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9:00 PM
Along with some despair for humanity thrown in for flavor
 
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@SaintWacko Horrifically tasty?
 
@AshleyNunn It's Canada-only, so find out?
 
@InvaderSkoodge nope... They have an overwatch beam, AoE LAZOR OF DOOM, and missile barrage... and possibly the doubletap ability.
 
They can't mind control you if you're a robot!
 
Do SHIVs provide any kind of offensive power?
 
user15026
9:00 PM
@Ullallulloo Where is this?
 
@AshleyNunn Pizza Hut
 
@TrentHawkins They only have doubletap on their laser beam
which then also covers overwatch on them
 
user15026
@Ullallulloo Cool. I don't know where one is near me but I will for science this if I can.
 
But the doubletap has to be used on two different targets
 
I'm a really not fan of the Sectopod's missile barrage nonsense.
 
9:01 PM
Once he hunkers down to do missiles, you have to flee your cover.
 
@InvaderSkoodge Once you research Plasma SHIV at the foundry, they have a plasma cannon which deals 11 damage
 
@MadMAxJr The problem is that he destroys the cover then.
 
All we get is cheese. :(
 
@MadMAxJr Or kill it
 
9:01 PM
@SaintWacko Holy crap.
 
Yes. Plasma SHIV is wonderful
 
@InvaderSkoodge Yeah, and they also count as half cover
 
Especially plasma + SHIV suppression.
 
@SaintWacko Which is full cover for snipers.
 
Which doesn't seem like a huge benefit until you realize that your guys no longer have to stick to cover
@InvaderSkoodge exactly
 
9:02 PM
I finally got a sniper up to Colonel (they tended to die the most for me).
 
user15026
@Ullallulloo Apparently there is one close to my university (that I swear is a Popeye's now, but maybe I am thinking of the wrong spot), but I know for sure I can get delivery to my house, so sometime this week, this might be my dinner.
 
I'm getting so hungry...
 
I haven't gotten a chance to use Double Tap yet, but it seems like that's going to be really useful against sectopods.
 
user15026
@Ullallulloo WAAAAANT
 
9:03 PM
Note that SHIV cover is only from the Alloy variant.
 
user2334
@OrigamiRobot why would a car keep you and/or hold your three-hole looseleaf? It seems your reference generator is malfunctioning, robot. Only snap bracelets and Moesha can fix this
 
@Ullallulloo Ooh, that sounds good
@TrentHawkins Unfortunately. Can you imagine three hover SHIVs providing cover for three snipers in archangel armor?
 
> "The Hot Dog Stuffed Crust pizza is only available in the UK [and Canada] and there are no plans to introduce this product in the U.S.," Lisa Beachy, a spokesperson for Pizza Hut, told HealthPop in an email.
nooooooo
 
@Ullallulloo Noooooo! I just realized it's essentially a pig in a blanket combined with a pizza! I must have it!
@AshleyNunn When you bring me my cupcakes after I beat XCOM on classic, bring my some of that pizza too!
 
Didn't they do that in the US a year or two ago? Folded mini links into the crust?
 
user15026
9:07 PM
@SaintWacko Haha bring you your cupcakes? You gotta come here!
 
@AshleyNunn Ah, well, it was worth a try :P
 
user15026
@Ullallulloo Hm, not a bad price either. This is so happening this week. I will let you know when.
 
user15026
Okay, heading out for a while. :D See you later, beans.
 
@AshleyNunn Let us know how it tastes! :P
 
All this XCOM is making me excited for Xenonauts.
 
9:17 PM
@TrentHawkins What is this door bug thing where you only got 2 soldiers through?
 
@InvaderSkoodge The doors sometimes bug out and will not let any more units through. For pathing they are solid and un-walkable, although you can still fire through the opening.
@InvaderSkoodge Note, however, that it is normal behavior for them to remain locked until all the aliens in the current section are defeated.
there may also be a bug involving mind controling the aliens causing the doors to not unlock properly.
 
@TrentHawkins That's good to know. I never got to the doors before everything died
 
@SaintWacko Tends to mostly be an issue with the floater wave, as it can be hard to tell where they run off to.
 
@TrentHawkins Ah, true
 
9:34 PM
 
@Ullallulloo That's odd. Why didn't that smartlink?
 
@SaintWacko http://
Nice catch.
 
@Ullallulloo Ah
 
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Q: How do I fly as a Pteranodon in Primal Carnage?

wokI have seen other players fly as a Pteranodon in Primal Carnage. How do you do that? There is a video here for instance

 
9:50 PM
Anyone played XCOM multiplayer yet?
 
