The Bridge

alexanderpas

12:12 AM

Whoa... Recettear Main Menu Explosion.... (yeah, paid off the debt.)

tzenes

:181604 no

LessPop_MoreFizz

1:35 AM

Antelope Skull + Power Armor? Winning Combination.

Ivo Flipse

5:18 AM

darn Blizzard

shuts down Battle.Net just when I was about to play :(

LessPop_MoreFizz

:181872 Euromaintenance window?

Because I was about to say... I'm kinda raiding right now. Would be off if things were offline...

then I remembered which continent you're on

Ivo Flipse

5-9 AM CEST

off course I'm just playing at a weird moment

but achievements are turned off when offline

so no use to try and do those

Mechko

5:34 AM

erp. I teach in 9 hours :(

radp

8:15 AM

:181881 have fun and don't mention that to students!

radp

9:43 AM

Stack Overflow Blog: Pruning season

Posted by Joel Spolsky on September 14th, 2010

Soon, we’re going to close down one of the 24 Stack Exchange sites that were created over the last two months. Sadly, the Gadgets Stack Exchange will go dark soon. A lot of the questions on that site were about Apple gear and Android gear; those questions can be migrated to the (beta) Apple site, or the (private beta) Android site, as appropriate. Gadgets will be closed and will no longer be accessible, except for our usual creative commons data dumps where an archive will be made available. …

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C. Ross

12:18 PM

I would guess Gaming isn't at risk of that

alexanderpas

Gadgets is being split.. remembers me of ubuntu/unix

C. Ross

huh? split? link?

alexanderpas

> A lot of the questions on that site were about Apple gear and Android gear; those questions can be migrated to the (beta) Apple site, or the (private beta) Android site, as appropriate.

C. Ross

ohhh, I thought you were saying Gaming is being split

hence the wth?

radp

gadgets.stackexchange.com/questions/1746/…

Where is this supposed to go then, Android or Apple? :)

C. Ross

12:23 PM

I think you're SOL

alexanderpas

@Jeff being his Usual self: blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/pruning-season/#comment-50106

C. Ross

yeah, that was funny

he should send them all an e-mail

> You caused Gadgets to fail.

radp

> You monsters.

C. Ross

> You should be ashamed of yourselves. You've made the internet a worse place.

radp

> Please reply back with your copy of the Internet Superheroes Official Fan Club membership cards for immediate revokal.

In other news, I wish you could see freeallegiance.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=59007 so you could also pull the smug face and think "tsk, phpbb forums"

alexanderpas

12:36 PM

:182050 Sorry, the link that brought you to this page seems to be out of date or broken.

radp

:182051 Yeah, that's IP.Board-speak for "You don't have enough rights to see this post"

kind of like how SE gives a 404 page for 10k tools pages or deleted questions if you don't have 10k tools

alexanderpas

a.k.a. messing up 401, 403 and 404 HTTP error codes.

radp

If it brings more waffles to MSO, all the better!

alexanderpas

keep the waffles on MSO, we want coins on MGSE

radp

Chocolate coins?

alexanderpas

12:42 PM

:182057 [chocolate-coins] it is.

Now I go back to the Recettear Wikia, creating List of X so we can reference them.

Oak

1:06 PM

Ooo nice tzenes got less than 100 rep to go

C. Ross

That reminds me ... I need to grind another 170 rep ...

radp

I have 565 to go yet.

LessPop_MoreFizz

405 rep to 2k for me.

Oak

@CRoss @badp but 3k or 4k are not big deal

Oak

2k is

Oak

1:11 PM

and 10k will probably be a big deal in ~20 days

C. Ross

:182095 3k is a big deal, close votes baby

Normal Rep Scale

radp

10k is like out of the scale

3k is nice to have though.

C. Ross

1:26 PM

yeah, my enthusiasm dies somewhere between 3 & 5k

not a bad idea, but I'm not sure the cost/benefit works out

alexanderpas

I think it is, but only when it is applied to the whole SE network, and in a generic fashion so iOS and Adroid devices are included too.

C. Ross

yeah

which makes more sense with the network than it did with the trilogy

people aren't usually writing code on their smart phone

alexanderpas

1:47 PM

but the smartphone can be used as a quick reference screen.

(BTW: I confirmed the Wii specific problem)

radp

2:15 PM

:182176 Is StackMobile usable instead?

at stackmobile.com

C. Ross

It works on links, should work about everythwere

alexanderpas

very wide, and does not searh for tags for example.

but at least we can search...

radp

Opera for Wii doesn't have search in page?

