The Bridge

@Lazers Hmm. Spam?

@MartinSojka maybe, maybe not. Might be a legitimate question with a link to where you can download the app.

Although the title is pretty random.

@MartinSojka Yeah, looks suspicious. Total new user and all.

Jutschge

@MartinSojka hmm don't think so... just a link to clarify the game and a bad title

Today's Listening | FMA Brotherhood OST

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11:21 AM

@5pike Looks ok to me

I'd put the link in the tag wiki, frankly.

Hmmm, yeah, further digging suggests self-promotion

@fredley Yeah, that's also my feeling.

@5pike Mod tools > feelings

Released: Aug 19, 2014 ...

Even if it's legitimate, good luck getting an answer.

11:26 AM

@fredley Well, I don't have the benefit of Mod tools, so I have to trust my feelings.

@5pike I have mod tools, therefore I have no feelings

Sepia Lazers

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Q: Typo in help centre?

Quote from user behaviour article, emphasis mine: The community tends to vote down overt self-promotion and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, and if some (but not all) happen to be about your product or website, that’s okay. However, you must disclose your affiliation in your answ...

bug help-centre

@fredley did they give you a chip or just spoon out the useless bits of brain?

@KevinvanderVelden Brain removed to make space for headcannon

You mean, the 90% he wasn't using anyway?

Q: Being reported for "Bad behaviour"?

11:38 AM

@fredley aah of course, much more efficient

Lazers

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I'm pretty new to GTA Online, I've only played it a few times, but I was wandering around my own house and suddenly got a notification that another player had reported me for "bad behaviour". I have no idea what this means, or how I got it. I don't have a microphone, I haven't sent any bad messa...

gta-online

@KevinvanderVelden All users are fitted with a headcannon upon becoming mods, along with a stack of business cards

PROOF

@fredley Your thumb is so beautiful.

Most beautiful thumb ever.

@fredley Hehe, cute.

WHO KNOWS WHAT THAT EMAIL MIGHT BE

11:45 AM

@badp It's likely porkchop@porkchop.com

@badp WHOIS KNOWS

@5pike Your mom knows.

Oh buuuurrrrnnn

@Wipqozn My mom's dead.

So...she might know

or not

who knows?

Well, now I feel like an ass. Sorry, man.

Q: Highlight certain letters in words

@Wipqozn You couldn't have known that, so no problem.

Sepia Lazers

11:55 AM

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How exactly can I highlight certain letters in words? I recently answered a question where I wanted to highlight the starting letters of 3 words. I finally had to put in spaces so the letters appear bold. Just as an example: **T**his doesn't work T his does but it looks pretty ugly. *S*ame goe...

support layout

AWKWARD SILENCE

@Sterno It is pretty awkward, and I think you just made it worse. Good job!

Also, going to join the local netrunner crew tonight. I'll probably be doing it every thursday from now on.

I'm such a social butterfly.

Is this you?

Wait. Those socks look too clean.

Superheroes, particularly from the 80s, seem pretty frightening when you sit down and imagine what they'd look like in their costumes in real life.

StrixVaria

Best I could find for turtle butterfly.

They're not butterfly wings :|

Why has no one already created the art that I want?

That's because you didn't google "turtlefly"

Q: Can i have a question migrated to Super User?

12:09 PM

Frankly, I had to check who that would apply to, and I don't even know most of them. Sure, TMNT, She-Hulk and Rorschach, but aside from that ...

StrixVaria

@Sterno :(

Sepia Lazers

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Hi I would like to have a question migrated from this site to Super user as I feel that it is a highly technical question and I might be able to get an answer there (I haven't been able to get an answer for it here). The question is linked here Thanks in advance

support migration

I like where this conversation is going.

I like how the spots on the wings of the turtlefly look like they're screaming in horror.

The turtlefly captures souls and uses them to power his wings

"The Turtlefly Effect"

12:12 PM

@MartinSojka One flap of a turtle's wings can cause a hurricane on the Bridge

@fredley Something like that. Now we need Bioware to make some action-RPGs out of the concept.

