@kalina Google Image Search has some nice "advanced" filters. No idea about "good" though.

@Blem POWERLORD SOFTSTARTER APPLICATIONS

@MartinSojka I'll probably just tape together 3 1080p ones in GIMP or something

@BenBrocka We shouldn't be surprised.

Hard enough to find wallpapers I like

I like this one:

@Wipqozn Heh.

Which table did you get?

@fbueckert Ether 3 or 13.

Also, pancake and waffle breakfast at work.

It was awesome.

I'm trying to decide whether or not I want to spend another 1-2 to take another shot.

@MartinSojka Why's Charon included?

Table 3 and 13 aren't cursed tables, so there is that.

@Wipqozn For a character you're going to be investing 100+ hours into, is spending an extra hour or two that bad?

@BenBrocka Hell if I knew, I didn't make it. In any case, easy to change it yourself if you want to.

@BenBrocka wallbase.cc ?

@Wipqozn What game is this?

@fbueckert IT really, really is.

The whole thing makes me physically angry because of how fucking stupid it is.

@Wipqozn If you don't, you're going to be regretting it and thinking about it later on.

Whoever thought it was a good idea should be fired, and whoever did it step up and start it should be fired too.

What are you talking about?

@MartinSojka Is this to scale?

@SaintWacko Capcom being run by idiots.

I feel like Jupiter/Sol aren't big enough compared to Earth.

@Wipqozn Ah

@StrixVaria I didn't actually measure it, but it looks very much so.

@MartinSojka Yeah, seems that way to me

@StrixVaria I'm pretty sure earth should be a barely visible dot compared to the sun.

It's a version of the picture off Wikipedia, which is to scale:

@MartinSojka LKJDASLKFJ IT STOPS AT NEPTUNE :(

I don't know how I didn't realize this before.

@MartinSojka That really shows you how small and insignificant we really are.

@MartinSojka Really? Earth seems a bit... big

@MartinSojka last I checked, there weren't many 'really good' ones

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm sure she's just big-boned.

And it goes to show what human ingenuity can accomplish.

@fbueckert And Sol is a relatively tiny star, if I'm remembering my astronomy right.

Astronomy is all about magnitudes of scale.

@StrixVaria The fact that we're building objects to send into space is incredible all on it's own, no matter the size of our sun.

@fbueckert I was responding to the "insignificant" bit, not the other one.

@StrixVaria We're really tiny.

That puts our problems into perspective.

Anyway, it doesn't have to be a wallpaper. Just find a really wide piece of art or painting or whatever, and use it as a wallpaper

@fbueckert I don't know about insignificant. Those giant masses things don't have things that are alive on them

Stellarium images are also good

@badp HOW DO YOU KNOW

that we know of...

@StrixVaria ALIENS

oh @badp, thanks for unbanning me lastnight

@badp A planet's not going to divert course if we're in the way.

had already gone by the time you decided to do it

I remember the sun monsters from Dr. Who

@kalina you're welcome

@fbueckert It is. Ever so slightly

a few microns or so

> Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

equally terrifying?

Also, astronomers are funny with their names.

I'd think being alone would be a lot terrifyinger...

@Sconibulus just think of the lag!

@badp An insignificant amount.

The yellow star is our Sun. The four to five times bigger light blue one? That's a "blue dwarf".

@fbueckert Yeah, luckily we're more than something with mass

(The one in the background is R136a1)

@MartinSojka and the pixel error you can see to the left is actually earth! ;)

Just think about it! If there was life on Mars, we wouldn't be able to play TF2 with them!

That is so sad.

sure we could! We'd just need a LAN party in orbit

@badp Must invent faster than light communication before we invade space!

@Blem It's a must.

@fbueckert It looks like Table 3 and 13 are good general tables, so I might just stick with it. Table 1 doesn't look that much better.

THINK OF THE PING!

@Sconibulus that would shave off a few seconds? maybe?

@Wipqozn what game?

sol == sun

@Sconibulus Monster hunter

@Wipqozn You should've just done your best to get your preferred table, and stop there.

@badp I mean, have the martians meet us in an orbit, and LAN party

Don't bother checking if you got the right one or not.

@fbueckert I did.

@Sconibulus that's still a second or so of lag

I did the timing thing. IT just didn't seem to work.

why?

@Wipqozn Jan. 21, 2012?

@fbueckert ....jan 12? I didn't know the date mattered. Fuck.

Thought it was just time

zeus damn it

@Wipqozn ...Didn't you read the thread at all?

