The Bridge - 2012-12-06 (page 2 of 9)

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2:02 AM

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My rescue ship, now with infinitely more parachutes attached to the capsule!

@MBraedley Why don't you just use one of the hitchhiker storage containers instead of another capsule?

@MBraedley Also, that looks pretty good... will that make it into orbit??

@GnomeSlice Cause I want to bring them back down to the ground

Yes, once I stage it correctly

@MBraedley Store them in the hitchhiker thing, then land the whole ensemble.

@MBraedley Fuck, I should just use rockets from you guys, mine all suck eggs.

It won't survive

2:05 AM

@MBraedley Parachutes.

And put it directly below the capsule.

@GnomeSlice This will be just as easy.

Easy for you to say.

I spend almost all of my time in this game building rockets, and none of them fucking work

Oops, forgot ASAS. This will be interesting...

Fucking forget this.

This isn't quite symmetrical, I made a mistake somewhere

So things didn't go exactly as planned...

2:18 AM

@MBraedley Uh oh.

@GnomeSlice Nobody's dead yet, but I am leaving the commander stranded for a little while

@MBraedley Use the jetpack, he can make it back himself.

@GnomeSlice Um, no

@MBraedley =[

@MBraedley What do you mean 'leaving the commander stranded'?

Did you leave a Kerbal behind?

@GnomeSlice I'll go back for him. Eventually

2:26 AM

@MBraedley How did he even fall out?

He'll just be alone in the capsule for several days

Oh.

Fuck, what a waste of time.

I just spent like an hour building a rocket where I couldn't use the symmetry function, and now it spins during takeoff.

Because my struts are a little off I guess.

Fucking useless.

Invader Skoodge

my face can't hit my desk hard enough

@InvaderSkoodge lol

Why the hell can't you place the spiky control fins any more.

They almost never place.

Okay. So far I'm really happy with this rocket.

2:48 AM

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@Wipqozn *you're

@fbueckert Fire Emblem Awakening dated for Feb 4th

@GnomeSlice Jeb is still in orbit, but Bill and Bob are safely back on ground.

@MBraedley I'm still trying to build a rocket that works...

I'll need to figure out a way to de-orbit the capsule though. I don't want space junk :P

2:59 AM

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Q: Does Twin Shadows seek stealthed champions?

The new Season 3 item Twin Shadows has the following active: Unique Active: Hunt - Summons 2 invulnerable ghosts for 6 seconds to seek the two nearest enemy champions. If they touch an enemy champion, they slow his movement speed by 40% and reveal him for 2.5 seconds. 120 second cooldown. I ...

league-of-legends

@MBraedley Go to it and select 'end flight' from the pause menu.

@GnomeSlice That just takes the fun out of it

Also, I'd post the first stage of my rescue ship, but I'm off to bed.

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Yay, KOTOR 2 restored content beaten.

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3:21 AM

So, I'm doing a defensive driving course online to lower my insurance premium.

There is a timer on each page which I must wait to count down before I click next.

I don't have to actually read anything. I can just wait for it to time out and hit next.

If I want audio, well, that's ten dollars extra though.

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No fuck you.

@LessPop_MoreFizz ... great system.

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@OrigamiRobot Next. Tab out, wait 30 seconds. Next.

Well, I guess they're teaching you patience?

Or to just ignore things.

One of those.

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They're teaching me that next time I need my insurance discount, I'm going to do it in person and load a good book onto my kindle.

Ugggggh. 3 minutes before I can click through this list of all of the offenses that are worth points on my liscense.

"Participating in a speed contest" = instant suspension in NYS.

I assume that means racing?

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3:35 AM

@OrigamiRobot Yeah.

Oh, I forgot the best part

at the start of this 'course', they made me call into a phone number and record a voiceprint - basically, me reading a bunch of 5 digit strings of numbers off the screen.

Now, periodically as I take the course, a popup comes up demanding that i call back and verify myself before being allowed to continue.

If there's a mismatch for any reason, I have to start over! Wheeeeee!

Please, stop. My brain is hurting.

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There are other facts that you may find interesting as they relate to your driving patterns. The daily driving issues you may experience that elevate your risk include:

Driving after drinking

That is an interesting fact that I did not know.

