The Bridge

shrug like I said, stopped trying to understand a long time ago

The whole thing is @fredley's fault anyway.

That's all any of us need to know.

Clearly

Everything is @fredley's fault, unless it's @Wipqozn's fault

So, just to bounce this by chat all quick-like

For the Metal Gear Online tag... there have been two other "Metal Gear Online" games, but neither of them are active anymore

I tagged my question with MGSV and Metal Gear Online to be clear, but do you think further clarification is necessary?

Inactive as in you can't even play them anymore.

maybe a better tag would've been mgsv-mgo or mgsv-online, I'm assuming that it's just part of the main game and not a stand alone product?

4:15 PM

Yeah. That's a good idea.

Yeah, if it's a completely different game, don't use the same tag, even if you're also using a clarifying tag like MGSV

It's basically an online portion that is not a standalone product but distinct from the main game so I think mgsv-mgo makes the most sense.

I guess the only somewhat confusing part is the main game of MGSV also has some multiplayer aspects

4:32 PM

sigh I love the look of Transformers Devastation. Looks just like my old comic books. But do I ever suck at brawlers.

It's not just a brawler, it's a Platinum brawler.

I want to buy it, not because I know anything about Transformers, but because Platinum.

I should buy it and just watch my kids play it.

G1 Transformers only Transformers.

"Daddy, this game is too hard!" "Alright, let Daddy handle it" ... "Daddy, you suck!"

And then the child was placed into foster care.

4:37 PM

The general idea here is that my kids have better reflexes than I, so they might actually be able to play it.

You're subcontracting your gaming.

Hah, you sound like my dad. I got him playing Diablo 1 but he had to quit at The Butcher.

Get daddy some acheivements.

@MadMAxJr I'm already doing that. My kids are grinding Civ 5 and XCOM achievements for me.

@JasonBerkan You're the best father.

4:39 PM

Daddy needs 4 more achievements for this quarters milestone.

Ahaha, my friends and I started using Google Hangouts over Skype. This is so much better and the stickers are great.

Alternatively, use google hangouts over google hangouts.

John

@twobugs No one I ever need to voice chat with will use Hangouts. They stick to Skype like glue and I'm completely baffled as to why.

:(

We switched away when my friend had to get a new computer. He got a chromebook and apparently the skype version for it is even worse than normal skype, but the hangout support is good stuff.

SaintWacko

@twobugs My daughter plays Diablo 3

@twobugs Yay! Hangouts is so much better

I gave up on Skype a long time ago

Although, for voice chat, I usually use mumble

4:48 PM

I like mumble. Hangouts seems to be a good catchall, though

I remember Skype being great but it's gone downhill with every update. It's pretty awful now, sadly

SaintWacko

@twobugs Yep

I used to use it a lot

Getting glasses repaired finallyy

Chuckle

Oops

Eyesight will return to me and I can stop being old and set my chrome zoom back to 100% not 150%

Hi again

4:53 PM

(my eyesight has gotten markedly worse since my previous before these glasses apparently)

Google music doesn't have the undertale OST, but good ol' youtube is there to back me up during break.

Fuck, the screw is broken inside the frame, and they can't get it out

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk Ugh

Need more sheds

Well that sucked

ShedOverflow

5:19 PM

This guy on meta. I don't even. I cannot.

I mean, I know what's going on, they're applying SO rules to gaming, but even still, it's hard to understand

Link?

@Unionhawk The same guy from yesterday?

Yes

I'm disengaging. There's no point.

@twobugs How do I refill ammo and stuff while at Mother Base?

@Unionhawk You are now the third person to come to that conclusion

5:23 PM

I don't know how to do it at MB, but you automatically do it when you go to the ACC which you can call for free from MB

Oh, probably a supply drop. I assume those are cheap/free on MB

Starting a target-shooting activity will give you infinite non-lethal during the target shooting.

@murgatroid99 yeah, I'm not going to continue to argue the site's position on strategy questions with someone who doesn't seem to understand the concept of good subjective and site specific meta

Rapitor

meta drama?

