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4:00 PM
Alarm clocks aren't lifehacks but a timer is?
 
lifehacks cant be sensible solutions
 
I just don't see how a plug timer is significantly different from an alarm clock if you're using them to accomplish the same thing.
You're using both of them for the intended purpose - timey wimey.
 
Well, the idea is that you can make any piece of electrical appliance you have lying around an alarm clock
 
True, but I don't have plug timers lying around whereas I do have multiple devices with alarm clock functionality.
 
ATTENTION EVERYONE
I AM SORRY TO SAY THAT I AM DELETING MY ACCOUNT
@FREDLEY IS THE REASON WHY
SHUN HIM
GOODBYE FOREVER
 
4:08 PM
Long live @fredley!
 
@Wipqozn Can't tell if this is sarcasm or sincerity.
 
@Wipqozn is dead, long live @fredley!
 
@Wipqozn Ok, guess you don't need ownership anymore then.
 
@StrixVaria WAIT NO I WAS JOKING
 
@Wipqozn Good.
 
4:11 PM
Please don't take away my italics. They're all I live for.
4
 
@Wipqozn I had just gotten to the owners page.
You survive, this time.
 
Although, if I was to delete my account, I probably would try to blame it on some random user to go out trolling.
 
Owner's page? Just click on his name. It's faster.
 
@JasonBerkan I was going to replace him with someone else too.
 
Actually I'd probably wait to get mod powers, then go down abusin'
 
4:12 PM
@Wipqozn In that case, you should blame @fredley
 
I'd make @badp proud
 
@Wipqozn So it takes the community managers to take you out?
 
@Frank Yes
I'd pull a @feichinger!
Man, that guy was the worst.
 
@Wipqozn Truly.
 
@WIPQOZN WANTS TO BE @FEICHINGER: DATA ACCEPTED
 
4:13 PM
@GodEmperorDune Man, this meme makes me said, since @origamirobot is no longer with us
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RIP @origamirobot
RIP @MarkTrapp
 
Dammit it took so long to type out that @Wipqozn ruined it
 
RIP @ArdaXI
RIP @RedRiderX
 
REST IN MAXIMUM OVERPEACE
 
@GodEmperorDune I'm good at ruiningthings
 
RIP @BenBrocka
 
4:14 PM
@StrixVaria Ben didn't delete his account
 
@StrixVaria Is he still a mod over at UX?
 
(did he?)
 
@badp Did RedRiderX?
 
#MournEverything
 
Never forget those who game before us.
 
4:15 PM
RIP @badp
 
@StrixVaria that was just @Wipqozn being @badp.
4
 
That was originally a typo but it was applicable
 
@badp I like this sentence.
 
RIP... we have a lot of people in this cemetery, huh?
 
RIP @alexanderpas
RIP @tzenes
 
4:16 PM
At lest @RonanForman came back from the dead
 
@Yuuki good thing it's not misspelled
 
Too old school for you guys, probably.
 
they also have their account still
 
RIP @ronnie
 
RIP @PrivatePansy
 
4:16 PM
@StrixVaria He was before my time,. but he did pop back in for a bit
 
I thought we were celebrating our quitters
 
CARRIER LOSS
 
@StrixVaria The first post I ever made on Arqade got one upped by a post by @tzenes
 
Yeah, Ben just doesn't show up in chat anymore. Or on the site for that matter.
 
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A: Why do some players build their buildings in a line (towards the entrance of their base)?

WipqoznI can think of two reasons for this: An attempt to split up your opponents forces (some on both sides) so that you can easily overpower them. To make it easier to defend your workers. If your opponent storms your base, you can just put your workers on the side opposite they enter, giving you...

@MBraedley iirc it's because @BenBrocka hates us
 
4:17 PM
@MBraedley he's too busy twittering all the things.
 
RIP @RavenDreamer
 
@GodEmperorDune I'm pretty sure @RavenDreamer joined a cult.
 
RIP @Mana
 
Mana mana?
 
