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user43095

12:11 PM

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user43095

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Q: Best way to import from HDD to networked drive?

How would I transfer all contents out of the HDD onto the networked drive? I don't want to plug the HDD directly into the networked drive.

user43095

Could have sworn we had a minecraft-ae tag. yep, we did.

Private Pansy

12:23 PM

@Blem Hmmm, will the cards be gone after the sale is over?

Tim Stone

@Blem Which cards?

badp

@PrivatePansy probably.

Private Pansy

Because I only have 6 and I don't think I'll be spending ~$25 more dollars on games to get a bunch of cards, so I might as well just give them away or something

badp

@PrivatePansy ...you could buy the rest for $.40

StrixVaria

@PrivatePansy No.

badp

12:26 PM

or sell what you have for $.60

StrixVaria

The cards will persist, but no new ones will drop.

badp

@StrixVaria rly?

StrixVaria

@badp Yeah, I read the FAQ because I had no clue what they were.

Will I be able to craft the Summer Getaway badge after the sale?
Yes, you’ll be able to collect the cards and craft the badge after the sale, but only with cards that have already dropped. When the sale ends, there will be no new Summer Getaway card drops.

badp

uh

Blem

I am missing bioshock infinite and Chivalry

Private Pansy

12:27 PM

So... their value might actually increase over time?

badp

@PrivatePansy very eventually

Tim Stone

@PrivatePansy It'll likely spike and then plummet.

badp

if anything they'll drop in value because of lack of demand

after getting level 10 there is little point to level up any further

I'd need to craft 14 badges to get more bling for my steam community page

@TimStone ...how about no?

Tim Stone

Craft ALL the badges.

Craft. ALL. The. Badges. o_o

What's really ridiculous is that the foil badges don't give you more XP.

badp

@TimStone craft all the badges? :(

Tim Stone

12:29 PM

Okay, only craft some of the badges. All of the badges would be insane.

badp

I mean, the cards now are €.1 each

That's €1 for badge

and the cards for these badges were given away

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Blem I have a chivalry.

Tim Stone

@TimStone What's even more ridiculous is that I have a level 3 badge for the Summer Sale. |:

badp

Profile bling isn't worth spending €14

Tim Stone

On the plus side I won't have to buy any more games for another year.

badp

12:32 PM

@TimStone Did you forget? Half Life 3 will be dropped on the internet on the last day of the sale. CONFIRMED

The sale started on the 11th and will end on the 22nd

1=1=3/3. 2=2=7/3. 1+2=3. CONFIRMED

Private Pansy

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Q: What's your favorite puzzle platformer for the PC that you've played?

I've recently completed Machinarium and Limbo and was highly interested in knowing if there are any more puzzle - platformers for the PC that I could buy. The genre really seems to have got on to me! So what are your favorite puzzle-platformers you've played and enjoyed? Oh, and don't mention t...

pc

Blem

@LessPop_MoreFizz I got spare Torchlight, Tomb Raider, KSP, Prison Architect and Dead Island

Unionhawk

@Blem I have both, missing Torchlight II and Tomb Raider

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Blem I think I need a prison architecht and/or a tomb raider. I'll double check when I get upstairs in 5 mins

Blem

@Unionhawk whats your steam name?

Unionhawk

12:36 PM

@Blem Unionhawk.

Blem

@Unionhawk wass looking in the wrong group

thx :)

my first badge crafted and got to level 11 :)

LessPop_MoreFizz

This question appears to be off-topic because it is about religious chicken. — Marcel C. 20 hours ago

RedRiderX

@LessPop_MoreFizz Ahahah wow it actually looks quite a bit like that.

Blem

@LessPop_MoreFizz I still got a spare Prison Architecht if you want to trade

user43095

@badp 2 =/= 7/3...

badp

12:54 PM

@jeffreylin_ the remainder is 1. 1*3=3.

HOW MUCH MORE CONFIRMATION DO YOU NEED

user43095

@badp Where are all of these numbers coming from? did you go to elementary school? What is the last digit of pi?

