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4:00 PM
<- Stop trying to spend all your money, stupid!
 
Why would you want an oversized screen?
That also decreases quality of games (by stretching them out)
 
What you call "oversized" I call "comfortably-sized"
 
If you're really concerned that something malicious is underfoot as opposed to normal downvoting activity, you would send a support email using the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page.
 
Dec 13 '12 at 15:55, by OrigamiRobot
@MichelAyres Use this
 
Most of the reviews I've read say it doesn't distort image quality.
 
4:01 PM
@OrigamiRobot Danka
 
@Sterno I really enjoy my 3DS XL.
 
@Sterno But doesn't it have to stretch the visual quality just a bit? I was under the assumption that games are bigger, but less clear/detailed
 
It's a nice size.
 
@fbueckert And you're a grumpy old man, so if you like it, it must be good!
 
@fbueckert Can you fit it into your pocket?
@fbueckert Or do you have to carry it in a seperate bag or something
 
4:02 PM
@Retrosaur Nope. I don't put my portable gaming devices into my pocket.
That's what my backpack is for.
 
@Retrosaur It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it!
or so I've heard
 
@Sterno =insert that'swhatshesaid joke= here
 
@Retrosaur ಠ_ಠ You're not even doing it.
 
I don't understand I thought that's how you ping others.
@OrigamiRobot OKAY ITS WORKING
derp i just realized how to do it
T.T
Fuck me @OrigamiRobot
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:C I'll never be able to reply
 
It links back to the original message so the transcript is easier to follow for people like me who like to butt in.
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4:04 PM
@Retrosaur has gained a level in chat skill. He is now level 2.
 
@Retrosaur yes, you should
 
Any must-have 3DS games?
 
@Retrosaur this is speculation
 
@Sterno I'd recommend Fire Emblem.
Kingdom Hearts if you're a fan of the series.
 
@Retrosaur You'll have to buy me dinner first.
 
4:05 PM
@Retrosaur downvoting happens, if it's actually malicious balance will be restored automatically
 
@fbueckert That one is the driving motivation to buy it in the first place
 
@fbueckert Do I get any skill points to spend?
 
Never tried Kingdom hearts
 
@Sterno FIRE EMBLEM
 
@kalina Every downvote I ever make is malicious and fueled by hate, but the system never detects it!
 
4:06 PM
@Sterno FIRE EMBLEM FIRE EMBLEM FIRE EMBLEM FIRE EMBLEM MARIOKART FIRE EMBLEM
 
@Retrosaur You get one, "Annoy @fbueckert with no consequences for a minute" card.
To be spent the first time you annoy me.
 
@fbueckert One time use only eh? Can I sell 'em back for monies?
 
@fbueckert Oh man I could make such good use of that.
 
@Sterno well that's just you
@Retrosaur I've had more consecutive downvotes in a row than you're currently complaining about before
 
@Retrosaur It has no monetary value.
 
4:08 PM
:C Not even 1/10th of a meso?
 
@OrigamiRobot There's a reason you don't get one.
 
@Retrosaur you can't refund something you used yesterday
 
@Retrosaur It has unlimited trolling value, however. How you use it is up to you.
 
I half expected you to note that it had already been consumed.
 
@Retrosaur I will buy it from you.
 
4:09 PM
@kalina My point is, the system cannot detect intent.
 
@Sterno indeed
 
But it doesn't really need to. I'm totally allowed to vote maliciously! Just not serially.
 
@fbueckert Does he get an alert when his minute has started?
 
@OrigamiRobot that's not how the system works, that would be too user friendly
 
@OrigamiRobot Nope. It gets consumed automatically upon need.
If I'm feeling charitable, I may give warning that it has been spent, however.
 
4:12 PM
Bah, forget it. I can just annoy you anyway. Consequences? scoff
 
Once his minute is used up, what are the consequences of further annoyance?
 
I need somebody to make me a userscript that makes users on ignore disappear instead of turn really little
 
@Sterno Depends on severity of annoyance. It can range from nothing to outright ignoring.
 
@kalina In the user list?
 
somebody should tell @OrigamiRobot I put him on ignore
even though I didn't really, because the broken user list alignment annoys me more than he does
 
4:13 PM
You just did.
 
Bacon
 
There probably is a script if you look for it on Meta
 
but once I can make ignored users disappear...
 
Is it just me, or is this place less friendly without @GnomeSlice around?
 
