The Bridge

11:44 AM

Logic: "I've never seen that elsewhere previously, therefore I conclude it must have begun here."

Oh, 4chan. That makes sense... sort of.

I don't think they realize it was used even as a quotation markup in other places.

*cough* Markdown *cough*

@winterswift it's like "LOL, ROFL, etc" being txtspeak to the wider world

@YiJiang'sEvilClone cough Shut up. cough

11:48 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone cough

That's interesting, how did you do that?

Backslash escaping

@Lazers Didn't want to focus on trading - started game as merchant. How does that work?

Well, I'm gonna go lay in bed and do things on my smartphone until I fall asleep.

'Night.

@winterswift I misread this as 'do things to my smartphone'

@kalina Or did you?

erm

yes

now you're just trying to confuse me

11:57 AM

Hopefully you're thoroughly confused.

Once I get 10% confused I purge that particular topic and thus the confusion

@kalina You could just get @badp to close the conversation

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm not sure if you've noticed or not, but we're exactly one @badp away from actually having a @badp

I'm guessing you also emit a low-pitched beeping noise for approximately three seconds, blink twice, and reboot.

@winterswift no, I'm not @OrigamiRobot

11:58 AM

@kalina Oh shi-

Q: Does wake up club only have a super short alarm?

wow that sneaked up on me

Appraisal time

MBraedley

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Watch the second half of this video for your daily dose of cute. Well watch the whole video for the knowledge, but the second half is pure adorable.

Lazers

12:16 PM

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I've been trying to use Wake Up Club, the first day went alright but since then the alarm seems to only ring for ten seconds or less before saying it's too late. It's totally unusable at that point. Is this because I have a bad group or something or is there a way to change the timer or what?

ps-vita

A: What purpose does the 'Take Picture' function serve in the Far Cry 3 Camera?

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peanut butter should not be considered as general lubrication

I... agree?

12:32 PM

STUPID CLODE WHY FALSE == TRUE??!??!

FAE

@MBraedley Sci Show is awesome.

12:48 PM

@kalina If that were true, I'd be a pretty bad robot.

1:46 PM

goddam why do steam questions generate so much rep

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Q: Double emulator

I'm looking to install a PS3 OS on my XBOX360 so I can play both emulators. But mainly so I can use the PS3 to get online and play games without a subscription. Is this possible and if so, how do I go about doing it?

xbox-360

^ This is a horrific question that needs to be launched into the sun

@kalina You should be launched into the sun.

@OrigamiRobot why, what did I do to you for you to be mean to me?

please tell me so I can do it more

At 9am, all someone has to do is exist for me to be mean.

Even if they don't, it's no guarantee I wont be mean to them.

poor reasoning, you're a robot, time of day is irrelevant

I was built to simulate humans

2:00 PM

let me rephrase: die in a fire

@AshleyNunn RE Mew mew train:

@BenBrocka It will be released in US and EU so that we're in preparation. I'll announce when the release date is fixed.

Tweeted by peakvox_en on January 28, 2013 at 5:22 AM in reply to BenBrocka

@kalina I am a robot. Fire will not kill me.

@OrigamiRobot it will, excessive heat will overheat your super sensitive components

I don't have any of those. I threw them out.

I assume Mooseland will get it when the US does

2:01 PM

@OrigamiRobot to make room for the cupcakes?

No, I hate cupcakes.

good

LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRobot Depends how hot the fire is.

you're not cool or funny enough to be gir anyway

hi @GnomeSlice

...

hey guys

@GnomeSlice loves us so much

awww he left before I could really start teasing him :(

woo he's back

hi @GnomeSlice

if you don't respond in 10 seconds I will assume you said hi back

@GnomeSlice why thank you, how are you doing?

if you don't respond in 10 seconds I will assume you told me to die in a fire

@badp @GnomeSlice just told me to die in a fire

I'll get to it

2:07 PM

:p~

+morning

Where would you like to die in a fire? Your bed, your couch, your desk, your kitchen, your workplace...

