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12:04 AM
MGO is weird, but fun
 
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Q: GTA 5 Online missions not appearing?

BuckySo I looked it up and at level 5 you can unlock your first GTA 5 mission (Lamar's mission, Ballas to the walls) and I'm level 6 and Simeon called me once just to say he will give me jobs but nothing has appeared yet. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

 
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Q: What should we do about excessive minor edits?

BenOf late I have noticed quite a few minor edits being carried out by this "Ben" fellow. I'm not particularly sure if he's serious about his grammar or if he's just trying to make himself known by editing everyone's posts just so he can get his face on everything... Is it a particularly bad thing ...

why is this -8 while the answer which supports OP's actions, is +5?
 
12:20 AM
@Aequitas Because the question seems to be sarcastically/confusingly criticizing the poster's own actions
 
just because it's about himself doesn't mean it's an invalid question
 
It reads like he's obtusely fishing for praise
 
@murgatroid99 I'm glad he asked though, because I have always wondered if editing just to fix couple typos is too minor
 
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Q: Editing Grammar

TheUnicornMasterI often fix grammar on questions, including capitalization errors, misspellings, etc. I've been doing this for a while, maybe two weeks or so. No one has really said anything about my edits until today. A user asked me to "stop proposing minor edits". Lots of my edits do happen to be minor, but I...

 
@SepiaLazers wow, are you reading my mind?
 
12:26 AM
I'm pretty sure the main reason too minor was ever a thing was because too many edits led to automatic community wiki at a point. That no longer happens. The text of the replacement reject reason is no improvement whatsoever, which I see as distinct from too minor.
 
@Unionhawk I think too minor is there to reject people fishing for edit rep by editing the post one typo at a time
 
I usually let a minor edit through, until I see it's a repeat offender doing the same thing
And if they fixed only one thing while other stuff is a mess, that gets a reject
 
@PrivatePansy but the thing is edit rep is already capped in two ways, so as far as I'm concerned, as long as the edit doesn't leave several unsolved issues in a post, and makes it easier to read, great
 
@Unionhawk It needs to be balanced against the moderation overhead that comes with suggested edits.
That's why there's a minimum character limit.
 
12:42 AM
Well that limit is imposed by the system, we as a site aren't swimming in suggested edits, and the overhead is the same reject or accept: 2 reviewers look at it. Yeah accepting may encourage more edits but again, we shouldn't actively discourage suggested edits just so we get less of them overall.
 
No, but we shouldn't accept an edit just to encourage more, either.
It should clearly improve the post, of more than a single character.
 
user15026
Yeah, edits shouldn't be like single character things
 
user15026
if you're going to do the thing, do the thing.
 
user15026
All of it.
 
user15026
(In general, I get so mad when people, say, edit tags buit leave the rest of the post a giant crap pile)
 
12:49 AM
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Q: My minecraft wont let me make a world

RayneMy Minecraft pocket edition will not let me make a world it says that it could not create a world. I have tried making a diffrent name and I deleted some of my games for the memory. But it will not let me make my first world.

 
There. Answer on the post.
 
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Q: Feed The Beast Modpack "Departure" crashing on Language Downloading

HelloThereI get Departure off the FTB Launcher, it works the first time. I make a world, but before it starts the entire Minecraft window goes black. I can't seem to do anything, so I quit and re-launch. This is when the problem starts. As it's doing the "language setup" or whatever it just freezes for a f...

 
@AshleyNunn tag-only editing is a special rep privilege, iirc
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune Aye, I know it is, but I still think that people should take a full look at the post.
 
I always picture a pirate when someone says "aye"
@Frank maybe you should stop hogging the edit review queue so other people can get badges :p
 
1:04 AM
@GodEmperorDune If you can't keep up, that ain't my problem. :P
 
@Frank in new house I may opt to forgo my preferred subterranean dwelling in favour of a superior door.
 
> The rest of the change is superlefous
was that meant to be "superfluous"?
wouldn't it be ironic if someone edited just that word in your post? :P
 
@Chippies Please do. It never came up as a misspelled word.
@TrentHawkins Its actually a pretty heavy door. And a rather large bedroom. But, you can have first choice.
 
:O
that's 2 comments by you
the only results for superlefous
 
1:14 AM
I use vocabulary! Sometimes, I get it wrong.
 
I just find it interesting that the only two results on google are both by you :P
 
Hey, at least I'm consistent!
 
