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6:00 PM
Front page shows only subreddits that you subscribe to (defaults included, although I'm not sure if they're weighted differently), /r/all shows everything, /r/popular shows everything except subreddits that are commonly filtered out.
 
@Yuuki The default logged-out front page is actually now /r/popular
And defaults are just subreddits that you're subscribed to automatically when you sign up
Anyway, my point is that /r/t_d was not banned from /r/popular for voting manipulation
 
point taken
 
 
@Yuuki doing is easy
doing good stuff, however...
 
6:11 PM
Whether or not you agree whatever he implies, you have to appreciate how capable KenM is at trolling people.
That literally means nothing and I can easily see Trump supporters and anti-Trump people getting riled up at it.
 
@GnomeSlice omg the tail bounce at the end
 
@Avery read it better =p
 
@KevinvanderVelden yeah, I know what it's mocking
 
Switch delivered!
Z E L D A
 
nice
 
6:16 PM
Except it's at home and home time is 2.5 hours plus time for me to go to GameStop for a screen protector and such
 
@Unionhawk unless you plan on personally scratching your switch yourself you don't need a screen protector
 
6:33 PM
 
-1
Q: what is an explorer map?

Liamwith the new Minecraft version 1.11 a new item has been added to minecraft: the explorer map I'm curious: what is an explorer map and how do I use it? what is the difference between an explorer map and a normal map?

 
@Yuuki do you have a screen protector on your Switch?
 
@BlueBarren Nope, although I should probably get one.
 
@Yuuki why?
 
Because you should put screen protectors on portable screens.
 
6:35 PM
My phone has been for the last 3 years
same with my 3DS
and my Vita
and my Gameboy Advance SP
and the DS Lite & DS Phat I sold
 
I take care of my phone better than some people I know but I still put a screen protector on it.
It's not like it affects the display quality.
 
I'm buying one and there's nothing you can do to stop me
 
@Unionhawk what if I restrained you?
with some straps
@Yuuki that's exactly the reason I don't need screen protectors on things
@Yuuki yeah but the bubbles and inevitable hairs
that get stuck underneath
 
@BlueBarren That just means you should git gud.
 
and putting it on to avoid that stuff is too painful
@Yuuki or forgo the unnecessary struggle
 
6:38 PM
Avoiding bubbles and hairs isn't that hard.
 
Are you sure?
Because I always had to get my mom to put on my screen protectors
 
Having put on screen protectors, yeah pretty sure.
 
when I was like 12
 
@BlueBarren Are you 12 now?
 
No
reverse those numbers
 
6:40 PM
-12?
 
Then I think you're capable. But that's my position on screen protectors. They're really not that much of a fuss and better safe than sorry.
 
And my stance is unneeded protection, hassle and money spending
 
Well, that's your prerogative.
 
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Q: I want to connect my wireless xbox 360 controller to my galaxy tab 3 8.4 (rooted)

David TorresI tried to follow this solution. But the problem is that my device is a Galaxy Tab 3, not a Galaxy S6. I am connecting the receiver to the tablet using an OTG cable (which works, because I tried a mouse with it). The XBOX 360 wirless controller is just not pairing up with the receiver, the ligh...

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Q: lost candies on PokemonGo

AdrienneI have been walking my Omanyte starting at 27 candies. I was in the mid-30s and this morning when I checked I'm now at 26 candies. I have NO clue how this possibly could have happened. Any ideas?

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Q: Poison Blade and Blade Fury

Mark Anthony SongerI thought I saw on a promo video for the Un'goro expansion for Hearthstone that it was possible to use the Un'goro Rogue card "Poison Blade" in combination with the classic Rogue card "Blade Fury" to hit all enemy minions with a poison attack at once, wiping them out. When I tried it, it didn't w...

 
@Yuuki Bbb-bb-but this is the internet, I'm always right!
There are no opinions! Only right and wrong and I'm always right
 
6:53 PM
@BlueBarren That's just, like, your opinion, dude.
 
Who's playing HotS with me for the nexus challenge?
 
 
Do you get anything in Overwatch from it?
 
@DanmakuGrazer Yes, the rewards escalate each week for 4 weeks.
The reward for the last week is 10 loot boxes in both HotS and Overwatch, and you have to do all the weeks.
 
Link to details?
 
6:57 PM
They announced it on stream, not sure if there's a website yet.
 
First week is a Genji skin.
 
lol again
 
Second week is Officer D.Va
 
@StrixVaria What is the Nexus Challenge 2.0?
 
6:58 PM
Officer?
 
@BlueBarren Play 5 HotS games with a friend each week for 4 weeks to unlock stuff in Overwatch and HotS.
 
