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Origami Robot

3:00 PM

@KevinvanderVelden You can see plenty of square centimeters in that picture alone!

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot MTG. MTG everywhere.

Kevin van der Velden

1 min ago, by Kevin van der Velden

Cause if so, you should fix that.

Origami Robot

@AshleyNunn Ah, he is one of those cats.

FAE

@AshleyNunn Not... really. These are the few basic rules, this is basic reddiquette, if you haven't seen these pages already. Rules in each subreddit have their own variants off of these, so make sure you read the sidebars.

Private Pansy

@FAE Oh yeah, that reminds me. The mods of several large subreddits came together and wrote a 'How to reddit' guide a while back and linked it to their subreddits. It's here, I think: reddit.com/wiki/reddit_101

FAE

3:04 PM

@PrivatePansy Oh nice.

user15026

@PrivatePansy ooh yes this is what I wanted

user15026

:D

FAE

@AshleyNunn Also, seriously, as @PrivatePansy said, before you do anything else, install RES.

It especially makes image browsing much easier/more convenient.

Wipqozn

@FAE Yeah, RES is required for Reddit.

agent86

I like to hang out in the subs where people do the things we banned :D

Wipqozn

3:07 PM

My favourite sub is /r/subredditdrama and /r/askhistorians.

user15026

@agent86 That would make me throw sporks.

user15026

@FAE hunts for it

Wipqozn

drama both for my daily dose of drama and to remind me how terrible the defaults are, and askhistorians because history is fun.

@AshleyNunn google.ca/…

agent86

@AshleyNunn /r/shouldibuythisgame is actually a lot of fun. there's also /r/tipofmyjoystick for identifying games, although they tend to be a lot better at it than I ever was.

Private Pansy

@agent86 /r/tipofmytongue for general purpose 'Identify this X'

Wipqozn

3:09 PM

@agent86 I'm subbed to /r/shouldibuythisgame, but didn't realize tip was a thing that existed.

user15026

Excellent. :D

agent86

@Wipqozn well now that I know you like it, I like it... about the same. because I have no strong feelings about you or your opinion.

Wipqozn

@agent86 Yeah, same here.

agent86

@Wipqozn sage neutral nod

Private Pansy

Personally, my favourite is still /r/chemicalreactiongif

I mean, come on, the Internet is practically made for this. This, and pictures of cats

reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs

Unionhawk

3:12 PM

r/StartledCats best sub

FAE

I tend to post very little on reddit, but read a lot.

Private Pansy

The fact that it has one of the best designs of any subreddit I've seen doesn't hurt

agent86

badp

@agent86 SBNations?

FAE

Though I've recently posted a spate in /r/geocaching.

agent86

3:14 PM

I keep expecting him to take that shoe to the face

badp

@KevinvanderVelden that's not XKCD

user15026

:1746200 ooh.

Batophobia

I kinda want to see him try to tackle someone

Kevin van der Velden

@badp it's from what-if, so yeah. It's XKCD

Arperum

@badp what-if.xkcd.com counts as xkcd.

badp

3:16 PM

@Frank My cat always gets on my desk, but she stares at me and very rarely at the screen.

Frank

@badp My cat gets unceremoniously punted whenenver she gets on my desk.

Arperum

@Frank same here. desk = nogo.

Frank

This needs a couple more close votes

Probably for developer intent. Unreleased also works.

Unionhawk

I'd buy unreleased, but not developer intent.

Frank

@Unionhawk Well, that one's in a bit of a strange area.

Blizzard hasn't actually said how long they'll be, and it would require developer knowledge to answer.

But unreleased also works, because no season has ended as of yet, so we have no data to go off of.

Unionhawk

3:22 PM

@Frank Okay, great, but it's not asking why Blizzard decided to do what they did or whatever.

badp

@Frank I'd rather have their tail in my face than her back behind my chair

Frank

@Unionhawk Developer intent is also part of the off-topic reason.

user15026

....okay, this whole "you can't post for 6 minutes" thing reddit is doing makes me want to hit a thing.

