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12:00 AM
I know.
 
As an achievement unlock, it's also not tradeable.
 
Yet I have no use for it :)
 
Bob
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Q: Is this email claiming to be from Blizzard legit?

ColenI just got an email: "Dear Players, Take a trip back to Azeroth with 7 days of FREE game time! Simply click below to claim your time and experience all of the latest improvements and additions to World of Warcraft®... but act fast, as this offer will expire on Mar 22, 2011." It looks incredib...

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Q: Error rendering diffs after removing a link

StrixVariaCheck out the diff on this question: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/18280/revisions Be careful not to click the link there, since it's very likely a phishing site, which is exactly the reason I was editing it out. However, now all the text after the link in the modified version is a link...

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Q: searching old DOS strategy game with tanks and ships

AlbertHi, I am searching for a strategy game I played many years ago under DOS but I don't remember the name. I'll try to list some memories here (not sure if they are all correct though...). There were several stations. I think you started with one. There where some spots which you could take to bu...

 
12:26 AM
@badp sham!= scam
 
@RavenDreamer okay, sorry
 
Not a problem.
 
I still think you meant 'scam' tho
eh, both work
nite
 
Yeah, 'fake'.
 
I actually have a copy of the real email.
I thought about posting the text, but without the graphics, it's missing something.
 
12:28 AM
Arrivederci, @badp
Yeah, I have it too. I upvoted your answer over mine.
You worded yours better.
 
I do wonder if that promo link still works, though.
When I try it, I get "This World of Warcraft license is not eligible for this promotion."
rather than it saying the promo is over.
 
For the benefit of non-10kers, there's a spam flag against this:
-5
A: Can I install Magicka on 2 computers?

Federico RuizOf course, you can buy one and pirate the other.

 
Let me. (Though I'd remove the link to it from your answer anyway, it looks just as much a phishing thing as the OP's mail)
 
I think the -5 is a strong enough message
do what you will of it tho
(I'd downvote... but I have downvoted already.)
The poster doesn't care either way.
 
@Powerlord "This World of Warcraft license is not eligible for this promotion."
Same for me
 
Bob
12:33 AM
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Q: Actions aren't performed when disconnected

Tim CooperOn a friend's multiplayer Minecraft server, it seems actions which I have initiated get paused when I'm not connected. For example: if I plant a tree and come back and hour later, the tree will still be a sapling. Also, if I start smelting something in a furnace, it restores to where it was when...

 
So, anyway, I went back to that Advanced Weaponizer TF2 server... that mod has some bugs with the Spy models.
It's strange switching to the sapper and seeing my gun reappear.
Oh, and decloaking made the knife models glitch... only showing every third animation frame or whatnot when you were moving.
Of course, it's right in the middle of my crappy ping time, so playing TF2 is an effort in frustration if I were to do it now.
 
Bob
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Q: Need some settings help for doing better screenshot

DrakeI would like to make some nice screenshots in Just Cause 2 and I need to remove HUD elements like minimap and pointer and maybe, if possible, change 3rd person view to 1st person. Any idea how can it be done?

 
1:04 AM
@RavenDreamer It's largely irrelevant if the promotion is still active because Scroll of Resurrection still exists.
(Get referred back by a friend, or random person on the internet in one of the many 'LF Scroll of Resurrection' threads on any forum under the sun, get a free 10 days on your old account. If you re-up, the referrer gets a free month.)
 
Bob
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Q: Can't seem to mine diamond & gold ore

happy_soilNormal blocks I can mine fine, but when it comes to diamond and gold ores, the block just gets "destroyed" (as in you can't pick it up). I'm playing on multiplayer with no spawning monsters.

 
1:28 AM
> The year is 1942. Adolf Hitler has succeeded in resurrecting dinosaurs. The reptilian horde has trampled Europe and the Mediterranean. Can nothing stop the Nazi’s dinosaur army?
This is a real game.
I am pretty sure @gnomeslice is legally obligated to come up with some crazy question about it.
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2:00 AM
In fact, the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle is NOT constant. The Pi is a lie. #portal
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Unfortunately, I don't game on the PC. :/
My community ad hasn't gotten any upvotes. :( This doesn't bode well for my hopeful career in multimedia & design...
iOS Developers Band Together For A Good Cause http://bit.ly/e74Mvs
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Related, but the one I posted isn't about Apple.
 
