The Bridge

Fluttershy

7:12 PM

Goddammit people, stop blindly approving shit.

Lazers

-1

Q: Pressing 'e' does not work at the beginning of the game

When I press e in Tomb Raider: Survival Edition at the complete start it doesn't work when the knife is stuck in her. What do I do?

tomb-raider-2013

-5

Q: Does anyone have any spare keys for DOTA 2

I would like to know if anyone has a spare dota 2 key, really looking for one.

dota-2

Scootaloo

@Lazers we just saw that 17 minutes ago. Well I guess you can't help it since you're just a bot.

OrigamiRobot

Don't be mean to us robots.

Ben Brocka

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BenBrocka give dota

Ben Brocka

7:16 PM

@OrigamiRobot IT WAS JUST A QUESTION MR. FLYNT

2

Scootaloo

@BenBrocka Are those people posting that thinking they are going to get something or are they just stupid?

kalina

@Fluttershy sorry, didn't really see anything wrong with the edit

FAE

4

A: How do we prefer to start our tag wikis?

I agree that the dictionary method is best. It makes better use of the limited space the excerpt gets on the tags page, avoids the wonky phrasing that the regex leaves in its wake, and just makes more sense considering that a user will never see it anyway unless it's already next to the tag name....

Scootaloo

@Fluttershy: Hello!

Fluttershy

@Scootaloo It only pings me if you put the @ in front of my name.

There we go.

Powerlord

7:18 PM

@Fluttershy ! @Fluttershy ! @Fluttershy ! Hi

@Ponyman

@FAE mk

@Fluttershy Thanks.

never seen that meta post either

Fluttershy

@kalina It wasn't a shot at you directly. More the community in general. I've seen far too many things being approved that shouldn't have been. This particular one was pretty obviously "Too Minor."

@Powerlord Hello.

Scootaloo

7:19 PM

Any reason why meta looks ugly?

OrigamiRobot

@Scootaloo Shhh, you'll hurt its feelings.

kalina

@Scootaloo meta isn't ugly

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Scootaloo Greyscale. It's not ugly, just sort of traditional

Ben Brocka

Look I put Meta in the wash with the whites and bad things happened. Let's just let it go.

Powerlord

So, I hear EA won!

Scootaloo

7:21 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I guess it is there so people don't forget they are on the meta part.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord What?

Scootaloo

Does every Stack Exchange site have a meta version of it?

Powerlord

@Wipqozn consumerist.com/2013/04/09/…

2

kalina

old

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Scootaloo Almost all do

Ben Brocka

7:23 PM

@Scootaloo Yes, it's automatically created. Though Stack Overflow's meta is Special (TM)

Wipqozn

@YiJiang'sEvilClone There are sites without a meta version?

Scootaloo

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I looked at a few other SE sites and typed "meta." before the url and they all have the same greyscale look.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Wipqozn Stack apps, and technically speaking A51

Wipqozn

@YiJiang'sEvilClone They're both special though.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

A51 has A51 discuss, of course

Ben Brocka

7:25 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone stack apps is it's won meta. A51 meta is A51 discuss (which is a similarly weird situation to stack apps)

Powerlord

@Wipqozn StackOverflow. Instead, it has a site with the NAME Meta.StackOverflow, but it's really Meta.StackExchange.

Scootaloo

Does anyone even believe the whole Area 51 thing? a part of me thinks that some in that community are just trolls gone too far.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Scootaloo Believe what?

OrigamiRobot

@kalina By your logic, this one got stars and is therefore better.

Scootaloo

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That there were aliens there or spaceships at Area 51 at some point. Some claim its real and others don't.

kalina

7:27 PM

@OrigamiRobot that only counts when poster=me

SaintWacko

@Scootaloo Most of the people on A51 are just trolls, we think

Powerlord

Ouch, I just heard that Warner Bros. booted Rocksteady off of Arkham Origins.

OrigamiRobot

@kalina DATA ACCEPTED: @kalina IS A POSTER

Scootaloo

@Powerlord I've played the Batman games, but I don't know the story too well at all.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Shit, and there was me thinking she was a bar

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

7:28 PM

@OrigamiRobot HANG HER! ... from your walls

Powerlord

@Scootaloo Rocksteady developed both of the Arkham games so far, but now Warner Bros. has WB Montreal doing it instead.

