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7:00 PM
@James How else can a logical reasonable person talk about current politics without crying or going on a murderous rampage?
 
@TimS. I no longer care to try and improve the world.. I figure people are getting what they deserve :)
Course I've not cared since I was like 15 and found out the world was a shithole.
I was set in my 'Why when I was your age' ways a long time ago :)
 
@James I would agree with you except we have too many warning labels for common sense stuff. I consider myself a darwinist.
Haha.. I said I'd never say that to my kids, but I say it all the time.
 
@TimS. Same, we are protecting the idiots way too much
They should be left to die out
 
They can pause live TV. "Back in my day" I was the remote.
 
Dont want your kids to be vaccinated? Fine, your genes should die
 
7:02 PM
yep
Omg EXACTLY
there's a reason why our life expectancy is ~80 and not 33 like it was 300 years ago or whatever
 
@James except that more likely other people's kids die because you didn't vaccinate yours... herd immunity
 
Oh cause its god's will we live longer now
(Ignore all the historical records that max life span of humans has always been around 100 or so going be thousands of years)
 
lol. I'm tempted to star that just so it'll show up on the sidebar out of context ;)
 
@TimS. most of that has to do with infant mortality
 
@GodEmperorDune I find that statement needing facts to back it up man
 
7:03 PM
@GodEmperorDune Not all of it though
 
@TimS. Well think about it Tim
 
@James how herd immunity works?
 
People have been dying for 2 thousand years now
Heaven and hell have to be getting pretty full
 
hahaha
 
7:04 PM
So if god can keep people alive longer to avoid over population.. Seems like a reasonable thing to me
 
Thank you.. you're allowing me to quote a line from my favorite zombie movie. "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth."
 
> Even those who are not eligible for certain vaccines—such as infants, pregnant women, or immunocompromised individuals—get some protection because the spread of contagious disease is contained. This is known as "community immunity."
 
@GodEmperorDune I understand the herd immunity basics and such
And I understand that some people just cant handle the vaccines
But I think its a stupid statement that they are a majority of the herd
And honestly, while cruel and not within their control
 
they are not hte majority of hte herd
 
That is another thing Darwinism would weed out
 
7:05 PM
they are the ones most likely to get sick
 
@James yarp
 
Yeah
Remember
 
Hold the fuck on, stop everything what
 
Darwinism isnt about stopping bad things from happening to people
Its about the ones who can get through it doing so
 
yep
 
7:06 PM
@Unionhawk Yoshi is dirty. The Bridge is out of control
 
I am trying and failing to understand why "Darwinism" is a valid reason why modern medicine is bad, or, what, even
 
@Unionhawk You made a bad association some where along the way
We were saying 'Let the idiots who dont want touse modern medicine go by the wayside'
 
@Unionhawk What he's saying is, essentially, that if you are medically able to get vaccinated and choose not to, then he hopes you die of disease.
 
Have I entered some twilight zone alternate bridge or something, or
 
Which would be a better state of affairs, in his eyes, than mandatory vaccination.
 
7:07 PM
I...o...hmm
 
@StrixVaria I would not be against killing those people outright to save @GodEmperorDune's weaker herd members.
;)
You have a choice
Vaccine or Cyanide
Choose, Naow!
 
Yup, now I'm lost
 
Summary: The world sucks and we as a species need to move forward not dig our heels in like we are.
 
If you can be vaccinated and choose not to be that is fine, but I think they should be kept out of society because they're endangering others
 
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird argument. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Bridge
 
7:10 PM
And yes btw things got satirical .. As mentioned, I do not care nor do I even try to improve the world any more.
Any idea can be taken to the wrong extreme
 
@Unionhawk IT TURNS OUT IT'S MAN
 
@twobugs Cost of entrance to society is vaccination. Please see the nurse, or the county sheriff with the shotgun to make your choice.
 
