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1:01 PM
ah i am excite
boss has booked meeting for next week to confirm all the details.
 
@djsmiley2k :D
 
Heh. ACLU is on the case with the "well nobody can have a marriage license" tantrums. Excellent.
 
@Unionhawk ...wut
eh wot
 
@Unionhawk oooh, link? :o
 
Do people really want to completely destroy marriage to prevent gay people from being married...?
 
1:05 PM
Yes, there are some real assholes out there
 
We're taking a scorched earth approach to concepts now?
I just... this is too stupid for me.
 
I mean, they aren't allowed to discriminate, so they're getting creative
 
What we are you talking about? =p
 
@KevinvanderVelden (context)
I should have posted a picture of Link first
Now I regret everything
2
That joke never gets old
 
I, too, regret everything.
 
1:07 PM
Well you should stop failing then
Also, why haven't you edited it to be a picture of link yet?
 
Well now I can't
Thanks
 
> Casey County Clerk Casey Davis says same-sex marriage violates his religious beliefs.
TIL: Bigotry is a religion
 
@5pike It's not really about that, as much as it is people holding on to marriage as a strictly religious institution (when it very clearly is more than just that you're a county clerk not a priest you idiot)
 
I think we should go the whole nine yards and just rename all marriage as "gay marriage".
 
@5pike would saying not allowing same-sex marriage violates my religious beliefs work in an argument?
 
1:10 PM
@GnomeSlice My PSN ID thingy is StrixVariaXIX.
Fried me and hopefully we can play tonight.
 
More like, religions often include bigotry when you forget to update it to changing times ...
 
@StrixVaria Not tonight unfortunately, I'm working till 22:00
 
@Chippies No, because reasons!!!!
 
@GnomeSlice ew
@GnomeSlice What's your ID? Same as here?
 
GnomeSlice64
 
1:11 PM
Ok, I'll request you when I get home.
 
Because I didn't think to reserve the name as soon as my dad got his PS3
 
@Wipqozn never responded to my request.
 
What a jerk
 
He is.
 
@Wipqozn you're a jerk
 
1:11 PM
Also, it'd be nice if we just disassociated "marriage" (of the religious kind) from "forming a family unit" (of the legal kind), so people throwing a temper tantrum about the former can just keep it.
 
Did you hear that @Wipqozn? They just called you a jerk! For the record, they're absolutely correct
 
@MartinSojka but can you really update religion without the consent of your deity?
 
@Chippies That's what prophets are for.
 
I suppose they are
 
@MartinSojka Honestly I think we should just axe marriage as a legal institution altogether. Nobody should "own" it.
 
1:12 PM
VTC this road we are traveling down as not constructive
 
@twobugs wat
 
@Chippies no need, just say you've been in contact with your deity and they said it's fine and dandy
 
20 secs ago, by Unionhawk
VTC this road we are traveling down as not constructive
 
@MartinSojka I don't quite think that works out as well as you'd think
 
@KevinvanderVelden that only works if what I'm saying is what everyone vocal majority wants to hear
 
1:13 PM
6 mins ago, by Unionhawk
Now I regret everything
 
Hell, "forming a family unit" sounds like one of the core opposition reasons to homosexual marriage: "THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN"
 
@badp Eh, I'm trying to think about how to really explain my point and it's not going so well.
 
HEY GUYS, DID YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU STRETCH OUT YOUR INTESTINES, YOU WOULD BE TALLER THAN A TWO-STORY HOUSE?
 
"HOW WILL THEY GROW UP WITH TWO MOTHERS OR TWO FATHERS"
 
WOW NEAT @YUUKI
 
1:14 PM
@badp Or two bugs
 
@badp considering most of those kids are adopted, probably better than with no parents :P
 
@Chippies naah, you don't need many people to start a religion
 
I should have known
 
@Chippies "Most people here have to adopt from far away countries! That is just a non-issue."
 
How could I have been so naïve
 
1:15 PM
@KevinvanderVelden But you need many people to get recognised as one.
 
@badp is there data to back that up though?
 
playing devil's advocate at work
 
And not be a total shit-head about it, of course...
 
no time for silly things such as sources
 
It's just silly to me that people are saying their religion 'owns' marriage when 1) marriage predates reliable recorded history and 2) it's present in many different cultures (or an analog)
 
1:16 PM
@5pike that's only a matter of time and marketing
 
@KevinvanderVelden Scientology isn't yet recognized as a religion in much (all?) of Europe
there's still hope for us
 
@badp I do not like your use of "yet".
Like it's inevitable that it will be, but just hasn't quite gotten around to it.
 
