The Bridge

Brick was melee focused

@BenBrocka You can build Zero pure melee

He worked out alright

Q: How to get medium scrolls from Idol now?

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As http://paradiseislandhd.wikia.com/wiki/Idol states, when you donate $1,000,000 to $2,499,000 to the Idol, you get medium scroll. However, I'm getting only pearls when I donate sums slightly over $1,000,000. I'm interesting mostly in medium scrolls, because I wan't collect all scrolls :) Has...

paradise-island

6:31 PM

@tiddy That was a different game.

@OrigamiRobot there are people that seem to want pure melee as in no guns

No matter how crazy your melee zero is it's literally impossible to hurt Warrior like that

I guess you could throw Kunai at him for a few hours

@BenBrocka That's not even real melee

Couple minutes with kunai youtube.com/watch?v=olR63MAoTR0

Oh, you can melee his legs. I forgot sometimes he's not entirely in the lava

James

Is i sad that when I see this I think of you guys?

Oh and, Morning all :)

6:44 PM

Hmm, did anyone post the video where Grant Kirkhope is on Game Grumps?

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Ronan Forman

6:57 PM

@Powerlord This is the funniest, thank you.

@James No its not. Here, have a free Internet hug.

James

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Thanks :)

Man, Cyprus is not a good place to live right now.

Especially with anyone with over 100K euros in savings is being forced to give up some of their money to bail out the country.

I'd hate to live in a country where the government takes some of your money because they've been too stupid to be fiscally responsible.

@fbueckert Out of your savings?

@OrigamiRobot Yup. They're being forced to give up some of their own cash to save the government.

7:04 PM

That's butt.

@OrigamiRobot I mean, government and fiscally responsible don't really go hand in hand, but at least they try to not gather enough debt that covers their GDP something like five times over.

@fbueckert I thought that's what taxes were for... :P

@Powerlord Apparently, they sucked at doing that, too.

Q: How to sort the special offers list by relative discount?

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With the current special, there are over 500 games discounted. But I'm not interested in sorting by price, but by relative savings. How can I browse the titles sorted that way?

steam

Actually, as I recall, the US didn't have income tax until they started spending a bunch of money during... World War 2? Or was it later than that?

And they never went away once the wars were done.

7:08 PM

Hmmm, I'm searching for something that'll explain the background here. How did Cyprus get into this sticky situation in the first place

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Gov't spending more than they were taking in.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone They attracted tons of foreign investment, and was crazy lax on regulating it, so I'm guessing the foreign investors were using loopholes to avoid taxation on their income.

@Kirkhope Stop letting Jon play

Is anyone knowledgeable about Half-Life?

Try and ask?

7:18 PM

@JasonBerkan Shoot.

Actually, point and shoot.

Just wondering if the machine gun is ridiculously inaccurate, or if enemies just take that many shots to go down?

I know I suck at FPSs, but I'm running into serious ammo issues.

@JasonBerkan In the original, HL: Source, or Black Mesa?

@Powerlord Original.

On normal difficulty.

Where are you now?

Also, are you trying changing weapons from time to time? The shotgun can have considerable stopping power.

Black Pit, I think? First place where you encounter radioactive waste.

7:21 PM

If you do only use one gun, you will run out of ammo with it.

Oh! Blast pit. That's a fun segment.

@badp Yeah - Chapter 6: Blast Pit.

...it's the one where you have liftoff right?

@badp True, but only close up. I find with most enemies, I get killed quickly if I advance on them (at least anything that can shoot - the soldiers and the alien that shoots green goo).

@JasonBerkan IIRC right click shoots two rounds at once. That's what you actually want to use on most enemies.

I mean

Most enemies take too long to kill with the shotgun if you don't do that

That's what I meant

The Revolver is actually pretty powerful, but they limit the ammo on it.

And it has a long-ass reload time.

(I'm glad the TF2 revolver reloads at like 3x the speed the HL revolver does)

7:25 PM

Yeah, it one shots quite a few things. I never use it for the ammo trouble though.

@Powerlord The spy revolver's nowhere near as deadly tbh

I haven't found a revolver yet.

