The DMZ

Adnan

15:00

@David Oh, you missed a lot

Michael Dunfield

Too bad they didn't make enough money...

David Freitag

@Adnan Oh?

And holly crap, who's been recruiting, the chat list has the most people i've ever seen..

Michael Dunfield

@DavidFreitag Flags brought us here.

Adnan

@DavidFreitag Somebody flagged @Simon, then people from other rooms started to come here

kalina

this channel doesn't appear to be a pony free zone, so I am here

Adnan

15:02

Mainly the people from The Bridge

Terry Chia

@kalina I think you fall under food

kalina

why is "people" in italics?

Michael Dunfield

@Adnan Somebody flagged him like four times in a row, you mean.

David Freitag

mmmm ponies... appropriate in just about no situation... ever...?

Michael Dunfield

@DavidFreitag Now now.

Adnan

15:03

@MichaelDunfield Really? I only flagged him once, apparently others joined the fun

kalina

@Adnan "somebody abusively flagged one of your users enough time to gain interest from the rest of the network"

Michael Dunfield

@Adnan Yeah, we saw like four separate flags in a row.

Adnan

@DavidFreitag Whoooa! Dude!

kalina

@DavidFreitag ponies are awesome

David Freitag

@Adnan It was a joke, calm down.

kalina

15:04

this channel has become 20% more awesome since I entered

Adnan

@kalina I concur.

Rory Alsop

18%, I think you'll find

kalina

@RoryAlsop I make it 19.7%, which as anybody will tell you, rounds up neatly to 20

Terry Chia

@RoryAlsop 16%. We worship power of twos in here.

Rory Alsop

the 2 goes to the Big Bear as an offering

I think Bears might eat Ponies... just saying....

Adnan

15:05

@RoryAlsop That's.. weird.

kalina

I can fly, ground dwellers don't bother me

Terry Chia

3 mins ago, by Terry Chia

@kalina I think you fall under food

Rory Alsop

hahahahaha

Michael Dunfield

Wait, they can fly?

ಠ_ಠ

Rory Alsop

Flying bears??

Adnan

15:06

@kalina Bears can fly, too

kalina

er... no

Terry Chia

Also, why isn't bears in our topic list?

Powerlord

@TerryChia beers?

kalina

why isn't ponies in your topic list?

Michael Dunfield

@kalina Counterpoint, how is is more ridiculous than a horse with wings and a rainbow coloured mane?

Adnan

15:07

@kalina and shoot lasers at the same time

kalina

@MichaelDunfield pony

@Adnan I'm immune to lasers

Michael Dunfield

@kalina whatever

Terry Chia

@Powerlord I think beers fall under libations

Michael Dunfield

@Adnan Amazing

Adnan

@kalina With the power of friendship and rainbows?

kalina

15:08

@Adnan just friendship, rainbows is another thing entirely

Rory Alsop

That reminds me - weren't we to get the Lion changed to a Bear with our new logo?

Adnan

Oct 4 at 9:01, by Adnan

With the power of friendship and sunshine nothing is impossible.

Michael Dunfield

@RoryAlsop I like the lion.

Powerlord

@TerryChia Likewise, ponies falls under food. So does bacon.

Rory Alsop

(me too, but shhhhh)

kalina

15:08

I don't like your logo at all

Rory Alsop

you'll wake the bear

kalina

don't tell Jin though, I like Jin

Terry Chia

@Powerlord Indeed.

Adnan

@kalina I don't like your face!!!

Don't speak ill of our logo!

kalina

@Adnan my face doesn't care if you like it or not

Terry Chia

15:09

@Adnan Oh snap.

Adnan

@kalina Oh yeah? Well, na na na boo boo boo

Michael Dunfield

@kalina It's better than the gaming one, if I'm honest.

Powerlord

The logo made me think "Glory to Arstozka!"

Terry Chia

@MichaelDunfield Skeptics one is the worst.

Rory Alsop

Just too damn yellow

Scott Pack

15:12

:11574603 Neither. I just know that almost every single chat flag I see comes from that chat room. I make no judgement calls, hell I don't even read them anymore. I just reflexively invalidate them these days to clear the queueueueue.

Powerlord

@ScottPack That reply didn't seem to work... I just assume it's to something about the Christianity and/or Islam chat.

Scott Pack

@Powerlord Nah, it was a reply to a deleted message. At first it pulled in @MichaelDunfield's name, then it seems to have refreshed again to not. Lame.

Thomas Pornin

@RoryAlsop The Bear is too busy being appalled at the display of turbulent youth to be awakened.

kalina

@MichaelDunfield you're a traitor!

@TerryChia I think one of the nicest designs is actually Christianity.

