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4:00 PM
@badp Probably because it's about .
 
4:11 PM
Why is it that has 17 questions before its even out while has 35 questions 2 days after release?
 
@badp what's that feed?
 
Apparently skyrim's already out in some locations, as you noted.
@GnomeSlice Which?
 
@badp The one that was just added.
 
@GnomeSlice Where?
 
@badp New feed added: Possible to change the order of perks for the Specialist strike package?
 
4:13 PM
The XBox 360 version can already be bought in the Netherlands, for example.
 
@badp So this contest thingy, it only counts questions posted after 11/11/11?
 
Well they are Vikings, I guess I can appreciate that. Still so jealous :(
 
@GnomeSlice Oh... you mean the top bar? It's a feed of all the skyrim and mw3 questions, which require additional vetting from the community. As the contest ends so will the popup.
"Possible to change the order of perks for the Specialist strike package?" is not a feed, but a feed item.
 
@badp Oh, it pops up every time there's a post in the feed?
 
Yes. Unfortunately.
 
4:14 PM
Is there any way I can make it not do that?
 
It's suboptimal but it beats having this message repeated twice inline.
> If you can make a mw3 and skyrim free version of the questions feed, please do and give badp the URL to banish the popups away.
from the description
 
Hadn't noticed.
 
Also I still don't know why the new bounties feed doesn't work :|
 
@GnomeSlice Ignoring Feeds 277 and Feeds 278 appears to work.
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That's the ugly workaround for the ugly workaround though.
 
4:17 PM
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Q: Bounty links are hard to read

badpThe CSS rules specify special colors for bounty boxes and links therein: .bounty { background-color: #FF9D5B!important; } .bounty a { color: #D3293D; } However, especially without the help of bold, the two colors do not have enough... contrast (?) to make link text readable, and certainly don...

 
@badp Fine by me everyone in the room who just want the damn thing to go away
 
@Lazers contrast would be the correct word there IMO.
 
@YiJiang It's the egotistical solution yes :P
 
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Q: How do you take down a Juggernaut?

EarlzIn my time of playing the multiplayer, I've noticed the Juggernaut kill streak makes someone nearly invincible, especially if two people do it at the same time. Now my question is what is the best way to take these people down? Just keep shooting? Are there any particularly good techniques to kil...

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Q: How do you decide what to get first, Forge or Twilight Council?

ripper234Once you have a decently size ground force (~ 6 troopers?), you want to start upgrading them, right? Now ... if you're seeing some concrete threat like Mutas or Tanks, then you'll want a specific upgrade like Blink or Charge. But ... assuming you haven't found any concrete intel at this point, w...

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Q: Forth Perk type advantage?

Mr SmoothIn Modern Warfare 3, I've seen many people that have what seems to be a forth perk when I've been killed by them. Listed under the 3 regular perks (the coloured ones) there is a forth icon that is always coloured white. I've seen a few different ones (can't remember the names off the top of my h...

 
@Powerlord Which one is which?
 
4:21 PM
@GnomeSlice 277 is , 278 is
 
Ah, thanks.
 
@Powerlord Can someone pin that? Because, you know...
 
I'll unpin if you pin.
Sorry.
 
@badp ಠ_ಠ
 
We need more eyes on those questions. Period.
 
4:26 PM
If a user isn't interested in them, they aren't going to look at them, feed or not.
 
So why do users use /review?
 
@badp Users choose to use /review. These, you're forcing down the throats of everyone who uses this chat.
 
/review?
 
@Powerlord Shoving all questions down our throat (I get the popups too, you know) is doing amazing things to our participation on the site.
We need, as a community, to care about this event and the associated questions, even if some of us (like me, you know) aren't going to buy the two associated games.
 
@GnomeSlice /review.
 
4:29 PM
@badp And the questions we don't care about we can just watch go by. However, the popup I have to actively dismiss.
 
@Powerlord "If you can make a mw3 and skyrim free version of the questions feed, please do and give badp the URL to banish the popups away."
 
@RonanForman Wow. I never knew I could do that.
 
I've never used the popup til now exactly for that reason.
 
