The Bridge

While yodeling to myself quietly in our warehouse today, a pallet full of mugs came crashing down on my head, and gave me a concussion idea. First, it's very unlucky to go yodeling around on a skate board in a dark warehouse, and second, we could really use a short creative writing contest. Fort...

discussion winterbash-2013 always-friday-in-iceland

what the fecking feck — tombull89 20 secs ago

kalina

@FEichinger ...

that wasn't even difficult

post a "how do I save scum in FTL" question and let me answer it

I need to rep cap today as well

to make it four in a row, which will be the first time I've ever done that

FEichinger

@kalina Don't '...' me!

kalina

@FEichinger "posting a way to save scum that most people never figured out" is just...

Wandang

10:18 AM

@FEichinger ...

kalina

I googled where the save file was

got to an answer by agent86

browsed to that location

noticed that loading the save deleted the files

made a copy of everything

did testing

???

Profit

FEichinger

All I'm saying is that that would explain the massive score.

kalina

it must have been the science

it can't be what you're saying it is

FEichinger

sigh Fine, be that way.

kalina

if I agree with you it means I'm calling everybody else stupid

Kevin van der Velden

10:21 AM

@kalina ... has that ever stopped you before?

Arperum

@FEichinger some plausible reason for the stupid upvoting on this one?

kalina

if I believed everybody else was stupid I wouldn't even bother getting out of bed in the morning

You may award your bounty in 1 hour.

FEichinger

@Arperum Lots and lots of people died from SURPRISE, LAVA!

What's pretty curious about both of these instances, though, is that the answer has so many more upvotes than the question does.

kalina

I need to find a game that's just been released

you know what, I'm going to leave it until this weekend

I have work to do

FEichinger

@kalina Now I'm speechless.

You, actually focusing on work instead of cheevos? That has got to be a first.

Wandang

10:26 AM

how can i see if mods saw my flags?

kalina

@Wandang profile > helpful flags

mods will see your flags

just be patient

Arperum

@FEichinger But it's such an extremely obvious solution.

FEichinger

Minsc

@FEichinger O_o

FEichinger

@Arperum Welcome to the real world: People don't think a lot.

5

5pike

10:31 AM

@Arperum Probably much google attention. This is something that every minecraft player encounters.

FEichinger

It's a wild @GraceNote!

Arperum

@5pike Most of the upvotes were from before I even added the pictures.

Old question, but wouldn't deletion be in order here?

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Q: In what other game can I use a Dungeon Keeper map?

I wonder if it is possible to play Dungeon Keeper levels in another game which is not from the Dungeon Keeper series. I imagine being able to enter these dungeons with some other RPG. Is that possible?

dungeon-keeper-2

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum I think the general thinking is to keep closed questions like that around to show people "Hey, this is off-topic, don't ask it"

Can't do that if it's been deleted

5pike

@Arperum Minecraft is pretty popular, and your method is sensible.

Arperum

@5pike My answer about the candy box frog questions got even more upvotes, but that was because the game was stupid popular here for a couple days.

kalina

10:37 AM

The thing with popular games is to get a Google presence quickly

Then everybody ends up coming here for answers

5pike

@Arperum Right time, right place.

kalina

@fredley got a bunch of candy box 2 questions up the moment the game was released

Arperum

@5pike Yup, that one was a clear case of that, the minecraft one is absurb though.

kalina

So it went crazy

fredley

@kalina Yup. Got at least 3 gold badges out of that.

5pike

10:39 AM

@Arperum No, it really isn't

It's a problem that pretty much everyone faces at one point in minecraft.

kalina

@arp we have more than 40 minecraft players on the site

Also... Pictures

Arperum

@kalina I know, but it is such a simple thing to find. I've been doing that for years

5pike

@Arperum Well, you != others

Arperum

@kalina At least half of the upvotes were there before the pictures.

kalina

Well worded, descriptive answers with a demonstration on it get up votes just got being high quality

Yeah, and adding the pictures bumped it back to the front page

Got = for

fredley

10:42 AM

This question is full of horror

Arperum

I think I might go for a self-answering dungeon keeper 2 q/a tonight.

kalina

@fei bountied a question I answered... I got 15 up votes just because the question was visible

fredley

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Q: How do I determine when my tortoise is sated?

