The Bridge

Sterno

1:00 PM

I don't even need to manually award @fredley this Lifehacks bounty. His answer will get it automatically.

I can't believe he's at +183 votes between question and answer so far.

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@Sterno That's absolutely disgusting.

He should be ashamed.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Dota 2 Reborn Heroic Items and Pennants

Hi someone know what happend with pennants and heroics in reborn?

Sterno

I like that lifehacks has a headphones tag

Headphones lifehacking expert!

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How can I use my headphones to listen to music if I am deaf?

GnomeSlice

Playboy to stop publishing nude photographs, stick strictly to the articles

Private Pansy

1:08 PM

Lifehack: Skip using cumbersome headphones to listen to your music by cutting open your skull and connecting your 3.5mm jack directly to your aural nerves!

GnomeSlice

@PrivatePansy you know I've actually been waiting for someone to invent a wireless brain implant for audio for a child

For a while

Not a child

Obvious use would be for deaf people but it would make music listening pretty easy too

Arperum

@GnomeSlice It would also be rsiky as hell. And security and testing is going to be extremely important. Since you don't want some hacker or bug to turn your implant into a screeching thing. That would cause people to go mad really fast.

GnomeSlice

Yeah that's pretty much the problem

fredley

@Sterno I'll only get half if it's automagic

This would actually reduce the total amount of rep in LH though

Sterno

@fredley Whew. Thanks for making sure you get the maximum amount.

fredley

1:13 PM

Maximum overhack

2 more upvotes to be highest voted LH post ever

Sterno

Oh, and now that I read it it's the top-voted answer posted after the bounty start, so that wouldn't have worked.

I thought it was which got the most votes since bounty start

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Is there any way to buy Dive items from the normal shops?

I know you get Dive's and Mr. Gency Exit's from beating bosses every 10 floors and they are available in the Item Worlder's shop in her Mystery Room but is there any point where you will be able to purchase them straight from the Pocket Netherworld Shops?

disgaea-5

fredley

no

yes

Sterno

fredley

@Sterno I have nothing to say in my defence

Distract yourself with this masterpiece of a product launch video from Apple

Such features. Wow.

Kevin van der Velden

1:23 PM

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Lazers 2.0

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Q: Why can't I completely destroy a City State? Civ 5

I surrounded Belgarde with crossbowman and unleashed fire every turn. It's health was near nothing but my attempts to destroy the city froze or something. When it says '-1' or '-3' usually, it now says nothing, yet I still fire (the whole fire-bolt animation) . I am fairly new at any Civ game, I...

civilization-5

Sterno

Is the Apple Magic Mouse anything more than a wireless mouse?

Private Pansy

@Sterno It's got an Apple logo on it

Sterno

@PrivatePansy I guess that explains why it's $79.

fredley

@Sterno It has a mutli-touch surface, meaning you can swipe etc. on it

Only £65 for crippling RSI

apple.com/magic-accessories

Sterno

1:26 PM

Why would anyone star that?

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Kevin van der Velden

Because why not? :o

fredley

Haha, another top LH post is eerily similar

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LH post of next week: How can I remove toxins from my cat and my keyboard... at the same time?

fredley

If you have installed VLC, you will be required to destroy your computer

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Why is Kaer Morhen in such a bad shape?

I did not play Witcher 1+2 and didn't read any of the books, so my reference pool is Witcher 3 only. When I came to Kaer Morhen I was quite surprised to see that it is in such a bad shape. Most of the peripheral buildings in the surrounding are in ruins and the castle itself is in a state of dis...

the-witcher-3

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Q: Red dead redemption GOTY vs. undead nightmare DLC

I have already purchased Red Dead Redemption on Xbox 360, and played through it without any DLC content. I was wondering the GOTY edition has extra add-on content compared to just buying the Undead Nightmare DLC.

red-dead-redemption

Arperum

1:50 PM

@fredley Because outlawing security research is a good idea. Like those people who actually do illegal stuff are going to be mad that their seized pc is destroyed. They'd be happy since it destroys the evidence of other stuff they left on it...

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum nope, the destruction is part of the punishment

I.e. after you've been found guilty at the basis of evidence recovered from the device

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Yes, but that stops the government from finding out the other crimes that are possible on said pc.