@StrixVaria RIP @Manafication
 
4:18 PM
MOD ABUSE! MOD AB- MESSAGE REDACTED
 
I'm the last mod of my elections :(
well, and Grace, but she ascended.
 
@badp you mod abused your way to the top
 
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Q: Possible to earn Mega-Tickets without spending real money?

GodEmperorDuneThe latest update (1.1.3.1323) for Adventure Capitalist adds Mega-Tickets, which cost both Mega-Bucks and Gold Bars. I know that Mega-Bucks are earned through regular gameplay and that Gold Bars are available as an in app purchase. Is there any way to earn Gold Bars (and therefore the Mega-Tick...

 
@badp You're like a soldier who has watched all his comrades die.
 
@GodEmperorDune they do say that you should do something before you are appointed the relevant title.
WHY WAIT TO HAVE MOD POWERS TO MOD ABUSE
 
4:19 PM
Chat! It is raining again :(
 
RIP @sjohnston
 
@StrixVaria I'm not sure who that is
RIP @IanPugsley
 
@KevinvanderVelden mail some to california pls
 
@Wipqozn Success!
 
@Wipqozn unicornify avatar
 
4:20 PM
@StrixVaria I have failed.
 
Cave Johnson? He was in portal 2, right?
 
@GodEmperorDune it worked for @MartinSojka last time I think!
 
@StrixVaria I know who that is.
 
But I don't think I have enough stamps for the postal to America
 
@KevinvanderVelden is it a problem similar to using jet fuel to go to space?
 
4:22 PM
@badp was the unciorn yellow or green?
 
the amount of additional stamps required to send the stamps grows exponentially
@Wipqozn pink?
 
Okay, now I remeber.
I remember the avatar.
 
yep.
 
I don't remember ever interacting with him though.
 
on a green background. I believe.
 
4:23 PM
I don't think it quite works that way @badp
 
@KevinvanderVelden that sounds awfully boring.
 
But who knows I'm not a rocketstampsurgeon
 
are rocket stamps better than first class stamps?
 
@MattE.Эллен they may be less suitable for steelworks applications.
 
at least steel works
 
4:26 PM
Biking in the rain time chat o/
 
@KevinvanderVelden Drive safe
I think I've listened to this on repeat (on a longer home made 15 min loop) for over 30 hours now over the last couple weeks
please send help
 
@badp MAXIMUM OVERNEP
 
-1, lyrics
@twobugs It's such a good overworld theme
 
@badp Why are you watching? Just listen.
 
4:30 PM
I can't shake the silly smile it puts on my face
@Frank I'm listening to the lyrics, yes. I guess the fact I don't speak Japanese helps.
 
@badp It's a made up language.
 
Whatever.
Listening to speech gets in the way of my processing what I'm reading and writing.
This song is quite nice, though.
 
@badp Me too.
I like the Metroid Prime soundtrack for programming
 
@twobugs phendrana rifts ftw
 
@badp Yeah, I love CosmoFlips.
It's got a very martial theme to it.
 
4:34 PM
@twobugs My Google Play Music library is almost entirely lyrics free videogame music.
 
Trails in the Sky has some awesome soundtracks, too
And we're finally getting another game!
 
@badp Hehehehe
@badp I'm personally much, much preferable to lyric-less but sometimes it works. I end up not limiting myself but it's still a thing that I prefer just plain music.
 
@GraceNote The Ys II credits song is a notable exception e.g.
 
Right now I'm actually listening to a sample trailer for a soundtrack that I don't own on repeat.
I've been wanting to get one of the games that this soundtrack is for, though, for a while
 
4:40 PM
I think I remember you putting that video out before because this is totally familiar
 
@GraceNote yeah, I do believe I have.
if I had access to the web interface to Google Play Music there might be a way to see my most looped songs
but I don't, so alas.
 
I use youtuberepeat, myself
Thanks @Mana. I've never stopped using this since you taught me it.
 
I need to finish Ys 1 and 2 chronicles
 
I avoid youtube for music as much as possible. Mostly because it's stupid that I have to keep my tablet screen turned on
 
I love the other Ys games, I just never finished 1 or 2
 
4:42 PM
@twobugs I've finished 1 2 and Origins.
 
