The Bridge

badp

14:00

...which wouldn't be too bad - you got autobalanced, you might as well keep playing with that class - except for engineer of course

It's already bullshit enough when you lose your nest because you weren't using the stock wrench and then you lose connection to the valve servers and respawn

and then you rebuild everything and you regain connection to the item server and go back to the old wrench and boom, everything is down again

Powerlord

@badp I don't know what plugin they're using, but I wish the Class Restrictions plugin on Midwest did that... since we had like 6 BLU Scouts running around a koth map with the restrictions set to 3...

badp

uh. RUGC Europe has no class limits and... doesn't seem to need any, either

people seem surprisingly constrained there in their class choices.

(although that server is engineer hell)

(I wasn't playing on RUGC Europe)

Powerlord

@badp I don't think we need them on Midwest either, but someone (lead server admin) installed a KOTH limit of 1 Engineer

badp

@Powerlord That doesn't seem too outlandish to be honest.

btw, are payload maps always blu rolls on Midwest too?

Powerlord

@badp Not always.

badp

14:06

Hm.

Powerlord

Oh right, Midwest has an Engineer limit of 2 on Payload

badp

Now that's a little tight

Powerlord

That seems to work out OK, but the 1 Engy KOTH limit just causes it to end up with 6+ scouts on one team.

badp

especially for red

(well blu needs their teleporters too)

Powerlord

@badp It's to limit how much turtling they can do.

It's annoying at round start for RED, though.

badp

14:08

@Powerlord When you've got to hold the last point for 8 minutes I don't care what people think, I'll turtle. What do you expect me to do, to lay down a red carpet and everything?

djsmiley2k

@LessPop_MoreFizz is that a solar panel I spy

Powerlord

@badp Yes, but since Sentry guns take an average of two people to destroy EACH, having say... 5 sentry guns on one team becomes a problem.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@djsmiley2k Yes.

Powerlord

And heaven forbid one is wrangled.

The Rescue Ranger only added to this idiocy, too.

djsmiley2k

@LessPop_MoreFizz and they give off no EM radiation in their conversion of sunlight to electricity?

badp

14:09

Where do you put 5 sentry nests in 5 different places on, say, Barnblitz last?

djsmiley2k

And you know, electricity traveling along wires gives off no em radiation either, I'm sure?

badp

One wrangled sentry on top of the stack of crates by the bottom spawn is bullshit enough

LessPop_MoreFizz

@djsmiley2k Alternate possibility: These people are idiots.

djsmiley2k

what is a wrangled sentry?

badp

@djsmiley2k A sentry that the engineer is controlling manually. Twice the firing speed, four times the health, but it only picks targets as good as you do, opens you to easy backstabs and chews through your metal twice as fast

StrixVaria

14:11

@badp It also has increased "range", kind of, since you can aim it further away than it would have on its own.

badp

...it's also the only way to possibly hope to deal with uberchargers or bonk + demoman combos

Powerlord

@badp On top of/behind crates, in front of crates, by the upper spawn door, by the lower spawn door, by the spiral, in the nook by the front entrance, by the bottom of the far stairs away from RED spawn... do I need to go on?

badp

@StrixVaria It's part of the "manual control" thing, yeah.

Powerlord

Takes 8 stickies to kill instead of 3.

badp

"On top of/behind crates, in front of crates" - one demoman uber gets both of these
"by the lower spawn door" - can be sniped easily, especially on _pro
"in the nook by the front entrance" - easy prey of demospam
"by the bottom of the far stairs away from RED spawn" - I don't know this one

that said on barnblitz last I usually go spy and sap teleporters

Unionhawk

14:13

"At the bottom of stairs" sounds like a candidate for demospam too

badp

@Unionhawk If I understand which one this is, then it's not easily demospammable

Powerlord

@badp Bottom of the stairs near the front entrance kinda

badp

The main problem of barnblitz last rather is that there's too much ammo on that floor

Powerlord

Even with a 2 engy limit, RED normally wins on Barnblitz Pro.

badp

I dunno, the few times I've won as blu on Barnblitz regular with a 3 engy limits, I built my nest in that area above the point

it's a pain to defend but makes a few otherwise very good spots (like what you might mean by ""by the bottom of the far stairs away from RED spawn") easy to blow up

Martin Sojka

14:22

@djsmiley2k Depends on the current type (AC or DC?) and wire shielding.

badp

@Powerlord Do you mean that placement?

