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3:00 PM
We should obviously rename ourselves to Super Gaming.StackExchange. ;)
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SuperGamer.com
 
Super Gaming StackExchange 2 Turbo HD Edition Plus, you mean?
 
Nah, that's half a year down the line
 
Aw, SuperGamer.com already exists.
 
@Manaಠдಠ Just make sure it's colour blind friendly.
 
3:01 PM
@Powerlord Were you really surprised by that?
 
@sjohnston No.
 
@Wipqozn Meta is.
 
We should rename ourselves "Second Player"
 
@Wipqozn Does that mean we can't use my all-green-and-red CSS?
 
I can't think of any gaming puns that work here.
 
3:03 PM
@Wipqozn Oh man that sucks
 
No it has to be blue/yellow for extra contrast
 
@sjohnston I refer to it as "gaming stack exchange" and occasionally just "gaming". It works as well as any other site name.
 
@sjohnston Yes, yes it does.
@FallenAngelEyes Changing the televisions colour settings works, although is annoying.
 
QuestQuestions.com?
 
@Wipqozn Yeah I can imagine. :/ Whenever I do beta-testing for stuff, I always try to give feedback on making stuff colorblind-friendly.
 
3:04 PM
@FallenAngelEyes Excellent. +1 awesome points to you.
 
QUEST ions.com??? eh? eh??
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@AnnaLear It's a bit too generic.
 
@Mana facepalm
 
@Manaಠдಠ Ionquests.com
 
3:05 PM
@AnnaLear Your palm, his face?
 
@Manaಠдಠ I love puns. Puns are awesome.
 
@Wipqozn Red-Green colorblindness is so prevalent that I really think it's silly that modern games are released without taking it into account
 
@Powerlord That works.
 
We should be named "Another Castle"
 
@ArdaXi I dunno, it doesn't seem that way to me. It's not any worse than any random name that might or might not tell you what the site is about.
 
3:06 PM
Your princess is in another castle chilling with us.
 
@AnnaLear But it doesn't stand out.
 
Well, in order to make a universal name, it would likely have to involve "hint" or "strategy guide" or something like that in the name.
 
@ArdaXi From what? When everybody's picking fancy names, a plain name does stand out. :)
 
@AnnaLear The main problem I have with it is that someone is not likely to remember the full domain upon hearing it the first time without writing it down
 
or some reference to those.
 
3:06 PM
"Gaming what?"
 
@AnnaLear Try Googling 'gaming'.
 
@FallenAngelEyes Yeah, it's really annoying. I'm not sure on the exact method of my colour blindness, but certain shades of blue/purple and green/yellow are my main problems. The worst part is nearly every puzzle game ever insists on using those two same shades up yellow/green and blue/purple that I can't see. I have a colour blind friend as well who think the same.
 
@FallenAngelEyes I wish we could get .se domains, cause that'd be handy.
 
Then try Googling 'stack overflow'.
@AnnaLear q-a.vg?
 
@Wipqozn Uuugh that sucks. And yeah, I know the exact shades you mean, haha. At least most games now use different shapes.
@AnnaLear Sometimes I feel kind of bad that America keeps absorbing all these other countries TLD's :P
 
3:08 PM
@ArdaXi To be fair, SO has had 2 years to build up traffic and indexing. Before it came around, googling "stack overflow" was pages and pages of "why am I getting this exception".
 
@FallenAngelEyes Yeah. The smart developers will put icons on every block as well, or have the option for them. That way it isn't a problem.
 
@AnnaLear Do you really see that happening for a term like 'gaming' though?
 
I find when I google for actual information, I get gaming SE hits. I don't see myself googling for "gaming" just as I don't see googling for "Stack overflow" or "programmers" or "christianity" to find the site. Who googles like that? :)
 
Who owns q-a.vg again?
 
3:09 PM
@tzenes
 
Right.
 
@AnnaLear I think you overestimate the search ability of the average user
 
@AnnaLear You'll be surprised to see how many people try googling www.facebook.com
 
@AnnaLear A lot of people.
 
