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7:00 PM
it doesn't look like there's cards for spending money this year. at least that progress bar is missing.
 
What!?
No badges then?
Hmph
 
there's cards for exploring your "discovery queue"
which is pretty random
 
Ah
 
@MartinBüttner I'm not familiar with how Steam sales work. There are badges for the amount of money you spend?
 
Hmm what's Undertale on sale for
 
7:01 PM
@AlexA. well there used to be cards for every 10 dollars you spend
and there's badges for cards
 
I want to bless all of my Undertale-less friends
 
@quartata What is Undertale
 
A Mother-esque RPG
 
What is Mother?
 
It's really good and does all sorts of stuff like jQuery
@AlexA. Seriously?
 
7:05 PM
@quartata No, Pyth
Unless you're asking me, in which case yes
 
@TimmyD Just choose a different set of axioms.
 
You might know it better by the name Earthbound
 
OH
Yeah. I think I have Earthbound for SNES.
I didn't play it much though because I couldn't really get into it.
 
Play Undertale anyways
I think everyone should try it at least once
 
Looks like Earthbound is a localization of Mother 2.
 
7:07 PM
Ye.
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

flawrDraw an image using all colours popularity-contest graphical-output I know that this is basically a subset of the then very popular American Gothic in the palette of Mona Lisa: Rearrange the pixels but I think it is worth making it a new challenge. Challenge Given a image of 2^12 x 2^12 pixel...

 
Well, barring the Half-Life series, Mega Man X for SNES is the best game.
The Mega Man cartoon show was both garbage and very sexist.
 
Last year they didnt do any encore sales which made me really mad
I hope they do them this time
 
@flawr ZFC or bust.
 
ZFC?
bust?
or? =)
 
@TimmyD I just discovered that multiple !s are not counted in title length.
 
@TimmyD bust or bust?
 
@flawr Cosmetic surgery is certainly an option.
@JAtkin Interesting.
 
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Q: Find my word(s)!

J AtkinThe idea of this challenge is to find all the words from a dictionary on a square of letters. Your input should come from stdin and will come in the following format: [your dictionary as a list of space sep words] [a grid of letters] Example: The cool car looc thea jopr Rules for finding a ...

 
@AlexA. "Best game" overall? Or "best game for the SNES?"
 
7:22 PM
...surely word search has been done before too?
if not...Snails to the rescue?
ah, it distinguishes itself by requiring you to draw lines...the original is just "yes or no"
 
@quintopia Yeah, Martin linked it in chat earlier, and I just-now linked it on the question.
Also, your avatar is very dapper.
 
@JAtkin well that spent a very long time in the sandbox ;)
 
i.imgur.com/FuibtiM.gif
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Yep a full 30 min
Seriously though I didn't it had any major problems (except perhaps the fact that I don't write too well)
 
@JAtkin the example you added for overlapping words would be improved if it didn't just overlap in a single letter.
(I think the tricky thing is overlapping segments)
 
7:31 PM
@MartinBüttner Juggling Lab is awesome
 
uh, yes?
 
that is all
 
okay.
I'm glad we agree.
 
agreement is awesome
is there a
 
click it and you'll find out.
 
7:37 PM
sad day
 
Someone here know a JS UI framework that provides elements that look like "native" windows? Something like Microsoft's Monaco Shell or Brackets?
 
@MartinBüttner Ok. I will try to incorporate that.
 
i wonder what's the most difficult pattern anyone has successfully juggled
 
@TimmyD Overall, HL aside.
 
7:46 PM
@quintopia define difficult
 
Hard
 
and define "juggled". the official definition for world records only needs two catches per ball.
 
that definition works for me
 
-1
A: Shortest code to produce infinite output

Hurricane996Brainfuck- 13 4 Bytes ,[.] Pretty self explanatory. Infinite newlines repitition of the input. I did it that way because the first printable character is 0xA or ++++++++++. So taking input saves 9 bytes.

nuke
 
@El'endiaStarman o_o shoot
 
7:47 PM
and i'm not a juggler so i can't define difficult. i would imagine "only one person has ever managed it" is a good heuristic
 
the dude also did 12 and 13 ball cascades, but with less than 2 catches per ball.
 
@MartinBüttner I have absolutely no context. And waaaat
 
I'm surprised I'm finding all these old hideously invalid answers
 
What kind of juggly stuff are yout alking about?
 
