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FallenAngelEyes

12:05 AM

@Ivo: Your answer to the RB3 keyboard question seems to be oddly cut off?

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A: What are the advantages/disadvantages of the Rock Band 3 Keyboard?

Note: this is from what I've picked up in ready dozens of reviews! All songs are designed to just be played with the right hand, however the Pro Mode songs require you to use both octaves. This means that there's no use for you to have a full sized keyboard, as it would leave most of it unused...

I had problems trying to submit it

so I'll have another look

12:18 AM

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FallenAngelEyes

haha

what can I say, I'm an optimist

FallenAngelEyes

I am a shitty optimist.

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oh I'm so procrastinating

:15027 I'm procrastinating from sleep

12:27 AM

well I guess my company is much more enjoyable than your bed ;P

Problem is I have an appointment tomorrow at 11

well to bed you!

12:44 AM

Constructive

where are the spammers on stack exchange?

indeed, if you can twist bad behavior into something wanted, mission accomplished

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5:19 AM

@_@

@fallen they're ripping off our content offsite :p

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9:03 AM

morning all - is the following question OK over here on Gaming? thought I'd ask before starting a migrate...

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Q: What time was my Xbox 360 switched on?

Last night, somebody stole one of my Xbox 360 wireless controllers, switching my Xbox on in the process. It would be helpful to know what time my Xbox was switched on, as that would tell me (and the police!) what time the burglery occured. The Xbox is still on, sitting at the dashboard. Is the...

@DMA57361 I guess it would've fit better on Gadgets

that said I guess it's not really on topic but fine to have anyway

Yeah? It didn't "feel" right to place over here, but thought I'd check first

OK, well back to work I guess. Thanks and bye...

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12:41 PM

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5:10 PM

Gambling is just waaaay too easy in Fallout NV

just playing Caravan earned me about 4000 without even getting close to Vegas

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7:35 PM

Gambling feels like cheating :(

:15073 then don't.

I never said I disliked cheating :P

it just seems unbalanced

I'm not supposed to have 15000 caps after a couple hours playing

you forgot @ArdaXi was the one who cheats at Dwarf Fortress @badp

it's only cheating when @tzenes is here

lol, true

8:14 PM

oh god... I just finished my last midterm and the professor decides to actually teach in the second half of class...

8:25 PM

Bite me

BITE

FallenAngelEyes

Evening all

WHY is "shine" censored?

WTF?

"This race is where tier 2 cars *****"

It's a derogatory term for an African American

apparently

holy shit.

That's dangerously clbuttic.

8:34 PM

I can imagine them censoring that.

Yeah, who'd want to say "Tier 1 cars just can't go head to head with Tier 2 cars on a 10 minutes race; that's where raw power shines."

I was referring to "holy shit" but okay.

FallenAngelEyes

Where's that censored?

gobble isn't censored however.

9:12 PM

holy poo poo! talking about gently caressing censoring?

FallenAngelEyes

haha @alex

on a totally unrelated note: ninja's can't drive.

What's all this talk of censorship?

This may sound silly, but what do the 'add and remove interesting tags' things on the home page do?

I really never gave them much thought.

9:32 PM

they increase and decrease the visibility of questions containing certain tags.

FallenAngelEyes

@Gnome: Try adding one and look to see what effect it has

They're easily removed

I'm too scared.

also, they allow you to search for unaswered questions containing one of those tags via gaming.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=mytags

So I ignored [starcraft-2]

Now what?

Do I just not see questions tagged with it?

FallenAngelEyes

The visibility will be slightly less

9:35 PM

Questions about SC2 are now dimmed out

FallenAngelEyes

And there's an option to completely remove questions whose tag you've ignored from visibility

You can hide them entirely from your preferences.

What's the point of not completely removing them?

FallenAngelEyes

Just making them stand out a bit less I guess

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9:36 PM

:15120 Because you may still want to close/vote/view them

So, Instead of the standard randomly chosen questions to view on my homescreen, I'll see random questions, minus most of the starcraft ones?

yes.