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka It still gives it off, it just might not make it through the shielding.

badp

This is like my desperation setup

Martin Sojka

@OrigamiRobot DC in a straight wire gives off no EM radiation at all. None. It's just not very practical.

It still creates a magnetic field around itself, but that's not radiation.

badp

OrigamiRobot

14:26

@MartinSojka Then this was a semantics misunderstanding.

badp

This is much safer.

Martin Sojka

@OrigamiRobot I'd be more interested in knowing how the hell they want to generate the electricity in the first place without any EM radiation ... given that sunlight is a kind of EM radiation.

MBraedley

Free Flags!!! That is all

OrigamiRobot

@MBraedley That's not all that's free O_O

badp

@OrigamiRobot There's no mention of the pricetag to be honest

Martin Sojka

14:34

... wut?

Ben Brocka

mmmm satellite internet

badp

@BenBrocka 1 is a high security place, so the file gets encrypted six times on arrival with 4096-byte keys

It's a bit slower but the additional security makes up for it!!

Ben Brocka

surprised it only takes 5 minutes to get a directory listing from these places, really

badp

Hey, in your daddy's days 5 kilobits were hot damn fast!

Ben Brocka

2.76 kbps on this one. Nice.

badp

14:39

Being younger than me is cheating

Ben Brocka

At least I don't have to hear the modem sound

...I think one of our quarries IS on dial up. But for the most part we don't even bother trying to connect to them

Ben Brocka

14:51

@badp I remember using dial-up actually, images loading line by line

horrifying

Blem

Some might say this is NSFW:

►

Ben Brocka

pretty sure it was still faster than 636 bytes per second though

Wipqozn

Krazer

@Wipqozn your natural habitat?

Wipqozn

Yes.

SaintWacko

14:56

@Wipqozn That's awesome

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn I want to go to there.

SaintWacko

0

Q: Need some awnser for swtor

I have a question, I have on swtor star wars the old republic created an account but now I'm so my password and show name and wouw I reset so I clicked on forgot password. but now he sends no mail to the specified e-mail address

swtor

ಠ_ಠ

Wipqozn

[Gamersgate] Rollercoaster Tycoon Deluxe - $1.50

SaintWacko

Is that question off topic?

Lazers

0

Q: What is added/changed in Ocarina of Time Master Quest?

What are the differences between The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest?

version-differences zelda-ocarina-of-time

-2

Q: How do I reset my password?

I can't seem to get my password to reset for my SWTOR account. When I click on the forgot password link no email is sent to my specified email address. What can I do?

swtor

Ben Brocka

15:00

I am write single to salute and wait for password again

Martin Sojka

Let's play the "guess the language before it got put into Google Translator" game! I guess German.

Krazer

@BenBrocka u miss spelled 'm' '2' 'n' n '4' I dun under stand da other wurds. they r 2 long

Martin Sojka

People should just use Chinese. No more moaning about too long words; even the most complex easily fit in four or less symbols.

Krazer

@MartinSojka 哈啰你好

Sconibulus

four or less HUGE symbols...

SaintWacko

15:04

@MartinSojka Yeah, but each of those symbols takes as long to write as a word :P

Actually, I wonder which language has the highest Shannon entropy rate

Powerlord

@badp No, I meant right at the bottom... I mentioned that spot at the one near the front entrance, although I guess you could consider the one around the corner as near the front entrance too.

(Sorry, had a coworker stop by)

Sconibulus

English is about 1bit/letter I think? I vaguely remember that from a whatif xkcd : () )

the question probably comes down to how complicated characters are allowed to be

SaintWacko

facepalm

No wonder search wasn't working

When you type in the search box and hit enter, it doesn't search, it saves

so much stupid

Krazer

@Sconibulus as a stochastic process?

