The Bridge

Chippies

1:00 PM

you can see my tea mug there on the right

fredley

@Chippies noice

Wipqozn

TIL @Chippies is a cat

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Chippies

@fredley figured the Brit would appreciate a big tea mug

@Wipqozn you... didn't know?

Unionhawk

@Chippies That's racist

Wipqozn

@Chippies In hindsight it seems fairly obvious

two bugs

1:01 PM

My work wants me to travel the week after the new WoW expansion launches :( RIP my dreams

Chippies

@twobugs ask for vacation, threaten to quit

Nzall

@KevinvanderVelden The contents of the glass, bro

fill a large glass with tap water, then drink it in one sitting without breathing during or inhaling right before you drink it

Unionhawk

This really seems like the model lifehacks question

two bugs

Well I have vacation time but I don't think I can make a reasonable request for everyone else to change their schedule so I can stay at home and play video games

@Unionhawk -1 for no scuba gear

Unionhawk

Wouldn't help, though it could be used for its intended purpose in this case

But it wouldn't help because it's a demand valve with an overflow

Nzall

1:04 PM

I thought Chippies was a Furby, like in that Nintendo game, furby's epic yarn

Back. Did you guys get the riddle?

Chippies

@Nzall Hey! Cats can be furbies too!

fredley

Honestly, the low-calibre of journalism graduates these days...:) https://t.co/YqH6alBGBQ

Tweeted by WillardFoxton on July 29, 2016 at 11:10 AM

Unionhawk

...:)

fredley

@Unionhawk ....xD

Unionhawk

54 mins ago, by Unionhawk

This is why Brexit happened

Kevin van der Velden

1:09 PM

@Nzall the riddle didn't get at least 120 FPS. Literally unplayable

Nzall

@Chippies Oh, wait, I'm wrong. I didn't mean Furbie, I meant Kirby

Kevin van der Velden

@Nzall Wait you were serious about meaning furby?

Unionhawk

I'm not sure if that's more or less funny

Nzall

@KevinvanderVelden it was a pun on their avatar

djsmiley2k

wtf fallout 4 is weird

Nzall

1:11 PM

@KevinvanderVelden it was Back In Five (fibackve)

djsmiley2k

if I play with the institute shooting at humans, headshots are 90% of the time

Unionhawk

@fredley we spend 183m on toothbrush guns, let's spend it on campaign busses instead

djsmiley2k

against the institute shooting the robots 40-50% hit rate instead

same size...

I know I might have some perks that are helping but that's :/

Nzall

btw, guys, Chrome has been updated

so remember to check your About page and patch it

Kevin van der Velden

Or wait for it to do it by it's self

Nzall

1:15 PM

@KevinvanderVelden the quicker you are updated, the better.

Kevin van der Velden

Meh

Sterno

SITTING IN THE FRONT SEAT

badp

@Unionhawk best of both worlds

@Sterno WHICH SEAT CAN I TAKE

HE'S DRIVING DRIVING, THE FRONT RIGHT SEAT'S A NO STARTER

SOMETIMES HE FARTS TOO SO I DON'T WANT THE BACK RIGHT

SHE'S DANCING DANCING, HER HAND IS A DOLPHIN

I GUESS THAT RULES OUT ALSO THE FRONT LEFT

CHOICES CHOICES, WOW

CHOICES CHOICES, YEAH

Nzall

I wish I could star the above messages together

badp

ALL - I - KNOW - IS, I'M NOT GONNA SIT IN BACK LEFT

Kevin van der Velden

1:18 PM

resets "Days since @badp last broke down" counter

Unionhawk

@badp WHAT

Chippies

@badp what is he, British? Why is the driver sitting in the right seat?

badp

@KevinvanderVelden I think you could probably just hardcode it

@Chippies import car. He's kind of a nutjob

Unionhawk

public readonly int DaysSinceBadpBrokeDown = 0;

Chippies

@Unionhawk could've just had a bool or byte to save space, since we all know that number's not changing

