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12:23 AM

I'm shocked

gaming.stackexchange.com/badges/11/taxonomist?user_id=121

Whoever created the SC2 tag will get it soon, I'd guess.

12:51 AM

@Mana should have it already

@Juan Why are you shocked?

@Mana Actually Ivo has that tag

gaming.stackexchange.com/badges/11/taxonomist

The surprising thing is Grace's badge

Because I though somebody else was going to get that one

1:11 AM

we are the most popular SE 2.0 site! Woot!

stackexchange.com/sites

FallenAngelEyes

Good evening/early morning, all

hi

FallenAngelEyes

How goes it? :)

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2:34 AM

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Q: How to turn Starcraft 2's IM off

Is there a way to turn Starcraft 2's built in instant messenger off and still play multiplayer games? Sometimes I don't want people bothering me while I'm playing. Apologies if this is a dupe, this would seem to me that it's a common question, but the search yielded no results. Please close in t...

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3:58 AM

0

Q: Is there a medical officer on Deep Space Station K-7 in Star Trek Online

My character has been injured in ground combat and I'm looking to be healed by a medical officer like the one at the Earth space station. (It costs no credits, using items to do it does.) In short, is there a medical officer on Deep Space Station K-7? I can't find one. And if there is not, wher...

mmorpg star-trek

greetings

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5:59 AM

morning :)

6:13 AM

morning

someone noticed me creating the starcraft2 tag? ^^

?

scroll up a bit: @Mana and @CRoss were discussing the tag

oh cool

should have picked WoW and CoD too :P

or G-H

6:27 AM

I didn't join till after all the good ones were taken

there will be new good ones :)

6:40 AM

0

Q: What is a maphack?

There is a discussion about maphacks in Starcraft2. I understand it is a cheat. But what kind of a cheat? Or are all cheats in a real-time strategy game called maphack? Somehow I know wallhacks and whatever, but maphack I don't.

starcraft-2 real-time-strategy maphack

7:07 AM

hey, I broke 3k

gaming is the only room populated 24/7. you guys are hardcore. :)

I think its because we're from such diverse places

also, there are a lot of us

is it just me or is Isaiah Mustafa awesome

Nope, he's awesome

Isaiah Mustafa (born February 11, 1974) is an American actor and former wide receiver in the NFL. Career Mustafa did not play high school football at Santa Clara High School in Oxnard, California, instead playing basketball and running track. and became a free safety, then a wide receiver, with a scholarship. Mustafa started for Arizona State but had an unspecified "confrontation" with a coach and was benched his senior year. Expecting to become a high school teacher after graduation, a sports agent suggested that Mustafa try out for NFL teams. The Tennessee Titans signed him to the pra...

7:22 AM

yeah I was just reading that

"Enchanting success filled people who are winning at life and deserve cakes."

well @Jeff you have a new goal in life, to get into that book

THE LIST WE WERE ALL BORN TO BE ON

that guy seems like our version of santa claus

Look at me, now look down, now back at me, I'm wearing a red jumpsuit, now look down, now back at me, its a bag full of toys

7:34 AM

0

Q: Pokemon: Are there any adverse effects to making a legendary beast faint?

At a certain point in Pokemon Soul-Silver/Heat-Gold, the legendary beasts start wandering about the game map and it is possible to encounter and battle them. Naturally, I want to catch them all, but they are really tough customers and I have to drastically whittle their HP if I aim to succeed. T...

pokemon pokemon-fourth-gen heart-gold soul-silver

I must catch them all!

Naturally

I remember when it was just Mew Two and you had to save your Masterball for him

Not Really Into Pokemon

haha

I feels young :(

7:38 AM

in all fairness 6.10 wasn't great

don't worry Arda its the internet

just pretend you're 50

people will treat you about the same

yeah but that's messed up when people start talking about old times

dude, I remember computers before HD

and I don't mean high def

oh man, do you remember battlezone?

:(

any of them?

0

Q: Can you name an early 1990s tank based shooting game on Macintosh System 7.5?

There was a very simple tank shooting game that came out in the early 1990s for Macintosh System 7.5 (I was able to run it on System 7). I only have some very random memories about it; anyone have an idea on what it was called? Game features: Tank shooter, in a fixed arena (squared box). Inte...

old-games mac shoot-em-up

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Q: Can you name an early 1990s tank based shooting game on Macintosh System 7.5?

