The Bridge

Arda Xi

15:00

@failbadp Not Double Cross?

jaminja

Sounds like 2Fort

Powerlord

I'd just assume he meant ctf_2fort.

Except 2fort doesn't have a bendy passage in the middle.

jaminja

it does in the sewers

well, there is one bend...with a nice health pack

Arda Xi

I said 2fort and he said no.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi And that's why you don't delete your messages.

Arda Xi

15:02

@Powerlord I don't?

fail badp

mach2 or mach4

Arda Xi

Oh, a custom map.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi Yeah, see, we can't see what you said when you remove them.

3

Arda Xi

@Powerlord Oh. I didn't realise that.

jaminja

@failbadp isn't that a razor blade??

Powerlord

15:04

Engineer's usually really good on Mach2, seeing as how you can build a sentry on the upper level that can shoot into the intel room on the lower.

fail badp

@Powerlord the upper level stuff gets always owned in short order

so I've had success in putting stuff on the lower level, where all non-soldiers MUST go through

Powerlord

Then again, I haven't played Mach2 in quite some time.

fail badp

and soldiers have to rocket jump to avoid that sentry

Powerlord

Also, ctf_aerospace = win

fail badp

however our team didn't push in the slightest and demos could camp around the corner

and scouts could distract sentries as pyro flanked me

and scouts could bonch their way to the sentry and then kill everything

and basically everything that could kill me and my toys did

T_T

Powerlord

15:07

I murdered your toys as well!

fail badp

A month ago or something.

Powerlord

Also, I noticed yesterday's update moved a lot of the new responses into it.

I'm kinda sad that the Sniper Taunt Kill now has him yelling something. :(

fail badp

no more "ELECTRONICS"?

Powerlord

projectId NaN <-- Um, yeah, thanks JavaScript

That's CLEARLY the value I wanted you to send.

GnomeSlice

15:20

iTunes Flash Game Ripoffs Get More Brazen with Canabalt Clone. Nitrome has been hit as well: http://bit.ly/kfXOqN

Tweeted by Michael_The_One on May 6, 2011 at 3:18 PM

:O

I'm not sure how many of you are into Flash games, but clone of Canabalt looks identical to the original, and apparently even still has the original creators listed in the credits.

Powerlord

Given that the most popular game on iTunes (iirc) is a Flash Game clone, how can you get more brazen than that?

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord Powerlord > No no, not similar, identical.

Go look up Canabalt

Powerlord

Oh

GnomeSlice

I heard about this via Nitrome. One sec, I'm going to take some screenshots.

Arkive

@GnomeSlice We must sacrifice our iPods and iPhones to appease the flash gods!

GnomeSlice

15:25

Give me a few minutes to take these shots, and you'll see what I mean... :/

So... they changed some of the backgrounds, and the title screen...

Brant

Line Rider?

GnomeSlice

@Brant Not even close.

:P

The first set there is the original.

The second set is the ripoff.

Brant

scrolls up and reads the backlog Oh, we're talking about ripoffs

Powerlord

@Brant "No, that would be... your mother!" -- TF2 Spy.

Brant

I. Like. To shoot. This gun.

GnomeSlice

15:35

@Powerlord > See what I'm talking about now?

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Nope.

@Brant As a pleasant surprise, Valve could release Meet the Pyro, too!

In addition to Meet the Medic, which is heavily implied in the last page.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord Spoiler Alert: Mmmph mmph mph.

Arkive

Subtitles, perhaps?

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord You honestly don't see the the match between those two sets of screenshots...?

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice So where can I download Crazy Cable Car? That seems like a fun game.

Matthew Read

15:44

Even if you ignore everything else ... look at the panda.

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice I may be being slightly sarcastic.

(Note that "slightly" is also sarcasm)

Arda Xi

plugs morality core into @Powerlord

Powerlord

@ArdaXi morality was in massive sarcasm quotes? :P

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi Think he needs the slow-clap processor for sarcasm.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord Imagine. I just plugged that Aperture Science Thing We Don't Know What It Does into the Aperture Science Handheld @Powerlord Device.

Powerlord

15:48

@ArdaXi Pssh, I only plug potatoes into my ASHPD!

Arda Xi

@Powerlord You are the ASHPD.

Ronan Forman

Can someone explain why I got this down vote?

2

A: What's with all the clicking the pros do in the opening minutes of Starcraft games?

Explained in this College Humour video: they are just warming up.

Arda Xi

@RonanForman I can imagine people might not like an answer based on a comedy video.

Ronan Forman

The source is unimportant!

