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1:00 PM
@FEichinger Meta it up
@kalina No because there's bits of Leia in there
 
@fredley I read "Meat it up"
 
@fredley yes but in the final picture, leah is obviously going to be kalina
 
@fredley I just wrote an answer to "How do I download?", okay? I'm exhausted.
 
@FEichinger downvoted
 
@FEichinger You put more effort into that answer than the asker put into life
 
1:01 PM
@kalina Hush you, you always say that but you never do it!
 
@OrigamiRobot Meating up is also acceptable
@kalina Yes, this is true
 
@FEichinger AND YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING GRATEFUL FOR THIS
 
@FEichinger What about @Jin ?
 
Or wait, you can be boba and Leia can be @badp
 
@fredley I know ... But I kinda feel sorry for the asker.
 
1:01 PM
@fredley I don't want to be in the picture
 
@kalina In that case you make one
 
@Powerlord Hm?
 
@fredley I want to be the Ewok
 
@fredley that's all the motivation he needs
 
@fredley I don't do graphics
 
1:02 PM
@FEichinger You know, the guy who was asking us for suggestions on chat changes?
 
@kalina I said "Hush"!
 
@FEichinger I SAID DIE IN A FIRE YOU SILLY EARTHLING
 
@Powerlord Yeh, i do. I didn't get where you were headed with that, though. ;)
@kalina You like me. Hush again!
 
@FEichinger ha! hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
out of all of my favourite people in chat, you're in the same group as Retrosaur
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@kalina Also, I was not mean to you today. And this is how you thank me!
@kalina That's adorable, you know? :P
 
1:04 PM
...
You cannot gain a sense of adorable over a text based medium
 
@kalina Retrosaur is one of your favourite people in chat?
 
@fredley no
 
@FEichinger Eh, the auto mention is there to show the message it is, explicitly, in reply to
 
@kalina You clearly indicated he was
 
@fredley no, I said "out of all of my favourite people in chat, you're not in my list of favourite people in chat"
 
1:05 PM
@BenBrocka It can do that without the text, though. The arrow is enough.
 
blech
 
That's how it works with one-boxed messages, after all.
 
@kalina MATHEMATICAL INCONSISTENCY
FLAG 2 BAN
 
@fredley YOUR FACE INCONSISTENCY
 
Asus made the warranty process unsurprisingly harder now
 
1:05 PM
FLAG 4 BRAIN
 
@kalina GRAMMATICAL INCONSISTENCY
 
@badp yes, it's the anti-badp changes of May 2013
@fredley YOUR LIFE INCONSISTENCY
 
@StrixVaria This.
 
@kalina STAR INCONSISTENCY
 
@badp Is there something wrong with your Jewish stove-top cover?
 
1:06 PM
@badp why did you just kick me?
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@BenBrocka With the exception of the mucked-up mobile chat, the auto mention isn't necessary. It's great for a conversation, but when the mention appears again in the message, it's redundant.
 
MOD ABUSE INCONSISTENCY...oh wait, isn't that normal for The Bridge?
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1 hour ago, by badp
my Nexus 7 is now no longer turning on
 
Every other message is being starred
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STAR OVERFLOW.
 
1:07 PM
I haven't starred any of this stuff yet I'm the one that gets kicked?
 
@badp Oh my, that is worse than a broken Blech.
 
Kicking @kalina is just my default action, I doubt @badp's is different.
 
and they've completely shut down the Italian website for RMA
 
R.I.P. Alan Meyers.
 
1:09 PM
fuck it, act like a twat and then ignore me when I ask for an explanation...
 
@kalina Breathe and be patient. Breathe and be patient.
 
@FEichinger I'm not even stressed
 
room kicks are the most worthless butan in the moderation arsenal, tbqh.
 
don't care, he has no justification for kicking me at this time
 
@kalina The button was shiny.
 
1:12 PM
He did it FOR TEH LULZ...actually, how do you know it was him?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz moderators that act like this deserve to no longer be moderators
 
And it doesn't actually do anything.
 
@tombull89 only active gaming mod in chat?
 
@tombull89 Owners don't have a kick butan.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz there goes my next question.
 
1:12 PM
I suppose it could've been @TimStone
 
What sort of evil thing have I done today?
 
