The Bridge

4:00 PM

Not smart minecraft questions, for sure. Redstone questions, for example, have gotten me about.... A hundred or so rep. Total.

Jason Berkan

@Unionhawk Anything above a +1 and a checkmark is simply due to the popularity of the question. More people play Minecraft than use redstone.

Yuki

@Lazers I find that the majority of "cross-platform?" questions can be answered with "No."

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

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Swahili Language

Proposed Q&A site for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the Swahili language.

Currently in definition.

1

Comedy

Proposed Q&A site for working comedians in the stand-up, television, literary, and film industries.

Currently in definition.

2

Innovation for the 99%

Proposed Q&A site for 99% of the population. We all should crowdsource ideas for changes in society, markets and organisations. This site should serve anyone who wants to change anything about people and the way people do things. Let's change the world together!

Currently in definition.

2

Consumer Living

Proposed Q&A site for people who have questions about everyday consumer life: how and when to negotiate bills and prices, how to deal with customer service in companies of varying sizes, and how to ensure receipt of quality products and services at an appropriate value.

Currently in definition.

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WinDev - PC Soft

Proposed Q&A site for winDev developers to come together and share ideas and solutions for developing applications in WinDev. PC Soft also provides WinDev Mobile for iOS/Android/Win and WebDev for web development. This development community needs a comprehensive site!

Currently in definition.

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stackoverlow (India)

Proposed Q&A site for indian developers.

Currently in definition.

1

Abstract Thinking

Proposed Q&A site for programmers, mathematicians, spiritual people. they all have in common that they wont think in specific objects of our world, but rather apply abstraction and talk as if there'd be no real world. come here to showcase this process.

Currently in definition.

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Stack Overflow (in Canadian)

Proposed Q&A site for Canadian techies. So here's the thing, eh? When I write a question I don't want the topic to confuse Americans when I use metric, get in a debate about poutine or maple syrup, or go to the gutter if I talk about beavers.

Currently in definition.

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badp

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment +1

fredley

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Hahahahahaha

Frank

4:08 PM

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment I'm divided about whether or not I like this.

badp

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment -1000

TZHX

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment isn't that what stack overflow is already?

badp

@GraceNote "How can I play Minecraft with just one friend?"

Ben Brocka

aboot is misspelled

3ventic

@TZHX I was wondering the same

Kevin van der Velden

4:09 PM

@badp that's a different question =p

FAE

@Lazers Torn as to whether or not this is answerable.

Ben Brocka

@FAE It is out in Japan

It's pretty unlikely they'll add cross buy before US release, and if they do the question should be updated like any post release change

Jason Berkan

@BenBrocka Depends on where you are from. Westerners pronounce it properly.

TZHX

Any answer is still just going to be based on press coverage from July last year, though, it seems?

Kevin van der Velden

Oh nohs! Panic and horror! Horse meat has been found in beef again

TZHX

4:11 PM

That's why I didn't post an answer to it.

RedRiderX

@fredley Oh hey did you post the style sheet for that one?

fredley

@RedRiderX eh?

TZHX

@KevinvanderVelden where else are we meant to sell it in the west? it's pretty distinguishable from chicken and fish.

RedRiderX

27 mins ago, by fredley

fredley

@RedRiderX Wait a sec

RedRiderX

4:16 PM

This

Ben Brocka

@JasonBerkan You can't half-butt the parody though, all in or nothing

fredley

@RedRiderX userstyles.org/styles/97667/soda-chat

RedRiderX

Hey thanks

Jason Berkan

@BenBrocka True. And now that I'm sitting in my office saying about over and over, I find that the faster I say it, the more it sounds like a-boat, so who knows?

RedRiderX

Oooh.

this is nice

StrixVaria

4:19 PM

@JasonBerkan "a-boat" is just the way Canadians say "about". It's not "a-boot" at all.

My Canadian friend's dad was talking about baseball and I was wondering what on earth that had to do with oats for a long time before I realized what he was saying.