@Sterno yes
I was going to lobby for him to get unbanned even earlier, but figured it would be like running into a brick wall covered in spikes, before falling down a bottomless pit of hell
 
4:15 PM
@OrigamiRobot I'd never ignore you. BE MY VALENTINE
 
If someone did put me on ignore, I'd just win all our arguments by default. It'd be a real ego boost.
 
It's ValentYSns Day!
 
Aye t'that
 
I couldn't figure out a better way of sticking Ys into there.
Today's also the day when Valve fixes a bunch of long-standing bugs in Counter-Strike 1.6 and kills off server redirect in it.
 
@kalina Yeah, no. I'm enjoying my time away from running into the brick wall, myself.
 
4:21 PM
@GraceNote my google-fu is either failing or there isn't one - found a bunch of other scripts relating to ignore though but none of them remove users from the userlist
@fbueckert hence why I didn't do it
 
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ChargingPunI seem to spend a lot of time harvesting trees. I would like to automate this process. I found this question - which asks about automating the process of planting trees - but I have no issue with manual planting. My Question: Is it possible to build a tree farm that will (when triggered) drop...

 
I should've started doing this AGES ago.
 
People flag the dumbest things.
 
4:37 PM
@OrigamiRobot What got flagged now?
 
@fbueckert Something to the effect of "If you hate me star this message"
 
user15026
Eeeeeeee new Mario and Luigi game coming to 3ds this summer AND Donkey Kong Returns 3D. Eeeeeerr
 
So, yesterday I learned that homosexuals are not allowed to donate blood in Canada.
I think I stepped through a portal into the 1950s.
 
@Wipqozn Bwuh? Since when?
 
user15026
4:42 PM
@wipqozn that has been law for years.
 
@fbueckert 1983 apparently.
 
user15026
@fbueckert since forever.
 
How is that even relevant?
 
user15026
It is a horrible arcane rule. They usually mumble something about high risk groups when asked.
 
For that matter, how would they even enforce it?
 
4:43 PM
I learned about it from a friend of mine yesterday when I joked about him donating blood, when he told me he wasn't able to because he's gay.
 
user15026
@fbueckert supposed higher HIV AIDS risk.
 
user15026
@fbueckert it is one of their screening questions
 
@AshleyNunn Like I said, feels like a stepped through a portal into the 1950s when that was still widely believed.
 
@AshleyNunn So test everybody before they donate blood for the first time. They should do that anyways, not half-ass it with a questionnaire.
 
user15026
They are allowed to deny anyone they feel is unsafe.
 
4:44 PM
@fbueckert It's just easier to let innocent people die to you being a bigot.
 
user15026
@fbueckert all donations are tested for a variety of things including HIV AIDS.
 
This is donating blood for zeus sake. Blood donation saves countless lives every year. Don't start letting people die just beause you're a bigot.
 
@AshleyNunn Then why do they care if they get blood from a "high risk group"?
 
@AshleyNunn So if all blood is tested, then who the crap cares?
 
user15026
@wipqozn each donation can save 3 people. So they are denying a lot of people.
 
4:45 PM
@AshleyNunn Yeah - I thought this was the point of the new agency that was created.
 
@SaintWacko Testing costs money.
 
user15026
@fbueckert dammed if I know.
 
user15026
@origamirobot I suspect that is part of it
 
Not that that's an excuse.
 
It just sounds so backwards.
 
4:46 PM
It's just the veil they hide their bigotry behind.
 
user15026
Same way you can't donate if you handle monkeys or were in restricted areas at certain times.
 
user15026
Oh most definitely.
 
All politicians are dumbasses
 
I don't personally donate blood, but if someone is willing to give, proclivities should have no basis in the yes/no decision.
 
user15026
I mean now that there is testing and stuff and we are way beyond the tainted blood scandal (ehich I had to get tested for so many times as a kid) I don't see why they are so restrictive
 
4:48 PM
Carrying a disease, yes. That makes sense. But that's why you test all blood after it's been donated.
 
whoa, I made a mistake.
 
user15026
I don't get why the rules are the way they are.
 
It's not a ban on homosexuals guys. Only on male homosexuals.
 
2 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot
@SaintWacko Testing costs money.
 
so it's sexist and homophobic.
 
4:48 PM
@Wipqozn Half the discrimination, all of the fun! sigh
 
user15026
Yeah. Lesbian can donate.
 
I have the blood type that could donate to bloody everybody, except I... kind of faint whenever blood is removed from me >_>
 
@OrigamiRobot All blood gets tested anyways.
 
@Wipqozn This would've gone a lot better if you just repeated yourself but subtracted the plural.
 
