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4:00 PM
@kalina The power of Twilight Sparkle compels you!
 
compelled
 
Green apple skittles are worse than Hitler
 
skittles "confused" are WEIRD
skittles sour are the best
 
@BenBrocka I never thought I'd miss lime Skittles.
 
I miss @MarkTrapp and his Hitler scale.
 
4:03 PM
Scale?
 
@OrigamiRobot Lime skittles mixed well with the other skittles. You grabbed any 5 random skittles and they tasted fine
Now you grab 5 random skittles and all you can taste is awful green apple failure
 
@M'vy Sometimes you just want to know how many figurative Hitlers = 1 literal Hitler
 
hm, seems tricky
 
@BenBrocka In other news, Skittles Darkside is good.
 
Also since I stopped liking grape skittles they're slowly running out of good skittles
 
4:05 PM
Oh great, @M'vy is Navi now?
 
If they change red to cherry and yellow to banana I'll just abandon them in disgust
 
Now if I want to know about Hitler equivalency, I have to ask on literalhitlers.stackexchange.com
 
I have not had good experience with alternate skittle flavors. There's usually like one or two that are okay and the rest are straight from hell
 
@BenBrocka Do you just hate all the good candy flavors?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone :P
 
4:06 PM
@kalina
user image
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@BenBrocka Wild Berry skittles are the best overall, aside from Sour Skittles which are in a category all their own.
 
@fredley have a star, the first star I have issued today
enjoy it
(the star that is)
 
@kalina Star miser.
 
@Sterno meh, I frequently run out of stars
 
@kalina This is my second star for the day
You got my first star
 
4:09 PM
IT WAS YOU?!
DIE
sets fire to @SaintWacko
 
@kalina Eep!
 
here, use this to put yourself out
passes petrol
 
I wonder if there is some hidden stash of stars down in the SE basement
 
I need to compile a chart of how many times each of us chat regulars have been set on fire by @kalina
 
@kalina You must learn to stop setting things on fire the second they displease you
 
4:10 PM
@fredley but... by fire... be... purged?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone might even be a meme by now
 
@kalina uses petrol to make a trail from me to you
 
@kalina cleansed. And No!
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I would be interested in that
 
@M'vy @kalina is a chat meme just by herself
 
4:11 PM
I find it funny that I get back here and you guys are talking about fire.
because I was just writing a quick TF2 mod to set Huntsman arrows on fire.
 
@SaintWacko Oh, you think the fire is your ally, but you were merely set on fire. I was born in it, molded by it...
 
@kalina Where's that naked picture of you on fire gone...
 
@fredley I am not responsible for any memes
@fredley the lack of context in this is disturbing, I had to read it three times before I realised you weren't talking about a picture of me
obviously you meant this one though:
 
@kalina I find your lack of context disturbing
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@fredley I find you disturbing, regardless of context
 
4:14 PM
@kalina Good example of female armour there
 
@fredley less is more!
 
Lets not even have pants
 
-.-
 
 
@M'vy Inf
 
4:15 PM
Image not found!
BEST PICTURE EVAR!
 
damn redirections
 
x2
 
hmpf
 
@M'vy I approve
 
4:16 PM
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Q: Is there any reason to do all these pull-ups?

ShinraiAfter finishing the main storyline of the Citadel DLC, you get the option to invite certain crewmembers up to your apartment for a scene. When you invite James in, he notices your exercise equipment as he's leaving. At this point, you can interact with the pull-up bar and he'll challenge you to...

 
@OrigamiRobot wat
 
@kalina what is that anyway?
 
@OrigamiRobot I don't really get the joke of this strip
 
@OrigamiRobot Oh, you read Daisy Owl too?
 
4:17 PM
@M'vy It's a photo of @kalina
 
@GraceNote I love Daisy Owl.
 
@BenBrocka female version of Ragnaros
 
@fredley @M'vy Part 1
 
Still dunno what that is
 
hm... ok
 
4:19 PM
@fredley In other words, let's be Templars
@kalina Rule 63?
 
