The Bridge

Arda Xi

12:03 PM

I'm sure he will try to avoid having allergies next time.

Lazers

0

Q: How to win the machete proving grounds?

So far I've tackled all other proving grounds successfully (well, haven't beaten the shield one, but I understand the technique on how to do it). However, I can't really understand how to complete the machete challenge on time. I kill all towers and spawners quickly, and I take down all the aggr...

bastion

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi He's a criminal really. But yeah, like I said, can't do anything about it, if you have a reaction you have a reaction.

sometimes you just get shitty timing

Arda Xi

Why do I never get any good drops? :(

Grace Note

12:23 PM

Graaah

3

badp

?

Grace Note

Well, good morning is a bit tried by now.

badp

I see

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Especially in the afternoon.

Grace Note

Aye

Arda Xi

12:32 PM

@GraceNote Do they really just star everything you say?

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi It's morning here, and since the world revolves around me, that's clearly all that matters.

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Many times I don't know why, either

Maybe only half the stars I ever get ever make sense.

badp

@Wipqozn It's afternoon in CET, so it's afternoon, period.

You don't fuck with the Correct Earth Time.

Wipqozn

@badp I think you missed the part where the world revolves around me. Did you not get the memo?

badp

@Wipqozn Then you are in the wrong part of the word; please correct this.

Grace Note

12:35 PM

Perhaps the solution is to resolve that EST stands for "Earth Standard Time", so we can endlessly debate whose right time zone is the true right time zone

badp

It might be standard but it wouldn't be correct.

Wipqozn

In all seriousness, ~~GMT~~ UTC is what I would consider the correct time.

Grace Note

Hey @Aubergine!

Aubergine

Hello all I just have a small thing to get off my chest.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote A standard is often wrong.

Grace Note

12:36 PM

@Wipqozn Oh come on, they can't even spell "Grenitch" right.

@ArdaXi shhhh

@Aubergine What's up?

badp

@Wipqozn tsk; even the UK who invented GMT are now using CET. They call it BST because they're too proud to admit it.

Aubergine

Am I the only one who finds the sound effects in "And yet it moves" amazingly disturbing?

badp

/nick Mana You are disturbing /nick badp

Aubergine

I sounds like some sort of horrible alien beast that's trying to eat me

Wipqozn

@Aubergine Oh, I thought you had a problem with a user or feature on the site.

badp

12:37 PM

I miss that from the days of IRC

Aubergine

No no, nothing that serious :)

It's just that the game really creeps me out

Arda Xi

@GraceNote I prefer the /ɡrɪnɪdʒ/ pronunciation, personally.

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Half of those aren't even letters, that cheats!

Wipqozn

I never could get into that game myself. I played the demo, but just couldn't hold my interest.

Aubergine

I hear that the puzzles get really insane and challenging later on

Arda Xi

12:38 PM

@GraceNote Fine. For those of you who are linguistically challenged, that's "grin-ij".

Aubergine

@Arda My wife can read those runes, actually

Grace Note

There are totally two different vowel sounds in there, your original non-letter wohonkey was more accurate.

Arda Xi

@Aubergine Runes? It's IPA.

Aubergine

@ArdaXi Well, yeah, but I can't read them

Arda Xi

It's not that hard, really.

Grace Note

12:40 PM

I know a schwa, at least!

Arda Xi

dictionary1.classic.reference.com/help/luna/IPA_pron_key.html

Grace Note

I pay attention sometimes in the ELU room.

Arda Xi

I usually have to resort to IPA in order to convey Dutch sounds with no equivalent in English.

Aubergine

That definitely seems like a good use

Arda Xi

Like the voiceless velar fricative.

Aubergine

12:42 PM

Though I suspect most people don't get IPA

Lazers

0

Q: Minecraft map corrupted after power outage

I have been working for a while to build a 16bit adder on my server and the power went out yesterday and now I get these errors [~]$ java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar?v=1314101698550 nogui 151 recipes 16 achievements 2011-08-23 08:18:18 [INFO] Starting minecraft server version ...

minecraft servers

Arda Xi

Even people who do get IPA won't know what a voiceless velar fricative sounds like.

Grace Note

The IPA is a pretty useful tool. I just need to reference about eight different charts any time it shows up.

Aubergine

@GraceNote And that's sort of a problem, really

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Why eight?

