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9:00 PM
@Mana Better third than none ;-). And anyway, I expected to run for the third place after Grace and Oak anyway when I nominated.
 
@Fabian Indeed, but not enough difference from Grace and Fallen to be significant
 
I was a bit suprised that we got so many candidates, but that is a really good sign in the end.
 
and most of them seem to be somewhat viable
 
@CRoss I wasn't entirely serious about that
 
though I think it's fairly clear who will win
 
9:03 PM
@CRoss I think one out of three is exceptionally clear.
The number 2 and 3 mods are somewhat murkier.
 
I have to say I think we could justify more than 3 mod positions, but I'm somewhat biased.
 
@CRoss I can see why certain people will win, but not why the "Hi, I've been gone for a while, but I'm back now, honest!" guy got so many votes.
 
@Powerlord I don't remember; were you really active back when Juan was an active mod?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz 4th place is a three way tie, a full 11 points (~40%) behind third place
@Powerlord Being site creator counts for a lot
 
@Mana No, but I've also fired people from my own websites staff for going incommunicado, so it's not a surprise that I don't like people who just up and vanish.
 
9:05 PM
The only time I recall seing @Powerlord was when we were fighting over some TF2 question. Not even having played the particular update...
 
@CRoss Yes, and I find that quite sad for a community-run site.
 
@CRoss But the 4th place is really not important in the end
 
@Fabian but it makes it less likely any of those people will get enough votes to steal third
 
So, if I manage to create an Area51 site a day before someone else does, I should get to be supreme dictator for life?
 
I've never really seen Juan Manuel active here, but I've only been here for half the life of the site (seems longer somehow ;-))
 
9:06 PM
(Calvin and Hobbes reference)
 
@Powerlord What about the Scout's baseball? Also, I heard jars can be blasted away as well :) – Oak♦ 12 mins ago
@Fabian He has a bad case of the real life
 
@badp I've never seen a Scout's baseball reflected. Jarate jars can be, but not sure about Mad Milk.
 
Anyways, I asked him during the Town Hall stage. He said that he shouldn't ever have circumstances like that ever again and implied that he would gladly step down if it becomes a problem.
 
So the current favorites are Grace, Juan and badp
 
@Mana Slight problem with that: StackExchange has no way to forcefully recall a moderator.
 
9:09 PM
Which is why he said that he would step down if that happens again. I fail to see the problem.
 
@Powerlord that's what you think
 
@Powerlord No need to recall anyone, an inactive mod is not a problem as long as you still have enough active ones
 
@Powerlord Of course it does. Force @JeffAtwood to recall the moderator.
 
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A: We miss TheTXI!

Jeff AtwoodI don't know, he hasn't even responded to recent moderator-related emails, either. Nothing urgent, mind you, but the lack of response was odd.. guess he's busy! Now this is getting serious. I can't get any response to emails on multiple email addresses, and these are his "last-seen" dates: SO:...

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A: Continuity of Moderation

Robert CartainoOne approach I was considering is to officially designate the 4th place winner as an alternate. That would cover two cases: a moderator no longer able to serve, and having someone who can fill in for a temporary absence due to work or family obligations. The entire nomination-campaign-primary-ele...

 
@ArdaXi In case you haven't noticed, Jeff does whatever he wants, what the community wants be damned.
 
9:10 PM
@Powerlord Hence force.
 
@Powerlord He does own the place.
 
@ArdaXi Jeff has a dead man's switch on SE. If he flips out, it all cuts off.
 
0
Q: How to Dice Chain in Veggie Samurai?

alekoneI know it's a silly question, but I just can't understand what breaks my "dice chain" in veggie samurai. what is the correct move to chain the strokes? heeeeeelpppppppppp thank you!

 
@CRoss He won't pull the plug. Then he wouldn't make money.
 
Anyway, if you're afraid of sudden changes of hearts, it's Joel, not Jeff you have to fear :P
 
9:13 PM
whistles No rollback to see on that Veggie Samurai question, move along.
 