@fbueckert I did. I just missed the date. I just seen the times.

@Wipqozn Yeah, gotta use the date.

And kill your wireless before doing so, or it'll re-sync on it's own.

Is @Wipqozn cheating?

I don't know if I got the day right or not.

Just remember, it's 201**2**.

@OrigamiRobot No. TRying to overcome the incompetence of the monster hunter dev team.

@kalina Seems like it'd be nice for first person games. A 45 degree or whatever viewing angle in a stealth game can be hell

Welkl

I think I -will- take the time redo it then, now that I know I had the date wrong.

I thought something stupid happened, and didn't want to do this for another hour to get screwed again.

@Wipqozn Good! It means I will be less behind when I start!

Sure sounds like cheating. :P

@OrigamiRobot It's not.

@OrigamiRobot The game has 17 different reward tables.

The one you get is chosen at the moment of character creation.

And using date manipulation to ensure you get the one you want is not cheating?

Overall, it wouldn't be bad, but a solid third of them have about 1% of the number of rewards as the rest.

Don't get me wrong, I changed the date in Animal Crossing all the time.

@fbueckert Of those five, two can actually prevent you from getting certain weapons and armor.

So you literally won't have access to the full game if you land on the wrong table.

@BenBrocka yeah it works pretty well

@Wipqozn Really? These are just charms; how do they prevent access to certain items?

So I'm back at messing with my old laptop

It's a mind bogglingly stupid decision, and Capcom seems unwilling to do anything to fix it.

There's still the issue of Windows XP bluescreening

Of course I'd like to see what the bluescreen is about, but I forgot to turn off automatic restarting and it's hard to even realize it did bluescreen

@fbueckert It apparently has an impact on fishing items too. 15/17 tables generate every fishing item, but 2/17 don't.

Obviously the internet comes to the rescue!

@Wipqozn And you need those fishing items to craft some materials.

I get'cha.

> Start > Settings > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Advanced > Settings > uncheck “Automatically restart”

So helpful!

@kalina does your desktop get totally rearranged after you switch in/out of eyefinity?

Okay, so I think I'll go with either Table 1, 3, or 13.

@BenBrocka yes

@Wipqozn Somebody failed at maths designing those.

@kalina ugh

was I wrong in closing this?

Good thing I keep almost nothing on my desktop

@MartinSojka It honestly seems like a bug. Which wouldn't be so bad, if Capcom just admitted "Sorry, it was a bug. We'll fix it."

@BenBrocka yeah I only have a single line of icons

@Wipqozn I dunno how the Wii U handles game patches.

@Blem yes, you are a bad person

@fbueckert They don't even need to worry about patching the game, in case that's difficult to do. Just release an app that would modify the save file. Let us manually choose the table everytime we start the game.

@Wipqozn Yuck. Savegame manipulation.

@fbueckert Yup, annoying, but better than the current system.

@Wipqozn As long as we don't get a cursed table, I'm not going to worry about it too much.

@fbueckert Yeah, that's what I'm now thinking..

Table 3 and 13 seem good. so I might not worry.

Do I need to follow the Official Arqade strapline now that i am 10k+? or is it only elected Moderators that Always be Closing. Always?

@fbueckert They have patches similar to PS3/360

@Blem you can either do what @fbueckert does and close everything before thinking about it

or you can do what I do and refuse to close anything unless there is an obvious reason for it to be closed

@BenBrocka Thanks for reminding me to clean up my desktop. Now if only my real life desktop is as easy to clean

@kalina Was thinking of asking it on Meta

@kalina Join me! Close everything!

@fbueckert CLOSE ALL THE THINGS

@fbueckert Always.

Never.

Close nothing, delete nothing.

@kalina That is because you are not a mod

@fredley be grateful

Hmmm, a 7" Asus tablet with 1GB RAM running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

Is this the Nexus 7?

@kalina Non mods always be grateful. Always.

@fredley no, you be grateful that I'm not a mod

Always

@fredley @kalina be grateful that neither of you are mods?

Hmmm, estimated battery life doesn't match

@Unionhawk One day, one day, I will be a mod

It may be many years hence. But it will happen.

And that day will be a terrible, terrible day.

@fredley makes a terrible mod

@Wipqozn I might not get the absolute best charms, but I'm not too chuffed at that. As long as I don't get a cursed table.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Do I? I'm not even a mod, how would you know?

oh no

mods can ban people from reviewing

oh no

@kalina This would be a terrific anti-kalina measure

@fbueckert Yeah. I think I'll just stick with which ever table I have. 3 and 13 aren't cursed, and seem like a good all-around table.

