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Powerlord

21:00

Seriously, there are like 50 Magic expansion sets in addition to the 12 core versions, so I'm WAY out of date.

sjohnston

@Powerlord There are cards that exile a creature, but they couldn't target him once he's in play

Powerlord

@sjohnston Oh right.

sjohnston

Stuff that puts -1/-1 counters on him might also be effective, but again it'd have to be something that doesn't target him directly

Powerlord

The Annihilator ability would be great for that.

"Whenever a creature with annihilator attacks, the defending player sacrifices X permanents."

Oh, you've only got the 10/10 with protection from everything left? Aw... too bad I'm not targeting him!

Lazers

Q: Do any games have this type of mechanic?

I couldn't decide whether this goes here or on gamedev, but since I'm asking for examples, I chose here. Many years ago, a friend and I prototyped a simple 2d rpg with what we thought was a unique idea for the combat mechanics. It used wandering monsters and a cutaway battle screen system. We ad...

game-mechanics

sjohnston

21:03

@Powerlord True, sacrifice effects would also be a good way to take him out. There are a few of those that aren't targeted. The trick is getting in a situation that forces the other player to pick him.

Powerlord

@Lazers Is that a game-rec or not?

sjohnston

I'm guessing there's a lot of other stuff you'd want to sacrifice before letting him go, once you've managed to get him out

Powerlord

@sjohnston Which is why annihilator would be great, since it's every attack.

I'm assuming X is counters that slowly go away, though

Incidentally, the cards annihilator appear on are also supposedly colorless, so... er... would they be able to block it?

sjohnston

things with annihilator tend to be big and fat and difficult to get out, also

Powerlord

@sjohnston ...as is the 2 of each color mana hydra we're talking about.

Matthew Read

21:05

@Powerlord I think similar questions have been closed as such, though it's not directly asking for a recommendation

Oak

I think it belongs more on gamedev

I'm voting to close...

sjohnston

@Powerlord the X is generally not counters that go away.

Powerlord

@MatthewRead I can't read the complete question, since Gaming's blocked here.

Matthew Read

@Powerlord Ah. He's asking if a concept he implemented in a game has been done before

sjohnston

@Lazers I consider these types of questions thinly disguised game recs. Also obviously has all the "list question" problems

the reason they're asking is different, but the result is identical

Matthew Read

21:07

aaand it's closed

sjohnston

aw, I didn't even have a chance to get out my phone and vote

So, has anyone else here randomly (and briefly) gained the ability to see chat flags? Seems like a bug, but I don't have much evidence to actually report anything useful

Matthew Read

not me

Oak

@sjohnston I thought 10k-ers can see them

with rep being calculated as the sum of all sites rep

i.e. what appears under your name if you post enough messages

at one time

sjohnston

@Oak AH. This is where my brain disconnect occured

Fabian

@sjohnston 10k users are supposed to see them, and there was an offensive flag recently

Powerlord

21:11

@Fabian I didn't see it, and I have well more than that.

sjohnston

I get it now. Didn't realize I was a "10K user" on chat

Fabian

@Powerlord It wasn't there for long

sjohnston

@Powerlord It disappeared in a matter of seconds

badp

@sjohnston Your profile page says 11k global rep

sjohnston

Well, that's one of the universe's great mysteries solved. We're making progress.

Fabian

21:12

@sjohnston Every mod that is in chat can dismiss a flag with one vote, so it can happen pretty quickly

sjohnston

@badp And yet I had never seen a chat flag before now

@badp My confusion stemmed from forgetting that it's combined rep, not parent site rep

badp

@sjohnston Yeah, it changed a few months ago.

You should've noticed because I don't have more rep than tzenes :P

←

Although tzenes must have been busy as of late.

sjohnston

@badp You don't actually see the rep numbers very often in chat, since someone has to post 3-4 lines worth consecutively

badp

Spam moar.

sjohnston

also my monitors are quite large, so 4 lines is a lot

Powerlord

21:15

Wait... when did @badp pass me in global rep? >:/

sjohnston

I need to find a new game for farming teh rep. My old standbys of Nethack and Minecraft are too frequently sniped by Grace and everybody else, respectively.

badp

@sjohnston I wish I could bring myself to play more Crawl.

sjohnston

I really want to go through all the popular roguelikes at some point. But it took months of serious play to get respectable at Nethack, and I expect it will be just as much work for many others

badp

@sjohnston There's a Crawl tourney starting tomorrow unrelatedly.

sjohnston

DCSS, ADOM, Angband, and Moria are all on my to-do list

oh, and POWDER, though the phone port's UI is abysmal

badp

21:24

starts a game on the crawl.akrasiac.org server

sjohnston

Oh, Witcher 2 comes out in less than a week! I guess that will occupy me for a while.

Matthew Read

* cough *

sjohnston

...

@MatthewRead Please make sure to cover your keyboard when you cough

badp

Ah, spriggans. They're so fast, it feels you heal extremely slowly

Powerlord

Time to go bacon... er... home.

badp

21:34

I have a goblin and a hotgoblin on my tail. They hit for 7. My max health is 8.

2 more XP to level up...

yay!

Lazers

Q: Counter Strike Source keymap configuration

In CSS it's possible to bind keys to actions. Is it possible to somehow bind the coordinates of the mouse to the walking action in the game? Is it possible to find the key names the HID devices have in CSS so I can map them? If I connect two optical mise to my computer can I configure CSS to ...

counter-strike-source key-mappings

badp

With all the stabbing it feels I'm playing Powerlord.

Quaffing unidentified potions at 1 hp while poisoned is "fun."

This time around I got lucky and picked heal wounds.

Poisoned, but at 10hp.

And with this dagger of venom too.

...now I'm back to 2hp.

Poisoning went away at 1hp in perfect Hollywood style.

And then I proceed to die stupidly.

Like always. Ah well.

Arda Xi

22:01

@Mana Starred for truth.

Okay, now to hope that operation replace HDD worked.

badp

In other news, Dustbowl is the worst map ever

Just spent 17 minutes as an engie on the very last point watching the time pass by

Defending for 17 minutes would be impossible on 99% of TF2 maps, there it was effortless

Arda Xi

@badp Come join one of the three Dustbowl 24/7 servers UKCS runs. :D

badp

22:20

@ArdaXi Bot filled I presume?

Arda Xi

@badp Nope. No bots.

UKCS is one of the best server clusters I've ever come across.

Almost all of their servers are currently filled up, 31-32/33, with humans.

And there's 8 of them. 2 of them regular, 1 Turbine/Granary, 2 Dustbowl, 1 Arena, 1 Goldrush/Badwater and 1 Payload.

badp

Humans like Saigns.DE's ones

Arda Xi

No, literally, humans.

►

It's RUSH reversed.

badp

22:37

@ArdaXi Not really...

Mana

23:03

OH MAH GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWD.

Feeds

23:21

Q: HTML5 version of Angry Birds not rendering properly in any browser.

See the attached screenshot. When I run Angry Birds in any of my browsers, pieces of the game are missing. This desktop is 32bit Xubuntu with the PAE kernel, if that affects anything. I've tried with Chromium, Chrome, and Firefox to no avail. I have the 64bit version of Xubuntu on my laptop an...