Origins is real good
 
There's 2 more Ys games on Steam
 
Celceta is very good as well
 
...why is "How to Pronounce Synecdoche" on my list of loops
 
dunno which one I should go for next
@GraceNote is it from that youtube pronounciation guide parody channel?
 
4:42 PM
Ark and Oath are the others on Steam, I think. They're both awesome but neither has a great PC version IIRC
No native controller support
 
@twobugs :|
 
I'm just happy that Steam seems to be becoming supermassive enough that it's slowly but surely attracting former exclusives off other platforms
 
My largest repeat count at 1411 times apparently
 
I can't get past Ys' ridiculous combat system
But otherwise the game was quite nice
 
4:47 PM
@GraceNote Good game, that.
 
DING DONG THE @WIPQOZN IS DEAD
 
@PrivatePansy which one, Ys 1/2 or Origins'?
The combat systems in Ys 1/2 are almost too trivial with a controller
 
The, uh, system where you bump into an enemy
 
@PrivatePansy 1/2 uses the very old system, the others have a much more modern action rpg system
 
4:48 PM
just don't go in straight compass directions at enemies
 
Yeah, that's the 1/2 system and not present in any of the other games
 
I have a feeling those two are where they are because of the length of the song, but Passionate Thought is not a short song so interesting how it has that much of a lead over everything.
 
@badp Yeah, that one
 
@badp Metal Gear is a pretty big example. I wonder if it'll get massive enough to pull Halo.
Probably not though. Halo is a pretty big sale factor for the Xbone.
 
@Yuuki New Microsoft is trying to be more inclusive, so I'd say it's more possible than it used to be
I still wouldn't count on it
 
4:49 PM
@twobugs Maybe, but Halo made the Xbox.
 
speaking of -- @GraceNote do you know if the Rebirth 2 chirper where Vert claims she wants a port of Rebirth 2 was in the original/Vita version as well?
 
I'm pretty sure the first Halo singlehandedly kept Microsoft in the console game.
 
Definitely not the original mk2
 
Halo 1 and 2 definitely sold the Xbox as a serious platform
 
DAMMIT.
 
4:51 PM
(in which game were chirpers introduced anyway?)
 
Someone spoiled a big plot point for MGSV on Reddit.
 
(I thought it was mk2)
 
@badp mk2
 
FUCK.
 
@Yuuki Aw :(
 
4:51 PM
@twobugs and 3 was the only reason the 360 launched successfully as well
 
But there weren't any system ports at all on Neptunia back with mk2
 
I've been working hard to avoid any and all spoilers for MGS5
 
@twobugs I normally don't mind spoilers, but this one is big.
 
I need to just get off the internet and finish it
 
@twobugs the plot is nothing makes sense. Kojima
 
4:52 PM
Just stay on the Bridge, avoid the rest of the Internet.
 
@Rapitor Kojima is the best person.
 
Bridge is love MOD ABUSE, Bridge is life .
 
@Yuuki was it malicious? I hate when people do that
 
@fredley pfft, you wish
 
@twobugs I can't tell if it was malicious or not, because it was kinda deep in the comments section and he just sorta mentioned it in an off-hand manner.
 
4:53 PM
I asked a friend of mine who has the Vita version and they don't remember that specific chirper, but for example in RB1 there were several scenes in the Steam version that were kept from the Vita version even though the idea of those scenes had to do with you being on the Vita, so it's likely that chirper was in the Vita version as well.
 
@Yuuki Still, that sucks man. Sorry you got something big spoiled :(
 
Was the spoiler that snake dies? Because I'm just assuming that's a thing that happens.
 
Getting an MGS game spoiled is like waking up to find Santa Claus is dead and you killed him
 
Which reminds me, I should play through the MGS series one day.
@twobugs Killing your parents is pretty terrible
 
@Wipqozn This happening would be even crazier than normal for MGS, given the placement of 5 on the timeline
 
4:56 PM
Snake kills Dumbledore
 
@GraceNote RB1? There's not even Uni in RB1. Unless you go out of your way to get Uni.
 