@BenBrocka A giant fire elemental from WoW, apparently.
 
Oh, blizzard products, gross
 
@GraceNote I am sad it's over.
 
I'm okay with stories that come to an end.
 
4:22 PM
Me too, but I'm still sad.
 
@BenBrocka "by fire be purged" is also from Ragnaros
 
oh no, I've run out of goo and now my nose is all blocked
 
@fredley ah ah you tricky porkchop
 
^^ What people are seeking funding for on Kickstarter
 
4:27 PM
@fredley The Cthulhu tag isn't nearly as interesting as is should be.
 
@fredley I bet that cats is 1st position
 
@M'vy This being the internet n'all
 
ofc (the internet is MADE of cats)
 
> The Miskatonic School for Girls is the first deck building game where you get to build your opponent's deck! Plus, it has Cthulhu!
 
Cthulhu brought silence to the Bridge?
 
4:32 PM
@fredley Open Source Robotic Arctic Cthulhu Cat Zombies, created by Civic Science and armed with RPGs
 
@SaintWacko nice one
hum, that userscript for replying keeps messing up when I'm in edit grace period :S
 
@fredley I saw this game at PAX East for sale.
 
@GraceNote was it already pledged?
 
I went through the chat transcripts. The first person @kalina ever set fire to in this chatroom is @RilgonArcsinh. The person she has set fire to the most is @OrigamiRob
 
Nice one @YiJiang'sEvilClone
 
4:38 PM
@M'vy I dunno. It was on sale amongst tons of other card games and such.
Not as if it had its own booth, it just was an item in a random shop.
 
ok!
 
I have been set on fire three times
I think I'm well done now
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Did you run stats through data.stackexchange? or chat is not part of it?
 
@M'vy Chat is not part of it. I ran through the transcript by hand
 
eeeeek
Damn, there are three pages of @kalina saying fire :S
Be noted that many things have been set on fire too
(And that transcript search is well developed BTW)
 
4:48 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone you should split it up into "acts of random violence" and "retaliation"
 
uh non tech people
Why did we have to give them RDP
 
@BenBrocka non-tech people deserve to be set on fire
 
You think everyone should be set on fire
 
that's not true
@BenBrocka I don't think you should be set on fire...
right now, at least...
 
@BenBrocka can they at least connect with RDP without help?
 
4:52 PM
@M'vy Yes. But they had an app that wasn't closing. So they'd close the RDP connection and be upset that it was still there when they "shut it down"
Then they'd reboot the local PC but it was "back" (because the RDP PC was never shut down, nor did it change in any way)
 
XD
Dear non tech-user, please be aware that the first word in RDP is Remote. Thanks in advance. The tech guys.
 
She kept insisting she "closed it". Just gave up and killed the task and hope it doesn't happen again
doesn't help that RDP removes the "shut down" option from the start menu, so they have no idea how to turn off the remote PC (if they ever understand that the RDP PC is a different machine that needs to be shut down separately)
 
How do I insert in the contents of a file as a parameter for a command in cmd?
 
Doesn't RDP says something when you close the session? Like, your sessions will still be unchanged blah blah blah?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Figures
 
4:56 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Wut?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone What specifically are you trying to do? That's actually nontrivial depending.
 
@M'vy I dunno I think you just click the X and the window goes away
(and when it's no longer on your screen it no longer exists rite)
 
The command is jade, which is a template engine. It takes the data for the template through the -O parameter as a string, but the data I have is in a file
 
@BenBrocka Hum, even with the X there should be a message (at least confirming the closing of the session). But maybe it's not on every versions.
 
@M'vy I don't get any message about closing sessions
 
4:58 PM
If a robot made of folded paper bursts into flames, does anybody put the fire out?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I could get you that for unix :P, cmd might be trickier
@YiJiang'sEvilClone does this help : stackoverflow.com/questions/2768608/… ?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah I'm not actually sure how to do that off the top of my head. You could probably pipe the output to a variable
@M'vy Yeah maybe something like that. Not sure how well it'll work in practice...
 
