L4D2.

@FallenAngelEyes aperturescience.com/glados@home

user30

16:43

> 335792, 335784, 335777

Brant

BTB is part pong, part rhythm game

FallenAngelEyes

I enjoy KF a lot. Bought it when it first released.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord You really can't compare them imo.

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes Basically, those bars move up as people are playing the games.

@Wipqozn You're right, KF is so much better that it's not in the same league. ;)

Wipqozn

@Powerlord ahah :p

FallenAngelEyes

16:44

...wow.

Wipqozn

GEtting the itch to play some killing floor now... if only I wasn't at work

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes and the understanding is, when all 13 games hit the top, Portal 2 gets released on Steam.

Brant

I played a botmatch of two of KF. It reminded me of CS with zombies instead of Ts.

FallenAngelEyes

Daaaamn.

So there's a cycle going on?

user30

So we're now ~1minute less than when we started

user30

16:46

I think.

FallenAngelEyes

Guh, I wish I had more of the potato sack

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes They should still be on sale.

FallenAngelEyes

Yeah, but I can't really afford to buy anything til we get paid :/

And in the Netherlands, you get paychecks once a month rather than biweekly

and that's at the end of the month for us

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes Ouch.

I got paid yesterday. :D

FallenAngelEyes

Yeah, it makes for an entirely different budgeting experience

Wipqozn

16:48

@FallenAngelEyes I can imagine.

Powerlord

Oh hell, I filled out the hours part of my time sheet, but not the project tracking part.

FallenAngelEyes

Really had to get used to it after I moved here

Powerlord

That was due nearly an hour ago. :O

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes Did you live in North America before ?

FallenAngelEyes

@Wipqozn I'm American, I grew up in upstate New York

Powerlord

16:49

@FallenAngelEyes These games went on sale on April 1st... you didn't buy them then? >:O

(aka "Potato Fools Day")

FallenAngelEyes

My boyfriend is Dutch and I moved here 4 years ago to live here

@Powerlord Had a lot of expenses this month that we had to pay and also from last month that we had to pay :(

I've needed to curb my game spending this year. :/

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes oh ok. Interesting - big move, that's for sure.

FallenAngelEyes

(...which you wouldn't know if you looked at my Games Interest on the poll >_>)

Wipqozn

So, I don't think it will get released early.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn It's still mid-day on a work day in North America... I wouldn't count things out yet.

Wipqozn

16:52

@Powerlord but if the counter has been going since yesterday... I don't know, I'll hold my jugdement till tomorrow then

Ragnar

@ThomasMcDonald Hey, nevermind, somebody else sent me a gift card for Killing Floor. Thank you either way, Sir. :-)

Wipqozn

@Powerlord but if the counter has been going since yesterday... I don't know, I'll hold my judgement till tomorrow then

FallenAngelEyes

@Wipqozn tomorrow's the weekend, it very well may spike

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes That is true. Just need to wait and see I suppose.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn These counters didn't even show up until 53 minutes ago, and they were all empty then.

Wipqozn

16:54

@Powerlord hmm yeah. Either way, only 4 days at the most, not a long wait

Powerlord

@Wipqozn: Not sure what you're doing that keep repeating messages like that.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord When I go to edit, I press backspace.. but my browser reads it instead of the message box

Powerlord

But yeah, I expect Portal 2 will release sometime tomorrow. We'll see, though.

@Wipqozn Which browser? This sounds suspiciously like a chat bug.

fail badp

@Powerlord Surely you've seen your profile?

Powerlord

@failbadp Not yet today.

Wipqozn

16:57

@Powerlord Firefox 4

fail badp

@Powerlord Perhaps you should.

Powerlord

Last I checked, it had a golden potato, 36 normal potatoes, and a PO TA T O logo in it.

@failbadp Can't, blocked from here.

Take a screenshot of it!

fail badp

@Powerlord And nothing else... peculiar?

Powerlord

@failbadp Well, I changed my name, avatar, and description yesterday!

fail badp

You also left yourself a comment?

Powerlord

16:59

My avatar is a Portal 2 coop bot (blue), my description mentions how I can't wait until PO TA TO is released or something like that, and my name is Golden Potatolord.

@failbadp About Kamen whatever being prophetic? Yes.

fail badp

HAH! Portal 2 wasn't actually released early

Powerlord

@failbadp Of course not. The timer mentioned one last test.

fail badp

It could've been the game itself.

Are the potatoes new?

Brant

At this rate we'll have it in a day or two at most

or so I like to believe

Powerlord

@failbadp I have 36 (3 rows of 13) right?

fail badp

17:01

I mean the potatos needed to "boot up" GLaDOS.

Powerlord

@failbadp It's play time, not potatoes.

fail badp

Oh.

At any rate, surprise surprise, the wiki is down.