@Wipqozn Whoa whoa whoa! My parents were Santa Claus?!?!?!?
 
@badp Indeed
 
which I suppose is a little less going out of your way than hiring the oracles
 
(Which I would if I were playing)
 
4:58 PM
I didn't play NG+ in Rebirth 1, so not enough RAM
 
@JasonBerkan You have parents?!
 
@badp Maybe you should've gotten the twins too then
 
@JasonBerkan SURPRISE!
 
@JasonBerkan and @Sterno are so old, I thought they just crawled out of the ocean.
5
 
@Yuuki You should replace you with @JasonBerkan.
 
4:59 PM
@Wipqozn I guess that explains why Santa Claus has never given my kids a present.
 
@JasonBerkan lolololololollolollloololololol
And all this time you just thought it was because they were spoiled little shits
 
@GraceNote (polite reaction gif goes here)
 
but turns out you're kids were good all along!
You're the monster!
 
"Daddy, why don't we ever get presents at Christmas?" "I dunno, I got tons of presents when I was a kid. Maybe you just suck?"
 
@JasonBerkan Still debating how to handle this, because I don't want to lie to my daughter and potential future kids, but my wife really looks back fondly at her own wonder about Santa.
 
5:00 PM
@StrixVaria It's a tricky thing, that
 
@StrixVaria Just legally change your name to Santa.
 
@Wipqozn Whoa, you might be onto something.
 
SantaVaria
 
@StrixVaria We just flat out told them the truth.
 
I'm a genius.
 
5:01 PM
@JasonBerkan The band-aid method! Plus, once it's done, it can't be undone, so my wife would get over it with time.
 
How young are they?
 
My kids? 9/7/5/2
 
Meant both of you, really
 
@GraceNote 9/7 apparently.
 
My daughter just turned 1 recently.
 
5:03 PM
@Yuuki For the record, answering on someone else's behalf about the ages of their kids, even if you know, is... uh...
 
@GraceNote I read "both of you" entirely incorrectly.
 
S'aiite
 
For some strange reason, despite everyone knowing that @JasonBerkan is older than evolution, I decided to make a joke about him and @StrixVaria being 9 and 7.
 
So two of you have had ones that have been around the block by now, while the other one probably doesn't actually comprehend the idea of Santa yet.
 
Man, the last episode of Leverage is awesome
 
5:05 PM
You technically have probably like, 2 years to make a decision about Santa properly.
 
@SaintWacko Did @AshleyNunn recommend it to you?
 
@GraceNote Yeah, my daughter is at a point where every liquid is "juice" and every physical object is "bus".
 
@Yuuki No, I found it after I finished Burn Notice
 
I'll tell you my rocky story
 
@SaintWacko Ah. Well, I'm still slowly taking over the Bridge via my Leverage appreciation world domination plan.
 
5:06 PM
It's a really good show
@Yuuki I can definitely see why
 
@Yuuki You're going to leverage Leverage?
 
@Yuuki Have you seen Burn Notice?
 
I was easily swayed by the idea of Santa being a thing. But naturally you have the "big kids" in school who assert that Santa isn't real. So I had my doubts. Until one year. One year we are heading off to PA to visit family for Christmas, and before we left, I checked that tree and there was nothing. And when we got back on like the 28th or so, I check and SANTA PRESENTS UNDER THE TREE
 
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week
 
> Step 1: Get people to watch Leverage.
> Step 2: Everyone loves Leverage.
> Step 3: ???
> Step 4: Find out what Step 3 is.
> Step 5: Seriously, we need to find out what Step 3 is.
> Step 6: Take over the world.
 
5:07 PM
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Q: What happens when you beat Bugdroid in the Fruit Ninja tournament?

lunboksAt random times when I'm playing Fruit Ninja, I'm getting challenges from Bugdroid to play the tournament game. It's not part of the normal roster and I can only play it when challenged. However, the challenge seems almost impossible to beat. Bugdroid almost always gets perfect combos, and sni...