As it is, I really wish StackExchange would do something to kill off showing me chat events I'm not signed up for.
 
Would you guys prefer to see MW3 and Skyrim questions repeated twice inline in the feed?
 
4:31 PM
@badp Really? My impression was that you wanted to banish them from the inline feeds and just have them in popups.
 
@Powerlord No, not at all.
If we had the extra feeds inline, they'd take twice the space and interrupt chatting more frequently but you wouldn't have to dismiss them actively.
 
@Powerlord He wants them to stand out, so far the popup is the only way.
 
I think that's even worse than the status quo, but if you're okay with that...
 
I'm going to try to get one question post per day on the facebook Gaming.SE page.
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Q: Can the lava golem be damaged without using a serious bomb?

badpI just defeated the lava golem by combining Serious Damage and Serious Bomb. That felt cheap, but in my previous attempts this battle seemed otherwise simply impossible, as the health bar of the golem didn't seem interested into nudging one bit. Even just the serious bomb alone isn't enough: it ...

Here's today's.
 
@GnomeSlice I appreciate the highlighting of outstanding bounties, but perhaps it's awesome answers that will get more people to us :)
Alright, for an experiment I'll promote the two per-game feeds to inline and see how that works, okay?
 
4:34 PM
Get questions with less than say 5 upvotes/answers
 
@badp I just thought that game needed some more attention. But you're probably right. Answer posts are likely better to link than questions.
 
badp has made a change to the feeds posted into this room
badp has made a change to the feeds posted into this room
 
Feed avatars updated.
 
Also, @Mana answered.
 
If you're ignoring the feed users please unignore them now to help me understand if this is more acceptable, @Powerlord @YiJiang
 
4:38 PM
@badp I don't know how to get back to those pages to unignore them.
 
I could've been a dick and threw them away, but.
@GnomeSlice The message got starred and it's still in the sidebar
 
@GnomeSlice Click on the user page
 
Un-ignored.
@YiJiang The what?
 
@GnomeSlice The chat user page of the feed user. Eh, what @badp said...
 
@YiJiang Except I don't know how to get there, since there aren't any posts here.
 
4:40 PM
room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, wherein we randomly fling our lazers left and right in the attempt to stop the damn Awesometer at skyrimvsmw3.com from flipping around like a headless kitchen. If you can make a mw3 and skyrim free version of the questions feed, please do and give badp the URL to banish the duplicate question notifications away. [skyrimvsmw3.com] [wipqozn-gravitation-law]
 
Either way, I found it in the starred list.
 
@badp Wonderfully headless kitchen :P
 
@YiJiang It's an inside joke :P
 
@badp I was thinking of the time where my mother was trying to learn English, and keep getting those two words mixed up
 
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Q: How many enemies do I have to collect to use them in battle?

Ashley NunnIn Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime, you can "collect" various enemies by placing them on the carts that you use to take items (and yourself) out of an area. If you collect enough of a certain enemy, they can become a part of your tank fighting team. How many of each do I have to collect for t...

 
4:53 PM
maybe this has been asked, and maybe its still unknown, but do the mobs in Skyrim level with you?
 
That wouldn't be unsurprising, but you'd have to ask somebody who's played the game
 
@badp game has not been released
Or has it?
 
Apparently it has in some countries - gaming.stackexchange.com/q/34472/23
 
ehhh?
 
It's also on BitTorrent so yeah, Skyrim's been released worldwide for all practical purposes.
354 seeders and 3,741 leechers on this particular torrent.
 
4:57 PM
@YiJiang Only for Skyrim
 
lol thats sad actually
Im happy a game is being released on a Friday
I wish most games had releases on Friday
 
Oh wait, the torrent I'm looking at is just the Skyrim stuff that's already been relased on Steam.
So it's useless.
 
ah good.
 
@badp How do you make files public on dropbox? You use it right?
 
Well I suppose if you can hook up the game on a false steam API you would be able to run it.
 
4:59 PM
@RonanForman Yes. When you install it, go look in your Dropbox folder. One will be called "Public"
 
except if it' s encrypted
 
@Mvy Not all files are released. A small portion will only go out on release day.
 
