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@Feeds @mods makeitgoaway!

@Feeds Ew, what is this, I don't even.

One of you hasn't yet voted.

@ArdaXi On what?

That question

6:08 PM

Neither have you.

I still only see one downvote.

I have.

So have I...?

Then @Less hasn't.

Why do I only see one downvote.

@ArdaXi I flagged it.

I didn't feel it was worth piling on a 1 rep user with downvotes.

6:09 PM

Well, yeah. I was referring to closevotes, not downvotes, sorry.

I can't give those.

:P

1,758 rep.

sigh

Oh, right.

One of these days, some bright young genie is going to serial upvote me.

You'd better watch out then. Ho, yes.

@GnomeSlice no, you'd better watch out. Because you'll rep cap and then the script will catch it and wipe out the gains

I've never even come within shouting distance of the rep cap.

...Nuts. No Genie today.

starcraft-2 strategy xbox-360 zerg protoss dwarf-fortress real-time-strategy

6:22 PM

tzenes, Seattle

20k 1 50 101

19999

Hurray, I didn't miss the big 20 000!!

Fun Fact: -Lara Croft's legendary breast size was apparently the result of a design error. Graphic artist Toby Gard was fiddling with the character's dimensions and accidentaly increased her breasts by 150%. As he was resizing the dimensions back to normal, his colleagues saw what he had done and insisted that her outlandish proportions should be kept.

TomWij

@Mana Yes, you did. ^^

20k!!!!!!!!!!!!

My bad.

I mean to hit "downvote" not "upvote".

TomWij

6:26 PM

Well, takes three downvotes to party 20k again. :D

room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, firing its lazers on tzenes' 20k reputation mark. If you see daggers come out of nowhere, it's our super assassin ninja idol mod sorta thing.

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@tzenes Live long and prosper.

Also

I uh

I have a confession to make

I am indirectly the cause of that stupid question above there

@Mana directly*

I noticed.

He posted a question as an answer

and I wasn't really paying attention I guess

so I just commented with my generic "don't post answer to related question, ask question" spheel

Shame on you.

6:32 PM

and I guess he took that the wrong way

I doubt he'll bother coming back to post anything else.

So I wouldn't worry too much about it.

but

what have I done

and why did typing that send my message to the top of the page

Yo @sjohns.

hi @mana & @everybody

Kevin Y

Heh, happy 20k @tzenes!

wipes tear from eye I remember when tzenes was just this tall on the site, starting out alone and afraid

6:37 PM

No you don't.

They grow up so fast :(

@Mana What are you? 12? ;-)

Yeah.

@CRoss Har har.

as they would say in CS:S stfu

I'm old though, about to be a daddy and all

6:38 PM

awwww

my brother's a dad

it's so chill

and also so weird

Dammit, @Mana, capitalize your first letter.

It's pissing me off.

congratulations @CRoss. Prepare for joy and insanity in equal measure

but

that's how I show being timid and continuing sentences

It's part of my style, maaaaaaaaaaan.

"my brother's a dad" is hardly a continuation.

Dude.

6:40 PM

Thank you.

You're totally ruining my Zen thing.

@sjohnston thanks

Now shush, I'm trying to write an eloquent question about running over raptors in a Jeep.

sjohnston 2.0 just turned 1 last week. It goes by crazy fast

@GnomeSlice Just let the words flow. With a topic like that, it's bound to be eloquent.

Thanks for giving me a naming convention for my children @sjohns

6:43 PM

Mana 2.0?

I shudder to think...

It works pretty well. If one of them is a little off, you can adjust the versioning. 2.0, 3.0, 3.1...

@Gnome his first word will be "maaaaaaaaaaaaan"

haha

@sjohnston Now that he's turned 1, Isn't he version 2.1 by default?

Yeah, I'm not really sure now. Didn't bother to think that through.

6:45 PM

You could do versioning all Ubuntu-like

@mana Right. Or maybe I'll start calling him Gingerbread next year. No need to stick to one system

Heh

Really, his improvement cycle is more like an Agile/Scrumm thing than Waterfall

I should fill a wall with post-its listing toddler development milestones

tzenes

@KevinY Thanks I guess... [†: I wanted to wait for you to show up so I can personally deliver my own congrats. Yay! ♪]

I really don't pay attention to my own rep, its meaningless to me. What's important to me is other people's rep. It helps me form impressions about them

@sjohnston Should we start charging out lazers for sjohn 2.0's 10 rep milestone?

