The Bridge

Ben Brocka

18:02

@StrixVaria that strut is how you play, man. Until that stupid hurdle

Shotgun Ninja

@fbueckert You have to test on production servers?

fbueckert

Yes! Finally!

Shotgun Ninja

@fbueckert whoa whut

Ben Brocka

> The developer working on this is in training all this week

Shotgun Ninja

@BenBrocka facepalm

fbueckert

18:04

@ShotgunNinja Sharepoint's dev environment is the most basic level (Foundation).

Ben Brocka

Yeah that's totally what I want to hear when I ask when you can patch our accounting software

Shotgun Ninja

Also, how many people in here are professional software developers or IT personnel?

fbueckert

Any of the extra features (Publishing, extended workflows, etc., etc.) are only available with non-free licenses.

Shotgun Ninja

@fbueckert Can't you whip together an identical server and test on that?

Michel

fbueckert

18:05

@ShotgunNinja $$.

I need those extra features to test against.

Shotgun Ninja

@fbueckert Oh right, it's Micro$oft.

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert virtual servers?

Or do you need another license for the test server?

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Microsoft has no allowance for dev environments for Sharepoint.

Ben Brocka

And people wonder why PHP is popular

fbueckert

At least not that I can find.

Ben Brocka

18:07

I just throw WAMP on something and start building

fbueckert

Also, fuck Sharepoint.

Some methods do different things depending on whether or not the user is logged in.

"Oh, anonymous access? Return null"

And the documentation (what little there is) tells you nothing about this.

Ben Brocka

I've heard no good things about Sharepoint

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Not going to hear any from me.

It's a stone cold nightmare to work with.

Grace Note

@fbueckert Hahahahaha, oh, I remember when I had to do this kind of thing.

Shotgun Ninja

@BenBrocka To be fair, I'd love to run .NET on everything, because it's awesome. I work on a Java/Struts e-commerce stack, and I HAAAAAAAAAATE Java.

fbueckert

18:10

@GraceNote I spent a solid hour trying to figure out the fact that the method was returning null. I literally have to tell Sharepoint that it's alright to run the method.

@ShotgunNinja Struts was my introduction to backend web development.

Not bad. Kinda like it.

Compared to Sharepoint, it's a dream.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Items

Grace Note

@fbueckert I had a lot of different checks for these things, and several qualifiers that converted nulls to not-nulls and vice versa.

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Eh?

fbueckert

@GraceNote I needed the object the method was supposed to provide. Not a blank.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Response to your question about quarries

OrigamiRobot

18:12

Oh. Quite late.

Ben Brocka

@ShotgunNinja I hate their front end stuff. And I don't really have much problem with PHP anymore

Grace Note

Even had a method whose name that I can't remember but it was basically called "Is_Empty_For_SharePoint".

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Sorry. I'm online now

fbueckert

@GraceNote Heh. Sharepoint has so many stupid quirks.

And it's never detailed anywhere.

It wouldn't be so bad if there was documentation kicking around for it.

Not even MS's own documentation mentions anything about it. It's just, "It does this."

Ok, Sharepoint venting complete. Back to work!

2

Ben Brocka

PLEASE RT! NEW, FREE Kirby Super Star remix album from @ocremix! Milky Way Wishes! (>^_^)> http://milkyway.ocremix.org

Tweeted by ocremix on March 11, 2013 at 4:38 PM

Lazers

18:23

2

Q: What effect does completely destroying your city have?

Say you have gotten a city started and you hate it. You have enough money to start a new one, all bonds free, etc. What effects would it have if I completely flattened everything? Utilities, buildings, zones, town hall, everything. Would it be like starting fresh, or would there be something "le...

simcity

0

Q: What happen if there is a equal number of votes?

In conclave, when you are choosing the "direction" of your quest, you and your team need to vote, the majority will be the accepted chose. How is the option chosen if there is not a majority?

conclave

0

Q: nvidia 3d glasses with asus x53s

I have asus X53S with gt540m, recently I both benq xl2411t (which says nvidia 3d vision ready) and nvidia 3d glasses. According to short install manual in nvidia control panel there should be item for stereoscoping 3d, but I can't find it there. Is there something more need to do, except install ...

stereo-3d

0

Q: PS3 sees media servers over wifi, but not wired?