 
I was so convinced by that that I even wrote a school essay about the incident, laughing at all the "big kids" that thought they were so smart.
 
Step 7: Get multiline chat messages to support formatting
@GraceNote Young @GraceNote, a study in cognitive dissonance
 
@GraceNote but then who was phone?
 
A few years down the road my parents then nonchalantly revealed the truth about in the same region as you might tell someone you're heading to the grocery store. That hit hard, haha.
 
@GraceNote :(
 
5:09 PM
@badp I have successfully survived the rain!
 
If you do want them to "believe in Santa Claus", thus, I recommend two things.
 
Keep them off the internet?
 
Daaaamn that was a good show
 
One is that you don't do anything that may make a future reveal feel even more a betrayal than a basic "We wanted you to have fun with the Christmas spirit of childhood".
 
Anyone here watch Narcos?
I keep seeing people talk about it
 
5:10 PM
Two is to remember that as Santa, you don't have to only like milk and cookies. And your children will trust you on what Santa really wants to eat because you went through this when you were a kid. So you totally know.
 
@GraceNote Steak and ale?
 
I actually never prepared milk and cookies for Santa
 
Hmmm steak
 
All I remember about Santa Claus is my middle sister and I convincing my youngest sister to pretend she still believed Santa was real so that we would continue to get presents from Santa.
 
Never heard of anyone doing that either really
 
5:11 PM
You mean Santa is not an eldritch horror from another dimension? My whole life up to this point has been a lie!
 
@badp Nor did I, but the potential to abuse this is something I always thought about after the fact.
 
I don't know what this santa you guys are talking about is, but sinterklaas is totally real right?
 
@KevinvanderVelden is that the mid October/November one?
 
@badp december 5th
(Or 6th if you're @Arperum)
 
In northern Italy there's a similar thing around St Lucy IIRC
Lucy? Lucia. Whatever
Dec 13.
Whereas in southern Italy we went for the dead's day, Nov 1
 
5:14 PM
We celebrate several new years over here
 
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Q: How can I filter items with a certain enchantement?

VJAI am trying to build a custom Adventure Island. At this moment I am trying to limit the allowed items on this island. I'm trying to do this by filtering on a certain enchantment which is not item-specific. For example. When you want to filter an wooden sword with a custom name, you use this comm...

 
because Oct 31 is for people who don't plan yearly cemetery tours
and have bones of the dead candy to go with it
Hmmmm, bones.
@PrivatePansy including Mar 25 for the really old fashioned?
I think it was Mar 25.
 
I didn't know Day of the Dead was more widespread. I've always thought of it as more of a Mexico-specific holiday
 
@twobugs it's definitely a thing in Sicily
 
Well, the Chinese also celebrate their new year, as does the Malays. I don't think the Indian festival of the lights is actually a new year's celebration, but some people do
 
5:20 PM
@twobugs Mexico was a Spanish colony.
 
Easter is not a public holiday, but Good Friday is
 
What about August 15th?
 
@Yuuki Well yeah, but the USA was a colony of the British empire and we celebrate holidays they don't!
 
Although after looking at stuff, it originated in pre-Columbus Central American/Mexican natives.
 
Mid autumn festival isn't a public holiday, though the populace does celebrate it
 
5:21 PM
It's more likely that it was carried back over to the Old World rather than the other way around.
 
Mid autumn in August?
 
@Yuuki Interesting. So it caught on in southern Europe?
 
@badp Well, it's more mid September
Changes every year depending on the moon
 
@twobugs They also celebrate holidays we don't. I wish we got Boxing Day.
 
Which is odd because the seasons actually change with the sun
But there you go
 
5:23 PM
Aug 15 is supposed to be a religious celebration but it really just is peak summer as in the day everyone gets off. For sufficiently restricted values of everyone
 
@Lazers2.0 I didn't know Dead Island had enchantments.
 
They don't celebrate it in Germany but they do in Bavaria
 
That's because it's Minecraft
 
Also wait autumn in September in the southern hemisphere?
 
