The Bridge

Arda Xi

8:00 PM

Lift-off.

Kevin Y

gaming.stackexchange.com/election/2 - Time for nominations!

Powerlord

Time for me to go pick up my computer!

Kevin Y

Wow @Arda.

Arda Xi

FGITW.

badp

uh. I can nominate myself.

Off to MSO! Although this isn't going to be easily fixed.

Arda Xi

8:01 PM

@badp Well... are we sure we are getting an additional moderator slot? ;-)

Kevin Y

I think I deleted my old nomination. ._.

Grace Note

@badp Nice find

FallenAngelEyes

Terraria 1.0.6 coming tomorrow

user30

so er, do I pin a link now I have powers?

Arda Xi

@KevinY The system didn't.

Kevin Y

8:02 PM

Oh yay, it is stored somewhere.

FallenAngelEyes

@KevinY I can't even find the old ones

Arda Xi

@KevinY gaming.stackexchange.com/election/1#post-16058

@FallenAngelEyes gaming.stackexchange.com/election/1#post-15793

Lazers

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Q: Post preview shows capital letters in tags, but actual post does not

this-tag-is-in-all-caps and shows as such in the preview when editing/composing. After posting, however, the post will show the tag with lowercase letters. A very minor failure of the WYSIWYG, but ideally this wouldn't happen. I assume the posted version is correct, so it's the previewer that ...

Kevin Y

Waitwait there is no way I had a lowercase "m" on "my" in my nomination.

Arda Xi

The Gaming 2011 community moderator election is underway — nominations now being accepted.

2

@ThomasMcDonald ^

FallenAngelEyes

8:03 PM

Ah, thanks

Grace Note

@KevinY You started with a greeting

Nice catch (again)

user30

what a boring message. I was going to put something about going crazy, ah well

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi nice nomination speech

user30

now if only this screen were bigger....

Arda Xi

@Wipqozn Heh, it's my old one, more or less.

Wipqozn

8:05 PM

@ArdaXi Yeah I seen that.

user30

There we go, all sorted

Arda Xi

Well, I'm guaranteed to go to the primaries at any rate.

badp

room topic changed to 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.

Arda Xi

Err, that makes no sense.

user30

lroom topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, wherein our resident angry mob is 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.

Arda Xi

8:09 PM

@ThomasMcDonald Wrong.

Lazers

0

Q: What other multiplayer games/options are available when I have a second copy of New Super Mario Bros.?

My kids like to play the Minigames with each other on their Nintendo DSes. If I were to buy a second copy of the game (rather than them sharing one game between them), would there be any benefits or other games or options?

multiplayer ds new-super-mario-bros

Arda Xi

A plural body can be referred to using the plural form of a verb even if it is represented as a singular noun.

Chiefly British though.

badp

@ThomasMcDonald You have italics, just do it

user30

I don't want to go power crazy

Arda Xi

Wait... what if @badp nominated and won? Would he get another diamond and be bumped up to administrator?

FallenAngelEyes

8:11 PM

@ArdaXi Yeah, there's occasionally Wikipedia edit wars over "<band name> is" and "<band name> are"

badp

Use it or lose it ♪

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi WE can only hope

Kevin Y

He would be "♦ badp ♦".

Arda Xi

@FallenAngelEyes It's very simple on Wikipedia. If the original author used are, it's are.

So... did I scare everyone away or something?

Wipqozn

Yes.

Arda Xi

8:12 PM

Good.

user30

No.

Arda Xi

Ungood.

sjohnston

!good?

user30

Dire

sjohnston

huh, that kind of looks like some sort of epic spanish punctuation fail

user30

8:16 PM

Applause for @FallenAngelEyes.

badp

@ArdaXi um?

Arda Xi

Nothing. Ne'er mind.

Lazers

1

Q: 2011 Community Moderator Election #2

The second 2011 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election...

discussion featured moderators election

Arda Xi

For some reason, my memory is replacing arbitrary people with Grace.

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi That can't be good

Arda Xi

8:20 PM

Heh, @Mana is going to make a terrible mod has more stars than @Arda is going to make a terrible mod now.

badp

lol

4

A: Elected moderators can nominate themselves

Eeeek, you've found our secret test. ): Really this is a simple litmus test for the existing moderators. If the election is adding moderators instead of replacing moderators and an existing moderator nominates themselves, then that's a reason to take away their diamond. Looks like you narrowly...

> ...escaped losing your diamond! (:

user30

eh, who downvoted your bug report?

badp

meh.

Brant

Here, have some meta repz

user30

Oh yes, I was going to look into compilers today

FallenAngelEyes

8:24 PM

@ThomasMcDonald \o/

badp

Good news, people. We're actually going to need elections!

Now let's see if the election thing I hacked up works

FallenAngelEyes

@badp Wait, what? As opposed to...?