My PS3 is plugged into my FiOS router with a Cat5 cable. It gets an IP on my network (192.168.1.85) fine and is able to access a webserver on my lan fine. It also has no problem connecting to the Internet. However, it doesn't see either of the two laptops on my network that serve as media serv...

ps3 wifi

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Oh, right, the previous one was a Kirby's Adventure album.

Ben Brocka

@ShotgunNinja Java on the other hand I was quite annoyed with. But personally I'm content to make pages and style them nice, I like the UI stuff much more than themajor backend coding stuff, though I do that as well for what we have

4

Dammit that shouldn't have come out so small

> How to increase FPS in minesweeper? How do I make mineswepper run fsster? I alredy run razr geme buster and overcluck my RAm and procesir to 3 GHz. Only have floppy drive, though. No need for more than 2 gb, is alreddy big enogh.

It's all about the overclucked procesirs baby

Michel

1

Q: What happen if there is a equal number of votes?

In conclave, when you are choosing the "direction" of your quest, you and your team need to vote, the majority will be the accepted chose. How is the option chosen if there is not a majority?

conclave

@Lazers ahhh, i didn't saw you @Lazers . sorry

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Pay me a million dollars. I will make Minesweeper blaze.

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert Are you from EA?

fbueckert

18:27

@BenBrocka Nope.

I just think if a user is stupid enough to pay me a million dollars so they can play minesweeper, then I'll be nice and clean out their computer for them.

And then shock them whenever they try to install something stupid.

fredley

@RonanForman Indexer crashed game

Ronan Forman

@fredley You need to update your EB client.

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka got flagged for something?

Ben Brocka

What'd I do now?

OrigamiRobot

Something in The Water Cooler about some meta post.

Ben Brocka

18:33

Oh, chat flag. I see that flag. Just a troll flagging my posts about them

OrigamiRobot

How quaint.

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Speaking of trolls, ours has been awfully quiet lately.

Ben Brocka

I was confused, it shows the original comment date in my flagged post history so I thought that was an old one

My flagged post history is extremely stupid except for a couple mod flagged "derp this has my email plox delete" flags by myself

One has the word "crap", one is a pony, two are random messages from a chatroom

user15026

I have never been chat-flagged.

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn flags random message

user15026

18:39

@fbueckert Jerk.

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Experiences. Good things, no?

user15026

@fbueckert Sometimes :)

Ben Brocka

Yay we have a SQL Server 2012 server to test on!

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka My flag history is stupid as well.

Mar 1 at 14:02, by OrigamiRobot

@fredley I got banned once for linking a spam answer in chat so people could flag it.

Ben Brocka

@OrigamiRobot yeah, that's pretty stupid

djsmiley2k

18:45

can you see if you've been flagged?

Ben Brocka

I don't believe so (though you see al ittle message while you're chat suspended)

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Water Mills seem perfect for my base.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Very low power, but good idea

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Anything helps.

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn o/ Neither have I!

Lazers

18:59

0

Q: What does it mean when residential demand is halfway faded?

Just noticed that the green bars showing residential demand is actually partially faded out. The whole bar is filled, but a portion of the top is maybe 50% lighter than the rest. My industrial demand is also a full bar, but all the same color. Anyone know what this means? Does it have anything t...

simcity

fbueckert

sigh The local MP of our traditionalist region is thinking the anti-bully bill might be violating his constituent's religious rights.

Ben Brocka

Ugh AP gets this bug constantly, but when I try to reproduce it I get nothing on my machines

fbueckert

It's getting turned from a "Keep the kids safe from bullying" problem into a "I have the right to be a religious bigot!" problem.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Sigh...

user15026

@fbueckert People like that frustrate me, to say the least.

OrigamiRobot

19:18

-2

Q: How to place a max bid on Diablo 3?

I'm sure you have been outbid right away when bidding on an item. That means someone gave Blizzard a max value to which they are willing to go for that item. Blizzard will then automatically place a bid for you, 5% over the last bid. I suspect these bids can be placed by changing the current bid...

diablo-3

What even is this?

Sconibulus

@OrigamiRobot not sure, sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from confusion

user15026

0

A: How can I get Diablo II to run on Windows 7?

