The Bridge

Unionhawk

14:00

@kalina Because I can only assume that if there is a legal avenue to have EA banished from the earth, it would have been pursued by now.

kalina

@Unionhawk nuclear weapons, nobody can argue with 50 years of genetic mutation

Yawus

Hmm... I'm wonder if the Citizens United ruling can be used to "force" EA to leave...

I mean, corporations are "citizens" now...

Unionhawk

@kalina Our nuclear policies have gone to shit lately; I don't even think MAD is a thing anymore

Yawus

@Unionhawk That's.... a good thing, right?

MAD always scared the f--k out of me.

Unionhawk

@Yawus It means that if N. Korea or Iran obtain technologies, I don't know if our nuclear policies allow us to bomb the shit out of them if they bomb the shit out of us.

kalina

14:03

if they do a good enough job in their first strike there won't be enough of you left to bomb them back anyway

Unionhawk

I don't know, don't quote me on that, I just know that our nuclear policy has gotten stricter.

Yawus

@kalina The point of MAD was to have automated systems that would detect a nuclear launch and send a "reply". In the form of an earth-shattering KABOOM.

Grace Note

Countering a nuclear launch with an earth-shattering kaboom seems... counter productive.

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Yawus

I'm pretty sure there were probably human authorization protocols somewhere though.

@GraceNote Human thinking is generally counter-productive.

kalina

all of the UK's nukes are launched from submarines

there is literally nowhere you can hide

Unionhawk

14:05

@kalina Most of the US's nukes are as well

Yawus

@kalina What about under the subs?

Unionhawk

There are some silos, but, mainly subs.

kalina

@Yawus ho ho you so funneh

Grace Note

I was personally going to go with "What if you are in the sub?"

Yawus

That works too.

Powerlord

14:06

@Yawus What about walking tanks that can fire nuclear missiles?

Grace Note

Again, as long as your intent isn't to be counterproductive to the whole point, you probably want to be launching from a point that is not consumed by the byproduct.

Yawus

@Powerlord Metal... Gear?

Powerlord

@Yawus Glad someone got the reference. :D

kalina

Metal Gear... It can't be!

I wonder if you can even legitimately get the first MGS for PC from anywhere

Powerlord

I need to resume playing through those. I stopped on MGS at the Metal Gear boss battle... I still have MGS2, 3, and 4 to go.

kalina

14:07

+still

Powerlord

I also stopped playing Banjo-Tooie partway through Hailfire Peaks.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Bah, the US has nuclear artillery and recoiless rifles

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote But there was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!

Grace Note

@BenBrocka A counterproductive one!

Dan Hulme

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The Davy Crockett was cancelled. I didn't think they had any of those left.

Yawus

14:09

►

Peace Walker was hilarious.

Powerlord

> [SM] Native "SetEventInt" reported: Invalid game event handle 0 (error 4)

badp

@yij still GOTY

Powerlord

Gotta love random errors.

Ben Brocka

@Yawus SUNLIGHT!

kalina

I doubt SimCity will be GOTY

Powerlord

14:11

slaps TF2 for not letting him create teamplay_broadcast_audio events

The best part is, I have no idea why it's saying it can't create a new event.

OrigamiRobot

I will be GOTY

badp

who cares what others nominate to be GOTY. It'll always be GOTY in my heart, until another game dethrones it

Alenanno

Hello everyone

kalina

you didn't even play it

Yawus

Minesweeper = GOTY.

kalina

14:12

@Alenanno salut, comment ca va?

Alenanno

@kalina Bien, et toi? :P

Unionhawk

@kalina That doesn't make it any less GOTY in his heart.

badp

I didn't play Diablo 3 either, still my GOTY for 2012

kalina

@Unionhawk he also doesn't have a heart, he has a lump of coal where his heart should be

@Alenanno bien merci

Alenanno

When you say GOTY, it reminds me of UT99.

badp

14:13

I've even had to retcon XBox Live Minesweeper as GOTY 2011 to make that happen!

tombull89

I found a large amount of student playing Unreal Tournament 2004 during lunchtime today. I was...impressed.

kalina

your GOTY system is flawed

badp

Sorry Duke

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Try the Windows Phone 8 version

OrigamiRobot

I'm not sure @badp knows what GOTY means...