Presumably to ensure they catch diseases the carrier is unaware of.
 
4:49 PM
@AshleyNunn Tainted blood scandal?
 
user15026
@fbueckert for a list of diseases yes.
 
@fbueckert Yes but it makes sense to not waste money testing blood that will likely be rejected.
 
user15026
@gracenote basically a bunch of HepC tainted blood was donated and used.
 
...ouf
 
So if they test positive once on HIV or something, then, yes, ban them from donating blood again.
 
4:50 PM
@AshleyNunn ...that is not the fault of the donors
 
The Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada, more commonly referred to as the Krever Commission or Krever Inquiry, was a Royal commission headed by Mr Justice Horace Krever established by the Canadian Government in October 1993. It was set up to investigate allegations that the system of government, private, and non-governmental organizations responsible for supplying blood and blood products to the health care system had allowed contaminated blood to be used. Background Since the 1940s, the blood system had largely been the responsibility of the Canadian Red Cross So...
 
But don't automatically ban an entire group due to fifty year old prejudices.
 
(I know you know, Ashley)
 
user15026
@badp I know that. The whole system is just bizarre and prevents lives being saved.
 
@badp So, since we know Valve is doing a TF2 update today (due to new promo items for Brutal Legend)... do you think they'll add items that make use of the Valentines Holiday they added during the last Halloween update?
 
4:52 PM
@fbueckert If 90% of [Group A]'s blood will be rejected due to whatever reason, it makes sense just to ban [Group A] from donating. The money that would be wasted in testing could be better spent elsewhere. The problem here is the claim that homosexuals are high risk.
 
@Powerlord 1. What's the "Valentines Holiday" anyway? 2. Why isn't it enabled already?
 
user15026
@origamirobot precisely.
 
By the time Valve could release that update, it'd be February 15th in half the world
 
@OrigamiRobot Right
 
@badp the "valentines holiday" is also known as "my birthday"
just sayin'
 
4:54 PM
@kalina I've already given you a birthday gift even
 
user15026
@kalina gives cake
 
@badp They added Valentines and HalloweenOrFullMoonOrValentines to the holidays enum during the Halloween update
 
@badp I was just making sure you hadn't forgotten
 
@Powerlord oh
 
@AshleyNunn cake \o/
 
4:55 PM
@kalina also why'd you go back to the old avatar?
 
I keep track of these since they break my Forced Holidays plugin when the holidays enum changes.
 
@badp because it became apparent that it wasn't a valentines card, it was fredley being funny
 
@fredley Plz to start selling that on valentine card stores
 
I love the Halloween maps. HARVEST_EVENT FTW
 
Tonight I am going to be really sad and sit in a restaurant by myself eating cake
 
4:56 PM
@OrigamiRobot I prefer Wave 666.
 
@badp do you not like my avatar?
 
@kalina Did you dump your boyfriend or are you berating us for his problems? :P
 
user15026
@kalina but you have cake. Cannot be sad with cake.
 
Oh I'm single because he was a douchebag over christmas
 
@AshleyNunn Except when the cake is a lie.
 
4:57 PM
and I'm alone because I'm in London on business until the weekend
@badp I am also not berating you
 
Finished The Evolutionary Void and the first book in the Xeelee omnibus, Raft today.
 
@kalina It's not like there's nothing fun to do in London. Go see a play.
 
user15026
@powerlord with me cake is never a lie
 
@JasonBerkan my company won't let me expense going to see a play
I already checked if I could expense a cake and they said no to that too
 
WOO BEST VALENTINE'S EVER. All Bit Trip games' soundtracks for $1
 
4:58 PM
...you could use your own money to do it?
 
@Powerlord that would be suicidal for my bank account in London
I purposely don't bring my bank card with me
being surrounded by this many shops would be fatal for my financial health
 
@kalina I usually celebrate birthdays with a single slice of cake nowadays
 
user15026
I like birthdays because then I can bake cake for people.
 
My family can't finish an entire cake anyway
 
Here I am imagining @YiJiang'sEvilClone doing weight and diameter measurements in order to determine the angle of cake that will get him exactly the required amount of nutrients per hedonic score, and no more.
Then bringing the cake to an industrial strength cutter.
Cutting the cake with lazers.
Nomming the lazered cake, enjoying the crispy borders of lazers cut cake.
 
5:02 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone can you write a script that completely removes ignored users from the user list?
rather than just making their avatar go smaller
 
Actually, the hardest part is choosing which cake. I usually bring a portable random number generator
A dice
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone What if you have 7 cakes?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone A die.
 
