The Bridge

12:00 AM

I guess what I wasn't sure of was how much metagame the protagonist understood

She clearly realizes that the game runs around her, hence her explanation of choice and probability

Well, in a game that is true, in a sense - the events happen around you. The other thing I'm going for is, of course, that whenever she was faced with a choice, the protagonist creates a new save

GodEmperorDune

But are you going for "everything is preordained because the game designers built it in" or "look at the limits of the world because even though I have some choices I am not allowed to make other ones"?

Ahhhhh

Private Pansy

Also, she can't die, because the 'save's with her dying doesn't result in her being there talking to her companions

GodEmperorDune

does she know what happens in other saves? You have the class choice in there nicely

Private Pansy

It's like anthropocentrism, except in this case the entire universe is centered around one character

Which it is, in a video game. The universe doesn't exist until you play the game

GodEmperorDune

12:07 AM

Maybe you can play with that, like nothing happens in a zone unless she is in there and it's loaded

That way even within the universe of the game you can sort of get the outsider perspective

Although as I think more about it, the anthropocentrism theme does come through pretty strongly

I mean she flat out says it. But now that she knows it, what is she going to do with it? Just explain it to companions and go about the game?

spugsley

12:54 AM

@Yuuki believe me, I have. Over and over and over

Yuuki

:D

user15026

I am....not sure how I feel about that clip.

spugsley

God. I'm stuck in a Hiddlehole

Yuuki

How to die to someone who's AFK. (two links)

user15026

I don't know if I can believe him as Hank WIlliams

spugsley

1:01 AM

@AshleyNunn yeah people are really split on it. I don't see any of the middle of the road reviews. All love or hate.

I have no opinion about him as Hank as I don't know much about him.

but I do like crooning country Tom :3

user15026

@spugsley I was just as worried about Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and that worked out pretty good, so I am hopeful this also works out

user15026

(I grew up on classic country)

spugsley

@AshleyNunn well you can certainly let me know how he does if you decide to see the film :) I'm curious what classic country fans think

user15026

@spugsley I probably will (its a good excuse to do something with just my dad)

spugsley

@AshleyNunn nice :D

Lazers 2.0

1:17 AM

0

Q: Minecraft is Laggy and Slow

For some reason, Minecraft runs very slow. The frame rate is terrible. It takes at least five minutes for me to walk 50 blocks. My computer should be able to run Minecraft, after all, it can run a lightly modded Skyrim without any problems. I don't have any mods added to Minecraft (just a textur...

0

Q: Is there an explanation for why Maleficent can travel between worlds with her green-fire teleport?

In the same way that there is an explanation for why the Organization XIII members can (the portals to darkness)

kingdom-hearts

Yuuki

StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Opening Cinematic

►

Unionhawk

1:35 AM

asdlkhsadg

2

that is all

Wipqozn

1:45 AM

In other news, my (ex)roommate has increased his scumbag level even higher.

He was supposed to pay back some of the money he owed me within the first week of september, but still hasn't. He first said he'd get it to me on Monday, and then said "i forgot it was a holiday!", even though ATMs exist. So then he said "I'll get it to you tomorrow!", and I haven't heard from him since.

I'm assuming he doesn't have the money

and has decided to just not contact me until.. I don't know. He either has it or one of us dies.

and now I'm going to bed an hour ago

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn I'd say the only way you're gonna get the money is if you take him to court over it. <_<

user15026

@Wipqozn That's....special

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy He paid me back the first amount, aka 1/3

If he had the money I do think he'd pay me...sadly, I don't think that's a thing, becasue he's a lazy layabout who is bad with money

like seriously, he sat around in his underwear for basically 6 months not even trying to get a job with more hours

Lazers 2.0

2:01 AM

0

Q: What do Sponsors actually do?

In Blood Bowl 2 you can upgrade your stadium etc., and there is an option to sign a sponsorship contract. Each contract gives a breif description of the company, which always includes some kind of vague negative/description of what they expect. For example: Orcidas (probably the clearest) T...

blood-bowl-2

user15026

Okay, so there is Planet Coaster that isn't out yet for a while, but wasn't there another Roller Coaster Tycoon style game coming out?

Unionhawk

Um

I think

user15026

Okay, it's not Roller Coaster Tycoon Worlds, but that looks cool too (and isn't out for a bit yet either)

user15026

Ah, yes, Parkitect, but it is apparently in pre-alpha so I am not touching that

Unionhawk

Feeling inspired to play roller coaster games after Canada's Wonderland? :P

user15026

2:06 AM

How did you guess? :P

Unionhawk

Luck

user15026

You're just smart it seems :)

Unionhawk

I just need to tell myself to do my homework due in... 2 hours and I'm set

zzz

Speaking of parks, I wonder what Kings Island's 2016 new construction will be...