Mmmhmm, might as well write a short script to handle this then, if I can't do it in a single line in cmd
 
Yeah probably much easier
You could probably do it in a single line in powershell but I couldn't tell you how
 
for what it's worth: I do have a bash environment for windows
 
5:05 PM
@M'vy Hmmm? cygwin?
 
Usually solves my problems for running one-liners.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone git-bash
I think it's based on MinGW/MSYS
brb
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone looks at the URL O___O
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Nicely done
Even links to the individual messages!
 
good job
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm not on there? Clearly @kalina hasn't been Spy checking properly.
 
@Powerlord you want to be on the receiving end of my wrath?
 
5:32 PM
@kalina I'm a TF2 Spy. We're always being set on fire.
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@Powerlord I wouldn't set fire to my own kind
spies must stick together
@YiJiang'sEvilClone it's a shame you can't make something like this that updates in real time
 
@kalina Mmmhmm, no.
 
(I say "it's a shame" in the hope that it provokes your "I CAN DO IT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T" when you're next bored)
 
Google Image Search isn't giving me a valid image that's not a google cached image for the TF2 Spies Like Us achievement.
 
@kalina You wouldn't because he's using the spycicle. He can't be set on fire.
 
5:34 PM
@Powerlord I once accidentally set a spy on fire
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone oh so you can't do it?
that's terrible
and I thought you were leet madskillz coder
 
@kalina You'd need some pretty advanced natural language processing for a script to be able parse out things like that
 
I was shooting at enemies with my flare gun, and a cloaked spy ran in front of me
 
hash a list of users that chat in the bridge, check for "sets fire to" + name
iterate through list
matches = victory
 
But there are false positives, like when you tell them to set fire to other people
 
5:35 PM
@kalina But what if you set fire to them without using that specific wording?
 
And there are times when you forget to ping
 
@SaintWacko I pretty much always use that wording
@YiJiang'sEvilClone setting fire to other people wouldn't match the above ^
 
There's also multiple variations to you setting fire: "set fire to", "die in a fire", "launch into sun", "by fire be purged"
 
launching into the sun is not technically me setting fire to people
that's just providing people with the forward momentum required to arrive at the sun
 
@kalina Look at @Powerlord, now at his spycicle. It's made of ice. Back at me, now the spycicle is between your shoulder blades. Everything is possible when he never really was on your side. whistle
 
5:37 PM
Also, I'm lazy.
 
by fire be purged isn't the same, but even then "by fire be purged" will come after the name
@YiJiang'sEvilClone you can't claim laziness after creating something as awesome as that!
I am surprised that list isn't longer though tbh
 
That took less than an hour
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone just think what you could achieve if you spent another hour on it!
 
Most of the time is spent sorting through the list and fiddling my thumb because my internet connection went down halfway through that time
 
He'd just cover the site with ponies is what'd happen.
 
5:39 PM
So, since the guy who made the Huntsman Hell server won't share his plugin, I'm reverse-engineering it based on how I've heard it works. However, now I find I need to manually sniff out the rocket launcher's env_explosion settings.
because I think the way other plugins do it harm ones teammates, too.
 
@badp That's a really bad idea, actually
 
I am confused
have another u deserve something — Paralytic 10 mins ago
what is going on
why am I getting sympathy up votes
I can't whine about getting targetted for downvotes if people give me sympathy upvotes
 
I was sort of wondering why you got a downvote in the first place
 
@Shinrai well, I'm guessing it has something to do with the random downvote I got a few minutes earlier
 
@Shinrai It seems to repeat most of the information of the previous answer?
 
5:40 PM
Quick, someone say something sexist!
 
