The Bridge

Yuuki

5:00 PM

Yawns are contagious.

fredley

@Yuuki I could hear them

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk I can't confirm he's 3D-printing an army of minions for a hostile takeover, but I won't deny it either.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Hosting 2 different servers with 2 different IPs on same network

I have two Minecraft servers that I've set up on my MacBook and my PC. Both are using No-IP, and the server on the MacBook is under 2xedo.ddns.net, while the other is tux3do.ddns.net. I've set different static internal IPs for each device, but both have the same external IP, as they're on the sam...

minecraft-server

0

Q: How do you beat the dungeon gurdian in Terraria mobile? If so, what does it drop?

I looked all over the internet to find some help on this stuff.

terraria-mobile

Chippies

Generous welfare systems actually make people more keen to work, Europe-wide study finds

Yuuki

@Chippies Huh. People like to do things, who da thunk?

Tim Stone

5:03 PM

@Chippies Who knew not worrying about starving and other basic necessities would make finding gainful employment less of an insurmountable burden?

Chippies

@Yuuki but clearly if you give people money for not working, no one will ever work!

Yuuki

Hell, the biggest reason I got a job at my local movie theatre was because I had nothing to do over the summer, not because I needed money to buy stuff.

Tim Stone

@Yuuki That seems like an inconvenient parking spot.

Chippies

Honestly, if it wasn't for money and social pressure, I'd be fine without having a job

Yuuki

@TimStone It's a pretty impressive mural though.

MBraedley

5:07 PM

@TimStone Not for a monster truck

Chippies

Shadow of Mordor + 18 DLC for $19.99

Yuuki

@Chippies Wow, Shadow of Mordor has 18 DLC?

Chippies

@Yuuki I bet it looks weird from a different angle

@Yuuki most are probably small item dlc's

Yuuki

Farthest journey by hoverboard - Guinness World Records

►

Chippies

actually Idk, it's basically base game + season pass, and season passes usually don't include item dlc's

but I can't be bothered to go through each listed dlc to check what it adds

there seem to be some rune and skin dlc's though

badp

5:09 PM

0

Q: Why just ban Minecraft modding tech support?

As we are making the Minecraft mod technical questions ban super-duper official with a close-reason and everything, I feel that this question remains in dire need of a satisfactory answer: Why just Minecraft? What about Minecraft, and Minecraft modding specifically, makes the game so extraordi...

discussion off-topic-content

I CRAVE FOR YOUR ANSWERS

I HAVE NO PATIENCE FOR SILLY SEPIA LAZERS TO CATCH UP WITH THE TIMES

Unionhawk

Some are runes and player skins, others are things like time challenges iirc

Chippies

There are a couple of actual content dlc's too

I wonder if it's gonna drop below $19.99

StrixVaria

I wonder what would happen if I ban Sepia Lazers.

badp

@StrixVaria I don't think the button to do so is physically on the page

StrixVaria

Ban reason: Behind the times.

Jason Berkan

5:12 PM

@StrixVaria The Bridge would collapse due to lack of arguments.

StrixVaria

@badp But if I craft a speical AJAX request...

badp

@StrixVaria then we would be doing SCIENCE.

Wipqozn

Please don't kill @SepiaLAzers like @AshleyNunn killed original @Lazers.

Or was it @badp?

I can't remember. I blame both of them.

Unionhawk

Didn't @badp try to ban the Stack Exchange feed bot, and it did literally nothing or something?

badp

I do not recall partaking in such levels of SCIENCE.

Jason Berkan

5:13 PM

@Unionhawk No, it did figuratively nothing.

badp

I do recall banning myself.

It did figuratively nothing.

It did do something but I could still unban myself.

So it did figuratively nothing.

Sepia Lazers

USER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR THIS POST

6

MadMAxJr

I expect Rainbow Lasers to unban that

MBraedley

Let us not forget this:

In which @badp timed out the bridge for a day

Aug 20 '14 at 16:15, 6 minutes total – 78 messages, 12 users, 29 stars

Bookmarked Aug 21 '14 at 13:14 by Unionhawk

Tim Stone

#neverforget

MadMAxJr

5:20 PM

@badp Answered your dang question. TLDR; We're sick of the front page 'My 400 mod minecraft crashed, I know nothing, I expect you to fix this now'

Skyrim doesn't flood the front page.