Good morning, Bridge
 
@TimStone Asterisk
 
@kalina No need to rage at him instantly.
 
Dammit! Did I miss drama again?
Stupid work...
 
1:14 PM
@Fluttershy Nah, just flag something innocent.
 
@Fluttershy It's not over yet, so you might want to get popcorn.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I don't know why that feature even exists, it does serve no useful purpose at all
 
here comes the timeout
 
God dammit people.
 
Honestly?
Really?
 
1:16 PM
 
10bux says that got approved by someone who will be coming along to chide us about something in 5...
 
user20683
/steps in and glares around
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Most likely ... :/
 
user20683
extremely likely in fact
 
user20683
1:16 PM
play nice and watch your language, that is all.
 
...
 
...
 
...
 
...
 
Nope.
 
1:17 PM
Man, I say hello, and people go crazy.
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@FEichinger C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER
 
@tombull89 Carefully planned and executed with sub-par precision.
 
I wonder if non-Arqade moderators suspend people in other chat rooms, or if it's just localized to here. Some of the shit I see coming from Math or Comms Room, I can't help but wonder if anything's actually done about that.
 
Ah well, now that the Bridge has just become about 40% more boring I'm off to work.
 
@Fluttershy I suspect it's being done, or we'd be seeing more stupid flags.
 
1:20 PM
@fbueckert I see stupid flags all the time.
Except when I'm on mobile and can't actually see flags.
 
@Fluttershy See operative word.
 
Or flag anything, for that matter.
 
Aww, what? How is this not circle pack 4 sciencevsmagic.net/geo/…
 
@Fluttershy most of the stuff flagged in TCR is flagged by those that rarely use the room and don't know the culture. As it's quite an "adult" site with topics covered there's some things that you won't see in other SE chat rooms.
 
Also... inb4 meta
 
1:21 PM
...I'm at 9.9K network rep.
 
@Sconibulus Circles are not touching.
 
So close to seeing these mystical stupid flags!
 
@Sconibulus The inside circles don't quite touch.
 
oh... grr...
the looked to touch from far enough out to draw them
 
@tombull69 Right. And this room is known for banter, language, and name calling. So I tend to take issue with moderators unfamiliar with how we act in here stepping in and throwing suspensions around.
 
1:22 PM
@tombull89 The same could be said of most of the shit that gets flagged here.
 
also
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Q: Let me opt out of viewing chat flags

MDMarraI'm not a moderator. I have ~50k rep on Server Fault. I am a regular in chat. Because chat allows all 10k+ users across the network to act on chat flags, I (and many other regulars in SF chat) see some problematic users from other chats flagging things that aren't actually offensive. I disagree...

 
@Sconibulus You already have circle pack 4...
 
@fredley No, you do. It's stored on your machine.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Indeed. I'd support a proposal where you need 20 rep on the chat's parent site to flag suff.
 
@RonanForman Oh
 
1:23 PM
@fredley The URL tells the site what lines to draw.
 
I have circle pack 2... no other circle packs, and all the shapes but pentagon
 
Personally, I'd prefer a system that allowed only 10k users or mods in that room to view that room's flags.
 
I reviewed World Engineer's flag and I see no problem with it, except for the fact that I wouldn't act on it myself given that the insult is thrown at me
 
@Fluttershy wouldn't work well for most lesser-used rooms
I think it would make sense to have a time-based escalation though
 
@badp I thought mods couldn't see who flagged stuff?
 
1:24 PM
like... first ten minutes is room-only, then it goes global if there's not enough activity
 
@tombull89 Well, I just assumed; fine; the message kalina got 30 minutes for
 
I wrote the highest-voted feature request on changing the chat flag system, I'm not a fan of it, but this was not a case where the flag system failed right now
 
@Fluttershy I take issue with random 10K'ers coming in here, calling us stupid, and telling us to stop it.
Fun fact: it's happened.
 
@fbueckert we've done the same
 
@fbueckert You'll find that's an issue in most active SE rooms.
But will anything be done? Noooooooooooooooo.
 
1:26 PM
The Bridge is the only sandbox I need.
 
at the end of the day chat is a site with network wide standards and network wide moderation; we can try and push the line but we shouldn't be surprised when the line pushes back at us.
 