I don't downvote for that, but I might see someone do that
 
and I didn't complain, because the other question is borderline possibly maybe perhaps subjective
 
I really dislike "repeated answer" downvotes
 
@badp Oh ha ha, very funny
 
You know, it's sufficient to not upvote a post
 
5:41 PM
I downvote ponies.
 
meh, people can spend their votes how they please
I downvote Sternos
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@kalina This is not true
 
@badp voting is anonymous, there's nothing you can do to stop it
 
@kalina That's patently false.
 
@kalina They can downvote how they please so long as the serial downvoting detection doesn't kick in.
 
5:42 PM
@badp patent pending?
 
@badp if I was to slowly downvote every single question you've ever raised over the course of a month, what would be the actions that YOU could take to stop me?
 
@kalina Simply poke an employee about it
 
so, nothing you could actually do then
 
@kalina He could delete all his questions. That would show you!
 
@Sterno this would be the intended effect
 
5:43 PM
@kalina I think the cross voting algorithm is smart enough to detect that
 
@kalina Well, they get back at me and I ban you while they reverse the downvotes
 
@badp now how does this apply to a random user who downvotes few enough of another user's posts that it doesn't get picked up by any of the automation?
because I really doubt SE would investigate every issue of "I've had 20 downvotes this week QQ"
 
Depends; I'm not going into specifics
 
I'm not sure if "not going into specifics" is your new method of telling me to shuttup or not
and since when have you ever needed a reason to ban me?!
 
@kalina The details of the algorithm are not discussed in general
 
5:47 PM
"The Algorithm" killed Jeeves
and is banned in China
my point is, if somebody decides they want to downvote a bunch of somebody elses stuff, there isn't really anything that will be done about it unless it gets sustained over a period of time
 
True story. I've been giving @kalina a downvote every other day for the past year.
 
@Sterno brb, retaliation incoming
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah I guess maybe, but that warrants a comment not a downvote IMO. (Sorry, was AFK)
(And I wasn't going to complain since I had answered my own question ;3)
 
people don't have to comment
 
Well of course, but I agree with badp on this one
 
5:50 PM
WOAH
DON'T AGREE WITH BADP
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YEAH YEAH I KNOW
 
Seriously, no need to go that far
 
I'M A LONER, DOTTIE. A REBEL.
 
do you know what happened the last time somebody agreed with him?
DO YOU KNOW?!
well let me tell you...
"Stuff" happened...
 
....no! Not..."Stuff"!
 
5:53 PM
 
@OrigamiRobot the icon for the card set should be a diamond.
 
@M'vy No, it's Bubbles.
If it were a diamond, every card in the set would have a diamond.
There's your diamond.
 
user15026
I came home from a lunch thing to find my apartment mostly flooded, thanks to a broken toilet. I hate everything
 
user15026
There are now towels everywhere, I had to take off work, and I am waiting for my landlord to return from Home Hardware with teh bits we need to make it stop. He turned the tank off, but still. Water. Everywhere. The cats are irritated as am I
 
6:02 PM
As long as it's just water and not sewage...!
 
user15026
@Shinrai Nope, just water from the upper tank
 
user15026
but it just kept flowing and leaking ALL MORNING
 
@GraceNote what team do you use in Victory?
 
There should be a master tap on the mains pipe which you can switch off
 
Equipment changes dictate that I don't have a fixed team.
 
user15026
6:05 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's what the landlord did for now until he can get the bits to fix it
 
@AshleyNunn one of the benefits of having your toilet in the same room as your shower... Drainage!
 
And to get rid of water I suppose you'll just have to use a mop and put your back into it. Is the floor wooden? You might want to clean up the water quickly if it is.
 
user15026
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Floor is tile, I have most of it mopped up. Have a bucket thing under the actual leak that I keep checking
 
user15026
Do have to figure out how to dry my one rug, though.
 
@AshleyNunn check the washing instructions ;)
 
user15026
6:07 PM
@alexanderpas I don't even know if it has those.
 
user15026
It has a plasticky bottom so I assume dryer use is out.
 
@OrigamiRobot My Magic card is out of date :(
 
@StrixVaria what errata do you suggest.
 
@alexanderpas Holy crap you're back.
 
