The Bridge

badp

3:09 PM

is there some of you who still hasn't done the Portal 2 coop?

tombull89

@badp yup, only done the first level here.

fredley

@badp Never done

badp

I'm running the game right now for the cards

so if you aren't at work...

tombull89

I am :( Give me three hours though...

fredley

Yeah, a couple of hours, but probably not :(

Ullallulloo

3:15 PM

@badp I haven't installed it yet.

badp

@Ullallulloo wat

How do you SLEEP at night

also have you checked out that card trading bot?

Ullallulloo

@badp yeah

I don't have enough TF2 cards to complete a set with 1:1 trades though, still. =/

fredley

I don't think I have it installed either

Ullallulloo

And it's like $12 worth of cards for a background or emoticon?

I can't really justify crafting a badge. =/

badp

Use the market to trade cards

...or just sell them outright for free money

TF2 cards were ~$.40 last I checked

definitely the cheapest of the bunch

so if you sell Portal 2 cards you should have enough

aww

fbueckert

3:24 PM

@badp Good on Valve to not hold on to tech they weren't going to use.

badp

the in-game Perpetual Testing Initiative video has the final part cut :(

@fbueckert yeah, that's how you build goodwill

fredley

imgur is down

imgur.com

Or at least, some of it is down

502 from nginx

badp

looks up to me

Grumpy Lazers

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Q: Where do I get the teleport spell in Candybox?

I have been playing for six srtraight days now, and the teleport spell is still nowhere. Where am I supposed to get that?

candy-box

tombull89

:')

Wipqozn

3:34 PM

@tombull89 Not sure if joke or real pokemon...

Sconibulus

candy box questions are the best

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BOREDOM

@fredley Play MtG

@OrigamiRobot Not possible

OrigamiRobot

3:43 PM

It's always possible.

badp

FEichinger

fredley

@badp World Wide Wat

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badp

→ 10 messages moved to The Android Hell: This Is The Part Where All The Robots Scream At You.

I concede

Fluttershy

4:10 PM

@Ullallulloo I'm sad that Kevin Conroy won't be doing Batman's voice in this. =(

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy He is doing Batmans voice.

He confirmed it in an interview last week or something.

FEichinger

@Wipqozn Well, he just said "the next game" ... Not Origins in particular ... Sooo, we still only have guesses.

Wipqozn

eurogamer.net/articles/…

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn Oh cool! I can be excited for the game again.

Ben Brocka

@badp that is beautifully terrible

Ullallulloo

4:50 PM

I'm not sure if you can get Epcot, but my friend just got LegoLand. He guessed California but it was the one in Denmark. Meanwhile, I'm rapidly becoming a connoisseur of unmarked dirt roads over flat, barren landscapes.

FEichinger

I was given a church in South Korea earlier.

Ullallulloo

Ars got a hands-on demo of Arkham Origins.

Sconibulus

So... many... nondescript roads...

badp

so the XBox 360 +1 reveal starts in 24 hours exactly

time to turn the Speculation Wheel of Wat

what do you expect to cringe at tomorrow in the reveal?

(I am still really disappointed by the lack of Nexus Q 2.)

Sterno

What happens when you don't agree to disagree with someone?

badp

5:02 PM

@Sterno You set them on fire.

(link?)

Sterno

I have no link.

badp

Then please consider the fire to be figurative

Sterno

But in other news, Android Hell appears to be a soul-sucking bastion of stupidity.

FEichinger

@Sterno That is indeed the point of Android Hell.

badp

@Sterno You are welcome.

Oh! I know. People have been loving to use the PM feature of XBox Live to send each other corteous messages of admiration for their respective skills in videogames.

Wouldn't it be magical if that really loud 11yo could compliment your sniping skills with personal video messagging?

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No longer will you have to imagine them typing "faggot" when you can actually see them pronouncing the word with their mouths so you don't have to ask them, "are you for real?"

That'll make communication 35% more efficient.

Sconibulus

5:07 PM

And, you can teabag someone in game AND in effigy, and now they'll know!

FEichinger

@badp It would give me a photo to crowdsource a ~~manhunt~~ ~~kidhunt~~ brathunt with.

Sterno

I don't see how this could possibly go wrong.

badp

Another feature people really loved about the game was the permabans and the accounts thereof. Unfortunately the permabans aren't actually permanent, they only stretch to the year 9,999. With the new XBox, they still are not going to be permanent, but they will reach the year 99,999.

