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Q: Java uses all CPU while playing minecraft

gumboI reciently pursached minecraft, but when I have been playing for about 5-10 min the java process uses all CPU power, leading even to sudden shut downs of the computer. This is weird because some months ago I used to play a pirate copy of the game, and it run without any problem. Is there any w...

 
every time I play braid I like it even more
 
@Wipqozn To be fair I don't find it particularly replayable after the first playthrough
 
Oh, also @Wipqozn, I hope you weren't uh offended or anything by the retag thing
 
@YiJiang Maybe not right away, but after a bit itis
@Manaಠдಠ no worries, I wasn't.
 
coooool
 
3:08 PM
thanks for the concern though
 
@YiJiang Me neither.
 
you friendly fellow you
 
@Wipqozn I know.
 
@mana are you planning to re-install frozen synapse?
 
I see @wip is at it again.
 
3:16 PM
@John was at it, I've stopped
 
user30
It's like a witch hunt in here, jeez.
 
@wip should I be relieved or saddened?
 
both
@ThomasMcDonald I know! I think I'll go cry in a corner or something
 
Whew!
:(
 
@Wipqozn What game mode is it this time?
 
3:26 PM
@RonanForman same as last tiem
I don't know what the other modes are l o l
I need to look them up
 
user30
@Ronan What's the deal with Terraria tonight then?
 
I don't know, if people are up for it and we have a server 6 utc.
 
user30
Sweet, I should be around
 
user30
ohh, Nero's album comes out on Monday. awesomesauce.
 
So, who has a server? I think @Powerlord said he did, but I haven't spoken to him today
@Wipqozn how did you not see that the launcher guy would be killed?
 
3:38 PM
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Q: Two full free games from PlayStation

Luc MWhen the PlayStation Network came back online, we could download 2 full games for free. I downloaded Infamous then decided to wait to download the second one. Do you know if I can download the second game ? Where in the menu of PlayStation store ? Did I have a limited time to download these ga...

 
@RonanForman I had the timinf off. I was thinking he could get over just before your shotgun guy
and his shot he kill your shotgun guy
 
no, shotty's still alive
 
yeah I know
like I said, messed up the timing
 
@Lazers Poor Luc, missed out on his second game. :/
 
user30
@FallenAngelEyes I didn't get any
 
3:50 PM
@ThomasMcDonald I grabbed... what did I grab...
checks
Ah yeah, the Ratchet and Clank thing and Dead Nation or whatever it is
 
Oh, Super Stardust HD as well
(both my b/f and I got stuff because we both have PSN accounts)
heading to grandparents, later all
 
user30
in a bit
 
4:30 PM
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Q: Which of the original 151 Pokemon learn moves AS they are evolving?

roviuserWhich Pokemon (limited to the original 151) learn moves as they simultaneously evolve?

 
Why does all the conversation here happen while I'm gone?
 
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Q: How do I Avoid Those Raptors?

GnomeSlice ツTowards the end of It Belongs in an Ancient Ruin, you start to encounter some kind of lizard things that like to jump out at you from behind some admittedly conspicuous shrubbery. The problem is, knowing where the raptors[?] will come from doesn't really seem to be helping me avoid them very rel...

Is there a way to view a list of all questions on the site ordered by view count?
 
user30
4:46 PM
@GnomeSliceツ there used to be
 
user30
this lists all the questions with more than 20k views though
 
Hey, one of those is mine.
 
@badp You looking for pre-paid SIM cards in the Netherlands?
 
user30
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Q: How can I beat level 3-15 in Angry Birds?

Joel SpolskyI can't get past this level in Angry Birds. All I get is one black exploding bird and two white bomber birds: I can use the black bomber to kill the left two pigs, but after that there's such a big pile of concrete on top of the other pigs that nothing I try gets through.

 
user30
this has the most views
 
user30
4:51 PM
and is, er, the only question with more than 85k views
 
@ThomasMcDonald That's kind of depressing.
 
user30
@Ronan I'll see if I can sort a servery out.
 
Ew, Napster.
 
@ArdaXi yerp.
 
Don't go with T-mobile. They're expensive and their coverage sucks. Lots of dropped calls.
 
5:03 PM
Hm.
 
If you're looking for cheap, I'd suggest Kruitvat Mobiel.
They use KPN's network, which is the best we have.
 
looks
 
Calls are €0,12/minute.
 
That website doesn't quite have enough words in pictures.
 
Texts €0,05/minute.
In order left-right: Provider | Mobile | Mobile | Landline | SMS | MMS | Avg. costs first minute
 
5:19 PM
Does anyone have a server we could run Terraria on?
 
I don't have a Windows server I'm afraid
 
I think you can run it through linux, wern't you talking about it yesterday?
 
Without a GUI?
 
