The Bridge

2:23 PM

@Arperum Huh.

Sandy Hookers are awful, but also seem to clearly be mentally unstable. They probably deserve pity along with loathing.

Uugh conspiracy theorists

If someone gave me a phone call like that, I'd probably quietly murder them and put their body in a deep hole, though.

sandy hooker?

@Rapitor Probably something to do with Sandy Hook Elementary.

Maybe crazy people that believe it was a gov't op.

A US gov't op.

Please tell me I'm wrong.

2:38 PM

You are not

Sorry =[

There is always a relevant XKCD

@KevinvanderVelden There is, at least, always a relevant XKCD frame.

@Yuuki well, that entire XKCD is about conspiracy theories so

There are a lot of graduate-educated young-earth creationists.

@KevinvanderVelden Yes, but I felt it was a bit large for the sentiment I was trying to express.

2:45 PM

True enough

I forgot how much I like "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked".

No one mourns the wicked.

4 hour exam gauntlet let's gooooooooooo

@Unionhawk good luck, don't die

If I die, have my body encased in red jello

2:51 PM

Red Unionhawk is IT.

Red Unionhawk needs food... badly.

@Unionhawk Why do I think you'll just turn into a gelatinous cube? And then eat all adventurers?

@Unionhawk why red? I think it'd be better to encase you in green jello

(homestar runner is allegedly back and I'm hype don't mind me just my childhood)

Sorry for making everyone feel old there

I have no idea what homestar runner even is, I've heard its name but that's all

Well then.

I BET @ORIGAMIROBOT WOULD APPRECIATE IT

2:55 PM

It's the site with the boxing-glove luchador answering emails

@Sconibulus aah, I've seen that in poker night I think

Q: Is it possible to move a hard drive with Steam games to a new computer?

0

I've seen a lot of questions asking somewhat the reverse of this question, namely copying games from one PC to another to avoid downloading. My question is can I just remove my entire hard drive from my current PC and move it into the new PC and get Steam to recognize that all the games are alre...

steam windows-7 hard-drive

@Unionhawk Who's the guy with yellow feet?

My occupation is, at last, officially "unemployed." \o/

Tweeted by badp on December 18, 2014 at 2:56 PM

Yeah, he was in one of the Poker Nights at least, maybe both

2:56 PM

@badp No more job, 24 hour mod abuse incoming.

More specifically, transition from "student"

@badp jay! Or well, assuming that means you've graduated

@KevinvanderVelden I'm suddenly extremely cognizant of my age.

@Yuuki you are 2 years younger than I am

Wait, you're older than me.

2:58 PM

@OrigamiRobot pom pom?

sigh you have failed me

Oh sorry

I don't get that specific reference. Which is weird.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I see

Who's the dude who looks like The Cheat?
The Cheat, The Cheat.

3:00 PM

Clearly I just need to spend 8 hours going through all of the toons

Hey look! It's a The Cheat!

The best song is the one about the different town.

Belgian gamestudio Larian(Divinity series) is going to get a studio going in Canada

@OrigamiRobot Y'know, I was about to reply "The Cheat?", but I wasn't sure since you said "the guy with yellow feet" and The Cheat is clearly "the The Cheat with yellow feet".

I applied with them for an internship a couple years ago, I failed. Swen Vincke is an awesome dude though.

3:05 PM

@badp Congrats on the unjobbing

Trent Hawkins

@Frank You have a package; no idea how long it has been sitting in the mailbox. Thankfully it does not appear to be something that can be harmed by the cold.

runordiegame.com

@TrentHawkins Should be my very overdue DVI cables.

Feel free to open it up, if you want.

@Arperum Obviously they want some poutine.

@ElfSlice Gameplay is not fast enough based on title.

Although it does look interesting I guess.

Trent Hawkins

3:07 PM

@Frank They might not have been all that overdue. Haven't checked the mail since... either Friday or Thursday.

@TrentHawkins So...it looks like nobody lives here to the postman.

@StrixVaria It has really positive steam reviews

@JasonBerkan poutine looks gross. We have the real fries here.

and it's 5.49... cheap too

too bad I spent all my money on music again

@ElfSlice Speaking of Steam, the sale should be starting today.

3:08 PM

@Arperum Poutine tastes awesome. Looks are deceiving.