Ronan Forman

@OrigamiRobot Data request: FEichinger.isGoose()

OrigamiRobot

8 hours ago, by OrigamiRobot

DATA ACCEPTED: @FEichinger IS A GOOSE

fredley

@kalina Remember the auto-tag-burninator? That could be used for your retagging operation...

Powerlord

Wait, so if I say me = a Spy

kalina

7:30 PM

@fredley I think I would become hated and/or banned if I retagged the entire site to cake or bacon

SaintWacko

@Powerlord me = a pyro

fredley

@kalina Sockpuppet

Powerlord

@kalina You'd be my hero.

@SaintWacko Yes, that's what I said!

Scootaloo

@Powerlord Ya I understand that, but what I mean is I never really watched or read any of the Batman comics/movies. All I know is that Batman is some vigilante who runs around his city saving people and fighting the Joker.

kalina

@fredley in order to be @Powerlord's hero, I'd have to assume my own identity

SaintWacko

7:31 PM

@kalina You would be a legend retold throughout the ages

kalina

listen, I will do it the day I decide I no longer want to be here

Powerlord

@Scootaloo Well, Batman has no superpowers, but does know some martial arts and has lots of gadgets. Also, tragic backstory about his parents being killed by a robber.

kalina

it will be a guaranteed method to ensure I can't change my mind either way

fredley

@kalina Then my course of action is clear

Ullallulloo

@Powerlord I think you have to do Powerlord=Spy

nope

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

7:32 PM

@SaintWacko As a cautionary tale, perhaps as the longest suspension SE has ever handed out :p

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone certainly, it would be painful to undo for sure

and if I had time I would retag meta as well for you

Grace Note

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's a pretty high bar to compete against right now.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Oh, just call rollback -1 on every post you edited. Can't be too much work

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone 29k posts

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina You won't get very far without some sort of rate limiting kicking in

Or a CAPTCHA

kalina

7:35 PM

I'm already familiar with the rate limiting, it wouldn't be a problem

Grace Note

...what are we planning here?

kalina

...nothing

2

Grace Note

Sounds like a whole lotta summat for being naught.

Ullallulloo

6 mins ago, by kalina

@fredley I think I would become hated and/or banned if I retagged the entire site to cake or bacon

SaintWacko

@GraceNote Who has the longest suspension right now?

@Ullallulloo Traitor! You've betrayed us!

Grace Note

7:36 PM

@SaintWacko I think we have one running to 2038?

SaintWacko

@GraceNote o.0 What for?

Grace Note

@Ullallulloo I saw that, but it's a response to a message and from there is ceases being clear.

kalina

@GraceNote unlike all of these old people I will still be alive in 2038

FEichinger

@OrigamiRob Hush.

OrigamiRobot

@FEichinger ಠ_ಠ

SaintWacko

7:37 PM

@kalina Me too! o/

Grace Note

@kalina You've a job, you've long lost the privilege to call other folks "Olds". Old.

Powerlord

@kalina 2038 is just a byproduct of the UNIX/C time system. It's really intended to be forever and will likely be updated as time is moved to 64-bit storage.

kalina

@GraceNote having a job doesn't make me old

Grace Note

@kalina Makes you old enough, though.

kalina

@GraceNote by this definition of old, there are millions of children working in sweatshops all over the world that are "old"

Grace Note

7:38 PM

@SaintWacko I could look it up but technically I couldn't say.

SaintWacko

@GraceNote What does that make me, then? I have a job and I'm older than @kalina

@GraceNote Aww

Grace Note

@SaintWacko Old, obviously.

SaintWacko

@GraceNote Bah, humbug

fredley

@GraceNote So your proposition for eternal youth is to be unemployed?

FEichinger

@SaintWacko You answered it yourself: Old ... er

Grace Note

7:39 PM

@fredley No, eventually you get old.

kalina

@fredley that's how I read it

fredley

@GraceNote If you don't have a job, at what point do you become old?

kalina

I reckon I'd only get half way through the slaughter at best before I was stopped

the plan is maximum impact in the shortest amount of time

Grace Note

@fredley Dunno. Probably 22.

SaintWacko

@kalina retag everything to badp-did-it

4

kalina

7:40 PM

without just targeting a single tag, making it really easy to undo

Sconibulus

eep, I'm double-old...

fredley

@GraceNote :(

kalina

@SaintWacko that's not cake or bacon though...

and therefore I'd lose my legendary status and just be a regular troll

Powerlord

cabacon would probably taste nasty.