@GnomeSlice i know
 
@tzenes I had my agent look at places in Shoreline and Bellevue today. We saw a number of real possibilities in Bellevue. It's about half an hour by bus to where I'd work and the price per square foot is reasonable.
 
2:17 AM
Probably time we had a sandwich tracker app.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I've played that game!
To be specific, it's Time Gentlemen, Please.
IE9 apparently launched today.
 
2:48 AM
stupid computer ruined all my fun
Playing MTG on xbox, had a coat of arms out and 30 odd elves plus a 140/139 Rhys
and the comp destroyed my coat of arms. Now Rhys is only 120/119
 
I'm making a community advert for Solomon's Boneyard.
...It doesn't really have a whole lot of information about the game on it...
 
@Shaun Its a nice area too, very family friendly
 
@GnomeSlice It won't be an ad if it did, right?
 
@YiJiang Touche. What do you think of this draft?
 
The 'Try it here' may be a little redundant
The rules didn't say anything about advertising commercial products, right?
 
3:02 AM
It said to go ahead and advertise things like games you think your community might be interested in.
> indie games that are awesome, but people might not know about
Wait a minute...
'Indie Games'. Does that mean they have to be free of charge?
 
There is a question clarifying some of the T&C of this thing on Meta
 
@tzenes Indeed. I was looking at some crime statistics and it looked like it's pretty quiet if I stay out of downtown.
 
that's how most cities are
 
True enough. :)
 
when were you thinking of moving out?
 
3:08 AM
I'll be in Seattle by the end of the month. I start my new job on the 31st. We'll probably be out there between the 22nd-29th depending on when the relocation service that the company is using can get us flights that can accommodate our dog, pack our stuff, etc.
 
oh wow, soon
 
Once there, we'll be in corporate housing until we pick a place.
Yep!
They are eager to get me out there and working.
 
@YiJiang What do you think of this:
 
where are you working at, if you don't mind me asking?
 
@GnomeSlice Looks great, although the top text is a little small, it should be pretty good
 
3:11 AM
@YiJiang I didn't want to cover too much of the image with text, part of what makes the game so appealing is the polished visuals.
 
Well, I'm not entirely sure what's considered 'polished' for an iOS game. It does look fairly interesting visually, albeit a little dark
 
@YiJiang You can turn off the 'gloom' setting, which basically darkens the edges of the screen. The game has some really interesting lighting effects.
^ That's a bit enlarged, so it looks a bit fuzzy.
 
@tzenes I don't mind answering that, but I'd rather it not be a matter of public record since I'm not sure how the company would feel about some of my web presence.
 
fair enought
 
Give me a moment to send you a message on YouTube.
(I saw you shoutcast a few things on it)
 
3:15 AM
haha
yeah I've made a vod for just about everyone who's sent me a replay
 
Indeed. I watched one of them and appreciated the detail. Shoutcasting is usually faster-pased and rarely touches on a detailed explanation of what someone did wrong.
@tzenes Message sent.
 
I sent an invite on gtalk
 
Bob
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Q: How do I get into the coal shaft in the Ancient Mine?

BrantIn the Ancient Mine there is a fence which I can't get past. By setting off some explosives and knocking a ramp over, I managed to find an alternate route where I was ambushed by some kind of floating worm monster. Just past this is a mine cart on a short track and a coal shaft which I'm guessing...

 
grumble
 
@Brant I HAVE played that, but I don't precisely recall the area you're stuck at.
 
3:26 AM
On the one hand, I want to update my Dr. Teeth avatar to give it people eyes, on the other hand, I am far too lazy to actually fire up Photoshop.
 
@less that is vaguely creepy
 
@tzenes also vaguely awesome.
Rowlf is best.
 
I dunno, I'm still creeped out
 
His look pretty fake, actually.
 
Oh man... those are a little creepy.
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You know you want her.
 
3:30 AM
That was going to be my top pick. It's the most believable.
 
That's a close second in terms of creepiness.
 
so who's up for some League of Legends?
 
I've heard a lot about the DotA games but never played them myself.
 
you should give LoL a shot
I used to be a huge DotA competitor
and later HoN
but these days I can only find people to play LoL
 
Well, AVG doesn't like the EXE.
It thinks it is malware.
 
3:36 AM
DotA is still extremely popular in Singapore for some reason
Well, maybe not extremely, but still actively played
 
It's downloading, but it's "I should probably grab a Snickers" downloading.
 