Trying to manage my frontend dependencies, I typed bowser install jquery instead of bower install jquery
 
"Sorry, your package is in another castle."
 
what are the rules on answers like this one? It's answered 2 years after and doesn't add anything the previous answer hasn't already said
it's in Low Quality review, do we recommend for deletion?
 
1:26 AM
@Chippies As long as it doesn't break any normal rules, I imagine we keep it.
 
That's what I kinda thought
 
Downvote if you want, but I don't think it has grounds for removal.
 
Finally, I unlocked the ability to play as a girl in MGO
 
Meh, I'm too cheap to waste my rep, I just wanted to try my hand at the low quality review :P
 
1:30 AM
@Frank so, it should be recommended for deletion instead? Gah
I trusted you, @Yuuki!
and you let me down :(
 
@Chippies Hey, I was half-right.
 
We have support of removing new answers that add nothing that hasn't already been said. We just haven't had a policy on what to do about them.
So, since I'm the one who proposed jettisoning duplicate answers, I came up with a workable, non-mod policy.
 
 
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2:55 AM
@murgatroid99 Damn. There's just no reasoning with this guy.
 
@Frank Yeah. I've really given up this time. I've contented myself with the fact that if nobody else agrees with him, his position won't really matter
 
@murgatroid99 While I agree that the question is stupid and bad, I think we're in the same boat that we have no real grounds to close it.
 
@Frank I was actually arguing something slightly narrower: that we can't close it as "off topic". I think it's arguably "too broad", but I'm not actually sure whether I think it is
 
MGO is quite fun so far. Kind of steep learning curve, balance issues, and latency issues though.
 
@murgatroid99 It's definitely general reference, and the real answer is, "Look at the tag wiki"
 
3:06 AM
Yeah, and that part is definitely deserving of downvotes
 
That said, neither of those is a close reason. I'm having trouble seeing Too Broad as a valid reason, though.
 
@Frank It depends on how detailed a description they were expecting. Though I guess most reasonably sized descriptions would easily be on the OK side of too broad
 
If they were asking for everything you can do in Terraria, yeah, that would definitely be Too Broad.
But just asking what the game is? It's hard to see.
I certainly didn't think it was worth reopening, and I was hoping it would die a silent death.
 
3:29 AM
I can see a reasonable case for too broad, but there is no case for off topic or even primarily opinion based
Oh god
So we're using Oracle DB in my database class, and were instructed to do a local install (since doing it on a university server could be a security risk). Oh dear god.
 
Y'know, if I didn't know this was a Metal Gear game (and therefore Kojima), this opening would piss me the f--k off.
 
And so the random free company invites start.
And I just tore a strip off the guy who sent it to me.
Because I don't feel like being charitiable.
 
3:51 AM
Okay, I think I have something figured out
What exactly I have figured out, I have no idea
 
4:05 AM
@Yuuki The first mission is very cinematic but not fun to play, honestly
 
4:28 AM
@twobugs Opening missions in MGS are never fun, I've learned.
 
4:46 AM
@GnomeSlice geddit? geddit? huh? HUH? "cane"?????
 
5:04 AM
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Q: Does a recursive playthrough have a different ending?

JamesGeckoWhen I beat the Steam version of Transistor, it gave me the Bye() achievement. I noticed that there is also a Goodbye() achievement which is awarded when you complete the game via recursion (New Game+). Is the ending cutscene of a recursive playthrough different?

 
5:30 AM
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Q: Adding Pokemon X/Y game to Global Link

Paul WilliamsI previously had a Pokemon X game and assigned that game to my Pokemon Global Link account. I recently bought a new Pokemon X game and want to add that game onto my Pokemon Global Link account. I'm trying to add the code from my cartridge to my Pokemon Game Link but it's not allowing me to do. ...

 
6:21 AM
o/ chat
 
6:54 AM
@KevinvanderVelden \o
 
7:14 AM
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Q: Draves don't get drunk they die

user28164I shot a lot of dwarves and they all die. They just lie there on the ground with the bubbles/circles showing they are drunk and i get credit for getting 5 drunk. Anything i can do? They won't follow into the crusher so that i could shoot them there. After a long wait, they just disappear - then r...

 
7:28 AM
morgning
 
Hello
I want to leave this here for anyone interested:
There was a question earlier about identifying the illustrator behind the original Mega Man box art. I managed to contact the box art illustrator of Mega Man 2 and he said he'll try his best to find out who it is with the connections he has.
He also said the signature of the Mega Man 1 illustrator is in the lower right corner but is completely illegible.
 
