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00:00
my angel food cake is trapped in the tube pan
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@AshleyNunn Angel Food Pudding?
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@WorldEngineer I need it out of the pan! I have marshmallow frosting for it!
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@AshleyNunn ice around the pan, temperature differential should free it.
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@WorldEngineer Really? Neat.
user20683
@AshleyNunn a guess, cold causes metal to shrink
user15026
00:08
@WorldEngineer Sounds plausible to me. Apparently angel food takes a long time to release from the pan because it is basically a giant meringue.
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@AshleyNunn makes sense to me
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I dislike it but whatever floats your boat
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@mana Mana! :D
I'll boat your float.
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@Mana ewww
00:09
Hey dude. How's it going?
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@Mana less than a month till I'm done with college
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I might be going crazier
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@WorldEngineer It's for my dad's birthday. it is his favourite kind of cake
nice.
@WorldEngineer Wouldn't that make the pan even smaller than the cake?
user20683
00:10
@AshleyNunn ah, very good
I just finished classes today for the semester, just final exams left to go, then a year of work.
Ugh, this is pissing me off
I want to play Bioshock
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone no, because it causes each wall to contract toward itself
oh twitter
@SaintWacko apparently. I had been meaning to check that out
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@BenBrocka What.
00:13
@BenBrocka Which of the 20?
@BenBrocka You're on his hit list. Hide.
@FEichinger @kim_young_gun
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Q: What's the deal with the Bouncer's Pal model?

NiteCyperWhat I don't get is why it has flames visual, yet I received it as modded with the Lightning mod. Same with the saw-blade and all; why does it have a circular saw in it? Does it always have flames visual? Does it always have a circular saw in the end of it? Is it a glitch? Is it a glitch with jus...