Stupid meta drama

Where at? I want to read the drama while this thing runs

Oh, I found it

5:37 PM

@Unionhawk It was worse yesterday. His argument basically boiled down to "Sites generally become stricter over time, therefore the fact that you allow those sorts of questions is just a misunderstanding of your own rules that will correct itself over time"

Or, to put it differently, "I, as an enlightened user of the network's oldest site, have come to explain to the newer site savages how to moderate a StackExchange site"

Yes, exactly

It's fucking condescending and it annoys me

> StackExchange sites are different from other Q&A sites, and they list the differences right on the front page. The emphasis is on helping everyone find the correct answer quickly. If the correct answer can already be found quickly and it is not a question anyone else is asking, then it does not belong on the site. Yes, the Gaming site is less strict the other, well developed sites like StackOverflow, but this is more a result of limited knowledge then a granting of permission.

user4704

lol

Holy crap, I didn't realize he actually said that, almost verbatim

Guys, he has a whole 3k on the oldest site. He's kind of a big deal.

5:40 PM

Yes.

I have a gold badge on SO, but it doesn't make me a general of stack exchange.

And gaming is one of the older sites too

I have 5K on SO

Is the above an arguement on meta? If so, vote to close it.

@MadMAxJr It's in an answer

Actually, his unwillingness to listen to us yesterday makes a lot more sense in light of his condescending attitude towards the site as a whole.

5:45 PM

He's the second SO user in recent memory who has sought to "clean up" gaming, or whatever

Hmm. I cannot downvote the answer, because it is locked.

Yeah, I just tried that

Arperum

@PrivatePansy 21 somehow.

Also, has anyone noticed that he keeps making rooms on chat.stackoverflow to discuss every post he's made

Q: How can I randomly select every second/third entity of a kind?

Neat, just got a golden legendary while waiting for my dumb thing to compile. And it's done compiling!

@murgatroid99 We should make a chat room to discuss his chat rooms

Lazers 2.0

5:51 PM

0

I have decided that I don't like standing in front of a mob spawner for quite a while in order to reach level 30. Seeing that I don't (yet) have an Enderman farm (or a Pigman farm), I wondered if I can't simply increase the XP I get from everything by about 50% using command block magic to summon...

Arperum

@twobugs But what if he makes a chatroom to discus your discussing of his chatrooms?

Powerlord

@murgatroid99 That's it? Really?

@MadMAxJr I have multiple gold tag badges on SO. I demand to be appointed dictator for life of a totally unrelated SE site!

Oh right, I can't use sarcasm because someone might flag it as offensive.

@Powerlord At the very least, you should be granted a hat.

I'd like to cash in my stack badges for free mod abuse tickets.

6:13 PM

@Powerlord I basically haven't participated for the past couple of years

And most of the participation I do have is posting answers to relatively easy new questions, along with four other people

After the first few years of SO, I gave up getting meaningful responses.

Recently, I actually primarily use SO to ask questions

... And google music just Rickrolled me.

Adam Ruins Everything - Why "Buy One, Give One" Companies Don't Help Anyone

Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Shouldn't Donate Canned Food to Charities

This gu yrocks

I love ruining things for people

6:31 PM

Yay being home yay oh what's on TV oh. Right. Being home.

Why The TSA Doesn't Stop Terrorist Attacks - Adam Ruins Everything

Just in case you didn't already beleive the TSA was terrible

I'll probably never visit the US of A so long as the TSA is a thing

How can you tell if the TSA stops terrorist attacks on planes if there are so few terrorist attacks on planes?

When I was flying once a guy started talking to me about how whenever he goes through the TSA scanners the employees say "Wow, you've got a big dick!"

This was completely unprompted and I just stared at him

I should go back and destroy that anti-air.

Q: Which vendors have a lot of cash?

Yeah, destroying anti-airs and stealing box invoices will save you a lot of time in the long run.