Alenanno

14:14

@tombull89 OMG. I used to do LAN with friends with UT2004. WHERE ARE THEY? :D

badp

@yij does it have adventure mode? Daily challenges? Gamer score?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@OrigamiRobot Game of the Year. The only question is, what game of the year.

badp

@ori they're awarded based on the amount of tears generated

kalina

@badp achievements, character progression, branching dialogues, immersive story telling

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Not tears of joy, I guess?

badp

14:16

@Karl really? OMG want

kalina

...

Powerlord

@tombull89 Not UT3?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Autocorrect wins!

OrigamiRobot

@KALINA IS @KARL: DATA ACCEPTED

badp

Will you pick the LEFT square or the RIGHT square? Pick the wrong one and the autocorrect gets it

tombull89

14:17

@Powerlord IMHO UT2004 is the best of the lot. Plus the student desktop machine wouldn't really handle UT3.

Powerlord

@Alenanno UT99 is best UT game!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

So far the score is: Autocorrect - 2 / @badp - 0

Powerlord

@tombull89 I'll admit I didn't play a lot of UT2004, but I preferred UT99 over what I did play, and what I'd played of UT2003.

kalina

Quake 3 is the best FPS

badp

I call for a recount! You can't possibly know it's really zero

Alenanno

14:18

@Powerlord It had a different feel, can't really compare them, love them both.

:D

Powerlord

Good old UT2003, which was supposed to be network compatible with UT2004, then it turned out Epic changed their mind between releases.

badp

Also mistaking kal for Karl was at least a point for us both

Alenanno

@Powerlord Yeah?

Ben Brocka

Karlina

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Recounted. Turns out it's not zero. New score: Autocorrect - 2 / @badp - -1

Powerlord

14:19

@Alenanno Yeah, advertising for UT2003 noted that you'd be able to play against UT2004 players.

badp

Don't make me load full chat man or I'll retcon your face

tombull89

I did like the Scenario-type games in 2004. One's where you have to steal a tank, one where you have to steal missiles

Powerlord

Which turned out to not happen, but they'd give you $10 off UT2004 if you'd previously bought UT2003!!!!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Autocorrect - 3 / @badp - -1

kalina

I think it's actually Autocorrect 3 / @badp DNF

Powerlord

14:20

$10 off what was then a... $50 game? $40 game?

I forget.

Alenanno

@Powerlord It's 10 € on Amazon :D

badp

That was actually a typo. Not that you'd care :-P

Powerlord

@Alenanno Just buy the Unreal Deal pack on Steam when it's on sale. It's like $5 these days during sales.

or maybe it was $10 during sales, I forget.

Alenanno

I'm not on Steam but I was thinking. If you stop using Steam the games you purchased are not yours anymore?

badp

@pow wouldn't I own the latest unreal if I got that? shiver

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

14:21

@Alenanno Depends on what you mean by "stop using"

OrigamiRobot

I got a haircut. It was awful.

Alenanno

It's also on GOG.

OrigamiRobot

No dude, I don't want to talk about My Name Is Earl.

Alenanno

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Deleting your account?

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord Really? That would have been cool

Powerlord

14:22

@badp You'd own all of them.

Ben Brocka

@tombull89 Those were in the original UT has Assault maps, my favorite kind

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Alenanno Then you won't be able to access them anymore, which pretty much means the same thing

badp

@ale of course if you delete your account you lose your games

Ben Brocka

I'd love a new UT that goes back to roots with none of this vehicles bullshit

Dan Hulme

@tombull89 My friends still play those at lan parties

badp

14:23

Why would you delete your account? Only Stack Exchange users do that

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Oh wait.

Alenanno

@BenBrocka UT99-like? UT2004 had vehicles (no skateboards though).

