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Yi Jiang

@KevinY alota latinus is its scientific name, I think

simchona

Y'all have way different starred messages than EL&U. Ours are way more...raunchy

Mana ಠдಠ

@simchona BOOBS AND POOP LOL

simchona

@Manaಠдಠ And don't forget pe*****

Tim Stone

4:16 AM

@Manaಠдಠ I thought that was ServerFault chat.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Tim ... adds ServerFault chat to favorite rooms

simchona

@Manaಠдಠ Even though I now know you're not a girl, I still think we're gonna get along fine

Mana ಠдಠ

Oh man, such unprofessional-ism. What am I doing, I'm running for mod. tsk.

Kevin Y

@Manaಠдಠ -10 to mod-worthy-ness

Mana ಠдಠ

@simchona I try to get along fine with people, so this makes me happy.

simchona

4:18 AM

@Manaಠдಠ I think you need to release a statement now from your PR person

Tim Stone

@Manaಠдಠ You're setting the bad examples so you can identify the bad seeds that follow them and ban them when you get mod powers, clearly.

Mana ಠдಠ

We're sorry. We're sorry. We're sorry. Soooorry.

►

simchona

@Manaಠдಠ No! Never say you're sorry. You need to skirt the issue and simultaneously say that you're the best candidate. Duh

Mistakes were made.

Mana ಠдಠ

@simchona cool, one sec

Okay, this is what my PR guy suggests

Hi Gamers
Yesterday we made a code update at 1:54pm Pacific time that introduced a bug affecting our authentication mechanism. We discovered this at 5:41pm and a fix was live at 5:46pm. A very small number of users (much less than 1 percent) logged in during that period, some of whom could have logged into an account without the correct password. As a precaution, we ended all logged in sessions.
We’re conducting a thorough investigation of related activity to understand whether any accounts were improperly accessed. If we identify any specific instances of unusual activity, we’ll immediatel…

simchona

Very good!

user20683

4:26 AM

except that it's a French marketing company

user20683

:P

Mana ಠдಠ

@WorldEngineer shuuuuush :(

user20683

Sorry, I'm most active at programmers, so it's my nature (natural or acquired) to point out flaws in plans

user20683

even if they don't mean anything

user20683

Also it's technically subtle humor

user20683

4:28 AM

or me missing the point

user20683

sometimes it's hard to say which is which, even for me

Mana ಠдಠ

It's okay. You know who you have to vote for to make things right.

user20683

Given that I'm basically a total newbie to the games site and can only really answer totally obscure stuff about ancient games anyway, I'll do due diligence and see about voting. Well that and modern strategy and Valve stuff, and modern obscure stuff

user20683

Sometimes

Mana ಠдಠ

aww man

Kevin Y

4:33 AM

Oh yay, my initial misunderstanding of the alot got me the Outspoken badge!

Mana ಠдಠ

I saw a cool guy on Facebook so I tried to message him, but he went offline right as I opened the window

then I saw another cool guy so I tried to message him but the same thing happened

who am I supposed to message now?

user20683

zombo.com?

Mana ಠдಠ

well, I can do anything there, so I suppose that makes sense

user20683

indeed

tzenes

I need a GSE Mod

ping, @badp @gracenote @juan

Kevin Y

4:37 AM

?

tzenes

I need a question undeleted

user20683

GSE? the XNA thing?

tzenes

Gaming Stack Exchange

user20683

oh, a G.SE

user19161

@Manaಠдಠ Me.

simchona

4:38 AM

@tzenes and you need it ASAP?

Mana ಠдಠ

Uh oh. Did something get deleted that wasn't supposed to get deleted?

simchona

Yay! @Jasper came!

Mana ಠдಠ

Hey Jasper.

tzenes

I sort of spent 30 minutes writing the answer to a question only to have the OP delete it just before I posted

I want it back

simchona

I was just recapping for Jasper that Pcr is a problem in places other than EL&U

user19161

4:39 AM

@Manaಠдಠ You mean you look for cool guys on FB to msg?

tzenes

I could repost the question

but that seems excessive

user19161

@simchona Right, but we better not say too much since he could be reading...