6:48 PM

@Grace :( [†: maaaaaaaan]

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Q: Halo Reach: Armor Effects

What do the Pestilence and Inclement Weather armor effects in halo reach actualy do?

halo-reach armor

@GnomeSlice He mentioned he was going to post a question about high scores on the singing giraffe toy, but I told him it was probably off-topic

How long have you been watching this chat for?! D: [†: You should know by now that it's basically a given that I'm watching. Right now, it's been... maybe 6 hours? ♪]

@Mana @grace is always watching, lurking in the shadows...

@Mana Grace is always watching, even when you don't see her in the upper right...she's there...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm beat to the punch

-line

6:53 PM

Get ready....

thing

It's really weird to see someone use `Ghost Sound`in a chat room. [†: Think of it less of a ghost sound, more like a dagger flying in and sticking into the wall with a parchment attached. And yes, I would go as far as drawing a music note on a sheet of parchment. ♪]

Q: How Many Ways Can I Run Over Those Defenseless Raptors?

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So I'm playing the web version of Raptor Safari, and it dawns on me that I've been slaughtering raptors in a large variety of different ways, all of which have been generating different amounts of score. Does anyone have a list of all of the different ways you can snuff out a raptor, and approxi...

raptor-safari

@Grace well, the music note's like your signature. Otherwise, there could be imitations.

And wouldn't that be a shame.

Grabs his Handbook So.. Prestidigitation?

Besides, you're using other people as the vessel for your messages, so you're actually pelting us with daggers. [†: I think of it more as hitting the message boxes that pop up when you start to speak. It was always an aspiration of mine that if I ever had a superpower in real life, it'd be to make floating text boxes appear. ♪]

6:58 PM

Huh.

ALT+0134 seems to exit me from the chatroom...o_o

@Mana Try num-lock?

Fabian

@Mana Just copy + paste from somewhere else ♪

@Grace I think that qualifies as Prestidigitation's "harmless sensory effect"

ja, that's true.

Q: Is it possible to copy video files to the XBOX 360 hard drive with the latest dashboard improvements?

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With the advent of the 250Gb XBO 360 and the latest dashboard improvements it seems that movie files (such as .avi, .wmv, etc.) still can't be copied to the console's hard drive from an external drive, is there a way to achieve this? I recently bought one of the new, revised XBOX 360s under the...

xbox-360 harddrive xbox-dashboard

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Q: Chat sidebar link is missing from front page

Today it seems that the chat window on the sidebar has... vanished. I only see this on Gaming on the parent site, not the Meta site or on any other Stack Exchange site. The gap size seems to be such that there's nothing at all there, possibly it is accidentally hidden? If chat just couldn't be a...

bug chat

7:33 PM

By the way, is it a common bug for the entire site to appear devoid of CSS across all browsers?

like...that's been happening a lot for me lately

Fabian

@Mana You see that for many sites on flaky connections, if the css file is just not loaded

ahh

Yeah, but because SE doesn't scale it happens here more often.

yeah, flaky connection would be about right.

I have the same issue on a 50 mbit connection. ;-)

Fabian

7:38 PM

I haven't seen it for SE yet

It happens with .js files more frequently.

Making the SE button link to stackexchange.com instead of showing the pop-up.

Yeah, that usually happens if I click the SE button while the page is still loading.

8:02 PM

Uh oh. I need an emergency ArdaXi++ (@badp)

Come on cute factor, work your feline magic. [†: I can't believe your scheme actually worked.]

Oak

Weeeee go @tzenes go!

@GraceNote My schemes ALWAYS work. Emergency ArdaXi++ complete.

What scheme is this?

8:20 PM

I call it ArdaXi++

I see.

That explains absolutely nothing.

It was intended to.

>:(

I needed an upvote. I got myself one.

hurray

8:23 PM

This is too close though. He only needs one upvote to beat me again.

