The Bridge - 2013-07-02 (page 4 of 6)

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5:02 PM

@James Looks legit

allthingsd.com/20130702/…

@SaintWacko My feelings too.. I do not care enough about my account though to really care though :D

blog.ubi.com/security-update-for-all-ubisoft-account-holders

Soo this is either real, or a very elaborate and well localized hoax :)

@James hoax that involves hijacking DNS servers

@James Exactly

Or someone saw what happened and sent out emails to exploit it

Paranoia, ho!

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Q: Untapped trading potential in EVE

I was talking to a corp-mate last night and she mentioned that she used to go to fringe mining systems away from trade hubs and put up buy orders for Trit at much cheaper than the current prices (ie. 1,000,000 trit @ 4.0 ISK ea/ whereas Jita is around 5.07). She said she made a hefty profit becau...

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Q: Able Sisters' Mannequins

I got a mannequin in the latest for putting clothes on it and so. Can you get another one? If so how? Because i tried to check out if you can get another one by asking Sable but i got nothing.

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brb, need to shut down my browser (yay tempermental web app)

Bah, it's still not working right.

Oh well, not my problem.

Ha, one of my coworkers is complaining about ESRI's tech support.

5:09 PM

Laboratory now up and running and producing ~~potions~~ chemicals

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Downloading Rogue Legacy, while working on a paper. :) Saving it as my reward for getting the stuff I need to get done, done

@AshleyNunn That game leads to hours of not getting stuff done :D

@AshleyNunn Yay!

Also, friend me on 3DS!

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@James Hence why I am not even letting myself touch it til I am done

@AshleyNunn Paper? In July?

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5:12 PM

@SaintWacko I will, once it charges.... :P

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@Powerlord Summer term :)

@AshleyNunn shudder

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@Powerlord Anything to get me out of university faster.

@AshleyNunn How much longer?

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@OrigamiRobot If I haven't screwed anything up and I continue to not screw anything up, December.

5:16 PM

@AshleyNunn Wooooo

@AshleyNunn Then you get to join the real world! :P

Also, new Kairosoft game out! Free Pocket League Story 2!

@fbueckert Dungeon Vill... damnit!

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@fbueckert Hey, as long as I can get a job in something I don't totally hate, I am way too excited for this.

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@fbueckert ooooh

@James Dungeon Village came out way back when.

5:18 PM

@fbueckert I know what each of those words means individually, but i haven't the foggiest what any of them mean together.

Who was Kairosoft again?

@FEichinger Game Dev Story

@fbueckert Oh, right.

@OrigamiRobot Pocket League Story is essentially a soccer team management simulation.

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@fbueckert Intriguing

5:19 PM

@fbueckert I want a #2 :(

@James Dungeon Village was rather simplistic.

I figured the depth wasn't really there.

@fbueckert Hence my desire for a #2. It seems like Astro story got a bit of what it could have been .. but .. they put in a lame tourism mechanic

KerDownload!

@James Give Ninja Village a shot; it's pretty decent.

@fbueckert Doesnt seem to be iOS yet

5:22 PM

@James Oh, you only have iOS.

I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.

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@fbueckert given that this new one is free I am curious how they will implement microtransactions or anything....

@fbueckert Haha, Waste of your sorrow but whatever :)

@AshleyNunn What I've noticed is that hiring the players can be guaranteed with medals.

So far, that's the only usage I've found.

"Hi, we're the people who bought the foreclosed condo next door. We're going to be pounding on the walls all day long for the next 6 months, and we'll do it especially loudly right on the other side of your daughter's room when she's trying to sleep. P.S. - we're too cheap to pay for water, so we're going to tell all our contractors to use your outdoor water hose"

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@Sterno yikes

5:26 PM

@Sterno "Hi, you're trespassing on our property and stealing from us. Excuse me while I call the cops."

@fbueckert It would punish the wrong people. I don't really hold anything against the guy they hire to come do some painting.

@Sterno So put a sign out that says it's not for contractor use.

Let the morons deal with it.

@fbueckert This

@Sterno They're getting paid whether or not they use your water hose.

If they're literally telling their contractors to use that, I'm pretty sure you can call the cops to have a nice talk with them.

5:28 PM

I don't mind them doing it. I mind the owner telling them it was okay without asking me.