Kevin van der Velden

1:21 PM

Could have #define'd it

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public const float SecondsSinceBadpeltdown = 0.0;

Kevin van der Velden

@Chippies also it'd probably still be padded to at least 4 bytes

Chippies

@KevinvanderVelden modern languages, amirite

Kevin van der Velden

Hey I program in C++ at home

badp

@KevinvanderVelden I'm so sorry

Kevin van der Velden

1:23 PM

By choice even

two bugs

C++ is Not That Bad you guys

Java Did Nothing Wrong

arda

@twobugs because java is wrong itself

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Pokemon Go, Evolving Dratini that is 489? or power up Draganite that 750?

I have two questions, First I have two Dratinis ones 498 and the other 526. The thing is the 498 came from and egg and it takes 3000 stardust and 3 candies to power up, but the 526 Dratini only takes 2500 stardust and 2 candies? is there a reason why the lower dratini takes more to power up? Se...

pokemon-go

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Q: Which crop should I grow to make the most pixels?

With the Terramart Shipment structure it is possible to sell crops and farm produce directly from your colony. This makes farming crops to make pixels a viable option. However, choosing the right crop to grow is surprisingly hard - there's a lot of variables to take into consideration - Crops ...

starbound

two bugs

Honestly I don't get why people hate Java so much

Yes it has cons, every language does

KutuluMike

most languages have a few cons. java has entire state penitentiaries.

Private Pansy

1:27 PM

I'm going to dump a bunch of Starbound questions

two bugs

I just think Java has become a meme to hate and people oftentimes don't have legitimate reasons to back it up

Unionhawk

Just hatched a magikarp. Welp.

Only 9 candy

two bugs

I got about 30 candy when I hatched mine which is still less than 1/10th the amount to evolve

badp

@twobugs it's just not joy to work with. Basic shit takes way too many keystrokes

Too much time is spent worrying about getters and setters on the very far off chance that you might ever decide to override them

if you have getters and setters for everything, what are you encapsulating really?

two bugs

That hasn't been a problem for me but I think that's a valid criticism

badp

1:33 PM

that said

it is probably THE language that's most optimized for static analysis and tooling

the refactoring tools Java enjoys have long been a pipe dream for most other things

Kevin van der Velden

@KutuluMike better than PHP though

two bugs

I respect that the JVM will run on just about anything, and the GC is pretty nice

badp

as opposed to something like Perl 5 that is literally impossible to check the syntax of without actually running bits of it

two bugs

People argue that it "enables people to write bad code" but people write bad code in every damn language under the under

fredley

@KutuluMike And then Scala....

two bugs

1:35 PM

OH GOD WE MENTIONED JAVA AND HERE COMES ORACLE

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What is considered stealing, and what are the consequences?

Planets in Starbound often have NPC towns on their surfaces. When visiting them sometimes I'm accused by the NPCs of stealing when I break the blocks that make up the town or their furniture or harvest their crops, but never when taking stuff from their crates and chests, strangely enough. What...

starbound

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Q: How to increase crew member damage and armor?

Sometimes colonists and surrendered enemies ask to become crew members on your ship. At first I found them to be quite useful as they act as meat shields help engage enemies in combat, but it seems as I upgrade my armor and weapons, theirs stay the same. Right now they can only do 4 damage to the...

starbound

badp

yeah, now I have the mental picture of a flaming garbage pile made out of very many flaming garbage piles in my head. Thanks, @twobugs

each of the garbage piles is threatening lawsuits against 2,000 different things

INF

ugh

1:38 PM

@KevinvanderVelden norepro

Kevin van der Velden

Work proxy probably

Unionhawk

Yes

Kevin van der Velden

It doesn't think that arqade.com properly redirects to games.se

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden You work proxy is working

two bugs

> You can now reddit on the Xbox One with Baconit for Windows 10

This headline makes me very mad

Kevin van der Velden

1:39 PM

@fredley it isn't

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden is it proxying?

