The Bridge

Fluttershy

3:00 PM

@fredley Is Virginia available on Mac?

fredley

bye Retrosaur

Fluttershy

I feel like you might enjoy it.

fredley

It is

Although I think Stardew Valley is going to keep me occupied for quite a while

Fluttershy

@fredley You should give it a go! I beat it in less than the two hours they give you for a refund window.

fredley

@Fluttershy hahaha

Fluttershy

3:02 PM

Not that I'm going to refund it. But it's a fun walking sim like Firewatch was.

fredley

@Fluttershy I'll add it to my list

Fluttershy

Very Twin Peaks-ish.

Unionhawk

The #TrumpWon hashtag starting location, that's interesting https://t.co/V7SFhvEurX

Tweeted by DustinGiebel on September 27, 2016 at 5:01 PM

Holy fuck

fredley

@Unionhawk I mean, everyone kind of assumed that anyway?

Nice to see the data though

Sterno

washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/27/…

> Update: A spokesperson for TrendsMap confirms that the map isn't theirs -- and that the hashtag started in the U.S., according to their data.

Don't believe all the shit you read just because you don't like Trump

fredley

3:12 PM

Oh well, go back to panicking, I guess

Tim Stone

@Sterno I'm glad someone got to the bottom of it. I believed it was possible, but was also skeptical the Russians were that stupid

fredley

This election

America pls

Wipqozn

@fredley Let's just hope American voters don't make a Brexit level mistake

Unionhawk

@TimStone Yeah pretty much

Oh teh noes @Uni was wrong

fredley

America to World, mid-to-late 20th Century: "Democracy or we'll invade you"
World to America, now: "..."

Unionhawk

3:23 PM

That's the first time that's ever happened

Tim Stone

When your campaign manager accidentally spills the beans about your abuse... er... "record on women" https://t.co/Fd38NxH2VG

Tweeted by cafedotcom on September 27, 2016 at 3:44 AM

However, ^ that did happen

fredley

weep for me

Tim Stone

Nooooooooooooooooooooo

Unionhawk

@fredley No

Ronan

You definitely deserved that meeting.

Unionhawk

3:27 PM

Yes

Wipqozn

@fredley That sounds terrible

Maybe this is payback for all his Friday trolling

Unionhawk

Definitely

Wipqozn

Oh man speaking of which, I can't wait for this friday

fredley

karma y u do dis

Yuuki

Whoo, phone interview turned into a coding exercise on Friday!

:D

two bugs

3:30 PM

@Yuuki Yay! Nice job

Private Pansy

This is... weird. Apparently PayPal Singapore isn't allowed to take payments for overseas charity organization

And yes, it's specific to PayPal Singapore, and to charities that aren't Singaporean only

two bugs

The Trump campaign desperately doing the "this is fine.jpg" routine pleases me

Unionhawk

@Sterno I guess I mostly wanted to believe that there weren't actually 95 thousand people who actually believed that trump won the debate. But, you know. I guess there were. (ish, subtracting people who tweeted multiple times, subtracting "Buy this product #allthetrends")

Minus people with 30 twitter accounts, probably

fredley

Minus anybody who can't actually vote

two bugs

Many of the people I know who back Trump are not American, surprisingly

Yuuki

3:36 PM

Maybe because I'm accustomed to professional League, but seeing so many not-Asians on competitive Overwatch teams is a bit jarring for me.

Unionhawk

And I'm not saying that on a "I hate trump" level, I'm saying that on a "Trump's debate performance was subpar at best" level

two bugs

@Unionhawk Everyone seems to agree with this. I mean Trump himself is making whacky excuses

You're doing it wrong.

two bugs

People are saying Trump should have brought up Benghazi and my response is why?

badp

3:39 PM

so has Trump won yet

two bugs

Clinton did literally nothing wrong.

Sterno

GodEmperorDune

@Sterno nah i like the audio

two bugs

Don't take my word for it, take the word of the 3 congressional committees formed specifically to implicate her

fredley

@twobugs Yeah she did, she accused Trump of all sorts of awful things

@twobugs WHAT ABOUT THE SWISS FILE TRANSFER

GodEmperorDune

3:40 PM

@twobugs or you could watch the john oliver thing about it

two bugs

@fredley Talking wrt Benghazi

GodEmperorDune

@fredley hue

Tim Stone

@twobugs Because facts don't matter you silly!