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum forensic computer searching step 1) Create a hard drive clone to work on

So no, not really

Hmmm right, this functionallity has "always" worked, it's just that suddenly a table has been removed, right

Arperum

Hatebreed - "Destroy Everything" - official music video

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Relevant song

Not exactly the thing I generally post here though.

The moshpit at the Hatebreed concert on metaldays was seriously insane this year. ANd it was glitterbombed.

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@fredley I keep thinking these are going to be Onion articles, but no such luck.

Arperum

1:54 PM

You could still see who had been in there two days later.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Why does Luke Skywalker use a green light saber in star wars battlefront Beta?

I know EA Dice wanted to be spot on, on every aspect of the new Star Wars Battlefront game, but to my knowledge Luke Skywalker always used a blue light saber. in the previous games as well as the movies. Why is it that he has a Green light saber in the game? Maybe because its Beta? or something

star-wars-battlefront sw-battlefront-2015

Jason Berkan

Hmm. Someone who never watched Jedi?

Arperum

@Lazers2.0 Dev intent.

StrixVaria

@Arperum I just shunted it to SciFi. They like this stuff, right?

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan IT was the worst of the original trilogy

Jason Berkan

1:58 PM

@Wipqozn But Luke did have a green lightsaber in it.

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@Wipqozn Hold on, are you saying that when George Lucas had the most control things went downhill...? I'm not sure if I believe you.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria Any low quality question can be safely migrated to SFF.SE or Lifehacks.SE.

Jason Berkan

I loved Jedi as a kid, before I knew anything about plot, characters, Ewoks sucking...

Arperum

@StrixVaria Possibly. @Sterno is our local SciFi expert with al his dora rep.

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@Wipqozn Lifehack: how to get my 3213761 minecraft mod working

Arperum

1:59 PM

@twobugs Use a cat-hair proximity sensor.

If you can make one of these, you can fix your modding conflicts easily enough yourself.

Wipqozn

@Arperum @Sterno for SciFi mod!

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Minecraft building down in nether

I'm searching for a way to build down in the nether for skyblock because I hear at y=57 and some other x,z coord you can get blaze to spawn. However, I can't figure out how to build down in the nether. Someone mentioned sand but I have no idea what that means and how it would work. Since all wate...

minecraft

badp

@fredley that keyboard looks like the worst

fredley

@badp Meh, I'm using the predecessor, it's good if you're used to chiclet keys, obviously terrible if not

badp

but why would you want to get used to chiclet keys on a desk surface

fredley

2:07 PM

I've almost always used chiclet, so I'm used to skittering around tapping very lightly. If you're used to firmer presses, it's not going to go well.

@badp So you're using the same key pressure everywhere?

badp

@fredley that is not something I have ever been concerned with

fredley

@badp I find typing on a 'normal' keyboard hard work, I have to press much harder than I'm used to. Similarly people used to those find themselves hurting on chiclets, as they're bashing away far too hard.

btw: It's official. My question is the highest voted LH question ever.

StrixVaria

@badp I didn't finish the Undertale demo. Not the game for me. Thanks for linking the demo rather than just telling me it was worth the $10 for the full version.

badp

@StrixVaria oh well.

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Oh boy. So today Destiny is rolling out a cosmetic microtransaction vendor. Excited to see if they have anything cool, and if they do, this might pave the way for free content stuff in the future.

badp

2:09 PM

How far did you get through it?

StrixVaria

@badp The weird helpful...creature left me alone and I got through like a room and a half maybe?

badp

(this is the part where I tell you that you did everything wrong and it's your fault)

OMG YOU DID EVERYTHING WRONG OF COURSE YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT IT'S YOUR FAULT

StrixVaria

Yeah I'll accept blame for this.

badp

(I was kidding)

StrixVaria

Also TIL @fredley moderates another site, not just Arqade. You traitor.

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2:11 PM

Hopefully they at least have some absurdly gaudy and obnoxious cosmetic options so I can pay real money to piss off my friends!

badp

There's a bit further ahead where most people do it wrong and end up like @RonanForman

Arperum

@StrixVaria Isn't he moderating coffee for quite some time now?