@fredley It's under mod-> links-> Review bans

Table 1 looks like it might be a bit better.... but not enough that I think I want to spend another 2 hours trying to get this working.

@kalina How would you know?

results in:

goddammit

@fredley I just do, it's not important

@kalina You got this?

@fredley no

an iPhone stops getting signal and it's my problem?

why would anybody review ban me?

@kalina You know far too much about things

chat ban, sure, I'm spammy and mouthy

but review ban? that would be counter productive

@kalina I think that's the automated ban

@kalina Sounds like someone hit an audit and failed it.

I'm not sure if mods can manually ban people from the review queue

@fbueckert Those don't ban you outright

@YiJiang'sEvilClone there might be an automated version, but there is a manual version as well

@YiJiang'sEvilClone If that's a setting, I haven't seen it anywhere

although I do think that it would be nice if @badp would answer ban @fredley

@badp Not outright, but hitting enough should trigger it.

Which is what that looks like.

@fbueckert OKay. Mind made up. sticking with what I have. Solid tables for what I need them for.

@Wipqozn Good!

Now, go and play.

would a moderator please set fire to the person who keeps starring me

it's getting boring now

@kalina Yes. It's a list of bans

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's automatic on some sites, which actually have audits (arqade doesn't) and there's now a manual tool for mods

There's no way to add people to the list.

@badp strange, other mods appear to be able to do it

oh wait, that's no searchbox

> Ban a reviewer from all review queues

@kalina ...why do you know this?

@GraceNote why does it matter?

Yay, clean desktop

YESSSSSSSS

WHY IS EVERYBODY SO PARANOID ABOUT ME KNOWING THINGS?!

@kalina Because the functionality came out a couple days ago and I haven't even published the newsletter that explains the tool and why it's there.

@badp DO IT

@GraceNote don't blame me because you've got too much going on to send out a newsletter!

@Wipqozn for the love of SCIENCE

@fbueckert I'm going to go hunt a Great Jaggi.

@kalina It's not published because it doesn't get published for another 12 days.

@badp You can ban yourself?

@badp The fact that there's a "Ban badp" button makes it awesome.

@fredley Yes.

@GraceNote sorry for stealing your thunder

@Wipqozn Shut up. Shut up right now. Or I will hurt you.

@fredley Duh. Most of the site however seems to check if you're a mod before it checks if you're suspended

I wanna be playing Monster Hunter, too!

@fbueckert okay, I will. you helped me overcome super crisis panic mode, so you deserve that much.

I last tried a while ago now, though, when banning people didn't force you to email eleventy people.

@badp You can still do it, review ban doesn't care.

@Wipqozn ...You were panicking?

@GraceNote Yep, review queue checks if you're suspended first

Wtf is monster hunter about? And which system?

@kalina No worries. I think Shog mentioned it off-hand in the lounge, although that still doesn't explain which angle trickled down to you. I will blame BenGear.

@Sterno Wii U/3DS.

Best Practices questions are to be on SO or Programmers??

o.O

@GraceNote It's not like I can use the tool, knowing it exists affects nothing

@Sterno It's about fun on a system I don't have.

@badp Oh, hey, you did go through with it. You banned yourself.

@Michel Best practice questions are banned on SO

@GraceNote for the love of SCIENCE!

It's about going out, finding and killing monsters, carving off bits and pieces, bringing them back, making better armor & weapons with it, go out and kill bigger monsters, repeat.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Thanks =) Going to ask on Programmers

@fbueckert OH my. I was just really pissed off, and was stuck in my SUPER INDECISIVE MODE! I've had games I've stopped playing for days because I couldn't make a a decision on something.

@kalina This isn't a negative point, it's a curiosity point. I'm a curious individual. I am curious. With curiosity I ask because I am curious.

@GraceNote Clearly kalina has her womenly oblique ways. Should we proceed with the super sekkrit superban button?

@GraceNote Curiouser and curiouser...

So basically like every other RPG?

@GraceNote :p~

@Sterno More action RPG, just to put that out there.

@kalina What even is this? A burp?

@Sterno Most RPGs don't give you crafting systems designed around wearing the monsters you killed.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm trying to create a question with this context "How to know which Project type to use"

@OrigamiRobot just... no

@fbueckert I can think of some in spirit but it's not quite the same essence that is of MH.

@Wipqozn Can't have that! We have to play together, so if you're stuck in indecisiveness, that won't be happening.