Ben Brocka

And Nali War Cows

Alenanno

@badp I don't have Steam lol

kalina

@badp brb deleting account: @badp bullied me into it

Ben Brocka

@Alenanno The original UT (I had the GOTY version but I'm not sure of the differences aside from some maps)

Powerlord

14:24

Steam doesn't actually let you delete your accounts.

Ben Brocka

Despite the low res and all they had some really cool looking and playing maps back then

badp

@ale looking into how to ragequit before you even started? :-P

Powerlord

@BenBrocka The GOTY version adds the 4 Bonus packs, which includes a few new maps and some mutators

Alenanno

@badp ahah lol

kalina

ragequitting is easy

step 1: play RAGE

Alenanno

14:25

@BenBrocka That's the one I know. :P

kalina

step 2: become disillusioned with it

badp

@Kal you'd never give me the satisfaction. Your threats are empty

kalina

step 3: quit

Ben Brocka

And I don't really like the whole "get into a vehicle first to win the game" precedent that (best I can tell) Halo set. It's fun for a few games but long-term to keep it skill-based I'd rather do away with vehicles

Powerlord

It even includes facing worlds SE, which moves the spawns behind the base so you can't get sniped as soon as you respawn!

Ben Brocka

14:25

or make them a mutator or something. Mutators were cool

kalina

@badp you are saying that you want me to quit?

Powerlord

As I recall, mutators in UT were added in Bonus Pack 2.

Or maybe it just shipped with a bunch of them.

Alenanno

@BenBrocka On UT2004 Vehicles were available only for the Onslaught mode, by the way.

badp

No but you'll never admit I'd be the reason of your leaving

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord That was a classic sniper duel map right there

badp

14:26

unless it got me in trouble

kalina

@badp it would

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: How do I get more seeds from farming?

When I have one seed from farming, I want to get more seeds. How do I do that? I always seem to get one seed back when a farmer collects the full grown crop.

timber-and-stone

Powerlord

@BenBrocka There was also Facing Worlds 2, but I don't remember it being as good.

Alenanno

Oh now I want to play again.

Powerlord

Of course, Facing Worlds is itself based on a map called 2fort from an earlier game on the Quake engine...

badp

14:27

Would it? Arda already ragequit explicitly because of me at least twice :-P

Ben Brocka

Was that the one that's perfectly identical on both sides? The metal looking one, not the asteroid one

@Alenanno I wonder if network play still works? I haven't played since I had a modem. That was...unpleasant, so I usually just played vs bots

Alenanno

There was also an Egyptian-themed one (somewhat bigger and a tad more complicated)

badp

Mark in a tweet pointed at me as everything that's wrong with mods, right before blocking me on Twitter

Ben Brocka

Wish I had saved all my mods

Alenanno

@BenBrocka Ahah don't know honestly... But if you find friends for LAN...

badp

14:28

Powerlord still wants my head on a silver plate

Dan Hulme

yes, it does, and there are still servers

Alenanno

@DanHulme D:

That's cool.

I'm glad classic stuff is still being played.

TZHX

does the colour of the plate really matter?

Dan Hulme

UT04 online always had the problem that on most servers if you stood still for more than 5 seconds someone would kickban you for "camping"

Powerlord

@Alenanno Fun fact, even some recent games that are still being updated are based on UT2004.

Killing Floor, for example.

Ben Brocka

14:30

@Alenanno Friend of mine kept trying to drag me to lan parties but he's 1/4th of a state away so I always chickened out

TZHX

I thought Killing Floor was a source game?

Powerlord

@TZHX You'd be wrong.

It's a SteamWorks game, but it's built on UT2004.

Alenanno

@BenBrocka That sucks. I wonder if there are places that give the chance to people to meet up for LAN games. BRB.

Powerlord

Oh, I stumbled on something that may be interesting in Source games.

TZHX

Wow. No wonder it's so shit.

Powerlord

14:32

I don't know if it's recent, but if you try creating an event on an empty server, the CreateEvent call will fail.

