The Bridge

@fredley Essentially, every mod is one of @AshleyNunn's sockpuppets. Once you become a mod, you are deleted from SE and @AshleyNunn takes control of your account.

fredley

Until you are a mod, then you become Enlightened and see that all modship is for the greater good.

The greater good

user15026

I really don't know why I got implicated in this sock-tastic scheme

fredley

►

Yuki

@AshleyNunn Stemmed from my realization that you are a mod on, like, way too many SE sites.

user15026

4:50 PM

@Yuki ...only one!

user15026

I was a Pets mod, and a Library mod when that was a thing

Yuki

@AshleyNunn Oh, you aren't a mod on Pets anymore?

user15026

but I gave up the Pets one for reasons

user15026

Nope.

MBraedley

Yay! I can finally add extensions to chrome at work without tethering my phone

Yuki

4:51 PM

Not sure what this means for my theory now.

Unionhawk

@OrigamiRobot Yuuuuuuuup

fredley

I don't think it's possible to work out who you are from the page :(

Not until you've posted anyway

Yuki

My original theory was that your modship on Pets and Library was your initial attempts at takeover of SE, but it was a little too obvious. So now you just take control of newly elected mod accounts like some kind of Q&A Mass Effect Reaper.

@AshleyNunn: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

^ Every mod election

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk No. Stop this foolishness.

fredley

How can I be @AshleyNunn? I'm evil.

Coronus

4:53 PM

@fredley You're a porkchop. Porkchops aren't evil.

Unionhawk

I think another important aspect of why it has to be @AshleyNunn is that nobody would suspect it.

@OrigamiRobot Blame the porkchop!

Yuki

@Unionhawk Yeah, that's the other part.

Origami Robot

@AshleyNunn Was one of those reasons bad tags? Because they have/had bad tags.

MBraedley

Yay, no more annoying ads at work!

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk I blame you.

Unionhawk

4:54 PM

I'm not even british! That makes no sen-- sigh

Yuki

All right, time to get ready to head to campus.

WHOO OS FINAL WHOO facedesks repeatedly

As you can tell, I'm really excited for (read: dreading) this.

SaintWacko

@Yuki I hated that class

That's the class that made me not finish my degree

Yuki

@SaintWacko I'm almost entirely certain that I'll fail the class even if I get an A on this final.

Makes me not want to try at all.

user15026

@OrigamiRobot I know :(

GnomeSlice

@fredley sparkworkz.com/fc2

Kevin van der Velden

4:58 PM

Huh, I'm at a nice and even 3500 rep on arqade now :o

Braiam

what's "OS"?

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk You're the one who brought it to my attention.

Fluttershy

Bridge, I have no air conditioner. It is dead. :( And it is currently... 78F out and climbing. The high for today is 85.

Yuki

@Braiam Operating Systems? I'm not sure if this is serious or not since I swear I've heard you talk about programming.

fredley

@GnomeSlice What is this?

GnomeSlice

4:58 PM

@Yuki operating system final?

@fredley A game where you build machines to move objects into goals.

Braiam

@Yuki ^

GnomeSlice

I played the shit out of the first fantastic contraption

Braiam

why there's a course called OS?

Origami Robot

Yuki

@Braiam Because it's a course on how operating systems work?

Origami Robot

4:59 PM

This works.

Yuki

And how different parts of operating systems work?

fredley

@GnomeSlice Not tagpro, dislike

GnomeSlice

@fredley Uh. Okay, nevermind then.

Jason Berkan

I loved my OS class. For every topic - there's this way to do it, which trades space for time, or this way to do it, which trades time for space, or the way Microsoft did it, which makes no sense at all.

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Krazer

@GnomeSlice soundcloud.com/kolossus-records/home-pacifica-g-o-l-d-t-e-a-r

badp

5:01 PM

@JasonBerkan awww. We just looked at Linux

Yuki

@JasonBerkan My favorite part was when we discussed page replacement policies.

GnomeSlice

@Krazer Listening

Yuki

> "What policies are the worst?"
> "Local and global FIFO."
> "What policies are partially based on FIFO?"
> "Windows."

GnomeSlice

@Krazer This is pretty nice.

@Krazer thrupence.bandcamp.com/album/voyages-ep

fredley

@GnomeSlice I'll give it a try

Krazer

5:04 PM

@GnomeSlice is there a soundcloud for this?

