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3:01 PM
@Lazers Hey, it's that guy I work with!
He sits at the desk next to mine.
 
Uh oh, this means @Wipqozn has crossed the streams
 
It's 5p
5p
No truck in sight at 5p.
Gotta wonder if my package's gonna arrive.
It's 5p
5p
Gotta get worried at 5p.
Gonna reload my shipping data
throughout the hour
Worrying worrying (yeah)
Peek out Peek out (fun!)
Gah gah gah gah gah
Looking forward for some real news
 
You open the box and it's a preassembled windows 95 eMachines
 
@BenBrocka at least I can start installing my PCMCIA drivers straight away
I should have a Windows 98 CD somewhere
It's got Internet Explorer 4 on it!
unfortunately I haven't seen that cdrom in ages :(
whereas I do have a Windows 95 CD
 
hope you have an AOL CD too
otherwise how else are you going to get online
 
3:07 PM
@BenBrocka AOL wasn't a thing in Italy
 
I still find it amusing that you can't get Win95 or 98 or ME off of MSDN any more
 
you missed out on an era
 
@badp yet another way in which america is superior.
USA! AOL! USA! AOL!
 
@BenBrocka we did have lesser local equivalents
 
@Powerlord can you get XP? They probably pull 'em sometime after support drops
 
3:07 PM
@badp italy on-line?
 
@agent86 dude it's America On Line.
 
There was no equivalent to AOL and their CD spam
 
@BenBrocka I haven't checked, but probably.
 
@agent86 ...I want to say no but I have a terrible doubt in the back of my mind
 
I can get DOS 6 and Windows 3.1 no problem
 
3:08 PM
@badp I KNOW!!! the awesome is baked right into the title.
 
You'd open the mailbox and AOL CDs would pour out. Inside the oven, AOL CDs. Look in your child's bed--just a pile of AOL CDs
 
Ok, seriously central IT?
 
@BenBrocka non AOL internet providers here in holland were spamming a lot to
 
Why are we still on IE8 on our Win7 machines?
 
part of me says I should do some "new york italian and/or mario italian" versions of the AOL announcer guy, but part of me says that's probably racist.
 
3:10 PM
Holy shit it was Italia On Line but I can't find any pictures of it on the internet
 
@badp :O
 
YES
Libero è un portale italiano nato nel 1994 come Italia On Line (chiamato anche Iol) come sito di assistenza agli utenti nella navigazione Internet (al tempo, ancora a pagamento) e nella configurazione della posta elettronica. Grazie alla collaborazione con Olivetti e l'università degli studi di Pisa, nel 1996 il sito sviluppa Arianna, un servizio automatizzato di indicizzazione di pagine web con l'intento di diventare il primo motore di ricerca di contenuti in lingua italiana. Il successo del progetto e l'estensione di nuovi servizi gratuiti quali quello di webmail gratuita e di altri co...
 
@BenBrocka Yes, I can get Windows XP Professional w/ SP3
 
> Libero è un portale italiano nato nel 1994 come Italia On Line
> Italia On Line
> Italia On Line
and guess what?
Libero is my ISP
 
RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN
 
3:11 PM
this just in: @badp uses the italian version of AOL.
7
 
@Powerlord Huh. Wonder if DOS/Win 3.1 get a pass because they're harder to put online in any meaningful way
 
@KevinvanderVelden WHERE DO I RUN
 
@agent86 dun dun dunnnnn
 
@badp UP! RUN TO THE CLOUDS YOUNG @badp
 
@agent86 Why am I not surprised?
 
3:12 PM
I was right and I got a @badp burn. this is the best day EVER
 
 
suck it, day(s?) my child(ren) were born!
@badp wow such gif very logo
 
@agent86 It's the only one I can find online
 
italy wants to purge any memory that it ever existed
 
I guess this one is slightly better
 
3:14 PM
the O looks like an olive
 
oh man oh man oh man all those memories
it's like they're all EXPLOHDING all at once
 
the better copy of the image being found here
 
I couldn't find the one that was like... gold with weird dithering
I don't remember what version of AOL that was, but it was classy
 
@agent86 It's so sad
how fast does the internet forget!
 