Kevin van der Velden

Barely

fredley

A working work proxy proxying

Australia to move 1.5m to the North

Worst graphic

cc: @Robotnik

two bugs

Australia is going to move the size of one giant Kangaroo north? Got it.

Which is apparently 1.5m, an unclear unit of measurement since Australia itself is 1.5m

arda

Help my phones screen is upside down

fredley

1:45 PM

@twobugs quite

According to this diagram, Australia is going to move North by an amount of distance roughly the same size as itself.

two bugs

Are we sure it's moving North? Maybe it's just moving Up

Like, it's going to begin levitating

fredley

thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/…

@twobugs I don't know, is Australia actually balanced vertically on the earth's surface?

two bugs

@fredley Haha

fredley

> Proud mother Leanne Hayes said: “Eevee’s a lovely name, that’s all. “Though we’re calling her by her nickname, Sparky, so she’ll evolve into a Jolteon.”

two bugs

Not as bad as people who name their kids like "Sephiroth" or other names like that

Sadly, there are Real People named after Final Fantasy characters

"But Sephiroth is a Jewish term!" Shut up they were explicitly named after the Final Fantasy character

I bet @fredley is going to name all of his children "Brexit"

Kaizerwolf

1:52 PM

unfortunately I haven't had the pleasure of meeting someone named Sephiroth

"Come here Fredly Brexit One and give dad a hug"

Kevin van der Velden

@twobugs well now we know the bridge name for any eventual children of his

fredley

Fat cat takes job at Treasury

Private Pansy

So for questions which are out of date because the feature/bug/thingadingding they've been asking have been removed, what should we do?

Example - "sectors" as a concept doesn't exist in the game anymore

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Q: Are higher Sectors snow planets cooler?

I am now on my first gamma sector snow planet and now i need warmer clothes, so i dont freeze to death. I was on a snow planet in beta sectors before and did not need my warm clothes. So do snow planets get colder with higher tier sectors or was it a illusion somehow?

starbound

This question is completely invalid now.

Kaizerwolf

is it possible to play a version of the game in which they are valid?

two bugs

I don't think so, unless you explicitly go out of your way

Private Pansy

1:56 PM

@Kaizerwolf Very very unlikely. The game is distributed through Steam, which auto updates by default

two bugs

Since it's referring to an Early Access build and the game has officially launched

Kaizerwolf

right, just checking, I don't know much about Starbound

Private Pansy

Yes, it's a beta build feature

The recently released 1.0 stable version doesn't have this any more. The star map is revamped, and instead of sectors, you get different stars, like radiation stars, frozen stars, etc.

Kaizerwolf

I suppose the case can be made that leaving it up would cause confusion, users may wonder what sectors are and why they can't utilize them

Private Pansy

Don't ask me how the heck your star can be frozen

@Kaizerwolf That's my concern as well

Kaizerwolf

1:58 PM

which could lead to questions like "there's a question about sectors on here, so what are they and where can I find them now?"

Kevin van der Velden

Editing a "This answer is about a feature which has since been removed in version $N" would be fine though?

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden I was thinking question, actually

Unionhawk

I mean, leaving a comment would probably solve that problem

Kaizerwolf

without deleting the question, could you simply edit it and any answers with a note that says (in better terms) "this isn't a thing anymore" and strike-through the rest of the text? that way it wouldn't confuse the user into reading deprecated info

Private Pansy

@Kaizerwolf Hmmm. Deleting isn't a good option since the rep will be gone

But I don't like this solution either

Unionhawk

2:03 PM

Odds are, since sectors aren't a thing, and most of our traffic comes from google, nobody is really going to stumble upon a 2 year old question about a term that no longer exists, but if they do, then a comment explaining that the question only makes sense for an older EA version is probably fine

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk The only problem I have with that is that it's not very visible. I don't want to waste anybody's time if they saw the question and missed the comments

Kaizerwolf

right, I can imagine a user who is unfamiliar with the site who finds it from Google will not likely read the comments

the majority will, but regardless

Private Pansy

I'm going to just add a warning to the top of the question

Unionhawk

I doubt someone will find a 2 year old question about a thing that is no longer part of the game from google

Kaizerwolf

you're probably right

StrixVaria

2:06 PM

@Kaizerwolf Never expect someone to read comments.

