The Bridge - 2013-01-30 (page 3 of 4)

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7:04 PM

> Obviously, the lack of violent video games caused this man to go on a murderous rampage. Clearly we need to make sure violent video games are constantly available to everyone at all times!

@fbueckert

@fbueckert and then immediately fall, since IQ is a normative measure

@SaintWacko That's just as bad as, "Violent video games make gamers violent!"

@BenBrocka Average intelligence would still rise. In my books, that's a good thing.

@fbueckert I kinda doubt it. And according to one of the other customers ST was looking at shutting down the scam. Supported by ST or no it's a crime to scam by presenting yourself as them

@BenBrocka Not if you're given permission by the company. Therein lies the rub.

@fbueckert @fredly minecraft Rpgs? really? do tell

7:07 PM

@Ender Not a freaking clue, dude. I don't play Minecraft.

@fbueckert Not quite, it's still a lie. Not sure what the scam was about, but it sounds malicious, not just cold calls to see if it reduces usage

@BenBrocka Could very well be. I guess time will tell whether there's a conspiracy here or not.

@fbueckert your comment said you did! D:

@Ender No, you read my comment as if I played Minecraft.

I re-read it. I see what you mean now. Darn.

<sad face>

7:09 PM

@Ender Sorry, dude.

@fbueckert That's what bothers me, we won't know if people just shrug it off as it being straight talk when it doesn't appear to be when you look deeper

There's a total conversion for TL2, though! You might like that.

tl2?

@BenBrocka That's where investigative reporting comes in.

@Ender Torchlight 2.

dont play it, thanks tho

7:10 PM

@Ender Hrm. Thought you did. Alright, noted.

@fbueckert The person who posted it was joking, I'm sure

@SaintWacko No doubt. It's got satire written all over it.

@StrixVaria It was mostly to see how he'd react

badp has removed fbueckert from the list of this room's owners.

It was quite disappointing, tell you the truth. He didn't even acknowledge it!

7:20 PM

@StackExchange Hey!

@badp What was I supposed to do? Run mad with power?

@fbueckert I'm not being serious

The bright side is, you're no longer alone in the can-read list! You're now alone in the can-write list instead.

I don't know why.

(and yes I was expecting as much as a little mad laughter ._.)

@fbueckert I know I would run mad with power. I would not be such an utter disappointment.

badp has added OrigamiRobot to the list of this room's owners.

Prove yourself, little one

OrigamiRobot has removed Wipqozn from the list of this room's owners.

OrigamiRobot has removed Fluttershy from the list of this room's owners.

7:22 PM

Good, good.

@badp I cleared stars! Threatened lowly peons!

I approve.

OrigamiRobot has removed kalina from the list of this room's owners.

Nice gong.

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

7:23 PM

OrigamiRobot has removed Ronan Forman from the list of this room's owners.

badp has removed OrigamiRobot from the list of this room's owners.

and there you tripped

@badp Dawwww.

@OrigamiRobot You should have added me first :(

@StrixVaria I wasn't there yet.

@jmfsg Do you still need a copy of Dota 2?

7:24 PM

Removing people in quick succession is easy.

@OrigamiRobot Adding people's not too hard, either. I think it's, click on icon --> Add as room owner.

I think my name would look good in italics.

@fbueckert Not from the control access page.

Too many clicks

OrigamiRobot's brief run with power.

3 mins ago, 1 minute total – 14 messages, 4 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 31 secs ago by OrigamiRobot

@OrigamiRobot You lasted like a single minute.

I had it for at least a few hours.

@fbueckert He did, I can vouch for that

7:26 PM

@fbueckert I made @badp proud is what I did.

@fbueckert That is shameful.

I notice one of the owners is a non-mod who hasn't been seen in 150+ days

@fbueckert Impressive

I think of ownership more like having voice in an IRC room

@OrigamiRobot I know! I'm so bad at running amok.

@badp It's not more like being a mod?

7:29 PM

You do gain the power to move messages between rooms and pin messages

Certainly not op or hop, but not even a mod?

@SaintWacko I was room owner of the LoL room we had. The powers you get are pretty minor.

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but the only people who ever actually pin are @Less and @Ronan

@StrixVaria But voice doesn't really have any powers associated with it, other than talking in a channel with the mute flag enabled

7:29 PM

@Less only uses it to start his own thing.s.