3:17 PM
RIP memories :(
 
I think all that was in the package was a glorified Windows 95 dialer skin
also probably the settings to make TCP/IP actually work on Windows 95
 
WinSock 2! It's twice the sock of WinSock 1!
 
@agent86 What would you do if you had two WinSock?
 
I had an AOL disk in my old Apple II stuff, which I didn't realize existed
 
@agent86 Now I'm hungry
 
3:19 PM
@badp how much sock would a winsock sock if a winsock could sock sock?
@TimStone for a single olive?
 
For ALL the olives
 
@TimStone Olive OnLine.com - live streaming olives to your computer device. requires Windows95 SP2 or greater.
 
@badp dithering and aliasing are looking pretty good. The logo itself was gold, though. sort of mock-reflective or tarnished or something.
 
@TimStone I am not a big fan of olives but I suppose they, too, are an acquired taste
 
3:21 PM
D:
 
Wait what?
 
I don't like olives
I STAND BY MY BEING WRONG ON THE INTERNET ABOUT OLIVES, FOR I AM AT LEAST CORRECT ABOUT MUSHROOMS
 
I don't like olives either.
 
FAIR ENOUGH
 
MOD SOLIDARITY
 
3:22 PM
WRONG BUDDIES
 
@badp I AGREE ABOUT OLIVES, YOU ARE STLIL WRONG ABOUT MUSHROOMS
 
@KevinvanderVelden YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING - @Uni
2
 
@Unionhawk well, fortunately it has been well established that to be @Uni is to be wrong, so clearly you are wrong in your assessment of me being wrong.
 
Nope
 
@Unionhawk sorry, that's just the way things are
 
3:23 PM
I'm an expert in wrongness. I know what I'm talking about.
 
@Unionhawk you know what you're talking about yet you're still wrong :)
 
@TimStone yeah, that's pretty darn close to what I'm remembering.
 
It's okay, you have the right to be Wrong on the Internet(tm).
 
Android ransomware being a thing that exists - Hint: ALWAYS DECLINE popups from websites asking you to install apps
 
user15026
3:25 PM
Huh. Computer says the audio service isn't running, ut it is totally making noise.
 
0
Q: 1st kill malthael

RamonBozaI'm trying to figure out how the system works and has some question to you. already read that Under what conditions does Malthael drop legendary pieces or plans? When you first kill malthael you have a guarantee drop (boots + plan) and another one, if you reset your quest you will get another g...

 
@badp the picture of obama pointing at you just makes the whole thing
 
@KevinvanderVelden is this you? :P
 
@badp ... nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo‌​ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
For one thing, I'm not an idiot
 
> There's a sociology paper waiting to be written on why the UAE had 8 times more victims than the US...
@KevinvanderVelden Is that the long version of the answer?
 
3:28 PM
@badp no, that's the short version
 
You aren't doing short versions right
 
@badp He's saying the long version would return a "message is too long" error in chat
 
@Unionhawk this, pretty much
 
@Unionhawk that's the point
 
I could pastebin the long answer
 
3:31 PM
cc @Frank
 
user15026
I stayed up way too late playing Gardening Mama 2. I do not regret this.
 
@Wipqozn Heterochromic lalafells are a scourge upon the earth!
 
TIL I learn viewing zoophilia porn isn't just gross, it's illegal.
 
@Sterno why wouldn't this be illegal?
 
@KevinvanderVelden fixed
 
3:35 PM
Ooh
Slightly less wtf
 
> In the United States, zoophilic pornography would be considered obscene if it did not meet the standards of the Miller Test and therefore is not openly sold, mailed, distributed or imported across state boundaries or within states which prohibit it. Under U.S. law, 'distribution' includes transmission across the Internet. Production and mere possession appear to be legal, however.
That seems so backwards
The More You Know!
 
