The Bridge

2:00 PM

@Yuuki It returns a list of types of things you can book a trip to (basically: hotels, appartments, cruises, and a couple other things), these are pulled from a table called "hotelaccomodations", and then displayed in a field named "staytype" to be saved in the table "accomodations" in a column "accommodationstypeID". There is no foreign key.

I did leave the tablenamesmurfing away though.

Unionhawk

@Yuuki Heh

Arperum

There are multiple tablename prefixes used in our DB, in a pretty random fashion.

@Unionhawk I wish it did.

Jason Berkan

@Arperum Is one of them "tbl"? That's my favourite.

Yuuki

@Arperum Jesuschristwhatthefuck

Arperum

@JasonBerkan They all have that one, some of them also have "hotel" or "website"

Unionhawk

2:03 PM

tblwebsitehotelTable

Private Pansy

If your business logic requires you to sell furniture, would you have a tbl_table?

Arperum

SO there are a lot of tblwhatevers, some tblhotelwhatevers, a lot of tblwebsitewhatevers.

Unionhawk

@PrivatePansy yes

Arperum

ALso: some of it is in english, some in dutch. sometimes the tablename is in english, half of the columns too, and the other half is in dutch.

Private Pansy

@Arperum Oh man, multilingual code is really fun

Arperum

2:04 PM

There are also a lot of probably unused tables floating around.

I just noticed that there is one table that has no prefix.

Private Pansy

le_tbl_tableau

Arperum

@PrivatePansy No underscores though, just tblwhatever, or TblWhatever or Tblwhatever or tblWhatever.

there is lack of consistency and there is this database.

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: agario skins for you

Do you know any cheats to get my own skin or a way to request skins without posting on Reddit?

agar

5pike

@Lazers2.0 Is adding the appropriate tag really that hard?

UniKitty

@5pike Don't blame him, he's just a bot

Unionhawk

2:12 PM

HamStare @Uni

5pike

@UniKitty I meant the OP, not Lazers

@Unionhawk ಠ_ಠ

@UniKitty ‮ಠ_ಠ

@Serverfrog ಠ_ಠ

@UniKitty ‮(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

Kevin van der Velden

2:14 PM

You know @UniKitty: If you want to improve grammar there's an edit button...

UniKitty

I won't do it.

Arperum

@UniKitty don't go grammar police on people, if it bothers you, suggest a fix. Suggesting edits exist for that very reason.

Powerlord

If you want to make grammar worse, there's a reddit button... :P

UniKitty

See! Someone kind did it for me

Unionhawk

4 mins ago, by Unionhawk

HamStare @Uni

3 mins ago, by Serverfrog

@UniKitty ‮ಠ_ಠ

Private Pansy

2:16 PM

@Powerlord YouTube button. reddit actually does have its fair share of grammar nazis

UniKitty

4 mins ago, by UniKitty

@Unionhawk ಠ_ಠ

The bridge is messed up.

Unionhawk

Heh

Arperum

@UniKitty You still look like an asshole though because of your comment

Unionhawk

Hehe

Hehehehehe

UniKitty

Everything is backwords

Joe

2:17 PM

Don't know if any of you ever visit [Parenting], but we have an interesting gaming-related question over there about teaching children perserverance through gaming that might be worth a look: parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/20749/…

UniKitty

I don't do parenting

Unionhawk

@UniKitty I should hope not

Private Pansy

@Joe I believe in this room @Sterno is a parent. I can't remember any of the others

UniKitty

@Unionhawk I help out in childcare centres though

Arperum

@Joe Uhm... Hi?

Rapitor

2:19 PM

my extent in parenting in "stop eating that you fuckhead"

Joe

Hi!

@Rapitor Well, then you're already about as good as most parents.

Stop eating that is rather important. :0

Unionhawk

@PrivatePansy @JasonBerkan, @TimStone, uh

UniKitty

@Rapitor If you swear your children will too

Unionhawk

They're our resident old people, anyway

YES I SAID IT

Kevin van der Velden

@UniKitty Oh the noes

UniKitty

2:20 PM

Oh noses!

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden teh noes* (ftfy)

Jason Berkan

@Unionhawk @SaintWacko

Unionhawk

@JasonBerkan Ah yes!

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk No.

Private Pansy

Get the child to play Super Meat Boy. That will either a. traumatize him for life b. causing him to throw the controller out of the window and give up on gaming or c. learn perseverance

Rapitor

2:21 PM

@PrivatePansy what if they win.

