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1:01 PM
iTunes is such shit software
 
@Wipqozn WHAT IF I EAT IT ALL IN ONE GO
 
> In 2012 the FDA re-issued their import alert stating “The embedded non-nutritive objects in these confectionery products may pose a public health risk as the consumer may unknowingly choke on the object”.
 
@Wipqozn ...
How
seriously, HOW?
Those plastic containers inside the eggs are really big.
 
Because parents in this country don't like to actually pay attention to their children and blame everyone but themselves when something bad happens (like choking on a toy in a chocolate egg), which has resulted in things like this. (Disclaimer: Not all parents are like this.)
 
Just @StrixVaria. @StrixVaria is like this.
 
1:06 PM
@StrixVaria Yeah, I get that part. That's sensible to not give those to your younger children. But the part about "public health" is rather ... dumb.
They have the usual 0-3 age warning on the wrapper here.
 
Since kids will put anything in their mouth regardless of edibility, why are things like lego or the like still allowed for sale and not forbidden under the same stupid rule?Kids can and will put anything in their mouth.
 
@Arperum Because lego is usually not covered in edible stuff.
 
Yay, we just moved to Office 2010 like a year ago and now we've been upgraded to Office 2013.
 
@5pike As if the kid cares.
 
The best part is, central IT doesn't even tell anyone it's being pushed out, you're just supposed to know.
 
1:12 PM
@Arperum Yeah, but the FDA seems to care. I don't agree with them, because this is something that the parents have to look after.
 
My little brother lost one of his toys he just got from some food thing because he put it in his mouth after being warned that doing so would result in the toy being thrown away. Just pay fucking attention to your kid, and use common sense.
 
@Arperum Exactly.
 
Although common sense might be forbidden in the US.
 
Just shows you how much the FDA thinks of the general public.
 
This is what a black hole would look like close up (close being a relative term):
 
1:17 PM
@Sterno If anything I'm overprotective. I think that will wane with time.
 
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Q: In Final Fantasy Tactics (1997) do I get Job Points for the Job I currently have or the job I am currently practicing?

erasmortgI'll illustrate with an example: If have a chemist lvl. 6 whose second ability is 'Black Magic'. When this chemist during battle uses black magic spells, are these job points earned for the chemist job or for the wizard?

 
@StrixVaria The things you were overprotective about will wane, but new things will take their place!
 
@StrixVaria Have a fourth kid. I'm surprised I haven't let that one wander out into traffic on his own.
 
"Don't eat that quarter" becomes "stop trying to drink the toilet water"
One day it will become "Don't throw your life away playing Clicker Heroes"
Followed closely by "Don't date that asshole. He spawn camps."
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@Sterno "Daddy did that already."?
"Play SkyDrift instead."
 
1:25 PM
@Arperum I don't think @Sterno wants to encourage her daughter t- nah, I'm not going to finish this joke.
 
Spawn camping is a legitimate strategy.
If you spawn camp in a competitive game and it works, good job.
 
@StrixVaria This has always been my position as well.
 
I like the thing Battlefield 4 has - if you spawn and don't move, you have a few seconds spawn protection.
 
It's like spamming in a fighting game. If plying competitively, anything goes. If just playing for fun, then fuck off, people re just trying to have fun.
 
^ this
 
1:28 PM
@Wipqozn spamming in fighting in games competitively doesn't work because players actually know how to counter it at that level
 
Sep 7 at 15:54, by badp
@PrivatePansy As a general warning, I'm going to flag the next person who says "die in a fire" or similar expressions
Modfight starting : NOW.
 
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Q: What spells are best to use when using the BARCH strategy?

SparowWhen farming in Clash of Clans, I like to use the BARCH strategy (Barbarians and Archers) to farm resources. However, I was wondering if there was a way to further supplement my army with spells. What are the best spells to use?

 
I wonder if @badp will keep his word.
 
NEVER
 
Spawn camping is fine if it's part of a wider strategy, the problem is when multiple people all spawn camp
 
1:33 PM
Did I get flagged?
 