Unionhawk

@Frank Meh... at the end of the day, unrelased implies the question is not in our scope, but will be. This question will be in our scope, at some point. Dev intent implies it may fit at gamedev.se, but not here ever.

user15026

I suspect its like omg new person rate limiting but it blows.

Private Pansy

3:24 PM

Try verifying your email? If nothing else that does give you a shiny badge

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn It is. Until you get a certain amount of Karma your post rate is limited. It's to stop spam.

@AshleyNunn: Why are you making a reddit account anyways? Is it for work?

user15026

@Wipqozn BUT I AM NOT A SPAMMER

Unionhawk

@AshleyNunn THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn but you could be!

user15026

@Unionhawk BUT I MEAN IT

Wipqozn

3:25 PM

@AshleyNunn uh-huh, sure. A likely story.

Private Pansy

Whatcha posting anyway

Unionhawk

24 secs ago, by Unionhawk

@AshleyNunn THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY

user15026

@Wipqozn It's for my own stuff, on the recommendation of a friend who is giving me things to poke at related to things I want to do eventually

user15026

Although the rate limiting might make me nuts

user15026

I get it is how the system works but aaaaaaaaaaaaa I don't liiiiike it because I know I am nice and not evil

user15026

3:27 PM

(said everyone ever)

FAE

I don't think I even knew they had that, I've posted so little, haha.

Kevin van der Velden

@AshleyNunn (except the robots because they have no souls)

badp

@AshleyNunn Stack Exchange does rate limiting all over the place :)

FAE

@Wipqozn How much do you need?

Frank

@AshleyNunn The evils ruin it for the nice people.

user15026

3:28 PM

@badp Yes but it doesn't TOUCH me like this does

Private Pansy

Whatchat posting anyway? I never had a need to post more than a couple of things per day on reddit

badp

@AshleyNunn because you're a mod here :P

user15026

@badp It has been SO long since any of the SE rate limiting touched me at all.

badp

(well except for chat I don't think we get lower timeouts for anything on chat)

Wipqozn

@FAE Not sure. I just know after you hit a certain point the rate limiting is removed. I think if your karma goes below 0 the rate limiting is made even stricter too.

badp

3:29 PM

Yeah, the post rate limiting on Reddit is quite stiff

I don't remember the last time I hit the commenting rate limit

user15026

#newpersonproblems

Private Pansy

@badp I've never hit it myself, though I have hit the spam filter before for including too many links in a self post

badp

@PrivatePansy I hit it once because I botched a link submission and deleted it

I had to wait about 15 minutes to resubmit it

user15026

I am just doing that obsessive OMG NEW THING MUST TOUCH ALL THE BITS AND SEE HOW THEY GO thing that I do, so being rate limited is making me tantrum

badp

@AshleyNunn :D it's what makes us computer literate

Wipqozn

3:33 PM

I started playing Dragon Age: Origins again. Going to do a second playthrough before DA3 comes out. I might even play DA2, which I never ended up playing.

badp

Most people are like OMFG WHAT IS THIS THREE COLUMNS OF THINGS? *HEADSPLODE*

Wipqozn

I'm planning on a 3 mage party. Mage Warden, Wynn, Morigan (sp), and Leliana.

user15026

@badp Whereas I go "what if I do this" and then "this could be better because this"

badp

@AshleyNunn There's a few ways to improve Reddit, and the very first thing to do is to unsubscribe from all default subreddits.

user15026

Like after the worksplosion, I am like "this, this, this and this need to be overhauled, we need a solution for this, and this needs to be considered"

Martin Sojka

3:34 PM

@Wipqozn No tank? Not that I think it isn't viable, what with magic being the clearly superior option ...

user15026

@badp The friend who got me to sign up in the first place told me that was step one

FAE

@Wipqozn I'm trying to do DA2. I got the CE for it on release, started playing, then got really mad at it and dropped it.

murgatroid99

@badp Not all the defaults. There are still some good ones

badp

Yeah. You probably have a few things you're excited about, so their subreddits should make sense

If those happen to be defaults... then maybe?