 
3 hours later…
7:13 AM
@ArdaXi Sorry about that unfriendly welcome on Skeptics.SE. I've flagged it for mod attention, entering that discussion myself would only fuel the flames.
 
@Fabian Tis okay. He stopped after I proved him wrong.
Must hurt to be defeated by a "mere 16-year-old foreign kid".
 
I still think most of the comments should be nuked, that is not the way I like people to behave there.
Not resorting to ad hominems and bringing evidence for one's position is what skepticism is supposed to be about
 
Will an OpenTTD ad for Gaming be good?
 
@Fabian Yeah, true, my behaviour wasn't exactly great either but I'm not going to be insulted like that.
They should just all be nuked.
 
@ArdaXi I don't blame you for responding, he set the tone with his first comment
We'll have our moderators probably in the next days, that'll make fixing such stuff easier.
 
7:23 AM
I just found it so ironic that he, while questioning the medical justification for using the word shock, suggested the word shell-shocked because "it finds plenty of use in non-combat situations".
And I may have overdone is in the initial comment a bit. I can realise how it sounded... sort of arrogant.
@YiJiang Sounds great.
 
So, do we need an English.SE question on that? ;-)
 
@Fabian I've spawned enough English.SE questions, thank you very much.
I can't wait until I do my IB exam.
 
7:49 AM
Oh wow. (Via @JonSkeet)
 
8:14 AM
One for Skeptics.SE
 
8:52 AM
@YiJiang Good one.
 
heeeeeeeey
guess who's been doing Calculus problems for the past 12 hours straight
ahhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa wow I'm tired :(
 
@Mana Question: why?
 
to make sure I pass the course
how are you @Arda
 
Also tired.
 
oh cool
 
8:56 AM
But I'm always tired.
 
yeah, I know how it is'
 
Do you?
 
probably not
but I can act sympathetic
listen closely. Hear that?
It's the sound of me being sympathetic.
 
Sounds a bit... artificial
Is that the compression?
 
no way man, I encode my sympathy in FLAC always, you can't hear it
the compression I mean is what you can't hear because it's perfect compressed sound that probably has a compressed sound anyways
stares into space
 
9:04 AM
That staring thing is still creepy.
 
blame badp
hah, I didn't even mean to reference that blame meme thing we have going on here
 
No way, dude. You've got to take responsibility for your own staring.
 
it just kind of happened naturally
 
9:28 AM
I love the way URL shorteners let me see exactly when my links are clicked.
 
9:40 AM
I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYONE
That's weird, Windows gives my 500 GB disk the same rating as my 1.5 TB disk.
 
10:03 AM
I hate it when I'm talking to myself. It draws too much attention to the fact I want attention.
 
10:34 AM
The cart is moving by itself!
 
@ArdaXi Whacha saying attention whore?
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:(
 
11:11 AM
@Mana stares into Mana
 
 
2 hours later…
1:08 PM
 
1:35 PM
Well, now that I've pushed my server's RAM usage from 400 MB to 200 MB, let's see if I can get hl2dm on it.
 
Bob
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Q: Racing SNES game launched around 1991-1992

camiloqpWhen was the game released / when did you play it? 1991-1992, but I played it around 1996-1997 What platform did you play it on? Super Nes If you controlled a character, how did it look like? You were able to drive 3 or 4 types of vehicles?? I remember there was a white one and a red one that...

 
That was fast.
 
Bob
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Q: How to determine which horse i have in red dead redemtopn

LoveMeSomeCodeIn RDR, how can I tell which horse I have? There doesn't seem to be any menu for it. Do I have to go entirely by the pictures on the wiki site? That doesn't seem like very good game design to rely on a strategy guide or 3rd party website. Also, they said the horse would get more attached to me o...

 
1:51 PM
Look at that, it works
I've got a HL2DM server online with Sourcemod
 
2:28 PM
Sourcemod works a lot nicer on TF2
 
2:44 PM
I'm being owned on my own server >.<
 
3:14 PM
Server only takes about 100 MB of RAM, even with 6 players. No lag. That's good.
 
The impression I get from browsing Skeptics.SE is that it's basically the same as Atheism.SE: A site where people go to talk about how wrong everyone else is.
 
@Brant I know. I got hit in the face by that.
 
Bob
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Q: All the first person games which absolutely do not have guns of any kind.

overmannI'd like to know all those first person games in which there are no trigger instruments which fire a projectile when pulled. No firearms, that's right. If it has throwable objects which damage the enemy, it counts. If it has long-range weapons like a bow, I'll accept it. If it has stabbing weapo...