@MartinSojka Deus Ex: Wipqozn

12:34 PM

AH windows: you are a most wonderfull thing of annoyance.

Seriously: why can't you run a program in 32bit mode if I tell you to do so. Or just don't horribly crash when you try to access a 32bit odbc driver from a process that is running in 64bit mode.

Good ting I found some 64bit driver for that odbc connection...

After loosing at least another hour...

@Arperum How are those backups?

@fredley I would be fine with this.

In fact it can be the first game in a series of games never after me, The Amazing Wipqozn.

@fredley I fixeded it now, so the 4D DB is currently copying back to the SQL DB like it should be.

The way that is done is still a horrible pile of complete inefficiency, but whatever.

Why would you delete every single record from your DB, to then add them all again... and add the new ones together with the old ones you are moving in again...

But whatever, no time for more then ductaping this shit together. It works. Slowly, and in a horrible way, but it works.

@Wipqozn It's a good thing you never typo.

@Sterno ................................................................................‌.............................fuck

ah.... I mean, that was mod abuse. @fredley edited my post.

He used mod magic so it wouldn't show up in the history.

But then he told me he did it, in secret, using mod powers.

12:44 PM

That's a relief. Otherwise you'd be a liar yet again for not deleting your account.

@Sterno Good thing!

HamStare @Wipqozn

@Wipqozn ಠ_ಠ

See? This proves I'm not a liar!

It proves something alright

SaintWacko

@Arperum Oh god, this

1:00 PM

@SaintWacko Yes, and fixing that is guaranteed funtimes if you depend on a third party driver...

simplex noise is fun

And mindbreaking to implement

@Arperum I've dealt with a ton of code like that.

Patch and pray are the bywords.

@3ventic .......................................

I remember when I liked that game. That was a fun time.

In other news:

In which @badp timed out the bridge for a day

21 hours ago, 6 minutes total – 78 messages, 12 users, 28 stars

Bookmarked 1 min ago by Unionhawk

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1:15 PM

lol

@3ventic It's weird, I stopped liking that game when I realized they were going to keep pulling the "gun expansion pack and also exclusive masks give us money" thing over and over, and also when stealth became impossible to control totally.

cc @Bat @Kev

@Unionhawk I stooped liking it, the moment they didn't deliver on their promises, which was exactly when the first DLC came out.

It's more challenging without total control, which I like

do the finally have a 5 day heist?

1:20 PM

Wherein badp gives up to panic and forgets that the solution to mod abuse is more mod abuse.

21 hours ago, 3 minutes total – 46 messages, 11 users, 24 stars

Bookmarked 20 hours ago by badp

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@Bat @Kev mining will be mandatory

Way ahead of you

welp

That's an even better title

You win

mods always win

@5pike nop

1:21 PM

@3ventic ಠ_ಠ

Though a 5 day heist would most likely either 1) take way too long or 2) have too short days

Bonus points if the days are in real time

Even the 3 day heists can take way over an hour

@badp The solution is ALWAYS more mod abuse.

still regrets spending 7 hours on a framing frame

1:22 PM

@3ventic on ONE?

yep

how?

@3ventic I was going to say, I'm pretty sure the one I did with you was 2 hours plus.

@5pike You can't take all of the guards anymore.

fail -> try again -> repeat

There's like 7 guards

1:23 PM

@Unionhawk Ah, ok.

@3ventic I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down...

and once you kill 4, an inspector comes and he checks all the corners and stuff

Days 1 and 2 can be done reasonably, but day 3 is stupid

day 3 is stupid alone

if you have a friend watching cams, it's alright

Like, more stupid than it was before

1:23 PM

day 1 is pretty annoying too though

Yeah, but it's doable in some real fashion.

I'm pretty sure it's not possible to take all of the gold day 3

speaking of which, the framing frame questions are probably outdated...

Simply because if you get caught moving it you're fucked

Ronan Forman

I enjoyed day 3 when you could actually take out all the guards, we had it down to a science.

it's possible

1:25 PM

@RonanForman Those were fun times

done it alone

Hax

Ronan Forman

@Unionhawk sigh Good times.

