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1:11 AM
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Q: I can not exit Dwarf Fortress

user5781As you can see in the screenshot below, there isn't an "Exit DF" choice, so how can I exit DF?

 
1:29 AM
Cool, a Game Dev mod Hello @Noctrine
 
@YiJiang Hey!
Weren't you the one that posted that greasemonkey script for shrinking the header on the site for that one user that was asking Jin to do that? Thanks
 
@Noctrine Yeah - I usually like to do a bit of Greasemonkeying and Userstyling, so that wasn't too hard
 
 
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3:09 AM
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Q: Help with sound for a Xbox 360 w/ HDMI cable

ThechoyceHi all, I just got the new "kinect ready" 4GB Xbox 360 and I have it hooked up to my computer monitor via an HDMI cable (no actual TV). However my monitor has no built in speakers, hence no sound. Looking at the back of the xbox it looks like the only way I can get sound is to try and run a SPDI...

 
 
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4:13 AM
With all the feeds you guys have I'm surprised your not using the new feed method.
 
new...feed...method???
 
Yeah, instead of being posted in the chat. They can be posted in this neat little drop-down in the upper right hand corner.
I think they added it because of the volume of the SO rooms
 
Oh, is that the ticker method or whatever?
 
Yeah
 
badp finds them annoying, he was mentioning that earlier
 
4:20 AM
Ah
 
@Noctrine As usual, if something is wrong here, it's @badp's fault.
 
lol
 
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Q: Where is the big key in Dragon Roost Cavern in Legend of Zelda Wind Waker? And how do I get there?

SuperSuperMegaManHow do I get the big key in Dragon Roost Cave? I MIGHT know where it is but I might be wrong. But how to do it is the problem

 
4:55 AM
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Q: Is there a strategy in Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime how to catch a goody bag?

SuperSuperMegaManI need to know how to catch goody bags and where they appear most. Is there a strategy? Is there a place that they appear most often? If I could know, that would be great.

 
 
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7:00 AM
Howdy all. Any mods active?
@ArdaXi - Not sure what the protocol is for pointing out posts needing moderator attention in chat.
 
@SteveV if one's around, they'll see it.
 
Argh. /me fails to read scrollback.
 
Also, posts like that should get flagged as Offensive, not for Mod Attention.
 
Good to know. Thanks. Also, @ArdaXi - ignore previous message, I fail at internet.
 
7:16 AM
@SteveV Yeah, Arda is not a mod.
 
@SteveV Thanks for the Citizen Patrol badge :P
 
 
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8:54 AM
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Q: FlatOut 2 - Track length

HalHi people. I would like to know if there is any way to determine the length of any track in the game FlatOut 2 ? My question is as simple as that! But I doubt any answer can be found easily... Any help would be appreciated ! PS: Sorry for the lame tagging, but no one has ever created the "fla...

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Q: Will dwarves restack bolts in the latest edition of Dwarf Fortress?

aslumThere are tons of single bolts laying around from where my dwarves have shot things. If I reclaim them will dwarves restack them? I don't really want my dwarves running around with 1 or 2 arrows on them.

 
 
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10:01 AM
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Q: Mario Kart Wii Ranking

Bruno RothgiesserHow does Mario Kart Wii decide your ranking letter (A, B, C, D, E, F) or star in a cup that you raced?

 
 
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2:34 PM
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Q: Should there be a "generalist" badge on stackexchange itself?

Johannes Schaub - litbA person that is a programmer, a cook, a physics and a whatever participant on stackexchange and has sufficient reputation points sounds much more like a generalist than one knowing different programming languages. I would propose having badges not only on the sites individually or on area51, bu...

 
3:25 PM
@Noctrine Turns out it's much more annoying than regular feeds.
(Also, it's generically nice to have questions interrupt our chitchat and remember us we're supposed to answer questions from time to time.)
 
3:40 PM
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Q: Can use my BENQ projector with a WII ?

PierreHi all, I've got a Benq W100 projector ( http://www.projectorcentral.com/BenQ-W100.htm ). I wonder if it would be possible to connect my WII to this projector ? How ? What kind of cable do I need ? Many thanks in advance. Pierre

 
4:14 PM
I dunno, I'm still in favor of a less intrusive form of new question notifications, but based on what @badp said about the way the ticker feeds work, that ain't it.
 