Arda Xi

"Like Arda, I occassionally (unlike Arda) play devil's advocate."

I don't get this.

badp

@FallenAngelEyes If you have 3 positions and 3 nominations...

user30

Well webapps didn't get voting, as there were only 3 nominations.

user30

8:27 PM

also this:

user30

gist: 892529, 2011-03-29 15:12:50Z

gistfile1.txt

|      Site      | Eligible | Visited (%) | Voted (%e) [%v] |
| Stack Overflow |  43,778  | 14,130 (32) | 4,970 (11) [35] |
|  Server Fault  |   3,834  |    566 (14) |   310 (8)  [54] |
|   Super User   |   4,566  |    505 (11) |   213 (4)  [42] |
|     Maths      |     394  |             |   174 (44)      | *
|  Programmers   |   1,930  |    413 (21) |   229 (11) [55] |
|    Game Dev    |     445  |    102 (23) |    58 (13) [56] |
| Theoretical CS |     261  |    129 (49) |   104 (39) [80] |
|    Web Apps    |          |             |                 | **
|     Gaming     |     809  |    177 (21) |   129 (15) [72] |
|   Ask Ubuntu   |     776  |    211 (27) |   145 (18) [69] |
| Pro Webmasters |     331  |     48 (14) |    36 (10) [74] |
|    Cooking     |     550  |    108 (19) |    83 (15) [76] |
|  Photography   |     429  |     97 (22) |    63 (14) [65] |
|    English     |     654  |    150 (22) |   101 (15) [67] |
|     Stats      |     270  |     85 (31) |    60 (22) [70] |
|  TeX - LaTeX   |     411  |    142 (35) |    96 (23) [67] |
|     Apple      |     328  |     81 (25) |    51 (16) [63] |
|  Unix & Linux  |     417  |     86 (21) |    54 (13) [63] |


* Maths.SE election was first - probably before SE added Visited stat
** Only three noms for web apps so didn't go to vote.

user30

Election stats for previous elections at the time of the WPA election

badp

So, my hosted thing can't work due to security stuff, duh. I'm a dummy. So we need Yi Jiang's hosted version.

FallenAngelEyes

@badp You mean 2 positions and 3 nominations?

Also I see what you mean now, nevermind my comment, I thought you were implying something else.

user30

You're having cross domain issues?

Wipqozn

8:30 PM

@badp It works for me?

badp

@Wipqozn I didn't even give you a link to try.

Wipqozn

@badp you posted a link a minute ago, and then deleted it

badp

It's time to vote nomnominates up or down! Think before you vote: look at stats and read the THC transcript.

Wipqozn

I did.

I am on the gaming page

looking through the canidates, notable badges, et cetera

Kevin Y

Yeah, it works for me as well.

badp

8:32 PM

@Wipqozn You mean you're looking at dl.dropbox.com/u/1164414/SO/Mod/Gaming%20Elections/… right now? ;)

Wipqozn

this

user30

One second bro, I'll whip you something up that'll make that work

badp

@ThomasMcDonald give it to @YiJ

Arda Xi

@ThomasMcDonald All it needs is a pass-through hosted on the same domain as the HTML file.

user30

@ArdaXi I know.

user30

8:35 PM

meeh.

user30

acao is a really annoying header

FallenAngelEyes

8:55 PM

I wonder how many more candidates we'll get

badp

Aww, the elections don't expose a RSS feed

Arda Xi

(removed)

sjohnston

@FallenAngelEyes I may throw my hat in.

FallenAngelEyes

@sjohnston \o/

Mana ಠдಠ

@sjohnston Hats?! WHERE?!?!?

FallenAngelEyes

9:00 PM

Oh yeah, I think @Mana was going to run too

user30

and @Powerlord

badp

Yes @Mana needs to run.

sjohnston

@Manaಠдಠ TF2?

Mana ಠдಠ

Fast.

FallenAngelEyes

Ah yeah, I think @Powerlord's still at work though

Arda Xi

9:01 PM

@Manaಠдಠ Where is your nomination?

badp

@Manaಠдಠ And nominate.

Arda Xi

@FallenAngelEyes That's never stopped him before.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Arda It'll be there soon, geeeeez

badp

Powerlord mentioned he really really hates moderation. Thus we must elect him

Arda Xi

@Manaಠдಠ Look, I know we can't all be as awesome as I am, but for the record, you don't have to go that slowly

FallenAngelEyes

9:02 PM

@ArdaXi The main site's blocked from his work, but not chat or meta. I think he'd still be unable to access the nomination page.

badp

(and this is why you can't nominate other people)

user30

ah, that also reminds me, I need to get a decent hat irl.

