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12:06 PM
@KutuluMike A customer somehow got a hold of IT once, and then IT gave them my phone number. I was like what.
 
I'm pretty sure today is a taco day
 
IT r dum
 
Apparently today the original model of the Enterprise has finished restoration and is back on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum
I wonder if I'll ever stop grimacing after every sip of black coffee
It definitely wakes me up, though
 
Being able to rewatch my gameplay is cool. I can see why @Sterno enjoyed it during his time with Dark Souls 3.
There was no sound during my last stream from the game though. not sure why. Probably @Yuuki's fault though.
 
It's neat. I just never really rewatch mine
 
12:12 PM
@Wipqozn #audioxit
 
I mean. It was perfect when I played it. No need to repeat
 
@twobugs Fun to rewtch certain highlights. Like when I die miserably.
 
> "In every family, if you belong to [the] family, you must accept the good things and the bad things." *shakes hands Italianly* -- Italian PM
 
> Grants a +2% damage bonus for each enemy killed. The effect maxes out at 250% weapon damage (75 consecutive kills).
 
12:14 PM
I don't die miserably in Odin Sphere
 
Okay so that's how much the boost is. Handy little item.
 
I'm playing on Medium difficult and I suspect they made it a lot easier
They did rebalance the game, though. I was at level 45 by the end of Gywndolin's story and stuff could actually hurt me
In other news I think I found the next game I'm going to stream. It's only on sale for 20% on Steam, though
 
@fredley 170 is less scary of a number than 350
 
Okay, so could someone clear up a question I have about what is and isn't considered a duplicate?
 
12:25 PM
Let's say I'm having an issue in Overwatch with the audio (for example, it's muted), so I ask a question. @Unionhawk also has an issue with the sound not playing, so he asks a question
 
@twobugs Maybe
 
Our questions could appear superficially similar, but be ultimately quite different
 
I've heard people list different criteria for what exactly constitutes a duplicate
(I just used @Unionhawk as an example because I saw him enter the room and he's not a mod so he can't ban me)
 
-5
Q: What happens when you stab Mercy with her own staff?

TotallyNotWidowMakerSince Mercy is a healer and her staff does the healing, I questioned myself what happens when you stab her? Does she heal and die at the same time?

-2
Q: I cant close my inventory

WowI can't close my inventory in Terraria even though I'm clicking the x button I tried clicking the x button but that didn't work I tried off and on again and that didn't work NOTHINGS WORKING HELP!!!!!!!!!!

 
12:28 PM
@twobugs If your question is resolved (unmute your sound you dummy) and @Unionhawk links your question with the mention that his issue is very much not his sound being muted. I'd say different. Without that clarification it can be duplicated (because @Unionhawk is probably also a dummy that muted his sound)
 
Well I'm imaging something like maybe my sound is muted via the options, maybe @Unionhawk has a sound driver issue
But thanks, that was my initial impression
Sorry for using @Unionhawk as my example guinea pig #notsorry
 
@twobugs I agree with @Arperum. The same problem can have two different solutions. Simply saying that a proposed solution didn't work isn't enough to keep the two questions from being dupes. Delineating why your problem is different would, though.
 
Your problem has to be different.
 
@MBraedley That's a good point
 
If you're asking the same thing, the answers not helping you is irrelevant.
 
12:33 PM
It can be a different problem but have the same symptoms, though
 
If you tell us the same stuff as an existing question, dupe.
It's up to the asker to tell us why it's different.
If they can't do it, then it's a dupe.
 
@Wipqozn Yeah. Now I have like 3 hours I can watch of me failing to take out the Nameless King
 
@twobugs So same symptoms = same question. If you dig deep and show that your root cause is different, then different question.
 
@Sterno That was an easy boss. You just walk backwards and cast magic.
 
So, I just bought a vive
10
 
12:36 PM
@Frank @MBraedley Okay, those are good points as well. Thanks for explaining :)
 
@KevinvanderVelden When is the next Bridge meetup at your place scheduled? :p
 
@KevinvanderVelden I'm going to bookmark this
 
@KevinvanderVelden Don't you already have a DK2?
 