Blem

@jeffreylin_ 3

user43095

@Blem 4

Blem

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FEichinger

I've got a Prison Architect and a Riptide for the Summer cards, if anyone needs them. Giveaway.

Ronan Forman

1:07 PM

@FEichinger The cards or the games?

FEichinger

@RonanForman The cards.

Ronan Forman

Aww.

FEichinger

As for games, I'm actually thinking of doing a PA giveaway some time the next weeks.

What with me not needing an awful lot of money in August and all.

Ronan Forman

You could save the money...

FEichinger

@RonanForman I'm saving ~30 bucks a month right now.

Ronan Forman

1:09 PM

Buy a fishing boat!

FEichinger

But I literally only need like €100 next month - and I get 420.

So, 300 spare ... And I'm always up for giving people awesome games.

Ronan Forman

Then you can fill the fishing boat proceeds box on your tax form!

FEichinger

@RonanForman What do I need a fishing boat for? I'm right below the friggin Alps.

Blem

some new skies then?

FEichinger

I don't do sports. They're dangerous and all.

Blem

1:12 PM

anyone going to gamescom?

FEichinger

Most definitely not. I hold a grudge against it.

Blem

why?

FEichinger

@Blem It murdered and commercialised the previous games convention Germany had for no good reason.

LessPop_MoreFizz

1:27 PM

I am back. I need Bioshock, Prison Architect, and Tomb Raider. I have a spare Chivalry.

StrixVaria

I like how individual cards are $.10 but the rewards for crafting all 10 cards together are $.03

badp

@StrixVaria This has always been the case

There's a whole lot more demand for the emoticons and backgrounds than the single individual cards - so lower prices, too.

StrixVaria

@badp How does more demand equate to lower prices?

badp

er

hmmm

@PrivatePansy gaben.tv

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Lazers

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Q: Does it matter at which level a Pokémon is given a Moon Stone?

I have a level 16 Nidorino and a Moon Stone. Should I use it right away, or should I wait until Nidorino gets to a certain level? Would it make any difference?

pokemon-first-gen

badp

1:44 PM

He's 8 and I'm fully aware what we did was wrong and will never happen again. — Young Guilo yesterday

gg indeed

fbueckert

@Lazers Isn't this exactly the same question as was asked before?

Blem

Guess I better start leveling to 61 in BL2 so I will be ready

Private Pansy

@badp I think it's the other way round

People care about the shinies more than the background and chat emotes, which frankly I can't see people using

fbueckert

2:02 PM

I need a Bioshock and Reus card. I've got extras of Chivalry, Riptide, And KSP.

FEichinger

@PrivatePansy Well, the chat emotes are mostly used on the Community discussions. For the sake of spam, that is.

Private Pansy

Oh, there are emotes that can be abused? Now that's interesting :P

FEichinger

@PrivatePansy People form words out of them. And post them ERRYWHERE.

Private Pansy

You know, Steam's community homepage is completely useless because there's no filter to show only content from games I play

Lazers

0

Q: How do you defeat the king crab in Hungry Shark?

How do you kill or defeat the giant crab in the crab lair in Hungry Crab?

hungry-shark

0

Q: LIght through carpets in Minecraft?

Does carpet block light travelling through it like from glowstone? If so what is the reduced light level from each carpet?

minecraft

0

Q: Zombies with sowrds hit you with sowrds?

When a zombie in minecraft is wielding a sword does the zombie hurt you with the equivalent damage of the sword or just his bare hands?

minecraft

Private Pansy

2:17 PM

@Lazers Sowrds?

fredley

3:07 PM

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Excellent Google Easter Egg

Ben Brocka

@fredley Not sure if joke or typo, that's a normal search page. It adds letter spacing if you search "kerning"

fredley

@BenBrocka The letters are closer together when you search for Keming

Ben Brocka

@fredley huh, they're normal for me

fredley

@BenBrocka Closer for me. Compare with Kering

Ben Brocka

Oh it's only on the word keming, I see it now

FEichinger

3:18 PM

Kerning vs Kering vs Keming - All three are spaced differently.

fredley

@FEichinger Yes. Confirmed in source, kerning is given letter-spacing of 1px, keming is given letter-spacing of -1px

Evil Google is Evil

Private Pansy

@fredley Which is rather unfortunate, because Keming Primary School was a school I used to attend

fredley

@PrivatePansy Wow, that's amazing

You also went to school in Bukit

Ben Brocka

Did you lem to kem there?