Grace Note

12:44 PM

@ArdaXi Because I'm bad at filing.

Aubergine

There should be some site that lets you type in IPA and in return it spits out sound.

Arda Xi

Wikipedia:IPA

:For a basic introduction to using IPA written for English readers, see Below is a basic key to the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. For the smaller set of symbols that is sufficient for English, see . Several rare IPA symbols are not included; these are found in the main IPA article. For the Manual of Style guideline for pronunciation, see . For each IPA symbol, an English example is given where possible; here "RP" stands for Received Pronunciation. The foreign languages that are used to illustrate additional sounds are primarily the ones most likely to be familiar to ...

@Aubergine That exists.

Aubergine

Oh, then that sounds amazingly helpful

Grace Note

The IPA taught me how to pronounce "pyorremyrskyr"

Arda Xi

@Aubergine Have a bookmark.

JSBᾶngs

12:45 PM

i was told by @Grace that you people need to know what a voiceless velar fricative is

Arda Xi

Oh. Too long.

@JSBᾶngs I know what it is.

Grace Note

Nah, you're here to prove that they exist!

And lecture all non-Arda folk on what they are

Aubergine

@GraceNote Is that something in Swedish?

JSBᾶngs

well, i know nothing about swedish

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Just the English folk. Most other languages have it.

Grace Note

12:45 PM

@Aubergine Finnish, actually. Translates to "Spiral Storm", roughly.

Arda Xi

@Aubergine pastebin.com/Bbmej4dJ

JSBᾶngs

it's the sound you get by putting your tongue in the same position that you would for "k", loosening it slightly, then blowing

@ArdaXi i wouldn't say "most" other languages. just many of them.

german, russian, probably most scandanavian languages have it

Arda Xi

I count about 50 languages.

Voiceless velar fricative

The voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The sound was part of the consonant inventory of Old English and can still be found in some dialects of English, most notably in Scottish English. It is not to be confused with the voiceless uvular fricative (IPA , X-SAMPA X). Features Features of the voiceless velar fricative: Varieties of {| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" ! IPA !! Description |- | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| || plain velar fricative |- | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| || labialised |- | ...

JSBᾶngs

but french, english, italian, japanese, chinese, thai, etc. don't have it

Grace Note

Great, all the languages I do speak other than German (which is limited to swords and sorcery) don't have it.

Arda Xi

12:47 PM

@JSBᾶngs Fair enough.

@GraceNote Even then chances are it's in there.

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Probably. If you could name a common word or archaic term that has it, I could probably figure out which it is

JSBᾶngs

@ArdaXi hmm, according to la wik chinese does have it

Grace Note

Or better yet, just spell the word, since German is one of those languages where letters actually correspond to the actual sounds!

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Kuchen?

Grace Note

Hum. I don't know that word

Arda Xi

12:49 PM

Bach?

Grace Note

Ohh, it's the "ch", right?

JSBᾶngs

@Grace wikipedia says that it's the initial sound in 河

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Yes.

Grace Note

That kind of... ch-y sound, right? That's where the voiceless velar fricative is in?

JSBᾶngs

(not sure how much that helps, though, since their example is mandarin)

Grace Note

12:50 PM

I speak Mandarin

Aubergine

The Yiddish example doesn't make much sense to me, unless I'm not really getting what it is

Grace Note

@JSBᾶngs That said, I'm rusty and is that simplified or traditional?

JSBᾶngs

@GraceNote i have no idea. i don't speak any kind of chinese at all, i'm just copy-pasting

Grace Note

Ah. Zhuyin would be helpful here.

JSBᾶngs

'sposedly means "river" if that helps

Grace Note

12:51 PM

Though I can guess which... man, there really is no English equivale... that is river?

JSBᾶngs

Chinese Mandarin 河/hé [xɤ˧˥] 'river'

Grace Note

That must be simplified.

JSBᾶngs

@GraceNote probably, if they're targeting mainland mandarin

Grace Note

The river I learned, y'know, actually looks like a river.

...unless I'm confusing it for stream. That would be embarrassing.

JSBᾶngs

anyway, has this helped at all?

Yi Jiang

12:54 PM

@GraceNote 河 is river, Simplified Chinese.