It was not a nuclear test that caused the recent earthquake centered in North Korea. I just finally had a bowel movement.
Looks legit.
The year of the Linux desktop just keeps inching closer and closer guys!!!
> A Steam search for Linux titles paints a slightly better picture, turning up 97 games
@badp DirectX is an abomination. Take it out of the equation and suddenly everything could potentially run on a Linux machine.
00:21
Cool, I own more Steam games than are availible on Linux
To be fair 25 games is probably more than the Wii U has
so that's pretty good right?
Hey, the Wii U has plenty of those third party sports/racing/whatever games no one cares about!
The problems with Linux gaming are the lack of developers supporting it, and the lack of advanced drivers - which is a direct result of the first.
Yeah, the drivers situation sounds pretty nasty
Wolfire have been heroes on the developers side of things
00:22
"Linux doesn't need OpenGL 3, because there is nothing using it." "There is nothing using it, because Linux doesn't have widespread support for it." Hen and Egg situation.
Man Twitch.tv sucks
But most of the recent indie games are Java or Unity based anyways, so that's a "plus".
As for the drivers, yes, the config tools are an absolute abomination — the nVidia ones are awful
nvidia drivers at least work at all.
Look at AMD drivers and wave goodbye to OpenGL 3.
let's not forget though that Valve could optimise L4D2 to run faster on Linux than on Windows
00:25
@badp Because Linux doesn't run a crapton of unneccesary extra stuff.
Well, Ubuntu does recently, but that's because Canonical is pushing its "vision" a little too much now.
@fei we are honestly talking about Ubuntu here. With Unity. And GPU accelerated desktop composition
@badp Indeed. Which is the problem. Again: Canonical is kind of screwing up right now.
Honestly leanness was never a priority for Ubuntu
If you want barebones Linux you'd use DSL
Leanness, no, but turning it into the new Mac OS? Kinda defeats the purpose.
Still not sure if I'm going with Crunch, Remix or Mint next.
Cause Unity-Ubuntu is being a pain in the arse now.
Unity honestly fails to be so offensive with me
00:28
I thought Ubuntu was the new Windows 7 not the new Mac OS
I've seen Cinnamon and I didn't like one bit of it
@BenBrocka Have you seen Unity?
@badp Well, what puts me off is that they're essentially trying to copy Unity now.
@FEichinger How so?
Cinnamon is «hey let's have gnome 2 — except not!»
@FEichinger All I know of Unity is it's apparently a bitch to program for and it makes highly gimmicky 3D games on Kongregate
00:31
@Ullallulloo It's trying to be a post-GNOME GNOME-ish DE. Which kinda defeats the purpose.
@BenBrocka Not that Unity.
@BenBrocka This Unity.
Unity in Ubuntu is the interface with the left side "dock" and the top bar menu and the left side window buttons and the corner "start menu"
oh, right, the weirdo platform unification thing
because that worked out so well for Windows 8
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@BenBrocka once you get used to it, Windows 8's not bad
Work on Unity stated way before work on Windows 8 did
@BenBrocka Preeeetty much. Unity was "decent" back when the whole other stuff wasn't there. But now it's being crammed into the same "unified" vision.
00:32
I've used it, it's a neat idea wrapped in a clusterfuck of fail
(Audio is NSFW. Headphones advised in polite company, or around children.)
Cinnamon on the other hand is doing pretty much the same thing Unity began with: End GNOME, but make it GNOME-like. Because reasons.
I used Win 8 on a touchscreen, pen input laptop of all things. The pen/touch input was actually lacking in some ways compared to Win 7, and the only reason to use Metro was because I was literally forced to do so
Stick the sexy Task Manager and file copy dialogs from Win 8 into Win 7 and I'd be golden
jesus christ Flux this 10 second transition is horrible
Oh my, is that an @Mana I spy here in chat?
@BenBrocka Soooo, basically: Cinnamon is new Win7. Unity is the new Mac OS.
00:34
The only worthy app for Metro is comically enough Internet Explorer
It is nice to devote every single pixel of your screen to the webpage
@BenBrocka Switch to the hour one
I'd like to have chart full screen on my Nexus, it'd help with landscape mode and the keyboard
I just did. After 3 minutes of trying to get it to dispaly the right options screen (no not that one the other one)
Even SaintWacko could configure the one setting f.lux has
There's like literally two radio buttons you might miss during the initial setup
I kept right clicking and clicking and it didn't open, had to kill the stupid thing and relaunch it
00:38
@badp Open any browser ever > hit F11
F11 doesn't work on Android
@badp but that's already fullscreen
No it's not. Tab bar, address bar, system bar, system buttons
All taking away precious space
I'm fairly certain most Android apps don't have UI borders, at least when scrolling down.
@ull but that's not the default, they're not built to work that way
00:40
The System Tray is ... well, meh.
@badp address bar hides as soon as you scroll
And the buttons ... who has software-buttons?
Nope
Everyone on a good phone has software buttons
Nexus 7 has software buttons
00:40
Pretty much only Samsung does the physical row of shame these days
@badp Does IE10?
Chrome has always on address bar
@ull I don't know what you're replying to.
@badp Oh, so it does. But in vertical layout it doesn't really matter that much
Landscape keyboard is more comfortable
@badp You said you like Metro IE because F11 doesn't work on Android?
00:42
@BenBrocka Physical buttons are way better. HTC still keeps them, as well.
@ull yes, you could put it that way
The new One is awful in other regards, but physical buttons are a plus.
Physical buttons are better for being a confusing mess, that's about it
The Software buttons change to orientation and are actually fucking standard which puts them miles ahead
Strangely, I have a 25% off coupon for Runner2.
Did someone send that to me, or did I get it for no apparent reason?
@BenBrocka What's confusing about it except for the idiocy that's manufacturers not being able to arrange them properly?
00:43
Everyone that owns a bit trip game has them apparently
@BenBrocka Not me.
@FEichinger The fact that manufacturers can do things with them is basically the problem. Manufacturers + phone carriers are the source of 95% of android's problems, sooo...
@fei they let you use the device with any orientation — unlike iDevices
I own two, but no coupon.
With an iPad you get to play the where did my home button go game whenever you want to switch apps or open new ones
On my nexus seven I only need that to change the volume or close the screen
00:46
@badp That's again something I just see no use for. Takes up screen space, takes resources ... I never feel the urge to tap a button while flipped.
(Four finger gestures don't work to open new apps)
Apps can minimise the software buttons to a tiny strip of three faintly glowing buttons whenever they need to
The back button can become a close keyboard button
Old apps that require a "right click" button can get one
Meh. To each their own.
I wish the software buttons and the system bar would share spaces, yes
but I'm happy with them otherwise
@badp Yay clutter!
Oh. To Google you swipe from the home button up and start going/talking
00:51
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Q: Does a first gen PSP battery cause damage to a PSP 2000

