The Bridge

1:58 AM

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Q: Game Find: Old PC sci-fi adventure title, possible point and click circa 1999

Okay so I know I'm going to be a little vauge cause I remember playing this game in primary school but if anyone can help then I'll definitely be great full - that's all I can offer folks. SO down to business, basically it must have been around 1999 that I played it on a PC (windows) - this woul...

old-games

Tim Stone

2:31 AM

Huh. I've gotten stuck in a traffic jam in L.A. Noire...go figure.

Lazers

2:53 AM

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Q: Zan's Minimap and Minecraft 1.6.6

Does the Zan's Minimap mod work with Minecraft 1.6.6? When I try to use it it always appears to throw an error when I try to load my game (but the message disappears too fast for me to read it), and my game never loads. I already have modloader installed and I made sure to delete the META-INF f...

minecraft mod

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Q: What do Frozen Synapse's "Focus on Zone" commands do, and how do I use them?

I've only played some multiplayer with a friend so far. When I right click on the ground and on enemies, and I see there is a "Focus on Zone" command (along with a corresponding "Ignore Zone" command). However, these always appear to be grayed out. What do these commands do, and how do I activ...

frozen-synapse

Lazers

3:05 AM

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Q: What are Frozen Synapse's "Plan Layers" for?

I've only played some multiplayer with a friend so far. In the bottom right, the Settings menu has a bunch of buttons relating to "Plan Layers." What are these, and how might I make use of them?

frozen-synapse

Moshe

4:26 AM

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Hello, anyone around? Looking for a game recommendation.

I'm looking for an RPG for iOS that's not an mmo. I've played across age already. Ideas?

badp

7:50 AM

@TimStone so real!

Arda Xi

Hmm, it seems as though games are now either too realistic or too unrealistic. They used to be perfectly in the middle.

badp

@Moshe If all else fails there's nethack. I've heard its iOS port "iNethack" doesn't suck too much.

Arda Xi

8:11 AM

Isn't iOS mostly filled with casual games? I wonder where NetHack lies in that category.

badp

8:42 AM

btw am I the only one who woke up to find Samorost 2 mysteriously added to their Steam Library?

it's not on my account history.

oh. Apparently it was part of the original Humble Indie Bundle, but has landed on Steam only now

Lazers

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Q: Identify this game : A DOS sidescroller where you played as some kind of captain

It has been bugging me for ages..it was the one game I lived on as a kid. You were some kind of (yellow?) superhero/captain person and you had a ray gun. It was 8-bit style graphics, maybe VGA. It was about 1998 when I played it. It came on a floppy disk and I ran it via DOS. Some of the enemie...

identify-this-game dos side-scroller

Lazers

9:07 AM

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Q: Tower damage + Champion Defense

I am trying to work out how turret damage is effected by armour, skills and masteries. Here is the information for turret damage as far as I am aware: Turret Range Base HP AD Gains 6 AD every: AD Caps at: --------------------------------------------------------------------...

9:43 AM

Argh

"...Not as I Do" is quite the difficult level.

badp

9:55 AM

@ArdaXi Would've been more fun with mobs around.

(still pretty cool)

Smooth lightning really does help MC look good.

Lazers

10:52 AM

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Q: How to untie a Gordian Knot?

It appears that to get to the shiny trinket, I'll have to untie that Gordian knot, but I don't have any idea about how I could achieve that. Any clues?

achievements vvvvvv

Arda Xi

That's a brilliant domain.

thelettervsixtim.es

Lazers

12:14 PM

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Q: NES japanese game

Hi there! I've been looking for this NES game I've played in my childhood for some years I almost give up, perhaps somebody here may know this game. It was a platform game all in jap (thats why I didn't finished it) of a bearded guy. The most fun part of it that I remember was the puzzles in bos...

identify-this-game

Arda Xi

1:15 PM

is designing evil

badp

oooh, you're finally making the terrible mod!

Arda Xi

1:33 PM

Err, well, no.

I'm combining Bitcoin with Hashcash.

Lazers

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Q: Why would I need to change my skin color?

Titan Quest IT has this potion that I can buy to change my skin color. Why would I need this for? Does it give an advantage in any situation ?

titan-quest

bleedpurpleguy

1:59 PM

@Lazers Only when you're trying to get a loan!

Powerlord

theoatmeal.com/comics <-- Is it sad that I've only found this comic because the news media picked up on his fight with FunnyJunk?

Heck, I think at least of The Oatmeal's comic was linked in here (The Likability of Angry Birds) and I'd still never heard of it. :O

badp

@Powerlord wrong link?

user30

2:15 PM

@ArdaXi old video is old.

Arda Xi

@ThomasMcDonald A week or two is not old.

Powerlord

@badp No, it's a link to his main comics page, which has all of the ones he's done.

user30

Yes it is

Arda Xi

@Powerlord It's not a comic though. It's a bunch of comics/infographics.

badp

@Powerlord okay, so which one comic is it you've found?

Tim Stone

2:19 PM

@badp The game suffers from the same kind of traffic issues as GTA 4 did. Mainly, people trying to change lanes while I'm driving beside them. Not to mention the time that I let a NPC drive. He tried to make a right hand turn from the left hand lane and we got t-boned by a truck.

Ronan Forman

finally finished installing all the updates for windows 7

badp

@TimStone Ow.

user30

Meh, it's not available for PC.

Ronan Forman

no wait, there's more groan

Powerlord

@badp Fun fact: One of the English definitions of "comic" (noun) is as a synonym for "comic strip."

user30

2:23 PM

I wonder if my render has finished yet

Ronan Forman

@Powerlord and....

Powerlord

@RonanForman comic strips have more than one comic.