Scientology has been getting some blowback in the states
 
@StrixVaria Well, they do have boatloads of money
 
@5pike and also boats!
 
1:17 PM
@KevinvanderVelden Hence boatloads ... DUH!!
 
@5pike Seeing as their main source of revenue is exploiting people, that's disheartening.
 
Oh hey, it's now legal to break into cars to rescue animals in Tennessee.
 
And also indentured servants uuh, highly religious peoples
 
BOATLOADS OF BOATS
 
@StrixVaria True, but the guys that take the money, don't really care where it came from.
 
1:19 PM
@badp Well, it's a simple dream, of consenting adults being able to form family units however they want, and those family units (under any name) having the same rights and responsibilities as any other.
 
@MartinSojka B-but... remember that movie "I now pronounce you chuck and larry"...!!!
(I've seriously seen that as an argument against gay marriage)
Or any kind of non-traditional marriage.
Dudes will just marry each other for fun!
 
@MartinSojka "BUT THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN"
 
Dammit @badp
 
Which... seems like they probably want to rethink their argument if the crux is "but marrying another guy is too much fun, why would I want to marry a girl" ;)
 
@Unionhawk DON'T INTERRUPT ME WHILE I THINK ABOUT YOU
 
1:22 PM
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@badp I'LL INTERRUPT YOU WHENEVER I FEEL LIKE IT
 
@Yuuki on mobile, if you click the dino, you get a game!
Dunno if it works on desktop too
 
@djsmiley2k Yes, spacebar on desktop
 
ooo
 
Oh wow. Jared Fogle, of Subway fame, is under a federal investigation
 
1:23 PM
Yes
 
They won't say why, but it's probably for child porn.
 
@Unionhawk So now you're guilty of cogitus interruptus.
 
There was an FBI raid yesterday
 
Given that other people from his charity were recently busted for child porn.
 
@MartinSojka interrupto ergo sum
 
1:25 PM
Study: Playing Tetris Could Help Prevent Traumatic Memories From Forming
That is one hell of a headline
Clickbait successful
 
Was it a rickroll?
OR FRIDAY
I bet it was
 
Nope
I picked a better news source than the random one I saw the headline from
 
@twobugs He's under investigation because the chairman or something of his charity foundation was caught with child porn.
 
Operation: change the subject inconspicuously seems successful so far
Nice work @twobugs
 
1:27 PM
Something like that happens, it's natural for the police to investigate everyone related to the suspect.
 
@Yuuki Yeah, they raided his house and took all the electronics
 
@Yuuki True. Jared and Subway have mutually cut ties for now so it seems like it might be serious
 
@Unionhawk That's harsh. Even his Playstation?
 
@MartinSojka Probably!
 
Oh, Fallout Shelter has a release window for Android: August.
 
1:28 PM
Ok, ok
I can live with that
I think
 
I wouldn't expect too much. It's really just to build Fallout 4 hype.
But it's a neat little game.
 
It's weird to get a Necromancer badge for an answer 3.5 years after leaving the answer.
 
Just Cause 3 collector's edition announced
I liked 2 but I don't know if 3 will really be different enough for me.
 
@Sterno Are you sure you're not the necromancee?
 
@twobugs Unless it comes with a physics-defying grapple hook, I'm not interested.
 
1:37 PM
@Yuuki It comes with a replica grappling hook. But it's display only.
 
@Unionhawk Because someone might have emailed him something.
 
@KevinvanderVelden Yes
 
@twobugs Standard corporate dodging.
 
@KevinvanderVelden That would actually explain everything; how else could @Sterno be that old?
 
3.5 years old is not that old.
 
1:42 PM
2012 was a long time ago
 
2012 was when the world ended. Is Sterno older than the world?
 
@twobugs @sternold is older than ALL THINGS
 
That joke is older than @Unionhawk
 
 
I mean, a lot of things are older than @Unionhawk
Even @Yuuki is older than @Unionhawk
 
1:50 PM
So Marisa Tomei is playing Aunt May.
 
@Unionhawk I'm fairly sure this PC is older than @Unionhawk
 
I don't know quite about that
I wouldn't go that far
 
@Yuuki so thor is the new green lantern?
 
I dunno, you're around 3 right?
 
And if it is, you should have upgraded at least in like, 2000
 
1:51 PM
 
@GodEmperorDune For now, it seems so.
 
