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3:01 PM
SO suggested edit audits are ridiculous stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/3066333
 
@PrivatePansy I've seen people fail this kind of audit. And argue that they shouldn't have failed because it was a legitimate edit.
 
@fredley Reminds me of one of the security questions on the Minecraft Forge forums - "Who is the creator of Minecraft?" Trying to answer "Markus Persson" gets you a "Nope, wrong. Try again."
 
@MartinSojka Lol
@MartinSojka It's South Park
 
> Comment: I made the code different
Don't you think you're making it a little too easy :P
 
@PrivatePansy I repeat, I've seen people fail this kind of audit.
So for all the ease that you, a person who pays attention and does right to our system, can identify these, it still catches the folks it is supposed to.
 
3:04 PM
@GraceNote Teach man how to make fire and he will, eventually, set himself on fire.
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@MartinSojka Aye.
 
@MartinSojka Teach a woman how to make fire and she will, eventually, BURN EVERYTHING. @kalina
 
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Q: GTA V . Is it possible to download to the hardrive despite the consequences?

EllieIs is possible to download the story mode of the GTA V game (disk 2) I know people say not to, but my brother has the game, and he wants the disk, so i was wondering if it is possible to actually install it and play in, without the disk in. So basically its his game, but i can just install onto ...

 
3:21 PM
@RavenDreamer I am sorry but I have apparently painted you as a moron.
 
@GraceNote Can we see this painting? :P
 
Nope.
 
Can you paint him as a confused shark next?
Oh, is literal time over? Whoops.
 
Confusion and inexperience is the only means I have to stop him from being identified as a complete laughingstock.
 
@GraceNote So, I take it that Steam's Family Sharing thing still isn't good enough for you to stop disliking Steam?
 
3:25 PM
@Powerlord Isn't that still in Beta?
 
Since it's still restricted to one person at a time.
@GraceNote Yes, since it only started like 2-3 weeks ago.
 
One person at a time is fine as long as that one person can be from two people.
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I actually have pretty much no objection to the inability to have two people play on the same account, even for different games.
 
@GraceNote It might work for you then. Although as I recall, if the account who owns the game tries to play a game, the other person will be given a short amount of time to quit their game before Steam force-closes it on them.
I'm willing to bet Family Sharing doesn't work in Offline mode due to that.
 
We'd actually probably just use the same computer to play.
Part because that avoids us having to ever worry about that, but also because my machine is exceedingly dated so I'd rather play on the more powerful machine to begin with.
 
I got eggnog!
Happy christmas everybody
 
3:35 PM
@Powerlord I'm in the beta now, but I haven't gotten to try it yet. I'll look into that tomorrow, I guess.
 
I always actually associate eggnog with Thanksgiving.
 
@GraceNote oh. happy thanksgiving!
 
@BenBrocka Huh, go figure.
That's a rather interesting approach.
 
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Q: How can I protect myself against GCHQ's attempts to de-anonymise me?

Tom MedleyGiven the latest revelations about GCHQ's methods to de-anonymise Tor users, how can I keep myself safe? From the document: We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time [but] with manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users

 
Jin
3:47 PM
i want to die this way plz thelocal.se/50584/20131003
 
K. writing Kill...jin
 
@OrigamiRobot I assume everyone figured it out, but it's just to prevent you from getting inbox notifications for the message with the ping in it.
Because that was Super Annoying.
And there was no "clear the bubble with esc" on mobile chat.
 
@TimStone All of mobile chat is Super Annoying
 
@Sterno EO does that in story mode?
 
@OrigamiRobot Now it's Super Annoying with a hint less of "I want to throw my phone against the wall"
 
3:52 PM
@TimStone Considering I find my inbox pretty useless anyway, I don't think so.
 
We talking about that mention thingie?
 
@TimStone I am exciteballs all over this
 
Maxis is apparently investigating adding offline to SimCity.
 