Arda Xi

@RonanForman You, being the source, are then also unimportant, which means you have no reason to care about your rep. ;-)

Ronan Forman

15:54

Ok, but the downvote is important as it is sourcing nothing

Arkive

@RonanForman There. An upvote to balance the downvote.

Arda Xi

I wouldn't read too much into a single downvote.

Ronan Forman

@ArdaXi It wan't the downvote, it was the lack of comment that was bothering me...

Powerlord

@RonanForman Not all downvoters leave comments.

Arda Xi

@RonanForman Well, still. If it's only one, it might just be a random drive-by vote.

Powerlord

15:56

You just have to deal with it.

Some bacon will probably help.

Ronan Forman

@Powerlord It does!

GnomeSlice

@Ronan > There aren't 17 unique users in the comments here, either:

23

A: Concerns about extreme pig riding and thunderstorms

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Speaking of downvotes... wasn't that answer at 33 before?

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord Not sure,

Powerlord

Oh whoops, meeting time.

Ronan Forman

15:58

No but I'm assuming they're all for the same reason.

GnomeSlice

Also, since we're talking about flash games, everyone should play Steamlands

Arkive

@GnomeSlice Short summary? I'm at work atm.

GnomeSlice

@Arkive Action/real time strategy.

Basically, you drive a machine [tank] around (it's side scrolling) and combat other tanks. You can steal parts off of them and add them to your own.

And target different areas with different weapons.

jaminja

@GnomeSlice good recommendation! That's a really fun little game. Definitely worthwhile checking out if anyone here hasn't had a chance to play it yet

Arkive

Sounds fun. I'll have to try it this weekend along with Psychonauts.

Ronan Forman

16:02

@GnomeSlice Blog post!

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman blah. I donno how to blog.

Ronan Forman

You see the keyboard...

HIT IT!

Arkive

I was under the impression that blog posts were delicately crafted works of art.

GnomeSlice

v vb n bnc cv n b

^ That was with my forehead.

I think it turned out well.

Arkive

Such raw emotion. It's beautiful.

Arda Xi

16:05

@Arkive You should see mine.

Lazers

0

Q: Do I get [?] boxes picked up by my local co-op partner?

I played through a lot of Lost Planet 2 with my brother locally, since I can't do online play, but now that I've beaten the game, I'm looking to 'train up' and try to get some better abilities and weapons for when we (hopefully) get high-speed internet next week. I assume that in online play who...

lost-planet-2

GnomeSlice

so what happens to rep generated from CW questions/answers?

Arkive

@GnomeSlice I bet @Lazers gets it.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice It's removed when you click this link.

Which just gave me 1 rep.

Interesting.

Arkive

Arda.rep++

Grace Note

16:14

@GnomeSlice Old rep stays, new rep doesn't accumulate.

2

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote So it just - oh you left.

Grace Note

@Gnome Make it snappy.

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote So, it just kind of vanishes?

Grace Note

Future reputation? Yes, pretty much.

It's just like upvotes on posts after you have hit the reputation cap.

GnomeSlice

Whats the point of voting on CW stuff then?

Grace Note

16:20

@GnomeSlice Votes are still important. Votes are more important than reputation.

2

Votes indicate how useful the post is. A post can be useful whether or not it provides reputation.

2

GnomeSlice

I suppose that's true. Anyway, thanks for the explanation.

Grace Note

You're welcome. ♪

GnomeSlice

►

Ronan Forman

Oh anyone interested in education in the slightest must watch this: escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/…

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman Do they mention that teacher that uses Minecraft as a class teaching tool?

Ronan Forman

16:31

@GnomeSlice Sort of, but just general ARG

Grace Note

16:48

I'm not Arda. Stars should be going to Arda.

12

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Huh? What now?

GnomeSlice

She's starting to scare me a bit.

Arda Xi

Oh, I see I've neglected to star some of your messages. Let me rectify.

There you go @GraceNote.

Ronan Forman

This ruins their purpose!

Arda Xi

@RonanForman Whose purpose?

Ronan Forman

16:50

the star's

Arda Xi

@RonanForman Stars have purpose?

Ronan Forman

@ArdaXi Touché

Arda Xi

Ooh. Spotify is prettier. And sync finally works.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi Yes, to show chat posts that people think are interesting or noteworthy.

Lazers

2

Q: How can I collect a large amount of sand/glass without ruining the natural environment?