@Unionhawk How about just showing help papers for vaccinations when you get a ticket to amusement parks that have more people in/out of them than other institutions that Do require that sort of thing (like schools)
Haha, Help.. I meant Health :)
I also think it does our country a bit of alevel of disservice that its residents are not required to put time into some social service of some kind.. Military, Police, Hospital, Gov't.. Something that exposes them to what goes on to make this country work.
Meh.. Whatever.
Sooo, How about that new Diablo season thingy?? :)
(Back to the things that distract us from what is going on around us)
 
(soon)
 
@Unionhawk Hehe, Like I said any idea can be taken to an extreme.
That is the whole point of moral absolutes
Even the scifi story of I, Robot was pointing that out
 
7:17 PM
Probably because of work firewall.
 
cdn.gamer-network.net/2014/usgamer/Tut-Papers.jpg
 
@Unionhawk This game is so good.
 
Try an HTTP infront of it?
But yeah I actually like that game a lot :)
 
(reup to stack.imgur)
 
I had a play on a similar game idea I have been floating around.. but.. well I am not sure its uncontroversial enough to mention in here.
 
7:19 PM
at my school, changing http to https would allow you to access the website you were trying to go to
 
@James If your comment that we should commit genocide against stupid people was clearly uncontroversial to you, maybe leave the one that you consider on the fence out of the Bridge.
 
@StrixVaria LOL
 
@StrixVaria genocide against stupid people = social darwinism
 
@Dragonrage Actually, that's regular Darwinism
 
Did I ever actually say the words Stupid People? I try to avoid that cause it always gets people off on a 'Well what is stupid?' tangent
 
7:21 PM
i believe the sentiment was "if you're dumb enough to not get vaccinated, you're dumb enough to die of illness". falls quite short of genocide
 
@murgatroid99 regular darwinism would be to allow them to die because of stupid decisions, not because we killed them off
@Ohnana what if they are so dumb they cant catch an illness
 
I said stupid when I was talking about how large the impact of herd immunity was.
 
13 mins ago, by James
@StrixVaria I would not be against killing those people outright to save @GodEmperorDune's weaker herd members.
 
@Dragonrage Social Darwinism is about social stratification, not actual dying
 
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7:22 PM
Okay
 
@StrixVaria Yeah Yeah I just wondered if I used the classification is all.. Glad to see you think the people I was talking about should also be called 'stupid' :)
 
I have an idea.
Let's stop talking about killing people!
 
Let's talk about games!
 
But
Isnt that what we do in video games?
 
DRAGON QUEST HEROES IS FUN
 
7:22 PM
:D
 
room topic changed to The Bridge: General Arqade chat, wherein we attempt to minimise the impact of badp, and badp byproducts [-context] [-fun] [-games] [jin-fanclub] [lazers] [-lifehacks] [-murder] [-poetry] [-spoilers]
 
@StrixVaria Isnt that on PC?
 
DIABLO 3 SEASON 5 STARTS TONIGHT
 
I think I put that on my wishlist
 
@James PS4, at least for me.
 
7:22 PM
@StrixVaria Yeah I tried that and people ignored me :/
 
I just had the best game ever of ranked dota, 22 minutes in the game they had a third of our kills, no towers, we were destroying barracks... and then the game server crashed and it didn't count >:(
 
@StrixVaria Hmm... I dunno Ive not console gamed in a while.
I thought steam had it too :D
 
@murgatroid99 it depends on the extent. the Nazis practiced it, and they killed a lot of people
 
Off to check
 
@James Having a daughter completely changed my gaming hardware preferences.
 
7:23 PM
To the person who asks "who added " in a while, it's a long story.
 
I used to never touch consoles, now I use my PS4 daily.
 
@StrixVaria what specifically about a daughter did it?
 
@James Yep, that's it.
 
@StrixVaria I use my PS4 daily but to stream Amazon
 
7:24 PM
@GodEmperorDune The fact that in order to be with her, I wasn't physically located at my PC.
 
@KevinvanderVelden sounds like the drop hacking that used to happen in LoL
 
@StrixVaria makes sense
 
Possibly
It would explain how those guys were higher ranked than us
We were absolutely killing them ><
Also! I finished book 4 of the year today :D
 
@StrixVaria it still hasn't started? Well, there goes my "I should log on Diablo for a bit" moment
figured it had already started, since it was supposed to start today
 
@Chippies I believe it's 9PM Eastern, 6PM Pacific
 
7:25 PM
@AshleyNunn is still a reading machine with 7 though
 
They time it so it's "after work" for everybody.
 
