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Grace Note

14:00

@badp Ahha

FEichinger

@fbueckert Well, the release will be 40 bucks.

So, the alpha is +125%.

The beta +50%.

badp

Actual transit time:40 minutes, 0 transfers

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Oh, did you back that too?

badp

Google's trying desperately to put as much lipstick on the data they've got there as possible :(

fredley

@badp Bitch of a commute

fbueckert

14:01

@FEichinger I'm talking about right now. AAA game go for ~$60 US. This alpha release is going for +50% of that.

Arda Xi

A friend of mine made a Minecraft clone in assembly:

github.com/Overv/MineAssemble

fbueckert

That's hubris and arrogance right to the extreme.

@SaintWacko Nope, and with these prices, I'm glad I didn't.

fredley

@StrixVaria What is the point of Animal Crossing and what can I achieve in this game?

kalina

@fredley gardening

FAE

@kalina this actually is in the game

kalina

14:02

my lasting memory of animal crossing on the gamecube was weeding

fredley

@kalina I was referencing a Minecraft question

badp

@ArdaXi not so much a Minecraft clone as a Minecraft OS

Martin Sojka

Ok, that's funny. Google Maps - walking directions - Frankfurt/Main, Germany to Cape Town, South Africa. Goes right through the Sahara desert in Algeria. Consequently, Google feels like warning me ... about missing sidewalks on some of the roads. :D

Arda Xi

@badp It's a bootable Minecraft clone.

badp

@ArdaXi in kernel-mode

fredley

14:03

@badp Make it run the JVM in Minecraft.

kalina

@FAE I know, I played a lot of the gamecube version

never ever again

SaintWacko

@kalina This one apparently has a lot of new stuff

kalina

@SaintWacko I'm not buying a console to play one game

ever

badp

@MartinSojka They sent a Ground Truth team on that trip, they haven't reported back in a while.

fbueckert

@SaintWacko The amount of backlash on Steam pricing is immense.

@kalina Not even Monster Hunter?

puppy eyes

SaintWacko

14:05

@fbueckert I haven't seen any of this

Grumpy Lazers

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Q: List of Act 4 Curses and Visual Effects

What are all the curses, which can be cast on a player in Act 4? I've seen little graphical buff icons appear in Hell Act 4, showing "Curse of Mud" I think, amongst others. I have been unable to find a list of these effects or the graphical effects on the player character, which each produces. I...

diablo-3

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Q: How do I get medals for the island?

On the island there was a little shop but it wanted medals to purchase things. I did notice there's a little girl (er, little Kappa) who's playing "store" but I didn't sell her anything since I was in a rush to gather bananas and durians and bugs. How do I get medals for the island? Is there an ...

animal-crossing-new-leaf

fbueckert

@SaintWacko steamcommunity.com/games/233250/announcements/detail/…

kalina

@fbueckert even though you keep asking me, no, I'm not

fbueckert

@kalina Aww.

What about Pikmin? The new Mario Bros?

kalina

never liked Mario games

never really liked Pikmin games

I might buy a PS4 but I won't be an early adopter

fbueckert

14:07

@kalina shock

Powerlord

@fbueckert Why are you naming WiiU games when Animal Crossing is on the 3DS?

fbueckert

@Powerlord Because Monster Hunter is on the WiiU

kalina

@Powerlord he needs more people to play Monster Hunter with before he starts getting bored of it

fbueckert

@kalina You'd probably outpace me easily.

kalina

I don't see that as a good reason to play the game

in other news, I reactivated my WoW account and haven't played it for more than an hour at a time since

fbueckert

14:08

@GrumpyLazers Ugh. This isn't very useful at all.

kalina

speaking of which, I am going to deactivate it again right now

Wipqozn

E3 2013: New Super Smash Bros. Will Not Have Cross-Platform Play

SaintWacko

@fbueckert kotaku.com/…

@Wipqozn Sonofabitch

Ben Brocka

@Wipqozn linked that earlier. I'm hoping not too many people opt for the 3DS version since I'm totally getting the Wii U one

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Then it shouldn't be on Steam. Simple as that.

kalina

14:11

Ben Brocka

If only because I demand to hear that epic Wiley theme remix on real speakers

kalina

I don't think Blizzard want to keep losing users

since they've (a) changed their cancellation screen and (b) made it impossible to cancel

SaintWacko

@fbueckert No one has to buy it.

