The Factory Floor

ArtOfCode

16:00

Fair

dot_Sp0T

Alas I use the tablet to draw on it using my hand, so it's somewhere in between (but I really wanted to look how long I could do that before you would ask)

Serban Tanasa

@dot_Sp0T, and you've used the Surface? Have you had a chance to play w/ the table sized one?

ArtOfCode

Not very :P

Serban Tanasa

I used to use AutoCAD and 3dStudioMax back in the day

wanted to know what the cool kids use these days

ArtOfCode

Depends what you're doing

dot_Sp0T

16:03

@SerbanTanasa yes, I use the surface as my main goto solution for everything besides gaming. So I write code on it, use it to make notes on slides and scripts in classes, and use it as a graphics tablet together with Clip Studio Pro for drawing; due to time allocation I mostly use it to write code and do homework, etc. on it...

No I did not yet have a chance to use a table-sized one, but if I ever have the money I think I might get me one just because I want to create/run some top-down RTS on it

Serban Tanasa

thanks for sharing

dot_Sp0T

you're welcome, I hope I could help you. I'm using a surface pro 4 with max specs currently, that might be worth to notice

TrEs-2b

16:21

howdy

AndreiROM

hola

ArtOfCode

good $TOD

AndreiROM

slow day :P

TrEs-2b

yeah

AndreiROM

question: have any of you played a game called Duskers?

TrEs-2b

16:27

no

AndreiROM

I noticed it on steam a couple of months ago and picked it up on sale 2 days ago

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM good game

AndreiROM

I'm now officially addicted

i literally cannot wait to get home and pilot my drones around derelict space stations, hunting aliens and scavenging scrap

TrEs-2b

well i gootta go

AndreiROM

short visit

take it easy

TrEs-2b

16:28

remember me!

AndreiROM

@TrEs-2b you will not be forgotten.

@dot_Sp0T too bad it doesn't have a multiplayer, eh?

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM indeed; but then again I HATE SCARY GAMES

I HATE HATE HATE THEM

although probably not so much in multiplayer

ArtOfCode

BOO!

dot_Sp0T

@ArtOfCode no!

AndreiROM

duskers isnt scary

it's .. a little thrilling, perhaps?

once you get the turret mod you can literally just start hunting down enemies ..

dot_Sp0T

16:35

@AndreiROM then thank god we all have different perceptions and preferences

Nex Terren

@dot_Sp0T So what you're saying is that you refuse to play games like Alien Isolation, the Green Room, or Tax Filing Simulation 2016?

AndreiROM

I think of it more of a puzzle game than a horror game

@NexTerren that last one should never be named

The Game That Must Not Be Named

saying / typing it's name 3 times in the same thread will summon cthulhu

dot_Sp0T

@NexTerren I am just saying I reheheheheally don't like playing them

Nex Terren

Forgive me, I'll be more careful in the future. After all, we need to keep this chat SFW.

dot_Sp0T

Haven't played the last one

AndreiROM

16:37

@NexTerren and demonic invasion

Nex Terren

@dot_Sp0T I hear you get a free trial every year if you earn a paycheck!

ArtOfCode

What game? Tax Filing Simulation 2016? :)

Nex Terren

Indeed, Tax Filing Simulation 2016.

AndreiROM

@NexTerren I am bracing for Armageddon and the arrival of the demonic host

ArtOfCode

:D

Hi, demons, can I be your ~~friend~~ sidekick?

Nex Terren

16:39

@ArtOfCode I thought you were already on good terms with @James?

dot_Sp0T

oh my, the Battlefield trailer made one of my favourite songs non-favourite-anymore :(

James

@NexTerren snort

Nex Terren

@dot_Sp0T "I'm a Little Teapot?"

James

@NexTerren No. Rainbow connection

Nex Terren

... I don't actually know this title.

AndreiROM

16:42

i'm checking it out on spotify

God, I love technology

not quite my cup of rainbow

not a bad song though

dot_Sp0T

The internet is a deathtrap

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T and yet also a repository of knowledge

if we forward the theory that a repository of knowledge is a deathtrap, then are libraries death traps?

James

@AndreiROM Wait...you didn't know Rainbow Connection...brought to you by Kermit the Frog?!? Freaking Canadians

AndreiROM

@James us ignorant northerners, right ?

BUT

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM it's the books, you see?

AndreiROM

16:47

I'm also Romanian

James

This cancels out us voting for Trump

AndreiROM

so is it ignorant Canadians, or Romanians?