@RonanForman Dammit, I want to unpin this now!

badp has added Ronan Forman to the list of this room's owners.

@badp I wasn't going to remove LPMF. He is more evil than me.

Still not sure why I have explicit write access, though. It's mildly more useful than explicit read access, but not by much.

@OrigamiRobot First mistake: not removing @badp.

@fbueckert He's a mod, not an owner.

7:32 PM

@OrigamiRobot You've done a great deal in a small time.

@RonanForman Actually I'm both

@fbueckert It would have been a waste. He's a mod.

@fbueckert That doesn't do anything, mods have owner privileges and more for every room

You can't even suspend mods

@MadScientist ...boo.

You know when I say having ownership is like voice in IRC? Being a mod is like having op. Everywhere.

All the fun options are missing on a mod's user profile, like destroy user, anonymize messages and suspend

7:33 PM

After making @StrixVaria owner, my next step was going to be to pin everything.

@OrigamiRobot Oh, that's nothing. You know what's really fun? Self starring.

@badp It would have been annoying to clean up.

I'm not spilling the beans on how to, but balpha said how once and claimed it's by design so... :P

@OrigamiRobot You mean unpinning all the things wouldn't have been?

@badp That is what I mean by cleaning up.

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7:36 PM

Then you hit reply on the wrong message

@BenBrocka Murder doesn't work quite as well as advertised :(

@badp Nope. I was replying to "Oh, that's nothing"

@FAE yes I do :)

Dec 12 '11 at 19:45, by badp

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Have you configured your quick mod abuse action slot yet?

@OrigamiRobot I hate you.

I heard that now autofire should work properly

7:39 PM

I've been doing it manually like a sucker

@Fluttershy Blame @badp. I openly admitted that I would go mad with power.

@BenBrocka Set it to "shuffle owners". It's not quite as much fun as doing it manually (see above) but still it's a great way to pass time.

It should be brilliant with autofire too

I for one will change it to "Edit Wipqozn's last"

@badp I don't see that, mine's something different

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@BenBrocka Does it point and laugh when you press it?

@BenBrocka where's the fun in that?

7:42 PM

And invite everyone else to do the same?

@OrigamiRobot hey, you did some cleanup on the owner list and removed some cruft. You did well until you screwed up

In other words, you needed four tries until you actually ran mad with power

@badp I was just working backwards on the list.

@jmfsg Gift sent!

@OrigamiRobot I guess that worked well as an heuristic

@FAE thanks! so, the community is bad? Like in LoL?

7:45 PM

@badp Why is @RonanForman so special that he "needs" to be an owner?

See transcript

@jmfsg You're welcome! It's a MOBA, so... yeah...

@jmfsg I don't know how bad the community is, but the interface is worse

16 mins ago, by badp

but the only people who ever actually pin are @Less and @Ronan

Good robot

7:46 PM

That doesn't say anything about why he is special.

Special people pin things

Special people pin them good.

...

"Dawwwww." is a thing that is pinned, but not very well.

@badp nothing is perfect like tf2 amirite?

This is going nowhere.

7:47 PM

@jmfsg Smite has the best MOBA interface I've come across

@badp Yeah, Smite is decent.

2 hours ago, by OrigamiRobot

Also, does anyone have an Ingress invite?

@OrigamiRobot email address?

I might have one

If you don't want to give it away publicly I'm on Steam

@badp You're a mod. You can get it.

or email me or something

@OrigamiRobot That doesn't mean I can really use it

7:49 PM

@badp What?

until you tell me to use it anyway

uh I have ingress, does that mean I have invites?

@badp I give you permission to use my email address to send me an Ingress invite.

@OrigamiRobot We're not supposed to use data we have as SE mods for anything other than SE modding

@BenBrocka If you do, I might hit you up for an invite later; after I get my new phone.

7:50 PM

@BenBrocka only one way to know!

I'm not even certain myself; right now all I have is a Loading... screen

yeah, 0 invites remaining. wtf ingress

I'll try anyway

:(

Sorry

@BenBrocka It's under Ops → Recruit

@OrigamiRobot it's kinda like vampires not being able to enter your house unless you invite them in

I can't check from here, no signal at my desk

I remember seeing that menu option, dunno if I have invites

@BenBrocka You also need GPS I think

7:53 PM

does it start you with any or do you earn them or something?

Dec 3 '12 at 15:51, by OrigamiRobot

Well, that plan failed because apparently I WORK IN A FARADAY CAGE

@BenBrocka It doesn't start you with any.

