The Bridge

5:00 PM

@PrivatePansy Yeah. Frankly I'd expect to have to derive the equation first, given (speed in water) = f(speed on land)

murgatroid99

Anyway, not everyone takes calculus in high school. My high school's standard 4-year math track was Algebra->Geometry->Algebra 2->Precalculus.

fredley

@murgatroid99 >half my curriculum aged 16-18 was maths!

Then from 18-19 it was 100% maths!

Then I broke, and stopped doing maths altogether!

Yay! Maths!

Private Pansy

Erm. I got x = sqrt(36-25/16)

fredley

@PrivatePansy For part c?

Private Pansy

It's not even a quadratic equation, since it's just x^2 and a constant inside the sqrt

It's very fast calculation though

fredley

5:04 PM

@PrivatePansy You need to chain rule it

T'(x) = 5x / (36 + x^2) ^ 0.5

Private Pansy

Bah. Annoying. Dropped an x

Kevin van der Velden

Don't worry, 5 second rule

Sterno

Nerds.

Jason Berkan

The point is, crocodiles manage to eat despite not knowing calculus.

2

murgatroid99

The point is

The fifth panel also applies to postmodernists.

Private Pansy

5:07 PM

x=8. Neat.

@JasonBerkan Crocodile managed to eat, but did it manage to eat using the most efficient path to the prey?

Jason Berkan

Does it care?

GnomeSlice

@fredley I'm a mod on listentothis

Private Pansy

@JasonBerkan That's the joke :|

Jason Berkan

What did sick kids do before Netflix? My son watched an entire season of Paw Patrol yesterday.

Private Pansy

They lie in bed and moan a lot

At least that's what I did

Jason Berkan

5:12 PM

Though I discovered that Netflix ties up most of my bandwidth, making working remotely very slow.

GnomeSlice

Read books

murgatroid99

Watch actual TV

Private Pansy

@murgatroid99 My goodness. How quaint.

Jason Berkan

I finally get actual TV back today. I've already missed two weeks of the NFL season.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: What is the Gunsmith reputation for?

Before The Taken King, the following factions allowed you to gain reputation to purchase new weapons and equipment: Vanguard, Crucible, Dead Orbit, FWC, New Monarchy, Crota's Bane, Queen's Wrath, and House of Judgement After The Taken King was released, the lonesome vendor that nobody ever visi...

destiny

Arperum

5:19 PM

@JasonBerkan what @GnomeSlice said. Read books.

Jason Berkan

I probably did that to. But he's 5 and can't read yet.

GodEmperorDune

@JasonBerkan set up QoS on your router to de prioritize netflix

Jason Berkan

@GodEmperorDune I could do that, though I'd rather give priority to my VPN, as I want Netflix to trump regular Internet surfing. (I gotta have my HD.)

GodEmperorDune

Same difference

MadMAxJr

That's the best way. Instead of revoking netflix, just choke it so the quality is like watching a realplayer clip in the 90s.

SaintWacko

5:28 PM

If anyone's looking to get a new tablet, here's a great deal on a couple

Sterno

@JasonBerkan GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO

Jason Berkan

I remember watching video on the Internet in the 90s. I'm still amazed that Netflix can deliver HD to my TV and allow me to surf the Internet at the same time.

GodEmperorDune

the way Netflix auto adjusts streaming quality more or less seamlessly is very impressive

No more buffering 98%

Sterno

Chase is on the case!

Rubble on the double!

Jason Berkan

@Sterno Stupid Paw Patrol and Rescue Bots both having a police car / animal named Chase. I never know what my kids are talking about.

Sterno

5:33 PM

My favorite cartoon was something I saw Sunday which had a monster truck which sang a song about Newton's first law of motion.

GodEmperorDune

that sounds awesome

MadMAxJr

"Well son, it's either the poor stream rate netflix or...." blows dust "I found my VHS in the garage. You'd have to figure out how to hook it up and you'd get a choice of tapes I recorded over every saturday morning in the 80s..."

GodEmperorDune

@MadMAxJr "or the local media server with awesome 90s cartoons"

Rugrats, batman, superman, xmen, spiderman

Jason Berkan

@GodEmperorDune Jem and the Holograms is on Netflix. Though I guess that is the 80s.

GodEmperorDune

Original or a remake?