 
3:30 PM
Tag of death, and a closevote.
 
3:50 PM
It's not technically a game-rec, but it's a poor question for the same reason that game-recs are.
 
@Brant Its a list question, which is even worse
 
That's what I meant.
It's more of a game-list than a game-rec, but that's just me being a nitpicky jerk
 
Five answers in 40 minutes. Wow.
 
and of course one of them was Portal
 
which already had two upvotes from people who were not us
 
3:58 PM
@Brant "game-rec" means either an itemized list of games or a shopping recommendation for games. If it lacks the shopping recommendation aspect, it's still a game-rec. We're basically hackneying the term into something of a "catch-all" for this class of problem questions.
 
...so uh, nice weather we're having around these parts.
anyways back to studying, peace.
 
@GraceNote I'm not disputing the question's flaws or it's ultimate fate at all, I'm just saying he wasn't asking for a recommendation. ;)
Just for a list.
I just imagine a new user seeing the term and thinking, "but I asked for a list, not a recommendation!"
 
@Brant I wasn't assuming that. I'm disputing your pedantry with policy. ♪ In the end, we even get "I didn't ask for a recommendation" even when it is a shopping recommendation. It's an umbrella term that we even have a FAQ for. In a way, it's actually ceased to even mean "game recommendation". It's just a "rec". We could re-invent what that's short for, haha~ ♪
 
Ooh, good idea.
"recreational list"?
"recommend immediate closure"
Eh, I give up.
 
4:33 PM
Hey guys
Quick question, how do you post links in a comment without displaying the whole URL?
I only want the text "this link", and not display the URL.
 
@thethinman [this link](http://www.google.com)
 
awesome, trying atm
 
The parser for comments is the same as the one for chat
Although chat's has a few additional feature
 
worked
thanks @Yi
 
Bob
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Q: How do I avoid TF2 servers loaded with bots?

Nick TIt seems like whenever I choose to play TF2 at dead-ish times (when my favorites are all empty) all the servers I join are 90-100% bots. Is there some easy way to avoid joining those servers?

 
4:52 PM
What did we decide about this question: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/10346/… ?
because it looks like we clearly decided off-topic
and yet its still open
 
good point
flag time?
 
@tzenes Voted to close.
 
well that's 2
 
5:09 PM
Is it appropriate to encourage people here to vote on a question?
 
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Q: Is this email claiming to be from Blizzard legit?

ColenI just got an email: Dear Players, Take a trip back to Azeroth with 7 days of FREE game time! Simply click below to claim your time and experience all of the latest improvements and additions to World of Warcraft®... but act fast, as this offer will expire on Mar 22, 2011. It looks in...

I'm not a fan of this question.
 
I'm running through lots of unanswered questions to try and clean up the dust, but no one seems to be interested in voting despite them being active again.
 
I mean, it serves a great purpose, but it feels off-topic.
I suppose I just naturally oppose questions that aren't about a game.
 
@Shaun It's getting a lot of weak answers
Can someone protect it?
 
That's probably a good idea.
 
5:19 PM
So again is it poor practice to tell people to check out my answer to a old question? The goal is to lower our count of unanswered questions rather than increase my reputation.
 
What are you trying to accomplish by having people vote on a question?
 
Trying to bring attention to old questions
In the hope that someone can answer it when they didn't see it before, or since I've given an answer it can be evaluated.
If there is a way to message the asker I would do so ... is there a way?
The long list of unanswered questions makes me unhappy :(
 
Well, accepted answers doesn't mean much... it's a bit of bonus rep for whoever gets the checkmark, but a question is considered answered if it has at least one answer scored +1 or higher.
If there's a new question with no answers at all which you provided an answer for elsewhere, you should probably flag it as a dupe.
Or, if it's slightly different, leave a comment.
 
There aren't any new questions
It's only questions with no upvoted answers, so I guess a single vote would do
 
5:35 PM
@thethinman We're not doing that bad in terms of unanswered questions IMO, but that's just me.
 
Bob
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Q: When catching Victini on Liberty Island is it ever possible that he will know Searing Shot?

RyanIt is his first move in his learn set but since he is level 15 he only seems to know the four following moves in the learn set, Quick Attack, Endure, Incinerate, and Confusion. Searing Shot is the first move in the learn set and therefore is bumped out automatically by the next four (similar to l...