There was a very simple tank shooting game that came out in the early 1990s for Macintosh System 7.5 (I was able to run it on System 7). I only have some very random memories about it; anyone have an idea on what it was called? Game features: Tank shooter, in a fixed arena (squared box). Inte...

old-games mac shoot-em-up

7:47 AM

yeah, thank you gaming bot

I used to play that game for hours

it was one of 3 games I had on my old mac

there was Battlzone, some sort of flight simulator where I always died when I landed and Myst

I'm confused. I've been away for a week and I remain at the top, I'm back for a few days and I'm 4th. I'm not complaining or anything, just.. confused.

which was either the best or the worst game of all time

at the top?

rep-wise

you can gain rep even if you'r enot around

your questions can still get upvoted

yeah, I know, but still

for a week

and for this entire week I haven't seen one question I could answer

7:49 AM

most of my rep comes from a couple answers I wrote weeks ago

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A: What build order should I use for Zerg in StarCraft 2?

An opening dictates how you are going to start the match. The basic Zerg openings: 10 Pool (Rush) 13 Pool (Standard) 14 Pool, 16 Hatch (Macro) 14 Hatch, 15 Pool (Macro+) 13 Gas, 13 Pool (NeoZerg) 12 Pool (Sen Style) How to read these: The number indicates the number of drones you should buil...

most of my rep comes from those too

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A: Can I trust "Steam"-powered games? Any unwanted behavior installed with Steam?

Yes, you can trust it. It is non-intrusive and all it does (at minimum) is manage your games and patches for you. Anything else is optional. It doesn't install anything but the software you need (like DirectX) and the games and patches. Nothing you don't want, unless you don't want the game you'...

Good answers continue to be useful to people

so they keep upvoting them

and you keep getting rep

yeah, but like this one

21

A: Steam says friend is playing Hello Kitty?

As Gnoupi said, it's possible to report any game you want to play as a non-Steam game. In this case, it's a joke reference to the episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft" of South Park, in which Butters prefers Hello Kitty Island Adventure over World of Warcraft. As far as I know no such game exists.

in reality a good question is probably better for the community, but a good answer will get your more rep

didn't even answer the question itself

7:51 AM

it explains why something random which isn't a game is there

just because you didn't answer the question he asked, doesn't mean you didn't answer the question he meant to ask

or would have asked, had he known enough to ask it

fair enough, but I feel guilty for stealing upvotes from cowgod and gnoupi

that's not how that works

its not like people couldn't also upvote them

or they would have gotten those votes if you weren't around

it does in practice thouh

that's not true

I upvote more than one answer per question

my answer has 21 upvotes, while cowgod's (much more descriptive) has 6

7:54 AM

so

?

only 6 people thought it was a good answer

21 people thought yours was good

the rep represents your value to the community

your answer was more valuable

either most people know that they can add whatever game to steam, or don't care

by comparison they really do care to know where the Hello Kitty reference comes from

heh, so my age does come in handy

nah, my dad watches south park too

they really need to make a battlezone 3

and while they're at it a Final Fantasy Tactics 2

and since I'm wishing for things, Chrono Trigger remake

oh fuck yeah, battlezone is abandonware

abandonia.com/en/games/26459/Battlezone.html

Welcome to the best 1998 has to offer

I'm back again!

hey Ivo

oh man, you know what is another game they should remake

Sacrifice

Sacrifice (video game)

Sacrifice is a video game published by Interplay Entertainment in 2000 for the Windows 98 platform. Developed by Shiny Entertainment, it is a real-time strategy game, featuring elements of action and other genres. Players control wizards who fight each other with spells and summoned creatures. Sacrifice was the first commercial video game to take advantage of video graphics cards that can process transform, clipping, and lighting instructions. The game was ported to Mac OS 9.2 in 2001. Unlike many contemporary real-time strategy games, Sacrifice does not heavily focus on resource gatherin...

omg how old are you?

you're naming games I never ever heard off

8:05 AM

noone did

it didn't do good marketing

Ok, well battlezone is old

just peeps at Amazon who had to manage the stock ;-)

but FFT is PS1

well, I'm from the time when the people you shot looked like people :/

dude, Sacrifice predates Amazon selling video games

I'm 25, so my first real computer game memory (other than the gameboy) are DOS games

8:06 AM

Oh, this is way younger than dos

In battle zone they look like people

Prince of Persia, Bubble Bubble, Golden Axe that kind of stuff

you just have to get out of the tank first

Oh man, Golden Axe

yeah it said windows 98

they need to remake that

no, but I mean you can recognise that they're people and all, with detail

8:07 AM

you're talking to a guy who used to play Counter Strike competitively

all I see are blips on the screen

I only played against n00bs

as far as I'm concerned they still don't look like people

my brother ones put a small dot on his screen, the center of his crossair, then ran around with an AWP using it as a shotgun

I actually remember beating bubble buble

it had 100 levels

I think I played it on the NES or the SNES

can't remember which

wow

8:09 AM

just remember this 12 inch TV

and no save games I guess?

and me and my brother crowded around it

no, you had to write down codes

I can only remember playing it, not beating it :P

talk about old school

oh man its on XBL

brb

hehe

8:10 AM

Dude, when I found out Sacrifice was on Steam

I nearly shit a brick

did you try it again?