Kewl
Maybe Ill get some time to play this season
 
If I play it's going to be an Arcane Torrent wizard, because I'm tired of archetypes.
I don't even think there's a set that makes that viable.
 
@KevinvanderVelden how long was each book?
 
Its not like it hasnt been a fun few months at work.
 
7:26 PM
@Dragonrage No, I mean Social Darwinism is literally an existing thing, that refers to applying natural selection principles to social stratification
Social Darwinism is a modern name given to various theories of society that emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. Economically, social Darwinists argue that the strong should see their wealth and power increase while the weak should see their wealth and power decrease. Different social Darwinist groups have differing views about which groups of people are considered to be the strong and which groups of people are considered to be the weak...
 
@Dragonrage 352 pages, 383 pages, 356 pages and 336 pages
 
@KevinvanderVelden I almost finished book 1, which I started in early December.
 
@KevinvanderVelden not bad.
 
@StrixVaria arcane torrent was the skill of choice for a grift wizard in S4
 
Gentlemen Bastard books are dense, though, and I don't really read much each day.
@Chippies Huh. I had no idea.
I've still never used it seriously, so I'll give it a try.
 
7:28 PM
i have a very high reading speed however, so i would probably finish a 300 page book in a matter of a few hours
 
My reading speed varies greatly based on what I'm reading.
 
@Dragonrage I read the first book in 2 sessions of about 3-4 hours each
 
@KevinvanderVelden I can't read for that long at a stretch.
 
@StrixVaria I read words of radiance in one weekend
 
@KevinvanderVelden That one only took me a few weeks. It went faster because it was so good.
 
7:29 PM
i read all of the harry potter books in about 4 days
 
Yesssss so good
 
Warbreaker is still the best Sanderson book CC @Wipqozn
 
the wheel of time series took me about a week
 
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@KevinvanderVelden Yeah but 2 of those were Animorphs books :P
 
I don't know about best, but really good as well
 
7:30 PM
@Dragonrage I'm going to call bullshit on that because there's no ways your eyes didn't turn to dust.
 
@AshleyNunn true, those barely count =p
 
I am physically incapable of reading Wheel of Time.
 
I should read those at some point
 
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@KevinvanderVelden They're entertaining though, and nice before bed when I want a thing I didn't have to think about
 
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@StrixVaria I have tried so many times and I just can't
 
7:31 PM
@StrixVaria also 1000-1500 pages per day
@AshleyNunn they're soo good
 
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Like I want to, but it never meshes with my brain well enough to keep me engaged
 
@StrixVaria i read very fast.
 
user15026
@KevinvanderVelden If you left me alone and told me to read all day and just quietly brought me snacks, I could do a 1000 page thing in a day if I really liked it, but that's too much reading in one go for me to want to
 
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(And if its 1200 pages of dry stuff, well, then it takes forever because I keep taking breaks. (I'm looking at you, Alexander Hamilton biography that took me a month.))
 
@AshleyNunn if you want another of those, I've read the saga of darren shan a year or so ago, it's also pretty good
Though the ending is kinda -,-
@AshleyNunn oh yeah, I've done that as well. But 7 days in a row?
 
7:33 PM
@KevinvanderVelden There are multiple consecutive books where nothing substantial happens
 
I don't know how the first person read Wheel of Time without a bunch of other people who had already finished it egging him on saying it pays off in the end.
 
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@KevinvanderVelden That looks pretty funsies!I will have to add it to my list.
 
@murgatroid99 true. Still great
 
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@StrixVaria I read the first one and went "I can't wait any more for it to get interesting" and then wandered off. But I also struggle with a lot of high fantasy, so maybe that's it.
 
@StrixVaria maybe it was a friend of the author?
 
7:34 PM
@AshleyNunn have you read the Dark elf trilogy?
 
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@Dragonrage Author/titles?
 