Sterno

5:37 PM

90s X-men and Spider-Man are on Netflix

(maybe those others too)

GodEmperorDune

Last I checked they had justice league but not the 90s batman and superman. They had some other meh batman

Jason Berkan

I am sad that Avatar is leaving Netflix today. I've only got 1/2 way through season 2 with the kids.

cc @OrigamiRobot

:(

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

1

League of Legends

Proposed Q&A site for players, professionals and enthusiasts of the largest online game in the world

Currently in definition.

Sterno

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Only if you take Minecraft Tech Support questions too

GodEmperorDune

@newlyopenedproposalsforentertainment OP isn't even a member of arqade

Lazers 2.0

5:50 PM

0

Q: dragons age inquisition wisp essenses

I am trying to get Knight enchanter had my wisp essenses from fallow mire but have disappeared now when i go back to fallow mire can no longer find any is there any other way to get wisp essenses

xbox-360

user15026

@JasonBerkan I'd share my DVD's if you weren't so far away

Unionhawk

:((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

Jason Berkan

@AshleyNunn I was looking at those on Amazon. Depends on how long it is going to be off Netflix, I guess.

Unionhawk

Randall is going on a Thing Explainer Book Trip

(cities: New York, Seattle and Portland, San Francisco and Berkeley, Houston, Chicago and Naperville, and Toronto)

user15026

@Unionhawk Toronto! That's near me!

user15026

5:55 PM

(although it will likely be on a Saturday when I work or something, with my luck)

Unionhawk

@AshleyNunn It is on a Friday, with Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics

user15026

@Unionhawk Yeah, that's a no go then :(

Unionhawk

RIP

If it's any consolation, the closest to me would be Chicago, and, that's a no

Chicago is...

checks

4 hours

Kevin van der Velden

Whiners, closest to me is another continent

GodEmperorDune

I went to the what if book tour in LA. Randall is pretty cool. Wil Wheaton was there and pretty much what you'd expect

Texenox

6:05 PM

M'back.

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden NA is best continent NA

Kevin van der Velden

It has a pretty cool hat but the head not so much

Unionhawk

uwotm8

Kevin van der Velden

You heard me

user15026

The hat is pretty excellent

Texenox

6:09 PM

wut hat?

Unionhawk

Oh, good news, Google Maps has reminded me that Chicago is just 1 hour away from $244 round trip

Texenox

False Noise - Razor Blade [Upscale Recordings]

►

Unionhawk

That's probably actually cheaper than driving to chicago

Texenox

cc @GnomeSlice

Unionhawk

But not worth

I forgot maps does flight routes

Texenox

6:12 PM

Hey @Uni.

Would this answer be allowed on the question?

0

A: Download games from steam to another drive

Shameless plug: I have written a program to move games between multiple Steam libraries: http://res2k.github.io/SteamLibrarian/ The difference to SteamMover (and possibly other tools) is that it uses Steam's native library support instead of filesystem features (ie junction points) to place Stea...

ATTENTION BRIDGE

NO

WHAT IS IT, WIPQOZN.

THIS POST IS TO ANNOUNCE THAT I HAVE NOTHING TO ANNOUNCE

#justwipqoznthings

Unionhawk

YOU CAN'T GET SOMEONE'S HOPES UP AND THEN SAY NOTHING

Texenox

6:14 PM

@Wipqozn #pissoff

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk I think I just did.

MadMAxJr

Error: Null Wipqozn reference

Feeds

Unionhawk has removed Wipqozn from the list of this room's owners.

4

Wipqozn

ROOM OWNER ABUSE

Unionhawk

YOU HAD THAT COMING, TURTLE

2

Wipqozn

6:20 PM

@JasonBerkan Wow man, way to go around tossing generalizations. How do you know that crocodiles don't know calculus?

ARE YOU A CROCODILE EXPERT?

user15026

@Texenox They've disclosed it is their thing, so it's not spam.

user15026

(And they've made it clear that it should hopefully resolve the issue.)

Texenox

@AshleyNunn Good, just checking.

