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11:06 AM
Oh by the way, guess whose birthday it is today?
 
@fredley Yours?
 
@Wipqozn That's right!
*blows solitary party horn*
 
@fredley Happy birthday sir porkchop
 
My birthday present is paying the deposit on my house. I wonder if the bank does birthday deals?
 
@fredley I'm sure they do.
 
11:13 AM
Happy Birthday @fredley
 
If I wasn't so gosh darn lazy, I'd change my avatar back to a Turtle for today as a gift to @fredley.
@fredley is welcome to mod abuse it if he wants to. It's a gift!
 
Happy birthday Mr Diamondchop!
 
@fredley Do you want one of my dupe games from a bundle as present?
 
Happy birthday @fredley!
@5pike I second that statement, I wouldn't mind passing one of my dupe bundle games either.
 
So did anyone here buy Fantasy Life?
I believe @FAE and @Fluttershy were thinking about it.
 
11:27 AM
@Wipqozn I think I saw @Yuuki saying he did yesterday. I might be wrong.
 
@Wipqozn I was interested, but other games got in the way.
 
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Q: How to deal with players that spam pings?

DropDeadSander - EUWYou can mute players, but you will still hear and see their ping spams. How should you deal with players that spam pings, besides telling them to stop? If you mute the sound for pings, you might not hear/see the useful pings another teamate does. Is it ok to report them after the game?

 
@Arperum Seems like the kind of game @Yuuki would play. He's such a scamp.
 
user15026
Missing a day of training because I almost threw up twice on my walk. It sucks, but at the same time, I'd rather get my sick for the season over and done with. If anyone needs me, I am under that pile of blankets.
 
11:32 AM
@Wipqozn Aw, you're too kind. Except you're not.
@5pike I'll probably never play it, as I don't have a computer, but sure!
 
@fredley Ok, I look through my stuff and tell you my dupes, you can then choose.
 
@fredley You'll get one sooner or later
 
@fredley :)
@fredley You don't have a computer...? Don't you own a software company?
 
@AshleyNunn D:
 
@Wipqozn I have a work machine, but currently all I have at home is a chromebook
 
11:37 AM
@AshleyNunn On the bright side, Book 2 was fantastic!
 
Buying houses requires making sacrifices :(
 
@fredley Sacrifices are the worst.
 
@Wipqozn Yup. But houses are like the opposite of worst, whatever that is.
 
@fredley Best?
 
@Wipqozn That's the one
 
11:38 AM
That word doesn't get a lot of use in the Bridge.
 
user15026
@wipqozn glad you liked it. I am really curious what you will think of the end of book 3.
 
@AshleyNunn Me too! I started reading Book 3 last night. I've only read the prologue + 2 chapters.
 
@AshleyNunn that is still the best ending of any book I've ever read
 
@AshleyNunn Get better soon!
 
All your talk of Mistborn is making me want to read Mistborn
 
11:39 AM
One of those chapters was of Tensoon in prison, which was a horribly depressing start.
@fredley do it. Have you read it before?
 
However I know that this desire is driven by wanting to participate in your conversation.
But by the time I've finished them, that will be ages ago
 
@fredley Do it.
 
@Wipqozn I'm unsure
 
@fredley then we'll just need to discuss it some more.
 
@AshleyNunn eek, being sick is the worst. adds more blankets to the pile
 
11:41 AM
@AshleyNunn :( New job stress illness is the worst
 
user15026
@fredley Yeah, I strongly suspect that is what it is. It's flowing through my training class, so I am not really surprised I got hit.
 
@AshleyNunn Yeah. I've had a riot of illnesses recently, stress is the worst.
 
@fredley Choose one
 
user15026
@fredley I suspect working two jobs and thus running on fumes is what ultimately did me in, but at least that paycheck will make up for this sick day. (I don't get any actual sick days because I start on a 6 month probationary contract)
 
@5pike Thomas was alone
@AshleyNunn Ah that sucks.
 
11:45 AM
@fredley Nice pick
 
user15026
Okay, going to get some more sleep, because I can.
 
Rest well~
 
That matches pretty damn well
 
@fredley I'll send you the key to your gmail address.
 
