The Bridge

4:00 PM

@Yuuki do you want to be the one?

@BlueBarren specifically when it comes to groceries, some groceries are taxed and some aren't and I don't know exactly which ones are and aren't. Also bottle fees and whatnot. i mean, I can roughly estimate the total costs, but exact costs are going to be a guess at best

Yuuki

@Zachiel Currently have my fingers in two pies, so to speak, so I won't be playing any more campaigns.

Avery

@Avery people hate VSCode and love Atom and sublime it seems. Good thing I'm using sublime.

GnomeSlice

Did I miss a dark souls discussion

Avery

(I should try out atom)

@Avery oh and there's now a license argument, people bashing random licenses. MIT > Rest.

BlueBarren

4:03 PM

@Chippies oh yeah see stuff like that I just sort of buy

I would be in the same boat then

Chippies

@BlueBarren I mean, I do too now, but as I lived in Latvia for the first 21 years of my life, where taxes and everything is included in listing price and I always paid exact cash and I counted my money before it was my turn to pay, this was a huge change for me

BlueBarren

Well I'll certainly agree it's a stupid system how we do things

Chippies

especially at first, I hated being like "oh, that's only 5$? nice, lets get that!" and then go to cash and it's closer to 6$ and I'm like "whaaaaaaaaaat?"

BlueBarren

and even as someone who's used it for the entire 21 years of his life I can agree that's stuipd

Chippies

it was just confusing

now I pay with a credit card and just shrug it off and go with it

BlueBarren

4:06 PM

I think that's what most people do

Chippies

I mean, I can easily get scammed at the store now, because I don't pay that much attention to the total anymore

they could easily add an extra 10% on the price and chances are - I won't even notice, as long as there's more than 5 items

BlueBarren

I don't pay that little attention but you could definitely get a dollar or two from me

Ah capitalism

what a fine system

Chippies

of course I'll notice if it seems way off

BlueBarren

As would most people

Chippies

which sometimes it does, when I'm buying meat at dollar per pound listed price, but dollar per kilo is also listed on it and I look at that, as I don't do pounds and then at the checkout I get confused over the price difference, because I got lost somewhere in the kilo vs pounds

BlueBarren

4:09 PM

There's no harm in asking what the deal is

so if you're ever confused just ask

I know it'll annoy the cashier

but w/e that's not going to be the worst part of their day

MadMAxJr

@Yuuki How's that D&d thing going?

Chippies

@BlueBarren I mean, the deal is clearly listed, it's just that I have had times where I get confuse dollars per pounds price with dollars per kilo (because I'm dumb sometimes) and I go to cash and I'm like "this is more than it should be, whaaa?" and then they're like, "no the price is right it's x$ per pound" and I internally facepalm and just go like "oh, right."

BlueBarren

Imperial is just stupid

we need to let that system of measurement die

Chippies

I wish imperial was phased out, considering it's only NA and couple countries in the british colonies use it, but I guess it would take a lot of effort to do that

BlueBarren

It's always America's fault

Yuuki

4:12 PM

@MadMAxJr Pretty good. I had to leave just before the conclusion of the last fight/session and apparently I got downed, but we had an interesting fight with some goblins.

BlueBarren

we need them to just stop being dumb

Chippies

we use a mix of imperial and metric around here, which is better than purely imperial, but worse than purely metric

Zachiel

@Yuuki Ah, no, I was just looking for someone who would want to be that guy and tell me to GIT GUD.

Yuuki

@Avery pretty much singlehandedly won an encounter with five goblins with a well-placed Burning Hands.

MadMAxJr

That's always fun.

Yuuki

4:12 PM

And then we fought big boss Goblin King who could magic with a staff/club/thing.

MadMAxJr

Burning hands is such a close range AOE, it's always risky.

BlueBarren

@Chippies we do too for two reason, 1. American influence 2. The old people, they were raised on imperial so they just keep using it

MadMAxJr

You took on David Bowie? D:

Chippies

at least we use km/h for speed and km for large distances, but a lot of people use inches for measurements and feet for measuring one's height or pounds for weight

Zachiel

@GnomeSlice you did, but I'm still here (somewhat)

Yuuki

4:13 PM

@RedRiderX lassoed it and I helped pull it out of his hands.

He then fell down, went prone, and we all took potshots at him for a bit.