Unionhawk

Step 2 to improving reddit

23 mins ago, by Unionhawk

r/StartledCats best sub

user15026

3:36 PM

@badp They weren't, really

user15026

My problem is that I like ALL THE THINGS

murgatroid99

/r/askscience for example is very well moderated

Wipqozn

@MartinSojka Not as of now. Going to try going without it. I'll have plenty of crowd control and debuffs which should make up for no tank. A lot of hexes always hit, and bosses aren't immune.

user15026

so trying to find things is like "I WANT EVERYTHING" even though I don't

badp

@AshleyNunn Try and keep below 50

or things start to get weird

user15026

3:36 PM

Kinda like how I started with tumblr. I followed EVERYTHING and then realized after a couple days that I really hated everything

murgatroid99

and /r/blog is worth keeping for system announcements

Wipqozn

@MartinSojka: For example, misdirection. All critical hits become regular hits, and all hits become misses.

FAE

@Wipqozn fighting the high dragon might be problematic

Unionhawk

I should clean up my subs

badp

This is what I follow; the only "soft" one is chemicalreactiongifs and most of those are kind of never active

Martin Sojka

3:37 PM

I found /r/TwoXChromosomes to be pretty good for getting a feel about what's important to my female cousins and the like.

murgatroid99

@MartinSojka That sub apparently got pretty bad when it went default

I don't know if it's still like that

badp

@MartinSojka I dunno it's not the topic I'd like to read about on reddit

FAE

There's a lot of good game-specific subreddits, but I usually don't sub to them, just search/peruse them when I have the need

Kevin van der Velden

@murgatroid99 is that not what happens every single time a sub goes default?

Wipqozn

@FAE Was the high dragon the one you fight during the URN quest?

Martin Sojka

3:39 PM

Not that I actually use Reddit much, I mostly check /r/UkrainianConflict really and give the others only a glance.

murgatroid99

@KevinvanderVelden almost every time

Unionhawk

@badp I can't tolerate pcmasterrace for any longer than a fer minutes. It gets pretty painful.

user15026

I want reddit to be like the opposite of tumblr - tumblr is like for SJ stuff and feminism stuff, reddit for me is like "THINGS THAT ARE NOT THAT"

murgatroid99

@KevinvanderVelden it was extra bad for TwoX though

badp

@Unionhawk If I had to pick one favourite subreddit, it'd be pcmasterrace

Private Pansy

3:39 PM

@FAE Yeah, there's almost never enough activity on a single game to warrant a subreddit

I just read /r/games

murgatroid99

They fed SubredditDrama for a month

FAE

@Wipqozn yeah, IIRC

@Wipqozn technically optional

badp

@PrivatePansy depends; things are getting lively on /r/bindingofisaac with all of the Rebirth hype.

The release date and trailer may be announced anytime this or next week.

Private Pansy

@AshleyNunn Point of interest: /r/games is the non-image cousin of /r/gaming with actual news and discussion that you'd actually want to subscribe to.

FAE

@AshleyNunn Well, default reddit subs hate both of those topics, so :P

Frank

3:40 PM

@badp There's a place right by my computer that I'm convinced Bela goes to just to get my attention.

Martin Sojka

("others" being stuff like Oblivion, Morrowind, TESLore, Europe, PlanetSide, GameDev and WorldBuilding)

badp

@Frank Getting your attention is a very important for a cat.

user15026

@PrivatePansy This is good to know!

user15026

@FAE Perfeeeeeeect

user15026

(aka I am like burned out so hard on tumblr)

Frank

3:42 PM

@badp Mine squawks all the time. She doesn't need to go where she knows she's not allowed to do it.

Private Pansy

/r/mylittlepony is mostly art, which is fine if you want to see pictures of ponies on your frontpage. There's not much of anything else.

badp

@AshleyNunn Avoid shit reddit says

Private Pansy

Same with /r/doctorwho, though that one has more discussion now with the new season airing, and most other TV series subreddit.

user15026

@PrivatePansy not super my thing.

user15026

@badp I hate stuff like that

FAE

3:43 PM

@PrivatePansy the ones for Mass Effect and The Last of Us are pretty good, if you like/play those

badp

Indeed I didn't mention the reddit name :P

FAE

@AshleyNunn Not... really. I mean "don't like" as in "actively hostile towards" sometimes, and you're going to definitely want to avoid threads about certain topics.