If information is important it should be in the question/answer directly.

Unionhawk

I don't even think I could manage to do that with search terms that make sense for the 1.0 version of the game

Kaizerwolf

right, I mean eventually questions about the actual release will overshadow any EA questions

Unionhawk

Does Starbound still do that thing where the big objective is to craft a signal beacon and then when you finally do it spawns a penguin invasion and you die and have to do it again except this time beat those guys?

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk Thankfully no

The penguin boss still exists, but it's a optional sidequest

Unionhawk

Good because that's what actually made me dislike that game

Private Pansy

2:10 PM

Yeah, the early version quests were obnoxious

Unionhawk

Because I was just like "well fuck this, I didn't know I was spawning a boss encounter"

Private Pansy

The stable version has a much smoother tutorial/quest system

Unionhawk

I'll have to install it again

Check it out maybe

I did pay for it after all

Private Pansy

I actually got much further without having to resort to the wiki than I had with Terraria

Which was pretty nice

Kevin van der Velden

I'm still going wtf at this youtube comment: ".... I'm a fan of the music notes she chose though."

Yes, the music notes, those are the key bit of a song

Lazers 2.0

2:13 PM

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Q: Minecraft Structure Block Help

Ok, I have got the new Minecaft update, 1.10, and there is the structure block. I tried it but it is waaay to complicated for me on my own. Can someone explain how to use the different settings in a fashon that's not complicated.

minecraft minecraft-redstone

two bugs

She picked good notes, the best notes. Let me just tell you, when it comes to musical notes, she has incredible ones.

Unionhawk

I should really make my "breakpoint button" something other than "cancel"

Kevin van der Velden

You should probably stop being so weird yes

two bugs

First cases of locally transmitted Zika confirmed in the USA

Kaizerwolf

@twobugs no one does notes better than her

two bugs

2:23 PM

Now let's see if congress allocates funding for combating it (hint: they still won't)

Kevin van der Velden

Why would congress do their job?! Just let the market figure it out. Yes the market. ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY MAGICAL MARKET

Nzall

Always fun when you're dead tired at the end of a day, but the next bus home from work doesn't leave in another 30 minutes

Kevin van der Velden

Tme to start walking and catch some pokemon? =p

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Is it possible to hide your backpack or helmet?

The Environmental Protection Packs (EPP) are essential to exploring certain hazardous planets, but they don't fit the outfit I'm going for - I mean, when was the last time you saw a cowboy wearing a spacesuit backpack? (Doctor Who doesn't count.) It is possible to skin the EPP with another back ...

starbound

Kaizerwolf

@PrivatePansy doctor who always counts

CHALLENGER APPROACHING @MadMAxJr

MadMAxJr

2:40 PM

Oh hi.

I survived my mid-year performance review with not a single criticism.

Kaizerwolf

proud of you

MadMAxJr

This boost to my self confidence leaves me insecure and frightened.

Private Pansy

@MadMAxJr Achievement Unlocked!

@MadMAxJr I'm starting school in two week's time attending a module that only accepts students through portfolio, takes in only 40 applicants every year and is famous for eating its students alive.

MadMAxJr

Sounds like an art or design program.

Wipqozn

zeus damn it

I hate when people share shit like that onf acebook

Private Pansy

2:44 PM

@MadMAxJr CS3216 Software Development for Digital Markets

Wipqozn

oh, thanksf or the obvious spam post

really appreciate you falling for that

Unionhawk

Incidentally, there is a hidden image there

Private Pansy

What it really is is a 13 week crash course on building apps

Unionhawk

That doesn't make it less dumb

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk You're a hidden duck

MadMAxJr

2:45 PM

@PrivatePansy That's only a 3000 level? wow. That was a capstone course in my degree.

Kaizerwolf

@Wipqozn is it like that "is the dress black and blue or white and gold" thing?