Grace Note

@RonanForman Crepes, it means this was the first time that Powerlord found Oatmeal's comics, period.

Ronan Forman

ah

Tim Stone

@badp Yeah. Even better, in this game you get penalized (I guess) for driving recklessly, so I was kind of hoping they'd have worked on that. There are some issues with people walking around too, since they'll occasionally swear at me like I shoved them even though I'm ten feet away and not even looking in their direction. :P

Arda Xi

2:30 PM

@Powerlord Redundancy alert.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi It's English, get used to it. :)

Arda Xi

@Powerlord Still, Oatmeal doesn't really make a comic strip.

Powerlord

Along with conflicting rules ("Arda's" versus "its"), etc...

Arda Xi

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these were published in newspapers, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century, for a total of at least 7,300...

Ronan Forman

boot times on this are so much faster less than a minute for a full reload

Arda Xi

2:32 PM

Under that definition, the Oatmeal is not a comic strip.

Grace Note

Calvin and Hobbes broke all of such traditions for comic strips ages ago.

Arda Xi

> A comic strip is a sequence of drawings

Oatmeal already violates that premise.

user30

Does the definition of comic strip in casual conversation actually matter?

Powerlord

Does it? Considering that The Oatmeal is very similar to The Far Side, a comic strip that has been running for a very long time (or did it finally end?)...

Grace Note

Family Circus, too

All 3 are single-panel elements that we all still call comic strips.

(Though, admittedly, The Far Side is a much better comparison)

Arda Xi

2:37 PM

@ThomasMcDonald If you're talking about an Oatmeal comic, you're talking about one of them, not all of them. So yes, it does.

user30

No, it doesn't.

user30

In other news I'm hoping I get some tickets for iTunes Festival.

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald There's an iTunes Festival? :O

Arda Xi

@ThomasMcDonald If @Powerlord says "the Oatmeal comic", this confuses @badp. And me too.

user30

@Powerlord Kinda

badp

2:38 PM

I will agree with Arda that it seems confusing to refer to the Oatmeal's corpus of funny pictures as comics; I wouldn't even call each of those comic really.

user30

It's 31 nights in London, every night they have a different band playing

user30

And it's free, but the tickets are awarded as a ballot.

user30

Think I'm gonna wait until they announce the last few slots before I apply for any

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Which is because in English, we use "comic" to refer to both a singular "strip" (sequence or otherwise) as well as the whole series.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Yes, but I wouldn't call the Oatmeal a series of comics.

There is no sequence, like there is with ordinary web comics.

user30

2:41 PM

Ah sod it, I'll apply for the ones that seem alrate now

Grace Note

As long as The Far Side and Family Circus are considered comics, which they are, Oatmeal is the same.

They both have no sequence.

They were introduced in newspapers in the comics sections, they've always been referred to as comics, and they're both in Wikipedia's "List of Comics".

Lazers

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Q: How can I accurately determine line of sight for a unit in Frozen Synapse?

Knowing the area visible to a unit and the area from which that unit is visible seems to be an essential part of the game. The aim command shows a cone of possible coverage but that doesn't reflect what is actually visible to the unit. Is there any way to determine what areas on the map are vis...

frozen-synapse

badp

2 stars, this room's passive aggressive preferite strife modus of aggrievant agreement confubledoom. Damn you @Mana.

Arda Xi

I know that technically the Oatmeal can be seen as a comic. I just disagree.

Grace Note

Not all of XKCD's strips are sequential, either, but you wouldn't consider XKCD to cease being a comic, would you?

Arda Xi

2:43 PM

@GraceNote There is a next button and a previous button.

I call that sequential.

Grace Note

That's... a different kind of sequential aspect, I would imagine.

Arda Xi

That's the only kind of sequential most web comics adhere to.

Grace Note

Other than the whole "sequence of pictures" which you were citing from the Wikipedia article.

user30

That's merely a chronological sequence though

Grace Note

The collection of separate strips, being sequential or not, isn't really necessary to make something a comic strip. Someone could always write just a singular comic strip, though in some places they'd just call that a cartoon.

user30

2:48 PM

for the most part an XKCD comic does not require knowledge of previous comics to understand.

user30

nor is there continuation of story

Grace Note

@ThomasMcDonald Maybe 60% of comics have no continuous continuity, though.

user30

@GraceNote C'mon, I'm arguing your side here. Even if it is a pointless argument.

Grace Note

Callbacks aplenty, but the majority are just episodic.

Matthew Read

I sorta kinda agree with Arda. XKCD has a consistent theme/tone/whatever, and there are some storylines. Far Side is the same without the storylines. If you took only Oats' comics where it's about him doing stuff, then I would consider that a comic. But throw in the random posters and infographic things, and I think it balloons past what a comic strip is.

Grace Note

2:49 PM

@ThomasMcDonald Weak arguments on my side is like replacing an artillery tank on land with a cooked squid.

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user30

fine.

Grace Note

Also, I laugh at the top-most pin about Canada, considering Matt was the last person to get Witcher 2 from the promotion. ♪

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Matthew Read

@GraceNote Haha, true story. Man I'm in the process of moving, I haven't been able to try out patch 1.1 on my computer :( I'm afraid my participation is somewhat low

Grace Note

I guess one probably would be more accurate to call Oatmeal's product a "cartoon".

Lazers

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Q: thestone 9:D Fast Forward - nudges

I'm looking for nudges for solving 9:D Fast Forward on the stone (free game: http://www.scarecrowsfield.com ; only nudges/hints are requested not the direct answer which is against the stone TOC). the images seem to give a lot of people a direct close... I dont even get close I think I in ge...

In which Arda attempts to deny that Dutch is a country

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