Tim Stone

Solution: Ban all tech support questions for shoddily-written Java-anything, as to be fair.

MadMAxJr

Wait for The Elder Scrolls: Another-Continent-Name-Here and you may have a case.

And we'll ban those too.

Jason Berkan

I think that only banning tech support questions for "pain point" games is not a good policy.

murgatroid99

For the nth time, I wish we had a developer intent rule on BCG

MadMAxJr

Perhaps, but we're banning frequently asked questions that pretty much cannot be answered unless the answer-er has an exact match of the askers conditions.

The 'pain point' has multiple parts. The game factors and the people factors. Many of the questions are phrased badly and presented with poor information before we even look at the fact it's a minecraft question.

Example: The ones where they post a log snippet that says to look at the error log for details.

Jason Berkan

5:25 PM

I know. I am in the "we already have an unclear close reason" camp, but that camp appears to have been severely outvoted.

fredley

@badp my take

Not very well articulated

MadMAxJr

Oh. I usually mark them unclear or occasionally off-topic if they're just trying to debug Java.

fredley

Ban anything involving Java

MadMAxJr

@fredley Oh-ho, fanceeee Mister "My idea is sorted by bullet points in a clean readable manner." :P

MBraedley

@fredley Aren't you still the top vote getter for Minecraft?

fredley

5:27 PM

@MBraedley No idea

I was first to gold tag badge

(first gold tag badge of the whole site)

Mad Scientist

Tech support questions are hard enough to answer in most cases. In any case where a game was modified it becomes almost impossible.

Tim Stone

@fredley You monster

fredley

Back when I was hooked on rep

I'm now more than 12 months sober

GnomeSlice

What about like 'official' mods

Tim Stone

A wee lad with a rep IV in his arm

fredley

5:28 PM

@GnomeSlice Such as?

MadMAxJr

I'm not asking for anybody putting in a [minecraft] tag on a question to have their question interrupted while their account is automatically closed, but they make for a lot of unusable questions. Aren't there a fair chunk of those where they ask the question and never return anyway?

Yuuki

@fredley Probably talking about modpacks.

With popular launchers like FTB.

fredley

@TimStone All the canulars are out

@Yuuki popular !== official

Yuuki

We do have a FTB tag after all.

fredley

Official === Minerosoft Endorsed

@Yuuki For playing FTB

GnomeSlice

5:29 PM

Well for minecraft yea

Idk are officially endorsed mods a thing

Jason Berkan

We aren't talking about questions regarding playing Minecraft or modded Minecraft.

fredley

The root of all this is that we can't answer the questions, even with a crash dump, because all we can say is "Looks like this mod is broken! Maybe ask the developer for a fix"

MadMAxJr

@fredley +1 for use of STRICT comparison.

Jason Berkan

@fredley Sometimes you can. ID conflicts, for example.

Private Pansy

fredley

5:31 PM

@JasonBerkan But then what? You still can't fix the problem (unless you delve into the mod configurations and manage to work out how to fix it without causing another conflict, and all of this is highly version dependent even if you do)

MBraedley

@JasonBerkan Aren't ID conflicts a thing of the past?

Jason Berkan

@fredley I disagree. But I don't feel like arguing it.

fredley

@MBraedley Yeah, I think so

@JasonBerkan Yay, I win!

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan Victory through frustration is best victory.

PLus I think @fredley needed this little victory, given the past week.

@JasonBerkan is basically a hero

MadMAxJr

I just assumed we wanted to be less of a debugging site and more of a 'How does I save prancess' site.

Jason Berkan

5:35 PM

@Wipqozn My viewpoint on the process has been shown to be very much in the minority, so there is no point in getting worked up about it.

fredley

@Wipqozn Sympathy victory best victory

@JasonBerkan STOP BEING SO REASONABLE

Jason Berkan

@fredley I'm sorry. I'm Canadian.

12

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan You're so Canadian. Except for disliking the cold.