 
Its interesting, because scrolling through the list of unanswered questions, many of them are asking questions that probably DON'T have an answer. They are "How do I do X" questions where the answer is very likely "You can't", but its very hard to know that conclusively, so instead nobody answers
 
In those situations, you should probably answer that you can't.
 
Without any sort of proof? Just a "Given that nobody has answered yet, the likely answer is no"?
 
@bwarner @Mana That's definitely not a good plan
 
5:39 PM
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Q: Can I speed up showing tooltips in Dragon Age II?

Mag RoaderI feel like an idiot. When I hover over something, I like to see the tooltip for that thing immediately. In Dragon Age II, I have to wait like half a second. Is there a way to remove the delay and make that instant? I searched through the options twice and couldn't find anything. But I could al...

 
Hasn't stopped me before.
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A: Is it possible to figure out why someone was murdered?

ManaAs far as I can tell, based on extensive online research and the fact that none of our Dwarf Fortress vets have chimed in yet, there is no way for you to discover the reason as to why someone was murdered.

 
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Q: How to play Burnout Paradise on two screens without "unifying" the desktop?

romkynsI have two screens and use them heavily for work; I absolutely require the ability to maximize an application to take just one screen. Burnout Paradise has a dual-screen mode which works fine if I "unify" my screens (can't remember the term for that). This means that a maximized window spans bot...

 
I suppose it it's wrong then it's wrong.
People will downvote appropriately.
 
shrug
I'm not saying that you should do this for every question or that you should do it immediately, but that "you can't" is always a possible answer.
 
whatever maaaaaaaaaan
:P
 
5:41 PM
mm
anyways, back to calc
peace
 
Well maybe I can comment to bring attention to them again
pc
 
Bob
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Q: Why is my cat blinking?

echobackOne of my Outer Barrier Wall Guardian Felines, currently attached to its Bloodlust Distance-Minimization Chain, is blinking between no background and a light brown background. I looked on the wiki, but the only similar icon is "prone", and that doesn't blink. It has nothing out of the ordinary l...

 
Bob
6:18 PM
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Q: What Commodore game had a unicorn building bridges in it?

CodexArcanumI'm trying to find an old game I played years ago on our Commodore 128. I seem to recall you played a unicorn (or maybe just a horse) who would pick up rocks, and fly them over to a river to build a bridge across it. Meanwhile, monsters would attack you and you had to fight them off to bring the ...

 
I think we need a community ad explaining why a certain action should be taken for science
@badp, go.
@Mana Retagged the question with [murder]
 
6:35 PM
@Gnome all questions should be retagged with [murder]... just as a warning...
 
@Aardvark I've been trying to keep the tag from stagnating ever since I created it. :P
 
We should do it one question at a time
How do you defeat a 6-pool? Sounds like a candidate... for murder
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You people need to learn how to properly apply to chat.
Jus'sayin'.
 
ooh thats nice
how'd you pull that off?
 
Syntax is [tag:word
but close the bracket.
 
6:40 PM
your right, I was in desperate need of learning that
 
Works in Questions/Answers too! (primarily only useful on Meta).
 
A tree fell on my car while driving
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@Aardvark wow.
that is 'lucky to be alive' if I ever saw it.
 
Grateful to be alive, I agree... I don't feel very lucky though
 
@Aardvark was it windy or...
 
6:44 PM
both those trees should have killed me, its like getting hit by lightning twice and being 'lucky to be alive'
we drove directly into a 70 mph wind storm
 
was it attempted
 
Bob
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Q: What effect does the donation box have?

atticaeIn Dragon Age II there is a donation box in "Lirene's Fereldan Imports", where you can donate money to the Fereldan refugees. Does this affect the game in any way?

 
But, I'm definitely grateful to be alive... Just kinda sitting at my desk staring out the window
 
room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, wherein we charge our lazers in search of additional questions that might be 'd.
 
it doesn't work up there --->
or in info
 
6:47 PM
:/
@LessPop_MoreFizz Well done, you 'd it.
 
@RonanForman I kinda think it's better that way though.
 
It's more descriptive of the context, I suppose.
 
bah, I leave for three hours and when I come back all I see is
 
@badp You could use KatHack to make all the go away. To the if you will.
 
@Aardvark Holy smokes... Glad everyone was okay.
 
Bob
6:54 PM
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Q: Any way to get a clean Reputation on XBL?