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria I know. But when I talk at a steady speed, I definitely say a-bowt. Also, according to Wikipedia, I should be pronouncing "rider" and "writer" differently, but I do not.

Frank

@StrixVaria I pronounce it, "a-bout"

Ben Brocka

Augh this downloader uses MegaBYTES per second to show download speed. Don't do that

StrixVaria

@Frank It's hard to talk about in text, because you might pronounce "bout" differently from me. You may say "bout" the same way I say "boat".

I can never know unless you make a recording, which is way too much effort.

Frank

@StrixVaria Hrm. Good point.

OrigamiRobot

4:21 PM

@StrixVaria @Wipqozn has a more pronounced accent in this sense.

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot All Maritimers have a very different accent. And then there's Newfoundland...

Unionhawk

I pronounce it correctly, and anyone who pronounces it differently has an accent.

3ventic

@RedRiderX I added all kinds of color settings to this, btw

Jason Berkan

I remember the first time I heard "me mudder" and wondered what the hell they were talking about.

StrixVaria

I have the most generic kind of American accent (to my knowledge).

Sconibulus

4:23 PM

@StrixVaria midwest?

StrixVaria

@Sconibulus No, the one that everyone uses in movies and stuff.

When you're not from a specific place.

Unionhawk

I think that'd be Midwest NOT Chicago etc. Maybe.

StrixVaria

Interestingly, the stereotypical "New Jersey" accent cannot be heard by anyone actually from New Jersey, in my experience.

Jason Berkan

I have a cousin in Kansas City, who once told me, in a delightful whatever accent Missouri has, that she wished she had an accent.

RedRiderX

@3ventic Ah okay

StrixVaria

4:27 PM

@JasonBerkan I was disappointed after voice chatting with other Arqadians when they told me I just had a generic accent.

@OrigamiRobot has a southern accent and @Wipqozn has a Canadian accent.

fredley

@RedRiderX It's come out quite well

Frank

@StrixVaria Isn't that how most accents work?

StrixVaria

@Frank No?

FAE

@StrixVaria It's been such a long time since I've heard you that I can't recall yours, which means yeah, I think it was fairly standard.

StrixVaria

When I went to Canada, people talked with Canadian accents.

Frank

4:29 PM

@StrixVaria Yeah, but you can't usually recognize your own accent.

FAE

@JasonBerkan Midwest/southernish.

fredley

Americans don't understand accents, because they have one already

Yuki

@StrixVaria Really, I was expecting Canadians to speak with Chinese accents.

Unionhawk

We made fun of this one crew from Wisconsin at Philmont.

Ben Brocka

StrixVaria

4:29 PM

@Frank But people who mimic a "New Jersey" accent do not sound anything like people who are actually from New Jersey.

fredley

Being British, I obviously have no accent

Yuki

@StrixVaria That tends to be how accent mimicry works.

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley clearly, you are a porkchop and therefor cannot talk

Frank

@StrixVaria Ok, I didn't understand you were talking about mimicking an accent.

Jason Berkan

@FAE That's kind of what I thought. I wanted to say southern, but not really southern.

Yuki

4:29 PM

When most people try to imitate an accent, they exaggerate it quite a bit.

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden I just make a meaty, muffled sound

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley exactly, there's no accent in that. Just gravity

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden Gravit- as

Unionhawk

.....

FAE

@JasonBerkan @Fluttershy's from SE Missouri though, and he and his family's the main experience I have with Missouri accents, so I'm not sure how much it differs from Kansas City, which is A-further north and B-on the other side of the state.

Kevin van der Velden

4:31 PM

@fredley you? Dignified? Naah

I remember your prison in minecraft!

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden I had a top hat for a brief period

OrigamiRobot

@Canadians Where do you put the emphasis in the word "advertisement"

3ventic

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden Nobody ever got stuck in my chamber of non-death!

3ventic

That timing.

