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Let me begin by making it clear that this is not a generic "PS4 vs XOne" question, I've read plenty of reviews and discussions. The very specific question is: Which would be better as a living room gaming platform? Meaning if I would use the console mainly for playing games that can be played b...

Origami Robot

I give up. You have all failed me.

Grace Note

I'd go with "so formal and proper it seemed out of place".

Wipqozn

@GraceNote That's not a word, that's a phrase.

Unionhawk

You're a phrase

Wipqozn

7:21 PM

@Unionhawk So if your face.

Also @AshleyNunn might know a word for that.

She's into words.

Origami Robot

@GraceNote It's become less about finding a word to use and more about finding the exact word I'm thinking of.

Grace Note

@Wipqozn Your linguistic naïveté makes me chuckle and chortle.

Unionhawk

Origami Robot

Chortle <3

Unionhawk

Or is that too simple?

Wipqozn

7:22 PM

@OrigamiRobot Just make up a word. If it was good enough for Shakespeare, then it's good enough for you!

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk I'm not going to go to ELU and ask the equivalent of an ITG.

Unionhawk

iirc, that sort of thing is kind of what they do around there...

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot identify-this-word

Grace Note

I'd go in the ELU room first

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk I don't care. It's not the kind of thing I do.

Grace Note

7:23 PM

And ask "Hey what do y'all think about single word requests".

When the chaos dies down, that'll tell you the appropriateness.

Lazers

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Q: PES2009 PC - How to access the MasterLeague training menu?

I'm currently playing Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 - the master league mode. Toward the end of the season I get a message stating - During the off-season transfer period you can also developer players through training sessions. Select the player(s) you want to train and then set the training me...

pro-evolution-soccer

Wipqozn

@GraceNote I think they're fine there, but I could just be a filthy lying Turtle.

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot grandiloquent?

magniloquent?

technical?

Origami Robot

@GraceNote english.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/single-word-requests

GnomeSlice

in English Language & Usage, 6 mins ago, by KitSox

@MattЭллен magniloquent Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

Origami Robot

7:41 PM

@UNI NO! BAD @UNI

Lazers

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Q: Locations of tears in Bioshock Infinite?

Okay, so I've got pretty well through Bioshock Infinite. After defeating the ghost of Elizabeth's mother, I gotta find three tears. I found the first one in the house with the Infusion, but I can't seem to find the other two. Where are they please?

bioshock-infinite

Origami Robot

I LIED ABOUT GIVING UP THIS IS GOING TO BOTHER ME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot I still think grandiloquent is the closest.

Arperum

@OrigamiRobot Good. Let the bother consume your soul.

Origami Robot

robots don't have souls

Coronus

7:47 PM

I don't believe you.

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot overwrought

Origami Robot

@Coronus I bet my soul on it.

@SaintWacko Nope :(

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot grandiose?

Coronus

I like bombastic.

Are we still looking for that word?

Origami Robot

@SaintWacko That doesn't seem emotionless to me.

GnomeSlice

7:49 PM

I like to say "Bless you" when someone farts because if there ever was a need to ward against signs of demon possession that's probably it.

Tweeted by duhprey on April 4, 2014 at 11:21 PM

@OrigamiRobot grandiloquent

somebody who isn't blocked say grandiloquent

But not @Wipqozn

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot y u ask @StrixVaria about my new stuff? D: It's not good

ALSO HI BRIDGE

Coronus

@spugsley HI!

Origami Robot

@spugsley BECAUSE IT IS GOOD NOW HELP ME FIND THIS WORD IM LOOKING FOR

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot WHAT WORD

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot GnomeSlice offered a few that he procured from the ELU room.

Origami Robot

7:52 PM

@spugsley A word for something sounding too formal. Like stilted, but not the word stilted. Also, emotionless.

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote He can't see them.

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice I know

He can use the transcript, though, or otherwise access the material.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Are you looking for this word to leave a comment on my story?

Origami Robot

None of what @GnomeSlice is saying is correct because from what I can tell, he forgot to include the "emotionless" part

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot pedantic?