@badp That's true.

@JasonBerkan Uh.

I'm glad they kept the revolver for HL2. :D

Unless we're talking Ambassador headshots

That's kind of comparable I suppose

7:26 PM

there's more revolver ammo in Black Mesa than there was in HL1, I think

@BenBrocka Jason's playing the original however.

Ohh

Holy crap, torrential downpour at 3am in the morning

@YiJiang'sEvilClone A good white-noisey background to go the fuck to sleep with

I love sleeping when it's raining.

7:28 PM

...so, did anyone actually say whether the machinegun is just that weak versus enemies just having that much health?

And thundering.

Not with the thunder

@OrigamiRobot Schadenfreude towards the homeless? :P

Nah, thunder is the best.

@GraceNote; I don't think so.

7:31 PM

Oh man, 1000 games by Value for only $2 with free shipping

Another question - does Half-Life simulate where you hit an enemy (i.e. head shots)?

At any rate, @JasonBerkan, the SMG does 5 damage/hit. (Unfortunately the Combine OverWiki does a terrible job of categorising information by game and I'm having trouble digging up relevant information.)

@OrigamiRobot sold out :P

@JasonBerkan I don't think so.

@badp Yeah, too bad.

@OrigamiRobot oh, you were seriously excited?

Totes

7:35 PM

I smelled something really fishy there. Like, #1 through #200 would be slight variants of chess, one less fun than the other.

@GraceNote what game?

@BenBrocka The original Half-Life, if I gathered from Jason accurately.

If you mean Half Life, yes, the SMG is just crap. Not just because of the damage though, it's inaccurate as hell too

The pistol is usually better if you have enough ammo

"#142. Checkerboards, but with chess pieces! Mark promotions with crumbs of bread for hats." "#143. Checkerboards, but with chess pieces and without promotions."

@BenBrocka This is what I've been thinking, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. In BioShock, I ignored the crossbow ('cuz I have a frickin' machine gun) and didn't find out until after that it was the most powerful weapon.

7:37 PM

The pistol is more reliable but you need to be shooting "from cover" etc.

Black Mesa balanced it pretty well though

Bow's decent in HL1 but not nearly as awesome as in HL2

The wrench was the best weapon in the game

@tiddy The wrench? The wrench?! THE WRENCH?!??!!?!?!

Yeah

the SMG is only useful for when you want to kill headcrabs without wasting pistol ammo, and for the awesome contact grenades

The contact grenades are murder. Especially compared to the wonky-ass normal grenades with no physics to speak of

7:39 PM

@BenBrocka Let me guess, right-click? I didn't know there were multiple ways to fire each weapon.

@JasonBerkan Yes

Yeah, alt fire. Doesn't work on all guns

HL1 had a wrench? I thought Crowbar was the only melee.

It's a separate ammo too

@Powerlord BioShock had the wrench.

7:40 PM

He was talking about Bioshock I think. Though Opposing Force had a wrench if I'm not mistaken

@BenBrocka And kinda rare too. Although the real limit is the carrying capacity (3 iirc)

Bioshock

@badp I was thinking 2, though I'm not sure if that counts the one in the chamber

@tiddy oh okay.

Did you know? The crowbar in HL does as much damage on hit as the SMG

Fires as fast too if you're up close

(not exactly but you can get hilariously rapidfire crowbaring going)

7:42 PM

...but then you could be using the shotty instead

heh. Guess the damage of the shotgun

Answer: 5/pellet

1

2?

3?

Depends what you're hitting. Shame to waste a shotgun on zombies

4?

I'd say 3

3.14159?

7:43 PM

The pistol hits for 8 instead.

@Bernie No, that'd be OP.

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Q: What is the most compact design of down-shifting double-pistons?

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It is often useful to stack pistons to shift blocks by more than one space. As an extended piston can not be moved, the timing of the corresponding redstone circuit is of crucial importance. Additionally, for the construction of larger gates, you have to line up several of these double extenders....

minecraft minecraft-redstone

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Q: How do I know when my research is done?