Wipqozn

@BenBrocka YEah, I'm getting the WiiU one as well.

fbueckert

@SaintWacko They're going to murder any goodwill they have on Steam by insisting on that price.

SaintWacko

14:13

@fbueckert It's going to drop when they get into beta, and again when they release it

fredley

EA pisses off more people

SaintWacko

They can't charge less for alpha, because it would be an enormous slap in the face to the kickstarter backers

fbueckert

@SaintWacko People aren't going to care. All they'll remember is, "This was the turd that was priced stupidly high ealier this year."

SaintWacko

@fredley That really isn't news anymore :P

@fbueckert Knowing how short term new is on the internet, I really doubt that'll be an issue

fbueckert

@SaintWacko I get that, and I disagree with it. Kickstarter tiers are for funding the game in the first place.

Greenlight is not.

fredley

14:14

i.stack.imgur.com/rBfrI.jpg

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SaintWacko

> Mattel also said new features included the ability to play the game in six languages, customise the board, and pay for an ad-free version.

> pay for an ad-free version.

What a privelege!

@fredley Wha... You can imgur a youtube link?

Ben Brocka

@SaintWacko it's linkified text

fredley

@SaintWacko Maximum ninja Rebecca Black

SaintWacko

@fbueckert It sounds like they weren't even planning to release it early on steam, they mainly did so because of requests

fredley

> the board no longer refreshes itself after a turn.

Wat

SaintWacko

14:15

@fredley Yeah...

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka i.stack.imgur.com/rBfrI.jpg

WHATEVER CTRL+V

fredley

@OrigamiRobot [i.stack.imgur.com/rBfrI.jpg](http://google.com)

fbueckert

@SaintWacko That's a lot of bad PR sent their way, then.

It'll get relegated into the same category as Train Simulator.

SaintWacko

@fredley See, I have a thing that when I hover over an image link, it shows me the image. So I don't normally click image links, anyways :P

@fbueckert Nothing is in that category

fredley

@SaintWacko Until they're starred

OrigamiRobot

14:17

@fredley The problem was the copy grabbed an extra line.

fredley

This RB link will continue to give

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Derp. Wrong game name.

SaintWacko

@fredley Nope, even when they're starred, I still just hover over them

Ben Brocka

@fredley Adding features? Better erase all traces of people playing the old game

fredley

@SaintWacko You have extra things. Most people don't have extra things.

@BenBrocka EA logic

SaintWacko

14:18

@fredley Right, I'm just saying that's why that trap doesn't work on me in particular :P

@BenBrocka "adding" "features"

fredley

@SaintWacko EA Logic

Grace Note

@fredley Y'know, this would've been more amusing if you used an image that played along with the joke.

fredley

@GraceNote True. rBfrI wasn't accidental though

SaintWacko

@fredley Nice try

@fredley Oh, very nice. I hadn't caught that

kalina

basically, @fredley... you're just bad at everything

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Grace Note

14:20

@fredley This is true. So it's now your job to try and make that URL a relevant picture.

Powerlord

@BenBrocka You know, I thought we were still talking about Uber entertainment. See: Monday Night Combat and Super Monday Night Combat

fredley

@kalina I can't really argue with this

Journeyman Geek

....

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord they erase stats too? That's a really dick move. I don't generally view my all-time stats but people can be really proud of that

fbueckert

@Powerlord Oh, did they make that, too?

Journeyman Geek

14:21

@OrigamiRobot I clicked on this. Now I need to blast some proper music to get the garbage out of my system ;p

Powerlord

@fbueckert Yup.

fredley

i.imgur.com/R6y0F.gif

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Powerlord

One was a neat game, the other a blantant cash grab after being jealous of the LoL and TF2 in-game stores.

fredley

@GraceNote ^^

Journeyman Geek

@fredley: fool me once shame on you, fool me... DOH!

fredley

14:22

@JourneymanGeek Hahaha

SaintWacko

@JourneymanGeek Clearly you have not been here long enough :P

kalina

you're all victims and deserve it

fredley

Lol, I just got an email with the subject 'Friday'

Grace Note

@fredley Well, you managed to get an R and an F in there, so I guess, 2/5?