Afternoon

I don't want to die in a fire, but if you could start a fire that I could escape from at my place of work then that would be acceptable

Just finished an exam session where I was the only one who turned out

awesome, Italian education system working as designed?

kinda, way too many exams scheduled this week

2:09 PM

I just had my appraisal

I passed

now waiting for Godot at the train station

it was better than the last one I had

so I still have a job

if only they knew how many hours I spent playing games at work

or how many hours I spent editing posts on a stackexchange site at work

or how many hours I spent idly chatting on the bridge

would probably be a different story then!

@kalina I am rather curious why he's still here

Grats

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Habit

2:11 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone obviously he misses us and wishes to be unbanned

I personally think that a 6 month ban is a little overkill

The list of projects only pops up when hovering over the blue circle

@kalina I think each infraction increases suspension time exponentially

@YiJiang'sEvilClone yes well some of those were just silly in the first place

@kalina He's going to sit there in the side-bar, with his big watery eyes, guilt-tripping us

I'm not saying he's an angel

All done with CSS transitions, no JavaScript. CSS3 is fantastic

2:12 PM

@yij with that extra rainbow your page has finally and definitely jumped the shark. Congratulations

I just think 6 months is a little overkill

@GnomeSlice Avatar

@badp You should wait for the double rainbow

@kalina By a day or two

@fredley some of you may not like him or find him annoying or whatever justification that you want to use, but he's not that bad

2:14 PM

@kalina for best results you should brag about your achievement in a public website where your coworkers know you're active, especially if said coworkers were to not pass their appraisal

@kalina I found the whole thing more amusing than annoying personally

@yij consider my breath held

@badp nah, I walked out of my managers office and said "woo, I still have a job, you suckers are stuck with me now!"

Stupid question, but, would 'works' be better than 'work'?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone context?

2:15 PM

@kalina The image up there

'See my works' vs. 'See my work', or something else

I'm not good with copy

@kalina No, he's not that bad. But he is bad. Repeatedly. For the same stuff. Over and over. Without learning. And only argues when people try to help.

I think both work

@OrigamiRobot I'm guilty of many of these things

@YiJiang'sEvilClone both work, I prefer 'see my work'

see the entirety of my work or my individual works

not very different

@kalina IRRELEVANT DATA ACCEPTED

2:17 PM

Wee, my train is gaining ten minutes in delay every ten minutes

@OrigamiRobot Corrupted databanks?

I feel weird writing these things. I have no idea how professional I want the copy to be.

None of the stuff I've worked on is 'professional', ie. I'm getting paid for it

@OrigamiRobot sorry for being in favour of @GnomeSlice being unbanned

So it feels weird calling it 'work'. But it sounds better than 'projects'. I don't know.

@yij not to offend but you've already kind of abandoned most of your pretences of professionality by spelling out the otherwise subtle mlp reference

2:19 PM

I am pretty sure we could petition for it

At least that's how I feel about it

@kalina I have to vote on the side of at least shortening the ban

Tim Stone

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm willing to pretend I paid you for it, if that helps.

@badp is banning from stackexchange something that is controlled by individual sites or the whole moderation team?

Six months does seem very long

2:19 PM

@badp It's subtle enough for me. The site is personal.

@TimStone My first client! Woo!

@kalina He was warned and warned and warned and even warned some more. I have no pity for his situation.

@kalina se what? Be specific

@OrigamiRobot I have no pity for you. It must be hard being bad at everything and having no friends but it's self inflicted.

@badp do you as an arqade mod have the power to unban GnomeSlice?

@yij that's okay, but if you're wondering how the site looks to others then you can't dismiss others' feedback :-)

or does it need approval from the wider community

StrixVaria

2:21 PM

Hey question can we stop talking about @GnomeSlice while he's not even allowed to represent himself? Cool thanks.