@AshleyNunn Damn you and your free day of rest
 
11:59 AM
@badp You sent me a trade ages ago that's now expired. How on earth do I clear it?
My only option is to flag it as a scam.
 
@fredley wat
Is it a notification you can't dismiss?
Maybe it'll be fixed if I make one anew
except the coupon expired
 
@fredley Sent
 
Meanwhile, a professor at my mother school's sprained her ankle (?) shortly before his flight back from Amsterdam
 
@5pike Cheers
 
He hurt really bad, but decided to take the flight anyway and be hospitalized in Italy
Would you have done the same?
 
12:05 PM
@badp The extra mod abuse fixed the problem
As usual
 
Because if you would, you'd now be in the hospital -- unconscious, due to a flight-induced embolism :(
 
@badp a professor sprained your mother's ankle?
your pronouns are confusing
@badp that's not good
 
@badp Wow, that's really bad
I did not know that could happen
Especially on such a short flight
 
12:22 PM
o/
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz oh okay
@fredley The correct answer was Waking Mars
 
@DwarfSlice Too late!
 
@fredley ... do you want that too?
 
@5pike @Gnoiadjrgkserjhgodirshglsi seems to think so
 
yes he does
 
12:26 PM
brb, renaming @Gnoijfsdlkgjksdfjgsldfg to @Gnoiargldjfglkdasfjgklsdjfgko
 
I really wish someone would change @DwarfSlice's name back. This is even worse than that time I changed my gravatar.
 
@Wipqozn Nope. You're still the worst.
 
@Wipqozn Not even close
 
1 hour ago, by Wipqozn
@fredley is welcome to mod abuse it if he wants to. It's a gift!
 
Okay, how about this: If @DwarfSlice changes his name back, then I'll switch my gravatar back as well. Sound fair?
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12:33 PM
Modabuse two birds with one stone!
 
how about no
 
@DwarfSlice This is one of those situations where the aliens are demanding we give up the President and the population is willing to give up the President if it means they'll be safe.
 
No it is not
 
@DwarfSlice The President's refusal to go is just selfish.
Think of the children.
 
We pin the silliest things.
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12:35 PM
> pinned by Wipqozn 5 secs ago
Beat you to it @fredley!
 
@Gnonkljwelkjtklsfdjgh Why did you even become a dwarf?
 
@fredley It's to match his gravatar, and his gravatar is awesome.
 
@fredley dwarves are the evolved form of gnomes?
 
But... but....
@Rapitor That would suggest @Gnaoifjgilsdfjgkljsegriebear has evolved
 
12:38 PM
do you guys have nothing better to talk about
 
@fredley What? @GNAOIFJGILSDFJGKLJSEGRIEBEAR is evolving!
 
@fredley sent
 
Hmmm, where can I get @Gnodslfkgjsdkljgiebear's old avatar?
 
@fredley floating in chat for sure.
 
12:42 PM
Also: we have this one site you never heard about urlhere where we need X and Y changed. Do you have enough information?
 
@DwarfSlice In such detail, too.
 
OF COURSE NOT YOU DUCKS.
 
I might need ftp access/ access to whatever system it is running on.
 
@DwarfSlice Not really.
 
12:44 PM
@Arperum The website still looks the same as it did two hours ago. Please advise.
 
@Koviko Shoo.
 
I've learned that "Please advise" is basically business jargon for "wtf"
 
@Wipqozn It is not the case this very instant, but I know it all too well...
@Koviko "I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm going to tell you as an expert that you are wrong anyway." would be closer.
 
worktime
 
@Arperum Are you in the dev world or designer world?
 
12:47 PM
@Koviko @Arperum is not going to be happy with me when I state I somehow misread @Arperum as @KevinvanderVelden.
 
@Koviko I make websites mostly, theoretically dev. although because people are idiots some design is forced on me every now and then.
 
@Arperum Same thing here. We lack a web designer. We only have a print designer, and all he provides us with are PDFs of the desktop site.
 
@Wipqozn @fredley please modabuse this individual to @Horroqozn.
 
It's dumb.
 
@Wipqozn "Print to web conversion should be easy. What's so hard about this? My nephew could probably do it."
 
