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Powerlord

11:05 PM

@agent86 Just because 99.999% of things EA tries to publish are unfinished doesn't mean they all are!

Ben Brocka

@Fluttershy I haven't noticed it mattering. He drops several purples regardless

Fluttershy

@BenBrocka Oh cool. Well, ping me whenever you feel like killing him.

FEichinger

@Powerlord Name one recent EA game that was finished.

Powerlord

@FEichinger Define recent

FEichinger

@Powerlord This console gen would be a good starting point.

LessPop_MoreFizz

11:08 PM

@FEichinger Whatever the most recent EA Sportball Game was.

Powerlord

@FEichinger Crysis 3.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Powerlord ME 2 was this console gen.

Powerlord

(I have no idea if it was finished or not, I was stalling for time to get a list of games EA published. ;) )

SaintWacko

@badp This is hilarious

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz If EA went back to their sports division for good, I'd be a happy fluffy unicorn.

LessPop_MoreFizz

11:10 PM

ME3 also was quite finished, complaints about the ending notwithstanding.

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz The ending was the epitome of "not finished".

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FEichinger No, the ending was a conscious artistic choice to be quite minimal. I can understand why people didn't like it, but that doesn't make it unfinished in the same way that you could call say... KOTOR 2 unfinished.

FEichinger

@Powerlord Developed by EA & subs, not just published. :P

Powerlord

@FEichinger That's not what the image says

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz I doubt that was an artistic choice, as much as they pretend it was. There is no art to screwing up your own lore to the point of using a literal Deus Ex Machina to resolve it.

@Powerlord It wasn't what I was arguing, though. :P

Powerlord

11:13 PM

@FEichinger That makes what you said a strawman, because that IS what I was arguing.

Lazers

Q: Dwarffortress: My squads die all the time when goblins come

How in the world do I: A: Train my military to not be pushovers. and B: Equip them so that they can kill things. An "ambush" of 4 goblins tend to kill 4 or 5 or 6 of my dwarven squad members, for some reason, despite them being assigned "individual choice" of weapons, and to train whenever th...

dwarf-fortress

FEichinger

@Lazers Welcome to FUN. Make armor. Make weapons. Build a lockdown mechanism.

SaintWacko

@FEichinger Lockdown is most important thing

My current fortress is awesome

FEichinger

@Powerlord Obviously. In all seriousness, EA does publish - and even develop - great games. It's just the stuff around the games that they screw up.

@SaintWacko Aaaand now you jinxed it.

Yawus

@SaintWacko If your fortress is not currently A. on fire, B. overflowing with magma, or C. full of cats, I can't say it's quite "Dwarf Fortress" awesome.

SaintWacko

11:17 PM

@FEichinger It's under a lake, next to an underwater volcano, and the only access is through a tower in the water, connected to the shore by a narrow bridge

@Yawus How about Cave Beetles?

Also, it will soon have a magma moat

FEichinger

Hello, @AshleyNunn!

SaintWacko

And I have a breeding pair of faedogs

user15026

@FEichinger Hello :)

Powerlord

So, TF2 updated.

FEichinger

@SaintWacko Saying your fortress is "awesome" as in "awesomely defended" is still one of the easiest ways to jinx it. :P

Yawus

11:20 PM

@Powerlor Anything big or is it just bugfixes?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn ohi.

SaintWacko

@FEichinger No, as in awesomely located

Powerlord

> Prevent game servers from opening the MOTD panel more than once if the player connected through matchmaking or quickplay

That's the big change. Everything else (other than "new promo items") are bugfixes

SaintWacko

I had to race against time to get the access constructed before the ice melted

Coronus

@AshleyNunn Hey!

Powerlord

11:21 PM

The Red-Tape Recorder finally has its kill icons fixed.

Yawus

Well, that's helpful. Those random Pinion servers always threw the MotD back in my face every time a new round started.

SaintWacko

I wonder if @AshleyNunn saw all her pings

LessPop_MoreFizz

This beer is so awful, I am not sure why I am allowing "Because it's free" to convince me to keep drinking it every day.

FEichinger

@SaintWacko I think @AshleyNunn did.

Coronus

@SaintWacko I was wondering the same thing about @AshleyNunn

Powerlord

11:21 PM

@Yawus That's one of the reasons this was added. Sadly, it apparently doesn't affect joining through the normal server browser.

user15026

You guys are ridiculous. I am never napping again

Powerlord

> Fixed missing cloak effect for the Wanga Prick

FEichinger

@AshleyNunn ♥

Powerlord

Wow, only took... how many years?

SaintWacko

@Powerlord ...Wanga Prick? Really?

Powerlord

11:22 PM

@SaintWacko wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Wanga_Prick

user15026

also, @Aarthi, I never got an email from you as far as I can see.

Powerlord

Apparently one of the new promo items is a Reddit promo item.

I wonder how you get that one

Yawus

I still haven't picked up a Red Tape Recorder.

Somewhat annoying, but I don't play Spy all that much, so I'm not too fussed.

Unionhawk

@origamirobot there's a flaw in your plan.

Powerlord

@Yawus Now that they've fixed it, it's situational instead of a straight upgrade.

Anyway, The Public Accessor is the name of the Reddit promo.

Yawus

11:26 PM

@Powerlord Hmm... does it still immediately downgrade L3 Sentry to L2?

Or was that the fix?

Powerlord

@Yawus That was the fix.

Yawus

Well that's good.

I used to get so annoyed playing defensive Pyro against a RTR Spy.

Powerlord

It has more fixes today, but those are to the Spy's benefit (Dispensers used to keep healing people when sapped with the RTR)

Yawus

No matter how quickly I killed the spy or took out the sapper, Spy would at least get sentry to L2.

And the team would proceed to roll straight through our defense.

Powerlord

Whoops, there's a second Reddit promo: The Conspiracy Cap

FEichinger

11:41 PM

Oh, the sweet amount of rage from Steam users complaining about Early Access games being "unplayable" and how they "can't imagine they paid for an alpha" ...

What is it with people not being able to read?

Coronus

@FEichinger Welcome to Earth.

FEichinger

That said ... Did I miss it or did Valve just give April Fool's a pass this year?

Yawus

That may or may not have been the April Fool's joke.

FEichinger

That is so not Valve.

Powerlord

@FEichinger So did Blizzard.

In reality, Valve's just two days late adding Reddit hats to TF2 for the gag.

It probably would have been better had Reddit mentioned the gag before hand.

FEichinger

11:46 PM

@Powerlord Nah, Blizzard's April 1st was at the PS4 announcement.

Powerlord

There are two Reddit hats... one is the Reddit guy's red ball thingy. The other is the same thing, but the ball is broken.

Yawus

Do TF2 jokes count as Valve jokes?

FEichinger

@Yawus They do.

Yawus

Well, there was the TF2 team teaming up with Reddit.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FEichinger Good. more companies should. Internet Jackass Day is dumb.

Yawus

11:48 PM

Saying that they bought each other.

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz Don't fool yourself. Every day is Internet Jackass Day.

Yawus

@LessPop_MoreFizz I've noticed that there's a fine line between prankster and asshole. And April Fool's tends to make people believe that one is just the other.

Powerlord

Well, the TF2 news post for April 1st also had a hidden page.

Dunno if that counts as a joke, though

Yawus

Bleh, wrote that sentence.

Wrong.

What is wrong with my typing today?

Powerlord

It'd be funny if anything on those hidden pages were real.

Like the robot disguise (which has already been done as a server mod)

user15026

11:52 PM