The Bridge

1:00 PM

@Unionhawk That's what I said

It's still a terrible idea

The choice shouldn't be between pausing the game during battle and running around with no weapon

@BlueBarren it seems to only show that if your profile is linked to nintendo account... I wonder if it tracks it retroactively or only from the moment it got linked

Avery

@Unionhawk foxit

foxout

gt foxout

BlueBarren

@Chippies no clue, first thing I did with my Switch was connect everything

Chippies

mine says "70 hours or more", but I played it for a while before linking so idk

BlueBarren

it also doesn't start tracking until after 10 hours or something

Chippies

1:03 PM

@DanmakuGrazer it only takes 2 seconds at most to switch a weapon with the quick select

BlueBarren

I forget the actual number

but at first a game will appear as "first played x days ago"

Chippies

@BlueBarren makes sense considering it says "70 hours or more"

BlueBarren

until you meet some criteria and it starts tracking

Chippies

it only tracks in like 10 hour increments, I guess

BlueBarren

no it tracks in hour increments

DanmakuGrazer

1:04 PM

@Chippies That sounds terrible

BlueBarren

I have 170something

Chippies

@DanmakuGrazer have you actually played the game or are you just saying it's terrible without actually having experienced it?

DanmakuGrazer

I said "sounds"

I have no interest in playing it

Chippies

yeah, well, it's not as terrible as it sounds

and honestly, I can't imagine a better alternative with how limited controllers are

DanmakuGrazer

How about weapons that don't break...?

Chippies

1:06 PM

on a PC you could have dedicated keys for switching weapons on the fly, but a console doesn't have 100+ buttons

@DanmakuGrazer so, your whole argument about switching weapons being shit is because the weapons break..?

I thought you actually had an issue with the weapon switching system

DanmakuGrazer

I never said that

I said one of the reasons why breakable weapons are bad is the pause they bring to battles

FFS I can't type

BlueBarren

even if you don't pause the game to switch weapons (which I agree is jarring mid combat) you'd be running like a chicken with your head cut off until someone drops a weapon

Chippies

considering how open the game is, unbreakable weapons would make the game extremely easy once you know what you're doing

and even if you don't, it's extremely easy to get very strong weapons in early game by accident

BlueBarren

but it's not like breakable weapons make the game hard

DanmakuGrazer

I don't think breakable weapons is an excuse for poor balance

BlueBarren

1:09 PM

it just makes it annoying or tedious

I don't want to go through 5 weapons while fighting a lynel I just want to fight a lynel

two n's or one?

lynel or lynnel?

Private Pansy

My internship company's HR department assigned me an email address using my surname and the first word of my given name

DanmakuGrazer

Did it come out as something inappropriate?

BlueBarren

"first word of your given name"?

Private Pansy

No, but it's hilarious. And annoying.

BlueBarren

what does that mean?

my given name is just one "word"

Private Pansy

1:12 PM

I'm Chinese, so my surname is one word, but I prefer my given name to be spelt as two words, since it has two characters

BlueBarren

oooooooooooooo

that makes sense

Private Pansy

It's also spelt with surname first

BlueBarren

most people from China I know end up picking an "english" name

Avery

Reddit is instagram now

BlueBarren

(I know 4 people in this kind of situation)

Private Pansy

1:13 PM

Unfortunately most computer systems assume Western ordering and take the first word to be the given name and the second word to be the middle name

So they spell my name with the first and last word

This case is even more unique

BlueBarren

actually one of those people I know has the same word twice as their given name

so I wonder if they'd care

although they use their english name so idk if it's relevant for them

Avery

Even though we use western forms I do get added as Arda, Ozkal at times which is wrong

Private Pansy

@BlueBarren Well, it has the same English spelling, but probably has different tones in Chinese

Avery

it's annoying

BlueBarren

@Avery what's it supposed to be?

Unionhawk

1:15 PM

@Avery that doesn't even make sense lol

BlueBarren

@PrivatePansy fair point, she hasn't mentioned anything of the sort to us though and she says she's fine with w/e so I guess more of a "as long as I know you're talking to me" sort of thing

Kevin van der Velden

Damnit I now want to make this: youtube.com/watch?v=ubjuWqUE9wQ

Avery

@BlueBarren legal systems are surname, name

Kevin van der Velden

CC @Avery, you'd find this interesting as well I think =p

BlueBarren

@Avery ah okay so for a legal system it should be the other way around, right? Ozkal, Arda?

