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Rapitor

1:04 PM

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Kevin van der Velden

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fredley

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Lazers

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Q: The purpose of testing in Portal?

There are billions of dollars thrown at the wall to see what sticks in the test chambers of the Portal Franchise. Lots of testers, thousands of cubes, a sadistic robot, all of it to be used in the testing chambers. I understand that some testing is required to test devices(Long Fall Boots, Gels,...

Rapitor

@Lazers science

SaintWacko

_o_

Sigh...

Arperum

1:10 PM

@SaintWacko Don't be a downer!

SaintWacko

That's better

Arperum

Just because there is no "single best answer" to this question, should not be a reason to downvote this question. Many new players wonder how important the race/class combination can be, and this question is relevant to them. Please only downvote bad questions. — Lee White 24 mins ago

ugh.

Lazers

0

Q: How to change video to fullscreen and windowed in console

How to change video to fullscreen and windowed in console ? This is because Volvo doesn't fix the bug of showing scoreboard when pressing Tab. Thanks

counter-strike-go

Frank

@LeeWhite A single line question, that's exactly the same as the title, is a bad question. I don't play Guild Wars 2, but this seems to be running the line very close to both Primarily Opinion Based, and Too Broad. The question needs more context, and what the goal is trying to be accomplished. — Frank 19 secs ago

Wow. I totally messed up the grammar on that last sentence.

Pvt. Grichmann

And on that subject, I'm not even sure if racial skills can be used in WvW at all. Last I checked (which was a few months ago, admittedly), they couldn't.

Unionhawk

1:25 PM

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Origami Robot

@Unionhawk very art

FAE

@Pvt.Grichmann You've always been able to use racials in WvW, just not sPvP.

Pvt. Grichmann

@FAE Huh, really? Guess I never cared about any PvP to put research into it.

FAE

@Frank As someone who does/has played GW2, I disagree that this is too broad. There's only 5 races that an Ele can be, there's only 6 racial skills for each race, and this question would fall under Good Subjective.

StrixVaria

@Frank Although I don't think this question in particular is a good question, the argument that it doesn't have enough words in the question to be a good question doesn't work. There is such a thing as a one-liner question that is valid for our site. Sometimes extra details in the body are superfluous, and to just blanket claim that they're always required is doing users a disservice. They may be required in this question, but then say that rather than making a bigger claim.

Frank

1:36 PM

@FAE That's why I said it seems to be running the line. I haven't voted to close, as I'm not familiar enough with GW2 to say if it is or not.

@StrixVaria My opinion is that if the body equals the title, it's a bad question. Every time.

StrixVaria

@Frank Then your opinion is demonstrably wrong.

Frank

@StrixVaria So expecting users to demonstrate a modicum of effort is wrong? Alright.

StrixVaria

Straw man ho!

Frank

@StrixVaria You're the one accusing me of being wrong without actually giving any proof.

StrixVaria

@Frank And that makes a straw man argument relevant?

Frank

1:39 PM

Every question can be improved with a little bit of context. Doesn't have to be much, but something. Repeating the title demonstrates little to no effort, and that's what I vote on.

StrixVaria

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Q: What is the access code for the Illuminati safe?

What is the access code for the Illuminati safe in the Canyon of Titan (marked with an owl, contains the Eye of Providence)?

wasteland-2

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria Well, now there's also the ad hominem.

Frank

@StrixVaria Bad question.

StrixVaria

@Frank Disagree.

@Frank "Can be improved" and "is a bad question" are not the same.

Frank

4 mins ago, by Frank

@StrixVaria My opinion is that if the body equals the title, it's a bad question. Every time.

Full stop. No more judgement required.

StrixVaria

1:41 PM

@Frank The question I just linked has exactly as much information as is needed to generate a unique answer. What extra details would make it a good question for you?

Frank

@StrixVaria How about what has been attempted?

StrixVaria

It uniquely identifies a place in a game and asks a question about it.

Origami Robot

If you expect @StrixVaria to give proof of you being wrong, you have to specify what basis you're using to form your unyielding, blanket opinion.