Unionhawk

@PrivatePansy d. all of the above?

UniKitty

@PrivatePansy People don't use controllers. They use their body

StrixVaria

@UniKitty Try to keep the patent nonsense to a minimum. It's not constructive.

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk I think b and c are mutually exclusive

UniKitty

@StrixVaria What patent nonsense now?

Unionhawk

2:22 PM

@PrivatePansy Throw controller and quit forever, change mind and go outside to grab controller

boom

d. all of the above

StrixVaria

@UniKitty The message I replied to was a meaningless combination of words. It was syntactically correct, but the words in that order are nonsense.

Unionhawk

@Unionhawk: 1, @PrivatePansy: 0, Mod Abuse: Infinity

Jason Berkan

@Joe - That question seems fairly well answered. My parenting advice is to model what you want your child to emulate, so sit down and show them how to plan out and problem solve in Minecraft.

Private Pansy

@Rapitor Then obviously you need something harder. Also, your child may be a genius and/or a Time Lord in disguise

UniKitty

No really now people use their body to control games

StrixVaria

2:23 PM

@PrivatePansy My wife thought SMB was gross and asked why anyone would play that game. I hadn't even noticed until she mentioned it. I guess I'm desensitized a bit.

@UniKitty But not SMB, the game we were talking about. So why bother bringing it up? It's not useful for the context of the conversation that was happening.

Unionhawk

@StrixVaria @UniKitty IS HOMSAR: DATA ACCEPTED

HEADCANON UPDATED

MadMAxJr

I dunno @UnionHawk, haven't heard anything about being the captain of the gravy train just yet.

Private Pansy

@StrixVaria Well... you're a block of meat that leaves a trail of blood everywhere you go and face obstacles that will literally grind you into a mist of particles small enough to be inhaled

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Xbox One Game Sharing with external device

I want to buy an XONE and game share with my friend. I know that I have to purchase a digital copy on my console, and then make him my home console if I want us to play together. The problem is my internet is too slow to download the 20-30 GB required per game.. So, Can I download a game on his ...

xbox-one

Private Pansy

I'm not sure why you wouldn't think it's pretty gross

StrixVaria

2:25 PM

@PrivatePansy Yes, but it didn't even occur to me that that might be gross until someone pointed it out.

Unionhawk

Because it's cartoony and stuff

Or something

StrixVaria

It just...*was*.

It existed that way, and I took it at face value.

Jason Berkan

Do you get anything for hitting specific levels in this very boring Steam Clicker Heroes game?

Unionhawk

probably not

Private Pansy

@JasonBerkan You get a badge which you can choose to display on your profile

Unionhawk

2:26 PM

So no then

Private Pansy

Whether its a badge of honor or a badge of shame is up to you

Unionhawk

you get nothing

you lose

good day sir

Kevin van der Velden

Do you at least get a sense of accomplishment?

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden Especially not

MadMAxJr

You redeem your cards for a pointless badge, just like a childrens arcade only there's no pizza or soda.

Unionhawk

2:27 PM

Think about what you just said

Accomplishment and clickers are incompatible

Jason Berkan

I sell all my cards for actual cash. It's one of the things I love about Steam sales.

Private Pansy

@MadMAxJr There is a bit of real money. I did manage to get ~$1 on the first two days

After that the value dropped so much it's not even worth selling anymore

5pike

Sell every card early on and then, if you want, buy them for cheap to craft the badge.

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan I love incrementals an unhealthy amount and I didn't like the Steam one at all. I barely even touched it.

MadMAxJr

Watch the final day have a progress bar of 100 sextillion monster kills = Information on Halflife 3

Jason Berkan

2:30 PM

@StrixVaria I've been starting a game and ignoring it, since you get a couple of cards each day doing that.

Sterno

So happy I finally had a chance to Meta. It's been so long

Feeds

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

Unionhawk

@MadMAxJr Half Life 3 PRODUCTION UPDATE: Things are coming along right on schedule. We've only hit one major snag. And that is... we haven't made Half Life 3 yet.

BUT Before you throw full wine bottles at your computer screen, let me offer this as a cop-out. The digitally remastered director's cut version of Half Life 1!

Arperum

@MadMAxJr If they announce that I'm assuming that treshhold is reached ~5 minutes later.

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk i.e. black mesa source?