At the moment, Nepgear handles both main healer and main damage dealer, Blanc handles initial breaking and then just taking a beating, Vert handles EXE buildup and debuff, Peashy is secondary breaking, and Neptune/Plutia/Noire are secondary damage dealers.
 
6:10 PM
@alexanderpas It defeats the purpose if I make up my own card.
 
Technically Vert does damage pretty well too but 1250 SP is sooo much to spend.
 
@StrixVaria What is out of date?
 
@OrigamiRobot ITG isn't really a hot topic any more.
 
@StrixVaria MH3U made me come back ;)
 

 Monster Hunter

All Monster Hunter talk, all the time. Or, just about anythin...
 
6:11 PM
Hey @alex! Long time no see~
 
@OrigamiRobot Ninja!
 
@GraceNote Do you switch out your characters or what?
 
@BenBrocka Constantly.
 
I've never used the switch in-battle option (in no small part because I did'nt know it was there for 80% of the game)
 
@StrixVaria You'll need a new card then. New name too.
 
6:15 PM
@StrixVaria You haven't been hot on anything else either
 
Does it eat your turn or what?
 
@GraceNote What game is this?
 
@StrixVaria Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory.
@BenBrocka Yes but it's not a large wait. It is wiser not to do it on the first turn, though, and it's essential for using HDD coupling skills anyway.
 
@GraceNote JRPG?
 
@StrixVaria Very, very, very J.
 
6:21 PM
@GraceNote like, moonrunes J?
 
@GraceNote you have to use the switch for those to activate? I mostly ignored those too
 
To avoid using terminology I'd have to explain, in short, CONSOLE WARS - AS A VIDEO GAME. Wherein each console is represented by a goddess whose power is in proportion to the amount of faith her followers have in her.
 
And half of them are hilariously incompetent/nonfunctional as human beings in general
 
@BenBrocka Coupling skills require both characters to be in the same form. So both have to be in HDD or both have to be in normal form. You have to switch in order to get both in HDD, even in battles where you start off in HDD (as your back lines do not start in HDD)
 
@GraceNote oh right, I hadn't thought of that
I'm so glad HDD is soooo much easier to use than in Mk2. You either had to burn SP items (in battle!) or spend several fights building up SP to use HDD on the boss (plus the SP drain per turn)
 
6:27 PM
Yeah, I like that too.
 
I like being able to use it in every remotely difficult fight
 
I just do it all the time.
The lack of drain is more what I like, means I can keep it up during a whole battle, death notwithstanding.
Plus, thanks to Drill, I can use Guard Strike every fight, heeheehee~
 
I don't bother for normal fights...the loading time is too long (I'm soooo looking forward to next gen's higher memory capacity)
 
I need to make a new game for Drill. And by extension, I need to get more of the chip. My best-laid scheme of chapter hopping to double my yields failed miserably.
 
Where do you find these drill things?
 
6:30 PM
 
There's two places I know of. One is a Lost Place, but I forget which and only know that I reloaded after getting it so sadly I don't have it. The other is as a Gather Shift +1 for Magma Cave.
 
@Fluttershy FLAGGED
Sloths are horrible.
 
Celestial Tree Sloth attack!
...oh what, Giant in the Playground appears to be down.
 
Sloths are a sin
 
@GraceNote Yep, down on my end too.
 
6:33 PM
"lost place" as in those weird non-dungeon things on the map?
Is there a point to those?
 
@Yawus These days, before I say anything about whether a site is down, I check downforeveryoneorjustme.com first.
@BenBrocka A Lost Place is a location that its discovery nets you 1-2 of a specific Idea Chip, plus a handful of an item. Each global map has 3 Lost Place locations, but you have two possible Lost Places for each location, based on whether you Trust the scout or Distrust it.
You also get a trophy for finding 10.
 
In any case, I've been meaning to get Hyperdimension Neptunia, but I've been caught up with Monster Hunter and Tokyo Jungle.
 
