The Bridge

6:08 PM

@ThomasMcDonald Should pick a wallpaper that's actually motivational, then. Something to look forward to when you turn on your machine, be greeted with a cheery smile that you want to see continuing to smile which only happens if you are productive.

This

@Wipqozn You guys have never seen GFDA before!?

@StackExchange I have way too powerful a computer to waste my time with OnLive.

@Powerlord I have way too thin an internet connection to waste my time trying to use OnLive.

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@GraceNote that's a bit deep for me, I think needless profanity will do me fine. Plus, as it's a laptop, I hardly ever turn it off to see the desktop, and when I do, Lion's Resume feature opens everything up again pretty quickly

6:11 PM

@ThomasMcDonald That's one thing I like about this machine, I just need to hover my cursor in the bottom right, beneath the clock, and I can see mine.

@GnomeSlice Well, assuming that there's a bell curve of people who could use it or want to use it, you and I are at opposite ends. You're at one end because you can't use it, I'm at the other because I don't want to use it.

I imagine most people fall in the middle.

Bah, I want to play Majora's Mask after work today, but I really can't.

@Powerlord I think that's the first sentence containing the phrase 'Bell Curve' that I've ever actually understood.

Also, I was going to duck out early today, but I can't because I'm on front desk duty when I want to leave.

@Powerlord Get sick.

OnLive would be much more appealing if you didn't pay full price for games just for access through OnLive

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(Just like you should only buy games on Steam when they're enough percent off to account for the fact you're getting less than a physical copy)

6:16 PM

Gamers succeed where scientists couldn't.

Does The Onion automatically give you masked URLs or are you manually doing that each time?

@GraceNote Manually.

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@GraceNote Yeah, well I can splay my fingers out on my hand while it's on my trackpad and that pushes everything out to the side, it's a bit of an unnatural movement though, only use it for opening folders and stuff on my desktop

yesterday, by Powerlord

@GnomeSlice I love how you try to disguise the fact that it links to The Onion.

@ThomasMcDonald That seems pretty cumbersome. You should use that thing in Unity or whathasit where it's all like see-through so you can just see your desktop.

user30

6:18 PM

@GnomeSlice http://5z8.info/blackmarket_i0h8mv_manhunter

@GraceNote SOMEONE SAID UNITY.

@ThomasMcDonald GODAMMIT.

@GnomeSlice Yes. In fact, I said Unity.

@ThomasMcDonald H...HOW. ಥ_ಥ

@ThomasMcDonald I should challenge @Ronan to make a @Mana version of this.

Probably in the middle, squeezed between @Arda and @Fabian.

@GnomeSlice Seriously, stop doing that.

6:19 PM

@ArdaXi Oh come on, you should know better by now.

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@GraceNote What is @Mana 10 hours?

@ThomasMcDonald Please, no.

user30

He'll probably just say it's impossible again

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but challenge accepted

IT KEEPS HAPPENING.

@ArdaXi I recognize that link by now.

user30

6:21 PM

ShadyURL ftw

Good old MsDugITBANI

crnch.it/h4amW

Unfurls

DON' HURT ME

NO MO

@GnomeSlice I warned you about the stairs, bro. I warned you.

6:23 PM

@GnomeSlice lnq.me/hmWTee

@ArdaXi You mean youtube.com/watch?v=MsDugITBANI

I unfurld it.

BITCH.

user30

crnch.it/3RGNv

user30

awww

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just press continue

@ThomasMcDonald Err.

6:25 PM

@ThomasMcDonald Um... Not sure about that.

user30

That's quite possibly the best shadyurl it's generated

> facebook-of-sex ??

user30

yes

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keep unfurling it

It didn't get all the way to the end.

bitly.com/a/warning?url=http%3a%2f%2f5z8%2einfo%2flaunchexe%5ff4l2vc%5ffacebook%‌2dof%2dsex&hash=olzBlf

Is where it ended up.

user30

6:26 PM

yeah, I realised :(

user30

copypaste the shadyurl in for 3 more shortens, I think

@ThomasMcDonald You know that's a real thing, right.

user30

@GnomeSlice errrr

@ThomasMcDonald Yeah... so, that's why I was like er...........