Private Pansy

@Wipqozn It looks like those images games use to adjust gamma

Unionhawk

@TimStone crouching tiger hidden duck

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Taking photos in Pokemon Go

My friends are able to take photos of their pokemon as they catch them but when I try to nothing happens. I can press the camera and the screen changes but when I press the button nothing happens. I am using an Samsung Galaxy 5 android phone. AR works fine.

pokemon-go

MadMAxJr

We had software design and development where we had to form 4 man teams to build a game in 8 weeks. The catch was the professor gave us the tools we were to use. Game Maker 6.

two bugs

2:46 PM

@MadMAxJr Ahahahahaha

Private Pansy

@MadMAxJr It has a reputation for being as intensive as the final year project

MadMAxJr

The professor believed in teaching us that 'In the real world, businesses may choose your tools for you.'

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk yeah it's a duck

two bugs

@Wipqozn So how many Pokemon have you caught?

Private Pansy

@MadMAxJr *slow clap*

MadMAxJr

2:47 PM

Game Maker 6 was this horribly undocumented mess that acted like a wrapper on top of Direct X

Wipqozn

@Kaizerwolf No, it's "I made an image with a duck in it with a stupid caption to get people to promote my facebook page"

MadMAxJr

We wrote a huge trig function to allow a player tank turret to track the mouse cursor.

Then we found an undocumented function call that just did that for you.

Unionhawk

"I MUST BE COLORBLIND BUT THERE IS A HIDDEN IMAGE" "How do you know?" "UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Son of a Sailor

@MadMAxJr At my university the senior capstone project is a 3000 level course for some reason. Our course numbering is all jacked up

two bugs

@Wipqozn "97% of people can't pass this test... but I got an A+!!!!!!11!! 1 like = 1 A+ 1 share = 2 A+"

Unionhawk

2:48 PM

Incidentally, this is the main reason why I don't use facebook anymore

MadMAxJr

One of the teams in our class was failed because they stole all their sprite assets.

Unionhawk

lol

Private Pansy

Also, I'm doing this in year two

Unionhawk

They didn't put a "NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED" did they

MadMAxJr

Our team kept documentation on what we found and the clearly marked 'free to use' or 'free to use for non-comercial' attributions.

Private Pansy

2:49 PM

@Unionhawk "BORROWED ASSET WILL RETURN AFTER USE"

MadMAxJr

I did the tank game design, our 3 level layouts, sprite edits, and our building crush/break code. We had an AI guy who implemented A* for our enemies pathing. Guy with a macbook did all of our audio. The last guy did the rest of our coding and managed our tiny code repo MANAGED BY A .TXT FILE WHERE WE CHECKED OUT FILES LIKE IT WAS A LIBRARY.

The silly part is our repo worked better than the other teams repos.

Kaizerwolf

@PrivatePansy I OWN NOTHING

is also a good one

MadMAxJr

There was one hilarious code development.

Wipqozn

@twobugs basically exactly this

MadMAxJr

Our enemies use A*. If you put seven points into guns at the start, design say you get homing missiles. We haven't scripted homing missiles.

copy A enemy pathing code, copy into missile script*

Private Pansy

2:53 PM

@MadMAxJr That is amazing and hilarious

Was it Dropbox?

RedRiderX

@MadMAxJr That's just efficiency.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn it says "@Wipqozn is the worst"

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How much faster does Striker style charge Hunting Arts?

In MHGen, the Striker hunting style is all about arts. You can equip more, and it charges them faster. How much faster does Striker charge arts?

monster-hunter-gen

Son of a Sailor

Half my freshman programming class failed the class because they cheated in labs

It was depressing/hilarious

Private Pansy

Hmmm, I just checked. It seems our CS degree requirement states we can choose either industrial attachment or a dissertation (final year project) for honors students

arda

2:59 PM

steam.wikia.com/wiki/PalmDesert?diff=7982

Pls

MadMAxJr

There was only one major bug with the game we turned in for the final.

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