The Bridge

kalina

09:00

why was this closed as off topic?

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Q: The Final Hours of Portal 2 without an iPad

I was just wondering if The Final Hours of Portal 2 is available somehow for people who don't own an iPad? Thank you! EDIT: It is now possible to get it on Steam : http://store.steampowered.com/app/104600/

surely that should be too localised

badp

"What's like X on the Y platform?" game-rec

kalina

it's not a "what is like X"

it's a "can I get <this specific thing> on <this platform>"

badp

that makes it kinda worse

kalina

shrug, I'm not attached enough to the question to argue about it

badp

at any rate, it doesn't really matter. One way or the other it should be closed.

kalina

09:04

yes but I thought closing with the correct reason was a real thing

badp

I picked the reason that was correct to me. I think it had 2 OT, 2 TL and 1 NC

kalina

I hate it when that happens

badp

even if I wasn't a mod, the first vote was Gnome's for OT, so OT would've "won"

kalina

like I said, not personally attached to the question, only reason I bought it up was because it appeared in the reopen queue

@DragonLord "Shit" is a rather well-known colloquialism for "stuff". I really don't care if people interpret profanity as offensive, that's their problem. — Decency 2 days ago

Decency can be such a character at times

Grumpy Lazers

09:20

0

Q: Which attacks in Smite do physical damage and which do magical?

Some gods in Smite are tagged as being physical or magical but somebody told me that all basic attacks are physical (could be wrong). How do I find out what some specific attack I am using is so that I can buy the right items?

smite

0

Q: base file euro truck simulator 2

I have tried everything to get mods on euro truck simulator 2 but it is saying I need a base file but I have looked everywhere but carn't find it can I download it or should it already be there on the system when I downloaded the game onto my computer.

euro-truck-simulator-2

0

Q: Geforce GTX 660 with PCI-Power on the back

I have a Silverstone Grandia GD04B Desktop PC case. It is very limited in height and i want to install a graphic card with a 6 pin power connector. All models i have found have the power connector on the top of the card, do you know any manufacturer who places the power connector on the back side...

pc graphics-card

kalina

@GrumpyLazers is this actually a question?

badp

@kalina it ends with a question mark!!

kalina

yes but

but but but but but but

but?

badp

yes.

kalina

BUT!

bored of this now

tombull89

09:26

I thought Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was an "expansion" to Far Cry 3 not the...game...it is.

kalina

nope it's an actual game

I can't believe how horrifically dirty I felt playing Tomb Raider with a game pad

I was forced to shower three times before I could sleep

tombull89

What did (do) you think of Tomb Raider? I quite liked it but I don't know many people that actually played it.

kalina

I thought it was a good game, I played it on PC with a mouse first

the QTEs were a bit annoying at the start of the game

but after that it flowed pretty well and Lara didn't seem to have too many suicidal tendencies when it came to jumping around

tombull89

Yes, the one where you have to scrabble up the slope got me a few times, and kneeing the guard took a couple of attempts.

kalina

yeah the guard annoyed the crap out of me, wasn't the kneeing part that got me, it was the button mashing combo to shoot him afterwards

other than that the only bits that resulted in retries was the sliding down the slopes things later in the game

Gaming Topics From Outside

09:32

0

Q: How to instal nogravity under Ubuntu?

There is a freeware game Nogravity for Linux (http://www.nogravitythegame.com/classic/linux.html) but it is not in Ubuntu repository. Official steps to install fail on my 64bit linuxbox. How to install it?

12.04 installation 64-bit games

kalina

even though the "final boss" wasn't really a boss, I didn't get the feeling I got at the end of Deus Ex Human Revolution or Mass Effect 3

badp

@GamingTopicsFromOutside apt-add-repository/dpkg -i

tombull89

Ah the paracuting through the trees took a couple of attempts, and there was a section where you had to run along a collapsing bridge and jump onto a thin rope bridge that took me the most attempts.

kalina

ah yeah, I had no problems with that, it was the waterfall that got me

kept getting impaled on spikes

it also felt like the game wanted you to play with the bow

and resented you for using a shotgun

especially near the end

tombull89

I found the level design on the last section wasn't that great. I got stuck a few times where there were a couple of "marked" ledges that looks like you should have been able to scrabble up but you fell off each time.

kalina

09:34

yeah

the white walls that you can climb up on a background of white ice didn't seem very intuitive

tombull89

I had to resort to a YouTube walkthrough for that - only needed it twice, the other time for swinging the cage and hitting the wall.