Origami Robot

7:54 PM

@StrixVaria That is what prompted it, yes. I already used "stilted", but now I just want the word I am trying to think of.

GnomeSlice

academic?

spugsley

pompous?

Origami Robot

@spugsley Pompus is full of pride.

I will never find this word. T_T

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot not necessarily. There are other uses

OH

ceremonious?

Origami Robot

For all I know, I'm thinking of the wrong usage.

@spugsley That feels closer, but no.

Unionhawk

7:55 PM

@GnomeSlice How the fuck did you make 10 in the flappy goat minigame? I give up on even attempting that.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Erudite? Scholastic?

Grace Note

...Flappy Goat?

GnomeSlice

@Unionhawk I got 94 on real flappy bird.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria Scholastic is moving in the right direction

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote Minigame in Goat Simulator.

Unionhawk

7:56 PM

It's a minigame inside Goat Simula-- what he said

Grace Note

Oh, okay, so it is related to that.

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot are you sure you don't mean pedantic?

Origami Robot

Scholastic, education, technical... not quite there...

@spugsley That is not the word I am trying to remember.

spugsley

highbrow?

GnomeSlice

oo highbrow

Chippies

7:57 PM

@OrigamiRobot thesaurus.com/browse/formal

spugsley

matter-of-fact?

demonstrative?

analytic?!?!

Chippies

Solemn?

Origami Robot

My brain just tried to use the word I'm trying to think of to describe this. I almost said "No, it needs to be more _______"

Unionhawk

???

spugsley

Objective?!

Chippies

7:59 PM

thesaurus has weird synonyms for formal

Origami Robot

It sounds like a medical word to me

spugsley

clinical?

Origami Robot

57 mins ago, by Origami Robot

My brain keeps going back to "clinical" and that's not it.

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot oh sorry, didn't see that

Origami Robot

It wasn't meant to correct you or anything, I just thought it was funny.

SaintWacko

8:01 PM

Exacting?

StrixVaria

@spugsley I'm going to try to read your new stuff on the train after I get tired of writing.

Writing on a phone is so shitty I can only do it for like 20 minutes before I ragequit each session.

finicky?

conventional?

fancy

@GnomeSlice fancy is very emotional

spugsley

8:02 PM

@StrixVaria haaaaaa I didn't tell you it was up because it isn't muich and it's not very good

Origami Robot

Clinical is so close to being what I want.

badp

@OrigamiRobot ♫ I've already told you ♫ I've already told you ♫ I've already told you ♫

StrixVaria

@spugsley "not very good" bullshit

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria This is why i'm telling you about it so you can talk sense into her

StrixVaria

I think there's some psychological effect that all writing is perceived by its own author to be the worst writing ever.

spugsley

8:04 PM

@StrixVaria this. A million times this.

badp

@StrixVaria impostor syndrome?

spugsley

I've been trying to work through some issues in my story and it makes me hate it so much.

StrixVaria

@badp Maybe related to that.

spugsley

I have no idea where the story is going. I just know I like my characters and that I have a conflict. That's good, right? lol

StrixVaria

@spugsley Do you know the end?

Like, my issue was I knew the setup and the finale, but not all the meat in the middle to actually bridge the two.

Kevin van der Velden

8:05 PM

@StrixVaria it's usually combined with Dunnig-Kruger effect where people who think their writing is the awesomest write pretty poorly

StrixVaria

@KevinvanderVelden Oh yeah that effect. Ugh.

spugsley

@StrixVaria not entirely. I have an endgame in mind but no idea if it'll actually work once the story situates itself

@KevinvanderVelden hahahahaha I know someone like this and he's actually made a lot of money on his self-pubbed novel

StrixVaria

If you have someone else who's already spoilered, maybe discuss it with them to brainstorm stuff.

Kevin van der Velden

@spugsley you know stephenie meyer? :o

spugsley

@KevinvanderVelden seriously, read the description of this shit: amazon.com/Wand-Makers-Debate-Osrics-Wand-Book-ebook/dp/…

I edited this book.