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@StrixVaria Ooo~

@Arperum But it is so, SO good.

@JasonBerkan I dunno, I'm a bit hesitant on the cheese curds.

@Yuuki It's just cheese.

@Frank I'm just lactose-intolerant.

3:09 PM

@StrixVaria Right, yes.

@Yuuki You poor, poor man.

I can handle small amounts of cheese, but dishes composed largely of cheese result in... issues.

@JasonBerkan I'll try it if I ever end up in Canada. It just looks like someone did something horrible to perfectly fine fries.

hold on....

the library... the archive...

REALLY BUNGIE?

@Arperum Then you realize that when you live in -40 weather, fries smothered in cheese and gravy are the perfect way to counteract it.

oh klook the power is still on

REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING?!

Q: What is the optimal strategy after all heroes are leveled to 1000?

3:11 PM

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There is an achievement for getting a hero to level 5000, which is my ultimate goal. I'm currently at the point where it doesn't take too long after I go infinite to get everyone back up to 1000. I assume there's a x10 bonus at 2000 levels, like there was at 1000, so I went back up to the first h...

tap-tap-infinity

@Lazers Yet another incremental?

@Frank Looks like it

@Frank It's on Kongregate now; it was only on mobile when I first found it so I didn't bother everyone.

It's a Clicker Heroes clone.

@Yuuki Large amounts of cheese causes issues for everyone...

@Frank Butbutbut. The fries... I hope the fries in the poutine I will eventually try are going to be damn good ones though, I haven't eaten fries outside of Belgium that match the quality of ones made here.

3:13 PM

@StrixVaria Oh, a clone.

Might as well just play Clicker Heroes, then.

I like it better than Clicker Heroes.

Clicker Heroes is also not on mobile, so this worked better for the train.

========== Build: 9 succeeded, 0 failed, 32 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

@MBraedley Definition of "large amounts of cheese": half a fist-full.

I still don't plan on playing the web version ever.

Woo, I didn't screw up!

3:14 PM

Oh no, more Black Liquid Sorrow in Kittens

no one?

Nope

@Yuuki Well you're missing out on the joys of cheese. But I thought the whole point of making cheese was to decrease the content of lactose in a dairy product.

@MBraedley Depends on the cheese.

@MBraedley The point of making cheese is that cheese is delicious.

3:18 PM

@StrixVaria touche

@StrixVaria The sharper, the better.

@Frank I disagree with this in general. Sharp cheeses can be good, but so can non-sharp cheeses.

@MBraedley hmmmm cheese. And I think it was mostly a case of "Hey, this lasts longer and is solid!"

@KevinvanderVelden I suppose. The reduction in lactose is a beneficial side-effect.

@MBraedley true, I don't know if it was intended though (cheese is kinda old, as in, pre-written-history old)

3:22 PM

@StrixVaria If you disagree with @Frank, you are clearly on the side of right.

@Sterno You're allowed to disagree with me, so long as you realize that makes you wrong.

I think we can all agree that as long as we're not @Unionhawk we're not that wrong

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Speaking of compiling things, why is this compile taking longer than usual?

Since JSP compiling is disabled on all our servers (including my local test environment), I can't just drop a new JSP file in place to test it.

@KevinvanderVelden Saying "I'm not wrong compared to @uni" means nothing at all

> [INFO] Total time: 5:01.986s

3:25 PM

@fredley it means you like stating tautologies.

... I have the sudden urge to build a musical Tesla coil.

@KevinvanderVelden Is that a tautology?

@Yuuki doooo iiiit

@fredley "I am not as wrong as @Uni" is a tautology, clearly

Hmm. A Telltale Minecraft game. That's... odd.

mojang.com/2014/12/play-info-quest-ii-you-might-learn-something

@KevinvanderVelden No, the phrase "I'm less wrong the @uni" means nothing, because nothing is more wrong than @uni

3:30 PM

lololol

@fredley "I am less wrong than infinitely wrong" is a tautology, it's true but it contains no information

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@KevinvanderVelden yes that's what it means :D

I'm unemployed as I'm no longer a student

@Yuuki cc @5pike

3:32 PM

@badp Then the yay stands!

@KevinvanderVelden I think those guys were on America's Got Talent or X-Factor or one of those.

