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12:12 AM
I dunno, he just does them as animated gifs for some reason
anyone got a wii u?
 
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@BenBrocka @James does
 
@BenBrocka Aye, that I do
 
Any game recommendations (disc or download)?
I ordered the Deluxe pretty much because I figured I'll eventually get one anyway
Definitely getting Pikmin
 
@BenBrocka Pikmin looked fun (the little party game of it was fun) and the lego city looked awesome as well (was why i wanted it) and I have to say Zombi U is a fun game.. and why is chat lagging so badly for me right now :/
 
Maybe the gifs? I de-embedded them
unbedded
@James Pimin 1 and 2 are great. I'm unsure about spending $50 on a mario game though. I'm not super excited by the new SMB stuff, only got the first one for DS
 
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12:26 AM
@BenBrocka I never played the Pikmin games at all. I was told Overlord's main mechanic mimicked it, and I've played that, but that's it.
 
Pikmin's great, I'd recommend either one. 1 is a bit easier to get into and shorter (more defined goals). Pikmin 2 has more content overall, and a very fun 2 player mode
 
@BenBrocka Oh! I got that mario game too
 
I'm glad to see it didn't get buried under the sea of old IP
 
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What platforms were they? GameCube and Wii?
 
Both are on Gamecube
 
12:27 AM
If you have multiple people to play it its kind of fun.. but only 2.. one person being mario the other using the big controller
 
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Ah okies.
 
1:03 AM
@Mana
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Java or Python?
 
@Fluttershy Python
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Would that be easier for a beginner to learn than Java? Would you recommend that to someone who has zero experience in programming languages?
 
I don't know, honestly. I think Python should be easier to learn - it is certainly less verbose, and I know of at least one prestigious university which moved their entire introductory CS course over from Java to Python
 
1:08 AM
@Fluttershy Python.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Thanks for the information.
 
I "picked up" Python in a day, but I have experience with C-like languages already, and understand all the programming concepts, so I was just grasping the syntax and data structures
 
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone " Confirming the fact that Applejack is indeed the best background pony, we find the poor apple farmer sitting behind both Derpy and Vinyl Scratch, with only a third of users as Rainbow Dash" Did you mean to say Rainbow Dash there?
 
@FAE Say Rainbow Dash where?
 
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone Nevermind, I was parsing your sentence wrong.
 
user15026
1:10 AM
@Fluttershy I have been learning Python with this: cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca and it is pretty helpful
 
@AshleyNunn Neat! Thanks!
 
1:30 AM
0
Q: Are there any PC-98 emulators for Ubuntu?

Zelda64fanThat is, are there any programs for emulating an NEC PC-9801 (the computer the first five Touhou games were made for) designed to run natively on Ubuntu (or Linux in general)? I haven't been able to find any.

 
user15026
1:50 AM
Neeergh. Chewing on a complicated (for me) programming problem.
 
@AshleyNunn Ask me about it in Steam.
 
user15026
@fbueckert Ooh, maybe with you and my boyfriend helping (because I think I am just confusing him) I can figure this out XD
 
0
Q: Is it possible to switch back to a previous difficulty?

AntoI've just finished the first playthrough and unlocked the Cruel difficulty mode. Now I'd like to help a friend who is stuck at the final boss of act 3, Normal difficulty. Is it even possible ? I can't find how, but it seems weird to me: how can I even trade with a player from another difficulty...

0
Q: Technic Launcher broken in Windows 8

jeffreylin_My Technic Lanucher does not start. It just has the screen that says "Technic Launcher". There is no .techniclauncher folder created, and I have to kill the process with task manager. There are no Windows 8 graphic drivers for my computer and I am using the latest version of Java. Why is this hap...

 
user15026
@Fluttershy done
 
2:02 AM
Teamwork.
 
user15026
@Fluttershy The best way to accomplish things!
 