The initial sound in that is, hmm... how does that translate into English sounds

Grace Note

@JSBᾶngs Well, I can gather which Zhuyin it probably corresponds to, but combined with @Arda's German, it helped a lot. Thanks for coming to help!

JSBᾶngs

@YiJiang it doesn't. that's exactly why we're having this conversation

Arda Xi

@YiJiang Loch is the only thing that comes close, but it's not exactly English.

Grace Note

@ArdaXi And most people homophone that with "lock"

Yi Jiang

The first sound in "hound" stretched out would sound somewhat like that

FallenAngelEyes

12:56 PM

Good afternoon all

Heya @JSBngs!

JSBᾶngs

@YiJiang "stretched out" gives the wrong impression. the difference is not one of length, but rather one of where you create the friction. the voiceless velar fricative [x] has the same point of articulation as [k]

@FallenAngelEyes hey. i'm only here because Grace tipped me off that there was linguistics in need of elucidation

FallenAngelEyes

@JSBᾶngs Ah yes, just read the short backlog here on voiceless velar fricatives

Yi Jiang

iciba.com/%E6%B2%B3 If you're really interested, here's how it sounds like (click the speaker button beside the word)

Grace Note

From now on I'm going to pronounce it as "voiceless velar frichatives", just so I know the sound for the future.

FallenAngelEyes

Ahahaha

Lazers

1:04 PM

0

Q: Will most of USB PS2-like controllers work on PS3?

I've got to buy a wired PS3 controller to my friend but I only find "Windows supported" controllers. Will it work?

hardware controllers

Yi Jiang

1:17 PM

@GraceNote And so we see here, the suspension bridge spanning several hundred meters across the yellow voiceless velar frichative, what a sight to behold!

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badp

Actually, given latest meta activity, @YiJiang, that's a brilliant name

room topic changed to The Suspension Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, wherein we're charging our lazers Grace will fire in the nyarragabaldic attempt to reject Grace and replace him with our own choice of moderators in the undergoing, new StackExchange™ PeopleEmpowering Elections-O-Matic testing initiative. Don't mind Gnomeslice's digging, as it is not part of this test. [keep-calm-carry-on] [terrible-mods] [vote-now]

Arda Xi

Well, we better keep someone suspended at all times. I don't want to be on a suspended bridge that's unsuspended.

StrixVaria

@ArdaXi May I nominate @GnomeSlice?

Arda Xi

You may.

Speaking of which, hey @Powerlord.

Powerlord

@StrixVaria I second this nomination

Arda Xi

1:23 PM

Oh right, that joke only works on IRC.

LessPop_MoreFizz

telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1416262/…

Arda Xi

@LessPop_MoreFizz That's one expensive joke.

Powerlord

I can't think of any funny Wheatley quotes to use to respond to @badp's topic.

> Serious Crypto Bug Found In PHP 5.3.7

Hope no one here upgraded to 5.3.7 yet.

badp

That's no funny Wheatley quote

FallenAngelEyes

@LessPop_MoreFizz ahahaha wtf

Wipqozn

1:26 PM

FFFUUU

Something wasn't working, no idea why. Turns out I was in the wrong directory.

That probably makes little sense without any context, or anymore details. But here we are.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn rm! rm -rf now!

badp

you're also in the wrong timezone

Arda Xi

@Powerlord You know what's worse? They had a unit test for exactly this, and it failed, as you would expect.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord I'll pass, but thanks!

Mana ಠдಠ

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH bites badp

Wipqozn

1:27 PM

@Manaಠдಠ Nice entrance.

Mana ಠдಠ

Thank you.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi And they still released it?

Arda Xi

The reason nobody caught on? It just one more failing unit test, next to 120 others that have always failed.

Yi Jiang

@Wipqozn The traditional war cry of the Mananian people?

Arda Xi

1 hour ago, by Grace Note

Graaah

Mana's desperate attempt to leech of off Grace's entrance.

Mana ಠдಠ

1:29 PM

No, I just thought it lacked some dramatic flair.

M'vy

The suspension bridge?

Mana ಠдಠ

So I decided to show Grace how one properly Graaahs

Arda Xi

@Manaಠдಠ By biting badp.

Mana ಠдಠ

Yes.

Arda Xi

How alliterative.

Mana ಠдಠ

1:30 PM

While diving in from the sky.

Wipqozn

Impressive.

