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12:07 AM
I feel a bit strange asking questions that I pretty much know the anser to, but that is probably normal for seeding a site
 
Bob
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Q: Identify this early 90's DOS adventure game with insta-kill statue eye ray death beams

Shaun HammanI've been attempting to find this one adventure game I have vague memories of. It was a DOS game that I would have played in the early-mid 90's. I'm fairly sure it had VGA graphics, and it was a point-and-click adventure game in the style of King's Quest/Space Quest. I never made it very far in ...

 
Love the redundancy, @Mana. Very nice touch. I've trained you well. ♪
 
@ThomasMcDonald Hey, I'm in there! Famous
 
@Grace bows I figured adding a bit of charm to the otherwise dull title might attract some views and potential answers.
 
Oh, thanks @Mana by the way. Hackers was a great film.
Funny how I recognised bits of Uplink in it, although it should be the other way 'round.
 
12:15 AM
@Arda I <3 Hackers. That's like one of my favorite films ever.
So many people hate it for "not being a realistic simulation of hacking" but honestly, who cares? It's a blast.
 
These days, hacking is not a realistic simulation of hacking.
 
@Bob Funny, I just realized how suitable that question title is given his gravatar
 
Bob
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Q: Why won't Daisy Oak massage my Pokemon?

CheezmeisterFor the past few days, I've visited her in Pallet town between 15:00 and 16:00, and all she's done is yammer about her tea. Do I have to fulfill some other condition for her exclusive services?

 
chokes on drink
Oh okay.
 
You okay, @Mana?
 
12:27 AM
I'll live.
 
Sigh, why oh why would Audiosurf's keyboard controls suck
 
Also, realism is silly. We wouldn't watch movies or play games if we wanted realism.
Though, admittedly, if games were realistic in the other direction...
 
@GraceNote Huh?
 
I've wished a game was my life many times. Though given some of the games, I'm not sure why, since it would be entirely too dangerous, but..
 
@Tim Probably because of save points
or because you're the only smart guy around :P
 
12:31 AM
@TimStone I've had that with Second Life. Low point in my life.
 
Consarned connection issues, I get a highlight in here but I don't even see a message because I never got the packet. Or something.
 
Ah yes, the ability to access my internal start menu and reload. :D
 
But imagine being able to zoom like that in real life.
@GraceNote @GraceNote @GraceNote @GraceNote
 
@ArdaXi Pretty much as what Tim Stone illustrated. Except mine would be more geared towards that "games taught me to be sexist" scenario.
 
@GraceNote That...seems odd.
 
12:34 AM
Reddit, what are you doing, where are all the upvotes? D:
oh crap, I forgot to include an image, duh.
 
Finally got Stealth Adept
Now let's try for the 11 mins ninja mono stealth achievement
 
Pshaw. What good is Twitter if nobody ever responds to me :(
 
Failed.
Failed again.
 
@ArdaXi Your mistake was thinking that there was something good about Twitter.
 
@TimStone Well, it did coach me out of my "depression" last week.
 
12:42 AM
Oh, well, that's pretty good then.
 
I LIKE RAINBOWS can we talk about rainbows
 
Failed once more.
 
Only if you reference unicorns too
 
@Tim that reminds me of yesterday when I rode a unicorn over a bunch of rainbows
it was pretty much the coolest thing ever
 
@Mana Were there dolphins, though?
 
12:45 AM
Once moar!
 
@Mana Robot Unicorn Attack!
"ALWAYS I WANNA BE WITH YOU, MAKE BELIEVE WITH YOU, AND LIVE IN HARMONY HARMONY, OH LOVE"
 
@Grace Always.
 
And one more fail... although I totally haven't seen that grey block come
hax!
 
hugs @badp Sounds difficult maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
 
It's the Solo track from Magnetis
 
12:49 AM
That sounds cool.
 
12 mins long, kinda slow but bumpy.
 
@TimStone Eraaaaasuuuuuuureeeee
 
goes off to eat dinner
 
unless after 'harmony harmony' he says 'always'
then I fail
wouldn't surprise me
one more try.
and again another
I wonder if SD is faster than 123
 
Oh hey. There's no starred message by me in the list. Oh wait. This is worse
 
Bob
12:59 AM
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Q: What important differences are there between the various online game distributors?