12:49 PM
@Wipqozn I am basically our web division. or at least the non-management part of it.
i have a collegue who programs too, but he's currently limited to one single project. And I was needed to fix some glaring design issues he had with the webpart of that project.
 
I find that when I'm asked to design, I'll just "design" in semantic HTML and hope they are okay with the result.
 
1:03 PM
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Q: What's the significance of the face icon?

Martin BüttnerOn the character selection screen in Samurai Warriors 4, some character portraits have a little smiley icon, depending on which character is selected as the primary one. As far as I can tell, this is not mentioned in any of the in-game tutorials. What exactly is affected by choosing a pair of ch...

 
wait, what?
> Post Reopened by Kevin Howell, Richard, Sterno, Justin Ethier, Shisa
 
THERE BETTER NOT BE ANY SLOTHS
 
I haven't gotten far enough to know whether there are sloths.
 
@StrixVaria cc @Unionhawk
@OrigamiRobot Not sure if real caps or @OrigamiAutoCad
 
1:09 PM
@Wipqozn wat? How?
 
@KevinvanderVelden I think it's just because you're the same person (@Arperum).
 
I got screwed at the beginning. I took out enough to buy 2 meerkats. Then 1 died, so I had to get a bigger loan, then 1 died again. Until I had $90 in debt right away.
 
NOOOOOOOOOOO A MEERKAT DIED
Now I only have 3
 
Too many incrementals.
 
1:14 PM
@Wipqozn does mod abuse count?
 
@badp Sure!
 
@Wipqozn Potential! Agency! Tension! DRAMA!
@Frank [ Click here to reduce number of incrementals by 1 (cost 5) ]
 
@badp I'm clicking, but it's not working!
 
[ Click here to increase number of incrementals you reduce with a click by 1 (cost 25) ]
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I am out of debt
 
1:17 PM
@badp You know you want to do it.
@OrigamiRobot In RL, or an incremental?
 
I wish in RL
 
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Q: Is it worth it to rearm your traps after every single attack?

SparowI got on my Clash of Clans today, and much to my dismay, I had been raided. When I went to rearm my traps, I realized it would cost me 36,500 gold. That may not be a lot to some people, but for just traps, that seems to me like a waste of money. Are traps really as practical as they seem for the...

 
HI CHAT
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Wait, what? Since when is @dwarfslice the president?
Also, FFS, if anyone modabuses his name, it had better be to @SexRobot
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz This would be fine with me, and would also make me change my gravatar back.
 
-1
Q: Can someone provide a list of girl games for Oculus Rift?

cobaltknightOogling pretty anime girls or pretty female 3D models must have struck at least a few developers as a good thing to do using the Rift. But I'm not finding many games and the ones I do see are all Hatsune Miku. Can someone provide a list of games where you look at or interact with a pretty anime g...

 
1:31 PM
Good question, that.
 
why do they keep offering me a handful of peacocks for a merecat?
who can possibly sustain that business model
 
I am not even coming close to keeping up with the rate that new animals unlock.
 
@StrixVaria i don't think its possible
 
I feel like that keeping up might happen later?
 
My meercats are breeding like bunnies though... they basically are money
 
1:39 PM
> You must have at least 100 meerkats to buy chameleons.
Why?
 
I just bought a chameleon!
 
@StrixVaria Maybe they eat meerkats?
 
To @Sconibulus that is
 
> Can someone provide a list of games where you look at or interact with a pretty anime girl or female 3D model?
wat
 
1:43 PM
@StrixVaria Goodbye time.
 
Can someone provide a list of games where I can kill people who make requests for lists of games?
 
SILENCE. I KEEL YOU.
 
@Link Boomerang #NotYourShield
(I should have posted that to Twitter a few weeks ago.)
 
damn... I got 8 peacocks for a single meerkat.
 
I think I'll just leave this here... WobbleWockets
 
1:47 PM
@tugs http:// is needed for your link
 
alrighty, up to beavers
 
The credit limit system is weird too, if you have 1 meerkat you can barely have credit, even if you have like ten peacocks.
 
@Arperum I paid off my credit almost immediately and don't plan on messing with it again.
 
@StrixVaria Yea, I was able to do so now too. But had to get some money first to do so.
 
Are you fucking kidding. I need 200 peacocks for beavers?
 