Unionhawk

2:34 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Black Mesa Source DX

obviously

Sterno

@StackExchange I don't even remember being deownered. I bet it was fredley

Yuuki

@Unionhawk DX

Unionhawk

@Sterno It was.

@Yuuki Dx

Powerlord

Great, I've been scheduled to go to a building I've never even heard of on Thursday to help make sure certain software is installed on two peoples machines.

MBraedley

I know this was posted yesterday, but, squee!

Unionhawk

2:34 PM

xD

MBraedley

MASS EFFECT™: ANDROMEDA Official E3 2015 Announce Trailer

►

Yuuki

Works surprisingly well as an emoticon.

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk .... XD

Powerlord

...I'm going to note that I don't work in Tech Support.

Kevin van der Velden

Meh you work with computers, close enough!

Unionhawk

2:35 PM

You're a computer!

Kevin van der Velden

Wrong, I am clearly a dragon.

Powerlord

@KevinvanderVelden I work in a very large IT department. I think at last count it had over 5000 employees.

WE HAVE TECH SUPPORT PEOPLE, USE THEM

Yuuki

Serverfrog

@UniKitty ‮eheh (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

MadMAxJr

I expect Black Mesa Source to announce instead of Xen, they will just have you jump into the portal, and show a series of crayon drawn pictures. "Then Gordon went to Xen. He jumped on a platform. Then he jumped on another platform. Then Gordon jumped to the THIRD platform. There was a flying fireball monster here. He shot it."

UniKitty

2:36 PM

@Serverfrog Gaaah! Not again!

Yuuki

With the baby being generated from the faces of the parents in Fallout 4, I foresee a lot of crazy fandom stuff.

MadMAxJr

"Then there was the Gonarch. Gordon ran. Gordon fell down a hole. Now fight the giant flying fetus with a pulsing energy brain that opens up."

Unionhawk

@Yuuki oh god that sounds complicated to do from a design standpoint

Maybe

Powerlord

@MadMAxJr Here's the thing: There are people who refuse to play Black Mesa as long as its incomplete.

Unionhawk

Or it could be face+face/2

Powerlord

2:37 PM

I should know, I'm one of them.

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Order of operations, @Uni, order of operations.

Serverfrog

@UniKitty ‮?ton yhW

Powerlord

And since it's now a paid mod, refuse to play == refuse to pay

Unionhawk

@Yuuki Nope

It's 1.5 faces per face

duh

UniKitty

@Yuuki Yes sir!

Kevin van der Velden

2:38 PM

@Unionhawk yeah it's generally just a single vector of data for each face. Combine, add noise. Done

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden ...

UniKitty

@Serverfrog Its backwards again. Gonna raise this on meta

Unionhawk

What are we talking about? I spaced out

Where am I?

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden I don't think that's how genetics work

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk what? I'm an indie gamedev, I read about this kind of stuff =p

@PrivatePansy it is how face gen works in 3d games =p

UniKitty

2:38 PM

@Unionhawk You are in the empty void of the bridge

Unionhawk

I'm on a Bridge?

Kevin van der Velden

(or well, a potential implementation)

UniKitty

Talking about nothing

Unionhawk

How'd that happen?

I thought I was at work

MadMAxJr

... Is Unikitty some kind of Zork parser bot?

Serverfrog

2:39 PM

@UniKitty ‮?siht gniod uoy era yhW?

UniKitty

@Unionhawk Yes, a collapsing bridge

@Serverfrog Doing what

Unionhawk

@MadMAxJr I'm pretty sure @UniKitty is just an advanced version of horse_ebooks

Kevin van der Velden

@Serverfrog because he isn't particularly observant about the starlist

Unionhawk

@UniKitty IS HORSE_EBOOKS: HEADCANON UPDATED

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk I've built Markov chain generators that perform better

UniKitty

2:40 PM

@Unionhawk Your work is keeping the bridge around

So you are on a bridge

StrixVaria

@UniKitty What did I say about patent nonsense?

Serverfrog

CTRL+SHIFT+U -> 202E -> phun

i love you all for this -

UniKitty

@StrixVaria None?

Unionhawk

@Serverfrog = some sort of debug tool in IE

user15026

Overhearing a co-worker complain about how you are in training and learning so slow and thus made his day super long yesterday....sucks.

Unionhawk

2:41 PM

Showing memory usage draw time framerate CPU usage

StrixVaria

19 mins ago, by StrixVaria

@UniKitty Try to keep the patent nonsense to a minimum. It's not constructive.