Private Pansy

@fredley Bukit Batok. Bukit just means hill in Malay.

And only for the first two years, then we moved.

FAE

3:37 PM

Anyone know anything about Towns?

Lazers

0

Q: How to play Minecraft offline?

I just lost my broadband, and am left only with mobile devices with any online access. My main PC is offline - and it seems the newest Minecraft launcher doesn't believe one can have no network access. As I start it, I'm asked to log in or register or choose my existing account.. It seems all thr...

minecraft

Fluttershy

@FAE I've not heard much good about it. <_<

FAE

@Fluttershy Yeah, I think I've only heard mediocre things as well

Jochem and I had to buy new glasses today. So much money that could've been spent on gaaaaaaames.

Stupid... life necessity... things...

fbueckert

@FAE Stupid responsibilities. Who wants to be responsible!?

FAE

@fbueckert I know, right? Damn needing to see!

Though I guess I like, need to see properly so I can game... so there's that.

Private Pansy

3:44 PM

The degrees are not too high, hopefully?

FAE

@PrivatePansy Nah, I used to be -12 and -13 in my eyes, but I had lasik, so now I'm +.5 and -3.75 or so.

Private Pansy

I have myopia, but the degrees are low enough that I can do without glasses most of the time.

FAE

@PrivatePansy Yeah, it's really weird to me to be slightly farsighted in one of my eyes now because I grew up so severely myopic. The idea that something is too close to see clearly is still odd.

Jochem's vision is worse than what mine is now.

Private Pansy

Farsightedness is worse than shortsightedness, according to my farsighted mother

FAE

@PrivatePansy My mom was farsighted in one and nearsighted in the other but then changed to both nearsighted.

Ben Brocka

3:49 PM

I'd say not being able to drive or basically leave the house (or do most things around the house) without glasses is worse than being unable to read things too close to your face, personally

FAE

@BenBrocka Yeah, that's how I used to be. I couldn't go to school if I didn't have my glasses when I was younger.

They broke a couple times when I was at school and I had to leave and go home.

Private Pansy

In Junior College everyone in my class was myopic

Fluttershy

My eyes are pretty terrible. x_x I have myopia, amblyopia, and... just poor vision all-around, really. Lasik helped, but I still have incredibly poor vision in my left eye.

Private Pansy

Some of us didn't have to wear glasses all (or for me, most) of the time, but none of us had perfect eyesight

FAE

@Fluttershy You really should get your eyes checked sometime soon.

Private Pansy

3:52 PM

I guess that's Singapore for you

FAE

@PrivatePansy How is that related?

Private Pansy

Singapore's schools, like most in Asia, are very competitive

Fluttershy

@FAE Probably. Like, I can see and read sans-glasses and stuff. No amount of glasses will help my left eye. But... I haven't had an eye-exam in... two years at least.

Private Pansy

Childhood myopia is epidemic here

FAE

@PrivatePansy Oooh, okay, didn't know that.

Private Pansy

3:53 PM

80% is the figure I recall

FAE

@PrivatePansy Whoa. o_o

Ben Brocka

@PrivatePansy That seems very high. Genetics or what?

FAE

Was Skyrim taken down as Daily Deal? I don't see it anymore.

Private Pansy

> The prevalence of myopia in Singapore is one of the highest in the world. 65 percent of our Primary 6 children have myopia, whereas at that same age, just 12 percent of children in Australia and about 30 percent in the UK are myopic. Myopia prevalence further rises amongst our youth: 70 percent of students leaving secondary school, and 80 percent of National Servicemen have myopia. These figures are staggering.

FAE

Wow.

That is... a lot.

Ben Brocka

3:55 PM

@FAE It's $20.99

though I don't see it on the front page either

FAE

@BenBrocka Huh, weird.

