The Bridge

@AshleyNunn basically in order to work on a resource such as a file you first need to get a handle on it. You can try and infer what a process is doing by looking at the files it's just opened

Nate Kerkhofs

10:06 PM

that should be the jumpjet rex code I sent you

badp

It would at least give you a possibly false clue on what might be wrong

Nate Kerkhofs

@AshleyNunn Before you try reinstalling Windows, you should first try Repairing it: dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN151680/en

ChromeSlice

@NateKerkhofs Awesome, thanks!

Nate Kerkhofs

that's the dell page, but it should give you an idea what to do

user15026

@badp How do I look at that?

GodEmperorDune

10:08 PM

also @AshleyNunn you should try burning some sage in the room with the computer, to cleanse the angry ghosts

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Can I burn something that smells a little better?

badp

@AshleyNunn process explorer. Click on a process, and the list should appear on the bottom half. Things that have just been opened or closed appear for a while in green or red

Dragonrage

@AshleyNunn coconut scented candles?

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn i dunno, maybe the bad smell is what gets the ghosts to leave

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded?

I keep getting these error messages on my minecraft server. A couple times every minute in fact. I am running the server on 4Gb and have a total of 8Gb. The world is vanilla and usually does not have more than 3-4 people on it. I am running it on the same computer as I play Minecraft on but the e...

GodEmperorDune

10:09 PM

seriously i know it has to be placebo or coincidence, but my computer sped up after my wife burned sage throughout the house

user15026

@badp I will have to peek at that then

Nate Kerkhofs

@GodEmperorDune maybe the smell of the sage chased away some bugs?

Dragonrage

@NateKerkhofs cc @twobugs

badp

There might be better tools for this purpose, let me check

GodEmperorDune

@NateKerkhofs could be

i should try burning sage in our company datacenter, maybe it will fix some legacy code issues too

Nate Kerkhofs

10:12 PM

@GodEmperorDune I think that might actually set off the smoke detectors and turn on the anti-fire protection. That might cause downtime

GodEmperorDune

@NateKerkhofs then its a good thing i don't have DC access

Nate Kerkhofs

Anyway, off to bed for me

Dragonrage

@NateKerkhofs it might fix it though

and convince people to upgrade

badp

@ashley I don't know how useful this would be on Windows but drmemory.org/strace_for_windows.html seems like it would try and log all of the system calls a process makes; this is likely going to be TMI but it would at least leave a log of things that happen so you don't have to fight against time

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage nah they're all virtual machines so i need to burn virtual sage

Nate Kerkhofs

10:13 PM

@Dragonrage hokey rituals and smoking sticks aren't a good alternative for a solid keyboard on your desk

GodEmperorDune

@NateKerkhofs +1 for good refrance

user15026

@badp I'll try it at least :)

user15026

At this point I will try just about anything to get Steam working

user15026

It's funny how I don't play PC a lot but now that I can't, I really want to

user15026

(it doesn't help that @WorldEngineer bought me Mini Metro, and you know me and transit....)

badp

10:15 PM

If the worst comes to worst

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn this explains my frustrations with the overwatch beta so much

badp

I think you've earned the right to legitimately pirate that game and just play it already

GodEmperorDune

my pc was cranky and old but never had a problem until it was "dammit its only free for so long, git playin"

badp

DRM has to just work

Nate Kerkhofs

@AshleyNunn One more thing you can try is an in-place reinstall of Windows 7: pcworld.com/article/243190/…

badp

10:18 PM

Once DRM stops just working and starts getting in the way, I see no problem with working around it

James

So I am going to presume that @sterno's stared Overwatch video is Friday.. cause the URL looks familiar and its sterno.. but do the stars by it mean how many people he has gotten with it? :)

badp

You don't have to put up with Steam any more than I put up with Battle.net

GodEmperorDune

@James 5/7 perfect @Sterno

@badp so you pirate blizzard games because you had issues with the battle.net launcher?

Nate Kerkhofs

@James Our custom is to star any rebecca black or rick astley video that fooled you

Frank

@GodEmperorDune Nah, I pirate Blizzard games because I disagree with them being always online.

And I don't care about anything the single player campaign for Starcraft 2, anyways.

GodEmperorDune

10:20 PM

@Frank is there an offline version of d3?

Frank

@GodEmperorDune Sadly, no.

ChromeSlice

You pirate blizzard games because you are a clown

badp

@GodEmperorDune no

ChromeSlice

they deserve to make money

Frank

For that, I didn't actually purchase the expansion.