@OrigamiRobot Are you tony stark?

Dunno if you can earn them

Sounds like a good Q for the site

@BenBrocka I'm not counting it out.

7:54 PM

if you sign up for an invite at the site they'll eventually send you one. I got one a week or two after signing up

@BenBrocka Took me a couple months

@jmfsg Only the mods don't shapeshift, and I'm fairly sure they don't want to suck your blood.

@Coronus Obviously you don't know our mods.

I've never seen @badp cast a reflection in a mirror. Just saying

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Q: How do I setup xbox live gold for a child?

My 10 year old son recently got an xbox 360 and is set up as a child account on the Xbox. He is requesting to try xbox live gold membership for 1 month. But I cannot figure out how to set this up. What is the process for this? Or is there some reason this cannot be done for a child?

7:59 PM

Gnome got 3 months shaved off?

@John Only on the main site.

@John Wait, what?

@Ullallulloo Oh

@fbueckert I checked his profile again, and it now says April, not July

@badp I actually do pin things, just not that often.

@Wipqozn He is so rude right?

8:01 PM

@John Well. I guess that's more fair, as he wasn't misbehaving on the site itself.

We usually have so many things pinned, I don't want to clog it up with anything else.

@badp has never even given me a chance to pin anything

:(

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@fbueckert He got banned on the main site for posting with his alt after his ban.

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Goodbye italic name. =(

8:02 PM

Whee, stabby summoner is fun!

@Ullallulloo This makes this more funnier.

@SaintWacko Eh?

@Ullallulloo His account got banned far before he did that, though.

@Wipqozn what... is that realyl minecraft?

@Wipqozn What is this?

8:02 PM

@Fluttershy Crawl

@SaintWacko @StrixVaria: Someone recreated King's Landing, from A Song of Ice and Fire, in Minecraft.

@Wipqozn That's incredible

@Wipqozn That's pretty.

@Krazer: Congrats on the Diamond!

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@wipqozn that is amazing.

8:03 PM

@fbueckert Exactly.

@Wipqozn I look at pictures like this...then I look at all my near-empty Minecraft worlds....then I just

:(

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I want to play on that map

@fbueckert Basically, after we decided to ban him, I banned him on site + chat. We talked it out a little more and we decided to only ban him on chat. In the meantime however he evaded his ban, so here we are.

I wonder how many people worked on that

@Krazer What @Wipqozn said!

8:04 PM

That reminds me, I need some maps built.

@badp I was just wondering; no need to share details, but thanks.

I'm just explaining how we arrived at the current situation.

(while attempting to own up to what was my mistake, basically)

@badp Honestly, all I felt was relief when you finally put the hammer down.

It's mean of me to say so, I know.

Well, to be honest if there was no problem to be fixed we wouldn't have attempted to fix them. :(

Side note: I would have also used my power to clear stars from anything not said by me.

8:07 PM

@OrigamiRobot You'll have another shot in 2015 or something, don't worry

user15026

@origamirobot you are a corrupt robot

@badp I'm sure I'll weasel my way in before then.

It's good to know that there's a legacy of mod abuse who just can't wait to replace old blood

user15026

@fbueckert any ideas how you request people to be your friend in Dreams House Days? Or what the point is? (or should I ask that on the main site, lol)

I can't see deleted messages anymore... again... thanks a lot @OrigamiRob :(

8:09 PM

@Wipqozn ಠ_ಠ

31 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy Blame @badp. I openly admitted that I would go mad with power.

I just dropped something on my keyboard anyway

Oh heh..just noticed Gnome's new avatar is crying

>.>

@OrigamiRobot But @badp did it for the pureness of humour. I can't blame him for that.

Side note: if elected/made room owner by force, I'll give ALL my supporters italics.

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@John I support this.

8:13 PM

write's @Ullallulloo's name on a list

@John Does it involve the potential of bodily harm to my person?

@Coronus Not if you know what's best for you.

@John ... what the heck. I'm in.

@Coronus That's the spirit! :D

@Wipqozn I only executed said humor. Historically, robots have done much worse when given power. I was only acting according to my nature.

8:16 PM

@John I support your decision. wants his italics back

@OrigamiRobot Let's all just agree to blame @Fluttershy, since he never bought Dishonored.

@Wipqozn Truth.

