The Bridge

C. Ross

12:00 AM

indeed ...

amazing he didn't get arrested ...

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz This reminds me of something else:

What your resume looks like once you've had a complete nervous breakdown.

LessPop_MoreFizz

I would hire that man in a heartbeat.

GnomeSlice

He can make weapons. You'd better damn hire him.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm Rick James, bitch!

Powerlord

Every time I'm on the bridge, I want to tell someone to "Make it so"

GnomeSlice

Warp me to Halifax.

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:40 AM

@GnomeSlice Get it right.

Warp me to the Halifax *System.*

bah, chat seems to be bad at nested markdown.

badp

oh man, my kitten is dreaming

making attack sounds and whatnot

such a little brain concentrate are cats

LessPop_MoreFizz

Hah! Tumblr ran with it.

Related: theoatmeal.com/comics/state_web_winter

2

badp

The State of the Web, Winter 2010

Powerlord

1:04 AM

TF2 is doing a cross promotion with Monday Night Combat

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Powerlord o rly?

Powerlord

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yup... just got added to TF2 in an update, and was announced here: steamcommunity.com/games/TF2/announcements/detail/…

It adds 6 items to Monday Night Combat and 3 to Team Fortress 2.

store.steampowered.com/app/63200 <-- shows what items got added to which

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz Nuh-uh!

►

(Slight language warning)

LessPop_MoreFizz

oic.

I stand corrected.

GnomeSlice

This always cracks me up. All of the dubs sync really well, except for some of Geordi's.

There's a @Bulletstorm demo launching tomorrow. Will you be downloading it? http://bit.ly/gsqG8z

Tweeted by InsideGaming on January 25, 2011 at 12:40 AM

@badp Why does the Oatmeal have that particular icon on Twitter....

Usually it takes thousands or millions of dollars to shut down a site like World Star Hip Hop. All it took this time was @50cent

Tweeted by NotChrisRock on January 24, 2011 at 9:49 PM

@badp Nevermind. I see why.

Feeds

2:13 AM

0

Q: Where can I see all available Playstation 3 avatars?

I'd like to find a better PlayStation Network avatar than the ones that come stock and standard with the PlayStation 3. Where can I go online to find and view all that are available?

GnomeSlice

2:32 AM

just thought of a new producer name 'Coral Beef' . . . that one's for free

Tweeted by Fluxpavilion on January 25, 2011 at 2:31 AM

Feeds

0

Q: Does Little Big Planet 2 give you any sort of in game perks or bennies for having a save from the first version?

Some sequels will reward fans for having played previous games. Is there anything like this in LBP2?

save-games little-big-planet little-big-planet-2 sequels

Mana

3:24 AM

yay sleeeeeeep.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Sleep is for the weak.

Or was that the week.

Weakened?

Weekend?

one of those.

Feeds

6:18 AM

0

Q: Dragon Quest IX: The armamentalist abilities

Is there a way to determine elemental weaknesses for enemies? I know thief's have ability to gain more information on enemies but it does not appear to display elemental weaknesses(if they exist)

dragon-quest-9

Feeds

10:49 AM

0

Q: Foreign-language StackExchange sites. Can it work?

I'm aware of previous questions related to this subject, but here I'm not asking about whether they're 'allowed', or about localization, or about current proposals. I'm just wondering, how would a foreign-language site integrate into the United States of StackExchange? For example, on some of th...

discussion area51 stackexchange-2.0 localization

Feeds

11:47 AM

0

Q: Stack Exchange site for poker

Does anyone know if there's a Stack Exchange site existing or planned for poker players?

feature-request stackexchange

Feeds

12:11 PM

0

Q: Site autonomny and governance: community-driven democracy or benevolent dictatorship?

We need to talk. We need to talk about StackExchange sites: about their autonomy, about governance. We need to sift through all the analogies that have been thrown around (democracy, policemen, administrators, overlords, etc.) and decide which ones are useful and truthful. Is StackExchange the...

discussion stackexchange-2.0 self-governance

badp

12:55 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I like "weekend"

badp

1:13 PM

GnomeSlice

2:58 PM

#EA crowned top publisher of 2010 http://bit.ly/g2DpjQ

Tweeted by LevelUpGameGear on January 25, 2011 at 2:15 PM

Arda Xi

Great. Apparently, my connection has a speed of like 90 mbit, but through our router it's more like 20

I need an extra network card and some clever cabling.