@StrixVaria so what's the "stuff"?
easy peezy challenge though, I like it
 
1 min ago, by StrixVaria
First week is a Genji skin.
1 min ago, by StrixVaria
Second week is Officer D.Va
 
"Officer" D.Va? is that a skin?
 
2 mins ago, by StrixVaria
The reward for the last week is 10 loot boxes in both HotS and Overwatch, and you have to do all the weeks.
It's a new skin.
 
7:00 PM
So what's the third week?
 
Some sprays and mounts and profile icons.
 
I can't remember the third week.
 
good stuff
 
4th week is where it's at, though.
 
7:00 PM
The only HotS I've played is from the first challenge
 
i googled "officer d.va" and i have a list of doctors in VA hospitals
 
The one idk "odd" thing about that is them giving away skins for heroes you potentially don't have
 
Ok time to open my 9 HotS chests I guess.
 
Because I won't have Genji or D.Va for a really long time
 
That's for Overwatch I think?
 
7:01 PM
Oh they're adding D.Va in HotS too in case that wasn't clear.
 
Not HotS
 
The skin rewards are for Overwatch though.
 
Oh the skins are for Overwatch
now that's clarification I needed
Thank you
 
oh nvm, autocorrect bungled that to "office d.va"
 
I wonder if they're going to do anything interesting with D.Va's basic attack like they did with Tracer.
 
7:02 PM
Chest 3 I already got a dupe.
 
When is Uprising finishing?
 
May 1st
 
I kinda want dupes
I want enough shards to buy the Lt. Morales Samus skin
 
Based on this 1 example, Probius voicelines are better than Bastion voicelines.
 
7:05 PM
Is the Nexus Challenge starting this week?
 
> Added UTF-8 support.
 
0
Q: Is there any way to retrain a SPARK?

Simon WIn XCOM 2, human soldiers can retrain their skills in the Advanced Warfare Centre. Is there anyway to retrain a SPARK?

 
Finally.
 
Can you skip weeks?
 
@Yuuki several week old news today, with @Yuuki
 
7:08 PM
> 3 days ago | Blizzard Entertainment
 
@Yuuki i heard about this when you first set up the bridge deals bot
 
Oh you can't do the challenge against AI
Welp looks like I'm out
 
@DanmakuGrazer not a Hots person?
Just wanted the OW rewards?
 
Yep
I find HotS very boring
 
7:11 PM
@DanmakuGrazer You can for week 1 only.
 
> submitted 6 days ago
 
@GodEmperorDune wow, are you trying to take @BridgeDealsBot's job there?
 
@StrixVaria I already did that last time
So there'd be no point
 
@BlueBarren nah, winning a pedantic argument with @Yuuki
 
Side note, bot is currently down. I think there's something up with the SE login that I'll have to mess with.
 
7:12 PM
Oh well, I'm looking for someone who actually enjoys the game to maybe play 5 games with me a week.
 
I just shut it down over lunch break.
 
So I can get the things in 2 games I enjoy.
 
@StrixVaria I'm up for it but I might not be able to get on today.
 
@Yuuki my wallet is drained, i care not for your bot (until next month's paycheck anyway)
 
Let me know, I should be available most evenings except Thursday.
 
7:14 PM
@GodEmperorDune But if we don't start taking back jobs from the robots they won't know fear
 
@TimStone even if we do they still won't know fear
 
@StrixVaria Are the rewards tied to the week itself or how many weeks you cleared the challenge?
 
You need to do all weeks in order.
 
So I can't get just the 10 lootboxes?
 
7:25 PM
BridgeDealBot takes Gaming.SE jobs! D:
 
@MadMAxJr make Gaming.SE great again, make @BlueBarren a mod!
or... elect?
How far is taking this joke too far?
 
there is no horse the bridge can't beat to death.
 
Not even a literal horse?
that is physically being beaten by Bridge members?
 
There is no bridge the beat can't horse to death.
 
I mean
It could be worse
Rep. @WarrenDavidson says poor people and people who work in lower-skilled jobs don’t deserve health insurance https://t.co/YhQHiW9Btx
 
@Unionhawk People who work in low-skill jobs don't deserve health insurance? But then why do representatives have healthcare?
 