Also, it will be possible to modify your profile in "illegal" ways without having to mod your console and voiding your warranty! It's the inbuilt idiot cull you've been waiting for.

On the controller side of things, the game will ship with none. People loved flailing their arms wildly in Kinect games, so all games will be body-controlled. Since the previous technology of Kinect devices isn't quite up to par for the job, you won't have to buy a Kinect 2 with HD recognition and a bunch of other software-only features that makes no sense to tie in to a new piece of hardware, but you'll really want to.

As far as backwards compatibility goes, we thought it'd be a shame to make your old XBox 360 just collect dust in a corner, so there's none. You're welcome.

The XBox 360+1 will actually run Windows 8, but we won't admit it. The executable format will be slightly different so the .exe files won't run: we'll change the extension to .xbx.

We'll have a state of the art computer with 2 more gigabytes of memory than whatever Sony announces for the Playstation 4, powering a video card that looked awesome in 2011 and a hard drive that'll be every bit as reliable as the other generation's to enhance our games' replayability.

But videogames are boring, let's talk tv. The XBox 360 has been bringing a lot of entertainment value to only a few countries in the world. This allowed players to get an unparallelled level of elite service. Gamers love to feel elite. It's why they game. This is why we're happy to announce that our new services will only be available in US states the names of which end with a vowel.

OrigamiRobot

@badp has reached critical mass! Evacuate The Bridge!

badp

5:24 PM

@OrigamiRobot but wait, there's more! I didn't even begin to mock their ad strategy!

Ullallulloo

@Wipqozn @Fluttershy From @realkevinconroy: "Confusion in Dallas! I am in new ARKHAM GAME coming soon, NOT ARKHAM ORIGINS coming this fall." :(

badp

Don't you want to know about how Microsoft solved loading screens by placing video ads in them? It's why the games are online-only to begin with! Offline mode won't have this enhanced experience.

Ullallulloo

@badp Wow, do I still get to pay for this amazing online experience or has it been downgraded to being free like the PS3, PS4, Wii U, 3DS, Vita, and PC?

badp

@Ullallulloo It's being upgraded to the subsidized contract Live+XBox model you know and love and games will be 70 Microsoft Points each instead of 75 for GOLD subscribers.

Ullallulloo

Roger Craig Smith is voicing Batman. =/

badp

5:29 PM

However, if you want even more, you can upgrade to PLATINUM level to adorn your XBox Live avatar with HATS.

Did I mention that to make games feel more personal your whatever-Microsoft-calls-the-Mii will be the leading star of all XBox 360+1 titles?

That's right! You can put your hats on in any XBox 360+1 game.

You will have a wide variety of brands to sponsor on your ad, I meant hat, so you can put some PRADA swag on your HALO 5½ The Prequel Sequel experience.

PLATINUM users can also record a variety of voice clips to use throughout games. You'll be asked to shriek in pain five or so times for all games to use.

You can use an XBox Live Shock Collar to make more realistic shriek noises for MAXIMUM realism.

Those shriek noises will be downloaded by other players in online games so that you'll be able to hear other people's shrieks as you hit them! We're totally sure people won't put curse words in these clips.

This will make your videogaming experience even more personal.

Your whatever-Microsoft-calls-the-Miis, your voices, your faces, your XBox 360 Plus One. All for $20/mo, or 25 Microsoft Points for those who still have those. (Losers.)

Fluttershy

@Ullallulloo Well crap...

The Stack Exchange Blog

Blog - Stack Exchange: Company pages on Careers 2.0

Shog9 on May 20, 2013

Stack Overflow has always had a strong focus on individual merit. Although collaboration is encouraged to some extent by the editing features, attribution on posts and the design of user profiles all tend to emphasize rugged individuality, that lone wolf toiling away at a keyboard.

But most of us don’t actually work that way. We’re social creatures by nature, and the most challenging part of finding a good job can be finding the pack you want to run with. In spite of the dearth of features aimed at networking, folks have been using Stack Overflow to find and research potential colle …

Fluttershy

@Ullallulloo Oh wait. That says Page not Found.

Ullallulloo

@Fluttershy He deleted the tweet now for some reason.

badp

Crytek also has a company page.

...and ...uh. Skype. What.

Sterno

5:43 PM

Fluttershy

Tomorrow's the big Microsoft press release, isn't it?

FEichinger

@Ullallulloo Caaalled it.

Ullallulloo

@Fluttershy yep

Hence @badp pre-releasing all the info.