TomWij

3:20 PM

wonder-tonic.com/wolf1d

Powerlord

@ArdaXi I would kill (in a game) for a 90 mbit connection with no packet loss.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord Yeah, see, if I had a direct connection, I would have that.

badp

That's the problem with a nice internet connection, you just have to talk about it

Arda Xi

But I don't have it. Right now, I only have like 10-20 mbit.

badp

@ArdaXi Get a switch and a few foneras.

Powerlord

3:33 PM

@ArdaXi What did you do to your poor router or other internet connection device (cable/dsl modem?) that killed its performance so?

Arda Xi

@badp The modem doesn't do NAT, and my ISP only gives out one IP address. No can do.

@Powerlord It's only the router, the modem gives 90 mbit

Powerlord

@ArdaXi What evil kind of router is this? :O

Arda Xi

Because if I connect my computer directly I get >90

@Powerlord It's a Sitecom

badp

@Powerlord A router that doesn't have enough power to process so many packets I guess

@ArdaXi Do you connect to your router via ethernet or wifi? (.11b, g or n?)

Arda Xi

@badp That's the point, it should.

@badp UTP, both ways.

badp

3:36 PM

@ArdaXi wat.

Powerlord

@badp Unshielded Twisted Pair

Arda Xi

Twisted pair

Twisted pair cabling is a type of wiring in which two conductors (the forward and return conductors of a single circuit) are twisted together for the purposes of canceling out electromagnetic interference (EMI) from external sources; for instance, electromagnetic radiation from unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cables, and crosstalk between neighboring pairs. It was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. Explanation In balanced pair operation, the two wires carry equal and opposite signals and the destination detects the difference between the two. This is known as differential mode trans...

Basically cat 5

badp

@Powerlord that'd be, er, ethernet

Powerlord

@ArdaXi Not cat5e or cat 6? :O

Arda Xi

Err, well... erm...

Powerlord

3:37 PM

(not that I have any idea what the difference is between 5 and 5e)

Arda Xi

Hardware is not my speciality to be honest.

badp

Don't make me pull out my networks book, all I know is it should be able to sustain 100 megabits just fine if it's a wired connection :P

Arda Xi

Yes, and the router should too.

Powerlord

Then again, if you're getting different speeds from connecting directly to the modem rather than the router, I doubt it's the wires.

badp

@ArdaXi Depends on memory, cpu, queue length, etc. of the router

Arda Xi

3:38 PM

Of course, with IPv6, we wouldn't have this problem

Powerlord

You know the world won't move to IPv6 untill all the IPv4 address run out... later this year.

badp

@Powerlord The world won't move even after that

Powerlord

Or at least APNIC is going to run out by the end of 2011.

badp

ISPs will just charge more for IPs

Powerlord

(APNIC = Asia/Pacific)

Arda Xi

3:39 PM

Err, try next month.

badp

much cheaper!

Sure, a few things here and there for the customers will break but oh well! They're just customers after all.

Arda Xi

They'll become a scarce commodity.

Powerlord

My biggest problem with IPv6 is the address space is way too large.

badp

@Powerlord let's talk again about it in 20 years

Powerlord

2^128 is a absolutely humongous number.

Arda Xi

3:40 PM

Why the hell would that be a problem?

Eventually, everyone and their pet will have at least a dozen networked devices.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi IP addresses get longer, IP packet headers get larger.

badp

@Powerlord are you worried about latency?

Powerlord

IPv4 had way too few addresses for what we use it for now; there are less IPv4 addresses than people living.

Of course, when IPv4 was created, there was no public Internet.

badp

a big part of latency is usually caused by some bit between you and your ISP working in analogic

Arda Xi

They never expected that the experiment would never end.

badp

3:42 PM

30 ms connections to the US from the EU should be possible...

Powerlord

With IPv6, you could assign an address to every grain of sand everywhere in the world and still have addresses left over.