@KevinvanderVelden Honestly, I mostly enjoyed Wheel of Time, but I really had to push through the 3 or 4 books before Sanderson took over. I actually thought the ending was a worthy payoff, though
 
@AshleyNunn they deal with quite a lot of interesting stuff, especially for a young adult series
 
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@Dragonrage No I have not! They're on my list, though. :)
 
7:35 PM
@AshleyNunn it is a good read, you will enjoy them
 
@AshleyNunn half the library of congress is on your list =p
 
If that link is rtight it should be live.
 
@KevinvanderVelden does the library of congress have normal books? or do you mean she has enough books on here list to fill half the library on congress?
 
@Arperum eu salways tarts earlier
 
@Dragonrage both
 
7:36 PM
@Chippies It does say "all regions" though.
 
@Dragonrage I haven't read any R.A. Salvatore, although his name pops up everywhere.
 
@AshleyNunn goodreads.com/series/49177 is one of my favorite series.. along with the Canticle (The Cleric Quintet)
 
@StrixVaria ive only read his dark elf trilogy as far as i can remember, but it was quite good
well actually i also read the second dark elf trilogy
 
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@KevinvanderVelden shush, it's only like 265 things right now!
 
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@Dragonrage Yes.
 
Most of the avatars I ever create names for come from the Cleric Quintet series.
 
apparently there are more books i need to read
 
@Dragonrage Have you read anything by Sanderson aside from the end of WoT?
 
@Dragonrage Thats really several series put together (all about Drizzt)
I've read Icewind Dale.. thats a good series..
 
@TimS. i know, ive only read 6 of them. thus i need to read the others
 
7:39 PM
Ah
I love the FR books.. I have most of them on ebooks
err epub
 
@StrixVaria way of kings series, mistborn series, and a few others
cant wait for next way of kings book to come out
 
Early 2017 projected :(
 
@Dragonrage I may have mentioned this already. Yesssssssssssss so good
All the want
 
At least he has Calamity coming out soon-ish.
 
Also want
 
7:41 PM
It's the last in his YA trilogy and I tend to love how he resolves stuff.
If everything he's ever finished is any indication.
 
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@StrixVaria I've not read the YA ones, I should fix that
 
I was really disappointed by Shadows of Self, though, so Bands of Mourning isn't going to rocket up my to-read list like most Sanderson releases would.
 
cant wait for patrick rothfus's 3 book either
 
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but the "books I actually have in my possession" to read pile is rather big atm
 
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so I gotta make a dent in that first.
 
7:42 PM
@StrixVaria I thought it was pretty good, but then I liked the one before it
 
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@Dragonrage Have you read Slow Regard?
 
@AshleyNunn no i just saw it on his website, hadnt seen it before
 
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@StrixVaria SoS is Wax and Wayne, yes? Or am I confusing things?
 
only have read name of the wind and wise man's fear
 
@AshleyNunn yes
 
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7:43 PM
@Dragonrage It's a super short read, but I LOVED IT.
 
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(Auri is my favourite.)
 
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@KevinvanderVelden Ah, that's why I've not read it, I didn't like the previous one at all.
 
@AshleyNunn i shall have to read this
he writes very well
 
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@Dragonrage Or get the audiobook, because Rothfuss reads it and in my opnion he has a looooovely reading voice.
 
Hm, I'll be traveling by car to work soon, might try it
 
7:50 PM
@KevinvanderVelden You should do like me and build a cd cache in your car, so you always have music available :p
I have 30+ cd's in my car.
 
@Arperum I have potentially thousands
 
@StrixVaria Man, that's crazy. I can read for hours.
 
My car radio accepts a USB drive
 
I could spend the whole day reading. Sometimes I have trouble just putting a book down
 
@KevinvanderVelden Acting all fancy are we...
 
7:51 PM
And also agreed. Warbreaker is the best sanderson book.
 
@Arperum to be fair, it doesn't accept CDs!
 
Season hasn't started yet?
 
That's broken somehow (since I purchased the car actually)
 
@KevinvanderVelden That sucks.
@Yuuki Come to EU!
 
@Arperum meh, USB ftw
 
7:53 PM
@KevinvanderVelden I like my cds.
 
Yes, but not for use =p
 
@KevinvanderVelden is old fashioned
 
anyone know what a class L investment fund is?
 
