The Bridge

8:04 PM

@tiddy My word. It's only $2 for a game where I live, and that includes the shoes.

Well, yeah, because of the conditions there, your feet evolved high amounts of fur so that you don't regularly need shoes, so the concept of paying for shoes is like, buying bottled water.

StrixVaria

@GraceNote I still don't understand why people buy bottled water.

murgatroid99

@StrixVaria convenience?

fbueckert

@StrixVaria Because it's more "pure"

StrixVaria

@murgatroid99 For home use? It's definitely more convenient to just use the tap than to lug around 30 lbs of water.

@fbueckert A myth invented to justify the existence of a product we don't need!

Well, it probably is more "pure", but that doesn't mean anything really.

tiddy

8:08 PM

Bottled water in the home is debatable, but having portable clean water shouldn't require too much mental gymnastics to understand

Grace Note

@StrixVaria Besides what murgatroid and fbueckert said (which are both accurate, people are too lazy to draw up water themselves when they need it for travel and such, and people do fall prey to purity arguments), it's also because people buy anything with a price tag.

murgatroid99

@StrixVaria I was actually recently happy that we had bottled water at my house. A water main in the county broke and all of the tap water was contaminated. It turned out that our town wasn't affected, but we didn't know that at first

Wipqozn

@GraceNote For example: TF2 Hats.

Grace Note

@tiddy At the same time, if you need portability (and don't have issues with contaminated supplies), you'd only need to buy once, using that purchase to buy the bottles, and then just reuse those.

StrixVaria

@tiddy I really don't like the tone you tend to take with me most of the time. Please chill out.

@murgatroid99 Monmouth?

murgatroid99

8:09 PM

@StrixVaria yep

agent86

there's a penn & teller thing from their showtime show they did on bottled water that was pretty informative/funny

StrixVaria

Hey look at that, we're in the same county.

My water is also unaffected, though.

Lucky us.

@agent86 I should watch this.

agent86

@StrixVaria I think I saw in on youtube at one point, let me see if I can dig it out.

tiddy

@StrixVaria Don't take it personally I wasn't talking directly to you

Grace Note

If Link can reuse 4 bottles to sustain him for an entire adventure, a box of 24 bottles should be enough to last a lifetime.

murgatroid99

8:11 PM

@StrixVaria it was crazy because we heard about it as we were driving home from vacation, so we were boiling water before we knew we didn't have to

fbueckert

@GraceNote And he doesn't just store liquids, either!

tiddy

Anyway in my experience I usually find bottled water in large supplies at tailgates, cookouts, and ocean/lake days

agent86

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NSFW language in there (they curse a lot)

fbueckert

I'd like to tap the collective technical knowledge of the room for a couple minutes, if I may.

StrixVaria

@agent86 I will check this out when I get home tonight.

agent86

8:12 PM

@fbueckert NO YOU MAY NOT. next?

fbueckert

@agent86 Pfft. Meanie.

agent86

@StrixVaria I think this ep. also talks about feng shui

fbueckert

I'm attempting to access computer resources through a VPN.

Grace Note

@fbueckert Shoot

agent86

@fbueckert seriously though, please state the nature of your technical emergency.

StrixVaria

8:13 PM

@agent86 I like Penn & Teller stuff in general, so I'm sure I'll be entertained no matter what it's about.

agent86

@StrixVaria you should watch as much of the series as you can then, it's quite good.

fbueckert

On my Windows 7 machine, VPN connects, resolves, everything works fine.

I try it on an XP machine, and I can connect to the VPN just fine.

Problem is, it can't access any of the network resources. It doesn't even know they're there.

It's like it resolves itself into a black hole.

StrixVaria

fbueckert

3 mins ago, by fbueckert

I'd like to tap the collective technical knowledge of the room for a couple minutes, if I may.

agent86

ugh, VPN issues. I'm terrible at that sort of thing. I tend to just tunnel out of the private network when I start to have issues, which would probably give IT a heart attack if they found out

fbueckert

8:16 PM

It's not life threatening or critical; I ran it past our IT guy, and he's got nothing.

StrixVaria

I shared with you my knowledge of a site that will help you solve your problem!

agent86

@StrixVaria you should quote the relevant information behind the link, so as to avoid link rot :P

fbueckert

If we come up blank, I'll happily sum it up there.

tiddy

anyone else here use tunnelr?

agent86

@tiddy can't say I'm familiar with this software. I use Bitvise Tunnelier from time to time on windows, and autossh on linux

tiddy

8:18 PM

I've been using it for a few months now

Enjoy it, a few stall out's at work, but I'm chalking that up to our massive network

No issues at home

murgatroid99

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Q: ME3: Why did Henry Lawson decide to have a daughter?

Does anyone know why Henry Lawson decide that he wanted to have a daughter. I know that he wanted to leave a legacy but why a female instead of a male? When he realized that Miranda didn't live up to his standards he had Oriana. Again, why not a male? My only guess is that Bioware put her in beca...

mass-effect-3

tiddy

That would require book knowledge I reckon

murgatroid99

@tiddy If you're talking about the ME3 question, it wasn't in the books either that I can recall

James

@agent86 Most awesome TV series -ever-

tiddy

It's an interesting question but he kinda ends it with a sexist remark

agent86

8:26 PM

@James I haven't watched it all start-to-finish, but I like the concept and the bits I've seen. It's too bad their show on discovery was soooo terrible.

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