Grace Note

@fredley Hey, it's not my fault if you're old. You're the one who was born that time.

fredley

7:41 PM

A reminder to everyone: If you haven't seen Black Mirror, watch it

kalina

obviously I'd need more than one account to hit the entire site at once

fredley

@GraceNote is a meabie :(

kalina

I reckon a group of ten accounts working in parallel would do it

retag 60 questions per minute

fredley

@kalina Distributed Denial of Tagging

kalina

maybe scale it out to 100 and hit multiple SE sites at once

fredley

7:42 PM

@kalina My auto-burninator could run at one singe per second without hitting the rate limit

OrigamiRobot

@Powerlord bacake

FEichinger

@Powerlord I like bacon, I like cake. Natural conclusion, a combination would be tasty.

kalina

@fredley ok so your script and 100 accounts and retag the whole of stackexchange before people realise what is happening - deal, let's do it

phase two of the plan - I need 100 accounts with enough rep to bypass the suggested edit queue

fredley

@kalina There are 30,000 questions

kalina

@fredley the whole of stackexchange

Ben Brocka

7:43 PM

@Powerlord Surely it'd be cakeon

(though that also sounds a bit like a pokemon)

fredley

@kalina Let's start with Arqade and work from there

kalina

I reckon I could retag the whole of sci-fi without anybody even noticing

FEichinger

@BenBrocka Chances are it already is a pokemon.

fredley

With 100 accounts it would take 5 mintues, to retag the whole site.

That's... not a long time

kalina

@fredley while I admire your caution, I'd only have about an hour before I was stopped - at most

@fredley THE WHOLE OF STACKEXCHANGE

Powerlord

7:45 PM

Oh yeah, he's incredibly evil, isn't he?

Sconibulus

hmm... I'd save touch SO for last

*touching

FEichinger

@kalina 6 million questions

Powerlord

That quote's just not the same if Bernard isn't saying it.

kalina

@Sconibulus definitely

Sconibulus

I have a feeling you'd be caught there in minutes, whereas in other places it might take hours

fredley

7:45 PM

@kalina 5.5 million questions, give or take

kalina

maybe I could unleash the madness in waves

so that while they're fixing the damage from the first wave, the second wave is leaving a wake of destruction on another site

fredley

It would take a month to retag every question with 100 bots

kalina

ok well more than 100 is pushing it I think

fredley

So get 1000 bots, and as you said, do them in waves

Ben Brocka

@FEichinger Throw cake at Eevee => Cakeon

kalina

7:47 PM

I don't have access to 1000 unique IPs

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Reporting for duty!

kalina

they would get detected too early

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot @kalina There's one

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Build a program that auto-generates tag wikis from wikipedia to farm rep

kalina

@SaintWacko he's too weak to take part in a scheme like this

FEichinger

7:48 PM

@BenBrocka They're gonna release "Pokemon Sugar and Pokemon Caramel" or something like that at some point anyway, the way it's going.

OrigamiRobot

poop

How's that?

kalina

ok so it's time for some social networking

so that I can relieve badp of his password

brb flying to Italy

SaintWacko

@kalina I think you mean social engineering

kalina

@SaintWacko yes, I do

Ben Brocka

Proper social engineering doesn't require transatlantic flights

Ullallulloo

7:50 PM

@SaintWacko Go to Facebook > Talk to friends > ???? > Profit

@BenBrocka She's British.

Sconibulus

and by smile...

kalina

I mean smile

you pervert

3

FEichinger

@Ullallulloo Well, depending on the route there is some Atlantic ocean in between.

Sconibulus

@kalina err... I was actually thinking lead pipe

kalina

@Sconibulus well I was thinking smile

SaintWacko

7:51 PM

@kalina Ha! Now who's the pervert?

fredley

@Sconibulus and by lead pipe...

kalina

I DEFEATED YOUR STARRING

DO NOT EXPOSE MY PLAN

LEAVE NO EVIDENCE

Sconibulus

I mean rubber hose

user43095

@fredley get your butt over to Minecraft Talk.

fredley

@jeffreylin_ No

MBraedley

7:52 PM

@kalina passive aggressive much?

Lazers

-1

Q: Legend of Zelda Cave of Ordeals location

Can anyone out there help me locate the cave of ordeals.

zelda-twilight-princess

SaintWacko

@kalina I really need to start screenshotting everything you say that gets starred

kalina

@MBraedley there is no aggressive involved!

user43095

@fredley We're making the currency industrial credits (IC2). You okay with that?