NO

NOT THAT I GO TO IT

user30

shadyurl.com

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6:29 PM

@GnomeSlice Then how are you aware of its presence?

@ThomasMcDonald Internet travels, ad popups, you know.

user30

@GnomeSlice If you say so

> Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.

user30

ooh, I wonder how long it will be until I get to fly on a Dreamliner

unfurlr.com

user30

6:30 PM

@GnomeSlice You already posted that

5z8.info/malicious-cookie_d5d2_hateminorities

Trololol

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> r/askreddit: What would you say is the biggest threat to the human race?

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> autotune

@Thom y it no work for me. =[

5z8.info/REFINANCE-NOW_h0s6hp_bomb

=[

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i dunno, anyway, coffee time

user30

6:33 PM

now it is allowed time for procrastination

Make any page look like it was made by a 13 year old in 1996.

user30

scumbag mates

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want to go see skrillex

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put off buying tickets until there are none left

@ThomasMcDonald derp

user30

6:37 PM

still, there's tickets left for Nero on the 20th

zomg.

user30

and we're going to see Arctic Monkeys on the 28th

Are you going.

user30

should be

Nero > Arctic Monkeys.

user30

6:38 PM

er

user30

and then Yes, Deep Purple & Def Leppard with me dad sometime in the next two months

@ThomasMcDonald Heh.

Sick.

I've never been to a live show

Well, that's not true. My mother made me go see Avalon with her one time.

And Steven Curtis Chapman.

Both shows were in churches.

She was really angry that I didn't enjoy Avalon's show.

Why would she be angry about that...

user30

Nero should be decent, I wanted to see them at Sheffield cause it's in the students union club but that's 18+

user30

So we're going Derby instead

is 19

user30

6:40 PM

is 18

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mates aren't though

user30

oh, that's a good point, it's freshers week in Derby this week

@ThomasMcDonald I don't remember making any good points, but thank you, I think.

user30

you didn't. I was thinking out loud

Q: Unable to start steam: To run Steam, you must first connect to the Internet

Oh. =[

user30

6:52 PM

bah, Reddit is going particularly slow today

Lazers

7:14 PM

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Only a messagebox comes up: "Steam.exe (main exception): To run Steam, you must first connect to the Internet" It worked earlier Firewall not blocking Router not blocking (don't nedd port forwarding afaik) Did not found solution or any usable hint on the net so far. Steam.exe version is 1.0.1...

nifty

Which reminds me, @GnomeSlice add this account to your friends list

Ronan Forman

@Grace A Manafication of what?

@RonanForman Of the headbanging animation for What Is Love

Ronan Forman

Can it just be a still image?

user30

no

7:28 PM

A still image headbang?

Ronan Forman

Speedlines.

Because I really can't animate. I tried once.

Give me a mo'.

@GraceNote Does anyone have a reasonable-quality gif of the headbang?

Lazers

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Q: Can I trust X-TRAP?

I have recently installed Rusty Hearts with the intention of trying it out, even though I'm not really an MMO person. Something in the game's aesthetic just really appeals to me. While the gameplay videos I've seen looked decent, the installation experience itself had me questioning the game's c...

security x-trap

@ArdaXi I'm going to insert an e under that apostrophe, just cause.

@ArdaXi I do not have one myself

Okay then.

I can do it, but it won't look good.

switches to 32-bit Photoshop, suffers another excruciating wait

Only 5 frames? Awesome.

7:44 PM

What is Maaaana. Maaana don't ban me. Don't ban me. No more.

No.

NO

Bad Photoshop.

Photoshop, baby don't crash now. Don't crash now. No more.

Problem exists between keyboard and cake

Okay, I warned you guys, it's gonna look horrible.

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...

7:53 PM

@ThomasMcDonald I did it for @GraceNote!

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@ArdaXi Yeah, that's terrible lol.

@ThomasMcDonald Too many frames.

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boo

Do I look like I have time to burn?

Don't answer that.