@badp I don't see one...
 
I'm not sure how this works in detail tho.
@RonanForman You don't see what?
 
Apparently making a folder called public makes it the public folder.
 
5:01 PM
Yeah. Put files and folders in there and their path will be mirrored in the public URLs
 
I made one it works now
 
Right click a file in there and pick Dropbox and then Copy Public Link.
 
I'm writing with my tablet as people are complaining I'm too loud. It's really slow :(
That look me a good minute
Anyway I made a font!
 
Hooray!
 
@RonanForman What happened to the video?
 
5:07 PM
You can now type with my amazingly bad handwriting.
 
Could be worse
 
@John I tried to upload a higher quality, it failed and now there is no video.
 
in my handwriting sometimes I can't tell r's from v's.
 
0
Q: What was the name of a game that involved mining?

Alex McpHere is what I remember: It came out within the past 3 or 4 years It was touted for being procedurally generated (went on forever) It's core mechanic was digging underground and getting things, and selling them. It was independently developed

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Q: How can I clear Steam achievements for Portal 2?

Matthew ReadMy brother has played Portal 2 on my account and got a decent chunk of the achievements without specifically trying for them. Shamefully, I haven't yet played it, but I want to of course. I really enjoyed getting all the achievements in the first game and want to try for them in the second, but...

 
@RonanForman I presume this will be fixed eventually? I told a non-SE person I would show them the video.
 
5:09 PM
you numerised your handwriting @RonanForman?
 
@badp I really tried to be legible in that.
 
YOU CHEATED then!
 
Can I change chromes default font?
 
Yes.
But I don't know how much good that'll do
You want to pair it with the PlainClothes extension to force it everywhere (and disable the color options).
 
I hate UPS.
 
5:14 PM
Still no MW3?
 
heh your not missing much.
I am so disappointed with that game it makes me sick.
 
Wait, maybe it will crash for no reason like my BF3 :S
 
@GraceNote Nope, they've decided that it doesn't fit through my mailbox (even though it does) so they chose to deliver it 5 minutes after I'd left although I'd been home the entire day prior, and I won't be there to accept it until Monday.
 
So no rush to get it :P
 
@ArdaXi Sounds painful
 
5:16 PM
Quite.
 
Call of Duty definitely plateaued at #4 for me :(
 
@John Yeah I'll try and re-upload them tonight.
 
I really enjoyed Blops tbh
 
@GraceNote If only they'd had used PostNL I could pick it up tomorrow, but the UPS centre is far too far away for me to do that.
 
@theorise #4?
 
5:18 PM
The first modern warfare
 
Wait. The website said they'd been here at 14:47. I was home at that time.
 
@RonanForman Ok thanks.
 
@ArdaXi Maybe they're in like some weird trans DST time so it's actually an hour later than that
 
@GraceNote I was here at 15:47 too.
 
How far away can you hear a pin drop?
 
5:22 PM
yay this has been fixed!
> A Jump List that contains more than 999 items is not displayed in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
</sarcasm>
 
@GraceNote I...err...
 
@ArdaXi This is a statement of how loudly they probably knocked on your door to determine whether or not you were home.
And, consequently, how proximous you would've had to be at 14:47 in order to have actually heard it.
 
They can't have knocked on my door without ringing the doorbell first.
And they did not ring the doorbell, because I have no missed calls.
 
@ArdaXi They probably knocked on the fence then, and feebly whispered your name :P
Or, he just stood there with your package in hand, perfectly motionless, like an Enderman, until he walked off.
 
@ArdaXi Your doorbell phones you?
 
5:29 PM
I'm guessing they took a look at the box, figured "this thing with half the width of the mailbox definitely doesn't fit. Let's write up a note."
@RonanForman Yes.
 
Ooh, you're in one of those fancy "I have a gate and one of those buzzers" type houses, I see
 
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Q: Is it possible to make a question feed that covers a whole site excluding certain tags?

JohnOver on The Bridge, badp created a separate feed for MW3 and Skyrim questions so we give them special attention. You know, because of this thing. Now, MW3 and Skyrim questions are already in the feed we have of all questions. The duplication is driving some users batty, and badp continues to re...

