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alexanderpas

11:00 PM

you can see my email address in my profile ;)

GnomeSlice

@alexanderpas No, YOU can.

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Q: Background Bullying Me On My Meta Profile

Possible Duplicate: Left side of profile page is cut off Clearly the background on Meta has never heard of 'personal space'. Can someone deal with this jerk?

alexanderpas

@GnomeSlice I see you didn't check my profile ;)

GnomeSlice

Yes I did.

Lazers

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Q: Is it possible to kill Ulfric being a member of the Stormcloacks in Skyrim's Civil War questline?

So I've been thinking if it's possible to join the Stormcloacks only to realize Ulfric's an ass and kill him after that at some point of the game (I know you can't just go and kill him at first because he's an important NPC for the main story quests). I don't want to join the Empire and - in my ...

skyrim pc xbox-360 ps3 the-elder-scrolls

Eton B.

I've been missing on several steam deals I wanted to get in due to errors with debit card payment :( so sad.

GnomeSlice

11:02 PM

@EtonB Get a Paypal account. It's what I did.

user15026

@EtonB That sucks :(

alexanderpas

@GnomeSlice check the right side, it's there ;)

user15026

Oh, I see what @alexanderpas means. He references how to piece together his email. :)

Eton B.

Yeah @GnomeSlice I actually went ahead and did that, now I'm waiting for the confirmation code to come through the monthly statement :P

GnomeSlice

@EtonB Hm... Monthly? I mean, it takes 6-8 days to transfer funds from your account to your paypal, but then you can pay instantly with those funds.

@AshleyNunn For whatever reason, your twitter link is turning up as nonexistent.

user15026

11:04 PM

@GnomeSlice weiiird.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Oh, no wait, it does make sense. I changed my username.

badp

@alexanderpas is it "gaming.stackexchange" or "gaming"?

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn Just now?

badp

NOT CLEAR ENOUGH downvote

alexanderpas

@badp both.

GnomeSlice

11:05 PM

@badp I assume it's 'stack'.

user15026

@GnomeSlice I changed the twitter username a week or two ago, and didn't update my SE profile

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn Derp.

user15026

The right info should be there now.

alexanderpas

@GnomeSlice that works too.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Haha, yeah, pretty much that. :P

alexanderpas

11:06 PM

@GnomeSlice the direct debit confirmation she means.

Nick T

@badp the 1%

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn Sended.

Powerlord

@Paypal This is one of the reasons I didn't want to link my bank account to PayPal, because now you keep defaulting to it on transactions, even though I don't want you to.

alexanderpas

@Powerlord nope, defaults to funds in account, and only afterwards direct debit.

badp

@Powerlord uh really? I mean, it's using up your credit. Your money that's sitting on Paypal's banks. At least that's what I thought

Powerlord

11:09 PM

@alexanderpas Yeah, except my funds in account are $0.

GnomeSlice

> ADD FUNDS TO PAYPAL. WAIT A FEW DAYS. BUY THINGS WITH PAYPAL FUNDS. NO PAYPAL FUNDS LEFT. BUY THINGS WITH ACCOUNT FUNDS THROUGH PAYPAL. CONFIRMATION TAKES 6-8 DAYS.

Powerlord

I want it to bill my credit card second, because I keep a much, much closer eye on my credit card bill

(for fraudulent payments, etc...)

user15026

@GnomeSlice Recievified. Thanks! :D

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn I have no idea how the level pack download works, I just copied the download link address.

It's probably a patcher or something.

Powerlord

The only reason my bank account is linked to it is that one of my recurring fees is to a company that requires a verified PayPal account, and you can only have a verified account if you link it to your bank account.

alexanderpas

11:10 PM

@Powerlord direct debit is protected up to 53 days, or 13 months over here.

Nick T

@RonanForman you don't want to point the ad at that page instead of the one on YouTube?

user15026

@GnomeSlice Yeah, I am not sure - if I click that link ,it says the link has expired. I suspect (since it asks you to check cookies) that it might be connected to a cookie from the download page thing? random guess cobbled together from her tiny bits of computery knowings

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn Er...