Oh, a 65-foot water slide, that launches in a... fun way (guests stand on a trapdoor)

two bugs

Hm. Destiny's expansion comes out Tuesday and I need to decide what character to main...

I like Warlock but I feel like they've screwed up the balance. In PVE I see almost everyone use this one subclass (the self-revive one) and people get mad if you use the others.

Private Pansy

@AshleyNunn Hey, if you have a moment, can you help proofread my writing assignment? It's probably terrible, but it's only 900 words, so that won't be too bad docs.google.com/document/d/…

user15026

2:14 AM

I can take a peek, sure

Private Pansy

Underline parts will be rewritten. The horizontal lines are bits which should have bits added in

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Y'know, every time I feel bad about myself, I can now think, "At least I'm not as bad as @Wipqozn's old roommate". Thanks, @Wipqozn.

4

Unionhawk

"At least I'm not as bad as @Wipqozn" (ftfy)

user15026

@PrivatePansy Hoped those comments were helpful.

user15026

I assume we are in some sort of video game world, she's the player character?

Private Pansy

2:22 AM

Yes

user15026

Okay, cool, glad I interpreted that right :)

Private Pansy

It's one of the available writing assignments for Science Fiction and Philosophy

> Write a short, virtual-reality SF story that I haven’t read before

The part about the game menu was added in because it was hard to tell that it was a game world. I'm worried it might be a bit too obvious

It spoils the story a little, in the sense that the story is telling you the conceit, instead of showing, which I would, if I have more words to play with

"The orcs had the city surrounded" vs. "The orcs had had the city surrounded"

I'm not sure, honestly. I thought the first works

user15026

I think just one had is the wrong tense for the time passage

user15026

but I am not sure

Private Pansy

"She's" is always a contraction of "She is"? (I changed it to "She was" anyway because I shouldn't be using a contraction there)

user15026

2:29 AM

@PrivatePansy Generally, yeah.

Private Pansy

Ah, okay.

I haven't written a story in a very long time

And the ending there isn't complete. I probably need to shave a few hundred words down

Unionhawk

Nice. New profile description lines up very nicely

This is pleasing to me

Private Pansy

2:43 AM

@AshleyNunn Any comments on the narrative itself?

The ending isn't done, of course, but till that point, does it read well?

user15026

Yeah, it reads really well

user15026

Which is why most of my stuff is just like grammar type edits

user15026

because it reads well, you just have some grammar bits that need tweaking :)

Unionhawk

2:59 AM

HAHAHAHAHA

This run

(an hour into the Borderlands TPS run, there's a glitch used that merges a rocket launcher that uses reduced ammo with a regular one and another weapon that has heal on hit, to create an infinite ammo infinite healing launcher)

user15026

O.o

Unionhawk

Apparently the "uses reduced ammo" implements a -1 somewhere, so that plus 1 ammo consumed = 0 ammo consumed

Private Pansy

Might be for those weapons that use more than one ammo per shot?

Never heard of the opposite of that though

Unionhawk

Yes, I believe it's an attribute for a rocket launcher manufacturer, and they fire like 3 rockets at the cost of 2

Private Pansy

Right, but that's just reducing it by 1/2. Where did the free ammo part come from?

Wasn't there a gun that had free ammo, but you need to wait for it to recharge?

Or maybe I'm thinking of another game

Unionhawk

3:11 AM

Apparently it's implemented with a subtraction. shrug

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Dota 2 South Korean server cant find a game

From yesterday evening dota cant find single game. Nor normal nor ranked. And when I try to find normal match timer is keep resetting after 3-5 minutes of searching. Do someone know what is this?

dota-2

user15026

I love Steven Universe SO MUCH

Lazers 2.0

3:58 AM

0

Q: mafia 2 downloading again and again from steam

Ii purchased mafia 2 DLC edition dvd and then registered to steam to install the game. Once I installed from both the DVDs, it started updating the game and downloading 7.3 gb from steam. once completed, it asked to install the game, and when installing, it agian start downloading the whole 7.3 g...

steam mafia-2

Private Pansy

4:19 AM

@AshleyNunn Absolutely. It's amazing how much they cram into 11 minutes of TV

user15026

@PrivatePansy I just watched "On The Run" and I have So many feeeels

Private Pansy

Wait for the end of S1

user15026

That's what people keep telling me!