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn That's just because I'm old. And ask anyone in Florida or Arizona how many old Canadians spend their winters there.

MadMAxJr

He's asking to save the minecraft questions because Canada IS minecraft. But with moose instead of creepers.

Wipqozn

5:37 PM

@JasonBerkan True

badp

@fredley @MadMAxJr I believe it should've gone without saying that, when I replace the word "Minecraft" with the word "Skyrim" in your replies, I fully expect to see statements that are no longer true

MadMAxJr

@PrivatePansy Question. Ponies are magical. Why have ponies implemented the technology solution of barcodes on library cards instead of an enchanted font that just displays their library number?

badp

So far the only thing that might be applicable is "Minecraft mods are often combined into modpacks, leading to a very large number of variables to try and deal with" (which if nothing else should make the job EASIER, not HARDER)

also I fully expect that I will be able to replace "Minecraft" with "a game"

MadMAxJr

We don't get a daily logjam of Skyrim mod crash questions.

badp

@MadMAxJr so it's okay to ask about Skyrim mod crashes so long as not too many other people do so.

I hope that is not your point.

Private Pansy

5:42 PM

@MadMAxJr Beats me. We've never seen a single pony check out a book, even though the protagonist lived in a library for four entire seasons of the show

MadMAxJr

No. It's that they haven't appeared in enough frequency to establish a common problem of being unanswerable.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What minecraft shaderpack is this?

The water is "glowing" at night (1:20), and I really like it, but I just can't find it anywhere.. Help me, please!

minecraft mods

badp

@MadMAxJr So maybe you should make a point that Minecraft troubleshooting questions are unanswerable whereas they aren't for other games?

(except that is obviously not true.)

MadMAxJr

@badp That is the last line of my answer.

badp

@MadMAxJr "We need precise, answerable questions. Many of the minecraft questions simply do not fit this case." means we should only ban the ones that simply do not fit this case.

You are going for a blanket ban. You are going to have to bring blanket-ban-level reasons.

fredley

5:44 PM

We don't need to use blankets

badp

We WILL get people who are going to whine at their screen and forum lawyer around these rules.

MadMAxJr

The intent is that we need to close unasnwerable questions.

You can pick apart my phrasing all you like, but that is the intent. I'm not here to wage some forum flamewar. I'm here to look stuff up and get answers.

badp

@MadMAxJr I'm just saying, if you're trying to say "there's a quality problem" then the solution is "your question must be this tall", not "let's ban all questions of the same ~~skin color~~ tag as the ones we hate"

If you're just saying "look guys we suck at this" we might as well go with @Unionhawk's answer.

Or at least something that isn't as extreme and only bans technical issues questions about mods of ANY game.

fredley

I answered again

MadMAxJr

Hawk is a little more on the mark. It's a game site, not a technical site.

Jason Berkan

5:49 PM

@fredley Um - "I propose we should allow only Vanilla Minecraft & Minecraft Pocket/Console edition crashes & issues."

60 upvotes.

fredley

@JasonBerkan I'm a bit behind on this whole thing, but that doesn't seem to be the right way to go about this

Jason Berkan

@fredley Preaching to the choir. None of those 60 is mine.

fredley

We have a problem that 99% of a particular question type are unanswerable. We could ban them, sure, but why bother, when at the end of the day the question still gets closed anyway (if we have an appropriate close reason)

@JasonBerkan Simple solution: ban those 60 people

badp

That's backwards, we should only get the close reason for something if we want to close 100% of questions that apply

or 99.9999%

fredley

@badp Quite. So the close reason should be for unanswerable crash questions (no mention of Minecraft or whatever)

MadMAxJr

5:52 PM

@badp And for the record, I'd just like to say I'm offended you'd try to frame that trying to filter down acceptable question types as being akin to racism like that. If that was your intent.

James

@fredley Topics like this make me frown

fredley

It'd be bad for someone to ask a good, answerable question that gets closed because of policy.

James

If the questions are of low quality then there is the close reason

Why are we even having this discussion?