Mana ಠдಠ

I'm an impressive guy.

Wipqozn

So it would seem.

If Gaming.SE ever had a meet-up @mana, that's how you should enter.

Mana ಠдಠ

Dooooo yooooou reeeaaaalliiiiiizzzeeee

woooooaaaaaaahhh

that the elections end tomorrow?

Wipqozn

I do now.

badp

1:33 PM

maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

Powerlord

Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;

...I won't continue this.

Yi Jiang

@badp Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan*a*

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Manaಠдಠ That everyone. Someday. Will die.

Mana ಠдಠ

EVERYONE YOU KNOW DAMN IT

slaps LessPop with a dead trout

Wipqozn

@YiJiang Every time @badp does that, I always want to say that. But alas, it would appear I lack the courage.

Mana ಠдಠ

1:37 PM

One day Wipqozn, you'll realize that you can say anything you want to on an online chat.

FallenAngelEyes

that is fully indexed by google

Mana ಠдಠ

allowing any future employees to look up your username and discover the incriminating evidence

badp

Dear @Mana, we regret informing you that you do not qualify for the requirements of this job position. Your online activity at chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/35/the-bridge shows you do rarely, if ever, start sentences with a capital letter. We hope you understand the ability to capitalize correctly is paramount to the role of a system administrator, who deals on a daily basis with case-sensitive passwords. Thanks for your interest.

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Yi Jiang

Which is fine, because you'd be sure that the same employee has probably said something worse to that effect on Facebook

Powerlord

@Manaಠдಠ You can get anything you want, at ~~Alice's Restaurant.~~ zombocom

Wipqozn

1:41 PM

@badp Poor @mana =(

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Powerlord html5zombo.com

Mana ಠдಠ

@badp cries ALL I WANTED WAS TO WORK AS A SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR. MY WHOLE LIFE.

Rapida

@BrettWhite You messaged me yesterday?

Mana ಠдಠ

AND YOU GUYS RUINED THAT FOR ME. FOREVER.

Powerlord

@LessPop_MoreFizz You are aware that I'm not the person who put zombocom there?

Wipqozn

1:42 PM

@Manaಠдಠ We did? Wow, I'm rather proud of myself. To think, I was able to have such a large impact on your life.

Powerlord

@Manaಠдಠ Why? Were you hoping to be a BOFH?

Sounds like fun, right?

Mana ಠдಠ

@Wipqozn Indeed. A...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHJHHGHHGHGHGN rips apart HyperMarkdown5

Powerlord

If I suddenly leave, it's because we appear to be having connectivity issues at the moment.

Wipqozn

@Manaಠдಠ nice typo

Mana ಠдಠ

@Wipqozn No, I can't link that page because it ends in a ).

Yi Jiang

1:47 PM

@Manaಠдಠ Escape it by replacing it with %29

Mana ಠдಠ

@YiJiang Too late now.

Yi Jiang

in Sandbox on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 26 secs ago, by Yi Jiang

deep impact

Mana ಠдಠ

Thanks.

Arda Xi

deep impact

Not that difficult.

Escape.

Brett White Ψ

@Rapida Yeah, I was looking for your email address, in case I needed to get more info to you about PAX Prime

Powerlord

1:50 PM

The sad part is... why is your web browser not copying it as %28 and %29?

Arda Xi

@Powerlord Because it shouldn't?

Brett White Ψ

@Rapida A member of the community team got it for me, I think it was Robert. So all set! It's hard to get in touch with people, but I figured it out. Hurrah!

Rapida

@BrettWhite Awesome

Tim Stone

It should probably be more forgiving anyway (since the one in full Markdown was made to be), I'll mention it to balpha.

Arda Xi

Browsers are supposed to show (and by extension, copy) the actual characters, but escape it when sending it to the server.

I don't get why chat Markdown has to have spaces around the syntax.

Powerlord

1:51 PM

@ArdaXi No they're not... that's a recent development.

Arda Xi

So you can't do th*i*s, for example.

@Powerlord I've never, ever seen a browser escape a path before.

Powerlord

Up until a few years ago, this would appear in your url bar: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_%28film%29"

Arda Xi

Query-strings, sure, but not paths.

badp

@ArdaXi It's explained in the SE blog

Arda Xi

Like I've read every post.

badp

1:57 PM

@ArdaXi codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/testing-with-the-force.html

okay, not the SE blog

Powerlord

@badp It's funny how Jeff Atwood ignored one of his previous posts in that one... specifically codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/…

> Regular expressions are not Parsers.