I felt dumb when I saw that though.

kalina

I was a little disappointed that the whole game was pretty much linear

they definitely missed an opportunity there

even if they'd made it so there were 2 or 3 ways to get from A to B it would have been far more impressive

but the environments were nice

tombull89

Oh, yes, graphically it was good.

kalina

story wasn't terrible

gameplay was pretty good too

tombull89

I would have like it if you could have attatched rope arrows to anything and climed up them.

Body count for Laras team was surprisingly high.

kalina

09:38

yeah, the story wasn't great but it wasn't terrible

and the game did flow quite well, to the point where I never really felt "meh cba with this"

which is an achievement in itself

tombull89

Only had one gameplay bug - that was weird. The projectile I was shooting went off on a weird angle.

►

kalina

I haven't played Bioshock Infinite yet, so I'm still of the opinion that Tomb Raider is one of the best games I've played this year

tombull89

There were the collectibles to keep me entertained for a while after, but I don't see much replay value.

Multiplayer was a bit clunkly, didn't play many games of that.

kalina

no there is no real replay value

I didn't actually have any bugs during my playthrough

tombull89

Yes, Tomb Raider and BioShock Infinite are certainly going to be in my "top games of 2013"

kalina

09:41

in fact, the last game that I experienced bugs in during my playthrough was RAGE

I've been very lucky, from what I've heard

Apparently DXHR had a lot of bugs in it but I never experienced any of those either

fredley

Hi @kalina

(Not hi everyone else)

kalina

@fredley hi

tombull89

D:

fredley

@kalina I am in the office for the first time in a week

Strange

tombull89

I'm surprised there wasn't many more Tomb Raider questions on the site.

kalina

09:46

it was a very easy to play game, and I couldn't be bothered raising questions

think I was busy playing simcity at the time too

brb

badp

@fredley bye

fredley

@badp Correct!

kalina

I'm never going to get used to using two analog sticks to move and look around

one thing I did notice is you can't feel how low the framerate is with a gamepad

badp

10:09

@kalina yeah, it's terrible. I mean, I guess it makes it easier to do precision movements because you can move slower but... when does that happen? 99.9% of the time you want to pick a direction and go there full speed

kalina

@badp oh sure, I played a bunch of racing games and they felt easier to play

badp

@kalina well okay I guess that's an exception

kalina

but there's no spinning around 180 to pick off the enemy that's behind you

badp

actually don't shooters have a button dedicated to spin 180°?

kalina

Tomb Raider doesn't

badp

10:11

Not exactly what I think about when I say "shooters"

fredley

Forgetting headphones is the worst :(

kalina

...not much of a Call of Duty person

and the box I built as my steam box is likely not powerful enough to run RAGE

besides, I never ever want to play RAGE again

what a waste of my life that was

fredley

Not like WoW or EVE

kalina

no, I enjoyed both of those

RAGE was not enjoyable

tombull89

I'd like to play EVE but I just woudln't have the time. Or patience.

kalina

10:25

you need a lot of patience

it's not so much a time thing

I'm only playing EVE about 5 hours a week atm

I spend more time than that on Arqade per day

tombull89

I am impressed with it, technically wise, all running on one cluster, and the things that players do that CCP doesn't expect.

When a large battle takes place time slows down so the game doesn't lag...that's pretty sweet.

Ooh video stats on YouTube say where people are finding your videos from.

kalina

yep, you can do whatever you want in EVE as long as you don't utilise any third party application to pull it off (ie: cheat)

fredley

@kalina No autohotkey?

galacticninja

A lot of this user's answers seem to be repeating what a previous answer already said.

fredley

I see we're all decanting into the h bar

tombull89

10:30

Not Maths or DBA for once...

kalina

@fredley automation isn't allowed, sending a keystroke to multiple clients is

fredley

@kalina Weird, why would you do that?

kalina

to run multiple eve clients?

fredley

@tombull89 Physics is the new Math

@kalina All in sync?! Why?

tombull89

@fredley Maybe they're getting worked up about the gravity of the situtation.

kalina

10:32

@fredley targeting the same enemy and destroying them?

tombull89

(I'll see myself out).

kalina

mining the same asteroid?

eating cake in unison?

MBraedley

@GrumpyLazers So is this a shopping rec? My first instinct was to VTC

fredley

@kalina Ok. EVE sounds like a really fun game.

kalina

RAINING DOOM DOWN UPON THE FILTHY HEADS OF OUR DOOMED ENEMIES?!