FEichinger

@Lazers Link is not Zelda.

SaintWacko

7:53 PM

@kalina With you? Ha!

MBraedley

@kalina That was an entirely appropriate out of context star

kalina

@MBraedley which is why I left no evidence!

ok so statistically, what is the quietest day on stackexchange?

new years eve, surely?

Powerlord

@Lazers Desert

OrigamiRobot

I wanna know what it said :(

kalina

christmas day?

MBraedley

7:54 PM

@kalina The entire network, or just Arqade?

kalina

the entire network

user43095

@kalina You should know that The Bridge and Quiet are antonyms.

kalina

@jeffreylin_ chat.SE will survive the destruction

FEichinger

@jeffreylin_ Oh, it does become quite quiet when it's being evacuated.

kalina

@FEichinger this is true

Sconibulus

7:56 PM

you know... I kinda feel it's misleading to have Konami code instructions pinned when Arqade doesn't have a special feature for it

kalina

@Sconibulus how do you know it doesn't?

FEichinger

@Sconibulus Or does it?!

SaintWacko

@kalina Because I tried entering it earlier and all that happened was I posted a message consisting solely of "ba"

kalina

@SaintWacko yes but in the background, a kitten was fed bacon

SaintWacko

@kalina Oh. Well, okay then

Sconibulus

7:57 PM

@SaintWacko mostly... hangs head

I had tried it earlier on the main site, but thought there might be an insert coin thing special for chat

kalina

just because nothing obvious happened doesn't mean that nothing happened

entering the konami code while chat banned bypasses the ban

2

SaintWacko

Ooh, someone get themselves banned to try it out!

Powerlord

@SaintWacko Certain people may be... watching

SaintWacko

@Powerlord ...What?

kalina

@SaintWacko (leave no evidence)

Powerlord

8:00 PM

@SaintWacko Gno, I won't mention who.

SaintWacko

@kalina Better yet, point the evidence to someone else

@KALINA DID IT!!

kalina

entering the konami code on a stackexchange site while not logged in creates a new account with moderator privileges

2

tombull89

@kalina Quietest day? I would say Christmas day, to be honest, rather than NYE.

kalina

@tombull89 thanks!

Christmas day is the target!

Christmas 2013 will be very special.

Coronus

@kalina And bacon

SaintWacko

8:02 PM

@tombull89 ...that may have been a mistake

tombull89

Oh, Christ. Don't talk about Christmas. Not Yet.

kalina

@tombull89 it's not that far away!

OrigamiRobot

Christmas is lame. I am a Scrooge.

kalina

entering the konami code into @OrigamiRob inverts his personality, making him happy and tolerable

Sconibulus

@Kalina would it be easier to make the tags Cake and Bacon synonomize to all the other tags?

OrigamiRobot

8:03 PM

@kalina ಠ_ಠ

Sconibulus

it seems like that would be fewer operations, and so faster

OrigamiRobot

I will never be happy.

Coronus

@OrigamiRobot There's a software update for that.

Sconibulus

I might be wrong about what synonyms do though

kalina

@Sconibulus synonyms require authorisation

SaintWacko

8:05 PM

Entering the konami code into @kalina makes her no longer grumpy

@grumpykalina

kalina

I am never grumpy, it is your own misconceptions and lack of comprehension that caused this fact to become popular opinion

SaintWacko

@kalina What was that? Was that grumping I heard?

kalina

@SaintWacko negative

tombull89

The Konami code would be a good Arquade easter egg

Sconibulus

ahh... ok, I figured at some rep point there might not be voting anymore

SaintWacko

8:07 PM

@kalina Negative? That's kind grumpy

tombull89

Then again. IE9 was rolled out schoolwide over the holidays, and the students have found the "Zerg Rush" mingame in Google...

user15026

Today is rainy and I forgot my wallet at home and everything is upside down. :(

Sconibulus

get out of Australia

user15026

@sconibulus hahaha

user15026

Yeah

Ullallulloo

8:23 PM

@tombull89 insert coin is

Grace Note

Apparently, there is a thing called Jurassic Heart.

Lazers

0

Q: I still don't get when I win or lose at Caravan

I thought I'd gotten the hang of this rather interesting game, but every now and then I seem to win or loose eventhough neither I or the opponent have three complete caravans. My last match, he even had an empty caravan and I suddenly lost. I thought that you win when you have three caravans that...

fallout-new-vegas

kalina

I am so bored

Grace Note

@kalina Write about drawing something.

kalina

@GraceNote I don't do those things

Grace Note

8:34 PM

Now is a good time to start.

