The Bridge

Never mind, that's Lucy O'Connell.

Mackenzie Foy is MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPHHHH!!!!!

DUUUN LEMME GOOOOOOO, MUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRPHHHHHHH!!!

@Sterno Yes, yes it is.

Can't find anything else, might be in a professional dentist publication that I can't access, but I'm seeing my dentist next week, and will ask her for the reference - she's the one who confirmed my son's cavity wouldn't be treated because of latest research two years ago, so when I do, I'll post it here. — Bamboo 1 hour ago

I look forward to his/her update.

I blame @fredley for making me post on Lifehacks again.

@fredley Ah, now I remember why I thought she did The Song of the Sea. Mackenzie Foy voiced Celestine in Ernest & Celestine.

DOWN WITH @fredley

So I was confusing different movie nights.

5:01 PM

@Wipqozn This reminds me of a really scary network question I saw about how people don't have their kids take care of baby teeth because "oh they're just temporary"

Your mom is just temporary

OH BUUURRRN

Speaking of which

@Sterno Hear anything else aboout your results?

> The total number of candles on all your birthday cakes so far is 406.

Have they given it the 100% Not Cancer Stamp yet?

Hah shows you, we use candles that have numbers on them before we just started just using single candles! HAH!

Your mother is also temporary, or at least her presence in this existence.

5:03 PM

@GraceNote I was going to make a similar witty comment, but now it's too late.

@Wipqozn Not until around Thanksgiving

American Thanksgiving

I don't even know when Canadian Thanksgiving is

Or what it involves

@Sterno This upcoming weekend

@Sterno Well, for starters, we eat Beavers instead of Turkey

@Wipqozn Have some music to cheer up that you're slooooooooow.

@Sterno This coming Monday

@GraceNote Ooooo

5:05 PM

Put another way, about 5 more weeks

@Sterno Yeah, Americans have it in November like a bunch of weirdos

November is when we have Remembrance Day

I'm hoping to say "I'm thankful for Fallout 4. Oh, and not having cancer."

@Wipqozn I know. They can't even appreciate the fun of Christmas season starting on November 1st.

@Sterno I hope you're thankful for the same thing

I know, right? Fallout 4 better not suck!

5:06 PM

@JasonBerkan That depends on your household tbh

If I believed in a higher power I would sacrifice a goat to it to ensure you don't have cancer, @Sterno.

@JasonBerkan Depends on where you are

That might be enlisting a lower power.

@Sterno Whatever works.

Seeing Christmas stuff in some places is an indication that it's going to be Thanksgiving soon.

5:07 PM

Though I guess Old Testament God was kind of a jerk.

I had a aunt who got cancer a few years ago. She got through it, thank zeus. Luckily cancer treatment have come long way.

@Sterno Kind of?

@Sterno Yes

@GnomeSlice I meant the stores.

Old testament god was an asshole

5:08 PM

Pretty much everyone is an ass in the Old Testament

Then Jesus came along and was all, "Dude, chill the fuck out"

and God was all "lol k"

@JasonBerkan Yeah, in America we usually start the Christmas season in July or so.

and then they merged into a Super Namek, and the world was saved from the evil Adnroids

But what about when Buddha got heart disease and had to be saved by Pants, who came from the future?

Going by super simple math, there's about a 20% chance the fungal infection I have would cause what they're seeing on my lungs, and about a .01% chance someone my age with no risk factors would have cancer that had metastatized like that, so I figure my odds are 2000 to 1 in my favor. If my math is wrong, don't correct me. Unless it makes it better. :)

5:09 PM

The Lion King: A Place For Designers With A Beard

Q: Which update for terraria was Duke Fishron introduced?

0

Title says it all. Answer me that. When was Duke Fishron introduced? I want to know because It gets boring fighting the same bosses over and over again.

0

Q: Is there a way to get the red artifact in Undertale?

My brother has been trying different ways of getting the artifact without the Annoying Dog consuming it, but has been unsuccessful. I'm kind of curious as well. The artifact is obviously a throwing ball, but I kind of want to know the description for the artifact itself, and if you need to cheat ...

undertale

Have you guys heard about Google AMP

@fredley psdrepo.com

Lotsa icons

(Also other things which are goodd)

@Sterno Pretty sure the odds are really 10000 to 1 in your favour

Also I spelled favour with a u, so that probably improved your odds by at least another 9000

@Wipqozn I should post on Health.SE to find out.