My answer, had I been asked, would be "Yeah, sure"

So I'm not going to be a dick to the contractors on a point of principle. I'll just bitch in chat that I don't like the owner. :)

@Sterno can't you raise a noise complaint? there must be some community by-law against that

@Sterno The point is that they didn't ask, and they're not very good neighbors at all.

@fbueckert Yeah. They're not even really neighbors. They're just going to flip the place once it's remodeled.

If someone asked me to use my garden hose, I would tell them to go nuts. The principle of the thing is that they didn't ask.

@Sterno Yeah, so there's no point in being a good neighbor yourself.

Turn on alpha jerk mode, and make sure they don't like you.

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That might be the slowest loading .gif ever

5:32 PM

@Sterno Twist: The .gif is actually the loading gif and you're trolling us

@Unionhawk Actually, that's what I thought.

@Unionhawk Moi? Troll? Never!

@Jin: New request for chat. Let users block specific messages, such as those that are huge images that take forever to load.

@Sterno It's this scene, no?

@Krazer yes

@Powerlord Honestly it'd be nice just to have an option that makes images a "click to show" thing instead of one-boxing

5:41 PM

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Q: Minecraft lags on a specific user

I have a really great desktop machine that I use for all sorts of games - i7 cpu 8gb ram 2gb GTX 660 graphics card. I have different users because I have small children and different settings for them compared to the adults. On all of the logins Minecraft works totally fine, but on one of these l...

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Q: Do I get less scrap if I "soften up" an enemy ship before I board and finish off the crew?

Sometimes, to make boarding a ship easier, I'll send off a volley or two of burst lasers to knock out the medical bay or injure the crew before I teleport over to fight them. When I do this, of course, it causes several points of damage to the enemy ship's hull. Does it make any difference in t...

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Q: How do I display designs in second floor museum?

I just got the second floor to the museum in New Leaf and I hung a bunch of designs on the wall and a few dresses standing up. I went to the able sisters to get some more qr posters online. I came back and the ones I'd replaced in my designs (which I have saved with mabel but I assumed I wouldn...

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Q: Is it possible to Arcane Shift into an Essence Flux fired by myself and gain the attack speed buff?

I tried it out but I think that I'm not quick enough. Is it possible?

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Wow, this guy's a bit of a jerk

He had a meta.SO post that got deleted where he was whining about people downvoting his TOTALLY CLEAR AND CONCISE questions and not leaving a comment.

As a sidenote, Randy Pitchford is also a bit of a jerk. He advocates misleading demos such as what happened with AvP.

Glad I didn't buy Borderlands 2 for full price.

@fbueckert When Steam exists, why pay full price on anything that can be played on PC?

@DavidStarkey To support the developers?

Especially indie ones that need all the help they can get.

Like CarpeFulgur.

@fbueckert Ah, that's where Humble Bundles come in.

If I didn't have BL2, I'd still pay full price for it today.

5:50 PM

@DavidStarkey Which very few people pay full price for games for.

wow

Hedgehog's Curse is the worst.

@Sterno I even tested it to see if there might be an advantage to it! Answer: No.

@fbueckert The main reason for the price tag of a game is the time and resources it takes to develop and market, correct? If this is true, then selling more copies at a cheaper price leads to the same end total. However, if the price is cheaper and more people get it, then word of mouth spreads for that game and more people can be convinced to buy it. Sales only accelerate this process.

@DavidStarkey Humble Bundles, though, get 99% of people paying $1 or less. I don't see how that helps developers with actually getting money for their games.

It's fantastic for word of mouth and building a fanbase, don't get me wrong.

It's horrible for actually breaking even.

5:56 PM

@BenBrocka sent you a shift code on steam, it's first come first serve

@FAE TREACHERY!

I need to play more BL2

TOO MANY GAMES

@Sterno Yes. Fuck Hedgehog's Curse.

KT5JJ-9JBKC-TS63T-J3J3J-96WBW ?

@fbueckert Imagine you sell 1000 copies through less known sources for $20 each ($20,000 profit). Now Humble Bundle has a much bigger base, so say 20,000 people buy the bundle for $1 so the get the Steam codes ($20,000 profit). Humble Bundle only lasts for a short while, so people like the game and convince their friends that for $1 they can get this awesome game (among others) and even more people get it.