28 secs ago, by badp
NEVER
 
Oct 17 at 9:40, by Arperum
@badp regardless of what it was directed at?
 
@Arperum Well that's not really a fair warning; not everyone knew about it!
 
@Arperum Oh yeah, right. Nevermind @Badp
 
@StrixVaria Well, now you know it too! I got the warning myself too (at Oct 17)
 
1:36 PM
OK, seriously Outlook 2013? You won't let me view shared calendars that I know I have access to?
 
@Rapitor Correct, but that isn't going to make your friends happier when you just spam them to death.
 
I should pretend I'm actually chatbanned for 30 minutes and go do work.
 
@Wipqozn Spamming is fun!
 
@StrixVaria NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Also, flamethrower is lots of fun in Alien: Isolation.
 
There were a couple of people playing Nidhogg at the local LUG, and they seemed really into it
They invited me for a game and I kinda destroyed them for a couple of rounds by spamming jump-kicks or something else silly
...until they realized the proper counter and proceeded to destroy me back
AS THEY WELL SHOULD
 
1:40 PM
Competitive players like when you find some cheesy way to beat them.
It gives them a new challenge to overcome and a new tool to use in battle.
 
@StrixVaria Just because you're a mod doesn't mean you're above the law. I think the only just course of action at this point is to delete your account and give your diamond to me.
 
@StrixVaria chatban yourself?
 
@Rapitor I literally can't be banned.
At least from chat.
 
Yay, Outlook 2013 busted a bunch of Shared Calendars! WTG!
 
so what would happen if we managed to get a bunch of successful flags on you?
you've activated my curiosity circuits
 
1:50 PM
@Sconibulus Nothing. Mods, being entirely made of flags, are immune to flags.
In fact, it makes is stronger
@StrixVaria I wonder if I can ban you from the site
 
@fredley For science!
 
@fredley @badp did an experiment like this.
There was mixed success.
 
@fredley You can suspend mods on the main site, it just doesn't do anything
 
@MadScientist cool! *suspends all other mods*
 
@fredley Mods can unsuspend themselves
 
1:53 PM
@badp :(
 
SE also might react a bit annoyed at being mailed for bogus suspensions
 
@MadScientist Yeah I guess
 
Do you know, if there ever was a mod on SE, that had to be kicked out, because he actually abused his powers?
 
probably
 
@5pike There were some cases where mods were dediamoned for misbehaving, but they're generally handled pretty quietly.
 
1:56 PM
@MadScientist Ohhh, interesting.
 
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Q: Linking installed game with steam

Marriott81Medieval total war 2 is already installed on my pc, if I look in steam it is there and it only says "install" Is there anyway of making steam recognise that its installed already and link them or do I have to wait 8 hours for it to download and install on steam? Thank you EDIT: The reason I wi...

 
@5pike The most recent is Fei's. But there's no information if he stepped down, or was removed.
 
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Q: Announcement: A change of moderators

mixedmathThere has been a lot of inquiry about recent events. This post is meant to clear that up and avoid speculation. In particular, I am posting this as a follow-up to a comment I had made previously. This is also a logical follow-up content in the following: Goodbye, Bill D. Should the old "l...

This is the only case I know where something like this was publicly confirmed
 
Well, thanks for the info.
 
I've always wondered what happened to Gilles from SciFi.
My few interactions with him were really bad.
and he's not a mod anymore, so I wondered if just his diamond or quit.
 
2:07 PM
@Wipqozn Gilles the SR mod?
 
@5pike You mean like the one that basically boasted in this very chat that people couldn't suspend him because he had a diamond?
Although he was only a pro tem mod at the time... and did get de-diamonded.
 
@Powerlord Mhhh... I wasn't there, so I don't know who you mean.
 
@fredley SR? Super User?
 
@Wipqozn Software Rec
 
@5pike FEIchinger or however you spell it.
 
2:14 PM
@Powerlord You spell it fei
 
Oh, and a mod on french too.
 
The first diamond is the hardest
 
@fredley After that, they just throw them at you?
 
If he's a mod elsewhere then he must have quit.
 
