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3:00 PM
just got it sending keystrokes in a loop and left it running
 
Write a Makro on Keyboard or mouse have it loop. Profit.
 
:-O
So I've been on tvtropes all day, and I've found the exit page
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@QAdley I am NOT clicking that link.
 
@fbueckert It's SFW
 
For some reason, I just never really could get into TV Tropes
 
3:03 PM
In fact, you won't even get stuck in tvtropes
 
@QAdley Not according to the link, it ain't.
 
@fbueckert It is!
 
@fbueckert he's telling the truth. I actually clicked on it.
 
@RESPAWN I'd rather not explain what I'm doing at work, looking at tentacles.
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FAE
@fbueckert It is truly safe.
 
3:05 PM
@QAdley Oh, the irony ...
 
@fbueckert If FAE says it, it must be true
@MartinSojka Wonderful isn't it
 
@fbueckert Fair enough. The URL itself probably isn't very SFW, but I can tell you that the page it leads to is.
Thankfully, I am the IT guy here, so nobody checks my surfing habits. LOL
 
@QAdley I am also not clicking that link. Your links are the reason I have done very few tag wiki updates today.
 
@RESPAWN For the most part, it's not really a big deal. We're pretty relaxed here. As long as the job gets done, that's all that matters.
 
@pixel I promise you, you can't get stuck in tvtropes from that link
It's the safest tvtropes link there is, ironically
 
3:10 PM
That is very true.
 
Also, I can't see the word wholesome without hearing it in Kaylee's voice.
 
Kaylee who?
 
FAE
@MartinSojka from Firefly, I'd imagine
 
@FAE That's the one
 
That's because Firefly is awesome
 
3:13 PM
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Q: No sound Civ 5 and wine

mark kirbyHi I wondered if any one had working sound on Civ 5 ? The game runs well but I cannot get sound working. Any suggestions ? Running 12.04 and latest wine from apt-get.

 
Just an FYI: If you removed all veins, arteries, & capillaries from your body and laid them end to end, you will die.
 
3:23 PM
@StrixVaria Assuming you managed to stay conscious through the procedure. But the pain would probably make you pass out long before you actually managed to remove a single blood vessel.
 
3:34 PM
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Q: Playstation 3 Backwards Compatibility and Ubgradability

MatthewMy PS2 has finally died, and I am looking to hunt down a PS3 60GB for the hardware backwards compatibility. I've located a few for ~250$. Since I've never really used a PS3, I have a few questions. First, the one I am looking at the most says it comes with the 2.7 firmware. If I upgrade the firmw...

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Q: Tier system in SWTOR

osdamvIn SWTOR you have light/dark points at 1000 point you have tier 1, where can I buy it or just it is a requirement? is it PVE set? how can I buy the pvp set?

 
Man... I missed an interesting conversation earlier.
 
@Fluttershy The starred list is in a pretty filthy state at the moment.
 
@QAdley It is. But that is not what I was referring to.
 
@Fluttershy To what were you referring?
 
@QAdley The discussion about polyamorous relationships.
 
3:46 PM
@Fluttershy Ah, thought you meant the poly-tentaculous ones.
 
woo, hometime
 
@QAdley I don't... What?
 
don't click it! it's a tvtropes link
 
@QAdley Hey, haven't seen that page before. Then again, I don't browse TV tropes very often.
Does that happen often?
@pixel Click it, it's a blank page saying the topic is on hold until they can make it 'wholesome'.
 
3:49 PM
@pixel I think I'm one of the few people who doesn't get sucked into reading that site for days. >_>
 
my entire day was spent going through tvtropes instead of arqade questions
 
@Fluttershy I'm with you on that one
Like, I'll click a link. Read for a bit, and then move on.
Wikipedia on the other hand.
I've had days where I've spent hours there.
 
@RESPAWN I do it on wikipedia as well
 
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Q: Why doesn't my Day Z inventory save on only one of my computers?

ladenedgeWe have two computers in the house (and two Day Z "accounts"). On one of these computers, it is not possible to save items past a certain point in my inventory. After playing around with it for far too long, it seems that once I pick up more than one pistol magazine (or possibly bandage), my in...

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Q: Gaming news blog

JackI have a gaming news blog, and I'm wondering if I have to add age gates or something in that context to posts which contain game screenshots, videos or a review text? Most games are rated for 13+ or 16+, or even 6+ - do I have to add an age gate? I don't think I've seen that on any gaming site, P...

 
4:05 PM
@Lazers My initial thought is that we aren't lawyers...
 
@JasonBerkan Mine was the same...
 