Memor-XI have 2 PSP's, one is a first gen PSP which I use for playing games on the go, the other is a PSP 2000 which I use for when I want to play PSP games on my TV Recently I found out that the battery for my PSP 2000 is dead, it won't charge however I learned that my first gen PSP betters can still ...

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Q: Can I download a PSVita game on the PS3 and still have the bonus?

Memor-XThere's this bonus deal for Atelier Totori Plus for the PSVita where if you get it now you get bonus DLC with the game, I'm still waiting for my PSVita to come in but I'm wondering if I can download the game on my PS3 (it's a first gen 60GB if it makes a difference) and still get the bonus stuff

At any rate, here's hoping HTC make a phone that doesn't suffer from "We want you to buy a new phone in five weeks" syndrome.
@fei sharing space is what they do in the 10” ui and most of the time there'd be no conflict really even at 7”
Except for the menu button thing
I don't really care about android phones for my old brick's battery outlasts any of them
and when I already have a tablet with mobile data calling and texting are all that's left
No exceptions
user15026
Whee, my cake came out of the pan :D
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(It only took...forever
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone That is pretty awesome.
@spugsley You seem to have some experience in this regard. How does one print out a "commercial quality" poster that's able to withstand being shipped overseas?
@Ktash That must've ripped a bunch of people's hearts out.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I used mpix.com. They are awesome
great quality, the best customer service, and they are very professional prints
01:21
@spugsley It's a one time thing only, though.
I promised to do a poster swap with someone
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@Ktash Oh, that is just terribly rude
@YiJiang'sEvilClone yeah, that's fine. You can do one time things
Oh, okay, I'll have a look
Thanks
@badp Uh what? The Home button is a physical button on the iPad.
user15026
For the record - pink lemonade ice cream is not lemony enough to be tasty
user15026
01:24
it is mostly bland and weird
@AshleyNunn You assumed pink lemonade ice cream to be tasty?
That just sounds weird.
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@FEichinger ......yes
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The pb and j was yummy, the root beer float was yummy, so why not this flavour too?
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Q: Minecraft Gamerule Help

Whale_ManiacI just downloaded a really cool lobby map, but I noticed hot air balloons with fire, and lava decoration with wood. Pretty soon everything was on fire :(. I know the /gamerule doFireTick command, but I dont have time to use it before everything catches on fire. Is there anyway to change the gamer...

@AshleyNunn ... Because pink lemonade ice cream.
user15026
01:27
@FEichinger Psh, you have no taste.
@AshleyNunn I need no taste if it tastes bland to begin with, do I now?
user15026
@FEichinger but I didn't know that! It was supposed to be an adventure.
@AshleyNunn But you went in there, expecting something that was not to be expected!
user15026
@FEichinger Why not expect it to be tasty?
user15026
I like lemonade, I like ice cream. Natural conclusion, a combination would be tasty.
@AshleyNunn Don't get me started on combining tastes. Please don't.
user15026
@FEichinger It was a perfectly sensible plan.
@AshleyNunn No, it wasn't! It was pointless! Futile! Obvious to fail! Incredibly stupid! In no way likely to work!
user15026
@FEichinger Your face is incredibly stupid.
@AshleyNunn YOUR STUPID IS INCREDIBLY FACE!
user15026
01:38
That doesnt even make sense!
@AshleyNunn YOUR SENSE DOESN'T MAKE FACE!
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@Ktash The transitions in this video are beatiful
02:12
@AshleyNunn It'd pretty much be lemon sherbet
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@SaintWacko That's what I was hoping for, really
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This was not flavoured enough, and it had a weird aftertaste :(
@badp Do you mean the notification bar and the navigation bar?
Oi! Not cool losing my edit!
02:39
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Q: How do I get past the "hemispherical depression?