fredley

I should read up what this Benghazi thing is at some point

Tim Stone

We should just be angry that a bad thing happened

fredley

3:40 PM

^^ Most of the American electorate, probably

Tim Stone

ANGRY

two bugs

@fredley A thing happened but it wasn't Clinton's fault

She was basically uninvolved

fredley

@twobugs Yeah I know that much

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs according to my boss, she handled the public notification of it poorly

two bugs

Because, you know, state department not controlling the military

GodEmperorDune

3:42 PM

and didn't use the right words when talking about it afterwards

Sterno

@twobugs I didn't think an ambassador was military. I'm not arguing with your main point that "it wasn't her fault", but I"m not sure your reasoning there makes any sense

two bugs

@Sterno The argument is usually she let people die and had the military stand down

Which is blatantly ridiculous

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs people watch too many movies, where the good guys can parajump anywhere in the world in 30 seconds

Sterno

The more reasonable complaints I've seen (directed at her) weren't about the military but about the perception that the she and the administration misled the public about the reason behind the attack

fredley

For someone with a political career as long and as highly-powered as hers has been, she's fucked up amazingly little.

I mean, really astoundingly little.

Sterno

3:45 PM

factcheck.org/2016/06/the-benghazi-timeline-clinton-edition

two bugs

@Sterno That's different and likely valid

However, that's not worthy of 3 congressional committees

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs you'd be surprised

clinton could have farted and made a funny face and it would trigger a congressional investigation

two bugs

That's my point

It was politically motivated

Private Pansy

@RedRiderX Just what the heck happened on Day CENSORED?

Lazers 2.0

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Sepia Lazers

4:10 PM

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GnomeSlice

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice because people are candy?

badp

donate.openstreetmap.org

GnomeSlice

@GodEmperorDune Did you read it?

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice its hard to read sideways

GnomeSlice

4:22 PM

Just realized it came out sideways

GodEmperorDune

ah, got it

yeah he didn't say "if there are poisoned skittles in this bowl, make sure you don't grab them"

GnomeSlice

the point being that it's hard to tell

GodEmperorDune

he said " if there were poisoned skittles in the bowl, would you take a handful" implying that the safe course of action is not to take ANY skittles

GnomeSlice

he was illustrating the problem

now we just have to come up with a solution

GodEmperorDune

i can't speak for canada, but the US does crazy amounts of background checks before letting refuggees in

and they added more on top of that to people coming from syria

can any process ever be 100% sure that it won't miss something? no

badp

4:26 PM

if you're worried about skittles worry about domestic skittles. if I were you I'd exile any youngish male kinda person. A few of them are rotten and we cannot afford the risk.

two bugs

The skittles analogy was very poor and not indicative of the real problem

GodEmperorDune

but we can put reasonable protections in place and then let people in after following those

GnomeSlice

@twobugs which is?

badp

I say, if you're aged 18 to 36? Get out of here, terrorist

GodEmperorDune

the bigger thing is that if a nefarious person wanted to sneak into the US, posing as a refugee is among the slowest ways to do so

Lazers 2.0

4:27 PM

2

Q: Is Blizzard's Battle.net desktop app mandatory?

http://battle.net/app/ Does Battle.net desktop app have to be installed to play Blizzard games or is the program optional such as the GOG Galaxy client?

battle.net

1

Q: Do low level items start to become incredibly rare at high levels in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?

I'm collecting items in Skyrim, and I need to know if low level items, such as minorly enchanted weapons/armor (Blessed Iron Dagger, Steel Battleaxe of Dismay) or base unenchanted items (Iron Sword, Leather Armor), will start to become very rare if not dissapear at higher levels.

skyrim

GnomeSlice

@GodEmperorDune and easiest

SaintWacko

@badp If you're younger than that, Get off my lawn!

two bugs

@GnomeSlice That there are disaffected people who the system fails

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice you'd have to fool years of background checks

badp

1. go to Mexico
2. take a bus or something

GodEmperorDune

4:28 PM

and also wait years to come in

two bugs

There are numerous home grown terrorists

GodEmperorDune

plus apply theough the UN so you don't know which country you'll end up in

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice It's very doubtful that it's the easiest.

Trent Hawkins

@GnomeSlice "Facts back him up if we cherrypick a single example"

badp

I hear there are a lot of bad, very bad, no-good, awful awful people in Mexico, and maybe some are okay, but most have rotten

Yuuki

4:28 PM

Who, other than Trump, says it's the easiest method of getting in?

badp

they will help you in!

two bugs

Trump Jr's point is poor and is hinging on white nationalism

GodEmperorDune

much easier would be to come in on a tourist temp visa

badp

or that.