@Yuuki Okay, that's pretty cool.
 
@Sterno I mean, as one of the youngest people on the bridge, I'm pretty sure it's a joke I'm required by law to make
 
ughhhh shoot was a bust
 
@Unionhawk Just remember, you've increased in age by 10% since you started making it
 
1:53 PM
INB4 SPUGS
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DAMMIT INTERNET
I HAD THAT BUT THE MESSAGE DIDN'T GO THROUGH
 
girl showed up with her mom. Wouldn't get in the caves after she said she would
 
starring the fail
 
mom is a photographer too. Felt it necessary to give me lots of pointers
 
caves are scary
 
@Sterno Shut up, caves are awesome
 
1:54 PM
yeah but that was this shoot was specifically and I asked her multiple times if she was willing
if not, I could have found another model
so all I have are some beauty shots
which is not my thing
 
sorry you were not able to lure the young girl into your cave, @spugsley
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@spugsley "See here? This is the ah-per-ture. Make it small to make the background blurrr"
 
How old was she?
 
@GodEmperorDune HAHAHAHA I'm dying
@Sterno 24
 
If < 8, she can be forgiven.
Okay. 24. So girl = woman
 
1:55 PM
yeah
 
Well, at 24 you need to be babysat. I mean, look at @uni
 
yeah, definitely. And like I totally get I'm a stranger. Bring the mom but have her wait in the car or read a book or something
 
He's not 24
 
@Sterno He's even younger.
 
@twobugs TIL I need an adult
 
1:56 PM
@spugsley Aren't you about the same age?
I would have died of shame if I needed my mom to go with me to meet someone at age 24.
In fact, YOU should have been scared. You were outnumbered 2-1!
 
@PrivatePansy well, your mom did say you married that plush right? Does that count?
 
@Sterno yeah I'm 26
@Sterno lol right
 
@KevinvanderVelden OH MY GOD THE BRIDGE NEVER FORGETS
 
Okay, her beauty shots are fucking gorgeous so at least there's that
 
@PrivatePansy No it doesn't =p
Where by bridge I mainly mean me in this instance
 
1:58 PM
Yeah, I don't remember this
So it is just you who doesn't forget
Which makes sense; dragons should have great memory
 
Nov 7 '13 at 10:49, by Private Pansy
When my mother signed for the Twilight Sparkle plushie that arrived yesterday she sent me an SMS telling me my wife has arrived
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@KevinvanderVelden Beat me to it. And now I need to find a rock to hide under
 
@PrivatePansy never, that was hilarious for the good reasons =p
 
That's amazing
You're amazing
 
@StrixVaria I probably just haven't seen it. Or you sent it to the wrong account.
@KevinvanderVelden For a second there I thought I was going to make you not a meatshield! oh well.
 
2:03 PM
@Wipqozn There were two Wipqozns and I only requested one. I think it was Wipqozn113.
 
@StrixVaria Then that's probably me.
 
OH MY GOD THERE'S STARS ON IT I NEED TO FIND A BIGGER ROCK TO HIDE UNDER
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I'll need to remember to check the next time I'm on that their PS4 internet.
 
Great Bridge moments of the past
 
@Unionhawk ಠ_ಠ I HATE YOU
 
2:05 PM
:D
 
@PrivatePansy And now it's pinned. The only way it could get worse if it was mentioned in the room description
 
I won't go that far
 
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Q: Is the dialogue in Life Is Strange authentic?

MadMaardiganAs a non-American I wonder if US teenagers actually speak this way, or is the dialogue a contrived approximation of teenage-speak? I find it hella strange.

 
@Lazers2.0 Why do we even have a tag in the first place?
 
okay so not a total bust
 
2:06 PM
@5pike I think that honor is only resolved for discussions related to @Wipqozn's socks
 
moss is so fucking cool
 
@spugsley neat
 
@KevinvanderVelden rats
 
@spugsley Nice. Yeah, the moss is super cool
Hmmm, imgur strips exif data :|
 
this was in between flinches of "OMG NATURE" but it's alright
@PrivatePansy it's just a fb upload so yeah nothing fancy :p
 
2:07 PM
@PrivatePansy yarp.
 