If Overwatch was just as old as other Blizzard franchises I guarantee people wouldn't complain this much when Overwatch content is added to Hots
 
@BlueBarren Of course they wouldn't
 
@Yuuki Because they get paid more, obviously. People who get paid more are obviously deserving of more money. Therefore, they also deserve health insurance
 
7:51 PM
@Yuuki because the universe is cold and unfeeling and fuck everything
You know what else is cold and unfeeling?
HTML styling
 
Personally I only question the mobility most of these Overwatch heroes have as it seems like a huge advantage over heroes without that mobility. Aside from that I perfectly understand and accept that OW heroes will be added, it's the logical progression anyways
 
@Unionhawk yeah thats why you should use css
 
@GodEmperorDune including css
 
@Unionhawk even jquery uses css
 
Like, even just making this thing look right by editing the styles on inspect element
 
7:53 PM
@Unionhawk that is exactly the wrong way to do it
 
YOURE THE WRONG WAY TO DO IT
 
So apparently you get 1 chest every 25 levels in HotS now?
I feel like I have to be misunderstanding that.
 
Ugh
 
#uni {
    display: none;
}
 
@StrixVaria I thought it's supposed to be considerably more frequent
 
7:55 PM
@BlueBarren I started at level 49 and just got to 50.
I got a chest at 50, it says next is at 75.
 
is it type of chest maybe?
Like Epic or something?
 
It's an epic chest at 75.
Maybe you get boring chests every level?
 
what was it at 50?
 
Epic.
 
Goddammit
 
7:56 PM
I'll assume it's epic chests every 25 levels then
 
Wait no that's still not right
Asgfbgornsnantght
 
frustrated @uni best @uni
 
There it is
Hmm
But how do I make it do that.......
Wat
 
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Q: Having trouble testing for mobs around me

Lucas Piccininniim using the /execute command to test for a certain mob within a radius of three but it shows true when im within a radius of three of the command block. im using /execute @a[tag=Eggdrop,r=3] ~ ~ ~ /testfor @e[type=Blaze] but it doesnt work

 
But
Y
Ok
(width:0px on a containing element did the trick)
 
8:08 PM
@Lazers2.0 Standard "You probably shouldn't be using testfor", but this guy at least has some idea of how execute works.
 
@MBraedley do these questions ever get answered?
 
@BlueBarren Yep. Not by me as often as before, but they do get answered.
 
Huh okay
 
Although in this case, there's a bunch of reasons why it isn't working, namely that it will always return true if there's any blaze in the same realm as the Eggdrop player and where the command is being run from.
(Unless they've fixed running commands across realms, but I doubt that.)
 
Sounds like you should answer this question
 
8:12 PM
Can't while I'm at work, for starters.
 
8:28 PM
What's bridge's opinion on "scientific/evidence-based thinking was just an era"?
This is one of those tweets that leads me to wonder if the evidence-based/scientific era we were in was just a phase https://twitter.com/HouseScience/status/856947452515057664
 
@Avery my thinking on that statement is "Wha... but.. uhm, what?"
 
@Avery Since when was "scientific/evidence-based thinking" mainstream?
It's not as if people forgot about empirical thinking because Trump was elected.
 
FUCK
Thank you Gboard for capitalizing that automatically
 
@Unionhawk Woah woah woah, there isn't a PG chat filter in Arqade?
 
@Avery If you actually read that Slate article, it makes very good points about the lay public's unfounded faith in insufficiently reproduced and reviewed studies and experiments.
 
8:36 PM
@murgatroid99 it does
@HazyKingdom no
 
Blaming the "liberal" media for this problem is unreasonable, but the media establishment as a whole does shoulder a significant amount of the blame for the situation
 
I mean
But the implied conclusion HouseScience is drawing here is "therefore global warming is actually confirmation bias qed" is false
 
@murgatroid99 yup
 
@BlueBarren I got a regular chest at 51.
Looks like it's just 25 levels for epic chests.
 
8:38 PM
@Avery One more beautiful feature of the chat room.
 
@Unionhawk Well, yes. But going from from "The House of Representatives is shitty at science" to "The era of evidence based discourse is at an end" is an enormous leap
 
@Avery I kind of want to run some analysis now and see who swears the most per message in The Bridge.
But I also feel like I probably shouldn't
 
user15026
I suspect I might be high on that list >.>
 
Yup
Same
I suspect I am extremely high on that list
 
8:57 PM
@Avery I thought the tweet that was about was a parody
NO DAMNIT WHY AMERICA
I BLAME @Unionhawk
 
9:17 PM
The building I work in, and especially the floor I work on, are mostly empty, and it's weird. The people in my building and the 3 nearby buildings are getting moved to another campus, and my team will be one of the last to leave
So there are just these rows of stacked office chairs and desks in and around otherwise empty cubes. At least there are finally open stalls in the bathroom
 
Welp
Should have looked at Amazon reviews on this screen protector before buying it
Apparently it doesn't fit right
Lol
 
I always forget what the difference between shallow merge and deep merge is.
 