@Wipqozn Ahaha. You're not getting away with it that easily.

Everyone knows it's always @Wipqozn's fault.

@John It is true. @Fluttershy does own Dishonored and it's @Wipqozn's fault.

Being a stabby summoner is amusing. I'm sneaking up on enemies with a whole pack of dogs following me :D

8:17 PM

@OrigamiRobot That is true...

So much truth.

I am hungry. I desire food. I should make supper.

I wish @John and @Coronus would talk to each other more. Their gravatars look so nice in alternation.

@OrigamiRobot I naturally look good in alternation with anything, thank you very much.

(cue @Coronus)

@John Supper sounds good!

8:21 PM

@Coronus Except I just ate

But it's just getting to be lunch time here.

Not here.

Lunch was a while ago, but I just now ate

@John How do you alternate with something, when you're just one? I'm confused.

@Coronus Me, Myself, and I. We take turns.

And look fabulous doing so.

@John Ah, that makes sense.

8:23 PM

@Coronus I'm glad.

Ok, now I must go find something to eat.

Pizza!

Or pasta!

Pasta pizza!

With ice cream on top!

Great, now I'm really hungry. Later!

8:29 PM

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Q: Class Stomper in the Walls server

I got this class on Minecraft The Walls server called Stomper. When I tried to use it, there was nothing in my inventory. Is there a purpose of the Stomper, or is he just the guy you start out with in single command?

minecraft minecraft-server

THANKS @LAZERS

@AshleyNunn for your catting pleasure, places cats sleep

@agent86 Haha, that's awesome :)

also while I'm blowing your mind, try not to blink

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@agent86 No problem

Looks cool, though

8:35 PM

@SaintWacko you're better than I am, then. I can't look at it for very long or I start to get a little fidgety

@agent86 That's awesome.

Yay Spiral Knights update!

Guild Hall upkeep reduction!

@agent86 Mine sleeps on my clothes where ever they are. The fluffy parts of my coat are always covered with Parker fur

Oooh Storms and snowfall in the halls? :o

@agent86 wearing contacts makes you immune to such reflexes

user15026

8:40 PM

@agent86 Mine prefers sleeping under my covers at the moment. Although sometimes I swear he is between dimensions.

@BenBrocka couldn't ever really wear contacts. drove me nuts

I could see maybe the laser surgery, but I'm honestly pretty OK with glasses

and my cat sleeps wherever, usually someplace hidden, unless it's cat food time, in which case she never sleeps and is constantly underfoot

I hate glasses, but the dry winter has made me wear them so far. I'm getting laser surgery ASAP, soon as my eyes stop changing anyway

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Q: Why do I need friends?

This game gives you the option to make friends by entering the ID they used when starting the game. Why do I want to make friends? How does that help me?

dream-house-days

@OrigamiRobot Title: +1

@OrigamiRobot that's new-user---low-quality-posts bait

I wonder if I should protect it now

8:53 PM

so I ordered my phone yesterday. they said "1-2 weeks" but I thought "ok, realistically, let's say end of February." Then I got an email saying it shipped, 2-day, this morning. "ok, realistically, friday or monday" Now it will be here tomorrow. I'm scared to check again because I'm afraid it will have already arrived last week, before I ordered it.

@agent86 Google: so efficient, they break the space/time barrier.

my wife laughed when I bought the case and wasn't expecting the phone for weeks. Now I think the phone will be here before the case does.

@fbueckert indeed. not that I'm complaining. I'd love it if things materialized in my house a bit before I needed them.

@jmfsg Hmm, preemptive protecting seems like a Bad Thing™ in my opinion (and in Shog's opinion, too).

@agent86 Huh, they really meant it the first time. I'm betting they ordered a mountain of them due to the apparent demand so far

They've been in stock for a full day now, which is impressive

@TIMSTONE HAS SPOKEN

8:55 PM

@agent86 Mine hasn't shipped yet. :(

bangs gavel

@fbueckert shhh, soon

The furthest it's gotten is:

> Jan 29 - Google Canada Corp. received your order.

Sorry your order isn't in yet, eh

well, I was compulsively refreshing the page, so perhaps I got lucky and ordered one of the first ones sold of this new batch? I dunno. I also preemptively logged in and updated my CC#, in case of short supply.

I've survived woot-offs before. I can battle-F5 like the best of them.

ok, dentist, bbl

8:58 PM

Oh look at that fancy new blue name

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