MUAHAHAHAHA

James

Cromanians...obviously.

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T filthy books.

@James sweet jesus. I never thought of that term

James

You're welcome ;)

dot_Sp0T

16:47

@AndreiROM burn them all!

AndreiROM

makes me think of "cro magnum"

@dot_Sp0T burning's too good for 'em

ooohhh

so on the subject of burning books

I recently read an article which is oddly related

a bunch of highschoolers came home with notes for their parents

asking for explicit permission to read the book Fahrenheit 451

dot_Sp0T

Sounds 'merica

AndreiROM

the teacher was afraid to offend any of the sweet darlings my making them actually use their brains for a change, you see

this particular parent was a journalist and immediately pointed out the sick, sick irony of asking for permission to read a book about restricting knowledge

DaaaahWhoosh

@AndreiROM I thought it was 451

AndreiROM

oops :P

@DaaaahWhoosh fixed, thanks for pointing it out

anyway, it's things like that which make my blood boil

DaaaahWhoosh

16:51

to be fair, knowledge goes both ways up to a certain point

Nex Terren

@AndreiROM What temperature does it boil at?

AndreiROM

the current state of affairs seems to be that anything which makes anyone the slightest bit uncomfortable is to be banned

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM sur eit doesn't ignite your pages?

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T I have a fair number of limbs, but none can be described as pages :P

@NexTerren currently running a fever at around 37.2 degrees celcius

thankfully the boiling is metaphorical

dot_Sp0T

Either my jokes are getting worse, or I need to explain it :(

Nex Terren

16:52

@AndreiROM Well stop being sick!

AndreiROM

@NexTerren and what's worse, I'm at work

yuck

Nex Terren

@AndreiROM Stop being at work as well!

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T definitely getting worse, lol

@NexTerren oh, God, can i? please?

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM ah shoot

AndreiROM

don't worry, I believe in you, dot_sp0t

you'll bounce back in a flurry of comic relief

Nex Terren

16:55

@dot_Sp0T "Bounce back." Clearly implying physical humor. Chop, chop!

dot_Sp0T

iirc I should've chatted one of you people up on steam, but I forgot who it was..

AndreiROM

i wonder what the origins of the phrase "chop, chop" are

James

Probably has something to do with an axe

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T I like to keep my usernames pretty consistent, so I'll always be easy to recognize

also by my profile picture of a murderous Romania Ball (currently a pumpkin due to Halloween spirit)

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM maybe some chinese place? "I've got the ducks" "Gleat, CHOP CHOP"

@AndreiROM so it was you?

AndreiROM

16:57

@dot_Sp0T Laughing. Out. Loud.

@dot_Sp0T you do have me on steam now-a-days, although I'm not sure we've ever chatted through it

Nex Terren

"Chop chop" is a phrase rooted in Cantonese. It spread through Chinese workers at sea and was adopted by English seamen.[1] "Chop chop" means "hurry, hurry" and suggests that something should be done now and without any delay. The word "chopsticks" likely originates from this root.[2]

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM no; I mean yesterday I've someone on here mentioned for me to chat them up on steam because they were leaving the chat here

Nex Terren

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T not me then

@NexTerren knowledge is a weapon

a really clumsy one though

Nex Terren

@AndreiROM So is stupidity.

AndreiROM

17:00

I much prefer a semi-automatic carbine

@NexTerren I think stupidity is less of a weapon and more of a luxury

if you can afford to be an ignorant bastard and still live a decent life, I envy that person

Nex Terren

@AndreiROM Hm. Maybe what I want to say is that "ignorance can be weaponized."

Mob mentality and all that.

Make the uninformed passionate and you can do great things.

AndreiROM

@NexTerren ah, that's different

I was thinking at a more individual level

dot_Sp0T

No matter how ignorant you are, knowledge will always beat you!

Nex Terren

Ah, fair enough there.

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T yes and no

Nex Terren

17:03

@dot_Sp0T I don't know what you're saying but you're wrong.

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM have you ever been hit by a book?

Nex Terren

;D

AndreiROM

you see, there's something to be said for being happy in life, and ignorant people tend to be happier :-/

@dot_Sp0T no, but i've once had a cat thrown at my head

dot_Sp0T

The more knowledge, the thicker the book, the more it hurts

Nex Terren

@dot_Sp0T Throws the bound Twilight collection at your head

AndreiROM

17:04

@NexTerren simply coming into contact with that is bound to render you brain-dead

to my everlasting shame I've read all 4 books

dot_Sp0T

Sticks and bones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

Nex Terren

@AndreiROM Family? Significant other? Dangerous levels of curiosity?