Try this: indieroyale.com/gamedownloads/get/295/…

Oops.

Now THAT one gives me an expired message.

user15026

Nope. Oh well.

user15026

Weiiird

GnomeSlice

11:12 PM

Does the ZIP one work?

user15026

nope

GnomeSlice

Oh balls.

> "It appears this key (4ee68465f3f07) has been shared by multiple people (2). Please keep your Indie Royale key private. We will automatically unlock this key in 2 hours unless it continues to be accessed by multiple people. If you wish to purchase a copy of the current bundle and support indie game developers, you can do so here."

Uh... have you already gotten your steam key?

user15026

oh. hm.

alexanderpas

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Q: Can I play LOTRO on Nvidia ION based netbook running 64bit linux?

I have a ASUS Eee PC 1215N netbook, from the Seashell series. It has a Nvidia ION graphic processor. I'm running 64bit Ubuntu Linux (11.10 Oneiric Ocelot) on it. I've tried to install LOTRO on it following the HOWTO on But the game fails to run with one of: Game Error [105], "Could not initi...

linux lord-of-the-rings-online wine

GnomeSlice

It's fine, just don't try to get anything else from it. I can downoad the level pack and upload it somewhere for you.

user15026

11:13 PM

@GnomeSlice yeah.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Okay, that works. I will not touch ANYTHING.

GnomeSlice

Does the Steam Key work at least?

Ronan Forman

@NickT Good point, the meta post has a link to channel anyway.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Yeah it worked. :)

Ronan Forman

@NickT Also the CtW is now on the sunday if you're still interesting.

Powerlord

11:21 PM

listens to the music for the NES game Uninvited

<3 this game

Nick T

@RonanForman I'm always interesting

Ronan Forman

But are you too interesting to join us?

I totally pulled that back didn't I?

Powerlord

So, I have an extra Eets Steam key

Bob Cratchit

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Hah! Snowmen notifications! :D

Happy now?

Ronan Forman

No.

Powerlord

11:25 PM

@BobCratchit I'm really tempted to flag that as spam

alexanderpas

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39 mins ago, by John

Hah! Snowmen notifications! :D

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord Is there a non-system cursor for TF2, or a way to play it in a window?

Bob Cratchit

@RonanForman Too bad. I still want to know who Santa is.

Santa Claus, North Pole, AK

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discussion feature-request stackexchange bug election status-bydesign subjective

Lazers

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Q: Minecraft SMP server problem - world flooded with items (Technic pack mod)

I'm running a private Minecraft server for a few friends. It's running the SMP technic pack for Minecraft Beta 1.8. We've started building some rather complex machines which produce a large amount of items. Sometimes, storage becomes an issue - and - with nowhere else to go, the items "pop" out ...

minecraft server-administration

Bob Cratchit

@Powerlord Marks flag as invalid

Powerlord

11:26 PM

@GnomeSlice I'm not sure if there's a startup option to make it go to a window, but there should be an option in the video settings to run in a window.

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord It's going to take me ages to navigate to it, because I have no cursor.

alexanderpas

@BobCratchit you can't counterflag your own posts

GnomeSlice

I don't know why this happens with so many fullscreen games...

Bob Cratchit

@alexanderpas I know that, but SHHHH!

GnomeSlice

There we go. Got to windowed mode.

alexanderpas

11:28 PM

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GnomeSlice

So... what do I do with this?

I haven't played TF2 is years, and never on the PC.

Ah. 'training'.

alexanderpas

@GnomeSlice collect your hats.

Powerlord

@alexanderpas Can't on a free account.

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord Wat.

Bob Cratchit

@Powerlord I had wondered what the catch was...

Powerlord

11:29 PM

@GnomeSlice Hats don't drop on free accounts.

Weapons do, but not hats.

alexanderpas

@Powerlord promotional ones do, right?

Powerlord

You have to buy an(y) item from the TF2 in-game store to change that. I think someone said Kritzkrieg is the cheapest item at $0.49

@alexanderpas Well, that's true.

It's just the randomly dropped ones that don't drop.

