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5:00 PM
@OrigamiRobot Yea. My throat is really sensitive. And every now and then I can't handle anything that touches it. Seems my beard got to a length where it caused constant touching, and thus feelings of having to puke...
 
Looks like I have leftover rotisserie chicken... and that's it.
 
According to the doctor that happens more to young people. And in most cases it goes away when you grow older.
 
When this episode is over, I'm going to go get a sandwich
 
so now I'm back to a short beard.
 
Fun Fact: If I touch the back of my hand between my knuckles, it makes me kinda nauseous.
It's really weird.
 
5:03 PM
@OrigamiRobot Do you have to apply pressure for that to happen?
 
@Coronus No, just rubbing back and forth does it.
 
I'm going out for supper today as well, although no one is paying for it except me.
 
Chicken + sriracha = yum.
In fact, sriracha + anything = yum.
 
Soooo, the lead dev on the project I'm working on is leaving in two weeks.
Since we're the only two java devs in our office... does that make me the lead developer?
 
@Powerlord Yep! Just like I'm the "lead developer" of my team of two
looks good on a resume though
 
5:10 PM
@Arperum nooooooooooooooooooohs
R.I.P. Beard
 
Crunch time sucks
 
@MBraedley Upcoming launch date I take it?
 
@Wipqozn No, just factory acceptance testing. But stuff's not working
I have a feeling I'll be putting in some hours tomorrow, which is not what I wanted to do.
 
5:25 PM
Read only happened..
 
I see that as well
 
@3ventic your face is read only.
 
Good.
 
IT'S HAPPENING etc.
actually Arqade isn't loading for me at all
 
isup.me says down as well
 
5:30 PM
> [Fiddler] ReadResponse() failed: The server did not return a response for this request. Server returned 0 bytes.
That's not read only. That's read nothing.
 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 
@badp It's the first sign of the apocalypse, say your goodbyes now
 
okaypanic.gif
 
Woohoo!
 
PANIC
 
5:33 PM
Free gas grill!
 
site's back in RO mode
end of panic?
 
/PANIC
 
Seems to be totally back for me
 
@Unionhawk your face seems totally back for me.
 
even though the site is RO, at least I can still fire the lasers
 
5:34 PM
@Unionhawk SO isn't back
 
Oh, well
Wait, yes it is
Or at least it looks like it to me
 
Now it does to me too
iunno
 
I just posted a comment on Arqade, so I assume we're really back
 
0
Q: Why is my redstone energy cell losing power?

BobJust started playing tekkit again after a recent nostalgic lust for galacticraft. So this is the newest build that the technic launcher will load of tekkit. So I build one of the new redstone cells. it has a gold-ish (electrum-ish) color now. Anyhow, I figured out the configuring of each face on...

 
badp has made a change to the feeds posted into this room
 
5:47 PM
Feeds mean murder
 
@badp Why does the Bridge now have the TL feed user?
 
@MadScientist I don't know. I guess it's not the TL feed user after all (notice the user ID of -2).
 
You guys clicked too hard and broke our secondary data center's load balancers - we are failing back and investigating the root cause.
 
@badp Hmm, it's user -2. I suspect someone edited the default feed user accidentally ;-)
 
5:49 PM
Or balpha is having fun.
 
now to give @OKAY,PANIC an appropriate avatar
 
@OKAY,PANIC. OMG! Ahhhhhh The world is coming to an end!!!
 
22
A: Visual Studio 2012 and Program Compatibility Assistant

SarangM$ realized they have problem with latest Windows updates and released the hotfix for VS2012. For interested folks the hotfix is: Visual Studio 2012 hotfix KB2781514

Every time I see "M$" I weep for the person who wrote it.
 
@badp Radioactive symbol or mushroom cloud?
 
@Yuki out of coffee icon
 
5:59 PM
@badp That works. The mug could also signify "out of tea" so I'm on board.
 
@Yuki or coffee
 
@Sterno SO EDGY
 
1 min ago, by badp
@Yuki out of coffee icon
 
@FEichinger balphun
 
@GraceNote YOU.
 
6:00 PM
Ow...
 