I agree with that too
(irrelevant comment)
 
Aww. You guys got it closed before I could participate.
 
say hello to the fire
 
@FAE I am in love with Kaylee
 
4:09 PM
@OrigamiRobot Kaylee, or Jewel?
 
@pixel "more a" ;)
 
Also: same user.
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Q: Best solution for a video player with age gate (jwplayer?)

JackI'm looking to integrate an age gate for videos, and I have found only two free solutions. One is really gargantuan, and the other is jwPlayer. However, jwPlayer has a misplaced age-gate, it is assigned with no regards to the sidebar nor the post wrapper, instead of in regards to only the video p...

 
@pixel I am in love with the character more than the actress.
 
FAE
@OrigamiRobot Why am I utterly and completely not surprised.
 
@FAE What is that supposed to mean?
 
4:11 PM
@OrigamiRobot Isn't everyone?
sigh
 
user15026
@origamirobot I love Kaylee so much. So much.
 
@QAdley I am in love with her the most.
 
in fact, I change my mind on nuking ESRB, there are questions on it that have no other tags and no better home
 
@OrigamiRobot No you're not!
 
What do you guys think of this? newgrounds.com/audio/listen/495298
@pixel You've already heard it, I think.
I haven't changed it or anything, because I don't have access to the software I used in the course.
 
4:15 PM
@QAdley I will fight you.
 
So... Google is planning on offering internet that is 100 times faster than what we're getting in the states now. <_<
 
@OrigamiRobot Your puny robot body is no match for my mighty porkchop
 
@Fluttershy I live pretty close to NYC. Hopefully they offer it here sooner rather than later.
 
@StrixVaria They're talking about 1 Gigabit download speeds.
 
4:16 PM
@Fluttershy Sign me up! ISPs will freak out, and Google, while probably not guaranteeing network neutrality, will at least have more incentive to do so.
 
@Fluttershy Yeah, I'm listening.
 
Oh. <_< Okay then.
 
Have we got any equivalent tags to for the other bodies BBFC PEGI etc?
 
@Fluttershy Is that enough to stop Minecraft lagging?
 
@Fluttershy If I got internet that was 100 times faster than my current, it probably still wouldn't be as fast as some of your guyses connections.
 
4:17 PM
@QAdley No! :~(
 
Do think they'll do it in England?
 
@GnomeSlicE I mean 100x faster than what is currently available. Not 100x faster than the lowest speed. >_>
 
@James Aw. Sad times. I guess I'll wait for Google FTL.
@RonanForman hahahahahahahahaha
Good one
 
@QAdley I know.
 
Also, buhhh, why have I never heard of 8 Simple Rules before, it had Katey Sagal and Kaley Cuoco in it...
 
4:18 PM
@QAdley Will make self-hosting minecraft servers be a bit more appealing :D
@Fluttershy All the articles I see on this are 2 years old.
 
My internet is even shittier than usual right now.
 
@QAdley I still don't have fibre optic where I am.
 
@RonanForman Not many places here have that either actually.
Did the issue with your video get sorted?
 
@James A couple of roads down does though.
I re-uploaded it.
 
@RonanForman Haha, that is awesome when its like that :)
 
4:28 PM
@James T_T
 
@RonanForman Ah, was going to say looks unfrozen but it is having serious loading issues :D
 
Ugh.
 
LoL contest results announced. Congrats to @Fluttershy for winning one of the game cards!
 
@James I think it's your end.
 
@James They're live streaming on YouTube right now.
 
4:30 PM
After the latest data dump, we should do some analyzing to figure out just how many of the new users actually stuck around after we closed a question of theirs.
 
@fbueckert Thanks! =D
 
@Fluttershy Those Bastards
 
user30
8 shows at once is decent
 
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Q: What video game was the first to use badges?

Talvi WatiaI know many modern games and game systems have started using badges for unlocking achievements and other awards, but what was the first game to adopt this idea?

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Q: How do I unlock privacy in multiplayer modes mission settings?

BryanEver since I started playing Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer, the privacy setting in mission settings is locked. I own the legendary or best edition so if there was a code in there I missed it. Is there something I have to do or get a certain amount of characters to level 20?

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Q: What caused Mordin to die?

desaivvI took all the paragon options, saved Maelon's data. Eve is still alive. I know how to save him. BUT... My favorite Salarian is dead. What caused Dr. Mordin Solus's death? This was a little unclear to me in the story. The cut scene shows a lot of lightning on top of the shroud. What caused th...

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Q: Questions about media rating bodies

pixelWe have esrb - it has some questions on it that belong on that tag, we don't appear to have any questions raised for any of the other major rating bodies; ACB, the Australian media rating system. ESRB, the United States and Canadian computer and video game rating system ELSPA, the former Britis...