And it's still a hot mess

StrixVaria

8:07 PM

I also know someone who self-published a novel, and although I don't think he made a lot of money off it, he's so confident that it's amazing and it's so fucking unbelievably bad.

spugsley

@StrixVaria hahaha yes I remember you showed me

StrixVaria

I can't comment about the plot; I haven't read the whole thing.

But his style. Holy shit his style.

spugsley

@StrixVaria well, it's not really spoilered because it's just a bunch of ideas and only a resolution to one of hte problems in the story. no idea what I want to do about my bad dude, etc ughhh

badp

> A world of magic in it's infancy....

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria this

spugsley

8:08 PM

@badp There is a time when history begins

@badp I know. I tried to help.

he insisted that was right :D

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria I feel like feedback from someone who knows where it's going can't give as good feedback as someone who doesn't in certain areas. Like in a "does this make sense so far" kinda way.

spugsley

and I wasn't getting paid so I said Ok

badp

@spugsley It's only bold italic in the book description. I'm sure he'll do fine.

spugsley

@badp again, he has made actual money. Like bought a new car with the profits

and the second one is already out (I did not offer to edit that one I would seriously have pulled my hair out)

badp

@spugsley See? He did fine. Was it a 1:24 scale car?

spugsley

8:10 PM

@badp hahahah

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot I think both kinds of feedback are valuable. Feedback from people who don't know the story is useful because you can make sure that you have enough exposition/explanation. Feedback from people who do know the story is useful because they can make sure you're consistently representing the characters and setting.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria I agree, I'm just saying she has a surplus of the latter right now and needs more of the former.

Unfortunately, it's really hard to be in both camps.

StrixVaria

smile.amazon.com/Cataclysm-A-Grapsas/dp/1475069774/…

Do we not one-box smile links?

My in-browser search automatically searches smile.

Anyway that's a link to his self-published thing.

Take a look inside.

Seeing how shitty some stuff is makes me want to write more.

Origami Robot

I just have to keep reminding her that JK Rowling has made a fortune with stories involving names like "Diagon Alley" and "Remus Lupin"

badp

I'm just happy that Amazon has finally moved past buttons being images

...at least on the .com site

The .it site is still stuck in .gif land :/

GnomeSlice

8:20 PM

@StrixVaria that has really good reviews

Are you sure it's bad

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice They're all his personal friends.

GnomeSlice

Heh

StrixVaria

I can't comment on the plot; that might be amazing.

But I can't read it, because he uses 8 words to describe things that need 1 word.

Every time he ever needs to reference a thing.

Anyway it's just about home time.

Origami Robot

THIS WORD IS PROBABLY REALLY SIMPLE AND I'M GOING TO FEEL REALLY DUMB WHEN I FINALLY REMEMBER IT

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot lol you still can't remember?

Origami Robot

8:23 PM

NO t_t

badp

@OrigamiRobot YOU WROUGHT THIS ONTO YOURSELF - IN MORE THAN ONE WAY

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot Just stop trying and you'll think of it

Origami Robot

IT'S NOT A WORD I USE ALL THE TIME

I FEEL LIKE IT STARTS WITH AN F SOUND BUT NOW I MIGHT BE DELUSIONAL

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot Fedantic

5

Origami Robot

NOW YOU'RE JUST MAKING WORDS UP

spugsley

8:29 PM

I think I'm going to go back and get my Master's Degree :/

Origami Robot

@spugsley THAT'S VERY NOBLE OF YOU, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT FOR ME

spugsley

if I can even get in to a Masters Program

@OrigamiRobot hahahahahahahaha

Origami Robot

I'LL FIGURE OUT THE WORD EVENTUALLY

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot I might learn it when I'm working on my Masters

@OrigamiRobot and I'm not making words up. That's someone being pedantic while wearing a fedora. Fedantic

or a Fez

GnomeSlice

CC @StrixVaria

Wow, that was fast

75 titles greenlit on Steam today

@OrigamiRobot @Fluttershy Reef Shot is one of them.