Mana ಠдಠ

@tzenes The Pokemon one?

tzenes

yes

simchona

@JasperLoy zips lips

tzenes

4:40 AM

gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/27854

Mana ಠдಠ

Oh man. I'm amazed you managed to answer that.

Kevin Y

@tzenes Heh, I was going to try to answer it as well.

tzenes

I don't know what rep level you need to undelete

Kevin Y

But since you already have an answer written up.

tzenes

well, he deleted it

and I'm kind of pissed that I went through the effort

so I want it undeleted

Kevin Y

4:41 AM

Yeah, that's why I didn't quite start an answer.

user19161

The heart for this room is sweet...

simchona

@JasperLoy The color scheme here is different. It's trippy

tzenes

well, I'm going to repost the question

user20683

I can ask the question and you can copy paste it there. I'd be curious to know the answer

tzenes

and if it gets undeleted a mod can migrate the answer

user19161

4:42 AM

@simchona Ya I actually prefer the colours here, but maybe because it's all new.

Kevin Y

@tzenes Did you answer it for R/B/Y?

user20683

It was the "Of the 151 which are evolve movers?

tzenes

Yes

user19161

It seems that most people here are a decade younger than me @sim.

simchona

@JasperLoy We're like tourists -- oh look hon! The pings are highlighted in yellow!

user19161

4:43 AM

The colours are so cool...

simchona

@JasperLoy Heh. I made a comment to the effect that EL&U is a lot older than me earlier.

user20683

I'll put it up if need be, It was technically my first "video game"

tzenes

0

Q: Which of the original 151 Pokemon learn moves AS they are evolving?

Originally this question was asked somewhere else: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/27854 however, the original asker deleted it with in 11 seconds of me trying to post the answer. Since I spent the time to work out the answer, I wanted to preserve the question. In Pokemon Red and B...

pokemon-first-gen

Mana ಠдಠ

@tzenes I would move the first paragraph into a comment, it distracts from the actual content of the question without actually adding anything

user19161

I think I must join FB and look for cool people to msg too like @mana.

Kevin Y

4:44 AM

Hey, you didn't answer it for the Gen I games. :/

tzenes

k

user20683

Can't Arcanine do something like that too

user20683

?

user20683

Lv 50 IIRC

Tim Stone

@JasperLoy No need. @Mana just occasionally forgets that all of the cool people are actually here in this very room, and wanders off to silly places like Facebook.

Kevin Y

4:45 AM

Growlithe evolves into Arcanine with a Fire Stone.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Tim You're so right.

tzenes

@WorldEngineer Growlithe evolves with firestone

user20683

ah you want the naturals

user20683

ok, question was unclear

user19161

@TimStone You should also check out EL room. It's cool too.

tzenes

4:46 AM

I'm going to disapper back into the eather now

Mana ಠдಠ

@tzenes ;_;

Kevin Y

@tzenes So Starcraft 2.

Mana ಠдಠ

I'll miss yooooou

simchona

*ether

user20683

æther

user20683

4:47 AM

:P

user19161

@tzenes disappear, ether

user19161

Or did you mean earth?

user19161

@sim We should not correct spellings here though!

simchona

@JasperLoy It's...habit...

user20683

æther is the combustible stuff that makes up space in the Greek model

Mana ಠдಠ

4:49 AM

asdf

user19161

ghjkl

Mana ಠдಠ

;

user20683

apparently it's also inert depending on the writer

Mana ಠдಠ

@WorldEngineer Fascinating. Tell me more.

user20683

Aether (classical element)

According to ancient and medieval science aether (Greek aithēr), also spelled æther or ether, is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere. Mythological origins The word (aithēr) in Homeric Greek means "pure, fresh air" or "clear sky", imagined in Greek mythology to be the pure essence where the gods lived and which they breathed, analogous to the air breathed by mortals (also personified as a deity, Aether, the son of Erebus and Nyx). It corresponds to the concept of आकाश (akasha) in Hindu philosophy which relates to the omnipresent "brahman" w...