Frank

He has a later question that does exactly that.

FAE

@Frank I think these kinds of statements aren't very healthy for the site or fair to the asker.

StrixVaria

1:42 PM

@Frank "I tried 1111, 1112, 1113, 1114, 1115, 1116, and 1117. None of those codes worked."

When it comes to guessing a password, including what passwords you tried that didn't work is a waste of everyone's time.

Frank

@StrixVaria "I tried 111, because X led me to believe it might work"

StrixVaria

@Frank How does that improve the question at all? It's superfluous noninformation.

Frank

@StrixVaria It shows at least some thought went into attempting to solve it themselves.

StrixVaria

All that does is make me have to wade through more bullshit when reading the question.

@Frank So what?

The question has the same merits with and without that.

Frank

@StrixVaria So, that shows effort.

StrixVaria

1:44 PM

27 secs ago, by StrixVaria

@Frank So what?

FAE

Either way, said user in the question under discussion has edited their question after some clarification was given in the comments as to why they should

Frank

@StrixVaria Effort = good. That's the whole point of the voting system.

Martin Sojka

@StrixVaria That's silly. Obviously it can only be one of the prime numbers of the Zenith series. Don't those people know anything? (Also, let's play the "who can guess the reference" game ...)

StrixVaria

@Frank Effort is good, sure, but it's not mandatory to prove to everyone that you've given effort if you have a uniquely identifiable objective problem.

Kevin van der Velden

@MartinSojka sorry, wasn't even born then

I was negative 9 years old

Sterno

1:45 PM

It's amusing to me, because sometimes that kind of context ("Here's what I tried" or "Here's what I think the answer might be but am not sure") annoys people because they consider it extraneous or worse, adding speculation

StrixVaria

@Sterno Yes. If you want to add it to your question, whatever, I'm not going to cut it out of your question. But you should by no means be required to add that information.

Sterno

And yes, when I say "People", I'm including @Frank.

@StrixVaria I concur.

Origami Robot

People assuming the answer in the question can often be a bad thing.

Unionhawk

Yeah, like with minecraft-redstone questions, I get questions that ask "How do I do this very specific and wrong implementation" and I'm just like "No, just do this it's easier".

Frank

@StrixVaria It's a fuzzy line. I don't expect a ton of research, and for new games, I expect almost nothing. We want those questions for new games.

Sterno

1:47 PM

@Frank It's flat statements like this that remind me when I disagree with you on almost every site policy. :)

StrixVaria

@Frank If I'm playing a game, and I don't know how to do a thing, I ask a question on Arqade. Period. I don't research beforehand. I don't waste a lot of my own time experimenting in game.

Frank

@Sterno You're free to disagree with me all you like; I don't mind at all. :)

StrixVaria

The best I do is a search to try to avoid asking a duplicate.

Frank

@StrixVaria And if the code is right next to where you're looking, that's utterly downvote worthy.

Unionhawk

@Frank That's the most ridiculous "what if this! maybe he overlooked absolutely everything" I've ever heard.

StrixVaria

1:48 PM

@Frank Sure it is, but not close worthy and you don't even know where the code is in the question I linked before. Who knows how well-hidden it is?

@Frank I can't tell you how to use your downvotes, but please stop spreading you opinion as fact in comments of questions.

Sterno

@Frank I know. Every time we do agree on something, I feel like it probably signifies the apocalypse or something.

Frank

@StrixVaria I'm not saying anything about close votes here.

StrixVaria

@Frank I'm more concerned with your comment than with any vote you made. Vote however you want. No one can stop you.

Frank

@StrixVaria A question that does nothing but repeat the title is a bad question. It demonstrates an utter lack of effort and thought on the asker's part.

And that demonstration is what I base my votes on.

MBraedley

Oh, Mrs. Office Manager, you couldn't send that last email out last week? You know, so that everyone in the office knows what's going on before the new hire started?