Kevin van der Velden

4:31 PM

I don't remember who got trapped in there though, getting them out was easy enough

Blem

►

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot adver tise ment

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden Was it? The whole thing was surrounded by warded glass!

@JasonBerkan Incorrect. The correct stress should be on vert

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley yeah, but you can toss entities through the portal as well. So I tossed a book through, it dropped on the person and they picked it up and got out

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden Oh. How dull

Jason Berkan

4:33 PM

@fredley If you say it with a short i, yes.

Unionhawk

Heh.

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley effective though =p

fredley

@JasonBerkan Which you do if you say it correctly

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah. If you're on your own you've got no hope

Jason Berkan

@fredley I sometimes say it that way, but I'm usually trying to be pretentious when I do.

OrigamiRobot

@JasonBerkan According to this random video I found "most Canadians would say ad-VER-tis-ment"

3ventic

4:34 PM

Most Finns would say AD-ver-tis-ment

FAE

My accent's all messed up now because I moved away from the place I grew up to somewhere where both American and British English are spoken as a second language.

fredley

spiffingcss.com

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot Yeah, 'cause that's the British way of saying it. Honestly, I hear it pronounced both ways. I probably say it with a long i because of American TV.

Unionhawk

Depends on the context. I mostly abbreviate it. I don't have time for 3 extra syllables.

Kevin van der Velden

Welp, hometime! Cya

fredley

4:36 PM

background-colour: #0f0 !please;

OrigamiRobot

@Unionhawk Well, yea. I don't know that I've ever said the whole word in normal speech.

FAE

I do fall back into old speech patterns when I'm visiting my parents though.

Fun fact: @Fluttershy and @OrigamiRobot can be hard to tell apart if you haven't spoken to them a lot.

OrigamiRobot

Clearly the only solution here is for all of us to get on Mumble and shout at each other.

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Unionhawk

Clearly

Ben Brocka

That's boring let's all get on Shout and mumble at each other

Unionhawk

4:38 PM

Also, I can see that. They're obv the same person.

FAE

@Unionhawk Also they're jerks and will take advantage of this by calling each other by the opposite name to try to confuse people more. :P

Tim Stone

@OrigamiRobot I'm prepping my RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE voice now.

OrigamiRobot

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Frank

I've been talking to some Brazilians over Teamspeak lately, and it's been amusing listening to conversations I have almost no idea what's being said.

OrigamiRobot

This is what @StrixVaria was talking about.

Unionhawk

4:44 PM

We should secretly trick badp to listen and shatter the headcanon

Frank

Since it's about FF 14, though, I can pick up some words here and there.

OrigamiRobot

Re: The pronunciation of route, I say rout unless I am talking about a specific road (i.e. root 66)

SaintWacko

Morning, Bridge

What is headcanon?

3ventic

I just told my friend "yolo swag" isn't something you see on this channel and then I check the starlist. sigh

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Frank

@3ventic It was a response to a flag in another room.

3ventic

4:49 PM

Still!

Unionhawk

Dammit @Frank

I think we've starred other people for it before.

(you know who you are)

3ventic

:13463643 Sneaky.

Matt Эллен

I am a sneak

OrigamiRobot

@FAE I don't hear it at all.

Unionhawk

@OrigamiRobot I can hear it a little, but I can also tell the difference, so, there's that.

OrigamiRobot

4:55 PM

@Unionhawk I don't think our tones are the same and I don't think our accents are the same.

Unionhawk

Okay, I think I can pinpoint the location of the "Dayton, Ohio" server on speedtest. It's got to be in the engineering building.

I get like, 50 down/40 up on that server in this location, but at home, or on another server, it hovers around 6/4

Meraj99

Got my PS4 :D

Blem

Parents Lock Daughter In Closet So Dad Can Play Video Games

Meraj99

Now, anyone know where the PS+ code is?

fredley

@Blem :(

Frank

4:58 PM

So I went to go visit my buddy in Japan a few years ago. Best vacation I've ever had.

This was a few months before the tsunami.