3ventic confirmed l33t haxor

Election day is more fun anyway

1:39 PM

@3ventic Here, have a viagra. re-reads Oh wait, you said ELECTION day.

@Powerlord ಠ_ಠ

Incidentally, the gates of Castle Shadowgate will open on Steam in a few hours.

Ben Brocka

@FAE cool, will still surely never hit the minimum though

good changelist though

Vektorweg

2:02 PM

blub

blob

ping

polo

tac

feet

inb4 android hell :)

Vektorweg

2:03 PM

water

You're breaking the four letter word thing!

BUTT

i dont get it.

@FEI

hm.

marco

2:06 PM

@BenBrocka Yeah, the bumping into co-op players to equalize arrows is particularly nice

Ben Brocka

Yeah, that's pretty cool

13 mins ago, by Kevin van der Velden

inb4 android hell :)

It was broken already.

@Arperum by his tac btw

Also that was different cause it was his turn

Dammit, listening to Metroid makes me want to replay the Prime series.

2:25 PM

@Frank this is the biggest drawback to listening to video game music.

@Wipqozn But the music is so awesome!

best video game soundtrack go.

Listening to FMA makes me want to watch FMA again

@Frank eyes his Metroid Prime Trilogy box

I wish YouTube would pick ads with a similar musical style. Less jarring when they come on.

2:29 PM

Or I would if I were at home.

@Powerlord eyes his original Gamecube copies of the first two games

@ori stop pinging @fei, it's distracting

Somehow no one linked this to @Frank.

You just did

@Frank I have those too.

Having said that, the motion controls do add something to the first two games even if the weapon switching is more annoying.

2:33 PM

@Powerlord Sadly, I seem to have misplaced my Gamecube controller and memory card.

No idea how or where.

@Frank I'd lend you one of mine if it were easier. I have 5 GameCube controllers (4 wired, 1 wavebird)

@Frank Mine are both plugging into my Wii (as well as the Wavebird's sensor thingy)

The wavebird itself is hiding in the cabinet below my TV

@FAE I'm sure I have it around somewhere, but I'd have to tear my house apart to find it.

I figure, I'm probably moving soon anyways, I can wait to find it until then.

@Frank Oh, you're moving? :o I didn't know that.

How come?

@FAE Well, I've been planning on buying another house for a while now.

It's still in the formative stages, but that's what I want to do.

2:35 PM

@Frank So you and @TrentHawkins are getting divorced? :(

@FAE Nah; he'd be moving with me, I think.

@Frank Gosh, and here are the rest of us just trying to purchase one house :P

HOW ROMANTIC <3

@Frank Oh okay! I hope Bela adjusts well. Cats can be finicky about moving. :(

@fredley I'm making twice as much now as I was when I bought the first one.

I haven't decided whether to sell this one, or just rent it out.

2:37 PM

@Frank When in doubt, always go with the slum lord option.

@FAE Tell me about it :(

@JasonBerkan My family's had bad luck with renters in general, and there's been some pretty shitty renters.

@Frank Rent rent rent

@Frank Rent to classy people

Keep buying houses until you have 4, then trade them up for a hotel

@Frank I know. Renters can be a massive PIA. (My Dad works for a housing company and the stuff he has to deal with is awful.)

@Arperum :(

2:39 PM

@fredley but you first need to have an entire street for that =[

@KevinvanderVelden == 4 houses

@fredley uuh wait what was the word for it, you need all of the same color

sigh

@KevinvanderVelden Oh yeah, forgot that part

But you need to own the colour group just to start building houses

@badp ?

Oh yeah that's true, we have different house rules

2:41 PM

@KevinvanderVelden houserules FTW.

Gah. There's a house for rent on my street that's been advertised at $1150/month. That's roughly twice my mortgage payments, and it looks smaller than mine.

@KevinvanderVelden sigh DAMMIT NINJA mumbles

@Frank Go for it

@fredley hint: I had to move the selection to the letter I wished to put in.