@Yuuki yeah they were, link is even in the description :p

How far did they get?

I've no idea, I don't watch it =p

Recent Questions - Arqade: Stackexchange HATS!!! IT'S TEAM FORTRESS ALL OVER AGAIN!

posted on December 18, 2014 by user95955

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but none the less, ahem... HATS!!! IS HAPPY SMISSMASS TIME, TEAM, GLORIOUS STACK EXCHANGE HAS BRING NEW UPDATE WITH NEW HATS!!! IS TIIM FORTRESS 2 ALL OVER AGAIN, GAME OVER, MAN, GAME OVER!!! p.s. selling Bugdroid for 2 refined add me quciksell no tradeoffer

3:33 PM

@Yuuki this video

@Lazers I am somewhat saddened I didn't get to downvote this prior to it being deleted.

But also happy it got burned that quickly.

@ElfSlice Isn't grindcore that weird subgenre where the vocals can be replaced by a pig that is squaling like crazy?

Yes.

Grindcore is garbage

Grindcore

Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that originated in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive-sounding music genres – including thrash metal, industrial music, noise music and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk, such as crust punk. Grindcore is characterized by a noise-filled sound that uses heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, grinding overdriven bass, high speed tempo, blast beats, and vocals which consist of growls and high-pitched shrieks. Early groups like Napalm Death are credited with laying the groundwork for the style. It is most prevalent...

That's pretty much grindcore

@ElfSlice I've seen parts of grindcore concerts, after a couple songs I'm out of crazy and just leave because it's boring. (first couple songs can be fun if there is a crazy and fun moshpit going on, but after that it's too much)

> Grindcore lyrics are typically provocative.

3:39 PM

@Arperum EEUEUUUUURRRURURUGGAGAGAAHHH

How? Every single bit of vocal is literally squeee

there is fermented excrement in hell below
the punishment of our sins doth grow
the quivering fat of the melting corpses does glow
ERUUUUUUGGGGGGUUUUUUUUAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

@ElfSlice That is too much variation. Seriously.

Q: Just finished The Evil Within Chapter 5

-1

Just finished The Evil Within Chapter 5 and still have no idea whats going on. Am I missing something. Please don't give too much away?

ps3 the-evil-within

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Q: Does allying with one side lock you out of promotion quests or other content?

Long before skyrim made choosing a side popular, Might and magic 8 already did it. For example you have to choose to help the dragons, or the dragon hunters. If you pick the side of the dragons, for example, which content are you locked out of? Can you still use the shops of the dragon hunters? C...

might-and-magic-8

Ids

Hi. I'm having a strange problem. I cannot log into meta.

3:41 PM

Are you using HTTPS everywhere?

Ids

Yep

telltale games + minecraft?

@Lazers Wait, you want spoilers, but don't want spoilers? that's not how logic works.

@Ids that breaks meta, try disabling it either for that site if that's possible (don't use it) or just temporarily disabling it

@Ids That's your issue. meta +https = broken.

Ids

3:42 PM

Thanks!

15 mins ago, by Jason Berkan

https://mojang.com/2014/12/play-info-quest-ii-you-might-learn-something/

@Rapitor Hmm? That is blocked at work, is it as awesome as it sounds?

So apparently, the newest AC: Unity patch has made things worse, not better.

At least in terms of the missing face bug.

D:

missing face bug?

hmmmmm i remember seeing that in blackflag

heh

3:45 PM

@djsmiley2k no no, that would be :

yup :D

@Lazers Oh crap, I agree with @frank on something

Now my computer is on fire.

@Sterno nope, thats just because your eyes are on fire...

@Sterno it's okay, it happens. Do you need a hug?

@djsmiley2k How can your eyes be on fire if your mirrors aren't real? Or something?

3:47 PM

Trying to figure out how to make my hat as obnoxious as possible

stupid caching

@Yuuki THERE'S A FACE BUG MISSING? WE SHOULD FIND IT.

@OrigamiRobot WHY? SO YOU CAN PUT IT ON YOUR FACE?

oh god

love feels like mushroom if you shoot a duck i'm afraid of toasters

5

IT'S IN A MUSIC VIDEO D:

@JasonBerkan I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT GRAVY AND CHEESE ARE GOOD TOGETHER.

@OrigamiRobot From what I know about you, you would not like it at all.

