The Bridge

Kevin van der Velden

8:00 AM

Jeah! Rain

Blem

same here, I like it (as long as I don't get soaked)

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden It was raining a lot yesterday evening.

Remember where I said I wanted a tattoo? I went to a shop to check on how much work it would be, they expect 4-5 sessions work. SO that'll be 800-1000 euro...

Kevin van der Velden

So, gonna take a while longer? =p

@Blem sprint/summer rain is fun, as long as I'm inside =p

Arperum

They also don't have time before end of November.

5pike

@Arperum Yeah, sounds about right

Tattoos are very work-intensive and take multiple sessions.

Arperum

8:10 AM

I'm going to inform myself at a couple other places too. I've had a couple recommended to me.

@5pike Especially rather big tattoos. (20 x 50 cm or something)

In color.

5pike

@Arperum Yeah, those can really take long

very long

Wouldn't surprise me if it takes >1year

Arperum

@5pike They said 4-5 sessions. Where you can decide the time between session yourself (to some degree, it needs to heal of course)

It's not that it's a full square, most of the thing is smaller then the 20cm. It just contains one part that is that wide.

Arperum

8:25 AM

This is the exact thing I want on my back.

badp

a guitar with awful acousitics and a dragon preventing you from playing or holding it

also, it bites and it flies in three separate directions at the same time

Arperum

@badp Yup. The dragon is supposed to be the ones playing it.

The sound does resonate thorugh a whole universe though :)

Blem

Kevin van der Velden

sigh

Arperum

Because asking the internet to not do something ever worked...

Especially porn related.

Yes, it's stupid and shows no respect at all. But that was expected.

5pike

8:37 AM

@Arperum They just added more fuel to the already burning fire.

Arperum

@5pike Exactly.

badp

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEY

PLEASE RATE THE AMOUNT OF HAPPENING (1-500)

Arperum

@badp Did everything arrive or are you still waiting?

Blem

@badp 7

Lazers

0

Q: Does razor's static link reduce damage from Ursa's Fury Swipes?

So say Ursa has 100 basic physical damage, and level 4 Fury Swipes (so adding 30 damage per attack), and say Razor uses his static link on Ursa for a few seconds and drains, for the sake of this example, 200 damage. When Ursa right clicks Razor, Razor will not suffer the 100 basic damage, but do...

dota-2

Arperum

8:45 AM

@Blem I bid 8!

badp

@Blem thanks

@Arperum noted

Kevin van der Velden

@badp IT'S HAPPE*seizure seizure seizure*

badp

@KevinvanderVelden I suppose that is a 50

Kevin van der Velden

Probably

badp

scribbles

CONTROL GROUP

It's happening (seizure warning)

PLEASE RATE THE AMOUNT OF HAPPENING (1-500)

Kevin van der Velden

8:47 AM

@badp slightly less seizuring!

badp

That's a 40...

Arperum

@badp The smile is scarifying.

badp

notes that use of colors reduces the amount of happening

Blem

so what is happening @badp?

►

badp

9:16 AM

@Blem fredley is an enemy of happenings

luckily he has not noticed what's above the fold

meanwhile

I believe that the time is ripe for your favourite moment of the "week"!

Let's go straight to the point and see what's the question of the "week!" Sponsored by IT'S HAPPENING, INC.

> Which startups have the best stories?

Kevin van der Velden

OH GODS NO NOT AGAIN

badp

And the honorable mention goes to...

Arperum

@badp The ones you didn't know about!

badp

> What are the greatest software misuses?

Lazers

0

Q: x y pokemon Does running away from pokemon while chaining stop the chain?

Many have said you need a pokemon with a lot of pp-- I'm assuming its because you can't, but I just legit found a shiny horsea while looking for timid or modest and running away from claunchers. Do you have to fight or catch all of the pokemon you want to continue the chain? I just want to know...

pokemon-xy

Arperum

9:22 AM

@badp misuse and great doesn't really fit together.

badp

Thank you for yet another edition of the Quora Digest Digest. Hope you enjoyed it, because your "week's" going downhill from here!

@Arperum The answer given for this one for over 4.6k votes seems to be of the "googling for google" type

Arperum

@badp my week is falling asleep.

badp

@Arperum It's the post-Quora Digest Digest adrenaline crash

how bad is it?

Arperum

@badp Horrible. I finished everything that is planned for today. Today is still ~5 hours of "work" left over...

badp

Well I believe I can help!

