The Bridge

badp

5:00 PM

IT'S GONNA BE THE FUTURE SOON

FEichinger

@fredley ... Well, we did just talk about time travel, so ...

@badp No, it was the future already.

fredley

@badp 3 HOURS UNTIL FUTURE

FEichinger

Now it is the future.

And tomorrow it will be the future.

Lazers

0

Q: Ps3 external hard drives

Is it easier to replace the internal harddrive of your ps3, or to go with the external hard drive?

Martin Sojka

@fredley Surely they can't be serious.

Grace Note

5:00 PM

It's always the future some time ago.

badp

and for once you missed the musical reference

fredley

@badp eh?

Blem

you got 2h to buy my vote!

@badp not heard it

5:06 PM

Oh, looking at it, I can't actually be sure why I got Mortarboard today.

The "reputation" I "earned" from today's contributions totals to 193 rep - a 14/-1 post, a 4/0 post, and one accept. That means I gots a thing someswheres that isn'ts noted.

RedRiderX

So... secret secret rep?

3ventic

Where do you see the vote counts anyway?

RedRiderX

Or just unlisted unlisted rep?

3ventic

or "rep" count

RedRiderX

Yeah meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/reputation doesn't work

Or did you just count up all your activity?

Grace Note

5:10 PM

You don't see it.

I just counted the scores on my posts prior to the badge.

SaintWacko

@fredley Do weapons auto-equip?

fredley

@SaintWacko not currently

FEichinger

@GraceNote 5/-1, not 4/0.

fredley

Still a big problem with rat quest resetting everything

Grace Note

@FEichinger 'tis now, yes

SaintWacko

5:12 PM

@fredley how do I equip it?

fredley

@SaintWacko equip wooden sword

SaintWacko

Oh, I got disconnected

that's why that hadn't seemed to work

FEichinger

@GraceNote Sure it's not cache delay or similar?

Grace Note

Or I got a vote on one of my older posts somewhere and have no means to know where.

SaintWacko

@fredley Another tip: The "look" command should always list all available exits, unless they're intended to be hidden

FEichinger

5:14 PM

Well, true, that could be it.

fredley

@SaintWacko okay

badp

@GraceNote I'm happy you also feel our metareplessness pain!

Grace Note

I always have. Ever since they removed the old rep graph.

SaintWacko

@fredley Otherwise it's really easy to forget which direction to go to leave a place

3ventic

@GraceNote This is what I thought.

fredley

5:16 PM

@SaintWacko Yeah I get it

SaintWacko

Hooray, I beat the ratty final boss!

:p

Oh, ffs

i give up on my shift key

Grace Note

Don't worry, it looks like it gave up on you too.

SaintWacko

i've had the same game of Risk of Rain running for the past three days, and it's slowing my computer down to the point where the meta keys don't always respond in time

RedRiderX

heh

fredley

@SaintWacko You did?!

SaintWacko

5:17 PM

@fredley Well, I splatted a rat

Which then started me over :P

fredley

@SaintWacko yeah...

SaintWacko

i'm assuming that's not actually the final boss

badp

or the secret boss

or the bonus secret boss

or the alternate secret boss

or the ultimate boss of boss destruction

or the mirror ultimat-er secret boss

or the metaboss

or the metaboss generator

or the metaboss generator factory

or the metaboss generator factory leading boss

Arperum

I think the joke is dead by now.

badp

but I'm not done seeing how ridiculous I can get! :(

Arperum

5:21 PM

Then continue.

Beating on a dead ~~horse~~ ~~boss~~ joke is common practice in here.

RedRiderX

Nov 6 '13 at 20:57, by OrigamiRobot

Ain't nobody knows how to kill a joke like The Bridge.

badp

the true actual metaboss generator factory leading boss chief boss officer of bosses extreme puppeteer committer arcane soul eater of primal destruction annihilitative's alternate eviler clone of soul sharding horcruxiating plus with a cherry on top and the cherry is a spaghettifying quasar bomb of accretion infinitive and brightness wrapping around all the way into the negative septillionth infinity of complex exponentiation gradients

RedRiderX

2 HOURS REMAIN

fredley

@SaintWacko no...

StrixVaria

@RedRiderX More like 2 and a half.

Arperum

5:27 PM

@RedRiderX And I still need to vote for @GnomeSlice.

RedRiderX

Eh it says 2 on the page so that's what I'm going with

Do we know the results immediately?

I can't remember.

3ventic

Oooh, the cloaker is back in Payday 2

fredley

Ahahahah, I've found the bug, I think

SaintWacko

@fredley Ohh, what was it?

fredley

@SaintWacko In a word (or two) Foreign Keys

FEichinger

5:32 PM

@RedRiderX The data is published immediately.