Martin Sojka

@Sconibulus 0.6 to 1.0 per letter, according to Shannon himself (he wrote a paper on that in 1950; you can easily find it on Google for all the gory details).

Sconibulus

15:11

what-if.xkcd.com/34

says 1.0 to 1.2, that was the source I was remembering

yes... I know xkcd is not a more reliable source than Shannon : () ) Just showing where my prior information came from

SaintWacko

I love whatif so much

Sconibulus

yeah, it's fun

SaintWacko

I think my favorite one was the lightspeed baseball one

The caption on the last picture...

Sconibulus

my favorite caption might be on the hubble one

"people who live in glass houses shouldn't be trusted with other decisions, given that they decided to live in a glass house"

SaintWacko

Hm, not seeing that in the Hubble one

Martin Sojka

15:20

@SaintWacko Looks like Chinese. Standard test: English-language Bible has about 1800k characters, including white space (which is significant, after all). Chinese-language Bible has about 900kB in EUC-CN encoding, which means something like 450k characters. In other words, Chinese is something like 4 bits per character.

SaintWacko

@MartinSojka It'd be interesting to also factor in strokes to produce characters

That makes Chinese more efficient to speak, but I wonder how it compares when written

Martin Sojka

Average of 2 for English symbols, average of 8 for Chinese sounds like a good guess.

SaintWacko

I expected it to be an asian language, as including tonality greatly increases efficiency

Sconibulus

combined blur and movement effects picture on the deck, before trying to make it clearer

SaintWacko

Depending on how high resolution the tonality is, you could theoretically have entire words represented by single symbols

@Sconibulus o.0 I didn't realize the what if pictures had alt text

FEichinger

15:25

Romaji could be very space-efficient to encode using the ASCII alphabet... Hmmm ... How come I never thought of that?

Martin Sojka

ASCII + some numbers or something for the long vowels.

Sconibulus

I didn't either... I'm going back through them all now : () )

FEichinger

@MartinSojka Depends on the romaji script you use, but it could definitely go into 1/2 to 1/3 of space.

Martin Sojka

On the other hand, Japanese has no capital letters, so you can use them. Something like writing "rōmaji" as "rOmaji".

Grace Note

Whoa.

SaintWacko

15:28

Heinlein talks about a very efficient language in Gulf

Ben Brocka

@MartinSojka 4 bits is 16x more info than 1, not 4x

well 8x I guess actually

FEichinger

@GraceNote I believe "You're late to the party." is appropriate here.

SaintWacko

@Sconibulus I love the last graphic in the supersonic stereo one

Grace Note

@FEichinger Probably.

Martin Sojka

@BenBrocka Right. Should be 2 bits then. :)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

15:33

Ha, I actually won Atom Zombie Smasher

SaintWacko

Apparently I never finished reading the hair drier one

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

By a surprisingly large margin too

Finished a 6k game with 2k points in the lead

I did use the chooser modification though

Martin Sojka

@GraceNote Spoiler: THE SNAKE BITES ITSELF IN THE END.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

That probably made it significantly easier

Grace Note

@MartinSojka I had watched the full thing through prior to posting in here, as it were.

FEichinger

15:35

@AshleyNunn I need no luck, I only need coffee and the 120 pages of script.

Lazers

1

Q: What are the pros and cons of the single entity summon spells?

Torchlight 2 offers several summon spells: Zombies Skeleton Archers Skeleton Warrior Blood Zombie Nether Imp I often equip the first two on this list, simply because they seem to be the best options. Zombies do a decent amount of poison damage when they explode, and archers (though they canno...

torchlight-2

0

Q: How is damage to monsters calculated?

With things like hitzones and elemental weaknesses and affinity, it's hard to really know how much damage you're actually doing. How is the damage a monster takes calculated?

monster-hunter-3-ultimate

-2

Q: Sleeping Dogs won't start

Well, i bought a cracked version of sleeping dogs. It was archived so, i extracted it. It was on 3 DVD's. All set, but when after extraction i launch HKShip.exe from Sleeping Dogs folder. The game won't run. Only the splash screen pops up then a error occurs. The error has something like this i...

sleeping-dogs

Krazer

@GraceNote did you find out what the Russian at the end said?