You won't see any additional questions iirc, however.

Hm. And interesting tags, I'm assuming, shows you more of the questions with those tags?

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FallenAngelEyes

There will be a highlighted background

9:38 PM

:15128 No -- it's all merely a visibility matter.

ignored tags above

You won't see more of interesting questions and you won't see more of normal questions.

But I'll see less of ignored ones.

You won't unless you choose to hide them.

Then you won't "see" them at all.

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9:39 PM

In that case, I'm really not seeing the point of interesting tags.

interesting tags above

:15138 It merely highlights questions.

So they stand out? Ah, makes sense, I guess.

Oh, and as an added bonus you can filter unanswered questions (and unanswered questions only) by interesting tags.

FallenAngelEyes

Right. So when you're scrolling down the list, you can be like "Oh hey, a dwarf fortress question, I should check that out"

9:41 PM

in addition to highlighting, the unanswered tab also allows you to show only intersting tags. unanswered -> my tags

Neat. I must make use of this now.

Funny, it's been all this time.

Also, what do we do about duplicate tags?

[nintendo-wii] vs. [wii]

synonyms! see gaming.stackexchange.com/tags/wii/synonyms for an example!

but they're both separate tags.

[nintendo-wii] will be remapped to [wii] automatically!

:15148 btw wildcards work.

so you can use starcraft-*, civilization-*, need-for-speed-*, etc.

or *strateg*

9:46 PM

:15155 or [*-strategy] ;)

that doesn't match strategy :P

:15157 but it does match [real-time-strategy] and [turn-based-strategy]

just like *strateg* does.

But how do the wildcards handle duplicate tags?

:15159 strategy vs. tactics ;)

9:48 PM

For example, would [nintendo-*] include the [wii] tag?

:15162 not yet, good feature request however, post it on meta.stackoverflow.com

See, I'm still unfamiliar with the site hierarchy. Don't post it on gaming meta?

No, because Gaming meta is about Gaming the site

Meta Stack Overflow is about the engine

you're suggesting an engine change.

> This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

^ Ouch

pity, I heard that track in a minecraft YT video and I liked it

now neither of you are getting the link

9:52 PM

Blocked in my country.

welcome to the internet

:15171 is it on spotify?

The internet should be like international waters.

:15174 no, Youtube.

:15176 I know but is the audio availble on spotify?

9:53 PM

:15175 dropbox.com/gallery/1164414/1/…

What am I looking for?

Wait nevermind.

I'll take a look.

:15177 Looking at the service.

+1 for using Chrome.

:15177 spotify.com/int/why-not-available

America has completed The Internet. Effect: +1 Happiness in every city due to unrestricted YouTube.

9:55 PM

@badp Heh, that sucks.

:15178 you could start a blog with that collection.

So what exactly is my feature request.

If you don't know who does?

Wildcards aren't compatible with synonyms?

:15184 double sucks for you ;)

:15191 something like that.

10:00 PM

actually I wouldn't mind a contribution to my gallery

can you guys get me a relevant screenshot of rai.tv ?

I can see that site, but that's missing the point.

Is there a way to display my tags other than [tag] (putting square brackets around it? I hate that.

no.

poo poo uses silverlight...

:15202 yep it does, but that's not the point.

:P

10:03 PM

:15203 I'm on ubuntu now

:15205 So what? Moonlight.

go-mono.com/moonlight

Just to be clear, [nintendo-wii] and [wii] do currently work as synonyms, correct?

:15207 google instant was faster ;)

:15208 yup! [wii] is main

Which tag is dominant?

:15211 wii I believe

10:04 PM

Thanks.

gaming.stackexchange.com/tags/wii/synonyms

> The following tags will be remapped to wii: nintendo-wii

Wow, I need to learn the site well enough to find this stuff on my own. Thanks.

:15216 tags -> wii -> synonyms

I'll keep that in mind.

Do synonyms only work for 2 already defined tags?

:15220 you can't use wildcards in synonyms definitions if that's what you mean (by design)

10:12 PM

Well no, but I guess what I mean made no sense, because synonyms both have to be tags.