Lazers 2.0

6:42 PM

0

So I just escaped from the Sierra Madre Vault with 37 gold bars. They are worth 9k each. It will obviously take me a while to sell them all. Which vendors have the most caps? I know Gun Runners is one of them. Are there any other vendors with 5k+ caps?

fallout-new-vegas

Also, be sure to listen to the tapes. Great stuff on there, especially the later ones.

The Hamburgers Of Kazuhira Miller are my favorite

@murgatroid99 if they ever would, you would never stop hearing about it

Hey, the TSA also prevents Landshark attacks. Have you heard of any Landshark attacks since the TSA was founded? No? I rest my case.

Hamburger tapes are the best.

They're overdramatic and they know it.

@twobugs have you ever heard of one they stopped though

They're just covering up the attacks! Wake up sheople

6:49 PM

@KevinvanderVelden If you check their instagram page (mentioned in the video), there are several loaded firearms just on the first page

@murgatroid99 yes? That's just guns, it's america

MBraedley

@Wipqozn Sometimes I have to for work.

How do you know whether they would have been used in a terrorist attack, if they had made it on to the plane?

Unlike most every country, carrying a loaded gun hidden in a pocket does not mean criminal intent

Carrying a firearm on a plane is a crime though

6:50 PM

Carrying a plane is probably a crime too.

@KevinvanderVelden My point is that you can't tell the difference between a terrorist attack foiled by having a weapon confiscated and a weapon confiscated for some other reason.

In unrelated news, goddammit I can't get this screw out of my glasses

Oh wait

Fuck

I understand now. The screw head broke off, so...

Hmm

You sound like you need... a LIFEHACK.

No

@MadMAxJr "Is that a plane in your pocket, or are you not human?"

Just use scuba gear to force the screw out of your glasses. What's the worst that could happen?

6:55 PM

No.

Disassemble glasses into component elements. Remove unecessary metals. Reassemble glasses from pile of raw elements.

StrixVaria

Scuba gear is so versatile.

I do not have the time nor the patience for your nonsense

Speaking as a dive professional

Lifehacks, how can I kill an elephant with only a battery, a knife, scuba gear, and thermo-nuclear weapons?

StrixVaria

@Unionhawk Misread dive as jive, headcanon of @Unionhawk permanently altered.

7

6:57 PM

It's not my fault you can't read

@Unionhawk was raised by the Jive interpreter from Airplane

I hate all of you

The line to file your hatred starts back behind the velvet rope area.

@MBraedley That sounds terrible.

btw, @Canadians: Your employer is required to give time off (with pay) to vote https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/3nyrs8/psa_federal_election_2015_employee_time_off_to/

cc @AshleyNunn @GnomeSlice (since I think you're the only ones with shift work)

These checkpoints aren't very good checkpoints if I have to start all the way at the beginning of the mission even if I'm 3/4s through.

7:09 PM

That also works in the US. Your employer must make reasonable accommodations to let you go vote.

I don't think I should lose the "no reset" bonus for this considering this is essentially a reset.

Grace Note

@Unionhawk It'll be your fault if you disappoint our headcanon with any inexperience in jive.

@Yuuki There are horrid checkpoints in some of the africa ops.

@Yuuki Checkpoints are basically worthless for several missions, sadly.

Also checkpoints only kind of work. Anything with vehicles and checkpoints is wonky.

@GraceNote No it will be @StrixVaria's fault for misreading what I accurately typed

7:10 PM

I feel like they're being rude with taking away the "no reset" bonus when they essentially start you back at the beginning of the mission anyways.

They absolutely are, and there's a vehicle destruction mission where it is particularly bad.

15 minutes timed, no checkpoints aside from the very start.

That's the only one with an actual timer displayed, if I recall. Other timed missions are implied.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn Yeah, I have to check the hours of the polling stations here, but I think it's 8AM to 8PM, which means I can leave work at 5 no matter what.

I should go to the store and get stuff and things

Off the top of my head there is at least one other mission that has an explicit timer

7:15 PM

Huh. Apparently this guy is deaf.