SPECIAL KEEP ARPERUM AWAKE EDITION!

Truth is, last week I got three quora digests but I didn't use because they were insufficiently awful!

But @Arperum needs all the help he can get, so here goes, the new top question of the "week"! Sponsored by @KevinvanderVelden

> What are some interesting facts about famous terrorists?

And a new honorable mention!

> What are some really cool ways animals defend themselves?

Thank you! Thank you. This has been yet another Quora Digest Digest.

Drive safe and don't drink too much coffee!

Arperum

9:32 AM

@badp They have a high chance of death on the job. They also tend to be religiousextremists

badp

@Arperum That's some stale facts. Read them before. Not interesting at all -1

Arperum

@badp I EDITED IT. I WANT A RECALCULATION

badp

@Arperum MINUS ONE.

go figure it's going to start raining before my stuff actually ships

@Arperum here's a recalculation for you!

Arperum

@badp NOOOOS

badp

Recalculated.

PRAY I DO NOT RECALCULATE FURTHER

Arperum

9:36 AM

@badp WHO SHOULD I PRAY TO?

badp

@Arperum The Quora Digest Digest Question Digestion Desk

(QDD)²

Arperum

@badp This is not a religious enity. This would be mental lobbying, not praying.

badp

@Arperum I belive you will find it's close enough. If you really put your heart into it, you can bridge the gap

Kevin van der Velden

@badp you used that one already

You get a -1 as well

Arperum

@badp But if I bridge the gap, the bridge is used and gone! ANd that would be bad!

badp

9:39 AM

@KevinvanderVelden Honorable mentions are a dime a dozen

Kevin van der Velden

@badp actually the other time you used it, it was the question of the week

May 1 at 11:36, by badp

> Why are black people so hot?

badp

@KevinvanderVelden That's not what I used

In fact I don't believe I did use that one at all.

@Arperum That's only true if you use single-use cheap plastic imitations of the Bridge

5pike

Would you buy a NES in new design for 499$?

badp

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. ONLY THE REAL THE BRIDGE IS HOST TO THE QUORA DIGEST DIGEST

Kevin van der Velden

@badp well, you did, chat doesn't lie. Unless it's been mod-abused

badp

9:42 AM

@5pike does it come with games

Arperum

@badp Do you have any idea how much Bridge is needed to cross that gap?

5pike

@badp Don't think so, no.

badp

@Arperum About one hour or so?

@5pike ehhhhhhhhh pass. ebay is not a good place to be at

I am happy that people are still building new ones though!

5pike

Seems that they also made a wooden neo geo

badp

I wonder if I should use a swiffer on the wooden table I'll be working on to clean it up or if that won't just be asking for trouble

while this room today is a cat free zone, my cat's been dancing in here for ages.

5pike

9:52 AM

@badp building your pc?

badp

yeah. First time

and dust that is down but settled is probably less bad than freshly moved dust that might be around the place

5pike

Nope, don't worry.

badp

@5pike so... just go for the electrostatic swiffer thing?

5pike

@badp Yeah, or don't clean up at all. I built my pc on my carpet - cat hair, dust and whatnot. No problem.

But, if you want to clean, go ahead. Sure doesn't hurt.

badp

thedailywtf.com/Articles/Disqualified-Candidates.aspx

> A string is a linked list, so you can only traverse it going in one direction- front to bottom. But what you can do, and this is really optimized, is take a two’s compliment of the least significant byte of the list, append that to the traversal pointer, and boom! You can read the string backwards.

FEichinger

10:04 AM

Fancy.

badp

Nice photography. You can really feel the depth.

FEichinger

That happened a few hours before I would've been in a train two tracks to the left.

badp

@FEichinger so what happened?

5pike

@FEichinger Holy hell what happened?

FEichinger

423 206-2 collided with a rail excavator, four workers and the operator injured.

Ronan Forman

10:20 AM

@KevinvanderVelden Did you ever 3D print that arqade logo?

5pike

Nintendo loses 457$ million because WII U has no games

badp

It's sad that the one and only actual console this gen is faring so poorly

5pike

@badp Well, that wouldn't be to bad ... fixed it, though.

badp

@5pike I bad, you bad, he bads!

5pike

@badp Yeah, but it's because it has no must have games

badp

10:32 AM

@5pike I guess game devs are tired of porting games between architectures?

