The Bridge

12:01 AM

:2446 You were just lashing out because you're jealous that you won't be as powerful as Hitler, so all you could do is delete his post.

Mana

12:27 AM

wh

what

Grace Note

1:05 AM

Hi, @Mana!

Mana

Oh, hey.

How's it gooooing?

Grace Note

1:19 AM

Not bad.

Got 4 people beating the cake and stuffed animals out of dragons. Oh, and the dragons, too, we beat the dragons out of them too.

tzenes

1:35 AM

hey

I'm home

Grace Note

Welcome home!

tzenes

ty

how have you been?

Grace Note

Stalked by the Netheruniverse equivalent of an FOE!

tzenes

FOE?

Grace Note

Foedus Obrepit Errabundus.

Or in less random latin, stalking enemies that wander about in the EO series and are extremely out-of-depth for the level you find them in.

tzenes

1:41 AM

Ah

On an unrelated note: youtube.com/watch?v=rLFy7P0isE0

LessPop_MoreFizz

Trailer is so awesome

Mana

Yeah, this seems really cool. I love how seamless the story and gameplay are in its current form.

FallenAngelEyes

2:22 AM

g'night all

tzenes

night

tzenes

3:50 AM

Ok, this is why we're better than gamefaqs: forums.somethingawful.com/…

3

sjohnston

4:03 AM

Well, despite a thesaurus and considerable effort, the best name I could come up with was GameDetectives. It is damn hard to find a good name that isn't taken.

LessPop_MoreFizz

6:49 AM

gamefaqs.com/redemption/918379-skee-ball/faqs/29010

"Skee-Ball was created in the mid-1990's as a marketing ploy by one-hit-wonder
rapper Skee-Lo..."

badp

9:02 AM

yawn.

badp

10:06 AM

Vote:

Holy macaroni!

Holy shit Batman!

Magnifico!

FallenAngelEyes

10:19 AM

good afternoon all

badp

'noon

(doesn't Supermario say Magnifico?)

FallenAngelEyes

I can't remember off the top of my head and I just woke up, so I dunno right now

badp

11:11 AM

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/65518/…

\o/

Ivo Flipse

yup

but I hate the name inbox

made me think they implemented IM

or something

FallenAngelEyes

:o?

What's it notify you about and where?

badp

All envelope events on all SE sites I guess

FallenAngelEyes

ah I see

Yeah, Inbox is a bit of a misnomer then

That's one thing I do feel I miss on this site, any sort of way to individually message someone

badp

12:02 PM

:2507 chat

PMing people has been asked many times and declined just as many

Ivo Flipse

I know it has @badp, though leaving a direct chat message is Public Messaging :P rather than private messaging

badp

well, if you're a mod there are many ways to PM

from creating no-world-read-access rooms to email addresses

Ivo Flipse

off course, we need some privacy :P

badp

you don't on course then? :P

(har har har I'm so hilarious.)

Ivo Flipse

not on gaming, no

badp

12:10 PM

I know, I checked before making the stupid joke. You probably would've kicked me if you could've. :P

C. Ross

so, have they announced a switch over date?

badp

:2522 What swich over?

C. Ross

for non-beta gaming

badp

We'll see what happens at WebApps in 5 days, 7 hours.

I guess the same is going to happen to us :)

C. Ross

indeed

badp

12:15 PM

I mean, the Area51 blurb says:

> The site's progress will be evaluated in 5 days.

All in all, there's no guarantee of having the site "graduate" in 5 days.

It sounds more like a checkpoint...

Ivo Flipse

well web apps will be made, don't really doubt it

but I'm kind of underwhelmed by their traffic

C. Ross

It's pretty obvious that web apps is going to pass

Ivo Flipse

it might be better to merge it with the web dev and/or wordpress ones

badp

@CRoss yeah, but if they "passed" today how many people with close votes would there be?

They could decide to keep the site in beta for a little while longer, for all the "evaluated" word means.

C. Ross

They don't necessarily have to activate the regular rep rules right away

Ivo Flipse

12:17 PM

like I said before @badp, they can stick in bootstrap mode until it improves

C. Ross

I think they'll probably do the domain name, css, etc pretty soon though

badp

:2538 -1, once you go gold you go gold, going gold in bootstrap really isn't going gold.