... and, if there's no way to tell when she is, are there any long-term effects of (mildly) overfeeding her? I've given my tortoise a lot of food, she'll often "put some aside", but more because she wants to take a break and lie down or sprawl out and relax for a bit. Are these positive indicat...

feeding reptiles tortoises

Arperum

@kalina Fancy.

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley I honestly don't see the horror... but then I do think rats are the best pets ever.

5pike

10:49 AM

Fancy ... I have a shot at a reversal badge, but it would require 14 more upvotes...

Arperum

@5pike That's quite a lot of upvotes.

5pike

@Arperum Yeah. Will probably never happen. Doesn't matter.

you'd be surprised

Yeah, I would

ಠ_ಠ

10:59 AM

80 rep to go until major victory

tombull89

@Wandang Is this the plane collision video? It's like something out of a Bond movie.

Wandang

@tombull89 y so lucky only the pilot got minor cut

s

Arperum

@kalina Congrats on 30k Arqade rep.

tombull89

brb downvoting

Kevin van der Velden

@tombull89 you're gonna need to do a lot of downvoting to get her below 30k again =p

Arperum

11:02 AM

@tombull89 20 downvotes will take a bit, and kick in reversals.

FEichinger

@Arperum Sockpuppets, duh!

qwertie

@kalina you will never be as good as jon skeet stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet

kalina

@qwertie hardly comparable contexts

qwertie

@kalina How

kalina

There are barely enough questions asked per day on Arqade to get another 150 rep per day from question accepts

you're comparing a site that has hundreds of questions asked per day with a site that has ~10

Kevin van der Velden

11:10 AM

@qwertie 6,318,672 questions versus 37,913 questions

Wipqozn

The amazon winter sale has started in case you wonderful folks have yet to notice.

fredley

@qwertie rep cap evree day

Wipqozn

If you're a fan of strategy games this is a fantastic deal. 6 Paradox Interactive games for $10, including Crusader Kings II.

Kevin van der Velden

With 166 times as many questions he only has 20 times the rep! I'd say @kalina is doing fine

Wipqozn

Looks like the 3 bioshock games are on sale for $15 as well.

qwertie

11:12 AM

@KevinvanderVelden Rep cap

Kevin van der Velden

@qwertie member 5 years, 2 months versus 4 months

Lazers

0

Q: Is there a way to overcome the bug in "A New Source of Stalhrim" in PS3?

I can't start the quest "A New Source of Stalhrim" by talking to Deor Woodcutter (instead of give me the quest he just says generic things). The Unnoficial Elder Scroll Pages states that it's a bug that can be fixed in PC using the command line but I'm playing in PS3. Even worse: I was not aware...

skyrim ps3 skyrim-dragonborn

Arperum

@fredley He didn't repcap for two days in a row in june 2010... repcapped since then though.

fredley

@Arperum You...checked

qwertie

2/3 of his up votes don't count

Arperum

11:13 AM

@fredley Bored here.

5pike

@Arperum stalker

kalina

@qwertie I've been a member for 4 months, you've been a member for 3 months, our reps are considerably different

fredley

@kalina Lets work out @kal's daily rep rate, assuming her account is 4 months old

Arperum

@qwertie You know that 2010 was 3 years ago...

kalina

@fredley MILLIONS

it's actually an unachievable amount of rep

fredley

11:15 AM

@kalina Actually, it's about 250, i.e. John Skeet levels

kalina

-h

qwertie

@kalina You have so much more rep for only one more month than me

fredley

If you'd joined the site with a fresh account, and earned rep at John Skeet levels, you'd have the same amount of rep

kalina

@qwertie I know, it's almost like it's a pointless comparison

@fredley it is a fresh account, it has a new userid and everything

fredley

HamStare @kal

Hmm

Arperum

11:17 AM

@kalina It's fancy how some of your answers are older then your account though...

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fredley

Where has HamStare gone

kalina

as a matter of fact, you can see that the stack exchange system isn't designed to handle it if you try and get it to render my reputation chart

fredley

Oh wait, I am not a hamster

duuuuh

Wipqozn

@fredley Don't be like that. You can be anything you want to be!

Kevin van der Velden

MeatStare @Arperum

That doesn't work either!