Nick T

mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/…

who's hand looks like that

seriously

Those cheeseheads need to sod off

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Powerlord

@NickT That makes me wonder what you think of people from Michigan.

alexanderpas

@NickT only in america!

Nick T

11:33 PM

@Powerlord I'M FROM MICHIGAN

RedriderX

@NickT Are we supposed to be speaking British in here?

Nick T

THE MITTEN THING IS OURS

Powerlord

@NickT What a coincidence, so am I.

Or have we discussed that already.

alexanderpas

@RedriderX nope, english, which is a british accent, just like scottish.

Nick T

I dunno, I only know of some guy on EE.SE from MI too, over in GR near me

Bob Cratchit

11:34 PM

@NickT Oooh there was, like, a giant colonial war between those states a while back, right?

RedriderX

Oh, my mention icon's a snowman!

Nick T

@BobCratchit Ohio

Toledo War

The Toledo War (1835–1836), also known as the Michigan-Ohio War, was the almost entirely bloodless boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan. Originating from conflicting state and federal legislation passed between 1787 and 1805, the dispute resulted from poor understanding of geographical features of the Great Lakes at the time. Varying interpretations of the law caused the governments of Ohio and Michigan to both claim sovereignty over a region along the border, now known as the Toledo Strip. When Michigan sought statehood in the early ...

Bob Cratchit

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Hah! Snowmen notifications! :D

I'm requoting that every time someone else mentions it.

@NickT Oh ok. That's the one I was thinking of.

RedriderX

oh

Ya for SNOWMEN!

Bob Cratchit

@RedriderX Hate to put a damper on your fun. :P The snowman seems to inspire that kind of reaction.

RedriderX

11:36 PM

@BobCratchit oh

Bob Cratchit

Is that a volume icon for his hat?

Mana

@BobCratchit Didn't I tell you not to do this?

Bob Cratchit

@Mana But it's a meme now!

RedriderX

i don't know mention me

Bob Cratchit

@Mana I'm limiting myself though.

@RedriderX

Nick T

11:37 PM

@BobCratchit can't be, it's not here

Bob Cratchit

I'm only quoting it when someone discovers it for the first time, @Mana.

RedriderX

@BobCratchit Aww, that's awsome!

Bob Cratchit

@RedriderX :D

RedriderX

I discovered snowmen for the first time!

Powerlord

@NickT I live in the Lansing area. In fact, I work at 111 S. Capitol Ave, across from the capitol building.

GnomeSlice

11:38 PM

Gah, you can't use Paypal to buy stuff from the TF2 store?

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Sure you can.

But you have to add it to your Steam wallet first.

Bob Cratchit

@Powerlord Makes note of the address of @Powerlord's work because I am @ArdaXi

GnomeSlice

Oh.

Also. Lol. I'm playing it in an 800x600 window so a bunch of stuff is cut off.

Powerlord

Which is dumb, since the Steam Wallet has a $5 minimum.

RedriderX

@BobCratchit Say What now?!?!

Nick T

11:39 PM

@Powerlord oh, sounds familiar

Bob Cratchit

@RedriderX You didn't hear it from me.

:P

Nick T

Apr 14 at 14:58, by Powerlord

I live and work in the Lansing, Michigan area

GnomeSlice

@RedriderX Made any new Voxatron levels recently?

Bob Cratchit

@RedriderX Also, I think you meant interrobang. ‽‽‽‽

RedriderX

@BobCratchit distracted by snowman

Nick T

11:40 PM

Jun 30 at 22:44, by Powerlord

Also, City of Lansing needs to die in a fire.

Bob Cratchit

@RedriderX :D

Just keep looking at the snowmen....

@NickT LOL

Nick T

@Powerlord can't be as bad as Flint where I went to school

Bob Cratchit

Is it just me, or did @Powerlord just tell himself to go die in a fire?

RedriderX

@BobCratchit "interrobang"?

Bob Cratchit

@RedriderX ‽

Powerlord

11:41 PM

No, the dumbest thing the city of Lansing has done was to close 2 two-way and 3 one-way Northbound streets all at the same time.

