[00:00] <ali1234> seems like i'm not the only one who thinks that the difficulty is a bit wrong in borderlands 2
[00:00] <daftykins> it's a bit weird when some NPC is a higher level and you can't even make a dent
[00:01] <ali1234> apparently people who played 1 also had a similar conclusion
[00:02] <ali1234> it's not even "hard" - it just takes forever to kill anything
[00:02] <ali1234> i'm getting to the point where even normal grunts will take 4 headshots and keep going
[00:07] <daftykins> yeah it was genuinely impossible on the xbox when me and friends got it
[00:10] <ali1234> i find the best tactic is fire pistol everything until it sets on fire, then run away and wait for them to burn to death
[00:10] <ali1234> repeat until everything is dead
[00:10] <ali1234> doesn't work on bosses though, they have too much hp
[00:12] <ali1234> for them, i lure them back to the entrance and then blast them with the car gun
[00:12] <ali1234> even that can take like 10 minutes of constant rocket launcher blasts before they go down
[00:17] <daftykins> why don't you just level up? :)
[00:18] <ali1234> because grinding is boring
[05:22] <OERIAS> We are oft to blame in this, - 'Tis too much proved - that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself
[05:25] <daftykins> oh not you again :(
[05:38] <OERIAS> daftykins, you seem to have a problem with Shakespeare.
[05:38] <OERIAS> why?
[05:39] <daftykins> :D
[05:39] <OERIAS> He was a gay man?
[05:39] <daftykins> happy? i care not for someones joviality
[08:28] <foobarry> skeleton staff only this weekend as oggcamp is in town
[08:33] <Myrtti> indeed
[08:34] <Myrtti> our hotel room was a bit odd
[08:34] <Myrtti> maybe needs updating to the 21st century
[08:35] <foobarry> oxford for ya
[08:35] <Myrtti> no power sockets by the bedside table
[08:35] <foobarry> tourists pay anyway
[09:16] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[09:17] <Myrtti> moin
[09:17] <brobostigon> moin Myrtti
[09:18] <brobostigon> is that finnish? because i am familier with the word from platt duutsch.
[09:20] <foobarry> a package arrived \o/
[09:20] <foobarry> http://i.imgur.com/f7I8YWP.jpg
[09:35] <popey> moin
[09:36] <brobostigon> moin popey
[12:40] <Azelphur> and on todays hilarious news, a skiddie just tried to DDoS my service which is behind cloudflare.
[12:40]  * Azelphur facepalms
[12:46] <zmoylan-pi> they have to start somewhere :-)
[12:46] <Azelphur> hehe
[18:24]  * DJones settles down to watch Jack Ryan, Shadow warrior..Amazing how Alec Baldwin has gotten 30 years younger  tranformed into Christopher Pine, I guess thats what happens when you've got NCC1701 available to time travel
[18:26]  * SuperEngineer settles down with takeaway... to watch Dr. Who at 8.30
[18:29] <DJones> SuperEngineer: The takeaway will be cold by then
[18:31] <SuperEngineer> DJones: nope - it will be nice n warm in my tummy by then! :0
[18:40]  * penguin42 swears at adb
[18:41] <daftykins> penguin42: uh-oh! what's it not doing? :)
[18:41] <penguin42> daftykins: Not talking to my phone
[18:41] <daftykins> ooh-err, dev mode on?
[18:42] <penguin42> daftykins: yep, little tick on the remote debug thing, I can su and get root from connectbot; and it was working last week; I can see it in the lsusb, I've got the udev rule, I can see the /sys/bus entry has perms and I've got the line in ~/.android/adb_usb.ini
[18:43] <daftykins> hehe
[18:43] <daftykins> sounds like all bases covered!
[18:44]  * penguin42 could draw a pentagon and place it in that
[18:45] <SuperEngineer> ..or draw a rubbish bin & place it in that!
[18:46] <penguin42> SuperEngineer: Too nice a phone really for that
[18:46] <SuperEngineer> nah!
[19:09] <penguin42> ahha, it needs the 0x before the id in adb_usb
[19:11] <daftykins> D:
[19:11] <penguin42> I wish adb would have some diags - any would be good
[19:12] <penguin42> even with the env set it really doesn't help
[19:22] <shauno> hm, bbc2 is kinda odd right now.  this isn't how I remember bbc docus
[19:22] <penguin42> what's it on?
[19:23] <shauno> penguins!
[19:23] <penguin42> oooh
[19:23] <shauno> but they seem to spend as much time showing you how they're hiding the cameras.  which is unusual
[19:23] <shauno> I almost prefer it when she shots just seem impossible
[19:23] <daftykins> :)
[19:24] <penguin42> oh this one
[19:24] <penguin42> ok, that's weird
[19:26] <penguin42> shauno: There was a documentary a few weeks ago where they were doing international animal moves; and one of the sections was moving some Gentoo penguins from New Zealand to Birmingham; the Gentoo's really sound like old fashioned car horns - very much HONK!
[19:27] <shauno> poor Gentoos :(
[19:27] <shauno> I'd sound like a car horn if you relocated me to b'ham too
[19:27] <penguin42> well, yes
[19:29] <daftykins> XD
[22:11] <marshmn> anyone got a recommendation for a good Ubuntu laptop?
[22:12] <marshmn> my shortlist is currently Lenovo Thinkpad 1440s or Dell XPS 15
[22:12] <marshmn> would be interested in opinions of these, and other alternatives...
[22:12] <daftykins> is that one of the Dells they sell with Ubuntu on?
[22:14] <marshmn> no
[22:14] <marshmn> I believe they sell Ubuntu on the XPS 13
[22:14] <marshmn> but I'm put off by the smaller screen size of that..
[22:15] <marshmn> TBH, it's also the biggest downside of the Thinkpad 1440s for me (screen is only 14")
[22:16] <marshmn> finding a nice light 15" Linux laptop isn't so easy
[22:16] <marshmn> people at work have 15" Macbook Pros, and I suppose I'm trying to find the best Linux equivalent to that...
[22:17] <marshmn> but it doesn't seem easy
[22:17] <marshmn> the Dell XPS 15 looks pretty decent - I'm actually worried by whether the screen res is too high... is Linux ready for HiDPI yet (really)?
[22:22] <ali1234> no
[22:23] <penguin42> marshmn: Which is the 1440 - I'm used to thinkpads starting with a letter and then 3 digits
[22:24] <directhex> marshmn, you mean 440s?
[22:24] <directhex> T440s, even
[22:26] <directhex> i've used linux on T440s, and on other recent dells