Unionhawk

"This question is off topic because it is bad" is a little vague

Is why

badp

@MadMAxJr I didn't want to imply that you were racist.

fredley

5:54 PM

@James It's not neccesarily about quality, it's about answerability. All we can say most of the time is "This mod is broken, wait for the developer to fix it"

James

@Unionhawk But its a close reason already?

badp

I also don't mean to do so.

James

Something along the lines of it being hard to tell what is being asked or the question is too narrow to be of any use in the general sense?

badp

But it is a little bit like we want to be able to judge a question solely bit its cover, and not by the actual question.

We already do this in a few cases, too.

StrixVaria

I know this is the oldest thing on the Internet, but every time I'm reminded it exists I'm still impressed by it: en.akinator.com

badp

5:55 PM

That said questions aren't people.

@StrixVaria The power of logarithms

Unionhawk

I believe in my highly scientific analysis of questions posted, there was at least some correlation between a crash report or console log being present and unclear votes.

StrixVaria

Binary search all the things.

Unionhawk

Highly scientific, of course

fredley

@StrixVaria pfffff

James

Why arent policy metas like this starred on the right?

Lazers 2.0

5:57 PM

0

Q: Minecraft - Get the player with the highest score on the scoreboard

How can I get the player with the highest score on a scoreboard according to a player's kills in Minecraft? I have tried doing: /tellraw @a[score_kill_min=1,team=Seekers] {text:"You won!"}

minecraft

badp

@James They would rob space from the silliness.

fredley

@James Because discussing them is awful

James

@badp ... ask a stupid question I guess.

StrixVaria

@James They get kind of pinned on the main site.

James

@fredley Yeah that has really stopped us :D

@StrixVaria Hot meta posts thingy?

badp

5:58 PM

@James OH HEY IS IT MY FAULT THAT I CAN'T START WORKING FOR A COUPLE MONTHS AND SUDDENLY WE ARE BLANKET BANNING JUST TECHNICAL QUESTIONS FOR JUST MODS OF JUST ONE GAME

StrixVaria

@badp You're the only one I've seen saying that we're blanket banning all technical questions.

My understanding was that we're banning Minecraft mod tech support questions and nothing more.

badp

@StrixVaria No, I'm saying that would be a better outcome than blanket banning just Minecraft mod tech support questions, because blanket banning just Minecraft mod tech support questions is really stupid.

fredley

@StrixVaria IT'S A SMALL BLANKET

MORE OF A THROW

badp

As much as I would really dislike a blanket ban on all technical questions.

fredley

WE'RE THROW BANNING QUESTIONS

StrixVaria

6:00 PM

@badp Yeah, I also agree with this.

badp

That is just how really stupid the current ruling is.

IMVHO

StrixVaria

I think banning mod-tech-support questions is a good compromise though.

badp

@StrixVaria I think we can all agree that there would be very little collateral damage

Also it allows us to use the game-rec defense: we just suck at this

which, honestly, might even be a little true.

StrixVaria

It makes the wording a lot less really stupid and barely has any extra effect over the Minecraft-specific wording.

badp

LOOK AT ME I AM ARGUING ABOUT BANNING MORE QUESTIONS THAN THE COMMUNITY ORIGINALLY WANTED

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME

bbl mother's nameday

James

6:02 PM

@StrixVaria I agree with @badp actually that a rule for one specific game is a bad rule.

murgatroid99

@StrixVaria I agree with this

James

But I have long ago come to the conclusion that its not worth while to debate topics like this here Soooo Ill be over there -=> ... where its nice and quiet and they have cookies :)

murgatroid99

Actually, I think we should just ban tech support completely, but that idea doesn't seem to have much support

originaluser

6:17 PM

@murgatroid99 I'm not sure if I'd go that far, but I certainly can see why you'd say that. Looking over the technical issues tag... it's not pretty.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Do I lose mass faster as one big cell, or multiple small ones?

From observing my mass count I've seen that the bigger a cell is, the faster that cell loses its mass. However, when you have multiple cells, each of the cells loses mass concurrently. My question is, given the total amount of mass between all cells is the same, do you passively lose mass faster...

agar

StrixVaria

Oh cool, I got the Sheriff badge.

That seems like kind of a jerk move making that a badge in the first place, but I guess 1 more gold badge is nice.