Turns out, he's now a daddy!

Blem

I would like to visit Japan

FAE

@OrigamiRobot That's because you're one of the people for whom the comparison is made.

Yuki

I don't hear any accents when I hunt with you guys...

Weird.

Blem

Im done with work, time to go get a workout! cu

Frank

@Yuki I can usually identify who is who by their accent.

Unionhawk

5:00 PM

People with Brooklyn accents are fun.

Frank

@Raven's voice is higher-pitched than anyone else's, though, so it's pretty easy to recognize his.

Yuki

@Frank I normally identify by pitch and tone-ish.

I don't really notice accents.

SaintWacko

Well, this is interesting for anyone with an android smartphone

Unionhawk

My one friend has practiced the pronunciation of the word "water", to disappoint everyone who wants a demo of his Brooklyn accent.

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn has a more stereotypical Canadian accent. @Frank really enunciates his y/i sounds.

Frank

5:02 PM

@SaintWacko "No location data for the last 30 days"

SaintWacko

@Frank Ah, you must not allow your phone to send Google location data

FAE

@OrigamiRobot I've never heard @Frank.

SaintWacko

Doesn't mean they don't still have it, just that they won't admit to you they do :P

Unionhawk

@SaintWacko Highly inaccurate for me. Probably because it's all network location.

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk Keep your GPS off?

Unionhawk

5:03 PM

Well, by "highly inaccurate" I mean "it knows generally where I am, but not very specifically"

OrigamiRobot

@FAE His accent really shines when he says "Eat Wyvern Fire"

Unionhawk

@SaintWacko Usually yes.

I'd set it up to be automatically on/off when I use navigation apps, but I'd need to root and whatnot...

3ventic

@Unionhawk All of these tracking things are usually just "they know my country's capital"-accurate.

Unionhawk

It's semi-automatic

3ventic

Our coding shall begin at once!

£myMessageToLondon is now "Hello London!";

In Case It Is True That (£myMessageToLondon Is, in fact "Hello London!"){
        Show My Readers £myMessageToLondon;
}
And on the possibility that (£myMessageToLondon Is not "Hello London!"){
        Show My Readers "Alfred! have you lost my message again?";
}
But what if none of the above is true? well, in that case{
        Show My Readers "What in god's name is going on here?!";
}
And that was it my good fellas!

Unionhawk

5:04 PM

@3ventic It can pretty well pinpoint my general location, but I was not two miles away from home at 1:00 in the morning last night. That did not happen.

Frank

@OrigamiRobot Much of that comes from reading, and learning pronounciation on my own. That was a quirk of mine, growing up. I learned how to read words before I spoke them.

FAE

@Unionhawk Maybe your phone was. It snuck out to see its secret lover.

Unionhawk

It's more interesting on travel days, when I can watch it hop entire cities

(I'm one of those people who don't really give a shit if Google knows everything about me)

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk Same here

They're going to know it anyways

May as well get some personal benefit from it

@Unionhawk Yeah, I went out to the Oklahoma panhandle this weekend, so that was cool to see

I always have GPS and network location on, so it's extremely accurate for me

Unionhawk

Lol, Oh yeah, I remember that day. I have one day where it shows me crossing the Gulf of Mexico. I was in Florida, on the boat, or something, and suddenly, I was getting Texas weather

SaintWacko

5:08 PM

@Unionhawk Ha

Yuki

@Unionhawk I'll probably die before the fascist police state rolls around anyway, so doesn't really matter.

Unionhawk

I mean, they already know stuff like when I scan into the building. I'm more concerned about UD than I am Google.

RedRiderX

Hmm

What weather app should I use on android?

As in which of them is decent?

There are so many

GnomeSlice

@RedRiderX Does yahoo have theirs on android?

3ventic

I always just browse to my local weather station's website and look up the weather there.

Unionhawk

5:14 PM

I use WeatherBug paid because fuck ads. But there are probably other good ones.