@AshleyNunn You could just ask the question in here
 
user15026
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I have a few people working on hleping me, I think any more than that and I would get confuised.
 
2:40 AM
@FAE With a 0 user score thingy. Sounds legit.
 
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@StrixVaria Apparently says they made a separate one to do this. But holy crap, the pictures.
 
Atari games still shrink-wrapped :P
 
user43095
Is it just me or is everybody's interest in Minecraft dwindling?
 
Oracle owes me for the wasted time trying to install their DB and getting crap error messages back.
 
user15026
@FAE I am totally drooling
 
2:51 AM
@FAE So I think I have come to conclusion about Tera.
ahem
 
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@RavenDreamer Ah?
 
It is not Guild Wars 2, and therefore, I shall not play it.
(And as I was ranting to Tristan, yesterday, the art style is really unappealing)
 
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@RavenDreamer lol, that the only reason?
 
@FAE This is what my childhood would have looked like had it been everything I'd dreamed it could be
 
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@AshleyNunn Even if it's fake, still seems like it would've taken some effort to put the pics together
@Ktash hehe
 
2:53 AM
@RavenDreamer if that's your requirements, there's lots of games you won't play, which would be a shame
 
@MBraedley I did not find the combat system fun, found the character designs... questionable, the animations appalling (in tone, not fluidity), the world, generic, and the fact that mobs get "tagged" antiquated and awful.
Literally every character I made ran like a runway model.
Even the men.
Especially the men.
 
user15026
@Ktash Pretty much
 
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@RavenDreamer appalling in tone?
 
1 min ago, by Raven Dreamer
Literally every character I made ran like a runway model.
 
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Point.
 
2:56 AM
Stiletto heels everywhere
 
And gratuitously large weapons for no discernible reason (which is not always a bad thing, but random weapon shrinkage / growth is a mite distracting)
 
Thanks Google+, quality posts as usual.
 
Like, you swing your weapon
POOF! 3 sizes bigger.
Stick it on your back? Shrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrink.
 
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@RavenDreamer It gets bigger when you play with it?
7
 
2:57 AM
@FAE It gets bigger when you hit things with it.
 
@FAE :P
 
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@RavenDreamer Oh my.
 
@FAE Oh, my.
So yeah. What's new, Bridge?
 
21 hours ago, by Fluttershy
Bridge, go to bed. You're drunk.
 
2:59 AM
@Fluttershy Fun fact: I had my second beer ever, yesterday!
 
@RavenDreamer What kind was it?
 
@Fluttershy Hopslam.
 
@Ktash They would be legally required to spend at least some of their 20 million on chickenwire. :D
 
Also, I like how it links to the white house petition, but does not use American dollars for it's funding
 
3:03 AM
He's probably not American.
 
> This project will only be funded if at least £20,000,000 is pledged by Monday Apr 1, 2:19am EDT.
 
Only £19.8mil to go
 
user15026
MWAHAHAHA I figured out my programming problem (thanks, @fbueckert!) and now i feel awesome
 
@AshleyNunn Patience and persistence are key to programming.
And occasionally beating your head against a brick wall helps.
 
user15026
@fbueckert Yeah - this took me two nights to solve, but now I am like oh holy crap it makes so much sense now
 
3:08 AM
@fbueckert I prefer beer to the head contacting wall method
 
@AshleyNunn And you got it! That's awesome.
 
user15026
@fbueckert I feel so proud of me. :)
 
@MBraedley As do I. But, hey, whatever works!
 
user15026
I am rewarding myself with the Community s4 premiere
 
Beer tastes bad.
 
3:09 AM
@AshleyNunn You're taking a programming class?
 
@StrixVaria you're just drinking the wrong beer
 
@MBraedley To be fair, I haven't tasted that many.
 
user15026
@Ktash I am working through this: cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca
 
I have tasted a few fairly different ones, though, and they were all bad.
 
user15026
Imma learning me some python
 
user15026
3:09 AM
@MBraedley This is true
 
user15026
@StrixVaria What kinds of things did you try?
 