... I thought I was the one lacking a sense of humor ... or maybe that's the problem :-S
 
"Oh, yeah, all of our sites will have unique domain names. We don't want to make a "for dummies" series"
"so, yeah, um, the "for dummies" series really kinda works... okay, everything under the stackexchange domain!"
 
intelligent people reserve the right to change their minds
now, the way and time he changed his mind ...
 
@CRoss I know. I do change my mind a lot. Still he burned some goodwill that day :/
 
heh
 
9:15 PM
@Mana I just rolled-back your roll-back.
 
That's so confusing but I'll take it I guess.
 
You shouldn't have rolled back. Bad @Mana!
 
:(
 
ROFL
 
It's an impulsive habit when I see I overwrote another edit
 
9:17 PM
go SonyLeaks™!
 
So wait, what was being given to him? One of the encryption keys or something?
 
@Mana yeah
 
hahaha
 
Makes me wonder what Twitter client he was using that lists the entire message he replied to in it. Of course, it's hard to find out now since that tweet was deleted several hours ago.
 
@CRoss Keep in mind, I've voted up several people in the primaries that i don't intend to cast one of my 3 votes for.
 
9:22 PM
@Powerlord TweetDeck, it says so in the screenshot.
 
The primaries are not a perfect predictor of electoral success
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Exactly! (and I think that posts needs starring)
I've already voted up more candidates than I can in the final vote.
 
I voted up 8 people
 
as have I, but will you vote for someone you didn't upvote in the primary?
lets just see how it turns out
 
@CRoss obviously no?
 
9:26 PM
@badp I'm one of the others, right?
 
@ArdaXi I didn't vote on people that already have a diamond on other sites.
 
@badp So you didn't vote for @CRoss or @IvoFlipse, or me.
 
Still they might be perfectly good people to vote for in the elections
 
@badp pro-temps shouldn't count ;-)
but at least you didn't vote me down
 
@CRoss If you're a pro-tem on another site than Gaming, you're per-definition unfit. How can we trust they will make good decisions if their moderating career started with such a bad decision? ;-)
 
9:28 PM
believe it or not, I play more than one kind of game :-P
 
@CRoss That's actually a fair point
 
Right. FPS, RTS, TBS, et cetera.
 
A very fair point indeed.
 
Oh hi @IvoFlipse, did I ping you?
 
click
 
9:29 PM
yes you did
 
now you die
 
Oh, it was about how @badp didn't think you'd be a good moderator.
 
I wonder if I can ping @YourMom, too!
 
funny, I said the same about him
 
I dunno why, but I seem to have some kind of subconcious preference for polyglots.
 
9:31 PM
@ArdaXi Sorry to break it to you, but I already told him why I didn't upvote him
 
@badp I was just informing him about my ping. Why does it always have to be about you?
 
I don't lack upvotes, but I also have enough downvotes @badp ;P
 
@IvoFlipse I didn't downvote either ;)
 
I wasn't blaming you either
 
@IvoFlipse I was really surprised at that
 
9:32 PM
That's right, I can still manipulate the primaries through downvotes!
downvotes everyone
 
though I must say, except for Grace I rarely see the other gaming mods in the general mod room
 
Oh wait, that wouldn't help.
 
@ArdaXi Dunno, you're at-mentioning me a lot
 
@Less At some point I just have to set up a query to find out how many of my questions were answered by you
 
@IvoFlipse I see Oak in there once in a while
 
9:33 PM
@badp Like as in: @badp really sucks.
 
@IvoFlipse And Grace is even here when you don't see her ;-)
 
But yeah, polyglots are awesome.
 
and I think @GraceNote just loves meta
 
anyway, I'm trying to study
 
@badp You come back here right now young man!
Actually, saying "young man" seems wrong, from me.
 
9:34 PM
but that was why I wonder how much time Juan even has to moderate as last I heard he was quite busy
but I can perfectly life with Grace + Fallen being mods, whoever fills up the team can't screw up with them anyway
 
he says he got all that worked out
 
@IvoFlipse Erm... I'm still in the race.
 