Powerlord

@fredley Was it from R. Black?

fredley

14:23

@GraceNote The gif is appropriate though

@Powerlord Sadly not

Grace Note

It's appropriate, but the challenge was to try and get the gif onto the right URL.

kalina

@fredley why is Sadly Not sending you email at work?

fredley

@GraceNote Oh, spamming imgur until I get a hit?

@kalina ha

Grace Note

@fredley Ideally you find a more creative means to accomplish this goal.

kalina

@fredley ...

fredley

14:24

@kalina You are a shining wit

kalina

@fredley ...

OrigamiRobot

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ChrisHateZ

badp you there?

kalina

@OrigamiRobot ...

Powerlord

hides the body out of sight We don't know any @badp here.

kalina

14:25

@ChrisHateZ obviously not

Martin Sojka

@ChrisHateZ Try "pinging" him, like this: "@badp"

Journeyman Geek

@OrigamiRobot: jimi hendrix voodoo child

fredley

@badp

kalina

@badp

Journeyman Geek

AKA, "he did WHAT WITH A GUITAR?"

ChrisHateZ

14:26

@MartinSojka For real?

kalina

MANY PINGS, HANDLE THEM

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot Good song

ChrisHateZ

It's not super important so i can just come back later when hes here.

OrigamiRobot

@kalina What?

Martin Sojka

@ChrisHateZ It works even if you're not in chat, you get a notification on the Arqade page (I think there are some time limits involved, but in general it works like that for active users).

kalina

14:27

@OrigamiRobot bad music

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Best music.

SaintWacko

@kalina How dare you

Grace Note

@MartinSojka Roughly 12-24 minutes, assuming the user is not in chat to intercept.

fredley

Robot music is best music

kalina

@OrigamiRobot bad music

fredley

14:27

Also Boards of Canada

ChrisHateZ

@MartinSojka Ok thx. Didn't know that.

SaintWacko

@kalina Best music

fredley

@SaintWacko Above average music

OrigamiRobot

> GnomeSlice: She's trolling, dire straits is the shit

Wipqozn

@fredley Clever girl ~~porkchop~~ .

SaintWacko

14:28

@fredley Okay, I actually agree with that more

fredley

@Wipqozn I'm not a girl!

Porkchops have no genitals, at least, you hope not.

Private Pansy

@fredley Do pork chops have genders?

@fredley ಠ_ಠ

ChrisHateZ

@PrivatePansy Of course!

kalina

@OrigamiRobot ~~the~~

fredley

@kalina eh?

kalina

14:30

@fredley cake

fredley

@kalina Acceptable

Martin Sojka

@fredley You know that "having a gender" and "having the biological means to reproduce" aren't synonymous, right?

Powerlord

Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to be doing another Terminator movie? \o/

fredley

@kalina Wow, you filled in a thing with information

That's very unlike you

Powerlord

Granted, he is getting kind of old now...

Martin Sojka

14:33

@Powerlord Maybe he'll just do the voice and let the rest be computer-animated.

kalina

@fredley not sure what you mean

fredley

Soylent is a real thing #norb

ChrisHateZ

@Powerlord Doesn't really matter. They can make look him younger if needed, and of course for other things there are stuntmans.

OrigamiRobot

@kalina I can't be bothered to find @badp's quote about being absolutely wrong

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fbueckert

Note: converting mail merge documents so that they work off of the new database is time consuming and tedious.

fredley

14:40

@fbueckert Mmmm mail merge

Ben Brocka

@MartinSojka "a girl" can refer to either

badp

yesterday, by badp

you are 100% irremediably and unrecoverably wrong on this subject no matter what arguments you may ever put forwards

Shotgun Ninja

@BenBrocka Infertility?

badp

Sorry, I was busy failing level 117 five more times

Apparently there are cheats for this game, but only its Facebook version. So fuck those cheats, too.

ChrisHateZ

@badp Which game?

badp

14:42

@ChrisHateZ Candy Crush Saga.

ChrisHateZ

@badp googles

badp

@ChrisHateZ It's Bejeweled but with level design

Ben Brocka

We'll be seeing reviews of next gen launch titles before the release, right? I forget if there were reviews out there for last gen stuff

badp

...and f2p bullshit such as lives and consumables.