ChromeSlice

10:20 PM

:(

badp

but if I bought one of their games and it stopped working then I'd certainly consider it

ChromeSlice

@GodEmperorDune Ps4

Nate Kerkhofs

BTW, recently I read a reddit thread about weird things to rap about. One of those things was scooping up dog shit, and now I can't stop thinking about a dog shit-based cover for Friday: Dog Shit, Dog Shit, gotta scoop up dog shit

user15026

@badp I know there are ways around it but in this case for some of my Steam stuff I wnt to be able to play it with people.

GodEmperorDune

@NateKerkhofs which stool do i taaaaaaaaaaaaaake?

badp

10:22 PM

Mini metro has no multiplayer

user15026

@badp Yeah, it doesn't, that I nkow

user15026

but like there are some Steam games I have that I want to play with others and can't

GodEmperorDune

plus the cheevos

badp

Sure

What I'm saying is that you don't have to fix steam for this one fun little timewaster

You can play minimetto while you try to figure stuff out

GodEmperorDune

@NateKerkhofs also i definitely have dog shit friday (by Rebecca Bark, of course) stuck in my head

Nate Kerkhofs

10:25 PM

@GodEmperorDune Question is, would it make a better song?

At least the lyrics would apply to the quality of the singer

user15026

@badp You have a very valid point :)

user15026

And really it just means I've been playing even more 3DS than usual. Working on LttP again.

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn thank you, new earworm established

Nate Kerkhofs

@GodEmperorDune what earworm this time?

Dragonrage

> iwas waitin for mor boxs to com down thie line wen the boxes did come i reach in and grab a box wih heavty car parts. and i hit my head and didnt think too munch of it thrn the pain come pain

can someone translate that too english?

GodEmperorDune

10:29 PM

@NateKerkhofs link to the past dark world music

or whatever that old SNES zelda game was, it might not be link to the past

Nate Kerkhofs

In case anyone is playing the Overwatch beta, Make sure your drivers are up to date. Nvidia definitely has new drivers

GodEmperorDune

really @fredley?

Nate Kerkhofs

@GodEmperorDune short answers get autoflagged, it's proof the system works.

He could write that into 3 sentences, like "unfortunately, you cannot do what you are suggesting. However, there is an alternative. you can get two pairs of gloves and apply a different color enchant to each of them."

GodEmperorDune

@NateKerkhofs i intended it as more of a "@fredley needs to git gud at answering"

SaintWacko

@NateKerkhofs But then we have to take time off of playing to update!

Nate Kerkhofs

10:33 PM

@SaintWacko You'll win that back in gained frames

Frank

@GodEmperorDune We all knew this already.

Nate Kerkhofs

Anyway, off to bed for me

you guys don't argue too much about how poor @fredley his answers are without me, would you?

GodEmperorDune

@NateKerkhofs i'll cc you if it gets good

Yuuki

IT'S OVER. IT'S DONE.

SaintWacko

It's over?

What's over?

badp

10:39 PM

It's happened?

IT HASN'T EVEN BEGUN.

Yuuki

Barring catastrophic failure, I just finished taking my last college final.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki grats

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What triggers a testimonial match?

In Football Manager 2016, it's possible to play a friendly match in honor of a player. What triggers this occurence?

football-manager-2016

SaintWacko

@Yuuki Grats!

badp

Dragonrage

10:40 PM

@Yuuki congrads

SaintWacko

Now you can get back to playing Overwatch!

GodEmperorDune

or watch civil war

spoiler alert, it's good

Frank

@GodEmperorDune Or both!

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Whoo!

Frank

I won't get to see it until next weekend, though.

badp

10:41 PM

@Yuuki so, what's next? thesis? job interviews? fancy hat throwing classes?

do you guys even have the end-of-university thesis as a thing you have to do?

GodEmperorDune

@Frank i saw it this morning, i'm seeing it again tonight

Frank

@GodEmperorDune I can't go see it until my girlfriend has time to come with.

So that's not this weekend.

Yuuki

@badp For bachelor's, I don't think so.

badp

@Yuuki are you going to continue to the MSc?

Yuuki

Not immediately. I'd like to get it one day maybe, but I'm more interested in getting a job and moving out.

badp

10:43 PM

@ChromeSlice no, dude, I have never pirated anything Blizzard.