Well people, You just delete my diabloII.exe from my computer, even if I told to your program not to do it. Thats fabulous. Thank You. You just show me that I make the wrong choise. and You said that You protect me from viruses. AVG is the biggest one

user15026

What.

StrixVaria

@AshleyNunn I already asked this anyway.

Oh, that was an answer on my question :P

I thought it was a new question.

user15026

@StrixVaria Nope, just a new answer.

OrigamiRobot

19:29

You know what drives me insane?

Sconibulus

...where did that even come from?

OrigamiRobot

> This page intentionally left blank.

Sconibulus

would a (mostly) make you feel better?

user15026

@OrigamiRobot But if you say it is blank then it isn't blank

user15026

AUGH

MBraedley

19:30

@AshleyNunn I said the same thing. There aren't any answers that say to delete the executable. Even if there were, it's a simple matter of reinstalling the game.

user15026

@MBraedley Prtetty much

user15026

I wonder if AVG nailed it as a virus or something? That seems to be the whole rant, but I am not sure

MBraedley

@AshleyNunn It seems like he's blaming us, though

user15026

@MBraedley Yeah I am not enirely sure, the whole thing is a jumble of weirdness

Lazers

0

Q: Why do Infected people in Resident Evil 6 turn into insect-like life forms? (Spoilers)

I am currently going through Chris's gameplay and realised that the J'avo turn into insect like creatures such as spiders, centipedes, and wasps etc ... Also, the last Boss in Leon's mission is a giant mantis like creature ... Can anyone give me a source for me to read that has more on this ?? W...

resident-evil-6

agent86

19:39

should I buy jet set radio for $2.50?

I have no idea if it's even worth playing this many years after release

MBraedley

@agent86 It's only $2.50

Fluttershy

agent86

@MBraedley yeah, but I have like... a billion games

Fluttershy

@agent86 Have you never played it?

agent86

I stopped counting after 10. I figure it goes 9, 10, a billion

@Fluttershy I have not played it

MBraedley

19:40

@agent86 Not only do I have a tonne of games to finish playing, but I have a tonne of games to start playing

Fluttershy

@agent86 Then yes. It's a fairly short game, but a lot of fun.

agent86

@MBraedley same here...

I'm just glad we're in the "not steam sale" season

although, here I am, considering a (minor) steam sale

I have a gift card to gamestop I need to trade for a steam wallet code, but I haven't, because then I'd probably spend it...

Fluttershy

@agent86 Also good for $2.50: Rochard.

agent86

@Fluttershy I think I got this from a humble bundle of some description.

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy Double uncanny valley all the way across the sky!

MBraedley

19:43

@agent86 Yes, that is the biggest contributor to "haven't started yet" syndrome. I've got Bioshock 1&2, Batman Arkam Asylum/City, Mirrors Edge, and a few others that I haven't even started.

agent86

@MBraedley indeed. I'm at least making progress these days. I went on like... a billion day civ5 binge for achievements, but now I'm doing the more sensible thing of playing a lot of faster games

MBraedley

Why does Chrome keep insisting on resetting it's volume? Each ping was super loud compared to everything else, until I turned the system volume down.

Fluttershy

@agent86 What are you working on now?

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Well, it can't get closed as a dupe, but the comment's still there.

agent86

@Fluttershy prototype 2, when I have a free second. the wife's BL2 addiction is raging though, so she's been playing that with me most evenings

Jason Berkan

19:46

@agent86 Don't teach your children to count. Let the school system do it.

agent86

@JasonBerkan psh. a billion of anything is enough for anyone.

fbueckert

@agent86 You still have Pharaoh!

agent86

@fbueckert I know, and SMAC...

fbueckert

@agent86 Those two will take all your free time and laugh.

You should get Monster Hunter, so you can play with @Wipqozn and I.

agent86

isn't that for a console I don't own?

Ben Brocka

19:50

@agent86 BL2 has claimed a lot of hours other games could have gotten for me too

fbueckert

@agent86 Details, schmetails.

Ben Brocka

Monster hunter is in...two weeks?

agent86

@BenBrocka I'm playing the pirate DLC, and kind of meh about it

I'm hoping torgue and/or hammerlock are better.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Maybe a mod can help.