@FallenAngelEyes People's search skills suck, but I do think people are more likely to google for the problem they're having (Even if badly) than for a site name.
 
3:10 PM
All of the people. All of them.
 
Jeez @AnnaLear, you have way too much faith in humanity. It's time you wised up and started hating humanity like the rest of us.
 
Sometimes when I watch other people googling, I internally rage and want to shove them out of the way, screaming "You're doing it wrong!111!!"
 
People who enter domains into the search box aren't searching for those sites.
 
@AnnaLear Yes, and the irony is that people now complain that it's impossible to search online for the causes of stack overflows because SO places so high in search results.
 
I wonder how many try to google www.google.com
 
3:11 PM
I like the folks who think they need to type a full sentence for every search
 
@Wipqozn It's been a quiet week in the Programmers flag queue. It's making me less cynical again.
 
By virtue of its name, SO has polluted Google searches for a specific term unrelated to the site's content.
 
@AnnaLear Well, if you were talking to someone about a site but didn't write it down, you'll probably Google the name. Especially with Chrome taking off it's faster to Google the name than to try a domain.
 
@Mvy I remember when that one article was #1 on google for Facebook and people kept commenting on it going "WHERE'S MY LOGIN" :|
That was so... sad
 
@FallenAngelEyes I remember that. It was a classic trainwreck.
 
3:12 PM
@AnnaLear It knocked my already low faith in humanity down another few notches
@Wipqozn So what do they look like for you, out of curiosity?
 
Does anyone operates rchern/SEChatModifications script on Opéra browser?
 
@FallenAngelEyes It depends an the colour. SOme colours I see without any problems, others I see it as a different colour. Certain shades of green I see as a shade of yellow for example. Furthermore, I'm fairly certain purple doesn't actually exist and the world is all in one huge conspiracy against me.
 
QuestingAnswers.com...?
 
okay, Jeff has backed down from the "reach Server Fault traffic, get custom domain name" policy
 
@badp Yes. Now it's "get sponsored, get custom domain name"
 
3:16 PM
@Wipqozn I just snorted my drink, thanks for that
 
now it's just "fuck you and your short names. 21+ letter domain names all the way!"
 
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Q: Switches? I don't need no stinkin' switches! Or do I?

AdanionI have an iron door on the first floor (to the outside) of my tower. I tried to put a switch on both sides of the door so it can be opened from the inside and the outside. My problem is that because the switch has an "On" and "Off" if I open the door from the outside I need to turn "On" the switc...

 
@FallenAngelEyes You're welcome.
 
I might be going to regret the comment I just made, but I'm a bit annoyed
 
This made me lol
> I heard to play the game on your PC, Ubisoft is requiring you to install a DRM hardware device that will kick you in the balls before it lets you play.
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3:18 PM
@Powerlord ahahaha
 
@Powerlord I lol'd
 
> This of course is only for paying customers. People that pirate the game play it blissfully unaware.
 
SUPERGAMEHUB.COM
 
@Powerlord Hey! When I was young, DRM kicked my balls the entire time!
 
Of course, all the other gamehubs might be kind of annoyed but eh
 
3:19 PM
@badp You aren't the first to make that comment, as it were
 
"Kick ALL the balls?!?"
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@Manaಠдಠ Who cares about sites that are not us?
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@GraceNote Yeah, it's not a particularly original retort
 
@ArdaXi Not me, that's for sure.
WEll toodles all. Enjoy hunting down a new domain name.
Although may I suggest Wipqozn's Fun House.ca?
 
The only possible domain name we can get now is answers.steampowered.com
 
3:20 PM
Clearly, we need the name "Game On!"
 
@mana www.bacongaming.com
 
@badp Or answers.steamcommunity.com
 
@ArdaXi nah, I mean, consider STS is on steampowered.com...
 
@badp STS is officially Steam.
 
3:22 PM
@Manaಠдಠ What's fun is we wouldn't shave a single character off that name
answers.steampowered.com
gaming.stackexchange.com
 
steamcommunity.com makes more sense because our site pretends to be community-run.
 
@ArdaXi Forums are SteamPowered too
 
@badp Forums are also officially ran by Steam.
 