I have a Linux server, but not terraria.
 
yeah, the actually server file just loads a prompt
 
5:22 PM
Greed Corp, another great TBS game.
 
well no-one's turned up again,
 
Hmm, should we keep the tag around or should we get rid of it?
Noisy as in "my PS3 fans are noisy".
 
i'm sure both those questions are about cooling anyway
 
tags @GnomeSlice with
3
 
methinks we should get rid of it.
 
5:24 PM
@KevinY Oh, never mind.
 
@ArdaXi Starred!
 
if game-on's not happening, I'm off, i've got stuff to do
 
I don't see how a tag fits on the site
if it's about a noisy system, it should just be tagged with a general tech support tag or something
hardware issues?
Not sure exactly, but we should have a generic tag for that
 
And do we really need a tag for questions about Heavy in TF2?
 
No we don't
 
5:27 PM
Good, I'll explodinate as well.
Well, the TF2 usage anyways.
Okay, 9 questions using the tag, and 29 using the tag.
 
Well, given that we've been completely trashing the homepage for the entirety of the day
 
user30
@badp Not for the past 4 hours
 
yeahI stopped whenmark showed up
 
@ThomasMcDonald then we have in the last 7 minutes :P
 
@badp :D
So should we retag as and make the former a synonym of the latter?
 
5:35 PM
I really need to pick back up work on my mass changer
if I can find it again
 
Hmm...
Doesn't seem like a terribly useful tag to me.
 
I could merge it with ... :-}
and with
and with
 
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Q: Does Xbox hard drive transfer transfers Achievements/Avatar awards?

bangokerI can no longer sign in to Xbox Live since the May Update thinks my first gen XBox360 is pirated (its not). Still, its pretty old, loud, the disc tray doesnt open all the time, loud, etc, so I am going to buy a new gen xbox. My question is, I've been playing for a while offline, earning achieve...

 
Heh.
 
5:40 PM
I've never made a tag! (Have I?)
 
5:56 PM
@KevinY Burninate it.
 
@GnomeSliceツ Does anyone else think we should keep it? (The tag.)
 
@KevinY No.
What's the use case?
 
@Kevin I used to support it but I'm against it now. Still, can we hold off on burninating things for a while...?
 
@Manaಠдಠ NO.
 
@KevinY None, of those questions seem to require it
 
5:58 PM
@ArdaXi No u
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Q: How do I Avoid Those Raptors?

GnomeSlice ツTowards the end of It Belongs in an Ancient Ruin, you start to encounter some kind of lizard things that like to jump out at you from behind some admittedly conspicuous shrubbery. The problem is, knowing where the raptors[?] will come from doesn't really seem to be helping me avoid them very rel...

 
@Manaಠдಠ Would deleting the tag clog up the front page?
 
@Ronan I'm pretty sure deleting the tag involves going through every question that has it and removing it.
 
Mhm.
 
@Manaಠдಠ Oh.
can we synonym it with:
 
So, yes. That's why we have a front page full of Wipqozn at the moment.
 
6:00 PM
But @Mana, it's just one tag explodification!
 
just change the tag wiki to: Do not use this tag. for now
 
@Manaಠдಠ Not if you use a moderator.
 
@Arda fair enough
 
I think the reason we needed to change all the questions was because some of them still needed the tag
 
After you're done watching today's episode, don't forget to leave a comment telling us how "gay" we are. Thanks! http://t.co/9vN5M4i
 
6:03 PM
@Ronan Yeah, true.
 
29 mins ago, by Kevin Y
So should we retag as and make the former a synonym of the latter?
 
I linked to it yesterday, but could anyone do this
@KevinY don't see why not.
 
And of course I can't propose a synonym because I don't have a tag score of 5 in .
The tag isn't great anyways, since sometimes it refers to in-game maps, and sometimes it refers to the various maps you can battle on in games.
 
Yeah, there's a lot of tag cleaning up to do. Still, I would suggest that we hold off on cleanup until after the elections are finished.
 
@Manaಠдಠ Good idea.
 
6:11 PM
@Wipqozn While I'm thinking of it, the main problem with a silent mode where mods can push edits without having them pushed to the front page is that it's very easily abused.
Unintentionally or not.
 
@Manaಠдಠ yeah it could be
 
Can we play something? I don't even mind if it's TF2. again.
I think someone suggested this a while back, but we should fine some free multiplayer games to play
 
6:33 PM
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Q: What's the best Rubik Cube virtual implementation?

nncbcbbnRequirements: Win or lin, plays great, good interface, doesn't cost anything.

 
user30
I'm seeing a lot more noticeable activity from some nominees. ಠ_ಠ
 
@ThomasMcDonald I've noticed that too
ever since they nominated...they have become a lot more active
 
Yay! My first vote to close!
 
@ThomasMcDonald So the secret to finding more time to contribute would have been to nominate myself for moderator?
 
user30
@TimStone Yep.
 