@fredley You play MINECRAFT, don't diss mining asteroids.

fredley

10:33

@kalina Oi, at least I don't sign up for multiple accounts in order to break blocks faster

kalina

lol

@galacticninja I hate it when that happens

kalina

11:04

weapons of mass destruction please:

-2

A: Gmod SRCDS, sound errors on startup?

big juicy dicks with slippery white pale seemen sliding down the tip side and falling into a tea pot

tombull89

@kalina Hmm. Quite.

Mad Scientist

Argh, that one new user has been leaving ten unhelpful answers in a very short time, but I have to avoid downvoting them all or the serial voting script will get me

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Why is the server all weird?

fredley

@OrigamiRobot I don't know. You lagging?

OrigamiRobot

No, everyone is all spread out.

Also, I'm lagging.

fredley

11:18

tempting

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Also, why are we on Ultimate now?

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Because people wanted it

OrigamiRobot

Why?

TELL ME WHY FREDLEY

fredley

@OrigamiRobot BECAUSE WE WANTED NEW STUFFS

badp

@fredley so is the August meetup going to be a thing that happens or not?

fredley

11:25

@badp Yes. I will get around to doing something about it at some point.

Saturday 3rd looks to be a dead cert

OrigamiRobot

Do you want to hunt and eat dinosaurs?

cc @fredley

fredley

@OrigamiRobot D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D:

@OrigamiRobot is worse than papercuts

OrigamiRobot

Congratulations!

You are now an official backer of The Stomping Land. Time to tell the world about it!

fredley

PaperStare @ori I am a terrible person

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Who is that?

fredley

11:32

PaperStare @all I am a terrible person, sorry guys

:(

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Why do you hate dinosaurs?

fredley

@OrigamiRobot I hate you

OrigamiRobot

@fredley I am a robot dinosaur.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Incorrect, you are a robot pony

OrigamiRobot

Not at all.

fredley

11:39

23 hours ago, by kalina

DATA ACCEPTED: ORIGAMIROBOT HAS A NEW PONY SHAPED CHASSIS

OrigamiRobot

23 hours ago, by OrigamiRobot

Why are there so many non-robots accepting data?

Ben Brocka

DATA ACCEPTED: EVERYONE IS ROBOTS

6

Mana

siiiiiiick

badp

I AM A ROBOT. I AM HERE TO TAKE AMERICAN JOBS AND GIVE YOU A SENSIBLE HAIRCUT.

3

MY FOOT WILL TRANSFORM IN A FOOT, WITH YOUR ASS WRAPPED AROUND IT.

Mana

hm. that's uh.

hmmm.

Tim Stone

11:49

hmmm seconded

badp

Are horns compatible with sensible haircuts? Data required.

Ben Brocka

@badp Beep boop, son, beep boop.

badp

Data accepted. Engaging horn removal process

wields scissors

clamps @Mana's left horn with the scissors, applying pressure

Mana

oh badp stop it you silly goose that tickles

badp

Defective scissors detected. Switching to lazers

Mana

11:53

blushes oh...badp...you know how I love the lazers...

badp

Error. love detected. Data required

fredley

@badp Love is an identity function. Input is love. Output is love.

Mana

I wish.

fredley

FEEDBACK LOOP DETECTED: LOVE MODULE DISABLED

badp

Danger. Sad shipping story detected

Engaging Pat Pat shoosh shoosh mode

Grumpy Lazers

11:56

0

Q: Do planetary resources respawn?

I've been slowly clearing out all the high value low/medium risk planets in the galaxy via exploration. Do these planets ever regain more resources for me to exploit or do I have to start going after the high risk planets?

star-trader-rpg

badp

Sensible haircut.exe suspended with code SIGPASTA

Mana

►

P = NP, SUCKERS.

CHANGE THE SAND TO GLASS AND FINDING THE COIN IS TRIVIAL. IT'S SO OBVIOUS.

badp

THE FASTEST WAY TO VISIT N CITIES IN A ROW WITHOUT GOING TWICE OVER ANY IS TO COLLAPSE EARTH IN A BLACK HOLE. O(1) SUCKERS

2

Tim Stone

@Mana SIMPLIFY ALL THE THINGS

badp

THE FASTEST WAY TO HIT ON A GIRL IS WITH A CAR

3

Mana

12:07

:(

badp

SIMPLIFIED

Tim Stone

Bridge |      @badp
       ^--- line

badp

I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT

Tim Stone

You crossed the line, man. That's bad juju.

badp

IT IS SIMPLIFIED

YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND

and yeah if that was flagged I wouldn't be surprised although it didn't seem that bad in my mind

tombull89

12:10

Dunno, I found it funny.