FAE

1:50 PM

@Frank ...but you just said "it's a bad question every time, full stop"

Powerlord

I hate to say this, but saying "every question should be researched" is like saying "Go check GameFAQs first"

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Sterno

@Frank An assertion that is repeated over and over without backing justification is a bad assertion. It demonstrates an utter lack of effort and thought on the asserter's part to justify their claim.

StrixVaria

@Frank You just repeated the same thing you said at the beginning, after I said a bunch of stuff disagreeing with that. So you're not going to change your opinion, which is whatever. I can't force you to think a certain way, and it would be stupid for me to try. But what you just said is an opinion, and it is disingenuous to tell users your opinion framed as if it's site policy. Please don't do that.

Frank

@Sterno Okay, that's pretty good.

Sterno

Man, this must be good drama. Both @OrigamiRobot and @Powerlord got involved.

Next thing you know they'll be creating accounts.

Frank

1:52 PM

I haven't seen any questions where only repeating the title shows a level of effort.

Sterno

@Frank Does proving that they tried things actually improve the question, or does it just give you a reason to not downvote them?

Powerlord

@Sterno I'm only commenting on the side.

Frank

@Sterno It shows that an attempt was made to solve their problem.

Sterno

Take, for example, this question:

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Q: What does the full research tree look like?

I find myself constantly wishing I had some idea what the research tree looked like. For example, if I want to unlock plasma weapons, do I have to go down the laser weapon path first to unlock it, or am I going in completely in the wrong direction?If I want to get a satellite nexus, what do I nee...

xcom-enemy-unknown

I could have NO text in the body and it would be pretty much the same question

I don't see how adding text improves it, really.

Frank

@Sterno It shows context and reasoning as to why you want that information.

Unionhawk

1:55 PM

Well, let's go back to the door code example. What additional effort would you want? Saying "I have guessed these things" is not important information; there is only one code, and we don't need the asker's guesses to answer. What additional context is needed? "I need the door code to unlock the door so I can open it"?

StrixVaria

@Frank Users shouldn't have to prove to us that they really want information. The very fact that they're asking a question is proof enough.

Origami Robot

If you're voting on perceived effort, you're voting on the user and not the question. Someone should go grab that handy guide some smart person made that one time.

Sterno

@Frank And I can see why that might influence your vote since those things are important to you, but I don't feel they actually improve the question for the typical user who came here for the exact same information.

@OrigamiRobot Too bad I can't search for his name anymore.

Frank

@Sterno And I understand that very few people agree with my opinion. I'm totally OK with that.

Origami Robot

@Sterno Yea, he's a real jerk.

FAE

1:56 PM

@Frank and what @Strix is saying is that your opinion is not site policy, so the comments leading users to believe such aren't fair to them, which isn't okay.

Sterno

I mean, do I really need to add context about why I want to see the full research tree? Don't we all know why people want to see the research tree?

And if I want to see it because I want to get to plasma weapons fast, and another guy wants to see it because he wants to get his airforce up to speed quickly, that context is completely irrelevant to the question

Frank

@Sterno ...okay, yeah, I can see wanting to know the whole research tree.

@FAE If it makes users put more effort into their questions, then everybody wins.

Sterno

I guess one could argue the question should be narrow so that people could post just enough of the tree for someone's specific case, but meh.

@Frank If it makes people get annoyed and leave because of the perceived site-wide attitude (when in reality it is not site-wide), not everyone wins

FAE

@Frank I feel like you're misunderstanding the fact that a moderator just asked you politely to discontinue an action that he feels is not in the best interest of the site's users.

Frank

@FAE A moderator has a stance that I disagree with, and what I'm doing is debating the merits of said stance.

StrixVaria

2:00 PM

My stance is for you to please stop posting your opinion framed as site policy.

2

If you want to have an argument on the merits of whether or not people should be required to prove they've exerted a certain amount of effort before asking a question, please do that on meta.

Until that argument takes place and a conclusion is reached, please stop telling users (and particularly new users) that such a limitation is in place.

Frank

@StrixVaria To be fair, I don't think we have a policy on required levels of effort.