08:57 - Default boot scheduled to finish in 92:57:12
08:58 - Activating emergency distributed computing grid...
09:00 - GLaDOS@home starting...
09:01 - Recruiting cpus to force faster boot sequence...

There's something wrong with this log

Isn't it backwards?

Powerlord

@failbadp Why would that be backwards?

Flimsy reasoning, sure, but backwards?

fail badp

The timestamps.

Powerlord

It's activating the emergency distributed computing grid to speed up the boot.

Which starts GLaDOS@home, which recruits other CPUs to speed it up.

fail badp

17:05

Okay, then the first line should be last

Powerlord

@failbadp Not really, after all, it started the emergency distributed computing grid because of how long startup was scheduled to take.

Now, what is wrong is that line continues to update the time.

I can't tell how long each bar will be, because background images on that page are blocked. :/

fail badp

TWEOTW doesn't need to be played that much, it seems.

Pkaamn.S,S,b,b...wcpamfwIaatnIb

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fail badp

Bad news is

8 mins ago, 92:57:12
Now, 92:48:50

Powerlord

It appears that the games that are shorter have lower requirements for their bar.

fail badp

17:11

That's perhaps a minute every 10 minutes

Powerlord

Killing Floor, unsurprisingly, has the highest requirements.

fail badp

So less than 10% off.

So ~8 hours.

Circa.

Powerlord

21 mins ago, by Powerlord

@Wipqozn It's still mid-day on a work day in North America... I wouldn't count things out yet.

fail badp

@Powerlord If my math isn't off it's 9pm in UK

bwarner

If I have some of the games from the potato sack, but haven't purchased the whole thing, can I still contribute to the Portal challenge?

Powerlord

17:14

@failbadp Eh? My clock says 1:15pm EDT. Which would make it 6:15pm BST.

@bwarner Yes, playing any of them you have will.

FallenAngelEyes

@fail How could it be 9pm in the UK when it's only 7:14pm in CEST?

fail badp

EEST confuses me :(

bwarner

And do I have to have pre-ordered Portal 2?

fail badp

Especially when this computer is using CEST read as UTC

FallenAngelEyes

So do you have to contribute a certain amount of hours to each game or...?

Wipqozn

17:15

@bwarner I would imagine so (that only owning some potato games would be enough)

@FallenAngelEyes Yes - according to Thomas, who cited the IRC as a source

FallenAngelEyes

Ah, hrm.

fail badp

@bwarner I hope so; I'm on the same boat

Wipqozn

Also, how do you quote I post, such as what powerlord did with mine... I looked over the FAQ, but didn't see anything

fail badp

At any rate -- bbl.

Brant

@Wipqozn Paste a link to a chat message (click the dropdown arrow and copy the permalink) and the chat system converts it to the actual message you linked to

7 secs ago, by Brant

@Wipqozn Paste a link to a chat message (click the dropdown arrow and copy the permalink) and the chat system converts it to the actual message you linked to

Wipqozn

17:25

46 secs ago, by Brant

@Wipqozn Paste a link to a chat message (click the dropdown arrow and copy the permalink) and the chat system converts it to the actual message you linked to

Excellent! thank you =)

Brant

it does similar things for wikipedia links, SO blog links, question/answer links, images, I think amazon.. there's a list somewhere which someone will hopefully link me to because I'm to groggy/undercaffeinated to look

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A: What links and sites are handled specially in chat?

The current list of integrated (we call this onebox, or oneboxing, ala search engines) sites is: Stack Exchange Questions Stack Exchange Answers Stack Exchange Users Stack Exchange Chat Messages Stack Exchange Chat Rooms (though not really pretty yet) Amazon Twitter Wikipedia XKCD YouTube Githu...

Too slow, suckas!

Wipqozn

haha, thank you :p quite useful information indeed

FallenAngelEyes

@Powerlord so if I just fire up KF to run while I'm eating dinner or something, it'll contribute?

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes It should. That's what a few people are already doing.

tombull89

@FallenAngelEyes it's 6:30pm in the UK currently.

FallenAngelEyes

17:33

fires it up then

tombull89

I could create a 6 hour song, a mash of tracks that I have, and leave it playing on audiosurf...come back in 6 hours, do it again.

FallenAngelEyes

I don't really like how they changed Steam's Library's submenu to a dropdown

And apparently my KF doesn't want to startup and keeps crashing ;_;

tombull89

what, Steam. What?!

FallenAngelEyes

Hey guys, what's the $ price for the potato sack bundle?

Wondering what it is in comparison to the euro price

tombull89

17:48

@FallenAngelEyes what's it in Euro? It's £24.22 for the UK

FallenAngelEyes

34.47 euro

Dammit, just heard from a friend that ti's like $38.72 in dollars, which is only like 27 euro or so at current exchange rate >:(

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes Things are generally cheaper on the North American Steam. :/

It may or may not have to do with VAT... not sure.

FallenAngelEyes

Grrrrr.

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