One Grace rune drops the end boss's level from 93 to 71

5:59 PM

Toaster Strudel!

@fbueckert Some people end up liking the game so much, they increase their donation, which is more likely when there are more players.

@DavidStarkey I'm saying $1 total. Unless the buyer allocates all of it to the single dev (and thereby leaving all the rest in the cold), they'll be making 20 cents or less.

Like I said, it's awesome for word of mouth.

Profit, not so much.

@fbueckert To each his own, then.

@Powerlord Needs more bacon.

@fbueckert I remember reading about one developer in the Humble Bundle that barely broke even before it and then suddenly earned 10x and more of the previous income due to the Humble Bundle. I don't remember which one it was though. For relatively unknown games the vast increase in audience can certainly lead to significant profit

6:03 PM

@MadScientist Much of that is due to the word of mouth, I would suspect.

I'm not saying that the Humble Bundles are bad for business; they're not.

I'm saying that I like to support indie devs by buying their games at full price.

@Ullallulloo Yay new CGPGrey video!

EU Politics has never been so exciting!

@fbueckert Then you are a better man then I Tips hat

I tend to buy humble bundles for a bit more than the average price, but then I would probably never have bought most of those games for full price. But for a low price I'll buy stuff I'm not sure whether I'd like it

@MadScientist That's why Steam daily deals are so good.

I have never bought a humble bundle or indie royale bundle or any of those things.

6:06 PM

@OrigamiRobot You have a heart and wallet of steel

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@fredley I never want to play the games they come with.

@OrigamiRobot wat

@FAE thanks, will grab it tonight

@OrigamiRobot games need to stop being good for a while, I'll never get shit done

@FAE I thought Shift codes were available to everyone.

@BenBrocka I know!

6:08 PM

There's even a wiki page that collects them all.

@Ullallulloo Or I already own the ones I would want.

@Powerlord The Gearbox Official Twitter ones are, yes, but the Gearbox CEO sends out temp shift codes.

They're first come, first serve.

@Powerlord They are, but there are limits on time or redemtion count sometimes.

and dinnertime, later all

And honestly, I don't wanna pay $5 for one $10 game I kinda want if it comes with 5 games I will never play.

6:11 PM

@OrigamiRobot I'm not following this logic.

@Powerlord I love that page

@OrigamiRobot It's still half off. Why not?

@DavidStarkey I don't want the clutter of 5 games I'll never play.

@OrigamiRobot You don't even have to redeem their Steam keys.

@OrigamiRobot And you're willing to pay $5 extra to avoid that?

6:12 PM

@Ullallulloo Then they're wasted.

@OrigamiRobot 1. You don't have to download them 2. You don't have to activate them on Steam. You can give those keys to people that might want to play them

@SaintWacko Yes.

@DavidStarkey Too much of a hassle.

@OrigamiRobot You're willing to pay five dollars so that codes aren't wasted?

Yes.

Apathy and laziness win the day again!

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6:14 PM

@Ullallulloo I don't think codes are generated until you click the button for the code.

@fbueckert I don't like wasting things.

@fbueckert Love problems that get solved through inaction.

@DavidStarkey Not a real problem. Close as NARQ.

I'd rather pay more for less food if my other option is throwing food away.

@fbueckert Put on hold as UWA.

6:17 PM

@OrigamiRobot You must not be from the US.

@OrigamiRobot Also, your picture seems to have a bunch of wasted skittles :)

Lol wtf

Half Dragon is ridiculous

@OrigamiRobot But it's not your loss.

ANT FARM KEYBOARD!

@OrigamiRobot That logic doesn't carry over to digital purchases. If you get a game you will never play, nothing is wasted

@murgatroid99 No, but I know I own it and I'll never play it.

6:18 PM

In digital stuff it's not even a loss at all really because there's like 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 keys.

But really difficult to get used to

@OrigamiRobot I don't understand the problem

@murgatroid99 That's still wasting them.

@OrigamiRobot OK, then I don't think I understand how you are using the word "waste". What object or resource is being "wasted" in this situation?

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Q: how to switch the movment and camera controls on max payne 3 on xbox 360

In my Max Payne 3 (for Xbox 360), my movement and camera controls are switched. In most other games the right stick is movement and the left stick is the camera, but not in mine. For mine, the left stick is movement and the right stick is the camera. What can I do to change that?