GnomeSlice

arda

4:29 PM

someone is playing allahu trapbar on mic wtf

GnomeSlice

back to work

GodEmperorDune

@arda lelelel

two bugs

@GnomeSlice No, his image was that he ignore them

GodEmperorDune

also 36 terrorists out of how many hundreds of thousands of refugees?

two bugs

Because a few are bad apples

badp

4:30 PM

as it turns out if you need to bomb a place being in the country for some four hours is enough

GnomeSlice

Read the rest of it

two bugs

It's a farcical point

@GnomeSlice Faulty premisr

GnomeSlice

oh okay

silly me

two bugs

Yes actually

GnomeSlice

right

two bugs

4:31 PM

You are aligning with alt right people

Facts are not their friends

GnomeSlice

p sure trunp jr is not alt right

he's not a white supremacist

badp

I don't know why you are using the gerund there. I thought @GnomeSlice was long gone

GnomeSlice

or a neo nazi

or any of that

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice he may not be, but he sure likes to drop white supremacist rhetoric and advocate policies that get him glowing endorsements from white supremacist groups

two bugs

@GnomeSlice He openly associates and endorses their positions

GodEmperorDune

4:33 PM

and retweet them

two bugs

For example, the horrible skittles analogy

Back to work tho

Kevin van der Velden

You mean the analogy made by the nazi hanged at nuremberg?

Private Pansy

Ellen and First Lady Michelle Obama Go to CVS

►

badp

@PrivatePansy pls

Arperum

@GnomeSlice how is applying for refugee stuff easier than just getting your hands on a holiday visa and disappearing while in the US? Also: most terrorists do terror acts in their home country. So you are not stopping anyone.

Kevin van der Velden

4:43 PM

@GnomeSlice hahahahahahahaha

No.

Arperum

Blocking all refugees is like nuking a city because their is at least one pickpocket that lives in it.

Yuuki

Well, that may be a bit hyperbole because while refugees are serious business, nukes are possibly moreso.

badp

that's why we call them tactical nukes

Chippies

pretty sure getting a holiday visa for couple of days is quite easy, whereas getting a refugee status is a long and complicated process

Arperum

@Yuuki maybe murderer was a better choice for crime example, but no, blocking all refugees will result longterm in more terrorism, because you leave them no choice.

GodEmperorDune

4:46 PM

@PrivatePansy can confirm, that is exactly how cvs works

Arperum

So that's the fallout/radiation part.

Private Pansy

@GodEmperorDune Cotton, Vaseline and Stuff, woo

Unionhawk

@Chippies yes

GnomeSlice

So you guys don't think it's reasonable for citizens to be scared of their handful of Skittles

given global events

Trent Hawkins

@GnomeSlice No, because overall we're not talking 3-4 in a small bowl of skittles. it's more like 3-4 in a mansion-sized bowl of skittles.

djsmiley2k

4:58 PM

lets live in fear yeeey

so in the us how many shhot and kills by americans alone?>

Trent Hawkins

Frankly, you're more likely to get killed by the dozens gun-toting M&M in a bowl of M&Ms (regular citizens) in the US than a refugee.

djsmiley2k

^^

or appently the police

according to activists

Trent Hawkins

@djsmiley2k Only if you yourself are a brown M&M... :/

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What is the best starter for going Air in mid game zerg?

Although I've almost reached Diamond league I need to know so I can get a win without depending on the retard magnet strategy!! If there is a need for an even faster expansion to vespene or to both vespene and minerals.

starcraft-zerg

2

Q: Does Kittens Game have an end?

I play Kittens Game a lot recently, mostly side-by-side to Arqade or other SE sites. I got far; I am at year 400 (background tab farming) and got tons of titan, unobatium (or something like that it was called) and whatnot. I wondered if there is an end in Kittens game, or the game just keeps goin...

kittens-game

Private Pansy

@TrentHawkins washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/19/…

2

1.5 Olympic size swimming pool

Trent Hawkins

5:02 PM

@PrivatePansy still orders of magnitude larger than 'a bowl'.

Private Pansy

Several orders of magnitude. It is the total number of Skittles manufactured in the US for 5 months plus

badp

@GnomeSlice feel free to be scared. Politicians are supposed to know better.

People who run multi-billion companies are supposed to know better.