AndreiROM

i was on the 8 hours flight from europe to canada, and my sister had all 4 books in her luggage. I couldn't sleep

Nex Terren

@AndreiROM So a little of A, a little of C...

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM 4 books in 8 hours, that is impressive

AndreiROM

17:06

after reading them I couldn't sleep because I realized that I was related to someone who spent money on those books

Nex Terren

I found I can read much, much faster than I can enjoy.

AndreiROM

I eventually forgave her

@NexTerren well .. eventually all those paragraphs of getting lost into someone's sparkling eyes just start to blur and you just want to end your own misery

if i had to read one more sentence about sparkling vampires I was going to be sick

Nex Terren

@AndreiROM "Sparkling vampires can be found in the best-selling book series, Twilight." <-- One more sentence.

dot_Sp0T

I know this is not a programmer chat, but there's a bunch of them in here and they also seem to do java; so I'll still ask: Does anyone know where the heck to find an up-to-date list with most/all of the values that can be returned by the java property os.name ?

Nex Terren

@dot_Sp0T Not off-hand, but that seems like something I could find. One second.

AndreiROM

17:10

sounds like something you can find on stack overflow

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM you'd be surprised :)

AndreiROM

i know just enough java to know i don't want to know more

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM that is sad :(

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T that site has yet to let me down

it also led me to WB SE, so yay!

@dot_Sp0T idk, maybe it's because of netbeans, but I really, heavily, dislike java

i'm primarily a c# guy, with plenty of javascript and jquery thrown in

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM the issue is that most of the things you find on there are really obvious things and all the complex really specific issues and stuff get pushed aside by the sheer masses of repeated questions etc

Nex Terren

17:12

@dot_Sp0T I found "most" but no promises to "all." Here: lopica.sourceforge.net/os.html and here: java-gaming.org/…

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM definitely must be netbeans; have a look at eclipse once in awhile

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T that is true. Which is where being a google ninja comes in handy

dot_Sp0T

@NexTerren yeah both are 10 years old

:)

Nex Terren

@dot_Sp0T Hm. You're right.

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T there's so many technologies I want to brush up on that I don't even know what to do first. And I'm also finishing up my university degree through night school, so right now I'm barely finding room to breathe

dot_Sp0T

17:13

@NexTerren well I've been over them a few times before; currently raking through the openjdk sources as the normal jdk gets system properties over native calls, and these are not delivered with the oracle java sources

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T I feel intimidated :P

dot_Sp0T

@NexTerren check this out <3 hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/file/687fd7c7986d/src/windows/… it's even got comments so I don't have to get into the OS specific libraries (so I do not have to find copies of these libraries)

Nex Terren

@dot_Sp0T Well, nice find!

dot_Sp0T

aah approx from line 350 down

Being fair, I've stumbled upon this jewel of a question: stackoverflow.com/questions/40262030/… be darlings and give it an upvote

dot_Sp0T

17:30

@AndreiROM why do you have to ruin my joeks :(

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T oh. I literally just figured your joke out

Idk if it's just my fever addled brain or whether your jokes are too subtle :P

dot_Sp0T

Subtle is the only thing I am good at

AndreiROM

naturally I'll just assume that I'm perfect, and it's your fault :D

I deleted my comment. Your joke is back in play ;)

did you take a look at that clone society question?

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM I had a brief glance at it

AndreiROM

I was a little confused by it. Feels opinion based

dot_Sp0T

17:36

Yeah, the question as it is posed is hard to answer; the disclaimer at the end seems to add some very strict limits on the answers though; so it's less opinion-based and more hella hard to answer as I see it

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T meh. I'm a simple guy. I get confused, i vote to close

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM I can't even VTC... only flag

How much rep do I need for VTC?

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T you need to work on those reputation points

not sure TBH

maybe around 10K?

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM I TRY

AndreiROM

you're such a fixture on WB SE that I'm really shocked you're not very high up on rep

you just gotta get in there and be the first to answer questions

dot_Sp0T

17:39

I even punched out a multi-paragraph answer on this one: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/60796/… - but the attention is all going to the two-paragraph that doesn't even try to deliver real explanations

that was you, wasn't it?