@kalina yes

@kalina Nah, it's pretty effortless.

@badp if I created a post on meta petitioning for his release, would that be an acceptable way of going about it?

@StrixVaria We can't talk about wanting to bring him back?

I don't need others' approval to do pretty much anything

2:21 PM

@kalina Suspensions are per-site and can (and usually are) done by moderators. Chat suspensions are across the network (except stack overflow which is special(TM)) but separate from main site bans

@StrixVaria I will stop shortly, I want to understand How Things Work.

@badp I am tempted to change your flavor text.

that doesn't mean we aren't approaching this problem together and with the SE staff

@badp Until you're nuked from orbit

@OrigamiRobot heh

2:23 PM

@badp The image is only for one post (so far?). I'm testing the CMS' ability to introduce unique CSS for each individual post. The default background consists of only the grid.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot That is a pretty good quote.

@fredley essentially

And I do appreciate the feedback very much, thank you.

@yij oh, okay, that's not something I was aware of

at the end of the day if there's a spammer on the site any of us can singlehandedly own him

and if the situation is more delicate we can just talk it out

best of both worlds, although obviously talking it out adds latency

There are Taiwanese political pundits on TV talking about the Chinese People Liberation Army's ability to invade Japan and control all 6 major cities in under 3 days

2:25 PM

ok but if we were to petition for his ban to be shortened, would a meta post be the right way of going about it?

It would have been one of the funniest thing I've watched all week had they not being completely serious

@kalina yes, but you might notice his site ban was already shortened

@badp I actually didn't notice, nor would I actually petition to have it shortened, since nobody would ever do something like that for me if the situation arose

I was just providing him a glimmer of hope during these dark times, before stealing it back and setting it on fire.

@kalina karma needs to be acquired before it can be spent

@badp karma doesn't exist, otherwise I'd be a millionaire by now.

with pool boys to do my bidding

2:28 PM

@kalina Karma doesn't necessarily come back as money...

Q: What does this red dot signify in People and Places?

conversion rates on karma are typically disappointing

Lazers

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In "People and Places", some of my contacts have a red dot next to their name, just above their standing: The standing is set as I add a contact but I don't remember ever setting this red dot, and have no idea what it signifies. Furthermore, unlike the standing, it doesn't have an 'on hover' t...

eve-online

@SaintWacko it was a 'for instance'

In my experience, karma comes back as the boy who pulls the tail off lizards accidentally swallowing a bee and getting stung in the throat :D

@SaintWacko this sounds like you're speaking from experience

2:31 PM

@kalina I am. And as a bonus, I didn't have to deal with this boy the rest of the camp!

tombull89

If I want to ask a question about Halo: Custom Edition, the PC mode for Halo, how should that be tagged? Because Halo: Combat Evolved would like be halo-ce. Anniversairy would be halo-cea and Custom Edition...halo-ced?

@tombull89 untagged

we actually use halo-anniversay halo-combat-evolved

Good morning, Bridge

so I imagine halo-custom-edition

@fbueckert afternoon

tombull89

@kalina ah, that'll do nicely, thank you.

2:33 PM

Morning Marshall

reddit.com/r/Games/comments/17ebak/…

@badp we already said morning to each other

Quiet, civilian

I hate when people ask a question and then never look at it again -.-

@badp I earned my marshall badge!

by spamming TIARA

2:35 PM

@SaintWacko Welcome to the vast majority of our technical support questions.

-.-

@YiJiang'sEvilClone 82 bil...

Mad Scientist

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I always find these posts misleading as the ships lost in such big battles were almost certainly not paid with real cash

> Most estimates I've seen gauge the damage done in that battle (total losses from both sides) at around 630 billion ISK. This comes out to about $17,200.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Hey @OrigamiRob, you should go vote in conclave.

