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Hello all
00:37
TF2 update today to change a few Replay things
However... they also stealth-added new models for new Scout items.
scout_medallion.mdl and c_scout_sword.mdl with their appropriate textures, physics, dx8 and dx9 files.
must not succumb to urge to buy a new computer. must. be. responsible.
Jin
Jin
if i get portal2 from Steam, can i put it on 2 different macs?
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Q: Is it possible to install Steam games to two different locations?

MorinarI want to build a new PC with a smallish SSD. I'd like to be able to install some of my games onto the drive (those I care about loading quickly or I play frequently), but have the rest of them on a larger, slower drive. Anybody know if this is possible? I'm kind of guessing it's not, but figu...

@Jin Yes.
Though you can't play it on both simultaneously.
Jin
Jin
@LessPopMoreFizz great thanks
01:27
I was helpful too...
=[
Jin
Jin
@GnomeSlice thank you too!
Hooray, recognition! :P
Jin
Jin
gaming.se is so over! it's all about chat.gaming.se now!
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much faster
since you guys are so awesome.. guess what i'm doing now?
They people in superUser chat got annoyed with me because I asked a question in chat instead of on the site.
D:
I went ahead and asked it on the site afterward anyway. It got a lot of attention. :S
Jin
Jin
gaming.blogoverflow.com
i'm skinning I skinned Gaming.se's blog to have main site's skin
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01:28
@Jin It has been for a long time. :)
@Jin I really need to get on that. @Ivo is getting annoyed.
Soooooo..... anyone wanna buy a Macbook or iMac?
Also, does it make me a bad person to use Weebly to create my Minecraft server's website, when I've taken classes in HTML/CSS/javascript?
Jin
Jin
i'm getting a new imac
@Jin I mean a used one.
Seriously contemplating flipping my iMac/Macbook and buying a MBP
01:36
I'm tempted to ask a question about how to get more traffic to a minecraft server.
@GnomeSlice Answer: Build cool shit and post it on the internets.
Also, toribash is still potentially the most unique game I've seen in the past few years.
Of course, that promo video doesn't give you any idea of how the game actually plays.
You control muscles all around your character's body, and tel them to expand, contract, or hold each turn, which defaults to every 10 frames.
01:59
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Q: Is there a web-embeddable skin preview application?

GnomeSliceSo, I'm working on a website for my Minecraft server, and we're looking at creating pages for each of the admins/mods, with some info about them. I'm trying to find a way that I can embed a 'skin preview' of each player's skin onto their respective pages. I suppose we could also just use screen...

 
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Q: Help! I walk through every door I try to open!

Raven DreamerI'm playing a new game of x-com: Enemy Unknown, and the first mission my x-com soldiers were able to perform was capturing a landed UFO. Due to a combination of random chance and luck (bad or good? I can't say...) I have secured the entirety of the exterior space with nary a Sectoid or Floater t...

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Q: Where are the Chrome Dimension pickups in Chrome.Angrybirds?

Raven DreamerThe browser-based verison of Angry Birds seems to have an extra suite of levels you can unlock if you find and hit a google chrome logo within a level with a bird. There appear to be 7 levels in total (so far), and while I've unlocked #3 and #6, I'd like to unlock the others as well.

@RandallMunroesxkcd Heh.
 
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06:24
@GnomeSlice just like that elbow/tights running game? eww.
06:36
@Jin That's awesome news.
06:59
also wtf
@Jin Also, save games should be synchronized between the two copies, so you can start playing on one and resume on the other. So long as you're online.
07:35
Goddammit, got interrupted while trying Growth in Normal on the 4-3 and lost 11-15 :(
Bullcrap.
 
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09:02
I love it when I can give my team 66 teleports
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Q: Amiga game over water, driving hover thing, shooting enemies who drop babies(?) you need to pick-up...

ShaderachHere's one for the old-timers: On my Amiga (not sure of the make, but it had no internal drive, just ran 3.5" discs inserted on the right) I played the hell out of a game where you: flew/drove a hovercraft of sorts, using your mouse, which could dive underwater and resurface at will had to cle...

09:42
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Q: Hot Springs Story - layouts, popularity, scenery and their effects

Let_Me_BeThis game is pretty complex :-) I understand the price, but then there is popularity and scenery. Popularity seems to indeed increase the popularity of the facility, but what does scenery do? Plus there are the layouts effects which give you hearts that boost both popularity and price (but I ha...