Ben Brocka

It's on the top sellers list though

well the legendary edition is

Private Pansy

Yeah, it did seem to have been taken down early

Or was it yesterday's deal?

It's suppose to be 40% off

Oh wait, it is

Legendary Edition is suppose to be 40% off. I'm not sure why the base game is still so expensive

That quote was from a speech given in 2011. I think the numbers may have grown since then

FAE

Also trying to pick out glasses frames when you have a nickel allergy is hard. :(

Ben Brocka

it's only 10% more expensive relatively

probably to incentivize people to buy the more expensive version

Private Pansy

3:58 PM

@BenBrocka Complete opposite of Civ V's pricing model

The base game is dirt cheap, but the newest expansion is relatively expensive

It seems like the release of each expansion always seem to coincide with some sale that drops the price of the base game to below $10

Ben Brocka

It released like DURING the sale though, didn't it? Even in steam sales recent games generally get little to no discount

Private Pansy

This time the expansion is three times as expansive as the original game

Ben Brocka

yeah, jul 8th and it's a top seller anyway; no sense in discounting it, because there's a ton of people who already own civ 5 who will want to get it

Fluttershy

@BenBrocka They accidentally discounted it anyway. =P

user30

steam market is down?

Ben Brocka

4:01 PM

And I assume people need the new DLC to play online vs other people with the DLC? There's also the idea that you can get people hooked on a cheap main game and have them buy the extra bits as they go (more or less how Mobile games tend to work)

I wonder if someone at steam is looking at playtime and thinking "WOW these trading cards really get people to play more games!!!" when really a bunch of us just launch 10 games at once and don't play them just to get the stupid cards

FAE

@BenBrocka It pretty much has just made it so people idle in games other than TF2.

Private Pansy

@BenBrocka Doesn't Steam only allow you to launch one game at a time?

fbueckert

@PrivatePansy Nope

Lazers

4:17 PM

0

Q: How to control where items get stored?

If I have say wood in a chest with an IE Storage Bus hooked up to it, as well as the same type of wood in a barrel, how do I control where the item goes when I drop it into the network?

minecraft minecraft-feed-the-beast minecraft-ae

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Q: Can you restore Roman Empire as a pagan?

I am playing the Old Gods DLC, started in the north as a Pomeranian duke, formed the Wendish Empire and have now reconquered much of the Byzantine Empire, whose title I have usurped. I stayed as a (reformed) pagan. I seem to remember that the Byzantine Emperor has two unique decisions available: ...

crusader-kings-2

badp

so is it just me or the new Google Maps app for Android slow?

user30

I haven't updated it, doesn't it remove offline maps?

Ben Brocka

@PrivatePansy no, it only reports one game that you're playing though

Private Pansy

@badp I just gave it a try, it's slow for me too

A lot of stuttering when scrolling, when the old version was relatively smooth

Ben Brocka

Yeah UT 2004 I think I can handle your game at highest texture detail....

user30

4:30 PM

> There was an error getting listings for this item. Please try again later.

Private Pansy

Also, no offline maps :( I mean, that feature didn't work very well, but it was better than nothing

user30

It has worked pretty well for me

Private Pansy

Half the time I tried to view a map I had cached offline it would refuse to show anything and just give me a blank map

Blem

How is your IRL driving skilling doing @PrivatePansy

Private Pansy

So far I've not yet ran over anyone, so I believe I'm doing fine

Blem

4:37 PM

:)

badp

@PrivatePansy "OK Maps" - zoom in on the area you want to save and tap that into the search box.

John

I just beat "Veni, Vidi, Vici!" again in under 5 minutes :D

In VVVVVV, that is.

badp

@John grats

John

Thank you :)

This playthrough is going far smoother than my first one.

badp

4:56 PM

ARE YOU READY FOR A MIRACLE? 3 minutes and chump change.

fuck, I forgot to vote this time

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.

user30

hmm I wanted to try prison architect

user30

but watching the dev videos it just doesn't look that interesting

badp

oh Strike Suite Zero for €2.84 is nice.

that should put Infinity at a few cents

eh, 1,49€

nevermind I haven't yet played the base game

Private Pansy

Prison Architect is today's highlight I believe

badp

yep, 34% off.