Another ArdaXi++

Guys, news from Jeff: gravity's broken.

Oh. Well, we'll always have Google.

"Every time I feel pride about the awesomeness and unique features of the obscure games I play, you have to 1up it with things even more ridiculous. I commend you for this." – Grace Note♦ 1 hour ago

:D

I guess an 80 year old American male does not have a high cute factor.

I'm so proud of you Gnome. You got commended by Grace.

Everyone else was like "naw that would never happen" but me I kept fighting for you

and look what happens

8:31 PM

Thanks brah.

I'm still waiting for my answer though. :(

heh

oh man has it only been five months since I joined this site

My list of questions is so awesome.

"What Does Plum Juice Taste Like?"

"How do I Know if I'm Dead?"

"Will I pass out if I drink too much?"

I think I'm having more fun asking questions than I am even playing the games.

How do I know if I'm dead was the dumbest question ever.

I saw absolutely no merit in that one aside from a silly title

It wasn't obvious to me.

I honestly had a really hard time finding notifications on the site.

sigh

8:36 PM

Important ones.

yes

I know.

I was just making sure the death notification would be different.

lol, letter in the mail: "Hey man, you're dead". [†: Someone I knew got a letter in the mail, allegedly from the Center for Disease Control, which stated "We regret to inform you that you have died of dysentery".]

That would be a drag.

paradiddlediddle

man I am so good at drumming look at that paradiddlediddle

I don't think anyone can do it nearly as well as myself.

8:45 PM

I KILLED A PTEROSAUR.

Congrats man.

I didn't even know that was possible.

it's cool, it's like the first time you grapple a guy to a plane and take off

...in Just Cause 2.

you expect him to fly off or something but instead he remains grappled to your plane, swinging around and stuff

screaming and crying

then you crash the plane into a mountain

I don't get the 'grappling people together'

Why do they switch places? It makes no sense.

and you get the "fall kill" notification like half an hour later

8:50 PM

^ lolwut?

But anyways, Just Cause 2 has the best physics engine

which allows for ridiculous things to happen when you mod the game

Raptor Fun Fact *12 - The Raptor's natural prey are soft human babies, which are made out of meat.

:(

@ardaxi cracks whip

Uh oh. Hi @badp

Gah!

I OVERTOOK YOU

8:54 PM

►

I want to play Just Cause 2.

A very touching story, told using Just Cause 2

@tzenes since you don't care about celebrations or lazer-based vaporization, let me thank you instead.

Yes! Thank you @tzenes, for all the wonderful things you have contributed to the site

you're an inspiration to us all

especially @Gnome

Q: How Many Ways Can I Run Over Those Defenseless Raptors?

9:26 PM

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So I'm playing the web version of Raptor Safari, and it dawns on me that I've been slaughtering raptors in a large variety of different ways, all of which have been generating different amounts of score. Does anyone have a complete list of all of the different ways you can snuff out a raptor, an...

raptor-safari

New and improved question.

Oh man.

Those poor raptors.

They knew what they were getting into.

Heh, this is like a race between me and bp now.

Ok, no more screenshots, that was the last one.

@ArdaXi A race I haven't been taking part of actively

It's all in the hands of voters.

All I can do is give more things for them to vote.

9:36 PM

True, but voters are easily influenced by "OOH PRETTY!".

true, like those beautiful wide-angle blue and white lazors shooting out.

sets up autoshoot and takes a picture of self and @Arda with the beautiful lazors as background

HOW DID YOU GET IN MY HOUSE [†: Eh? This doesn't notify you, @ArdaXi? It'd better be!]

Through the ethernet cable.

:o [Ξ: I'll guess I don't want to know]

Gah.

@GraceNote It does. [†: Ah, I see. That's what I was trying to illustrate - I can now @notify people in their own messages, which is a very good thing. Makes these notes much less likely to go unnoticed. ♪]

So, erm, @Grace, what did you just learn you could do?

Okay, so let's pick a new milestone for Gaming.

9:46 PM

We're coming up on 5 10k users

5k questions, 10k answers, 20k visits/day or @Less's 10k rep?