6:20 PM

@SaintWacko I love the class.

@murgatroid99 Opportunity.

@fbueckert Very powerful, but hard to get used to not jumping

@OrigamiRobot Knock Knock

@OrigamiRobot Who is wasting what opportunity to do what?

@murgatroid99 I am wasting the opportunity to play the games I own.

6:21 PM

@SaintWacko I usually stay flying all the time.

Except when I have to open chests.

@fbueckert So did I, but I still kept trying to jump out of the way of attacks

It doesn't help that I use two Vault Runes, so I'm used to jumping a lot

@OrigamiRobot but I don't see a difference between not playing a game you don't own and not playing a game you do own

@murgatroid99 The fact that I own it is the difference.

I don't want to own things I won't use. period.

@murgatroid99 There exists a game that he owns. He feels obligated to play it, though he would rather play a different game.

@SaintWacko If you have all the Sage equipment, use that, and throw on nothing but Bounty runes.

It's a fantastic class for cash runs.

6:23 PM

@fbueckert I keep that in mind

I just got my first piece of Sage equipment

I've been using Vampire

@SaintWacko That's great for making progress.

@fbueckert Yeah, it's nice

Yay, final boss down

@AshleyNunn got the killing blow on the boss

nothing is wrong, and I appreciate your answer, but unfortunaltely, I am getting banned for this post because of people do not appreciate I asked a completely legit question, and keep voting down on it that killing my rep. Its nothing deal with your answer, its great answer, but people don't like my question while no one tell why, or says why with the reason that is IMPOSSIBLE to fix. thanks! if you could use your rep to somehow tell those people to provide legit reason, otherwise, I have to delete it regardless the fact I think its great question and answer you provided. — Adam 9 mins ago

Yup. This guy has no idea what SE is all about.

@fbueckert I dislike his views on voting. Look at his profile.

> I honestly dislike people who votes down just because they know more than others....
Vote up for whoever does something
Vote down for whoever is trying to been arrogant, copying others, slandering, cursing, being nasty, etc.
Up for all whomever contributes :)
Down for all whomever vote down others with the arrogance.

I'm way too lazy to properly block quote that.

6:35 PM

@Wipqozn He had a Meta post ranting about downvoting without commenting being stupid, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with his questions at all.

317 children. My poor family tree.

When the track record shows he outright ignores comments that show him what information to add, or he attacks the commenters.

Which just goes to show WHY commenting with downvotes is not required.

Hrm. I don't like that when I just bought 5/5 in Gold Gain Up, it says "Current 1%"

GUYS WE ARE GETTING A HOUSE!!!!!!!!!! AHHH!!!!!

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the sellers are going to fix all the inspection issues and OMG THIS IS HAPPENING!

@spugsley AWESOME!

6:37 PM

zillow.com/homedetails/12604-Softwood-Ct-Charlotte-NC-28273/… HERE IT IS IT IS SO PRETTY!

@spugsley Oh, wow, that's really nice

I love it :3

@spugsley Wait until you sign the paperwork for it.

@spugsley That's awesome! :)

It'll hit you that you're now six digits in debt.

6:39 PM

@fbueckert ummm we are 80grand in student loan debt - at least now we have something to show for it

I wish houses around here cost that much :/

@spugsley That's still only five digits. :P

:p

Also, nice house! Mine cost me slightly more, for much less space.

Mine's only 700 square feet.

@fbueckert NG+ is hard

6:41 PM

@fbueckert this has a lot more yard than what we wanted. We were looking at town homes but honestly, almost 200 per month HOA - we might as well just have a home with a yard

@fbueckert You live in the crazy expensive part of Canada, so I'm not surprised.

@spugsley I have dick all for a backyard. I've got some decent frontage on my place, but that's it.

@Wipqozn you're an expensive part of Canada

@Wipqozn Winnipeg is crazy expensive?

@spugsley Low housing costs are one of the few things I miss about the US.

6:42 PM

To my knowledge, Winnipeg has some of the lowest cost of living in all of Canada.

@fbueckert Oh, right. I keep forgetting you don't live in Alberta.

@FAE yeah, NC is crazy cheap. And sadly, we live in Mecklenberg county - if this house had been in Union county, we would have paid like 90k

The cost of living Alberta is really high, which is odd, since it's in the middle of nowhere.