C. Ross

I'm not saying I like the idea either, but I'm not sure what the team intends to do

Ivo Flipse

bootstrap mode just means the rep limits are lowered,

SO didn't need it, because they have volume that inflates rep

badp

I'd rather wait till we have more rep around than removing a beta sticker to apply a bootstrap one

C. Ross

12:18 PM

we'll be fine

Ivo Flipse

your more likely to get upvoted on a site with 500k page views a day than 2k

C. Ross

we have more traffic and users than anyone outside the trilogy and "that other site"

badp

I really hoped "bootstrap mode" was a relic of the SE 1.0 days when traffic was an issue :)

Ivo Flipse

I hate Programmers, stealing our thunder! :@

it simply doesn't matter @badp

badp

Programmer's the bastard child of SO, their traffic is absymal in comparison :P

Ivo Flipse

12:21 PM

Webapps can actually be managed by their mods btw

badp

We're creating something from "nothing", they're creating something from some larger thing.

:2553 That goes against many "Theory of moderation" posts :)

Ivo Flipse

which is why I'm disappointed in webapps traffic so far

there are enough users that can vote to close and flag

webapps.stackexchange.com/users

but we have more traffic than web apps, developers and wordpress combined

alexanderpas

Hi all!

C. Ross

morning Mr. Pas

so, I'm happy to see a lot of Civ 5 filling up the site

Oak

12:38 PM

So am I :)

Ivo Flipse

me to, something else to fill it up than SC2

Oak

Yea!

Oak

Plus, civ 5 just managed to do something no game has done to me since heroes 5

Ivo Flipse

but I would much rather see any game getting questions like that

Oak

I went to sleep at 8 am

Ivo Flipse

12:39 PM

you deinstalled it right away

lol @Oak

Oak

12:52 PM

I think I'm about to start yet another [game-rec] discussion

Oak

Just one without opinions, only clear stances to vote upon

Oak

we need a decision

badp

1:05 PM

chat.gaming.stackexchange.com/rooms/5/game-recommendations

Oak

Not a solution in my opinion.

badp

'kay.

Are you whipping out the super special, secret /polls tool? :D

Oak

You mean poll?

badp

http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/polls/1/

The URL does hint to more polls in the future...

Oak

Yes...

Oak

1:11 PM

I think I might be contacting Robert and/or Jeff about it, we could definitely use it

badp

Isn't it more urgent, however, to finally get a domain name?

I mean, we don't have a 12 days' deadline on game-recs.

Oak

Those aren't orthogonal, we can decide on both in parallel :)

FallenAngelEyes

2:52 PM

8

Q: Civ 4 v. Civ 5 upgrade changes

I've read the surprisingly light Wikipedia article on Civ 5 and it seems to be lacking coherent comparison of features between it and its predecessor. I'm also reluctant to bring down the 4Gb demo on a whim... Please could I have some clarification on the following: Has the speed of conquest b...

Wooha, that's a tough question to answer

How's everyone?

C. Ross

3:20 PM

:2598 I'm well, except a horrible jonesing to play DF ...

FallenAngelEyes

hehe

Ivo Flipse

I love carriers, too bad it can be hard to tech up that far/long

C. Ross

hmmm, did they ever implement the chat about this button?

Ivo Flipse

what button?

C. Ross

for questions on the main site, automatically create a chat room for it

Ivo Flipse

3:28 PM

nope, haven't seen it

but I guess after the way the current chat functions, I'm not if it's worth all the bits to make it happen either

badp

:2603 nope

Ivo Flipse

though off course it's hard to conserve any knowledge this way, because there's too much noise

with your idea, anyone interested in the discussion on that question, could find it in that special chatroom

C. Ross

Right, maybe take away some of the comment noise

Ivo Flipse

but then I rather had something like a Sidewiki to discuss it

google.com/sidewiki/intl/nl/index.html

you know, use a part of the screen (which regulars ignore anyway) for chatting about that question

and make it expandable like they currently have that SE thing at the top

badp

Wasn't the side wiki retired?

Ivo Flipse

3:31 PM

doesn't mean you can steal the idea

anyway off to eat some more pig cerebellum or whatever the locals eat here

Mana

4:11 PM

Yo.

badp

Oy.