<3
the whole twitter feed is kinda shoddy so please don't look at it too hard
 
stares
 
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Q: what do you do after cheyenne talks to you in fallout new vegas

xXALTERD SHADOWXxi have been wondering what to do for hours please say what to do i have just been shooting randomly.it is hard.;erjgnqawjenKHnwejfqnwjeNfjnjenfjenfjenfjenjfenfjnejfnejfnejfnejnfejnfejfejnfjenfjenfjenjfenjfnejfnjenfjenfjenfjenfjenfjenfjenfjenfjenfjenjenfjnejfnejfnejfnjenfjenfjenfjenfjenfenfjenfj...

 
Does Windows 8 have "xp mode" at all? I'm not sure of another (free) way to run 16 bit windows programs
 
@Lazers ಠ_ಠ
 
6:08 PM
@Lazers xXALTERD SHADOWXx
 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx420blazeitheadshotzxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 
?
Virtual machine + free xp image?
 
@BenBrocka grats on 100k
 
@badp oh, neat
@Sterno yeah, was included with certain versions of windows 7 (if you downloaded the VM), wasn't sure how/if it worked with 8
I used it because Sim Tower and Sim Ant won't run in windows 7+ OR dosbox because it's a 16 bit windows executable
 
6:16 PM
I'm pretty sure Virtual Box is free and separately downloadable
Whether or not it's compatible with 8, I'm not sure
I'd assume so
 
continue?9876543210 free today for iOS
@Sterno yeah, it used to be they gave you a license for XP and everything. simplified things somewhat.
 
user15026
Granola bar made with quinoa is....weird
 
It's pretty much what we use at work for all our development work that needs to test against older OSs/browsers. Yay for free!
 
I'm using virtualbox right now
 
0
Q: Is there any way to increase a weapon durability?

TonySniperI want to stick to a particular weapon in Dark Souls 2, but my weapon is breaking too fast between combats, thus making me switch to another weapon quite often. Is there any way to increase my weapon's durability?

 
6:19 PM
Though having tried VMWare Workstation I think I like it better.
 
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Q: How to copy a specific chunk from one save to another?

Luan NicoMy world is suffering from several chunk resets, probably due to ChicnkenBones chunk loaders (I'll migrate to railcraft's as soon as I fix this). After the first loss, I made a batch to backup everything every so often. And now I need to use them. I was able to open both current and backup in mce...

 
6:40 PM
So, lead dev was showing some of our server admin type people how we deploy things... and long story short, I now know the passwords to the production DB and app server.
 
Is the Adminstrator password "Adminstrator"?
I find that to be surprisingly common.
 
brb, changing Administrator passwords.
 
Or, just in general, how often the password is the same as the username
 
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Q: Where can I see co-op standings in F1 2013?

AWGIs it possible, during a co-op championship in F1 2013, to see the current standings? F1 2012 showed them (drivers' and constructors') after every race. In F1 2013, instead, if you select "Continue" after a race you are bought directly to the next race. It seems you have to exit the multiplayer s...

 
@Sterno Well, I don't know the passwords to the server they're on, just to the app server and main DB user the app uses.
At least it's not the password to our dev db server which is literally in alphabetical order.
 
6:56 PM
pff just make the password Administrator1 they'll never guess that
 
0
Q: How to use the carpenter?

ysf_117I'm trying to make a soldering iron using the carpenter, but it wont work as it keeps on showing "missing resources".My carpenter set-up using a BuildCraft sterling engine.My carpenter set-up using a BuildCraft sterling engine and i'm trying to make a soldering iron but "missing resources" keeps ...

 
@agent86 Virtual PC won't run on Windows 8; there's a different virtualization stack built into Windows 8
 
1986: Samus defeats Mother Brain on the planet Zebes. 2014: Samus collects coins in the Mushroom Kingdom. #NESRemix2 http://t.co/yuVZbN05ZC
Is NoA deliberately insulting their own game?
 
Virtualbox is a different product by a different company and I doubt it gives you any license to anything Windows.
 
I think Oracle makes VirtualBox
 
7:02 PM
@Sterno They do, yes.
 
Well, it was Sun's, wasn't it? I don't know if Oracle is still working on it.
 
@badp They released a new version less than a month ago, but it was a maintenance release.
 
Ignoring errors, wondering when it will bite me in the ass, and continuing anyway is my favorite part of Oracle installations
 
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Q: How to keep the mouse within the borders [Dual monitors]

MkalafutWhen I play these games on any resolution, I can't aim to the right else my cursor goes off screen and clicks on to my other screen. It minimizes the game and really hinders my ability to play since I can't seem to keep the cursor in the window and it keeps getting me minimized and killed. Is t...