of course

memory is a bitch sometimes, because the replay tends to suck

that game was ground breaking

even more ground breaking than netstorm

there has never been a RTSFPS as good as Sacrifice

I'm playing Starcraft, so I know what the story's about

8:12 AM

I'd go so far as to say that the only RTS better is Starcraft BW

They tell you during the installer for SC2

well I was just gonna say that Starcraft's controls suck :P

hehe

so in Sacrifice you have 2 resources

I know, but I like the old school cut scenes too

souls and mana

gas and ore? :P

8:13 AM

mana regenerates constantly, but souls you need to gather

and you can use souls to summon guys

and it has a gesture based control system for ordering them around

this was before Black and White

sounds interesting, you can go all out, but if you mana doesn't regen quick enough... :P

mana regenerates proportional to the number of Manaliths you construct

and you can only construct them on Managysers

well my first experience with RTS's was Dune 2, that game rocked

that alone is not enough, to get the mana from the Manalith to you, you need Manawhores

I so loved that story and the different classes

haha you mean warlocks? :P

8:15 AM

Manawhores bring the mana from the Manalith on the Managyser to you

oh man this was the greatest game ever

and you engaged in this mercantile battle for souls

to get more souls you had to kill enemy units and then sacrifice them on your alter

which turned their red souls into blue souls you could use to summon more guys

and once you killed all his guys and sacked his alter

while tzenes shares his old war time memories, you guys have a thought on this one:

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Q: Voting on the future of list of X questions

As of now we have several questions discussing what to do with list of X and games-rec questions: Here's a summary of all that has been said before (and was upvoted): Should we allow poll questions - Result: no, we shouldn't Best/favourite/subjective list type questions - Result: no potential ...

discussion scope close-votes lists

you the sac'd the enemy on your alter

I'd actually ban game-rec questions, but that's just me

lol so you could use the opponents resources against themselves?

like I said it was Mercantilistic

btw your description would be something worthy of a list question, but every answer would need so much detail :)

8:20 AM

I could probably write a god damn book about why Sacrifice is the greatest game ever made

they used tessilation to handle depth of field

back in 2000

thats DirectX10 stuff

a decade before

Oh, and Tim Curry did the voice of Stratos

not to mention the art was done by the Earth Worm Jim team

imdb.com/name/nm0000347

damn, imdb isn't a magic link

propose that in the chat feedback, it should be

I really think we should have a new resource hog, so developers get creative again

now your computer can be so much overkill, why bother trying to optimize (ok blizzard games maybe an exception)

they still exist

but its not the bit hacking like it used to be

I dunno, with better machines comes more casual developers

and with casual developers comes more games

yeah but it does take out some of the creativeness

I don't be believe everyone should be doing it

I dunno

but some should and the others should learn from it

8:25 AM

means the focus lies elsewhere, which is good

think of all the great books that would get written if everyone could write a book

no, it's just: look at the commodore 64

what people could do with such limitations

with gaming, a lot of good progress is made in separating the processes, you don't have to write a good engine to make a good game

I dunno Ivo, look at Ruby on Rails and what people did with that

I actually hope things like Kinect and 3D become a resource hog and people will have to find workarounds to keep up anyway

8:27 AM

and that's about as abstract as it gets

3D isn't a resource hog

its O(n)

well you get less fps on the ps3 :P

that's setting the bar kinda low

ok your right

anyway Battlezone finished downloading

so I'm going to go play that

then maybe some netstorm

w00t

bye

8:29 AM

and I'll finish off my retrogaming night with bubble bobble

gnight

so who here wants to keep list of X questions alive

oh

wow

Bernhard Hofmann

@Ivo - how do you spend SO much time on Stack Exchange sites?

You're like Skeet ;)

I was about to say: I feel like abusing my moderator powers

but you flatter me

Bernhard Hofmann

hehe

8:35 AM

I'm nowhere near as good as Jon

Bernhard Hofmann

I didn't really want to say that LOL!

So how does this work? Is it using websockets?

and I'm actually only active on the Meta side of things at the moment, since I'm in the process of quitting my job and moving back from Belgium to the Netherlands, so I can't really concentrate on answering questions

this chat? I have absolutely no idea, but feel free to ask it in chat feedback

Bernhard Hofmann

Ah, you're Dutch

I should have guess, with a name like Flipse

cool

doesn't sound that Dutch to me actually (I'm Dutch too)

you can edit your previous line by pressing UP

In Zeeland it's pretty common apparently

8:38 AM

Ah, yeah, I can imagine. I'm more in the Randstad

Bernhard Hofmann

Can only edit the previous 1 line, not go back any further, so once you've goofed and corrected the old way, you're stuck. Ho hum.

no you can than click on the thing at the start of the sentence, and click edit

Bernhard Hofmann

I wonder what introduces the dotted lines in conversation? People leaving/entering?

did you get another one?

no, it's when you leave the tab, I think

everything below the dotted line was posted since you left the tab, everything above it before you reopened it

Bernhard Hofmann

8:41 AM

I see dots running full width (including the name and avatar area and chat area).