Also, I love it when people merely reply to Feeds' postings of bad questions to rally us against them.
 
Me too, but if anyone wants to do that, they can just paste in a link
 
@Brant Then only give visiblity to bad questions?
 
hmm.
 
I think it's alright - the Gaming room doesn't see much extended discussions, and the question volume is fairly low
 
4:20 PM
This room is active enough that a steady flow of new questions doesn't add enough noise to the existing signal to be annoying.
 
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Q: Is it possible to change Just Cause 2 difficulty?

DrakeI started at Hard difficulty but I would like to move to Extreme now. Is it possible in some way?

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Q: Preparing land for farming in Dwarf Fortress.

user5781If one does not have a river on his map (just a couple of pools), how can one prepare land for farming?

 
My only nitpick is the space they take up in the scrollback
the onebox is too damn high!
 
I don't think oneboxes can be easily user styled into something else.
Um, actually they could.
...not really.
 
Building a star destroyer on the reddit minecraft server with my brother.
 
Don't you people have work?
oh wait, you're college students
</grump>
 
4:29 PM
hah
high-fives CRoss
 
Not even in college yet :P
 
Don't forget to zoom your browser so the internet high five matches your hand size :P
 
if it would render through the work content filter :-/
 
upload button to the rescue.
 
4:34 PM
thanks college student, now I feel awesome ;-)
 
@CRoss I'm not in a college :(
(and I've never have been in one.)
 
baaaaadp
 
@badp Politecnico di Milano?
I use the term college loosely
 
@Mana maaaaaaaaaaan(a).
@CRoss Eh, that's an university. I still don't get whether by "college" people mean "university", "high school" or both.
 
@badp I've never seen it used for high school
Around here there are universities and colleges after you graduate from high school
colleges are more hands-on ways of approaching jobs whereas universities focus on going in-depth into studies.
 
4:42 PM
@Mana My meaning for "college" is "place where people sleep, eat, get drunk, explore their sexuality and occasionally attend a lesson or two." I blame American movies :P
 
Heh.
Well...that's not too much different from colleges here :)
But we try to give them a good image.
 
@Mana You mean less of drunk and more of sexuality?
 
More of drunk and less of the latter.
 
@Mana That's so USA.
 
:(
Canada is not USA!
We are our own country
 
4:45 PM
 
proud and free
or something
 
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Q: Is there any way to reorder your party in Ash?

Jason BerkanI've just started playing Ash and I'm finding that my front character is getting hit hard by the enemies I am fighting, while my back character hardly takes any damage at all. I've searched through the party options, but I can't figure out if there is a way to flip the characters around. Does a...

 
@badp :(
 
You guys have no problem with depiction of violence but get extremely touchy on depiction of sexuality...
(we, otoh, have too much of the other shoven in our face every day in TV, but that's Berlusconism for you.)
 
To be honest that's pretty true in regards to TV
I don't really care.
I just don't like swearing in this chatroom for whatever reason so I try to tone down my language. Also that image is strange so I felt a :( was in order
 
4:52 PM
@badp That's mildly disturbing
@badp Yes. The United States has been that way for a long time. We're kind of a violent place.
 
@CRoss That's the point of that comic :P
(The point is not being disturbing. The point is that the topic is disturbing for some.)
@CRoss Poor United States of Micronesia. hides
 
chuckles
 
In the United States, violence is a constitutional right.
 
@SteveV In defense of self, home, and family it is
 
(:
 
5:02 PM
armed violence at that
 
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Q: How do basic match rankings work in Company of Heroes?

RockDeLuxDoes anyone know how the ranking system works in a Company of Heroes basic match? Some say that you need to win 10 or more games vs. level 16 opponents after you have become level 12 to be a level 16 yourself, but I have met guys who have won 8 matches and who are level 20. How is this possible?

Duplicate of another question
 
5:37 PM
@CRoss Actually it's the same in Italy.
we call it "Legittima difesa" if you feel like wikipedia'ing more information -- bbl
okay, more accurately: the same principle is recognised in Italy too.
Just it's harder to.
 
I find it hard to imagine any place that doesn't uphold a person's right to self defense...
 