Ben Brocka

@agent86 TORGUE DLC IS THE BEST MOTHER$%&ING DLC EVER

agent86

19:52

I will probably go for another playthrough, although if I try for the "raid bosses" I will probably glitch it (if the glitches are still unpatched)

OrigamiRobot

THAT'S YOU @AGENT86

agent86

@OrigamiRobot WHAT ARE THINGS EXPLODING?

MBraedley

@BenBrocka EXPLOSIONS!!!

Ben Brocka

The pirate one was kinda meh, especially the raid bosses. Hammerlock's had some okay new enemy types, but still not my fav

fbueckert

North Korea cancelled the military armistice. Who wants to bet the nuclear tests had something to do with that?

Ben Brocka

19:53

I'm hoping DLC 4 is more along the lines of the Knoxx DLC from BL1

agent86

@BenBrocka I really liked the claptrap DLC

OrigamiRobot

@agent86 We need you to explode this into a properly closed dupe.

Ben Brocka

Claptrap was my second fav. But that's not saying much because the zombie one was uninspired and Moxxie's was a grindfest with almost no loot and no XP

Knoxx was the only one I felt really lived up to the rest of the game, though Claptrap's came close

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka I liked zombie TK

agent86

@BenBrocka knoxx was pretty good too, don't get me wrong. I just like claptrap. I didn't play the other two, I just bought those two.

both of them seemed meh

Ben Brocka

19:54

I hated his quests. The last one is insanely grindy. Though not as bad as the claptrap DLC trophies

Moxxie's was better for the bank than the actual gameplay

agent86

apparently there's going to be a 6th playable character as DLC sooner or later?

Ben Brocka

Yeah, the claptrap quotes were good in that DLC

@agent86 yeah, there was a teaser somewhere. Looked like a melee guy

agent86

I wish they'd do a "real" season pass that actually included stuff. Every time something else comes out, I go "I wish I'd waited for the GOTY/Gold edition or whatever"

@OrigamiRobot BOOOM MOTHERHUGGER!

I mean, if they go for a season 2, gah

OrigamiRobot

THANKS @AGENT86! YOU''RE A REAL BADASS! DON'T FORGET TO BUY TORGUE

agent86

c'mon guys...

Ben Brocka

19:56

preorderers got Gaige free. But yeah it'd be nice if they didn't exclude all this other crap in the season one things

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka CC: @IanPugsley

Ben Brocka

@agent86 If they do a season 2 it better be much better produced. Lots of lazy clipping/invisible wall issues in DLCs 1 and 3, lots of unfun excessively anti-Bee raid boss design, lots of underwhelming normal bosses and generally meh-ness. Doesn't help there's no new guns aside from uniques/seraph weapons. It'd be cool if each DLC included some new gun parts for new random gun types

MBraedley

@BenBrocka I was finding some bad clipping areas in the main game as well. Specifically, parts of area around Tiny Tina.

Ben Brocka

I didn't really notice many, but it was laughably noticable in some parts of Hammerlock's, and the invisible walls were everywhere in DLC1 (which the hoverboats make extremely obvious)

►

MBraedley

@BenBrocka I haven't played enough of Hammerlock's (even though my brother and I apparently beat the story) to notice anything glaring.

Ben Brocka

20:08

@MBraedley It's mostly in one area, but you'll be hovering literally a foot over the top of some cliffs near where Arizona is

It didn't really affect the gameplay, but it just goes to make the DLCs feel cheap

I wonder if they don't farm out some of the coding for it, or let the Aliens team touch it or something

MBraedley

I think they just needed better QA in general

OrigamiRobot

I want to see unique/legendary parts instead of full weapons.

Ben Brocka

Yeah. Can't believe they didn't find/fix the menu scroll bug

MBraedley

@BenBrocka They tried, but it didn't stick.

It was in one of the patch notes

Ben Brocka

@OrigamiRobot Well, legendaries still spawn with randomly spawned bits. Usually it's just specific parts that are predefined

But it'd be cool to start seeing slightly new types of weapons in DLCs like those multi-pellet pistols or shotgun rockets from the first game

MBraedley

20:12

@BenBrocka EXPLOSIONS!!!

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka Right but it's still confined to a weapon type.

Sconibulus

@OrigamiRobot Isn't that how it works? I thought the legendary bits added randomly just ended up changing the name.