I suppose all prototyping and development happens on Windows anyway

and if it isn't Windows then it's Linux

Speaking of which I have no idea how people are productive in Windows. Sure, if you have maybe one or two windows to be working with, Windows is fine, but otherwise even the much maligned Unity is so much better for productivity

5pike

@badp Well, 3rd party isn't really Nintendo's strong side.

Kevin van der Velden

@RonanForman bleh, I totally forgot o.o

So busy lately

5pike

They just expected the Wii U to be a hit like the Wii was.

badp

during my internship I needed two or three web browsers, many persistent and many throw-away text consoles, one or two text editors, the occasional buildbot widget, and then other transient programs

Ronan Forman

@KevinvanderVelden No problem, just checking I hadn't missed it.

badp

10:36 AM

you... just can't do that without workspaces and even rudimentary window tiling

Sure, you can bring some of those features in by mutilating them into windows, at the risk of stability and speed

FEichinger

Bare GNOME > Unity.

Kevin van der Velden

Honestly, the way I'm productive in windows is to have 3 monitors, 2 of which have a cygwin terminal with N instances of vim

ctrl+z and fg M for the win

FEichinger

@KevinvanderVelden See, I just have four workspaces.

Kevin van der Velden

@FEichinger In linux I typically use WMII for productivity

Tags are way more useful then workspaces

Because using them in the simplest way is having workspaces, but you can say I want to show windows with tag 1 and with tag dev

And it'll just show them at the same time

badp

@FEichinger I haven't seen any other desktop than Unity that has keybinds like Ctrl-Alt-3 (Np) to put a window in the bottom left corner of a screen

Lazers

10:47 AM

1

Q: Steam: Instantly finish downloads

Alright. I'm trying to move my games (from one drive to another), but as you know there is close to no possible way to do so.. Without redownloading it. No thanks to the recent client updates, simply copying the files over (and uninstalling the old location) does not help at all. So: Is there an...

steam pc

Kevin van der Velden

@badp wmii has auto-tiling

Which basically splits the display in a column with all your windows given (by default) equal height, and you can say "Move this to the right/left" to create a new column

Lazers

11:06 AM

0

Q: Good stealth games?

So, can people give me good stealth games that are good to you, i know i know, what's good to one person can be bad to other and vice versa, but stealth games that you think are good. Also, limit to PC games, please. I've played all Splinter-Cell's, Some Hitman games, From Brotherhood to III, As...

pc

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn That's amazing.

badp

@KevinvanderVelden wmii?

Kevin van der Velden

@badp wmii

badp

@KevinvanderVelden the thing with most tiling DMs is that they're, well, hardcore

Kevin van der Velden

I have no problems with that :)

badp

11:15 AM

with unity I only really get 8 presets, but if I want to move windows around normally I can and it doesn't do silly things like removing window borders, stretching windows by default to fit the scheme and whatnot

Kevin van der Velden

Course, I also have no problems with switching DM if I go do something different

badp

@KevinvanderVelden that requires a logout and losing your entire state!

Kevin van der Velden

Not if you just killall wmii && gnome-desktop!

Also wmii has a floating mode which just lets windows float above the others and not be auto-managed

badp

At any rate, while I don't say there aren't other options that work, Unity was surprisingly good and better than any other DM

GnomeSlice

I'm tempted to grab Glitchspace while it's on the IGS feature, but the last time I brought a programming game I only beat like one level of it.

indiegamestand.com/deal

100% thumbs up on Steam.

Nergh

> Glitchspace, currently in alpha, is a first person programming game that's centred around a visual programming mechanic. Set in a cyberspace world, you are trying to find a place known as Glitchspace - a by-product of cyberspace and its various glitches.

Kevin van der Velden

11:21 AM

Soooo many games to play, and all I play is Dota 2

badp

@KevinvanderVelden DOTA. Not even once

Kevin van der Velden

@badp Dota 2! 1000+ hours and counting

badp

@KevinvanderVelden Also not even once.

In a moment of weakness, I started playing LoL with a bunch of people, but they were all level 30 and I fucking sucked, so that was my saving grace

I AM A SURVIVOR.