3:51 PM

@Sterno Get red shirt or fascinating, and then you can make it worse.(look at my profile for annoying setup)

FRIES WITH GRAVY ARE GOOD. FRIES WITH CHEESE ARE GOOD.

i DON'T THINK BOTH WOULD BE GOOD.

Last year it could actually screw up chat layout.

I MEAN, I WOULD TRY IT IF IT WAS IN FRONT OF ME, BUT I WOULDN'T HAVE HIGH HOPES.

Yup, made it even worse. I'm curious how much it's going to cause overlay readability issues here in chat.

You can't see my rep in my profile because of hat.

Oh hey, it's that @mana guy who left us because he hates us.

3:56 PM

I think you're seeing things, turtle.

bah, noissues in chat, they accounted for it.

Minecraft Story Mode announced

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@badp Upon refreshing it appears I am.

SaintWacko

14 mins ago, by Batophobia

15 mins ago, by Jason Berkan

https://mojang.com/2014/12/play-info-quest-ii-you-might-learn-something/

Clearly I've just gone insane.

3:57 PM

@fredley IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NI--- YOU ASPLODED. THE END

Yeah I don't see how it's going to be in any way related to minecraft

SaintWacko

@badp You step out of your house on a bright and sunny morning. A creeper falls on your head. The end

@KevinvanderVelden Lots of questions with crash logs for it

@fredley Cash grab, ho!

@KevinvanderVelden I'll have the name plastered on it.

3:58 PM

Minecraft has literally no story.

@ElfSlice Have you read the page yet?

@Arperum pretty much

@fredley Yes.

It's still dumb.

Oh well, we'll always have modded minecraft

I think it's awesome, has big potential

3:59 PM

I want Story Mode for The Bridge.

@Sterno telltale wont even touch that

@Sterno Only if @spugsley writes it

@fredley This is significantly less interesting than what I was expecting.

@Sterno quicktime event! Press ^

4:00 PM

@StrixVaria What were you expecting?

If it's a Telltale games I can play with my kids, I'll be happy.

@fredley An update to core Minecraft with some kind of actual direction/progression.

@StrixVaria I don't think that fits the game though

@Sterno Yep. Burn down the world.

@StrixVaria minecraft shouldnt have that

4:02 PM

@fredley It's a sandbox moreso than a game.

@StrixVaria And plenty of mapmakers do exactly this if that's what you want

@StrixVaria Well quite

I have always hoped they would add game elements to minecraft, since I first played it.

I've never bothered with custom maps or mods.

@StrixVaria nope, gotta have salmons

@StrixVaria Try playing some adventure maps, sounds like exactly what you want

A lot of the updates recently have been focussed around making map makers' efforts easier and more powerful

@fredley I will remember this if I ever bother with Minecraft again.

4:03 PM

@StrixVaria ok

I haven't played MC for years

:(

I imagine in about 4 years I will get back into Minecraft. Whenever my daughter is old enough to begin exploring it.

@fredley Too busy playing incrementals?

@fredley me three. What I think about the way MC development has gone is no secret.

Minecraft is teaching kids way more about logic systems and basic programming to the point where I'm kind of jealous.

playing the minecraft incremental

4:05 PM

@Rapitor CAN'T TELL IF SERIOUS

Today class, we're going to learn about using redstone to make an OR and XOR gate and OH GOD RUN CLASS CREEPER!

@fredley Adventure maps don't let you build stuff, do they?

@MadMAxJr "dude do you know what happens when you plug a block of dirt into a wall and jam a lightbulb on the other hand?"

i'd like to play MC again, but i'm so lost on what even is vanilla now. let alone the mods. and taking the time to learn it all was not fun for me.

"THE LIGHTBULB GOES OFF DUUUUDE"

4:06 PM

@Sconibulus Can do

I still kinda wish you could refine redstone into actual cables instead of strings of conductive dust being laid everywhere.

@MadMAxJr redpower :D

@Sconibulus Vechs Super hostile series let's you do whatever you want. but is pretty super difficult in general.

I liked that I could burrow into a mountainside, spend a few days going in and out setting up, and then have a fully functional self-sufficient underground base

@Rapitor redpower isn't updated for quite some time :(

4:07 PM

@Arperum it's under a new name IIRC

There are loads of other mods that have cables that can transmit redstone signals though.