GodEmperorDune

@badp i thought that was aimed at @Frank

badp

oh

eh

still. @ChromeSlice. pls.

ChromeSlice

No, not you

It was directed at the guy trying to justify his pirating games because he doesn't like their drm

Dragonrage

> Working in universal, going on break, walking down the isle with a group of people, as i'm walking i noticed that my foot hit a tote in the middle of the isle, and slipped on the water under the tote.

ChromeSlice

Oh, you can't do the change your username on another site thing to bypass the 30 days any more

GodEmperorDune

10:51 PM

@ChromeSlice oh that was @badp then

ChromeSlice

@GodEmperorDune no...

GodEmperorDune

36 mins ago, by badp

I think you've earned the right to legitimately pirate that game and just play it already

badp

The game is paid for

ChromeSlice

It was directed at frank

badp

The fact she's not playing it on Steam is hardly of interest to the developer

ChromeSlice

10:53 PM

"I pirate them because I don't like the way they do online stuff"

tough

badp

and yup, I looked into how to pirate AC2 after I bought it. This was before the times were the alternate DRM warnings and refunds happened

GodEmperorDune

oh yeah

i get it now

badp

then I saw I had to run a server emulator and I ended up not playing AC2 at all

ChromeSlice

Is there any way I can bypass the last 10 days of my username cooldown on stackexchange

GodEmperorDune

@ChromeSlice returning to gnome or going full chrome?

ChromeSlice

10:54 PM

Returning

Yuuki

Aw, I was getting excited for the @ChromeChrome Revolution.

I assume that's what @GodEmperorDune meant by "going full chrome".

GodEmperorDune

@ChromeSlice well there goes my "WITNESS ME" joke

@Yuuki i probably could have done a cylon joke too

Dragonrage

@Yuuki chromepie

badp

@ChromeSlice ask us nicely

ChromeSlice

I thought I did

@GodEmperorDune heh

@Dragonrage gross

also

Double Action: Boogaloo - Alpha Features & Gameplay

►

We should play this

bridge gaming night

It's 100% free

Not even any micros, I guess it's just a side project for fun

John

11:00 PM

@ChromeSlice The developer said he has no need of money right now and wants as many people to play it as possible so he can be reassured he didn't waste 3 years making it.

GodEmperorDune

@ChromeSlice that is a great idea

i also like the "points for doing wild stuff" aspect of it

ChromeSlice

Yeah it's fun to play

unrelated: store.steampowered.com/app/449140

Sepia Lazers

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Q: Thoughts on Omni tags

Some games are repackages with updated information. There may be small improvements in one area or another, but most features are unchanged to a point where an answer to a 2005 game may be the same to a 2016 game. FIFA, PES, FM, WWE, NHL, NBA and Remastered Games are pretty much all the same. WW...

discussion tags

user15026

@SepiaLazers This strikes me as a terrible idea.

Dragonrage

@AshleyNunn i think most people do, judging my the downvotes its gotten so far

Frank

11:12 PM

@AshleyNunn Not just for the fact that's a bit of a hypothetical situation.

It seems to be more of a mechanic tag for specific games than an actual game tag.

user15026

@Frank Even if it weren't, it still seems like a mess.

Frank

@AshleyNunn I figure we can add the extra games to the question, if we need to dupe it.

Or, worst case, make a -series tag.

ChromeSlice

portal-series

Dragonrage

league-of-legends-series

ChromeSlice

@Dragonrage 0 posts?

user15026

11:14 PM

@ChromeSlice I can kinda see this for stuff like lore across the games or something? Maybe. But I don't super love it as a tag.

Frank

@Dragonrage Only thing worse than LoL is...

ChromeSlice

@AshleyNunn I'm just saying it exists

Dragonrage

@ChromeSlice there is only 1 game for league. it was a joke.

maybe a bad one though

ChromeSlice

metal-gear-solid-series

Trent Hawkins

While I'll agree that the various yearly releases of some games do mean that a single question and answer could apply to several of the games in that franchise at once, they do tend to slowly and incrementally change/fix/add/remove things over time.

Dragonrage

11:16 PM

there isnt ever going to be a LoL 2, because riot just keeps updating it every few months and adding new stuff and changing things

ChromeSlice

The only thing I can really think of is for lore questions

or like

15

Q: What games and order should I play the Metal Gear series games to better understand the story?