What, you have to distrust to unlock one? I trust everything since 95% of the time it's good
 
@BenBrocka Distrust just affects what the yield is. It's basically a switch.
But since, lest you already discovered the other two Lost Places on a map, it's random which Lost Place location you're looking at, then you haven't any idea which one you're trusting/distrusting to begin with. So you probably won't like that.
For everything besides Lost Places, distrusting is simply a means to avoid whatever change the scout proposes. This is mostly more useful if you have a team of scouts in one place, and then someone boasts about how they found a way to bring out more powerful pandas, I mean monsters, and you'd rather keep that than have some minor EXP boost (or perhaps even an EXP drop)
I could totally have like an additional 90 reputation if I gave all this info from the past few days on Q&A instead of chat.
 
@GraceNote Well I didn't know I had questions until you went and opened your fat mouth
I don't get what the two lost places thing you mean though, I'll ask a question about that
 
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Q: What rune words can I build at lower levels?

Nick TI started a new ladder character and am beginning to find random runes in Act II (Normal). What rune words can I reasonably find runes for and create while I'm still in Normal? I know of Stealth (TalEth), but the words on the Arreat Summit aren't listed by level, rather alphabetically. Is ther...

The answer on that (even though it's by @AshleyNunn) is suspect.
 
How so?
 
user15026
@StrixVaria It is entirely possible. I just yanked it from the wiki, I don't actually know a lot about the game
 
It's like a 5000-pixel-tall image that just reproduces all the data from the website.
 
user15026
@StrixVaria Yeah, it totally is
 
6:46 PM
Not tall enough, bring back a larger one
 
user15026
@BenBrocka always with the complaints
 
Sorry, it's 14171 pixels tall.
I was afraid of overestimating, but I shouldn't have been.
 
I've been learning from the King of All Cosmos
 
@StrixVaria Well, except for going through it and picking out specific items (which would definitely be awesome on the effort end), this is really the best way to do that, imo.
 
user15026
@BenBrocka At least you weren't also complaining I didn't bring back enough fun things or tasty things or what have you
 
6:47 PM
@FEichinger The question itself isn't really stellar, either.
Just saying, that question/answer pair is pretty bad and may warrant some fixing.
 
@AshleyNunn Did you have to make it so red?
 
A 14171-pixel-tall image is pretty awful from a usability standpoint.
 
user15026
@StrixVaria Oh, totally. If someone wants to go and fix it all or make a better answer completely, I would not be heartbroken. That totally shows not a lot of work on my end
 
@BenBrocka That is the default CSS for the diablo wiki.
 
user15026
@BenBrocka grump yes.
 
6:48 PM
@StrixVaria Eliah Kagan writes answers longer than that.
 
Not everyone knows how to pick complementary colors.
 
user15026
@BenBrocka Let me guess, it makes a terrible moon or answer or what have you, but you will accept it because you are feeling generous?
 
@FEichinger I don't know who that is, but an answer can be 14171 pixels tall and be more useful than an image because ctrl+f is a thing.
 
@AshleyNunn If you had simply rolled your katamari to avoid 90% of the stage it would have been much better
 
user15026
@BenBrocka Picky, picky picky
 
6:49 PM
@StrixVaria I just don't see how that can be improved without changing the question itself a whole lot.
 
user15026
@StrixVaria Admittedly, I did leave a link so someone could check there if they wanted, but blash blah dead links I know
 
Now I want to play Katamari Damacy
 
user15026
@SaintWacko Me too. I should really acquire them for my PS2
 
user15026
Just it is hard to find non-expensive copies
 
@AshleyNunn ...emulator >.>
 
user15026
6:51 PM
@SaintWacko I suppose so
 
user15026
I just like owning the things I like
 
I don't own a PS2
 
@BenBrocka Better to phrase it as just a general question about the point of Lost Places.
 
user15026
I do, because a friend gave it to us at one point and it came with me when I moved out
 
@GraceNote > Distrust
 
6:54 PM
@BenBrocka Harhar
 

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