@AshleyNunn Uh...really dark ones and really light ones and some in-between ones.
 
@AshleyNunn Very nice. Python was my intro language as well
 
user15026
@StrixVaria giggles
 
I pretty much don't care about beer at all so I don't remember specifics.
 
user15026
3:10 AM
@Ktash I like Python. It makes sense to me.
 
Python is the language I use when I am too lazy to do some kind of math or text operation manually.
 
Not a huge fan of Python. JavaScript is my forte, but Python works as a good way to learn things quickly :)
 
I hate everything about in-browser programming.
 
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Goodnight, Bridge.
 
user15026
@FAE Sweet dreams!
 
3:13 AM
@AshleyNunn you know how I was raving about Granville Island Winter Ale a little while ago? Well I tried it on tap a few days ago, and it was even better
 
@StrixVaria JS is the best language ever, I don't know what you're talking about
:)
 
@Ktash JavaScript is terribly inconsistent.
 
user15026
@MBraedley It is rare that a beer is not better on tap. :) It is one of my new random favourites, and since it is seasonal, I will be sad when it goes away
 
user15026
@Ktash I like python because the commands make sense to me so far
 
@StrixVaria Not if you know what you're doing :D
@AshleyNunn That's a good place to start. Python is (mostly) easy to read and write
 
3:15 AM
@Ktash It doesn't work the same way in all the browsers, no matter how much you know what you're doing.
Although I guess CSS is even worse for that.
 
@AshleyNunn but for such a great beer, it's hard to be better
 
user15026
@Ktash Yeah, so far it works for me. I am not very far in learning, but this is the first time I haven't actively wanted to give up
 
@StrixVaria CSS is far worse. JS is actually very stable now-a-days
 
user15026
@MBraedley So true.
 
@Ktash Still, I'll just stick to my back-end math/architecture programming and let other people do fancy GUI design and drag and drop nonsense.
 
3:22 AM
@StrixVaria couldn't agree more. Although I'll do functional GUI any day.
 
I really like building infrastructure. I like to build useful frameworks for other people to do stuff easily. Actually doing stuff is kind of lame.
 
Look at all the pretty lasers!
 
What game is that?
 
@StrixVaria Starsector
 
Is this related to Gratuitous Space Battles at all?
It looks similar.
 
3:31 AM
@StrixVaria They look similar, yes. They're not related, though.
Battles are more personal in Starsector.
 
@StrixVaria thats what I was thinking.
 
You pilot one of your fleet ships personally.
 
3:48 AM
The good behaviour we are encouraging is directing the OP to an answer instead of to another similar question. It's changing the behaviour of the people closing questions by potentially making that job harder if you have to check you're being helpful, which I think is the real reason there's so much upset over it. — AndrewC 48 mins ago
Apparently someone thinks I'm lazy.
 
I think it sucks that we have more work to do as site janitors to keep things tidy, but I always hated the message that closing a question as a dupe of an unanswered question sent. It's a huge kick in the nuts.
@Fluttershy Copied from where? LGTM.
 
@Brant Wikipedia.
 
HI HI HIIIII
 
user15026
@spugsley Heya!
 
3:59 AM
@spugsley Heyas, you.
@AshleyNunn I watched "Bronies" today. It is pretty flippin' good.
 
user15026
@Fluttershy yay! I was hoping that would be the case
 
@Fluttershy @AshleyNunn my interview went well :3
 
user15026
@spugsley Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
 
@spugsley Woo!
 
:) Yeah. The lady said that she has one other interview tomorrow and then she would let me know either way
 
4:06 AM
@spugsley That's when you say "You should probably just cancel that other interview. I'm better." =D
 
@Fluttershy :p
 
user15026
@spugsley I shall keep the appropriate digits crossed for you!
 
@AshleyNunn lol thankies :)
 
user15026
@spugsley You are most welcome.
 
