The Bridge

3:00 PM

How very... Victorian

@BenBrocka Depending on your luck, you could spend more time trying to get a Harem than just having the girls spend time with each other naturally.

Ronan Forman

It's nothing official though. More traditional.

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote Either way I want the chips first though, it's like 80% faster according to your answer

I want the chips so I can get the rank as I do other stuff

Grace Note

Oh yeah. It's much, much faster. Especially for Noire. Poor, poor, Lonely Heart.

Ben Brocka

I did notice that she hates everyone

Grace Note

3:03 PM

I did find it amusing how Nepgear's Lily Ranks with the V goddesses changed when she properly joined, but sadly Noire and Uni did not have such luck.

Ben Brocka

Uni seems to have oddly high ranks IIRC. She was like level 4 with Vert

Grace Note

Also Lily Rank is the best term ever.

@BenBrocka All the candidates besides Nepgear start off at 5 or so with each other, 4 with everyone besides Noire, and 0 for Noire.

Ben Brocka

Uni hasn't learned to be properly tsundere then

Grace Note

She's only tsundere to Nepgear~

Anyway, meeting.

kalina

@ManishEarth Math was the room I was thinking of when I said invalid flags, I just didn't want to go and point the finger on MSO

ManishEarth

3:07 PM

@kalina ah

kalina

great minds though :p

fredley

@RonanForman There are circumstances you can engineer under which you would be refered to as 'Master'

kalina

@fredley tieing somebody up, covering them in a highly flammable liquid and holding a lit match while demanding it?

Grumpy Lazers

1

Q: How do I increase my village's income in Ninja Village?

This seems like a simple question, but I'm lost on how to actually significantly increase output; even as I gain more villagers I don't seem to gain much more money per month. I've built multiple workshops and lumber/ore depots. I've got plenty of supplies but my stores are always being sold ou...

ninja-village

1

Q: Does the underground ruin have any shortcuts?

Since the Caedeus quest is a repel quest his health is retained between quests. When I start a quest with him already wounded he starts in Area 3, forcing me to swim all the way there. It's both annoying and time consuming (~4 minutes). Are there any shortcuts in the ruins I can take to reduce th...

monster-hunter-3-ultimate

0

Q: Can you make steam not take dumps when Dota 2 crashes?

Everytime Dota 2 crashes steam makes memory dumps and they're placed in the C:\Program Files\Steam\dumps. Now my problem is that my HDD space is pretty low now, and each "dump" file is a bit over 1 GB. And i really don't have any use for them either, i don't plan on reporting the crashes because...

steam dota-2

fredley

@kalina Whatever does it for you I guess

kalina

3:16 PM

@fredley I think it would work though

fredley

@kalina Yeah. You don't need to go as far as edge-play though

NightExcessive

... awkward

kalina

it's not awkward

Ben Brocka

> With 52.3% of all the hits, dog food is more popular than zynga, and also the most positive.

kalina

@BenBrocka you fail at internet

Ben Brocka

3:22 PM

Huh, don't links work in block quotes?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@BenBrocka They do.

kalina

@BenBrocka put http://

Ben Brocka

It has it

kalina

not on my screen it doesn't

> test

I guess I am just better at internets than you

LessPop_MoreFizz

> I do it all the time, I dunno what's not working for you, @BenBrocka

badp

3:23 PM

@BenBrocka The final slash confused the parser

Ben Brocka

@badp Huh

LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina Chat autostrips http from bare links. yahoo.com

FEichinger

@BenBrocka Backslash escapes the closing parentheses.

kalina

this is just me being silly for sure

but I found this funny

OrigamiRobot

@fredley He is 18 now right?

kalina

3:27 PM

@OrigamiRobot yes

SaintWacko

bears.org

OrigamiRobot

In that case...

SaintWacko

@LessPop_MoreFizz Hm, you're right

Oh, wait. Bare.

OrigamiRobot

@fredley cc: @spugsley

SaintWacko

;)

Aww, did my bad pun kill chat?

badp

3:29 PM

@SaintWacko Sorry, busy banning people

7

kalina

@badp strange, I seem to not be banned, did you miss?

fredley

@kalina The thought of an inaccurate ban-lazer is terrifying

Hmmm

Ban-lazer

blazer?

OrigamiRobot

@fredley What does blazer mean in the UK?

kalina

type of jacket similar to a suit coat

fredley

@OrigamiRobot It's a type of short jacket, usually associated with a club (usually sports) or school

OrigamiRobot

3:36 PM

Darn, I was hoping for another argument.