I though mods couldn't be chatbanned anyway?

badp

besides it's clearly faster to use a rocket engine but that's not simplified

> He only reduced the coin in the sand problem from O(n^3) to O(n^2) not that huge a deal

It was already o(n²), metal detectors are things that exist

LessPop_MoreFizz

fredley

wat

LessPop_MoreFizz

That needed relinking.

when people are around.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

8 hours ago, by Ashley Nunn

What in the blue hell did I just come back to

^ This also needs relinking

fredley

12:23

wat

wat

phew

badp

your watting is insufficient

tombull89

wat

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp *clamps crocodile clips to @fredley and receives megawats of energy*

fredley

May 2 at 22:20, by fredley

Ben Brocka

Preparing pear, please wat...

2

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:28

5 mins ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz

Tywin demands your attention.

fredley

Next time this is posted, I will flag for all to see

tombull89

badp

Newbies.

WAT         WAT       WAT       WATWATWATWATWAT
WAT         WAT    WAT   WAT          WAT
WAT   WAT   WAT WAT         WAT       WAT
WATWAT   WATWAT WATWATWATWATWAT       WAT
WAT         WAT WAT         WAT       WAT       WAT

2

tombull89

@badp slow clap

badp

Homework. Build a WAT. out of that

WAT³

tombull89

12:31

WAT

A

T

badp

(The first to say WATception gets a @Mana in the knee)

fredley

I just wat myself

tombull89

w@

fredley

___/o\__WAT___WATWAT_____WAT______WAT_____

4

badp

fify

Ben Brocka

12:35

@GraceNote new Compile Heart RPG built off the Neptunia battle engine: kotaku.com/…

fredley

@tombull89 t-wit-t-...

Ben Brocka

@badp wat? it was correct the first time

Grace Note

@BenBrocka I've had that open in a tab for the past hour.

badp

@BenBrocka Would you \o/ at a bunch of WATs?

fredley

@badp I certainly wound't dislocate my own arms.

Ben Brocka

12:36

@GraceNote proptip don't read the comments

Grace Note

@BenBrocka If I hadn't checked the comments, I'd never have seen the glorious statement from Amano declaring that he wants to draw cute girls.

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote I don't see that, just the comments calling him a pedophile

kalina

I JUST FILED ALL OF MY WORK FOR TODAY UNDER B1N

Ben Brocka

Did you find a button to hide all the fail comments on Kotaku? Because I want that button

kalina

I FEEL SO HAPPY

Ben Brocka

12:39

NESS

Grace Note

@BenBrocka No, 0 instances of pedo on my search though.

kalina

I notice since our swift dispatch of all of the active users in that channel earlier, they haven't flagged anybody since

cc @fredley @tombull89

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fredley OH HAY MORE DAFT PUNK LEAKING.

tombull89

@kalina Well, first valid flag was a 30 minute ban. Second is an hour. Next is a week. Hopefully they've learned.

kalina

I think we should do that more often

fredley

12:41

2 hours ago, by fredley

Forgetting headphones is the worst :(

kalina

turn up randomly into math and ban them all

3

fredley

@kalina nonagon got an hour ban and didn't come back

Hooray for bans!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@BenBrocka Install shutup.css.

kalina

I reckon with a group of 3-4 of us we could achieve it

just flag ALL THE THINGS

LessPop_MoreFizz

@BenBrocka stevenf.com/shutup-css

Ben Brocka

12:42

@GraceNote where's the quote?

kalina

and then get banned ourselves for proper abuse of the flag system

Grace Note

@BenBrocka kotaku.com/5952339/…

fredley

@kalina So it's you, me, who else?

tombull89

Did anyone mark a flag valid from The Comms Room or Root Access a few hours ago?

kalina

@tombull89 haven't seen one from there today

@fredley any other person with 10k+ network wide rep

Ben Brocka

12:43

@LessPop_MoreFizz I occasionally do want/need to read comments though. I police the comments on my youtube. And amazingly for every FIRST I have to delete there's a few helpful, pleasant or interesting comments

tombull89

@kalina Abuse of the flagging system? You should see Root Access's abuse of the Star Wall.

fredley

@kalina nonagon is back, and just put a bounty on a question downvoted to -7

kalina

I'm not sure how many valid flags it takes to ban somebody

fredley

You know what, I think he might be a troll

kalina

@fredley ya think?

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:43

@BenBrocka There's a version with a toggle.

Ben Brocka

6 flags I think, or one moderator

tombull89

I thought only one person had to mark as valid for the ban.