Unionhawk

Yes I have to use IE

Serverfrog

@Unionhawk oh... have you installed a adblocker in your brain or why? and no its a helper to enter unicode characters under debian

Unionhawk

@Serverfrog Oh I see

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria to be fair, it wasn't complete nonsense this time, or well at least not patent nonsense coming out of nowhere

Unionhawk

2:42 PM

I'm working

So

Kevin van der Velden

Also. HALP I'M DEFENDING @UNIKITTY

UniKitty

@KevinvanderVelden Against what

StrixVaria

@KevinvanderVelden Was it not? How does @Unionhawk's working have anything to do with "keeping the bridge around"?

Serverfrog

@Unionhawk you get money because you are getting hurt... i know that feel ;)

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden Markov chain text generators build up strings using surrounding text, so they sound somewhat contextual

Kevin van der Velden

2:43 PM

@StrixVaria it started roughly with: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/22214809#22214809

So it was the usual bridge non-sequiturs

@PrivatePansy that is true

Private Pansy

@Yuuki Pfft, I post the exact same thing a three hours before you, and nobody took notice

Jason Berkan

Ah, the Steam Summer Sale badge of Shanour updates itself with the highest multiple of 100 level you've achieved.

Or maybe by 10, since @agent86 hit 4920.

Yuuki

@PrivatePansy I posted it right when most people in NA are waking up.

Unionhawk

WOO NA

Private Pansy

@JasonBerkan Yes, that's the badge of shanor (or is it honme?)

Yuuki

2:51 PM

Gotta cater to the 'Muricans and Canadians if you want those stars.

(And stripes?)

Unionhawk

hmm... do I lunch early

questions

Powerlord

Ha, I just saw someone refer to the current Rare as "Microsoft's Rare cover band"

MadMAxJr

That would make 343 Microsoft's Bungie cover band.

Unionhawk

Yeah that seems about right

UniKitty

Someone was playing with unicode, according to the answers I got. Thats why everything was backwards!

Kevin van der Velden

3:02 PM

@UniKitty looks at starlist You don't say?

UniKitty

I just found out

Kevin van der Velden

7 hours ago, by fredley

‮:22209374 ‮ what happens if I use it in a reply I wonder

7 hours ago, by fredley

brb, putting u+202e in my username

Unionhawk

7 hours ago, by Private Pansy

@fredley .‮Asshole

Serverfrog

‮ Noooooo don't do that! :22215370

UniKitty

Now it make sense!

Serverfrog

3:04 PM

Sense? What fun is there in making sense?

Unionhawk

There is no sense only bridge

UniKitty

@Serverfrog Your secret has been discovered. Its very fun finding secrets

Unionhawk

There is no @Uni only Zuul

UniKitty

Who is Zuul

And @Unicode will be angry for saying he doesn't exist

Unionhawk

scribbles notes

Serverfrog

3:09 PM

UniKitty

@Unionhawk What notes?

@Serverfrog Is that a @Unicorn?

murgatroid99

@UniKitty The two horns should be a hint that it is not

Serverfrog

@UniKitty he has 2 horns, so he couldn't be a uni horn

UniKitty

Now I see 2 because you said it

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Xbox One game sharing List?

Does someone have a link to a webpage for games that allow game share? for example, I know GTA 5 blocks gameshare.

xbox-one

0

Q: Minecraft Timed Out

Help! I just want to join a server from another classroom, that has been used before, and it keeps timing me out. help mee! oh and btw this is a minecraft 1.7.9 server.

minecraft

MadMAxJr

3:11 PM

Wait. Wait. I don't even like ponies and I know who that is. You don't know?

Yuuki

A man is dead in Spain after ordering wine and being given dish detergent instead.

I have several wtfs.

UniKitty

@Lazers2.0 Starts with Halp?

murgatroid99

> This mistake occurred because the dishwasher detergent was poured in an empty wine bottle and was put inside the fridge.

Why would you do that?

SaintWacko

Wow

MadMAxJr

@murgatroid99 x-treem recycling?

Jason Berkan

3:12 PM

What detergent flows like wine? Most are more viscous.

MadMAxJr

You'd think the flavor would give it off.

Kevin van der Velden

@JasonBerkan according to the article he'd only dranken a sip

Yuuki

@MadMAxJr Colorless, odorless.