I "knocked" five times and he's still standing there.

Knocking feels kind of meh compared to magazines. Those are infinite and targeted.

knocking works at under 15 meters

Dude was at 9m.

Hmm. Throw an empty magazine.

Too late. Twitched my stick and Snake took that to mean "jump out of cover and do the Funky Monkey".

Decided to restart because the checkpoint system is garbage.

7:19 PM

Yeah. The mission at the mine is the worst about that.

user15026

@Wipqozn I am just going to go before work (because I don't work til noon)

user15026

It's easier that way than trying to futz about during work

Voting for a new tax elemental or moose minister?

FALSCH

so. tired.

Tomorrow is my last day at my current job and all I can feel is being tired

Well...

Be sure to not get.. BONE-ly while looking for your next job.

:sans:

7:26 PM

We were supposed to get greenlit for production, though we released to production last week, because that's how things work here

So today we find out we're the very first project of our kind that's going through greenlighting despite other projects like this have been in productions for a month now

so we didn't get greenlit because, well, nothing works, and what little does work is not to their liking

In particular of all the issues they found the only one that be attributed to us is picking an icon over another

Don't you dare judge me for my extractions, Miller.

but it was US on the spotlight

Those responsible just cowered cozily in the other side of Milan and kept not giving a fuck, because that's how things work here

@Yuuki You're going to extract that guy? (I mean he's mostly Ds)

The way things work here is that despite hitting production in April our work has been used a grand total of zero times

@MadMAxJr Well, maybe I'd know about his ranks if Miller didn't throw away my INT scope from the last game.

7:31 PM

Snaaaaaaake

Meanwhile as I get finally off Mr Bones' Wild Ride of Having a Bad Time, the rest of our team will enjoy "working" against the new source control system, the new office plans, the formal code performance review that's just been announced, and other such forms of non-productive non-production time wasters

because the more things change…

@AshleyNunn You wouldn't qualify anyways, since you have 3 hours in the day to vote

@badp did you have source control before?

user15026

@Wipqozn That too.

@AshleyNunn The way it works is if you worked, say, 10-6, and the polls were open from 8-8, your employer is required to give you time off. In that case they could either give you an hour before or an hour after.

user15026

7:35 PM

At least, I am assuming I do.

user15026

@Wipqozn Yep, I know. :)

user15026

(I've worked a number of shift work jobs during elections)

@AshleyNunn WELL TO BAD! YOU GOT KNOWLEDGED AT ANYWAYS!

@murgatroid99 yes, neither the new or the old one support atomic commits over multiple files and the new one isn't apparently compatible with not acquiring locks on files you edit

MBraedley

traffic means getting home is going to suck today. Accident on the longer (distance) but more consistent (time) route, and the shorter route is just going to suck like normal.

7:36 PM

@AshleyNunn Yeah, won't even lie, main reason I pinged youa nd gnome is I figured your work places were the ones most likely to try and screw you over

user15026

@Wipqozn It's good knowledge

Fallout 4 peoples: PC requirements have been announced: bethesda.net/#en/events/game/…

user15026

@Wipqozn hahahaha yeah, I get that

And some irrelevant things about inferior ways to play the game

user15026

I am curious if my coworker that works 10-6 is going to do anything

7:36 PM

@AshleyNunn Yeah. Sadly, shift places tend to be the ones most out to fuck over thier employees

@KevinvanderVelden Half the time, I don't even pay attention to the system reqs.

user15026

@Wipqozn See, as much as I am kinda a shift place, I'm also on salary and it is a tiny place, so I tend to fall out okay.

I just install it, launch it, and upgrade my computer if it doesn't work.

@AshleyNunn That's good.