@SteveV A state that adopted Christian values as law wouldn't.
"give the other cheek" and all that :)
Now I don't think there are any such countries, but definitely it's not a given.
 
@badp: That would depend on which part of Christianity you were talking about. But I know better than to get into a discussion on religion when I've only been in a channel for three days. Mom didn't raise no fool.
 
@SteveV eh, no worries. As an "inactive" Christian, I'm probably the least educated here on the subject.
Path of least resistance and all that. The most comfortable (but otherwise worst) position to be in, I guess.
 
Gotcha. As a more "active" one, I try not to shove my theology onto other people's screens before I get to know them
 
5:51 PM
meh. My point still stands as far as I can see -- regardless of religion.
I might've made the wrong example.
 
6:06 PM
MY ARMS ARE GOING TO FALL OFF
AGH
 
@Mana SUPERGLUE TO THE RESCUE
 
I feel like the dwarf in the back
 
@badp Actually England is pretty nuts about self defense ...
but alas
back to games where we wantonly shoot people :-)
 
@SteveV Hmm, that depends on whether you mean in theory or in practice.
I know someone who is still paying the family of a burglar who threatened him, because he defended himself.
 
@ArdaXi UK?
 
6:13 PM
Oh good. I'm glad you saw that., @mana
 
Some east-European country. I think it was Romania.
 
to be honest it can even happen in parts of the US
but it's not common
 
I should have taken more pictures -- as luck would have it, that's the dwarf that took me to jail.
 
@RavenDreamer O_O
(I am wgetting that image. 6 mins to go.)
oh. ROFL.
ultra hi-def beheaded dwarf with faintly glowing floating eyes on top ftw.
 
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Q: "Consider the lily" while scavenging?

AcornI was scavenging earlier, and when the timer got to 0, it switched to "Consider the lily" for about 5 seconds instead of "Next auto search". I assume this is just an easter egg or joke. Or does it actually do something?

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Q: Fallout New Vegas and Boxing

0101I saw this picture on fallout wiki(on the bottom of the page) and I wonder if I can do any boxing in fallout or is it as useless as it looks? P.S. Is that picture a hack or is there some boxing possibilities in Legion?

 
6:38 PM
 
@Raven well, there's your massive bounty. DO NOT DISAPPOINT ME YOUNG PADAWAN :/
 
6:58 PM
When'd chat get desktop notifications?
Say something so I can see if they work
:(
@badp You there?
 
@ArdaXi you just need someone to ping you?
 
@Arda I am here, I am sorry for the delay. Crappy connectivity.
 
:o
Pretty.
@badp I think you've just discovered a bug.
 
@ArdaXi I annoyed @TimStone with it yesterday already.
17 edits.
Be glad I'm not as talkative today.
 
Don't do that.
At least until I find the disable button.
 
7:03 PM
@ArdaXi It's okay @Arda, I can double notify you anyway with no edits required.
 
Do they time-out?
 
@ArdaXi Not yet.
 
Pshaw
I can teach them to do desktop notifications, I'm somewhat of an early adopter.
I need to completely redo oAuth someday.
Google's implementation is surprisingly crappy.
 
Do all tumblr feeds automatically truncate? It's really annoying that I only get the first two lines of Word of Notch in my Google Reader
 
Hurray, today has been successful! I learned how to cover another song on drums!
pumps fist in air
I only lost my left arm in the process :D
 
7:07 PM
Well, that's an improvement surely.
I need 90 more rep somewhere.
 
@Arda Farm game-rec
 
Current network-wide rep is 9909. I want 9999.
 
@ArdaXi A nice number to stop at.
 
Aye.
Except... no.
99999 maybe.
 
you overdoer.
You'll never be happy.
 
7:12 PM
Well... I'm not interested in .9k tools am I?
 
There are no 99.9k tools either
So stop at 9,999 while you can, while you're ahead.
(also: 62.)
Later.
 
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Q: How to play call of duty Black ops on LAN without internet connection

LifeH2OIs there any way i can play black ops on LAN with my friend without Internet Connection

 
7:53 PM
I thank Steam for only having easily passable deals today. They better have very good deals for the 2nd.
 
The Hitman games were great.
It was like a third-person puzzle game
 
8:51 PM
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Q: Is it possible to disable "xyz is slowing down the game" popups in Starcraft 2?

troyntIs it possible to disable "xyz is slowing down the game" popups in Starcraft 2? If so, how?