Wipqozn

This guy is my least favourite user on Stack Exchange:

Omega

390 1 6 15

final-fantasy-13-2 final-fantasy-14 starcraft-2 final-fantasy-13 zelda-link-between-worlds clash-of-clans diablo-3

I keep thinking he's @StrixVaria. It's the worst.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn true, @StrixVaria is pretty horrible

badp

11:38 AM

Videogame magazines ignore what might become their main demographic: people in jail

2

(Honestly I don't know why anybody with an internet connection would still buy them)

(Notice: editorializing mine; article simply presents result of research)

Blem

5pike

22 hours ago, by 5pike

badp

11:58 AM

the shakycam makes that gif

in other news, it's still happening

Wipqozn

when I get home I'm going to play some FF14. Unlocked the third dungeon, so I'm going to do that. I love healing in dungeons.

badp

@Wipqozn but will you also do catering duty for your party?

Curaga salmon tarts

Wipqozn

I love Salmon.

Also tarts.

Food is just fantastic.

I had a Philly Cheese Steak for the first time yetserday. It was great.

Mademe think I should consider trying Steak again, now that I'm not 10 years old.

Might like it now.

badp

and for Origami, Mushroom Death Sammich. I assume he's basically undead

Wipqozn

Now I want Mushrooms. I love mushrooms.

GnomeSlice

12:11 PM

@badp Interesting.

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn ...

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I'm sorry to disappoint you, oh robotic one.

GnomeSlice

@Sterno Full Bore steam keys are available on IndieGameStand now.

Wipqozn

I suspect I still won't like it, because I still believe it's a chewy and tough meat. That is to say it's not the taste which I dislike about it.

Origami Robot

Now I want steak.

3ventic

12:16 PM

Didn't you say that yesterday, @GnomeSlice?

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Don't get it well done if you don't want it chewy.

Wipqozn

@3ventic Probably. Gnomeslice repeats the same deals a lot.

GnomeSlice

@3ventic Yeah but he wasn't here.

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn It's not tough if you get it cooked right.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn The deal was months ago.

Wipqozn

12:16 PM

@GnomeSlice How should I get it done?

Origami Robot

And the only right way is medium rare.

3ventic

@GnomeSlice but pings appear in the inbox if unread..

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn I like Medium Rare.

@3ventic not if they haven't been in here in a while

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice It occurs to me that I have no idea what that means.

Sepia Lazers

0

Q: Can you ask questions about ENB Series mods, or if they'll work on games?

As the title says, can you ask questions about ENB Series mods, or if they'll work on games?

support allowed-questions

Origami Robot

12:17 PM

@Wipqozn Medium rare means warm pink center.

GnomeSlice

Temperature (meat)

Temperature is a gauge of how thoroughly cooked a cut of meat is based on the color, juiciness and internal temperature when cooked. The gradations of cooking are most often used in reference to beef (especially steak and roasts) but are also applicable to lamb, pork, poultry, veal, and seafood (especially fish). Gradations, their description, and the associated temperature ranges vary regionally from cuisine to cuisine and in local practice and terminology. The table below is from an American reference book and pertains to beef and lamb. In lieu of gradations and ranges, the United S...

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot Oh, so it'll poison me and I'll die. Why is @GnomeSlice trying to kill me?

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn because he can't de-owner you so he'll settle for killing you

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn This is one of the problems many people have with steak. Thinking that if it's pink or bloody it's uncooked.

And then you end up overcooking it and eating shoeleather.

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden Makes sense. I always knew @GnomeSlice was envious of my room ownership.

Kevin van der Velden

12:18 PM

@GnomeSlice also wait, people think that?

GnomeSlice

@KevinvanderVelden My grandparents used to say it was "raw" if there was any pink at all.

Kevin van der Velden

My sister just thinks it looks grose

Wipqozn

well I'll try steak sometime soon, and get it cooked medium rare.

If I dislike it, I shall hold @GnomeSlice personally responsible. If I like it, I shall thank @Sternold.

GnomeSlice

@KevinvanderVelden ur grose

Origami Robot

The red is not blood. It's protein.

Sterno

12:20 PM

Upload button not working :(

There we go!

Sconibulus

@Wipqozn Rarer is better

Sterno

Lately if I start a reply and then upload image, it gets rid of the reply part

GnomeSlice

@Sterno YAY

Kevin van der Velden

@Sconibulus I disagree =p

Origami Robot

> Well done cuts, in addition to being brown, are drier and contain little or no juices.

So sad that people willingly subject themselves to well done steaks.

GnomeSlice

12:21 PM

@Sterno The upload button doesn't even work for me if I start a reply.

Sterno

I'm spending $1500 to get a gas line run outside to my grill today

which means TONIGHT THERE SHALL BE STEAK

GnomeSlice

I have to upload it first then edit the reply in.