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Q: Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch

FabianFloating islands, in a game where many spells can throw you across the whole screen. There are some sadistic developers working on Magicka, for sure. I'm at the end of chapter 6, fighting against successive groups of mages, and mostly getting myself voted off the island, in a very direct and pai...

 
@Feeds ROFL
 
and there the thing that he was pro game-rec, I'm not sure if he even agrees with most of the other moderators on SE. Then again I also haven't discussed it with him, so can't really tell if we agree
 
9:36 PM
@YiJiang: Hey, new request for the election tracker... is it possible to retrieve a perspective mod's recent site activity?
 
@IvoFlipse Pro... game-rec? EVIL! (Oh, hi @Oak)
 
Oak
@Fabian what gives?
 
@Oak The title of the questions is the name of the achievement you get when you die by falling
 
Oak
Man, I think that's the second time.
 
It's not the most descriptive, but it is not totally random
 
9:37 PM
I think it's valid. Gravity is a heartless bitch.
 
@Oak It's actually my first rollback ever
 
Oak
@Arda but it's terrible as a question title... at least before I knew it's an achievement name.
Same as
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Q: Khaaaaaaaan! (how to kill him)

FabianHow am I supposed to kill the orc chief Khan? He is faster than me, just grabs me and pummels me to death. I don't have enough time to really hurt him before he is able to grab me. My fight with him looks something like this: Any ideas on how to survive this boss fight?

 
Magicka is just provoking me with plenty of opportunities for silly question titles
 
@Oak Who cares? It's all about the rep:
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Q: How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?

Kaestur HakarlI am playing a human wizard, and I just killed a monster, leaving a corpse on the ground. How do I tell whether it is safe to eat this corpse? I leave the monster unspecified because I am interested in "how can I figure out whether this is edible," rather than whether any particular monster is e...

 
@Fabian In theory, so is Team Fortress 2... with its 368ish achievements with strange names.
 
Oak
9:39 PM
@Arda it's about being descriptive and making the question Google-visible
 
For instance, if I asked questions about On Her Majesty's Secret Surface and stuff like that.
 
Being the first hit for "Gravity, thou art a heartless bitch" seems like good Google-fu
@Powerlord Her Majesty's... secret surface?
 
@ArdaXi TF2 Spy Achievement dealing with control points.
It's the first one I could think of with a humorous name.
 
I've used too many SEO-optimized question titles (~100k views on FNV questions), sometimes I have to be a bit silly
 
@Powerlord Revengineering?
 
Oak
9:41 PM
I still don't like it
 
@CRoss How the West Was Gunned!
(I think that's one anyway)
 
Oak
Maybe something like "Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch (how not to get this achievement on the islands level)"
 
@Oak I'm not insisting on this title, but that is a bit long, or?
 
Oak
Yea, it is
 
I probably shouldn't play Magicka anymore, it always ends in discussions about my question titles
;-)
 
Oak
9:45 PM
"Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch (how to avoid it on the islands)"?
 
Dance Dance Immolation, For Whom the Shell Trolls, Out Damned Scot!, Guns of the Navar0wned ...
 
"I don't want to get voted off the island" ;-)
 
Oak
"Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch (how to not get voted off the island)"?
(Yes, I still like my parenthesis)
parenthesis? parenthesises? parenthesisys?
 
@CRoss Do you have the Riftwalker achievement yet?
 
Oak
What's the singular and what's the plural?
 
9:48 PM
@Powerlord No, haven't played much since the baby
 
"Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch, please don't throw me off the island"?
 
Oak
@Fabian =)
 
@Fabian Don't worry, I have the same problem. :/
 
@Oak parentheses
 
Oak
@CRoss so that's the plural, and with "i" it's the singular?
 
9:50 PM
yes
 
Oak
Thanks
When most of your vocabulary is from video games, sometimes you can't even spell the simplest things :)
I'm especially bad with kitchen stuff. Maybe I should play some Cooking Mama.
 