Yes. I lost to StrixVaria
 
@SaintWacko I played @RavenDreamer once.
 
I named my Cryssalid Gnomeslice, and he got 2 kills.
 
Oh, I was thinking it was a coop mode for some reason
 
@SaintWacko It's versus, and it's really intense.
 
9:54 PM
Youtube ads with annotations, now?
Crikey.
 
@InvaderSkoodge Hm, I'll have to try it out some time
 
@GnomeSlice You are aware Gnomoria looks to be a lot like Dwarf Fortress (but with gnomes, obv.)
 
@RavenDreamer Haven't played either of them, so I dunno.
 
9:58 PM
And yeah, Dwarf Fortress is flat instead of 2d isometric, but other'n that, very similar.
 
@RavenDreamer Hey, this looks pretty neat.
 
@RavenDreamer Ever seen Towns?
 
Nope.
 
@RavenDreamer It's like a greatly simplified version of DF, also with an isometric view
 
@RavenDreamer @SaintWacko Ever seen Snorms?
 
10:02 PM
@GnomeSlice Yes
but only because I just followed that link
:P
 
...
 
Well, I'm off for a bit
cya later
 
FAE
@GnomeSlice This news post is from February... are you sure this is still valid? O_o
 
@FAE No. The code is still there but the redeem thing is broken
@Ullallulloo and I both accidentally paid for subscriptions because they've also removed the trial accounts lol
So many complaints on the forums too
 
FAE
@GnomeSlice I was gonna say, I don't see that anywhere...
 
10:13 PM
about all kinds of broken shit
 
@FAE cuz dumb Europe getting our dates backwards...
 
We sent in support tickets, we should get codes eventually
 
FAE
So I imagine they maybe disabled it because of people exploiting the trial thing. :P
 
Yeah, I thought it was from september.
 
FAE
@Ullallulloo UK site, man!
 
10:13 PM
@FAE Right, but the codes don't even work.
You can get A Virus Named Tom though, if you sign up.
And it costs $10 on Steam.
 
FAE
@GnomeSlice Ah, that sucks. I'm not going to bother with this then.
 
waoh snorms is awesome
 
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Q: Can my follower hold the same legendary item as my character?

CherieI know that your character cannot hold two of the same legendary items (such as two Won Khim Lau fistweapons), but what about my follower? If I'm using a Maximus, can I give a second Maximus to my Enchantress, or will it tell me I can't?

 
since @RavenDreamer is here
yo RD: should i start reading homestuck?
i saw SO MUCH homestuck/mspa cosplay at nycc...
 
@Aarthi No. It's terrible.
 
10:16 PM
Hi, Aarthi.
 
sup peeps
@RavenDreamer :D ruffles hair affectionately
 
@Aarthi Hm. I'd recommend it, with two caveats.
 
user2334
Turtles always lie
 
@Aarthi Thanks, I needed that. (Wisdom teeth removed recently)
Caveat 1: It takes a while to get going, and is a lot of reading.
 
@MarkTrapp That is correct.
 
10:17 PM
Caveat 2: You can't take it too seriously.
 
@RavenDreamer awww. sends you comforting feelings and hopes you have lots of hydrocodone
@RavenDreamer that's not an issue (I read fanfiction). as for 2 -- not an issue, I played Ace Attorney!
 
@RavenDreamer It takes FOREVER to get going.
 
@Aarthi It's very long. It starts very slow. It's very complicated too, lots of time travel and other tomfoolery eventually. The people you saw cosplayed won't even come in the picture until act 4 (that's a couple thousand pages in the reading).
If that doesn't discourage you then you can give it a try
just allocate it an empty, long weekend or something.
 
hmm. sounds like i'd need to have a free weekend to jump into it-- damn @badp mindshare
 
@badp Yup. That's what I did. 3 days to get throuhg it.
 
10:19 PM
@RavenDreamer 3 days? Wow, I needed a week in total.
 
@badp I had nothing else to do. :D
 
...same here actually.
 
I haven't read any more of it because I'd have to start it over.
I forget everything that happened.
 
Oh, and if you end up drawing horns on that pony, @Aarthi... please just don't.
 
And I don't want to start it over again.
 
10:20 PM
@badp wasn't gonna....
 
I don't think I can handle that much overload :P
 
@Aarthi If you read fan fiction, I pray for whatever sanity you have left.
 
@RavenDreamer pssh please. i've been fanficcing since i was 14
 
That's why I'm worried.
 