Coronus

@GraceNote Draw someone writing something.

kalina

I am too bored to take up new hobbies

Grace Note

The only other option I can suggest to you, at this juncture, is to go date a T-Rex, so I'm afraid I have little else for advice.

kalina

most men are as unsophisticated as a dinosaur, is that basically telling me to go get a boyfriend?

Grace Note

It was more of a "Go investigate what this Jurassic heart thing is".

kalina

8:39 PM

what the hell have you got me playing

Coronus

@kalina Are you still bored?

kalina

now I'm weirded out

Coronus

@kalina But... Are you still bored?

kalina

I will be the moment I close this browser tab out of confusion

Coronus

@kalina That's the problem with boredom. You can only keep it at bay, you can never defeat it.

MORE GAMES!

kalina

8:41 PM

I defeated Deathwing but I can't defeat Boredom?

OrigamiRobot

@kalina and @Coronus look so nice together.

kalina

@OrigamiRobot why do you do this

Coronus

@kalina You didn't defeat Deathwing, you just weakened him so some stupidhead could come in and killsteal.

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Your gravatars I mean. I like the alternating colors.

kalina

@Coronus no I killed Deathwing solo while my guild were all jumping around

ok I can't play this "game" any more

badp

8:45 PM

GODDAMMIT.

Sconibulus

wtf?

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote they're just coming out with new CPUs all over the place

badp

@Sconibulus I had to win this hand, not any others, just this hand where the Heavy got knocked out.

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Hehe

Sconibulus

@badp why? Some sort of achieve? It looks like you had kinda a bad hand

badp

8:52 PM

@Sconibulus Yeah, but I had to because the Heavy went all in immediately.

Yeah, it's for an item.

(Strong Bad had a 9 and a 5 or worse, btw)

Ullallulloo

15 hours ago, by Ullallulloo

Two Aces and I can't knock Max out.

badp

@Ullallulloo I actually got his items second.

Missing out on the more aggressive players, Heavy and Strong Bad

I had a 30k$ lead on a Heavy run once, then we dueled and he destroyed me. :(

Ullallulloo

@badp I was delt two aces though.

badp

@Ullallulloo Well, 2 2 2 are enough to overcome a single ace pair :P

At least with this guy you can just hit Check every time.

Urge to use SAM increasing.

Ben Brocka

9:10 PM

Come to think of it, it can't be all that safe to play around Max without Sam there, can it? Sam usually stops him (or the player) from shooting people

Stupid Sam

Powerlord

> No plugin, include, or combination of the two should be double formatting, let alone quadruple formatting or whatever the hell is going on there.

SourceMod's lead dev just posted that, but as it turns out, using SourceMod's own PrintToChatAll does double formatting.

Whoops.

PrintHintTextToAll probably does too

badp

9:39 PM

@Powerlord I refrained to chip in during the mailing list discussions after the "pinion-killing" MOTD changes but...

Aren't there already about eleventy ways to display text on demand to players that don't involve the MOTD?

Hell, skial puts animated goddamn "watermarks" on your screen

I understand that text ads are probably not enough to break even but...

Lazers

2

Q: What is Hunters for Hire?

I just StreetPassed with someone that had Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate and I got an alert on my Hunters for Hire screen. Blindly pressing buttons, I sent my fellow hunter(s) on a quest to deliver raw meat for 80z. What does Hunters for Hire do? Is it another way to get items like the farm or fishe...

monster-hunter-3-ultimate

0

Q: The blasting of Bedrock

Can you blast through bedrock if you have enough TNT? I was mining and came accross it and I have 45 TNT blocks. If I could blast through it do you get to use the bedrock too?

minecraft

badp

I dunno, rules? No need for MOTDs, or HTML MOTDs to begin with. Donation info? Same. Radio? Just open the relevant URL in a tab in your actual desktop browser.

kalina

Yes! I did it!

I got past the loading screen of a game that isn't Mass Effect

badp

30 seconds long unskippable ads that keep coming back when you need to actually build stuff in the setup time? Yeah, sure.

@kalina Congratulations! What main menu are you staring at now?

kalina

I'm not, I'm playing Tomb Raider

badp

9:44 PM

You'd already gotten past the loading screen of that game

kalina