SaintWacko

@fredley The only context I know that phrase in is SQL. Same thing here?

fredley

@SaintWacko Yes

User has a foreign key onto Fight, should be the other way around

SaintWacko

@fredley Haha

Sterno

@kalina Your drastic avatar change is like a name change, and makes you literally worse than Hitler.

SaintWacko

So kinda instead of the fight being ended, the user was being ended?

5

fredley

5:35 PM

@SaintWacko Basically

SaintWacko

Extreme simplification, of course

StrixVaria

Everyone should just revert to default gravatars.

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria Lead by example.

Grace Note

But my default isn't a battleship.

fredley

RAT QUEST FIXED

StrixVaria

5:46 PM

@fredley You should put a link to the game in your user info so I don't have to look for it.

fredley

@StrixVaria mamota.net

It's not hard to remember

But okay

StrixVaria

@fredley Not clickable.

fredley

@StrixVaria deliberate

Oh btw, db reset :D

StrixVaria

@fredley Does this mean new accounts too?

fredley

@StrixVaria yarp

Jason Berkan

5:47 PM

@fredley This is why I don't do Early Access, even to free games.

fredley

But login and registration are identical

@JasonBerkan Suit yourself. This isn't early access though, this is a the game of 'Break things fredley has made'

Some people report as finding it cathartic.

Jason Berkan

@fredley So we're your QA department?

fredley

@JasonBerkan Yup

Grace Note

@JasonBerkan We've always been.

StrixVaria

This is like pre-pre-alpha.

Grace Note

5:49 PM

Ever since the game that did not get named "identify-this-game"

fredley

@StrixVaria There should be more greek letters before alpha

@GraceNote Hey, that would be an awesome name for this game!

GnomeSlice

FEichinger

@fredley "the game that did not get named 'identify-this-game'"?

GnomeSlice

Dungeon Defenders 2!

fredley

@FEichinger Speed Warp

FEichinger

5:51 PM

@fredley I know. I meant the name for this game.

@fredley tgtdngnitg

fredley

@FEichinger I'm confused

@FEichinger I like it

tugs

5

Yuki

@tugs It's really, really sad how effective this is for some people...

GnomeSlice

Speaking of non-pixelly indie games, this one is pretty sweet so far:

►

RedRiderX

Ugh how do you make a native retweet in Falcon?

fredley

6:01 PM

@Sterno

GnomeSlice

@RedRiderX The widget?

RedRiderX

Yeah

Wipqozn

TWO HOURS REMAIN

2

returns to work

GnomeSlice

I forget, I never use it for anything but looking at new tweets.

RedRiderX

Well it seems quicker to just retweet stuff from the widget then from another app

But the tweets are all "RT bleh bleh tweet".

GnomeSlice

6:03 PM

@RedRiderX Oh, yeah, I don't think it does native retweets.

Which is annoying.

RedRiderX

Oh

Yeah

GnomeSlice

@RedRiderX You can make the 'falcon' button on the falcon widget open a third party twitter app.

I recommend Tweedle.

RedRiderX

@GnomeSlice Yeah that's what I do.

GnomeSlice

And speaking of twitter.

I am the greatest snowplow driver in the world. #PlowFacts http://t.co/V9YFySuRgb

Tweeted by GnomeSlice on February 4, 2014 at 5:13 PM

RedRiderX

But still, it would be faster if it just did that

GnomeSlice

6:04 PM

Fun fact: that second guy is the developer.

fredley

wat

Kevin van der Velden

HamStare @fredleysNetwork

Wat?

GnomeSlice

> The String Arcade is a recording of video game music arranged for string quartet. Produced by Dren McDonald and performed by some of the bay area's finest string players!.

Lazers

0

Q: How to become better at super smash bros brawl?

My first question I guess is whether you can be great with any character. I've always strongly preferred location and would like to continue using him, but it seems like no matter how much I practice I'm just adequate and never get better. Can someone give me some tips, maybe lucario specific, ...

super-smash-bros-brawl

0

Q: Can I access enemy information during battles in FFXII?

In Final Fantasy XIII, most enemy units have protection and/or weakness against certain damage types. Is there any way for me to view this information during a battle? Are there any symbols on the edge of the screen I can learn to decode that show this information? I know it can be viewed in th...

final-fantasy-13

Sterno

@fredley In one hour I will have been lifehack trolled by a mod. :(

GnomeSlice

6:08 PM

New Deal: Reversion Doublepack for Windows PC and Linux http://goo.gl/fb/7NyLv #indiegamestand

Tweeted by IndieGameStand on February 4, 2014 at 5:53 AM

Sterno

Speaking of which, it's hard to change @Wipqozn's room ownership when he isn't in the room.

fredley

@Sterno It's not definite until it's definite

Sterno

That is true.

fredley

@Sterno I only sent it to you because it's the worst 'lifehack' I've ever seen, on multiple levels

Sterno

I stopped reading it pretty quickly because it was long

3

fredley

6:16 PM

RedRiderX

Oh very nice

GnomeSlice

Bundlebandits presents The Insanity Rush bundle. 8 games for $2.

agent86

I have been entrusted with some kind of responsibility in 45 minutes. Hopefully I will not forget.

clocks are hard.