@badp You know, that's not a bad idea. But we would need to make it happen.
 
@ArdaXi And an official blessing from Steam is what we'd need to get a custom domain name
 
3:23 PM
checks watch Come on Melissa, you said you were leaving 30 minutes ago. :/
 
@Manaಠдಠ How do we justify non-Steam Q&A tho?
 
Although, they have volunteer moderators and they pretend those run the- hey, yeah, steampowered makes a lot of sense.
 
@badp oh. Damn. Maybe steam-related stuff gets a special glowing tag that's animated to bounce around the screen and eat all the other non-steam tags?
 
In short we're fucked.
Let's get used to writing our domain names using League Gothic
 
We should get gaming.qa.
 
3:25 PM
damn it, how is gotgamegetgame.com taken
 
gaming.se
 
@Manaಠдಠ Probably by registering it.
@CruelCow Taken.
 
cuz you know, "If you got game (at answering questions), you get games!!"
 
the .com domain name space is open since a shitton of time. I think it's fair to say, all the obvious names are taken
 
@ArdaXi only with www it seems
 
3:26 PM
@CruelCow Err....
 
@CruelCow Domain names don't work that way
 
You do realise that sub-domains are part of a domain registry, right?
 
@badp Aren't they removing the TLD restrictions in a couple years?
 
StackExchange doesn't buy a new domain every time.
 
Not in my internet-world
 
3:27 PM
@FallenAngelEyes which ones?
 
@FallenAngelEyes A year ago.
 
Not that that helps us y'know... now...
 
You can buy your own TLDs now.
 
@ArdaXi Well I know they removed it already but iirc the implementation time was longer
Oh really? Huh
 
You need justification and a shitton of money though.
 
3:27 PM
Ah :/
 
$10k or something.
 
We have that!!
kind of.
 
All right, time to start whoring yourselves out on webcams, ladies and gentlemen. We have a domain to buy
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actually why are we complaining? our domain name is 30% shorter than Google's*
 
3:28 PM
@FallenAngelEyes Which would we buy though?
 
 
The problem is, becoming a domain registrar means that you've agreed to sell domains to people from that TLD.
 
see? shorter*!
 
@Powerlord Nope.
Not if you buy it as a cTLD
You're talking about a pTLD.
However, which TLD would we buy? .se is taken.
As is .qa
 
.gaming-stackexchange
 
3:29 PM
(By Sweden and Qatar respectively)
 
tabumdssh
 
com.gaming-stackexchange?
We should get .gaming.
 
nah.
 
Then every question gets its own domain.
 
@ArdaXi With $10k? Whatever we want! :D
 
3:30 PM
Didn't we have this discussion a year ago, and it resulting in a small number of pretty lousy ideas?
 
I really wish domain names had a 'use it or lose it' rule. Fuck capitalism.
 
@FallenAngelEyes But what do we want?
 
@Brant Small number?
 
28613.gaming
 
@Brant hardly a small number
 
3:31 PM
I think we had over one hundred pretty lousy ideas!
 
And a large number of awful ones.
 
@ArdaXi I don't know. Let's get the camwhoring part out of the way and we'll decide then.
 
I forgot that part.
 
@Brant Nice recovery.
 
Oh I see what you did there.
 
3:31 PM
@Brant Nice. Mad props yo.
 
bows
 
@ArdaXi You can't just start a new cTLD. cTLD's are given to the various governments of the world and unless a new country forms, there are a finite number of them.
 
@FallenAngelEyes Okay. We should probably start with the female members of the site in order to maximise success.
@Powerlord cTLD. Corporate TLD.
 
LET'S BUY A COUNTRY
 
You're confused with ccTLDs.
 
3:32 PM
@ArdaXi I think you underestimate the number of mermaid fetishists out there.
 
BLUH :(
 
@FallenAngelEyes I think you overestimate my mermaidness.
 
@ArdaXi I'm sure there's a market for introverted, occasionally confrontational, underage Dutch boys as well
 
Ooooh....that was kind of harsh.
 