10:21 PM
@RavenDreamer Hmm? but there's some really amazing stuff out there
 
Just to make it kind of clear what amount of insanity goes around Homestuck: there are double-entry non-symmetric grids for the comic explaining the love/love-hate/platonic-love/platonic-hate relation'ships between all the characters in the story - and, spoiler alert, the table is mostly full
 
@badp sounds like a headache.
 
@Aarthi Oh, I don't doubt it.
@Aarthi I think what I'm coming to realize is that it's hard to explain why I find it appealing.
Understand that I do, and try for yourself.
^_^
 
yx.
hrmmm... I think I just caused my game to be permanently stuck on the alien's turn. I guess I shouldn't have toyed with that berserker so many times by keeping him in a constant panic.
 
10:23 PM
@RavenDreamer :D
hey speaking of games
 
@RavenDreamer Some people theorize that after reading 5 thousand webpages you have to like it because you can't admit to yourself that you wasted so much time on something that's crappy :P
 
anyone know a good fan translation of Miles Edgeworth 2? Since CAPCOM is never gonna 'port it
 
I think it's more than that though.
 
@badp Hi. I'm here again.
 
@badp lololol
 
@badp Sunk Cost Fallacy, yup.
@Aarthi Isn't he the antagonist?
 
@RavenDreamer he's the protagonist in a couple games
@RavenDreamer They're called Ace Attorney Investigations in the US
or Gyakuten Kenji in JP
 
I am now starting to confuse you with Wipqozn because pony.
 
ithought wiz was a turtle
 
He is.
 
10:26 PM
@RavenDreamer Did you mean Fluttershy?
 
but fluttershy is pink and yellow. i'm yellow and orange
TOTALLY DIFFERENT
applejack is my girl
 
Wipqozn was applejack once, I think.
 
@Aarthi I guess that means I'll have to read your message with the TF2 sniper's fake australian access then, mayt.
 
And no, I specifically thought "Yellow pony = wipqozn", reality be damned.
 
but i'm orange
yellow is fluttershy
 
10:29 PM
Your HAIR is yellow.
 
@RavenDreamer I was.
 
and 50% of your avatar.
 
SEE?! I'm not just high on narcotics!
 
@RavenDreamer Yes you are.
 
@Wipqozn No, actually, I'm not. :( Had to drive today.
 
10:31 PM
That was my old gravatar.
 
when did that happen?
as in, what scene
(ps i'm going to go play portal or civ now. bye all)
 
@Aarthi I can't remember.
@Aarthi Found it
 
oh no, @Aarthi is playing civ and talking ponies. WE ARE DOOOOMED
6
 
@MarkTrapp I NEVER SAID IT MADE SENSE LEAVE ME ALONE
 
10:45 PM
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Q: Amount of turns passed affect hearing?

QuinmaDoes the amount of time (turns) passed in a mission affect the chance to hear the enemy? For example I think if I am slowly moving my squad around the map I can hear the enemy more often which is a large advantage. I would imagine a designer would put that in the game so you don't get too bored...

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Q: What's the respawn speed of Lost and Found treasure caches?

Mark TrappI'm currently looking to yoink a Blade of the Poisoned Mind from one of the several caches for the Lost and Found Achievement. However, I'm shooting in the dark in my camping as I don't know when it'll show up. The comments on Wowhead are of very little help, with some merely saying that it migh...

 
user2334
@OrigamiRobot I'M SORRY I HURT YOUR ROBOT FEELINGS
 
@Ullallulloo LOL
 
@Ullallulloo Oh MSNBC...
 
11:31 PM
fucking fuck. My unit missed with a 95% hit chance. 95%.
 
That's XCOM, baby!
 
...it's always nice when you realize your unit isn't in cover right after you end your turn...
FML
#firstworldproblems
this isn't going to end well
Well I only lost red shirts, so no harm done.
 
11:48 PM
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Q: What is the optimal monster power to play at?

yx.With the introduction of monster power in patch 1.05 and a nonlinear rate of xp/mf/gf/bonus item vs monster health/damage, what is the optimal monster power to play at?

 
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Q: Where do I find alloys and elerium?

WipqoznAlloy and Elerium are very common crafting materials, but I'm not sure how I acquire them. How do I acquire more alloy and Elerium?

You knew alloys, so I figure you know elerium as well.
 
FAE
@MarkTrapp That game The Unfinished Swan released on PSN today. I haven't picked it up yet, but joystiq gave it a pretty positive review.
Ah, strike that, it's available for Playstation Plus members today, everyone next week.
 
Man, it's just wipe after wipe on XCOM now. Too many high-HP enemies that don't miss
 

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