@Sterno or Lifehacks

5:14 PM

@Sterno I think that's more the domain of Math.SE

How can you joke about that

Though, you didn't actually give enough information for a proper probability calculation

@GnomeSlice Everyone deals with shit in different ways

When my cat died, I definitely cracked a joke about her being a zombie. People are weird.

And now I miss my cat. I should get anew cat, like soon.

@GnomeSlice When you have to wait 2+ months to find out what's going on, it's a valid coping strategy

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice Moping will have the same effect as joking. May as well be happy

5:17 PM

I need to clean up my storage room, aka litter box room, before I get a cat.

My wife and I both get to find out at about the same time in November whether the weird shit growing in us (me with stuff on my lungs, her with stuff in her brain) are cancer and are going to leave our kids without one or both parents. If I just sit and think about that all day, I'd go nuts.

My grandmother is planning to come over in a week or so to help me go through it, so after that.

Q: Have any way to count player walks

0

Have any way I can make a system that each block a player walks into a certain area it gains points of scoreboard?

minecraft minecraft-commands

@Sterno Actually, I think Wipqozn is right: If you work out the conditional proabilities, it should work out that the symptoms are very likely caused by the infection you know about, and that your odds aren't much worse than 1 in 10,000

I'll take it.

5:19 PM

@murgatroid99 Of course I'm right. I did the Math.

Also I'm awesome and I'm never wrong.

I'll trust @Wipqozn's expertise on the subject since it does not involve socks.

Also, this is amusing

What if you did the math right but reversed the numbers? That would make Sterno's chances 10,000 in 1 that he has cancer.

10,000 cases of cancer in his 1 body.

@twobugs I think he'd already have noticed that

@Sterno I am fine with this reasoning.

I'm pretty sure I'd have superpowers.

I'll check with Paranormal.SE though

5:22 PM

You could probably regrow your limbs.

Just like Piccolo.

There are too many things on this network I can mock, lately

(well, okay, paranormal isn't real yet)

@Sterno IT's really upsetting

@Sterno It's close enough to real

It's contributed just as much to the internet as Lifehacks has

OH BUURURRRNNNN

TAKE THAT LIFEHCKS

I thought the whole point is that paranormal isn't real

If it were then wouldn't it be normal?

That's so meta.

@Wipqozn Namekians could also reproduce asexually

5:23 PM

It can't have a meta if it's not a real site

@Wipqozn At first I read that as Lifehicks

And I think I might have a new site idea

That's what the old one was doing on Namek. Making an entire planet of his children!

@Sterno Do it up

Q: How can I keep my cat off my keyboard?

DEAR GOD

25

This is a common scenario when typing: When the family assembled for Sunday dinner, With their minds made up that they wouldn't get thinner On Argentine joint, potato^DR&FTGYB`kuhadrggoy867rt98wouth4bfgdhjlkhdsfghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhf This happens beca...

technology pets

That thing really took off since yesterday

Oh hey, that's the source of that game ID question from earlier

5:25 PM

@fredley just repcapped on Lifehacks. Pretty sure that's grounds for demodship

7

> How can I get back at those darn Hatfields without a gun?

If not for sits... — Wikis 21 hours ago

1

Q: What game (rpg?) is this?

I've just found this cute and awesome picture from the web: The laptop behind seems to have a game running. I'm curious: What game is that?

game-identification

It's come full circle. Lifehacks is leaking back onto Arqade.

That can't be a coincidence

Ugh, my project manager just extended the scheduled time for our scrums.

5:27 PM

I can't believe there is an actual application call Pawsense meant to detect a cat typing on your computer

We have a second project starting up... which will share the same codebase as the primary project... but its time is tracked separately.

@Sterno Probably should make him lifehacks mod

And yet, meetings are now shared between the two.

I think the 14 year old and Robert are the only mods actually doing any modding on Lifehacks now

The 14 year old has a name!

(I don't remember what it is though)

5:29 PM

@Sterno Me neither

Mikey or something

Micahelcapdldpalsd?

All I know is he thought 2 weeks on Google made him a Doctor

Which is pretty standard for a teenager

No, he didn't think it made him a doctor. That's nuts.