FallenAngelEyes

@ThomasMcDonald I have an awesome black and purple fedora, but otherwise I'm not much of a hat person

sjohnston

@FallenAngelEyes Yeah, I am in a similar situation, and the nomination page is thoroughly blocked.

Arda Xi

Hm, is @Wipqozn still here?

Hasn't anyone ever heard of a proxy?

sjohnston

9:05 PM

It's weird being the only person in the office with knowledge of a particular part of the software. Every bug I get handed for that feature has a time estimate that is at least an order of magnitude off.

Today I got a bug marked 1 hour and a bug marked 2 days. Guess which one took 5 minutes and which one took the rest of the day?

badp

GODDAMMIT

I got the 4th/4 ships to surrender

FallenAngelEyes

o_o?

badp

and then crashed instead of winning

sjohnston

That sounds like the sort of thing that should be an achievement

Grace Note

@ArdaXi I've heard of proxies. They're like my biggest enemy in other communities.

sjohnston

9:06 PM

Games really need more achievements that reward spectacular failure.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Err? Different kind of proxy?

Grace Note

@ArdaXi A proxy server, aye?

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Aye.

Grace Note

Yeah, that one.

FallenAngelEyes

@Arda, what's your new gravatar? I tried clicking on your profile to see it but that one only shows your old one

Arda Xi

9:07 PM

@GraceNote How can it be an enemy?

FallenAngelEyes

the tiny version looks like a small tree

Arda Xi

@FallenAngelEyes There is no new Gravatar, only an older one which I've put on arienh4@arienh4.net

Grace Note

@ArdaXi It's more... a weapon of aggravating assaults. Was a very common way to avoid bans on the old forum.

Arda Xi

It's not supposed to be showing in chat, either, but I think I can fix it.

@GraceNote Well, obviously, that's why you always ban open proxies.

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Proboards.

Arda Xi

9:09 PM

Ew.

Grace Note

Yeah. Exactly.

Arda Xi

That's why you don't use those free forum hosting solutions.

badp

what.

I started the Arena game mode in hammerfight as 10th grade

Grace Note

@ArdaXi This is why I don't do forums anymore

badp

I imagined I had to start climbing my way to 1st

Arda Xi

9:11 PM

@GraceNote Depends on your definition of forums.

badp

Instead, the next level is the 11th

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Bulletin Boards

Arda Xi

@GraceNote The S standing for system, I hope, because otherwise we're talking about corkwood.

Grace Note

@ArdaXi It does but I'm lazy

Arda Xi

In a sense I suppose you could see SE as a BBS, just a very streamlined one.

Grace Note

9:15 PM

Yeah, but I'll call it a Q&A system

Just so I can stay right within at least one dimension of existence

Arda Xi

@GraceNote It's a specific form of a BBS.

Stack Exchange

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Q: Toolbar And Unity in games

I've searched the internet a few times now and can't find a answer that helps me. When I play games such as Dawn Of War, the toolbar on the top half of my screen won't go in the background and neither will Unity. So I'm just hoping there's a way around this. I've just started using Ubuntu (11...

11.04 unity wine games

badp

A BBS where you can force topics closed.

Also, the real reason why SE >>> Forums is editing.

Can you imagine having a "everybody can edit everything else" thing on forums?

Kevin Y

Mainly SE > Forums because of the communities.

Arda Xi

Heavily moderated.

badp

9:17 PM

I can, but it'd be abused to no end.

FallenAngelEyes

@badp SA lets you set other people's titles and avatars if you pay actual money and I have to say the results are occasionally hilarious

Arda Xi

The greatest strength of SE is also its greatest weakness.

badp

@ArdaXi Heavily moderated into uselessness?

Arda Xi

@badp Well, SE is a forum, and it works for us. It works for us because it's heavily moderated.

Automatically or manually.

badp

Rather, it's heavily accountable.

Arda Xi

9:20 PM

?

badp

The most accountability for edits I've seen from forum software is an edit reason field.

Arda Xi

Which is... the same for SE?

badp

No. You can see what the post was like before an edit, and reverting an edit is just one click away.

Arda Xi

You can do that on most forums.

badp

I've never seen that.

Arda Xi

9:22 PM

Edit history isn't exactly a feature unique to SE.

badp

I know about Wikipedia TYVM

Arda Xi

And vBulletin

And... what's the other one, phpbb?

badp

I've never had the ~~pleasure~~ pain of using that.

phpbb doesn't do that. If it does it's hidden into uselessness.

user30

and IPB. and that new one, xenforo?

badp

@ThomasMcDonald If IPB does it, it's also hidden into uselessness.

arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/…

user30

9:33 PM

I thought we were just listing forum systems. They're probably the big 4.