@TimStone I want a non-topbar way to access my inbox
 
3:55 PM
Aside from your network profile page, or?
 
@fbueckert Adding? Un-disabling.
 
I applied for a job with Amazon yesterday. :o
 
@GraceNote ???
 
@fredley That's true.
 
3:55 PM
@Fluttershy :o
 
@Fluttershy Good luck!
 
@fredley Thanks!
 
I will wait until you all have prestigious jobs in powerful software companies then beg you all for jobs.
 
@RavenDreamer I... may have slipped loose that you're an SnS primary in the wrong sort of audience.
 
@GraceNote This is the same thing, but in page form. I want a less condensed version.
 
3:56 PM
Ahha.
 
@GraceNote It's okay. I'll just use a boomerang on their face while maintaining a defensive front.
What can I really say, though?
I like mobility.
S&S gives that.
 
@RavenDreamer Indeed it does.
It's quite a good weapon.
 
How do I explain this... hm...
 
If you like mobility there's no better choose than the Sword and Shield./
 
@GraceNote What does this audience think about me being a DS user?
 
4:00 PM
@OrigamiRobot Depends. Are you on the "Godly" scale of skill or are you just a normal player?
 
I don't know what that means, but I wouldn't consider my skill in any area of my life "Godly"
 
@OrigamiRobot You're Godly at being fancy.
 
who is the idiot that broke youtube >.<
 
Huh. Looks like Scoot actually went through with deleting his account.
 
Damn interns!
 
4:06 PM
@fbueckert Just to make yet another account on Arqade.
 
@FEichinger Bwuh?
 
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Q: Survival to Creative Button in SurvivalCraft

SteveIs there a button in survivalcraft, where you can swich from survival to creative; or vise versa without using mods?

 
> Joined today, last seen today
 
@FEichinger I wonder why he would do something like that; it's pretty pointless.
 
@fbueckert Why did @GnomeSlice change his name? Pretty pointless as well, but probably the same reasoning.
 
4:07 PM
@FEichinger Why do we think this is Scoot?
 
@fredley Because this is the old link.
 
@Wipqozn They countered with DS and then proceeded to give up on every one of you.
 
@FEichinger Oh
 
@GraceNote :( :D
 
@OrigamiRobot Except you.
 
4:09 PM
@fredley Also, this is that SE account's MSO account.
 
That looks weird
 
It kinda does, yeah.
 
@GraceNote Who is "they", and when we can "persuade" them of the error of their ways?
 
So back to seeing how I can explain this...
 
@fbueckert A vague, yet menacing, government agency.
 
4:11 PM
You know how in fighting games, you have that certain set of the community who not only fully understands every single calculation that goes on to each frame of every hit, but also can act on it and utilize every single positive attribute of every single motion to make divinely fluid action in their patterns?
 
@GraceNote Just say it: "Self-proclaimed 'hardcore gamers' are douches."
I mean, that's where you're going with this, isn't it?
 
That isn't actually where I was going, no.
 
@Arperum How long was Belgium out for?
 
@fredley 540something days.
 
4:16 PM
On that note, I very much support the adoption of the Belgian model for the results of the most recent German election.
 
Certainly you've got the hotshot folks who think they're bigger than swiss cheese or whatever the appropriate metaphor is, but these aren't those folks.
 
European countries have such unrecognizable silhouettes.
 
Why do I have a funny suspicion that Alex and Guilo know each other, at the very least?
 
Nor are these the above folks either, these are more the students of those folks. They have their own experiences and skill levels but also the mass research of their peers to work off of.
 
(Except the UK, Greece, and Italy, I guess.)
 
4:18 PM
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Q: Can Ice melt in terraria 1.2?

Eon Rusted du PlessisLet's face it, a lot of us love building nice water features in our homes when it comes to sandbox games like terraria and minecraft (especially me). I was planning out a feature to build with water and pumps and stuff, when it occurred to me that Ice is actually frozen water. I don't think I ...