@twobugs Don't make me start trash-talking casters again
 
@Sterno Believe me, I felt robbed of a cool fight when I won like that
 
12:37 PM
@twobugs Eh, so am I, screw it
 
Wherein @KevinvanderVelden's Wallet Becomes This Pear
 

I can use bookmarks too

1 min ago, 1 minute total – 8 messages, 6 users, 2 stars

Bookmarked 31 secs ago by Unionhawk

 
I should try out the Vive we have to see if it's worth it
 
there
 
@Arperum uuh, we're working on it =p
 
12:38 PM
Sadly that's probably not the dumbest bookmark I have
 
@twobugs His wallet? I just bought a house while my Rift was on preorder and before I bought a new GPU. My wallet is hurting much more.
 
Wow you can't use formatting in bookmark names? Chat bad!!!!
 
@twobugs Not surprised
 
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I got the price of my electricity works that are 90% done by ourselves.
 
12:40 PM
@Chippies Man, Season 3 of Powers is kind of stretching it...
 
@MBraedley yes, which is cool and why I bought the much better consumer edition
Also roomscale
 
Shout out to all my PSN friends who have to see that Powers splash add every time you load up the damn store
 
@KevinvanderVelden So you own three VR devices?
 
I'm off o/
 
@twobugs the sesame street version of it, perhaps? :P
 
12:41 PM
2, dk2 and vive
 
@KevinvanderVelden My point was why did you go with Vive instead of Rift?
 
They're on to us! https://t.co/Z4aXlOhwJl
 
@MBraedley because you can't point at things with Rift!
 
@MBraedley aah, we'll room scale mostly
 
Also, from what limited info I have seen online, Vive has better brightness
 
12:41 PM
Anyway I'm off now. I'll be back in a few hours
 
@Chippies I'll be able to point at things later this year...
 
...Bloody hell.
 
@KevinvanderVelden Enjoy the vive!
 
Mid year campaign for gunpla kits.
 
@MBraedley then you gotta buy more stuff
 
12:42 PM
Punch in serial number, go for MG special set. Win.
Now I have another dozen kits in my backlog.
 
besides, how exactly does Rift work on room-scale? Afaik it doesn't have any room trackers
 
@Ronan IGN commenters have also been featured on the cover of Punchable Face Magazine along with Nigel Farage
 
if I were to get a VR headset, I'd go with Vive just because of all the shenanigans Oculus has been pulling lately
 
"THIS REVIEW IS SUBJECTIVE, I DESIRE AN OBJECTIVE REVIEW" - ign commenters
 
I have a room that is quite perfect for placing down a vive, but I can't be arsed to pay the cost of a vive plus a pc upgrade.
 
12:45 PM
@Unionhawk Nah, they're in the bimonthly fold in leaflet: Punchable Words.
 
That makes more sense
 
@Chippies The second camera that comes with the Touch controllers will allow for an area of about 3mx3m, which isn't quite as large as the Vive, but certainly big enough for most things.
I already have 2mx2m freedom.
 
Okay, only another eight kits. Half of which I already have.
 
@Sterno Get rekt
 
@Frank What are you going to do with those?
 
12:49 PM
@Arperum Probably give them away.
 
@fredley Apparently Farage tried to crash some EU parliament meeting to gloat? And got destroyed by everyone?
 
Build a more ambitious version?
 
Farage seems like such a piece of shit
 
@Arperum Well, it's the same exact kit.
 
@twobugs Except not crash. He was supposed to be there because he is a member of the european parliament.
 
12:50 PM
Not sure what I'd really do with them.
 
@Arperum Ah, so he's just a complete douchebag
 
@twobugs One of the reaction to him being like "UK won't be the last to leave" and further dickery got him a reply "we're at least saving on the biggest waste of money of the EU: your pay"
 
Excellent
I heard one of the responses was "Why are you here?"
 
@twobugs That too.
 
I'd like to help Farage's head secede from his body
 
12:54 PM
"Who invited you?"
 
-1
Q: Unreal (non-military) Action Games

H.S.I'm a fan of the game "Unreal Tournament 2004", and now I'm looking for similar games. I had searched the list of the top games of a couple of recent years, and almost all of action games are based on military operations in which the characters wear military clothes and the game developers try ...

 
Also the part "no free trade if no free movement of people" or "no negotiations at all before you officially call the rule that kicks you out in exactly 2 years"
 
Yeah wasn't he asking for basically a free trade agreement
After it's like... buddy. You had that. You lead the movement to LEAVE THAT.
Now you want it again, but totally on your terms?
 
@twobugs wouldn't surprise me.
 