 
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10:53
finally
took them long enough
>Hotseat is coming in the next big patch, which is currently slated for a June or possibly early July release.
@GnomeSlice Well, that's certainly taken a while coming. I thought I seen that game somewhere a really long time ago
In the Spectrum I think
The original was released in 2006, no wonder
11:35
@Wipqozn which game?
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Q: Getting "Too many edits [...] Further edits are not allowed until tomorrow"

Akram ShahdaI have recently received the following message: Too many edits You have already edited 5 of your own posts today (not including very recent posts). Further edits are not allowed until tomorrow. Please contact a moderator if you require assistance. I was trying to edit ...

@badp CIvilization V. I've been waiting for that for so long. Love hot seat play.
for the pranking opportunities?
@badp no :p
just easier then setting up LAN - my friends who play don't like dragging their desktops around
nor I. LAN is better - but just a pain in the ass
Fog of war stops making sense then...
11:52
@badp If you're just playing against the computer - no big deal. Against other players, honour system. Depends on your friends.
It's not perfect - but I rather like it.
12:08
TF2 needs to fix the problem with rendering while the computer is locked
12:33
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Q: Deleted answers now invisible to authors below 10k under EL&U and SO

Alain PannetierI've just tried it again to make sure before posting this question but since one day or two at least, whenever I delete a question, it becomes invisible to me. Evidence I've just deleted this answer in SO. And It's now invisible. I usually hang around in English Language and Usage. All the an...

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Q: What is the real truth about Minecraft mob spawning?

MattWhen I look for information on mob spawning and mob grinders I find a lot of links to these two items: Hostile Mob System Tutorial Mob Spawning Science The problem is, they seem to have contradictory information in them. The first one espouses the much-credited idea that to improve your mob...

12:45
Posted by Jeff Atwood on May 13th, 2011

Back in January we rebooted our search implementation, replacing it with Lucene.Net. We’ve been quite happy with the results, which are faster, more relevant, and … perhaps not Google quality, but certainly getting closer to the realm of Googlesque.

We are also big fans of the Lucene.Net project, which has had some rocky times of late. I asked the core contributors to the Lucene.Net project what we could do to help, and Troy Howard came up with something interesting:

We’d love to take advantage of your offer for help. I’ve been trying to think of the most awesome thing that StackOverflow could do for us, and I think I’ve finally found it. …

12:56
✓ MsPaint
✓ Free Handed
✓ Circle
✓ Unicorns
✓ Lazers
✓ Awesome
I'm sure Jeff will see this logo for the winner it is immediately.
@badp Somehow I don't see those as requirements in the design brief
@YiJiang Fine, I'll add a circle.
Does it need more jQuery perhaps?
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moar cowbell
also,
@MatthewRead Cowbell? On a Unicorn? HERESY
✓ MsPaint
✓ Black. Programmers love black.
✓ Free Handed
✓ Circle
✓ Unicorns
✓ Lazers
✓ jQuery
✓ Cowbell
✓ Wireframe bacon
✓ Awesome
@badp You should design a logo for SE. Gaming too
13:11
Gaming has one already.
@badp yes - but you could design a new one.
What with your fairly obvious artistic ability
I know the above logo is now perfect because the image link and the feature checkmark list, with the @codinghorror, fit exactly in a tweet. Now I just need to wait for the inevitable bludgeoning.
If I were to add something, I'd have to lose something else.
13:46
@badp Am I the only one who noticed that the middle-left box has two 2s in it, and thus this puzzle is invalid? :D
@Powerlord Not to mention the guy put a 2 in it anyways. Clearly a fail for everyone involved
@badp I see your Cooking Mama and raise you face acting of 50 horrible voice overs from video games.
@MatthewRead Yup, definitely.
@Wipqozn Does that mean PBM is coming too?
@badp How do you mean? Maybe by sticking up a huge warning that tells you not to lock your computer while rendering? Which it already does? :D
13:54
@Powerlord No.
Am I the only one who finds it moderately weird that Jeff linked to BDSM equipment in an office context?
lol, forum.alliedmods.net is blocked here at work, but not forums.alliedmods.net
14:41
@Powerlord Just breakfast? Foodiscrimination.
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Q: How are dungeons in minecraft generated?

bckbckWhile looking through my map using MCEdit, i found a double dungeon (interconnected). After searching for a while on the internet i found out that it was extremely rare. How are these dungeons generated and what are the possibilities of 2 or more dungeons being interconnected to each other?