Fluttershy

Bridge! I had a job interview today! I have the second interview on Tuesday! If all goes well, I'll have two more interviews, and then a possible substantial increase in pay! :D

Lazers 2.0

2

Q: What are the criteria for re-combining?

After you launch half your mass, it seems that you can't immediately re-combine your separate masses into one bigger cell. Is this based on some amount of time, or some other criteria? Exactly what do I have to do before I can re-combine back into one big mass?

agar

Rapitor

6:44 PM

Pad Abort Test | Point of View

►

wheeeee

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How to help Philippa Eilhart in The Witcher 3?

I've grown fondness for Philippa Eilhart during the story of Witcher 2 and so naturally I want to help her or at least encounter her in Witcher 3. Spoilers, beware! I'm at the point where Radovid asks me to find Philippa Eilhart. I've recovered the crystal, killed the mage hunters outside her h...

the-witcher-3

djsmiley2k

7:06 PM

@Lazers2.0 ejecting mass requires energy, something seotmhing moving mass has energy explosion boom!

@Rapitor dang the geeeeees

Lazers 2.0

7:24 PM

0

Q: How do you launch a spike?

I've been popped several times by someone somehow launching a spike at a me. How do they do it? Is there any way to prevent them from doing it to me (besides keeping well away from spikes)?

agar

GnomeSlice

7:39 PM

Why do the weird games you guys play seem to catch on with the rest of the world

Like every time

Fluttershy

> the weird games you guys play

Pot, meet kettle.

:P

Lazers 2.0

7:51 PM

0

Q: Witcher 3 Yennefer the last wish explanation?

Yeneffer talks about removing some magic between Geralt and herself by taming a djinn and telling it to remove the magic. What does she mean ? (never played any other witcher games) Thanks

the-witcher-3

user15026

@Fluttershy yaaaaaaaaaay

Rapitor

@GnomeSlice because weird is the most fun.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Against what types of enemies can I riposte? And is my only option to dodge or roll versus other types?

Against what types of enemies can I riposte, to counterattack them? Does it only work against humans? And should I hit the riposte button when their health bar glows red, indicating that they are about to attack? And versus monsters and other creatures, I should instead dodge or roll away instea...

the-witcher-3

originaluser

Ugh. I promised myself I would go to the gym as soon as I hit infinite pikachus but it's just not happening

Sterno

Nintendo VP of Sales Doug Bowser Brings Decades of Experience, Not Fire Breath, to New Role

originaluser

8:06 PM

As long as Doug Bowser doesn't roar racial slurs during mario kart 8 trailers, I'm fine with him.

Rapitor

is that a thing?

originaluser

NWS: youtube.com/watch?v=P27ZsrQ_wFE You decide. I thought it was pretty funny, though

NWS as in it's the Koopa King making a sound which is remarkably similar to a racial slur

Rapitor

that's fantastic. Even though he's just roaring or finally learning to speak and saying yeahah. I like the racial slur theory more

originaluser

I have reached infinite pikachus

Kevin van der Velden

Have you reached peakachu?

originaluser

8:20 PM

In theory, yes

user15026

@KevinvanderVelden facedesk

Kevin van der Velden

@AshleyNunn it had to be made

MadMAxJr

Do you have to advance the technology and pursue infinite Raichus?

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Where can I find/buy Scrolls of Hidden Wonders?

Foolishly, I used all my Scrolls of Hidden Wonder in the higher levels of the Endless Path. is there anyway to purchase more?

pillars-of-eternity

npst

8:40 PM

smee again

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Why won't Steam use my last library settings on start?

Whenever I start Steam, my library is set to "Games" and displaying a certain game (Racer 8). I then change it to "recent" and play some other game, however after the next reboot it's back to "Games" and "Racer 8" again. Is there a way to make Steam remember my last used library-view? If there...

steam

npst

oh look, there's a question :D

Mad Scientist

I'm still surprised that we have so few Witcher 3 questions, this is the kind of game we're usually pretty good at. And it has the potential to generate insane amounts of traffic, as my question about finding the Baron's wife shows.

user15026

@Sterno Thanks to you YouTube keeps recommending me videos from that stupid Teletubbies guy.

fredley

I just watched the RND GoT video all the way through

oh my glob

That.