Driving when tired, sick, or medicated. After working hard and being up for long hours drivers get behind the wheel and often do not realize that they are impaired. The greatest number of motor vehicle crashes, property damage crashes, injury crashes, and fatalities occur between 3 pm to 6 pm during weekday rush hours.

Driving at night. By far, the most dangerous days and times to drive are Saturday and Sunday night from 9 pm to 3 am

WELL WHICH IS IT

MAKE UP YOUR MIND COURSE.

woah, random terribly animated video clip out of nowhere

I have a better online driving safety course:
1. Don't be an asshole.
2. If someone is being an asshole to you, get away from them.
3. Let people merge. See #1.
4. Seriously, stop being an ass.

See, mine tackles the root problem.

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3:51 AM

The point of defensive driving is supposed to be that since you can't count on other people to follow rules 1-4, the onus is on you to learn to drive around them.

See #2

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@LessPopMoreFizz that sounds like a really annoying course thing.

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Q: Why is Far Cry 3 Z93 sniper not visible in shop?

I started playing far cry and in the weapons shop I don't see the Z93 .50 cal sniper. Any idea why?

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4:27 AM

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4:51 AM

> Most people who drink, drink to relax or have "fun."

Thanks driving course.

Way to make it sound like I'm an alcoholic.

Drinking in excess or frequently to obtain the side effects of alcohol is classified as alcohol abuse.

The third reason for drinking is classified as "experimentation," which is typically associated with teenagers who have not yet experienced the effects of alcohol on their own system.

God forbid I drink beer because it is a beverage, the flavor of which I enjoy greatly.

It couldn't possibly be because it's tasty.

No, I have to be drinking to have "fun", or abusively, or as an "experimentation"

So according to this, what are the intended effects?

Probably the "fun"

So then what are the side effects that people are apparently drinking for?

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@OrigamiRobot The memory loss?

Or does the delicious flavor count as a side effect? Because that's why I'm drinking this Newcastle Werewolf on my desk right now.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Abuse!

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5:13 AM

Oh boy, now that the way too long alcohol section is over, it's time for Drug impaired driving!

Time for misinformed and alarmist statements about marijuana!

@LessPop_MoreFizz You'll cook your vehicle because you think it's a baby!

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DRUGS THAT EFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO DRIVE: [Chart]

Entry on chart: Antibiotics.

Because they can cause nausea.

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6:06 AM

Whaaaaaat

7:08 AM

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Q: Is there a way to preserve a weapon in Magicka - within a saved,multiplayer game

Situation : Magicka the game, you and your "wizard bros" have a saved, progressed multiplayer game. You have the m60 from chapter 3 (i think ? just got into this game) and when you come back - players are wiped from the game instance ( IP game / private) -- is there anyway to spawn this item ? ...

7:56 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Doesn't drinking something you enjoy drinking count as "fun"?

8:14 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Uh, Maybe drinking just because you like it isnt on the list cause its not abuse? :)

8:48 AM

I am high off so many chemicals this morning

@LessPop_MoreFizz I didn't realise you smoked

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10:46 AM

seriously? Not a single message from anybody in 2 hours?

not even you @Lazers?

Cheeky spam disguised as a question that would be closed for being subjective anyway

@pixel Interesting almost-copy of this post - either someone bothered to copy & paste, then edit it, or the spam bots got rather good at language mangling recently.

@MartinSojka ooh, very clever

I doubt it's a completely automated process, but we've had a variety of gold spam questions recently whose only indication on first glance that they're spam at all is a gold link

I wish our search would be better, so that a simple regexp search for "<buy +.* +gold>" would find most of them quickly.

Or rather, "<buy\s+(\S+\s+)*gold>", now that I think about it.

11:04 AM

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@MartinSojka Just any question that contains 'buy' 'gold' and a link.

Regexes overkill here

Regexes are often not the best solution

@fredley Regardless, you can't search for that here unless you feel like using direct SQL statements against the database.

@MartinSojka data.stackexchange.com/gaming/query/new

@fredley I know about it. :)

@fredley Yes. On the other hand, the regexp to decide if you have a prime number of characters in some string is simply "^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$"

@MartinSojka Neat, but who the hell wants to know that?