I should be stressing out over the acceptance test tomorrow, but I'm not. I think I may be too tired.
 
4:13 AM
@spugsley You should celebrate your success by playing The Walking Dead in one sitting!
 
@Fluttershy no thanks!
 
@spugsley =( In multiple sittings?
 
@Fluttershy nah
I'm busy with guild wars
 
4:35 AM
Updated from last night with 280 more points of data.
 
0
Q: Is it possible to win in Don't Starve?

zespriI would like to know if it's possible to win in Don't Starve? Or is it just the matter of how long until you die?

 
5:08 AM
Dear Everyone, @spugsley would like to be called Speedo from now on. That is all.
 
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Q: MM2: How do you get the map in the upper right corner?

unorIn Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World (SNES version, if it matters), how do you activate the map in the top right corner? I have a character with the cartography ability, but still got no map there. In the Wikipedia it says: The game introduced an automap feature to the series, acti...

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Q: What do I win for guessing the mimic?

RapidaI've just arrived in Opelucid City and I've found a room where 4 children want me to identify the mimic. I've done so repeatedly for far too long. Am I wasting my time or is there a point to this very mini-game?

 
5:40 AM
@StrixVaria New Coheed album released this week.
 
6:28 AM
 
For your daily quota of internet drama: reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/183swa/…
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah, it's unfortunate
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I just watched the documentary today, too. =\
 
@Fluttershy What did you think of it?
 
@murgatroid99 I really enjoyed it. Thought it was very well done, and it did a good job showing the culture. Plus John de Lancie is just awesome. Either he's a damn good actor, or he genuinely cares about his fans.
 
6:47 AM
@Fluttershy huh. I still haven't quite decided how I feel, but I think it's kind of different when my roommate worked at BronyCon and really hates Purple Tinker. Plus I kind of felt like de Lancie's division of the fandom into categories was a gross oversimplification.
 
@murgatroid99 You mean the moderate/creative/hipster thing?
 
@Fluttershy yeah
 
@murgatroid99 I didn't realize that was de Lancie's idea. >_> I just figured the song was written by Lauren Faust.
 
@Fluttershy Well, I guess I don't know who came up with it, but whoever did didn't really seem to have a good understanding of the fandom, at least from my point of view
 
Written by Lauren Faust, Amy Keating Rogers, and Zachary Lobertini, apparently.
 
6:51 AM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone For a more complete understanding of the drama: reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/184974/…
 
@murgatroid99 The main issue I see with the moderate/creative/hipster stuff is that it doesn't take into consideration the ones who fall into two, or all three, categories. Otherwise, I felt it was pretty well summed up. I was a moderate. <_<
 
@Fluttershy I guess I don't know where I would put myself. I'm involved enough in the community that "moderate" seems kind of weak, but I don't create stuff. And my roommate helps run BronyCon. I'm not sure where I'd put him in that list. And I'm not even really sure what a "hipster brony" is or why it would be a meaningful category.
 
@murgatroid99 "Moderate" doesn't necessarily mean you're less active in the community. I think it was meant more as an explanation of how you heard about the show. And you did that massive sidewalk art. I'd say that's pretty creative.
But yeah... Don't really understand the hipster one, either.
 
@Fluttershy My point is, I think they failed as categories because they didn't cover the possibilities well and they weren't mutually exclusive
And it over-simplifies the diversity of the community (in every sense) into a ternary label choice
I'm not trying to argue with you; it's just something that bugs me
 
@murgatroid99 Oh I wasn't trying to argue either! Was just trying to make sure I understood properly.
 
 
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8:33 AM
0
Q: When does Skulls of the Shogun save?

WhettingstoneI downloaded Skulls of the Shogun yesterday and sat down and played it for about 5 or 10 minutes. I got possibly halfway through the first "level" before I had to quit the game. As I had seen the game say several times "Saving Game" I thought - no problem, I'll just keep playing when I come back...

