« first day (2135 days earlier)      last day (2908 days later) » 

4:00 PM
Yeah, I mean, how many pokemon are just 4 legged animals? Quite a lot of them I'd imagine
 
@KevinvanderVelden There are a lot but there's variation within the group
And you have some with basically unique body plans (many legendaries)
 
I think they just used inverse kinematics
 
@twobugs enough variation to warrant a new set of animations? Remember scaling and such doesn't require a new set of animations
@PrivatePansy for what?
 
And then you have this guy
 
4:01 PM
Animation. At least, it doesn't seem like they hand animated everything
 
Scaling is a good point, but there are lots of goofy ones like @Unionhawk posted
 
@Unionhawk wtf
 
STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT KLEFKI. GRIMER IS LITERALLY A PILE OF SLUDGE.
 
I think they probably have crude skeletons + body part animations
 
> Species: Key Ring
 
4:02 PM
@GnomeSlice yes that is a keyring
 
@PrivatePansy inverse kinematics requires a skeleton and an animation still
 
Are the keys part of its body or...?
 
It might help if you do IK for, say, moving the arm in an attack
 
China's response to the unsafe flyby of US jets is crazy
 
@Unionhawk And Growlithe is literally just a dog. Pokemon have never been that creative.
 
4:03 PM
It's basically "It didn't happen, but it did happen, and it's the USA's fault."
 
@Yuuki but but but, it's on fire!
 
@Yuuki He's like stylized though
he's got poofy spots
 
Dogs have those
 
not like growlithe
 
Seriously. All Pokemon design complaints are based pretty much 100% in nostalgia factor.
 
4:04 PM
People regularly groom their dogs, I guarantee there are dogs like that
Which predated Growlithe
 
@twobugs "It's the US' fault" gets appended to pretty much every negative comment Beijing makes
 
@Yuuki well no not really, only those that complain that the later gens are bad =p
 
show me a dog with tiger stripes
 
@Yuuki I just think keyring and chandelier is comical is all
 
@GnomeSlice We were talking about the poofy parts :P
You mentioned them!
 
4:05 PM
If you wanna talk about boring pokemon
seriously
 
Anyway, taco time cc @Fluttershy
 
I had the same reaction to rotom
Who can transform into a damn refrigerator
 
Voltorb evolves by turning upside-down as well.
 
@Yuuki lmao
also he has dragon feet apparently
 
4:07 PM
Like yes it's pokemon but it's still funny to see stuff like klefki and chandelure
 
wtf is chandelure
oh
okay
 
He's a ghost in a chandelier or something
 
> If Klefki finds a key it likes, it will never release it. To threaten attackers, this Pokémon jingles its key collection.
 
Yuuup
Pokemon, making up weird shit sinds whenever it was released
 
@Unionhawk And its fires burns your spirits OooOOOooOoOOOOoOOOOO~
 
Yes, Pokemon is silly. It's a kid's game.
 
honestly I still think the weirdest one is that drag queen pokemon from the original 151
 
@KevinvanderVelden 1996
Just two years younger than me
 
@GnomeSlice jynx, whose attack is literally kissing people
 
yep, that one
also
> Drifloon’s description in the Pokédex tells the terrifying tale of a creature that attempts to drag children into the underworld, but it just looks like a purple balloon with poorly drawn eyes and a terrible hairdo. If I saw one of these chasing after a child, I don’t think I would feel any sense of danger.
> Garbodor is a pile of trash. Also, his arm kind of looks like the nozzle you would use to put gasoline in your car
 
4:13 PM
@GnomeSlice and that's why it's so dangerous! Everyone would just be like "Oh hey a cute balloon pokemon OH MY GOD IT JUST DRAGGED JONNY INTO HELL"
 
@Yuuki I have no response to this
 
Now there's a pokemon that's literally just a dog
> I’m pretty sure Herdier is just a dog wearing a blanket. This is basically a dog from a cold area of the world that somehow ended up in the world of Pokémon
 
Literally just a rat.
This is nothing new.
 
@Unionhawk Eh, I don't have a problem with people finding Pokemon designs silly and of themselves. It's just when people complain about "oh, the newer Pokemon have terrible designs compared to the ones I grew up with".
 
@StrixVaria but it's purple!
 
4:14 PM
> The only Pokémon to date with a title, I’m not entirely convinced Mr. Mime isn’t just a failed clown trying to disembark from the human species.
> After the Easter Island statues – that appeared briefly in Super Mario Land on the Game Boy – came to terms with the fact that Mario didn’t want or need them anymore, they moved over to Pokémon series to become Noespass and Probopass. They’re basically gigantic noses and one happens to have an intimidating mustache.
 