@kalina Yea that would be more like :O~

I just applied a metaphorical boot to butt.

Jrpg style combat?

@Michel What sort of Project, with a capital P are we talking about here?

@Sterno Not turn based.

@Sterno Action.

Entirely real time. Manual monster targetting. No monster health bar that you can see.

STOP TALKING ABOUT MONSTER HUNTER I WANT TO PLAY IT AND I CAN'T

And no bullshit "Monster clips through you but you take no damage because dodge."

Diablo style?

We could fix this dilemma. You could tell us something else you want to play and can't, then we can talk about that.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone WCF. "Business"; "Persistance"; "Web (Presentation)";

If a monster hits you, you deserved it.

@Sterno Nope.

Dodging, blocking, all that

You start with basic weaponry. Everything beyond that has to be crafted.

Id Google but I'm on my phone and internet ting sucks

Monster Hunter combat is amazing

Like Gun Lances

@GraceNote Battlefront 3

Actually, all of it is

@OrigamiRobot ...pick something else.

@Michel I think Programmers is acceptable for that sort of question. I'm not sure if using the phrase "best practice" is a good idea though.

Oh, and of course search before asking

@GraceNote Love those. "Hey, let's stab the monster, and then shoot him!"

Okay, one more RPG to buy for my 3DS

Haven't even started Fire Emblem yet

@GraceNote So demanding!

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Did it. I think I'm not looking the right terms.

@Sterno Just one note: 3DS only allows local wireless play.

@OrigamiRobot There's a big list of "Games I can carry on an extended conversation about despite never having even touched a physical copy of any installment in the entire series", and that's not on it.

Gotta have a Wii U if you want to play online.

I want to play it so badly, but not enough to get a new game system

@GraceNote Tomba!

@SaintWacko Join @Wipqozn and I!

@OrigamiRobot Criminy...

@OrigamiRobot Better: Star Wars Battlefront II

We will be committing mass monster genocide, in the name of progress!

@fbueckert In?

@SaintWacko ...Monster hunter?

@SaintWacko That exists and I can play it.

Aren't we talking about that?

arqade your failing me :(

@fbueckert But I just said I don't want to get a new system just to play it

@OrigamiRobot That's such a wonderful game

Although the PC version is just awful

@SaintWacko And I'm attempting to brainwash you into doing so anyways.

@SaintWacko I was asked to say a game I cannot play.

@GraceNote My copy broke :(

@fbueckert But that's money on something I'd play one game on and then probably not touch again

@SaintWacko Monster Hunter has 100+ hours you can dedicate into it alone.

@OrigamiRobot Oh, I didn't catch that. I was just pointing out a better *Battlefront*

@djsmiley2k Give it time. Remember, at the moment, the only other person you know for certain within this community to have played the game is myself, who hasn't finished it and thus can't answer the majority of the things you're asking about (except for the EXP one, but in that case I just don't remember and don't particularly care about properly spreading experience)

@fbueckert What system is it on, anyways?

@SaintWacko I'd have to buy a new game system and a TV to play it on.

@fbueckert Oh

Hmmm... I might consider a Wii U

@SaintWacko This is why you check the system for everything else and start to accumulate what else you want to play.

Except I don't actually have a Wii

@GraceNote yah I know, but everyone was bad mouthing superuser for not answering my questions quite happyily :P

That's how my last three system purchases all went.

Am I the only one who thinks that the canned comments from the low quality review queue are terrible? They're so generic and obviously canned that I almost never want to use them. Not leaving a comment seems more polite.

@GraceNote I don't really use consoles much anymore, though

I use my computer

@YiJiang'sEvilClone No. Not just you.

@SaintWacko Doesn't stop the games from interesting you.

@GraceNote Exactly :P

@djsmiley2k Of course we'll do that. They're not us. ♪

I'll just wait until there's an emulator up and running

@SaintWacko Boo.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Canned comments are boring, anyway. Should always just write~

Okay, this is really fucking cool Generate objective C code by painting it.

@LessPop_MoreFizz That is awesome

I mean like, really awesome

@GraceNote tbh I'm slowly gathering answers myself now

the only one I'm still completely unsure on is best equip for end game :/

@fredley They built the whole UI for their app in their own app.

@LessPop_MoreFizz That's proper bootstrapping

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh, so, this is for like, designing a UI or otherwise artworking?

@LessPop_MoreFizz That sounds suspiciously like the WYSIWYG HTML editors of yore. But then again I don't have any experience working with iPhone development

@LessPop_MoreFizz So, like Adobe Flash?