GnomeSlice

Well, the Dead Ringer is $0.74 so that seems pretty cheap.

Nick T

Interrobang

The interrobang, interabang (), (often represented by ), is a nonstandard punctuation mark used in various written languages and intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the “interrogative point”) and the exclamation mark or exclamation point (known in printers’ jargon as the “bang”) . The glyph is a superimposition of these two marks. The Unicode code point is U+203D. Application A sentence ending with an interrobang asks a question in an excited manner, expresses excitement or disbelief in the form of a question, or asks a rhetorical question. For example...

Bob Cratchit

That's an interrobang.

Google it. :D

Powerlord

(closing none of the Southbound streets...)

Bob Cratchit

@NickT Yeah, that.

RedriderX

11:42 PM

Say what Now ‽‽‽

GnomeSlice

Premium Status get.

RedriderX

Look i did it!

GnomeSlice

I suppose I should have actually tried playing online first to see if it was worth it.

Nick T

Anyone know much about Super Furry Animals? How many videos do they actually have...hard to sift through the random songs on YouTube

RedriderX

@NickT Wow, they have a character for like, everything don't they?

Bob Cratchit

11:43 PM

@RedriderX Great! Now just start using capitalization. ;)

Powerlord

If you had to get anywhere near the capitol building, you had to drive down the little side-streets (which have a tendency to dead-end) or head to the far west or far east side of the downtown area.

Bob Cratchit

@NickT Me and Welbog were just talking about that...

chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/139/lets-get-philosophical

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice er... yeah, probably should have.

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord Eh...

RedriderX

@BobCratchit Sorry I tend to let my comments hang out sometimes :/ .

Powerlord

11:44 PM

Well, if you bought something cheap in the store, you aren't out much money, and any unused money can be spent on Steam games as well.

RedriderX

Well got to go, say bye to the snowman for me.

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord 'Dead Ringer' or something for $0.74

Nick T

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mmm, heroin

GnomeSlice

Think that's what it was.

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Ah, the best Spy watch. ;)

alexanderpas

11:45 PM

I just compiled a list of everyone who was in chat the last three days...

GnomeSlice

swish

Powerlord

Or should I say cloaking device

GnomeSlice

Why's it need to download a map to play on a server?

Bob Cratchit

@alexanderpas Why? How?

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice You shouldn't unless it's a custom map.

GnomeSlice

11:46 PM

I should think that at 10Gb the maps would all be included...

GODAMMIT.

WHERE DO I PLAY THEN.

Powerlord

TF2 comes with like 53 maps.

alexanderpas

@BobCratchit why? bored. How? @

Nick T

I've always wondered why is TF2 that large...it probably has code from SkyNet buried in it

Lazers

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Q: Is Blinkroot A Source of Lighting?

On Terraria, the requirements for a living space for an NPC is lighting, a chair and a table. Can blinkroot be a source of lighting?

terraria

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice The main menu should have a Play Now button or something like that, which tends to favor Valve's own servers, which run nothing but stock maps.

Bob Cratchit

11:47 PM

@alexanderpas Well I wouldn't think that got everyone, just everyone in the room right now.

GnomeSlice

Well, I can't even open the game window any more.

Bob Cratchit

@NickT Once TF2 takes over the world, SkyNet will too!

GnomeSlice

I guess I just need to wait until it's done whatever it's doing.

Nick T

That's why it's free

Powerlord

@NickT Believe it or not, like 4-6GB of the files are from shared HL2 stuff which is mostly unused.

GnomeSlice

11:48 PM

@Powerlord ...And it only took me two months to download.

alexanderpas

@BobCratchit nope, @ still works when someone has left the room.

Bob Cratchit

@GnomeSlice 2 whole monthes?!?

GnomeSlice

@BobCratchit On and off, yes.

Bob Cratchit

@alexanderpas Only if they were in the room when you were.

GnomeSlice

I've been slooowly downloading it for the past few months.

Bob Cratchit

11:48 PM

@ only gets the people you've seen since refreshing.