 
I want someone to develop an alarm clock that instead of silencing itself after 5 minutes, instead punches me in the face and screams "WAKE THE HELL UP" at me. Someone get on that.
 
@fbueckert Not again...
 
@Ullallulloo I'd post a picture of Sweden, but I already got some flags for posting flacid penises recently.
 
@Unionhawk There are alarm clocks that run away from you while still beeping.
 
@Arperum I have no proof, but there's a lot of correlation going on.
 
4:20 PM
@fbueckert Bleh, if it ends up being a third time, I hope his account gets hit by a bus.
 
@Arperum And we do more than just slap his wrist yet again.
 
@fbueckert This is practically evidence.
 
@Unionhawk It's what rang the warning bells, but I didn't see enough data points to cross the threshold.
 
I can make up numbers too
 
@Unionhawk That is such a bad answer I don't even.
 
4:22 PM
@FEichinger Basically there's a parallel to this but it exchanges haughtiness for an understanding that not everyone wants to hear pages and pages of numerical theory to grasp something that is for some perspectives entirely overanalytical.
 
@GraceNote So was the "Godly" question a test to see if I fit this bill?
 
@OrigamiRobot Part that, also part because "Japanese DS Gods" are kind of a thing in that high level play apparently, if I go purely by the frequency with which I heard that term back in the first six months of this year.
But if I recall my education right DS is basically that sort of weapon with sinusoidal effectiveness based on user skill and expertise attempted.
 
@Arperum It's a bad answer on a bad question.
 
Wherein you can be pretty good and do shiny things, but then there's this sorta super efficient level of absurdity past that, and people who try to do the latter while their current expertise sits at the first hump then dive into the valley.
 
@Unionhawk And there are some rather strong links of collusion on that.
 
4:29 PM
@fbueckert And Guilo got all defensive for the bad answer.
 
@fbueckert I raised a moderator flag, to let the team know officially that there is something fishy going on between these two accounts.
 
@Unionhawk Hopefully something comes from that.
 
@fbueckert Last time I did that suspensions happened.
 
It's like he'd rather learn to circumvent the system in place, rather than put in the effort required.
There's been at least two other suspensions due to sockpuppets.
I'm not saying this one is; we have no idea, one way or the other.
I'm just saying that there are markers that make it look really suspicious.
 
@fbueckert And his history certainly doesn't help.
 
4:33 PM
 
Acceptance of this answer, and his non-answer (and probable upvote) on a bountied question that Guilo answered is what pushed me over the edge.
 
what a fantastic illustration...
@fbueckert Hm. Experiment: If I map out each floor of the SOPS,
let's see what happens, because that's an objectively better answer to the question
 
@OrigamiRobot Oh, wait, misread where you were directing. No, I had no assumptions about you either being a hotshot or trying to be a hotshot.
 
@BenBrocka Yeah.
 
@Unionhawk The answer that already exists is pretty decent.
 
4:35 PM
I mostly assumed you picked DS because you seem to like dual wielding types, in the same way I would be a Lance/GLance user because of my affinity for polearms.
 
@Sterno yuck. I hate the voice-acted nags that Tales of Xillia does to you
 
But I'm sitting in bed here, so I really couldn't be asked. Besides, apparently they changed everything "the monsters here are NOT aggressive"
 
@GraceNote I meant a test from this mysterious group.
 
@BenBrocka There might be an option to disable it. It will probably disable all voiceovers, but I'm okay with that.
 
@OrigamiRobot I asked on my own. Pretty much as long as you're not using SnS they'd be fine with things.
 
4:36 PM
Oh, wait, I'm thinking of the other one, the Stronghold of Security
 
Haha
 
both of which were dumb additions to the game, but, eh
"DON'T TELL PEOPLE YOUR PASSWORD FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YOU IDIOTS"
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@fbueckert Is that non-answer deleted? I can't find an answer of Alex on a bountied question.
 