Amazing.

Was.

Lazers 2.0

8:55 PM

-1

Q: Will skyrim run on my old pc?

hello this is my Pc will skyrim run on it? Pentuim R dual core cpu e5700 3.00 ghz Ram 2gb 1.75 usable 32 bit operating system

skyrim pc

0

Q: How do you add a new gamerule to minecraft without mods (vanilla)?

I wanted to make a gamerule to constantly do a command without using scoreboard.

minecraft

npst

@fredley watch the BLR GoT one next

"MEDIEVAL LAND FUN-TIME WORLD" EXTENDED TRAILER — A Bad Lip Reading of Game of Thrones

►

These are awesome lip reading skills. Especially with Daenerys

user15026

9:22 PM

What is this agar thing we keep getting questions about?

Chippies

@AshleyNunn the amoeba mmo

user15026

You say that like I understand

Chippies

Amoeba MMO being the unofficial name that was given to it by Bridge

@AshleyNunn agar.io

fredley

@npst Seen it ages ago. So goooood

npst

There are agar questions? I love agar :D

fredley

9:25 PM

@Chippies I got to #4 in my last go

npst

Verily so, fredley

Chippies

I don't understand the fascination by it

user15026

I got bored

Chippies

@fredley I beat it a month ago and haven't bothered with it since

npst

It's basically trolling without words, @Chippies

Chippies

9:26 PM

May 2 at 5:11, by Chippies

Who knew roleplaying is the winning move in the Amoeba MMO

npst

Ah

Chippies

@npst not sure what's so trollish about it

npst

Well, it's a game about who better frustrates weaker players

Not better.. faster. or more.

Chippies

@npst sooo, little incentive to start out and once you get big enough, you just... annoy others

Idk, it doesn't have enough mechanics to keep my attention

npst

You never played that let's-both-join-a-random-board-and-see-who-gets-to-five-hate-PMs-first game?

Chippies

9:29 PM

@npst I'm generally a "good sport" when it comes to online games

npst

cough We all are!

Unionhawk

HamStare @npst

user15026

@npst Don't do the thing

Chippies

if people rage at me for being a good player then that's great, but I'm not gonna go out of my way to annoy others, I just don't find it fun

it can be fun between friends when you know everyone's in on it, but it's not very fun with strangers

I do love when people rage at me for no reason in mmorpg's, gives me a good laugh

npst

For me, there's a difference between being a "bad sport" and trolling. The second one is temporary and fun for a certain subset of users (that's greater than the one being trolled).

Of course I'm keeping my temper almost 100% of the time I'm not playing a role

@AshleyNunn am I doing the thing?

Unionhawk

9:34 PM

Probably

user15026

Trolling is a crappy thing to do to people.

James

@Chippies The entire time I was trying to get ranked in CS:GO I kept getting people calling me a smurf.. I took it as a compliment :D

user15026

It's not funny, it's stupid.

npst

You shouldn't generalize like that, Ashley Nunn

Unionhawk

ALL PEOPLE ARE STUPID

2

There. Out-generalized.

James

9:35 PM

I am not sure a bad sport and a troll have anything in common actually

Unionhawk

I win.

James

@Unionhawk The star proves it!

Chippies

@James being a troll and being a dick to someone usually has quite a bit in common though :P

James

disclaimer: i in no way provided the star :D

user15026

@npst When you do things just to upset other people, it's a shitty thing to do.

James

9:36 PM

@Chippies Yeah but a bad sport is someone who doesnt take losing well

user15026

It's not funny, it's not cute, it's not anything but being a jerk and causing misery for others in the name of....something.

James

They do not react well to people who can best them at something

npst

One time me and a friend took on the "top posters" of some tacops board by basically doing what they did (spamming). They got angry, the admin ICQd us and months later it was all a happy and better community

Chippies

@James I think that's a sore loser

a bad sport is someone who ruins the fun for everyone by just being a dick

James

@Chippies Ok, off to google to see if those are not the same thing :P

npst

9:37 PM

Mind you, I'd never attack someone personally

as in.. on a personal level

Unionhawk

...