Hmm, I wonder if I copied the HLStatsX:CE source code to my server.
I don't suppose anyone could mirror the GameME plugin source for me? :D
I can't grab it directly, but I want to recompile a SourceMod plugin that has it as a dependency.
Wait a second, I can see the include for this in the source I'm looking at, why is it being ignored. >:/
15:07
@ArdaXi Oh right, I forgot to explain that phrase... "Beef. It's what's for dinner." is a common phrase in US television Advertising by some coalition of livestock farmers.
@Powerlord Ah.
@Powerlord And by common, you mean out of use for at least a decade
@sjohnston They were still using it last year.
Am I weird in that every time I see "Dora the Explorer," I'm compelled to say it in an over-the-top Kennedy accent?
@Powerlord Really? I haven't seen one of those in ages
15:34
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Q: Are signs stackable in minecraft?

MichaelIn Steven's video on the EATS wate/boat transport system, I distinctly saw him with a stack of signs. However, I cannot stack signs! Is this a mod, or is something wrong with my version?

@sjohnston Yes.
@MatthewRead It's the only way it actually rhymes though
@sjohnston You could go with "Dorer der Explorer" lol
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Q: How far can redstone current travel?

soulBitI know that there is a 15 block limit before a repeater is needed, however I am looking for the TOTAL distance that current can travel. Is it infinite? Can I keep adding repeaters and go on forever? I don't mind whether "old-school" repeaters are used (2 NOT gates) or the ones added in Beta 1.5,...

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Q: Suggestion to create a tag synonym for "redstone"

soulBitI have noticed that we are phasing out the standalone minecraft tags in favour of prefixed ones, but I can't see a tag synonym for redstone -> minecraft-redstone, could someone please create this? I've already added minecraft-redstone to the tag list, but don't have enough reputation to do this.

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Q: Mass effect(1) picking up things while in a vehicle

WebDevHoboI decided to get in to Mass Effect, since the series seems rather good. Currently, I'm on a side-quest, riding a vehicle on some planet. The area has "debris" and "anomally". When I'm near them, they get the little circle, like any interactive event. But I can't pick em up. So, what's the poin...

@ArdaXi I don't believe so
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Q: Do my DropZap and DropZap 2 games have mass appeal to casual gamers?

user9509Check out the web demos here: http://www.dropzap.com http://www.dropzap2.com DropZap 2 is free for a limited time btw.

@Wipqozn Aww. I thought they'd announced those together.
> This question is effectively an advertisement with no disclosure. It is not useful or relevant, but promotional.
Flag as spam, please.
Apr 17 at 21:23, by fail badp
Please, if a post is obviously unsalvageable, contentless spam -- flag as spam. 6 flags as spam delete a post. 200 flags for mod attention don't.
@ArdaXi done
@ArdaXi and yeah, me too :/
PBM will get me to play Civ V again.
It's a lot more fun when you have so much time to contemplate your moves.
16:14
@ArdaXi yeah I have not played in awhile myself.
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A: How do you play Civilization V by E-Mail?

WillfulWizardCivilization 5 does not yet support Play by Email However, they would like to add it soon. Source About a month after release, we’re going to add Pitboss. Pitboss will be accompanied by two extraneous modes that we weren’t originally planning, but the fans keep asking for: play-by-mail and h...

plus online doesn't work too well :/ since it's an entire day basically
poof
I needs my 10k.
what are you now ?
9858
I've almost caught back up to tzenes
16:20
@RavenDreamer disapprovingly asks if you really need that much reputation
My next milestone is 11,879 currently.
Huh.
user30
@ArdaXi Someone moving from 10k to 25k?
Despite what it may look like, "10000+" means "Between 10000 and 24999". Thus, you can blame @Raven for that -1.
@GraceNote Ah, right, it's StackExchange. Can't expect it to mean what it's supposed to.
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(This is a popular theme within SE)
Very much.
16:44
hiya, Grace
17:20
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Q: Great Stories / Character Development

ruberglyI recently made a post asking about games that had villains with believable motivations. I hadn't read the FAQ and seen what kind of questions can be asked here; that was stupid. Still, based on the views (for a closed question) and the upvotes and the comments when it was closed, I still think i...