He thought it made him a medical expert. TOTALLY REASONABLE

llolololol

I'mk so happy the internet wasn't as popular when I was 14, so the stupid shit I said wasn't as public.

I did some cringe worthythings

Including on the internet

but most of that was on gamespot, and that site is basically dead

Also I had a whole other account

gamespot.com/profile/darkslider99/about-me

THERE IT IS

darkslider99

He did delete his comment about it later and rephrase it better, to be fair. I shouldn't pick on him for it anymore.

I named it after the scroll bar, buyt I didn't know what it was called

Blem

5:34 PM

@Wipqozn Your grandchildren will still see your terrible socks, though.

I think my oldest post on gamespot was deleted

> [This message was deleted at the request of board moderator or administrator]

I was such a little scamp

I got suspended a lot

Testing a small world of plants and animals running at 100,000x real time. Predators eat all the food, then die off. https://t.co/0fOvhClAMh

Tweeted by StrangeLoopGame on October 1, 2015 at 10:07 PM

This game will be dope

new avatar lads

I used to have a bunch of blog posts, but I deleted them a few years back

I came across it and was aall "holy fuck, I wrote this", and deleted it

Looks like Forum posts are one of the few things it saved

@Texenox I hate all of your avatars.

4

:3

Jk, but where did the pink morphsuit guy come from?

5:41 PM

@GnomeSlice c:

@Wipqozn Us old people posted on USENET. Our stupidity is still out there for the world to see.

@GnomeSlice You mean Pink Guy?

@JasonBerkan Sucks to be you!

That's a character from Filthy Frank.

Man, I forgot ho frequently I used gamespot

Gamespot was basically my first internet community

5:43 PM

My first internet community is about to close down forever. I can't wait!

@GnomeSlice Also, follow mah site proposal

After reading thousands of pages on the internet, I learn that going to a typical dentist can make things worse because drilling holes can eventually wreck teeth and root canals means losing a live tooth for an artificial one and that it can trap bacteria. A crown blocks access to the tooth inside meaning it can be more difficult to feed real nutrients to them. I had to post here because I'd rather have a natural solution for a few dozen dollars than have a dentist artificialize my mouth to their standards for thousands of dollars. — Mike 14 mins ago

Is this "Doctors just want your money and are liars" a USA thing?

I never see it in Canada

Probably because Healthcare

> So I then recreated a website from ground up without the need for any content management system. Why? because they can be easily hacked, especially Wordpress. This is also why I don't have a job, because I refuse to rely heavily on CMS's to successfully run a site.

In my experience, doctors would like my money but grind their teeth at the handcuffs insurance companies put on them.

Okay then

@Wipqozn Ask him if he can show us any of those 'thousands of pages on the Internet'.

5:45 PM

@Wipqozn Mine was GameFAQs, which was really bad.

It's still going somehow.

Isn't the tooth healing wizard downvoted into oblivion already? Forget they exist.

groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.games.miniatures.warhammer/…

Ah rgmw. What a wretched hive of scum.

My first online community was Neopets

I think mine was Club Penguin.

djsmiley2k

@Wipqozn wut

5:47 PM

@murgatroid99 Oh wait, I think this is mine.

Man... Neopets.

@murgatroid99 Isn't Neopets just the edgy teens' version of 4chan's /b/ at this point?

@Texenox w-what

@Texenox The edgy teens' version of /b/ is /b/

@twobugs I was on gamefaqs too, but via the shared forums

Neopets was like this super sanitized version of Pokemon

5:47 PM

@murgatroid99 I forgot that was a thinbg

Neopets was a thing

It still exists too

@twobugs What, you don't know about the recent influx of 'discussions' on the forums?

But coded by incompetent fools

Neopets was the bees knees you be quiet

@Wipqozn It was bought by Nickelodeon, I think, several years ago

or I'll fight you irl

5:48 PM

Uh. No. /b/ is a thing of its own. I watched that thing come into existence. That is an internet black hole of which nothing returns with sanity intact. Neopets is simply a pokemon knockoff.

@MadMAxJr I was referring to the forums as of recently, but okay.

djsmiley2k

Neopets was awesome tho

@Rapitor ey

@MadMAxJr Honestly, /b/ is wacky and random and whatever, but it's not really that bad

5:49 PM

@murgatroid99 In the early days it was the edge of oblivion.