3

GnomeSlice

►

Arperum

Animated gifs are still cancer.

RedRiderX

6:18 PM

Oh my

Yuki

@Arperum Oh, -gif got removed from the room description.

TZHX

-pony did as well.

GnomeSlice

Ultimate Space Commando is supposed to be a pretty good turn-based strategy/roguelike type deal.

RedRiderX

So do mods have all the same powers as room owners?

Or more than?

Arperum

@Yuki Same as some other usefull tags.

Yuki

6:20 PM

@RedRiderX Considering they can make themselves room owners, I'd say "more than".

TZHX

where's our daily quota of minecraft questions? is that game suddenly no longer popular?

Arperum

@TZHX Everyone was too busy with the meta comment drama to make socks to post them, sorry.

Yuki

@TZHX There's only so many sockpuppets I can make and ask "HOW MINECRAFT WERKZEZ?" before I get tired of it.

And there's only so many mods I can pretend to install.

spugsley

@Yuki lol

Arperum

@Yuki I'm pretty sure there are more mods then anyone is willing to install.

RedRiderX

6:26 PM

This is going to go badly for MinecraftCrashLogs.SE

Yuki

@Arperum Willing to actually install. There's no upper limit to the number of mods one can pretend to install.

I, however, have standards.

user15026

@Fluttershy Apparently, 1200 words a minute. Makes me 400% faster than the national average. And I got the questions right. I unnerve myself.

TZHX

I got something like 300 words a minute. But I was trying to work out how stuff was pronounced, and there was weird punctuation.

spugsley

@AshleyNunn oof. I'm such a slow reader. I got like 250 words

user15026

It has long been apparent to me that I read at a scary fast rate

user15026

6:31 PM

When I was tested properly once, I got 1500 words a minute with an 82% recall rate

RedRiderX

Oh hey there is a full Falcon client too?

user15026

Which apparently is like....legit speed reading territory, they asked if I had like done one of those course things.

user15026

(I haven't.)

RedRiderX

@spugsley I got 199 :/

Yuki

@AshleyNunn I wonder if I should get tested.

RedRiderX

6:32 PM

I feel... slow

Arperum

@AshleyNunn I assume you've read more then a few books?

spugsley

@RedRiderX :3 we can be slow together

Yuki

Also, my phone is pretty indestructible for a smartphone.

user15026

@Arperum My record over a year was something like 250?

RedRiderX

@Yuki That's always nice.

user15026

6:33 PM

Last year I read 100, but it was a bad year (a lot of depression and school and stuff)

Yuki

I just dropped it straight onto a tile floor, glass down. Not one crack.

spugsley

@Yuki did you drop it in a toilet?

user15026

@Yuki That is impressive!

spugsley

@Yuki oh, that's less interesting

GnomeSlice

Today's listening

is some funky retro stuff

TZHX

6:34 PM

When I read prose, it's generally to pass time, not to get through it as fast as I can. But it's a little sad that LOTR is apparently almost as long as the bible.

Yuki

@spugsley Considering iPhones shatter if you so much as sneeze on them, I think it's pretty good.

Frank

@AshleyNunn That's like twice my speed!

Which isn't a bad thing at all. Fast = good.

user15026

@TZHX I read to pass time, I just read a lot in that time....

spugsley

@AshleyNunn I started How to be a Woman last night

TZHX

@Yuki I kind of disagree on that one. I've dropped an iPhone far more times and had it survive than I got with my SE X10.

user15026

6:35 PM

@Frank Yeah a lot of people seem to think it is a giant number. I keep forgetting that it isn't natural, because I've always been quick

Arperum

@AshleyNunn I can relate, as a teenager I read on average a book a day.

TZHX

And from greater heights.

user15026

@spugsley Oooh yay how is it?

spugsley

@AshleyNunn So good. And funny as hell. I had to stop reading because I was keeping Ian awake with my giggles

Yuki

@TZHX My sister dropped her iPad while it was wrapped with a whole bunch of shock absorbers and the screen shattered.

She dropped it onto carpet.

spugsley

6:36 PM

@Yuki good god

user15026

@spugsley Awesome :)

spugsley

Also Ian got me playing this stupid fucking game called Flappy Bird on my phone

and I hate it

and I'm bad at it

user15026

When I had a Blackberry Curve I killed it by dropping it on concrete. My iPhone survived me enough to be traded for Gamestop credit, but that is because I had a really big badass case on it.

user15026

@spugsley Everyone I know is playing it, hating it, and seemingly unable to stop.