Mana ಠдಠ

4:50 AM

groans

user20683

:P

user20683

That's what we call a function pointer in programming

user19161

@Manaಠдಠ running for mod on gaming?

Mana ಠдಠ

@JasperLoy That is correct.

awards 5 points

user19161

gives Mana 5 votes

Lazers

4:52 AM

2

Q: Which of the original 151 Pokemon learn moves AS they are evolving?

In Pokemon Red and Blue, which Pokemon learn moves at the same level at which they evolve? Originally this question was asked somewhere else: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/27854 however, the original asker deleted it with in 11 seconds of me trying to post the answer. Since I ...

pokemon-first-gen

user19161

Yay, I have a starred msg here too!

Mana ಠдಠ

congrats

simchona

That was me

Mana ಠдಠ

If you're on when @GnomeSlice is you'll find that it's hardly a difficult thing at all, getting starred in this chatroom.

user19161

I don't play any games though. Maybe just chess and tetris in the past.

Mana ಠдಠ

4:54 AM

People are also more star-happy in the morning/afternoon(it's late evening where I am for reference)

user19161

I think Grace frequents this room too.

simchona

@JasperLoy She's a mod here

Or, was the temp mod

Mana ಠдಠ

She's a mod here, so I think that makes sense.

simchona

is the temp mod

user19161

Mana is going to be mod soon too.

Mana ಠдಠ

4:55 AM

Although not so much anymore given she was hired by SE

user19161

When is the next election anyway?

Mana ಠдಠ

hence why the elections are happening

@Jasper ...? What, like on other SE sites or here?

user19161

Here I mean.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Jasper well, nominations end in 2 days or so

election proper's in 7 days I think

user19161

I see. But on the issue of elections, how often are they? Once a year?

Mana ಠдಠ

4:58 AM

with primaries in the in-between space

Raven Dreamer

@JasperLoy this is a special election, anyway.

user20683

typically

user20683

they are once yearly

Mana ಠдಠ

@Jasper Yeah, once a year barring circumstances where more mods are required for the site to function

Raven Dreamer

Such as Chris' departure.

(AKA Gracenote)

Mana ಠдಠ

4:59 AM

@Raven I hear she prefers Grace

Raven Dreamer

I hadn't heard he cared.

user19161

@RavenDreamer he?

Raven Dreamer

Honestly, I just found out his name from the blog post so, w/e.

Mana ಠдಠ

I asked shortly after the blog post and she made a note of preferring it

user19161

@RavenDreamer Which post?

Mana ಠдಠ

5:00 AM

but whatevs it's cool bro

Raven Dreamer

@JasperLoy Gracenote's gender is unknown. And since he wants to keep it that way, we will never know.

I default to 'he', because I am male, and my thoughts are sexist like that.

simchona

@JasperLoy A post on the SO blog. The gender in it switches back and forth.

user19161

@RavenDreamer I think it's a she. At least that's the impression I got after chatting with her on EL.

Raven Dreamer

Stack Overflow Blog: Welcome Valued Associate Chris Jaeger

Posted by Robert Cartaino on August 9th, 2011

You might know Chris better as “Grace Note,” the moderator extraordinaire on our Gaming Stack Exchange.

I appointed Chris to a pro tem moderator position nearly a year ago. I wasn’t an avid user of Gaming SE, but I was continually amazed how often Chris’s name kept popping up in our moderator chat room. Chris was quickly becoming The Person to quote when you needed a clear, compelling explanation of how this community-management stuff should work. Even in our meta community, Chris was earning a ridiculous amount of rep in a short period of time. You should read some of his posts because it’s really good stuff. …

Mana ಠдಠ

I guess my problem is that I tend to associate gender with a person's identity, even when it's not something that really matters (i.e. on the internet)

user19161

5:01 AM

Well, it could be Christopher or Christina.

Mana ಠдಠ

I'm grateful to Grace in that this whole thing is sort of helping me get over that

user19161

But I would treat Grace as she till she says otherwise.

Raven Dreamer

I still support "Shkler"

Mana ಠдಠ

heh

user19161

But I know Mana is a he, and is straight.