1:50 PM
The messages in this chat room are strangely surreal.
 
you really only need to buy about 4 meerkats to get started. and unlock the first few tiers of visitors asap to get income
after that, the bank is never needed again
 
I kinda expected some visitors to come anyway. didn't buy the first tier of visitors for a while...
 
nope you need the first tier, that gives 10$ a minute if you only have meerkats
1$ per species per guest
 
I wonder if you can get a birth rate above 100%
 
@Rapitor Yea, found that out the hard way.
300 chameleons needed for flamingos... game is crazy.
 
1:54 PM
400 beavers for otters
 
@Sconibulus You just need tribbles for that.
 
@Powerlord it seems to be %chance of birth per tick
I'm at like 70% with a couple hundred meercats
 
 
I don't know what to spend money on
my animals breed enough that buying more doesn't seem right
 
> You took 10 chameleons in exchange for 8 peacocks
 
2:01 PM
I'm spending on breeding speed, dying speed, and price upgrades mostly
 
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Q: Which tanks will be removed from my garage?

NixI have played World of Tanks casually since beta, and I like to keep a lot of tanks. In particular, I've collected handful of premium tanks via various promotions, which I rarely use, but which I like to keep nevertheless. During my play time, a lot of tanks have been removed from the game for v...

 
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Who was it in here that read Lady Mechanika?
@SaintWacko? @JasonBerkan? @KevinvanderVelden?
 
@OrigamiRobot Oui, c'est moi.
 
2:03 PM
Wasn't me
 
I only read the first issue, though, as I stopped once I found out it was an incomplete series.
 
hai
 
@JasonBerkan 4 is out (in advance reading copy form)
 
I'm new here
 
@fredley cc @DwarfSlice
 
2:05 PM
@OrigamiRobot Sweet. That first issue was ridiculously good.
 
It will be in stores at the end of the year
 
crys
 
Apparently he started his own publishing company
thinking about buying this print
 
@Wipqozn He had a narrow escape, he nearly evolved into Ivysaur
 
@JasonBerkan #0 or #1?
 
2:10 PM
@OrigamiRobot #0
 
The first two variants of #0 are worth around $50 each
 
I expect flamingos and higher to have a higher death rate than birth rate if yu don't buy upgrades...
 
flamingos are roughly even
might have been .46 and .42 or something like that
 
So otters and penguins are suicidal or something?
 
This game is brutal with the beaver requirement.
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2:21 PM
300 chameleons required? dang
 
From what I can tell this is just the requirement as you buy your initial seed.
Once you have enough that they can sustain themselves, you can go back under that threshold no problem.
 
@StrixVaria no, you need to always have the minimum to buy more animals.
 
@StrixVaria It's good to keep some stock of the lower level anuimals though, so you have a stable income from them.
 
you can test it by going under 100 meerkats and try to buy chameleon
 
why would you want to go down?
 
2:23 PM
@Rapitor But why would you need o do so?
 
@Rapitor But if I never plan on buying them again, and simply letting them reproduce for beaver income, that's not a problem.
 
I'm floating around 300 merecats, chameleons, and flamingos as a money source
 
@Sconibulus 300 flamingos!
 
err, peacocks
only like 90 flamingos right now
 
@Sconibulus 300 flamingos, damn, you're going fast, I barely have 100 chameleons.
 
2:24 PM
i just started on flamingoes. hovering around 150 beavers, they aren't doing the do anymore
 
18 beavers right now.
 
I just crossed 300 beavers, otters are coming soon
 
have $33k in pocket with no idea what to buy
 
Visitors
Are exchanges ever not worth it?
 
I've not done things like 6 for 2
 
2:26 PM
Visitors don't seem worth it
 
not sure if that's technically not worth it, but meh
 
@OrigamiRobot Yup. I've had a couple terrible ones.
 
@Rapitor They seem worth it early.
 
gonna go with enclosure size so I don't have to babysit the sell button as often
 
eh, visitors are good, I've got about 450 coming every 50 seconds
 
2:27 PM
I don't know what the minimum number of seconds between visitors is, either, but if you get that low enough it's going to get nuts.
 
@Arperum Worst I've seen is 1:1
 
@OrigamiRobot I had someone offer 1 peacock for 8 meerkats. I said no to that.
 