@FallenAngelEyes I'm pretty sure that the market formed by straight men is bigger.
 
3:33 PM
It's not meant to be harsh!
 
@FallenAngelEyes Yes. That would be an illegal one.
 
@ArdaXi So you're not straight?
 
@ArdaXi And we all know those are the most popular!
 
@badp How did you draw that conclusion?
 
eh I misread.
 
3:34 PM
@Arda This is how badp does logic: draws random scribbles
 
Besides, I'm still not part of that group because I'm not an adult.
 
Ahaha @Arda, a Belgian mayor was caught having sex on the tower of an old castle by vacationers filming
 
@FallenAngelEyes Err, okay, what's that to do with me?
 
@ArdaXi You are the Belgian mayor. plays dramatic music
 
@ArdaXi I dunno, I thought it was amusing and you're the only one present who's also close to Belgium
 
3:38 PM
I just find it weird that the moment you heard of a Belgian mayor having sex on a tower, you immediately thought of me.
 
well when I saw it, at first someone said it was a Dutch mayor
but then it was clarified
 
I'm not really the politician kind.
 
So, everybody come up with a domain name for our site using the word super. Don't check if it's taken first, just say it.
GO!
 
supermana
 
supermanatotherescue.com
 
3:42 PM
supersuper
 
supergamebro.com
 
superardaisgoingtomakeaterriblemod.com
 
changes name to Super Arda
suprauser
 
superplayerquest.com
 
superiorgamingexperienceforladiesandgentlemenofdiscriminatingtaste.com
 
3:43 PM
supermostbeautifulgirlintheroom.com
 
supercom
 
@Manaಠдಠ Is this you?
 
@Manaಠдಠ I hope that's a flight of the conchords reference
 
@sjohnston It was.
 
@Manaಠдಠ It was you? What happened?
 
3:45 PM
@Arda Stuff. My wit fails me here.
 
Hmm. I never knew this about the creator of PHP.
> I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.
Replace Apache with IIS and you have Jeff.
:)
 
ooooooh...that was harsh. :(
 
> I throw together things until it works then I move on.
Why am I not surprised?
 
@Mvy Because he's the creator of PHP.
@Manaಠдಠ Thank you.
 
So...QuestingAnswers.com? Anybody?
Because it's like people reQuesting answers to their questions
and at the same time it's offering answers to questing questions
and at the same time it kind of sounds like QuestionAnswers
 
3:50 PM
@ArdaXi Now we will never get a domain name!
 
SO IT'S LIKE THREE WHOLE LAYERS OF WIT
 
We didn't stand a chance beforehand anyway.
 
AHAAAAHAHHAHA breaks down sobbing we're screwed we're never getting this domain name.
also it's not taken
 
whatisthenextstep.com
 
I still think my suggestions didn't suck :P
but currently the identity we have forged here would get us thebridgefromwhichweshootlazers.com
 
That is really cool
I can't imagine how long that took to put together
 
@Manaಠдಠ Yay, I accomplished something! Something good!
This annoys me so much.
 
@ArdaXi That's the total amount of flags
I see they didn't change the count to make sure it'd only be those visible to you
 
That's what annoys me.
Fix it for me by electing me please.
 
4:02 PM
@FallenAngelEyes The part with the cameras was a total mindfuck at the end. How...?
 
@Manaಠдಠ I don't know!
 
at any rate, now the "10k moderator" name is a much better fit to the powers
 
@badp Err?
Also, mission ends in 3 hours.
 
...
I just realized that I dreamt that I had gone through on a mass editing spree
and in my dream, I realized what I had done too late and was all "NoooooOOOOOoooo!"
 
4:08 PM
@FallenAngelEyes pffffffffffft
 
rubs eyes Maybe I spend too much time here
 
omg are you all excited for these mod elections
 
@Mana Sure.
 
SOON WE'LL HAVE TWO MORE BLUE PEOPLE
 
Raven and I were really close in primaries, so I'm looking forward to see how it turns out :)
 
4:08 PM
I'm pretty sure who's going to win though.
 
And eventually the site will be all blue people.
 