I've been researching for a while, and my Thaumnomicon looks pretty full. How can I know when there's nothing left to research? Is the only way throwing every type of essence at the research table in enough quantity or is there a better way?

minecraft minecraft-thaumcraft

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big advantage of the pistol was it's crazy accurate and fires as fast as you can click

7:44 PM

Yeah, it's ∞

@BenBrocka, I don't know, I can click pretty darn fast

( ° ͜ʖ ͡°)

morning

evening

I've been awake for less than 15 minutes, it's morning

woah...the pistol had a rapid fire mode? I never knew that, I always just clicked

7:47 PM

@kalina Still nocturnal, eh?

@OrigamiRobot for the next three weeks yeah

@kalina This feels like a late awakening.

@kalina I'll give you another 15 because I start annoying you then.

@OrigamiRobot make it 45

sigh I guess.

7:48 PM

I'm still too cold to tolerate you being annoying just yet

@Bernie 200 RPM is clicking pretty fast

@kalina Oh you're sleepy and cold? That's the worst. Take all the time you need.

3.3 (repeating of course) clicks per second

@OrigamiRobot sleepy, cold, and have a cold!

Whaaaaaaa? The trifecta.

7:54 PM

gaming.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/30094

That looks like a pretty minor edit.

Fluttershy

@fbueckert He's been making quite a few crap edits like that. I'm honestly surprised he's still allowed to edit things. I know I've rejected several.

I don't see a need for 'I guess' on the end of the post

but shrug

@fbueckert Minor edit rejection doesn't just mean minor edits. You also have to ignore bigger ones for it to be a valid reason.

@fbueckert I guess

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He doesn't like uncertainty

8:00 PM

5

He goes around removing anything that shows any personal opinion

eugh, my cup has appeared to have grown legs and moved itself from where I left it

@kalina I hate it when they do that

@kalina My plan is working.

@Ullallulloo There's a lot more wrong with that post than just removing, "I guess".

8:06 PM

@OrigamiRobot as unreasonably ill as I feel right now, I'm pretty sure it's all because I fell asleep upside down last night and that I will feel ok in an hour

@kalina You mean with your head hanging off of something?

no i mean i usually sleep with my head to the wall, and lastnight i slept with my feet to the wall

@kalina Did you move your pillow?

i duno, i can go and check

i have no memory of lastnight

Oh I can't sleep like that. Ain't right.

8:08 PM

@kalina Why?

@OrigamiRobot Yeah, that would be weird

mmh

@kalina Oh, yeah?

nvm I was going to say something but then I stopped thinking for a second and it went away

Sounds like you have amnesia and may be in a soap opera.

@OrigamiRobot One of the extras probably walked off with her cup

8:13 PM

Typical.

Always wanting to pretend they're the star.

you aren't funny

well you are, but not in the sense of humour

:(

You're mean when you're sick.

user15026

Riding backwards on a bus is one of the worst sensations.

Riding backwards on a bus while on fire is even worse

user15026

8:22 PM

@BenBrocka you have a good point there.

Riding a horse while on fire is even worse.

What if you're riding a horse, backwards, on a bus, backwards, while you, the horse, and the bus are all on fire?

@kalina No, we're not. We're hilarious

@GraceNote You're fucked?

@GraceNote C'mon, that's just silly.

@GraceNote The good part is that you're seeing where the bus is going. You could take this information to order your priorities.

8:26 PM

@OrigamiRobot Yeah, I guess it would be weird that the horse would be on fire.

Luckily buses have those very large and beautiful windows, so the additional height from being atop of a horse on fire should still allow you to gleanse into the pit the bus is falling into.

@GraceNote shoulda wore a goron tunic

Then you know that your priority list is to get off the horse, then get off the bus, then put yourself off, then tweet about it.

I read that last put as another get

Well that could certainly be someone's priority.

user15026

8:31 PM

You are all very very strange

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@AshleyNunn Yea but you love us anyway!

user15026

@origamirobot no comment.