Lazers

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Q: How to fix "network incompatibility error 717" on GT5

We have regular weekly GT5 racing and some new racers can't enter the hosts "My Lounge" due to "network incompatibility error 717". This seems to be caused by issues with router configuration, blocked ports according to one friend, and their "cache" according to another. It would be great to ha...

psn gran-turismo-5 playstation-3

user30

humm, how is the list of related questions generated in the sidebar?

Arda Xi

@ThomasMcDonald Magic.

badp

(Juan posted this on G+)

Arda Xi

Okay, so I'm a pirate for games, a legitimate customer for music and a thief for everything else.

badp

9:49 PM

Um, yeah, Office. Ugh.

But it's so overpriced :/

Lazers

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Q: Chunks were randomly moved?

I was stupid and didn't keep a backup of my Minecraft server. Now, it crashed, biomes changed, chunks were moved around, part of my city of gone, an underground chunk was moved aboveground, is there ANY way I can fix this? I.E. easily move chunks and change biomes.

minecraft world

Lazers

10:13 PM

0

Q: How to install Left 4 Dead 2 server on debian

I have been searching for a guide on how to set up a Left 4 Dead 2 Steam dedicated server on a clean debian install. But i haven't found one that worked. So if anyone have successfully set up a server on debian could you please make a simple guide or link to an existing guide. Thanks in advance

steam left-4-dead-2 dedicated-server servers server

FallenAngelEyes

Going to head afkish or at least away from chat for the evening, have a good night everyone!

Grace Note

10:41 PM

I found a Candlestick! Yay! Now I can kill Mr. Body, or something, I guess.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote You... what? But... what? You're gonna kill what with what?

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Ask Powerlord when he gets back.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Why?

Grace Note

He'll understand.

That is, assuming you didn't understand.

Arda Xi

Don't you mean Mr. Boddy?

Grace Note

10:49 PM

Is it really with 2 Ds?

Arda Xi

Apparently. I only know him as Dr. Black.

Grace Note

I figured he probably went under a different name in the Euro version.

Though apparently he went under a different name in the US version anyway...

Arda Xi

Yeah, he's Dr. Black in the original.

And our version is a direct translation of that name.

Grace Note

Thematically appropriate, as it were.

Arda Xi

So what's that make you then, Scarlett?

Grace Note

10:55 PM

Hm. I can't even remember the backstories of the characters.

Arda Xi

Miss Scarlett is the resident femme fatale. She is typically portrayed as young, cunning, and highly attractive. Known as Scarlet in the US.

Grace Note

Mmhmm.

Oh, good. I only appear to ever need a single Candlestick. That's nice.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote So what are you playing?

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Recettear

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Ah, first Chandeliers again, and now Racketeer.

Grace Note

11:06 PM

Pretty much.

FallenAngelEyes

Grace, I unlocked fishing \o/

I'm never going to finish the game ever \o/

Arda Xi

(Now I didn't come up with that Racketeer pun, the game itself did)

Lazers

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Q: How can I view/edit Minecraft's level.dat file?

Minecraft saves a lot of data in a file called level.dat. What can I use to edit this? When I try to open it in Notepad++ all I get is a bunch of random symbols... æ&$+¿[w.ÜŠÖÄŸ¶…9É2þ

minecraft save-games

Grace Note

@ArdaXi (I know)

GnomeSlice ツ

Trailer: Treasure Adventure Game (Klayman) http://bit.ly/rfO5lS

Tweeted by indiegamescom on August 8, 2011 at 8:35 PM

Grace Note

11:08 PM

@FallenAngelEyes You sound like my brother.

GnomeSlice ツ

So cool

FallenAngelEyes

@GraceNote I'm... I'm a fishing mingame addict.

Arda Xi

@FallenAngelEyes Must be fun to play Torchlight.

FallenAngelEyes

Also I was very happy that I managed to get through almost all the Aquan Ruins without using a hint

GnomeSlice ツ

Wow, yoyogames basically completely removed the community from their site.

Now how am I going to re-download Seiklus...

Grace Note

11:10 PM

@FallenAngelEyes Almost all... which ones?

GnomeSlice ツ

Wait, I found it.

seiklus is such a beautiful game.

FallenAngelEyes

@ArdaXi Oh yes. From the 3D Zelda games to Animal Crossing to Harvest Moon to Pokémon to Torchlight to Chantelise... I <3 fishing games. Yes, I know I have a problem.

@GraceNote I can't recall right now, really tired, so am about to crash

but yeah either Aquan were easier than Ignan or I'm possibly understanding the game better

Arda Xi

Sheesh, a three-parter? That's just cruel. Maybe I should've picked up a game instead.

FallenAngelEyes

Ok, now I'm gonna crash for real, night all

Kevin Y

@FallenAngelEyes g'night.

GnomeSlice ツ

11:25 PM

14 mins ago, by GnomeSlice ツ

seiklus is such a beautiful game.