GnomeSlice

@Krazer I looked. No. :(

Krazer

aww I'll have to listen later

GnomeSlice

@Krazer Here's one of the tracks though soundcloud.com/thrupence/thrupence-voyages

fredley

@GnomeSlice this is an old game

Krazer

yay

badp

5:05 PM

@JasonBerkan at any rate chances are it's probably about backwards compatibility

GnomeSlice

@fredley Eh, so.

It's still great.

Lazers

0

Q: Why is hacking such a problem in Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2?

So I got this game a week after it came out for PC, and I was kinda looking forward to pvp, but the first guy that invaded me was a hacker. He stood still and let me hit him like 30 times which did no noticeable damage, then he punched me once for an instant kill. Why is hacking so prevalent in t...

dark-souls

GnomeSlice

Eeee shift happens on bandcamp music.simplifyrecordings.com/album/love-light-shift-happens

Tweakly

why can't I answer any questions :/?

Jason Berkan

@badp For sure. Microsoft was big about that back in the day.

Fluttershy

5:07 PM

@OrigamiRobot Is that a dry ice AC?

Origami Robot

@Fluttershy No, ice water.

3ventic

@Lazers That was posted before

no time to find original tho

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot Oh. Still acceptable. But I don't have the copper tubing I'd need.

Origami Robot

@Fluttershy Well, go get some!

badp

@JasonBerkan Have you read the bonus chapters of The Old New Thing? They're free and mindblowing/hilarious

Fluttershy

5:08 PM

@OrigamiRobot I have no moneys!

Origami Robot

Also a fish pump and plastic hose

badp

@JasonBerkan They're 1 and 2

Tweakly

@badp any reasons I can't post currently?

Jason Berkan

@badp I have not. I used to read the blog regularly, but stopped some time ago.

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot To pump cold water into the copper tubing?

badp

5:09 PM

@Tweakly Where can't you post?

Origami Robot

@Fluttershy Yes.

Tweakly

@badp Newest questions *I can't answer

Krazer

►

badp

@Tweakly There is a thing where people can be banned from posting answers if they are detected as bad apples, but if this is your Arqade account then you should be fine

GnomeSlice

@Krazer The thing I linked isn't chipmusic. Guess you still can't see it. :/

badp

5:11 PM

What's the error message you're getting?

Lazers

0

Q: Can someone please tell me how to beat Knight Artorias in the darksouls dlc or at least what he is vulnerable to

I mean I have been trying it with all combinations of weapons and armours but nothing seems to even bring his HP down to 1/3. Any help or tips or vulnerabilities about knight artorias would be helpful. Thankyou!

dark-souls

Tweakly

@badp yep that's me, but I wrote an answer, posted, got the error saying "an error occurred submitting this answer"

badp

Nothing more specific?

Did you perchance get this page?

Tweakly

@badp gyazo.com/0d79f2fc7c9e64157d7e33f8620cc932

badp

@Tweakly Sounds like a good ole bug to me :)

I would try and post about it on meta where developers can look at it

Tweakly

5:14 PM

@badp Used the word hacker, is there a profanity list? word ban list

badp

@Tweakly While I'm not a fan of the word, there's no profanity list

right now the only thing that's blacklisted is a tag (for the curious: bug/bugs)

Can I get a link to the question?

Tweakly

@badp gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/166944/…

@badp I can post it now :)

Fluttershy

kickstarter.com/projects/harmonix/amplitude

Harmonix is trying to make a new Amplitude!

Tim Stone

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Q: Can’t submit answers

Since a few minutes ago, I haven’t been able to submit any answers on Stack Overflow: This seems to happen on every question; I tried using both Firefox and Chromium. According to my profile page, I’m not blocked from answering. The question isn’t deleted, locked, or closed. I can comment fine...

bug answers

Fluttershy

I just backed Amplitude on @Kickstarter http://kck.st/1fMau1o Hoping to get the dinner with TIM SCHAFER!!!

Tweeted by TimOfLegend on May 5, 2014 at 4:46 PM

This made me lol.

GnomeSlice

5:34 PM

@Fluttershy harmonixmusic.com/games/chroma

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice I signed up for the alpha last month.