7:55 PM

@ArdaXi Horrible as is, you still did it. So... job, Arda!

It's not horrible, it's terrible.

I modified the original gif... terribly.

That was the point.

invokes @badp

I wasn't aware that horrible and terrible had a generally understood hierarchical tiering.

user30

I'm sure Arda will tell you how they do

...

@ThomasMcDonald NO MO

7:56 PM

Feb 1 at 21:44, by Mana

@Arda YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE A TERRIBLE MOD

I made a terrible mod... of @Mana.

HE MADE A TERRIBLE MOD IN A .GIF.

@ArdaXi I think there's like a "6 layer limit" on Meta-ness on things

@GraceNote Pft.

@GraceNote That's Cuils.

A 6 Cuil limit.

The only Cuil I know is a... um..., so I'm thinking it's something different.

7:58 PM

@Wipqozn Not found. I assume you were trying to What is Love me again.

@GraceNote 1 Cuil: if you asked me for a hamburger, and I gave you a raccoon.

@ArdaXi Gotcha. Origin?

Reddit of course.

Reddit's not really an "of course" thing to me.

4 Cuils: Why are we speaking German? A mime cries softly as he cradles a young cow. Your grandfather stares at you as the cow falls apart into patties. You look down only to see me with pickles for eyes, I am singing the song that gives birth to the universe.

5 Cuils: You ask for a hamburger, I give you a hamburger. You raise it to your lips and take a bite. Your eye twitches involuntarily. Across the street a father of three falls down the stairs. You swallow and look down at the hamburger in your hands. I give you a hamburger. You swallow and look down at the hamburger in your hands. You cannot swallow. There are children at the top of the stairs. A pickle shifts uneasily under the bun. I give you a hamburger.

I give you a hamburger. You look at my face, and I am pleading with you. The children are crying now. You raise the hamburger to your lips, tears stream down your face as you take a bite. I give you a hamburger. You are on your knees. You plead with me to go across the street. I hear only children's laughter. I give you a hamburger. You are screaming as you fall down the stairs. I am your child. You cannot see anything. You take a bite of the hamburger.

The concrete rushes up to meet you. You awake with a start in your own bed. Your eye twitches involuntarily. I give you a hamburger. As you kill me, I do not make a sound. I give you a hamburger.

In other news, I hate the character limit.

John

8:01 PM

@Mana You wanted Minecraft parkour? Here's Minecraft parkour...

sjohnston

@ArdaXi What is this I don't even

@sjohnston Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

@ArdaXi You know what this reminds me of.

@GnomeSlice This?

8:04 PM

@Wipqozn You were wrong! People can add me on Steam and I can accept them! So go friend me, people. :P

Ah, it's so much fun searching through the Interface, Header, and cpp file to try to find out which one is missing the * in the function declaration.

(bad language)

I DON'T WANNA BUY A PSP ANYMORE

Old, but still great.

@ArdaXi No, the one I linked after that.

youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Ad8IJGkFxuw

We live underground. We speak with our hands. We wear the earplugs all our lives.

PLEASE! You must listen! We cannot maintain the link for long... I will type as fast as I can.

DO NOT USE THE CABLES!

We were fools, fools to develop such a thing! Sound was never meant to be this clear, this pure, this... accurate. For a few short days, we marveled. Then the... whispers... began.

Were they Aramaic? Hyperborean? Some even more ancient tongue, first spoken by elder races under the red light of dying suns far from here? We do not know, but somehow, slowly... we began to UNDERSTAND.

@GnomeSlice Quoting Amazon reviews now, are we?

plays LoL tutorial

@Powerlord Yes.

This one is still my favourite.

8:25 PM

@Raven @Grace Can I add you guys to my LoL friends list?

@ArdaXi +1 million

@FallenAngelEyes Aye, I'll just email you my handle, neh? ♪

Q: Logitech Rumble Gamepad F510

Sure :)

Stack Exchange

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recently I have bought me a gamepad Logitech F510. Unfortunately it does not work properly for me. I have tried to calibrate the device with jstest-gtk without any success - I can not get all the axis working properly. So because of this playing games like Trine or Steel Storm with the gamepad is...