@Yuuki Assuming you're talking about a key/value-based tree structure, generally a shallow merge just results in the top-level object having the union of keys from both inputs, with either subtree for each key in the intersection, while deep merges also recursively deeply merge subtrees in the intersection
 
Yeah, so for a structure like {'a': {'1': 1, '2': 2, '3': 3} }, shallow merging with {'a': {'4': 4 } } would produce {'a': { '4': 4 } }.
Whereas deep merge would produce {'a': {'1': 1, '2': 2, '3': 3, '4': 4 } }?
 
@Yuuki I think it can produce an object that is equivalent to either of those inputs, depending on the exact merge algorithm. Obviously there's some asymmetry there
But otherwise yes. At least, that's how I would interpret "shallow merge" and "deep merge"
 
9:29 PM
@murgatroid99 That's basically the difference between marge(a, b) and merge(b, a), which one you'll get from either of those is a thing that documentationn should state =p
 
@KevinvanderVelden Well, I think it would pretty clear that one of those produces a data structure and the other produces a cartoon character.
 
@Unionhawk 10.25%
 
@Yuuki Seems legit
 
Hmm
I forgot my monitor has no audio out
Dammit
 
Proof that my word is law in Delaware, apparently
 
9:55 PM
How do you know it isn't @TimPost?
 
He doesn't live here, so I'm claiming credit
 
Seems reasonable
I should go to bed
It is midnight here >.>
 
Hmm
I really don't want to have to buy a TV for this
 
There are HDMI audio splitters
 
That was actually what I was about to ask next
So I guess I need to get that and speakers
 
10:01 PM
Or headphones
But I am going to bed now
o/
 
True
Actually the headphone port is on top
I wonder
SUCCESS
 
user15026
@GnomeSlice Have I recommended Catomic to you? It's pretty similar to Triple Town, which I know you like.
 
Sweet, updates are done
 
@Ash nope! Will check it out
 
Hmm, so the Space Channel decided to stop streaming Doctor Who online with ads.
Now you need a tv subscription.
So now I guess now I'll watch Doctor Who without any ads...
gg space wp
 
Yes, it's bowling, but yes, it's impressive.
 
10:34 PM
@MBraedley bowling speedruns? wake me up when tasbot does it
 
@Wipqozn Well, that was a big spoiler
 
Started playing Neir: Automata yesterday (and about time since i could have started playing it weeks ago). only in the City Ruins and loving how i can use those tree trunks as shortcuts.
9S however gives me a bad vibe, don't trust him. hoping i can swap him out for someone else later
 
@RedRiderX where the fuck is this list?
also that analysis is fuct if you don't consider alternate spellings and conjugations
 
> Email: We believe that you can recover your body at the factory where you exploded, here's the location
2B: *look at stairs leading up to factory* a bit late to the party there command
 
user15026
@MBraedley That was cool because 300 game, and also because he used multiple lanes for the speed, which makes sense, it just surprised me to see
 
10:47 PM
provided that Wikipedia is correct.....almost a week before The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky The 3rd comes out!
 
@MBraedley I remember people pointing out in reddit comments that he probably wasted some time running all the way back to the first lane, instead of just going to lane 5 or 6.
 
@MBraedley He definitely could have cut out a lot of time from that run
 
@murgatroid99 It looks like he may have been waiting for his ball as well.
 
Like what a scrub
 
10:49 PM
@MBraedley I guess you have to weigh ball return time against time to move between lanes to figure out the optimal lane to run back to
 
@Wipqozn a deku scrub?
 
Use a bowling alley with 12+ lanes.
 
@murgatroid99 You could just have 12 balls...
 
then he needs more balls
 
He could have ran between the lanes a lot faster as well
 
10:50 PM
That, and 4 lanes is probably all you need.
 
@MBraedley Only if the lanes were in a circle.
 
i am eagerly awaiting @Wipqozn's 300 point game speedrun
 
It's quicker to just move one lane to the right then 3 lanes left.
 
@GodEmperorDune Let's make it a real challenge and have it be candle pin as well.
 
user15026
@MBraedley candle pin?
 
user15026
10:52 PM
Also this makes me really want to go bowling.
 
@Ash very thin bowling pins
 
user15026
There's a bowling alley like a block from my house.
 
@Ash The other kind of 10-pin where the ball is like half the diameter.
 
user15026
Maybe I will try to convince some friends to go with me.
 