I've watched the entirety of MGS and only played MGS2 to completion, it was a while ago, and I can't recall the story making much sense. I played the third and fourth games for a bit but never finished them. I do wish to "get" into the series, but it seems there are many games and most of them t...

metal-gear-solid-series

Dragonrage

whether or not riot will actually make another game to release besides LoL is another question, but I would say probably not any time soon

if LoL ever starts dropping in popularity, they might, but that probably won't happen for a while yet

Frank

Anyone still interested in getting Stellaris?

I have a 25% off code for GMG.

Dragonrage

like it looks really cool, but idk how much i would actually play it

ChromeSlice

88

Q: Should I play Portal before Portal 2?

There is a lot of noise around Portal 2 these days. I've looked at several videos and I'm interested in buying it. The "problem" (you'll tell me if it's one or not) is that I never played Portal, the first game of the series. So my question is simple, should I play Portal before play to Portal 2 ...

portal-series

wtf

+88

Dragonrage

11:21 PM

with overwatch, LoL, and my lack of free time, I don't play a ton of other games

GodEmperorDune

@ChromeSlice HNQ, for sure

ChromeSlice

@GodEmperorDune HNQ?

Dragonrage

can i sort questions by views?

GodEmperorDune

@ChromeSlice hot network questions

@Dragonrage i'm not sure if its in SEDE, i don't think its possible from main site

Dragonrage

i think @RavenDreamer has the question with the highest amount of views

GodEmperorDune

11:28 PM

it might also be part of the 10k or 20k tools

Dragonrage

and im only at 4804 so i cannot confirm that.

feelsbadman

Chippies

Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.

Disclaimer: Apple did not steal Chippies' music

Dragonrage

@Yuuki

two bugs

@ChromeSlice :| People who start series with continuity in the middle are the worst

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How to make things shoot from you using minecraft commands

So here's my problem. I love commands and i want to make it so when I drop a specific item, it shoots something in that direction. But my problem is the right direction, as idk how to do that. I know how to detect a dropped item though.

minecraft-commands

Dragonrage

11:40 PM

rip, no rep cap today

so close too

Fluttershy

@Dragonrage Did he trap his own team in so they'd all die?

Dragonrage

yes

Fluttershy

And that is why I don't play LoL anymore. I can't stand people who troll like that.

Dragonrage

thats the PBE, it doesnt really matter. ur just supposed to test stuff there

but people dont usually troll like that. at least not in my games

two bugs

Uh. Hong Kong Crime Drama Re-imagining Link as a cop investigating Ganon's criminal empire is a thing.

GodEmperorDune

11:48 PM

@twobugs wat

Frank

@Chippies Yeah, @TrentHawkins was telling me about that yesterday.

All I can say is, "Fuck Apple"

Chippies

@Frank I've had that stance since I learned more about itunes

nowadays it's just funny to read how they make horrible anti-consumer decisions all the time

user15026

I see no need for Apple Music, so I am extra glad I don't touch it

two bugs

Well, I guess I dodged a bullet by not getting an iPad

I would have signed up for Apple music and yikes

GodEmperorDune

i like my iphone but i never fooled around with this "music in the cloud" junk

Frank

11:53 PM

@GodEmperorDune Apple Music makes it mandatory.

badp

@Chippies yeah, that is literally worse than @Wipqozn

what the fuck?

Dragonrage

why signup for apple music? i never get music from apple

i also dont use their cloud

my life is much simpler

GodEmperorDune

@Frank yeah i never enabled that

Chippies

@Dragonrage Idk much, but I assume apple music is a music streaming service like google music and spotify etc

two bugs

Well now it seems like Tidal or w/e is the go to thing

Chippies

11:55 PM

so you can stream music instead of having to buy it, which makes sense

but obviously, unlike other services, it also screws you over

Dragonrage

@Chippies just use something like iheart radio imo

two bugs

Tidal even has Prince songs which is great. And it actually supports the artists

Chippies

@Dragonrage can you choose what you're listening to on it?

besides choosing a 'station'

Frank

@twobugs It also got hammered because the creator tried to prop it up with, "exclusive" songs.

Dragonrage

you can like which songs you like, and then create your own station with just those songs

two bugs

11:58 PM

@Frank Well yeah, that was stupid

I think a part of that was Kanye being Kanye again

It's bizarre to just see him continually spiral towards insanity on a regular basis

Yuuki

@Dragonrage ?

Fluttershy

17 mins ago, by Fluttershy

@Dragonrage Did he trap his own team in so they'd all die?

Dragonrage

@Yuuki how to troll with the new champion

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