2:38 PM

@MadScientist Oh, of course. It's illegal to do that. But simple economics will tell you that because a conversion standard exists, the value of in-game ISK will gravitate towards an equilibrium that matches the exchange rate, even if the exchange is only in one direction

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[Hint: it's ~~Mussolini~~ Mussobadp]

Gaming Topics From Outside

@mad I do wonder what the opportunity cost is then; while I don't like the idea that every second spent not working is a second that could be spent working (total lie) time still has value

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Q: How to run the Savage 2 after install?

I download and installed the "Savage2-2.1.0.8-linux-installer.run", But I'm not able to run this game.. The game installed properly. Please tell me how to play?

games

Mad Scientist

The large null-sec alliances have huge passive income due to tech moons, they just have to wait a bit to earn all that ISK back without doing anything

@fredley hey, apparently my successors say I didn't do a bad job, except for those millions or so people Germany made me destroy!! (Sigh)

Well. My successor. Singular. But still.

2:43 PM

@badp You did invent vegetable fuel oil decades before its time

I? Personally?

Does the "gaming hardware" clause include stuff like an elgato game capture (capture card) used to record gaming or not?

@badp Yes. Mussolini famously made the trains run on Thyme

You can try Ben but I don't think you'll succeed

@BenBrocka borderline, but tbh just because it has 'game capture' in the name doesn't make it gaming hardware specific

2:44 PM

@BenBrocka Can it be used only for game capture?

its more marketing than what it actually is

@Fred I still don't think that was quite ALL Mussolini.

@fbueckert no its a hdmi pass through box that splits off to let you record on PC

@Frank amazon.co.uk/Elgato-1GC108801000-Game-Capture-HD/dp/B0082J1YCE

It's software and hardware designed explicitly for capturing and editing game footage...

@badp Yeah. Maybe that was Kim Jong Sung/Il/Un, who combined invented nearly everything

2:46 PM

To me the whole "can you absolutely do anything ever that isn't a game on it" is Arqade's version of "notepad++ should go on SuperUser!!11!1" but oh well

@MadScientist Opportunity cost etc.

@BenBrocka Hmm. It would be iffy; it's sorta in the same boat as that whole Play TV device question we had.

@Ben so is FRAPS. We spent a full evening discussing my FRAPS question that day and eventually we closed it and deleted it. That's all I know

@BenBrocka I wouldn't vote to close it, I normally stay away from grey area cases, but I don't speak for the majority

call me naive but on this stuff I'd personally rather be inclusive than not, that's not what I think the community wants however

2:48 PM

@badp Yeah, but I'd rather ask gamers if a question was specific to something like "how can I optimize how videos look in Fraps" rather than a bunch of software-agnostic power-users. The actual domain is still specific to gaming even if the software isn't entirely a subset of playing a game

@Ben you're preaching to the wrong person

@YiJiang'sEvilClone This is actually a very interesting read

@LessPop_MoreFizz I thought we were done.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRobot No, there's 2 more.

that said the biggest antagonist that evening has left us. It'd be unfair to say that now, as a result, we get to overturn the decision on that count alone

2:50 PM

@SaintWacko Well why do you think I linked it here? :P

still if it goes to meta it'll be slightly easier to argue :-P

@YiJiang'sEvilClone A lot of EVE stuff isn't terribly interesting :P

A lot of it is just economics

Are you suggesting that economics isn't terribly interesting?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's neat but also a huge reason I don't want to play eve

I don't usually like PvP when it isn't costing me hundreds of hours of game time and or real money

@BenBrocka Oh yeah, like a lot of the commenters say, EVE is one of those games that are interesting to read about but terribly boring to play

Like Dwarf Fortress, though in DF's case it's more of the difficulty in dealing with the UI

2:53 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Although this war is making my friend and I want to start playing again

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Once you get used to the UI, though, you miss it in other games

At least, I do

It's a very efficient UI

A few small changes would make it much better.

Searching through piles, for one

But yeah, the UI is fairly refined for what it is

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Just use the stocks screen for doing things with items in piles