Chippies

@James I could be wrong, that's just my definition of good/bad sport

user15026

.....

Unionhawk

Show of hands, does anyone have any idea what is going on right now?

Chippies

@Unionhawk I'm making tea, kinda

npst

9:38 PM

Me, me! Hands!

user15026

Nope, gonna go find dinner.

Chippies

water boiled, too lazy to get up

npst

ah, gotta go back to the game. I'll ask a question about genre-tags later on

user15026

But tea is delicious

James

@Chippies Ok what I found is they are closely tied, a sore loser is often considered a bad sport but a bad sport does not have to be a sore loser as you were mentioning

user15026

9:39 PM

@npst As in are genre-tags a thing we do, as part of tagging questions? No. No we do not.

Chippies

@James an example of a bad sport would be someone who's losing a game, therefore goes off on a rampage ruining everyone's game

James

And in that case I guess a troll is a person who is purposely doing it vs a bad sport is somewhat more complicated.. like a person who complains all the time simply cause that is what they do, hehe

djsmiley2k

rofl this tear is HUGE

James

@Chippies No, now that is a sore loser :)

djsmiley2k

/me sets up streaming because lols

twitch.tv/djsmiley2k

Chippies

9:41 PM

@James a bad sport would also be someone, for example in a race, that would bump you off the road as you try to pass him/her

or uses PIT maneuvers to get an upper hand on you

James

@Chippies Yup

Chippies

(my idea of what a bad sport is based heavily on the amount of GTA Online I've played lately)

James

They are going to be a jerk regardless of if they are winning or losing

Chippies

@James yep, this

James

A troll on the other hand .. their entire point is to ruin someone else's enjoyment.

djsmiley2k

9:42 PM

y u no laff at my giant tear :(

James

@djsmiley2k Uh the proper way to say that is: ლ(ಠ_ಠლ) laugh at my giant tear?

:D

Chippies

@James I think a troll is more someone who tries to get enjoyment at someone else's expense, although it's not much different from what you said

James

@Chippies Yeah maybe my definition was more towards Griefer than troller.

Frank

It is an absolutely gorgeous day outside, and I had a milkshake with lunch.

djsmiley2k

lol

Frank

9:44 PM

Today's been a rather good day, other than my servers shitting the bed.

James

But the fact that we have all these definitions for asshats is starting to make me wonder about our society as a whole :D

Chippies

@James are there any definitions for good players/people? :P Not many that I can think of

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What are the situations where taking Smite/Teleport top is appropriate?

As Smite/Teleport top is being increasingly popular, I want to know what situations it can be used effectively in.

league-of-legends

Chippies

but it's kinda how human mind works, we tend to pay more attention to bad stuff and take good stuff for granted

good stuff is expected and bad stuff is something we remember

user15026

Confirmation bias!

James

9:46 PM

@Chippies Well just as there is a bad sport there is a good sport.. they match up with people who show bad and good sportsmanship

But what I meant was we are trying to show shades of gray in the sore loser, bad sport, troller, griefer..

The whole 'I am not as bad as that' justification

Chippies

wife's searching birds on google images from a list and I am very impressed google only showed birds on the search "great tit"

James

@Chippies safe search is on

Chippies

@James nope, we checked and I searched myself on my laptop

James

There are entire graphic searching packages that are focused on finding 'skin tone' images.

Chippies

however if you search for great tits, plural, that's another story...

James

9:50 PM

Ah, LoL

Great tit flock?

Chippies

a flock of great tits, is that a college party?

time to make tea!

djsmiley2k

yey dark level done as isaac

awww crap

I needed to beat isaac as isaac :D

murgatroid99

@djsmiley2k and blue baby

Chippies

Wife's baking chocolate chip cookies... The timer just went off, so she goes to take them out of the oven and says "The cookies might be gross". Yes, wife, that's great endorsement for your cookies

murgatroid99

@djsmiley2k you just hit the jackpot

djsmiley2k

9:59 PM

????

long legs?

btw can you hear me?

is there a mic in this controller or is the icon lying

murgatroid99

@djsmiley2k I have sound off

In which @badp timed out the bridge for a day

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