I'm curious about the setup used to achieve the depth of field
 
@PrivatePansy Wide aperture
 
@PrivatePansy it was 45mm at f/4.1 ISO 200
 
I think you already answered that one:
13 mins ago, by Private Pansy
@spugsley "See here? This is the ah-per-ture. Make it small to make the background blurrr"
 
I'm still using the kit lens. Can't wait to get my 50mm primeeeeeeeee
 
2:09 PM
@spugsley f/2.8?
 
but the camera was 1200 dollars so it's gotta wait hahahaha
 
I loooooooooove my f/2.8 50mm prime
 
@fredley nope, 1.8 :D
I CAN'T WAITTTTTTTTTTT
 
No post processing? I'm surprised you can get that much depth out of f/4.1
 
I love my full frame. Worth every penny. Even with just the kit lens
@PrivatePansy I know right. I think shooting full frame really helps. With my crop body, there's no way I would have had that dof.
 
2:12 PM
@spugsley :D
 
I shoot manual and use focal points too so that helps
 
Manual photography is really fun, once you know what everything means.
Which isn't really that hard.
 
@spugsley I usually shoot AF but using only the center spot. Allows picking the focus point precisely
 
@5pike yeah it really is. I love being in control of everything
 
I need to go through the pictures from my holiday, night shots of things with pretty led lighting <3
 
2:14 PM
@spugsley A friend of mine thought me the basics and what aperture, shutter speed and ISO do.
 
@5pike dof, blur, grain. It's all about finding the right balance you want for your shot.
 
@5pike I watched a lot of Phlearn and read a lot of SLR Magazine and just played around a shit ton until I figured it out :p
 
Usually I pick the aperture I want, then adjust Shutter/ISO to make it a viable shot.
 
Yeah, being told what is what is great and all. But you're still going to have to shoot a lot of pictures to get great ones
 
and here i thought ISO was a disc image thing
 
2:16 PM
@KevinvanderVelden Yup. I get 5-10% good images usually.
 
@KevinvanderVelden yup. So true. I play around with my settings and angle a lot while I'm shooting so I always have variety and also I can see if weird stuff looks cool so I know for next time
 
I can't imagine how anyone learned before DSLRs though
So much film
 
@fredley Yeah. I played around with my fathers old sony alpha and a 50mm minolta lens during my vacation last year. I think that the photos are OK, but they are still RAW and I don't really have the time for post processing. Should have used the cameras processing (although I think that it's crap).
 
Bleh. New plan for the weekend! Fix racing-bike, take camera to the forest on said racing bike
Take plenty of pictures
I mean, I'm not certain at all that'll happen, but it's a plan
 
@fredley i heard that nat geo photographers used to go through 20-30 rolls of film per day while on location
 
2:19 PM
@fredley My father learned through magazines and a lot of practice.
 
just to get a handful of great shots
 
@GodEmperorDune woah
 
@KevinvanderVelden DO IT!
find moss! MOSS IS COOL
 
macro moss
 
@spugsley You are the only person I know who can get this excited about moss
 
2:20 PM
I could also not take the racing bike as the forest is a 10 minutes walk... hmm
@Unionhawk nope, agreed with the @spugs. Moss is cool
 
macro lichen
 
Moss rules.
 
Your pictures? :o
 
@KevinvanderVelden yeah
from ages ago
 
2:21 PM
I have a cheap macro attachment - one that screws onto the end of a standard lens
Very, very narrow dof, but just about usable
 
@fredley EEEE I love macro photography. Did you use a macro lens or just your prime?
 
@fredley I heard about those. Are they OK for trying out macro shooting?
 
@5pike good enough
@spugsley Kit (18-55)
 
@fredley Good to know.
 
@fredley oh wow, awesome. That's some really nice work out of a kit lens
 
2:24 PM
Not great focus, but good enough
 
Ooooooh
DAMNIT PEOPLE YOU ARE MAKING ME WANT TO GO OUTSIDE AND TAKE PICTURES
 
Arqade, now with flowers.
 
@KevinvanderVelden DO IT
 
@fredley Oh, I thought you used something like this
 
2:28 PM
@fredley Now put it through Deep Dream.
 
@spugsley but work =[
Saturday! Probably
 
@5pike Oh no
@StrixVaria brb
 
@fredley That's kinda cool, and at ~$25 is a nice way to extend current lenses.
 
@MBraedley Yeah, especially as it works with Kit
 
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Q: How to activate a lever with another lever?

user118001I am trying to build a Wimpy in minecraft, and it uses a rail system to deliver food. I have two sides of the restaurant, but one rail switching between the two sides. A redstone torch doesnt work, so I need to activate the lever with another lever from the kitchen

 
2:34 PM
Macro lenses are pretty expensive, so this/those cheap alternatives are quite awesome to try it out.
 