@Arperum evening
@Adam nicely done, moss
 
gmgorgromugrogriognrgorimgrgiongn
so we have a liferay "website" that contains a buncha pages that really are all of the same portlet with a different configuration ID that determines through db lookup what BPMN file to load, and the BPMN file determines the spring IDs of the view beans to load in the page and whatnot
when suddenly the database behind the liferay website breaks down
we replaced the database with an old one and imported our newer pages
and things mostly worked
however one portlet on one page has begun misbehaving and messing up the session information
the portlet fine before and the sources are the same
the portlet also works fine on other installs
we tried replacing our restored liferay database with one from those other installs but no dice
the portlet takes information from the session, does it thing, and when its code stops running the session information is still intact.
"immediately afterwards" everything stops working
no breakpoint we've set up catches the relevant keys being deleted
 
7:55 AM
Sounds like "fun".
 
debugging weird shit is always fun
 
removing the portlet removes the problem
...but the portlet worked fine
we've even replaced the jar with an older version from that other install, still no dice.
I removed and readded the portlet manually, still no dice.
 
some sort of aggregate issue? the portlet combining with other stuff to overload it?
 
in order for the portlet to "combine" with other stuff that's always been there and never has been an issue, wouldn't the portlet need to run
 
you said the problem was when it stopped running
 
7:58 AM
yes
 
i thought i had a point to make but its gone now
i blame your @Wipqozn portlet
 
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Q: Can anyone recommend me a FIFA 16 Premier League Sqaud under 25k coins?

AngelababyI'm very tempted to get a FIFA 16 BPL Squad under 25k coins, because the fifa 16 coins and points are very expensive. I really need a cheap starter team in FIFA16 UT

 
8:43 AM
That stupid lifehacks question is still going
It's like badp incremental all over again
 
@fredley pls
 
@KevinvanderVelden pls
 
Hmm unittests
They're still useful when they run every test on the database running on a coworkers pc, right?
 
@KevinvanderVelden It depends what you're testing
 
@fredley something people that are not said coworker also need to test
Like on fridays when he's not working and takes his laptop home
 
8:55 AM
Oh I see
Yeah, test should create a sqlite db
(assuming relational)
 
Yes relational
However I don't quite think that's ever going to happen, I'm fairly sure that we use some kind of MSSQL specific things
And well, the database structure is kinda big already and requires a lot of data in it to be useful
What would be doable is a setup where it restores a unittest database from backup
 
9:16 AM
@fredley You keep doing these kinds of terrible questions.
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A: Which doge represents what number?

fredleyThe doges are as follows: 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048

 
@Arperum My highest voted post ever
@badp I don't get it
@badp This incremental is 1147% dog neck
so far
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Q: Please Help Me!

ArielleI noticed that lately when I put my hand up to high five my dog he ends up doing a back flip. He used to high five me perfectly, but now he just does a back flip. I've gotten embarrassed numerous times. I tried to show my friends a cool high five and my dog does a back flip. All my friends do is ...

 
9:32 AM
@fredley what's not to get. You click on it a couple times and then it gets going
Isn't that every incremental ever, essentially?
 
@badp No further interaction is required.
 
@fredley Yes. Just like no further interaction is required when you hit NaN + NaN gamerscore.
 
@badp uwotm8? swear on me NaN's grave.
 
9:36 AM
@fredley Has putting your keyboard in a large moat been mentioned?
What about on-screen keyboards?
laser keyboards?
chaining your cat to a pole?
 
@badp No, but you should certainly post that as an answer. I would upvote it.
 
@fredley Disappointment intensifies
 
9:52 AM
@fredley My highest voted post has a higher score (Exactly 1 higher).
 
@Arperum downvotes can fix that
 
"PostcalCode"...
Wut?
How come noone noticed this yet in our code
 
@fredley I know, but every now and then it still gets an upvote. I'm always like "oh, someone is playing that candy game again"
 
This gets upvoted every few days
Also only think I've got 100+ favourites on
This one might eventually get there though
 
@fredley That's crazy high votes.
 
9:55 AM
@Arperum Yeah, it got HN'd, and still gets tonnes of traffic
 
@KevinvanderVelden Our codebase is full of typos.
 