@twobugs Well, duh.
Because Britian is greater than all others.
Which means they should GET a totally lopsided free trade deal.
 
12:57 PM
In questions to Cameron yesterday the concern was keeping all of the benefits while paying none of the price
 
@Frank Until it's no longer Great Britain! :P
 
Since, y'know, that's certainly going to work!
 
> British fishermen warned Brexit will not mean greater catches
 
I wonder what they'll call it when Northern Ireland and Scotland secede
 
@TimStone Yea, especially since the rest of Europe is going " don't fuck with us, now go sole your own shit"
 
12:58 PM
I know there's actually real policy behind that fishing stuff but that just sounds hilarious on the surface.
"Nigel promised us if we left the EU the fish would all swim to our side of the bay!"
 
Yeah, I read that was apparently a big issue? The EU was imposing some silly restrictions on UK fisherman like "Don't overfish you clowns"
 
yeah, there's quotas or some such between the "shared fishing areas"
 
@KutuluMike Except it actually can (in a short term anyway) because the Uk can decide to ignore fishing regulations that are made to preserve fish populations.
 
if they were going to do that, why not do it now?
the fear is the EU is going to try to impose worse regulations now that they're not dealing with a member state.
 
@KutuluMike Because EU gets pissed and starts handling fines.
 
1:00 PM
and most of the UK's fishing happens in Scotland, IIRC, which wanted to stay anyway.
 
Another fancy quote was this one:
> Boris Jonhson, prime minister of the UK, or should I say the kingdom of England and Wales?
 
@KutuluMike (and relies on immigrant workers, incidentally)
 
> Plaid Cymru will push for Welsh independence from Brexit UK
Wales just wanted out of everything.
 
Yeah, that's their nationalist party though and is probably not reflective of the majority of Wales
But they're certainly trying to capitalize on the opportunity
 
I'm curious how much longer until we can see the literal flames of the entire UK burning up across the channel.
 
1:04 PM
i think if scotland and NI make legit moves to leave it might boost the Independent Wales movement a lot.
they won't be part of "the UK" anymore, they'll be "a suburb of England"
 
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Q: Can i run battlefield on my PC?

YourNameZi am wondering if i can run battlefield 3 on my PC EVEN IF i run it on the lowest settings Spec: Intel core i3 M370 2.4GHZ RAM 8 GB Video card Intel HD graphic Windows 7 64bit

 
@Lazers2.0 This question got me thinking about how excited I am for Battlefield One
I hope my friend can get a PC by then because Battlefield games are made for PC
 
@twobugs he's an mep so not crashing it per se. I can't bring myself to watch the footage
 
I can understand. It would be like watching Trump's victory speech
 
1:31 PM
@fredley Remember that time he tried to become an MP and failed? And then that other time? And the other five times?
 
I wonder if he'll become PM
 
I can't imagine any politician in the US failing so badly and getting to keep trying. I don't know if that's a feature or a bug
 
Limbo was neat but I felt like I kept getting pulled out of the experience
 
well I adored limbo, so this is a must buy for me
cc @GnomeSlice probably
ah already out on XBONE
But with microsoft making more and more dual PC and XBONE releases there's less reason than ever to own an XBONE
 
1:38 PM
Xbox One is a really good console my friend
 
> Rupert Murdoch has called the British vote to leave the EU “wonderful” and described Donald Trump a “very able man” in comments made in London on Tuesday.
 
It still has exclusives and I honestly play mine more than my PS4 recently
 
@fredley Now would be the opportunity for any heirs to declare him senile and swoop in to acquire his assets
 
@fredley Ahahahaha
 
Meanwhile Richard Branson should Thunderdome with Farage for hurting Virgin's valuation
 
1:41 PM
I remember when Fox News had their feud with Trump (I actually sorta respected them for that since they were supported Megyn Kelly against Trump being a piece of shit)
I guess this means they're pals
 
Romania's response to UKIP's success in #EP2014 via @ziarul_gandul http://t.co/kTeGBbPgdk
> In Romania, things are not all right, but at least they are not far-right.
 
The increasing incidence of hate crimes after Brexit is really disturbing
Apparently there is a sizable portion of Brits who really dislike Polish people
 
it is exactly the thing that makes me truly hate Donald Trump and anyone who claims to support him, except its happening in Britain
yeah, Polish immigrants have been a target in the UK for a while; very similar to Mexican immigrants in the US
many of the same jokes, too... taking low-paying jobs etc.
though for some reason, the stereotype always seems to be plumbing, not landscaping.
 