I'm pretty sure everyone knows that collecting a large amount of glass can lead to some really ugly landscapes where pretty much a large, stone hole is left after you take all the sand from the beach. I want to avoid this - keeping my world as naturally nice as possible. I am pretty certain that ...

minecraft resources

Arda Xi

16:53

@Powerlord That might have been the purpose long ago, but that's not how they work here.

They are either used to express mindless fandom or rational deprecation.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi Yes, sadly. Unfortunately, SE, Inc. seems to be against "down-starring" chat posts.

Arkive

down starring? What's the opposite of a star? A black hole? We must push for black holes in chat.

Powerlord

@Arkive No, that would suck. ;)

Ronan Forman

@Powerlord stares

Arda Xi

@RonanForman @Mana? Is that you?

I AM ON TO YOU!

Powerlord

16:59

/oom I am out of mana!

Ronan Forman

Oi! get of my keyboard! How did you even get in! Go home @Mana !

Arda Xi

strangles

GnomeSlice

FOR SCIENCE: Portal plushie talks, complains, adores. http://tumblr.com/xsk2ers87k

Tweeted by KillScreenMag on May 6, 2011 at 5:01 PM

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice You're like a week late on this one, unless it's something other than the Plushie Turret.

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord Uh... No.

Powerlord

17:11

@GnomeSlice You are and Kill Screen is. No, seriously, I was reading articles about this last week... a week ago today, iirc.

►

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord I meant, no, it's not anything other than the plushie turret.

Powerlord

Note the date on that video

I need bacon! 61!

GnomeSlice

scissors

fail badp

wah

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice I'm glad someone knows that reference.

Although, to be honest, I never really finished MGS2... didn't even start MGS3 or 4.

GnomeSlice

17:14

@Powerlord I've actually yet to play the game.

I've only played the first one so far.

Powerlord

I liked MGS over MGS2. MG 1 and 2 are pretty good too, particularly if you can find the PS2 versions.

fail badp

Powerlord

@failbadp In the replay editor?

fail badp

@Powerlord That was encoding actually

Powerlord

@failbadp Oh

fail badp

17:16

And it had basically finished.

Then it exploded.

Hrm, restarting the game appears to show that the encoding did finish, somehow.

Powerlord

Bleah, it may take more work than I thought to get runoff votes to work properly in Mapchooser Extended new

fail badp

I wish the italian translator didn't use "YOUTUBALO" ("Io lo youtubo, tu lo youtubi, egli lo youtuba"??!?) for the upload button.

goes check if he can put in more suggestions

yay! I can.

Lazers

0

Q: Thackeray's scavenger hunt

I'm trying to complete this quest, http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Thackeray%27s_scavenger_hunt but I am struggling. So far I have delivered the candles, the cupcake, and 3 dwarven ales, along with the kabob. Still the only dialog options I have when I speak to him are 'Backup a second a plan?' a...

guild-wars

0

Q: Closed Questions & Duplicates

We have at least one question (http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/1184/dosbox-abandonware-games-where-to-find-closed) which was flagged as a duplicate of another question, and then that other question was removed for moderation. For consistency, we should either unflag as a duplicate, or ...

bug

Ronan Forman

Awww crap AV is losing :(

Powerlord

@RonanForman AV?

Ronan Forman

17:26

alternative vote

Powerlord

This is interesting. Believe it or not, SourceMod's translation files don't translate the phrases "Don't Change" and "Extend Map" for Mapchooser

Feeds

0

Q: 3D Movies and Gaming

I have recently bought a Asus HD 6870 and a viewSonic 120hz 3D ready monitor i was wondering what kind of glasses and how i can view 3D on this monitor. Thanks Luke

hardware direct3d gaming

Powerlord

It should have translations for it, and as far as I can tell, translate it into the server default language.

@Feeds That post is going to be moved to SuperUser in short order.

fail badp

...wow

►

TF2 is serious about motion blur.

GnomeSlice

I think I just broke Youtube.

@failbadp Also, nice work.

Powerlord

17:33

@failbadp Yeesh, nice missing there.

Matthew Read

Someone needs to lower his mouse sensitivity

fail badp

@Powerlord It takes skill, man.

Powerlord

Although Shotgun is one of those weird weapons where it's harder to hit people at close range.

(because of how the shots spread)

You'll have the same problem with the Scout's scatterguns.

fail badp

I swear that when I played that damn medic filled my screen.

Powerlord

@failbadp Welcome to the wonderful world of lag compensation!

GnomeSlice

17:39

Coming along nicely.

Arda Xi

Hm. I just found out that while I worked hard tracing the Aperture Science Innovators logo, it was in Unicode the whole time. ⚛

GnomeSlice

I see a box.