Slowpoke.gif

GnomeSlice

Whaaaat there was an alpha invitation

rvseibwkuebgrfne4s

SaintWacko

@Yuki A third of my OS class didn't even show up to the final, because it wouldn't have made a difference

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice ... it's in the link you posted...

SaintWacko

I showed up, but I failed it miserably

GnomeSlice

5:41 PM

@Fluttershy My internet is bad, the page didn't load.

I just needed the URL

The IndieGala Weekly

Collateral! Metal Drift!

GUH I WANT COLLATERAL

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=156122770

agent86

lifehack for downloads - use gravity!

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Lazers

-1

Q: Minecraft EXCEPTION ACCESS VIOLATION

I understand that there are questions related to this subject already on the site but I feel mine is different as I have a different problematic frame etc.. My error is, as mentioned in the title, an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION that is thrown whenever I start up any form of Minecraft (Vanilla, m...

minecraft technical-issues

MBraedley

@Lazers Props for being thorough, not sure we'll be able to help (although it looks like it may be a filesystem permissions issue).

Sterno

We have 103 questions tagged minecraft technical-issues

That's more than most games have questions

3ventic

Minecraft has the most questions too

badp

5:54 PM

@TimStone diagnosis status: nailed

SaintWacko

ahaha

Lazers

0

Q: Where can I sell items in Dark Souls 2

I have gathered so many items over my playtime of Dark Souls 2 but I want to know where I can sell them, if I can sell them, any help would be appreciated, thank you :)

dark-souls-2

SaintWacko

@Lazers dupe

Yuki

@SaintWacko What five word sentence ends with the word "nugget" and is something a mother would say to her son/daughter?

SaintWacko

@Yuki I found a gold nugget

I want a chicken nugget

Panic Bomb

6:06 PM

I think one of my animal crossing villagers calls me "nugget"

SaintWacko

You want a chicken nugget?

Yuki

@PanicBomb That's more than 5 words.

SaintWacko

Lots of sentences

Fluttershy

@Lazers The answer to this is a direct copy/paste from the minecraft forums.

SaintWacko

@Yuki My friend calls me nugget

Yuki

6:07 PM

Also, "nugget nugget nugget".

Maybe "nugget" is also an autocorrect entry they added?

Panic Bomb

@Yuki IT WAS NOT A RESPONSE TO YOUR QUESTION :O

FEichinger

@Fluttershy Yay plagiarism!

SaintWacko

@Yuki Yeah, I was curious about that

Yuki

In any case, I'm getting better at fighting the Smelter Demon.

Getting practice through co-op is best practice.

I accidentally words in the middle of my sentences all the time. I need to fix that.

Powerlord

6:23 PM

Hmm, I need to think up something witty but work safe as a name for our new conference room here.

Yuki

@Powerlord The _____ Bungalow.

badp

Bungie

Put in one (1) Halo figurine for added effect

Powerlord

Well, to give you an idea of how terrible the names for our existing conference rooms are, they're named "CGI Resource Room", "CGI Small", and "CGI Large" in ascending size order.

Yuki

Or if you're super-nerdy, find a Marathon figurine.

Powerlord

Well, Resource Room isn't technically a conference room as we don't let outside people use it.

This new one is tiny.

badp

6:28 PM

@Powerlord how about CGI Unskippable

→ 7 messages moved to The Android Hell: This Is The Part Where All The Robots Scream At You.

SaintWacko

@Powerlord The CENSORED Room

@Powerlord CGI Small is larger than CGI Resource Room?

Powerlord

@SaintWacko Yes.

SaintWacko

@Powerlord Huh

New one should be CGI XS

@Alex Why are you randoming again?

Powerlord

...now I'm tempted to suggest CGI Tall poking fun at StarBucks sizes.

Yuki

@SaintWacko At this point, you stop asking questions and just put him on ignore.

SaintWacko

6:31 PM

@Yuki I thought I had. Apparently not

Also, he seemed to be doing a little bit better

badp

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

Yuki

@SaintWacko Every time I can bothered to check (which is when people actually reply to him saying something other than "stop spamming"), it still doesn't seem much better.

SaintWacko

I'm debating whether to ignore or flag

Yuki

@badp I submit my vote for MOD ABUSE.