Why is @Sterno looking up the laws on zoophlia porn?
 
@Wipqozn CYA
 
@Sterno "In the United States...." "That seems so backwards" --- well jeah
 
@badp cover your alpaca?
 
3:37 PM
12 mins ago, by badp
Android ransomware being a thing that exists - Hint: ALWAYS DECLINE popups from websites asking you to install apps
 
@KevinvanderVelden
 
@Unionhawk <3
 
0
Q: Fastest way to acquire Cracked red eye orbs?

miRWhat is the best/fastest way to acquire cracked red eye orbs? I'm level 150 and short of dueling other Brotherhood of Blood members I cannot find a way to acquire these. Dueling doesn't appear to be a very good method because it often takes over five minutes to land a duel.

 
(the checkbox was selected by default)
 
3:40 PM
Seriously... is microsoft just really desperate?
 
Bing search is best search. A Microsoft commercial told me so.
 
I haven't manually installed DirectX since I started using Steam.
 
It's a FREE Bing Bar! You don't even have to pay for that awesomeness!
 
What?!
 
That's always fun.
 
3:41 PM
@TimStone that looks like one of those malware ads.
 
> In practice, pornography showing genitalia and sexual acts is not ipso facto obscene according to the Miller test. For instance, in 2000 a jury in Provo, Utah, took only a few minutes to clear Larry Peterman, owner of a Movie Buffs video store, in Utah County, Utah, a region which had often boasted of being one of the most conservative areas in the United States.

> Researchers had shown that guests at the local Marriott Hotel were disproportionately large consumers of pay-per-view pornographic material, accessing far more material than the store was distributing.
TIL I can paste more info into chat if I break it into multiple lines (but still in single message)
TODAY IS FULL OF LEARNING
 
@Sterno TODAY IS FULL OF LEARNING STUFF I DIDN'T WANT TO LEARN
 
@KevinvanderVelden At my age, that's usually how it goes.
@Wipqozn AOW3 needs to go on sale.
 
Well, thank you for sharing it with the rest of us, now stop plz
 
@TimStone They have multiple versions of these. Where's the surprise there?
 
3:44 PM
@Sterno It's worth the full price.
I have 100 hours on it.
 
It helps that VC++ components are updated by Windows Update if you have them installed.
 
That it wants me to "resolve" having a newer version.
 
@TimStone Installer wants to install, why is that surprising?
 
It's too determined to do work :P
 
3:45 PM
@TimStone What are you trying to install that didn't check for the existence of a library it wants before trying to install it?
 
and of course it's started raining
 
Are you calling Steam a liar?
 
@Sterno That isn't right then.
 
It never is.
 
@Powerlord I'm not installing anything
 
3:45 PM
It's surprising because apparently there were breaking changes introduced somewhere in that redistributable's update history
 
Okay, before I file a bug report, can anyone confirm for me that you indeed used to be able to respond to a message, then upload an image and it would show up as a response?
 
Going home time! Cya peoples
 
@Blem when I have someone to play with, yes.
Feel free to ask me anytime
 
@Sterno I cannot
 
Because now it always clears out the :number in front of my response when I upload an image, and I have to edit it back in
 
3:46 PM
@3ventic Either I clicked the wrong reply button (thanks to window scrolling as I clicked) or chat linked to the wrong message (wouldn't be the first time)
 
I'm pretty sure this is new.
 
If having a newer version than it expects is a blocking issue, then...that's very inconvenient. What happens if you have two programs, and each one requires a different revision?
 
I've noticed that earlier today
 
@Wipqozn It shows 101 hours on your recent game activity page.
 
@JasonBerkan Thanks for proving @Sternold a liar.
 
3:47 PM
@PanicBomb Seemingly not since the installation completed successfully
 
@PanicBomb In this instance, service packs have their own version and the newer versions fix bugs.
 
@Sterno I remember being able to do that as well, but now it's broken.
 