Ben BrockaI'm in the Chancel, having just met Agrippa in the area before. There's a Hemispherical Deression and an Orb the game keeps ranting about, but nothing I can seem to do about it. There's an altar I can't do anything to, some levers I can't pull, a door I can't open and a tunnel full of electricity...

HI LP_MF!
I just read an article with way too many words about the Mario Bros movie.
There is no such thing as "too many words".
It is mostly things I already knew, aside from the fact that the producers turned down Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hanks for the role of Mario.
@FEichinger Oh, there is definitely such a thing as too many words when the subject is the Mario movie.
02:44
Tom Hanks as Mario ... lol.
@FEichinger Makes about as much sense as Bob Hoskins.
The directors wanted Danny Devito, but he turned it down. Because Danny Devito is smart.
@LessPop_MoreFizz It's just ... The thought of Tom Hanks ... as Mario ... That has potential to induce fatal laughter.
@FEichinger Dustin Hoffman is even funnier to me.
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@LessPop_MoreFizz I am intrigued.
user15026
02:53
@LessPop_MoreFizz That was fascinating.
03:15
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Q: How to play Terraria without Steam?

WashuI'm trying to play Terraria without initializing Steam but it is not working it displays Please launch the game from your Steam client Is there a possible way to do it?.

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Q: How do I fish a Nibelsnarf?

YawusI've successfully placed bombs in its mouth, but I can't seem to find the right button to press for the fishing quicktime event. I always fail it really quickly. What button should I be mashing?

03:51
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Q: How long of a game is Evoland?

McKaySo, I'm considering buying Evoland, and I want to know about how much content is in it? Is it a 40 hour game? A shorter 2 hour game? What can I expect?

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Q: What's the difference between Evoland and Evoland classic?

McKayOn Evoland's website, it has a link to Evoland Classic. What's the difference between the two games? Is the story the same? Is there more gameplay? What changes are made to the interface when not a web game?

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Q: What happens if the host quits a game you're in?

StrixVariaI know that MH3U doesn't support transferring the host, so if the host quits, the game ends. Does this mean that the game ends instantly, as soon as the host is gone? Do you get a chance to save when this happens? If you're mid-mission, do you get to keep any items you've collected so far?

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Q: How do you calculate the odds of victory?

RapidaIn Game of Thrones Ascent, how do you calculate the odds of victory? If the enemy is defending with a score of 100 and you are attacking with a score of 150, how likely is i that you are going to win? The descriptions presented in the game of Moderate, Challenging, etc aren't as descriptive as I ...