@AshleyNunn loves us

@AshleyNunn That's not denial.

user15026

Well if I admit I only love some of you then that could cause problems. So I am choosing to say nothing. ;)

8:38 PM

You heard it folks @AshleyNunn hates everyone

user15026

@BenBrocka you are twisting my words!

It's OK, I love you @BenBrocka

But robot love isn't worth very much.

user15026

@origamirobot are you even capable of love?

@AshleyNunn The closest I can do is "tolerate"

user15026

@origamirobot better than kill, I suppose.

8:42 PM

Indeed.

user58869

what games are good to play with one hand? modern ones i mean. I am going to have an operation on my right hand tomorrow, I'm right handed. I wont be able to use a mouse with my right hand, so I'll be stuck with a left hand, I could probably manage to use my left hand for the mouse

user15026

There are a bunch of mouse only flash games on sites like kongregate and armor games. I know they aren't like omg the best games ever or very long, but they might be entertaining.

user58869

i was hoping to get the new bioshock game, but i imagine i'd need two hands for that

user15026

Yeah I imagine most new releases will need two hands.

@axrwkr Dungeons of Dredmor can be played quite well with one hand

8:47 PM

@axrwkr Any turn based game should be fine.

user58869

pretty much every game i have needs two hands, except games like starcraft 1 & 2 or warcraft 3 where you can manage with just one hand most of the time

Become a master of Crawl while you recuperate.

@JasonBerkan This

Although, really, that could be annoying with one hand

@axrwkr Depends on what you mean by "modern"

Too many keys to press

Q: Where is the teardrop shaped amethyst (#5) in Gloomy Manor?

8:52 PM

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In Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon I have all the gems, save 1 for Gloomy Manor: The teardrop shaped amethyst. Without getting too spoiler-y, what room is it in?

luigis-mansion-dark-moon

@axrwkr Kongregate has a mouse-only tag with a ton of games that are...yeah

@JasonBerkan I'm not sure all keyboard combinations are feasible with one hand

Daniel Palamarchuk

What should the wiki post be for Pirate101

@badp protip: Any ctrl + [key] can be entered by pressing * and then the key

@axrwkr Does your laptop keyboard have two Ctrl keys?

@SaintWacko TIL.

8:56 PM

@badp What does that mean, anyways?

Today I Learned.

@badp Ah

("I didn't know that")

Yeah, I found that out from ##crawl when I was trying to do ctrl+t and it kept opening a new tab

Jan 31 at 21:49, by OrigamiRobot

TIL what TIL stands for.

8:57 PM

Instead of hitting the game

Ender

is it wrong to throw down a bounty to draw attention to the fact that my answer is better than teh current seriously upvoted other answer?

AFAIK, you can't award the bounty to yourself.

agent86

@Ender pretty much any self-promotional behavior is likely to draw ire from The Mysterious Community

Ender

thats what i figured

@OrigamiRobot Can't you do it, you just don't get rep for it?

agent86

9:02 PM

and as that robot-thing points out, you'd have to give it to someone else when time ran out, and there are certain rules/situations whereby even if you didn't award it, you'd end up giving part of it to someone else anyhow

@Ullallulloo My point was you'll lose the rep.

Nope, you used to be able to like that, but they disabled it.

user58869

@badp no, but i have a desktop computer and it does

ok so I'm a little more awake now, I definitely have a cold coming on though

Can I annoy you yet?

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9:06 PM

no

:(

Apr 2 '12 at 4:20, by OrigamiRobot

Don't star my robo-sorrow!

By Zeus, how many quotes do you have at your fingertips, @OrigamiRob?

@JasonBerkan ಠ_ಠ

@JasonBerkan He plays a game sometimes where he only speaks in quotes, usually of himself.

It's annoying.

@StrixVaria I know. But does he just search for the quotes each time he wants one, or does he have a library of quotes to pull from?

9:14 PM

Free cruise scam call is not cool and so very illegal, especially on my cell phone. Unfortunately, caller ID is probably spoofed too.

Feb 26 '12 at 19:40, by OrigamiRobot

@Mana Yea, I can see how that would be annoying.