6:41 PM
So anyone up for TF2?
 
user30
Not really, I'm knee deep in textbook
 
I'll have to keep that in mind.
 
@ThomasMcDonald Not me!
 
@ArdaXi twitch
 
@GnomeSliceツ What?
 
6:46 PM
@ThomasMcDonald Logically, we should have an election every month.
 
@badp I thought they weren't going to make exceptions for sites. Wasn't that the reasoning behind lowering the points of question upvotes on MSO? And for not raising the value of question upvotes on CG.SE? What happened to that?
@Mana What keyboard are you using that "slaps Gnome" shifted one to the left doesn't come out as "&akPA fBONE&"?
Of course, I mean "&akOA fBINW&"
@RonanForman I like that idea. A lot.
 
7:09 PM
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Q: Is Minecart motion preserved if a chunk is unloaded?

fredleyI'm making an adventure map. In one challenge you have to shoot a minecart with a bow and arrow and destroy it in order to open a door. I have the minecart on a loop of powered rails (except for the corners, and a detector block used to determine when the minecart stops going round). Simple expe...

 
@John well my hands were all screwed up
@ThomasMcDonald HI THOMAS
 
user30
HELLO @MAN
 
user30
Just chilling to some Elton John
 
@Mana So if you weren't looking at your hands, and you weren't looking at what you were typing, what were you looking at? :P
 
oh cool
 
user30
7:14 PM
and writing a userscript
 
@John I have multiple monitors
 
Cool what does it do?
@Mana Lucky!
 
So I tend to stare at one while I type on the other
 
user30
It should do a whole host of useful things
 
bad habit
 
user30
7:14 PM
eventually
 
@Mana I don't have the attention span to do that. :P
 
user30
@Manaಠдಠ lucky bugger, I'm on my 13" laptop.
 
@Thomas I know how it is.
I have a netbook so when I was spending two weeks on vacation screen real estate was killing my productivity
 
user30
To be honest I'm pretty used to it
 
user30
cmd-tab is my friend
 
7:17 PM
@Mana Why were you working on vacation?
@ThomasMcDonald My hotkeys are a bit lacking, what does that one do?
 
@John I don't really consider Project Euler to be "working"
but it is productive
 
user30
@John Switches between open programs. cmd-` switches between windows of an application, so that gets some use as well
 
@Mana True. Hadn't considered that case.
 
@ThomasMcDonald Wow, never knew about CMD-` until now, thanks!
 
@ThomasMcDonald Thanks! I can use that!
 
7:19 PM
Which is surprising because I've been using Macs for quite a long time.
 
user30
Yeah, it's one of the better hidden shortcuts
 
In other news, I just accidentally discovered that control+1-9 changes tabs in Chrome.
Well maybe 0 too. I don't have that many tabs open. :P
 
@ThomasMcDonald Then again, I rarely ever have two windows of the same program open at the same time.
 
@John Ctrl+0 is used to reset your zoom level
 
user30
@KevinY I usually have 5 textmate windows open.
 
user30
7:21 PM
Mostly because I haven't closed the other ones....
 
@John Ctrl+9 always jumps to the last, no matter how many you have
 
@CruelCow Didn't know that, thanks!
 
user30
7:41 PM
live reloading homepage coming along nicely
 
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Q: Where can I find a list of buff and debuff IDs?

BrantI'm setting up the Need To Know addon and want to track the duration of the Hemorrhage debuff on my current target. Since the ability applies multiple debuffs with the name "Hemorrhage", I need to specify the specific debuff I want to track by ID instead of name. I can't seem to find a list of b...

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Q: Run MineOS from USB Stick

Alexy13I'm using a mac and I'm making a virtual machine (MineOS) with VirtualBox. If I were to run the virtual machine (and it's resources, including the virtual hard disk) from the usb drive, would it wear out very quickly from read/writes? I'm not sure how much read/writing it will receive but I wou...

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Q: Duke Nukem 3D how to start fake multiplayer game without monster respawn?

Andrew J. BrehmI am trying to run Duke Nukem 3D in DOS box but cannot figure out the correct command line arguments for starting a fake multiplayer game in which monsters do not automatically respawn. Does anyone remember how to do that?

 
8:01 PM
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Q: Unable to talk in SMP chat

gumboWhenever I enter any server on Minecraft, if I press T and write later on I can't send that message to the chat. I've already tried removing /bin folder and letting the game download it again, but that didn't work.

 
user30
humm, I may just have hit a rate limiter
 
user30
or Chrome is going incredibly slow
 
user30
probably both
 
user30
whoops
 
user30
8:06 PM
knocked it into an infinite loop through my own stupidity
 
user30
 
user30
NaN days ago, the best time ago
 
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Q: New PS3 controller won't sync with PS3

user11691So i bought a new six-axis controller for my bestfriend and i did a custom paint job on it, so i had to gut it tog et the plates off, and i've tried almost everything! but after i put everythign back together (right), it just blinks the red lights when it is plugged into the ps3 via USB but even ...