2:16 PM
@Powerlord I see.
 
Yay. I get the equivalent of a month and a half of free internet.
 
@Rapitor Don't see an issue with this.
 
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A: 2013 Community Moderator Election

GillesLet me take this opportunity to announce that I am resigning from my moderator position on SF&F, effective when this election is completed. The Stack Exchange community teams knows about this, so two positions have been opened to bring the total number of moderators to 4. You've probably noticed...

Yup, quit.
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Q: SF Short Story Identification: Boy finds a cube, people disappear, and [Spoilers Warning]

MidnightalesI'm trying to search back up a short story that I read on the web. It's about a boy who discovers a cube, and when he picks it up, strange things happen. Things randomly transform into other things, and people slowly start vanishing or transforming into objects. The boy is the only one unaffe...

I think this title would kill @LessPop_MoreFizz.
 
2:21 PM
Active shooting situation at Parliament Hill happening now. :(
 
I wonder what SFF policy is with spoilers in titles. I remember it used to be avoid, I wonder if that's changed.
@Frank Just heard about this. Shit's fucked.
 
@Frank What is WRONG with people?
 
@Wipqozn So we have to see you posting this here as a murder attempt on @LessPop_MoreFizz?
 
I mean, why shoot an innocent soldier instead of the Prime Minister?
 
@Powerlord You're asking the wrong guy.
 
2:23 PM
@Arperum .....no comment...
 
@Frank Ferguson protests have finally reached Canada?
 
Also I forgot about this
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A: Is it okay to have spoilers in question titles?

WipqoznHaving a good title (concise, searchable, good representation of the question/problem) is more important than anything else, so if excluding spoilers from your title results in a bad title than you should include said spoilers. However, if you can come up with a good title which excludes titles t...

@Batophobia There were quite a few protests around Canada when Ferguson was happening.
well less protest I suppose nd more show of support for ferguson?
 
@Wipqozn It still is happening, about 10 minutes from my house
 
@Batophobia That's never going to die, since I assume the police will continue fucking up.
 
Two soldiers murdered in two days is troubling.
 
2:24 PM
@Wipqozn Don't trust what all the news outlets were saying, a lot of that was extreme b.s.
 
@JasonBerkan Wasn't it 3?
I thought two were run over by a car.
 
@Wipqozn Only one died though.
 
I believe one is still in hospital.
 
Oh okay
 
> because we were united by our dislike and distrust of Discourse. It brought us together in a way Community Server simply never did
 
2:27 PM
Title edit suggested. Hopefully it gets approved. If it gets rejected I'll just suggest a new one without the spoiler warning all together.
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Q: To spoiler or not to spoiler, June 2014 edition

alexwlchanQuestion #59239 (spoilers for Deathly Hallows) has been the subject of back-and-forth edits over whether spoiler information (specifically, the death of a particular character) should be included in the question title, and to what extent the question body should contain spoilers. There have been...

Looks like their still really anti-spoiler, but their current policiy does say that [spoiler warning] should be removed.
so even if my edits rejected at they'll revise it to something without [spoiler warning] in it.
 
Shooter at Parliament Hill fired more into Center Block, where all the MPs are today. :(
 
2:42 PM
I think the world needs a suggestion: "Stop shooting at other people already".
 
@Arperum Better suggestion: stop making guns.
 
> Bernard Trottier, a Toronto-area MP, tweeted that the gunman inside Centre Block "has been shot and killed.” However, law enforcement officials had not yet confirmed the suspect’s status.
 
@Frank Even better suggestion: stop making guns AND destroy already produced ones.
 
@Arperum Yay for global disarmament!
 
> Prime Minister Stephen Harper “is safe and has left Parliament Hill,” Jason MacDonald, his director of communications, said via Twitter.
 
2:44 PM
Question:
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Q: Most efficient Chapter One JP farming?

Oblivious SageI just picked up FF Tactics for my iPhone and haven't played it in years. I seem to recall that it's highly beneficial to farm a fair amount of JP and develop 2nd or even 3rd tier classes some before completing the first chapter. What is the most effective method of farming JP (and ideally XP as...