@Wipqozn Oilsands.

Everybody works there, and even high school grads make six digits.

Also, I like your house. The design is a tad odd, which I like.

6:43 PM

@spugsley Holy crap even the trashiest house I've seen around here has been 250k.

I'm going to start looking for another house soon. Probably in the next month or so.

WHY IS THAT HOUSE HALF THE PRICE OF THE CHEAPEST HOUSE AROUND HERE I'M MOVING TO NC

@StrixVaria That's lakefront property in Davisdon County

@OrigamiRobot yeah or like a 8 bedroom house in Shannamara (expensive neighborhood)

@StrixVaria Yeah, that'd be about right for the cheapest house here as well

A couple blocks away from the apartment I'll be moving into, there is apparently a $10.8 million home for sale.

looks like I'll be rubbin' elbows with the rich people... or at least getting dirty looks from them because my apartment complex probably brings down the value of their home

6:48 PM

Fuck housing prices in New Jersey.

I'm so pissed now.

@spugsley Because of the yard size, if that were here, it'd probably be around €600k-€800k, depending on location.

@StrixVaria lakehouse.com/page-287060.html

I have no idea pricing in CAnada is like, but I'll assume it's also bad will join in the "fuck housing prices" hate.

@StrixVaria lakehouse.com/page-286214.html

@Wipqozn It depends on where you're looking.

6:50 PM

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> Acres 100x200x116x145

Why does this property have 4 dimensions?

@StrixVaria ...uuuuh... o_O

@StrixVaria Hell if I know

@StrixVaria because it's the motherfucking man

@StrixVaria Maybe one is how much of the space above ground level you own, and the other is how much of dirt below ground level you own

6:51 PM

Anyway, if only I could keep my job and move somewhere with sane housing prices, that would be amazing.

That's the only thing I can think of.

@StrixVaria Where do you even see this?

@StrixVaria move here and hang out with us we are awesome!

@OrigamiRobot lakehouse.com/page-287060.html

"Buying a house" here is actually buying an apartment. Stand alone houses with a yard are something I've resigned myself to never having in this country because holy crap, expensive.

6:52 PM

@StrixVaria Huh, most of them just list an acreage.

@StrixVaria Acres are a square unit.

@spugsley I am very tempted right now. You guys Waffle Houses too.

@FAE I still strive to at some point.

@StrixVaria The lot isn't rectangular, although obviously that wasn't what that field is meant to show.

@StrixVaria You could buy a lakefront lot for like 100k and just build whatever house you want.

6:53 PM

@StrixVaria truth. And plenty of bathrooms for after Waffle House

@Ullallulloo That would account for 2 dimensions.

@StrixVaria No, I mean you would only need one number for acres. So if that means dimensions, that would be eight, right?

@Ullallulloo Yep, ft^8.

@StrixVaria lakehouse.com/page-285556.html

@user56 I'd like to, but we have way less time to do it than you do.

Jochem's already 31, we need to buy a house within the next 5 years for a 30 year mortgage.

6:56 PM

shudder mortgages

@user56 You're user56 again.

My dad and his two sisters own five or six houses debt-free between them.

@BenBrocka Part of life, if you don't want to rent forever.

@OrigamiRobot What is with you and lake houses?

@fbueckert Clearly, you just need to be super rich.

6:58 PM

@StrixVaria he wants you to buy one so he can come visit

Also part of the reason I try to hoard money. Both to act as a safety net and to have a nice down payment on a house if I ever decide to buy one.

@Wipqozn Which can happen, but you have to work super hard to manage it.

@FAE Fair enough.

@Wipqozn admirable :3 (but you're still the worst)

@Wipqozn According to @badp it's a desperate plea.

6:58 PM

@StrixVaria Just an example.

Too bad I didn't get that SE job so I could move to NC and work remote forever.

@StrixVaria YES

good idea

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Q: How do you heal your follower in battle?

My followers keep getting so close to dying and I only know how to heal myself. I've seen others heal their followers but I can't figure out how to heal mine. How do you heal your follower in battle?

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Did you miss the part where I didn't get the job?

Waterfront properties are more expensive, so it's funny that those are the same price as your shitty houses.

6:59 PM

@StrixVaria We should all move to NC and work remote forever. We can all chip in a huge house and call it "The Bridge".

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