GnomeSlice

yahoo weather is really nice

Yuki

@RedRiderX The default livescreen is okay.

But kinda costly, battery-wise.

GnomeSlice

@RedRiderX play.google.com/store/apps/…

RedRiderX

@Yuki Wait livescreen?

Is that something that's on the lock screen?

Unionhawk

I love how google does stuff like that OTA. I hated using iTunes back in the day when I had an iPod.

Yuki

5:16 PM

@RedRiderX It's basically a wallpaper that's animated.

RedRiderX

Oh right those

I don't see a weather one

Yuki

It's not terribly great for knowing exact forecasts and temperatures, but it's a fairly easy way to gauge what the weather is like outside as you're leaving the class.

RedRiderX

but this is a N7

GnomeSlice

@RedRiderX Yahoo Weather is a lot better than you'd expect. Really nicely designed.

SaintWacko

I just pull up google now and ask it what the weather is

Lazers

5:18 PM

0

Q: Does the order in which you finish Broken Age (Act I) affects the ending? [spoilers]

Again, I must stress, severe "Broken Age" spoilers. I've finished Broken Age (Act I) by first playing with Vella, switching to Shay near the end, and after finishing with Shay - getting back to the last few puzzles with Vella. When I've finished with Shay - the game ended with Shay fainting on ...

broken-age

0

Q: General rules for minion placement in Hearthstone?

Minion placement is not all that important for most of the game, but there are a few cases where it makes a difference. There are various spells or abilities that hit one minion and adjacent ones, and preventing those from achieving the maximum effect seems to be a good idea. The only part I cur...

hearthstone

RedRiderX

Do I need a Yahoo acct to use it?

GnomeSlice

@RedRiderX Nope.

Yuki

@RedRiderX The way to do it for me is press and hold on an empty spot on the screen > Set wallpaper > Select from live wallpapers.

And the name for it is "Windy Weather".

Oh, it's also available as a lock screen.

TIL

That makes it even more useful now.

RedRiderX

All I see

Yuki

@RedRiderX Well, that sucks.

RedRiderX

5:23 PM

Yeah I'm not seeing it in the play store either

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lithium.myweather

this?

Yahoo weather seems pretty slick

GnomeSlice

@RedRiderX Yes. Unlike pretty much everything else Yahoo ever.

RedRiderX

Oh darn I told it not to use the gps

but I can't set a manual location

and I can't find a setting to let it use the gps

WHY IS THERE NO SETTINGS SCREEN IN THIS APP

GnomeSlice

Luxuria Superbia is now available on Steam

@RedRiderX You should be able to. Swipe left or right.

RedRiderX

I did both

I have NY and SF

3ventic

From the mouth of a DayZ player: "I wish the server crashed so I could get more loot"

RedRiderX

5:30 PM

WTF THEY ONLY HAVE THE SETTINGS SHOW UP IN PORTRAIT!??!?

WHAT THE HECK IS THAT

Lazers

0

Q: Why is my ball 21°?

New 'degrees' have started displaying underneath balls in tagpro. What are they?

tagpro

RedRiderX

I was in landscape and didn't see anything

3ventic

@RedRiderX I think it's called bad interface design

SaintWacko

@3ventic What?

RedRiderX

@3ventic Indeed

Sterno

5:33 PM

I just added spoiler markup to a question. I hate myself.

Also, I must be old, because I don't know what yoloswag is.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz There's a new version of the dark mod out.

RedRiderX

@Sterno You need Yahoo Answers

> (Verb) Converted from a ... strange exclamation of awesome to the process of 420ing on any day of a given week. First taken into this high form by a man named Nick, who happened to be void of any #yoloswag. To yoloswag. The process of getting superduper high, and taking on a supes chill demeanor

Sterno

You crazy kids and your made up words.

Jason Berkan

@RedRiderX I understand none of that.

RedRiderX

@JasonBerkan Me either

Well I did get it eventually

but it took a few attempts.

GnomeSlice

5:41 PM