Dan Hulme

also, vehicles in UT04 are well worth it in lan games

getting your whole team into a leviathan and then spending ten minutes arguing over where to drive it is priceless

Powerlord

Anyway, one nice thing about Killing Floor being a UT2k4 game is that certain UT2k4 mods worked on it. Plus, UT games have a nice server webpanel.

Ben Brocka

The one game where I really like vehicles is Warhawk, because it's all based around vehicles (and ground people have some defense too)

Powerlord

Something that Valve needs to add to their games.

tombull89

I did like the spider mines in UT2004. You could plop down mines that would chase vehicles, or you could use alternative fire to direct them around. There was a mutator that would allow you to make them bigger as well, that was funny.

Dan Hulme

14:36

there ought to be more games for lans with two-man asymmetric teams (i.e. driver and gunner or similar)

Ben Brocka

UT always had fun, if occasionally near-useless weapons

See GES Biorifle

Though there was a mutator to make gel last much, much longer that made the GES dangerous

I also liked that they named their weapons things like "Green Exploding Shit" biorifle

tombull89

Oh, yes. The Biorifle was nicknamed "the jizz gun". Next to useless indeed.

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

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Crank It UP!

Proposed Q&A site for Car Audio Professionals, Installers, Fabricators, DIYs, and Enthusiasts alike.

Currently in definition.

OrigamiRobot

@tombull89 I think you need to see a doctor.

tombull89

The Redeemer was pretty sweet as it was guided...there was a couple of "WTF was that" during break because of it.

Ben Brocka

14:39

@tombull89 Redeemer was great fun. Annoying as shit to have used on you though

tombull89

Yeah, as soon as you saw that smoke trail it was get the minigun out and try and shoot it down.

Ben Brocka

@tombull89 A fully charged shot that hits is an instant kill in most acses I think...but since A) the blobs don't last long and B) the arc was shit it was pretty useless in most cases

Also I forget if you could hold a fully charged shot for long. That might have been a restriction in Unreal only

Dan Hulme

yeah, the enforcer is more useful than the biorifle

especially if you dual-wield!

Ben Brocka

dual eforcers weren't really that bad

And the Impact Hammer made a pretty fun and skill-based melee weapon

Powerlord

14:56

@BenBrocka I totally forgot how that worked.

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord You had to charge it up to do decent damage. A click did minor damage (and knockback), charging for a few seconds would insta-kill. Right click reflected projectiles. And you could impact jump

tombull89

I sucked with the impact hammer...seemed to me it was more luck than anything.

Ben Brocka

Not much luck to it, it's either fully charged or it's not and you either touch them or you don't

And lets not forget the series groundbreaking graphics:

kalina

quake > unreal

Ben Brocka

Like I'm gonna take game advice from a Simcity 5 player

kalina

15:03

It wasn't advice.

regardless, Quake vs Unreal is an invalid comparison

you can't compare two games that were two years apart during a period of time where innovation in game engines was as fast as it was

SaintWacko

Hm, I want to play Spring

I wish I wasn't at work

kalina

also, you wouldn't have the source engine without quake

Ben Brocka

More specifically we wouldn't have had GoldSrc. I'm not sure how much Source is actually based on Quake's guts

kalina

@BenBrocka enough that there is still bits of Quake code in games as late as Half Life 2

so, specifically, you wouldn't have the source engine without quake

source is a fork of goldsrc, just a lot of it has been re-written

there are plenty of quotes from people at valve stating exactly that

Source (game engine)

Source is a 3D video game engine developed by Valve Corporation. It debuted in June 2004 with Counter-Strike: Source, followed shortly by Half-Life 2, and has been in active development ever since. Unusually for a game engine, Source does not have a meaningful version numbering scheme; instead, it is designed in constant incremental updates. Source was created to power first-person shooters, but has also been used professionally to create role-playing, side-scroller, puzzle, MMORPG, top-down shooter and real-time strategy games. Notable technology The Source engine implements: * Direct...

shame oneboxing doesn't give you the section linked in the onebox

Ben Brocka

It also gives you a totally random image

oh hey, that's the image from the section, surprisingly

kalina

15:14

hah I hadn't noticed that

I wouldn't if that is intentional or coincidence

fbueckert

Star Command review

Ben Brocka

It seems to go out of it's way to avoid grabbing the main image for the article so I kinda doubt it's intentional

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BenBrocka It picks up the largest image on the page

Ideally it should pick the infobox image first, but it doesn't do that

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Sigh... That's too bad

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Par for the course for them.