Raven Dreamer

5:03 AM

Is the latter relevant?

user19161

Just random recollections @raven!

Mana ಠдಠ

I'm actually pretty amused because that last point seemed to come out of nowhere

Raven Dreamer

@Mana - don't tell me! You're dating @JasperLoy ?!

user19161

@Manaಠдಠ From something you said in EL.

Raven Dreamer

Or maybe you're not dating him, as it were.

user19161

5:04 AM

@RavenDreamer Not possible. I'm a he and straight too.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Raven Oh man...and I was trying so hard to hide it too.

@Jasper It's okay, we can tell him~ <3

Raven Dreamer

Mana loves the man love. It's right there, in his name: MANa

simchona

@Manaಠдಠ But...Mana...I thought we had something!

2

user19161

@RavenDreamer And I love Mana too.

Mana ಠдಠ

So is my intense look of disapproval @Raven

user19161

5:05 AM

@simchona What, you and Mana!

Raven Dreamer

It took me a sec, but yes. I see. Touche, @Mana, Touche!

Mana, be honest. Who in the chat haven't you dated?

Tim Stone

calls the paparazzi with a tip about a moderator candidate scandal

4

user19161

@RavenDreamer You mean Mana dated you?

Mana ಠдಠ

@Raven All We Need Is Love, bro.

user19161

I see that fallen frequents this room too.

user20683

5:07 AM

Ok, no more QR code avatar

user20683

or not

Raven Dreamer

@JasperLoy - No, but he did platonically steal my heart.

Mana ಠдಠ

@WorldEngineer Caching~

user20683

right

user19161

The starred msgs here are even more ridiculous than in EL!

user19161

5:08 AM

@RavenDreamer Nice sentence!

Mana ಠдಠ

Also I'm now forever doomed to read caching as "ka-ching!"

Raven Dreamer

@Mana I thought I was the only one, so I didn't say anything.

user20683

I called it "Catching" when I was a kid

user19161

@kevin You have a cute birdie there!

Raven Dreamer

@JasperLoy - Yeah, I'm proud of my large vocabulary. I like to whip it out and alternate bludgeoning and pontificating folks into submission.

Mana ಠдಠ

5:09 AM

@Raven Oh man, another thing we have in common. deep eye stare

user19161

@marco Hello! Hope you enjoy cooking still!

user19161

Oh Arda is here as well.

Lazers

0

Q: Can I complete Dragon Age 2 without getting Darkness Falls?

The Darkness Falls achievement says it's granted when you switch the map from day to night. I noticed that at some points in the game, the day-night transition is done automatically (Haunted starts at night, and finishes during the day). Are there enough of these for a player to use only automati...

achievements dragon-age-2

1

Q: How can mage Hawke beat the arishok in a duel?

As a mage, I would normally use Crushing Prison or Gravitic Field to disable a single strong melee enemy. But the Arishok seems to be largely unaffected by Crushing Prison, and he is able to use his charge attack to escape from Gravitic Field instantly even when he is at the center. Even kiting d...

dragon-age-2

Kevin Y

@JasperLoy Thanks. (Not my bird though) :D

Mana ಠдಠ

@RavenDreamer You know, I could change one word in that sentence and it would be beautiful. But I won't.

user19161

5:11 AM

I confess in this gaming room that I hate computer games.

user19161

I think games are boring...

Raven Dreamer

@Mana Mine? Or yours?

user20683

Your loss

Raven Dreamer

wiggles eyebrows suggestively

Mana ಠдಠ

@Jasper Yo man, no hatin' in this chatroom

That's so @Raven. ;)

Raven Dreamer

5:12 AM

We're secretly a dating site.

That's why we have a heart as our logo.

Mana ಠдಠ

See that heart--damn it.

user19161

@RavenDreamer I thought that was EL room.

user20683

No, there's a dating proposal on A51

user20683

that would be the actual

Raven Dreamer

How would that even work?

Would every question be:

user20683

5:13 AM

you ask questions about dating

Kevin Y

A Q&A dating site, huh.