@Oak As a joke, I almost replied with one word: "simplist" (to see if you'd fall for it)
 
@Oak @Grace If you think it makes sense, just revert to the more descriptive title. I don't think the title is very googleable in any case, but I won't insist on my title.
 
Oak
@Powerlord what's "simplist"?
 
That reminds me, I have a question I should ask when I get home from work and can access Gaming.
@Oak A misspelled form of simplest. :D
and when I ask my question, I'm going to include the TF2 Achievement name I'm asking about JUST BECAUSE I CAN!
...well, that and I'm asking how to get it, since I haven't been able to on my own so far.
 
9:54 PM
@Oak "Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch, don't throw me off the island, please; I don't want to die .. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"?
 
Oak
Oh come on
 
I'm just kidding
 
Wait why the foul language on the front page? I don't get it.
 
Oak
Achievement name :)
Man that's a really good excuse
 
Even so.
 
9:57 PM
you did ban that one question, over the item name
 
Oak
Someone should find a game with a ridiculously obscene achievement name and then ask about it :)
 
notarealquestion.appspot.com/gaming <-- If you're bored, try to match the question title and description, tags, and score.
 
@Oak no, no they shouldn't
 
Except @Mana who has the fastest solve time on there already
 
@Oak you don't allow ridiculously obscene games
 
9:58 PM
Here's a tip for the Not a Real Question game: Starcraft 2 questions always have the highest score.
 
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Q: Adult-themed gaming

JeffreyAre questions related to this field allowable? I've posted a related question at http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/2975/is-there-a-place-where-i-can-purchase-adult-themed-games-for-pc.

 
Oak
@CRoss I'm talking about obscene achievement names, not games
 
It's not even about what or what hasn't been allowed on the site. This is a place for gamers of all ages. I don't see how the achievement name has anything to do with the question or why we have to use exact phrasing.
 
take it to meta if you're concerned
 
Oak
Anyway @Mana @CRoss I confess I have no special problem with any foul language when used properly - I'm not even sure how foul "bitch" is - but I defer to the admins to decide, it's their site
 
10:00 PM
abdicating authority already?
 
Oak
... or to a meta discussion, I guess
 
@Oak Last time I checked, this was supposed to be a community run site.
 
Oak
@CRoss a bit :) but seriously, even if I stayed as a mod, I have no issues with that kind of language
@Powerlord the thing with foul language is that it can cause advertisers to draw money away from the site, or Google to filter it differently; that's usually something that has to be left to the admins.
And ad revenue / Googlability are good reasons to filter language, I guess
It's just that morally I have no issues with that
 
@Oak (We have advertisers? Maybe I should disable Ad Block at some point...)
 
Oak
As long as it is appropriate of course, I mean not swearing as part of ranting, or as directly to any specific person
@Powerlord not yet... but we probably will in the future
 
10:03 PM
@Powerlord not yet, and according to Jeff, probably not this year
which I find weird, a 10k visit/day site has to at least pay for hosting
 
Oak
But @Powerlord @Mana if that's something many users do have strong opinion about, maybe it should appear in meta
 
Posted.
 
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Q: Should we excuse foul language in gaming questions if it's relevant in context?

ManaIn this question's current revision, the title contains some objectionable language because of the name of a relevant achievement. Up to date, I've been removing profanity from posts because I want to maintain a family-friendly environment on the site for gamers of all ages, and I know that some ...

 
Oak
Posted my opinion as well
 
As you've said in meta or in chat?
 
Oak
10:13 PM
(which is basically what I wrote here before)
@Mana good question anyway, good to put things on the table
 
So, what sounds good for dinner... chicken?
Oh right, I need to stop and fill my car with fuel.
I could be lazy and get a sub from the SubWay sandwich shop in the gas station.
 
I ask one question and all hell breaks loose
Very efficient of me
 
@Powerlord thanks for reminding me
 
@Fabian and you weren't even on Mars or its moons!
 