Arda Xi

You should get a better font. It's an oversimplified version of the Rutherford model.

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi no u

Powerlord

@ArdaXi I'm at work, I'm not at liberty to upgrade things.

Arda Xi

17:42

@GnomeSlice I am not an oversimplified version of the Rutherford model.

@Powerlord Upgrade your work.

@Brant Misc Symbols. (2600–26FF)

Powerlord

Do you know how long it took me to convince them that I didn't need 4 versions of Visual Studio installed (6, 2003, 2005, 2008) because I'm a Java developer?

As it is, I still have 2008.

Brant

never mind, unicode doesn't have code pages, that was a completely nonsensical statement

Arda Xi

@Powerlord Not even 2010?

Brant

what code point is it?

Powerlord

@ArdaXi Nope, my boss hasn't authorized that for my machine because... I'm not a .NET developer. :P

Arda Xi

17:43

@Brant Isn't a code block the equivalent of a code page in Unicode?

269B

Brant

ftrain.com/unicode/#2605

269B? Huh?

Powerlord

@Brant Yeah, 269bacon.

Arda Xi

@Brant In hex, obviously.

9883

Brant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%9B%BF

I have no idea why wikipedia is doing that, but I'm amused by it.

Anywho, ftrain.com/unicode/#9883 doesn't display anything for me either. Black box. :(

Unicode goatse for you: ⦆⦿⦅

GnomeSlice

@Brant Gtfo

Brant

17:51

aaah! a domain squatter got www.☃.com/ :(

at least we'll always have unicodesnowmanforyou.com

GnomeSlice

...wat

Lazers

0

Q: Minecraft Do positive coordinate locations give more ore?

I've heard that due to a bug in the terrain generation locations in the positive direction (i.e. (3,5),(100,200)) give more materials such as iron. I can't find any proof however. Is this true?

minecraft

Powerlord

May 3 at 16:46, by bwarner

Is one of the Minecraft objectives "Earn 1000 rep on Gaming from Minecraft questions"? Because it should be.

This is humerous. I just noticed that the new and old versions of mapchooser_extended have functions with identical names with an identical purpose and return type, despite me rewriting that part from scratch before seeing how it used to be implemented.

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord I think I've got that one already.

Arda Xi

18:07

When did Unicode snowman get snow?

GnomeSlice

►

Challenge the rock.

Lazers

0

Q: How do we prefer to start our tag wikis?

There's two general approaches to how one starts a Tag Wiki Excerpt. The Dictionary Method, in which we obviously believe you know what the word you're looking at is, so we don't repeat it. We just go straight to defining it, often as a fragment. The Preface Method, in which we treat it like a ...

discussion tag-wiki

Feeds

18:38

6

Q: Please don't inbox notify me that I asked a question

I love the new moderator feature that alerts us of new questions on the Meta site we belong to. I always keep on top of the Gaming Meta while I'm online, but this does a lot to either speed up my notice, or give me an alert that something happened overnight. It also warns me that I've asked a qu...

feature-request status-completed moderators global-inbox per-site-meta

Lazers

0

Q: In Sonic, why aren't the Chaos *Emeralds* all green?

I'm just curious because I always thought an "emerald" was green...

sonic-the-hedgehog

GnomeSlice

@Lazers Heh. +1

Brant

18:57

Yay! My first mortarboard badge.

Oak

@Brant that badge should be silver if you ask me, not easy to get. Congrats

Arda Xi

@Oak It was very easy to get in the beta.

Oak

@ArdaXi was it? Can't remember. Why?

Beta had a lot less questions, but also less people to vote on them.

And in general, question and answer scores in the beta were lower than they are now, if you ask me

No freaking way this answer:

23

A: What genre of video game does Diablo belong to?

The genre has a few popular names, including: Hack and slash Action RPG Dungeon crawl Diablo-like or Diablo-esque And sometimes even the term "roguelike" is used - there is a vast difference between the roguelike genre and games like Diablo, but the latter are obviously influenced by the form...

Could have got me so much votes back in beta

Arda Xi

I reached the rep cap like 10 times in the beta.

I used to get like 100 a day at least.

Oak

Hmm, I see that now you're averaging ~33

Odd, I'd think it would have increased

Me it's different with different users

Or with what games are in fashion

Arda Xi

19:04

I've dropped a lot.

When Starcraft 2 was released, I was stripped of my honour.

And it's been downhill from there, with a small spike from Portal 2.

Whereas I broke the rep cap for the first time in 9 months April 25th.