@ArdaXi That's...very cool.
 
@GraceNote The buzzers can be annoying. People will always spam that thing fast enough that I can't make out their face from inside before I decide whether to open or pretend to be out.
 
@GraceNote I wish. It's an apartment building.
 
ESPECIALLY if they're familiars.
 
5:30 PM
@ArdaXi Aww, that's like way too many times more boring. This is why you can't have drill hair!
 
@GraceNote Most people you'll talk to here live in strip housing or an apartment
 
Drill... hair?
 
stand-alone houses are reeeeeeeeeeeeeally expensive
 
Oh... ringlets.
 
@FallenAngelEyes Uh... I have a stand-alone house in Italy. Well, kinda. You can see that as a large house split horizontally in three, and that's how it's registered.
So technically it's still a condo I guess :P
@FallenAngelEyes Still I see plenty of stand-alone houses in Amstelveen.
 
5:32 PM
@badp I meant here in the NL
 
@FallenAngelEyes More so in the Netherlands than here.
 
@badp Really?
 
@ArdaXi Aye
 
@ArdaXi Yep.
 
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Q: Is there any way to turn off the synchronizing of save games?

Jason BerkanWhen Might & Magic: Heroes VI is closed, Ubisoft's Uplay service pops up a window that says "Synchronizing Save Games", which takes a very long time to complete and often fails without any obvious reason. For some time I just accepted the delay as an annoying penalty for legally obtaining my...

 
5:32 PM
@GraceNote That's okay, don't particularly care for them.
 
@John By "here" I mean the NL, as that's where I live
 
Well, the northern part of amstelveen I've walked through
 
@badp Maybe on some of the bigger streets, but most of the housing is rather small.
 
I haven't watched this yet but it's by freddieW and about minecraft so it's got to be good!
 
We still haven't recovered from the housing market crash on this side of the pond, so if you have the cash, you can buy a good house fairly cheap.
 
5:33 PM
but most of the time, afaik, you can't find stand-alone houses for less than €500k
 
if I had to judge from what I saw thru public transportation it's just super large prefab buildings.
points at all the brown houses
The area in view is all I know of Amstelveen. Sue me :P
from Bos en Vaartlan to the Albert Heijn that is, plus Uilenstede and other bits and pieces.
 
zooms into Street View That looks like strip housing to me.
 
so?
Isn't each house independently fenced etc.?
 
Doesn't make it stand-alone.
 
Meh, it's stand-alone enough for all practical purposes.
 
5:36 PM
Stand-alone means there's space between the houses.
 
And stuff like, y'know
a yard
 
@badp It's a lot smaller than stand-alone though.
 
That means mine is strip housing too.
@FallenAngelEyes Strip housing doesn't mean giving up on a yard. You can still have one in front and/or behind, plus at the sides.
 
@FallenAngelEyes I had a yard with my old house.
 
@ArdaXi Well, yeah, I didn't understand you were talking of a "villa."
A strip house is called "villetta a schiera" in Italian so that didn't help with the confusion either.
 
5:38 PM
Does it count as standalone if the space between houses is a golf hole?
 
@GraceNote Does that means there'll ironically be windows facing the golf hole sized gap?
 
Ah, we call them "rijtjeshuis" (row house) and "alleenstaand huis" (lit. stand-alone home)
 
I've heard that does happen in Milan for whatever reason, I guess mostly for rooms that require some kind of window or aeration by law, like kitchens.
 
@badp Hole as in the entire length of one "hole", not just the little hole you want to land the ball in.
Some people have lakes in the way, too
 
@GraceNote Ah.
If your nearest neighbour is miles away then most obviously yes.
Also grats for having the balls to live in a place like that.
 
5:41 PM
I should note that despite all the hazards one might expect, I've not heard a report of anyone getting a ball to land in a yard, nevermind strike someone's house.
 
...oh, you meant "a golf hole" literally.
 