Kevin van der Velden

I like a nice medium rare steak

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn This is what you should all blame for me having changed my gravatar.

Sterno

@GnomeSlice I was having that issue for a little while but then it sort of worked. This is a new development for me though. It used to work.

Wipqozn

12:21 PM

@StrixVaria I'm well aware. This just makes my hatred grow EVEN STRONGER!

Sconibulus

@KevinvanderVelden As long as the outside is seared to give a bit of consitency to the chunk, and keep the juices sorta in, I'm happy

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot Well Done is how my parents used to make them when I was a kid, because their parents thought anything less was uncooked. I hated steak as a kid.

Now though, my dad grills the best fuckin steaks

Kevin van der Velden

@Sconibulus that might work if the piece isn't tall

Sconibulus

@GnomeSlice This is fair.

GnomeSlice

he got a smoke grill too

Sterno

12:22 PM

Take the steak off the grill when it hits about 130 degrees F in the center.

Origami Robot

> Note that searing (cooking the exterior at a high temperature) in no way "seals in the juices" – water evaporates at the same or higher rates as unseared meat.

Sterno

Wait 5 minutes. Eat. Win.

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice My inlaws only cook chicken this way. It doesn't even make sense.

GnomeSlice

Eugh

StrixVaria

They specifically cooked chicken for me once for half the amount of time they normally do, and it was still overcooked.

Sconibulus

12:23 PM

@OrigamiRobot It appears to keep it from leaking out all over everything until it's cut

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria wtf

Wipqozn

Maybe my dislike with meats is just because my parents suck at cooking meats.

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn This is very possible.

Kevin van der Velden

Every time we talk about food I realise one of the main reasons I want to move out is so I can cook more types of food =/

Sterno

@StrixVaria My in laws have the opposite problem. They undercook everything. Chicken comes out pink and rubbery. And they're really terrible when it comes to food storage and expiration dates

StrixVaria

12:23 PM

I had some super fancy steak at a super fancy restaurant the other day and it was delicious.

Sterno

I'm scared to eat there.

StrixVaria

So my dislike of steak is probably because most people cook it wrong.

Wipqozn

Because when the meats are deliciously juicy I really like them. When they are dry I have a strong dislike for them.

StrixVaria

@Sterno Yeah if they're going to have an issue one way I guess I prefer it the way I have it.

At least it's still technically safe to eat.

Sterno

The best steak has some marbled fat in it, like ribeye. Then if you cook it right, it just sort of melts and makes the whole steak awesome. If you cook it wrong, it gets rubbery, chewy, and disgusting.

Origami Robot

12:25 PM

The way I cook steak is:
Get the grill as hot as it can get (600 degrees)
Cook the steak for 2 minutes per side
Take the steak off and let it set for a few minutes

GnomeSlice

@Sterno My uncle is a hoarder, and he hoards food too. he has shit in his freezer that's like 4 years old

And when my dad visits he tries to cook it for him

@OrigamiRobot blue?

Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice is your dad rich and will your uncle get an inheritance from him or something?

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice why would you uncle keep shit in the freezer? That's just gross.

Sterno

@GnomeSlice When my wife moved in with me in 2008, she brought along some foods that had expiration dates from 2004. She hadn't even moved into the house she was living in before she met me until 2005, which means she had already moved the expired food once to that house, and was now doing it again to my house.

GnomeSlice

@KevinvanderVelden No. What? My uncle just had to move out of my grandmother's house though, she died a couple of years ago and the house finally sold.

@Sterno and you married her?

badp

12:26 PM

@Wipqozn In spring it can be used to make your lawn fertile

Sterno

Well, she's pretty awesome.

Wipqozn

@Sterno I hope you threw all that out.

Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice I am implying your uncle is trying to murder your dad

GnomeSlice

@Sterno I think we all know what that means.

2

Sterno

@Wipqozn Yes. I am in charge of throwing away scary foods.

Wipqozn

12:27 PM

@GnomeSlice That she's a good cook?

GnomeSlice

@KevinvanderVelden No, he eats the stuff too. My uncle is not very bright, and doesn't understand a lot of things.

Sterno

That she's a great partner in doubles tennis?

Origami Robot

@GnomeSlice I don't know what you mean by "blue"

Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice huh, how is your uncle not dead yet? =/

Frank

@Kevin You take a look at SE V?

GnomeSlice

12:28 PM

@OrigamiRobot You cook your steak blue rare?