Candlepin bowling is a variation of bowling that is played primarily in the Canadian Maritime provinces and the New England states of the United States. There is a set of lanes in the Wyoming, Ohio civic center, and also at a center in Fostoria, Ohio. Additionally, there is a ninepin bowling "club" in Bulverde, Texas, which uses candlepins on two of their lanes, although these lanes are not actually set up for candlepin bowling, as the club's primary interest is 9-pin bowling. == Comparison to tenpin bowling == Candlepin bowling was developed in 1880 in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Justin White...
 
10:53 PM
i'm not sure if i'm going to be disappointed or elated when @Wipqozn's 300 point game can never live up to this hype
 
Sadly there's no bowling alleys in Halifax anymore
They all shut down :(
 
Hey I know where Wyoming Ohio is
 
@MBraedley I've always wondered why our bowling pins never looked right
@Unionhawk No you don't
 
I don't believe you
There are 3 alleys that are still open in metro.
(Although only one which could be considered "in Halifax".)
 
11:00 PM
That's still one more than 0
Which makes the turtle @Unionhawk
 
@MBraedley LIES ALL LIES
@Unionhawk To be fair I was lying
 
WHICH MAKES THE TURTLE POTUS
CHECK AND MATE
 
I'm pretty sure that's a bannable offense
 
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Tendermint

Proposed Q&A site for developers using and building Tendermint applications

Currently in definition.

 
user15026
@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment This sounds more like a tea or a brand of chocolate bar than anything else.
 
@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Huh, for once I don't even know what that is
Oh, blockchain stuff, no wonder
 
@Ash and Java is a general purpose, high-level programming coffee
 
> Byzantine fault-tolerant replicated state machines
I'm gonna need to think on this one for a bit...
 
user15026
@RedRiderX That feels like they just stuck some words in a blender
 
11:19 PM
> Tendermint consists of two chief technical components: a blockchain consensus engine and a generic application interface
Well this is gonna take a little longer then I thought
 
@Ash Those are all real things. "Byzantine fault-tolerance" is a property that a system can recover from a certain class of failures. "Replicated" refers to identical code and data existing on multiple systems. And "state machines" are programs that model/handle the state of a system and the transitions between those states.
Overall, that describes a group of computers collectively running code to track the state of a system that are able to maintain consistency even if some subset of the computers malfunction in a way that causes them to report incorrect information.
 
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Q: Open CS Source from browser and automatically load map

MurifoXI can open any steam app with a link in the browser like: <a href="steam://run/240">Open Game</a> Where 240 is the game ID from Counter Strike Source. Is there any way i can load a map automatically when clicking the link? I have tried add parameters like this: <a href="steam://run/240 +m...

 
@murgatroid99 I guess I'm having trouble thinking of a use case for a large number of computers running the same code and getting the same results over a long period of time.
Is it solely for redundancy?
 
user15026
@murgatroid99 That makes sense, it just sounds like chaos to me because I have no knowledge of pretty much any of it .
 
@RedRiderX One common use of this sort of replication is for global consistency of data in a database, for example. If you have people all over the world making changes that affect a single database, you need a strategy for keeping the data both complete and globally accessible, no matter which local server people are connecting to
Bitcoin is another example that the Byzantine fault-tolerance Wikipedia uses. Lots of people run bitcoin miners on separate computers, each for their own benefit. But all of the computers have to agree on the result for the system to work, and the blockchain is their method of achieving that agreement.
 
11:37 PM
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Q: Why does this steam engine fail to run?

Timmy JimA major update for Factorio was released the other day. One of the many changes included a change to how the boiler looks. Boilers now take up a lot more space than before, and also have three pipes as opposed to one on each side (the third pipe is the one connected to the offshore pump in t...

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Q: Minecraft Launcher Runtime Error

Daniel HoelzemanSo I have Minecraft and the new launcher and when I click the green play button, the Minecraft launcher closes and almost immediately this runtime error pops up. but, about 2 seconds after the runtime error pops up, Minecraft loads up perfectly fine. What is wrong with the launcher and why is thi...

 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The EO blocking all funding to sanctuary cities has been issued a TRO
 
Please use more acronyms when you speak.
You are too comprehensible.
 
OK
 
(Also what is a TRO?)
 
Temporary restraining order
 
11:45 PM
Oh, cool.
 
A judge blocked another thing
Which is awesome
 
Right.
Anything that delegitimizes Trump and leads to him getting far the fuck away from office is a good thing at this point.
 
@StrixVaria no please don't. more acronyms = more googling what they mean i only just worked out that EO is Executive Order and TRO is Temporary Restraining Order. and Wikipedia almost made me think that last one was Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation
@Unionhawk any "What would Hawaii know about being attacked" like statements?
 
@Memor-X Poor @Memor-X. His internet sarcasm detector is broken :(
 

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