Private Pansy

@FAE I know I subscribed to /r/simcity for about two weeks after the launch just to see them bash the game into the ground

It was amazing

user15026

@FAE I more mean "perfect" in the "it wont touch EVERYTHING and make me frustrated for liking things"

user15026

@FAE Yeah, that much I figured.

user15026

3:45 PM

I am kinda tired of tumblr-style SJ anyhow because it feels like tilting at windmills

Private Pansy

I'm surprised those two subs have activity, given they're mostly single player game with a definite end

Martin Sojka

@PrivatePansy /r/morrowind still has some activity ...

user15026

(aka under the frosting, I am a grumpy old lady)

FAE

@AshleyNunn Ah, well, that'll still happen too, because that's just people. The broader part of reddit is still a generally judgemental place.

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user15026

3:46 PM

@FAE I know this.

FAE

@PrivatePansy They both have Multiplayer aspects that were/are really active.

Private Pansy

@AshleyNunn You might also be interested in your locale subreddit - /r/canada

user15026

@PrivatePansy Shiny :)

FAE

@PrivatePansy There's local-er for her, sec.

Wipqozn

@FAE I think when I did that box on 360 I glitched him to death. I discovered that if I ra around in a cirlce at a certain point he'd just fly around and not attack.

And it is optional.

FAE

3:51 PM

@PrivatePansy IIRC, demographics-wise, reddit has more Canadians than Americans

Though maybe that's changed now. I can't remember where I saw that, it was a while ago.

Frank

@StrixVaria @OrigamiRobot Apparently, there's a super simple way to power level yourself to level 70. In less than two hours.

badp

I don't really like local subreddits. DON'T MIX MY INTERNETS WITH MY REALWORLDS!!

Martin Sojka

@FAE About nine times as many US people as Canadians, but it's more popular among Canadians (12th place) than among US Americans (18th place) according to Alexa

FAE

@MartinSojka Aaah, that's why, thanks

Martin Sojka

Alexa is great for quite a lot of insights. Like ... look at the gender distribution compared to the average for 4chan, for example.

Unionhawk

3:58 PM

@MartinSojka Wait... o.0

Rapitor

@MartinSojka i don't quite believe that... at all

Unionhawk

That can't be right... can it?

Rapitor

then again. thats all of 4chan.. not just the famous/infamous /b/ and /v/

Martin Sojka

Exactly. That's also the creative boards, and /lgbt/ and whatnot.

Private Pansy

Quite sure 4chan users found some way of skewing the data

badp

3:59 PM

Solve for Fizz

Unionhawk

@PrivatePansy I'm going to assume it's that.

If only for the sake of my headcanon

Private Pansy

Can't be that hard to fake analytics data

Unionhawk

That's how it was done

badp

@Unionhawk You're welcome

Unionhawk

@badp I found the imgur that was linked on. So really, you're welcome.

Martin Sojka

4:01 PM

@PrivatePansy If they did, the usual suspects (/b/ and /pol/) aren't involved. I would have noticed if they ran such an operation. Besides ... You'd think Alexa would have a vested interest in not allowing that to happen.

badp

@Unionhawk I STILL CLAIM FIRST LINK

Unionhawk

@badp I STILL DON'T CARE

badp

@Unionhawk I STILL AM HAPPY THAT YOU SO VIGOROUSLY EXERCISE YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS

Tim Stone

@MalwareMinigun @ohmz @codinghorror So it's settled, we'll now go with ZzubZzif

Tweeted by tmslft on September 1, 2014 at 3:36 PM in reply to MalwareMinigun

Unionhawk

@badp GOOD

Private Pansy

4:03 PM

Oh, and regarding reddit: I did something stupid to the voting system a while back

It still works

user15026

@badp Looking at my locals they are no good to me

Unionhawk

Ugh. Physics of waves is teh boring so far (I know how waves work, I'm in ECE ffs)

badp

A pupil of my mother just came back from one year of high school in the US

Apparently she attended a class called "weight train"

Unionhawk

What the hell does that even mean?

badp

That's the question

Unionhawk

4:07 PM

I got nothing. Google doesn't know either.

user15026

No idea.