Also our "test suite" is 50 "end-to-end" hardcoded calls to a mainframe, the only check being that they don't suddenly start giving new error messages

We do "continuous integration" as in we all test and debug our code on the same one server

user15026

7:39 PM

@Wipqozn They've been good about this stuff with my grandma (left work early tuesday, wasn't there yesterday because, well, things are not good) so I appreciate that

Meanwhile our coworker has been working singlehandedly on two products on the old platform, but the back-end has never worked once in the last four months. They hit QA today and production tomorrow. Happy fun times

Looks like my question on Skeptics just hit a score of 25.

@AshleyNunn Well that's good then

user15026

@badp I am not sure fun is the right word there ;)

Happy fuct times

7:44 PM

@badp Our testing suite is "Max, try various user inputs until it breaks."

SCALES - Loves Got Me High (Koncept Remix)

@GnomeSlice lel, fuct

Also, @GnomeSlice.

@AshleyNunn * !!!FUN!!!

Is the fun on fire?

Is this your first election as a voter @Wipqozn?

@MadMAxJr that was basically it before I got a chance to write those 50 calls plus the scaffolding necessary to make all of the other arbtirary calls

7:47 PM

@badp funfunfunfunf̛̩̻̭͕̹̹͇̼̭͔̑̆̎͌͑̉̓̈͂u̺̫̖̫̟̩͖̺̼̠̎͋̿̆̃̈́͂́̾̕ņ̛͕̹͓̻͇͇̲̒͋͂̀̿͋͘͠͠ͅͅ

@JasonBerkan Wait, there's an election going on?

In Qanada

(Canada)

@twobugs kek

(Kanada)

We used to have very smart people recompile and redeploy a program over and over to hardcode the call to whatever they were testing

@badp You can't see, but I'm pointing and silently screaming at that idea.

7:49 PM

(!anada)

now we have a buncha text boxes and a buncha buttons. ISNT THE FUTURE AMAZING

Proof advertising works (kind of): my seven year old came home from school and announced he was going to vote for <insert local candidate here> and then quoted the entire sign that was on my neighbours lawn.

@MadMAxJr I can't see you over how amazing the future is

Vote for 'A particularly large bear' from the northwest territories.

A moose with 3 antlers is the front runner

7:51 PM

What about the moose wearing google glass?

He's not bad, but he's lacking the moxie and/or gumption of old tri-moose.

@MadMAxJr it switched to hololens

@twobugs yes but is the trimoose being mistaken for a Christmas tree

It's a shame the six legged omni-moose didn't run.

@JasonBerkan Nope. It's my...third? I thnk?

@Wipqozn First time employed during an election, then?

7:53 PM

No, wait. Recind that. Vote Toriel.

@JasonBerkan Nope

Canadian politics are so silly. In America we only have two choices and they're both wrong.

@MadMAxJr I'm sorry Max there is no Mercy button in real life

In this world it's meme or be memed

The only choice that matters is Deez Nuts

@Wipqozn Well don't I look foolish then.

7:55 PM

@JasonBerkan Nah, just old.

I'm 90% sure I could vote in the 2008 election

Are you 90% sure you did vote in the 2008 election?

and that I voted NDP

I voted in the 2008 Election! I matter!

Yup, I was juuuuust old enough to vote in 2008

and I voted NDP

Isn't the 2008 election the one where Bush won without getting 50% of the total votes?

7:56 PM

@badp No, that was 2004 (and probably 2000 as well)

Having experienced the switch from NDP to non-NDP in this province, I would never, ever go back.

Oh wait Canada

The electoral college system is goofy, yes

SAME DIFFERENCE

user15026

I've voted every time I've been able to. :)

7:56 PM

@badp Yes, not irrelevant =p

user15026

@badp Stuff like that happens here too. (Woo minority governments...)

ALL HAIL THE SAVE

@AshleyNunn See this is the right choice. I've just become so disillusioned with the process that I haven't voted since 2008

@JasonBerkan Who is running things there now?

Whoo, S-rank!

7:57 PM

I ask in part since I can never remember which provicne you live in

@Yuuki Great job! Which mission?

I just know it's a prairie provinces

@Wipqozn A local provincial party created from the ruins of the PC.