@badp Golfballs are pretty cheap to buy, y'know, I never really thought of it as impressive.
@badp I've got the 14th right next to my backyard and my front yard looks over the 9th
 
I've got you all beat! (except @GraceNote) This is where I live:
Only the right side though.
 
@RonanForman You have a gate of your own. I think that beats me, but only if there's a buzzer.
All I got is a monument
 
Where I used to live in the US isn't in high rez on google maps
and no street view
 
5:44 PM
@GraceNote Oh there actually is a golf hole outside. I thought you said the size of a golf hole.
 
@RonanForman Well, it happens that a golf hole is the size of a golf hole.
 
There's only that in the right side of the picture.
 
Has anyone even seen that movie "Stuck in the Suburbs"?
 
I used to live in the suburbs. They were nice
 
5:45 PM
I live in one of those type houses.
 
TV suburbia is a lot more dramatic than real life in the suburbs
 
@GraceNote You'd be surprised...
 
Okay, TV suburbia is a lot more dramatic than my real life in the suburbs
 
I'm paraphrasing someone when saying this, but in response to Comcast starting to roll out ipv6...
 
5:46 PM
Either that or I just live an unusually dramatic life.
 
I see the current owners aren't really giving a shit about the yard though :|
 
> Comcast IPv6... paid for by the RIAA!
 
I meant not that bit.
 
Oh, house-share?
 
@RonanForman That's a little less impressive. It's still cool that you can say you live in an English Manor though.
 
5:48 PM
@GraceNote No it's semi detached.
 
Where I live is boring, but I work in this building:
 
So @badp You used to live here?
 
@Powerlord That looks kinda like the kind of building I used to work in, that I was very excited to get out of
Your actual job is pretty impressive, though
 
I work across the street from the south part of this building:
 
I used to live in this building
 
5:50 PM
 
The open green area and the heart to the west is our driving range
the heart was a green that you could aim for
 
@RonanForman Nope
 
Although, I admit that building looks a bit different if you view it from our conference room, because we're 10 floors up.
 
 
@badp Did they move the box then?
 
5:51 PM
@Powerlord Probably looks shinier that way
 
@badp Oh, permanent residence, fancy.
 
@RonanForman Aye!
 
@GraceNote Well, you can see the roof of the main building from there, but not the top of the rotunda.
 
Ahha
So badp has a buzzer?
 
@FallenAngelEyes That looks nice, if a bit isolated.
@GraceNote I still do!
 
5:54 PM
@badp Has is present tense, last I checked
 
@badp It was a 30 minute drive to buy groceries
 
@FallenAngelEyes That's... painful
 
@GraceNote Yeah, but the picture is where I used to live like 8 or 9 years ago
 
We used to only go to town once a week to buy stuff
Otherwise, it got expensive for gas
 
@badp Ooh, I see.
 
5:54 PM
@GraceNote I guess so, for people who aren't used to it. I've lived that far out most of my life.
 
I think that makes you win the fancy house award, then
 
Oh wow, they have street view now on the driving range
 
@FallenAngelEyes Well, for me, 30 minutes out gets you to a different state
 
@GraceNote Haha, yeah, 30 minute drives here are considered long as well.
 
I don't have pictures of my house because all places I could get a (decent) picture of my house from are in somebody else's property.
 
5:56 PM
I've easily done 2.5 hour drives (1 way) to go to dinner at a friend's house and driven back the same day
 
2.5 gets you two states, three if you floor it
 
This was the view from it though, on a brown snowy day. For context.
 
Brown snow sounds yucky
 
Yeah, NY state is a lot bigger than the NL
 
@badp Large window for a letter box.
 
5:58 PM
I'm gonna stop looking at google maps now before I get homesick :(
 
(The snow is white. The color comes from street illumination.)
@RonanForman We got upgraded to an energy counter box.
 
@badp Wifi?
 
You know, now with proper glass!
@RonanForman Neighbours' for a few years.
I still haven't closed my own. I feel like I need to give back, let alone the laziness of just selecting the access point to connect.
 
For context, this is from my window last winter:
 
My years of living off somebody else's wifi tells me it's a painful enough experience, the only reason you'd ever do that is if you really can't get anything better.
 

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