@YiJiang'sEvilClone sigh
I wonder what it does
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone The face unnerves me
> Mr. Toots shoots rainbow laser blasts out of his posterior. Mr. Toots also has limited ammunition, or gas in this case.
> The 'rainbow' that fires is produced as a laser and can destroy anything in its path. Enemies that are killed by this ray have a tendency to explode into a group of rainbows and butterflies that quickly disperse.
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@FEichinger Weird, yet awesome.
04:07
Oh, neat. Now I just have to find a weapons locker
Most of the weapons in this game is pretty awesome
I like to think this is Volition's commentary on ponies.
Volition still exists after THQ disintegrated, right?
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yes. But they now belong to Koch Media.
An awful, awful company.
And the Red Faction IP is still up for grabs, I believe.
Bidding ends on April 15, apparently.
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@Ktash That was awesome
04:12
Sad trivia: Koch Media is on the list of companies I'll probably have to work for at some point.
It's also a company that managed to publish a game that didn't get put on retail shelves in its own country.
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It's a reskinned plasma cannon. The two seems to have the same capabilities
@YiJiang'sEvilClone But it farts rainbows! Literally!
@FEichinger It does, yes
04:20
@FEichinger seriously? I thought it'd be one of the more sought after ones. Hope it and Geomod get a good home
@BenBrocka Well, Guerilla, while pretty much being the most acclaimed, was nothing like 1 and 2.
@BenBrocka Armageddon kinda was, but flopped miraculously.
@Ktash Fourth person linking it.
I'm really confused why gaming.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/33375 got approved :S
04:22
@FEichinger I know I'm in the minority, but I liked Armageddon, even if it was very different (yes I like Majora's Mask and FF8 too)
@BenBrocka So, Red Faction has been run into the ground pretty much. The "best" game was the least like the series, and the most recent one didn't sell.
@BenBrocka You monster.
@FEichinger not sure about "run into the ground" really...there's been a total of one game after the most acclaimed one, Guerilla
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@Ktash This still delights me, and I hope magic interestingness happens from it
And what, 4 total?
@BenBrocka I haven't gotten around to playing it. :/
Unicorn fart is at least as damaging as plasma weapons
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone That is pretty amazing looking, although still weird
@BenBrocka Well, as I said, the best one was totally not like the series.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's identical to the plasma beam thinger that melts buildings
04:24
@BenBrocka I thought it did a little more damage, but maybe that's because I'm in New Game Plus and kept all the upgrades
@YiJiang'sEvilClone It literally farts rainbows. Shut up and enjoy it!
@FEichinger They have a range of ways to expand on the series though. I'm kinda glad they didn't make "Mars GTA 2" immediately after Guerilla, then it WOULD have felt run into the ground
Unless they had particularly amazing story to go with it, and honestly I don't see where they'd have come up with that
"GTA but mars and aliens" would have been a bit too much
For a serious franchise, anyway. For SR5, maybe
@BenBrocka Oh, I fully agree. It's just that from the perspective of people with money, this IP is worth nothing.
@FEichinger Eh, it's hard to tell what the idiots with money think these days
"Sold 5 million copies in a month, top of the charts? Didn't meet expectations"
@BenBrocka That would've been awesome. Essentially doing a full-on crossover.
04:27
You have to wonder exactly what EA/Square are expecting when chart-topping isn't enough
@BenBrocka The thing is, the idiots with money just throw way too much money at production and expect that to magically come back.
I played Armageddon without having played Guerrilla first, and it seems to be a pretty good game
"we expected to literally sell more copies than were produced, and that didn't happen, due to some "space time continuity bullshit". So we're shutting down the series and firing everyone"
We get Indie games with a quality close to some AAA games, which yield a crapton of revenue. The Big Four (EA, Actizzard, Ubisoft, Square) just don't get it.
@AshleyNunn When you carry it around it looks half asleep. The eyes pop like in the screenshot when you fire it, presumably because to fire it you're squeezing it on the... yeah
04:29
Well, Sony is getting it. Nintendo is...almost getting it
Microsoft...well...lol
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone giggles
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Guerrilla is absolutely nothing like the ret of the series. You don't need to play it for the series, but it's awesome on it's own accord.