 
@badp @BenBrocka was asking about that, I think. I don't use Virtual PC
 
7:15 PM
BenBrocka is the new agent
new agent > old agent
 
Sun bought VirtualBox, Oracle bought Sun
Oracle also owns mysql, which makes for an interesting combo of "things that kind of barely work that we tolerate because we need them"
Oracle: Our Software Is Okay, I Guess.
 
More like, Oracle: You Have No Alternatives And We Know It
 
It seems kind of weird that Windows 8 didn't include XP mode even though it included Client Hyper-V (which is what replaced VirtualPC)
 
user58869
@BenBrocka what is this?
 
7:29 PM
well, XP mode was sort of a portability stopgap when they trashed 16 bit support, I believe.
 
the days of MS giving considerable amounts of fucks about backwards compatibility are kinda behind us
at least on the customer side of things
 
@Alex hax. Or rather, a series of probably long since illegal cards with an extremely lucky setup that causes insane damage/mana usage/creature tokens
 
user15026
@BenBrocka The fact that someone gfigured this out is pretty impressive.
 
user58869
magic the gathering?
 
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Q: Non-damage effects of Budokai 3 Special Moves

Southpaw HareWhat are the values of the secondary effects associated with certain special abilities? Certain special moves in Budokai 3 (as well as the first two games) have extra effects in addition to damage. However, unlike damage, which shows clearly on screen in battle or in training mode, the numbers ...

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Q: Pokemon friend code

user75228Can someone add me and tell me what type and pokemon I have please. My FC:0533-5992-2450 I've added some people and I can't ask them to tell me what my type is help me please??

 
user58869
 
@Alex oh, yes, Magic
@AshleyNunn Most of those cards are screaming for abuse, someone probably just looked at all the most abusable cards individually and drug out something that worked
 
I've seen combos like that that aren't as contrived, too.
 
@BenBrocka Limit turn length in time
I think one week is enough
If you can repeat the second loop 102,005,477,224 times without error in that week, what the hell, you deserve it :P
 
@BenBrocka This is the most needlessly complicated thing I've ever seen.
 
Well if you're going to do more points in damage than there are atoms in the universe you're going to need some setup
 
7:41 PM
@BenBrocka The number of atoms in the universe doesn't even begin to approach something you would phatom calling "close" to 10^3milliard :P
 
@badp In Magic, if you can demonstrate that you are in an infinite loop, you don't have to manually play it out. You just pick a number of times that you execute the loop, and then continue on with the turn from there.
 
@StrixVaria ...this is a rule that exists? nevermind the loop is not infinite
 
@badp Yes it's quite a few digits worth of digits more than there are atoms of the universe
 
@badp This loop isn't infinite, but yes that rule exists.
It's not implemented on the online versions, but it's used in tournaments and such.
Obviously any reasonable person would pick Graham's number.
 
@StrixVaria Wat is mandatory
 
7:43 PM
@BenBrocka I love it says it starts with one of the rarest and most expensive cards in the game.
 
you also only need to repeat this loop once or twice to do far more damage than necessary in any sensible thing
 
@Yuki Every turn-1 stupid combo does.
 
@Yuki A fitting setup
and yeah it's the perfect card for anything silly
 
If a loop is truly infinite (even player choice can't stop it) then the game is a draw.
 
I went for the much more simple Firecat Blitz with Mana Echoes in play.
It gives you plenty of mana to kill a person with Fireball or whatever and still works in mono-red burn decks if you don't get the combo off.
 
7:47 PM
Opponent casts fog. Lose next turn because you have no cards remaining.
 
@Sterno Or opponent casts lightning bolt on your face one of the times you precariously position yourself at 1 health.
 
189 card drops remaining
53 games with drops remaining
55 games eligible for booster packs
Worth Approximately $22.73
 
@StrixVaria Though I'm not sure there's really a need to get yourself that low.
 
I'm midway through with them cards
 
@StrixVaria Fireball is the more simple way to do what this thing is doing.
T1: Mountain, Black Lotus, Channel, Fireball for 20
 
7:51 PM
I had most of my availible cards but never bothered selling them. I think I'm back to several games with cards to drop and still haven't bothered selling
 
I would love to sell all my magic cards but I'm way too lazy to figure out an appropriate price.
 