OrigamiRobot

@Lazers You... bought a cracked version? You're doing piracy wrong...

Martin Sojka

Huh, no questions yet on monster-loves-you? You'd think an adventure game where you have to play it multiple times to get all the scenes/endings would generate quite a few of those from the obsessive completionist group ...

Grace Note

@Krazer Not speaking Russian, no, but I figure that if I'm late to the party, then people in here would've already asked the resident Russian speakers.

Ben Brocka

15:38

@OrigamiRobot wow

Grace Note

@MartinSojka I can think of a fair number of completionist and objective games that never get asked here and probably will never.

Krazer

@GraceNote I heard that it says something like "And now we'll show you a cartoon (cutscene). Connecting to server. No connection. Thanks for your time, you can go now." But I haven't been able to confirm it.

Martin Sojka

EA should totally use an extended length version of that GIF as an indicator for "connecting to Sim City server".

Ben Brocka

And now here's something we hope you'll really like

Fluttershy

Don't know, don't care, can't help you. Go buy the game and let sleeping dogs lie. — SevenSidedDie 12 mins ago

3

facedesk

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

15:41

@Fluttershy Oh come on, the pun is perfect

Fluttershy

@YiJiang'sEvilClone No puns are perfect. All puns are terrible.

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy The worse a pun is, the more perfect it is.

Ben Brocka

Of course it doesn't work, it's got a crack in it. Better return it and get a whole one

FEichinger

@GraceNote We never really bothered finding out what it reads and were more amazed by what happened before it.

Powerlord

Question, if someone shows me pictures of My Little Pony, are they showing me Ponography?

FEichinger

15:45

facedesk

Now I'm in the "really horrible pun" corner.

Grace Note

Naw, it's just Hippographs at that point.

SaintWacko

@Sconibulus I like the model rocket engine one too, because I build and fly model rockets

Krazer

@FEichinger sometimes palms are just not enough

Powerlord

@badp So, if there were a koth_ravine and koth_lumberyard that had working spawn rooms and control points, would you actually play them?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Powerlord

15:47

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's not @Fluttershy!

Martin Sojka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Nice horse face desk.

FEichinger

@MartinSojka To quote certain people: "It's not a horse, it's a pony!"

Ben Brocka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone she turns into liquid on one of those frames

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BenBrocka Personally I'm far more worried about the horn

0

A: FF4 rainbow pudding from yellow jellies on iOS

Wow, I guess I got lucky! Only been playing a few hours, downloaded the app onto my iPad today, and got one already! just checked online to see if I needed it as was gonna sell it (100000 Gil! :-O). Guess I better keep it then! Good luck with finding one.

Does this answer the question... at all?

Grace Note

@BenBrocka That's one way to perceive it.

Ben Brocka

15:52

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's clearly glued on to her hair

SaintWacko

OrigamiRobot

@FEichinger I know! She is totally late!

Martin Sojka

Sounds about right. Original text: А сейчас мы вам покажем мультик.
Соединение с сервером
Связи нет. Спасибо, все свободны.

Ben Brocka

@OrigamiRobot For a very important date?

kalina

mmmh

OrigamiRobot

15:58

@kalina Are you eating something?

Or was that grumpiness from being awake?

SaintWacko

I need to go back to learning Russian

I like Russian

kalina

no I'm wondering if it's too over the top to go back to bed for another 10 hours immediately after waking up from sleeping for 10 hours

SaintWacko

@kalina What time is it?

kalina

5pm

SaintWacko

That's what I thought

I think you should spend at least a little bit of the day awake :P

kalina

15:59

I have, I've been awake about 8 minutes so far

OrigamiRobot

Pros: That is a good idea.
Cons: Why are you still reading this go back to sleep.

kalina

that classifies as 'a little bit'

Martin Sojka

Google Translate gets it almost right, surprisingly. The last part is a bit idiomatic though, it tries the literal "Thanks, all are free." while it basically means "Thanks, all dismissed."

kalina

@OrigamiRobot because my body is already fully powered, it's only my brain that wants to sleep