@Arperum I thought it was a reply to my message to be honest =p

2:42 PM

@badp click?

@fredley HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@fredley he is on a pc, WHY CAN'T HE JUST USE THE KEYBOARD

@KevinvanderVelden It was, but to another one, and then you stole my thunder by mentioning them first.

@KevinvanderVelden He can't?

@fredley I do believe that's the complaint =p

2:43 PM

@KevinvanderVelden CONSOLE PORT PEASANTS

Q: Better Information On Defense Damage Clash of Clans

Well the arrow keys do work

Lazers

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The way that Clash of Clans chooses to convey information about how much damage defense buildings output is bad. The current method of telling the user that a mortar does X dmg a second is pretty worthless since they fire much slower than once a second. Where can I find a break down / what is th...

clash-of-clans

3:01 PM

nonononono its happening'

cc @JasonBerkan niiiina episode

@Wipqozn D:

@Wipqozn It's OK to cry.

@Wipqozn good luck man

@Wipqozn THEY GET RIGHT TO IT IN BROTHERHOOD

I watched FMA before FMAB, and she has a much larger part in FMA

DOUBLE THE FEELS :(

3:06 PM

@fredley I haven't seen the original yet, just FMAB. I do want to though for the more extensive character moments with Nina and Hughes.

   protected void sendMessage(String message, String destination) {
      String[] destinations = { destination };
      sendMessage(message, destinations);
   }

NO! This is backwards! Legacy code, why do you have to make my life difficult?

sendMessage(String message, String[] destinations) should be calling that!

Just saw that on DailyWTF

@JasonBerkan Watching FMA without crying would be a difficult task indeed.

So much sad.

That was a productive teleconference... waiting for 10 minutes for one of the people who needed to be there to show up. And he never did.

so many tears

3:11 PM

I have a pretty picture. Maybe it will help?

Sunset last night.

The fact that the "happy ending" of that storyline is that Scar kills nina is a good example of wy the person who wrote FMA is clearly pure evil.

@JasonBerkan It just needs a helicopter flying through the frame to be a shot from a Michael Bay movie

@FAE The first FMA is definitely worth watching. It doesn't follow the manga like FMAB does, but it's still very good.

FMAB/Manga is better though.

►

BACK TO BROTHERHOOD

POH MY ZEUS BROTHERHOOD

WHY WOULD YOU START THE NEXT EPISODE OFF BY THROWING NINA IN OUR FACES?

I don't remember that scene being in the manga.

NiteCyper

3:16 PM

gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/74247/… It might be a cognitive bias and this user last visited "Jun 21 '12 at 20:47". Should we wait for a week for a response then close the question? In all likelihood, it's not going to be answered, and it doesn't seem that many people have the same problem.

@NiteCyper Sounds like a pretty good case for an Unclear close vote.

@Wipqozn I've seen FMA and it follows the manga up until it ran out of source material, then it went a little bonkers. I never got around to watching FMAB because it was pretty much the same thing I am too lazy to put in the effort to find where they veered off.

@Rapitor they don't veer off. They followed themanga pretty faithfully I believe.

And FMA veers off really early.

@Wipqozn FMA VEERS OFF ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH, IIRC

Yeah, it's about halfway through FMA. It's surprising how much they stretched it, since it is compressed into less than 10 FMAB episodes.

3:24 PM

FMAB GOES THROUGH THAT PART PRETTY QUICKLY BY COMPARISON

YEA, WHAT @JasonBerkan SAID

basically whatever episode # when they very visibly split up is what im looking for.

i wonder if the anime stackexchange would have that.... checks

@Rapitor 13/14 I THINK

AS IN, 13/14 IS THE END OF THE REPEATED MATERIAL

Though there are enough subtle differences that I would just watch them all.

@JasonBerkan THIS

ALSO, BECAUSE IT'S STILL GOOD EVEN IF YOU'VE SEEN IT

oh dear I wasn't ready to play all chapters in Asterbreed in a row

it's an overwhelming game, although it's quite forgiving too.