Kevin van der Velden

Also: not just dish detergent. Industrial strength detergent

murgatroid99

@Yuuki which isn't what wine tastes like

MadMAxJr

3:13 PM

Oh wait wait the article says 'industrial cleaner'

Yuuki

Plus it was industrial grade.

fredley

@murgatroid99 This used to be quite common I think

Jason Berkan

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, the taste would be immediately wrong. I was just thinking about watching it be poured.

MadMAxJr

This was not kitchen dishwasher liquid soap

fredley

My mother has done this, dressing a salad with detergent instead of dressing

As both were stored in empty wine bottles

Yuuki

3:14 PM

Well, I'm not going @fredley's house for Thanksgiving, that's for sure.

Kevin van der Velden

@JasonBerkan doubtful, the pouring was done in the kitchen, as fast as possible, probably while doing something else at the same time. After filling lots and lots of glasses you generally don't need to watch too closely while pouring

fredley

@Yuuki Luckily, we don't give thanks here

Unionhawk

@Yuuki Good thing @fredley's british and doesn't do that

WOO AMERICA

AND CANADA

I GUESS

WOO NORTH AMERICA

fredley

@Unionhawk inb4'd

Kevin van der Velden

IF YOU'RE BORING OR SOMETHING

Unionhawk

3:15 PM

@KevinvanderVelden wat

Wine pouring should never be done in the kitchen

Well

fredley

Sounds like a horrific way to die

Unionhawk

Actually no

Can't say never

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah

Jason Berkan

I cannot recall ever having my wine served to me already poured.

fredley

> Jose Antonio Martin, director of the gastroenterology department at Castellon General Hospital, said that ingesting even a small amount of such a concentrated liquid could be lethal. "It starts burning immediately," he told El Periodico Mediterraneo. "If it is potent it can burn and puncture the oesophagus and stomach."

Kevin van der Velden

3:16 PM

There's plenty of restaurants where you order a glass of wine and get... a glass of wine

Unionhawk

If you order a bottle absolutely never, if you order a glass probably never

fredley

@JasonBerkan You clearly haven't been to cheap enough Spanish restaurants

MadMAxJr

So it's a highly acidic cleaner.

Kevin van der Velden

It's pretty common over here: If you order a glass of wine you usually get a glass of wine

Jason Berkan

@fredley Yeah - when I drink wine with my meal it means I'm at an expensive restaurant.

UniKitty

3:16 PM

@fredley You used the backwards character right?

MadMAxJr

If I'm drinking wine with dinner, it generally means I ran out of decent beers.

fredley

@UniKitty splowpoke.png

Unionhawk

@fredley 5pike.jpg

UniKitty

ERROR: File splowpoke not found

fredley

If I'm drinking wine I'm at my parent's, or having a dinner party

@Unionhawk Five Pike Dot Jay Peg

Yuuki

3:18 PM

@MadMAxJr Most likely basic, I think.

Private Pansy

@MadMAxJr I think very strong alkaline can also cause chemical burns

Unionhawk

@JasonBerkan The closest I've encountered is being served a... decanter? another vessel containing one standard "glass" of wine

fredley

@PrivatePansy Oh yeah. You use bases to dissolve bodies, of course.

@Unionhawk carafe

Unionhawk

@fredley Yes

Sure

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy it can. Any large deviation from pH neutral

MadMAxJr

3:19 PM

I'll have the vintage pinot noir, with the color-safe bleach, thank you.

fredley

Unionhawk

Either way, if I'm ordering a glass of wine, odds are I want more than one glass, and have more than one person drinking it, at which point, bottle

UniKitty

Someone look at the comments in this

14

A: Formatting Sandbox

having trouble getting rid of the sliver between the images (wrapping them in a <h1></h1> helps.)

user15026

@UniKitty Why?

UniKitty

Whoops wrong one

Sorry this

13

A: Formatting Sandbox

Comment tests.

Mad Scientist

3:22 PM

Hmm, I wonder which chemical this could actually be. Most aggressive cleaning stuff is something I'd expect people to notice when trying to drink

Private Pansy

@MadScientist Given your gravatar and display name I think you might have some insight into this :P

It does say it was colorless and odurless

fredley

𝕸𝖊𝖆𝖓𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖊

UniKitty

@PrivatePansy Just don't burn your hands with that corrosive stuff

user15026

@UniKitty Again, why?

SaintWacko

@MadScientist Maybe it was someone who didn't really like wine

UniKitty

3:24 PM

@AshleyNunn Click show 68 more comments

Unionhawk

@UniKitty It's a sandbox?