MS might surprise us by showing the Xbox3 isn't completely stupid, but I dunno at this rate
I'm kind of expecting an always online box that runs on the tears of developers at this point and MS seems to only support the rumors
"deal with it" should be their marketing slogan
The NextBOX is gonna be always on. But it'll support cross-platform play with Windows 8 and RT.
And the sheeple will buy into it.
Halo 5 on Metro. Tap the tile to shoot. Tap the other tile to buy microtransactions
(mouse controls not included)
04:31
It's reasonable to assume that at this time, the hardcore market doesn't matter for shit.
YOU. ARE. SO. BEAUTIFUL. TO. MEEEEE
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now that I have your attention. Should I make hot chocolate or not?
Which means whatever we think, and how much we can foresee this to become horrible, it just won't matter. At all.
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@spugsley Hot chocolate, always.
@spugsley Hush. Stop interrupting me in my rants. :P
@spugsley Sure, why not. Are you going to bed now?
Also, do you add milk to your hot chocolate?
04:32
@YiJiang'sEvilClone nopes. @RavenDreamer just left and now I'm thinking it's time for hot chocolate
also, yes I make mine with milk
@FEichinger Eh. People say that, but there's still always going to be a market for hardcore. And I seriously doubt the console's ability to wrestle money away from the Farmvillites
Which is a good thing in general
@FEichinger NO. YOU AREN'T MY REAL DAD
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@spugsley WHY ARE YOU NOT MAKING HOT CHOCOLATE RIGHT NOW
Hmm, the ingredients list on mine already have milk listed
@YiJiang'sEvilClone oh, I make mine home-made
user15026
04:33
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Mine usually does too, but I am like NO! I NEED MORE MILK
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@spugsley O>O
@BenBrocka I qualify "hardcore" as the people who are interested in the meta of games. Developers and Publishers, rather than the title they see on the shelf.
cocoa powder, milk, vanilla, sugar, cinnamon
@AshleyNunn YEAH MAN
and a pinch of salt. Can't forget that
@FEichinger PS4 seems very much focused on that, even if it will allow freemium
@spugsley If I am not your real dad ... Which dad am I?
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04:34
@spugsley OMG YUM
MS, I have no idea what they're thinking
They seem to think that's a good thing...I don't think it is
@spugsley Hmmm? Why salt?
@FEichinger THE FAKE ONE OMG
@BenBrocka MS wants to get EA exclusives, obviously. :P
@FEichinger sugar
04:34
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I think it brings out the flavors :p but that's probably just something my grammy always said
At this point every rumor against MS seems true and MS seems more like...well, EA
@Krazer That was kinda what I expected.
An EA developers have to work with, but which also actively hates developers in every way possible
@spugsley Ah-huh.
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@spugsley It can - same way why you salt caramel
04:35
@BenBrocka That is EA in a nutshell.
I honestly can't believe any indies ever put up with their XBLA bullshit
OKAY IM GONNA DO IT
@FEichinger Does EA deal with 3rd party devs though?
@BenBrocka Yes. A lot.
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@spugsley YAAAAAAAAAAAAY
04:36
@FEichinger I thought they just bought developers/licenses and cranked out mountains of shit
And then stuck ads in the mountains of shit a month later
@BenBrocka CryTek partners with EA, for instance.
OMG A TRAVESTY HAS BEEN HAD
I'm out of cocoa powder ;;;;;;;;;;.;;;;;;;;;;;;;
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@spugsley boooo
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do you have any baking chocolate?
@BenBrocka Well, they can't anymore. They're running out of money and their hostile takeovers don't seem to work anymore.
04:38
@AshleyNunn no :((((((((((((
@FEichinger are they actually low on money?
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@spugsley Awww
so instead I have to eat this low fat yogurt :(
I hate my life
@BenBrocka They can't afford risking a takeover, at any rate. Else they'd be ALL over the THQ auctions.
@BenBrocka EA Partners
@FEichinger I suppose they probably would
04:40
@BenBrocka Well, they've not turned a profit in years IIRC
Hmmm, hang on, let me find a source on that
@BenBrocka In all honesty, I expected them to be. The THQ auctions were a grindfest of promising IPs and studios to drive into the ground.
so win/lose
@FEichinger a reason to be glad EA didn't buy them out. Though honestly I'm not sure there's a rosy future for Saint's Row or Red Faction at this point...
The only reason I would be sad if EA exploded tomorrow is because of Dead Space, and that's only if DS4 isn't an improvement over DS3