 
@Frank Yay!
 
Are and not the same game?
 
@Arperum The day of the Samurai and the Ninja returns
 
I've played it, and I'm not coming up with a difference, and Wikipedia's not helping me, either.
 
@Frank IIRK, yeah, they are pretty much the same.
 
2:47 PM
There's five questions with . Only one doesn't have .
Any objections to me just burning through them and re-tagging?
 
@Frank Found a forum post with differences
 
@5pike Looks like it's a rename + version differences.
But it's essentially the same game.
 
Should be treated the same way we've dealt with the DS/iOS remakes of FF3.
 
@JasonBerkan I'm not familiar with how we did that.
Just using a platform tag?
 
@Frank I'm fairly certain we didn't. They are all tagged FF3.
 
Though some have or added.
Regardless, my vote was for us to use for all the questions.
 
Alright. I'll burn .
 
Oh wow, Google News lets me say "Don't use Fox News as a source." That's the best news-related feature I've ever seen.
 
Just add to the one question that didn't use
 
@StrixVaria Where's that setting, and does it stick?
 
2:54 PM
@MartinSojka Click the gear icon, and you can personalize topics and news sources.
 
Trying to pronounce gives me, "FF Tactics twaddle", which amuses me for some reason.
 
casts Twiddle
 
@StrixVaria Hmm. I can only drag it down to "Rarely", it seems ...
 
2:56 PM
However you can only customize one edition of Google News at a time
 
@MartinSojka That is still significantly better than "normally mixed in as if it's real news".
 
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Q: Stolen 3ds before nintendo id update: can i get my games back?

nelson2tmMaybe this is a bit late, but is there any way to get my old purchahed games back? My 3ds was stolen in 2012, and had purchahed some eShop games on it. Only the 3ds itself was stolen, not the box/charger/manual.

 
why would the unimportant bits not being stolen be important?
 
Maybe the box can help recover things
 
@badp Make your own gilded cage filter bubble!
 
3:07 PM
@fredley I have Reddit for that
 
@badp Liberal/Conservative echo chambers ftw!
 
@Batophobia Yes, that was what I was referencing. I wasn't sure if it was even still around.
...or if the artifact version, Icy Manipulator, is still around.
 
@Powerlord Favorite card to play in >2 player games when 1 person is just kinda sitting there
@MattЭллен Proof of purchase?
 
It's better than the alternative: "I LOST MY DS WAT DO"
 
3:09 PM
 
@badp Glorious echo chamber master race
@badp How is that so jpeg
 
Speaking of the PC Master Race, I need to find out why OBS refuses to capture from Alien Isolation... in either full screen or Windowed mode.
 
@fredley probably a reupload of a reupload of a reupload of a reupload
 
@Batophobia what good are those things for getting back things bought from the eShop? Unless one of the things has a code on it unique to the unit that the eShop can process then it's so much cruft.
seems unlikely to me
 
3:12 PM
2 mins ago, by Unionhawk
It's better than the alternative: "I LOST MY DS WAT DO"
 
@Unionhawk true
 
@StrixVaria Clearly a picture of someone who has no idea how to play Elder Scrolls games, especially not as an alchemist.
 
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Q: In Super Mario Bros which button is used to run and to jump?

B413On the NES gamepad the button A is on the right and the button B on the left In Super Mario Bros which button is used to run and to jump?

 
@Arperum I didn't break everything, the building is leaking somewhere, and I'm pretty sure they established it wasn't my apartment.
They came in last week too.
With the same issue.
 
@StrixVaria I'm so bad for this.
 
@MBraedley Your news are broken
 
@badp link works fine for me
 
@StrixVaria You can reload any moment in which a potion would come in handy anyway
56 mins ago, by Frank
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/canadian-press-newsalert-soldier-shot-at‌​-war-memorial-shots-fired-on-parliament-hill-280048422.html?cx_navSource=d-top-st‌​ory
:)
 
@Lazers rtfm?
 