Unionhawk

The closest I can come up with is "weight training" - some sort of lifting physical education class that I know exists in some high schools.

badp

Sorry, I forgot the 't'.

Still, wat.

Unionhawk

which given that edit is maybe possibly the case

badp

I guess it doesn't beat Creativity hour in the UK, then

Tim Stone

4:09 PM

You have to be strong to carry the burdens of the world. 'MURICA.

Unionhawk

@badp I can't see the word "creative" without thinking of this

user15026

@badp I know that sort of stuff was usually part of my gym classes

badp

@AshleyNunn o__o still it isn't the class

This is what happens when your show gets suspended for three weeks:

►

Batophobia

@Unionhawk wtf did I just watch?

Wipqozn

4:29 PM

@Unionhawk oh that video.

I remember tha thing

Frank

SciFi.SE, you disappoint me.

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Q: How does David Lightman in WarGames manage to hack a computer by dialling a number?

His setup seems to be a telephone connected to a computer. When he dials another computer on the phone, he manages to gain access to it remotely. Is this a realistic situation or just something done for effect? This video shows the technique but not the actual access being gained, as it is w...

user15026

@Frank Whyso?

Frank

@AshleyNunn The answer is, "Because it's a movie"

If they actually tried to make a movie about realistic hacking, it would be the most boring thing ever.

user15026

@Frank Or, you know, people can be curious about the particulars and practicalities of things?

Frank

Because no one except geeks would understand it.

murgatroid99

4:36 PM

@Frank Not really. The accepted answer actually explains it pretty accurately

Frank

@AshleyNunn You're nitpicking a movie.

user15026

@Frank And lo, the problem - you are expecting people to understand this is not how hacking works usually?

user15026

@Frank I'm not.

user15026

The question is.

Frank

@AshleyNunn I thought that was implied.

user15026

4:37 PM

I mean hell peopel could say "Because they are games" about a lot of our stuff and be like "you are nitpicking a game"

Frank

@murgatroid99 Which is actually a neat info dump on the history of how the internet used to work.

murgatroid99

@Frank so what is the problem? The question asked for an explanation of a plot point, and the answer gave it

user15026

@murgatroid99 This.

user15026

and yes, SFF has different acceptable things than us. I am tired of it being a thing we need to remark on.

Batophobia

@Frank SciFi & Fantasy SE. I'm not sure who else you expect to be there.

Frank

4:39 PM

@Batophobia And that's not what movies cater to.

MBraedley

@Frank Oh, the poor youngen. Doesn't even know there was a time before 56k modems (and maybe not even that).

Frank

@MBraedley Youngen? :P I'm probably older than you.

Batophobia

@Frank That's like saying Star Trek technology should not be questioned

MBraedley

@Frank I'm talking about the guy who posted the question.

Frank

@Batophobia Why would it be? Why should it be?

It's sci-fi. It works.

Lazers

4:41 PM

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Q: Minecraft Forge 1.7.2-1.7.10 doesn't load up after clicking launch

This may seem like a duplicate and it might be, to I apologize in advanced if is. :O Anyways, I've recently tried to load up minecraft with forge after wiping out my hard drive (all the data was backed up) and for some odd and unknown reason, it doesn't even pop up after clicking "Play". To add ...

technical-issues

Unionhawk

I vaguely remember dial up Internet and whatnot

Batophobia

I think you are missing the science part of sci-fi

murgatroid99

@Frank what point are you trying to make here? Do you think that the question is bad? That the answer is bad? What?

Batophobia

as in "Hey that looks cool, what's the science part of it and is it really possible?"