FAE

@Frank But he already stated that he has no issue with the fact that it's your opinion and your downvote and that you have every right to do with them as you please. That's not up for discussion. You both agree on that. His issue is with, as he said, the fact that you're framing your downvote usage in comments as universal site policy to new users.

Unionhawk

@Frank I think that may be his point...........

I dunno, I'm no expert

Powerlord

So, anyway... bacon!

Origami Robot

I have 125 kittens now

Powerlord

2:14 PM

@OrigamiRobot Are you putting them to work in your labor camp?

Also, the 5th tower in Pandora's Tower is annoyingly hard.

I suppose I should go get the new weapon and immediately head back out to upgrade it. Annoying, seeing as how I'd just upgraded my sword and got new armor just before entering the tower and enemies still do ridiculous amounts of damage.

What I really should do is modify these JSP pages seeing as how I'm at work.

Lazers

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Q: Are astronomical events the only way to obtain starcharts?

Every now and then an A rare astronomical event occured in the sky. When I click observe I get a starchart. One of the things I can use them for is trade ships. Is that(astronomical event) the only way to obtain starcharts?

kittens-game

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah! I acted like an adult and took care of stuff for moving

... at least, if the website doesn't crash, please don't crash crappy website.

God damnit... it crashed

5pike

@KevinvanderVelden What did you expect? You jinxed yourself.

Kevin van der Velden

@5pike no! It was crashing before I typed that, it just took that long to notify me that it had, indeed, crashed.

Chippies

Blah, by the time I caught up with the whole drama, it's over :(

Kevin van der Velden

2:22 PM

Oh well, going back and then pressing submit again worked

FAE

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Kevin van der Velden

That hurts my head

Lazers

0

Q: Best Place to Put Town Hall When Farming

I am currently a farming town hall 7, and I am debating where to put my Town Hall. I have seen people put their Town Hall in the corner of their village with bombs surrounding it. However, I have also seen people put it near to their walls. I am trying to keep a steady trophy level while also ga...

clash-of-clans

GnomeSlice

rockpapershotgun.com/2014/09/29/…

Batophobia

@FAE I will do thy bidding, master

StrixVaria

2:37 PM

@Batophobia It's a disaster; Skywalker we're after.

Powerlord

@StrixVaria I haven't heard that song in so long

StrixVaria

@Powerlord You're welcome.

MBraedley

Arg, work filter, you're preventing me from doing work.

Kevin van der Velden

Good! It's a work filter, it filters the work out

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Right?

Batophobia

Anyone here played sao-hollow-fragment

GnomeSlice

2:44 PM

@Batophobia @Frank I'm pretty sure

You'll have to ping him yourself though

badp

@FAE sweet sweet glorious framerate

Batophobia

@Frank Is sao-hollow-fragment any good?

Arperum

@FAE I see an N-dimensional cube in that. I like that figure.

MBraedley

@KevinvanderVelden So that's why I can chat and watch YouTube at work. That makes sense.

FAE

@Arperum It's neat!

Powerlord

2:47 PM

@Arperum I see.... you like Castlevania don't you?

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum I don't think it's a hypercube

Unionhawk

> My dad asked his friend who works for AT&T about Google Fiber, and he said, "There is little to no difference between 24mbps and 1gbps."

wolframalpha.com/input/?i=difference+between+24+mbps+and+1+gbps

GnomeSlice

wikiwand.com/?ref=IDPCOXHM

Frank

@Batophobia Do you like MMO-esque single player games?

GnomeSlice

For those who aren't using it yet, wikiwand is trying to get 1M users before they work on their mobile apps.

Batophobia

2:48 PM

@Frank Yes

Frank

@Batophobia Then you'll probably like it.

5pike

@Unionhawk ಠ_ಠ

Batophobia

@Frank Is it basically the story of SAO or is it something different?

Frank

Fair warning, it's got some fanservice and dating sim elements going on as well, so that might not be as enjoyable.

@Batophobia It's an alternate ending to SAO.

It starts at floor 76.

Batophobia

oooooooo

Arperum

2:50 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Your face is a hypercube.

Batophobia

Dangit now I might have to get a Vita

Frank

@Batophobia Hint: wait a couple weeks, get a PS TV.