Not a great solution
Doing it in the origin circle is hard
 
The whole "but he's not a regular!"/"a moderator of ours!" etc. argument has no standing
 
@badp It doesn't? Context is hugely important when determining offensive
 
and you can hardly say that people like @MadScientist or @WorldEngineer don't idle here enough
@Sconibulus Transcript is a thing that exists
 
1:28 PM
@badp Well, yeah, but room dynamics play a part, too.
 
It isn't perfect but it's there for people to review.
 
Only the room regulars know the attitude/context of the room, so "offensive" can really depend.
 
I was thinking cultural context, more than immediate context
 
Honestly, I'm not convinced the transcript is used in determining validity, given some of the stupid shit I've seen approved.
 
2 mins ago, by badp
at the end of the day chat is a site with network wide standards and network wide moderation; we can try and push the line but we shouldn't be surprised when the line pushes back at us.
 
1:28 PM
@fredley Still need 3 in origin
 
@OrigamiRobot Me too
Fuck those ones
 
In other words, we don't want to have rooms where (say) racial slurs are okay to be thrown at each other because that's the way people roll there
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I could go to christianity.se, say "god doesn't exist lol" and get flagged by a room's user as it was offensive to them. Depending on who handles the flag it also may or may not be offensive to them.
 
@fredley Oh, the circles don't have to be in the configuration shown?
 
@Sconibulus Any rotation is fine
 
1:30 PM
(not that I reccomend doing that, before people get ideas)
 
Ahh, that'll make it easier
 
@Fluttershy I got suspended for someone kneejerk validating a flag asking for more offensive flags.
 
@fbueckert My point exactly.
 
There needs to be a bit more thought put into flag validation.
 
@fbueckert I unsusended you seconds later
 
1:30 PM
It's funny because things that actually deserve timeouts don't get validated.
 
@badp That's not the point.
 
@fbueckert It is the point. What harm some mods make, other mods can undo
If you get banned and stay banned chances are you deserved it.
 
I got banned for posting a Rebecca Black video.
 
The point is that without actual context and knowledge, the system is prone to abuse.
@Powerlord Then you deserved it.
Because she's the worst.
(also, joking. Don't really mean that.)
 
@fbueckert FLAGGED OFFENSIVE YOU'RE WRONG
 
1:32 PM
@Wipqozn Yeah you'll be fine. I recommend Pikmin 2 highly as well. It's changed how exploration works a fair bit, and there's no longer an absolute time limit. Plus 2 player co-op/versus which is really fun
 
It'd likely get approved.
 
@StrixVaria NO YOU ARE!
 
The fundamental problem is that only the fastest users/mods decide the outcome of a flag. Anyone that takes their time to look is too late
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Really hope Pikmin 3 has competetive multiplayer, I know it has co-op
 
I need to get back into player Pikmin 1.
I bought a used copy of the Wii version.
 
1:33 PM
@MadScientist That sounds like a problem that needs to be looked at.
 
@BenBrocka Yeah, I'm planning to play it. I just might play through Pikmin 3 first.
 
@Powerlord That's a Nintendo Classics thing, right?
 
@fbueckert It's the "New Control Scheme" or whatever they call it.
 
Or whatever they call their version of Greatest Hits
 
@fbueckert Nope, that'd be Pikmin 2.
 
1:34 PM
Now I am bored.
 
Wow, Rhythm Heaven Fever is only $10 on Amazon?
I wonder if that's a sale price.
 
Ooooh I think I might have 4 in origin, I have a theory at least
 
Any bets on the Summer Sale starting this week?
 
@Wipqozn story-wise you're not missing much. Especially since Olimar appears to be missing from Pikmin 3?
 
@Fluttershy Chances are fairly high.
Too bad the chances of seeing the "major TF2 update" are falling the more Valve talks about it.
 
1:37 PM
@BenBrocka He is in iot somehow I believe.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Seen some sites that post stuff like that, cool to see it centralized though
@Powerlord TF3 confirmed?!
 
If it starts tomorrow, I'd be okay with it. I get paid tomorrow. =P
@BenBrocka Valve can't count to 3.
 