Avery

1:18 PM

Yes

BlueBarren

At work we go surname, given name

I don't pay enough attention to legal documents but I'll assume it's the same

Avery

but half the time it's in reverse order and issues arise

BlueBarren

Sounds like a typical organization

of any kind

Avery

like not matching my name on ID on hospitals and not being able to get meds or needing to dig into random stuff on MERNIS

^mernis is turkish citizenship db

@KevinvanderVelden ooh, added to watch later

BlueBarren

is their a risk that there will be someone with your name but in the opposite order?

because that'll cause issues

Avery

1:21 PM

In the end if it didn't cause issues I wouldn't mind as Arda is deadname and Ozkal is the name of a misogynistic bloodline

BlueBarren

"deadname"?

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden WHat is "this"? You linked a defcon talk.

Kevin van der Velden

The thing the talk is about, basically raspi thing that listens to open wifi noise and gathers data

I don't know why I want to make it just that it's an interesting challenge

Arperum

AH, that part.

Avery

@BlueBarren i don't use that name out of legal and educational contexts

BlueBarren

1:26 PM

ah okay, wasn't familiar with the term

Avery

It's specific lingo. I use it rather often.

basically that I want that name out of my life, I prefer my female name

DanmakuGrazer

And that's Avery?

Avery

Yes.

Or aliaga if you want to go full dnd-ey and refer me to a name no one can pronounce properly.

@KevinvanderVelden hmm, that sounds totally of a doctorow book, heh

BlueBarren

@Avery is it pronounced "al-ee-ga"?

Avery

(Also tfw you realize walkaway was released and you still didn't read it)

@BlueBarren nope.

BlueBarren

1:35 PM

@Avery crap

"al-ee-ja"?

Avery

i read it as a-lie-ja

BlueBarren

oh so like Elijah

GnomeSlice

Hue

BlueBarren

not the exact same but similiar

Avery

Yup

MBraedley

1:40 PM

@Avery I would pronounce that al-lee-ah-gah. Just saying.

BlueBarren

@MBraedley that "ah" is throwing me off

Avery

@MBraedley that's how half of people in bridge d&d pronounces it as

BlueBarren

then again I can't read

Ronan

@Avery It's not our fault you never pronounce it.

Avery

@Ronan true, I like listening to how people read it as. I prefer your pronounciation however tbh.

Ronan

1:44 PM

Which one? I also pronounce it a-lie-ga.

@GnomeSlice ~~Hue~~

@Ronan that

Noted.

1:59 PM

Sometimes I'm a little savage to myself

Avery

2:16 PM

SO Podcast told me to visit this. Am not disappointed.

also justice

also cake day woooo

Private Pansy

Nzall

@Avery That site has some of the worst CSS I've seen in recent times

Private Pansy

@Nzall You mean best

Nzall

@PrivatePansy I'm talking about the Independent

DanmakuGrazer

@PrivatePansy Abandon the fortress to ruin

Kevin van der Velden

2:23 PM

@Avery the scroll sound

Private Pansy

@Nzall Ah. Yes. That I agree.

Avery

@KevinvanderVelden yes

Nzall

I mean, they're literally making 1/3 of their page useless for those that just want to read the article

Private Pansy

@Nzall I didn't even notice there was an article

Avery

^ good css

Private Pansy

2:25 PM

Right, it's 10.30pm. I have an exam tomorrow at 9am. Time to cram the four hours of lectures I missed.

HazyKingdom

Sounds like a typical college night. Enjoy!

Private Pansy

Thankfully the video player has a 1.5x speedup button

Did I mention that our project for this module was one of the top three, and we won a kilogram of chocolate

badp

how long before the chocolate melted away in typical Singaporean weather

Private Pansy

It's currently sitting in the fridge

This is the project: zhangyijiang.github.io/puppies-and-chocolate

3

Yuuki

@Dragonrage So on the thread for MSI Round 2, the top comment for the TSM v. Gigabyte Marines match-up:

> Vietnam War Pt. 2

Avery

2:31 PM

@PrivatePansy oooh

Private Pansy

Red tortoise cake

Red tortoise cake (Chinese: 紅龜粿; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Âng-ku-kóe) is a small round or oval shaped Chinese pastry with soft sticky glutinous rice flour skin wrapped around a sweet filling in the centre. It is molded to resemble a tortoise shell and is presented resting on a square piece of banana leaf. As suggested by its name, red tortoise cakes are traditionally red in color and has a sticky chewy texture when eaten. Red tortoise cakes are shaped like tortoise shells because the Chinese traditionally believed that eating tortoises would bring longevity to those who are eating it and bring about good fortune...

fredley

This tortoise has a lot of bites

> “No wonder! It tasted amazing! Very interesting recipe you got there.”