Should be able to play SAO without any problems.

Batophobia

Thanks for the tip :D

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum I exist in more than 3 spatial dimensions? :O AWESOME!

Unionhawk

@Arperum HEADCANON UPDATED

SaintWacko

2:52 PM

@Unionhawk Ahahahaha

@Unionhawk I broke @badp's headcanon a while back

Kevin van der Velden

Headcanon breaking is fun

Unionhawk

@badp KEVIN'S FACE IS A CRIME

Batophobia

@Frank Does it use the vita touch-pad thing on the back?

Frank

@Batophobia Only for zooming.

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk points at edit history

Frank

2:54 PM

So actually playing on a Vita can get frustrating if you rest it on your lap.

StrixVaria

@Unionhawk The difference is approximately 1gbps.

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria the difference is approximately all of it

That sounds even worse

Unionhawk

I'm pretty sure they train people to believe that.

badp

@Unionhawk Actually for most internet browsing this is probably true

Kevin van der Velden

@badp and it's mostly true asuming your up:down ratio isn't terribad

badp

2:56 PM

For most small transfers, the transfer time is well eclipsed by the latency costs

Frank

@Unionhawk To be fair, it depends on what you're doing. If you're a casual user, you probably won't see much improvement by increasing your speed by 40x.

Kevin van der Velden

But it's AT&T... it's probably worse than terribad.

badp

@KevinvanderVelden No no no no it's all about latency.

Unionhawk

@badp @Frank Okay, now consider that many users would use extra bandwidth for netflix etc

badp

That RTT time.

Kevin van der Velden

2:57 PM

@badp also important

Frank

@Unionhawk If they used Netflix, they'd already be using it.

And they'd benefit from the extra speed.

But it really does depend on your net usage.

badp

@Unionhawk I peak at 1.5 MB/s (or 12 mbps) and that's more than enough for 1080p YouTube

Unionhawk

@Frank What, they'd already be using 1 Gbps internet? THEY DON'T HAVE 1 GBPS AVAILIBLE

Jason Berkan

I already get HD Netflix. I'm not certain extra bandwidth would be noticeable there.

badp

The bottleneck for Netflix is not on the customer's end, but on Netflix's.

Unionhawk

2:57 PM

The ISP market has 0 competition, so providors give zero fucks

Frank

@Unionhawk No, but what makes you think they'd start using Netflix if they aren't already?

Extra bandwidth only helps those that are saturating their current levels.

badp

The scenarios where the upgrade makes a huge difference:
* Large downloads (say, Steam)
* Uploads of almost any kind (indirectly, because people insist on using ratios)

Unionhawk

Okay, fine, fair enough, I see your point (I get 720p at roughly 5 mbps), but even still, the difference between 24 mbps and 1 gbps is 900 mbps.

3ventic

976

badp

What really is mind blowing is that Comcast tells people who have trouble getting a stream that should only take about 10% of their bandwidth to work that things will be better if only they doubled their downlink.

That is dishonest.

(please sample this fine example of needlessly complex sentence structure, brought to you by Italy)

3ventic

3:01 PM

I heard some streamer was told by TWC that they can't stream because they're not allowed to earn money on the internet..

GnomeSlice

@badp What's wrong with it?

Unionhawk

@3ventic What the actual fuck

badp

@GnomeSlice It could've been much simpler. One step simpler would've been "What really is mind blowing is that, when customers can't get a stream to work that only should take about 10% of their capacity, customer support replies that things would be better if only they doubled their downlink."

Kevin van der Velden

@badp no! Commas are evil, don't use them

badp

or "When customers complain they can't get a stream to work that should only take about 10% of their capacity, Comcast customer support tells you that things would be better if only they just doubled their downlink; now that is mindblowing and dishonest."

etc.

At any rate, going back to the point, I thought the transition from the Netherlands internets at 15 MB/s to my home internets at 500 kB/s would've been terribad. However, it wasn't.