@OrigamiRobot 6:2 or the like happen.
 
yay, otters
 
OK, so i'm just getting good deals
 
2:28 PM
otters are below even by default
 
@Sconibulus What kind of trash.
 
7 flamingoes for 2 beavers
suuuure!
 
holy shit flamingos are hard
 
not sure, I bought upgrades almost instantly and forgot to write it down, but at 3/3 they're only at 2:1
 
The 2 for 10 was an accidental accept
 
2:31 PM
was gonna say
 
I got so used to hitting accept
 
* You took 3 otters in exchange for 7 flamingos
* You took 7 flamingos in exchange for 10 beavers
 
I have no idea what is going on
 
oh jeez, otters are going to be tough
they start are a pretty much 1:1 birth:death
 
> You took 10 flamingos in exchange for 1 beavers
Fuck yea
@Rapitor I buy upgrades in advance
 
2:34 PM
500 flamingoes for penguins
wellp, get busy you pink birds
 
@OrigamiRobot How do you know the birth/death rate beforehand?
 
@Batophobia You don't, but you can still buy the upgrades.
 
What @StrixVaria said.
I know I'm going to want it, so I buy it beforehand so I can start better
 
I've decided to keep 500+ of things to maximize birth rate and thus income.
 
hmmmm what is this game?
 
2:36 PM
@djsmiley2k magicaweb.com/zooII
3
 
Where do you keep finding these?
 
oh no, beaver cap
 
@Batophobia :)
Otters get!
 
I can't buy animals, my debt is too high
 
@djsmiley2k I didn't get that. Give some of your debt back but not all of it and then you should be able to buy a few meerkats.
It's a stumbly beginning but it gets good once you pay off your debt.
 
2:41 PM
take out enough for about 4 meerkats and the first level of visitors
after that you shouldnt need the bank again. unless RNG hates you and kills off your meerkats that quickly
 
...why can I only take out a 30k loan? I have half of that in meercat collatteral
 
@Sconibulus why do you even want to take out a 30k loan?
 
wtf is the point of 'get higher prices' :D
 
@djsmiley2k sell them for more.
 
@Arperum I don't, really
 
2:42 PM
^
 
dammit flamingoes, start breeding already, not dying.
> Your zoo gets 446 visitors every 45 seconds
 
bout to get some otters up in here
 
Am I the only one who doesn't play incrementals at work?
 
i'm not at work
 
2:45 PM
night shift last night
 
I think I had a total of 2 flamingos gained by breeding, and 3 lost by dying...
@Frank yes.
 
That makes me feel much better. I'm slacking, to a degree, but nowhere near what you guys are.
 
You don't know what we do!
 
@Frank I only play Clicker Heroes because you can ignore it for 95% of the day and still progress.
 
I could be waiting for something
 
2:48 PM
huh, penguin was .2 birth, .2 death
 
@OrigamiRobot ARE you slacking?
 
I'm actually waiting to get a 11x17 border from the CAD guru
 
@Sconibulus This would be a valid reason, if @OrigamiRobot actually coded. But even then, you usually have something you can be doing.
 
No, I don't
 
2:51 PM
Not that I'm one to talk, really.
I hang out here all day.
 
If I try to go work on another project for an hour, I'm really just making someone else explain what to do for an hour when they could be doing it.
 
What's this about slacking?
 
> You took 8 otters in exchange for 6 flamingos
YES IN A HEARTBEAT
 
@TimStone We're all slackers.
Myself included.
 
Do you have to keep Meerkat population above 100 to keep chameleons?
 
2:55 PM
I had birth/death rate upgrades for otters at 5 each before I even bought one
 
@Batophobia only to buy more
 
@Batophobia no, just to buy more
 
good to know
 
i have 74 achievements
 
2:59 PM
91...
 
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A: Replying in Chat is broken

balphaYep, sorry about that. The fix is already being built out, should be back in a minute. (On the plus side, the @mention autocompleter now works in the mobile version).

 
I swear if this window opening crap continues into the snow season, I'm going to take it out on @OrigamiRobot WHAT SORT OF TAB COMPLETION ON MOBILE BEST DAY EVER
 

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