 
4:42 PM
@Fluttershy Meh, Its only available in Kansas City for now it seems
 
@James I logged into DayZ... Had 600 blood left. A survivor was in the same room as me. I asked him to take a blood bag from my pack and give me a transfusion. He left. <_< I got hit by a zombie through a wall, bandaged, and am now sitting in the supermarket with 47 blood....
 
@Fluttershy People are not to be trusted man, at all.
 
@James He wasn't going to attack me. All he had was a crowbar. I had a revolver and a crossbow.
 
@Fluttershy I would have attacked you cause all I had to lose was a stupid crowbar :)
 
And now I"m reading TV Tropes. I blame @Wipqozn
 
user30
4:45 PM
@James Yeah, but they just offered them free internet. Sort of.
 
@Sterno You still trying to mangle your way through Act 4?
 
@RonanForman Reuploaded video now freezes at 24:01 for me :D
 
@fbueckert Well, if you substitute "trying to" with "plan to", then yes. I just haven't had any time for games lately.
Honestly I think if I skip elite packs, I can probably get it done in about 2 hours.
 
@Sterno I showed you that pretty sweet dagger I found last week, right? You can have it if you want it.
 
@fbueckert I appreciate the offer, but I don't play enough anymore to feel it's worth taking from you when you could sell it
I've played maybe 6 hours in the last 6 weeks :P
 
4:52 PM
@Sterno It's worth about 1 million or so, apparently. Nothing major. Besides, the idea is to trade you for that sweet sword you found. :P
 
@ThomasMcDonald Yeah saw that, connect your house 5Mb up and 1Mb down free for 7 years.
 
@fbueckert the new ME3 question has a unique spin on it, not covered in the other questions
I assume it hasn't been asked before because it is explained in game
 
But, I do not live in Kansas City sooooo, not useful to me yet
 
and has one of the best cutscenes in game just before it which kind of spells it out
 
user30
Oh yeah, I'm sure they won't be in rural Derbyshire anytime soon.
 
4:53 PM
@fbueckert Haha, yeah, that'd be an okay trade. I'd get more str, you'd get more dex.
 
user30
Also notification centre with Chrome is... odd.
 
If you still want to trade next week, I'm game. After work today I'm out of town for the next 5 days though
 
@ThomasMcDonald Yeah if they started 2 years ago and are only partially expanded into one city it will be a while.
 
Thresher Maw taking down a Reaper sent shivers through me the first time I saw it
was such an epic cinematic moment
 
user30
How expensive is internet in the US anyway? $70/mo sounds very expensive to me.
 
4:57 PM
120/mo for 5mbps
1mbps up
 
@ThomasMcDonald Their free service outdoes quite a bit of paid service here :)
 
@tiddy Wow. That's insane.
 
It includes TV
but so does googles
I would happily watch Comcast and TWC cable business burn
 
I pay $40/mo for 30MBit Up/Down + TV + Phone (But I dont really use the last two.. I dont even have a phone in the house :))
 
I get 5 Mbps for $44.95 CDN.
 
4:59 PM
Mine is a little cheaper as well, the 120 was Google's avg quote
 
But 70 for 1gbps up/down?
That's pretty great
 
@tiddy That is VERY nice
If they had it available here Id snag a setup easily
 
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Q: What's the difference between 1000 armor and 800 armor with +200 armor?

Jim ThioIn diablo 3, if we buy chest armor there are stats like +3oo armor I wonder what does those stats do? If we have 2 armors. One has 1000 armor and the other has 800 armor with +200 armor traits, what would be the difference?

 
I had no idea that FF8 had level scaling
Playing games before the advent of common internet access and gaming FAQs was much more mysterious
 
5:10 PM
@PatrickStalder ARG!
 
@Sterno and, at times, more frustrating.
 
@RonanForman LoL Fire Bad
 
Youtube! Why are you doing this to me.
 
@RonanForman What is it doing?
 
@James When you get to 24 minutes you'll see.
 
5:17 PM
@RonanForman Arg!
 
@James I have 0 clue why this is happening.
 
@RonanForman Crappy Internet :)
 
Why would that be the case?
 
@RonanForman Seems as random a reason as any other one I could have picked
 
And I still don't understand that movie
 
5:19 PM
@Sterno The guy kept looping until he worked out every action/reaction recording it on his cell phone so he could get it all perfect.
 
user2334
@Sterno I'm just a regular guy: I put my pants on one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I post on every child meta like I know what I'm talking about.
 
user2334
@Wipqozn when that happened I was that guy from American Atheists on the O'Reilly Factor/Jackie Chan rage facing so hard
 
@James Why is this only happening to this one video?
 