SamI've been on xbox live for a couple of years. I mainly play fighting games online(actually one of the big impetuses for me getting a 360). I'm competent but not really amazing at the ones I play, I don't use the microphone, and I only send insulting messages to people who send them to me first. B...

 
@Gnome me too, I guess you never know when an inch will keep you from getting decapitated
@Gnome play more video games, you never know when your APM will save your life
 
hello?
does anyone know how to deal with Cygwin in Windows 7?
 
howdy
 
@aardvark let me join the rank of people sheepishly going 'wtf, glad you're okay'
 
@badp we were in it before it was cool
 
7:01 PM
lol
thanks, glad I'll still be around to tag questions... with murder...
but for now, I've gotta go get some lunch
 
@lesspop I expected more nethack
 
don't take the car
not with them winds
 
:( It makes such a good hatchback though
 
@badp Run bookmarklet on nethackwiki?
 
it belongs to progressive now
 
7:04 PM
@aardvark yup, would've sucked to see a merely fortituous accident tear through your raffinated ous plans.
 
@badp Also, if you are disappointed by being able to play Katamari on every webpage ever... well, I pity you tbqh.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz have you played asteroids?
 
@less I lack the proper cultural background fully required to properly enjoy the kathack experience as God intended it to be lived
 
@RonanForman Insert Coin
Insert Coin
Does it no longer work?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
 
what happens?
 
7:09 PM
it's funny I'd write that on a mobile keyboard without autocompletion and with a 60pct chance of it getting bugged out for me to painstakingly retype.
@less coin, not Coin
 
Not working for me either.
 
/blame @balpha
 
Yea, it broked.
 
@tzenes tco. I'm not happy but what's fair's fair.
actually when I get home I'll see if it can be migrated to SU, but i expect it to be a dup of a question answered 'use virtualdub' :P
 
user30
All the easter eggs are still in the javascript.
 
user30
7:23 PM
insert coin
 
user30
yeah, working.
 
user30
Anyway, while on the topic of asteroids: rawkets.com
 
@badp I'm not alone!
 
user30
@ArdaXi Ragequit.
 
Also, I love the internet. I just started up a HL2DM server today to test if it'd work, and all of a sudden there were 5 players on it.
So while I was planning to do a lot of troubleshooting and command-typing, I was really just shooting people.
Do I sound like a psycho sysadmin now?
 
7:30 PM
you sound like you were being a good admin who, however, is going to make a terrible mod.
 
user30
There suddenly seems to be a proliferation of nuclear techs on the internet, all with different opinions on what is happening in Japan.
 
Source is renown for its excellent terrible mod making capabilities, too.
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user30
@ArdaXi I don't know about psycho, you just sound like a normal admin.
 
@thomas All I know is more than 10k nuclear bombs have exploded on Earth till 1997, give one take one... What's to different? :P
*so
I mean sure it's horrible for the Japanese, but health consequences thereof should be europe's and usa's last concerns
economical consequences, now those are scary.
 
user30
@badp I'm not sure, from my understanding a nuclear bomb is pretty much the same as in a reactor, but without control.
 
7:37 PM
(how horrible of a person must I sound like now?)
 
@Aardvark: Holy shit, glad you're okay. @_@
 
user30
I read that natural disasters tend to lead to economic stimulation due to the extra jobs created for repairs etc, but Japan was struggling quite a bit, right?
 
dunno, you need money to pay employees with
 
user30
Well yeah, government borrowing. The issue is where this money is going to come from. Japan's public dept, according to enwiki, is 196% of GDP.
 
user30
Now that's a lot. The UK's public deficit is hovering around 50% of GDP and we're constantly being told that it's too large and we must all make cuts "in our countries time of need"
 
user30
7:44 PM
What Osbourne is doing with our economy will make for some tremendous case studies eventually though.
 
user30
s/deficit/debt
 
insert coin
 
user30
Admittedly, we had the biggest deficit by % of GDP in 2010, but I can't help but feel that increasing government spending to kickstart the economy is much more important than anything at the moment.
 
woah @ThomasMcDonald i never realized, you live just down the road from me!
 
user30
@RonanForman Yeah, Nottingham is about 45 min on the train if my memory serves me right.
 
7:54 PM
insert coin
 
@Fallen Much too close for comfort I'd say
 
user30
Anyway, re: reactors - we ran the Windscale Piles with just air cooling for ten years.
 
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