Jan 28 at 14:23, by StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot That is a pretty good quote.

@JasonBerkan Usually I just search.

@StrixVaria Also, it's better if I respond to people with their own quotes, especially if they were talking to me in the quote.

Q: Which factors are most important in getting a high star rating?

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Which variables are most important in getting a high star rating on a level in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon? Clear time Ghosts captured Health lost Treasure collected

luigis-mansion-dark-moon

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Q: Digital Resident Evil 6 corrupted download on new console?

I bought a digital copy of resident evil 6 and played it on another console. Now I went to another locale and tried downloading it again, but every time I come check the download (which I believe fully downloads because I have seen it reach +50%) I can't play it. Checking the storage shows me th...

xbox-360 resident-evil-6

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Q: Telekinetics: When buffs are up, why use Disturbance over Telekinetic Throw?

I just hit 50 on my Sage and am trying to improve my Telekinetics DPS rotation. The guides I've found all say only to use Telekinetic Throw when you get the proc from Weaken Mind. But just from looking at the abilities, my TT does ~2800 damage over 3 seconds (less with Alacrity) without a crit ...

swtor

@Lazers Mention Bacon. Oh, this is a question about a game...

9:33 PM

Feb 26 '12 at 19:40, by OrigamiRobot

@Mana Yea, I can see how that would be annoying.

murgatroid99

Does anyone want a copy of Bioshock on Steam? I have one I don't need

user15026

10:02 PM

@SaintWacko a friend gave me a pile of Russian candy today and now I am trying to translate the wrappers so I know what I am eating. It is a fun way to lean new words.

@AshleyNunn Very cool.

@AshleyNunn I'd start first learning words such as "Bugs", "Spiders", "Venom" and "Spit." Just to immediately discard the easy ones.

@badp They have Spit Candy, too?

"Blood" might be a good one too, as weel as "Aspartame"

@Coronus I don't know.

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Q: Left 4 Dead 2 Crashes PC

Left 4 Dead 2 Crashes PC After a recent video card installation, Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) has been crashing my PC after loading a level. This is not a crash to desktop, rather a complete system crash: screens blanks and whatever sound was playing the background starts looping. Reinstalling the ga...

user15026

10:07 PM

@badp That is probably good advice :P

user15026

@badp That reminds me of the time I was helping pre-check Operation Christmas Child boxes before they got shipped overseas, and there was a popular type of sucker we had to remove because it apparently contained pig's blood. I was horrified.

I thought I'd already shared this one but chat search somes up empty.

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user15026

@badp That is both hilarious and way too true.

@badp *Shaving optional

@badp -1 Not nested enough.

user15026

10:21 PM

Okay, this candy needs a lot more descriptive on the wrappers

user15026

Because something that says "caramel" should vaguely somewhere taste like caramel

@AshleyNunn Is it brown?

user15026

@OrigamiRobot brown and sticky, then white and sticky, then chocolate on the outside

agent86

10:37 PM

@StrixVaria the used game store near me will make covers like this, but they're all pacman themed. I have MGS3: snake eater from there, the disc is bad but I like the art :P

Q: Is every type of evolution stone equally distributed in the Underground?

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I noticed on my Pokémon Platinum cartridge that I have far fewer Water Stones in my inventory than any other type of evolution stone. I have around 30 Fire Stones and 20 Thunderstones, but only 2 Water Stones. Now, I'm a fan of Vaporeon, but I don't remember going on a Water Stone spree. Is ther...

pokemon-fourth-gen

@AshleyNunn Close enough for them to call it caramel.

telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9947489/…

11:00 PM

@AshleyNunn Awesome!

@AshleyNunn The word that transliterates to caramel doesn't actually mean caramel

It's just a type of candy

user15026

@SaintWacko ...thank you, google, for NOT KNOWING THAT

user15026

I have no idea what it was, but it was not tasty

@AshleyNunn Yeah, I'm not a big fan of those either

user15026

@SaintWacko I have found that a lot of them don't give you any idea what you are really eating

@AshleyNunn To be fair, most American candy is like that, too

If you don't know what the brand/wrapper is like

user15026

11:13 PM

@SaintWacko I know. But I am learning random words nonetheless.