Overpromise, underdeliver.

SaintWacko

15:20

@fbueckert Yeah, not really unexpected

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

15:30

@AshleyNunn This might interest you storybundle.com

Actually, it probably would interest everyone here

eBook bundle with a bunch of books about video games, for $10

The Making of Karateka
Kill Screen Issue 2: Back to School
Confessions of the Game Doctor
Constellation Games
Killing is Harmless
Kill Screen Issue 6: The Change Issue
Generation Xbox: How Videogames Invaded Hollywood
Videogames: In the Beginning
The Making of Prince of Persia
250 Indie Games You Must Play

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: How do you get the "Bi-Winning" Achievement?

The achievement says: Balletic Complete a clean run in a Head 2 Head event Do you have to play with 2 players to get this achievement or is this a game mode? If you have to play with 2 players, is there any way to "fake" this if you don't have any gaming related real life friends and only 1 c...

pc achievements dirt-showdown

0

Q: How do you get the "Running the Show" Achievement?

Running the Show Dominate a friend in Challenge mode How do you actually dominate a friend in challenge mode? I have beaten some challenges, but did not get this achievement yet.

pc achievements dirt-showdown

FEichinger

15:53

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Making of Karateka alone is probably worth it already.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

The game's older than me

> Karate is widely considered to be one of the worst Atari 2600 games of all time.

Hmmm, okay

FEichinger

Karateka is why Prince of Persia - and by extension the Screed series - exists.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

16:09

Sev’ral Timez x @Fluttershy OTP!

Sterno

16:21

I visit chat and am immediately confronted by inappropriate relations with a tree.

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Coronus

@Sterno Welcome to The Bridge!

Dan Hulme

You're lucky: it's usually cats.

fredley

II am on a train

I also cannot type

Dan Hulme

You're not using speech-to-text, are you?

Phoning people to say you're on the train is annoying enough without people doing it to chatrooms too.

fredley

Also, for the record: Mobile Chat is still awful

Dan Hulme

16:25

SLASH JOIN HASH CYBER

Fluttershy

@kalina >_<

fredley

Speech to text for Bridge? Seriously?

kalina

@Fluttershy what did I do?!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@fredley It's possible, especially on a phone

fredley

Possible is not the same as Good Idea

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

16:26

Most phone OS have a text-to-speech buttons on their keyboard

Martin Sojka

@Sterno Dendrophilia FTW.

kalina

@Fluttershy oh was that dirt tag stolen?

Fluttershy

@kalina =P

It was. Straight from Steam.

StrixVaria

@furryhan we're on the final 50 layers, there is a countdown timer now inside Curiosity! Load it up.

Tweeted by 22Cans on May 2, 2013 at 2:10 PM in reply to furryhan

I didn't even know this was still a thing.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@StrixVaria I think they got bored and removed everything except for the last 50 layers

Ronan Forman

16:27

@StrixVaria They made it so people can pay to put back blocks now.

fredley

@strix they added the option to buy a tool that added blocks

fbueckert

@StrixVaria Apparently, it'll be done sometime this month, most likely.

@fredley Or pay to remove blocks.

fredley

@fbu not unless I spend £1b adding blocks

fbueckert

Either way, it's a huge cash influx for nothing.

StrixVaria

PaperStare @RonanForman

@ORIGAMI YOU ARE THE WORST

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fredley

16:28

I should make a game like that

StrixVaria

What am I supposed to do when I don't have look of disapproval handy now?

fredley

@strix make your own?

fbueckert

@fredley There was an update where you paid X amount, and after the current layer was removed, it added that amount of blocks back.