Chippies

@BlueBarren yep, and a lot of industrial stuff runs on imperial, so it would be expensive to convert

BlueBarren

@Chippies I can safely say except for my height and weight I will use metric so if you try imperial on me I'll have no idea what you're talking about

Chippies

@BlueBarren I only know my weight and height in imperial because I have googled the conversion. if you tell me how tall or heavy you are in imperial and it's not near one of the few reference points I know, I'll just nod and pretend I know what you're talking about, even though I don't

Zachiel

I thank D&D for having let me know that 3m is equal to around 10'

Chippies

@Zachiel there's roughly 3 feet in 1m, so I'd have to think about it, but I could figure that out

but I'd have to think about it to remember that it's roughly 3 feet in 1m

Zachiel

4:18 PM

@Chippies In D&D (the roleplaying game) each square in the combat grid is 5'×5' in the American edition and 1.5 m×1.5 m in the Italian one.

BlueBarren

@Chippies See I just nod and pretend I know what's going on all the time, doesn't even have to be about height/weight

Kevin van der Velden

@Chippies "What's that in normal people units?"

Chippies

@BlueBarren I do that too. I hate though when I nod and pretend I know what's going on, and they were actually asking a question and expect an answer

Kevin van der Velden

I may have had to ask that last night during DnD =p

BlueBarren

@Chippies and you have that brief moment of panic because they're onto you

Zachiel

4:19 PM

@KevinvanderVelden It's around 1 normal man and 1/47 high

Chippies

@BlueBarren it doesn't help that many people here have a strong accent that I'm not used to and I can't tell what they're saying half the time, especially if they just randomly start speaking to me without me being ready to listen

Kevin van der Velden

Uuugh, as if I didn't have enough to do yet this weekend, it's tabletop day on saturday

Chippies

I work with a guy who's from one of the bay areas and, while he has improved a lot since I started working here, he still speaks like everything is one mumbled word

sometimes I watch him talk with other people and I just look at them in amazement that they can understand each other

the first time he talked to me, I literally asked someone if he was speaking english

BlueBarren

@Chippies I remember having a conversation with someone from the UK and I remarked on their accent and they retorted with something about my accent

I was like, "I have an accent?"

But that's applicable for any region of people I guess

Chippies

@BlueBarren see, the big city accents are a lot clearer than the small town / bay accents

people in big cities tend to actually pronounce their words, whereas the bay accent is literally just throw sounds at you with very little effort

and the weird part is that the bay people can understand each other no problem

BlueBarren

4:24 PM

I can appreciate that low effort speak

because who has the time to speak properly?

GodEmperorDune

@BlueBarren aint nobody got time fo dat

BlueBarren

but a common thing is people will call Toronto "Trawna"

@GodEmperorDune affirmatively grunts in return

Avery

@Yuuki heh

Yuuki

@BlueBarren Tronc?

BlueBarren

@Yuuki people actually say that?

or what are you doing?

You know @Yuuki sometimes I find you confusing because you're too punny/more hip than me

Yuuki

4:33 PM

@BlueBarren It's, ironically enough, the sound of a stack of newspapers hitting a dumpster.

BlueBarren

@Yuuki sounds like you need to recycle

Yuuki

@BlueBarren About the only other time I've been described as "more hip" than someone was in a retirement home. Which I think was because I literally had more hip than most if not all of the residents.

Chippies

Allan Hawco On How To Speak Like A Newfoundlander

►

BlueBarren

@Yuuki I cannot confirm if you have more hip than me, that's classified

Zachiel

@Yuuki ba-dump-tschhh

fredley

4:38 PM

Equality of Opportunity status: Brexit

Yuuki

@fredley To be fair, I don't imagine the jobs they're hiring for require a lot of technical skill.

fredley

@Yuuki Also Timpson's is a pretty awesome company, they are a big provider of employment to ex-prisoners

but still

BlueBarren

BotW map size comparison

DanmakuGrazer

@BlueBarren Ew, size comparisons with no context

Yuuki

@BlueBarren It's interesting because BotW doesn't feel bigger than Skyrim.

Probably because my memory of Skyrim involves lots of featureless/samey terrain with lots of emptiness and trudging down the identical forest paths or snowy mountain paths.

But Skyrim definitely feels bigger than BotW in my recollection even if it's not actually.

BlueBarren

4:46 PM

@DanmakuGrazer what kind of context would you like? I offer quite a wide selection of context for low low prices

@Yuuki Oh the caves, the same copy pasta caves!

Chippies

@Yuuki could be that BotW has faster means of traveling, which makes it seem smaller

traveling in Skyrim was pretty slow and boring without fast travel

BlueBarren

Even the horses were slow in Skyrim

RedRiderX

@Yuuki When that worked I felt like I successfully rogued it up.

Arperum

5:09 PM

So someone chained himself to the office of immigration and stuff in protest of deportations and locking up people without papers. Reaction of the police is to put a screen in front, so noone can see the protest. That means it isn't happening right?