Arda Xi

Exactly. I do not see the problem with this.

badp

@Powerlord big deal, that could. Not all of IPv4 is used, it's allocation is the problem here.

Powerlord

Hell, as far as I know, the IPv6 spec doesn't even say what the local network size should be. I've heard either 48 or 64-bit... meaning the NETWORK part of the address is larger than the entire IPv4 address space.

@badp The problem is that OSes blocked off entire address ranges marked as "for future use" not thinking that they would actually need to communicate to those addresses in the future,.

Arda Xi

5E25 addresses per person is a bit much, I admit.

That's 50 billion billion billion per capita.

I love how Wolfram Alpha changes the wording to 'per capita' when you divide by the world population.

badp

3:46 PM

@Powerlord Not quite it, they're reserved for future allocation

I think the problem is rather with software assuming those are invalid IPs

Powerlord

@badp Except that they'll never be allocated, because older versions of Windows, Linux, etc... would just reject packets to anything at 240.0.0.0 and up.

badp

@Powerlord If it's a reason to finally drop WinXP off the radar, let's do it! :P

Powerlord

@badp Wishful thinking! I'm even using a WinXP machine right now!

badp

@Powerlord Yeah, you're part of the problem :)

Powerlord

@badp I have two Windows 7 machines at home.

It's my work computer that's WinXP.

badp

3:48 PM

oh, right, workplace

I'm trying to understand what's the part of the stack that can't be patched tbh

routers can be flashed, operative systems can be patched

Powerlord

The... work computers... that have a Microsoft site license... with MSDN Premium subscriptions...

badp

@Powerlord I see where your copies of Win7 came from :P

(I got mine from the MSDNAA.)

Powerlord

@badp glances back and fourth One of them did. The laptop already had Win7 on it when I got it.

badp

Google is watching.

Powerlord

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/subscriptionschart.aspx <-- but yeah, I have the subscription at the far right side of this chart through work. And yet, they won't let me install Visual Studio 2010.

Sorry, I called it Premium, but it's Ultimate. Whoops.

badp

3:50 PM

WOW! You get 4 incidents in the package!

Powerlord

@badp Did I mention I work primarily in Java and won't ever use those?

Arda Xi

@Powerlord My sympathies.

badp

...so what'd you need VS2010 for? :)

Powerlord

@badp BECAUSE IT'S NEW!!!!!1111

badp

@Powerlord Oh! For the skin, you mean! :P

Powerlord

3:53 PM

Nah, I want to do some stuff using ASP.NET MVC3. Which requires VS2k10

Eventually, this project will end, and I'll likely be transferred off of it to something else, hopefully on the .NET side.

(Wishful thinking, I suppose)

badp

@Powerlord I hope you're using Eclipse at least. That IDE can be quite comfortable.

Powerlord

@badp I am, yes.

badp

Aw, there's nothing responding on 223.255.255.254

Powerlord

I actually have an Eclipse window open on my other monitor... there's one hidden under Firefox on this monitor, too.

badp

There totally should've been a website there. "The webpage at the end of IPv4"

Powerlord

3:58 PM

@badp Ha

So, about games... I think Monday Night Combat will be on sale through Steam starting later this week (Thursday, likely). I guess I'll wait and see.

oKtosiTe

4:37 PM

Never mind.

Powerlord

4:50 PM

@oKtosiTe See, now I want to know what you deleted. Insatiable curiosity, go!

oKtosiTe

@Powerlord I know, but that's not going to happen anytime soon. Certainly not on gaming.

Powerlord

@oKtosiTe Oh. Well, it would be nice, yes.

If you have a high enough rep, you could edit it into the question.

badp

It's worth noting that something like this will arrive soon™ on Gaming:

oKtosiTe

@Powerlord It shows here like I replied above your message... Weird.

Powerlord

@badp What is this heresy?!

badp

4:58 PM

9

A: How does peer review for edits work?

We are experimenting with this feature on Stack Overflow at the moment. For the next few weeks, it may be on or off depending on when you hit the site. As it stands (and this is all subject to change until the feature is formally announced): Who can suggest an edit? Users with 2k rep can mak...

Powerlord

@oKtosiTe Ha, it actually appears that way here as well.