And Prisonscape

Ascendant

Collateral

Echo of the Wilds

tons of stuff

SaintWacko

8:43 PM

@OrigamiRobot faskelnlksncnklenasdfad

Origami Robot

DIDN'T I JUST TELL YOU TO STOP MAKIN UP ~~ANIMALS~~ WORDS?

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn Woodle Tree is greenlit. :)

Arperum

Having one of the most common names is hilarious at times.

I just got a mail to ask if I had time to do a wedding photoshoot on monday (I'm a web developer) and two minutes later a mail "woops, wrong person" follows.

Origami Robot

I GIVE UP I AM GOING HOME

Yuki

@fredley I can't seem to log in at all with ChatSEy.

fredley

9:05 PM

@Yuki Are you using the Market version?

@Yuki Login problems are understood, I have a potential fix, want to try it?

@Yuki If so

badp

@OrigamiRobot HAHAHAHA I KNEW IT

schadenfreude get

GnomeSlice

theuniversim.com

This is starting to gain traction in the press.

Awesome.

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice ...I need to back this

GnomeSlice

@SaintWacko I'm very tempted as well.

They're going to pass their goal with flying colours I suspect.

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot finical

badp

9:16 PM

@SaintWacko I still don't get this one

SaintWacko

►

I want to play this now

Origami Robot

34 mins ago, by Origami Robot

DIDN'T I JUST TELL YOU TO STOP MAKIN UP ~~ANIMALS~~ WORDS?

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I didn't make it up.

SaintWacko

@badp How do you know that everywhere you aren't looking right now isn't solid hitlers, standing shoulder to shoulder?

Wipqozn

> another term for finicky.

SaintWacko

9:18 PM

And they move whenever you look

Origami Robot

How is that anything like what I've been describing?

badp

@SaintWacko I could reach behind my back

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I think it fits the situation perfectly!

Origami Robot

When I said "clinical is so close" I meant in meaning, not in sound.

Wipqozn

I'm starting to suspect this word doesn't actually exist.

Origami Robot

9:22 PM

@Wipqozn I've been suspecting this for quite some time, but then it keeps almost coming to me

SaintWacko

@badp They'd move out of the way

Okay, backed Universim at the $55 tier

badp

@SaintWacko That's not what the picture says

SaintWacko

Alpha access for me and my girlfriend

@badp It's implied

Actually, no

If you do so, the hitlers will cut your arms off

:P

badp

actually the field of view is centered in an imaginary point in between my eyes

as a result part of my body would be solid hitlers

but only part of it

SaintWacko

this looks cool, too

@badp pedant

badp

9:30 PM

@SaintWacko All I'm saying is, technically you didn't know you were wrong.

Braiam

@SaintWacko isn't that based on the Schrodinger's Cat case

Frank

@SaintWacko OK, that looks pretty darn cool.

SaintWacko

@Frank Yeah, no kidding

And it's going to have multiplayer coop

I just want to skip to its release date

Frank

9:48 PM

@SaintWacko Running through the rest of their pitch, it sounds an awful lot like Spore meets Black & White.

spugsley

We are supposed to get really scary stormies tonight :(

@Fluttershy it's all your fault!

Coronus

@spugsley ...how?

Arperum

@SaintWacko Isn't th multiplayer some kind of strech goal? or what is that multiplayer strech goal about?

spugsley

@Coronus his part of the country makes weather crazy and then it comes here!

user15026

@spugsley be safe, pretty lady

Coronus

9:50 PM

@spugsley makes sense.

Chippies

collegehumor.com/video/6966989/…

spugsley

@AshleyNunn I installed an "OH NO TORNADO OMG" app on my phone bc it might happen while we are sleeping

Frank

No DRM, no internet required (except for multiplayer, which makes sense), no paid DLC, no microtransactions.

Sounds like everything they could do right, they are.

user15026

@spugsley hugs tight

SaintWacko

@Arperum Oh, you're right, I missed that

Arperum

9:54 PM

@SaintWacko And it's a pretty large stretch goal even.

SaintWacko

@Arperum Hm, that's too bad

Yikes, yeah

Hm

May have to rethink the tier I pledged

fredley

Woo, I capped off that CC question

Arqade > SO for Lua problems

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