 
8:45 AM
Good morning.
 
@murgatroid99 ^ This is priceless
 
9:05 AM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Is MLP still a running show?
 
@Ladineko Season 3 is winding down (last two episodes out of 13), and Season 4 just got confirmed for a 26 episode run
 
Sweet, its been a while since i watched MLP, i have no idea where i stranded
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Awesome! didn't realized that there was a list with all episodes... Ill go download the batches right away! :-)
 
9:48 AM
*yawn*
 
9:59 AM
Yawn
How did you make the * without making it italic
 
Escape it with a backslash
 
*Yawn*
:D
 
To anyone who has watched it, is Warehouse 13 any good?
 
I watched it
I have it on DVD :3
Uhmmm if you like a CSI / Sience Fiction kinda setting yes.
Its a mix of CSI and Mysterious artifacts from the past.
I do enjoy it however.
 
Hong Kong to start rationing baby formulas because of Chinese tourists. This is amazing.
 
10:14 AM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Huh?
 
So, you know the milk powder poisoning scandal in 2008, where hundreds of infants were hospitalized because of tainted formulas? Public trust in the milk powder is so low that Chinese tourists are visiting Hong Kong just to bring back "clean" imported milk powder for their babies
Given the size of China compared to Hong Kong, this of course causes a shortage of milk powder in Hong Kong. The shortage is now so acute that Hong Kong has to ration milk powder
Then there's also this in Australia and New Zealand: news.com.au/national/…
For a site that has the fifth largest amount of traffic in a day this site sure as hell doesn't see much activity
 
10:33 AM
WOOO
A provider hosting one of our customers has gone bankrupt
\o/
I love it when things go horrifically wrong
 
@kalina Yay for horrible failure!
Last night for dinner I tried pan frying some chicken. By the time I got the chicken out of the pan there was more chicken stuck to the pan than there was on the plate
 
@kalina I'm sure that's your fault
 
10:48 AM
So what's the deal with main() in Python?
 
11:12 AM
rofl
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I have no idea what's special about main()
 
surely there is some legal comeback to the data center demanding money for a period of time they've already been paid for and refusing to let us access our customers data until we pay it
 
@kalina They're going bankrupt, they probably don't give a fuck about more lawsuits :P
 
@kalina Yes, though it usually entails sueing them
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I only see main() as a style recommendation from Google
 
11:14 AM
yay, my boring schedule has turned into trying to save a customer from their bleak data-less future
 
There's really no reason I can think of to put main() in its own function as opposed to inside the if statement, given that the whole point of the if statement is to run code that doesn't make sense to run if you're importing the module.
 
12:11 PM
 
@RonanForman some minor griefing, can we figure out who it is?
 
12:28 PM
all the drama stopped
now I'm bored
 
It's currently noon where you are. So... go out for lunch?
 
I went for lunch already
mmm salad
I really really want to repost this: meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/3391/…
using this image: gravatar.com/avatar/…
 
To send myself mail, I had to install the SwitftMailer bundle. That's 493kb in 169 files to send myself some email.
 
@TimStone you can hide the "trending" posts or whatever, the garbage idiots not in your circles post
If it's from someone in your circles it's too late, you've befriended the stupid and all is lost
 
Apologies in advance...
 
12:38 PM
@kalina cc: @fbueckert
 
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Q: I'M SO LONELY 2013

kalinaA homage to the fallen one known as GnomeSlice Lonely on the land I walk, Lonely cross the sea I sail, Lonely air of beach I stroll – This lonely life doth take its toll. Lonely trek of woodland trail, Lonely mist in haze o’ dawn, Lonely spies the bird of prey In ...

 
But it worked. Hurrah. The joy of modern technology, it worked.
 