Unionhawk

Reasons why I hate C: 1) #define TRUE 1 is a thing that makes sense to define

murgatroid99

@Unionhawk Not all languages have all of the same types

Unionhawk

6:22 PM

Yeah, I know

I guess I just need to get used to C again, after working with C# all summer and Go thus far this semester

murgatroid99

Technically, though, it would probably be slightly more correct to say #define TRUE 1==1

Or something like that

Unionhawk

Yeah, true

Kevin van der Velden

@murgatroid99 #define TRUE (1==1)

Operator precedence and such

murgatroid99

Yeah, I know. I forgot for a moment that the preprocessor doesn't constant-fold

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah it's just string matching

MadMAxJr

6:27 PM

javascript: var true = (1===1);

Learning about the difference between == and === was not fun.

badp

Your language isn't a real man's language if it doesn't have ====

Texenox

Is there any support for GIF avatars on the pipeline yet?

badp

@Texenox I think it's safe to say that won't happen

Texenox

@badp Damn.

MadMAxJr

Gravitar support is about all we get.

er, gravatar

badp

6:31 PM

Thanks to the revolutionary Gravitar technology you can assign a weight to your gravatar

This will affect the speed at which your avatar moves across the screen

Texenox

badp

Lightweight gravitars will effortlessly jump across the screen and bounce back, whereas more girthful gravitars will move with quite a lot more consideration and importance

with the optional Do I Even Lift Bro option, your well-endowed gravitar might even fail to support its own weight and slowly drop off the page, sliding towards the bottom

Private Pansy

Wheee, new tumbleweed badge

badp

Gravitar Premium users will even be able to specify their bustiness grade. This information will be used by participating web pages whenever 3D transformations are applied to your gravitar.

Texenox

@PrivatePansy There's a new one?

Private Pansy

6:34 PM

3 views in 7 days. On SU no less \

Texenox

Oh.

MadMAxJr

Internet avatars, the equivalent of internet enabled pet rocks.

Texenox

Hey guys, can I get that boilerplate non-answer comment for comment answers?

Private Pansy

I mean, in all likelihood that 3 views were all myself

Texenox

"To critique or request clarification..."?

badp

6:38 PM

@PrivatePansy Tumbleweeds on SU are a dime a dozen

Most of my questions had to be self-answered

Texenox

1 min ago, by Texenox

Hey guys, can I get that boilerplate non-answer comment for comment answers?

user15026

@Texenox Personally, I don't like the pro-forma canned comments (they tend to get used incorrectly, or people just drop them without checking to see if anyone else has already said the thing). I am sure that it is a userscript someplace, or something, but I don't have it.

user15026

(also, you don't need to repeat yourself so quickly)

Private Pansy

@badp It is a trilogy site

0

Q: Office 2013 switches to East Asian font when autocorrecting

I'm using Word 2013 to type some documents with math symbols. Since I need to use them frequently, I decided to turn on autocorrect math everywhere, and added in some custom mappings, such as \union to ∪. These work, but unlike the default mapping when inserted somehow they are inserted with thei...

microsoft-office-2013 autocorrect

Texenox

SU is SuperUser, right?

MadMAxJr

6:41 PM

Yep.

Texenox

Ah, yes.

Private Pansy

This is the question, though I'm 90% sure the actual problem is a bug with Word itself, so there's no real fix anyway

MadMAxJr

SO, SU, SF.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Skyrim Thieves Guild Quests

So I completed the quest line that destroys Heimskr's house in Whiterun so I can't complete one of the jobs for the thieves guild. Will this hinder my game?

skyrim

badp

@PrivatePansy I'm perfectly aware

Texenox

6:42 PM

@MadMAxJr SF is...

MadMAxJr

ServerFault.

Texenox

Ahah.

Anyways, I'm going to play some TF2 now.

Bye guys.

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn I asked one, but he tried to bite me.

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan What a jerk

Jason Berkan

In his defense, he closed his jaws half-way, and then another half and another half and another half without ever touching them together. I think he was trying to tell me something.

6

GodEmperorDune

7:05 PM

Zeno is a dick

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan So you were the monster all along

Jason Berkan

7:22 PM

@Wipqozn Must be all those violent video games.

badp

@JasonBerkan Repent, sinner, for thou hast not enough hats.

user15026

7:43 PM

Doing a ping test and it is reporting negative packet loss (at -13%) and I am so confused by that.

Jason Berkan

It found some lost packets while it was working.

Wipqozn

@Frank @AshleyNunn @YourMOm @Yuuki @ICantRememberWhoElseLikesHArvestMoon

1 hour video of stardew valley

aka a game meant to be like harvest moon

GnomeSlice

Except with a light sci-fi theme if I recall correctly

Oh chucklefish is publishing that?

djsmiley2k

and I'm finally home.

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Is a comical number of endings the new gamedev joke now?

djsmiley2k

7:50 PM

it was years ago

silent hill 2

with it's.... 30 or so?