5pike

11:18 AM

Hats borked it

Wipqozn

The stares are all gone, thanks to somechop abusing them.

fredley

HamStare @kalina

Nope

I've completely lost all my powers

5pike

ಠ_ಠ

fredley

@5pike Shouldn't do

Wipqozn

@fredley You're basically worthless now.

5pike

11:20 AM

@fredley I just love to blame hats

fredley

@Wipqozn I didn't abuse any stares!

Wipqozn

You should probably just quit the site forever and just give me all your rep.

fredley

@Wipqozn :(

Wipqozn

Man, your sad face makes me miss John.

Now I'm sad faced.

:(

kalina

:(

5pike

11:21 AM

D:

Dx

@kalina ....

T_T

SadStare

@kalina I'm only starring this in an effort to make the entire starred list to just be :(, but I don't approve of your star baiting!

You starbaiter you.

kalina

11:23 AM

I wasn't star baiting

I was sad that you were sad

Wipqozn

Oh, well, isn't that sweet.

kalina

yes

Kevin van der Velden

She's so sad she doesn't even get angry at the not-ellipsis!

kalina

literally crying irl

wipqozn is sad, the world must be coming to an end

fredley

@kalina lik dis

kalina

11:25 AM

I am not licking any thing of yours

Wipqozn

Now that's star baiting of the highest order.

I find you guilty of Star Baiting in the first degree!

kalina

...

wasn't star baiting

Wipqozn

You totally were.

You're always star baiting. We all are.

kalina

if I was star baiting I'd say something like PENIS IS MY FAVOURITE THING

Wipqozn

Stars make the world go round and give us life.

kalina

11:26 AM

half of the time I'm accused of star baiting I'm not

Wipqozn

A likely story.

Also, I'm hungry. I should go buy amuffin. Or something.

kalina

mmm nearly lunch time

Wipqozn

I should also leave chat. If you catch my SkyDrift.

DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFT

OH,OH OH

I'm so clever.

kalina

I really want to sleep more

Wipqozn

but seriously, talk to you guys and gals later.

kalina

11:31 AM

I was in bed super early last night and I'm still tired

FINE BYE

@Wipqozn BYE

@Wipqozn BYE THEN

@Wipqozn FINE BYE

@Wipqozn <3

Lazers

0

Q: I have an erro message while playing PES 2013 game and it says that my computer is not compatible

My computer Has the following Specs Operating System: Windows 8 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.130531-1504 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2330M CPU @ 2.20GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.2GHz Memory: 8192MB RAM Available OS Memory: 8126MB RAM Page File: 103...

pes-2013

kalina

an erro

5pike

@Lazers I guess it's the GPU

kalina

11:54 AM

and she swoops in with another high quality but still trivial answer

Lazers

0

Q: Minecraft don't lose only equipped items when die

I'm trying run Minecraft 1.7.2 server with Craftbukkit. Current problem is I need some command or plugin for below purpose. When Player die, he/she will lose all items. But your equipped items (action bar 1-9) will still remain.

minecraft minecraft-bukkit

kalina

12:23 PM

Star me

2

testing something

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina sure, I can has hat?

2

5pike

Is the "Winter Is Coming" hat borked?

kalina

@5pike yep

star all the things (post 12pm utc)

free hat for all!

Arperum

@kalina Can I has hat?

5pike

@Arperum yes

kalina

12:28 PM

one hat!

saying that, I haven't earned it on Arqade yet

I got it on infosec

I wonder...

5pike

Infosec has Kiritimati time?

kalina

who knows

all I know is I got a positively voted mso post out of it

Sconibulus

Morning, bridge.

kalina

which means now I only need 2 more to get that hat

5pike

@Sconibulus Hi

Kevin van der Velden

12:31 PM

I WANT A ROBOTIC SPIDER PET

Rob

Thats the stuff of nightmares!

Mad Scientist

@kalina Time handling on SE is rather insane, I don't bother posting about it on MSO anymore

kalina

@MadScientist yeah but I'm doing the 10 upvoted questions hat on mso rather than arqade

since I don't have 10 high questions to ask here that will get upvoted

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Kevin van der Velden

@Rob I don't know what all you people have against spiders :(

Rob

12:34 PM

Oh, not a lot. Just instant paralysing terror.

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE it's a cute little robot spider! It needs some lasers but still!

kalina

@FAE saw spider, didn't even click it

Rob

Whats this starred chat hat about then? Not suposed to kick in until tomorrow?