AndreiROM

I live by these

659

Q: Six simple tips to get reputation fast on any Stack Exchange site

An article, "6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast" at codexon.com, made these suggestions: Be the First to Answer. Even at the cost of quality. Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically Use obnoxious in-your-face formatting and lists. Be Aware of the 200 rep/day Limit ...

@dot_Sp0T i'm loyal to my friends :D

frankly, i think your first sentence makes more sense than the whole answer which is top rated

i liked your answer a lot, actually

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM oh you /*blushes*

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T one simple reality to remember about answers here is that whoever is first in the stack is going to get 70% of the upvotes. People rarely go beyond the first one or two answers, especially if they're long

it's super important to be the first to answer

and, I find, it's good to have solid formatting. Headers, bolded text, that sort of thing

people find a well structured long answer less intimidating to read

dot_Sp0T

I originally wanted to expand it with some proper calculations instead of the fast approximations I did on the train

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T that questions didn't even deserve numbers

it's a bit whimsical as we have no real way to predict how things would play out

the OP didn't tell us much about the population and society of those colonies

dot_Sp0T

17:48

Now you're hard on them; naturally anyone having taken a quick look at history would've been able to come up with the answer I gave and thus would not have had to ask in the first place, but still it's a good question if you look at it from a format perspective

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T I'm usually pretty harsh with ppl i guess

dot_Sp0T

The population cannot be more than a few 100 on the Moon, a few multiples of 10 on the Mars and some crews of 6-18 people anywhere else :D

AndreiROM

maybe you've noticed that in some of my answers :P

@dot_Sp0T with today's tech levels, yup

dot_Sp0T

@AndreiROM I am quite straight when I say sth I mean that, no hidden meaning, especially when my brain's cranked up - most people though don't get that because they constantly look for hidden stuff and implications which makes communications that much harder

@AndreiROM actually I was assuming a steady improvement in rocket- & habitat technology

The issue still is the distances

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T yup. People seem not to realize that we're not even 100% sure of the content of our solar system - it's just too big

dot_Sp0T

18:03

Did some formatting magic, tell me if it improved please :)

shoot I cannot nest two superscript tags

AndreiROM

@dot_Sp0T much better

dot_Sp0T

Anyone know how to write 10^-4 without using the <sup> tag?

HDE 226868

@dot_Sp0T $10^{-4}$, using LaTeX.

dot_Sp0T

@HDE226868 lovely, but it somehow messes up when used in a <sub> tag; at least it did in the preview render

HDE 226868

@dot_Sp0T If you want to implant a superscript and a subscript, use $_{10^{-4}}$.

Don't mix the tags with LaTeX.

AndyD273

18:17

Hmm, so I have a battery question, but I don't know if it would work better in Engineering SE or Chemistry SE...

dot_Sp0T

@AndyD273 spell it out

AndyD273

If I take a battery that is "dead" and completely replace the electrolyte and maybe the terminals, would it be a "fresh" battery?

dot_Sp0T

@AndyD273 would put it on engineering

AndyD273

Like, if it was a lead acid battery that had been used up, and I drained out the acid and replace it with fresh, would it be "charged" again

ok

AndreiROM

@AndyD273 so if you take a battery and completely replace everything that makes it a battery, is it still the same battery?

the thing is, the acid is very likely to have eaten through the housing so ...

seems to me that if you replaced all the parts there's no reason why it shouldn't work

AndyD273

18:21

@AndreiROM I'm just curious if the electrolyte needs to be charged as well

AndreiROM

at the same time, however ... i'm not sure the actual physical battery would survive the rebuilding process

@AndyD273 interesting question :)

dot_Sp0T

Well it's an engineering question

AndyD273

cool

dot_Sp0T

Anyone of you using MacOS or any Linux distro?

AndyD273

I have an macbook I use when I don't need to do anything important.

ArtOfCode

18:26

@dot_Sp0T currently on Ubuntu

dot_Sp0T

Lovely, could you guys run the following codesample for me?:

class Blergh {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new ArrayList<String>() {{
add("os.name");
add("os.version");
}}.foreach((k,v)->{System.out.println(k + " -> " + v)});
}
}

ArtOfCode

that's Java, it'll run on Windows

AndyD273

From the looks of it he wants to see what os name is returned for mac os and linux?

dot_Sp0T

so here we go

sorry I accidentally pressed enter while typing it out

also still got a typo... shoulda typed it in an editor instead

big typo

froget that code

AndyD273

BTW, you know you can just download virtual box and a linux live cd image and test it yourself?

dot_Sp0T

18:34

@AndyD273 sure I could, but that means I need to install Virtual Box and get me a linux live distro and then get the code in there and whatsnot :)

AndyD273

True, but it's dependable and a lot easier to debug

ArtOfCode

What's wrong with Google

dot_Sp0T

@ArtOfCode lots of things actually; but I think I misunderstood your question

ArtOfCode

Google works perfectly well for finding out what os.name is for X OS

4

A: How to get os name (ubuntu) in java program

I found that there is only three system properties to determine os details : os.name : Linux os.version : 3.13.0-74-generic os.arch " amd64 ubuntu specific solution is to read these files : /etc/*-release for me : $ cat /etc/*-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENA...