@MartinBüttner Does that help? (codegolf.stackexchange.com/posts/67415/revisions)
 
7:50 PM
@quintopia that guy is actually nuts: youtube.com/watch?v=MJN7YjZRrx8
 
@AlexA. danke
I've become addicted to the moderator tools
 
@JAtkin you already had that covered (one word contained completely inside another). that's why I suggested that and ate covering thate.
 
There's something... compelling... about sifting through all these old answers
Now if only I knew how to use SEDE effectively
 
that moment when you wake up to four rep from a mortarboard o_o
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ quick answer something
get to the chopper questions
 
7:54 PM
Oh
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ...how.
 
translate de: You're welcome.
(from English) Bitte.
@quartata Bitte
> %* Ensure that the dataset exists (why is this necessary?) *;
 
@SuperJedi224 Complement cat and this answer which somehow got 18 upvotes:
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A: Shorten an already short mathematical expression

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'BʀɪᴇɴEmotinomicon, 48 bytes / 13 characters I do it, not because it is short, but because it is fun. Try it here. You'll have to copy+paste it into the textbox. 😼⏪🆙😦✖😎😿➕😨😼🆙😄⏩ Explanation: 😼 ⏪ 🆙 😦 ✖ 😎 😿 ➕ 😼 🆙 😄 ⏩ explanation 😼 ...

 
I just found that comment in some code I wrote
 
@MartinBüttner I think that does it codegolf.stackexchange.com/posts/67415/revisions (var are)
 
8:02 PM
yep
 
Is this valid?
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A: Convert from base 10 to base 2 without built-in base conversions

ormaajBash, 44 f=b+=n/2**e%2*10**e,2**e++/n?f=b:f;echo $[f] Pass an input value to the script through the environment variable n. The decimal representation of the binary result cannot exceed LONG_MAX. This should also be compatible with ksh93 and zsh if b and e are initialized to 0 and proper arit...

It takes input via an environmental variable
I don't remember if that is OK
 
@MartinBüttner has anyone succeeded in this: youtube.com/watch?v=34ZiexnBp7I
 
I have no clue
 
@ProgramFOX Great job, the new bot does very well.
 
8:08 PM
@quintopia according to the juggle wiki it has been done with 21 catches but I can't watch the video, so follow the link at your own risk :P
 
hey
sup
 
@quintopia this is impressively casual for a 6-ball mill's mess: youtube.com/watch?v=VKDG_3uf2Q8
 
Can someone make a leaderboard snippet for this?. I don't have time to look at the regular one and abuse it :P
@BlockCoder1392 hiya!
 
@ProgramFOX It kinda stinks that the best bots have the fewest votes though.
 
I got a secret hat
 
8:10 PM
@quartata If I'm understanding correctly, no because it assumes that a variable already exists thereby making it a snippet rather than a full program or function. But then again I don't really know Bash so I don't know how things are done in that language.
@BlockCoder1392 Secrecy
 
@BlockCoder1392 just vote
 
Wait- I'm at 11 hats now
How'd that happen?
 
@AlexA. OK.
 
8:13 PM
@BlockCoder1392 Which one?
 
@TimmyD That's... quite a list. o_o I see a lot of good games in there. Battlefield 1942 isn't quite high enough IMO though. ;) (Granted I haven't played it in over 10 years.)
If you're looking to play Amnesia: The Dark Descent, I also recommend Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.
I was so tense that it made me physically ill.
Layers of Fear also looks really good but it isn't finished yet.
 
@AlexA. I didn't downvote but I did let the guy know:
I don't believe this is valid since it assumes that n is already defined, making it a snippet. That could be fixed by taking input as a command-line argument and setting n to that in your script. — quartata 22 secs ago
Dennis would probably know if it was valid or not
He's good with shell stuff
 
@quartata Good job <3 u
 
@AlexA. <3
 
@SuperJedi224 flip flop
 
8:15 PM
@AlexA. Nooo ... I don't need more games on my backlog.
 
@TimmyD That's OK, I don't think I've ever beaten a game.
 
@BlockCoder1392 Yeah, that one seems to be pretty common. Which color did you get?
 
OK, strike that. I have beaten Pokemon Emerald.
 
@quartata o___o
 
Now that I think about it I have beaten a couple games.
 
8:16 PM
@SuperJedi224 Blue
 
But I generally don't beat games...
 