OrigamiRobot

@kalina There's a reason your body is not in charge of decision making.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

16:01

@kalina Well, you can't ignore the unfortunate fact that your body isn't going anywhere without your brain

Unless you want to be a zombie

SaintWacko

I want to sleep, too

Unfortunately, I'm at work

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's not true at all

kalina

@OrigamiRobot my body makes many descisions

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

-1

Q: I LOST NAHKRIIN :( ON SKYRIM

Anyway so ive completed skyrim oblivious of the nhakriin mask you find by killing the dragon priest , either that or ive picked it up and dropped it somewhere or sold it , i cant really remember what ive done with it , is there anyway at all for me to go back on my save where i did have nhakriin ...

skyrim

SaintWacko

Haven't you read Douglas Adams' books?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

This question broke my brain

SaintWacko

16:02

I don't remember which one it is

Martin Sojka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The question should also be tagged with ps3, I think. I almost answered with the console code to get the item.

SaintWacko

Ah, Restaurant at the End of the Universe

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka No, it should not. Also, it is a dupe.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@OrigamiRobot "(btw iam on ps3)"

OrigamiRobot

@YiJiang'sEvilClone So? Lost items are a common problem regardless of platform.

FEichinger

16:07

@OrigamiRobot The solutions are vastly different from PC to console, though.

Especially with Bethesda RPGs.

Martin Sojka

@OrigamiRobot Dupe of what? Also, lost items in Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim/FO3/FO:NV are not a problem on PC, since you can just spawn them with the command console any time. They are a bigger, potentially unsolvable problem on the consoles and they tend to have a different solution there if they have one.

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka Just because it's solvable doesn't mean it's not a problem.

The problem is platform independent, the answer isn't.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@OrigamiRobot The duplicate doesn't seem to address consoles at all. That said, this question will stay closed until someone translates it into English

OrigamiRobot

One answer can easily cover consoles and PC

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I am editing the answer right now.

badp

@Powerlord Personally? I'm not the biggest fan of KOTH

Lazers

16:12

0

Q: Not able to connect to a multiplayer server in minecraft?

I was trying to access the multiplayer server of mine craft but I cant every time I try it says unable to connect server full timed out can you help me to connect to a server . I am expecting a step by step description from starting. I know it is foolishness but please if you can.

minecraft-server

-3

Q: I LOST NAHKRIIN :( ON SKYRIM

Anyway so ive completed skyrim oblivious of the nhakriin mask you find by killing the dragon priest , either that or ive picked it up and dropped it somewhere or sold it , i cant really remember what ive done with it , is there anyway at all for me to go back on my save where i did have nhakriin ...

skyrim

badp

as for whether or not I'd play them, it depends if they land on the rotation; with very few exceptions I play whatever map the server happens to cycle to.

OrigamiRobot

k so i try and ask a question and it gets closed by a bunch of diks , thnx a bunch for ruining my question for no reason , i hope u will have a good future ahead closing peoples questions . — Oliver Tighe 25 secs ago

2

badp

Don't forget, however, since those are Arena maps, to add extra items around and/or promote the existing ammo/health kits

Martin Sojka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Translated. :)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@OrigamiRobot Diks, teehee

OrigamiRobot

16:15

@MartinSojka It does not need the ps3 tag

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone if he spelled it out completely, it'd get autocensored right????

Martin Sojka

@OrigamiRobot Do we have a "not a pc" tag then?

Shotgun Ninja

Diks: For when you really want to curse someone out.

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka No, it doesn't need to be specified in the tags at all.

Shotgun Ninja

@MartinSojka console ?

badp

16:16

Honestly I wish we didn't have separate questions for the same problem based on the platform

OrigamiRobot

@badp We shouldn't.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp The problem here is, there is one very simple generic answer for PC, and many different possible answer for consoles

OrigamiRobot

@YiJiang'sEvilClone No, the answer for consoles is "you can't"

badp

...I also wish Skyrim didn't make it this easy to lose items to the geometry or whatever

SaintWacko

@badp I was about to let you know we didn't have a censor here, and then I saw who was talking :P

OrigamiRobot

16:18

Even if it wasn't the long console answer can easily fit right beside the simple PC answer in a single question.