Fuck Belgium.

Yuuki

Time to food. But what to food?

KutuluMike

burger king hot dogs.

oh, sorry, you said food.

Arperum

@Yuuki Good plan. I'm gonna make me some wok thing.

badp

@fredley so what Mr. Man are you

Kevin van der Velden

@badp he's Mr Brexit

badp

5:20 PM

and then @fredley was brexit

Unionhawk

5:33 PM

Small brain: Trump won Bigger brain: Bernie would have won Mega brain: Hillary did win COSMIC BRAIN: https://t.co/wKgX5EfkLd

Tweeted by historyinflicks on April 24, 2017 at 12:07 PM

Louise Mensch is cancelled

Like, my brain can't process "everyone is a Russian agent, the impeachment will see President Orrin Hatch nominate HRC and step down in one swoop and everything will be fine"

Like that's not even remotely a thing that will happen

Yuuki

I think the Democrats are trying to dump the Clintons as quickly as possible.

They haven't been in the news at all though not for lacking of trying from the Trump support community.

Unionhawk

I mean but like either way

"President Orrin Hatch nominates HRC" is not on the plane of possibility

Yuuki

You didn't even have to finish with "nominates HRC".

Avery

🤔 I should sue my parents and get rights of my siblings, (plus the house), plus some money every month. They both are narcissists and suck at looking after children.

BlueBarren

Heroes of the Storm 2.0 tomorrow!

bring on the loot!

Avery

5:52 PM

>French centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has launched his presidential campaign with a plan to tackle terrorism by forcing internet firms to release encrypted messages.

>Speaking at his Paris launch, Mr Macron said he wants to legally compel social media companies to give authorities access to encrypted messages between terror suspects.

well macron is an anti-priv guy too it seems. And it's le pen vs macron... rip france.

KutuluMike

@Unionhawk those are some serious not-understanding-how-it-works people there.

Mad Scientist

Factorio 0.15 is out, one day earlier than announced

murgatroid99

@Avery Macron is definitely the much less bad choice in that election

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Yuuki

@Avery Thanks a lot, FPTP.

murgatroid99

6:00 PM

Macron is a centrist pro-business politician with some bad tech policy ideas (what's new there?). Le Pen is a far-right racist nationalist

BlueBarren

Avery

@murgatroid99 BUT HIS MAILS

Unionhawk

@Yuuki (France does a 2 round setup which is much less fptp than America fptp)

DanmakuGrazer

Man, fuck democracy

Avery

@murgatroid99 LETS TAKE FRANCE OUT OF EU AND BUILD A WALL

murgatroid99

6:06 PM

France's elections are literally just two-round runoff elections

Yuuki

@DanmakuGrazer Democracy is the worst form of government if not for all other forms of government. Winston Churchill said that and I think he knows a little bit more about politics than you do, pal, because he invented it!

And then he perfected it so that no man could best him in the ring of elections!

Avery

@Yuuki I think that Winston Churchill also said "Your 14-day free trial for winstonchurchillquotes.com has expired."

Unionhawk

@Yuuki I want an argument bait Twitter bot that just responds with this and nothing else

MBraedley

@murgatroid99 It depends on how you define "far right" and "centrist"

Unionhawk

Maybe with the occasional incorrect *you're response

MBraedley

6:08 PM

The only true centrist is Hamon, and by many measures of modern governance, he's an extremist.

(Albeit not as extreme as either Le Pen or Macron)

Unionhawk

Yeah well I blame right wing framing of true centrism as being extremely far left

And @Wipqozn

In that order

Yuuki

And then he used his election money to bribe one of every representative from all political parties and he herded them into a room and then he beat the crap out of every single one.

BlueBarren

Man I need to get my Reddit karma past 5k

I need a really popular post

murgatroid99

Why?

Unionhawk

Imaginary internet points

DanmakuGrazer

6:11 PM

muh points

BlueBarren

That's a great question

Yuuki

And from that day forward, any time a bunch of politicians are in one place, it's called a "caucus" (short for "concussion").

murgatroid99

I mean, unlike on SE, imaginary points on reddit don't even do anything

Unionhawk

There's a reason I actually slightly care about arqade rep, because at least that has nonzero weight

BlueBarren

I always need to make sure that I have more points than my friend who way too competitive

That's the excuse I tell myself

Other than that no real reason

I just want them

murgatroid99

6:12 PM

@BlueBarren You need to get more points because your friend is the one who is competitive?

BlueBarren

Yes

He makes everything a competition

or maybe I make everything a competition because I think he's the one that makes everything a competition... am I becoming @MetaEd?