Private Pansy

5:06 PM

Let's see... Saints Row 3 and KOTOR II are both highly recommended I believe

StrixVaria

I got KOTOR 2 just now.

A friend's been bugging me to play it for about 10 years.

Mad Scientist

@badp Strange, It was only 10% for me at first, now all the prices are corrected and much lower

FEichinger

@StrixVaria Rightly so.

Private Pansy

The others... well, depends on your taste and preferences I suppose

badp

@PrivatePansy beware, if your computer is slow enough the game is unwinnable

this happens in mission 10

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Gaming Topics From Outside

5:14 PM

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Q: Corruption while running GameMaker games in Wine

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Q: Cocos2d FPS drops when ReplacingScene but Scene is not retained and its with ARC

I have a MainMenuScene and a GameScene... In the MainMenu I have the button start that goes to the GameScene, in the middle of the game I want to restart or just quit the game, which ever of those 2 that I do, when I replace the GameScene with another GameScene or just go back to the mainmenu an...

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Blem

should i buy prison architec?

user30

5:32 PM

oh JC MP beta test

Lazers

0

Q: How to play "together" in Sims 3?

Is there any way that I and my girlfriend can interact beetween our Sim characters/familes games? Is it possible to share neighborhood online or play the same family change by change? We have both Orgin accounts with Sims 3. If not do you know game that is doing something similar :) ? Thanks!

sims-3

0

Q: How to get past electricity in Half Life original?

So I was playing half life, and I got to that part in the corridor where there is electricity zapping the ground from the celling. Even if I'm far away it will still kill me, so how do I get past it? Can I stop it somehow?

half-life

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Q: Minecraft and endless redstone?

Are there any plugins for bukkit which disable the limit if 15 blocks of redstone? I dont want to use Wireless redstone because I want to see what is connected to what. I am thinking about writing my own plugin. Would be nice if someone knows how to disable the limit (without writing the whole re...

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Q: Are there any fast 256 bit decoders for Minecraft?

I am currently working on a 256 byte RAM. To access one address i have to build a decoder. My current decoder is a big block of AND-Gates with redstonetorches to check each combination. Are there any faster ways? Current Version of my decoder (Picture)

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Raven Dreamer

Note to self: Turning on the AC is not useful when you leave your windows open for weeks.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Blem Do you like Dungeon Keeper?

Because Prison Architect is like a successor to Dungeon Keeper.

user30

hmm, I know the JC MP server is being DDOSed, but I do own JC2...

Private Pansy

5:47 PM

Oh bother, I think I rolled over a mosquito and now there's blood smeared all over my bed

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz This is what I hear and I am so tempted but I'm not sure I want to get into an alpha and arrrrrgh, so conflicted.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE Yeah, this is why I am not buying ebcause 20bux for an alpha is meh

Helen Thomas died. :(

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah. :/

Fluttershy

I'm not really sure this is something anyone here can actually answer... — Fluttershy 9 secs ago

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp Rapidly climbing the 'worst users' list.

Ben Brocka

6:01 PM

If I buy Wrath of the Lamb will Binding of Isaac get harder, easier, or will it just extend the length of the game as I unlock stuff or what?

murgatroid99

@BenBrocka It can be a bit harder. I would suggest buying it after beating sheol at least a couple of times

Ben Brocka

I'll pass on it for now then

I've only beaten Mom once

not the heart, just mom

Sterno

I want prison architect. But maybe not for $20

2

I don't even care about steam badges but for some reason "I'll get two cards" might be enough to make me buy it at that price anyway.

stupid brain.

user15026

I like the idea of it but I can't afford the $20

user15026

story of my life

LessPop_MoreFizz

6:12 PM

@Sterno I KNOW

BoltClock

ffs

Couldn't Steam pull at least 50% off Deadpool given that it's an eight-hour Flash Sale?

Then again it is Activision and it is less than a month old

Ben Brocka

wasn;t it realeased this month? 50% off's not gonna happen in all likelyhood

BoltClock

Near the end of June, but yeah, less than a month old

Lazers

1

Q: How can I re-enable bonus powers in Mass Effect 3?