AarobotLast weekend, I decided I was going to buy a couple of games, which I haven't done in a while. I seem to remember a time when your choices consisted of either Steam, or... Steam. Now there seems to be a dizzying array of choices, including: Amazon GamersGate Impulse Direct2Drive Steam, obviou...

 
@Bob They're from Canadia!!!
 
That question confuses me. The fineprint doesn't make sense: "I don't want your opinion, I want you to tell me mine!"
 
My best run so far :(
 
@Arda I don't really get it either
 
(I decided that the easiest way to go for ninja is to just hit no blocks at all, so that image shows the failure of my evil proposition.)
 
1:02 AM
It's also a dupe of the question mentioned.
 
(I hit a grey right after.)
 
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Q: What are the different digital distribution services for PC gaming?

Alastair PittsI'm a PC gamer and am looking to start buying my games online and just downloading them, rather than buying a boxed copy. What digital distribution services exist and how do they differ in terms of? Price Interface (Web/Desktop Client) Friends Management DRM Popularity Stability Re-downloading...

Wait. This is a DRM-rec question.
The trickery!
Using a game-rec-rec to foil us!
 
@Arda @Mana This is Aaronut we're talking about. All he's trying to do is not get classified as a subjective mess as most itemized lists are
Basically, what he's asking for is not just how to compare them, but what things he should compare them on.
 
ohhhhh
Okay, it clicks now. Thanks.
everythiiiiiiiiiing in its riiiiiight plaaaaaace
 
@GraceNote So, a shopping-meta-question.
 
1:09 AM
which is in line with the shopping rec guidelines
 
Really?
 
Aaronut is the guy who wrote the backbone of the 'real questions have answers, not items' post btw
 
@badp A user's a user to me.
And hey, I'm just one voice.
 
just to mention he's thought about this stuff too
 
You disagree, you get out there and comment. I only voice my opinion, like I always have.
 
1:10 AM
We "teach people to fish"
He's asking "How do I fish?"
 
Sigh, I just said he's not the standard 101 user
 
@badp I would do the same if Jon Skeet asked the question.
 
I really like fish.
 
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
we all just need to step back
and smoke weed erryday
 
Jon Skeet hasn't discussed about subjective stuff as much
 
1:11 AM
@badp You're implying some kind of positive ad hominem.
@Mana You tell me? I practically live in Amsterdam, yo.
 
I'm implying that he didn't ask randomly
 
@badp It's the question that's debated here, not its motivation.
 
Could you please rephrase that?
and I hit another grey
thank you Arda
:P
 
You're welcome.
 
whistles...
 
1:14 AM
@badp I mean that I'm just looking at the question, not the person asking it, nor the reasoning for asking the question.
He put a lot of effort in it, clearly. I just disagree.
Anyway, my fatigue is starting to have an impact on my logic. I'll look at it again tomorrow.
 
Also, @Mana, hex you for getting Always! stuck in my head! And probably not the Always! that you're thinking of!
 
@GraceNote You seem to know the answer to the question... answer it.
Except, we're now figuring out both the question and the answer in the answer.
 
@Arda What factors differ between online game distributors != what are the different online game distributors
 
turns off Ironman
 
@ArdaXi I don't. I'm actually interested in the answer, because the only thing I know is that Steam's terms prevent me from purchasing a single player game for two people.
 
1:16 AM
Who's up for a collaborative CW list of items?
 
If anything, the former, which is what Aarobot is asking, is the better of the two questions.
 
@Mana the former is a larger answer set then the latter
 
I already knew the question. Aarobot's been going over it with me for about a week to know if it's an okay question.
 
@GraceNote I still don't get that... I thought most game licenses would like to see that.
 
I don't know if that's the best way to answer, but I can't contribute a full answer myself
 
1:17 AM
btw, I think this question is completely off topic
 
@GraceNote Ah, that explains a lot.
 
@ArdaXi I've never had to deal with that in 23 years, @Arda
 
@GraceNote You've read every single EULA with every game you've played?
 
okay, I fail earlier without ironmode
 
@Mana The former is dependent on the latter. You need to establish the different distributors, then the differences between them.
 
