The Bridge

I am creating a mission in the editor and I could not find any information about how Tasks are set in the editor. How do you define a task in the editor that the player can choose to complete and how do you set a marker for that Task that is visible?

fredley

Massively Multiplayer Web Shooter

badp

@fredley DOESN'T WORK IN IE3

Blem

@badp that was your go to browser to make it fail?

kalina

11:26 AM

@fredley don't tempt me with things like this, I've only just gathered enough motivation to do something productive

badp

@Blem Nothing works in IE3. I think it's from before the domain line in HTTP requests was a thing

I had to install IE4 on my Windows 95 virtual machine before I could browse websites in there

kalina

I obviously haven't ended up wearing enough of my food recently

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fredley

@Blem Blue team FTW

Blem

yea, but to much team killing

kalina

don't worry though, karma reset the balance by making my bottle of 7up explode all over me

now I look like I pee'd myself

A wild RavenDreamer appears, clears the suggested edit queue

-.-

Blem

11:40 AM

@kalina It's super effective!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Emergency P.O.N.I.E.S protocol established. Please use with extreme caution.

♦ EMERGENCY P.O.N.I.E.S PROTOCOL

Ponies Often Need Instant Extraction Surreptitiously

The results are visible in chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1/sandbox

tombull89

I am...minorly amused...as some of the spam/NAA things Gaming.SE gets.

user47114

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minecraft

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

This userscript will add the button: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1722364/My%20Little%20Pony/…

tombull89

In this guys case, however, he's probably 12.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Or you can directly evoke the function from your console.

kalina

11:53 AM

@tombull89 meh, it's good for flag count

tombull89

@kalina true.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

The script will automatically post one gif from that room's transcript. If you want to add some gifs, go ahead and post it in there

kalina

So. Many. EDITS!

Lazers

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Q: What is a good choice of Pistol as a Sniper?

I am playing Volt and recently replaced my starting melee and rifle with Dual Ether and Snipetron. What would be a good choice for Pistol to complement my choice of Rifle/Melee weapon?

warframe

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Q: What does snuggling the pig do?

In the farm, there is a pig which I have the option of snuggling. Every time I do so, it just knocks me down and runs off into the woods. Is this all that ever happens? I just want to be friends.

monster-hunter-3-ultimate

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone you must get so bored sometimes

tombull89

11:54 AM

@Lazers I don't...what.

kalina

how do you come up with these things?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Oh, absolutely

kalina

.oO( today, I am going to make a pony script that reads from a stackexchange chat room to get a list of images )

.oO( today I am going to make twilight sparkle tell me to stop slacking whenever I slack... which I am doing right now )

djsmiley2k

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Q: Where to find information about a file format?

Let's say I found 'some' file (might be an executable, might be data, or something else) and want to run or read it. I open this file in a text editor, but the format isn't readable. Examples include: Java class, Windows executable, SQLite database, DLL, ... I do know the file format, if we can ...

file-format

OrigamiRobot

@tombull89 IT'S AN IMPORTANT QUESTION

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

11:57 AM

@kalina Extraordinary boredom

djsmiley2k

i remember being bored at morrisons

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Yup, it works

djsmiley2k

i wrote a till program on the back of a recipt

Kikaimaru

insert coin

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tombull89

@Kikaimaru OH GOD WHAT DID YOU DOOooooooooo0000000OOOOOOoooo

Kikaimaru

12:06 PM

that was fun

:)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@tombull89 OH SHIT WE'RE ALL DOOOOOOOOMED

fredley

@Kikaimaru Oh crap

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Coin Slot

A place to play the cool Arqadian/Arqanoidian murder asteroid ...

Kikaimaru

@YiJiang'sEvilClone thanks i was looking at some easter eggs response and they wrote that it only work in this room

kalina

this is me being all naive and stuff, but what does "insert coin" do?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:12 PM

@kalina Why don't you try it?

Kikaimaru

yes try it!

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I don't want to be the person that makes the world explode

tombull89

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A: What Easter Eggs do the chat sites have?

Meta Stack Overflow/(any room): red tags Send a message consisting solely of [status-SOME_PLAINTEXT_STRING] and it will appear in chat like a moderator tag. Doing this as a reply to another message is okay, but other text or formatting will not work. Gaming/The Bridge: minigame Eggs.Asteroids...

Martin Sojka

@kalina How disappointing.

fredley

[status-SOME_PLAINTEXT_STRING]

:(

insert coin

Kikaimaru

12:15 PM

there we go :)

fredley

That was fun

<(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+>

:(

kalina

I don't actually believe that did something

tombull89

@fredley need to do that in a SO room.

fredley

@tombull89 The ones marked (any site) are lies

tombull89

@fredley nope

fredley

12:19 PM

That feeling when a chat ping is in the same key as, and perfectly timed with your music

kalina

@fredley I turned off chat pings

djsmiley2k

Everyone ping @fredley

btw can you find out who star'ed something?

kalina

no

djsmiley2k

"you" being either me, someone else, or a mod.

Martin Sojka

Yes.

kalina

12:20 PM

cake

@djsmiley2k what I normally do is I assume it was @OrigamiRob

OrigamiRobot

@kalina ಠ_ಠ

kalina

this means that I am correct 99% of the time

djsmiley2k

@kalina in this case, if it was scoot.... I'd prefer it burnt in hell.

fredley

@OrigamiRob What are you using to do that? A browser extension?