Wipqozn

@BrettWhite Are there any plans to sponsor members for MineCon?

Arda Xi

@badp Reddit does it fine.

badp

Problem is Reddit did from day 1

Powerlord

@Wipqozn Wouldn't it make more sense to hit the multi-company cons instead? Hell, PAX this week would make more sense than MineCon, but it's far too late for that.

Wipqozn

2:06 PM

@Powerlord I agree with you, I was just curious.

Arda Xi

@badp So? So long as you don't break any working cases, you can upgrade.

Of course the problem is worsened by the fact that SE Markdown is rendered on the fly.

Tim Stone

Well, the comment and chat Markdown is, anyway.

Arda Xi

Heh. Whenever I get the feeling Jeff is someone who knows what he's doing, all I have to do is take a deep breath and open a couple Coding Horror articles. The feeling then subsides quickly.

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Wipqozn

I hate stupid rules. Hal-Con, has a list of prohibited items at the convention. One of them they list is:

> Any other weapon prohibited by Canadian law.

Why would you list that?

Saying you are required to follow the law of the country you are currently in is so pointless.

Anna Lear

2:21 PM

@Wipqozn Probably because there are people are stupid enough to say "hey, they didn't mention weapons!"

M'vy

Does canada allow lightsabers?

Lazers

0

Q: Which game has the most realistic looking water and water reflections?

I thought Fable 3's water looked pretty realistic but the reflections were not so good. In the games I've played, Oblivion comes close too. But any other game which has better water?

graphics fable-3 water

Wipqozn

@AnnaLear At which point you say "Okay, would you mind sitting over there while we call the RCMP? err I mean... the costume contest judges..."

RCMP meaning Royal Canadian Mounted Police for those unaware.

@Mvy Real ones? Unlikely. I need to look up the weapon laws, but one general rule of thumb is unlike the USA, you can't just walk up and down the streets with a gun.

Arda Xi

EA's Origin is creepy and watches you sleep!

Anna Lear

@Wipqozn Do you really want to say that to someone with a weapon? :) Eh, legal docs are fun!

Wipqozn

2:25 PM

In fact, I don't even think you can own a weapon in Canada unless it's for hunting.

Powerlord

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/… <-- I lolled

Wipqozn

@AnnaLear :P That's why I added the second part.

badp

> Other users are also experiencing difficulties connecting to this site, so you may have to wait a few minutes.

@ArdaXi ↑

Arda Xi

So try again in a few minutes.

It works on my end, albeit slowly.

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi It's funny you see, because EA is a terrible company.

Arda Xi

2:28 PM

EA made a terrible Steam.

Wipqozn

excerpt from the article, which I took from a forum:

> Well ok, not really, but EA's Origin does watch everything you do on your computer.

> If you read the End User License Agreement for Origin it states that by installing Origin you're giving EA the right to monitor your PC and to make a profile of you, including what programs you have installed (and whether you have any illegally downloaded material), what websites you use, etc., and that EA reserves the right to share or sell this information to third parties.

> Why have I heard NOTHING about this yet? Where is the outrage? Is it just that no one actually reads the EULA, or is it that in the age of facebook no one cares about people monitoring everything they do?

FallenAngelEyes

@Powerlord We need @LessPop's opinion on this!

@Wipqozn Well not everywhere has laws for concealed carry

Arda Xi

@Wipqozn Is there anywhere else than the USA that allows concealed carry without a permit?

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes Pardon? Your phrasing leads me to believe you take issue you with something I said, but I don't understand what it is :/

@ArdaXi Aside from third-world countries?

Arda Xi

@Wipqozn "unlike the USA, you can't just walk up and down the streets with a gun."

@Wipqozn Pretty much.

FallenAngelEyes

2:33 PM

@Wipqozn No, no, not at all! I'm just saying you can't carry a gun everywhere in the US. Some cities and/or states do have laws against concealed carry aka having a weapon on you that is not out in the open

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes oh okay. By 'everywhere' I assumed you meant the entire planet.

FallenAngelEyes

Haha no

Arda Xi

@Wipqozn Pretty much everywhere has permits to allow weapons.