I would never sign up to that though

Terry Chia

@kalina Yeah, that one is pretty cool.

kalina

15:15

me around religious people always ends badly

Scott Pack

@kalina Too Monty Python.

Michael Dunfield

I like the travel design the best, I think.

Scott Pack

@MichaelDunfield Now I want a donut.

Rory Alsop

I take my atheism from Douglas Adams so I don't want to offend religious types - hence I avoid those sites.

Grace Note

@MichaelDunfield TRIPLE CHICKEN

Rory Alsop

15:16

Travel is good, and the Physics sombrero pleases me

Xander

@TerryChia RE: HealthCare.gov and Backbone - This is an interesting article on how they botched it. wekeroad.com/2013/10/07/…

Michael Dunfield

@GraceNote Thanks, you've ruined it for me forever.

Scott Pack

@RoryAlsop Same here. I try not to convert people to non-belief so I expect turnaround in kind.

Rory Alsop

The Arqade just reminds me of Arcadia for the Zx Spectrum - and the sound effects are in my head

Grace Note

@MichaelDunfield I aim to please. ♪

kalina

15:17

@RoryAlsop I find the whole idea of millions of people following fiction like it's spiritual as hilarious

Scott Pack

@kalina Twilight.

Adnan

Jul 11 at 13:54, by Rory Alsop

@paste - I aim to pleasure

kalina

@RoryAlsop and I have no inhibitions in pointing it out to them

hence, completely incompatible

Rory Alsop

It would be more hilarious if they were following my fiction and making me rich! @kalina

kalina

Jehovah's witnesses are hilarious

I invite them in, lock the doors, and then ask them awkward questions

Scott Pack

15:18

@Adnan @RoryA needs his own idiom.

Rory Alsop

@Grace - I always read your signature note as 'toot' - not sure why, but it amuses me

Adnan

@kalina Not when they knock on your door at 09:00

Terry Chia

@Xander Interesting...

Powerlord

@kalina Door locks on houses/apartments in England stop people from getting out?

Scott Pack

My piano teacher had her doorbell wired up to a light switch. She would flip it off when she saw people coming to the door that she didn't want to talk to.

Terry Chia

15:18

@Powerlord Probably a specially made door.

Rory Alsop

@kalina - my dad used to let them stand on the doorstep in the rain, while he encouraged them to talk - from the comfort of the warm hall, with a cup of tea, just to see how long they would last

Adnan

I usually tell them I'm Jewish, they don't talk much after I say that.

kalina

@Adnan if they knock on my door at 9am, that means they've woken me up, I still answer the door but I immediately set fire to them

Scott Pack

@Powerlord Double keyed deadbolts.

kalina

@Powerlord depends on the type of lock, if I lock my doors, the only way out is breaking glass

Powerlord

15:19

@ScottPack Sounds like a safety hazard

fire hazard specifically.

Scott Pack

@Powerlord I agree, though in some places home insurance companies demand them.

My old house had them, and that was one of the first things I replaced because I was tired of looking at the key always sitting in the core.

CodesInChaos

hm? If you look a door, it's locked

Adnan

@CodesInChaos I just looked mine, it's still open.

CodesInChaos

never seen a different kind of main door here

Scott Pack

@CodesInChaos This kind can be opened from the inside without a key

CodesInChaos

15:22

(backdoors or those to a balcony which don't have a lock are different of course)

Scott Pack

Rory Alsop

our insurance requires a double locking deadbolt, with bars that pop out all sides - despite the fact that we are in an incredibly safe quiet suburb

Scott Pack

This kind can't be

Rory Alsop

And all windows require a keyed lock as well

Scott Pack

Grace Note

15:22

@RoryAlsop Like, from a train horn? I think that's cute, actually, and amusingly fitting to some extents.

Adnan

99% of doors in Finland have the same Abloy lock.

CodesInChaos

when our door isn't locked, it can be opened from the inside without key, but requires one from the outside

but when it's locked, it requires one from both

Rory Alsop

@Grace - like a very small, kazoo sized train horn :-)

Adnan

No idea why I said that

CodesInChaos

I usually keep the key in the lock while I lock it overnight

Grace Note

15:23

Suddenly I want to have a cannon affixed with a train horn now.

Scott Pack

@Adnan Those are weird looking keys.

CodesInChaos

that way one doesn't have to search for the key in case of emergency

Rory Alsop

hahahahaha - to warn of impending doom, or that just fires a noise rather than a cannonball @Grace

that reminds me - there was video of some sort of sonic cannon that could disrupt clouds

Grace Note

@RoryAlsop I think of it as more a thing to make a snide gloat sound after impact.

Rory Alsop

most amazing noise

Adnan

15:25

@ScottPack Indeed. But they're extremely difficult to pick, so that's pretty neat.