@murgatroid99 they have their moments

but yeah, most of the time they are... "ok"

I'm probably gonna play TF2 now.

I still have plenty of contracts to finish.

I'm marginally curious how things will change there with the sale to the owner of 2ch in Japan.

Speaking of TF2 contracts, the Invasion update doesn't have them.

@MadMAxJr what's 2chan?

@Powerlord I know. cri

5:51 PM

@MadMAxJr When were the early days? I remember spending a lot of time there about a decade ago

But I still want to get the pass for the update, because loot.

It's like... you want people to pay $1.99 for a pass... that awards you with random drops that cost $2.49 to open?

@murgatroid99 You know how there's notes of what not to post? Those weren't always there. Also I am being snarky for snarky sake.

fredley

I should make a lifehacks incremental

@fredley Yeah, and then call it "Lifehacks.SE"

fredley

5:53 PM

Also: neopets was the shit

Oh wait...

Will the main number be # of people killed by lifehack advice?

@fredley keyword was

6:04 PM

@Texenox 2ch is what 4chan was based on pretty much

@Rapitor Ah, I see.

> A crown blocks access to the tooth inside meaning it can be more difficult to feed real nutrients to them.

Wait wait wait

Kevin van der Velden

Wut

Someone doesn't know how teeth work.

Unless your teeth have smaller sets of teeth on them.

Kevin van der Velden

Keeping nutrients away from teeth is a good thing, excepting the tiny bit that you then can't chew

6:10 PM

nutrients are absorbed through your teeth and the waste is swallowed and digested. cmon guys

Teeth are in fact, small people or 'Teethle'.

(Singular: Teethson)

in other news Notch isn't in the best of places right now

Teeth are actually the most important part of the human body.

Kevin van der Velden

nature chemistry: A comprehensive overview of chemical-free consumer products

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> Author contributions: Both authors contributed equally to the main text

6:17 PM

Today in Sans' commute

Arrived 2 minutes late to train station

Train departed with a 5 mins delay

Bad time status: [ ] have been had [ ] are being had [×] did not have

> The authors declare no competing financial interests, though would have short-sold
‘Rubber Ducky Sunscreen’ on principle if it was publicly traded.

My poor legs are pulsating though

Q: Are the original Starcraft 2 WoL and HotS DVDs still useful for installing the game?

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It's been many years since those games came out, and in preparation for Legacy of the Void I'd like to replay the whole series. However, the Battle.net application is quoting me a ~20 GB download which is quite a lot for my internet connection. I'm also aware that the games have been heavily patc...

diablo-3 starcraft-2

@badp You mean BONE tingling?

@JasonBerkan "Recasting Necromantic spells would have it's own penalty; with each spell cast, the statistical chance of rolling a 1 or 2 would increase." eeeeek

6:29 PM

@badp Oh dear. And to have to documented and permanently associated with your name...

I mean, he isn't wrong in that as you cast more spells in that subset, rolling for each spell, you do have a higher chance of getting a 1 or a 2...

Not if you stop when you get a 1 or 2 (I don't know if you do)

Oh, you mean if you ONLY stop when you get a 1 or 2 ?

yes

I was reading it as "You can keep rolling, but 1 or a 2 is bad news"

Who knows, it looks like Warhammer stuff, and that's for old people!

@twobugs is the roll always a 1dn roll?

6:33 PM

I don't know, grandpa!

Warhammer and warhammer derivative games love using dice to possibly punish the player trying to do something. that's why we have skulls on bloodbowl dice that make you fail instantly!

Can you imagine a Game's Workshop controlled world?

If at any point in your life, you roll a skull, you're immediately killed and erased from the history books.

You tried to deposit a check at your bank, but you slipped and fell. The street curb passes an armor check and you've now got a crushed femur.

In the grim darkness of the present there is only cruel probability!

You tried to make a commit to a new branch on the SVN, but you failed and now the data center is literally on fire.

Would you like to reroll? You only have one more for this years quarter.

6:37 PM

@badp There's nothing wrong with that statement.

MBraedley

Ronan Forman

Well presumably if it was worth the risk the first time it would each time.

"Grandpa, tell us about the time you spent Christmas eve arguing about anime on usenet"

GodEmperorDune

lawsuits settled after Florida man hypnotized high school students that later died

MBraedley

@GodEmperorDune Oh, Florida Man, what will you get up to next?