C. Ross

5:13 PM

Why do the most inane questions get the most views

LessPop_MoreFizz

such as?

C. Ross

11

Q: What is the Destiny Cloud Fist build?

What is the Destiny Cloud Fist build? I've heard SC2 players talking about it.

starcraft-2 terminology

4k views

9

Q: Civilization 5 - benefit to buying on steam?

Is there any benefit to buying the box version of Civlization 5 on Steam versus the box, or vice versa?

steam civilization-5 buying-advice

1k views in 1 day!

6

Q: What is the appropriate ratio of medics in TF2?

What is the appropriate ratio of Medics to team size for most non-pro games? I'm fairly sure one medic in twelve players isn't effective.

team-fortress-2 team-build

200 views

@WillfulWizard Love your icon btw.

WillfulWizard

Oh thank you.

I haven't had anything to chime in yet, but i keep coming here hoping @bwarner will be here. We're having an epic competition over answering Civ 5 questions, and I want to say how much fun I'm having with it.

Arda Xi

Downloading Civilization 5 demo. I've a feeling this may be a mistake. Only thing worse would be an in-game Stack Overflow client.

Tweeted by jonskeet on September 24, 2010 at 4:56 PM

WillfulWizard

That's awesome.

Arda Xi

5:25 PM

Where's the plugin API?

WillfulWizard

lol!

This might be a good place to start: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17037/…

hmm... need to learn my chat markup.

Mechko

this class has got to be the most boring class evar

Arda Xi

:2637 Well yeah, but I meant the Civ 5 plugin API (if any). Also:

39

Q: Unofficial Stack Overflow API Reference

Table of Contents User Questions User Answers User Favorites User Reputation Chart Data User Flair Data Data-request Rates Be cautious not to request too much too soon. More than a dozen or so requests in a second may cause you to be locked out from the SO site for a couple of minutes. A wo...

discussion faq so-family api

WillfulWizard

Just build something that sends it to steam chat.

@mechko What's the class. Why so bad?

Arda Xi

:2642 I don't have a Windows server on-hand though

FallenAngelEyes

5:30 PM

Wow, the Civ V artbook is gorgeous

Really, really nice quality

WillfulWizard

Yep, it does look shiny.

FallenAngelEyes

Lots of games just throw in some concept art and call it a day

This has got a table of contents, a breakdown of each civilization's art, even stuff about the GUI

WillfulWizard

@ArdaXi that is a shame. Lets see about that Civ5 mod then...

FallenAngelEyes

descriptions with each piece

tzenes

5:51 PM

WillfulWizard

Wow, that's interesting. Is this another in the series of reasons Gameing.SE is better than game forums/faqs?

tzenes

certainly my reasons

LessPop_MoreFizz

6:18 PM

:2653 I feel your pain.

badp

:2653 broken link

WillfulWizard

@badp it workd for me after a couple of tries (opening in another tab)

badp

oh now it loaded. btw there's this handy upload button, it also works on urls.

You can use it on referral-protected images.

...I believe.

indeed!

LessPop_MoreFizz

6:42 PM

These are the sorts of hard hitting questions Gaming.SE needs to take off

badp

6:58 PM

:2666 "Would you say the nudity in this game is:" is a poll

Many of the other questions you underlined are subjective.

Chacha102

7:58 PM

Hello Gaming!

Greetings from the Tavern

WillfulWizard

hello!

Macha

Hi @Chacha102 . Must be gone pretty quite on MSO without us :P

Chacha102

Nah. We're still alive and kicking

Macha

You're just glad you now have no competition for the most active room.

Since moving we've had more posts than photos.SE :)

Chacha102

Remember, MSO is for the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels... The Round Pegs in the Square Holes, the ones who see things differently.

We're not fond of rules, and we have no respect for the status quo... You can praise us, disagree with us, quote us, disbelieve us, glorify or vilify us

About the only thing you can't do is ignore us.

Ivo Flipse

8:03 PM

don't you mean SU chat @Chacha102 :P

Chacha102

It is awesome how you can find that speech really easily on Google

Arda Xi

Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.

That pretty much all goes for MSO.

Chacha102

yeah

That part wasn't in the commercial tho...