Frank

@Batophobia And not all science, especially for movies, has any bearing on reality whatsoever.

@murgatroid99 It's a movie. It nitpicks what may or may not actually be reality. I see no point in doing so.

The fact it actually has some basis in reality is sheer luck.

murgatroid99

4:43 PM

@Frank You're being ridiculous. It's a movie set in the 80s using real computer equipment in the real world. it's not that far fetched

user15026

@Frank That's great, but other people do and thus the site exists. Don't like it, don't touch it.

Batophobia

@Frank Even if a movie is outside real-world, it still has a fictional reality inside itself

It'd be like asking how the creatures in Alien could have corrosive insides

Frank

@murgatroid99 Using real computer equipment, with a wholly fabricated scenario. At what point do you leave your sense of belief at the door?

@Batophobia And movies especially have holes a mile wide everywhere.

When that's the whole body of work to draw on, the answer is, "Meh, who cares?"

user15026

@Frank Why is it so bad that people are curious about them?

murgatroid99

@Frank OK, this is dumb. Why do you even care? Someone wanted an explanation, and they got it. The answer could have been "No, that's not possible", but it wasn't. So what?

user15026

4:46 PM

@Frank For you. Not for others. So let them do their thing.

Frank

@murgatroid99 I posted a question, I get jumped on for showing that I don't like it. That's what I care about.

Batophobia

@Frank here's a list of questions you won't like

user15026

@Frank We aren't jumping on you, we are disagreeing with your stance. It happens.

murgatroid99

@Frank But still. Is your problem that the answer was "yes, it is possible"? If they had asked a different question, and the answer was "no, that's not real", would you have the same reaction?

Unionhawk

You're allowed to not like it. SFF is allowed to not care.

3

Frank

4:48 PM

@Unionhawk And that's all I was expecting.

But this is turning into, "Oh, noes, he doesn't like it! He must be burned for not liking it!"

user15026

@Frank That's not what is happening at all!

murgatroid99

@Frank That is absolutely not what any of us are doing

Batophobia

@AshleyNunn It's not? puts out torch

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk Disliking SFF is required

user15026

We are disagreeing with it, and expressing that, and trying to determine why you think the way you do as a matter of curiosity

murgatroid99

4:49 PM

@Frank You looked for agreement, and you didn't get it

Wipqozn

Guys, we shouldn't turn on each other, that's what SFF wants us to do.

4

DON'T LET SFF WIN! STAY FRIENDS! LOVE EACH OTHER! HUG!

3

Frank

@murgatroid99 I didn't say anywhere I was looking for agreement. All I was doing was, "Hey, I don't like this." That's all.

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn It's also what @Fluttershy would want.

Frank

3 mins ago, by murgatroid99

@Frank OK, this is dumb. Why do you even care? Someone wanted an explanation, and they got it. The answer could have been "No, that's not possible", but it wasn't. So what?

Porquoi?

user15026

@Frank And all we were doing was "why do you not like this?" and "we do not agree"

Wipqozn

4:50 PM

@OrigamiRobot Exactly, and @fluttershy thought what happened to Nina was funny!

user15026

@Frank That's hardly "burning you" for not liking a thing.

murgatroid99

8 mins ago, by Frank

@murgatroid99 It's a movie. It nitpicks what may or may not actually be reality. I see no point in doing so.

You dismissed the question strongly

user15026

@Wipqozn I don't want to hug!

Batophobia

@Wipqozn Only accepting hugs from turtles you imposter!

Origami Robot

I am also disappointed in @Frank. Disappointed in him not doing a good enough job of hating on SFF. You gotta post the really bad questions so no one can disagree about how terrible they are.

Frank

4:52 PM

@AshleyNunn Okay, that might be an overreaction.

Origami Robot

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Q: Is Santa Claus a Time Lord?

Consider the following about Santa Claus: He can carry presents for every little boy and girl around the world in one bag that sits on a sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer, so his bag has to be bigger on the inside. He's able to make it around the entire world, including time to go down every...

doctor-who timelord santa-claus

user15026

Can we please for the love of kittens STOP ragging on SFF?