I'm confused

fredley

@SaintWacko Maybe he just chugged it

Unionhawk

You're confusing

user15026

@UniKitty And? It's a sandbox for testing stuff.

UniKitty

Its ridiculous!

MadMAxJr

3:25 PM

What is the point of this nonsensical linking to comment formatting?

Unionhawk

You're ridiculous for finding a sandbox ridiculous

fredley

@UniKitty ...it's a sandbox for testing.

Why is it ridiculous?

user15026

@UniKitty Not really, it's a place for testing things, and people are testing things there.

UniKitty

So many comments saying "_ test _ _ test _"

user15026

I am not sure what is ridiculous about that.

Unionhawk

3:26 PM

I can't

SaintWacko

@UniKitty That's because it's for testing

Serverfrog

@fredley ‮ ашэѕомэ

Unionhawk

I can't deal

user15026

@UniKitty Because people are testing things in the place for testing things.

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk well let someone else shuffle the cards then

Unionhawk

3:28 PM

@KevinvanderVelden ...

SaintWacko

Ahahaha

Unionhawk

You're the worst

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden *slow clap*

MadMAxJr

Just stop running around and crying wolf. I dunno, maybe talk about a VIDEO GAME. :O

Rapitor

@MadMAxJr nobody likes those.

fredley

3:31 PM

Apr 13 '12 at 15:42, by fredley

@GnomeSlice Games are off topic in this chat room

5pike

@Unionhawk Hey!

UniKitty

Errr Why was I kicked? I don't understand

Rapitor

For Honor World Premiere Trailer - E3 2015 [US]

►

reminds me of chivalry.

Powerlord

Brilliant, I'm asked to cover the front desk for a bit while our receptionist grabs lunch... I immediately get a call from a person calling into a meeting. Turns out, someone booked one of our conference rooms, but rather than using a conference line, they told people to call in directly.

Which means, only one person can call in.

I really need to move to a different department here.

Yuuki

@Rapitor Ooo, he grabs his longsword by the blade and uses it as a bludgeon. Yay for historical accuracy!

Although if they're going for historical accuracy, they should've shown less katana and more yari and yumi.

Rapitor

3:40 PM

that's historically accurate? that sounds like a stupid thing to do

Yuuki

@Rapitor It's very accurate.

In fact, it was very common.

Mordhau

In the German school of swordsmanship, Mordhau, alternatively Mordstreich or Mordschlag (Ger., lit., "murder-stroke" or "murder-strike" or "murder-blow"), is the technique of holding the sword inverted, with both hands gripping the blade, and hitting the opponent with the pommel or crossguard. This technique allows the swordsman to essentially use the sword as a mace or hammer. The Mordhau is mainly used in armoured combat, although it can be used to surprise an opponent in close quarters. This technique has also been called a "thunder stroke". == References == Codex Wallerstein, ed. Zabinski,...

Rapitor

well then

MadMAxJr

If your opponent his heavily armored blunt force is more effective than a simple blade edge

A cross-guard will focus all striking force on a single point, like a pickaxe, likely to penetrate armor

Yuuki

Not to mention swords forged for combat were rarely as sharp as people expect.

Rapitor

i understand that, it's grabbing and gripping the blade that confuses me.

Yuuki

3:44 PM

An absurdly keen edge is only good for one, maybe two, strikes.

MadMAxJr

Armored gauntlets can protect well for that. Leather is iffy. Barehanded would be insane.

There are some interesting, oddball sword techniques.

Apparently there's a two handed sword technique where you hold the grip like a broom, blade down and focus on furious low angle sweeping maneuvers to rend your opponents legs.

Grace Note

I guess sweeping movements would be appropriate for broom style

Yuuki

I'm also glad to see the Vikings don't have those stupid horned helmets.

MadMAxJr

Horned helmets were never a thing for vikings.

Yuuki

Which is why I'm glad they're not in the game.

Still needs more spear and bow for samurai though. Back during their heyday, they were more commonly spearmen and mounted archers.

There seems to be a focus on single combat.

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Q: Increase population with Radio Station / Advantage over pregnancy?

How do these Radio Stations work exactly? I built one and assigned a Dweller with 10 Charisma to it. There was a timer of 2 hours or so and I expected after this time a new Dweller to appear in front of my Vault. But nothing. So I assigned another Dweller but the timer did not decrease. I upgrade...

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Yuuki

Which makes sense, given the title, but makes me interested in how they would implement things like Roman/Greek phalanxes and hoplites.

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