(well... up to the start of chapter 4 anyway)

3:35 PM

@JasonBerkan eh well found it on netflix so i might just do that since i finished Top Gear for the umpteenth time..

@FAE I know it's unorthodox, but I prefer FMA to be honest

@fredley Why so?

The story isn't as developed, but it's much more heart-wrenching as a whole

@fredley You, sir, are some sort of masochist.

@Rapitor Not sure about where you are, but Canadian Netflix is missing the last 20 episodes or so.

3:36 PM

It's a bit deeper and more serious, but there are less epic battles

@Rapitor You could find it online. that's what I'm doing.

@Wipqozn I'm a Western European, misery is beauty

@fredley Mustang v Lust was pretty epic.

@JasonBerkan US netflix only has up to series 20 (missing 21 and 22 + a lot of specials)

@Wipqozn See: Western European classical music

@JasonBerkan Yeah. Not no, just less :)

3:37 PM

wait you are talking about fma

idk

@Rapitor Full Metal Alchemist

Gah. Access is being stupid. Tell it to sort a report a specific way in the GUI, works fine.

Tell it to sort by that through code, no can do.

@Rapitor An awesome, if depressing, anime. You should watch it.

Heck, the two Armstrongs vs Sloth was unbelievably awesome.

@fredley yeah thats what we've been talking about for a while. Ive seen FMA but not Brotherhood.

3:38 PM

@Rapitor Yeah. Worth watching both

FMA has better music than FMAB if I'm honest too

Though Ed vs Greed was better in FMA.

I will definitely be skipping the "feels" episodes...

@Rapitor But FMA is all about feels

yeah but certain ones are really feelsy. you know what im talking about

@Rapitor Nina :(

3:42 PM

funeral :{

There's one song from FMA I can't find online and it's really bugging me.

It's silent, and has a couple of string entries.

Very sad

@Rapitor I don't know how it was in FMA, but in FMAB, that wrecked me

DADDY SAID HE HAD A LOT OF WORK TO DO AND IF THEY BURY HIM HE WONT BE ABLE TO DO IT!

@OrigamiRobot stahp

I should rewatch FMA, I only remember the Nina feels :(

3:47 PM

I liked it better yesterday, when I was crying at work because @badp put the room in timeout for 86400 seconds.

@JasonBerkan SUCH A BOTHER

@JasonBerkan Where was I at that time? Probably too engrossed in work.

I coulda been a ~~contenda~~ room owna

@Wipqozn recognize that one?

@MBraedley It's a fake

@fredley No key signature?

@Powerlord The logs don't look fake

3:49 PM

@Powerlord A minor

►

@fredley No. I'm not able to read musical scores. I have no actual musical training.

@Powerlord No time signature, I think you meant

@Wipqozn D:

Ok I'll hum it

@fredley I'm so sorry.

Key signature

In musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp or flat symbols placed together on the staff. Key signatures are generally written immediately after the clef at the beginning of a line of musical notation, although they can appear in other parts of a score, notably after a double barline. A key signature designates notes that are to be played higher or lower than the corresponding natural notes and applies through to the end of the piece or up to the next key signature. A sharp symbol on a line or space in the key signature raises the notes on that line or space one semitone above the natural...

3:50 PM

mmm-mmm mmmmmm..... mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmmmm.......mmm-mmm-mmmmmmmmmmmm mmm-mmm-mmm-mmmmm-mmmmm.

Time signature would be useful too, but you can assume it's 4/4 if not listed.

@Powerlord This is written in A minor, which has no key signature

Particularly since they add up to 4 beats.

@Powerlord I am a semi-professional musician. I know key signatures.

Key signature

In musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp or flat symbols placed together on the staff. Key signatures are generally written immediately after the clef at the beginning of a line of musical notation, although they can appear in other parts of a score, notably after a double barline. A key signature designates notes that are to be played higher or lower than the corresponding natural notes and applies through to the end of the piece or up to the next key signature. A sharp symbol on a line or space in the key signature raises the notes on that line or space one semitone above the natural...