GnomeSlice

About a third of my rep has come in the last month, from Minecraft.

sjohnston

I'm merely subsisting on the trickle of NetHack questions these days

Arda Xi

I'm asymptotically close to 10k.

Oak

@ArdaXi you're still one of the highest-repped in the site

Arda Xi

@Oak Hardly. I used to be the highest-repped on the site.

Now I'm 7th.

Oak

19:10

Hardly? You're almost 10k. There's only 6 10k-ers now

With a userbase of thousands, that meanis more than being 1st in the beta, if you ask me

not that ranking matters, of course

except for our ego :)

Arda Xi

@Oak Exactly. Asymptotically close to 10k.

Oak

@ArdaXi nah I'm guessing you'll get there before I get my 15k

(and the ability to protect)

Arda Xi

I've been 'close to 10k' for a month.

Oak

(which is kinda lame)

GnomeSlice

I've spent two days building a spleef arena on my friend's Minecraft server, and I'm noticing that It's slightly too small.

But the only way to expand would be to burn it to the ground and start again.

Oak

19:11

@ArdaXi umm, didn't you voluntarily suspended yourself?

Arda Xi

@Oak That was last month.

Oak

@ArdaXi you would have gotten 10k by now if you haven't, I bet

GnomeSlice

Arda Xi

Anyway, I would be much further from 10k if I hadn't 'cheated' so much.

GnomeSlice

:(

Arda Xi

19:13

@GnomeSlice Do you need a lemon?

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi ?

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice Well, you know, a combustible lemon. That burns your house down.

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi But... but I don't want to burn it down... :(

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice Demand to speak life's manager.

GnomeSlice

I'll see if I can just rejigger the place

Arda Xi

19:15

Make life rue the day it thought it could give you too small a house.

GnomeSlice

It's not a house, but yeah.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I'M THE MAN WHO'S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! WITH THE LEMONS!

GnomeSlice

yes, yes.

Arda Xi

It's funny because you have no idea what I'm talking about, and most of the people here do.

GnomeSlice

No

I do.

I'm just distraught.

Arda Xi

19:16

You do? Then why did you complain over @failbadp's closing of the part where?

GnomeSlice

What?

I don't know what that is.

Arda Xi

That... wasn't you?

The Part Where is where we put the Portal 2 spoilers.

GnomeSlice

Evidently not.

That was closed? And what does this have to do with lemons?

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice So you don't know what I was talking about.

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi I remember seeing that somewhere

Powerlord

19:18

@ArdaXi Apparently not, or else he'd know what it has to do with lemons.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice Never mind.

GnomeSlice

I'M STILL HERE.

I'M STILL A PEOPLE.

2

Arda Xi

Now, as I was saying.

2 mins ago, by Arda Xi

It's funny because you have no idea what I'm talking about, and most of the people here do.

Brant

0

A: How do we prefer to start our tag wikis?

I agree that the dictionary method is best. It makes better use of the limited space the excerpt gets on the tags page, avoids the wonky phrasing that the regex leaves in its wake, and just makes more sense considering that a user will never see it anyway unless it's already next to the tag name....

Matthew Read

I remember the lemon grenades. Or whatever they are.

Brant

19:21

Fact check: Do tag wiki excerpts render italics or bold in the hover tooltips?

Arda Xi

@Brant Neither, on my end.

GnomeSlice

One way to find out.

Matthew Read

@Brant Neither

Brant

Hmm. How about on the tags page?

Arda Xi

@MatthewRead Combustible lemons. That burn your house down.

Matthew Read

19:22

IMO, they should be strikethrough'd

GnomeSlice

Strike'd through?

Matthew Read

@ArdaXi Lemons remind me of grenades in general. They are just yellow limes, after all.

@GnomeSlice Good point.

@Brant Not there either.

Brant

Oh.

Arda Xi

It's great how well Portal 2 was thought out. Since lemons are also used as 'batteries'.

GnomeSlice

19:40

Maybe the most frightening thing you will see today. http://youtu.be/ZXi1c0ekz74

Tweeted by InsideGaming on May 6, 2011 at 7:33 PM

Lazers

0

Q: How does magic power affect buffing spells in Demon's Souls

How are various shielding spells in demon's souls affected by increasing the Magic skill (not intelligence). Duration? Shielding effect? Amount of MP spent? Thanks

demons-souls

Matthew Read

19:54

@GnomeSlice Thanks for that. * gouges eyes out *

GnomeSlice

"Come on Miranda. You want this"

Arda Xi

I think that loses its touch when I have it in another tab just listening to the sound, as is my habit.

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi I think so too.

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