Regexes: solving problems nobody has

@fredley Oh, you can simply malloc() a number of bytes+1 in memory, memset() it to 0x30 or whatever, set the last one to 0x00, then run the regexp against the resulting string, telling us if the original number is prime or not.

Of course, it's horribly inefficient and more of a neat hack than a useful solution. :)

11:15 AM

2 mins ago, by fredley

Regexes: solving problems nobody has

@MartinSojka If I set someone the task to determine if a number is prime and they presented that solution, I would be horrified.

@fredley Finding out if some number is prime or not is a problem lots of people have, though. Mostly in the realm of encryption.

@MartinSojka Yes. I wrote a python program once that could find 100 digit primes very quickly using some gnarly mathematics

@fredley Your own damn fault for not specifying "... before the Earth gets eaten by the Sun for numbers of about 1000 decimal digits, if possible." :D

@MartinSojka Haha

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Q: What qualifies as an “automatic loadout weapon”?

Similar to the "precision loadout weapon" challenges, several challenges have asked for kills with "automatic loadout weapons"? Are all non-"precision" starter weapons automatic? What weapons qualify and do you need to start with them?

11:20 AM

I know many people here disagrees with my definition of cold

but it's like -5 here atm

Celsius, I assume?

yeah

Sounds rather fresh. I wouldn't want to go out without my socks on.

lol socks

I have two pairs of socks on

sat indoors with my coat and scarf on

and gloves!

11:37 AM

I don't know who I've pissed off, but this is a terrible piece of work I've been given

11:57 AM

Where can you get NFS Most Wanted (2005) Circuit tracks images? its not there in the wiki :(

Nvm... IGN had it....

I don't have the body mass to stand outside in this cold

I was only out there for 5 mins and I'm freezing cold

12:14 PM

gggggaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnn

Morning Bridge

hi

@pixel Having a solid subcutaneous fat layer helps, but in 5 minutes in the air, you don't cool off enough for it to matter. It's mostly how quickly your skin adapts and shuts off the pores.

@MartinSojka my hands are still cold from going outside

@pixel Overreaction of your skin, maybe? They shouldn't be, at least not from the cold. Try rubbing them warm. :)

@tombull89 Loving the christmas-man hat

12:27 PM

@fredley Heh, cheers. We tend to make a bit of a thing of it at SF. Obviously, we're easily pleased.

@tombull89 I was worried you meant SF&F for a minute there.

But the SF users page is very pretty

1:04 PM

squareenixmusic.com/…

Preschtale was nominated for chiptune album of the year!

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@pixel I don't, not because I have any problem with the substance itself, but because I find the physical act of burning things and inhaling them to be unpleasant, and other forms of ingestion are a royal PITA.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I have a bong that contains an insta-freeze liquid

put that in the freezer for ~2 mins and smoke using that

inhaling cold smoke doesn't make you cough

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@pixel It does when you have easily irratable asthmatic lungs.

don't you live in new york?

isn't that like smog capital of the world?

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@pixel Yes.

@pixel No.

@pixel That'd be Beijing. Or Mexico City.

For the US, it's be Los Angeles.

1:16 PM

but the air is pretty bad there no?

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@pixel Eh. It never got as bad as, say... London did in the 60's and 70's.

oh don't talk to me about London

I feel like I've taken up smoking cigarettes @ 100/day whenever I go to London

its like breathing in liquids

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@pixel Well why do you think I have easily irritable asthmatic lungs?

fair point

this is why I love living in the middle of nowhere

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That said, NYC's air quality is better than you'd expect for a city of it's size - it's triple the size of the next largest city in the US, and yet, ranks 10th in the country for pollution level.

(The city has the advantage of being positioned to take advantage of very favorable winds to mitigate most air quality issues, along with not having much of an industrial/manufacturing sector, and very robust mass transit.)