Shotgun Ninja

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ChrisHateZ

14:44

@badp I love match-3 type of games but CCS doesn't look very appealing for me. That is it looks somewhat childish.

badp

@ShotgunNinja I've seen the videos and of course when people pass the level miracles happens like managing to move the "ingredients" towards the center

ChrisHateZ

badp you're the one that plays stone soup a lot, right?

badp

Truth is, the ingredients fall at random moments from one of the four columns at random, without any warning, so it's all a crapshot.

@ChrisHateZ I've been playing it.

ChrisHateZ

Very slow/hard learning curve in that one?

SaintWacko

@ChrisHateZ Nope, that's me

badp

14:45

@ChrisHateZ The game's very ergonomic with features such as "find every item you've seen ever" to "automatically explore this place for me"

SaintWacko

It's easy to play, hard to master

ChrisHateZ

@SaintWacko right right right

badp

so the interface is pretty much the best you'll see from a "true" ASCII roguelike

SaintWacko

although you don't have to play it ASCII

Grace Note

@badp I kinda like Brogue a bit more in that department.

badp

14:46

@GraceNote That's why I said "true", to exclude Brogue

Grace Note

But that's because it has a much smaller complexity level in that department.

ChrisHateZ

I don't like ASCII, I'd download the graphical version.

badp

Brogue's done in OpenGL :P

Grace Note

Pfffff

ChrisHateZ

Been watching some videos of stone soup. Looks lot more complicated then other roguelikes.

SaintWacko

14:47

@ChrisHateZ Don't download. Online is more fun

@ChrisHateZ It's deeper than a lot of others

More choices, more options

badp

@SaintWacko ...is it?

ChrisHateZ

@SaintWacko I prefer playing offline.

SaintWacko

@ChrisHateZ Oh, okay

Ben Brocka

Please tell me the protagonist of Brogue is a dudebro

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SaintWacko

I like online for stats tracking and other people's ghosts

Ben Brocka

14:48

And the final boss says "COME AT ME BROGUE"

ChrisHateZ

It's harder then Tales of Maj'Eyal right?

SaintWacko

@ChrisHateZ I haven't played that

ChrisHateZ

@SaintWacko Oh i highly suggest you try if you're into roguelikes.

SaintWacko

@ChrisHateZ I'll have to check it out. DCSS is really the only graphical crawl I've played

fbueckert

The only Tales game I want to play is Tales of Xillia.

And that doesn't get released for a couple months.

SaintWacko

14:50

@ChrisHateZ Oh, and use learndb if you need information about anything while playing

ChrisHateZ

@SaintWacko Tales of ME is roguelike RPG. There is a world map with dungeons and towns to access.

SaintWacko

@ChrisHateZ Downloading now

ChrisHateZ

@SaintWacko Aight. I'll ask you how do you like it later then =D

SaintWacko

@ChrisHateZ I'll ask you the same about crawl :P

ChrisHateZ

Very addicting game, but a lot of bullshit where you end up fighting super-OP monster and die instantly.

@SaintWacko Hehe aight. Will download it now.

SaintWacko

14:54

@ChrisHateZ Sounds familiar. One time in Crawl I had a game that lasted 15 turns

I stepped out of the starting vault, first monster I encounter is a kobold with a distortion branded dagger

One-shots me

Grace Note

@BenBrocka There actually is no final boss. There are a lot of dragons, though. They totally are very "COME AT ME BROGUE", as it were.

ChrisHateZ

@SaintWacko Lawl

Does Stone Soup have any story and lore into it?

Tome is full of lore.

SaintWacko

@ChrisHateZ Not really

You're just supposed to get the Orb of Zot

ChrisHateZ

Too bad.

Ben Brocka

Newegg has Pokemon X and Y preorders for $34 with promo codes today: newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16878190356 newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16878190355 codes are EMCXPWS68 for Y EMCXPWS67 for X

ugh stupid link

ChrisHateZ

14:59

In Tome you're constantly finding lore scrolls, letters and things like that. Exploring and interacting with certain things also unlocks more lore. That's one of the things i really love about that game.

It's very deep.

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