@OrigamiRob

StrixVaria

@fredley Why would they do this?

fbueckert

...Huh. He has removed it.

StrixVaria

16:29

Profit off of people just trying to troll?

Pay2troll

Actually that seems like a really legit way to make money.

Unionhawk

@fbueckert I think that one's been gone for a while now

fbueckert

@StrixVaria Pit customers against each other.

Unionhawk

And I blame @fredley for PaperStare being gone.

fbueckert

Rake in the cash for doing nothing.

Ben Brocka

@StrixVaria That seemed to be it basically

fredley

16:30

@fbu I kinda abused it...

StrixVaria

@fredley You paid real-world money to add virtual cubes back to a big-ass virtual cube?

fbueckert

@fredley I blame you for the removal!

fredley

@ori is to blame!

Ben Brocka

He paid them to put blocks over Paperstare

Unionhawk

@fredley Don't pin this on other people, you know what you did!

StrixVaria

16:32

@fredley Oh, you abused @OrigamiRobot.

Unionhawk

Imaginary PaperStare @fredley

StrixVaria

Your lack of replying to specific messages is confusing.

fredley

If @ori didn't want to be used in that manner, he shouldn't have given me access to his functions!

Dan Hulme

@fredley Tell it to the magistrate.

fredley

MOBILE CHAT IS TO BLADE

@strix MOBIKE CHAT IS TO BLADE

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Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

16:34

@fredley Or maybe you're drunk again

fredley

God damp it

4

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I say drunk

Ben Brocka

I'm sure Autocorrect made him watch ponies too

3

Powerlord

@BenBrocka You need a reason to watch ponies?

Dan Hulme

@Powerlord no, just a lobotomy

Unionhawk

16:43

Well dammit, that didn't work.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Unionhawk Shall we start speculating on what didn't work for you?

Unionhawk

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I broke TF2 somehow, and I tried to fix it, but now it's even more broken to the point where I just said "screw it, reinstalling"

Which... will take a long time

Oh well.

Fluttershy

Ben Brocka

@Fluttershy I've had at least 3 "derpy hooves" comment on my Derpy Delivery video

Unionhawk

Maybe I shouldn't have tried to fix my HUD after steampipe... >.>

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

16:52

I thought YouTube is forcing users to use real names now?

Well, "encouraging"

FEichinger

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You think that stops anyone? That's adorable.

Unionhawk

@YiJiang'sEvilClone "Last name: Pie, First name: Pinkie". Youtube probably sees that as legit.

Besides, I'm not using my real name

And I think they've given up on begging me to do so.

Ben Brocka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's an option

There was a nag asking people to do it a while ago but that's about it

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Never noticed this before

Grumpy Lazers

1

Q: Does a road have to be on the surface?

I have dug a tunnel from inside my fort to the edge of the map. Will this work as a road connected to my town hall in order to attract immigrants, or does the road have to be on the surface?

timber-and-stone

0

Q: Can I install Starcraft 2 multiplayer only, without campaign?

I have installed WoL, size 14 Gb, when I buy HotS I'm affraid that might grow up to 30 Gb, which is too much. Since I'm not going to play campaign, is there an option to install online multiplayer only?

starcraft-2

NightExcessive

16:58

This is awesome: shitsenders.com

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Also, I really need to figure out how to reset Firefox's default form font. It's currently set to some stupid Chinese font and I can't figure out how to get it back to normal

It's partially Window's fault too

Powerlord

@YiJiang'sEvilClone My favorite part is when they automatically opted you into that in the past.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Powerlord They do? Huh, that seems a little aggressive

Grace Note

Past tense.

Powerlord

@YiJiang'sEvilClone StackOverflow did.

I don't know about the rest of the sites.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

17:06

I know there's a checkbox when you post an answer asking if you want to receive updates to the post

Grace Note

Separate from that. The actual newsletter was originally not so opt-in as it is now.