11

A: Java - How can i determine the running Mac OS X version with code?

Use: System.getProperty("os.name") // Yields "Mac OS X" System.getProperty("os.version") // Yields "10.7.4" for me on Lion

dot_Sp0T

Also if anyone is still in science mood, here's the actual snippet:

import java.util.ArrayList;

class Blergh {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new ArrayList<String>() {{
                add("os.name");
                add("os.version");
            }}.forEach((s) -> {
                System.out.println(s + " -> " + System.getProperty(s));
            });
    }
}

And here's a cleaner version without any imports or java8 stuff:

class Blergh {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        for(String s : new String[]{"os.name", "os.version"}) {
            System.out.println(s + " -> " + System.getProperty(s));
        }
    }
}

ArtOfCode

18:40

y'know you can still do code formatting in chat?

dot_Sp0T

how'd you do that?

AndyD273

0

Q: How much of a battery needs to be replaced for it to be a fresh battery?

If I take a battery that is "dead" and completely replace the electrolyte and maybe the terminals, would it be a "fresh" battery? So instead of pulling up to a charging station in your electric car, plugging in, and waiting half an hour or more to be able to continue, could you pull up, suction ...

battery

ArtOfCode

fixed font button that turns up when you have a multiline message

alternatively, indent by four spaces like on the main sites

Chat supports a similar set of markdown to comments

dot_Sp0T

Didn't know the first thing and haven't thought the second thing would work

ArtOfCode

now you do :)

one of today's 10000

dot_Sp0T

18:43

@ArtOfCode and I promise to you I'll forget it again

ArtOfCode

Of course :)

dot_Sp0T

Sooooooooooo any of you actually ran it?

AndyD273

Not yet, this thing has a shorter battery life than a goldfishes memory, so I had to plug it in and wait for it to wake from hybernation

Now I gotta see if I even have java installed

dot_Sp0T

@AndyD273 you're a good person, thank you very very very much

ArtOfCode

@dot_Sp0T this thing doesn't have java on it, and I wouldn't know how to run it if it did

dot_Sp0T

18:47

@ArtOfCode Ubuntu right? Would be apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk, and then compile it with javac; but you're right I am way more interested in what it says on current Macs tbh

ArtOfCode

If it really is that easy...

dot_Sp0T

@ArtOfCode javac myfile.java, java myfile.class

AndyD273

hmm... Error: Could not find or load main class Blergh.java

dot_Sp0T

yeah gimme a sec :(

AndyD273

Testing it in windows first, just to see if it'll work, then I'll put it on the mac

dot_Sp0T

18:51

nah it's oracles fault

AndyD273

I never installed eclipse on this machine, since I got it after android studio came out

ArtOfCode

Error: Could not find or load main class Blergh.class

that's after sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk and javac Blergh.java and java Blergh.class

dot_Sp0T

you did everything right

ArtOfCode

Ah, gotcha. It needed java Blergh

os.name -> Linux
os.version -> 4.4.0-47-generic

dot_Sp0T

lovely

ArtOfCode

18:57

try that, @Andy

dot_Sp0T

sorry bout the mistake with writing .class

ArtOfCode

shrug no worries

dot_Sp0T

I usually use ant or maven to compile

@AndyD273 make sure you're running javac <- with the c at the end

ArtOfCode

that makes the full sequence of commands javac myfile.java then java Blergh

dot_Sp0T

@ArtOfCode I wouldn't have thought that Ubuntu doesn't modify the os name in its kernel

AndyD273

19:02

Ah, that worked

Andys-MacBook:Desktop andy$ javac Blergh.java
Andys-MacBook:Desktop andy$ java Blergh
os.name -> Mac OS X
os.version -> 10.11.6

ArtOfCode

You could make this into a neat little utility, actually...

dot_Sp0T

@ArtOfCode ?