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@Arperum Yeah, but also Lifehacks now as well.

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria I know right! coffee, arqade and lifehacks, that one is just taking it to far

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I recommended @fredley as a moderator for Paranormal and the upcoming Archer SE site.

badp

2:13 PM

what about Stack Overflow in United Kingdom English?

Arperum

@twobugs That's like saying @LarryWang moderates Arqade.

badp

en-uk.stackoverflow.com

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@badp That's a jolly good idea, innit?

Wipqozn

badp

@twobugs a bloody good idea if I do say so myself, blimey.

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2:13 PM

Uh, add "blimey" in there somewhere

Wipqozn

I was going to name aspecific site, but that meme could apply to a few we're talking about.

LET YOUR IMAGINATIONS RUN WILD

I mostly just wanted to link an ARcher Meme to troll @fredley

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cc @fredley

Arperum

@Wipqozn Except it's not a gif.

badp

Uh, add "pls" in there somewhere

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It's not even a still .gif - it's clearly a .jpg

Arperum

2:15 PM

39 secs ago, by Arperum

@Wipqozn Except it's not a gif.

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But @Wipqozn will edit it because you didn't wait two minutes

Wipqozn

fredley

@StrixVaria How did you just learn this?

You are terrible

Also: If you make an Archer site, and it makes it to beta, I will volunteer as mod

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StrixVaria

@fredley I don't go around stalking profiles of people who I couldn't even ban if I wanted to.

Wipqozn

@fredley Says the high rep Lifehakcs user

badp

2:16 PM

to be fair Arqade is the only real SE site

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Sterno

@Wipqozn cc @fredley

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I tried to sell a few of my friends on that Bomb game but they all shot it down :(

Feeds

Sterno has added Wipqozn to the list of this room's owners.

Kevin van der Velden

@badp Disagreed! Gamedev is also a smaller, but still real! offshoot of glorious gaming.se

Powerlord

By the way, Word 2013, thank you for randomly adding the images I was dragging to the other word document. You know, the one that wasn't even on the same monitor as the document I was dragging images to?

Wipqozn

2:18 PM

@twobugs You need better friends.

@KevinvanderVelden It's not really na offshoot

Gaming.SE has never allowed GameDev as far as Iknow

Rapitor

@twobugs we could technically play it with you

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@Rapitor Oh my

Rapitor

which we should, because it's fun as hell

Wipqozn

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn in this new history where stackexchange started with gaming.se

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2:19 PM

I'll pick it up when I get home then, along with Undertale (cc @badp)

Arperum

@twobugs You don't need the game to play it.

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We should go to other SE metas and tell those uncivilized fools how to handle their communities

badp

actually I think the actual person who plays the game is the one without the game

the one who bought the game mainly gets to follow instructions and blow up

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@badp This is almost too meta for me

Kevin van der Velden

@badp not inaccurate

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2:21 PM

Like that "Isn't it Ironic" song which contains no irony, other than the title being ironic as a result

Wipqozn

BLAST FROM THE PAST

Classic Tootsie Roll Commercial - "How Many Licks"

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Kevin van der Velden

Though with multiple people reading the manual the person disarming essentially needs to delegate

i.e. "Person 1 memory shows 3, person 2 simon says added red"

That way both can look up what to do next at the same time and you can continue faster

Powerlord

We must be talking about Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes?

StrixVaria

@Powerlord That game is really neat.

Powerlord

I haven't played it, but I've watched it being played.

StrixVaria

2:23 PM

@Powerlord Same, and that's what I've drawn my opinion from. I think I would enjoy playing it, with the right people.

Rapitor

I've played it, as the expert (haven't done diffusing) and it was tons of fun

it requires a certain way of thinking

StrixVaria

@Rapitor I looked through the manual after watching some footage only from the defuser's point of view, and the modules are a lot more in-depth than I originally realized.

Rapitor

i'm guessing the game will be updated with more modules too, because it seems like its built for that. and since manuals are just randomly generated too, it won't be difficult

Kevin van der Velden

Manuals aren't randomly generated as far as I can tell?