Unionhawk

@fredley So that's one thing you've got right

fredley

kalina

you call it an argument, but while you keep calling trousers 'pants' we're going to call it a joke

fredley

Blazers

@Unionhawk DO NOT LINK THAT LINK EVER

Unionhawk

:P

fredley

3:38 PM

@Unionhawk NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

kalina

is that a scone and some biscuits?

OrigamiRobot

I'm working on an English to Englizh translation script.

badp

Biscuit (bread)

A biscuit () in the United States and Canada, and widely used in popular American English, is a small bread with a firm browned crust and a soft interior. They are made with baking powder or baking soda as a chemical leavening agent rather than yeast. They are similar to British scones or the bannock from the Shetland Isles. Biscuits, soda breads, and cornbread, among others, are often referred to collectively as "quick breads," to indicate that they do not need time to rise before baking. History Earlier history Although the American English and British English use the same word to re...

Dan Hulme

Only they don't really taste much like scones

maybe really dry plain scones

Ben Brocka

Computer gaming company accused of silently pushing out bitcoin mining software to gamers’ GPUs http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1dglil/popular_competitive_gaming_league_esea_admins/

Tweeted by 0xabad1dea on May 1, 2013 at 3:39 PM

Dan Hulme

3:39 PM

I was very disappointed when I tried "biscuits and gravy" in the states.

Ben Brocka

wow, that's evil

Unionhawk

@DanHulme Generally lighter and fluffier than what I would call a scone too

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Here we go again!

user15026

@BenBrocka that is pretty awful.

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka Wholly Chao

Sconibulus

3:45 PM

what if you had a biscuit(US) filled with biscuits(UK)

like as filling...

that might be delicious

fbueckert

@BenBrocka If that's true, they just got a ton of bad press.

And probably a lawsuit.

Unionhawk

@Sconibulus You would have a biscuit filled with cookies... and that would be weird...

Sconibulus

but potentially super tasty

NightExcessive

@Unionhawk That sounds amazing. Can we make it happen?

Dan Hulme

What's the fastest cake in the world?

fredley

3:48 PM

@DanHulme Scone

Sconibulus

Instant cake!

Unionhawk

@NightExcessive If you want, go for it.

Dan Hulme

A point to @fredley

fredley

@DanHulme (pronounced S'gone)

Ronan Forman

@fredley Not how I pronounce it it isnt'.

fredley

3:49 PM

@RonanForman That's because your wrong

4

Dan Hulme

Yes. People from the south won't get this joke at all.

badp

@fbueckert That's being organized apparently.

fredley

@DanHulme People from the South who pronounce scone correctly will

Unionhawk

On an unrelated note, I opened the crate 50...

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@fredley *twitch*

badp

3:50 PM

@Unionhawk so?

fbueckert

@badp Especially since the cost of the mining wasn't paid by the instigators.

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone What's wrong with you now?

Unionhawk

@badp Bacon grease. Hell yes.

badp

@Unionhawk well I guess that'll sell handsomely

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@fredley You took my wrong, that's what :(

user15026

3:51 PM

@sconibulus make cookie butter, put on biscuit, stick in face. Seems like it would be delicious, to me.

kalina

is it hometime yet

Unionhawk

@badp Nah, I'm using it. Because it's awesome. I might put strange part: critical kills on it or something too

badp

meh

Unionhawk

Because it's the pan

badp

Let me see how many bajillion items do you need for a strange pda

fredley

3:52 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh shit, how did I miss that

badp

uh, 10 keys is perhaps cheaper than what I expected

still not cheap

Dan Hulme

@AshleyNunn I can't imagine it being better than jam and cream (or cream and jam).

user15026

@danhulme no, but still delicious.

Ben Brocka

user15026

@BenBrocka seriously, this guy is messed up terrible, and I hope that someone can take legal action or some such.

badp

3:59 PM

@AshleyNunn whatcha doing with ur idl time anywyas

The ironic part is that apparently the bitcoin miner was shipped only to paying members of that website

OrigamiRobot

@badp The point is it's your idle time.

badp

You had to pay to have ~~mod~~ dev abuse on your computer

@OrigamiRobot lol u nolifr get on my level

fbueckert

@badp Oh, that'll help the legal action immensely.

badp

@fbueckert From what I've seen I think the client was a premium feature to begin with; at least everybody on that thread seemed to have some kind of subscription going on

fbueckert

@badp I know. So that's paid software with a stealth "feature".

badp

4:02 PM

@fbueckert super-premium!

fbueckert

You can usually hit them with false or misleading advertising, or at the very least, unauthorized computer access.

