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5:00 PM
But facebook send it, so I don't lose or forget about it
 
i cannot get it to stream properly for me. it never actually records game play. it just freezes on one frame
ive tried game capture, screen capture, and monitor capture
 
@GnomeSlice Like that song you linked above. under tale j razz remix.
 
5:16 PM
yawn o/
hmmm porkchat has stopped hiding the room info :?
 
@AshleyNunn Two more for you!
 
> Kate Middleton: Duchess of Cambridge Re-Wears Christening Suit at Queen's Garden Party
This is news.
reaches for the "Turn off the entire internet" button
 
@TimStone why do people care that someone re-wears an article of clothing? clothing is meant to be worn, and if you wear it more than once, you are doing what you are supposed to do
 
@Dragonrage these are famous people. they are not allowed to reuse the same clothes or they would be the laughingstock of the ball
seriously though, i don't understand the "wear once" part of fashion
 
@Dragonrage Apparently if you are wealthy you have a civic duty to remind everyone of this by never wearing the same clothes twice like A MERE PEASANT
Seems a bit mental to me but
 
5:27 PM
@TimStone so "pippa" is a peasant now?
 
WAKE UP PEOPLE. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO WEAR AN ARTICLE OF CLOTHING MORE THAN ONCE. IT WON'T KILL YOU IF YOU DO. YOU ARE JUST USING IT FOR IT'S PURPOSE AND NOT BEING WASTEFUL
/rant
 
(i might not be using pippa properly)
 
@Dragonrage Cue that one article about the dude who lives "free of commercial restraints" or whatever by wearing shirts once and throwing them away.
 
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@Yuuki the smugularity guy
 
5:30 PM
@GodEmperorDune Pippa is Kate's sister
 
@MattE.Эллен oh
i thought it was a tabloid nickname or something
 
Pippa is short for Phillipa. Kate is short for Katherine. They're nicknames of a sort
 
although to be fair to mr smugularity, he wore his clothes more than once. he just threw them away when they got dirty because he was too "off the grid" to have a washing machine
 
@MattE.Эллен Eh, just call her "Phil".
 
Do not use Pippa as a nick
like many two-syllable things, it happens to be a sexual thing in a language
 
5:33 PM
@badp which language?
 
well, I know about it, so it's probably Italian
 
:D
fair enough
 
did you guys see that california is about to do something stupid again
 
how about Pip?
 
no objection
though isn't that already a thing in English
 
5:34 PM
Jolly good :D
 
@badp googles frantically
 
@badp it's anoth word for a seed found inside a fruit, e.g. apple pip. But Pip is common nickname for Philip/Phillipa
 
anyway, the Discord thing is not a thing that stopped being a thing. It is still a thing. I have not forgotten.
 
> (TOTALLY RAD VERSION)
 
do I have to start taking notes on those who have made some sort of statement on the situation
is this really happening
 
5:36 PM
What is the situation, exactly?
 
see pin
 
I saw that, but I'm still not sure what the issue is
I must have missed the whole edit war thing
 
Someone passive-aggressively changed the name of the room to tell @badp to stop changing room names instead of just saying that a particular policy should be used so we're trying to figure out what the policy should be instead of it just being #editwaryolo
 
As far as I know, there's always been an Overwatch room, or two if needed, and a couple normal voice channels that aren't used
 
Basically, someone has been creating Overwatch-specific rooms and I (though I haven't in the past two weeks or so) have been changing them back to generic names because I really don't see a use case for game-specific rooms.
 
5:38 PM
@TimStone I did see that, and there's no need for anyone to do that. I hadn't seen any room name changing before that, though
 
i can also start revoking modships until it stops
 
@Yuuki, you have access. Did you partake in this situation?
 
@Yuuki Oh. No, we definitely need game specific rooms
At the very least, it causes no harm
 
> though I haven't in the past two weeks or so
 
@Dragonrage that seems pretty vague
 
5:39 PM
kk
 
@Yuuki Okay
 
well @Wipqozn wanted to have a bunch of rooms and you would just rename them ad-hoc I think he said
 
Has someone else been changing them back?
 