Unionhawk

Yes

Chippies

closed chrome, memory went from 32gb commited to 11gb

gg Chrome

BlueBarren

Sounds like you need more RAM

Chippies

opened it back up, same tabs, same everything - went up to 15.8gb

@BlueBarren I have 24gb, chrome just needs to stop leaking memory

BlueBarren

6:15 PM

Listen

I can help with that

Chippies

@BlueBarren chrome-plugs?

BlueBarren

just go to downloadmoreRAM.com

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do I maximize the market share of my console?

When I develop my own console I never seem to get above 1-2% market share. I've tried marketing it so that hype is at maximum, lowering licensing cost and developing exclusive titles for it. What else can I do to maximize my console's market share?

mad-games-tycoon

Avery

@BlueBarren downloadmorewam.com

Chippies

I mean, I could have infinite RAM and Chrome would still use it all

BlueBarren

6:16 PM

@Avery to click or not to click, that is the question

Avery

@Chippies listen

i can help with that

Chippies

it doesn't even use all of my physical RAM, that's the problem. It just commits the ram and won't give it back for other software to use

Avery

just go to firefox.com

BlueBarren

@Avery I'm getting a sense of deja vu here

Chippies

@Avery yeah, no. I'd rather download more RAM

Avery

6:17 PM

why not?

Chippies

too sluggish, not a fan of interface and doesn't sync between my devices

BlueBarren

I like firefox/am perfectly fine with it but I'm to invested in my google account at this point

to not use chrome

Chippies

I used to use firefox before I found out about Opera and then I used a cracked version of Opera until that became free to use, which is when I just used legit Opera. Once Opera switched to chromium, I switched to Chrome instead

BlueBarren

Wow...

an Opera user

Chippies

I've downloaded firefox many times to give it a try and it's always been a lot more sluggish than both Opera or Chrome and it just doesn't feel good

BlueBarren

6:19 PM

out in the wild

Chippies

@BlueBarren hey man, Opera was great before chromium

BlueBarren

I don't doubt Opera was actually good

Chippies

(I mean, it probably still is great, but it lost all of its appeal to me now that it's basically a crappier version of Chrome)

BlueBarren

but you have to admit statistically you'll see someone with a third nipple more than you'll see someone using Opera

Chippies

@BlueBarren hey now, I know at least two other Opera users! TWO!

but I suppose as an Opera user I tend to hang out with other Opera users more

BlueBarren

6:20 PM

@Chippies Don't make me show you my third nipple

I'll have to grow it first

Chippies

@BlueBarren chances are, you'll grow a third nipple before I find a third Opera user

BlueBarren

... wait did you just...? Yyyeahh! Take that!

I sure showed you!

Chippies

I mean, I never said Opera users were common out in the wild :P

and it's going to be hard to find someone who still uses Opera

5 years ago maybe

back then Opera was unique

BlueBarren

Especially since you switched

Chippies

I don't really know why anyone would still use Opera today

BlueBarren

6:24 PM

Just for reference

Avery

6:34 PM

@Chippies make that three

@BlueBarren wow

ff is falling down steadily since 2009 july or so

back in my day opera had an onboard torrent client and everything

and an app store

ToxicFrog

And a mail reader.

misses Opera actually being good

(and built in userJS support! That was great.)

MBraedley

@ToxicFrog When, exactly, was this?

Avery

@MBraedley before chromium

ToxicFrog

2002-2009 or so? Opera 7 through 11, IIRC

It had userJS and client-side CSS before greasemonkey existed, tab support a decade before anyone¹ else

MBraedley

@ToxicFrog Oh, so when Firefox was the best option? :P

ToxicFrog

6:46 PM

¹elinks excepted

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Yuuki

@BridgeDealsBot :|

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Avery

7:01 PM

@Yuuki d o w n v o t e

I kinda feel like buying it as it might be removed but then again I have no intentions to give a cent to this person 🤔

let's do it I guess

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7:26 PM

0

Q: What are all the high-score rocket ship animations?

In TetrisDX for the Gameboy Color, when a certain score is achieved, an animation plays after the Game Over screen depicting a rocket of some sort taking off. I've only seen a small rocket fly after a bird, a giant soda bottle rocket, and the Statue of Liberty. What are all the rocket ship anim...