OrigamiRobot

cc: @fredley

@fbueckert If someone was already mining bitcoins, they're actively interfering with that.

Mad Scientist

@badp GPUs can use an awful lot of power, and power is not exactly cheap

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot That, too.

Reminds me of Sony's rootkit fiasco.

badp

@MadScientist lol ur must be uisin it for ure pr0n anywyas

user15026

4:04 PM

@badp twitches

badp

u must of noited becaus of video sttuter

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Oooo, I think I found the most stupid reddit bot yet reddit.com/user/Australian_Translate

badp

@AshleyNunn I'm suiciding a little inside

user15026

@badp as you should be!

fbueckert

It takes real effort to type like that.

About as much effort as it does to stab somebody.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

4:06 PM

@badp I'm surprised you're not biting off your fingers right now

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Drawing has helped with that.

OrigamiRobot

@YiJiang'sEvilClone My translator will just switch all the z's and s's and drop all instances of "under"

Instant American to British translation.

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Somehow I feel this potent of a tool will be appreciated.

Ben Brocka

OrigamiRobot

Calling all @StrixVaria

Grace Note

4:12 PM

@BenBrocka See? Totally appreciated.

OrigamiRobot

Too late.

Blem

:D

What I see is that this chat is missing some pictures of animals or animated gifs

fredley

Whoever starred me can die

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Blem That is some good faceplanting right there

Dan Hulme

No, what's crazy is that the Yanks also eat "hot biscuits", which are what they sound like.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

4:15 PM

@DanHulme Biscuits made in the shape of scantily clad ladies?

OrigamiRobot

Dan Hulme

Scones with added thermal energy

OrigamiRobot

@DanHulme You need heat so the butter melts. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Dammit. Now I want buttered something or other.

FEichinger

@DanHulme That seems ... pointless.

Dan Hulme

4:18 PM

@OrigamiRobot Butter? Aren't they buttery enough already?

FEichinger

I mean, warmed biscuits would probably be worse than warmed scones, but ... what do you need heat in scones for, really?

OrigamiRobot

@DanHulme In America, it's never buttery enough.

fredley

@kalina @YiJiang'sEvilClone Ok, I've got to admit, this was pretty fucking hilarious:

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@fredley Yes. Yes it is.

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I must confess to watching it multiple times

OrigamiRobot

4:21 PM

@FREDLEY HAS WATCHED MLP MULTIPLE TIMES: DATA ACCEPTED

6

fredley

considers changing name to Flutterguy

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Are there no pigs in MLP?

Dan Hulme

Well, I'm having some proper English food now:

tikka masala

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@OrigamiRobot There are. There aren't pork chops though.

Sconibulus

A pig is just porkchops in raw form

Grumpy Lazers

4:30 PM

-6

Q: Name that game? Very rare game, only text description

Ok, this is a shot in the dark. I've been trying to track down a game for a LONG time. It was released in 1988 or earlier. I'm not sure of the system, I do know it was a computer-like system, could be IBM, Commodore, an Atari variant. I know that Rogue was another game on the system at the time...

commodore-64 amiga atari-2600

fbueckert

@GrumpyLazers That really does sound like Flashback.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I'm not entirely sure why the farm has pigs, since they obviously aren't there for the meat

Blem

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Pig milk?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Blem They already have cow milk. I don't think I've ever heard of anybody drinking pig milk

badp

facepalms

OrigamiRobot

4:45 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone What do you think baby pigs drink?

Ben Brocka

> An error is occured

arg

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Eh?

fredley

WAT A DOODLE DOO

@RonanForman How can steam boilers explode before they're even built?

Ben Brocka

Waddledo?

@fredley You're just that bad at building them

fredley

@BenBrocka Once exploded, started rebuilding, and it exploded again!

Ben Brocka

4:55 PM

smite(@fredley);

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Needs moar Biomass

fredley

@OrigamiRobot It destroyed my biomass plant in the explosion!

OrigamiRobot

@fredley You know what doesn't explode?

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Pork Chops

OrigamiRobot

Biomass Engines

Ronan Forman

4:59 PM

You know what can explode?

Bees.

fredley

@RonanForman Bees are awful

OrigamiRobot

I hate bees

Ronan Forman

@fredley That's it. You're all getting bees in yo faces.

OrigamiRobot

I only logged in to fix my HPC

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: Is there any benefit to accepting high risk prisoners?