@KutuluMike Not as good as "Britannia waives the rules", but still a top 10 brexit pun.
 
1:50 PM
I heard some British guy defending Brexit. He said it was like if the USA had open borders with all of Latin America
 
clearly he's never been to Miami
 
@twobugs No, it's not a sizeable number of people, it's just that the racists feel legitimised by the vote
 
(Note that many of the modern problems with Latin America were caused directly or indirectly by the USA)
 
except that I'm pretty sure the UK didn't have open borders with the rest of the EU
 
Drug Cartels? Thanks War On Drugs!
 
1:51 PM
@KutuluMike We like to keep our borders in other countries, which I'm totally sure we'll continue being able to do
 
And, you know, that whole Contra thing
And more
 
aren't your borders, like, the ocean
 
@KutuluMike Nah, we have one in France.
 
Yes, the UK has open borders with the ocean and many fish have illegal entered
 
unless there's a massive influx of people sneaking over the irish border
 
1:52 PM
54 mins ago, by KutuluMike
> British fishermen warned Brexit will not mean greater catches
 
I KNOW, I ALREADY STARRED THAT
 
22 secs ago, by fredley
54 mins ago, by KutuluMike
> British fishermen warned Brexit will not mean greater catches
 
Ah, the @badp approach
 
Setting Standards Since Semper September
 
In other news, anyone else hyped for the Juno probe? It'll reach Jupiter on July 4th! (USA USA USA)
 
1:53 PM
Donald Trump is going to build a wall around Mexico. Nigel Farage is going to build a giant fishing net around the British Isles.
 
@twobugs I like it more when a quotestack is not build over multiple replies, but all in a single message.
 
Those are good
I should continue using my Official two bugs Gaming twitter account to tweet at companies in hopes of free games
Trumpco can't hold out forever
 
@twobugs Time to Independerate Jupiter!
 
War Were Declared
 
> The public furore about that would be immense
I like how that is the biggest worry about accidental attacks on innocents.
 
2:08 PM
@Arperum Can't wait for them to make a Moral Machine game for this one!
@Arperum Drones fighting drones
We've reduced warfare to a game of who can pump in the most money/resources, without the need for any tedious loss of life. So maybe this is good?
 
@fredley We're getting dangerously close to G Gundam
cc @Frank
 
@fredley Yea, but if the drones accidentally shoot down a commercial airplane, public outrage would happen, no-one gives a damn about the actual people who were shot down for no reason.
 
I can't see the word "exit" now without hearing "Brexit" in my head, and I blame Britain and in particular @fredley
 
(Gundam fans tend to hate G Gundam cause it's the super robot version)
 
Thank you for explaining the joke, I wouldn't have gotten it otherwise
 
2:10 PM
@fredley Can't warfare not just be fought in a digital environment then? would also lower side casualities. And less cleanup of mines/non-exploded explosives,... later.
 
@Sterno breakfast-brexit.gif
 
Still can't believe you left the EU. You guys love having extra Us in everything.
 
@Arperum Well I guess you could resolve a potential war with a simulation, but only if you were simulating resources you actually had
 
Should have been the Breuxit
 
@Sterno Beurnope
 
2:12 PM
 
I can on the other hand believe Nigel going to European Parliament to just say "SUCK IT GUYS"
 
@Unionhawk I didn't explain the joke but I explained why I pinged @Frank!
 
@twobugs Same thing
 
@Unionhawk This has been his main motivation all along
 
@Arperum The air is a public space and there is no reasonable expectation of 'not getting shot' while there
 
2:14 PM
> If a plane piloted by that AI was about to crash into a 747 full of pregnant dogs, whilst carrying a female doctor and an old person, and could only avoid it by swerving into a helicopter full of children with ASBOs, what would it do?
 
There is a plane full of lifehacks users and a plane full of SFF users. You only have one rocket. Command?
 
@twobugs Hit the SFF users, the Lifehacks users are all going to kill themselves sooner or later anyway
 
hey.
I'm an SFF user.
 
@KutuluMike Not for much longer
 
besides, they would probably all die as they argued over whether landing a plane was really on-topic
 
@fredley That sure helped that murdered PM
 
@fredley That font is so bad I closed the tab.
 