MBraedley

anyways, it's quitting time. Later all.

Ben Brocka

@OrigamiRobot So like legendary accesseries that can be on many types of guns?

@Sconibulus Legendary bits have some pre-required parts and some parts that can be random

Usually the barrel is the unique part, and the material is fixed

Michel

Doogle Google BR

google.com.br

Sconibulus

20:16

Ahh, I remembered from a play, not sure which game, that you could end up having something like a legendary stock combined with a legendary barrel, for a cool double-special gun

I think it might have been the original, rather than 2

Ben Brocka

@Michel The US one (and I assume many others) have Douglas Adams' birthday doodle too

Neat that they translated it

Michel

@BenBrocka I opened the US and was not showing to me =X

Ben Brocka

@Michel google.us ?

Michel

@BenBrocka it redirect me to google.com witho no doodle

user15026

@Michel Same here

Ben Brocka

20:19

weird

user15026

It seems to only work if you go to your own localized google version (so .ca for me)

Ben Brocka

I don't really get how this is contraversial

11

Q: Remove "Being ignored by" message in chat profile

So it turns out when you're being ignored in SE chat, you get a nice red message in your profile: Being ignored by X users At first I thought I saw it because I'm a mod in chat, but apparently it only shows on your own chat profile. It doesn't actually give the name of who's ignoring you ei...

feature-request chat ignored-users

user15026

@BenBrocka I hate that it is like "being ignored by 1 user" ...this tells me nothing useful - of anything, it is annoying

user15026

Okay, fine, one person in the wide space of here thinks I am annoying. Great. Yay me. Why do I need to know this?

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Am I blind? I don't see anything of that nature on anyone's chat profile.

Ben Brocka

20:23

Some people seem to honestly believe the only people who will be ignored are actual jerks. That's a load of crap\

fbueckert

Also, I'm linked to area51 again.

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert You only see it on your own (but you don't see who, making it totally useless)

@fbueckert yeah that's been going around

fbueckert

@BenBrocka I guess that means no one's ignoring me.

Strange.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert I'm ignoring you

tiddy

Oh shit sciencespacerobots.com/blog/31020131

SaintWacko

20:26

LALALALALALALALALA

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Right. Like you'd want to be deprived of my scintillating conversation. :P

OrigamiRobot

@fredley On my way home. Get ready to quarry!

user15026

@BenBrocka Pretty sure I'm not an actual jerk. Just sayin'.

BoltClock

-1

Q: When will the pre-order DLCs for Tomb Raider be released?

I had pre-ordered this game and was told that I will get DLCs Explorer Bundle and Combat Strike. However, I am not able to find those in Steam. Any idea when will they be released?

tomb-raider-2013

Was this already answered on chat?

OrigamiRobot

@tiddy This is so full of wrong.

SaintWacko

20:28

@tiddy Psh, that's nothing. The Michigan state bird is the mosquito.

agent86

@BenBrocka yeah, besides the fact that I'm crazy overleveled for this DLC, I'm really sad that the unique weapons in it so far are all craptastic

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn You're just meab!

OrigamiRobot

Gallinippers eat mosquitoes. They are good things.

user15026

@SaintWacko AM NOT

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn What do you think of the Monster Hunter demo?

SaintWacko

20:30

@AshleyNunn ARE TOO

user15026

@fbueckert Not really my thing.

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Aww.

user15026

@SaintWacko NO

OrigamiRobot

Nevermind. Apparently "Gallinipper" does not always refer to the same thing.

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn ДА

tiddy

20:31

In this case they are referring to mother truckin' 20x larger blood suckers

SaintWacko

@tiddy Well, I'm staying well away from Florida, then

And possibly the outside in general

OrigamiRobot

@tiddy I always heard Gallinipper used to refer to Crane Flies

Which TIL don't eat mosquitoes

user15026

@SaintWacko нет, и ваше лицо странно

user15026

SO THERE

Ben Brocka

@agent86 The levels problem is annoying too, you really need to either be lucky or play at max level to experience the DLCs right, for now. In BL1 there was a much longer gap between end of game and level cap

fbueckert

20:33

I guess @Wipqozn and I will have to murder monsters ourselves.

user15026

@fbueckert Sorry :(

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Buy me a WiiU and a TV.