Yeah it happens
 
Since it's Enterprise Java it's almost impossible to fix them, naturally. #xml #limitedcommitrights #enterprisey
Isn't Enterprise Java just the best
 
@fredley You're doing gods work son
Also, last night I dreamed that @badp banned @fredley because @fredley mod abused too hard.
Supposedly @badp has a special button only he can use to ban other mods
 
@badp fun times
Here it also can't be fixed because it's part of a key->value configuration system
 
10:05 AM
@fredley Post sharing eh?
My highest question:
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Q: What caused and ended the time loop in Groundhog Day?

WipqoznI've always wondered what caused the Time Loop experienced by Phil Connors in Groundhog Day, as well as what ended it, but I don't recall it being discussed in the movie. What was the cause for the time loop featured in Groundhog Day, and why did it end?

Highest voted question on that site, actually.
aka I'm Internet famous
Highest answer:
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A: What's the difference between the FMA and FMA Brotherhood series?

WipqoznThere are a large number of differences between the two Fullmetal Alchemist anime, with far too many to list; therefore, I'll only cover the major ones. To improve the flow of this answer, the following abbreviations will be used: FMAM = Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga) FMA03 = Fullmetal Alchemist 2...

I like my best performing posts are on non-arqade sites
 
@Wipqozn I'm only 10th highest or so on Programmers
 
And that those posts are pretty much the only ones I made on those sites
 
But then to get top is basically impossible now
 
@fredley Oh zeus yes
Some of those older sites have so much traffic, and so many old posts with hoardes of upvotes, that crawling to the top isn't going to happen for new users
 
10:19 AM
@KevinvanderVelden a real chore, man
 
Yet someone is slacking on their chores
CC @god
 
@KevinvanderVelden I mean, it was. Did you not notice?
 
@RonanForman nope, did not notice
 
@KevinvanderVelden Sheesh. Some people.
 
10:31 AM
Hey all,

I just want to remind everyone to feed your pets!

~ WIpqozn
Oh hey, it's @RonanForman
How's school going?
Or are you working now?
I can't even keep track
 
Yeesh, some of those posts
scary
 
Hiccups have invaded. Send help.
 
@Wipqozn Lifehack: how can I keep my pet alive without feeding it?
 
@Wipqozn I'm working for the year and then back to uni for my final year and then who knows what.
And then death.
 
@RonanForman For some reason you are locked at 14 year old in my head, even if I know that to be completely wrong.
 
10:40 AM
@Arperum You didn't even know me when I was 14.
 
@RonanForman Nope, you still are 14 anyway. The least annoying 14 year old I know to be fair.
 
@Arperum Hopefully by a long way.
 
I know I'm wrong, but the information is somehow wrongly saved and is read only.
@RonanForman Yes, closest is a nephew that acts pretty grown up most of the times. He still does a lot a dumb stuff though.
 
@RonanForman You should become a jiggalo.
 
@Wipqozn Sounds like a good use of my uni education.
 
10:46 AM
@Arperum I always think he's 16
 
Clearly I haven't changed enough in the past 5 years.
 
If anything you've become even more less different as you've grown not older.
 
@Wipqozn ...yes..... nods. backs away.
 
11:03 AM
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Q: Can your buddy die in MGS 5: TPP

AsunezI've tried searching for this, but was unfortunate. Can your buddies die during missions? If so - do they die permanently and am I banned from using them in the future? I saw a Tweet (I suppose it was a Tweet) from Hideo saying that they do die permanently, but it was before the game rolled out ...

 
@Wipqozn @RonanForman looks perma-16, that could be the cause of your confusion
 
@fredley Hey!
 
@RonanForman Taunting your youthful looks makes me feel less bad about how little hair I have left, I think
 
@fredley Well if it makes you feel any better, I didn't notice you were balding.
 
@RonanForman Maximum overcomb
 
11:08 AM
@fredley Hehe.
 
@fredley Hey, apparently @Chippies looks perma 14.
 
@Arperum That's actually hilarious.
 
@RonanForman According to earlier things he said his wife regularly gets question if he is her kid...
 
@Arperum Yeah I remember.
Poor them.
 
11:34 AM
@Arperum I surprised all coworkers today with that, they thought I had just finished school, then they found out I'm their age
 
@Arperum If he's 14 in your mind I wonder what that makes me
 
@PrivatePansy a pony?
 
11:53 AM
 
My boss wanted me to come in at 7:30 today and I started awake in bed at 7:37
Guess I'm gonna be an hour late
Uugghgh I HATE THAT
 
I got home an hour ago, night shifts are fun
 
Wtf my alarm clock didn't continue to go off
 
@GnomeSlice that's why you set many alarms with 5 minute increments
 
I usually just snooze it
 
12:01 PM
3 was the bare minimum for me when I was in school
 
Maybe I turned it off the first time I went off by mistake again
 
usually I had 4-5 alarms with 5 minute increments, starting half hour before I should wake up
 
Or do what I do; wake up with the first alarm and keep on going.
 