Brett White Ψ

@Wipqozn I'm not familiar with MineCon, but I can look into it, definitely.

@Powerlord At this point, if a person wants to go to a con no matter how small, it doesn't really cost all that much for us to buy them a ticket and send them some shirts or stickers. That's what we're doing with PAX.

FallenAngelEyes

2:49 PM

@BrettWhiteΨ It's the Minecraft convention :)

this year is its first year

Brett White Ψ

@FallenAngelEyes Oh, wow, that seems fun. How big is it going to be? I am doing my research here instead of looking it up on my own.

MineCraft is huge on our site, it'd make sense to go. You guys, Minecraft is HUGE.

Wipqozn

@BrettWhiteΨ Oh really? Well then, that was my concern. If the cost isn't an issue then I think MineCon would be a good idea.

Since, as you said, minecraft is fairly popular on our site.

Powerlord

I'd suggest Blizzcon, too, but tickets for that have been sold out for months.

Brett White Ψ

@Wipqozn Yeah, I will look into it and add it to my list. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, I'm still behind on what cons are happening

FallenAngelEyes

It's going to be in Las Vegas, I'm not sure how big it's going to be but I imagine decently sizeable considering its fanbase

@BrettWhiteΨ Also, tickets are limited, so if people decide they want to go, they should do it soon

Wipqozn

2:53 PM

@BrettWhiteΨ Advance Price: August 11 – September 30, 2011 $99.00 USD

FallenAngelEyes

Regular price and onsite tickets will be $139

badp

Sigh

Dear Atom Zombie Smasher

Brett White Ψ

@Wipqozn OH man, better get in on that advance price. Probably won't be able to provide more than 1-2 tickets with prices that high

But I could be wrong

badp

When I enabled the triplets option (allow more than one of the same unit) I was thinking 2× infantry or 2× sniper or 2× artillery

Powerlord

Dear @badp. You appear to have way too much time to play games. Perhaps you need to do more studies. Love, the University.

badp

2:55 PM

thanks for your continuous supply of 2× zed bait and 2× barricade

Wipqozn

@BrettWhiteΨ Yeah, the regular price is $40 more expensive.

@Powerlord It has the word "Atom" in it, clearly it's educational.

badp

s/@badp/@powerlord/g s/play games/chat/g s/studies/work/g s/the University/boss

:P

Brett White Ψ

@Wipqozn But if users are planning on going anyway, then I'd consider getting them a bunch of cool stuff. It's in Nov, so that's enough lead time to possibly get some cool stuff made. Like a gaming minecraft Tote, T-Shirt, Lanyard, etc

FallenAngelEyes

@badp I loled

tzenes

@BrettWhite you were trying to reach me?

Brett White Ψ

2:59 PM

@tzenes I was trying to get your email address, which both you and one of the community leaders provided, so we are all set. Just in case I need to get in touch with you regarding PAX Prime this weekend

but i think we're all set

tzenes

kk

Wipqozn

Also, @BrettWhite, did you do any more research into using Steam for the Gaming Promotions? That is to say can we get any PC games through Steam instead of amazon if we so choose.

tzenes

yes, @Grace also has my contact info if you need to reach me

Brett White Ψ

@Wipqozn I haven't yet, I'm going to check and see if we have a company steam account, cause we might have used steam before

tzenes

I'm off to work then, later

Wipqozn

3:00 PM

Toodles @tzenes

@BrettWhiteΨ Okay, sounds good.

sjohnston

@Wipqozn I imagine we could save a few bucks on shipping that way too.

Mana ಠдಠ

aaaaaaaaagh

Wipqozn

@sjohnston I was thinking the same thing, although after a certain price amazon might give free shipping anyways. I don't use it myself, so I am uncertain.

Mana ಠдಠ

It's going to be like two months before Homestuck updates again.

Wipqozn

@Manaಠдಠ That's what SHE said.

sjohnston

3:03 PM

@Wipqozn I figured we probably wouldn't get free shipping when sending 10 things to 10 different addresses. Especially if we're using different amazon domains to ship to users in various countries.

Wipqozn

@sjohnston Oh right.

Steam is tax free as well I believe.