Batophobia

3:06 PM

For the Half Life fans

►

badp

The connection speed is the highest of how fast you can push bytes to the servers and how fast the servers can push them back, plus you must count the time required for the bytes to actually do the distance. I think the bottleneck is almost always latency once you get to ~10 MB/s

Really, "fast enough that speeds are affected by latency more than bandwidth" should be the criterion the FCC should use to determine what "broadband" actually is.

Powerlord

Love how Java tosses warnings at me if I cast something I pull from a session object to a generic type... except that HttpSession's getAttribute always returns types as Object and you have to cast them to use them.

Lazers

0

Q: What times are "high risk" for the jungler to visit your lane?

There are certain times in the early game when you should be on "high alert" for a jungler to come into your Lane. For example early level 2 ganks, after they completed their first jungler route, etc. Is it possible to say "at 3 minutes top lane should be extra careful as that's when the jungler...

league-of-legends

badp

(inb4 @murgatroid99 nitpicking)

Powerlord

(Why is there no type-safe stuff for sessions yet? I mean, it's 2014 already!)

SaintWacko

3:08 PM

(parentheses!)

badp

@Powerlord (b-b-b-b-b-b-backwards compatibility)

Unionhawk

@SaintWacko (yay!)

badp

(I'm using parentheses due to backwards compatibility with previous messages)

murgatroid99

@badp huh?

Powerlord

(oh well, I'll just add a @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") to make the compiler stop whining)

badp

3:09 PM

@murgatroid99 (NOW YOU BROKE MY MESSAGE PARSER)

Powerlord

@badp (what is this? (Lisp?))

Kevin van der Velden

@Powerlord damnit I wanted to make the Lisp joke!

=[

Powerlord

Sorry, I meant (What (is (this (Lisp?))))

badp

@Powerlord (No, obviously it was Prolog)

(pedant-tone (cons (also you probably meant) '(what-is? this (lisp))))

Matt Эллен

:D

GnomeSlice

3:12 PM

@badp Just one ' ?

badp

@GnomeSlice yes, Lisp uses a single quote to say the following symbol shouldn't be evaluated, and now you might be regretting asking.

GnomeSlice

I see.

Unionhawk

@badp That sounds really dumb.

GnomeSlice

Weird.

badp

@Unionhawk IIRC it's just syntactic sugar for quote

StrixVaria

3:15 PM

I have used Scheme, which is based on Lisp, and I can say that it is both really hideous but really elegant, somehow at the same time.

badp

@Unionhawk It gets better

StrixVaria

Not the most fun language to work with, but it's got some really neat stuff in it.

GnomeSlice

> ｔｈｉｓｅｐｉｎｖｏｋｅｓｉｍａｇｅｓｏｆｓｏｍｅ 80'ｓｓｕｍｍｅｒｎｉｇｈｔ. ｉｌｉｋｅｔｈｅｖｉｂｅｓ!

how do people make text like that?

Powerlord

Everything derived from Lisp is hideous. Modern Example

GnomeSlice

Also why

awful to read

badp

3:16 PM

Well, the why is obvious: it looks similar to the font used in Link's Awakening

also, probably the worst part of that game. Those textboxes, ughhhhhhhh...

Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice the correct question is "How do I make it not like that, and also can we have the machine that stabs people over the internet already?"

Powerlord

@badp I never understood why everything was in italics in that game. I blame Italians.

Kevin van der Velden

Just go straight to the source and blame @badp. Works every time

Powerlord

Future<MergeTaskResult> mergeTaskFuture = mergeService.submit(mergeTask);

er... ignore that

GnomeSlice

gif too obnoxious

Unionhawk

3:18 PM

@KevinvanderVelden @badp is the new @Wipqozn?

badp

@Powerlord The wind fish is probably called Giuseppe. WHERE BOTH 'E'S SOUND ALIKE.

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord lol

badp

@Unionhawk If that comes from @Unionhawk, I think we have strong guarantees on the opposite!

Powerlord

I assume someone starred that because @GnomeSlice removed his image post and everything moved.