@Powerlord It's the Star Citizen hanger module pre-alpha thing
 
Who else is getting The Stomping Land? We need to form a Bridge tribe.
 
YAY
 
3:47 PM
So the lack of polish is not really unexpected.
 
and by "fix bugs" I mean the exploitable kind.
 
@OrigamiRobot Will there be war paint?
 
@Powerlord Yes, but what the error message is saying is that, ostensibly, the newer version doesn't work, and you have to remove it and install an older version
 
@TimStone Probably.
 
That may or may not actually be the case, but that's what it's saying
 
3:48 PM
In fact, service packs and such having their own versions stem from the exact issue that Visual Studio 6 shipped with a mfc42.dll that broke VC++ 4.2-5.x apps.
 
user15026
Wheee getting new work responsibilities :D
 
@AshleyNunn Which are? Official cupcake provider?
 
user15026
More support! :P
 
Then again, it was never clear why Visual C++ 5 and 6 shipped with a file named after Visual C++ 4.2 in the first place.
 
user15026
I am learning to fix all the problems :)
 
3:49 PM
@AshleyNunn Is it cupcake related support?
 
user15026
@Wipqozn I wish.
 
It's raining, man
Cryin' out loud
It's raining, man
Ob-vious-leee
There was - no - way - this
could've gone any other wayyyyyy
Ten to six and no traces yeet
and it's raining, man.
It just had to be like this, you know,
thanks Obama for all of thiiiiiiiiiiiis.
It's raining, maaaaaaaaaaan
 
user15026
...alright then.
 
What. You don't like my song covers? :(
 
@badp Do you want the honest answer or the polite answer?
 
3:53 PM
The outrageous bullshit
 
@badp WHAT THE heck ARE YOU DOING MAN?
 
CORPORATIONS NOWADAYS ARE LOOKING FOR T-SHAPED PEOPLE: BREADTH OF ABILITIES AND DEPTHS OF KNOWLEDGE
 
wtf is even going on?
Who authorized this madness?
 
I AM WORKING HARD TO MAKE MYSELF RELEVANT THROUGH STUDY IN FIELDS NOT RELEVANT TO MY UNIVERSITY LIKE SONG WRITING AND ART MAKING
@Unionhawk agent86
 
3:55 PM
CLEARLY THIS WILL ENABLE ME TO REACH THE HIGHEST ECHELONS OF FRUITFUL EMPLOYMENT
@AshleyNunn Simply forever bond the picture of the covers with my It's Raining, Man cover.
 
@Unionhawk I have the paperwork right here. It's signed "@Unionhawk (Totally not @Wipqozn)"
 
Everything else will happen automatically.
 
@AshleyNunn I'll do you if you do me.
 
user15026
@badp Ah, yes, that is a perfect deterrent.
 
user15026
@OrigamiRobot I'll do you anytime :P
 
3:57 PM
"Call of Duty sucks, it's the same thing every year. OH MAN A NEW REMAKE OF A POKEMON GAME, MUST BUY BOTH VERSIONS"
 
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Q: Reponse link is lost when responding to a message in chat with an image

SternoI noticed this yesterday, but perhaps it has been occurring for longer. When I used to respond to a message in chat with an uploaded image, it would properly link my one-boxed image back to the message I was responding to. Now, however, when I hit the button to reply to a message and then upload ...

 
If you guys can figure out a way to drama that up, please do. I'm hungry.
 
@AshleyNunn If it helps you can replace the first verses with "It's pikachu, holy hell no, It's pikachu, avert your eyes now"
@Sterno Where were you yesterday?
 
@badp I enjoyed that drama, but it was far too short.
It was closed quickly and the OP never engaged in the comments.
 
3:59 PM
What's the terminology for when you write data past the end of an array? It's on the tip of my tongue and yet I can't think of what it is.
 
oh yes he did
 
@Sterno This has been occurring since forever.
 
@Powerlord ...buffer overflow?
 