Private Pansy

The other shortlisted projects are here: blog.nus.edu.sg/philosophychallenge

I'm particularly fond of the one titled Ernest Teh Reads Mind-Blowing Facts About the Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Cosmological Argument

Nzall

> When a puppy has reached the ripe age for harvesting, I will deal a traumatizing blow to the puppy’s head to kill it.

Holy fuck, that's dark

And I thought drowning kittens in water that's vibrant with Justin Bieber music to get a new theoretical particle to appear is dark

Avery

@Nzall it is

@Nzall but this also is

Private Pansy

2:42 PM

Also, I apologize in advance if I turn any of you into a vegan

Nzall

Holy fuck, I'm continuing to read

it gets even darker

Private Pansy

@Nzall Literally

Avery

@PrivatePansy I assume you did background-color: magic?

Private Pansy

@Avery Of course.

Nzall

I'm feeling a bit woozy, and I just felt for my own throat...

I think your only saving grace, @PrivatePansy, is that you didn't come up with the points in the story yourself

because otherwise you are one sick person

BlueBarren

2:47 PM

can you merge SE accounts?

Private Pansy

@Nzall No, there's five of us. I wrote the code, the rest wrote the story.

Nzall

@BlueBarren yeah, you can

BlueBarren

@Nzall oh huh

Avery

I'm not crying

BlueBarren

is there a page with more info on it?

Avery

2:47 PM

You're crying @PrivatePansy

Private Pansy

And thanks, if the story provoked an emotional reaction, then it did it's job.

Nzall

put "main account" and "alt account" in the right bios for each account, then message the mods

Avery

@BlueBarren use /contact

Private Pansy

But really, there are very strong logic backing the argument

Nzall

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Q: How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)

I accidentally posted a question without being logged in with OpenID. Is there a way to associate that question with my account? Return to FAQ Index For more information, visit "I accidentally created two accounts; how do I merge them?" in the Help Center. a.k.a. How can you link an Open...

Private Pansy

2:48 PM

It is based on this fairly famous paper - spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/readings/norcross.pdf

BlueBarren

> I accidentally created two accounts; how do I merge them?

Private Pansy

Which is also why we got a kilogram of chocolate

BlueBarren

hmm yes, by accident

Private Pansy

@BlueBarren If you do have two accounts, they must never interact

Otherwise they will collapse into one, like quantum particles

BlueBarren

well see the thing is this account isn't question banned on SO anymore

Avery

2:49 PM

aka ban

BlueBarren

but I asked 3 questions that were actually well received on the other account...

of course

Private Pansy

@Avery Not necessarily, just forcibly merged, and all interactions that involve reputation change will be nullified

Avery

maybe

Nzall

@BlueBarren if you got another account to avoid a ban, that's usually grounds for a new ban

Avery

if there are voting irregularities etc it might be a problem (esp. if excessive) or not

Private Pansy

2:51 PM

You should read the paper, by the way.

BlueBarren

@Nzall wouldn't be surprised

Private Pansy

If you're at all intrigued by our project.

The paper is if nothing even more persuasive

Avery

Give this link to the story writers

Private Pansy

When discussing the basic idea behind the project I did mention that Norcross's argument has all the elements of a horror movie

So I think I may have to share some of the blame here

Nzall

@PrivatePansy There is one major issue to that paper IMHO: the poor life conditions of meat producing animals has very limited positive effect on the quality of the meat. The only reason animals are grown in such conditions is because it makes them more productive

As in, you have a lot more control over what each animal eats and what you give to it, meaning it can produce a lot more meat

Private Pansy

2:56 PM

@Nzall Right, but that is addressed in the paper - the byproduct argument

That the suffering is not intended is not an especially persuasive counterargument. Fred could make the same claim.

Avery

@Avery I need some time to rethink my lfie

Arperum

@Nzall ANd a significantly longer one at that.

Private Pansy

I don't know why I said quantum particles earlier - I meant matter and anti-matter

Quantum collapse doesn't really work as far as the analogy goes