@RonanForman I do not know man. Try a different encoding format maybe? Mp4 works well for my videos
 
5:28 PM
@James That's what I use, and have always been using
 
@RonanForman Which video? And what exact time does it do it?
 
@RonanForman Oh... Hmm
@GnomeSlicE same video, reupload, different times
 
@James I don't know which video it is.
 
Guh, I can't even get it to stream at all...
@RonanForman What the hell...
 
5:31 PM
@GnomeSlicE What?
 
That's... different. Is the entire rest of the video like that?
@RonanForman I see what it's doing.
 
@GnomeSlicE From 24 onwards, yes.
 
If you play it on your PC does it work after 24?
 
Yes.
 
Do you have longer videos than this on youtube?
 
5:32 PM
@GnomeSlicE I thought we were talking about this yesterday when it was freezing at 1:20 and you asked him what codec he was using..
 
It's either the uploading or youtubes processing that does it.
 
@RonanForman It shows the proper length of the video so I would lean towards the processing side
 
And yes, UHC part one is 31 minutes long.
@James Or maybe the upload somehow cancelled, but it knew the video should be 30 minutes long.
 
And it doesn't do it... hm. I'm wondering if you ran out of memory or something while rendering... but then it wouldn't play on your PC either. Have you tried re-rendering it and uploading it again?
 
@MarkTrapp Yeah, I can imagine. Was he a mod back when that post was made?
 
5:34 PM
@RonanForman Not if the audio keeps going.
 
@GnomeSlicE It only keeps going for half a second longer.
 
@Sterno Happy to ruin your day.
 
@RonanForman Then it just stops? Okay then, it's very likely an error during upload.
 
@GnomeSlicE I'm not sure why it would do that.
 
@RonanForman It's a computer.
 
5:37 PM
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Q: Strategy for Iskatu Nightmare/Hell - Witch Doctor

Tapan ZeeI have a been trying to solo farm Iskatu for experience to get my levels up to a point where playing Hell is less "squishy". For some reason I am not finding the right build for the Witch Doctor to make killing him alone on Nightmare with the templar effective. I have been using this build whic...

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Q: Is anything hidden under the sand in the Shipyard?

JoshIn the Shipyard in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, after defeating the Thousand Year spider thing and searching through the sand, Fi told me that there was a 0% chance there would be any clues in the sand and I should leave the area. But my intuition tells me there is a 75% chance that the gr...

 
Maybe one of my brothers started playing something online and overloaded the bandwidth.
 
user2334
@Wipqozn Who, Jackie Chan? Or Gilles? Gilles was a mod since SciFi got mods, and has been my arch-nemesis ever since. Jackie Chan ran for moderator but lost in the primaries.
 
How do you put an image inline on a tag like this? stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/heroku
 
@MarkTrapp You have an arch-nemesis? That is cool.
 
@pixel you pay to sponsor the tag.
 
user2334
5:42 PM
@JasonBerkan I have several. Many aren't even aware of it! But Gilles…. oooooh, Wernstrom Gilles.
 
user2334
But… MC Frontalot!
 
which mc was that?
 
user2334
The non-whiny one who doesn't kick out fans because they didn't like his opening act
 
user2334
 
user2334
5:52 PM
he's also notable for coining the term "nerdcore" in the first place
 
user2334
Well played. You've made the arch-nemesis list.
 
so, you're like dr claw?
anyhoo, I think it would be cool if our tags had icons too, but I'm not sure of a good way to make that happen
 
user2334
In that I'm a cartoon bomb in a chair next to a prosthetic limb petting a cat? Yes.
 
@DavidB as @Ronan said, the tag has to be sponsored by someone (by giving money to SE)
 
user2334
5:56 PM
@DavidB Companies can sponsor tags, and sponsoring a tag lets them put an icon in it plus take over the tag wiki. No other way to do it that SE is allowing
 
6:13 PM
@DavidB it would be cool but "sponsorship" involves money, the way to make it happen seems obvious to me
 
so, I need to email bethesda and sell them the skyrim tag, just so they can add a picture of a knee
 
sure, sell it to them as out-sourcing their support department or something
 
good idea, I'll mention that
 
aww yeah, a sweet little purple doll. FINALLY.
 
6:31 PM
Whoa, Worlds looks awesome.
 
@GnomeSlicE I've played this game in French... is an English version coming out?
 