Martin Sojka

@badp We don't have any other question regarding that item, I checked. We have one for the similar Vokun mask, but it doesn't have an answer for console users either:

4

Q: How can I get my lost Vokun mask back?

I had the Vokun mask. I've even been back to make certain I didn't leave it on the mob etc, but now I can't find it. I can't remember if I sold it or just dumped it. I have all the other masks and wish to use them all to get the final one. I am entering the correct console command to get the it...

skyrim

badp

@MartinSojka I'm not speaking in the specific case; I can't because I don't have, or intend to get, Skyrim

Martin Sojka

@OrigamiRobot Not for every item in the game. Some of them, you can.

badp

This "lost item in Skyrim" category honestly is still a constant source of headaches

(adjusting for game age)

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka Items that you lose are lost. If it respawns, that's still a new item.

Martin Sojka

16:20

@OrigamiRobot You don't know about how the Skyrim engine internally works and what a persistent reference does to the items, do you?

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka I am a robot. I know everything.

If you have a better answer, add it here

We don't need 50 skyrim lost item questions.

Martin Sojka

Objects which have a persistent reference attached to them (items, pieces of geometry, NPCs, whatever) are never lost. They are never deleted, nor are they ever created; the persist from the beginning to the end of the game. They can be disabled and re-enabled at will, at any time (ok: once per game frame, or the game crashes). Scripts can move them around to make sure they are where they should be, even if you're holding them in your hand.

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka How does that make the PC and console answers different?

Martin Sojka

Quest items always have a persistent reference. Unique items usually do. It's up to the quest script writer to make sure they get back to an easily findable place if they ever get "lost".

badp

if they persistently fall through the geometry, does it matter? (Dunno if this is a thing that can happen; I suppose it can be a problem)

Martin Sojka

16:25

@OrigamiRobot On the PC, the easy answer is always "open command console, type in this". On the console, the answer varies with item, patch level and DLCs installled.

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka Any answer that applies to consoles also applies to PC in this case.

Martin Sojka

We need just one "How can I find an item back on PC?" question. We really need one "How can I find this item back on console?" question for each group of items.

OrigamiRobot

Just because there is a better answer for PC users doesn't mean there needs to be two questions.

Martin Sojka

@OrigamiRobot Yes, but I don't see any answer which applies to console yet. Nobody wrote one.

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka Then you write one.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

16:27

> My Little Pony: The Elements of Harmony: Friendship is Magic: The Official Guidebook

Ooo, colon cancer

Martin Sojka

@OrigamiRobot I don't play consoles.

badp

@MartinSojka Can't honestly find fault with this, except for the wording

OrigamiRobot

Lack of an answer is never a reason for duplicates.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Three colons. Neat.

badp

"How can I find an item, any item with the console?" and "How can I find this item?" leaving [without a console] implicit.

although. The first sounds like... not a good question

OrigamiRobot

16:28

Or we could just have one question with all the answers so there is no confusion.

Martin Sojka

There's also one other thing to note: Opening the command console on the PC and typing in anything will instantly make you stop getting achievements. Not something I personally care about, but others might.

OrigamiRobot

You can also add that to the answer.

Martin Sojka

By the way, the Nehkriin question is closed with the wrong close reason.

kalina

"How can I raise a question that will provoke hours of bickering in chat?"

OrigamiRobot

There is a reason the site supports multiple answers. People vote for the best one. In this case, the most inclusive one is the best.

@kalina Arqadians vs. Arqanoids

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

16:31

@OrigamiRobot Meh.

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka This is also a dupe of the generic lost items question.

tiddy

@MartinSojka Skyrim doesn't disable achievements

NV does

Martin Sojka

@tiddy Right. I double-checked to be sure, it doesn't.

badp

Arqaders

Wipqozn

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

70

Q: Why do console games require a button press before showing the main menu?