6:39 PM

Florida Man gets in fight with Texas Man

> Among those who were hypnotized were 17-year-old Brittany Palumbo and 16-year-old Marcus Freeman. Palumbo committed suicide in 2011. Freeman was in a fatal car accident after apparently self-hypnotizing, a technique Kenney taught the teenager, also in 2011.

@JasonBerkan if the rolls are independent and identical, then the odds are identical

Self-hypnotizing, the latest drug craze sweeping the nation

The longer the sequence of identical independent rolls the higher the chances of getting at least an 1 or 2 though naturally

Maximum overpedant

Unless you're that magic warhammer player who can only roll sixes.

6:41 PM

@badp That is exactly what I said, is it not?

@JasonBerkan Badp is going into pedantry mode, do not engage

@MadMAxJr Then it's still true if you understand "higher" to mean ≥

I repeat: @badp is entering pedantry mode, DO NOT ENGAGE

@twobugs Self-hypnosis. Not even once.

Report to the nearest pedantry shelter immediately for further instructions. This is not a drill.

6:43 PM

I should dig up the rgmw discussion where we argued about the probabilities of rolling at least two ones when rolling x dice. Pages and pages of bad statistics.

@KevinvanderVelden Glorious. nice find.

Calculator Music: HoustonTracker 2 for the TI-82/83/83+/84+

@Yuuki "Living in Florida isn't normal. But when self-hypnotized it is."

MBraedley

►

Use headphones at work

Wipqozn, there are stories that before grains and sugars were the norm, people never experienced decay. Back in the day, toothbrushes and toothpaste did not even exist. — Mike 1 hour ago

@Wipqozn "Stories".

6:51 PM

"Back in the day" we had obnoxiously high infant mortality rates and slaughtered goats for sacrifices. Oh wait, did I say "back in the day"? I meant "In Florida, just recently".

@Wipqozn Also, the problem isn't "grains and sugars". It's processed grains and sugars. We've had grains and sugars forever.

Did you know that back in the day, people didn't exist, therefore there were no cavities?

The Agricultural Revolution didn't occur yesterday.

Dance Dance Agricultural Revolution wasn't very popular.

Oh man, this Mike guy just seems sad.

Here's what it boils down to: he can't afford dental care and his teeth are rotting.

Here's wrapping it in a thin veneer of lifehacks, but this is really a cry for help.

6:53 PM

@Yuuki well my few seconds of google reveals he has nbo idea what he's talking about

I'm shocked

Sometimes a dental school will take volunteers for free or reducing pricing.

> The predecessor of the toothbrush is the chew stick. Chew sticks were twigs with a frayed end used to brush against the teeth,[3] while the other end was used as a toothpick.[2] The earliest chew sticks were discovered in Babylonia in 3500 BC,[2] an Egyptian tomb dating from 3000 BC,[3] and mentioned in Chinese records dating from 1600 BC.

> The Greeks and Romans used toothpicks to clean their teeth and toothpick-like twigs have been excavated in Qin Dynasty tombs.

> The Greeks, and then the Romans, improved the recipes for toothpaste by adding abrasives such as crushed bones and oyster shells.

Future Lifehacks: Replace your teeth with a Samsung quantum field destabilizer to reduce all food to component elements.

Man, I wonder when Mike's "day" was because it seems pretty damn far back.

@MadMAxJr "How can I prevent Moriarty from escaping the Holodeck? Asking for a friend"

6:55 PM

@twobugs And this is why universal healthcare is great

@Wipqozn My dental work is not covered.

Well apparently he lives in Canada? According to his profile, but he directly mentions the cost factor...

Universal healthcare unless you're a Marvel character. Turns out Asgard counts as 'out of network'.

@JasonBerkan OIh right

dentsits aren't covered by default

That's dumb

Odinsleep may not be covered by all plans, consult your insurance provider.

djsmiley2k

6:58 PM

4 mins ago, by two bugs

Here's wrapping it in a thin veneer of lifehacks, but this is really a cry for help.

Boom tish

Asgard is harsh. Not paying your co-pay means the Destroyer comes after you.

Still, if this guy follows advice from lifehacks he'll just make his problem worse

Well looking at his comments he is either dead set on sticking to Big Dental or is trolling. I hope it's trolling.