Raven Dreamer

"I'm @RavenDreamer, do you want to go out with me?"

Mana ಠдಠ

@WorldEngineer First time I've almost actually done a spit-take.

user20683

we are a site of nerds, we would have many questions

user19161

And there is a sex site being proposed too.

Raven Dreamer

5:14 AM

That's been there for a long time, actually.

user20683

I mean we have to demonstrate that we are Yahoo Answers...but actually good

Raven Dreamer

It's just been... fermenting.

Mana ಠдಠ

If I become a moderator on sex.se, can I actually proclaim myself to be a sex god?

5

Kevin Y

@Manaಠдಠ Please don't.

Raven Dreamer

Take my stars. Take all of them.

Tim Stone

5:15 AM

@RavenDreamer Oh good, being a dating site is much better than being the Black Eyed Peas.

2

user20683

I'll pass on it, gaming and programming are more fun

Raven Dreamer

I. Wow.

@TimStone - all the more reason we need a new logo.

Mana ಠдಠ

@TimStone oh man that's awesome

Raven Dreamer

I still think "Boss Level" would be an awesome name for the site.

We could tell people to get on our level.

user20683

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoadBearingBoss

Mana ಠдಠ

5:17 AM

@RavenDreamer GameBros is better

user19161

Does the gaming site move more slowly on the weekends?

user20683

Also loaded Avatar = yay

user20683

I think all the sites do

user20683

Programming basically grinds to a trickle

user19161

@WorldEngineer Interesting. I would have thought the other way.

Mana ಠдಠ

5:18 AM

@Jasper Hard to say. I judge activity by the front page feed and that usually tends to average out so that the last active question was last changed/whatever'd about a day ago.

user20683

@JasperLoy Programmers isn't SO, it's more conceptual

user19161

@mana Why don't you use one avatar for all sites?

Raven Dreamer

Because he can.

user20683

so it tends to be programmers at work

Mana ಠдಠ

@JasperLoy I do for pretty much all of them, I just thought John would be more appropriate for my ELU face.

user19161

5:19 AM

@Manaಠдಠ John?

Mana ಠдಠ

John. nods

Raven Dreamer

John... Egbert?

user19161

thinks Mana has great sense of humour

Mana ಠдಠ

John Egbert.

Mana, Ottawa, Canada

105 4

user19161

@Manaಠдಠ Who is that? Your real name?

Mana ಠдಠ

5:21 AM

No, it's a character from the webcomic Homestuck.

I don't think you'd be a huge fan of it though, since a lot of it revolves around a video game and video game logic.

user19161

I see.

user19161

It's weird why you think John would be better for EL.

user19161

But I know Grace has a different one for each site.

Mana ಠдಠ

I'm a weird guy.

Tim Stone

I accidentally typed "Hometruck" into Google, and ended up with whatever the hell is going on here.

2

user19161

5:23 AM

And I keep changing mine too.

user19161

@Manaಠдಠ And deep too, I recall.

Mana ಠдಠ

@TimStone pfffffffffffffffffAHAHAHAHA

user19161

Somehow I have a feeling that Mana looks like John.

Mana ಠдಠ

Somehow I have a feeling that you're completely wrong.

simchona

@JasperLoy But you're dating. Shouldn't you know?

user19161

5:25 AM

@simchona No, only trying to date Lauren.

Tim Stone

I have no idea what a Truck Norris is, but I'm suddenly hungry.

user19161

@TimStone Go eat.

Mana ಠдಠ

@simchona I'm a fan of the "wear a paper bag over your head to avoid the screams" type look

simchona

@Manaಠдಠ Screams of adoration?

Tim Stone

@JasperLoy It's nearing 1:30 in the morning, bed sounds more reasonable at this point.

Mana ಠдಠ

5:26 AM

Also this is infuriating. Facebook is telling me I have a notification but the notification bubble thing won't load. I must know what this is before I sleep!

user19161

@TimStone Well, you get hungry when you sleep late.

user19161

@Manaಠдಠ It's OK, you can figure out tmr.

Mana ಠдಠ

@simchona Way too many fandudes. It's annoying sometimes.