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Not a clue.
 
@Dragonrage L is for loser, you need to invest in a class T for Trump
 
8:05 PM
@StrixVaria @Chippies @James and any other Diablo people asking, season starts at 7PM central.
5PM Pacific.
 
@Fluttershy far too late for me to care. Got to work tonight
 
-1
Q: Is there any reason to play support Maokai in Season 6?

AhtIn season 3, I played Maokai as support; this was not a bad idea, but only when the enemy ADC was a poke type (e.g. Ezreal or Corki). Maokai's passive gives him a lot of sustain, he has some poke, slow, damage reduction, and a snare. But the question is, is there any reason to play him as suppor...

 
I won't play S5 much anyway
just gonna try to get some of those seasonal achievs maybe
 
@Dragonrage seriously though, maybe post it on money.stackexchange.com
 
@Fluttershy Good to know.. I wont be home for a few hours after that though even if I leave at a normal time...
Traffic sucks until 7:30 PDT :D
 
8:12 PM
Oh, also, @StrixVaria, have you seen Paragon? The Epic Games moba coming to PC and PS4?
 
-1
Q: Java.lang NullpointException Minecraft

Kayla HoffonI need help on this, please Senpai! I dont really know what to and after I make a world it crashes 😣 Please Help.

 
@Chippies Saving this for when you have every character maxed this season :P
 
History.SE, I choose you.
History.SE used Omega Downvote.
 
@twobugs lol, who knows :P
I got a job now though and I play another MMO
 
What MMO? Wildstar?
 
8:22 PM
tera
right?
 
Holy shit. first conquest in D3 season is already claimed by some crazy person.
 
.... It's been open for less than 24 hours.
 
There we go!
Got my computer set up with its new SSD!
 
@Fluttershy Just the cryptic reveal trailer. Nothing specific.
 
8:29 PM
Tera Patrick Online
huehue
 
Can't decide if I want to reinstall D3
 
You don't
play darkest dungeon
or cogmind
 
@GnomeSlice is right
 
Pretty sure my inability to find my authenticator will make that decision for me. The kids love to move it on me
 
Is that the reason you had kids? So you can blame them when you lose stuff?
 
8:32 PM
No. Most stuff I lose on my own. But for some reason my daughter REALLY enjoys playing with the authenticator
 
Have you guys seen Deserts of Kharak?
 
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Okay, this book just got hella weird.
 
@StrixVaria Gotcha. I wasn't sure if you'd signed up for the closed beta stuff or not.
 
@Sterno just use the mobile app
 
That's what I do!
@AshleyNunn What book?
 
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8:35 PM
@Fluttershy Parasite by Mira Grant
 
@GodEmperorDune Pretty sure you need the authenticator to initialize it
But if I ever find it, that's a good idea.
 
@Sterno Could always contact support, maybe.
 
no i mean the mobile authenticator app
 
@GodEmperorDune Wouldn't you need the physical authenticator to be able to take it off of the account so you can switch to the app?
 
Apr 12 '11 at 16:44, by Wipqozn
didn't IE9 just come out? o.O
My first message was about internet explorer
 
8:36 PM
Yes, or you could fax your ID to Blizzard or something
 
@Wipqozn That explains a lot.
 
@Wipqozn That's embarassing
 
My first message was something like "hi, I dunno if I'm supposed to be here."
 
@twobugs Or take a picture of it and submit it
I had to do that
 
Honestly, I'm still not sure.
 
8:37 PM
@Fluttershy i think it depends on if you set up your battle.net account page login to use authenticator or not
 
It was pretty easy
 
@GnomeSlice ...or is it a trick of the light?
 
@SaintWacko Yes, it is.
@Fluttershy Probably not
 
Ugh, I can't remember any of the other phrases the Darkest Dungeon guy says except for stuff like "They can be broken, they can be beaten"
 
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Q: Optimal loadout for Death Drop missions

DangerZoneI have the second ship and a combination of scatter turrets, mining lasers, flak cannons, the long range broadsides (forget what they're called at the moment). Hull, shields, and deflector are all upgraded to Mk II as well. I have the second ship. However, when I pick up the cargo for the Death...