(by leave I mean open another)

that's actually a nice visual cue than @ArdaXi

Bernhard Hofmann

Not sure I know what you mean by "tab"

sorry, chrome-based thinking

but I can be so active, because in my previous job my work wasn't exactly pressing me to do much, so I found ways to spend my time

8:42 AM

the webpage, window, tab, whichever your method of browsing is

some people still use IE6 @ArdaXi ;-)

I know

right now, I get to work at work for about 2 months, but I should be practicing Python, rather than chatting all day long

I have work to do too, but the chat is just so good

Bernhard Hofmann

Yep, I gotta get on as well

Nice chat window - I like it.

bb

8:44 AM

well, I can sort of combine chatting with programming

I try to, but I can't say it's compiling with Python :P

Looks good :)

the chat you mean?

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10:23 AM

w00t I declare win for the starcraft tag

gaming.stackexchange.com/tags

it beat game-rec

it's like 25 questions a day

ok perhaps it's getting a little bit overkill relative to other topics

but still I think it's impressive, since it shows what this site is all about

judging by my notifier, this site is pretty much Starcraft 2 Exchange

we'll just have to wait for the next big thing to release

like Cataclysm, Fifa 2011 or the new Guitar Hero/Rock Band games

speaking of tags, this could be a lot better

gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/…

10:26 AM

feel free to edit it ;-)

I am

I'm quickly running back to my Python exercises :P

I have no idea what to write though :)

Steam (content delivery)

Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute games and related media online, from small independent developers to larger software houses. Steam also has community features, automated game updates, and in-game voice and chat functionality. As of 2010, there are over 1,100 games available through Steam. In January 2010 Valve claimed that it had surpassed 25 million active user accounts. Although Valve never releases sales figures, Steam is estimated to have a 70% share of the dig...

enjoy

meh, I doubt it'll get enough views to put a lot of effort in

and besides, I can't just plagiarize wikipedia

the game-rec wiki was very well done, I wonder who wrote it

10:30 AM

sounds like one of the mods

I like that they put in the query

me too

didn't even know it was possible

to query like that?

yeah

I have no idea how to query for votes (never bothered), I always looked at page views

like doing it on Super User, to check for spam

I don't think anyone will see the tag-wiki though

as useful as it might be

10:36 AM

it will be, it needs a more prominent place somewhere

I suggest taking it to MSO, because it's a good point

but I do see value in it

it's a fairly new function though

something like a note when you add it as a tag

for instance

now it's a tab when you click the tag

perhaps it should get some space in the sidebar

or be used as a summary above all the questions

just a few lines of blurb

like the ads are on SO

yeah something like that

I do like this one too: superuser.com/questions/…

because people added some question from that tag which you think anyone should read

for instance if you get a lot of duplicates

it should be in there

or like C# on SO: stackoverflow.com/questions/…

although I wonder why those three questions are unlinked/unasked

10:42 AM

work in progress ;-)

10:52 AM

the site needs more questions I can answer :(

hehe, which is why I rarely answer questions on Super User nowadays

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Q: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed easiest ending on Sith Master? [Spoilers]

I'm playing through Star Wars: TFU on Xbox 360 at the moment and am on my Sith Master run. I'm wondering which of the final enemies (The Emperor or Darth Vader) is easier to defeat on this setting? I fought the emperor on my first playthrough and took very little damage so I'm just wondering i...

xbox-360 spoiler star-wars

ah well, gives me more time to work on AnyHub

anyhub.net

yeah

10:54 AM

is that an alternative to yousendit?

well, it's a file hosting service, so by that logic, sure

except, err, what

you just got a new member :P

" Get a return receipt ($3.99)"

well, not me, AnyHub's not mine, I'm just an employee (partner I guess)

it's ran by a friend of mine, I'm just redoing the code

hehe, well someone is now using your code

if I see a need for it that is :P

:D

files can be 10 GiB max

10:59 AM

yeah I read the FAQ, but I don't have to move files atm

but it's good to keep in mind

can you upload any file type I like?

yes, anything

so long as it doesn't violate the ToS

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12:28 PM

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Q: Pokemon tags - do we need separate tags for the same-region same-gens?

What I mean, for example, is do we need separate [heart-gold] and [soul-silver] tags? I'm thinking of what kinds of questions are possible. The majority will be independent of what version is being played. Any questions about exclusivity features are much better served by an answer that covers ...

discussion tagging

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