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: Delete all waypoints from building in Supreme Commander 2

In either Supreme Commander 2, or Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, is there an easy to way to delete a buildings patrol route without having to go through each point one by one?

supreme-commander-2

Sterno

6:09 PM

badp

@Ullallulloo It's going to come in handful when I try and get a job either as a product manager for $CONSOLE_MAKER or as a writer for the Onion.

Ben Brocka

so that's special

Sconibulus

6:27 PM

@BenBrocka wat?

Ben Brocka

> o <

James

@Sconibulus I second this what.. I think @BenBrocka might have gone off the deep end

FEichinger

@BenBrocka Don't forget, people. The Earth used to be flat.

Ben Brocka

@James just some trolling from UX. Which was oddly self deleted almost immediately

James

@BenBrocka Ah

FEichinger

6:30 PM

@BenBrocka To be quite honest, the idea itself might actually work. It's horribly phrased and the screenshot is bull. But the idea is ... interesting, at least.

badp

@BenBrocka I thought you'd cropped the image too much

...but the image is just that

Ben Brocka

It presents a fascinating look into an impressively insane mind

badp

Honestly, it could kinda work with some actual graphical design

but it seems like even he can't put enough time to draw something up in mspaint to go with his concept

maybe he self-deleted because he realized that much?

Ben Brocka

> is this the future of the internet ? given that this is the way heavens work beyond planet earth in terms of stars, galaxies, black holes, universes, etc.. ?

FEichinger

@BenBrocka Explanation and train of thought: INSANITY AT ITS BEST.

badp

6:34 PM

@BenBrocka To be fair most design presentations usually are at least half as pretentious :P

FEichinger

Resulting concept: Tweak it here and there, and there might be some merit to it.

badp

ducks

@FEichinger of course we don't actually know wtf he's up to.

It could be the one bajillionth Stack Overflow clone.

FEichinger

@badp Sure looks like it.

badp

At least he'd be the thousandth that doesn't straight out copy the Stack Overflow layout

Ben Brocka

Planets don't actually align in opposing manners though, they just circle around gravity

badp

6:36 PM

@BenBrocka YOU ARE BORING WITH ALL OF YOUR FACTS AND SCIENCE

Ben Brocka

If you really want to have a layout inspire by space it would be 99.9% #000000 with specs of #FFFFFF

It would also cause you to suffocate and/or freeze to death

I can't seem to get the freezing to death effect to work in pure CSS

FEichinger

@BenBrocka That's why the W3C is stupid. They focus on stupid stuff like animations and HTML5 ... But what about our freeze-to-death APIs?

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We really need more practical stuff.

James

@RonanForman @RedRiderX @AshleyNunn Minecraft Matches this Saturday :)

Ullallulloo

@FEichinger There's definitely not enough murder in web design.

Ben Brocka

Sterno

6:46 PM

I just read that Metro: Last Light has Day 1 DLC for "Ranger Mode". Makes the enemies harder and removed the HUD

A feature that was in the original metro for free

And "moving the difficulty slider and removing graphical elements" doesn't really seem like it deserves to be paid DLC

user15026

@Sterno Yeah that is ridiculous

user15026

Companies are getting really fucking stupid with DLC, its like oh we don't have to actually finish anything or give them all the usual features when we can get more money out of them

FEichinger

Because people keep paying for it.

user15026

I know

user15026

its a self fulfilling model

user15026

6:50 PM

and it sucks

FEichinger

Of course it sucks.

But as long as people don't get their shit together and just stop paying for it, it won't end.

badp

@BenBrocka I like more content in my murder.

user15026

@FEichinger Yeah and that is as likely as me becoming a supermodel

user20683

@AshleyNunn I don't know, I think you could pull it off.

FEichinger

@badp <murder><redherring /></murder>

badp

6:52 PM

Your wat of the now.

user15026

@WorldEngineer You obviously have little idea of what I look like :P They generally don't want fat kids :P

user20683

@AshleyNunn okay, Fetish Supermodel

user15026

@badp Why did i watch that

badp

@AshleyNunn For the wat factor.

user15026

@WorldEngineer I suppose that is a niche possibilitiy

user20683

6:54 PM

@AshleyNunn because it was a link on the Bridge

badp

I hope you find yourself adequately watted.

user15026

@badp I am a sucker for punishment I suppose

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user15026

@badp Yes, it was adequate

user20683

@badp that wasn't that WAT, that was more of a "huh?"

badp

@WorldEngineer I said "wat" not "WAT"

Okay, the real wat is that the community contributed model for the female scout is dressed.

user15026

6:55 PM

@badp the distinction is important

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