1:18 AM
@ArdaXi Don't need to go that far. All I need to know is that I don't subject myself to being sued if I let my brother touch the PS3 controller.
 
@Arda nonono
 
@GraceNote You don't subject yourself to being sued if you share a Steam account either.
 
Or the PS2. Or the N64. Or the SNES
@ArdaXi Sued may have been overharsh. But it does break their terms of service
 
We're not talking about the specific differences between online game distributors
 
@GraceNote And I'm saying it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't for many games not through Steam as well.
 
1:19 AM
@GraceNote Then we have an incorrect answer on the site that needs a lot of downvoting
 
Any way, I said I was going to sleep. I'm gonna try harder now. :S
 
It certainly doesn't, or else, among other things, game resalers wouldn't be as blooming a business as they are.
 
it's like, if we were making a comparison chart of online services: you know those row titles on the side, where they say things like DRM etc.?
He's asking for the names of those rows.
 
@GraceNote don't get me started on resellers
 
@GraceNote Because that's what we assumed too, then we checked and couldn't find it
although personally I didn't check very hard
 
1:21 AM
@Mana Need columns first.
 
@badp This is going by exactly what you guys have told me about Steam.
 
I'm sure it denies selling accounts
okay then I'm wrong fine.
 
@badp It denies transfer.
 
then why aren't we downvoting the sharing of games question to hell?
 
@badp I'm pretty sure I voted to close that one
 
1:22 AM
@badp Because nobody ever listens to me.
 
@tzenes Irrelevant
 
maybe I misunderstood your point
 
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A: Can two accounts play a game only bought on one account, on the same computer?

OakSteam games are associated with your account, not with any computer on which they are running. The upside - you can install your games on many different computers with Steam, and games that support the Steam "cloud" feature will even allow you to synchronize save games between the different inst...

Is this +13 answer incorrect, like @GraceNote and @ArdaXi think?
 
no, its correct
 
...
 
1:24 AM
@badp The +13 answer is exactly what I've been saying
 
its a "different steam user," not a different user
two people can play the same game, but two steam accounts cannot (unless they both purchase it)
 
oh, sorry, wrong question then
 
Consequently, from the ToS of owning a Steam account...
 
eh, I was thinking of this:
 
> You may not reveal, share or otherwise allow others to use your password or Account.
 
1:26 AM
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Q: Can I create one steam account per game?

AkuseteAfter reading: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/3040/is-it-possible-to-play-two-different-steam-games-on-the-same-account-at-the-same It seems as though purchasing more than one game on a single steam account limits the flexibility of how you can use a game. I understand why Steam did...

 
Yeah, that's entirely different
 
I guess my answer needs changing
 
@Grace that is better qualified with the following sentence: You agree that you are personally responsible for the use of your password and Account and for all of the communication and activity on Steam that results from use of your login name and password. You may not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account.
 
And quite frankly, @tzenes, rather than dwell on the legalities of whether "sharing between siblings" counts as temporary "transfer" or not, I find it easier to seek greener pastures.
I think Steam is an excellent system
It's just not appropriate for my own tastes.
 
@Grace it does not count as a temporary transfer
the passage dictates that you are responsible for how it is used
or rather steam holds you responsible
technically a court would decide if you were
 
1:30 AM
And I'd rather not have to deal with a court at all.
 
I guess that means if your brother gets you VAC banned, Steam doesn't care
 
He's the one with the account, not me.
 
@Grace I'm not sure why you would
 
(I didn't know you had one to begin with. The moar you know.)
 
the passage is meant to indicate that if someone does something illegal with steam, valve holds you responsible, not that you can't both play games on the account
 
1:32 AM
Then what is the point of stating that you may not share or allow others to use your password or Account?
If that's simply just a courtesy, then is the selling or transfer of the account equally a courtesy?
 
@badp You seemed kind of ticked off these past few hours; are you feeling alright?
 
I'm okay; part of the annoyance is I can't share the details with you.
although "much ado about nothing" sums it up well
 
I see...sorry man.
 
what for? You've done nothing.
 