@Powerlord overrun
 
@Powerlord Index out of bounds? Buffer overflow?
 
3:59 PM
Oh, I guess it is a buffer overflow, although overrun was what I was looking for.
 
@OrigamiRobot But it at one point worked, right?
Tell me I'm not insane.
 
It actually never did this and you're crazy. — Tim Stone 49 secs ago
 
@Sterno You are insane.
 
@Sterno I have good news and bad news. Good news is you may now be eligible for Medicaid, or Medicare (whichever, maybe both)
 
Well goddamnit
 
4:00 PM
@AshleyNunn ... "An epic new adventure is coming!" New? New?! I... gah...
 
The upload button has always ignored what was in the box.
 
@OrigamiRobot If you did a linked reply it would keep the link.
 
user15026
@TrentHawkins Yeah, that made me facedesk
 
It would only ignore it if you had anything but :id in the message.
 
@Wipqozn What are you even talking about?
 
4:03 PM
@Sterno I guess I have a script somewhere that makes it work, but I've not been able to figure out which one
 
If you have my chat userscript then I hacked around it being terribad.
If you don't I'll still take credit.
 
I still need a script to auto-hide messages with certain strings.
 
I have like 4 chat userscripts
At least
 
I have 0 scripts and 1 style
 
PONIES is best script though
 
4:06 PM
@Unionhawk I don't even know what it is, but by the name, I'd venture to disagree
:P
 
A message like this -> ":3492489" would allow you to upload an image, the message would then reply to the specified post. A message like this -> "@OrigamiRobot" wouldn't allow you to upload an image and keep the reply.
 
@PanicBomb Script by @fredley, sets the opacity of oneboxed images to 0.05 until mouseover.
 
@TimStone AHA
I probably used to have that script installed
 
Also; good jorb Nintendo, you're announcing another pokemon game, and you've as of yet only released a single event-distribution pokemon in 6+ months. >.>
 
Which is why I remember it working
 
4:08 PM
@Unionhawk Hmm, interesting. Images usually aren't a problem, buuut that spider incident from yesterday sure makes a good case for it!
 
@Wipqozn No, it doesn't. You must have a userscript.
 
Yuuuuuuup
 
@Sterno It's okay, people mistake features of my userscripts for native functionality all the time.
 
boring userscripts for boring people and hipsters
 
5 mins ago, by Origami Robot
I still need a script to auto-hide messages with certain strings.
Please man
 
4:09 PM
@OrigamiRobot Not anymore, but it used.
 
And then write bug reports on meta about it.
 
@TimStone Given that I just went to your userscripts page and had already upvoted it, I'm guessing I did indeed have it
 
case in point
 
9 mins ago, by Tim Stone
It actually never did this and you're crazy. — Tim Stone 49 secs ago
 
@OrigamiRobot I'll add it to my todo list :P
 
4:09 PM
@OrigamiRobot Then colour me crazy!
 
@TimStone Don't I get rush delivery?
 
@Wipqozn gets the Crazy Coral crayon out of the box
 
@Sterno lololol
 
@OrigamiRobot Yes
 
Yisssssssssssss
 
4:11 PM
I thought rush delivery was for Arqade members only
 
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Q: PONIES: Hide unwelcome images in chat

fredleyDon't like it when chat is flooded with ponies? Too lazy to burn them all? You need PONIES: Protect Oneboxed Nasty Images Everywhere Safely. All oneboxed images are displayed with 0.1 opacity until you mouse over them. Get the Chrome Extension Simply download it and drag it into your Extensi...

 
@Unionhawk thanks!
 
@Unionhawk I remember when I thought about making a chat script like this, but then I was too lazy.
 
Speaking of deliveries, Amazon is splitting my delivery (expected to arrive on Friday) into 4 packages. o_O
I only ordered 4 items... you'd think SOME of them would ship together.
 
user15026
But yay packages?
 
4:20 PM
Wait, no, I ordered 5. Forgot I ordered the battery for the cable modem.
 