That's just... have you actually looked at the older Pokemon recently?
 
These are great
 
good morning bridge
 
> Klink, Klang, and Klinklang
On their own, any one of the these Pokémon would be an admittedly strange, but average Pokémon. Taken as a group, however, they combine to become an impressively lazy naming convention.
> Luvdisc presents a Pokémon version of the chicken and the egg conundrum. During the design process, did the name come first? Or did the creature come first?
 
Abra Kadabra Alakazam.
 
4:15 PM
lmao
@Yuuki hahaha yeah
I was thinking that too
> Another creature from the kingdom of inanimate objects confusingly defined as Pokémon, Litwick, Lampent, and Chandelure seem like creatures that would be more comfortable in the world of Harry Potter. Are we entirely sure they're not lighting fixtures with faces drawn on them?
 
Anything dumb you can point out in the newer gens (and I'll admit, they're dumb), there's an equally dumb counterpart in the older gens.
 
> Stunky makes this list because its name is ridiculous, and there is basically nothing to physically distinguish him from a real-world skunk.
> Much like its brothers Klefki, Garbodor, Litwick, Lampent, and Chandelure, Vanilish might have powers and a personality, but it is basically an inanimate object. Vanilish can pretend all it wants, but there’s no denying that it is basically an ice cream cone.
 
@GnomeSlice Trubbish is literally a bag of garbage.
 
4 mins ago, by GnomeSlice
> Garbodor is a pile of trash. Also, his arm kind of looks like the nozzle you would use to put gasoline in your car
> Species: Trash Bag
wtf
 
Grimer, Muk, and Ditto are all literally piles of monochrome sludge/goo.
 
4:18 PM
> Species: Trash Heap
> Scrafty can spit acidic liquid from its mouth like an Alien, but he can’t seem to figure out how a belt works or that Pokémon really don’t need to wear pants.
> Phantumb looks like a ghost that accidentally got stuck in a tree and has basically been trying to play it off as an intentional fashion choice for the rest of its life. His name is also dangerously close to Phantdumb, which might have been more appropriate.
 
@GnomeSlice I thought that was just loose skin that it grows into as it ages, like a Koloss.
 
@GnomeSlice Oh that's the fully evolved form, still holding up it's skin/pants.
Hm...
 
> These two get thrown together because their journey from young Pokémon to full evolution is exactly the same. Instead of gaining new appendages, or changing appearance, they just gather together in groups of three. For some reason though, they’re considered evolved.
dugtrio and magneton
 
4:20 PM
hahah saw that one, you're on the same site
@StrixVaria lmao lmao lmao
 
Bird with a leek is the best
Purple rat is up there though
 
I always liked Some Eggs
 
> Phantumb looks like a ghost that accidentally got stuck in a tree and has basically been trying to play it off as an intentional fashion choice for the rest of its life. His name is also dangerously close to Phantdumb, which might have been more appropriate.
 
@Dragonrage Except it's Phantump.
 
@StrixVaria Phantrump?
 
4:23 PM
Oh man. Great White Shark VR video. Oh man.
(watching I/O day 2)
 
0
Q: Human magnet for dust and particles

Tony GiulianoMy name is Tony and I have a significant problem. Each time I shave, no matter what precautions I am taking, such as wearing goggles to shield my eyes, I get cut facial hair not fall to the floor but get some attracted into my eyes causing serious discomfort and pain to subsequently extract it....

 
@Dragonrage i have shaved for years and never had hairs fly into my eyes
 
@GodEmperorDune probably because you arent a charged human being like him
 
@Dragonrage ooh, maybe i should recommend he get one of those static glove things that you're supposed to use to not fry the motherboard
 
@GodEmperorDune i mean its on the close review queue, and i doubt it would help if his entire body was charged
also i doubt that if his entire body was charged that the hair would fly to his eyes, it would just stick to his skin if anything.
 
4:41 PM
I think the lightning took out my Internet.
Hmm, lots of lightning and no rain.
 
@Yuuki then who was phone
 
Nope, spoke too soon. Here comes more rain.
 
0
Q: Apparently i joined the wrong side... Help?

KavamiluI made quests for stormcloaks but even after that when i give the axe for the jarl of Whiterun he gives me the axe back. So when i give the axe to Ulfric he talks as if he didn't gave me the axe before and says that i joined the wrong side and just goes back to his throne. Could it be because i u...

 
OKay, devs, I got a question
The GUID in a feed
aka the Gloabl Unique Identifier for a feed item
 
@Wipqozn are you going to share the question?
 