Scott Pack

@Adnan Medeco is similar.

Adnan

@ScottPack Not at all. They have a completely different mechanism

Scott Pack

@RoryAlsop I found this in my attic. I'm debating whether I want to wire it up and see what it sounds like. i.imgur.com/rogCaaJ.jpg

@Adnan Sorry, I meant similar in that they use a weird tumbler design to become difficult to pick.

Rory Alsop

@Scott - AhhhhoooOOOOOOooogggaaaaaaaa

Is it just a standard outdoor speaker cone?

use it on your hifi, for those high notes :-)

Scott Pack

@RoryAlsop That's one of the bullhorns hooked up to the old alarm system. That points out the gable vent towards my neighbor. The other one is underneath the floor, pointing up, in my living room.

Rory Alsop

15:27

Play Metaltech through it

Pointing up???

Scott Pack

yeah

Rory McCune

@RoryAlsop Interestingly insurance at the new place was ~50% the cost of Livi..

Rory Alsop

that would scare the living bejeezus out of a burglar

Scott Pack

No. Kidding.

Adnan

@ScottPack Yeah, Medeco has that little side bar. Makes it difficult as well

Rory McCune

15:28

On another note OMGWTFBBQ happened in here?

Rory Alsop

@RoryM - that's surely because of the Claymores round the perimeter

@RoryM - I missed most of it :-( Bloody iPad

we got swamped - I think that is the correct term

Rory McCune

@RoryAlsop ooh hadn't thought of that.. although had considered setting up a Crossbow range in the garden :)

Rory Alsop

it's okay - we can all blame @Adnan and @Simon

Rory McCune

@RoryAlsop so same old, same old then :op

whippersnappers causing trouble

Simon

I regret nothing.

Michael Dunfield

15:29

@RoryAlsop Also Magrunner

Rory Alsop

but on the upside I have a new list of gaming bundles from @Michael, and a new sound effect for @Grace

Scott Pack

@Adnan My undergrad university was an all Medeco shop. That was an interesting surprise when I got issued my dorm key.

Rory Alsop

and Magrunner...

Rory McCune

on new games Warlock 2 got announced (for those who like 4X games and thought master of magic was the bomb)

David Freitag

So, @Adnan why did we flag @Simon? For funzies?

Michael Dunfield

15:30

@RoryAlsop Lol. Inverto is a lot cheaper... it's like $4 right now. And the price will be going up with the next update.

Rory Alsop

oooh - and can I get it on Steam? yes?

logging into my steam app on my phone to try and do that now

Michael Dunfield

@RoryAlsop It's not on Steam yet unfortunately, but if you buy it now you will get a Steam copy when it gets greenlit.

Rory Alsop

As I am such a fan of tech and gadgets, you'd be amused that I'm sitting here with post-it notes with games I must look at/purchase stuch to my ipad...

Michael Dunfield

Inverto

Nathan C

Humble Bundles are always so tempting...and I end up buying them every time

Half the games I haven't even installed yet ..okay, more like 80%

Michael Dunfield

15:34

Humble only really features high-profile indie games now.

Which is great if you're not super into the indie game scene.

It's like indies for people who don't like indies.

kalina

@NathanC I'm exactly the same

I buy every single one and I've played maybe 5-6 games out of the 100s I've bought that way

and nearly all of those are on my phone

Terry Chia

I'm gonna try shifting my blog from Wordpress over to Jekyll this weekends. I'm sleepy so is this a stupid idea? :P

Rory Alsop

I'm still waiting for Elite Dangerous - signed up for one of the bigger pledges (mostly because I liked the t-shirt) but I'm getting very twitchy. Want it nao!

Nathan C

I bought the PC FFVII because I was always a fan of it on the PSX...and it was $7

lol

Michael Dunfield

@RoryAlsop That one looked pretty excellent.

kalina

15:36

@RoryAlsop I pledged on this too, I should get an email at some point soonish with beta details

Michael Dunfield

@RoryAlsop Have you seen kickstarter.com/projects/leafygames/pulsar-lost-colony

Rory Alsop

Not yet - but that is added to my list for this evening :-)

Michael Dunfield

@RoryAlsop Also Zigfrak

It was on sale a bit ago for like $2, you missed it.

Powerlord

@MichaelDunfield Humble features only high-profile games. Which is to say not all the games they have are Indie.

Michael Dunfield

@Powerlord I was referring to the Humble Indie Bundles, but yes.

@RoryAlsop Miner Wars 2081

Powerlord

15:42

@MichaelDunfield They just call them Humble Bundles, not Humble Indie Bundles.

Michael Dunfield

@Powerlord They still call the indie ones Humble Indie Bundles.

Unless they've done away with that

Nathan C

@MichaelDunfield I tried out miner wars...i couldn't figure it out.