I know that all the people in Gaming want to join OCReMix TF2 for its admin abuse event at 10pm UTC (on red.ocrtf2.com:27015). :)
Lets just say I expect it to be very chaotic. So, of course, both SourceTV and Replays will be enabled.
(That's 6pm EDT)
Also, why was MathewRead stealing my earlier? >:/
Wow, this is a weird day. I just realized that... my manager, my project manager, and my project dev lead are all out today. Yay for no management oversight! \o/
user30
17:38
@Powerlord And that would be a US server, amrite?
@ThomasMcDonald Yes
user30
@Powerlord And I'm on UTC+1. Making that 11pm.
user30
hrmph.
@ThomasMcDonald To be honest, I'm surprised the person who scheduled the event scheduled it so early.
Oh hell, I also need to verify that server's mapcycle.txt when I get home... I think it might be missing our custom maps.
user30
Well, I've been trying to sleep off my 1&1/2 hours sleep I got the other night.
17:41
I'm guess I'm lucky I got nearly 5 last night!
But yeah, I installed a bunch of fun addons to our event server directory... even the guy who scheduled the event didn't know about them then. :D
The ability to set player transparency...
or change their colors.
make them have a rocket trail behind them... turn their camera fish-eye...
user30
Heh
user30
Add Robin mode in, instant win.
@ThomasMcDonald My first thought was that you were talking about Vs. Saxton Hale mode. :D
@Powerlord No bacon hoarding. The joy of should be spread to all
17:50
@Fakejoebloggs99 It helps if you know my "obsession" with is a running gag.
No worries. I'm just posting here to prove a point to @GraceNote
@GraceNote: looks like combined rep will cut it... Wouldn't have guessed.
So many people I don't recognize! :O
@Powerlord Sorry, just ignore me. Was abusing the room for convenience.
Don't make me send you to NELIPOT!
user30
18:16
Man, I hate Java. and the bukkit API.
@ThomasMcDonald You had me at "I hate Java"
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18:33
@Powerlord Just one.
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Q: What other combinations with ion disrupters are there?

yx_I know that it is possible to mix ion disruptors and flak artillery arrays in the same turret to create ionized flak because the ion charges will arc between the flak fragments. Is it possible to do this with ammo based weapons as well? Like ionized energy bolt chainguns. What about on weapons...

19:03
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Q: How can you hide light sources while they still give light?

akaGrimI would like to have a large underground room without it being either very dark or have light sources in the open (lava columns, torches). I use to build columns using stairs since they allowed light to pass through them, but this bug no longer seems to work.

19:32
Got. To. Finish. Last. TWEOTW. Level.
@ArdaXi ♪ She's the goddess with the plan at the end of the world... ♪
I still don't get why the people don't notice everything disappearing around them.
Or the big ball of stuff rolling around.
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Q: Minecraft: Online server Set-up error [MAC OSX]

YuiplpSo i've done all the required steps for making a minecraft beta 1.5_01 serve, but when i type into the multiplayer bar, "localhost", a "Logging In" sign appears and doesn't go away. After about a minute, i get an error that says: "Internal Exception: java.new.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed ou...

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Q: How large oceans can the terrain generator make?

runarosIs there a theoretical limit to how big oceans can become with the current terrain generator? Backstory: I am searching for seeds for a project where I want the area around origo (x=0, z=0) to be as much ocean as possible. While searching I found this thread, where a user claims to have a seed ...

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Q: Is there a way to keep the Portal 2 Game Completion Background?

corrodedI want to be able to keep the portal 2 game completion background: the one where wheatley is floating about in space with the corrupted cores Is there a way to keep it? It seems to go away every time I close the game.

I just can't get an A on Cafe Internets.
I'm stuck at A-.
STILL A-?
I hate Dejobaan. >.<
Got a wondering thing, gonna visit the world,
Grabbing arms full of everything good and true.
Make a golem out of junk, make a planet anew.
If you wanna come along, she'll take you too.
19:45
Katamari?
TWEOTW
So yes, it's Katamari Damacy PC
@GnomeSlice It's a lot like Katamari, but without the sucky controls.
20:26
I said hey (hey)! I said hey (hey)!. I said hey (hey)! It's the wonderful, wonderful time to go home!
OK, that's weird, I didn't realize I was editing that post, I thought I was writing a new one.
@Powerlord -1
Unless that's some new chat feature... if you post two similar things in a row, the second one replaces the first as an edit.
Anyway, time to go home.
For Science... you monster.
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@Powerlord I think you can put your workplace behind you. For science. You monster.
@Powerlord I think it's by design given the audience. :P
user30
TF2 time. also coffee.
user30
20:39
everyday I'm shuffling
@Powerlord depends, are you an admin?
user30
@badp I guess he is
user30
Also, re: those minecarts, I updated Minecart Mania this morning as it was stopping the server from starting with the new version of Bukkit.
user30
What sort of oddities were there?
@ThomasMcDonald Powered minetracks, when off, are supposed to halt minecarts, right? Because they still boosted on the server. Whereas, when on, the minecarts get stuck in ugly ways
After failing to make my models work I followed the wiki instructions to the letter and still got ugly stuff.
You can see my attempts e.g. in the central station. A more complex and failing example in the old sports center station that got walled off.
user30
20:46
Ugh, that's not right.
user30
I'll have a gander later
In other news
I'll now take it for a ride.
Fuck, this is awesome.
Fuck Angry Birds.
@badp Make it NetHack and I'm sold.
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Q: Effect of recent casts on opponents playstyle

Joe BehymerI've noticed a correlation between my opponents play-style and the set of casts (VODs) recently released. It seems the more popular the caster, the more likely I'm going to face whatever strategy they're show-casing or recommending. A good example of this is when Day9 released a 'Refining a bui...