@Frank SE5 seems pretty cool. I'd love to do some multiplayer once I get the hang of it
 
@Powerlord I see nothing wrong with this
The more boxes to open, the better
 
The more boxes to open, the happier my cat is.
 
user15026
@OrigamiRobot My cat is not overly fond of boxes
 
4:23 PM
@AshleyNunn You got a broken cat.
That said, my cat unconditionally loves belly rubs, so there's that.
He also licks me like a dog with his gross cat tongue.
 
user15026
@OrigamiRobot Mine loves to b e squashed up tight. The more of him is swaddled and squished, the happier he is
 
@SaintWacko Heh. Yeah. No supplies = limp home. To fix that, give them solar panels.
 
@AshleyNunn So why doesn't he love boxes?
 
user15026
@OrigamiRobot He's an inbred cat who is a giant derp. There is no knowing why :P
 
user15026
@SaintWacko I love getting mail, so more packages = happier me
 
4:34 PM
@OrigamiRobot Carter is dum
BUT SO FLUFFY so I forgive him
 
@spugsley Yup.
@spugsley He's only gotten fluffier since you last saw him.
 
@Chippies Yayyy! That means it'll be as broken as BF4! :D
 
@Fluttershy probably, I'm not giving it much hope, but Star Wars: Battlefront 1 & 2 were awesome games!
 
@Chippies So I guess Mirror's Edge 2 is officially dead now?
D:
 
4:43 PM
I thought they started/rebranded DICE LA for Battlefront while Battlefields are made in the original DICE studio in Sweden
 
@Fluttershy Shhhhh, I need this.
 
Oh god, the makers of SourceMod Anti-Cheat made major changes to an enum between versions.
Meaning that plugins compiled against the older version will pass the wrong values to the newer version.
 
I believe I am indispensable enough now to risk talking to you guys during work.
 
@PanicBomb I don't even care about Mirror's Edge 2 tbh :/
 
@Chippies D: GET OUT
 
4:45 PM
the idea was good, the gameplay was okay
 
Oh, it's EA. It will probably be Origin then. Nevermind.
 
user15026
@Chippies THe first one was so hard for me to play that I kinda gave up
 
It's mostly just that I'm impressed that EA even greenlighted the sequel, but it's been backburnered so hard due to the BF4 stuff
But now that DICE is being lined up with other projects too, it seems like it's going to get starved
 
@OrigamiRobot It will definitely be Origin.
 
@AshleyNunn I don't remember anything difficult about that game, so maybe that's why I found it not-very-entertaining
 
user15026
4:46 PM
@Chippies I have a lot of trouble with hand-eye and fine motor, so I find a lot of games difficult
 
user15026
It's why I kinda stick to handheld stuff
 
IIRC the time trials were where the challenge was at with that game
 
@AshleyNunn that sucks :/
 
user15026
@Chippies I need to live with a gamer again. Then I could watch them play all the things.
 
4:51 PM
@StrixVaria "this new touhou game is craaaaaaaazy"
 
I watched an entire cycle before posting it.
It's mesmerizing.
 
@AshleyNunn I've been replaying games I think are cool just so my wife can watch :D
 
I've been replaying MGS1 with my wife watching recently
And man, in 2014, that game is STRANGE AS HELL
 
@StrixVaria WHAT IS HAPPENING, I DON'T EVEN!
 
user15026
@Chippies Yeah, that would be awesome
 
4:53 PM
0
Q: minecraft Pocket Edition on Kindle fire HD

JenniferI went out of my world in minecraft and now every time I try to go back on it goes to my home screen. Can someone please help me

 
@Lazers Sometimes I wonder how these people choose which tags to use when they mistag like this.
 
user15026
@PanicBomb I wonder the same thing
 
@PanicBomb I believe the common use case is "Select tag entry field, apply keyboard directly to forehead, pick the first one that pops up"
 
user15026
@KevinvanderVelden You know, that is not a bad reasonsing.
 

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