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Nah, it's alright.

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Мое лицо красивым

fbueckert

You'd have to pick up a Wii U to be able to play with us anyways.

@OrigamiRobot No.

SaintWacko

20:34

и ДА!

OrigamiRobot

THEN GET OVER IT

user15026

@SaintWacko немного

user15026

SEE I AM BEING NICE

SaintWacko

-.-

user15026

:D

SaintWacko

20:36

Because I don't have my russian keyboard installed, I'm having to type these into google translate, then check them over to make sure they're right -.-

user15026

@SaintWacko I use translit.ru, because I have a keyboard installed, but I don't have the stickers on this keyboard so it is more trial and error than anything

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Go look online for a phonetic Russian keyboard

It shuffles the keys around so they're on the most similar english letters

IT's much easier to use

user15026

@SaintWacko That's what translit.ru does :)

user15026

Also, @fbueckert, Star Command's reply to me on Twitter is NOT AWESOME

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Oh?

user15026

20:39

mostly because it is unecessarily snarky

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Oh, That's neat

@AshleyNunn Post here?

user15026

@SaintWacko How do I get teh links for tweets?

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn I do not know. I do not use teh tweets

Also, hometime!

fbueckert

They're getting mad at the amount of backlash they're getting.

user15026

WEll, copy and paste it is then - I replied to their tweet about public beta going well, and their current issue being low memory devices, if that meant that they were expecting a release soon, and I got the following : "Maybe. At this point we love working on it so much we may just keep working on it forever. For. Ev. Er. For. Ev. Er."

Lazers

20:41

2

Q: What are the cheats in simcity?

When enabling sandbox mode in Simcity it says it enables cheats. What are these cheats and how do you use them?

simcity

1

Q: Is my regional highway ramp supposed to use power?

Context: After bulldozing my entire city to start fresh with the money saved up, I found that my budget was running at -240 pr hour because of power cost to the highway ramp (to region). Question: Is this a bug, or working as intended? Info about the city. The city is on year three and I have...

simcity

fbueckert

It doesn't help that I'm tearing a strip off of them, and I'm calling it vaporware.

user15026

@fbueckert At this point, that is really what it is

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Indeed.

agent86

> The city is on year three and I have about 4 million credits on hand (Maxed out taxes, turned off all the utilities, and let it run until i was making less than 5k pr hour. Then i bulldozed everything).

this sounds awesome

user15026

@fbueckert I was mostly just like dude, I was being nice!

fbueckert

20:42

kickstarter.com/projects/starcommand/…

user15026

I was just curious if there was any idea!

fbueckert

I told them they have until the 13th. After that, they've officially lost my support forever.

agent86

"town meeting, everyone. town meeting. Okay, so we've decided that this place sucks, so what we're going to do is... a) take all your money. b) turn everything off. c) wait for you to get fed up, and then d) bulldoze all your houses to the ground. SUCK IT, LATER LOSERS!"

fbueckert

@agent86 That only works in socialist cities.

agent86

@fbueckert clearly the only ones worth playing then.

tiddy

20:44

What happens to the people

agent86

I want to play this game now, just to do that to a city.

fbueckert

@agent86 Hence why I like Pharaoh.

tiddy

Bulldoze them into mass graves?

agent86

@tiddy I'm guessing yes, I mean technically they live there until the bulldozers roll through town

tiddy

Pretty dark

user15026

20:45

@fbueckert I get your point, but that is kinda meaningless considering they have your money

agent86

"whelp, if you're still here and paying taxes, there must be something wrong with you, and you have no place in our master race rebuild effort. enjoy being buried alive!"

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn It depends on how often they plan on doing this in the future.

For this, yeah, not much I can do.

user15026

@fbueckert Fair enough

fbueckert

For anything in the future, though, screw them. They get nothing.

user15026

I think the whole thing is just weird and strange and ridiculous

user15026

20:46

They are like but we showed you a gameplay video! AGES AGO!

user15026

But we aren't in alpha, we are in BETA!

user15026

so what. It's been HOW long now?

tiddy

I remember in Roller Coaster Tycoon they allowed you to build death camps basically

If I could build a highway in Simcity that just dropped off into a sinkhole. Now we're talking....

agent86

@tiddy I think there was a dorkly video about this as well

Jason Berkan

@tiddy Sheesh - in RCT you were rewarded for killing off guests that were complaining about your park.