I played through the game and all its dlc-s back in the days...and now I have the Citadel DLC which I'm playing. My problem is that after reinstalling ME3 it reset my DLC-s so I can play through Omega (and the others) again. This means that I don't have the "Flare" power anymore because I can get...

mass-effect-3

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Q: Do certain cards drop more often for users?

This is mostly relating to the Steam Summer Getaway but still applies to the other cards. I've noticed that I tend to get the Kerbal Space Program card more then the other cards. I've gotten it 4 or 5 times already. I also got Prison Architect and Skyrim 3 or 4 times each. However, I have nev...

steam-trading-cards

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Q: Improvement values are not correct in Skyrim

According to this source http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Smithing and many others, with smithing skill at 100 level and all the perks I should be able to improve my armor by 20 points, but what I discovered is that it's not correct for me. For examlpe Deadric Boots with 26 armor(btw according to ...

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Ben Brocka

So apparently Youtube has all sorts of little restrictions they put on non-partner network partners. Suddenly I can download more than 3 MP4s of my videos per hour (which is great because I'm missing a couple dozen source files so I need to redownload them)

Sterno

6:22 PM

The term "non-partner network partner" sounds stupid.

Ben Brocka

Yeah but I don't know of a better term for it. You can be a "partner" alone, but "network partners" get more features. So you're partner, but not a FULL partner, through some confusing mess of privilege levels and unclear distinctions

BoltClock

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A: The Lone Turret

Yes, it is. The Turret's actual name is Oracle Turret, and is female. She is hated by GLaDOS for not working and is said, according to the Portal 2 Wiki, "Malfunctioning but still active and self aware." Also, if Oracle made you cry on the redemption line, you can actually save her and get an ach...

I may be biased, but I don't see how this adds very much to the answer that's already there and accepted

Sterno

Oddly, there are no rules here that answers must add value.

Happily, I have down votes!

badp

@BenBrocka So you finally sold your soul to machinima?

@BenBrocka It'll be quite a bit harder. To encourage you though - Mom was the hardest boss of the game for me; Mom's heart is quite a lot easier

The real challenge is getting there with enough health

Ben Brocka

@badp No, some other network with a reasonably open contract. My only concern is whether I'll get more views/earnings out of it. So far the features are a nice plus though, and I get complete creative freedom. Basically everything is the same or better so far. Except I lose my advanced analytics for earnings, which sucks

badp

6:36 PM

@BenBrocka Just make sure there's a way out.

although, well, it's kinda late now for that!

Ben Brocka

@badp Yeah, that was priority number one. I can cancel at any time but there's a 30 day waiting period before it's actually nullified. Then all rights revert to me and I retain my partnership status from before the network

So I'm basically only gambling a month or two's earnings (I'd still get paid either way but possibly less), which is a risk I'm willing to take for now

Blem

@Sterno I was thinking the same, bought plenty of games this sale, will wait till it gets cheaper, or maybe it comes in a humble bundle

LessPop_MoreFizz

How hot has it been in NYC? This hot.

> It's so hot, season 5 of "Swamp People" now filming in my ass.

ahahahahah

murgatroid99

God dammit

I almost finished an answer to that steam card question (gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/124679/…) and it was just deleted

badp

@murgatroid99 ...ask and answer?

LessPop_MoreFizz

6:50 PM

@murgatroid99 Shitty question doesn't really need an answer anyway?

murgatroid99

@badp Oh, I don't care that much. I just had a rigorous explanation about why he didn't understand probability

badp

I figured you could get some pretty good large scale numbers by looking at the Steam Market anyway

murgatroid99

@badp I had actual probability theory stuff

badp

are there price disparities? how large are they? how do the price graphs compare? how many are up for sale?