For everybody who ever wanted to see the 'infamous GnomeSlice meta post' ^
quickly now, before it is deleted by the fun police
 
Is that an exact copy and paste?
 
yeah, except the picture
and some flavour text
everything that is quoted is on the grey background
the original picture is foreveralone.jpg
 
I know
 
Would've been so much better if it was original
 
I googled it before
 
Well, at least attribute it properly
 
GnomeSlice and original in the same sentence?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone done
the original wasn't attributed
maybe that's why it was deleted
 
@kalina Yeah, we take plagiarism very seriously here
 
indeed
 
I was about to ask if you want the peer pressure badge on Meta, but I see you already have it
 
of course
I am peer pressured all the time
but I am also disciplined
most of all, I am notable question
 
12:44 PM
@kalina Better than me. I'm only Strunk & White
Too bad there isn't an tag around here
Otherwise I could earn its tag badge and proclaim: I am !
We have to contend with I am instead
 
Yo.
 
Hello new person
 
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Q: Can we see the results of our community evaluation?

TroyenBack when beta evaluations were conducted by meta post, people could see how other members of the community felt about the site. Each question under review had a net score indicating it was considered good, "meh", or bad and underneath was a discussion in the comments where people could justify ...

This is interesting. The community evaluation thingadongdong is ending in 14 hours
 
Hows life here
 
12:47 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone The moderators can see the results at any time, not only when it is finished
 
@MadScientist Cool. What sort of participation are you seeing? Dozens?
 
TENS OF ...individual people
 
CROWDS OF DOZENS came to witness this historic moment!
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone 12-15 around on biology and skeptics.
 
Oh wow, dozens is spot on
 
12:49 PM
@MadScientist round the same on UX. Probably a fair amount more on Gaming
 
@StrixVaria perfect! Now it's just like the original post - one post, a bunch of downvotes, and you not even trying to see the funny side
 
@kalina You're being a stupid troll whether there's a "funny" side or not.
 
roughly 25 on average per Q on UX
 
now to delete it an preserve it in its "nearly perfect replica" state
@StrixVaria I am not going to deny this
 
But I half did that to play along with making a replica :P
 
12:51 PM
in fact, I will even agree with you
@StrixVaria thanks :)
this makes me happy
I have now deleted it
so that I can undelete it briefly to show it to gnomeslice, before it gets properly deleted by a mod
 
100
A: A Stack Overflow brick in the Computer History Museum wall

Jeff AtwoodKicking things off with my dumb suggestion. Remember the brick is 6 lines of 18 characters! 123456789012345678 1 stackoverflow.com 2 our VC asked us to 3 build a business 4 but we spent all 5 their money on 6 this brick instead

@kalina Just take a screenshot
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I could do that
@StrixVaria 10/10
@StrixVaria did you at least like my use of GnomeSlice's avatar?
 
@kalina Yeah it was fitting.
 
that's the only reason I wanted to do it at all!
 
12:58 PM
@BenBrocka We're at ~110 people
 
How much rep do you need to participate in this... monumental event?
 
@badp sounds about right
How many of the questions are "How do I ult jungle top lane to counter Uric's ult?"
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Which one? The community eval? Just try the link: gaming.stackexchange.com/review/community-eval/25362
 
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Q: Using a standard dynamic microphone (3.5mm male mini jack) + a female 3.5mm jack => USB adapter for a PS3

TotoSimilar to Using a standard dynamic microphone (3.5mm male mini jack) + a 3.5=>2.5 adapter with an Xbox 360, I would like to know if I can use my dynamic microphone (3.5mm male mini-jack, actually XLR + XLR=>mj adapter) with a Playstation 3, and how ? (it is a slim PS3 I have) I have heard of...

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Q: How to make Ysolda ride horse (Horses for followers mod)?

user42115I use Horses for followers mod, it works great, tried with Lydia. Now I made Ysolda my follower (she's a non-follower NPC in Whiterun) and she doesn't want to ride her horse. What can be the difference between Ysolda and Lydia? Anybody can tell me what to change?

 
@StrixVaria Want an Aurelia's Fury?
 

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