@kalina Three lines of user style, but I'm not by my computer right now
 
5:03 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone well I don't need it immediately, I'm not at home anyway
 
Now I imagine @YiJiang'sEvilClone in the bakery shop, looking intensely at the cake selection screen
then actually screaming "DIE! CHOOSE FOR ME!" as the baker gets scared as hell and puts his hand in the air due (geddit? uh? huh? death threat? or should I say... death treat?)
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Chocolate. The more, the better.
 
I want a cake with marzipan
 
I had a slice of Blackforest after finishing Portal 2
 
user15026
I want to make a caramel cake for something.
 
user15026
5:05 PM
@kalina almond cake with marzipan. Yummy.
 
@AshleyNunn om nom
 
@kalina That reminds me... thedomesticscientist.com/?p=1192 cc @AshleyNunn
 
How do you guys know if there's a tf2 update
 
user15026
@kalina now I want to make one.
 
5:06 PM
Is there any links onlien?
 
user15026
@yijiang omg. I have to make that.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone :o
 
@Ullallulloo We get it :P
 
@Retrosaur tf2.com will update soon after. reddit.com/r/tf2 will also get a post about it almost immediately through some mailing list.
 
I want one
 
5:07 PM
@badp Roll two dice. Use the value of the first die unless the two dice match. There's a 1/6 chance for each of the possibilities on the first die. There is a 1/6 chance that two dice rolled will match, so we add this 1/6 chance to the 6 chances of earlier to give us 7 equally possible chances of 1/6.
 
@badp It was too late to edit.
 
@GraceNote Or take a d8 and ignore rolls of 8.
 
@GraceNote You just told him to use a die!
 
@badp This is like rolling a die, except you do it twice.
@JasonBerkan That's mathematically sound, though.
 
@GraceNote This is hurting my brain.
I just did math, and that gives a 5/36 chance for each of the first 6 cakes and a 1/6 (6/36) chance for the 7th cake. BIASED
It's pretty close to even, though.
 
5:12 PM
Anyone here have a S. Crusader's Crossbow?
I'm still hunting for one, after I sold mines away
 
@StrixVaria If we wanted to make it mathematically sound we could make one of the matches be "Reroll". That would give 35 actual results, 5 possible rolls for each.
 
Take two dice and roll them. Ignore the result if you get two sixes. Take 1 off each dice and read the result as a two-digit base 6 number. Divide by 7 and the remainder is the index of your choice.
It's all I got
 
@GraceNote Which is exactly what my solution does.
 
@JasonBerkan Yes, but mine broke someone's brain.
 
5:13 PM
@GraceNote That would work.
 
You get better results if you do the base conversion and divisions on a phone or better, so you don't look any more of a complete dork than you do for whipping out a die in the bakery
 
@badp Or you could just use the RAND function on the phone's scientific calculator
 
Apparently the problem with rerolls is that there is a slight probability you will never select a cake, but spend the rest of your life in the bakery rolling dice.
5
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone but then you didn't use a d6 to choose between 7 options!
@JasonBerkan Luckily for @YiJiang'sEvilClone, there's a hard cap to this: the bakery will close at some point as he strikes the longest streak of sixes in history of world.
 
@Retrosaur These guys
 
5:17 PM
Anyway, why not use a coin instead? Just keep subdividing the selection in two and choose either the left or right pile until there's only one cake left
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone 7 is odd. If you do that you'll never pick the center cake.
 
@Retrosaur Do I need to log into my home email and check for you? :/
 
You could actually call in a few days before and get a custom-made cake to begin with.
 
@badp There's a point at which you call Guiness just because hitting a streak that long makes you simultaneously the luckiest (and unluckiest) person in the world.
 
hlds_announces says no TF2 update
 
5:19 PM
@badp I suppose you could find some cake alternative and add it to the selection
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone But then what if you ended up with the cake alternative when you really wanted a cake?
 
user15026
I really want cake now.
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I'm so close to completing my Medic Set
 
@SaintWacko If that's the case you wouldn't be trying to choose which baked good to consume using a random number generator, since you'd have expressed preference for one over the other
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh, I thought you were choosing between cakes in particular
@AshleyNunn I just had a cupcake!
 
5:24 PM
 
Well yes. Assuming you have no particular preference for any of the cakes
 
@badp ok
 
Morning, Bridge.
 
@Fluttershy No.
 
Morning @Tristan
 
5:29 PM
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Happy Valentine's Day, Bridge! =D
 
@Fluttershy I'm stealing this.
 