@murgatroid99 probability theory lets you define hypotheses and say how likely they are to be right

"number of cards for sale" isn't the same as "number of cards dropped", but it's a pretty good approximation

murgatroid99

@badp Well, yes. And I was explaining that several different cards with a few duplicates is the expected behavior with equal probabilities, so there isn't any reason to give weight to the alternate hypothesis

badp

6:52 PM

@murgatroid99 That's not what he asked though!

user30

Spent the past 40 minutes trying to sign in to JC2-MP. I think this might not be the best use of my time.

murgatroid99

@badp Oh, come on. We answer questions all the time with inferred probailities based on experiments

badp

I mean, you'd think unusual hats were pretty uniformly random

and you would be wrong both on effects and hats

user30

@badp It looks like the different waves all have similar values though

badp

@murgatroid99 I'm just saying there's better numbers to go around to answer than "what I got in drops"

@ThomasMcDonald define wave

murgatroid99

6:55 PM

@badp ok, sure

badp

I mean, look at the halloween ones

BoltClock

Item sets no longer provide any gameplay buffs in themselves but I still want an Unusual Attendant. Why.

badp

767 812 760 812 368 381 372 380

user30

ok wut

badp

even 767 812 760 812 is hardly uniform

user30

6:56 PM

I'd say it was pretty close for the numbers

badp

but 767 760 is reasonable

@ThomasMcDonald do I have to dig up the numbers?

user30

@BoltClock I want a scout unusual. Not sure why. I should be selling my TF2 stuff, not buying more.

user30

@badp Have you sold yours yet?

badp

@ThomasMcDonald nope. The offer from retrosaur's all I've got.

tf2outpost.com/trade/12777286

The views are trickling in very slowly, maybe 2 hits per bump button

the homepage is like Stack Overflow but worse.

Lazers

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Q: What equipment do I need to kill the Eater of Worlds?

The motherfucker is rather tough to kill. I got iron armor and a demonite broadsword but he eats me quickly.

terraria

user30

7:00 PM

@Lazers I can smell the frustration in this question.

BoltClock

Uhhhh

Why does the edit remove "and a demonite broadsword"? Is that vulgar too?

user30

@BoltClock It's a euphemism, obviously.

Ronan Forman

Nope. Demonite is a thing in terraria.

user30

@RonanForman Sarcasm detector not working today?

Ronan Forman

@ThomasMcDonald I was typing that before you posted.

user30

7:03 PM

:(

Ronan Forman

I was just typing slow.

user30

I never managed to get very far into Terraria.

Ronan Forman

I'm hopefully going to get back into it when the update finally releases.

user30

yes! Finally signed in

Ronan Forman

Quick search suggest this July. So cool.

Fluttershy

7:07 PM

@RonanForman Tentatively! It may be longer, but that was their initial goal.

Ronan Forman

@Fluttershy Yeah. Nothing confirmed.

Batophobia

@murgatroid99 Badp is right. I was hoping to see an authoritative source or a rather in-depth personal experience. My apologies for stealing away your answer :P

Ullallulloo

Stop starring every question.

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murgatroid99

@Batophobia Honestly, when you are asking a statistical question, personal experience isn't really what you want, and there aren't necessarily authoritative sources

Blem

East EU trash sorting!

Batophobia

7:13 PM

@murgatroid99 Well, observations from someone with a bigger sample then me is what I meant, I guess.

murgatroid99

@Batophobia And I don' t really care too much about my answer getting "stolen", I was just surprised when I got the "this question has been deleted" banner while I was typing

user30

yes

Batophobia

@Ullallulloo Are they starring questions...or LAZERS :D

murgatroid99

@Batophobia OK. As badp pointed out, a good answer probably would have talked about sales rates and prices of cards in the steam market, since that would be the only good source of large-scale statistics about this sort of thing

Ben Brocka

@Blem to be fair on the side for the "paper" slot it says "metal and cans". They kinda fucked up the labels

Batophobia

7:18 PM

@murgatroid99 Let me elaborate. I have 44 friends on Steam. If someone with 300 friends said their observations could suggest the answer was no, I would probably accept that. I'm not terribly picky about the depth of the answer, especially one like that where the developer is the only one that would know for sure.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Batophobia You're taking a bad question and making it worse by abdicating any expectation of statistical rigor or objectivity.