Unionhawk

Like I said at the bottom, glossed and formatted, no credit is required unless requested. Also try this link java.com/en/download/help/minecraft_error.xml — Tweakly 5 mins ago

> no credit is required unless requested

ಠ_ಠ

SaintWacko

6:34 PM

@Unionhawk I don't like this guy

@badp, can you ban him?

Alex, not Tweakly

badp

@SaintWacko if it keeps up, then yes, self-deletion of messages is not going to help him.

SaintWacko

@badp Excellent, thanks

MBraedley

@Alex please stop before @badp does ban you

SaintWacko

I'm having trouble flagging as spam

It gets deleted just before the flag goes through

MBraedley

And my patience is gone in an instant

badp

6:36 PM

→ 7 messages moved to The Android Hell: This Is The Part Where All The Robots Scream At You.

SCIENCE STATUS: SUCCESS

SaintWacko

> This user has been temporarily suspended by a moderator and cannot chat for 2 hours 59 minutes.

Thank you

badp

You can move deleted messages. IT WILL KEEP HAPPENING

user15026

Magical. :)

Unionhawk

Nice.

user15026

@Unionhawk That's wrong.

user15026

6:36 PM

So very wrong.

Unionhawk

@AshleyNunn I know.

user15026

I don't know what his "glossed and formatted" crap means, but it doesn't mean he gets to copypasta without attribution.

Krazer

@badp you missed one

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn I would have assumed it meant he paraphrased and rewrote, but apparently he didn't even do that

user15026

@SaintWacko Yeah, that's why I am like extra confused

user15026

6:38 PM

because it is a direct copypaste without any attribution, which, oh hey, plagiarism

Ben Brocka

@badp oh, THAT guy

Unionhawk

@SaintWacko There's tiny wording differences, and tiny formatting differences, but it's not a paraphrase.

Yuki

Does his comment mean I can copy-paste his answer, say "glossed and formatted" at the bottom, and get upvotes?

user15026

@Yuki As a mod I can't condone this, but...well.

Yuki

And he can't say anything about it because "haha, gaming Q&A site don't need no attributions"?

SaintWacko

6:39 PM

@AshleyNunn this user is rapidly using up my 'new user goodwill'

user15026

@SaintWacko He used up mine last night

Yuki

@AshleyNunn I am a big fan of taking people at their word and messing with them. Even if it makes me do horrible things like plagiarism. Fight fire with fire and eventually they'll get third-degree burns.

Granted I never actually go through with it because I'm a giant coward...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OS FINAL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

badp

@Krazer ?

MBraedley

@Yuki Breath in... breath out

user15026

@Yuki Breathe! Slow and deep.

badp

6:42 PM

@AshleyNunn According to the ToS it might be that he's got a license from the post author and thus he's in the clear, but the chances of that are vanishingly low

I'm kinda dubious about the value of support droning on Stack Exchange in general, anyway

SaintWacko

@LessPop_MoreFizz Finally watching this. This is hilarious

@AshleyNunn This is my first contact with him. What did he do last night?

Ben Brocka

Krazer

@badp (One of his deleted messages wasn't moved)

user15026

17 hours ago, by Tweakly

@Frank I am openly admitting I have more that one account, I have several accounts, which can +1 my own posts on the other accounts thus allowing the downvote to be given

Panic Bomb

ITG alert

user15026

6:46 PM

Ultimately came to nothing, and he tried to apologize for stuff earlier today, but....eh.

badp

@Krazer science is no less triumphant!

Lazers

1

Q: Breeding the Yeti

In Zoo Tycoon you can get the Yeti as a downloadable creature for your zoo. They cost 10,000 each and are very difficult to maintain. The question is, what are the requirements for getting these animals to breed. When they do, what is the price for selling them?

zoo-tycoon

1

Q: My monkeys are escaping

In Zoo Tycoon you can't use chain link fences to hold apes and chimps. You can only use iron bars. However they still are escaping regardless of what type of fencing I use. (I stuck them in a dinosaur exhibit and they stayed). I need them for a Scenario and I don't want them to escape (I can't us...

zoo-tycoon

Ben Brocka

@AshleyNunn oh joy. I've only had to deal with one of those on UX

Unionhawk

Mainly though, ignoring @AshleyNunn's "Stop." (which, from a blue, is a final warning) was quite the spectacular self-launch-into-the-sun.

badp

@BenBrocka He has 191 rep and most of his answer scores are 0 or worse.

user15026

6:49 PM

@Unionhawk Oh, yeah, that was fun. And mocking me. That was also fun.

badp

@AshleyNunn I'm almost sad that I was polite to him a few minutes ago

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Wha- What the hell? He openly admitted to upvoting his own posts?