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Unionhawk

@Avery lol

Tim Stone

https://t.co/7z6drgCTNV

Tweeted by AdamWeinstein on April 24, 2017 at 7:24 PM in reply to AdamWeinstein

lolwtfnothingmatters

badp

meanwhile in things that matter

it should be easy to find the footage on youtube, if you are so inclined to the feeling of nichilism

Unionhawk

meanwhile in unintelligible swearing

Asdfjdbriednfoendgekngisnwhskfneiamsnf FUCK

I swear to God we need to primary this idiot

Holy shit

Avery

7:47 PM

@Unionhawk (you can't refund after card drops)

Unionhawk

"if you didn't want a low premium high deductible plan maybe don't buy one, idiot"

-literally my rep

Avery

(also keybase mobile app's beta goes live in an hour apparently, I've prepared myself, let's do it)

(send me random encrypted messages at /ardao I guess)

badp

@Unionhawk stop hitting yourself! stop hitting yourself! stop hitting yourself!

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk "So when you become a republican politician, do they like surgically remove your soul or is it just a natural atrophy?"

Unionhawk

I think it's a surgical operation for freedom caucus to optimize the lack of soul

Avery

7:57 PM

@KevinvanderVelden I should ask that to my rep 🤔

Kevin van der Velden

Game AI is hard

Avery

@KevinvanderVelden yup

BlueBarren

...I now realize what I've become

Frank

8:32 PM

-4

A: What is the crafting recipe for these taunts?

I know how to craft it. First you need a jag. Then a jag. Then a jag. Then kill yourself.

...apparently, I've forgotten how to format links.

That needs burning, though.

Kevin van der Velden

Burninate

Huh

Oh right

It's [text](link)

Unionhawk

Til there's a warning message if your last flag was declined

Avery

your daily dose of "shit hn says"

@Unionhawk there's a different one if you have multiple ones declined too

Unionhawk

Neat

GnomeSlice

8:50 PM

it don't matter none of this matters

►

Tim Stone

Wait, did we already cover that Chobani is suing Alex Jones?

Because that's a thing

In addition to his custody battle he's now also being sued by yogurt

Avery

@TimStone NICE

Wipqozn

@TimStone wait what

What's Chobani?

Tim Stone

It's greek yogurt

Wipqozn

> Chobani, the Greek yogurt maker, is suing Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who says the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was a hoax, 9/11 was an inside job by the U.S. government and Chobani imports migrant rapists to Twin Falls.

wait wtf

Avery

8:54 PM

'sandy hooks wasn't real" "9/11 was faked by govt" AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

Tim Stone

But the guy who runs it is very pro-immigrant so of course Alex Jones has gone off the rails about him

Wipqozn

Alex Jones actually said sandy hook was an inside job?

What a fucking insane douchebag

I hope they take his children away from him, and he's never allowed to them again. Sounds like it would be the best thing for them.

Ronan

@Wipqozn Not an inside job, didn't happen and was made up to "take our guns!"

Wipqozn

Also He should probably be sent to an actual mental health hospital.

And to be clear I'm being serious., not like hyperbolic

Avery

see that's a turk I like (the ulukaya guy, head of chobani)

Wipqozn

8:55 PM

Because if you seriously think sandy hook was a hoax then you must have some mental health issues, and you should get professional help

Ronan

@Wipqozn And then everyone claims his kids never existed and they were just paid actors.

Wipqozn

@Ronan Good

Unionhawk

It's unclear if he actually believes these things, but it's also unclear which possibility is more evil

Mad Scientist

The Sandy Hook conspiracy theory is probably the most despicable of them all.

Unionhawk

Yes

Avery

8:59 PM

Yes.

Yuuki

My other question is why is he calling out Chobani of all companies?

Surely there are other companies with pro-immigrant CEOs?

Tim Stone

He's a (non-white) immigrant, he's described the travel ban as "personal", etc

And there was a sexual assault by a non-white person in Twin Falls, I think?

The seed from which the crazy sprouts

Unionhawk

Will 2017 be the year where bad things happen to bad people?

Yuuki

> Will 2017 be the year where bad things happen ~~to bad people~~?

Avery

@Unionhawk well we'll have elections soon, so we'll see if erdo wins or not.

@Yuuki yes

Unionhawk

9:07 PM

@Avery they'll probably make stamps labeled "erdoan" that you have to use to mark your choice

and accept noncertified ballots nationwide

Mad Scientist

Trump invited all 100 senators to the White House for a briefing on North Korea. I don't think that can mean anything good (it probably is just posturing, at least I hope so)

Tim Stone

"Can you believe what's going on in North Korea?"

Senate Intelligence Committee: "Uh, yeah? It was literally in the brief"

Ronan

"A lot of people don't know realise that"

Tim Stone

Exactly

Unionhawk

we had a tremendous victory in this election

five hundred and thirty nine electoral votes, they said we couldn't do it but we did it

I think legally, the president is immediately removed from office if he "mentions the previous election one more goddamn time"

I think, I'm no expert though