Trent Hawkins

@GnomeSlice And, as has been pointed out - if you start rejecting vast swaths of refugees off-hand on the possibility that a comparatively minute number of them might be terrorists... You start breeding resentment among those peoples, which will ultimately foster more terroristic leanings. Giving into our fear NOW will make "global events" worse later.

badp

IOW any time you "increase security" as a result of terrorism, terrorism wins

Terrorists win for every additional inch of red tape

Yuuki

Tangentially speaking, for someone who is so purported to be "good at business", Trump has a shocking lack of understanding of what a blind trust fund is.

badp

5:08 PM

Terrorists win for every additional second spent in line at the airport security checks

Every single moment you spend thinking about terrorists is a terrorist victory

Every trip you don't make

Every person you don't greet

Yuuki

Every move you make, every breath you take?

arda

that's deep

Yuuki

@arda No, it's Sting.

badp

France, Belgium and Germany total 157 million people

The total toll is less than one person per million

and that's not counting all other western nations that didn't experience attacks

StrixVaria

@badp The long term solution is to work with the parts of the world producing terrorists to hopefully help them stop producing terrorists, but what is the short-term solution? Just accept that this is going to happen and hope for the best?

(Nevermind that the long-term solution is not guaranteed to ever pan out in any way.)

SaintWacko

5:14 PM

Bah

badp

@StrixVaria People smarter than me think ISIS is getting violent away from home because they're losing at home

SaintWacko

I was really interesting in this Sgnl Smart Strap, but you can't actually take it in the water, so it's useless to me

badp

IOW, we're on the right path

SaintWacko

Ah, well

StrixVaria

@badp That sounds plausible.

I'm not saying we'll come up with a solution here, and I'm not particularly invested in either side of the argument; I was honestly just curious.

Yuuki

5:16 PM

@badp Well, they did just lose access to all of their Iraqi oilfields.

badp

I mean, it totally sucks for the hundred-odd families that were affected, don't get me wrong. Millions more lives are lost to cancer or heart conditions

djsmiley2k

@StrixVaria something seems to have worked in ireland?

Yuuki

@djsmiley2k I dunno, Brexit just happened.

cc @fredley

djsmiley2k

errrrrrr

Frank

Whew. Data battles are insane.

Trent Hawkins

5:17 PM

@Frank Well, yeah - Data is an android.

Frank

@TrentHawkins And thereby should be very logical.

djsmiley2k

i can see where this is going

Tim Stone

@badp Meanwhile a Russian missile killed 298 people on MH17, and the people so scared of these terrorists don't seem to have any problem with a candidate courting the autocrat whose army was responsible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

djsmiley2k

do you want to play a game?

badp

@TimStone Nothing that can't be rationalized away with some good old victim blaming

Trent Hawkins

5:20 PM

@djsmiley2k Yes, but when playing against a wookie, it's best to let him win.

Yuuki

@TimStone Hmm... how many Americans died on MH17?

Tim Stone

None, 1 Canadian

Yuuki

@TimStone According to this, one 19-year old.

Tim Stone

The bulk of the people on board were Dutch, 193

badp

IF YOU DID NOT WANT TO BE SHOT DOWN IN AN AIRPLANE BY RUSSIA MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE FLOWN SO CLOSE TO THEIR BORDER

Lazers 2.0

5:25 PM

-2

Q: 1.7.10 Wood & Sticks Glitch

I don't know if it's my minecraft or any of my mods installed, but when i take any type of wood and craft it, it will come out as sticks. I don't know if this is any of my mods so I'll list them: Aroma1997Core, DCModularLoader, FloatableRails, MicDoodle8Core, Player API, SmartCore, SomniaCore, Sa...

minecraft minecraft-mods

Yuuki

@TimStone It really disturbed me that he seemed to go out of his way to defend Putin at times.

badp

The Dutch police is looking for witnesses (in English, but the calls are in Russian or something)

Kevin van der Velden

@TimStone :(

Tim Stone

:(

Wipqozn

Advertising Standards launches investigation into No Man's Sky

5

Yuuki

5:27 PM

@Wipqozn I don't know why I was thinking "Star Citizen" when I started reading that.

Wipqozn

@Yuuki Probably beecause Star Citizen is going to flop too

Assuming it ever releases

Yuuki

The problem is this whole "grow the game to fit the budget" thing that they seem to be doing.

Tim Stone

Yeah, not sure how that would work there since the original advertising was much less uh...optimistic

No Man's Sky went kind of the other direction

Yuuki

No, finish the original scope you set out with. Release it and slot the extra budget for extra stuff later.

djsmiley2k

u mean dont kickstarter it?

Kevin van der Velden

5:30 PM

No, but instead of adding stretch goals that add things to the game. Add stretch goals for dlc

Which you release after shipping the first thing

djsmiley2k

hehe

Yuuki

Star Citizen is perhaps the first time I've actually supported releasing DLC instead of packing content with the main game.