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Q: Which patches and mods should I install before playing Fallout 1?

HazeSpireI want to revisit Fallout 1, because I've never finished it. Time has passed and I'm on Windows 7 x64. I know the site No Mutants Allowed, however there's so much content there that I just feel utterly lost. Which patches (official or community) and mods should I install in order to improve how t...

21:04
@badp Nice!'
It seems a tad laggy, but still pretty excellent. Would probably be even more exciting if I knew the controls
Lucky me, I gots a buckler and a dagger of electrocution.
@sjohnston To boggle your mind try 'o' or 'Ctrl-F'
Or alt+F4
O must be the auto-explore feature I have heard about?
@sjohnston yup.
Ctrl-F is even better.
Ctrl-W will blow your mind.
21:19
I'm in the temple!
No Kiku altar, though.
21:36
The hill giant easily resists.
The hill giant hits you with a giant club!
Ouch! That really hurt!
You die...
Kikubaaqudgha rasps: "You have failed me! Welcome... death!"
Fun. I'm looking forward to playing more of this again.
Also.
Unix commands with funny error messages. http://bit.ly/inv8jI
Bah, the OCRTF2 event was pushed back to 1am PDT
@Powerlord 10am local time, I might make it still. But if you aren't there, it's pointless.
Sorry, 1am UTC. Dunno where I got PDT from.
Oh right, because I was wondering if I read the original time on Steam in PDT instead of my local time zone.
Because originally, I thought it started 10 minutes from now.
21:54
games shouldn't be tagged unless they actually relate to some overall thing (plot/unique mechanic/etc), right?
@NickT Yeah, mostly.
actually more to the point it seems like there's a bunch of questions (e.g. is what I'm cleaning up now) that use the first game tag (e.g. halo, mass effect, portal, fallout, starcraft) on questions that only relate to a sequel
The intelligence clipping into the video is annoying as hell.
Also, yay. Finally, page 1 of my backpack is full of unique items.
22:13
lololol
@badp Gotta love how the medic ubers there.
@Powerlord Yeah, that was kinda unfortunate.
"I wonder why I'm ubered while you aren't?!"
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Q: bug in careers. HTML code showing in Edit location field

Stefano BoriniIn careers, in the edit profile page, you can modify the location of where you are looking for employment. When a location is present, I see this verbatim HTML code in the page right above the textbox and the "remove" link <input id="cvLocationId" name="cvLocationId" type="hidden" value="412...

@Powerlord ...wait you can't uber people carrying the intelligence?
I didn't know that.
22:32
@badp Nope, the medic will be ubered, the other person won't be.
Oh, and as a Spy, you can't cloak (except Dead Ringer) or disguise while carrying the intel.
and yet, Spies still make surprisingly good intel carriers... if they have a Dead Ringer. :)
@Powerlord That's a bit easier to discover, to be honest.
Also it's sad I needed 3 hours just to render that video.
@badp your rage meter's almost full, I hope it doesn't get reset.
@Mana Sadness depletes my rage meter.
@badp Saw that on today's DailyWTF
I just realized I have a data structure that's set up backward. :<
@Powerlord Surely you noticed that image's URL.
22:41
anyone know a good vi/vim tutorial? apparently it's imposing an entirely different work flow on me vs. notepad which I'm having trouble with
I take it back, my data structure is organized correctly... if I switched the keys and values I wouldn't be able to iterate over it without a second array to store the keys... there's no way to iterate over the keys in a named array in SourceMod.
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Q: What happens if I use the TMD against enemies?

Jader DiasCan I kill any enemy by making him older? Can I resurrect any body by making him younger?

22:58
thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Vista-Fix.aspx VB6 isn't a modern language? Blasphemy
23:12
@NickT Put this into perspective: VB.NET (AKA VB7) is 9 years old now.
Also, wtf won't my TF2 Event server start? Damn thing is now freezing on startup.
It was working fine before I restarted it due to a plugin update.
C is almost 40 years old
And that's my last TF2 video I had in the queue. Later.

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