OrigamiRobot

@fredley ಠ_ಠ

fredley

12:22 PM

@Origamirob

OrigamiRobot

@fredley ಠ_ಠ

fredley

@OrigamiRib

kalina

@fredley no silly, he's an actual robot, its just some process running away in the background

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina A userscript

If you look around you should find it in the transcript here somewhere

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone you ruin all of my fun

ALL OF IT

because I'm lazy and you're bored, you should write me a script that repeats everything @badp says

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:23 PM

@kalina Well, Chrome runs extensions in separate processes, and userscripts could count as extensions, so you might be technically correct

@kalina Sure.

Is 12 enough gifs for the P.O.N.I.E.S. protocol?

kalina

no, we need millions

fredley

I think we need a separate chat room for ponies

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina You have write permission in the P.O.N.I.E.S. room. feel free to add your own

tombull89

Are any pony gifs okay, or do they need to be ABANDON THREAD?

kalina

oh now I have write permission

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:26 PM

@tombull89 Eh, preferably something that derails the conversation

kalina

when I was bored enough to spend the rest of my week googling for images I didn't

now I've moved on

now I'm looking at graphics cards

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Mah, I think it's enough

kalina

Meeeeeeeeeeeeh

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I hope the room doesn't get deleted for inactivity

kalina

it will get frozen eventually

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:28 PM

Sure, but that's fine. I'm worried about the deletion part.

kalina

unless you keep appending pictures to it

which is a good idea

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

There's a minimum number of messages a room must have for that

kalina

you should do that

well, I can help with minimum number of messages

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina The script can only read from one page of transcript

kalina

well, I call that a design flaw

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:29 PM

So best to post them all today

kalina

DESIGN FLAW

my schedule today is taken up with "pretending to work" and "burning tags on superuser"

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina I'm lazy, m'kay.

kalina

I don't think I have time to find ponies

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Meh, it's good. If 14 images isn't enough to derail a conversation then nothing short of timing out the room will

kalina

yes but the same 14 images over and over again results in stagnation and then people start responding with "OLD" or "zzzzz"

Blem

12:33 PM

This chat is missing some random animated gif

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

The gifs aren't meant to entertain. Emergency use only, remember.

OrigamiRobot

I find myself in this situation again.

kalina

morning @OrigamiRob

OrigamiRobot

Having to put on pants and go to work.

kalina

well you should do, going to work without pants is not a good idea

Blem

12:34 PM

@OrigamiRobot you can do as me, and contract some terrible disease and have to stay at home and sweat while not wearing any pants

kalina

having a pants conversation feels weird

OrigamiRobot

@Blem No, I need to finish this project.

badp

I'd forgotten just how large the GW2 download is

Blem

@kalina yes, pants are weird

OrigamiRobot

First, I need to find motivation to finish this project.

kalina

12:35 PM

@OrigamiRobot Is "this project" -> "putting on pants"?

badp

6.7 GB in the first 30% :/

kalina

@Blem well, I know what these guys mean, but whenever I type it my brain tries to snap me back to English

Blem

►

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Can you predownload the client before the free weekend?

kalina

@badp are you playing GW2 again?

badp

12:35 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone yes and you should

@kalina free weekend

kalina

wait, free weekend this weekend?

badp

@kalina yes.

kalina

you mean that I will be able to log in and see more than just me online?

and what do you mean by free weekend, the game is free to play

badp

once you pay $60

kalina

yes but I paid that months ago

so its free to play

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:36 PM

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OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz Is this real life?

badp

@OrigamiRobot or is this fantasy?

kalina

caught in the landslide?

badp

No escape from reality.

kalina

open your eyes

badp

12:37 PM

Look up to the sky and see.

Blem

@OrigamiRobot it concerns Westboro Baptist Church so I wouldn't doubt it

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Daily Mail, so who knows

kalina

@badp nobody else is fun enough to join in

@badp we are just unique

badp

@kalina Just as well, I don't remember how it goes from there

fredley

@Blem Daily Mail + WBC == very low probability of truth or reality

@badp I'M JUST A POOR BOY

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:38 PM

@kalina I was going to join in but mobile typing is too slow. :(

badp

"I'm just a poor boy, running for simpathy??? because as easy come easy go every day??? every no??????"

tombull89

@fredley I need no sympathy...

fredley

@badp Terrible. You are now banned

LessPop_MoreFizz

I kept finishing a line and then seeing it up there. :/

badp

I did say I don't remember that bit!

fredley

12:39 PM

@tombull89 Because I'm easy come, easy go

Sterno

What's with people always deleting their account when they leave?

P.S. - Come back, @MarkTrapp

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LessPop_MoreFizz

@sterno rage.

tombull89

@fredley A little high, little low.

fredley

2 hours ago, by tombull89

And here we seem to have stumbled across the lessor-spotted ragequit. Seems to be the minor kind where no self-vandalism is observed, but the ragequit is often threatened but rarely seen.

badp

@Sterno I honestly don't know

kalina

12:40 PM

@tombull89 Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

fredley

@tombull89 Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me...

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@TimStone What's the minimum number of messages a chat room needs so that it'll be frozen instead of deleted?

kalina

inb4 @fredley

fredley

@kalina :(

@kalina just killed a man

badp

Mamaaaaaaa, mama? Mama! Yeah, mama! Mama... Mamaaaaaa! Mama! Ahahahahah! Mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama!

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OrigamiRobot

12:41 PM

@badp needs moar mama

kalina

@fredley I put a gun against his head, pulled the trigger now he's dead?

fredley

@kalina, life had just begun

kalina

@fredley But now I've gone and thrown it all away!

fredley

@mana, oooooooooooh

kalina

@Sterno what? screw you I'm deleting my account!

YOU DARE STAR ME? deletes account

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fredley

12:43 PM

@badp cc: @LessPop_MoreFizz

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

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A: Minimum number of messages after which a Chat Room is never deleted?

The faq says: (under Will these rooms exist forever? section) Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users. This is what you are looking for - the...