Although amazon may be as well, once again, I am uncertain.

sjohnston

I think it currently depends on what state you're in

FallenAngelEyes

@Wipqozn Depends on where you live

sjohnston

or maybe they're not actually enforcing any of that yet, until it goes through its 10 year court battle

FallenAngelEyes

NY has tax :(

I have to pay tax when I buy Microsoft Points :/

Powerlord

3:06 PM

@badp Sorry, was talking to one of my coworkers. You were saying?

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes Ah, well, it's tax free for me. That's all that matters.

badp

Melissa doesn't count ducks

Powerlord

@badp Melissa isn't one of my coworkers.

badp

Oh, sorry for that.

Mana ಠдಠ

awkward dead turtle

Powerlord

3:11 PM

@Manaಠдಠ Your grandma is cool.

Mana ಠдಠ

Hu...huh?

sjohnston

Feeling a little...non sequitur in here.

More than usual, I mean.

StrixVaria

I have to look up non sequitur every time I hear it used and every time I think "oh yeah of course".

Mana ಠдಠ

@Strix I was about to say :x

Powerlord

There was a thing on My Life Is Average where someone's grandma just shouted "Awkward Turtle" during a dinner conversation. If my work connection wasn't sucking so badly, I'd Google it for you.

sjohnston

3:14 PM

An awful lot of my daily conversation "does not follow," so I have reason to use that phrase a lot.

Powerlord

@sjohnston I hear that happens a lot with unicorns.

So, when does voting end tomorrow?

Mana ಠдಠ

Probably around 4:00 PM EST

FallenAngelEyes

Ahahaha oh man, Jamestown is an awesome game

sjohnston

Arghlh. I love it when a website has a "remember me" checkbox that completely fails to do so.

Or at least the stuff it's remembering doesn't include my username.

Wipqozn

@sjohnston Really? That's odd; I would think that would be annoying and something you wouldn't love at all.

sjohnston

3:21 PM

And yet I'm compelled to check the box every time, in a vain hope that it will work

Mana ಠдಠ

notes down in tome of GSE chat vernacular, "arghlh"

Wipqozn

That can't be good.

Lazers

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Q: Looking for a very long delay circuit in Minecraft

The only things I've found so far are a cart method (which ceased working in 1.6), a dispenser method (utilizing the decay on dropped items, but this requires occasional feeding), and a binary counter (which won't work for a single input but rather a fluctuating one). I want to have a circuit th...

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Powerlord

> My grandparents were in town this past week when the awkward subject of teen pregnancy/abortion came up. The table fell silent, then my 92 year old Great Grandmother stuck out her hands and said: “AWKWARD TURTLE!” I suddenly have a new respect for old people. MLIA.

Mana ಠдಠ

This joins "Graaah" and "aaarrrhhhjhghghghgn". What a unique tongue.

Powerlord

3:27 PM

Google doesn't apparently index all of MLIA... or there's some other reason that the thing I just quoted can't be found on MLIA by Google.

I had to get it from an MLIA tumblr.

M'vy

MLIA?

Mana ಠдಠ

@Mvy My Life Is Average

M'vy

hm

Mana ಠдಠ

Filled with fictional quotes from people supposedly living average lives.

M'vy

average...

how vague

Powerlord

3:29 PM

@Mvy No! That would be... your mother!

M'vy

I must admit... I don't understand that one

Powerlord

Also, I find it funny that one of the Spy's domination quotes on Scout is "Well, I'm off to visit your mother!"

@Mvy TF2 quote, specifically from Meet the Spy.

badp

Fun fact about Atom Zombie Smasher: you do not actually need to beat nightfall to capture a territory

M'vy

@Powerlord ok

badp

wipe the last zombie during nightfall and you still win; it's obviously harder unless you're using alternative spawning

Powerlord

3:34 PM

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FallenAngelEyes

man I wish Jamestown had online co-op

sjohnston

@Manaಠдಠ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn?

Mana ಠдಠ

caaaaaw, caaaaaaw

Powerlord

@Manaಠдಠ Quoth the raven, nevermore.

Lazers

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Q: What is the real duration of the Viking's transformation?

According to the in-game tooltip, the official site, and practically every other source the duration of the Viking's transform ability is 3 seconds (either from ground to air or air to ground). However, when transforming a large group of vikings it seems that they don't all finish the transformat...

starcraft-2 terran

Wipqozn

3:43 PM

@Oak are you sure you're not just crazy?

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