 
Anyone here?
 
Me?
 
9:13 PM
@Brant Erm, I think you're better suited at answering that question than I am.
 
Oh, the SC2 one? I don't really know whether you can or not.
 
No, it was a joke. I meant the "Me?" question.
 
The best I can do would be "I doubt it, I'll check when I get home from work"
Oh. whoosh
 
Any way, I was wondering what people were still doing at their PCs, but you've probably got between 7 and 11 hours to go.
 
It's 3:15pm here and I'm considering ducking out of work early so I can beat the sure-to-be-insane crowd at the liquor store.
Can't ring in a new year sober, y'know
 
9:26 PM
As a (nearly) 16 year old, I don't, exactly. But yeah, I've worked all day, and I'm fairly sure the insane crowd is already there.
 
wooooah
nearly 16
I feel old :(
maaaaaaaaan, what am I going to do with my life
midlife crisis
 
@Mana I'm approximately 15.997260274 years old.
 
9:41 PM
:(
Dude...I'm like...18...and a half...
 
Oh, that's the final milestone for me.
When I'm 18 there's not really much to look forward to age-wise.
So I'll start dreading birthdays I guess.
I talk too much.
 
meh
 
IT CAN NOT BE UNSEEN / UNHEARD
 
What song is that even taken from?
 
...
Do you live under a rock?
 
9:49 PM
No, I just don't bother to listen to the radio
since most music I've heard on it is crap
 
You wouldn't have heard this one on the radio...
 
I initially thought it was that Rollin' song, before I read the entire thing.
@LessPop_MoreFizz There's a 'Forget You' made for radio.
 
@ArdaXi well yes. But that version wouldn't work with the joke,
 
ohhh
that song
 
10:10 PM
Y'all are young ...
 
:(
 
10:39 PM
@CRoss Well, I am. Mana is old. jk
 
11:22 PM
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Q: Does the Jag's build bonus apply to moving allies' buildings? (TF2)

Mark RogersIn Team Fortress 2, the Engineer weapon the Jag provides a "30% faster construction rate". When you move a built building it builds at twice the normal speed. I wonder how far this goes, thus: Does the Jag's build bonus apply to moving allies' buildings?

 
@Mana That's not something to be disappointed about ... I think
I'm not that old ... just bearded
 
I don't suppose there's anyone in CET here.
 
GERROF ME LAWN YE YOUNGENS
@arda you are wrong.
 
I can't see vids :(
that preview is nice tho :D
 
11:27 PM
@badp Happy New Year then.
Also why the hell are you at your PC instead of being with actual people and stuff?
 
yeah haven't I wished y'all the same?
I'm watching a tv program summing up 2010 and it's awesome
except the others here want more mindless fun.
so I'm watching it alone.
 
@badp beer?
 
@cross nah, no need.
i'm really not looking forward to the remainder of the night tbh :P
 
11:43 PM
disappointing. I'm looking forward to this program finishing
 
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Q: New graphics card causing internet lagg spikes, but only while gaming?

RoxonWell I recently had a graphics card installed on my computer. An Nvidia GeForce GT430. Ever since then, I've had random lag spikes while gaming. Browsing the internet is fine, and my speed test and ping test remain the same. However, when playing games such as Wolf Team or COD: Black Ops, I'll ge...

 
@CRoss Aren't you supposed to have champagne, not beer?
 
this program is broadcast once a year. I love it.
your disappointment is duly noted.
 
@ArdaXi ... I don't really do sham paag in.
 
I like it.
And that's not how you pronounce it.
You pronounce it shahm pah yuh
 
11:48 PM
... and I thought I was the one who didn't get jokes ...
 
@CRoss I don't get it, obviously.
 
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Q: Editing a comment causes it to be deleted

SensefulWhen you edit someone else's comments on a stackexchange site, the comment is deleted when you press "Save Edits". It only occurs when you edit someone else's comment (i.e. if you try it on your own comment, it won't get deleted). Sites affected: webapps.stacxexchange.com: At least 4 have bee...

 
In other news, Black Mesa Source has not been released in 2010 as promised and is well on its way to becoming the next Duke Nukem Forever.
Brought to my attention by Reddit.
 

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