Q: Can you undo a difficulty change in The Witcher 2? (Xbox)

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I'm going after the "Madman" achievement which entails completing the game on "Dark" difficulty. I accidentally changed the difficulty from Dark to Normal. I then loaded an autosave from earlier thinking that maybe the difficulty would be back at Dark, and it was! If I keep playing from that save...

xbox-360 achievements the-witcher-2

user15026

A lot of what she gave me was hard candy, so those tend to have a picture of the particular fruit on the label. Although there was one with just a white cross on it - turns out it was an extremely strong menthol flavour. (Which makes sense now, they are apparently used like cough drops)

user15026

Stuff with cows on is usually a milky fudge caramel thing.

in Monster Hunter 3U, 31 mins ago, by Wipqozn

@OrigamiRob ^

@StrixVaria ಠ_ಠ

@StrixVaria I hate you.

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11:20 PM

I thought you would want to know that there is such a thing as a chainsaw sword.

user15026

@StrixVaria That is so awesome

Reddit, I have never eaten a video game. What are some tips on persevering through to the end?

user15026

@Wipqozn Nice

@Wipqozn Try removing the space after the question mark.

@StrixVaria THanks. You're my hero.

11:22 PM

I have defeated @Wipqozn.

2 mins ago, by StrixVaria

in Monster Hunter 3U, 31 mins ago, by Wipqozn

Yea yea

SimonL

How is the chainsaw sword powered?

user15026

@SimonL with the souls of the vanquished? That's how I would do it.

Magic.

SimonL

11:28 PM

I was looking more for a "your tears fuel me" but souls will work as well.

@Wipqozn What.

Damnit, I need that game

@AshleyNunn If it was powered by awesome, it would be generating enough fuel itself to run forever.

@SaintWacko You really do. Do you have a WiiU?

@Wipqozn No

I need to get that too

@SaintWacko You should buy one. While you're at it, buy @OrigamiRobot a WiiU too.

user15026

11:30 PM

@Coronus The true perpetual machine.

user15026

@SaintWacko I am drooling over it so very much

@Wipqozn I am fine with this.

@Wipqozn Yeah, can't do that

@Wipqozn Does it have any WiiU specific features? Or could there theoretically be a port, possibly?

@Coronus Not really. IT makes use of the second screen on both the 3DS and WiiU, but nothing making it difficult to port. However, they have no intention of porting it.

The fact they made this for two systems was already a rarity.

user15026

11:33 PM

I want the 3DS version so much

:(

user15026

It's the only one I have a chance of getting

This makes it highly unlikely for me to get a chainsaw sword of my very own.

user15026

I just wanna beat on all the big monsters

SimonL

@AshleyNunn Speaking of monsters, are you going to see the pandas at toronto zoo?

user15026

11:46 PM

@SimonL I reeeeeally want to

user15026

but I lack the money for bus fare + zoo

user15026

but OMG PANDAS

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@AshleyNunn So much fun.

Guys, be honest with me. How drunk was I Saturday night? My bottle of rum is half empty now, and it was mostly full Saturday afternoon.

I've dumped 30+ hours into it already.

user15026

11:47 PM

@MBraedley You were amazingly coherent!

@MBraedley There's a chat transcript, no?

@MBraedley Horribly, terribly, awfully drunk, if you can't remember.

@fbueckert That doesn't compare to how you perceive my actions.

user15026

@FEichinger @MBraedley Don't listen to him. You weren't bad - you had an amazing grasp on your vocabulary and your typing skills.

@FEichinger I remember it, just not the amount of alcohol I drank.

11:49 PM

@AshleyNunn I never said he wasn't coherent!

@AshleyNunn In fact, I told him yesterday that he didn't seem all that drunk, iirc.

user15026

@FEichinger I suppose not!

user15026

@FEichinger I don't really remember yesterday. I was gone, and then there was a nap that screwed up my sleeping terribly.

All I said was that he was probably very drunk, that has nothing to do with being coherent!