@AshleyNunn something is faking the response to pings

and then the real response comes in too

110% success !

Yuuki

@djsmiley2k No, not seriously doing X endings but joking about it.

djsmiley2k

Oh

What about games with no end D:

Yuuki

@Wipqozn ... Something just feels wrong about playing a Harvest Moon-like with KB+M.

user15026

@Wipqozn Oooh yes I've been looking forward to that.

GnomeSlice

It will probably get gamepad support

Yuuki

7:55 PM

@Wipqozn Still waiting on that Holy Grail of a crossover between Harvest Moon and Monster Hunter.

GnomeSlice

@Yuuki moonhuntersgame.com

Hue

Geddit geddit

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Looks interesting, although enthusiasm was dampened when I saw stat modifiers.

(e.g. +2 INT, +1 FAI)

GnomeSlice

I was just making a joke based on the names

Entirely different kind of game

But yeah. Also they crowdfunswd through that square enix thing

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: How do I get my village on my phone

My tablet fell off the back of the couch, and so now the screen doesn't work. I don't know how to get my village from my tablet to my phone so I can play

clash-of-clans

GnomeSlice

Well, through Kickstarter, but they started on the SE thing

two bugs

8:03 PM

Doesn't the SE thing just point out crowdfunding projects they think are interesting?

GnomeSlice

Yeah

No

Sort of

It's like, a platform for developers to guage interest in their idea to see if crowdfunding is even worthwhile

Gauge

two bugs

I see. That's pretty neat, I guess.

GnomeSlice

Collective I think it's called

djsmiley2k

k

two bugs

Crowdfunding campaigns, if you're taking them seriously, are a big time/money investment so that's definitely beneficial

GnomeSlice

8:05 PM

Neat but sorta pointless

djsmiley2k

smelter daemon is hard.

GnomeSlice

Yes.

djsmiley2k

Like just doesn't take dmg D:

GnomeSlice

One of the hardest bosses.

djsmiley2k

:O

I need some friends D:

I did only have 5 estus flags when I got to him

on first encounter, and got him to 1/2 hp

GnomeSlice

8:06 PM

Last 1/4 is the hardest

He gets stronger as you hurt him

You have to try and stagger him while he's powering up

Throwing knives to the face

two bugs

@djsmiley2k Estus flags? Are you playing Dark Bridge? Or Bridge Souls?

GnomeSlice

Unless I'm thinking of another boss

djsmiley2k

:D

GnomeSlice

No I'm thinking of artorias

Nvm

Yuuki

Yeah, do not attack Smelter Demon while he's powering up.

djsmiley2k

8:08 PM

:O

Feeds

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

Sterno has removed Unionhawk from the list of this room's owners.

Sterno

THE SCALES ARE BALANCED

djsmiley2k

dark spirits

they are for duealing right ??

Why is he not attacking me

now theres 3

woah one is bad

hahahah he ran into the lava to escape

he's dead

\o/

LOL

2 pc summons + 1 npc = short work

Smelter Demon is dead.

\o/

Unionhawk

@Sterno Hold on, @Wipqozn came in here with an announcement that he had nothing to announce. He totally had it coming

Sterno

You'll have to take that up with Room Owner @Wipqozn

Wipqozn

8:21 PM

Oh hey, I'm a room owner again

Sorry @Unionhawk, I'd love to restate you, but I'd need a reason to and RULES ARE RULES

Jul 6 at 16:20, by StrixVaria

From now on no room ownership changes without reason.

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Would a raisin suffice?

Wipqozn

@Yuuki No

hmm I should think up a suggestion for the next movie night

THOUGHT COMPLETE

Kikis Delivery Service. I still haven't seen that movie.

Yuuki

@Wipqozn I categorically refuse all suggestions for 10 hours of LINK HE COME TO TOWN.

Unionhawk

@Sterno Fine, enclosed is my appeal letter to @Wipqozn

To the Honorable @Wipqozn, Esq:

I am writing this to appeal my removal of room-ownership status by @Sterno. As you are aware, I removed your room ownership status, for announcing to The Bridge that you had nothing to announce. As a result, @Sterno has seen it fit to not just reinstate you (which I had intended to do anyway later), but also by removing me. Now, I know you understand the context behind my actions, and, as a certified Cool Guy, are willing to forgive me for making a joke at your expense.