@Batophobia no u
 
3:18 PM
@Unionhawk I read that manual
 
@badp Well sorry for not reading chat an hour ago
 
yes i understand how much sense that makes
 
@badp Not in the star list, didn't happen
 
Now it is in the starred list, and @MBraedley is the hero.
 
@Batophobia Why would you star that?
 
3:19 PM
@badp I didn't, but now I have to out of spite
 
Wow this room sometimes
 
"PEOPLE KILLING EACH OTHER" "24,581,195 people like this" wat
 
@badp This is also how I play.
 
I've resigned myself to use a mod to pick up all the things for me, so I now have a bajillion potions.
 
3:21 PM
@badp I'm pretty sure you can find ebola posts with a large amount of likes as well.
 
@TimStone /r/nottheonion rocks.
 
> 'When we asked her if she was ok, she said she was and just needed time to think. And then asked for another box of chicken wings with extra large fries.'
 
@Unionhawk Pick the ones you actually want to use, like a few utility + general ability boosting + health/mana, retain only the strongest variants, sell the remainder whenever you are in town.
I typically run around with less than 50 potions on me in any Elder Scrolls game - but the merchants have thousands.
 
@MartinSojka Yep. I usually only keep health/stamina/magicka
I've got a fair stockpile of buffs
 
@TimStone I should get chicken wings this week.
 
3:24 PM
I reduced the weight of potions too, since 0.5 is quite a lot when you have a bunch of them
 
@AshleyNunn This this, a million times this!
The front lines of support are largley cannon fodder used to deflect the most common issues.
 
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/r/catsridingroombas is my new new favorite thing
 
My cell contract is officially over, I'm now free to enjoy a cheaper bill.
 
I'm really conflicted as to why I'm considering buying the new CoD.
 
It looks like it could be fu- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I CAN'T KEEP THIS UP
(but actually, it looks like it could be fun, but given the track record...)
 
3:36 PM
@Unionhawk exactly. It actually looks like they are doing nearly everything right this time...
 
See, that's what scares me
Because that's usually a sign of doing everything wrong
 
and... Kevin Spacey
 
I might think about thinking about it, but I'm definitely not buying an Xbone for the ultimate CoD experience
That's right out
 
CoD for me is fun, but the gun balancing I could never stand. SMGs are like tank cannons
in every cod
 
I'm not familiar, but yeah, an SMG should be low level pistol damage at best
 
3:40 PM
0
Q: Raising Alert Level in Paradroid

Alban LusitanaeI once played a lot the game PARADROID 90 for the Commodore Amiga, and I finished the game a lot of times, but I was never able to raise the Alert Level by my own conscious actions, sometimes it turned Yellow, but I don't know why. Does anyone know the trigger behind raising the Alert Level on t...

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Q: Workers forget their actions!

Jeroen BollenWhen I assign a worker to do a task, like build a mine, he will ask for an action again next turn, when the mine hasn't been finished yet. Why do they do that? This appears to be a Linux-only thing, as it works fine on Windows 7. Is this some hidden settings or so? Is there a way to fix this be...

 
map designs were great, graphics and aesthetic was good. sound design is great, feels good. just had no sense of balance
@Unionhawk basically SMGs outclassed Assault rifles and everything outclassed LMGs
 
So I've heard rumors that this lab involves "copy code, add a while loop that acts as for(i=0;i<=9;i++), be done"
If that is the case, this will be the single dumbest lab I've done to date.
@Rapitor An SMG should basically destroy people in close quarters, and be unable to reliably damage things at mid range
 
@Unionhawk I don't think it should ever match the stopping power of an assault rifle and definitely not a powerhouse of an LMG. it really should only have faster handling speed (aiming/reloading/switching/etc). they are essentially just fancy machine pistols.
 
Pretty much
But with the fire rate, in close quarters, you should be able to reliably get some people
 
3:55 PM
We're not talking Borderlands weapons, and that makes me sad.
 
@Frank CoD, but in my experience with FPS games its become pretty common that SMGs in general are stronger than they should be
 
@Rapitor Yeah, I don't use SMGs in Borderlands, and my roommate does.
 

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