6

user15026

Please?

murgatroid99

@OrigamiRobot It is closed as non-constructive. That's not really a good example

SaintWacko

Nothing wrong with SFF

Origami Robot

4:53 PM

@murgatroid99 It took them a year to close it.

FEichinger

@Wipqozn ... Yeah, no.

Frank

@AshleyNunn Why? It's basically a chat requirement to do so.

SaintWacko

Also, kittens!

FEichinger

I'd rather SFF won, if that's the other option.

Frank

Yeah, they have different standards. We're not going on a downvote rampage or anything.

user15026

4:53 PM

@Frank That doesn't make it okay, just because we have a shit culture around it

murgatroid99

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Q: The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List

This question attempts to collect the few pearls among the dozens of bad C++ books that are published every year. Unlike many other programming languages, which are often picked up on the go from tutorials found on the Internet, few are able to quickly pick up C++ without studying a well-written...

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Therefore SO is bad

That's the argument you're making

Batophobia

@AshleyNunn Of course. SFF isn't nearly as bad as Ask Ubuntu

SaintWacko

@murgatroid99 Well, to be fair... :P

user15026

Like that's like saying "well whatever, people think the Bridge is bad, so lets keep being shitnuggets"

Origami Robot

Yes, everything is bad.

Kevin van der Velden

4:54 PM

@SaintWacko preps the pitchforks and and torches to storm SO

Origami Robot

@AshleyNunn The Bridge is the worst.

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user15026

Cultures can change, and I think this is something that needs to not be a thing.

Origami Robot

I hate those jerks!

SaintWacko

@KevinvanderVelden RRaaaaaaaaagh!!!!

Frank

@AshleyNunn No, it's saying, "Hey, these don't align with our standards. Here's a particularly egregious example of those that don't align." It's not going, "All of SFF.SE is bad, because it's bad."

FEichinger

4:55 PM

Why do you care about another site's standards?

Frank

Most of it for me is essentially going, "I'm so glad we don't allow these things on Arqade!"

user15026

@Frank Who cares if it aligns with OUR standards? ITS NOT OUR SITE.

user15026

If you want them to change WORK WITH THEM

user15026

don't just whine here.

Batophobia

Goog. Good. Let the anger flow through you.

Frank

4:56 PM

@AshleyNunn The fact that you characterize it as whining is telling.

user15026

@Frank It just looks shitty and rude and I am sure if peopel did those things about us, most of y'all would be up in arms.

user15026

@Frank because no one seems to want to do ANYTHING but complain here

Frank

@AshleyNunn I have no doubt others do. I don't care.

Batophobia

@AshleyNunn complaining about complaints, I like it

Frank

We have different standards, and that's a good thing.

There's no harm in pointing out differences every now and then.

SaintWacko

4:57 PM

This is going nowhere good

Origami Robot

Nov 26 '12 at 18:54, by OrigamiRobot

To complain about things. Isn't that why we're all here?

user15026

@Frank You may think so but there are a lot of people who are happy with SFF as it is, and we should just let them do their thing.

user15026

It hurts no one.

user15026

@OrigamiRobot Not helping.

FEichinger

@Frank There is, however, harm in pointing at those difference for laughs.

Frank

4:57 PM

@AshleyNunn And it's not like I'm jumping over to their chat or site and going, "This is bad and you should feel bad for letting it happen", am I?

Unionhawk

@frank stahp

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user15026

@Frank When it just comes across as us attacking one site, because this is pretty much the only one we do it for consistently in a mocking humor we are better than them way then yes, I think there is a problem

Rapitor

@Frank's lifeforce grows off of these sort of discussions.

user15026

@Frank You do realize that this chat is not a closed environment, no?

Frank

@AshleyNunn I fail to see the issue with it; I am well aware this is a public area.

Batophobia

4:58 PM

@AshleyNunn So you suggest we attack ALL of Stack Exchange? Just crazy enough to work

Frank

What, we're not allowed to criticize other sites now?

Origami Robot