Oh man @Grace. I feel like such a hypocrite because of that one question you linked. I wasn't even thinking about the language at the time I made that edit.
 
10:23 PM
Time to hop in the Batmobile.
 
cheers
 
Well, actually I wish my car was as cool as the Batmobile.
This time I'm leaving when I say I do rather than argue for like 20 minutes!
 
Oak
@Powerlord just hum "naNAnaNAnaNAnaNA BATMAN!" as you drive, should be good enough
anyway gtg
night!
 
peace broak
 
10:37 PM
Didn't someone recently mention @bobince?
 
That has to be my most-edited question so far
7 revisions
 
Evening folks.
 
@ItakeDrukqs Evening.
 
10:53 PM
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Q: Design for the official WordPress.SE site

JinHi all. I'm Jin, and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic. However, all sites will share quite a bit of common elements so they feel like they're part of the Stack Exc...

pretty.
 
11:04 PM
1
Q: Shops, theft, and your pet(s)

I take DrukqsHow do you get your pet(s) to steal things from shops?

0
Q: Who deals more damage with minigun ‒ Wolfe or Wildcat?

BlaXpiritIn characters stats I can see that Wildcat's Damage Bonus is 4/5, while Wolfe's is only 2/5. Piercing bullets doesn't have much difference. However, I most often see people choosing Wolfe and minigun even though his advantage is only for Autogun Damage. My question is... who of them actually dea...

0
Q: Recruiting races in FFT A2

ArkiveIn Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, I've recruited humes, bangaas, Nu Mous, Seeqs, and a Gria, but I've yet to get the chance to recruit a moogle or a viera. Is there a prerequisite condition to be able to recruit these two races?

 
11:20 PM
@GraceNote mind doublechecking my shop stealing answer? I'm not too sure I got everything right
yeah, it's pretty much wrong
 
Alright, now that I've tossed out my own answer, now I'll check on yours
 
deleting till I can fix it
 
It's not wrong.
 
I confuse tameness and apport
underestimate the importance of feeding the pet right after the fact
 
I didn't remember they were different. I should note that most of my pets, even my great ki-rin, typically get eaten by purple worms or otherwise destroyed
 
11:28 PM
say that corpses count, when they don't help apport
say that picking up items costs tameness, while it costs apport
etc.
it's not just wrong, it's dangerously wrong, because it kinda sounds true!
 
Like my pet yellow dragon. Awesome, because it disposed of cockatrice corpses for me. But it got stung to death by bees.
 
Deadly poison is deadly. --more--
 
@badp I liked the ASCII map.
 
Anyway, it'll have to wait tomorrow
 
Well, I have to handle some stuff
 
11:30 PM
night, and wish me luck!
 
G'nite~
 
11:40 PM
whistles
 
0
Q: Breaking granite in the sandbox custom game type?

RedIn Dungeons(PC) how do you break the granite that surrounds the monster dens in the custom sandbox game types? By granite I mean the stone that your goblin workers can't burrow through. I can't find any spells or items that allow you to break the stone. Seeing as its sandbox theres no quests tha...

0
Q: Is the movement and ghost AI in the Super Nintendo Ms. Pac Man faithful to the arcade version?

joeforkerI have the SNES version of Ms. Pac Man. It has many obvious graphical differences and optional changes compared to the arcade version, but I'm not sure if the gameplay is the same when you select the most arcade-like options. For example, the original Pac Man has "rounded corner" turns for the ma...

0
Q: What bots do each of the Pro's spawn?

yx01When a pro buys bots at the station, what is spawned? Exact numbers would be nice. For instance I know the assassin spawns (3?) gremlins, the assault spawns buzzers, and the gunner spawns bouncers (and a few other bots too?) Does this change depending on the map? Is there any random variation...

0
Q: Are Flash games allowed here?

ArkiveFlash games are popular as of late, but I haven't seen any questions pertaining to them on this site. So are questions about flash games allowed?

 

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