I bet this time around, I won't have a unique vote
 
I think you're a shoo-in
 
I should change that.
 
My vote is unique.
I'm certain of that.
 
4:09 PM
2nd spot will be a tossup though methinks
Whatever happens, I'm just glad we'll have more mods
 
I voted for ███████ and I'm pretty sure nobody voted for ███.
 
It was great to see so many strong candidates turn out
 
@Arda bwarner?
Not a bad choice IMO
 
@Manaಠдಠ ███████
 
"myselfs" "you"
 
4:11 PM
oh
heh
 
@GraceNote Myselfs? I didn't nominate all of my personalities again did I?
 
downloads Bastion demo
 
@ArdaXi You sorta did when you didn't.
 
Or maybe you all are just different aspects of my personality.
 
We don't get to choose which Arda becomes a mod
 
4:12 PM
@ArdaXi Tyler Durden, is that you?
 
thinks @Mana is my id, @badp is my ego and @GraceNote is my superego.
 
@ArdaXi what is gnome?
 
@CruelCow I don't know any others.
Gnome is id-like, but not like my id.
@Mana matches my id more closely.
 
</3
 
wonders if @Mana knows what an id is
 
4:14 PM
I do. I took Grade 11 English. But I knew it before that because I'm a super genius
 
No offence, of course.
@Manaಠдಠ See? That's totally what my id would say.
Also, id is psychology, not English.
 
I know.
But we had to study psychology in Grade 11 English.
 
Interesting.
 
Lord of the Flies is why.
 
Sigmund rules
 
4:16 PM
@Mana By the way, when did you start capitalizing your sentences? Is it due to fear for your future career?
 
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Q: DXHR: Pacifist after killing in the opening sequence

Mitch LindgrenIn Deus Ex: Human Revolution, is it possible to get the pacifist achievement even if one kills enemies in the opening sequence? Boss fight kills do not count against the achievement, so I'm wondering if the same applies to the start of the game since you have fewer tools at your disposal.

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Q: Are there any cave systems generated in Minecraft Pocket Edition?

KeaanuI've been playing the mobile version of Minecraft for a few days now, and have yet to see an underground cave system. Are there any generated with the terrain, or is it all solid ground?

 
ok gotta go
see you
 
@Oak Thanks so much for asking that question about Bastion on dual monitor setups
 
oh man
this game's narrator is amazing
...crap, Bastion has destructible environment?
 
4:23 PM
@FallenAngelEyes Lots of things can be broken.
 
I have this uh, problem where I feel like I need to BREAK ALL THE THINGS in destructible environments
 
@FallenAngelEyes Don't worry, it's uh, pretty easy to do that. Your dodge roll breaks a lot of the smaller objects.
(I know this because I did the same thing)
 
oh awesome, haha thanks
Ok I've only been playing this demo for like 5 minutes but I'm convinced it's worth a purchase
 
It is. It's quite fun. Bit on the short side but eh.
Good eight-ten hours of gameplay on the first run, maybe 23 max if you go for a New Game+ with the difficulty upped as high as possible.
 
Isn't that above average nowadays?
 
4:29 PM
@CruelCow It is, but I refuse to admit that.
Still, as an indie game costing only $15, quite impressive.
 
I think I'll buy the Soundtrack version
 
@FallenAngelEyes I'm regretting that I didn't, it's quite solid.
 
But is it good for listening on its own? I tried putting braid music on my mp3 player and that didn't fit at all
 
I love listening to the World of Goo soundtrack
 
4:52 PM
@Manaಠдಠ Why thank you. =) I consider this to be my test run, it will make me stronger in the next election.
 
@FallenAngelEyes Just hope Bastion doesn't have a fishing mini-game.
 
@ArdaXi Hahaha ohgodI'dbedoomed
 
Mission ends in 3 hours.
#konami! RT @paulmutton Heh, you can put the HP TouchPad into developer mode by "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart" into the Type box
I read this as Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right Bastard.
 
WebOS has had that developer mode since it first launched
 
4:59 PM
So as the ITG battle starts to heat up, I've been wondering if it is actually helping or hurting new user retention
 

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