I turned into a dwarf half the time I played. "This... This natural cave is asymetric.."

I didn't like that there wasn't much to do other than that without big scary boss fights

Then I'd cut, carve, and pave every natural tunnel into nice, clean, square tunnels.

that take forever to actually get to

4:08 PM

Also I'd make them stair accessible. OSHA and all.

@MadMAxJr In the world I was the most invested in I turned a cave in my base. It had five floors and everything, and instead of costing me resources I made them.

The cave went all the way to bedrock, too.

@Sconibulus With mods you can make this quite a bit larger, ask @KevinvanderVelden for crazy things he does.

It was a pretty fun time.

It's nice to see that the game developers really made this stuff a lot more fun in the years, instead of focusing on mod-level bullshit like cats, bunnies or salmons.

I mean, anybody can put fireworks into Minecraft, but only people really invested in the game can improve the world building algos even further.

sage nod

4:10 PM

Other pointles MC projects I had was to find cacti in remote biomes, and then start putting cacti near other players builds just for the ??? factor

I think I had wheat, trees, zombie spawner, and sugarcane... gave me food and enchanted weapons fairly reliably

@MadMAxJr I did that with single fence posts

Then I built the cacti battle arena. Monsters go in. Meat leaves.

We actually have absence planning meetings at my workplace. This, I approve of.

omfg

4:24 PM

@ElfSlice is that really kids react to can your pet

SaintWacko

I had a very redstone heavy base once. It had a self-repairing house, a lighthouse with a secret staircase in the floor, and a base in a cliff across the water that was completely invisible, until you threw a lever and part of the cliff moved out of the way, and a bridge rose out of the water

@Rapitor yes

that's awesome and cruel at the same time

Q: Recover launch stages in KSP

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How can I recover the pre-orbital stages of a spaceship in Kerbal Space Program? I'm trying to reduce my per-launch costs in the beginning of career mode. I tried building my spaceship with radial stages each topped with a stayputnik and a pair of radial parachutes. I set the parachutes to deplo...

kerbal-space-program

4:42 PM

....

That's why you don't let dentists cut your hair.

@Sterno Please don't you become a reddit bot too

@fredley @Sterno can be whatever he wants to be.

Q: I don't want Minecraft any more

-2

I don't want Minecraft anymore but I don't know how to delete it. I tried to Google it, but it didn't help at all.

minecraft

@Lazers lol

@Wipqozn like the mod of lifehacks

4:47 PM

@Rapitor If @Sterno become the mod of lifehacks I think the popcorn would never stop.

The Chippening of Isaac

Q: How do you uninstall Minecraft?

So this is interesting

If you google 'uninstall minecraft pc', the top result is taken from arqade and oneboxed

However the answer that is oneboxed is not the top one

So Google clearly has its own metrics for ranking SE answers

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When I open the game, the screen stays at the Mojang sign and then crashes. It has something to do with my texture pack, but I can't start the game to change it and it won't let me delete the texture pack folder alone. I've already deleted the bin and resources folders in the minecraft folder an...

minecraft

probably because the top voted answer is a wall of text while the other is concise

Yeah. Interesting though. Maybe their oneboxing selects the first upvoted concise answer

or maybe the first concise answer

gaming.stackexchange.com/q/196959/43683 I am imagining a TAS person answering this in several months after having conducted painstaking frame-by-frame experiments on all available pitch types and locations

oh... right... oneboxing doesn't work if you type after it

4:56 PM

@Sconibulus just find a TAS now, save the trouble

ROUND 3: EXAMS: 1, @UNI: 2

@Unionhawk Does that mean 2 down 1 to go, or that you think you did poorly on your last exam?

That means this last one probably defeated me

Holy hell

that sucks

I don't think it defeated me badly though

4:58 PM

I love Tom Scott's "This is a bad idea" videos for Computerphile

Exams are the worst. It's been proven and everything! Proven... with science!

@MBraedley I love everything Tom Scott does

@Unionhawk wHICH ONE?

Actually though. Harvard has stopped doing large exams one or twice a semester, since they realized it was a terrible idea, and now do several smaller tests throughout the year. It's shown to be a lot more effective and teaching than year end exams, and also shown to be less stressful.