Oh crud, I need to leave like right now or be late to meet with my friends for lunch.

oKtosiTe

@Powerlord Good, I was halfway through the process of making a screenshot.

@Powerlord Ok. Bye!

badp

@oKtosiTe chat.stackexchange.com/message/411971?plain=true

oKtosiTe

@badp ?

badp

As you can see your message, 411971, does claim it is a reply to message 411975

so it's not a chat bug, but something you did :)

chat.stackexchange.com/messages/411971/history

You edited it :)

oKtosiTe

5:03 PM

Oops.

I did. :-)

Must have pressed up without noticing.

badp

btw

AskUbuntu: 15,137 visits/day
Gaming: 15,029 visits/day

Please commence crying/pointing/laughing/strangling/complaining/menacing/raegquitting/... ASAP so we can get over it quickly.

oKtosiTe

points and laughs.

Wait, why is this bad?

badp

@oKtosiTe Because they just officially overtook us :)

Sure, they never should have been behind us to begin with

oKtosiTe

Isn't the Linux community known for flooding the net with questions?

badp

still, it was pretty ironic ...or just to have a domainless name with more traffic than a site with a grandfathered domain while you need traffic to get a domain

oKtosiTe

5:12 PM

When (GNU/)Linux does not trigger all those questions, it may be the Year of the Linux Desktop.

badp

meh, as if Windows or OS X didn't.

The difference is that Linux has more interesting answers than "erm, there's something wrong, reinstall Windows" :P

oKtosiTe

@badp Don't take it seriously please. I've been a user since at least 2000.

badp

@oKtosiTe I blame the lack of emoticons.

oKtosiTe

LOL

badp

(I wanted to be a Linux user since 2000, but I kept trying Knoppix live CDs or similar crap. As soon as I found out about "package management" I was sold.)

oKtosiTe

5:15 PM

I actually think it's a good thing. Finding useful information for Linux is often easier since the signal-to-noise-ratio is better.

badp

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade is so beautiful. sniff

oKtosiTe

@badp Indeed. I tried SuSE, Slackware, Knoppix and RedHat before getting stuck on APT for a couple of years.

Yi Jiang

@badp QFT.

badp

(although I prefer sudo aptitude then pressing uUgg)

(update indexes, mark all updates, review changes, confirm changes)

oKtosiTe

Never got into aptitude. For now I'm fairly content with Arch Linux, but APT (and more mainstreamness) keeps beckoning me to come back to a Debian(-based) distro.

Powerlord

5:40 PM

I still don't use Linux on any desktop computers.

I run a box as a small web server (small being relative, it's a quad-core 2.4Ghz with 8GB RAM), and another one as a game server, but those are my only Linux boxes.

C. Ross

5:52 PM

@Powerlord Your web server is the equivalent of my primary desktop :-(

Powerlord

@CRoss What a coincidence... it's the equivalent of my primary desktop, too.

Oh wait, did we go with the 2.4Ghz processor or the 2.8Ghz processor? I can't remember now.

C. Ross

You mean you don't have 24 GB of memory?

Powerlord

Nope.

@CRoss Ironically, I was just writing a reply to that.

C. Ross

link it when you get done ...

Powerlord

Namely because Jeff appears to have missed that the Sandy Bridge processors are out now.

badp

5:55 PM

@oKtosiTe Pacman is generally faster

but the Arch Linux repositories are quite tinier

want something that isn't there? you'll have to build it

makes sense for Arch's philosophy, I guess

Powerlord

D'oh, I just noticed a braino in the reply I made to Jeff's blog, but I don't think it has an edit button.

So, when I started my PC the other day, it told me that one of the system fans had died, yet all the diagnostic stuff shows them as running. Stupid motherboard. That's what I get for getting an HP computer.

C. Ross

@Powerlord Yes it is ...

on the other hand I scratch built my PC, and still had problems with RAM and the TV Tuner (which I never bothered to replace)

Feeds

0

Q: Overacted: How to bring attention of teammate?

In 2x2 game often you need assistance from teammate: ask for minerals, ask for scan, ask for help, etc... Usually, when everything is more or less ok, you can just Alt+click on the minimap to take attention or write a text. But in case when a lot of events are going, your teammate just don't see...

starcraft-2 team-game

Powerlord

@CRoss I'm lazy, my next PC will probably just be purchased from Digital Storm or somebody.