Private Pansy

4:42 AM

Well you're almost there

Lazers 2.0

4:54 AM

0

Q: Why can I not join a game on Minecraft PE?

So the new 12.1 update came our sometime the 9th this month... But there's a small problem. Ever since they made it where you can join a game on Windows 10, I'm unable to join a world on mobile. Like, I'm on my iPad and I wanna join my friend's iPhone... But it won't even show neither of our worl...

minecraft-pocket-edition

Private Pansy

5:17 AM

Hmmm, hovering over > -3 score answers now return them to their original opacity

Lazers 2.0

5:33 AM

0

Q: How can I force a game that runs in full screen to be run off screen?

I want to ask that How can I run headless (without window) game in windows using C++?

windows

murgatroid99

5:45 AM

@PrivatePansy Oh, that's nice. I wonder if that also effectively fixes the issue with the flag dialogue on those answers

Kevin van der Velden

6:44 AM

\o

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Why is my Guild Wars (1) ping so terrible?

I've been playing Guild Wars 2 for a couple of months and as I really wanted to know more about the lore and what happened before Guild Wars 2, I bought Guild Wars a few days ago. I was really looking forward to playing it, but the ping is so high ingame (much more than 1000ms, always varying) th...

guild-wars

5pike

7:01 AM

Morning

GodEmperorDune

@5pike evening

Yuuki

@5pike Welp, time to go to sleep.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki the Europeans are waking! RUN!

GodEmperorDune

7:24 AM

@KevinvanderVelden my thoughts exactly

Kevin van der Velden

... how difficult is it to supply images in 950x160. Not 960x200 -,-

Private Pansy

Well, they're not the same ratio, so cropping will occur

Kevin van der Velden

EVEN WORSE

I looked at the file name for the 960x200 size

The image is actually 1334x278 pixels

I facepalmed so hard my coworkers looked at me =p

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden That's pretty random

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum yeah, it's the same aspect ratio though

Which doesn't help given that it's in a background (and while good browsers do support background-size, IE is still a thing that exists)

Arperum

7:37 AM

just FYI: Edge has css problems too. I know one of our websites is displayed incorrectly in edge, I don't have a win10 to check it with though.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Would this Morphling build work?

This is assuming you can get a relatively decent CS (+- 70 last hits in 10 mins). Sub 20 mins --- Hand of midas, treads, ethereal, helm 20 - 40 mins --- Midas, treads, linkins, ethereal, skadi, satanic 40+ mins --- (6 slotted) treads/sange&yasha or boots of travel, linkins, skadi, heart, satan...

dota-2

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum I will stop calling edge internet explorer when it stops using a renderer based on ie

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Good luck with that.

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum Oh I don't expect it to ever happen

But really, what is a browser? The most important thing is not the window dressing of tabs and interface

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden I don't think it is Trident based?

EdgeHTML

EdgeHTML is a proprietary layout engine developed for the Microsoft Edge web browser, developed by Microsoft. It is a fork of Trident that has removed all legacy code of older versions of Internet Explorer and rewritten the majority of its source code with web standards and interoperability with other modern browsers in mind. The rendering engine was first released as an experimental option in Internet Explorer 11 as part of the Windows 10 Preview 9926 build. It is the primary engine used by Microsoft Edge. A review of the engine in the latest Windows 10 build by AnandTech found substantia...

Arperum

7:43 AM

I thought it was a complete rewrite, but I'm not sure, that's why I decided to believe @KevinvanderVelden

Private Pansy

"Substantial rewrite"

Kevin van der Velden

> It is a fork of Trident that has removed all legacy code of older versions of Internet Explorer and rewritten the majority of its source code with web standards and interoperability with other modern browsers in mind

Private Pansy

Also, this is probably the last time, but the story I'm writing is done. I don't like the ending - it's not substantial enough, but I don't have enough words to complete it, so here it is - docs.google.com/document/d/…

Kevin van der Velden

Given that it apparently still has css issues, I don't think they removed enough of trident

Private Pansy

Help me check for mistakes and if it reads well

Arperum

7:47 AM

@KevinvanderVelden I haven't seen them myself yet, but some client said there are (minor) issues.

Arperum

8:10 AM

@Chippies I got shouted at by a monk yesterday because I took a pylon, and he had to take shrines, does that have any reason or was that person just being stupid for no reason?

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