1:21 PM

I don't think there is even any pollution around here

no power plants for 100s of miles

no major cities for 50-75 miles

@pixel I lived in the Upper Silesian Coal-Mining Region for the first few years of my life. The typical joke about the people there is that they don't trust to breathe any air they can't see.

no industry for about the same

I live on a main road, but it's a village of like 40 people, and only half of them drive

Though all things considered, it's still not as bad as Ludwigshafen. That city stinks.

funny story

when I ordered fibre

BT said I could have it

made me sign a contract

and then realised it wasn't available in my village

so now my village has fibre installed for one property

It might even be fiber

I think fibre is probably the thing in bran flakes

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@pixel It is. I am glad to know that your entire village is going to have regular bowel movements though.

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1:30 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz lol

at least they have the possibility of fast internet now though

Roughage

somebody say something funny, I have too many stars in the list

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@pixel No.

I am not some monkey, to be made to dance on your command.

@LessPop_MoreFizz but the world will collapse in on itself if normality isn't restored

@LessPop_MoreFizz I DEMAND THAT YOU DANCE.

you no liek dance?

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OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

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1:35 PM

oh dear, what am I listening to?

sounds like hip hop

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@pixel Yeah.

Backpacker shit.

My verdict of Far Cry 3: Kind of like Just Cause 2, but with some pointless crafting, no grappling hook, and less fun.

@LessPop_MoreFizz "backpacker shit"?

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Backpacker (term)

Backpacker is a term usually used for people who listen to underground hip-hop/rap. History "Backpacker" was originally a slang term from the 1980s for a graffiti artist who always wore a backpack containing his music collection and, more importantly, his spraypaint cans, markers, and spray tips. Typically, the music collection would consist of local underground rap/hip-hop music artists. The term gradually came to refer to someone with this musical taste, and now has almost nothing to do with graffiti (although certain "backpackers" may participate in graffiti "tagging.") It has come f...

the closest thing to hip hop I've ever really listened to is BT's album Movement in Still Life

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1:38 PM

@pixel Basically, underground hip-hop that takes a little bit too much pride in being 'socially conscious' and such.

and that's not really hip hop

it's just similar arrangements for some of the tracks

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@pixel What do you think of Flying Lotus btw?

@LessPop_MoreFizz I don't know, should I know?

if I agreed to check it out at some point then I haven't

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@pixel hot electronic music producer atm among people who listen to less dance-floor oriented stuff. Just put out a new album a month or two ago.

Personally, I prefer the previous album though. Dig the jazz samples.

mmmhjazz

1:44 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz This is really weird.

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@pixel He also happens to be John Coltranes nephew.

@LessPop_MoreFizz sounds very IDM

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@pixel That would be an accurate statement.

next you'll be linking windowlicker or something

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Personally, as an old DNTEL fan I am very okay with that.

@pixel What, did you think I only listened to punk rock?

1:46 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz You'd probably like this.

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I can link some Juan Macclean or Shit Robot if you like too

@LessPop_MoreFizz never been a huge fan of IDM

i prefer the second track to the first

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@pixel So do I.

The first was just the first search result.

@pixel @LessPop_MoreFizz Have either of you heard of Lefo X or Vanish?

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But yeah, I tend to like my electronic music to crib heavily from disco, post punk, and no wave stuff in the most excessive ways. See also: Just about anything else DFA records has released

1:53 PM

oh @GnomeSlice I now see what you mean about the new soundcloud design

that is so meh

worst of it is, it doesn't seem to work from work anymore

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh, dude, you should check out Vanish, or anything Velcro City Records has ever released.

I love this stuff.

@LessPop_MoreFizz what is this I don't even

ok this is one of the tracks I like

but since that probably won't appeal to either of you

let me find something a little less obvious

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@pixel This is hipsters from NYC who have been listening to too much detroit techno and italian disco from the 70's

@LessPop_MoreFizz soundcloud.com/djvanish/youre-the-one-vanish-remix

1:58 PM

@pixel Argh, I can't stream these.

you're not going to find old BT stuff from the mid 90s on soundcloud

@pixel Figures.

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DFA records has a certain... aesthetic.

@LessPop_MoreFizz You should really check out Velcro City Records.

I think you'd like a lot of their releases.

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See also:

1:59 PM

Also @LessPop_MoreFizz Just how much disco influence is acceptable?

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