Not sure I'll use any of their overclocking options, though.

C. Ross

6:11 PM

I don't know what I'll do next

I hardly use the power of this computer

Powerlord

I must have teh fast!

I know things like TF2 aren't exactly high end, but doesn't it at least stress it somewhat? :P

So tempted to switch to DSL after having so many problems with Broadstripe cable. :|

C. Ross

now that's something I would love to upgrade

I'm limited to 3Mb DSL here, and it's right disappointing ...

Powerlord

I don't do THAT many downloads... but I think you saw first-hand what Broadstripe's problems do to my connection in games.

Having 6 Mbps cable does nothing if I freeze for 5-15 seconds at random intervals.

That reminds me, I need to call this week and see if they can replace the cable modem, since we lease it from them. It's the last thing on my end that I can debug.

The only other possible culprit on my end at this point is Windows 7, since both the desktop and laptop are running it.

badp

6:34 PM

Beaten by 110 seconds. Darn you @Grace :P PS: I was quoting the message from the screenshot using the same formatting. :)

although now that I look at it again, it looks more like an h3

oKtosiTe

@Powerlord It is good to live in Sweden.

30/30Mbit for about $20/month.

And I've got two months of 3G for about $10.

Powerlord

@oKtosiTe Yes, the US has very poor broadband, caused by our government paying other companies to lay the lines, then letting said companies keep ownership of them. :/

oKtosiTe

@Powerlord I don't think the government lays them here either, but I can still choose several providers over the same lines. More regulation is good in this case...

Don't ask me why wireless is so good in such an oddly shaped and sparsely populated country though.

Feeds

7:16 PM

0

Q: Rogue: Is expertise important for 5-man heroics, how important?

How important is expertise for an assassination rogue in 5-man heroics? All the info pages I find for rogue stats (hit/expertise) are always aimed at hitting lv87 mobs (raid content) which I'm not (currently) interested in. For instance, I don't need to hit the 'hit cap' for poisons (spells) so...

world-of-warcraft statistics rogue 5-man

Nyuszika7H

Hi! :)

64-bit Windows users (including me) are lucky. They have WOW installed on their computer. And it's totally free. (C:\Windows\SysWOW64)

=_=

^_^ vs. ˇ_ˇ

°_°

hey gang

7:29 PM

~_~

user30

±_±, evening all.

TheX

why all the faces?

badp

7:43 PM

≪_≪

Nyuszika7H

˙_˙

Powerlord

8:23 PM

@Nyuszika7H Even if you weren't talking about Windows on Windows, World of Warcraft's client is free... you can likely find a download of it if you look on the trial account page. A World of Warcraft account, on the other hand, isn't free.

Nyuszika7H

@Powerlord oh

TheX

oh....

Powerlord

8:51 PM

-1

A: Show most recent answers first in old questions

Me too. Me too. I would prefer an option to override user settings for my questions. There's always topics where the quickest answer isn't necessarily the best. Yet the current system favors speed over competency, which I consider counter to the pretended Stackoverflow mantra of "best answer win...

I can't believe someone suggested this.

Overriding a user's settings with whatever the question asker wanted?

bwarner

I got beaten to to the "not an answer" comment by Oak by 3 seconds. Pretty much the exact same wording too. It's like our moderators can simultaneously monitor everything at once.

Powerlord

@bwarner Oak can read your mind...

thethinman

9:13 PM

About this q

3

Q: Rogue: Is expertise important for 5-man heroics, how important?

How important is expertise for an assassination rogue in 5-man heroics? All the info pages I find for rogue stats (hit/expertise) are always aimed at hitting lv88 mobs (raid content) which I'm not (currently) interested in. For instance, I don't need to hit the 'hit cap' for poisons (spells) so...

world-of-warcraft statistics

removed tags 5-man and rogue, am I a douche?

Powerlord

@thethinman No. Rogue is the name of a completely separate series of games, and likely the rogue tag already exists and points to that. 5-man is just useless in general.