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden It's brilliant, but wow, that's disconcerting.

5pike

@Rob Seems that it doesn't work on the bridge...

D:

Rob

12:35 PM

Hmm, nevermind. I quote like my Eagle hat anyway

Sconibulus

@KevinvanderVelden This. All the this. I want my dog to go nuts and attack it for all the reasons. Now if we can only find a way to compose it primarily of squeaky balls and meat drippings.

Rob

Slide a sausage over it's legs?

Kevin van der Velden

@Sconibulus I don't think it is dog proof, you can break it by putting it on a table and then turning it on

It's uuuh a bit fragile, it weighs like... 350 gram I think they said?

Sconibulus

@KevinvanderVelden but if it's crawling around on a wall (let's assume it can) the dog will have trouble getting it quickly

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden 300 even

Sconibulus

12:38 PM

(I'm only about 2 minutes into the video)

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE that, if the heaviest thing in it is a button then it's pretty light

kalina

@5pike I haven't received the hat for giving out a bounty, I wouldn't write it off yet

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, it's crazy

Kevin van der Velden

@Sconibulus jeah, I watch videos all the way through before linking them =p

Arperum

@5pike check your hats, I got Winter is coming hat just now.

5pike

12:38 PM

Indeed

:D

Kevin van der Velden

Bla I've got a 3d printer, now I want to make a CNC machine and build something kinda sorta like it

Except way less awesome because I'm not nearly as good as those people

5pike

@KevinvanderVelden Why don't you print a CNC machine?

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum same

@5pike cause you need some structural parts =p

But I'm probably gonna DIY one with some 3d printed bits

5pike

@KevinvanderVelden I'm confident that you can figure it out.

Rob

I always liked this:- youtube.com/watch?v=HPV1rOk84X8

Kevin van der Velden

12:40 PM

@Rob yes, that thing is so awesome, strandbeesten

They're even dutch!

@5pike I've already got plans in my head =p

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden Those are so neat!

@KevinvanderVelden I don't know if Jochem mentioned it but there was a mini Maker Faire a month or so ago in Twente, we almost went but didn't. We regretted it because we found out later there was a strandbeest there.

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE Oh jeah, I found out about that mini maker faire... a month after it happened

Rob

I take it they are super difficult to print?

Kevin van der Velden

@Rob at that size yeah

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, it would've been a bit of a drive for us, so we didn't go.

Kevin van der Velden

12:43 PM

But it's mostly that they have so many different bits

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

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Bikes

Proposed Q&A site for all the bike enthusiasts who love to know each and every bit of their beloved bike.

Currently in definition.

Rob

NEver knew the name until now, Google images shows some massive ones!

Kevin van der Velden

@Rob yeah, the original ones were made with PVC tubes, the ones used for wiring in houses

FAE

@Rob literally "beach beast"

Kevin van der Velden

Oh well, I'm getting some better parts to improve my 3D printer soon, I'll see if I can print one

FAE

12:44 PM

or "beach animal"

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Isn't there already a bicycles.se?

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE beach animal is probably a better translation, beach beast has a negative connotations that the dutch word beest doesn't really have.

Bicycles – bicycles.stackexchange.com

Launched Q&A site for people who build and repair bicycles, people who train cycling, or commute on bicycles.

It's live even

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, I was thinking that too. "Beast" is kind of harsher.

Kevin van der Velden

How do you flag something as duplicate on area 51? >.>

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden I think you need enough A51 rep.

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE oh, I've only got 151 rep there, somehow doubt that's enough =p

FAE

12:49 PM

@KevinvanderVelden I only have 261, that's not enough either.

Wipqozn

@kalina I just came back to say bye. I felt so rude when I saw all your messages.

In other news, it's almost Christmas.

December has just flown by.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn it is, 2 more workdays until no more work for 2 weeks

Wipqozn

I can't believe I've almost been working at my job for 2 months.

I started the first week of November I think. So another 2 weeks and I'll be here for 2 months.

Martin Sojka

Thankfully December flew by. I already suggested to move our office to the southern hemisphere during November to January, but so far my boss refused.

Wipqozn

It's funny, I keep telling myself that I'll hold off on listening to christmas music and watching movies until it's closer to Christmas, only to realize it's right around the corner.

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