@GraceNote The statement is from the perspective of Valve. Valve does not consider any act of sharing, it considers all actions on the account as those of the account holder
 
1:35 AM
I don't want to be convinced that I can safely operate a Steam account any more than I want to be convinced otherwise. I'm already using other distributors for my needs. It's a solved problem.
 
thus as far as valve is concerned there is no such thing as sharing
 
Ahh, no, it's more like a "my condolences"-type sorry.
 
@Mana expressing sorrow as a source of empathy
technically saying you're sorry is not an apology only an admission of your current emotional state
 
I still can't comprehend how they concern "no such thing as sharing" when they explicitly state that "you may not share". But it'll probably go over my head no matter how many times you explain it. So, truce?
 
I'm sorry about your sorryness at any rate
 
1:37 AM
@GraceNote if you prefer. It makes no difference to me if you play steam games, you seemed concerned with the legal issues so I tried to share them with you
 
@tzenes I'm less concerned about legal issues and more interested in not being concerned about them.
 
Then I would advise Lexapro
 
@tzenes It does to me, I now know who I'm not sending extra copies to :P
 
 
1 hour later…
OMG @LessPop
 
Muppets + LCD Soundsystem. Two great tastes that taste great together.
Ah, yeah, that's the followup to APM
good mod.
 
my server's glyph market is a ripe, plump, low-hanging fruit
and I am going to harvest the crap out of it
... as soon as I can figure out why the mod isn't paying attention to the auctions I already have and trying to repeatedly restock them
 
3:16 AM
umm what computer display problem causes this ?
 
 
2 hours later…
5:05 AM
 
Bob
5:38 AM
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Q: When Can I Start Killing People?

KeaanuIt was my impression that, at the first of Mirror's Edge, you're not allowed to kill anyone. But then suddenly, somewhere in the middle of the game, you're allowed to kill people - but the game does not inform you of this. At what point does Mirror's Edge start allowing me to kill people without...

 
Bob
5:53 AM
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Q: How much of a stat bonus can my characters get via revocation?

KatieKHow much of a stat bonus is each revocation of my characters worth? Does it depend on which class I'm revocating?

 
 
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Bob
7:53 AM
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Q: Playing Medal Of Honor on LAN?

Abdel OlakaraHi, I would like to know if we can play (multiplayer) MOH 2010 on local network. My friends and I would like to play on the local network we have. Thanks :)

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Q: Is there a news feed for new Steam demos?

OakSteam publishes a news feed for "general Steam news" and a news feed for new releases; however, I've noticed I often manually check out the demos page, looking for new demos. Is there any news feed for that page, updating with new game demos as they are released?

 
 
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Bob
9:29 AM
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Q: Metagross in Pokemon Soul Silver

CraigHi all, I would quite like to use a Metagross as my tank in pokemon soul silver. Is there anyway I can get a hold of this pokemon or any of its pre-evolved forms without importing them from another game ??

 
Bob
9:53 AM
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Q: Stuck inside a rock - glitch

benhowdle89Hi, I'm playing the glitch-riddled Fallout New Vegas. I'm on the Deathclaw Promontory and managed to kill one while sliding down the side of a rock. I'm now INSIDE the rock. I can run about, i can see back out the rock but i hit the "invisible" rock edges and cannot move out from within it! Ple...

 
 
1 hour later…
11:23 AM
@Bob Can't you kill in every level except the tutorial?
Of course, if you, unarmed, are up to 3 guys with assault rifles, you'll fail on accoutn of death...
 
Heeeeey.
 
11:47 AM
Hi @Mana
 
12:02 PM
Oh hey @Arda. Sorry for my late reply bro.
 
No problem.
 
Okay, great, so I'm now looking at a client for a service that is supposed to be decentralized, for Usenet cataloguing. It stores the posts itself on Usenet, except every post has to be signed by a signserver which can be attacked. How decentralized is a service with an SPoF?
 
Not very decentralized?
 
Exactly.
 
12:07 PM
yesssss
all points to me
 
It was implied.
 