@Sterno There is a least once.
 
Or to go through them at all.
 
Same for my pokemon cards if they're still in storage. We have too mcuh crap to find anything though
 
Wait, no not in this.
 
7:52 PM
A couple basements worth of storage
 
@OrigamiRobot Why? Can't you just tempt for vengeance less than your full mana pool?
@StrixVaria This
 
47 secs ago, by Origami Robot
Wait, no not in this.
 
0
Q: Unable to play certain games at all

MagicpFor a long time now I've been having issues with certain games (Actually quite a lot of games) with this same recurring issue: Whenever I try play a game it will open fine with absolutely no errors at all but when it goes into fullscreen it just has a black screen then minimizes shortly after. E...

 
@BenBrocka card value drops with time, so the best moment to sell cards is yesterday
if you have Enhanced Steam you should be able to sell them at value with relative ease
 
It turns out I sold cards yesterday!
 
7:54 PM
the Ugly Baby cards are more than $.20 each e.g.
 
@badp oh really?
 
@BenBrocka When you pick a card it fetches automatically the lowest WTS price
so you can sell it for one cent less or match the price or whatever without having to open a new tab
it should also save your acceptance of the terms
 
Where do I go to do that? Just installed it
 
Start with games that haven't had big steam sales yet
e.g. "Ether Vapor Remaster" cards are €.2 each, whereas L4D2 are worth less than half that
also booster packs sell for nice amounts of money.
Your three boosters alone are worth about a buck.
 
8:00 PM
I don't see any "sell all" or anything, doesn't auto-fill the $ fields either, how's it help?
 
@BenBrocka It fetches the best WTS price, you still have to sell manually.
(It will remember your acceptance of the terms though)
 
I see. That's slightly better I guess
Not quite what I was hoping for considering...175 cards
 
Start with the three boosters you have
I mean, there's no point in holding onto them anyway
You can open them for a very thin chance of foil (I got 2 in total from the 55 games I've grund) or just sell them outright
 
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Q: Tiny tower person disappearing

user75230I did time travel and it told me one of my people was "lost." I went and looked through all of my apartments, but all the spots were filled. It says 309 bitzens in the top left corner, so I know one's missing but I don't know where

 
Do boosters have the same rate of foil as normal drops? I too have only gotten 2
 
8:06 PM
@BenBrocka Hard to say, but I'd guess the drop rates are the same
(I've never actually opened a booster myself)
 
figures, the only game I'd care about cards for, bunny must die, has no cards
yeah I've never opened one either. also the drop rate on boosters seems extremely low
 
also wtf is up with modifier %?
uh I guess the higher your level the higher the chance of... stuff
 
I wish steam tags let you sort "better" tags first. "indie" is far less helpful than "metroidvania"
Also Bunny Must Die has "kawaii"amongst the tags
 
at any rate I don't think I'm going to do anything that affects my steam level other than amassing more games
 
needs "sort by market value" so bad
 
8:13 PM
@BenBrocka you can have that - on a game by game basis
(takes a while to load all of the prices)
only click "sort by value" once the total "highest drop value" counter at the top stops ticking
...that is assuming you didn't exhaust drops for a given game...
yeah, no, that's a different thing altogether I guess
 
game by game is no help
 
@BenBrocka price of individual cards tends to be constant between sets, although each set tends to have one card that's worth more than the others
just pick cards from games that are new, or haven't gone on big sales
those will be worth the most
 
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Q: terraria housing

rikkiI have built a house which once done it said this is valid housing after this a NPC had moved in and i had done nothing to the housing since and suddenly it keeps saying this housing is not valid i tried everything i could of to fix it but nothing works this varied from adding/removing furniture,...

 
...Is Picard getting a prostate exam or something?
This is so awkward
 
8:30 PM
woah nice 5.5 for my UT2004 foil
assuming anyone buys it
 
@BenBrocka nice!
 
I like how the profiles/emotes are arguably the only "useful" things to come out of crafting but they're worth even less than the cheapest cards
 
that card might take a while to sell, but hey, it's not like it was doing anything useful sitting in your inventory anyway
 
yeah. I got a "money bag" emote from rogue legacy and I <3 that thing
 
@BenBrocka Actually, experience to raise your steam level are the most useful things to come from crafting.
 
8:36 PM
I money bag every conversation.
 
Then again, I have the TF2 Spy emote, plus both the Portal and TF2 sentry emotes.
 