@GraceNote Will you ever relay a message yourself again? :) [†: When I go home and login normally, yes. Remember, I'm only doing this because I can't log into the chat right now. ♪]

I think we should base all future milestones off of me.

#Justsayin'

We're coming up on 200k total rep on the first page of users.

Bah, I had to redo the OpenID dance again.

9:53 PM

I only need like 3k more

oh man

I feel like such a jerk, stealing all these defensive items from my unsuspecting town.

But really, 60 zombies coming in if we get lucky and 24 citizens

modern-warfare-2 call-of-duty

10:11 PM

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Q: Modern Warfare 2 "VIP"

Recently I played Modern Warfare 2, I went to play Free-For-All, then I joined a game, once I was in the game I saw strange things, when I played it said: Welcome to Modern Warfare 2 VIP Something like that, and on the side it had access tools such as Admin tools Mod tools Player tools (so...

10:26 PM

Gates were closed for us at 22:59.

Nice.

11:18 PM

Jimmy's expression fits so well.

Everything is better with Jimmy Wales smiling face.

Whoops.

room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, charging its lazers for the upcoming elections. If you see daggers come out of nowhere, it's our super assassin ninja idol mod sorta thing.

Oh yeah, elections!

I hope that badp guy doesn't become one of those mods.

Geez, that'd be awful.

As I said I'll only enter the elections if I see a candidate I'd rather not see with a diamond.

List them. List them now.

11:27 PM

@badp enters to force badp in

Too many people with 200+ reps.

It's Gnome, isn't it?

@Gnome would have to do some studying; then he'd be fine.

I would be such a terrible mod. I hope no one nominates me.

@Gnome it's self nomination.

11:28 PM

@GnomeSlice No nominations: you must enter yourself.

Oh goody.

I think I've told you this five times or so.

are they up now?

I'll get right on not doing that.

@CRoss Nope.

Well, not on Gaming.

11:29 PM

So like

who's planning on running?

56.2 m toss, without killing the raptor?

Lame.

Grace, Oak, Juan Manuel and no one else.

Right?

RIGHT?

:(

I don't know the policies well enough to run anyway.

@badp We can't say for sure that all three of those people are going to run

11:31 PM

And I'd forget them immediately if I studied.

I know that Juan has a wife and kids to attend to

@Mana I so hope they do.

but then again Juan was the one who originally proposed this site and who was always pushing for it to happen.

He has been less active of late. At least visibly

still, I'd prefer to keep current management

actually I'd like to see more than three mods, for global coverage, but whatever

What happens if Tzenes gets it in his head to run?

11:32 PM

Grace is a ninja whose modus operandi is unknown to all of us

so who knows what she'll do

Tzenes I actually wouldn't mind at all to see as mod.

@GnomeSlice He writes a long essay on the topic. Duh.

@Mana He's too abrasive.

Actually, to be honest, I'm hoping tzenes runs to be mod.

I doubt it.

@Gnome Again, as I've mentioned many times before, I feel like a lot of tzenes' being serious is taken as hostility.

11:35 PM

@Mana It is. But either way, he still comes off as abrasive.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you meant by abrasive there and--yeah.

and Tzenes has stated himself he likes being a non-mod, because he likes being able to say what he wants

I think

searches history

That's always a good reason.

Heh.

You mean mods can't say silly stuff?

11:36 PM

I like being a non-mod because then I can frig up and no one will attribute it to anything other than my standard idiocy.

@badp Don't worry, I'm not throwing my hat in the ring, so you don't have to.

@badp You're expected to show more restraint, yes

I'm a bad example

@LessPop_MoreFizz I wouldn't mind you. I gave you owner and you used it sparingly but intelligently (= today), which is in accord with the theory.

Abuse of power go!

What else is power for, besides abusing?

11:38 PM

But like...I don't know. I felt like a lot of tzenes' abrasiveness was the product of the game-rec debate taking way longer than it should have

I'm just kinda there you know?

He was forced to keep on writing these long posts explaining and re-explaining the problems that were happening and I feel like that would sort of make anybody abrasive.

Like I don't really have any idea how stuff works, I just kinda chill and say hi.

@Gnomes yeah bro, I know what you mean.

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11:40 PM

Relaxation Vault?

Relaxation Vault.