I know, I was just joking around. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez
 
12:19 PM
hey was that Grace's icon I just saw leaving the chatroom
I only caught a glimpse of it as my attention was divided by trying to game reddit for site traffic, but I'm fairly certain it was indeed that icon
 
wtf I leave for 10 hours and all I find is one flag
...from Community!
an invalid one!
 
@badp Maybe Grace already handled all the flags or something?
I went about the site and all I found were a few poorly written answers to clean up.
 
@badp How does Mr. Community flag stuff?
 
@YiJiang Low quality posts, e.g.
There also apparently are automated flags for posts that are too long, that have too many comments, etc.
at any rate, I for one want to keep the -4 answer "buy one pirate the other"
I want to leave evidence of our community-wide uncompromising stance on the topic
 
@badp Where?
 
12:33 PM
@badp Hmmm?
 
-4
A: Can I install Magicka on 2 computers?

Federico RuizOf course, you can buy one and pirate the other.

 
Uh... >_>
 
That should not be kept.
 
Would not having the answer make people pirate any less?
I don't see the point then
Later, lunch.
 
@badp No, but it's a pretty darn useless answer
 
12:35 PM
It has nothing to do with motivation
It's not just a useless answer, it's illegal.
 
@YiJiang That's what downvotes are for ;)
 
I think it should be downvoted, not removed.
 
@badp Not any more point in downvoting the answer after something like -4, the community has spoken.
 
It's a bad suggestion but it doesn't contain any links to pirate-related things nor does it contain any inherently offensive content.
 
Downvotes are useless on an answer like this, because it should simply be deleted.
I don't get it. We've deleted piracy answers before, why is this one special?
 
12:41 PM
@YiJiang Fine, then don't downvote it anymore.
@ArdaXi Because it'd be me pressing the button, and I don't think I want to.
(Also, our two trusted users haven't used their votes against it)
 
@Arda shrug @badp's spoken, bro; if you really want to argue this that much bring it up in a meta-topic.
 
meh, I'm but one mod
feel free to argue
 
@Mana I've flagged it. I'll wait for a sane mod to pick it up.
 
@Arda :(
 
@badp They can't delete answers, right?
 
12:43 PM
@YiJiang Trusted users can vote to delete negatively scored answers.
 
@badp Huh, so they've added that feature
> Vote to delete posts scored -1 and lower
Interesting. Well, there are only two, and it's doubtful that they may even have saw this answer
 
Yes, and they haven't seen the chat discussion either.
 
It is flagged spam, so it's in their 10k tools
 
@badp They haven't been on in the last 4 hours.
 
with big gnarly one next to it :)
 
12:45 PM
I flagged for mod attention
 
Well, we'll see.
 
What's Grace's deletion policy? Has she ever made that public?
 
She usually deletes comments-as-answers/questions-as-answers from new users one hour after they're posted, so that the poster has a chance of reading the explanatory comment.
I joined her in this.
 
@badp You can just use the 'message user' feature, right? Anyway, I'm kind of curious about how one of those messages work...
 
@YiJiang No, because it's for Serious Business™ only
It sends a message to the user in question, and Robert, and Rebecca, and the Team, and the other moderators.
You don't want to spam Jeff right? :P
 
12:50 PM
@badp Ah, very serious business then.
 
Hmm, it's not working properly.
It got the first one, but not the second one.
It also did get "Have you tried pressing the Dead Space 2 bar"
Ah. Perfect. Simplicity is key.
Now to write a regex that matches on [sS]pace but not on Dead Space 2
 
1:08 PM
[^D][^e][^a][^d] [sS]pace [^2]
:P
I'm sure there's something horribly wrong with that
You know where SO is tho.
 
I've already done it
The point is, Javascript doesn't have lookarounds.
So it would fail on Dead Space, making it Dead Dead Space 2
 
really? I think I used them once
 
So I modified it to rewrite Dead Space to Dead Space 2
 
@ArdaXi I don't see the problem there
 
It has lookaheads, but not lookarounds.
 