I also got a chicken from guacamelee, and sometimes I put my chicken out there before the bag
 
@Powerlord I'm not sure what experience is even for, except slightly increasing your vanishingly small chance for a booster drop
unless you bring your friendadditis from Facebook to Steam and somehow you're hitting against the limit
 
@badp Every level increases your max friends list size. Every 10 levels adds an additional showcase to your profile.
 
y'know, just establishing that this is a legit conversation. birds + cash = win
 
8:38 PM
@agent86 That makes me Angry.
 
@Powerlord are you anywhere close to the limit?
 
... would I like you when you are angry?
 
I have 93/370 friends.
 
@badp I have a lot of people on my Steam friends list. Granted, I'm still not close to 370, but still.
 
8:39 PM
the civ5 emotes are kind of boring, though. I want some better ones. I don't think I have any XCOM ones, those could be cool. some aliens up in my bidness.
 
@Powerlord you have 250, which I suppose is 50 more than you could've had before the cards update.
 
I've been meaning to prune my friends list in steam really
 
I think there's some game that has a pot emote, and that's like crazy valuable for the 420 crowd or something. I seem to remember them going for megabux
 
emotes would be cool but I doubt I'd ever use them, especially with how rarely I chat on steam lately
 
avg price: $15!
that's HATZ crazy.
 
8:41 PM
brilliant
 
I could buy, like, all the chicken emotes for that amount of money.
 
@agent86 man is weed!
 
I'm getting lightheaded thinking about the number of chicken emotes I could buy.
 
@agent86 genious
 
brb, buying chicken emotes
 
8:43 PM
I like how the Antichamber cards aren't even of things in the game
like a little chicken
 
this conversation is now totes legit
 
@agent86 Why is the beak over the eye?
 
@badp That's a PROPER hat though
 
@badp chicken reasons.
less useless padding in that one
 
8:45 PM
at any rate, +1, Guacamelee
 
I can buy one of those imp masks for just 11498,85 pуб! I don't know how much that is or even what currency it is.
 
@agent86 Why am I not surprised?
 
@agent86 Russian.
Steam tells me that's 232,57€.
 
seems reasonable
 
@badp спасибо, товарищ
 
8:47 PM
товарищ schоварищ
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
Everyone stop making up alphabets
 
@BenBrocka To be fair, they kinda came first.
 
@FEichinger Russian before Latin? Really?
 
@badp клохтанье клохтанье
 
8:50 PM
> The Cyrillic script /sɨˈrɪlɪk/ is an alphabetic writing system employed across Eurasia. It is based on the Early Cyrillic, which was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School.
psh 9th century AD
 
POSERS
 
get on our level
 
@badp Cyrillic predates mixed case Latin.
 
WOAH PICARD HAS A METAL HEART
> Doctor: "I anticipate no complications"
 
@RedRiderX yeah he does. are you at the episode where they tell you how that happened?
 
8:53 PM
Stuff is going to go south so fast...
@agent86 Yep
 
it's where he keeps all his awesome
 
Indeed
He's all, "Yeah, I got SPOILERED, and I tingled a bit I guess"
 
has there been an episode yet where more of him was... metal?
 
"So I got a metal heart"
?
This is Ep17
 
spoilers, sorry. you either know what I'm talking about or you don't yet :)
 
8:55 PM
wrong page, almost...
regardless - the earliest example on Wikipedia of mixed case cyrillic is of the 16xx's
 
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA
Worf's path to enlightenment is... interesting.
 
whereas...
Visigothic script was a type of medieval script that originated in the Visigothic kingdom in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, modern Spain and Portugal). Its more limiting alternative designations littera toletana and littera mozarabica associate it with scriptoria specifically in Toledo and with Mozarabic culture more generally, respectively. The script, which exists in book-hand and cursive versions, was used from approximately the late seventh century until the thirteenth century, mostly in Visigothic Iberia but also somewhat in southern France. It was perfected in the 9th-11th centuri...
 
@badp I'll reiterate what I said: "Cyrillic predates mixed-case Latin."
 
This is actually lowercase and contemporary to the earliest cyrillic at all
let alone mixed case cyrillic
besides, again, mixed case doesn't count
 
You're the only one talking about mixed-case Cyrillic here. Cyrillic, unlike Latin, had relatively few changes since its earliest instance.
 

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