Unionhawk

@badp It does not come from @Unionhawk.

badp

3:19 PM

as for @KevinvanderVelden, well, he's still kind of a buggy unfinished unreleased mess

Unionhawk

Figure that one out

badp

until he does release as Half Life 3 I would limit myself to smiling and nodding politely

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord I starred it but then figured it wouldn't make sense in the stars list and removed it.

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice It's Java code and not interesting Java code at that.

I could delete it, but eh.

badp

@Unionhawk Not much to figure out: "It does not come from Unionhawk" comes from Unionhawk, so it's wrong: it comes from Unionhawk. As a result "it" is wrong. QED

StrixVaria

3:21 PM

@badp You'd probably have an aneurysm if you heard people here try to pronounce "manicotti". I don't know how to say it, and I try something new every time, and I'm pretty sure I'm always wrong.

badp

@StrixVaria Italian words are such that the same vowel has always the same sound

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Isn't it just mani (like manicure) + cotty (like potty)?

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice I really hope not.

GnomeSlice

??

badp

@GnomeSlice I believe that is correct

GnomeSlice

3:22 PM

BITCH

swish

Wipqozn

OH BUUUURRRRNNNN

StrixVaria

@badp My great-grandmother only spoke Italian, and must have had some kind of regional dialect that's not standard Italian, so I know all these pronunciations for things that aren't actually right and it's horrible.

Wipqozn

MEMORIES

Apr 14 at 23:20, by Wipqozn

I just heard @GnomeSlice say "Dickweed, get wrecked". My life is complete.

badp

@StrixVaria Do you know what area?

StrixVaria

@badp I don't, but I can ask my father and get back to you.

badp

3:23 PM

Don't feel obliged to :)

Okay, so

Powerlord

Oh blah, I need to update this code to handle if a user attempts to merge more than one workspace at a time.

badp

►

This video gets the pronounciation almost right

You just need to pronounce the "tt" of "manicotti" as in "cottage" (I think!)

StrixVaria

That's not even close to the way I've heard it.

The last syllable is left off, and the C sounds more like a G (although it's not emphasized so the sounds kind of blend together).

GnomeSlice

many cotty. wow. such pronounce.

Unionhawk

@StrixVaria That sounds incorrect

StrixVaria

3:26 PM

If that helps you figure out the region, so be it. Either way, I'll just have to remember that my idea of how Italian should be pronounced is way off and to forget what I "know".

Right now is food time.

badp

Manicotti

and as always @StrixVaria will be one hour late to the reaction

Unionhawk

Hrm. I should find my water bottle/my only measuring cup so I can cook things tonight.

Powerlord

Red Warrior needs food... badly.

Speaking of which, has anyone tried the new Gauntlet game?

GnomeSlice

@badp such pronounce. many cotty. wow.

SaintWacko

What the hell?

GnomeSlice

3:35 PM

5

bahahahaha

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Man, this iPhone bending issue is getting a lot of mileage.

Rapitor

@GnomeSlice i doubt that is official, still awesome.

Unionhawk

@Rapitor It's not official.

Yuuki

@Rapitor If it isn't, someone needs to slap Samsung's advertising department upside the head.

GnomeSlice

I'm pretty sure it's official.

Powerlord

3:39 PM

Pretty sure it was posted to Samsung's twitter account a few days ago

Unionhawk

Oh it is.

Huh.

Powerlord

Too lazy to search, though

Unionhawk

Yeah, I just searched.

GnomeSlice

Curved. Not bent. #GALAXYNoteEdge http://t.co/OTPIYlI07f

Tweeted by SamsungMobile on September 25, 2014 at 9:46 AM

Batophobia

Everything on the internet is official, especially anything with "Alpha" or "WIP" next to it

GnomeSlice

3:39 PM

Our phone doesn't bend, it flexes...on purpose. #bendgate http://t.co/d1DudxDQgf

Tweeted by LGUSAMobile on September 24, 2014 at 4:43 PM

Unionhawk

I just assumed they were too busy playing the "remember when they all said that the Galaxy Note was too big? Yeeeeeeeeeeah......." card

GnomeSlice

Other companies are making fun of Apple's bent iphones

3

looooool

We don't bend, we #break. #bendgate #iPhone6plus http://t.co/uippCg4kCi

Tweeted by KITKAT on September 24, 2014 at 4:43 PM

Unionhawk

I mean, you have to troll apple at every possible opportunity.