I mean, Opera Mobile 10 does have an Enter button on its on-screen keyboard and also has search in page

It's weird to hear the Wii port is so much behind

alexanderpas

it has a newline key.

radp

...and all it does is instert a newline?

alexanderpas

2:22 PM

yup!

radp

I can see that being a problem

What about simply leaving the field?

okay, it doesn't work in Opera Mobile either.

tries with Turbo on

tag search works with Turbo on gaming.SE

alexanderpas

Wii is Opera 9.5 or something like that

radp

tag search also works with Turbo off

It's just site search that doesn't.

but then you can bookmark gaming.stackexchange.com/search

alexanderpas

or they add a submit button on the form, which is also the link to the search page.

radp

You can ask @Jin to do so maybe

alexanderpas

2:34 PM

It's not only CSS + JS ;)

radp

ironically enough, if it was done through JS it would be supported...

Ivo Flipse

3:29 PM

it looks great, but I have a nasty feeling that the 1Ghz/800Mhz processors are going to be replaced in three months

FallenAngelEyes

3:41 PM

Hello all

Ivo Flipse

hello misses :)

curious to try out IE9's beta

C. Ross

Good <Time-Zone-Appropriate-Time-of-Day/>

Ivo Flipse

what?!?

C. Ross

I was trying to avoid the whole

> Good morning

> It's evening here

Ivo Flipse

oh right

it's nearly evening here, but I just got out of bed

:P

C. Ross

3:45 PM

that sounds like a personal problem

FallenAngelEyes

Haha Ivo, me too

Ivo Flipse

problem?

FallenAngelEyes

my sleep sched is totally messed atm

Ivo Flipse

I just adjusted myself to my GFs messed up biorhythm

FallenAngelEyes

hehe

C. Ross

3:47 PM

... Is there something going on here I don't know about?

Ivo Flipse

hehe, no were totally unrelated

though I could challenge @FallenAngelEyes for a Rock Band 3 date once I have it :P

FallenAngelEyes

Haha XD

Jin

2

story of my life

Ivo Flipse

hehe, shouldn't you be off @Jin? I think I hear a baby crying

C. Ross

yeah ...

Ivo Flipse

3:51 PM

and any progress with the new designs?

you don't seem to have @Jin's problems @CRoss

C. Ross

based on what?

Ivo Flipse

that you have time to hang out here, with the mods, ask questions and on your RPG site ;)

C. Ross

my wife is very tolerant and I multitask well

Ivo Flipse

:D you almost make me jealous :P

C. Ross

shrugs you don't spend any time here either chief

FallenAngelEyes

4:00 PM

lol

Ivo Flipse

4:39 PM

what's maynard anyway?

@tzenes to the rescue

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C. Ross

indeed

C. Ross

4:51 PM

FYI: Released Dwarf Fortress 0.31.13

FallenAngelEyes

5:11 PM

huh @ Maynard o.O

definitely not what I'd think of when I hear that name

Macha

bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=66142.0 - That's rather a lot for a .01 change.

C. Ross

shrugs Toady

FallenAngelEyes

later all, painting course tonight

tzenes

I have returned

Ivo Flipse

5:48 PM

man random 2v2 can be a pain sometimes

1 hour and 8 min, then I just left, my partner was no good :@

LessPop_MoreFizz

On the one hand, I want to vote up the @tzenes answer

on the other hand, he is at 9999 rep.

tzenes

haha

LessPop_MoreFizz

Dilemmas dilemmas. Break the pretty number? Or leave the good post unacknowledged?

tzenes

you can always upvote it later

LessPop_MoreFizz

I'll probably forget.

C. Ross

5:56 PM

I'm sure someone will push tzenes over soon

LessPop_MoreFizz

eh, whatever, take your screenshots now tzenes. :P

already did

and grats

ty

6:15 PM

Happy 10k! A milestone for this site :P (No, I didn't break the pretty number)

LessPop_MoreFizz

I said, I did it.

hence my 'eh, whatever, take your screenshots'

radp

LOL

We've asked so many times to have tag length increased to 26

now it's been decreased to 24

Downvoter

6:48 PM

I just came in to congratulate @tzenes for reaching the 10K barrier -- congrats Jon Skeet of Gaming!

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Downvoter

:)

Jin

10k already?

Downvoter

I wonder if there are other users with 10k on another SE

Jin

is that the highest on all SE sites?

hobodave ♦, Chicago, IL

15.1k 2 24 58

Downvoter

oh

Jin

6:50 PM

personally, i wouldn't let anyone whose name starts with "hobo" to cook my food..

Downvoter

lol

Ivo Flipse

he's a food-hacker

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A: how can i share data between PHP pages?

For the love of all that is holy, don't use addslashes to prevent SQL injection. I just owned your site: Edit: Even worse. I just noticed that you're attempt at preventing injection via addslashes, isn't even being used! <?php $kUserID = $_POST['kUserID']; $user = addslashes($_POST['kUse...

tzenes

thanks @juan

Jin

btw i tweaked the font in the header, got rid of the super pixelated silkscreen.

i think this one blends better, also it supports accented characters too, better glyph.

Downvoter

nice

Downvoter

7:00 PM

I love the effect on the tabs

Downvoter

like they were fired upon

Jin

yeah, a total space invader ripoff.