@SaintWacko initially there were many game specific rooms
 
@GodEmperorDune Ah, okay, I hadn't seen that
 
5:39 PM
@ToxicFrog oh, they want to ban mylar balloons because they are responsible for 1% of all power outages in California
 
@badp @Yuuki two generic rooms, make rooms for specific games when we feel it makes sense. aka right now make an overwatch room, maybe two, since we're all playing that and sometimes take up two rooms.
 
And I didn't see how a number of game-specific rooms were significantly better than the same or fewer number of general-use rooms.
 
@badp let's just call all of the channels walls
 
@Yuuki Just so people can easily see what room people are using for each.
 
Were those other game specific rooms being used?
 
5:40 PM
But that was right when things spun up around Overwatch open beta and I've stopped messing with it since.
 
I was just renaming rooms to "Overwatch" when we popped in them for overwatch
 
@SaintWacko After the rocket league free weekend ended no
 
We can just spin up and delete game specific rooms when we think it makes sense. Like since everyone and their mom is playing overwatch right now, I think overwatch specific rooms makes sense. Once it's died down and we're mostly playing other things we can delete'em.
 
@Wipqozn My mom is not playing overwatch
 
Okay, then here's a policy for it: Leave a small handful of generic rooms. Create rooms as needed for specific games. If it's a one time event, delete the room after it's done. In the case of things like the Overwatch rooms, where they're being used every day, leave at least one in existence
 
5:42 PM
tbh I don't feel strongly either way, I just feel that having the name of the game we're playing in the room name makes it easier for folks to find the right room.
 
Sound good to everyone?
 
@Dragonrage I haven't tried to stream Overwatch yet
 
@SaintWacko yeah, that's basically what I think we should do.
 
@twobugs I know Overwatch doesn't like fraps, so I'd need to test how to set it up
 
I think you have too many moderators if you have situations like this.
 
5:43 PM
If people agree with that, star/pin it or something so others can see it
 
I could do a test later, that's not a bad idea
 
Actually, wait, there's all sorts of alternatives if game capture is not great
 
It's probably fine with OBS but You Never Know
 
If someone has a problem with it they can say something
 
I just hope that it did in fact capture my POTG
Since I re-recorded it using fraps
 
5:43 PM
As far as Discord use goes right now, we've always been in one room. There may occasionally be overflow, but that's easily resolved with a "oh, our team's full, you can try the other channel".
 
And the discussion can be continued
@Yuuki Right, that's the thing, I haven't seen any other rooms even being used
 
@twobugs ive been trying to use OBS, and its having problems
 
Really? I just followed one of the twitch config guides and OBS has worked like a dream for me
 
Maybe when it actually becomes an issue, I'll think more about it, but I don't see a need to head the problem off at a non-existent crossroads.
 
@Yuuki Not always. There's been quite a few times during OVerwatch we've spilled over into two rooms, especially when we've got RL friends and family joining us.
 
5:44 PM
@Dragonrage Next thing to try after game capture is window capture with borderless window
 
Not to mention you can create invites for a specific voice channel.
 
@Yuuki This is why I don't feel strongly about it either. I feel like people are making this into a much larger problem than it is.
 
@twobugs i can use it fine for league and other games, but it just doesnt work for overwatch
 
@Wipqozn Also this
I hadn't even known it was an issue
 
@Wipqozn The big big issue for me actually right now is that someone decided to call out @badp.
Which was completely unnecessary.
 
5:45 PM
@Yuuki yeah, I agree that was super rude. But that's a separate issue.
 
45 mins ago, by Dragonrage
ive tried game capture, screen capture, and monitor capture
also window capture
 
hmm
 
what about mouse capture or capture&release
 
none of them work for me. it just displays one frame and has the sound from the game and stuff. occasionally the frame will change
 
@Yuuki hey I guess SOMEONE wants me to make people "stop changing them, badp"
 
5:48 PM
@KutuluMike i think i use mouse capture
 
Maybe we should just install cameras in everyone room so we can find out who called out @badp and beat them up.
 
@Wipqozn just build a wall around discord and make skype pay for it
 
@Yuuki Right, that's the thing. That was completely uncalled for, and I hope whoever did that realizes it
 
It's really a minor thing and the whole "people finding the wrong channel" and be easily solved by handing out an invite to a specific voice channel.
(Yes, you can give out invites to specific voice channels)
Each channel has a button for generating invites when you mouse-over.
 