And depending on whether CA decides to add more stuff to his 1.1 update, Stardew Valley might be the next.

Kevin van der Velden

And if you're afraid of DLC, call it an expansion pack. Anyone remember those? Those were cool

djsmiley2k

yup

Yuuki

cc @Unionhawk @TimStone

Tim Stone

5:38 PM

Normally I would be starving but I have a meeting in an hour and a half I'm super anxious about so HAHAH, PLOT FOILED goes to sit in a corner and cry

Chippies

5:51 PM

@KevinvanderVelden they wanted to get everything implemented before launch to avoid having to rebuild core parts of the game/engine after the launch

that interview article @Sterno posted was a long one, but an interesting read, even if I never really cared that much for Star Citizen

Tim Stone

Hmm, Gears of War 4 prologue watches

Lazers 2.0

-2

Q: Ok guys i want to know if there are any good ideas or places to set up a base in fallout 3

I have a base set up at the National Guard Armory but it is really kind of in bad shape. I have moved weapons and ammo there i also have these ghouls that guard the place inside i guess it some glitch but i gave them combat armor and guns but i just wanted to know if there are any other places th...

fallout-3

0

Q: Suggested 3ds accessories from Japan

I will be in Japan next month, I am interested in unusual accessories for new 3ds xl. Maybe strange grips, cases, hardened screen protectors, paint jobs on the console and such. Of course stuff that I cannot find easily in Europe. I will stay mainly in Kyoto and Tokyo. Do you know somethin...

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Tim Stone

6:06 PM

@TimStone Heh, you play as non-identifiable characters in several flashback battles and die at the end of each one. Very encouraging, very Gears

Frank

All data battles down!

cc @Ktash

With that, I have the gold crown, and I've finished everything KH 2 has to offer.

Except for trophies

As @TrentHawkins just pointed out.

Wipqozn

6:28 PM

I haven't had nachos in so long

Like super loaded nachos

I did put some cheese on nacos with dip the other day, but that was it

Man, @Yuuki, if I get nachos tonight and then die, it's your fault

Unionhawk

Raaaaaaaaain

Why raaaaaaaaain

Wipqozn

I wonder if I can ban users via mobile chat.

arda

@Wipqozn try it on @WipqoznsSocks

Wipqozn

Yup, I can. That'll teach @Yuuki yo taunt me with nachos.

Unionhawk

Did you just ban @Yuuki

Yuuki

6:35 PM

So what you're saying is... use rice bowls instead?

Unionhawk

HE ALIVE

arda

@Unionhawk I checked the moment he posted that. He never banned yuuki

@Yuuki I just ate AND have cookies right here but damn, that pic makes me hungry

dammit yuuki

Tim Stone

lol, now a series of Samsung washing machines are "exploding"

That is not a feature Samsung

MBraedley

@Yuuki Thai food? I prefer a scrambled egg for a dish like that.

Yuuki

@MBraedley Those kind of egg rice bowls are popular in Korea as well.

MBraedley

6:48 PM

@Yuuki TIL. I still would rather scrambled egg.

Wipqozn

6:59 PM

@Unionhawk I was tempted, but only because I thought it would be funny

Unionhawk

It would have been

You have a point

Wipqozn

I could have made it look like a misclick and everything.

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn urmom is a misclick

cc @Wipqozn @fredley @twobugs on that accidental burn

Kevin van der Velden

@TimStone maybe they're branching out into military supplies

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone no, it's a setting on the dial and everything

delicate, normal, heavy soiled, towels, and exploding

Arperum

7:07 PM

@Wipqozn That would start making it a habit of misclick banning

Lazers 2.0

-2

Q: Good looking skyblock base

I'm playing skyblock with some of my friends and I want to make my part of the island look better. I'm good with redstone and I will sure impliment some of that. though how to make it look better than just bunch of cobble bricks? I am good with resources I have a lot of every ore (we are using a ...

minecraft

MBraedley

7:20 PM

> We wish to inform you that all of the necessary actions in connection with your Canada Post Customer Service ticket have been completed and the ticket has been closed.

Okay, what was the outcome of my service ticket?

That would be something nice to know

Wipqozn

@MBraedley They'll mail you the details of your resolution in the mail.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn All the more ironic since my ticket was to change which community mailbox my mail is delivered to.

Unionhawk

7:35 PM

@MBraedley do you prefer scrambled eggs in general?

MBraedley

@Unionhawk Not always.

Unionhawk