I'm wearing it
 
@quartata By choice?
 
I tend to play all the way up until the end then forget about them
 
Ah
 
8:17 PM
@AlexA. No, more by nature due to my obsessive completionist habits with games
 
@quartata 0.o
 
I generally burn myself out by the time I get to the end
 
Ah
 
@BlockCoder1392 I got the white one.
 
orp
I do that too sometimes..
 
8:18 PM
I try to 100% everything first time blind which generally doesn't work out
I try, at least.
 
Caps lock
 
orp
Go big or go home
If you can't 100% it's not worth it
obviously
 
I actually need to update that list. I just 100%'d Rise of the Tomb Raider last night.
 
what is this I don't even
 
8:22 PM
@AlexA. Kirby surprise.
 
@AlexA. Some terrifying abomination thing
 
@TimmyD Good god
 
And now you can't un-see it
 
5 hours later...
2
 
That chat room is awfully quiet today...
No one speaking for five hours, I mean.
 
8:25 PM
@AlexA. 7 removed posts later... *
 
5
Q: Why are Killing fields relevant in physics?

AdolfoI'm taking a course on General Relativity and the notes that I'm following define a Killing vector field $X$ as those verifying: $$\mathcal{L}_Xg~=~ 0.$$ They seem to be very important in physics but I don't understand why yet because that definition is the only thing that I have so far. I'm ...

 
There's something called a killing field in physics? o_O
Rather unfortunate choice of name
 
> War. War never changes.
 
orp
(>o_O)>
 
8:36 PM
idea: Play a game of solitaire where the dealing, randomization, etc. is handled by a bot. Your job is to solve the hand or declare it unsolvable in the fewest number of moves.
Is this a good idea? Too hard?
 
ಠ_ಠ
3
 
I'm sure the minute I sandbox it, Peter will tell me why it's mathematically impossible or something. :P
@ಠ_ಠ Hello, old friend.
 
Your friend?
The imaginary one?
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
hours later...
(If you star it, it looks like the number changes)
 
8:38 PM
You seem to have forgotten something
Oh, I see
 
ಠ_ಠ.hasposted("ಠ_ಠ") == 1
 
Could someone test my jar release for (vv)?
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Q: Play Antichess!

J Atkinhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_chess This is basically Chess Tournament, but for antichess ;) Antichess is one of the many chess variants that have been invented. The goal is to lose all your pieces (this may seem a little odd, but it's called antichess for a reason). The rules The rul...

My setup already has gradle and groovy and I don't want to uninstall them to test it
 
orp
ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ::post(ಠ_ಠ){return ಠ_ಠ;}
 
@ಠ_ಠ Oh boy you missed Alex's message of insanity
You can see the ashes of it if you scroll up a bit
 
orp
@quartata many innocent posts were removed that day
 
8:45 PM
@orp and some not-so-innocent ones
 
@quartata I had a message of insanity?
 
What is the most starred post in the 19th byte?
 
Nov 12 at 22:26, by Doorknob
okay seriously stop abusing stars
68 stars
 
Ok then
 
The highest on the entire chat.se network
2
 
8:51 PM
Really?
 
Yes
I think chat.so has us beat by about 10 though
Maybe 9 IIRC
If memory serves me correctly, there was some post in the Stack Overflow PHP chat room that got 77 stars.
 
lets overcome chatso
2
 
> chatso
 
chatse
 
8:54 PM
Isn't there an Android app for SE chat called ChatSEy or something?
 
yus
 
As an iOS user I have no use for such blasphemy
 
> iOS user
 
> iOS user
 
> iOS user
 
8:56 PM
You just need a space after >
 
> non-iOS user
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
> Windows user
 
-1
Q: Self Printing Program

tjwrona1992This is a very simple problem, but I don't see it posted on this site yet so here it goes! Challenge: Write a program that prints itself using the least amount of characters possible. You can use any programming language. The self-printing program using the fewest characters wins!

 
> Windows/Mac/Linux user
 
8:56 PM
> I don't see it posted on this site yet
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I love how the author of the question instantly posts a "cheating" Perl quine.
 
@NewMainPosts Smashed into oblivion.
 
@Pietu1998 Clearly the OP is unfamiliar with quines so I'm sure they don't know the standard quine rules.
They will be educated into oblivion
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> characters
:O
 

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