Michael Dunfield

@NathanC Yeah, same for me. I preordered it too. Not a fan of the always-online DRM

Terry Chia

@MichaelDunfield I think they still do that.

Adnan

@DavidFreitag His message was about flags, so I thought "why not".

Michael Dunfield

15:51

@Adnan For future reference, everybody on the network with 10k rep can see those.

Adnan

@MichaelDunfield sigh everybody knows that

David Freitag

@Adnan Heh, that's like saying his message was about guns, so i shot him a couple times and thought, "why not"

Michael Dunfield

@Adnan Alright. But what you just said made it sound like you didn't so I was making sure.

kalina

What is this nonsense?

"QOTW Author Selection"

Adnan

@DavidFreitag Well, @Simon is gonna kill himself one of these days, so what difference does that make?

Grace Note

15:53

Haaah, oh. Revenge!

Scott Pack

@kalina Blogolopyse.

Grace Note

Everyone on the Bridge who came here is now subject to chat event announcements for a whole 30 days.

5

Rory Alsop

hahahahahahha

Scott Pack

Suckers.

Simon

Haha.

kalina

15:53

@ScottPack ewww

Adnan

@GraceNote Hahahaha

Rory Alsop

we have infected them all

Scott Pack

What do you think, guys? Should we make a few more events?

Michael Dunfield

You guys are the worst.

Adnan

It reminds me of some movie

David Freitag

15:54

@ScottPack One per hour sounds good to me

Simon

@ScottPack I feel committed to events now.

ManishEarth

@GraceNote hahahahaha

Adnan

@ScottPack Yup, let's plan on discussing some matters, tomorrow

kalina

I sense a major flag war coming on, both sides will lose horribly

David Freitag

@Adnan I never said anything about killing him, only shooting him repeatedly.

@kalina Not if @ManishEarth has anything to say about it...

Adnan

15:55

@DavidFreitag Well, @Simon is a masochist, so he'd enjoy that as well.

David Freitag

@Adnan 'xactly.

Scott Pack

@kalina Nah, I just mark all flags as invalid without entering the room. It's cool.

Simon

MMMM masochism.

Adnan

@kalina We're better than that, bigger than that, less American than that.

kalina

@Adnan oh wait, you're not an American?

Simon

15:55

'MERICA

Adnan

@kalina Ewww

kalina

I LIEK YOU GUYS MORE THAN ANYBODY EVAR ALL OF A SUDDENS

David Freitag

@kalina Pfft, who's american nowadays?

Michael Dunfield

I'm Canadian.

Rory Alsop

Another Canadian!

Simon

15:56

@MichaelDunfield LOL A CANADIAN.

Adnan

@MichaelDunfield @Simon, here's a friend.

Simon

You ruined it.

Rory Alsop

(I'm not)

kalina

Canadian, eh?

Adnan

@kalina We like you to, grony!

kalina

15:57

what the hell is a grony

Simon

Oh lawd, he's from Ottawa.

Adnan

@kalina Bro+Pony = Bronie. Girl+Pony=Grony.

Scott Pack

@MichaelDunfield You haven't apologized once since you came in here. You can't be Canadian.

kalina

@Adnan where does the R come from?

@ScottPack he doesn't display that trait

Michael Dunfield

@ScottPack HAH. Actually I apologize a lot, I just haven't been in here very long.

Adnan

15:57

@kalina G i r l

kalina

@Adnan that doesn't work

Michael Dunfield

Girony

Scott Pack

@MichaelDunfield Let's go get some Timbits and bacon, eh?

David Freitag

@kalina It totally works.

Adnan

@MichaelDunfield Sounds like an STI

Simon

15:58

@ScottPack Dude, timbits are the shit.

Michael Dunfield

@ScottPack Timbits are the shit. I am surprised you know what those are.

Adnan

@kalina Works for me

Scott Pack

@Simon Don't I know it, bro.

kalina

@Adnan also, female MLP fans outside of the target demographic are called pegasisters

Simon

@Adnan Subaru Technica International? Yup.

Scott Pack

15:58

@MichaelDunfield We have lots of Tim Horton's around here.

kalina

@MichaelDunfield everybody knows about Tim Hortons

Adnan

@Simon Sexuall Transimmted Infection. Yup

kalina

my time in Canada consisted of wake up > Tim Horton's > marijuana

Michael Dunfield

I guess they've started moving into the States.

Rory Alsop

@Adnan - I'm with my Scooby Bro, @Simon

Michael Dunfield

15:59

@kalina Sounds about right.

kalina

I couldn't believe you guys have drive through coffee

that's beyond incredible

Adnan

Canada is the best!!!!11!!

kalina

the closest we get to drive through coffee is mcdonalds

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