4:49 PM
Should that be the unique identifier used to identify each unique item in the feed? and, if an item shows up twice in the feed for some reason (say because it was updated at some point), should the GUID be the same?
 
Tacos were delicious
 
The word "feed" has lost all meaning to me since working with AdWords so much.
 
@Wipqozn depends on the requirements
 
@Wipqozn i would think that an item would have the same GUID no matter what, but yea i guess it would depend on the requirements
 
It's pretty neat that Visual Studio 2015 is just free for the community version
 
4:50 PM
@StrixVaria I'm basically just building up to a rant that The Canadian Press provides us with abunch of stories via a feed, and the same story shows up multiple times, and everyone is like "zomg what do we do".
 
if the GUID is like a message ID, then it should be unique even if the rest of the message contents are identical
 
I'd prefer to do this in Python I think
But alas
 
and I'm just like "We do nothing. It's CPs problem. Their data is broken."
 
@twobugs pycharm community edition
 
@Wipqozn Oh, you're talking about like an RSS feed.
Man, I really am out of it. The way AdWords uses that word makes no sense.
 
4:51 PM
@StrixVaria yeah, like that, but not standards RSS
it's XML, but not in the RSS structure
IT's so goofy
 
@Wipqozn ah like when my news apps screw up an end tag, so i get raw html all over the place
 
and another example today was the sme story was filed twice, buyt under different bylines, and they're like "what do we do"
You tell CP to fix their shit
If you send usbroken data, we get broken results
 
@Wipqozn it shouldn't need manual intervention though
 
@GodEmperorDune I know
The point I'm making is that the data is broken, an they need to fix their data.
There's nothing we can do if we have no way to tie two versions of a story together
 
also if they are already sending you bad data, then any GUID they provide will be untrustworthy
 
4:53 PM
I think this really depends on what guarantees they make, and what you expect of their data
 
We can come up with solutions that work in some cases, but they won't work in all cases, and will just cause additional problems
 
i'd say don't even try to link the two nearly identical stories
 
@GodEmperorDune Exactly what I've been saying
 
@Wipqozn "A programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one way street."
3
 
If the GUID is intended to be a "story ID", then I would expect it to be the same for multiple versions of a single story. But if it's a "message ID", then it should be different
 
4:54 PM
garbage in, garbage out
 
but folks are like "can we match based on headlines?!" and I'm like "What if the headlines is sightly different? What if they update a story?"
 
o/
 
@murgatroid99 In this case it's the story id
We asked them really early on, and they said multiple versions of the same story should all have the same GUID
 
@Wipqozn or you get whitespace differences and "why didn't the system match these?!"
 
0
Q: Minecraft 1.9 give a specific map

theonlygustiI want to give myself a filled_map with data value 0, i.e. the very first map I would have ever generated. I have tried: /give @p minecraft:filled_map:0 which outputs the error: There is no such item with name minecraft:filled_map:0. I have also tried: /give @p minecraft:filled_map 1 0 Wh...

 
4:55 PM
@Wipqozn they provide the GUID or you provide the GUID?
 
@Wipqozn So, is the problem that this is not happening?
 
@murgatroid99 More or less. From what I see, the issue appears to be user error on their end, or a system that doesn't meet the users needs. Some writers are filing their stories twice in such a way that it shows up as a new story.
Like they want the story to show up twice, with two separate bylines, so it makes a new ID
 
@Wipqozn then it's working as expected
 
If you have authors submitting the story twice that isn't your problem
 
@Wipqozn I see. Yeah, if they said that same ID = same story, then you should not make additional assumptions about what stories are the same if they have different IDs
 
4:57 PM
Fuck, YES!
 
We've had this issue before, where a story shows up twice and they're like "What happened?!?" and we tell them it's because they're using the system wrong, that doing X makes a second unique copy of the story.
@Frank got the job?
 
Second interview next week.
 
@Frank grats
 
Thought for sure I was asking for too much.
 
@Frank That's great, man!
 
4:58 PM
@Wipqozn does their CMS or whatever allow them to delete stories?
 
@murgatroid99 Yeah, This conversation has been going on since we started using these feeds a few months ago, and it came up in testing. EVerytime I told them the same thing: The GUID is what we use to identify stories, as instructed by CP (feed provider). If a story shows up twice with different GUIDs there's nothing we can do.
@GodEmperorDune Yes
Also I work for a newspaper
So there's two kinds of users
 
If I can get past the hurdle of salary, I'm generally set.
 
There's the ones that work on the web and al "Internet is the future"
 

« first day (2135 days earlier)      last day (2908 days later) »