1:12 PM
Dead Space is deprecated
Dead Space 2 is the hot new flamin' business
 
So it has to be modified to Dead Space 2
not Dead Dead Space 2
 
naaah
Dead Space is dead, so it's just the dead version of Dead Space 2
Dead Dead Space 2.
(at this point you should be wondering whether 'dead' is the right spelling for 'dead')
 
Alright, you did that.
>.<
"Help identifying Dead Space 2 game (NES, I think)"
> I also vaguely remember the beginning of the game taking place outside of all these rooms, in open Dead Space 2, and then as you scroll to the right you come to a doorway at the right edge of the screen; when you pass through that, you begin your exploration of all the connected rooms.
@badp Does it even work? It seems flaky.
 
@ArdaXi What? You just copy pasted it?
I didn't test it
 
No, I mean the script.
 
1:23 PM
Eh, I'd have to try it; now I'm busy trying (well, installing) Ubuntu 11.04
 
Ah. Which browser do you use?
 
Chromium.
 
Good.
Then it'll definitely work, anyway.
Not that I would expect you to try it, it's horrible.
 
whistles
 
Still hi, @Mana
 
1:30 PM
Testing out your script @Arda. I'm impressed bro.
 
meh, needs lots of improvements
 
Hey man, at least you're devving stuff
 
Useless stuff
 
Everything counts
 
Bob
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Q: 2 player variant of Sokoban?

ripper234Can you help me find the name of this game? It is a 2-player Sokoban variant, where one player can push the stones vertically, and the other can push them horizontally.

 
1:38 PM
Oh man. I hope we don't get too many more of those @Bob.
 
Now with added tag editing: Install
This edits the space tag to dead-space-2 instead of Dead Space 2
 
Sweet.
This breaks "How to die in space?" in search results; it's now "How to die in dead-space-2?"
one sec while I grab a screencap
 
Got it
 
cool
My personal favorite is
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Q: Help me identify old PC game named 'space'

SayyidHi! We had a game in PC about 15 years ago, whose directory name was SPACE. All I remember about the game is that the main character was in space, and there were some scenes in the game. I can remember a scene were the character walks (or runs?) in a way, and suddenly two creatures (can't rememb...

 
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Brilliant.
Oh, this is really badly written by the way, especially performance wise
 
1:51 PM
@Arda it's cool bro, it's amusing for me
 
@Mana I'd attach them to the CW answer?
 
@badp I was about to say
Yours already covers the water one so that one can just be removed, but I'd append the point about the pit
 
@Mana Why do your least nice messages always get the most stars?
 
because Mana is so coooooooooool, we appreciate being reminded he can also be just 'cool'
 
I'm talking about things like
15 hours ago, by Mana
@Arda You definitely have a dere side, although not for girls. stares
 
Bob
1:59 PM
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Q: Why does my double cart break apart here?

MachaI have a double cart booster which I am attempting to set up. The track is shown in action here in this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3x8hOngYgM . As you can see, the cart breaks into two on the return. A full view of the track, and a close up of the section missing from the vid...

 
@Mana You're completely ruining my reputation, man.
@GraceNote That's a bit late, don't you think?
I was confused by the fact that clicking the notifications button opened a new tab.
 
:( I'm sorry @Arda, it wasn't meant to be taken horribly seriously
 
Like the previous time?
 
I HOPE YOU CAN FIND IT IN YOUR MASSIVE HEART SOMEWHERE TO FORGIVE ME
What was the previous time again?
oh
right
 
@Mana That would be dere of me.
 
2:07 PM
exactly, and since I'm not a girl, logic precludes that...
 
@Mana Assuming you weren't wrong, which you are.
 
2:18 PM
My epic gimp skills never cease to amaze me
 
Oh God what now.
 
hurry up @badp I wanna see this before I leave which is right now
oh well
take care
 
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A: Why does my double cart break apart here?

badp I don't know why the double cart fails when hitting the dirt block there, but I'm not going to give too much thought about it, given that it's a glitch we're talking about. Replacing the end of the second booster with another circular return would let the boosting carts retain enough momentum ...

IMMA UPGRADIN MAH LAZERS
 
2:40 PM
empathy: NOT FOUND
 
Mmm, bacon.
 
@TimStone Empathy is another one of those dere things.
So, @Mana, have another message to implicate me?
 
2:59 PM
As fun as it is to talk shit about Quora, it's true that SE doesn't get questions and answers like this.
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