I mean I am extending my personal utility library with a little Util that allows me to access system-dependent locations for different kinds of data (locations as listed in this thread gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/35700/…) but that's it

ArtOfCode

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Blergh {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        for (String property : args) {
            System.out.println(property + " -> " + System.getProperty(property));
        }
    }
}

dot_Sp0T

Did we have any questions on trains that circle the planet indefinitely?

ArtOfCode

$ java Blergh os.name os.version
os.name -> Linux
os.version -> 4.4.0-47-generic

dot_Sp0T

19:06

@ArtOfCode would certainly be neat indeed

But only if you have a usecase for it

What's beautiful about it is that you don't have to do input validation, as an empty array just means the loop body is never entered

ArtOfCode

I don't suppose there's a handy way of getting a Java console?

AndyD273

@ArtOfCode That javac part was throwing me off quite a bit... Java is weird.

I gotta run for a while.

ArtOfCode

i.e. something that evaluates and runs Java on the fly?

dot_Sp0T

@ArtOfCode java 9 is actually getting one

openjdk.java.net/jeps/222

dot_Sp0T

19:20

Can we btw force people to accept answers..?

James

@dot_Sp0T Oh my god! Trump is in our chatroom!

dot_Sp0T

@James that seems very far-fetched

James

...I apologize for all the Trump references but I am actually having a bit of a challenging time with that whole five stages of acceptance

ArtOfCode

maybe you should stop blowing your own... trumpet.

dot_Sp0T

@James I call them The 5 Stages of Smashing Things with Various Implements, stage 3 s baseball bats

ArtOfCode

19:25

sunglasses

dot_Sp0T

YEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!

►

James

The sad thing is I get why people voted for him. I can't hold on to the feeling for more than a second or two but I get it. When you first hear him say something outlandish the lizard part of your brain goes "Hell yeah!" before the smart part of your brain goes "Oh dear god what is wrong with you" He appeals to that little reflexive nub in our brains...

and its addictive...

ArtOfCode

@James you'd enjoy the election room, I think

random political discussion and theorising

James

I am trying to keep my blood pressure down

Have to avoid that feedback loop

:)

DaaaahWhoosh

oh, man. I just realized, if Trump imposes some sort of new immigration laws, maybe there would be some equivalent to a green card involved

and they could call it a Trump card

dot_Sp0T

19:34

Oh dear

James

god

DaaaahWhoosh

the question then would be, how close could you get to the wall before pulling it out

James

I want to smack you, but that was funny.

dot_Sp0T

sigh I just realised I need to buy a PS4

James

@dot_Sp0T #firstworldproblems :p

DaaaahWhoosh

19:37

@dot_Sp0T may I ask whatever for?

dot_Sp0T

@DaaaahWhoosh Detroit: Become Human

DaaaahWhoosh

ewww

I mean, it looks cool, but I assume it's not going to be

dot_Sp0T

there's also a bunch of older PS games I should eventually play I thought

DaaaahWhoosh

yeah, maybe. The Last of Us was decent

does PS4 have backwards compatibility yet?

dot_Sp0T

@DaaaahWhoosh I wouldn't know

yikes I need to go else I get no sleep

I'll be stalking this chat again in some 8 hours, make the best out of that time o/

DaaaahWhoosh

20:01

o/

hmm, of the two drawing tablets I'm considering buying, one has the features I want, and the other one has DW in the name.

it's like, do I do what I want to do, or do I pick the one that literally has my name on it?

HDE 226868

20:40

As of 34 minutes ago, @CortAmmon is Worldbuilding's first 50k user.

DaaaahWhoosh

so... mod ping so we can congratulate him?

or meta post so we can congratulate him?

HDE 226868

Oh. Right. I forgot I can do that.

DaaaahWhoosh

OR is there going to be a surprise party?!

bilbo_pingouin

Interesting, pinning a mod-ping makes the name disappear, and we get a number...

HDE 226868

@bilbo_pingouin Known bug.

bilbo_pingouin

20:55

ok... was not know to me...

HDE 226868

Me, neither.

bilbo_pingouin

so to pin it, you'll have to rewrite a message with a normal ping... so that I can star it ;)

HDE 226868

As of 51 minutes ago, @CortAmmon is Worldbuilding's first 50k user.

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ArtOfCode

'cept it's not 34 anymore

HDE 226868

Nice catch, @ArtOfCode.

bilbo_pingouin

20:58

Good... :D

that was certainly worth keeping a track of :)

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