@BenBrocka Volition is pretty much screwed. If SR4 flops, it'll be blamed on Deep Silver for ruining it like Dead Island.
Also they can stop with the shitty spinoff games
@BenBrocka Meh. EA only has one living flagship at this point and that's Battlefield.
With the constant CoD rivalry, that can't be healthy for the company.
Meh. The BF3 campaign is surprisingly good but I'd never pay money for it
Got it free with the video card
04:44
Mass Effect - and by extension BioWare - is dead. Dead Space, after DS3, is dead - quite literally. What else is there that EA develops in-house?
And Dead Space 3 was a chart topper IIRC
Well, there's DLC-fest The Sims.
@BenBrocka And it still cost way too much.
@FEichinger There is a new ME game planned, right?
@YiJiang'sEvilClone How many people do you think will still buy that?
@FEichinger Necromorphs aren't dead (no pun intended), I'm sure a fourth could be made
04:46
@YiJiang'sEvilClone We have the "QQ we know how it ends anyway!" people. We have the "Fuck EA!" people. We have the "For god's sake, kill BioWare for good already." people.
@FEichinger Eh, if it did that's EA's problem. They can't expect a survival Horror game to sell like Derptard CoD Black Ops 9000
@FEichinger Quite a lot, if the sales figure for the rest of the games in the series is anything to go by
@FEichinger I think they're the vocal minority.
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@FEichinger There are people like that for like every franchise though
@YiJiang'sEvilClone And that's the sad thing. Many of those were part of ME's original fanbase.
@BenBrocka And yet, the axe on Dead Space is inbound. Probably only after DS4, since they talked themselves into a corner there, but it's gonna cost them even more.
@FEichinger I don't really know about the cost. I don't see why any Dead Space game should have to cost more than DS1/2, and those must have made a profit for them to continue on
04:49
@AshleyNunn Sure, but we're talking about a franchise that has been driven straight away from what it used to be. It may still sell, but not to the people it started with. And that mens a lot of lost sales as well.
They just can't keep up the microtransactions/nickle and diming bullshit, DS3 got a lot of undeserved flack for a microtransaction system that's really completely unnecessary
@BenBrocka There is no reason for it. EA just does. They throw money at it, hoping it would work. And it doesn't.
I'd rather it wasn't there, but it certainly isn't pay to win like freemium games
@BenBrocka To be honest, I don't give a flying fuck about the microtransactions.
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@FEichinger Not necessarily, if they build a new and different fanbase
04:51
What concerns me is that EA drives away their franchise's original fanbases. For all of their franchises.
@FEichinger They definitely seem to have no idea how to do things from start to finish, but Visceral Games has always made a decent product. DS3 less so, but it was still damn fun. I just wish it went back to the roots a bit more
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I mean far be it from me to defend them, but it isn't always that cut and dried
@AshleyNunn Do you know what the new and different fanbase is? The same fanbase CoD and Battlefield have. And that just doesn't work. We don't need 40 CoD's.
Dead Space, even the most watered down and actiony Dead Space is too fucked up and scary for wussy Call of Duty players to get into
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@FEichinger I don't think this is as wide reaching as you claim. But then again, I have been writing essays for days on end, so I tend to want everything to come with citations at this point :P
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@BenBrocka That's what Co-Op is for. I don't see how these bile-filled children could even play cooperatively with a fellow human, but in theory that works.
@FEichinger I haven't tried the co op yet (I have no Origin friends...I don't even like admitting I HAVE origin) but I heard it was pretty watered down
But I know multiple people, hardcore gamers to boot, who will never touch Dead Space because it's scary as hell. And they have to roll with that
@BenBrocka It has more content than the SP. That should tell enough.
Stick a needle in your eye will never appeal to casuals
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@BenBrocka I am not sure the context (actual needle?) but I totally am creeped out at the mind-image it is making
Yes, actual needle. And you control the needle. And if you mess it up...
04:58
@BenBrocka I'm one of those people who can't stomach jumpscares. I have no problem with gore, but jumpscares could very much kill me.
There's a reason it's one of the most famous scenes of Dead Space 2
@FEichinger I always hate jump scares because they're lame, cheap shots. But Dead Space 1 made them work, and made them work damn well

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