I am strictly a PC gamer myself, but I noticed a strange thing. When you start every released-for-console game, like Mass Effect or Borderlands, they ask you to press Enter (or any key, etc.) after the initial load, and only after pressing it do you get to see the main menu. PC-only games load th...

xbox-360 ps3

11

Q: How can Gen 3 consoles run modern games with old technology?

When I compare games released recently to games released when the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 first came out, back in 2005 and 2006, there's an obvious improvement in graphics and quality over time. For example, there is a big advancement in graphics from Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (released 2006...

xbox-360 ps3

That first one is also off-topic.

I also posted this in the wrong chat room at first.

badp

16:37

@Wipqozn I still find it slightly funny and/or pretentious that Chrono Trigger or Earthbound have demo modes.

Shotgun Ninja

@badp Two of my favorite games ever, btw

badp

@ShotgunNinja I'm in the middle of both

OrigamiRobot

@badp I thought you were so close to the end of Chrono Trigger?

badp

I've just used the waterfall "password" in Earthbound and I'm doing the Black Auspice in Chrono Trigger

@OrigamiRobot Both have kind of been on hold, they're my late night/commute games.

Shotgun Ninja

I haven't gotten very far in Earthbound... I got stuck right at the start of Fourside/in the desert maze....

Then my save got deleted, and I had to start over.

badp

16:40

I've found the Black Auspice strangely difficult, so that's put me off a bit.

@ShotgunNinja Ouch.

OrigamiRobot

I hate the Black Omen so much.

Shotgun Ninja

Black Auspice? You mean Black Omen.

OrigamiRobot

It's long and hard and unforgiving.

badp

Yeah, I do

I'm already annoyed that I'm apparently forever screwed out of the desert hole sidequest

OrigamiRobot

That one isn't that great.

I don't think you're missing out on much.

Shotgun Ninja

16:41

Yeah, I stopped playing Chrono Trigger at the Black Omen. Too stronk.

badp

I'm still annoyed by it.

Shotgun Ninja

I'll kill Lavos some other time...

badp

I mean, I could begin killing Lavos at level 38

Martin Sojka

Anyway, fixed the misinformation about the console versions our Robot put in the existing and still not closed answer. :)

badp

I'm now level 45 (with Chrono level 48 or something)

Martin Sojka

16:42

6

A: How can I find a lost item?

On PC, you can find its ID with the help "Item" 0 command, then use `player.additem ###### 1. A nearly complete list of all items with their IDs can be found on the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages [UESP] Wiki. I know you "prefer" not to do that, but it's your only option. Console players cannot ...

Have a nice week-end.

badp

and still getting in fights I can't get out of

@MartinSojka ...see you monday?

OrigamiRobot

@MartinSojka I am nobody's robot!

Martin Sojka

@badp Likely. Got some PS2 test server playing to do (now that SOE actually made one ...). :D

badp

This is where I'm at

kalina

you know when I played Skyrim I had none of these problems

badp

16:47

I admit I probably haven't spent my tabs the best way

I'm admittedly only using these three because Magus and Robot are the only ones with Tec's left locked

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina You played Skyrim?

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone on release day, in one sitting

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Whatcha playing this on?

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone My Android tablet. I'm using SuperGnes which is a purchase if you want to load states (which you do) but I hear there are alternatives that are completely free

kalina

and I haven't started it up once since

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

16:50

@badp Hey, same here. Well, used to, until I rooted and upgraded to CM10, which wiped everything including the save file

Oh, not that emulator

badp

I ended up justifying my purchase because this emulator has a turbo mode

So I can "auto-fight" in Chrono Trigger by holding A and pressing Volume Up (my own bind)

Lazers

0

Q: Do Queens affect the amount of larva produced in the Heart of Swarm campaign?

I found it odd that during the campaign, I am unable to use the Queen's ability to spawn larva. However, it seemed that keeping a queen near my hatchery did cause more larva to spawn. In the Heart of the Swarm campaign, does keeping a queen near a hatchery affect the amount of larva produced?

starcraft-2

badp

or, when Earthbound asked me to do absolutely nothing for three minutes, I just held that button for a few seconds.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I believe I used this one play.google.com/store/apps/…

At least I think I did. It's being a while

Transcript for