@KutuluMike Command?
WHY DOESN'T THAT WORK
 
@twobugs Command?
 
I hate you
 
2:23 PM
showoff.
 
@twobugs Syntax Error
 
sudo hate @fredley
 
@twobugs You must specify a program to kill
 
TYPING COMPLETE
 
@twobugs Password:
 
2:24 PM
*******
 
@twobugs Sorry try again.
 
Haii derr!
Anyone of you on Steam?
 
Also, git gud.
 
@fredley How about you ungit a lifehacks account?
Too soon?
 
@twobugs 𝖌𝖎𝖙 𝖌𝖚𝖉𝖉𝖊𝖗
 
2:28 PM
/goto control-access
 
@twobugs ERROR: Your password must be 16 characters, contain 3 numbers, 4 Uppercase letters, 6 lowercase letters, and 3 special characters, such as %&*#@, but excluding !-+", with no concurrent letters or numbers, and no duplicates.
 
@SaintWacko Too real
 
Actually I see a lot of AT MOST 16 characters
With no special characters
Like Ubisoft...
 
@twobugs 'Between 8 and 12' I actually see from time to time
Says a lot about how they store their passwords
 
I've used web sites where the passwords could be as long as you wanted but they literally took to first 8 characters and ignored the rest.
you could type random gibberish started at char #9 and it would work
 
2:35 PM
Blizzard is case insensitive for B.net passwords
That's not the end of the world and they offer MFA, but it's silly as hell in 2016
 
@KutuluMike Yikes
 
@twobugs That's not as bad as I thought it was to start with, they're probably just using a case-insensitive hashing algorithm.
 
> Are case sensitive passwords adding a really big security layer? Not really. If someone tries to brute force a password, and that password is of sufficient length, then whether or not it's case sensitive will change very little.
 
Otherwise known as a regular hashing algorithm prefixed by conversion to lower case :p
 
@Wipqozn yes and the visual style is incredible
 
2:39 PM
@Yuuki Just varies the entropy you get per char, and means you need more chars to achieve the same entropy
 
@KevinvanderVelden ...that would be the simpler option. facepalms
 
@Yuuki Like I said, it's not a big deal, but it seems silly
 
@twobugs I figure the convenience of not having to re-enter your password because caps lock was on or misremembering which letter you have to capitalize outweighs the minor security improvement.
 
Uh
Uhhh
 
@Yuuki Meh. To each their own I guess. It's not a problem when they provide MFA anyway
 
2:43 PM
Yeah, at least they do 2FA
Which is better than I can say about my bank
>_>
 
Ryuu ga waga teki wo kurau................
 
Man, installing Ubuntu is way more annoying than I remember
 
It does somewhat concern me that Steam has more secure authentication than my bank.
 
Lots of partition dickery
 
@twobugs What?
 
2:45 PM
@twobugs Trust the defaults
 
What are you doing with partitions?
 
I have a partition I'm trying to keep. It wants to either wipe everything out or make me figure it all out
 
Trying to partition yourself will usually end in a mess
 
Okay, so I'll repartition the Windows partition...
 
@twobugs Oh, okay, yeah, you'll have to tell it to use the other space
 
2:45 PM
"ALART: NO SWAP SPACE"
 
@twobugs How much ram do you have?
 
Work laptop. No clue.
 
Just download more
You can never have enough RAM
That's a true fact
 
Default is Swap = RAM
 
This is potentially being used for performance related things so I don't want to skimp on swap
 
2:47 PM
@PrivatePansy So he has no ram?
 
@twobugs go to task manager performance tab and it should show you available RAM
 
Or right click on start menu and go to System
 
@GodEmperorDune (I'm in the Ubuntu installation)
 
System Monitor
I just downloaded a game faster than the amount of time it took to finish watching its trailer
 
I'm just doing 4GB of swap space
That should be enough
 
2:53 PM
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Q: Does one row of background wall stop monster spawning?

Tomáš ZatoConsider this platform: It has one row of cactus wall right behind it. Does that stop monsters from spawning on it? I'm looking for simple way to restrict monster spawns over large area and this looks viable...

 
Anyway, I wonder what 4k support is going to be like for the new console hardware refreshes
I doubt it'll be significant
I would kind of like to invest in a 4k TV at some point but it doesn't seem particularly worth it right now
1440p monitor seems like a good compromise
 

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