And "thus allowing the downvote to be given"

What does that even mean?

user15026

@SaintWacko I checked it out, though, and a lot of it, afaik, was meaningless

user15026

I think he just wanted to rile people up

Panic Bomb

I'm guessing it's "you can downvote me all you want, because I can sockpuppet upvote myself to cancel them out"

Yuki

6:50 PM

@AshleyNunn Pretty sure this means his account can be deleted now due to sockpuppetry, right?

Panic Bomb

also "I am 13 years old and am desperate to feel like I'm rebelling against authority"

Unionhawk

It was more because Frank pointed out that he didn't have 125, and couldn't downvote, so threats of serial downvoting him were dumb.

badp

@Unionhawk burrrrrrrrrn

Unionhawk

For that and every other reason threats of serial downvotes are dumb.

badp

I'm just sad that with his profile he's trying to bring down Microsoft with him

I'm fairly dubious that any of that is right

Fluttershy

6:51 PM

@Unionhawk If you call my reason for threatening dumb one more time, I'm gonna change my avatar to @Wipqozn's! :P

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Unionhawk

@Fluttershy oh teh noes

badp

fify

Tweakly

are we discussing last nights rebellion? (me being an ahole)

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn the transcript from last night is amazing. Watching him poke at every mod he can find...

Fluttershy

MOD ABUSE!

Wipqozn

6:54 PM

@Fluttershy I better star this so people realize I wasn' the one who starred it.

badp

Today is sound logic day

user15026

@badp All the logic?

Fluttershy

Now that I think about it, it's probably about time for me to change my avatar again. It's been, what, three months?

Tweakly

Wait did someone else do what I done or

Origami Robot

@Fluttershy Change to a robot

SaintWacko

6:55 PM

@Frank Hasn't been doing a very good job of delivering the daily dose of drama. Thanks for stepping in to fill his shoes, @AshleyNunn

badp

@AshleyNunn Refrigerator

user15026

@SaintWacko I need new shoes anyhow ;)

Tweakly

@AshleyNunn @badp are you guys mods/staff?

Yuki

@AshleyNunn And now @Frank does too!

Fluttershy

Avatar changed.

user15026

6:56 PM

@Tweakly I told you last night I was a mod.

user15026

We already had that talk./

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn I'm guessing the reason he stopped talking after you told him to stop and he didn't was because of a ban?

Unionhawk

@SaintWacko Yep.

user15026

@Fluttershy refreshes like mad :P

badp

@Tweakly You could say we are community ambassadors and enforcement!

kinda

Fluttershy

6:56 PM

@AshleyNunn It could take a while to show up!

Yuki

@AshleyNunn "Don't move! He can't see you if you don't move!"

OH GOD OS FINAL IS STARTING NOW

Origami Robot

@Fluttershy Not a robot :(

Kevin van der Velden

@OrigamiRobot @Fluttershy would this be an acceptable robot? fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/221/a/5/…

Yuki

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

user15026

@Fluttershy WELL THEN I WILL JUST KEEP REFRESHNG

badp

6:57 PM

@Yuki break a leg

Fluttershy

@Yuki Good luck!

user15026

@Yuki Good luck <3

Fluttershy

@KevinvanderVelden That's actually kinda badass. <_<

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki good luck!

MBraedley

@Yuki Good luck, you'll do fine

Origami Robot

6:57 PM

@Yuki I hope you fail!

(This is to inspire you to prove me wrong)

Tweakly

@AshleyNunn then you will know, stack make it very clear that the discussing of staff decisions is strictly not allowed? which I have copied this chats transcript of you doing so.

Fluttershy

@Tweakly Good thing they aren't staff members! :D

SaintWacko

@KevinvanderVelden I think @Fluttershy should change to that avatar regardless

MBraedley

Yeah, mods aren't staff, they're community member volunteers

Tweakly

@AshleyNunn Open sharing of rulings between staff/mod is not aloud, he is mod/"staff" deemed by stack and its people

Fluttershy

6:58 PM

@SaintWacko Too late. Already changed.

user15026