@5pike Yeah. Getting in focus is really hard, but for the money you can't complain
 
Photography can be a quite expensive hobby, so cheap alternatives are always good.
 
Now that is nightmare fuel
 
2:44 PM
dog bee
 
let me bee
 
I'm just happy deepdream isn't specifically tuned for doge
 
Is that still the Rebecca Black picture?
 
@fredley This is the best thing.
 
2:44 PM
@fredley Die monster! You don't belong in this world!
 
@badp It's literally only a matter of time
 
@MartinSojka no, his photo of flower+bee above
I wonder what would happen if you ran deepdream over the result of deepdream again
 
@5pike I'm still bitter they re-recorded those lines to be less goofy
 
@KevinvanderVelden Just more iterations.
This is already 50, so it probably wouldn't make much of a difference
 
@KevinvanderVelden it's already iterative
 
2:46 PM
It seems like there is a saturation point for deepdream insanity
 
@twobugs They w8 m8? When and why?
 
FLOAT_MAXEYES
 
@fredley the doggiest dogs that ever dogged
 
@fredley does it do layer 1 50 times, layer 2 50 times etc or layer 1-layer N repeated 50 times?
 
@5pike The PSP Dracula X chronicles has redone voice acting. It's still bad, just not as lovable.
 
2:47 PM
@KevinvanderVelden each layer n times
at each octave
 
@twobugs Oh yeah, that one.
 
It would be like redoing Megaman 8 and removing Doctor Light's VA.
 
@twobugs Now that's bad voice-acting.
 
@fredley then I'd think it'd create a different result. As in: 50 times layer 1, 50 times layer 2, 50 times layer 3 then 50 times layer 1, 50 times layer 2, 50 times layer 3 is different from 100 times 1, 100 times 2, 100 times 3
 
@KevinvanderVelden lemme try. I'll run over beedog again
 
2:49 PM
@KevinvanderVelden On one hand, I really hope you're wrong. But on the other hand, I sort of hope you're right.
 
I want to do another gif run comparing the addition of iterations
 
@twobugs in other words: "On one hand, I don't want to go insane, but on the other hand, I do want to watch the world burn"
 
That should be a fun one
 
@KevinvanderVelden Pretty much.
 
I have to ask a stupid question. What's the appeal of this Deep Dream thing?
 
2:51 PM
@MadMAxJr it's horrifying
Also: It's computer generated art!
 
@MadMAxJr People are fascinated with insanity.
 
@MadMAxJr I like watching a compute program make silly images. I am a simple man.
Also, they're mildly horrifying.
 
@twobugs your face is mildly horrifying
 
@twobugs 106.3
 
Before I go to sleep tonight I would like to make it known that @Unionhawk IS. THE. WORST. Not @Wipqozn, not @badp, not @fredley. @Unionhawk. WORST.
 
2:53 PM
:D
 
:(
2
 
Well, for "mildly horrifying" computer-generated images, there's always MorphThing. Like this Rebecca Gollum.
 
I support the effort to star all of @fredley's :(
 
user15026
@KevinvanderVelden Holy crap, I need this.
 
2:54 PM
Cthulthu in the front seat, Hastur in the back seat. Gotta take my mind out, which seat can I taaaaaaake?
 
@Unionhawk 106.3, your source for cool eye-related jams
 
@fredley Don't worry, it'll probably be you next week. I have WORST USER all planned out on a calendar
 
@PrivatePansy why him? He forgot about the plushy!
 
I pin
 
:(
@AshleyNunn I know, I saw they have free shipping (if >$ bla bla) and now I want a set too, even though I don't really make soup, ever
 
2:57 PM
Dear Lord
 
user15026
@KevinvanderVelden I am ordering it as soon as I get back to my desk.
 
@KevinvanderVelden HEATHEN!! Soup is the bestest thing
 
@fredley Oops, you did it again.
 
@5pike It's not that I don't like soup, it's that I don't take the time to make it
 
@fredley Ha, that chicken/bird looks totally out of place
 
2:58 PM
It's a little refreshing to see that there appears to be a limit to the insanity deep dream can generate
 
Someone give me recipes for soup D:
 
I need to do homemade soup
 
I'm now doing a run over RB with increasing iterations
 
Maybe I'll do homemade broccoli cheddar...
 
> 1. Roast some leftover chicken/cow/pig/etc. bones.
> 2. Realize that making stock takes a long time.
> 3. Go to a store.
> 4. Buy stock.
> 5. Realize you're at a store.
> 6. Buy soup.
 

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