Downvoter

by the "ask question" mothership

LessPop_MoreFizz

I like that Unanswered is the most damaged

a happy coincidence I suppose

Downvoter

it's closest to the mothership (but yes, I get what you mean) :)

Jin

7:02 PM

yeah i designed that intentionally, yeah... that's right..

tzenes

maybe it was subconcious

Jin

WANT!

radp

I like that much better than yesterday's mockup, @jin :)

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Q: Why are tags now limited to 24 characters?

This question is now a duplicate of: Increase tag length to 30 characters on meta.gaming.stackexchange.com When we at Gaming complained about the tag limit being too short, we were told that the current limit of 25 characters was set in stone and would never change. Since game name is p...

discussion status-completed tags

Jin

@badp yeah. i like it too. i really want to limit the # of typefaces appearing on the site. no more than 3.

radp

:183062 Quite reasonable.

JavadocMD

7:26 PM

I have a dumb question: do banelings do FF damage when they burst? :)

radp

I wouldn't worry about it, Chrome has been doing much more severe damage to FireFox anyway

JavadocMD

:183089 rimshot instantrimshot.com

Macha

The mockups look good. Just since I haven't given any feedback on them.

C. Ross

7:47 PM

:183114 Fire the close votes

Ivo Flipse

8:18 PM

does anyone know if the blog actually get's any page views?

FallenAngelEyes

You can view the pageview stats for individual posts but I'm not sure where you view that for the blog as a whole

Ask @tzenes or @Macha, they've got more familiarity with WordPress iirc

Ivo Flipse

that would never fit on one balance board

Arda Xi

8:38 PM

:183304 Doesn't Wordpress have a Google Analytics plugin or something?

FallenAngelEyes

No idea

Ivo Flipse

the native one doesn't, it shows you some stats though

a hosted version let's you add the Google Analytics header to each page's html

JavadocMD

Did not realize there was a zergoverflow.com... feels like an evil twin hiding in the attic.

Arda Xi

:183429 I meant Wordpress.com, since they have to pre-install plugins

:183433 That's a horrible theme D:

Ivo Flipse

well zergoverflow has been completely overrun by us

radp

8:49 PM

:183433 The evil twin has been around for longer than us

JavadocMD

:183465 Explains why some of their answers are from beta and thus outdated.

Ivo Flipse

does anyone know if there are any game specific rooms?

radp

:183514 None that isn't locked

...none.

Ivo Flipse

was just checking, Marc Gravell was pointing out that we had more rooms than SU

radp

9:05 PM

Well -- there's Game Dev and RPG and Poker etc.

but those are distinct sites

JavadocMD

9:51 PM

Zerg equiv. of 4 warpgate: mind control a probe and build 4 warpgates.

radp

10:13 PM

Nite

tzenes

:183792 lolz

night @badp

JavadocMD

I would like someone to write a blog post entitled "Dr. Roachlove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zerg".

tzenes

11:01 PM

@JavadocMD Why don't you write it?

I think it could be very cool and we could put it on the gamingse.wordpress blog

JavadocMD

:183979 shrug Sweet! Hopefully I can add something. I've recently had a lot of luck playing Zerg at the gold/plat level after getting my butt handed to me as a Terran player.

tzenes

Awesome

it'd be really interesting to see it from the perspective of someone who has an easier time with Zerg than with Terran

JavadocMD

Who holds the keys over at the blog for when I get something written up?

Grace Note

@Javadoc Macha

tzenes

me

Macha too

Grace Note

11:06 PM

Also, eve, all

tzenes

I think fallen might have post privileges too, I'm not sure

hi grace

JavadocMD

Cool, I'll work on that.

tzenes

How's life as a super assassin idol?

@JavadocMD do you have a wordpress account?

JavadocMD

:184022 Nope.

Grace Note

Super! I recently got a new managraphic that causes ninja stars to fly out whenever I hit someone.

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tzenes

11:07 PM

Why don't you make one and let me know the email, that way I can add you as a contributor

:184028 cool beans

JavadocMD

:184029 Will do.

tzenes

I've been trying to learn Halo:Reach so I can help manage questions when they come in

Grace Note

Where's my kill~ ♪

I've got to assassinate~ ♪

Someone~ tonight~ ♪

tzenes

haha

JavadocMD

@tzenes Oh looks like I did have a Wordpress account. I'm at [redacted... *take that spammers!*]

tzenes

11:15 PM

added

haha

Oak

11:46 PM

@tzenes nice going on that 10k!

tzenes

thanks @oak

Oak

@Jin regarding your screenshot here - (1) I really like the flow effect of the site name, (2) I think it's not clear enough that the "ask question" ship is clickable

JavadocMD

:184361 I was wavering on that same idea (#2). If you over-graphic-ify some elements they can be less obviously interactive. But I'm undecided as to whether or not that's a problem in this case.

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