 
8:38 PM
Apr 12 '11 at 20:45, by Wipqozn
@ThomasMcDonald pre-loading it now :3
I didn't realize he deleted his account
I knew he stopped coming, but never realized he didn't
 
> All new computer equipment must be interoperable with existing equipment that is not to be replaced (e.g. cabling and monitors)
Oh god, I'm as bad at writing requirements as my customer
 
> Basically, I'm a much better mayor than Fluttershy.
Man that's an old description
 
All new Bacon must be compatible with existing Hamburgers.
 
Any new equipment must interface correctly with existing systems.
 
@Powerlord All new Hamburgers must be compatible with existing Bacon.
 
8:40 PM
my first post was to @Wipqozn
Jul 24 '14 at 22:03, by Matt Giltaji
@Wipqozn how are you liking it?
 
Not sure how to find my first post.
 
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@Fluttershy I have no idea what mine was. Curious to look.
 
The intent of the requirement is to not tear out the existing cables, since that would be a pain in the ass. Not for us, though, because we wouldn't be doing that work.
 
@GodEmperorDune I'm a hero.
 
user15026
How would I find out what my first post was?
 
8:43 PM
wait i may have messed that up
dammit
 
@AshleyNunn Check out the transcript for the day your chat account was made, and then just troll through the days
4
 
But it's sufficiently vague that we could replace all the cables if we wanted to, they'd just be computer equipment that needs to be replaced.
 
Okay I know that was a typo, but I like that one.
 
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@Wipqozn I had a chat account made long before I ever used it
 
@AshleyNunn search for the first response to you and work backwards?
 
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8:46 PM
@GodEmperorDune Yeah, but how would I do that>
 
@AshleyNunn search for someone saying @AshleyNunn in the transcript, order by newest, go to the last page
 
user15026
If we use that, my first message is bugging Grace about a game grant game I didn't get
 
My search is thwarted by @Wipqozn D:
 
@AshleyNunn close enough for bridge purposes
 
Yeah okay I give up on finding my first message
 
8:49 PM
Haha
And ironically my first response was from @Wipqozn :D
James
Is this the place to ask formatting questions for posts?

Wipqozn
@James Go ahead.
Dec 28 '11 at 21:56, by James
Is this the place to ask formatting questions for posts?
 
The oldest one of mine I can find is this
Dec 19 '11 at 18:58, by murgatroid99
If you look at the giveaway prizes, the grand prize is ALL OF THE GAMES ON STEAM
Regarding the 2011 Steam winter sale
 
Nov 25 '15 at 23:21, by Dragonrage
where should i ask about all thing meta?
apparently my first post had a typo
 
man this would be so much easier if the transcript wasn't so full
 
Wow I remember @Wipqozn accused me of being Unikitty
That was The Worst
 
or if the data explorer had chat data in it
 
8:53 PM
LessPopMoreFizz didn't make it.
Every time @fredley goes on a run, someone dies
 
is there a wildcard token to search by?
 
Crap, @fredley just got the Kleptomaniac flaw. Worst flaw. Flaw @Unionhawk murders people for.
 
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@twobugs I apologize on his behalf for that :(
 
Please do not invoke the -kitty name.
 
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@Sterno Oh boy
 
8:54 PM
That was a creepy and weird time.
 
Yup
 
"Hi I made a filter and I've been reading everything you ever said."
 
My first post here was apparently
 
First mention of my name:
 
Nov 4 '10 at 14:26, by Powerlord
Aw, my work won't let me log into Gaming any more... finally decided to block it. :/
 
8:55 PM
Sep 26 '12 at 16:01, by fbueckert
@SaintWacko Welcome to the Bridge!
 
user15026
This has made me realize that this year is my 5th year of hanging out with you lot.
 
I'm afraid to look for my first post.
 
I've askedh ow to find it
 
There's not really a good way, sadly
 
8:57 PM
I found you guys when I was bored during one of my endless moderations of the RPG.SE review queue.
 
The first 6 mentions of my name are a mention in a snippet of a oneboxed meta post and 5 messages from Lazers
 

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