Tim Stone

@Manaಠдಠ Facebook should die a thousand deaths for creating such epic suspense on a continual basis.

Kevin Y

@Manaಠдಠ Facebook does that to me all the time. ._.

user19161

5:27 AM

@Manaಠдಠ There are two kinds of screams.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Tim I found out. Someone commented on an annoying zombie team thing I was tagged in by some guy I barely know. Laaaaaaaaamerz.

Tim Stone

Oh, what a letdown. -1 FB :(

Mana ಠдಠ

Facebooks sucks. goes back to staring at Facebook

user19161

Mana rocks.

Mana ಠдಠ

Anyways, good night everybody.

fwooosh

user19161

5:30 AM

/vanishes

Kevin Y

7:03 AM

Yay, finally submitted my mod nomination. :D

user30

7:38 AM

@TimStone Whoops. I should probably do something about that, I've hardly had time for TF2, let alone Minecraft.

Lazers

0

Q: The Witcher 2 - Hotfix 1.35 took two days to download with Steam and causing error now

I'm using Steam (and already regret it) on Windows 7 platform. This hotfix was released in August 10th and took two full days to download with 50KB download rate - probably meaning it downloaded the full game again? Anyone have any idea why they won't let just the patch to download? It's not the ...

steam the-witcher-2

Lazers

8:05 AM

0

Q: How do I deal with ghost titans without having to constantly monitor them?

I'm progressing through the campaign and am finding ghost titans to be a real pain. I have capacitors and am using them to eliminate the ghosts, but because the capacitor has to be activated manually capacitors require me to constantly monitor the ghosts' approach route for when they appear. Is ...

revenge-of-the-titans

1

Q: Retrieve and butcher horse skeleton from refuse pile?

So I had a horse die of starvation while I was still learning about the game. I couldn't figure out how to to butcher it, but did manage to get it to an outdoor refuse pile before it stunk up the place. Now there is a skeleton there, and I can't figure out how to retrieve it so that I can turn ...

dwarf-fortress

user30

8:59 AM

@Lazers yet another good question title

CruelCow

11:03 AM

@GnomeSlice: Why did you tag this question xbox360? gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/13704/…

Arda Xi

Fixxored.

Lazers

11:21 AM

0

Q: Making Mob Spawners with WorldEdit

I'm trying to make Mob Spawners with WorldEdit. According to their wiki: Mob spawner mob type The mob spawner mob type can be specified after a pipe symbol (|). Example: Setting mob type //set mobspawner|Squid I've tried this, and it doesn't seem to work, I still get a mob spawn...

minecraft mod

0

Q: How to add new space to build on in Dragons of Atlantis?

I thought I'd try out Dragons of Atlantis on Google Plus, one of the quests requires me to build three of each resource buildings, but I'm short on one patch of land: So I'm wondering: how do I add a patch of land to build on? Or do I automatically get this once I reach a higher level?

dragons-of-atlantis

Grace Note

11:49 AM

So we've a 12th candidate, again.

user30

Where @badp when you need him?

Grace Note

Probably asleep.

Ronan Forman

why'd you need @badp?

Arda Xi

Why'd anyone need a bad pazzword anyway?

user30

Need to ask him if I can borrow some of his code

user30

12:02 PM

Despite the fact it's licensed under the MIT license

user30

more of a heads up I guess

Kim

12:24 PM

Hi what's this room about?

Tom Wijsman

@Kim: The Bridge of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, wherein our resident angry mob are going to make a terrible charge for our lazers Grace Note will fire in the nyarragabaldic attempt to reject Grace Note and replace him with our own choice of moderators in the undergoing, new StackExchange™ PeopleEmpowering Elections-O-Matic testing initiative.

Grace Note

@Kim We're just the generic Gaming room.

Lazers

0

Q: Best class setup in Black Ops

Please use the Black Ops Class Creator and then post the link to the image generated as an answer, thanks!

call-of-duty-black-ops

CruelCow

12:40 PM

@Lazers ಠ_ಠ

user30

@CruelCow (•‿•)

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