My wife regularly drowned complainers in order to win the scenario.

tiddy

20:48

I would just launch the raft riders 300 yrds through the air to their death in the hot sands

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Six months and counting since the PC Kickstarter finished.

agent86

related: let us never speak of this again

fbueckert

Well over a year and change since the mobile version.

user15026

@fbueckert And how long since the mobile?

tiddy

have twin coasters collide

user15026

20:48

@JasonBerkan I would ramp up the speed on the single loop coasters and send people flying off the end

fbueckert

The mobile version got funded on Oct 06, 2011

So yeah. Almost eighteen months and uncounted missed release dates.

badp

@SaintWacko what was that game server again?

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user15026

I keep trying to find a newer game as awesome as RCT, but nothing seems that awesome :(

fbueckert

@GamingTopicsFromOutside Crossposting. Ugh.

@AshleyNunn Dungeon Keeper.

user15026

21:05

@fbueckert That's not much newer :P

Jason Berkan

@AshleyNunn Why do games need to be newer? gog.com/gamecard/rollercoaster_tycoon_deluxe

user15026

@JasonBerkan because they generally aren't avail....oh. shiny. :D

user15026

I got the third one at some point, but I find the newer ones were never as good as the original

user15026

Their sign-in form is broken

user15026

ARGH

user15026

21:12

Woot. Bought.

James

21:25

@fbueckert lol I was just going to say Uh, Isnt that a dupe? :)

agent86

I know a secret~ so I'm going to taunt you, even though I can't tell you. I'm so meab.

user15026

@agent86 You are the worst

agent86

@AshleyNunn inorite?

it's a good secret, although not a very surprising one.

user15026

@agent86 You evil man, taunting us so

agent86

@AshleyNunn nods

this secret will stop being secret in 2.5 hours.

then it will be the opposite of secret

user15026

21:32

@agent86 An unsecret secret

agent86

@AshleyNunn indeed! it will be very unsecret for a secret.

Ullallulloo

@agent86 HotS site theme/promotion?

agent86

@Ullallulloo if I were to confirm or deny any speculation, that wouldn't be very secretive.

Ullallulloo

@agent86 True. It sounds secret.

agent86

@Ullallulloo yes. that word has now lost all meaning. I am now satiated.

Ben Brocka

21:37

It's going to be a Simcity theme and all images will be replaced with broken jpgs

agent86

@BenBrocka dude, you promised you wouldn't tell :/

now what am I going to do with all these broken jpgs?

badp

The news is Arqade Offline Mode. You ask questions, you answer them, you give yourself reps. Be the champion of your own Arqade

agent86

@badp here, have these broken jpgs. they should go well with this.

badp

@agent86 I have already an official supplier of broken jpgs, sorry

agent86

@badp I like the mauve color scheme. very mauve. mauve.

Ben Brocka

21:40

@badp offline mode was scrapped

badp

@agent86 It has the most RAM.

@BenBrocka but it's such a hassle! You've got guys and you can't vote yourself and other answers and closing and comments and meta and chat and mods and all that crap!

offline mode 4eva

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agent86

@badp single player is the only way I play.

fbueckert

EA has no plans to allow offline for SimCity.

OrigamiRobot

@FREDLEY NEEDS TO MOVE ALL HIS GIANT LAG MACHINES

fbueckert

Like, ever.

badp

21:49

Surprise level: 0

I figure that making SimCity offline would pretty much be a pretty large undertaking

they'd have much to rewrite

fbueckert

@badp Perhaps.

Depending on badly or integrated the online functionality is.

badp

At the end of the day it's a client-server program

Making it standalone without running a server on your machine would require... some work

Ullallulloo

@badp Jeb did that in Minecraft didn't he?

badp

@Ullallulloo He did the opposite; turn single player into client-server by running a server on your machine

Mad Scientist

They'd have to admit defeat, if they were to enable offline-mode. And most of the damage has happened now, I strongly doubt they'll do anything like that

fbueckert

21:55

A good writeup on the problems of SimCity, and why we shouldn't be quiet about it

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