Powerlord

17:17

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The best part was this

38

Q: Please don't send me email that I didn't ask for

I just got this email from my friends at Stack Exchange: Hi! We haven't seen you around Server Fault for a while. We'd love to reconnect with you; attached below is a sample newsletter of a few recent interesting questions from the site. See all Stack Exchange newsletters ...

discussion spam email serverfault

I should probably check the email addess that stackexchange has for me every so often.

I don't recall if it forwards to my main account or not.

Sterno

@StrixVaria Xenonauts is finally in beta

Powerlord

Yes, it's forwarded to my main account.

Sterno

You know, in case you've got the XCOM itch again

SaintWacko

@Sterno I always have that itch

Powerlord

But the whole newsletter thing is one of the things that caused me to change my account network-wide to one on my personal domain so I can stop that forward and just junk the mail entirely.

SaintWacko

17:25

> The game is not yet complete, but is due for release in 2012.

Sterno

Yeah, one email in a year is annoying enough for me to change all my settings, too

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badp

@SaintWacko 2012 BWW3

Why'd you expect it to be 2012 AD?

Where's that written?

uh. Somebody in my... computer beeped thrice in a row quickly, followed by a strange click sound.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hard disk?

badp

Hard disks beep?

Dan Hulme

they click

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

17:30

They're probably the only thing other than the fans that's moving in your computer

user15026

@yijiang that storybundle thing looks amazing. I am going to keep an eye on it - I am hoping that the bundle lasts long enough for my OSAP to come in so I can snag those video game books.

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria I turned it off in protest of @DaveMcClelland

Alenanno

@BenBrocka Sorry, lately chat seems to be working at times for me. I couldn't log back in.

Powerlord

@badp If this was 20 years ago, I'd say "modem?"

Grace Note

@badp You should stop storing people in your computer then.

badp

17:33

@GraceNote but I love chatting with all those people in my computer! Especially you

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Ooo, MLP S3 got uploaded to YouTube's ContentID services

Alenanno

@tombull89 LoL The Redeemer! I once bombarded a guy I was playing against XD

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You sound like you're glad that happened

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Well, there's a theory that the reason why those videos are in the ContentID database in the first place (they weren't for a very long time) is because Hasbro recently started selling them on Google Play, and that's why they got added

I'm kind of skeptical, so now I can see if in a few days the show would pop up on Google Play to confirm the theory

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone So you're happy that Google is selling them to countries other than yours? :P

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

17:35

It's not like I can actually buy them here, either way

Well actually I can, but only season one, and in the form of 8 separate DVDs.

I can't even buy the US box set and have it shipped here because it's region locked

badp

Since when is DVD region lock something that works?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I mean, buying the box set is actually cheaper than buying the episodes digitally

badp

I thought computers could work around those?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I think you can use Handbreak to get around it, but I'm not very sure

badp

I hear that originally you could only change the code 5 times but I'd be surprised if that was still the case

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

17:39

Yeah, that's built into the drive's firmware itself

badp

even if that worked, USB dvd readers aren't expensive

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Wikipedia says you can flash the firmware to reset the count

SaintWacko

What...

Sconibulus

@SaintWacko I am amazed how much of that I picked up

Dan Hulme

Yeah, if you use mplayer or another sensible player with libdvdcss, it can read disks from any region.

Sconibulus

17:45

still no idea what game though

user15026

@sconibulus me neither.

badp

@Sconibulus Yeah. car is like the first element in the list right?

good ole scheme

Dan Hulme

car was originally Lisp: Scheme just inherited it

badp

Fine.

Dan Hulme

it's also French for "because"

badp

17:48

so the french say cdr instead of "why"?

ducks

OrigamiRobot

Dan Hulme

@badp No, they say "canards" instead of ducks.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fredley These Daft Punk Collaborators Project videos keep getting better.

StrixVaria

@Sterno I don't even know what this is.

Oh it's an XCOM-style thing.

fredley

@LessPop_MoreFizz lol

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