I haven't messed with Discord much. How difficult is it to change a room name?
 
5:51 PM
not at all
 
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@SaintWacko Easy-peasy.
 
Then why is changing room names a problem?
What's wrong with just renaming rooms as needed?
 
because people keep changing them back and forth and are obviously annoyed about this
 
@SaintWacko yeah, that's what I've been doign with Chat Room -> overwatch room
@badp But is it worth being annoyed about? I get why you're really frustrated, because folks are calling you out, but I don't think renaming rooms on the fly is anything to be annoyed about.
 
5:52 PM
@badp Then I think the problem is more that someone is being way too sensitive about room name changes
 
Just rename when you hop in.
 
I do agree that the problem itself is overall very minor, but, let's put it this way, the people who have mod on Arqade are generally amongst our most trusted members
 
@badp Who all are mods on Discord?
 
@SaintWacko I think it's mostly the room owners.
 
5:53 PM
6 hours ago, by badp
/cc @3ventic @GnomeSlice @GodEmperorDune @StrixVaria @Yuuki
 
Mods, room owners, and a couple others I think
 
@Yuuki Well, then that would make sense
 
6 hours ago, by badp
/cc @AshleyNunn @fredley @twobugs @Unionhawk @Wipqozn
 
And they're the only ones who can change room names?
 
and, yknow, maybe we need to realise that if you are trusted to manage some sort of shared resource, like a review queue, or a question, or a discord voice channel
 
5:54 PM
@GodEmperorDune only by virtue of being the one to set up the server
 
Someone made me a mod, I haven't used my ability at all ever so if you guys want to remove me that's nbd
 
But whatever
Well, not necessarily only
 
it's okay to take action and make wrongs rights, but to a point
 
We do have a lot of Discord mods
 
@twobugs There have to be enough mods that it's likely that at least one will be online at all times
 
5:55 PM
True, that's a good point
 
So that rooms can be renamed
 
this is why I'm making a big deal out of it. because today this is about a trivial thing, but tomorrow some of you might even be given "the keys to the kingdom"
Stack Exchange's got a LOT of accountability built into the system, but we can't go check everybody else's logs, especially between mods we need to be able to trust each other
 
@Unionhawk hey i had to seize power somehow :D
@badp they mentioned in patch notes that there are logs coming up for such things
 
@badp I really hope you're not planning to step down as mod, and you're worried about who will take over in your place
 
@Wipqozn no, that's not the plan
 
5:57 PM
RUMOR: MOD ELECTIONS TOMORROW CONFIRMED?
 
@Unionhawk no, that's not the plan
 
Okay, so I think the result of this is that whoever's getting pissy about room name changes, cut it out. Room names can be easily changed. If you need a particular room named a particular thing, do it. Don't rename a room someone else is using. Don't use room names to complain. If a game-specific room hasn't been used in a couple days, delete it.
 
but you know there's probably going to be one at some point in the next 10 years or so
 
@badp okay, just your concern did seem a bit like the mentor is leaving forever, and the students are taking over
 
This is a ridiculous thing to make such a big deal about
 
5:57 PM
@Unionhawk RUMOR: @UNI BANNED FOR LIFE
jk, we need our tugboat
 
@Dragonrage (please let this also not be the plan)
 
@SaintWacko I think it's more people are being passive aggressive about it right now and @badp is trying to nip this in the bud
 
@Unionhawk we can't have that. we need our tugboat mascot to lead us to victory against the dark forces of the tides
 
For the record if @badp left the site I'd cry forever into my giant pile of pictures made out of the tears I shed from other Bridgers who left
 
WELL after seven hours someone decided to rename that room
so that's like a start
I guess
 
5:58 PM
@twobugs yes, calling people out in names of channels is a dick move
2
 
@Wipqozn Arting with your tears, very fancy
 
@TimStone That's just how much I care
 
@GodEmperorDune So you mean, people are calling @badp out? I'm at work right now and haven't really paid attention to room names
 
@GodEmperorDune hey, dont be blaming this all on richard
 
@GodEmperorDune In any case, I renamed that particularly offending channel and added a new room topic to the #general text channel.
 

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