I can't seem to work out the difference between high-, medium- and low-risk prisoners. I can see that high-risk prisoners are more likely to be violent, but do I get more money for taking them in? Or is there no benefit at all to accepting them?

prison-architect

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

5:11 PM

I'm not sure if understand the concept of field of vision in first person games

The number is the degree which the camera is able to see, right?

I wonder if high FOV leads to distortion as the camera attempts to project the circular field of vision on a flat screen

Dan Hulme

sort of

to look right, the fov needs to be roughly the same angle the screen subtends in your vision

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hmm, Wikipedia says there's both a horizontal and vertical FOV, so why is it that games usually only have one number?

Dan Hulme

to let you set the horiz and vert fov separately it'd have to squish the image to fit your monitor, or have black bands

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

So the one number is the horizontal FOV, and the vertical FOV adjusts to fit the screen accordingly

Grace Note

Usually, the number is the horizontal, yeah.

The vertical distance is usually always the "short" distance no matter the resolution on someone's monitor and whether it's widescreen or not. Thus this can be seen as a fixed point (adjusted, but fixed) to which the number you manipulate affects the not fixed point, the horizontal. If that makes sense.

badp

5:28 PM

Please die. I've been fighting you for five minutes now

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Is that Castle Crashers?

badp

Nope, Dungeon Hearts.

Match three tiles of the same color, get striker. Click striker, attack (fedding off the row and column).

It's in the current indie bundle.

I simply wish it had a health bar at least.

fbueckert

This just in: Guy with no arms gets pulled over, fined for not wearing a seat belt.

badp

@fbueckert He still had a head.

fbueckert

@badp Indeed.

Not exactly sure how he can put the seatbelt on, though.

badp

5:34 PM

...a friend?

Yeah, I guess he can't drive on his own

fbueckert

@badp Well, he can; his car is modified so he can drive with his feet.

badp

...but he can't put the seatbelt on.

fbueckert

He just can't put on the seatbelt; maybe a button to motorize that?

badp

What if he puts on the seatbelt and then slides under it?

I guess it won't work for the legs, making them kinda useless, but...

fbueckert

@badp Anyone with arms can already do that.

badp

5:37 PM

@fbueckert but it sounds possible (although non trivial) to do without arms

and would likely pass a random check

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I don't think you need two arms to put on a seat belt?

fbueckert

@badp Very much so. I'm just not sure what that has to do with requiring him to wear a seat belt.

badp

@fbueckert that he can do that on his own?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Oh, he has no arms at all?

badp

although it's not really wearing a seat belt

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's what I understand

fbueckert

5:38 PM

@badp Oh, I getcha.

kalina

can somebody please delete this:

-6

Q: Any Zombie apocalypse game

Kindly do no suggest games like The walking dead survival instinct. Im looking for something alike ARMA + zombie mod + multiplayer. Means I can kill zombies with friends online. or Something like Minecraft, but with good graphics. And good strategy. Kindly suggest me such games. To know mor...

untagged

has 2 votes on it already

fbueckert

Get somebody to click it in, and he just slides in and out as necessary.

badp

@kalina not before I tag it properly

kalina

we don't have a game-rec tag

could have just left it untagged

SaintWacko

go-away

badp

5:41 PM

@kalina We do! It's applied to 386 questions

They're just all deleted

kalina

lol

badp

However, we have 492 deleted questions tagged untagged and this bothers me

OTOH, I can edit deleted questions and this doesn't trash the home page so...

kalina

Sounds like you're busy

badp

time to do a @kalina

2

FEichinger

So ... apparently not watching my prison for a moment while writing up the prison-architect answer resulted in my Holding Cell becoming a thunder dome. Go figure.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

5:42 PM

@badp You must be really bored

kalina

@badp even if you tried you could never "do a kalina"

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It might help in future science!

kalina

well, now the MMO tag doesn't have really ugly questions on it

just, ugly ones

badp

lol, I'm bumping the tag question counts

I guess it'll be recalculated eventually

I'll grab some MSO reps in the process

kalina

I really don't see the issue with them being untagged

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

5:44 PM

I wonder if you can cheat your way to the Necromancer badge

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone not without a bunch of sockpuppets?

James

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Just keep editing a bunch of old deleted posts

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone necro requires an answer + 5 upvotes

Ben Brocka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone you mean archeologist? But I don't think that works anyway

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

5:46 PM

Oh, right, wrong badge

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: Which actions for each class generate Action Points in Neverwinter?