@Wipqozn You're welcome.
 
user15026
@fluttershy best valentine ever
 
Just curious, some people have been saying that BL2's level cap DLC is leaked somehwo
 
user15026
@saintwacko I have cupcake jealousy. What kind was it?
 
5:31 PM
@AshleyNunn Chocolate with cherry frosting :D
 
You know, someone suggested an interesting solution for the DR wrong friendly corpse bug... as a DR Spy, equip the Bombnomicon.
 
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Which causes the ragdoll to blow up. :D
 
If they don't catch it was a Spy corpse before it explodes... :D
 
user15026
5:31 PM
@saintwacko sounds yummy!
 
@AshleyNunn It was
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I lol'd.
 
@Powerlord Is that a new bug? I remember it working correctly for some time, until only recently...
 
@BoltClock It was broken during the MvM update.
Or was it the Meet the Pyro update
One of last years updates, anyway
 
Those damn updates, always breaking things
 
5:40 PM
@Powerlord Have you heard anything about a release date for Brutal Legend?
 
There's also a bug with the Bombinomicon and the DR, apparently. When you feign death, the explosion happens where you feigned death but your gibs appear where your real person is
 
@Fluttershy Well, if you purchase it on Steam, you can get the Beta immediately.
Not sure when the final release is supposed to be.
@BoltClock Ah hell, there goes that idea then
 
@Powerlord Most people won't catch it though I think. But still, worth noting
 
I wish ragdolls weren't client-side. By the time the netprops on the player object are updated with the ragdoll's ent reference, it's too late to change the ragdoll's netprops.
 
I still haven't yet found a sure-fire way to determine if a Spy's death is feigned or not
 
5:43 PM
@BoltClock That's rather the point.
 
@Powerlord Yeah... I played that for a little bit last night. It's super buggy. <_<
 
@BoltClock I haven't played in a while, but if you're pyro don't you usually re-ignite the spy after they feign death if you keep shooting a bit?
 
@StrixVaria Sometimes they're out of my range
 
But weren't they in range when you "killed" them?
 
@StrixVaria Yes, unless they have the Spy-cicle equipped
 
5:46 PM
Like if he times his DR to activate the moment my flare crits him
 
@Powerlord I have no idea what that is, so I'll just butt out of this conversation now.
 
(Like how the hell do Spies manage to time their DR without afterburn or latency tripping it?!)
 
@BoltClock It takes extremely precise timing.
Within a half-second.
(afterburn ticks every half-second)
@StrixVaria That was introduced over a year ago...
 
@Powerlord I played a ton from 2007-2008. Then I stopped.
The spy vs. sniper update was the most recent time I played for any significant amount of time.
That might have been in 2009?
 
@StrixVaria Anyway, Spy-cicle is a Spy melee that melts if it's out when the Spy is hit by fire damage. It prevents the Spy from catching fire for 2 seconds, but their knife is gone for 15 seconds. Also, it's a "silent killer" but backstabs cause ice statues of the enemies to appear (with a freezing sound... so "silent killer" is a misnomer)
 
5:49 PM
Oh look it's lunch time.
 
Silent Killer really just means it prevents the usual backstab crit kill scream
The biggest drawback of the Spy-cicle is when you're about to backstab a Medic and a Pyro lights you on fire and you're suddenly trying to sap the medic.
 
Serious Sam 3 in the current Indie Royale, for those times when you really wish you were running backwards from a thousand of charging enemies. (I just wish there weren't monkeys.)
 
On a more positive note, a Medic brought in two Soldiers today and I disarmed both Kritzes separately. I wasn't even aware there was a second Soldier
 
@Powerlord Every. Single. Time.
 
@badp Quite the Valentine's game.
 
5:54 PM
@Ullallulloo You could run backwards... together!
 
HI BRIDGE
has everyone seen the Mass Effect Valentines yet? :D ave-atque-vale.tumblr.com/post/43084612192/…
 
@Aarthi HI AARTHI
 
I must be hungry. I thought one of my windows said "baconville" when it actually says "basecommands.sp"
 
@Wipqozn SPELL BETTER :P
 
@Powerlord I want to go to there.
 
5:57 PM
@Aarthi Does it involve running backwards with your SO from a thousand of mindless monstrosities who only care about ripping your hearts out and pounding them together?
 
:D
 
@Aarthi I don't think you realize just how much you're asking for there.
 
hahaha
 
@Aarthi The turtle's stubby little legs make it hard for him to spell correctly.
 
Also, his tiny turtle brain.
 
5:59 PM
poor bb
 

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