Fucking still, I hate being late like this
 
@Frank HAHAHAHAHAAHHA no
then again, I somehow manage to do that now
OH MY GOD, I THINK I'M OLD
 
12:03 PM
I usually wake up 5 minutes before the alarm after a few days on the same alarm timing
 
I thought about calling an Uber to get there at like 8
Too late now
 
well, I never woke up on time for school because 1) I went to sleep way too late 2) I hated getting up early in the morning 3) no one cared if I was late
 
Those are all bad reasons
 
I didn't say they were good reasons
one thing that helps me get to work on time now is ativan
dealing with morning anxiety before going anywhere is a huge time waster
heh, I may have stayed in university if I had access to Ativan back then...
but I wouldn't be married and in Canada if I didn't drop out, so it was worth it
 
This sucks
Right after they finished telling me how dependable I was getting
 
12:07 PM
Okay guys, let's be clear, The Martian was not based on a true story
 
@GnomeSlice did you call them and tell them you gonna be late?
 
I texted my boss yeah
(Which is how he prefers to be reached)
 
well, that's good then
 
I can tell this bus is gonna be super late too
Fuck it happened on the weekend too, I forgot the weekend bus sched was different
 
@MBraedley let's ship all those people off to mars
 
12:10 PM
Ended up being like 20 mins late
 
We have the technology, let's do it now
(We don't have the technology to get them there alive yet but meh)
 
Obvious solution is for all fictional movies to show the disclaimer 'NOT based on a true story' in big, friendly font before screening
Can be prefaced with 'Don't Panic' for the scarier ones
 
o/
 
@KevinvanderVelden No, we can get them there alive. We have no way of getting them back to earth, or even to keep them alive for a prolonged period.
 
Large, friendly letters
 
12:14 PM
@MBraedley I thought the current problem was not being able to ship enough food, as well as the extra radiation shielding required
 
@PrivatePansy The irony here is that some people seeing Titanic don't know that there was a real Titanic, and that it actually sank when the movie said it did.
 
@MBraedley 'Based on a true story. The ship, you idiot, not the soppy love story.'
 
@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, we can conceivably send enough food and water for the 9 month trip. Radiation is more a long-term problem than short term problem. The problem isn't keeping them alive on the trip, it's keeping them alive once they get there.
 
Ugh I'm all stressed out now
What if I was really needed early
 
@GnomeSlice Chill. You're late one day, you told your boss you'd be late, everything will be fine.
 
12:26 PM
@GnomeSlice are you the only worker? are you the manager? if you answered to both of those with "no", then no, you weren't needed early
could've been helpful, maybe, but they could do without you
 
I might be the only one in early, I see no other reason he'd text me saying "better start at 730 tomorrow"
I mean I know I'm not gonna get fired or anything, I just hate this
I'm so dumb when I'm asleep
O probably just turned my clock off instead of snoozing it
Lol
 
@GnomeSlice That's what's called punishment and making up lost time. Pretty standard in the service industry.
 
Loaf tons
Lost time
He knows I worked like 49 hours last week
He even let me leave a little early last time I was in
Anyway I have to run now off the bus
 
12:40 PM
There needs to be a way for coffee to take effect faster.
Maybe I should start having a cup at home. I do have a single serving brewer.
 
Drip inject caffeine directly into your bloodstream, duh
 
> Use by 04/02/16
So is that April 2 or February 4?
This is why YYYY-MM-DD is the best short date format.
 
@MBraedley Nah. YYYY-DD-MM.
 
It's obviously February 16, 2004
 
@MBraedley Drink more
 
12:44 PM
Drinking more increases dosage, but does not guarantee the caffeine taking effect faster
 
@MBraedley ask on coffee.se
 
Ask on lifehacks.se! Answer: shoot it with a gun
 
I was expecting sad panda, but that really does exist
 
12:57 PM
@twobugs Answer: Shoot yourself with a gun. The increased heart rate and adrenaline should dramatically increase caffeine uptake
 
@PrivatePansy Also there's less blood for it to be diluted in.
 
@PrivatePansy Wasn't that an answer to the "how can I wake up without an alarm clock?" question
Just have a friend shoot you!
 

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