Neverwinter just went open beta and I'm trying to figure out what specific actions I should do with my Guardian Fighter to refill my action point quickest. I remember from the closed beta weekend I did with a cleric that healing refilled the cleric's action points, but they've change a bit of the...

neverwinter-online

kalina

I got archaeologist in the tag cleanup last year

James

o.O @GrumpyLazers !?

Ben Brocka

6

A: Do votes, flags, and edits on deleted posts still count towards badges?

Flags: The nature of flagging often leads to flagged posts being deleted, and the system is designed to work this way. The flag count in the user profile counts all of the flags that have been marked 'helpful', and the flagging history shows all flags that have been raised by the user, including...

Ullallulloo

@GrumpyLazers We need to rename that tag right.

Ben Brocka

5:47 PM

> Answer: No, edits don't count.

Ullallulloo

I was gonna let the original tag maker do it, but I guess he isn't going to.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Ullallulloo What's wrong with it?

Ullallulloo

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The name of the game is just Neverwinter, not Neverwinter Online.

Ben Brocka

@James someone edited him to that earlier this week

I prefer Alwayswinter Offline, myself

kalina

@Ullallulloo get a mod to do it

otherwise I'll end up doing it the dirty way

Ullallulloo

5:49 PM

@kalina It's only three.

I guess I'll do it.

kalina

DIRTY WAY IT IS

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Still need to set up a synonym

fbueckert

Speaking of the MMO tag, we should really close most of the questions using it.

Joshua Aslan Smith

yes hopped on here to talk about it so I don't mess up the comments section on my question

kalina

@fbueckert I already just removed the really bad ones, the rest are borderline as to whether they have the tag but should probably be closed anyway

@JoshuaAslanSmith mmo = meta tag, it's not needed

counter argument to the next thing you say = we have 500+ WoW questions, not a single one uses that tag. If the most popular MMO in the world doesn't use it, some random in beta doesn't need it either

now... sour skittles!

fbueckert

5:53 PM

@kalina I've VTC'ed 75% of them. The one remaining might garner speculation, but it seems to be alright so far.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Whatever happened to cake?

Joshua Aslan Smith

I figured it was, but also assumed that since it still existed that is was useable. Hence my dust-up. You guys should have completely removed said tag once it was judged redundant even if it left questions untagged temporarily .

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone sour skittles are far better than cake (cc: @OrigamiRobot)

@JoshuaAslanSmith what about questions regarding MMOs that aren't relating to a particular game?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@JoshuaAslanSmith There are valid questions that apply to MMOs as a genre, but those are rare

Joshua Aslan Smith

Something like "What's the difference between F2P and a regular MMO?"

fbueckert

5:55 PM

@JoshuaAslanSmith As a counterpoint, you should also try not antagonizing established members of the community. We have our own culture here, and going, "It's there, so I can use it" is going against that.

SE allows five tags; does that mean every question has to use all five tags?

kalina

@fbueckert done

Sconibulus

"How do I convince shady organizations in China that there's profitability in gold farming an MMO"

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Hmm, you have strange taste. I would say skittles is more cost effective than cake, but definitely not better if you look at it purely from satisfaction derived from their consumption

kalina

I think we have a multiplayer tag as well, maybe we should retag every question on the site!

Joshua Aslan Smith

I understand what you're getting at but given your faqs thats out of scope

FEichinger

5:56 PM

@Sconibulus OT, arguably.

Joshua Aslan Smith

specifically calls for game specific questions

FEichinger

@JoshuaAslanSmith NC, because more often than not pretty darn broad.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@JoshuaAslanSmith The question seem to imply that the two are mutually exclusive when they clearly are not. Besides, NC

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm sorry, it's not possible to measure satisfaction from sour skittles, it's off the charts

fbueckert

@JoshuaAslanSmith Yes. Which you've done. I'm not sure why you insist on using the MMO tag for it.

FEichinger

5:57 PM

@kalina As is the case with cake.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina I wonder how satisfied you are when you're puking rainbow

kalina

@FEichinger cake is measured as a solid 10.0

skittles is somewhere over 9000

FEichinger

@kalina Just go burn yourself.

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone sour skittles taste the same regardless

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Your utility-o-meter is clearly broken

kalina

5:59 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone OFF THE CHARTS

Joshua Aslan Smith

I'll just bow out, because this isnt my normal SE and I get what you mean about the community you built, it just doesn't make sense to have a tag exist in a limbo of only 4 or 5 questions using it and say I can't use it. Tags with such a low number that aren't game specific seem to have very little utility.

I even think that MMO is redundant but put it in since it was in use.

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