Kevin van der Velden

Not yet, I'm currently at work =p

GnomeSlice

i.e. crank up the grill as hot as you can, sear both sides a bit and then eat.

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden He built up immunities.

Origami Robot

@GnomeSlice No, that's medium rare.

Kevin van der Velden

@OrigamiRobot o-o

Sconibulus

12:29 PM

@GnomeSlice he said like 2 minutes per side

Origami Robot

Searing both sides would be like 5 seconds per side.

GnomeSlice

Yeah I guess, nevermind.

@Wipqozn With food from 2004? Not likely.

Sconibulus

I tend to do that for things like London Broil to get Rare, so doing that for a smaller steak would be pretty mediumish

Arperum

@Sterno My mind is making images I wish it didn't make.

Origami Robot

@Sconibulus Yea it depends on the thickness of the cut.

Sterno

12:30 PM

@Arperum What? Of people hitting balls back and forth?

Arperum

@Sterno reply has been redacted because <NSFW>.

GnomeSlice

@Sterno I would have been banned for that.

Sterno

I've been told it's mostly about getting the right grip on the racket.

Arperum

I BLAME YOU FOR ACTIVATING THE HORRIBLE PART OF MY BRAIN AGAIN.

Sterno

@GnomeSlice Feel free to flag it and see what happens. I won't be mad!

Arperum

12:32 PM

STOP MAKING IT WORSE.

GnomeSlice

Today's Listening: Electronic

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum and @spugsley isn't even here to enjoy it

GnomeSlice

@Sterno Well learning the grips is like the first thing you have to do before you can play well. I used to take Tennis lessons.

Origami Robot

This is basically how I cook steak

Sterno

2

mmmmmm

GnomeSlice

12:33 PM

@Sterno gimme

Origami Robot

@Sterno Want

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden It's getting to the point where @kalina's Angelcake first took me. And that is multiple stages of WTF to far.

@Sterno inf

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice ha

Sterno

@OrigamiRobot Do you let your steak sit and hit room temperature before grilling it the way you do?

Frank

I'm going for steak on Saturday.

Sterno

12:34 PM

I think mine takes longer because I never have time to take it out and let it sit before I want to grill it

Frank

It will be glorious.

Wipqozn

@Sterno Wouldn't it make more sense for gnom to say it and for that to then be flagged?

Origami Robot

@Sterno I only buy steak when I'm about to cook it so it never even goes in the freezer.

Sterno

@Wipqozn That's part 2 of the test

Obligatory wiki-how: wikihow.com/Eat-Steak-Without-Any-Hands

Why is that a site?

It's worse than Yahoo! Answers

GnomeSlice

@Sterno wtf

Arperum

12:37 PM

I am going to a black metal festival on saturday. It will be fun.

Origami Robot

Dammit, now I want steak. I hate you guys. Specifically @Wipqozn.

Sterno

Tonight's menu: Steak, hot dogs (awesome ones from the butcher shop), and a porkchop for my daughter who eats them like a zombie eats brains

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz Have you ever played the old Heroes of Might & Magic games?

Follow up question, do you know anything about this? palmheroes.com

Frank

@Sterno Single-minded devouring?

GnomeSlice

The Stomping Land launches on Steam 'early access' on May 30th, will cost $24.99

Arperum

12:45 PM

@GnomeSlice Am I being stupid or does that game look like DayZ with (Rideable) Dinosaurs instead of zombies?

GnomeSlice

@Arperum Pretty much the second thing.

agent86

morning streeeeetch

Sterno

@agent86 Looks more like aliens have possessed the cat and are trying to figure out how to make it walk.

badp

why would aliens walk

Sterno

Why wouldn't aliens walk?

Arperum

12:48 PM

@Sterno Because they can fly. How else did they reach earth?

Sterno

@Arperum The cat they're possessing can't fly

They're weaponizing cats. Wake up, sheeple!

Arperum

@GnomeSlice So if you are not one of the few who starts when it lazunches, you can forget about it, because you will be hunted down with Dinosaurs...

@Sterno That's what they want you to think.

GnomeSlice

@Arperum I'm not sure how much persistence there is.

Arperum

Hell, that's what cats want you to think.

Blem

badp

12:51 PM

@Blem protip with cats: always satisfy their curiosity; they won't believe it's not interesting until they sniff it

Blem

badp

@Blem This cat has determined the human to be interesting

He's making the meat a little more tender

Blem

I have been spending a bit of time looking at cat gifs this morning

Lazers

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