Yuuki

... Who certifies Cool Guys?

GodEmperorDune

8:31 PM

@Unionhawk 0/10, would trash without reading again

Unionhawk

@Yuuki @OrigamiRobot

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk Please see my reply here

@Unionhawk Man, I was going to reinstate you, but now you made me miss @OrigamiRobot

AND NOW i MISS @MARKTRAPP AND @ARDAXI

Unionhawk

(I knew I should have said that @Wipqozn is in charge of certifying Cool Guys. Dammit)

user15026

@Wipqozn You should.

Wipqozn

Man, I haven't read in ages

At this point I'm just going to wait for mistborn

then I'll go back to liveship

Lazers 2.0

8:37 PM

0

Q: Arcane Arcade Coffee Table drawer

I start by apologizing if I'm posting in the wrong StackExchange. I was wondering if you happen to know what kind of hardware is used on the drawer for this Coffee Table Arcade: I do some woodwork, and also design joysticks and mame installations, and I was int...

controllers mame

0

Q: Minecraft: What is the name for the texture of the bar on the front of the screen during gameplay?

Im trying to Edit some textures for my minecraft to match my skin, Ive changed my inventory look but i cant figure out how to change that little par that holds the Hp level hunger level the 9 items you can have on hand. so on and so fourth. if i could get some info on the names of these textures ...

minecraft

GodEmperorDune

@lazers2.0 identify this table

djsmiley2k

@Wipqozn ntiehr have I actually, and I own it D:

Wipqozn

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is not about gaming, but about carpentry. — Wipqozn 9 secs ago

One fo the more weird close reasons I've written.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do I create a wing if I got no friends in Elite: Dangerous?

I have read that I can invite other captains to join and create a wing, even NPC pilots but I don't find such option.

elite-dangerous

Wipqozn

@Lazers2.0 If only he left of the "in ELite:Dangerous"

Gosh darn teenagers

Mad Scientist

8:51 PM

Witcher 3 is just too fucking large. I'm replaying it to complete the quests I didn't do on my first playthrough, and it's taking ages. I'm certainly enjoying it, but the game is really too big for any reasonable person (and some parts of the Dandelion quest do drag on far too long).

djsmiley2k

holy crap that dude broke the bridge D:

murgatroid99

The guy after the Smelter Demon?

djsmiley2k

yeah

hehe

that was cool

first time i went past him and fought him

this time walked up, hit him once

Arperum

HOly fucking shit.

djsmiley2k

and then he did another slam right through the bridge!

@Arperum oh no what you found now?

Arperum

8:58 PM

Someone remember our local Trump variant moron? He gave a guest college at a university and suggested modifying the convention of geneve...

He wants to reduce the rights war refugees have.

I guess he sees them as not human or something. That guy is a monster.

That guy is hitler level bad.

murgatroid99

Oh, at first I just assumed you meant he wanted to be able to keep them out of the country

Arperum

Oh, that too.

MBraedley

Is anyone else not able to see the avatar for @Lazers?

murgatroid99

I see it

Arperum

According to his party migrants/refugees are a lower lifeform or something. It's pretty fucking terrible.

@MBraedley I can see it too.

MBraedley

9:05 PM

I was seeing the removed from imgur image, but a refresh fixed that.

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn so we don't identify gaming hardware? Like a joystick model? It doesn't seem to be about carpentry to me

Not Florida man, for once

murgatroid99

@GodEmperorDune They were asking for information about the drawer

I assume, from the video, that they were asking how to make the stuff in the drawer expand up when it opens

MBraedley

The Link That Can Crash Chrome: http://a/%%30%30

►

GodEmperorDune

9:21 PM

@murgatroid99 it read to me like they wanted to know about the joysticks rather than the raising/ lowering mechanism, but I can see I'm outnumbered

Wipqozn

> I do some woodwork, and also design joysticks and mame installations, and I was interesting in achieving the effect of this drawe

He's talking about the rising up it does

If you disagree you could just ask for him to clarify

GodEmperorDune

9:37 PM

Nah, super downvote is better

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Random charges of tyranny

I recently acquired an opinion penalty of tyranny for reasons unknown. The only two things I can think of: I decided to righteously imprison someone via the popup, then somehow by the time the action was carried out the righteousness was invalidated, which should be impossible as imprisonment i...

crusader-kings-2

Wipqozn

A thousand mile wind waker

►

cc @Unionhawk

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