And in case you're wondering, the "YES!" and "Well, actually..." comments were jokes, in case you saw them before my latest edit. :P

sjohnston

9:36 PM

@powerlord The "roguelike" tag is typically what is used to refer to those games. "Rogue" does pose a lot of potential for confusion though

Powerlord

@sjohnston It's a moot point, as each WoW class doesn't really need its own tag.

sjohnston

@Powerlord True

Steve V.

10:03 PM

Hey +10k'ers and Diamond-nauts!

What do we do about answers that are the poster's first experience with the site, but are obviously not answers?

For example, MinkyHighlander's answers here: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/14630/…

badp

10:23 PM

@SteveV there's a flag reason for that

> flag → it needs ♦ moderator attention → not an answer

Steve V.

Right, and I did flag them, but if I flag and they just get deleted, the person doesn't learn

badp

@SteveV then comment :)

but a large number of those 1 rep users never come back...

so take a look at their profile

when did they register? when did they post? when did they last visit? how much time in between? how much time since? etc.

Steve V.

Makes good sense

If you see a pattern of repeat returning, leave a comment

if it's just a drive-by post and run, flag

thethinman

@Powerlord K, glad someone agrees. Also I didn't read your earlier comments so no worries.

@Powerlord Also the rogue tag did not exist, that user created both the tag 5-man and rogue, I think we need to message him (gaming.stackexchange.com/users/5293/shizam).

Not picking on him or anything, just think it's good to know when you shouldn't create a tag. He seems like a potential big contributor for WoW.

Also, here's my (censored).

Steve V.

Don't be ridiculous. Tags = organization. More tags = more organization. Obviously. (:

thethinman

10:37 PM

I see I have it all wrong :(

badp

10:49 PM

The rogue tag should be created!

Rogue (computer game)

Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980. It is generally credited with being the first "graphical" adventure game, and was a favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, in part due to the procedural generation of game content. Rogue popularized dungeon crawling as a video game trope, leading others to develop a class of derivatives known collectively as "roguelikes". For example, it directly inspired Hack, which in turn led to NetHack. Roguelikes have since influenced commercial games outside the genre, such as Di...

↑ for the "trope namer" of roguelikes, obviously.

Steve V.

/me channels Jeff Atwood

"Solve the problems you have, not the problems you think you'll have!"

badp

@SteveV Fair enough, I'll go create the proper rogue tag momentarily and make the problem.

Steve V.

...

Well, i guess i deserved that.

(:

Feeds

11:05 PM

0

Q: How to kill a zombies in Minecraft and not get hurt?

Is there a smart way of disposing zombies and not losing like 2-3-4-5 hearts in the process? No matter how far you are, they always seem to reach further than you can which sucks... :S zombies should be short range not snipers.. Ok, so is there a specific tactic that works? A specific timing to ...

minecraft killing zombies

0

Q: Avoid tags that mean different things in different games

Well this is actually a continuation of a rant I had back in July, but the content here is a little different and more specific, so please disregard the previous thread :) Many tags currently have different meaning in different games. I really think we should try and avoid using tags like these....

discussion tagging

0

Q: Where are the stairs?

After trying a lot of roguelikes, I decided I wanted to try the "trope namer": Rogue itself. Pretty soon, however, I found a problem. ---------------------- ------------------ ###+ | ------- | | # | ...

roguelikes maps rogue

Steve V.

@badp - nicely done

badp

this said

feel free to create wow-rogues

as much as I dislike "categories" in tags, they make sense in this case

Steve V.

I would, but i don't play wow

Though i'm getting closer and closer to dropping ca$h on minecraft

Oak

11:23 PM

Nothing like a good rant on meta, once in a while.

Feeds

0

Q: Make a special tag class for "game tags".

An unofficial but neigh-undisputed pattern that appeared here in gaming is tagging questions with the name of the game they are concerned with. Some questions concern more than one games while others concern no specific games, but the overwhelming majority is about a specific game. This is absol...

feature-request tags

Steve V.

@Oak - Not a bad idea.

Oak

I agree, hence my suggestion :)

Though it is missing a part about how to manage that

Steve V.

poof

Oak

11:49 PM

@badp did you mean to add what looks like your personal e-mail into that image?

badp