@BenBrocka Well, no, they're just talking about doing extensive changes. Note I said "doing" not "have done".
 
> It was stated by Miyamoto in one of the Nintendo Direct discussions following E3 that Olimar has an appearance in the storyline of Pikmin 3, in which at some point the three new captains will end up either meeting or getting involved with Olimar in some way. Miyamoto also said that Olimar will not have that big of an appearance. There are no other current details on this however aside from that interview.
 
YES
origin circle ftw
 
1:39 PM
user image
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My whole childhood is ruined.
 
@StrixVaria Yeah, reality has a way of doing that.
 
@fredley I don't even...
 
@StrixVaria depends on resistance
 
@Unionhawk It could be simpler I guess
 
To be fair Wile E. Coyote wasn't very smart
 
1:42 PM
I'm sure there's redundancy in my construction
 
humans can't outrun... uhh... gazzelles, but they can hunt for them simply by chasing them for long enough
 
@BenBrocka He was a Coyote that could build machinery. He was a genius.
 
@Wipqozn Ah. 3 new captains? Is Louie playable then, or is it only 3 player?
 
Or just shoot them.
 
@BenBrocka Olimar is playable in Bingo mode or something.
I'm not sure how many players it is
 
1:43 PM
@Powerlord Just a joke, Valve actually has much more reason to keep TF2 without a sequel than any other franchise, really, since they can just keep updating it
 
@BenBrocka Unless hats transfer over to TF3.
 
@Wipqozn they found a back of the box shot (which looks reasonably real): neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=616866 can't tell from the box how many players it supports though (it's japanese)
 
@Fluttershy if you want to stay in touch you can add me to Steam
a handful of the rest of you can too
the rest of you can die in a fire
it's been a pleasure
 
@kalina Aww.
 
1:46 PM
White and Purple Pikmin are multiplayer only it seems
 
good luck with your future endeavours
 
@kalina Bye!
 
I'm off to run some errands
 
My steam profile is on the checklist.
 
@kalina That sucks. All the best.
 
1:47 PM
@kalina Don't
 
@kalina hat tip
 
@fredley I did some math, but I did it in my head and forgot what it was. :(
 
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, once I think I might need paper to figure out 3 origin circle pack
 
@kalina :(
 
@fredley Yea, I know what I need to do, just not how to do it.
 
1:53 PM
Hear ye, hear ye. Kalina of Arqade has left us. June 06, 2012, to July 9, 2013. Reps in peace.
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Damn. I'm gonna lose SO much rep.
 
@fbueckert High rep users' votes are conserved
 
@fbueckert small matter of 3,436 upvotes. Welp.
oh okay
 
I did the origin 4-circle pack twice now. Both times it refused to accept it. Meh.
 
@MartinSojka You did it wrong
 
1:54 PM
@fredley Did they change that after Mark got his account deleted?
 
@fbueckert Yeah think so.
@fbueckert No, before
 
They fucked up in Mark's case though
 
@Oak Why is that a sadface?
 
And all the votes were publicly removed then readded, so everyone saw them
 
1:56 PM
@fredley Ah. That makes sense.
 
@fbueckert actually his votes WERE Supposed to be conserved or something but it got screwed up somehow
 
Oak
@fbueckert because I have to wait another 3 days until it gets here. Apparently there's very high bandwidth associated with releasing games digitally
 
I think his upvotes were kept but downvotes removed or something
 
@tombull89 User 27134. Never Forget.
 
1:57 PM
@Oak Yay, region windows.
 
@MartinSojka Wtf have you done with the angles?
 
@MartinSojka Not origin circle
 
@MartinSojka Yeah, not origin circle
 
> Constable
Oh hey cool, new badges for pro-tem mods
 
@OrigamiRobot The four inner circles are centered around one of the two origin points.
 
1:58 PM
@MartinSojka Origin Circle means the first circle you draw.
 
@MartinSojka I believe top-left is misaligned a bit.
 
@MartinSojka Doesn't make it the origin circle. It needs to be the first one you draw.
 
@RonanForman ... really? It would be so nice if they explained that somewhere ...
 
@MartinSojka That's what origin means.
 
@MartinSojka That would be boring.
 

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