It's required by law.

International law, I think.

GnomeSlice

Rapitor

@GnomeSlice this is freaking fantastic

GnomeSlice

3:44 PM

When my relatives saw my new iPhone last night, first thing they asked is if it really bends. None of them follow tech. Good luck, Apple.

Tweeted by sfiegerman on September 25, 2014 at 12:49 PM

Koviko

Apple's PR department: The entirety of Twitter.

GnomeSlice

More bent iphone tweets

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Unionhawk

It really is hilarious.

Laughing at the expense of Apple is a healthy exercise.

GnomeSlice

Careful to NOT put your MacBook Pro in your back pocket... #bendgate http://t.co/XG8hbXbInA

Tweeted by moynihan on September 24, 2014 at 11:16 PM

Wipqozn

Your mom's a back pocket

oh buuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn‌nnnnnnnn

Batophobia

3:50 PM

Not a turtle, not a burn

Wipqozn

wow. What a rude thing to say.

You're just a big bully

Batophobia

truth hurts :P

Frank

@Wipqozn You're a turtle. You can take it.

Wipqozn

@Frank It's true. Turtles are tough.

Koviko

Back pocket.

Kevin van der Velden

3:51 PM

Hmm nice timing IKEA! I'm buying a new, larger bed when I'm moving out, and they're offering (effectively) an 15% discount. (You get a pas with 15% of the purchase on it that you have to spend at IKEA within 3 months, not a problem)

Frank

@Koviko That's a hell of a back pocket.

Rapitor

@KevinvanderVelden amI the only one that goes to IKEA mainly just for the food.

Kevin van der Velden

@Rapitor no, I will gladly go there for the food

GnomeSlice

Rapitor

dem meatballs

Kevin van der Velden

3:53 PM

But I also need new stuff for my new house and they sell pretty good quality/price stuff

Frank

@Rapitor Too far to go just for food.

Martin Sojka

@Rapitor No, I have a kitchen and I'm not afraid to use it.

SaintWacko

Swedish meatballs are amazing

Unionhawk

On the other hand, I have a kitchen and I am very afraid to use it.

I need a grill

Or something

Kevin van der Velden

@Rapitor indeed, standard order when I go to IKEA, meatballs and fries for lunch there and a bag of meatballs for later at home

Unionhawk

3:54 PM

I understand grills.

Frank

@Unionhawk I'm not afraid. I'm just lazy.

Unionhawk

@Frank Yeah, this is probably more accurate

This is also why I need a grill

Grills are easy

10 minutes of fire, roughly, and boom. Instant delicious food... in 10 minutes.

fredley

@Unionhawk I've never understood grills. Surely it damages your teeth?

Unionhawk

HamStare @fredley

fredley

HamStare @Unionhawk

@Unionhawk ಠ_ಠ

Koviko

3:56 PM

@fredley Real teeth are ineffective, anyway. Bone < Metal.

Unionhawk

Grilling

Grilling is a form of cooking that involves dry heat applied to the surface of food, commonly from above or below (as in North America). Grilling usually involves a significant amount of direct, radiant heat, and tends to be used for cooking meat quickly. Food to be grilled is cooked on a grill (an open wire grid such as a gridiron with a heat source above or below), a grill pan (similar to a frying pan, but with raised ridges to mimic the wires of an open grill), or griddle (a flat plate heated from below). Heat transfer to the food when using a grill is primarily via thermal radiation. He...

fredley

The Will It Bend idea is genius

Unionhawk

As in the extremely american form of cooking.

fredley

@Unionhawk Surely obvious troll was obvious?

Unionhawk

@fredley Surely SHUT YOUR FACE

fredley

3:58 PM

@Unionhawk Surely mmfmfmmfmf...!

Kevin van der Velden