 
I want to play this so badly...
 
8:24 PM
@GnomeSlice I'm confused, is the waitress AI or a real person?
 
@John I think it's a real person.
 
@GnomeSlice astonished What kind of person finishes working to go start virtually working?!?
 
Watch the second one.
 
As soon as I finish the first one! :P
 
I like the part where he steals the microwave.
Which apparently was inside another microwave.
 
user30
8:28 PM
I'm sure there's a better way of doing this...
 
user30
ah well
 
@GnomeSliceツ My eardrums now hate you.
 
@GnomeSliceツ I loled at that part. I also like how he gets up, eats the flowers, and sits back down before she notices. :D
@TimStone So you're saying I need to watch that one without sound?
 
Might not be a bad idea. :P
 
8:33 PM
@GnomeSliceツ I don't get why they started flying when he sat on the vase.
@TimStone How ironic. I originally was going to watch it without sound, but now you've got me curious...
spins volume up ----- spins volume down
 
@John You'd better.
This is a pretty good read about a haunted Majoraès Mask cartridge.
 
@GnomeSlice I should have clarified; spins volume up -2 seconds into video- spins volume down
 
user30
uh-oh
 
user30
"Could not move extension directory into profile"
 
@ThomasMcDonald That sounds.....bad.
 
8:38 PM
"By this point, I was on the verge of hysterics, but not even once did the thought of turning off the console occur to me, I don't know why, I was so wrapped up in it - the terror felt all so real. I tried to shake the statue, but it would literally appear right behind me every single time."
 
@GnomeSlice I was about to ask you if that was the haunted zelda game thing but then I realized you just linked it
 
user30
Restarted Chrome, seems to have fixed it
 
user30
and now the API is down, joy.
 
@John MMO players ducks away
 
user30
I think that's enough development for one night
 
user30
8:45 PM
I'll chuck it up on Github later
 
insert coin
insert coin
 
insert coin
 
9:00 PM
@FallenAngelEyes That's...a guy?
 
Yus
I see you are confused. Here, have some cake:
user image
2
 
@FallenAngelEyes well that's just awesome
 
9:31 PM
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Q: Can I get hats in random drops?

Juan ManuelI think I read somewhere that with a premium account you could get hats in drops as well as weapons. I have now 50 hours of premium gameplay, and I never received one. Was I mistaken? Or are the odds really low?

 
10:04 PM
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Q: What does +1 mean in Starcraft 2?

paltoI sometimes see terms like +1 thrown around for example Zealots. I kinda figured out it's related to upgrades but what upgrade? Protoss have melee, armor, shields and air weapons. Does +1 mean all of them?

 
user30
10:37 PM
hrm.
 
@ThomasMcDonald Mh.
 
user30
this is infuriating.
 
user30
> Uncaught TypeError: Object #<HTMLDivElement> has no method 'bind'
 
user30
jQuery has stopped existing
 
time to idle for two hours so I can get the cloud bridge star
 
10:41 PM
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Q: 90s hover tank game with Earth, Moon & lava levels/campaigns

jenxThe player was controlling a hovering vehicle (tank?) in a 3D environment. I vaguely remember playing a demo with at least three different campaigns/levels/settings: Earth (or similar environment -- I remember grass, rivers, mountains), Moon (with huge craters) and the last one was inferno style,...

 
user30
Oh wait, that was my stupidity again
 
user30
11:17 PM
Well, that's what happens when you don't close Chrome for weeks at a time
 
user30
I didn't notice the full screen Lion support, or the proper scrollbar support, or back/forward gesture support.
 
that's annoying
it appears the game auto-pauses when you minimize it
so I need to have the game open the entire time
annoying
 
@Wipqozn Frozen Synapse?
Try running it windowed.
I just had two games where I was left with only a grenade launcher.
Committed suicide.
 
@ArdaXi Braid I think
 
Hi @DanGrossman!
 
11:32 PM
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Q: Why does my GBA emulator run slow on my i7 iMac?

user11694I have a Game Boy Advance emulator (Visual Boy Advance) on my iMac (specs below), and it has an extremely choppy frame rate. Gameboid on my Droid X however runs smooth as silk. What gives? I know that Visual Boy Advance is a PPC application so Rosetta is used, but it would surprise me if that w...

 
Oh my god, it's Dan Grossman.
@Arda Can you believe it? Dan Grossman. In our chatroom.
 
@Manaಠдಠ Err, sure. Why, shouldn't I?
 
I don't know. His name sounds really important.
 
user30
11:46 PM
You scared him off anyway
 
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