TZHX

@Yuki Lol.

Yuki

6:38 PM

Yay, configured my Mac for Mumble!

Frank

I need a new Kairosoft game. The pirate one would be fine, although the journalist one looks pretty much like Game Dev Story.

Yuki

It makes a weird cricket reverb unless I plug in headphones though.

Sterno

@Frank Wouldn't that take time away from FF14?

Frank

@Sterno FF14 is a time killer until Lightning Returns.

user15026

@Frank Yeah, it's been a while. I keep trying to play old ones, but then I get frustrated with things (like all of my rooms being inaccessible in my cruise ship)

SaintWacko

6:39 PM

@Yuki That's pretty normal on a laptop

Or anything with a microphone

I guess

Yuki

@SaintWacko Probably because the speakers are next to the mic, I guess?

SaintWacko

@Yuki Yeah

Out of courtesy to the other people in the room, you should really be using headphones anyways

Yuki

That's really horrible design... they should place the mic next to the trackpad and leave the speakers at the hinge.

SaintWacko

It's incredibly annoying when someone isn't

Yuki

@AshleyNunn I am now part-ways ready for singing Disney songs with my horrible, horrible voice.

OrigamiRobot

6:41 PM

@spugsley That's a dumb name.

user15026

@Yuki Yay!

user15026

(Except the horrible voice part, I am certain that is less true than you think)

OrigamiRobot

I'll sing with you guys.

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot it's a cute name :3

OrigamiRobot

@spugsley will sing too.

Yuki

6:42 PM

@spugsley inb4 someone renames to themself to "@FlappyBird".

OrigamiRobot

I don't know the frozen songs though

StrixVaria

I started Final Fantasy IV for DS. I wish they had just straight ported the SNES version instead of updated the graphics.

Yuki

@OrigamiRobot I might to need to brush up on some of the older Disney songs, but I know quite a few off the top of my head.

StrixVaria

@Yuki I had "Friend Like Me" stuck in my head earlier today. And now it's back.

spugsley

@Yuki I want to name myself Flappy Bird :3

Yuki

6:44 PM

One of my favorites is Out There, but I'm always scared that I sound particularly horribad when I try to hit the higher notes.

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot oh I will?

FEichinger

@spugsley You are now bound by this message to do so immediately.

spugsley

@FEichinger nah spugsley is internet famous so I can't just up and change it

FEichinger

BOUND. BY. THE. MESSAGE.

spugsley

O_o

Yuki

6:46 PM

Meh, I'll try singing it now and you guys can judge, I guess.

StrixVaria

SEVENTY-THREE MINUTES REMAIN

user15026

@spugsley Please tell me you have seen this

OrigamiRobot

@Yuki I don't think I know any by heart, but I could keep pace if I was looking at the words.

I know the tunes.

Sconibulus

@fredley Forest is easy to get lost in... except that it's little

spugsley

@AshleyNunn oh yes. It's glorious

fredley

6:48 PM

@Sconibulus Yeah

Kinda the point

user15026

@spugsley I found it today after watching one with Benedict Cumberbatch

user15026

and was like OMG this is awesome

fredley

Once I implement looking in diff directions that should make it a bit easier

Yuki

@StrixVaria Coincidentally, I need to leave for classes in one hour...

Hmm... where would I be able to sing on campus without bothering anyone?

StrixVaria

@Yuki Music room?

spugsley

6:50 PM

@AshleyNunn lol I have such a hard time with him saying "Delayed gratification"

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

user15026

@spugsley It makes my brain smushy

Krazer

@AshleyNunn Churn that smush and make a new one~

user15026

@Krazer Like a brain milkshake in my head?

Krazer

@AshleyNunn I was thinking more of cultured butter

Kevin van der Velden

@AshleyNunn I bet brain milkshake taste horrible

RedRiderX

6:55 PM

►

Yuki

cc @AshleyNunn

user15026

@KevinvanderVelden Probably.

user15026

@Yuki That is awesome.

Yuki

@AshleyNunn Also found a slightly more realistic take.

user15026

Dang, people have mad art skills

Yuki

6:58 PM

Also, have you seen Rise of the Guardians?

This one doesn't really make sense unless you have, but the feels...

Wipqozn

DAWN OF THE FINAL HOUR

user15026

@Yuki I have, so I get the feels.

Wipqozn

(I hope @badp made an image for this one)

user15026

@Wipqozn 60 minutes remain.

Wipqozn

anyways, home time!

James

6:59 PM

So new mods in 1 hourish?

Wipqozn

@James well, we'll know they are.

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