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Q: Is the Monk's Resolve skill affected by thorns?

user30008I use Sweeping Winds or Cyclone in order to apply this debuff on ranged attackers; but I want to know if thorns damage applies the debuff, and if Resolve even works on ranged attacks. Which brings me to another question on how Resolve works. I notice that it does not affect arcane, molten or col...

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Q: Dual specialization in SWTOR

osdamvIn World of Warcraft you can change between two specializations, is there something like this in SWTOR? As an example, can I play as bounty hunter mercenary arsenal , then switch to bodyguard?

 
@QAzer Apparently.
@QAzer When did you play it? I'm given to understand it's still in development, but that might just be the English version.
 
@GnomeSlicE A friend from Europe got it for my birthday. He paid for it via Paypal on the developer's site for ~5 Euros. Got a key to dl in in an email.
I wasn't aware that it was still in development (my French is a bit rusty)
 
6:47 PM
@MarkTrapp I have a feeling that's a very long list.
 
user2334
@Wipqozn Speculating about the size of the list gets you added to the list, Mr. #4317.
 
@Wipqozn I successfully made it in and out of Cherno thanks to @OrigamiRobot
 
@Fluttershy You go girl!
I'm still getting used to the increase zombie aggro range.
They've increased it quite a bit since the last time I played.
 
@Wipqozn It was a close call for me. Through various glitches and bad luck, I was stuck in a supermarket with 47 blood.
 
6:52 PM
@Wipqozn Maybe we should figure out the formula and get rich.
 
@Wipqozn It's a shame it has gone as far as it has..
 
@QAzer I see you've stumbled across the same reddit thread I did!
 
@Wipqozn indeed I have
 
@QAzer Did you make that?
You didn't, I can stop being annoyed now.
 
@RonanForman Thought someone else was getting in on your turf?
 
7:04 PM
@Wipqozn Yeah.
I would have headbutted him.
 
@RonanForman Literally headbutted him, or drew a picture of yourself headbutting him?
 
I've already drawn something stupid today.
 
7:17 PM
@RonanForman Sorry was pulled int a meeting. Nope I did not. Don't headbutt me pla.
 
Finally part 2 is out.
 
@RonanForman Are you into 3D modelling? I thought you weren't.
 
I started off doing mechanical models
 
@GnomeSlicE I've tried a little bit.
 
7:34 PM
I did a bit of organic modeling in Z-brush. Sculpting and rendering take a lot of time if you computer is not up to spec.
 
sigh I love the assumptions Sharepoint.SE makes. "Why are you trying to do this in this manner? You should be using this method!", and not include the background on how it works in the first place.
 
@fbueckert I don't know why but I've met some (very vocal) sharepoint devs with inflated egos. Is this something that runs in the community?
 
@QAzer I honestly don't know. I do know it's hard to find good instructions on how to do stuff; there seems to be the unspoken assumption that you know exactly what you're doing, and know how to do more or less everything in Sharepoint.
Which, if I did, I wouldn't be asking in the first place.
One of the answers I got was, "Make a console application", gives instructions on HOW to start a console application, but completely neglects to explain how to use it to make the changes I need to do.
 
Has anyone see the new Dishonored trailer?
@fbueckert Yea I tend to have to find way to fill in the blanks myself with those kind of instructions
 
@QAzer It's frustrating; I lay out my problem, and all I really get is, "You're doing it wrong."
This, from the SE network, is not amusing. I even put up a very nice wall of text explaining my issue. And the best answer I have, completely disregards one of the issues I noted, and tried to work around.
 
7:47 PM
@fbueckert Reminds me when someone said to me something like "we don't always test our updates, but when we do we do it in production."
 
@QAzer That makes me wince.
That's just asking for your code to break.
 
@fbueckert I wanted to choke the person
 
@QAzer I have a fun story about a database migration to a new version of SQL Server on a new server.
This was my last job (as if it would be any other), and our intranet was running a little slow.
Now, keep in mind, the entire intranet was a mishmash of classic ASP and a little PHP.
My push to upgrade slowly to .NET fell on deaf ears entirely. It worked, that's all they cared about.
Fun anecdote: our primary billing service was a single 3000 line web page reporting monstrosity.
 
@fbueckert lol
 
But, regardless, back to intranet stuff. Running slow, seemed to be pretty random; the only way to speed it back up was usually to reset the web server.
 
7:59 PM
@Fluttershy It only took 3 blood bags
 
@OrigamiRobot Yep. But hey... We made it.
And we are now self-sufficient.
 
I was figuring that it might be due to most of the pages not closing their DB connections in a timely manner, but all the code I went through and added close statements to didn't help; it was still pretty slow.
 

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