@GnomeSlice That's painful.

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord Why is it asking me if I want coaching...

alexanderpas

@BobCratchit are you sure? it got plenty of people

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Because it's a new account? :P

GnomeSlice

Derrrrr.

Nick T

@GnomeSlice 16 kbps internet‌?

Mana

11:50 PM

@alexanderpas what.

Bob Cratchit

@alexanderpas If you haven't refreshed in months like @ArdaXi, then you would have seen a lot of people.

GnomeSlice

@NickT It wasn't even close to two months of solid downloading time.

Probably closer to a day.

@Powerlord What game mode should I start with?

Bob Cratchit

@alexanderpas That said it was from badp...

Nick T

@GnomeSlice what TF2 mode?

GnomeSlice

@NickT Yes.

Anna Lear

11:51 PM

Since I'm here anyway now... chat @-pings work on people currently in the room and people who were "recently" in the room for some vague value of "recently".

Nick T

Payload is the easy one

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Payload is a good one to start with, although it wasn't in the console release

Bob Cratchit

Oh. Because @badp didn't want every single person pinged.

alexanderpas

sneaky @badp ;)

GnomeSlice

The Console version didn't even have most of these.

badp

11:52 PM

@alexanderpas spammy you :|

GnomeSlice

No available game servers. =[

Bob Cratchit

@alexanderpas See here:

Nick T

Where is the console version of TF2 w.r.t. class updates?

Bob Cratchit

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A: How long does it take before user completion stop working in chat?

As far as I can tell, usernames are never forcibly removed from the auto-complete, so it works for as long as you have the room open. Therefore, you will always see the names of anyone who has been in the room while you were there until you leave and then re-enter the room in some form (via refre...

badp

@GnomeSlice use the server browser

GnomeSlice

11:52 PM

@badp I did. I got a custom game or something. Powerlord told me to try the built in game finder.

Does nobody play the first three game modes?

Powerlord

@NickT Hasn't happened.

GnomeSlice

Or 'control points'?

badp

@GnomeSlice I think it's just the game finder having trouble

alexanderpas

@BobCratchit okay, okay...

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice I'd be very surprised if no one played them.

GnomeSlice

11:53 PM

:S

@Powerlord No servers found.

Bob Cratchit

@alexanderpas So you believe me now? :P

Powerlord

sigh the master servers were having problems last week, too.

Bob Cratchit

@GnomeSlice That's about the only mode I ever play.

GnomeSlice

Are they just automatically dismissing me because of my ping?

badp

@GnomeSlice The best server I know of on your side of the pond is ATF's at 69.61.8.37:27015, just do make sure you read the MOTD fully

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Bob Cratchit

11:54 PM

@GnomeSlice Yes. @GnomeSlice. There's another one for you.

@badp Can I favorite chat messages?

badp

@BobCratchit That's what starring should be for

GnomeSlice

@badp Interesting, in 'friend's', the only hit was an atf one.

@BobCratchit ...?

Oh joy, it's full.

alexanderpas

@BobCratchit yeah؟

Bob Cratchit

@badp Oh right, forgot I can filter by what I've starred.

Powerlord

I like OCRTF2, but it's dead this time of day.

GnomeSlice

11:55 PM

@Powerlord What's your server?

Bob Cratchit

@alexanderpas Is that supposed to be an interrobang?

Nick T

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (abbreviated ATF) is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibilities include the investigation and prevention of federal offenses involving the unlawful use, manufacture, and possession of firearms and explosives; acts of arson and bombings; and illegal trafficking of alcohol and tobacco products. The ATF also regulates via licensing the sale, possession, and transportation of firearms, ammunition, and explosives in interstate commerce. Many of ATF's activities are carri...

ATF?

Bob Cratchit

@NickT Yeah, they recently added E to their official name.

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Well, mine is empty, but you could try 216.52.143.59:27015... er... except it's running a custom map right now. :/

Nick T

Unless it's on their blue and gold jackets it doesn't count

alexanderpas

11:56 PM

@BobCratchit nope, it's a Percontation point

GnomeSlice

Dergh