So, right now, [nintendo-*] would not link to the [wii] tag?

:15220 and yes, the tags need to be used already, so we won't go rampant suggesting synonyms.

:15223 yes, correct.

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Q: 'Interesting' and 'Ignored' Wildcard Tags Should Recognize Synonyms

I think it would be nice if wildcard tags defined as interesting or ignored by a user would recognize synonyms. I'll use an example from the Gaming site: [nintendo-wii] and [wii] (These are obvious synonyms, and have already been merged.) Now say I want to have all questions related to Nintend...

feature-request tags interesting-tags ignored-tags

Who's this 'radp' character?

:P

what?

I haven't written anything yet!!

:15227 check the accounts tab on his account

No, but I happened to mouse over your avatar in the recent chatters list.

I'm confused. Now people are telling me to post this on Gaming Meta.

10:22 PM

:15233 Really? Because they're wrong.

I don't see it either

Check out the answer.

I should post a bug report too.

He didn't say that -- he merely commented on how they should be merged.

Why didn't he comment it then? This doesn't really address my request,

I should post a bug report too...

When you rollover the 'favourite question' icon, if someone has favourited it (even if it's not you) it says "This is a favourite question. Click again to undo"

:15239 I downvoted him indeed.

I downvoted him too ;)

10:25 PM

:15241 same even if there are no stars at all

and left a comment why his answer is not applicable ;)

Huh, so it is.

@alex > I'll edit that into my question.

@GnomeSlice don't worry about things when you have backup ;)

Ha, thanks.

So do we create synonyms deliberately to help with searches?

if we see synonym applicable tags used by users, we suggest them as synonym at the appropriate tag, it get voted upon by the community, and the synonym proposal get's accepted or ignored. (usually, we post it to chat and discuss it too during the voting, to ensure we get enoug users to look at it ;)

10:33 PM

Well, there is a [gamecube] tag, but not a [nintendo-gamecube] tag.

did anyone ever used the [nintendo-gamecube] tag, no, so there is no need yet for it. (that might change when your feature request gets accepted)

@alex > Well, no one used it because it doesn't exist.

during the closed beta, everybody could create tags, and it didn't came up there.

Nobody appreciates the Gamecube.... :(

(technically, you could deliberatly create a new good gamecube question, and use the [nintendo-gamecube] tag ;))

10:38 PM

:15257 that'd be bad.

Oh I'm sure I could, but is it better to continue using the [gamecube] tag? I think it's a better tag anyway.

Sure it is. Are you going to ever have any confusion with other gamecubes around?

:15258 actually, the official name is Nintendo Gamecube... so take that!

No. I think all of the [nintendo-*] consoles should be given their own tags. N64 doesn't have one.

Neither does DS, although that one is debatable I suppose.

:15262 will be fun with the SNES

10:40 PM

:15261 okay, go ahead and propose changing [gamecube] to [nintendo-r-gamecube-tm]

^

Are there even any tags for NES and SNES yet?

[super-nintendo-entertainment-system] (too long)

[snes]

>_>

:15267 gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nes & gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/snes

0 questions tagged with both. Called it.

10:43 PM

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That's funny, both of mine say 0.

This happened the other day too...

try CTRL+F5

aww... shucks... no kbd support in chat.

I've already tried hard refresh.

Nuttin.

you're looking at the hot tab.

Featured. But even still, on the righthand side it says '0 questions tagged about [nes]'

10:46 PM

that's the problem, featured questions are questions with bounties.

How do I get to these tag-info pages.

Apparently I'm a Luddite.

See, clicking on any tag gives me a 0.

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:15285 click on any tab besides featured.

:15285 gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/… have some help from a link.

So, which tab gives you the actual number of questions tagged with that tag?

'newest' ?

all except the featured tabs

Well that's silly. Those tabs should just give a separate number, for featured questions tagged. Anyway, nice chatting with you guys

...but dinners up.

10:53 PM

:15292 yeah, i'm going to report a bug about the UX for that.

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