@twobugs The bionics engineer mission.

@JasonBerkan Ah Is ee

Well I think I'll be voting Liberal this time

7:58 PM

@Yuuki Yep, makes sense. That one has terrible checkpoint. Notice I said checkpoint, because THERE IS ONLY ONE

There's actually a really easy way to do that mission I didn't discover until the Extreme version

@AshleyNunn you're talking to an Italian. The last Italian who won an election twice on a row was Mussolini and I don't know of that really counts

You can climb up the rocks to the west of the entrance and go in real easy and quiet like

Also extracting the engineer through the skylight is awesome.

Also the last party to win twice in a row is the fascist party

@Wipqozn Going away from NDP should be enough of a clue, as both MB and AB have NDP governments right now.

@JasonBerkan Oh right, you live in Corner Gas land.

8:03 PM

70km from The Ruby.

How can you forget about Canadian provinces. There are like 4.

I remember all 50 American states, even the crappy ones like Wyoming.

I even remember all 151 original Pokemon.

YES, EVEN TANGELA.

@twobugs I remember them, but the three prairie provinces are basically just the same province three times over

@Wipqozn We have a North and a South Dakota. I don't even know what a Dakota is.

@twobugs I used a wormhole on extreme. :D

Heck, if you live in one of the provinces, you have citizen in the other two too!

Powerlord

8:07 PM

...wow, I just found a long-standing bug in the scoring for the PropHunt game mode.

@Wipqozn Thems fighting words.

@MadMAxJr I still don't have wormhole :( How do you unlock it?

@JasonBerkan Yes

@twobugs Sorry, you need to modernize to be in touch with younger generations. you need to know ALL the pokemon.

Powerlord

The guy who wrote this is doing math on two ints, then converting them to a float, then rounding it.

8:08 PM

@twobugs You need the fulton mastery certificate. Don't have it? Fulton more things.

@MadMAxJr There are like 900 of those jerks now. I can't only be assed to remember so many Pikachu variants.

I mean we have Pikachu, kid Pikachu, Darker Pikachu, Blue Pikachu, Big Blue Pikachu, Pachirisu, Plulse, Minun, uh probably more

I'm not sure how the not-japan that houses all the pokemon realms isn't so flooded with unique species that the run into problems.

Oh Dendienne or whatever the new one is

I'm still upset the evolution chain isn't Bidoof, Tridoof, Omnidoof.

Pre-evolution: Unidoof

8:10 PM

Or something with a circular evolution chain, like a phoenix that turns into an egg and back again every so many levels.

Unidoof, the wrongness pokemon

Undoof

Well ladies and gents, time to head off.

Remember: Be yourself.

Unless you're awful, in which case be someone else.

Right, so don't be @Wipqozn

Unless you can be Batman. Then be Batman.

8:14 PM

@twobugs You guys really need to learn to cope with the jealously you feel towards me, due to me awesomeness.

#2cool4u #rebel #hashtag #yolo #fuckharper #lifehacks #urmom

Oh, I use this app on my phone that converts all latent emotion into apathy.

@Wipqozn My jealousy towards you truly is Paranormal.

@Wipqozn Yo, Lo, Yo, Lo, a pirates life for me.

any of you, Canadians, use ING Direct / Tangerine bank? cc: @fredley @Wipqozn @TrentHawkins @AshleyNunn uhhh @JasonBerkan? I forget who else is Canadian...

Grace Note

Skeptics now with less dark background

Tim Stone

8:21 PM

@Chippies ING Direct still exists in Canada? I thought the Capitol One acquisition was global, huh.

@TimStone they rebranded to Tangerine Bank now, apparently

Tim Stone

Ah, I see, Scotiabank acquired the Canadian clients of ING Direct apparently.

we don't have them in NL, but apparently with the rebrand, they got some really nice interest rates and no fees and whatnot

@Chippies I do not.

so I'm just wondering if anyone has experience with them

and they got all kinds of sign up bonuses

user15026

8:29 PM

I don't, no