Rapitor

yes they are, when you start the game you input the code on the manual

Kevin van der Velden

2:30 PM

Doesn't mean they're randomly generated

That's for verication that you have the right manual for the version of the game

Private Pansy

@badp Well of course! I mean, we've not formally proven any of the other Stack Exchange sites actually exist, in a metaphysical sense

Kevin van der Velden

i.e. if they add new stuff you need to get a new manual

Arperum

That's just forward tihnking in keeping old versions running.

Rapitor

i mean all the modules and stuff are the same, but the instructions for them are different. for example one manual might say for buttons to press and immediately release, but a different manual will say hold the same button.

Kevin van der Velden

@Rapitor nope

Source: I have the game

It verifies once when a new version is released

Arperum

2:32 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Even if that was the case, that doesn't mean they are random. They could manually have made multiple slightly different manuals.

Private Pansy

Though to be fair its hard enough to prove that you exist

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum there aren't

There is 1 manual

If a new version of the game is released you have to input the code on the new manual so you're sure you have the correct manual

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn cc @fredley

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Today is a Chipotle day

fredley

badp

2:38 PM

If you're going to annoy @fredley you will do that properly, pls.

(and pay the proper price)

fredley

@badp pls

GodEmperorDune

fredley

Why does everyone think it's acceptable to troll me? Just because I spend an inordinate amount of time attempting to troll you all does not make it okay.

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@Rapitor Did you hear about the cosmetic microtransactions coming to Destiny today? You may get your free content pack wish after all (it's one of their stated goals with the microtransactions)

I sure hope they succeed! I plan on buying any of the stuff that looks cool

Rapitor

yeah, I'm very pleased with that. When the expansion sets go on sale i'll probably pick em up.

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2:42 PM

I'm still skeptical it'll pay for larger expansions like The Taken King, but if this could fund smaller updates like The Dark Below or House of Wolves, everyone wins

Rapitor

they are saying major updates (like taken king) will still be full priced expansions tho

but stuff like new strikes and such will be free

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Plus if those are given out for free they'll have no excuse to charge more than $30-40 for the Year 3 expansion, which if it adds as much as Taken King I think is a very fair deal

Either way, I just want gaudy cosmetics

Rapitor

speaking of microtransactions, Halo 5's REQs have been priced

fredley

microtransactions worst transactions

Rapitor

and they are just cheap enough for you to not realize how much money you are throwing at them until it's too late

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2:46 PM

@fredley If they're completely optional cosmetic stuff, I don't mind at all

Rapitor

^

microtransactions done right are the best

quick unlock type microtransactions are iffy, but i'm still ok with them, personally.

fredley

@twobugs Yeah, that is definitely the best model.

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Blizzard does the optional cosmetic thing in a few of their games now. I'm fine with them in free to play games but they feel weird in WoW

I mean, they don't really bother me, but it's just strange to pay extra for cosmetic stuff in a game that already has a monthly fee.

fredley

elevengiants.com

I would kill for an alpha invite

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@fredley This sounds amazing

GodEmperorDune

2:49 PM

@fredley but would you make an archer incremental for an alpha invite?

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> What is Glitch - or Eleven, you might ask? It's a peaceful, cooperative, massively multiplayer game in which you pet trees, milk butterflies, gasmogrify vapour, build furniture, brew hooch, grow herbs, tune bubbles, and make salt in a spice mill...with friends.

fredley

@twobugs Did you play Glitch?

It was so awesome

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So basically, it's quasi-similar to Animal Crossing but with more stuff to do?

fredley

@twobugs Yeah, I've never played Animal Crossing though

It had quests, events, loads of interaction

Very well balanced

Kevin van der Velden

... 2 year old finds gun in car, shoots and kills grandmother

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2:50 PM

Wow, the moderators on Arqade do not have a good track record

Kevin van der Velden

Yay guns

Rapitor

animal crossing without the crushing debt

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@StrixVaria hates MGS and Earthbound, @fredley hates Archer and Animal Crossing

Arperum

@GodEmperorDune Seriosuly, the joke is old and dead now. It's starting to annoy me from just constantly seeing you attack someone with his personal dislike for some stupid series.

fredley

@twobugs I don't hate Animal Crossing...

@twobugs Too much time spent moderating to play games

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2:52 PM

@fredley If I've learned anything from the American Media it's that I need to sell a story