@Arperum Yeah, he deleted it. And then put the same comment on the answer.
 
They really need to give you a few other lines of chat for context with flags
 
4:39 PM
This question, if you're interested.
 
Wow this is a really nice answer. — Alex 14 mins ago
 
@Sterno Is the voice acting that bad or is the nag just that incessant?
 
Didn't that tip us off the last time, too?
 
@BenBrocka A little bit of the first, but mostly the second.
In general, voice acting for female Japanese-style characters annoys me
way too high pitched
 
4:41 PM
@fbueckert Found it based on the comment in alex profile.
 
To use an example that I understand (but I imagine no one here will know fully because I don't know that anyone has played it), in the game Suguri the Machinegun is categorically and certifiably the weakest weapon in the game. Now, I'm the kind of person who hates to use those kind of absolutes, especially in a sort of thing where there is no "best" weapon, but months of research basically drove me to that conclusion, even with tests on situations that are fully advantageous to Machinegun.
 
@Sterno yeah I do appreciate a deeper voice like Milla or Baiken
 
@BenBrocka I don't know if you've played EO, but as you walk through the dungeon, your chance of encountering a monster goes up. It goes from green to yellow to red, and at red they can finally show up. So every time it turns red, they say something. Which is every... 20 steps or so. Plus, they say it for a few other things, like "you just entered a square with something you can interact with"
 
It's not like it's a terrible weapon. It does things. It's just identifiably inferior to other options, even when used in the situations that it stands a chance of doing comparably well. Which in Suguri, since you can only bring two weapons to a stage, using one slot for it is a huge cost because of this.
 
Plus they talk during combat, like, "let's use electricity!"
 
4:43 PM
oh god that sounds annoying
 
Thankfully in the sequel they fixed this so now there's no longer a categorically worst weapon, but back in the first? I strove quite hard to try and prove it wrong and wow it would not give.
 
@Sterno The more I hear about story mode the more I'm happy I'm not playing it.
 
Yeah I was wondering how well they'd handle story mode
 
@Wipqozn I normally have the game muted anyway, so not that big of a deal.
But so far the story is very meh
 
@GraceNote Surprisingly, while they look similar, they play very differently.
 
4:49 PM
The Gunner class is pretty cool though.
 
@fbueckert To my teachings Lance is evasive and finesse while Gun Lance is pretty much all about specific heavy hit maneuvers.
They had this multi-page dissertation on the two they gave me back when I started to give in on them saying I should get the game.
 
@GraceNote Gunlance has quite a few heavy moves, and it is pretty slow to really get going.
 
Hunting Horn is best melee weapon.
 
@Wipqozn In the story, though, one of my characters is from the mythical land of "Ontario", wherein the fabled Maple Ice Cream comes from
 
@Sterno I heard there was a Canadian character.
I'll need to Google that shit down the road and watch some of his dialogue.
 
4:52 PM
It's a female. She's a protector. And her dad is the one who buys us the mansion with the ice-cream-making maid
 
@Sterno maple ice cream... not sure if that sounds really good, or horrible.
 
I haven't seen any "eh?"s thrown in there yet
 
@Unionhawk Maple syrup on ice cream would be pretty good.
 
Maple Ehs Cream
 
Do Canadians like their syrup hot or cold?
 
4:55 PM
@fbueckert heck, maple syrup on snow is pretty good - pour some on a sheet of snow, roll it onto a stick.
 
@OrigamiRobot Depends on what it's on.
 
Pancakes.
 
@OrigamiRobot Hot on pancakes. Cold on ice cream.
 
It should usually be the opposite of whatever it's being poured on.
Or we can be crazy and do the exact opposite.
 
Apparently we aren't all the same.
 
4:56 PM
@fbueckert Wouldn't that be the same as being the opposite?
 
@fbueckert The opposite of the opposite.
 
@OrigamiRobot Yup.
We Canadians, we craaaaaazy.
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The United States is the best Canada.
 

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