Batophobia

@LessPop_MoreFizz Given the statistical nature of the question, the only possible answers are large sample suggestions, developer commentary, or actual code proof. There are really no other expectations you can have and expect an answer.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Batophobia Alternately, the premise of the question is inherently flawed, because you're operating on the mistaken assumption that there is something in any way statistically anomalous about the pattern of cards you've received.

Ullallulloo

Worms Revolution for only $3.74. :D

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Ullallulloo Is it better than Reloaded was?

Also, are any of the DLC worthwhile?

Ullallulloo

7:26 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Maybe. I haven't played either.

Batophobia

@LessPop_MoreFizz Irrelevant. Observation leads to hypothesis. Hypothesis leads to questions. If the observations imply a certain system, then the question can be valid. The answer, then is that the observations were too specific and a larger sample can demonstrate against it.

Blem

user30

I get the impression jc2-mp is more entertaining with people you know

murgatroid99

@Batophobia Your observations only led to the hypotheses you made because you misunderstood the statistics behind it

CruelCow

gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/124670/revisions

Some users are weird

LessPop_MoreFizz

7:34 PM

@CruelCow in fairness, the 'deleted' answer is also against tos and therefore deletable.

murgatroid99

@CruelCow Not sure what to flag that as. Spam? Low quality?

CruelCow

@murgatroid99 Thanks to his edit: Not an answer

Ullallulloo

@murgatroid99 Offensive/abuse, VLQ, or NaA.

badp

Either I'm failing terribly at reading comprehension

murgatroid99

@Ullallulloo I like offensive because it doesn't require mod action

badp

7:36 PM

or the cards are 100% definitely not uniformly dropping

LessPop_MoreFizz

@murgatroid99 Spam in light of the original content, imo

murgatroid99

Already gone, so the question is moot

@badp or number of cards sold for some reason does not accurately reflect the number of cards dropped

badp

@murgatroid99 first off, it's not sold, is offered on market

LessPop_MoreFizz

@murgatroid99 Beat me to it. Which seems most likely given the oversampling of Football Manager.

It and Skyrim are the only real outliers.

badp

second, it does because people who collect cards have no reason to prefer one to another

Sepia Lazers

7:39 PM

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Q: Statistics-related questions

I recently asked this question which has gotten a lot of negative feedback, mostly due to it's statistical nature. I have deleted it as the downvotes seem to answer my question, so I'm not sure if the link will break. However, the fact that the question is crafted out of a limited sample should...

discussion statistics

badp

either they sell all, or they sell dupes, or they sell none

FEichinger

@badp That depends on the motivation for getting (or keeping) the cards.

murgatroid99

@badp are all the prices the same?

badp

even if they sell dupes, it stacks the deck against cards that drop more

so the test is perhaps a little oversensitive, but everything is WAY off the mark anyway

murgatroid99

if not, then people might offer the cards that are most expensive at the time that they look

badp

7:41 PM

also

FEichinger

@badp I have a feeling that something is off there.

murgatroid99

@badp Is chi-squared even the right test for this distribution?

Lazers

0

Q: Where is Maramal?

I'm level 16, neutral in the civil war and I only have one house, Breezehome, and I have not completed the main quest if any of these facts are needed. I just want to speak with Maramal and buy an amulet of mara so I can get a married life started. I know I have to visit the temple of Mara and th...

skyrim ps3

badp

@murgatroid99 It's a discrete distribution. It's fine.

@FEichinger Feel free to run the numbers, while I have the same feeling I'd be quite suspicious if I took those for dice drops

The "market" numbers are factually correct for the moment in time when I loaded the page

murgatroid99

@badp It does look like there is some slight bias, but I'm not convinced until we have something more than assumptions about how cards offered for sale relate to total cards dropped

badp

7:45 PM

hrm, I might've fucked it up after all

I used a less clever version of the formula and got this

CruelCow

Taking your counts, R's chisq.test calculates a p-value < 2.2e-16

badp

@CruelCow which is absymal

murgatroid99

@badp got what?

badp

okay, the formula's supposed to be categories * (expected frequency - actual frequency)²/expected frequency right? @CruelCow