Is there a solstice in August?
 
5:25 PM
Wat
 
@badp I'm not in the Southern hemisphere
 
No but usually August is the hottest month anyway
 
Someone in my class is literally playing diablo right now
 
There we go, solstice happens in June, equinox in September
 
@Unionhawk back in my day, we only played spider solitaire during class
Kids these days with their fast wifi
 
5:27 PM
Yeah, there's bold and then there's whatever the fuck "playing diablo in class" is
Goddammit matlab install faster
 
@Unionhawk dude in the first year of Uni we had actual PES tournaments during class, with people bringing routers and everything for mp
 
Also Facebook, cause facebook launched that year and no one had smartphones yet
 
This practice was short lived after the marks of the first few exams started arriving
 
user15026
Woo, I am the only one on the phooooones :D
 
Where is @sternold to chime in with what they did on stone tablets when he was at school?
 
5:30 PM
@GodEmperorDune Chipped out a very slow game of Pong.
 
@GodEmperorDune I think that by that time they'd figured wax out
By the way
 
@badp Pro Evolution Soccer?
 
Hyp-Dim-Nep-Reb-1 is 60% off today on Steam
@PrivatePansy yes
 
I wonder if we could use the school's wifi network as one gigantic LAN for the purpose of multiplayer
 
@Unionhawk Half of my classes have quite a few people playing Hearthstone.
 
5:35 PM
Hyp-Dim-Nep-Reb-2 is also 60% off on Bundle Stars
 
user15026
@badp Part of me wants it, part of me is still mad at the stuff I have to redo in hte first one. I just want to like those games so much
 
user15026
But they're too hard for me, I think.
 
YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE except for the amount of droning about these games that I've done in the last few weeks but you should totally blame it on @GraceNote
@AshleyNunn Rebirth 2 has a smoother difficulty curve, but the main characters are somewhat less awesome. I wouldn't call Rebirth 1 hard though so Iunno
Actually Rebirth 2 is harder in the sense that there is a lot more optional missable stuff
but if you are in just for the joyride, it's easier.
 
user15026
I am just easily frustrated, bad at strategy and bad at grinding
 
user15026
There is a reason I stick to Nintendo and NIntendo-esque things
 
5:39 PM
There's also an optional secondary real time mode so you can grind while you're not playing. It made more sense on the Vita I suppose
(It kinda wants you to check back every hour or two)
 
@AshleyNunn I'm a turtle tamer in kol now
 
I will be playing SO much Harvest Moon on the flight today.
Gotta harvest that grass!
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune Yay! We match!:P
 
Finding the turtles reads like I expect geocaching to be
 
I need to find out if we're doing the stick run this weekend.
If not, I'm going to ascend and I think I'm going to go Turtle Tamer too.
(It's next on my list for The Clothing of Loathing, plus the Spookyraven skill looks very nice)
 
5:45 PM
I'm an Accordion Thief
The Accordions are awesome
 
And you can pickpocket your enemies for more accordions!
> The best defense is a good offense, and the best offense is a heavy accordion.
 
um.
 
I like how the revamp changed Accordion Thieves from just being buffbots.
 
Fucking kongregate. Their mobile signup stuck me with some bullshit name
 
@Frank there is grass on the moon? Go home you're drunk
@GodEmperorDune make a new account?
What even DOES kongregate do on mobile?
 
5:50 PM
Give me a 5% bonus in adventure capitalist
 
OH WOW BEST VALUE
:p
 
@badp Well, a 6% bonus would've just been game-breaking.
 
It's %5 bonus from Angel investors, which used to be purchasable with in game currency but looks nerfed by latest update
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune Hunting in things for things that sometimes look like things but aren't. Sounds about right.
 
I'm kind of bored with Clicker Heroes already. The scaling is completely ridiculous already. The next tier after the ice guy is like 100U when I'm still on octillions
 
user15026
5:57 PM
Less turtles, though.
 
If you feel like hyp-dim-nep-reb games may be too cheerful for you simply accompany them with stuff like this
 

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