I am apparently wrong.

kalina

ok, in that case we need a crack team of SEVEN people with 10k+ network wide rep

then we can storm Math, flag all the things, validate all the flags

Grace Note

No. Not happening.

kalina

while Grace isn't around

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:44

@tombull89 That's not abuse, that's art.

kalina

make sure Grace is inactive

2

tombull89

Math makes enough flags by itself, to be honest.

fredley

@GraceNote, when do you sleep?

Grace Note

@fredley Haha. No.

tombull89

@kalina ah okay - it started going downhill from here. She's never been in Server Fault Chat before.

kalina

12:46

@tombull89 lol

Grace Note

@tombull89 ...did that... did that come from something? Or is it as out-of-nowhere as it looks?

fredley

Wow

Some pent up hate there

tombull89

@GraceNote That is seriously out of no-where.

kalina

@fredley we will need to do it in the early hours of the morning

Grace Note

Pretty sure her opening statement counts as offensive by the by.

fredley

12:49

in The h Bar, 38 secs ago, by 007

@Dilaton Why don't u join the chat.SE profile with your Physics.SE account you are much better here than Math.SE

Grace Note

@kalina From my understanding of things, I'm the one who's actually awake in that time period, unlike you.

fredley

@kalina Late in the evening then!

kalina

@GraceNote I am awake when I want to be awake

tombull89

@GraceNote I thought it was a song lyric.

kalina

@fredley early morning

fredley

12:49

@kalina late evening

kalina

@fredley Grace is here right now, we need 9-10am or so

launch nuclear weapons at math, get them all chat banned for six months, claim innocence

Grace Note

@kalina I've been awake for several hours before now. Just I sit silent. Watching.

fredley

@kalina I'll start feeding up some sockpuppets

kalina

@fredley it needs to be on a scale that is large enough that @GraceNote can't react fast enough

tombull89

Sitting in the dark. Waiting. Watching silently, our Dark Knight.

kalina

12:51

quick, decisive strike, every user from Math gone, LEAVE NO EVIDENCE

3

right, sockpuppets

brb

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GraceNote Creeper.

kalina

creates sockpuppet called Grace.Note

Grace Note

@LessPop_MoreFizz Ssssssssssss.

fredley

@GraceNote D:

tombull89

@kalina Or Nrace Gote.

kalina

12:55

@tombull89 Grey Snote

Grace Note

@kalina Pretty sure someone can tell you how well Gray Snoat went.

kalina

@GraceNote yes, yes I'm sure he can

Grace Note

I turned him into a Stoat.

He got better.

kalina

but would you still be so observant if he hadn't pranced around in chat in front of you?

hmmm?

I THINK NOT

Grace Note

Technically, yes. Having a network of observers helps.

tombull89

12:56

What's the difference between a Stoat and a Weasal? You can wesally tell because they're stotally different.

kalina

You have a network full of minions?

Grace Note

@tombull89 That was... that was terrible.

kalina

I want a network full of minions

Grace Note

@kalina It's kind of a standard thing to have, y'know. Witchery leads to bewitchery leads to minions, 'n' all.

kalina

:'(

tombull89

12:57

@GraceNote hat tip

badp

@fredley Shoulders and forearms not pictured.

kalina

ok I have got it!

fredley

@badp You're slow today

kalina

we create sockpuppets called sockpuppet1 through 15

fredley

@GraceNote It's a Snote

badp

12:57

@fredley I just had a shower before leaving for university

LessPop_MoreFizz

badp

The full length of your arm can reach way above head level of most people, yknow.

Grace Note

@fredley That I turned into a Stoat.

LessPop_MoreFizz

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE IN ANY SOFTWARE APPLICATION IN AT LEAST TWENTY YEARS.

Seriously, this is revolutionary.

kalina

and then just before the strike we rename them all to Gray Snote, Grey Snote, Gray Snoat, Grey Snoat, Grace.Note, etc

and then we BURN THEM ALL

badp

12:58

@LessPop_MoreFizz It doesn't protect you from Bieber though

or Black

kalina

@fredley the way I see it, we only need to get each puppet upto the rep required to get an association bonus, and then we just sign up to enough sites to get to 10k

there are 100 sites, 100 rep per site, etc

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp Neither is as offensive.

Grace Note

@kalina We fixed that bug.

kalina

we could achieve this TONIGHT!

@GraceNote oh

that's a bug?

I thought that was just poor design

hmm

fredley

@GraceNote ~~bug~~ feature

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