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I get it. Adding bounties to things on Meta SO doesn't actually get them any more attention.

Because there are like 500 bountied questions.

8:33 PM

@GnomeSlice There are 12

@GraceNote Well, they must have been answered then.

Bounties are pretty rare on Meta.

12 is actually a pretty high number for our usual rate.

sigh The SourceMod vote controller stuff assumes it'll be controlling both the client and server side of the vote handler, but I only need to handle the client. I keep running into Gotchas because of it.

this is nifty

Q: Environmentalists are annoying me, how can I silence them?

And it isn't until the end (when I'm copying/editing/etc) that I realize I don't need a chunk of code because it's for handling the menu display on the client.

Likewise, I was handling MenuEnd code, not realizing that when they say Menu End they mean when the client closes it.

(as opposed to MenuVoteEnd, which is when a vote cycle completes on the server side)

Lazers

8:38 PM

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I haven't been very environment-friendly and now the environmentalists are on my heels. My reputation with them is very low, especially because I cut some trees and dug for gold. What's the best way to get back on their good side? I tried recycling and putting up some gardens, but that doesn't ...

tropico-4

No, I take that back, the problem is because they mix the two.

MenuEnd_Selected and MenuEnd_Cancelled are for clients, MenuEnd_VotingCompleted and MenuEnd_VotingCancelled are for the server. And all 4 part of the MenuEndReason enum.

@FallenAngelEyes This is for you:

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@ArdaXi Hahaha

8:54 PM

:(

@ArdaXi lol

@ArdaXi I may have mentioned this before, but I don't do duels.

Halfacre is a horrible map

@Powerlord Really now? Why not?

@badp Swiftwater is a wonderful map. We should put it on our server.

@Wipqozn I think they detract from the team aspect of the game, since it essentially put permanent domination markers on the other player.

8:57 PM

@FallenAngelEyes I go by "Orimoth" in LoL.

I go by IFailAtLoL... well, no, actually I don't play.

Well, if you played LoL you would have less time for TF2.

I just saw an add for a question on Gaming on the Gaming website...

@Wipqozn That's true.

Now it's back to a question on bicyles.

8:58 PM

@RavenDreamer they don't filter them.

Speaking of which, why haven't we created a Game On or TF2 ad yet?

@Powerlord I think @badp did

@RavenDreamer Okies, cool, I'll add you next time I have access to the friends list :) doing a practice battle thingie

MAXIMUM RESOLUTION.

X_X

What are we going to do this weekend anyways...? Killing Floor? TF2 again? et cetera?

8:59 PM

@FallenAngelEyes I approve of your multitasking!

@FallenAngelEyes Email was sent.

@Wipqozn bacon

@FallenAngelEyes Keep reading your name as "Fallen Angel Yes" today...

@Powerlord You know how some people have a curse jar? You should have a bacon jar.

@RavenDreamer Yes, yes, yes!

9:00 PM

@GraceNote Received! And I shall do the same once I'm back at the friends list screen. As far as I can tell, I can't add people while in battle.

@RavenDreamer I love that video

@Wipqozn How about SSBSBHSD?

@FallenAngelEyes Correct

9:01 PM

@GnomeSlice "Look of Disapproval"? Really?

@RavenDreamer ಠ_ಠ YES.

@GnomeSlice You only have two bookmarks?

@Wipqozn I'm at school, just got into a new class.

Priorities, man.

@RavenDreamer Whenever I think of M. Bison now, I think of this:

It's weird, even looking through this code, I still don't see the vote timer that is supposed to end the vote.

I wonder if it's doing something wacky like tracking how many clients still have menus opening, relying on the game to auto-close them when the time limit is up. :/

9:06 PM

oh internet

@Wipqozn Th...thumbnail.

Gah, it must be doing something like that. The built-in timer system is only called in something like 7 spots, and all but 2 are in the timer system... the other 2 are in the player manager and for the display timer I already commented about before.

@_@

@Wipqozn + 1 for DK music.

It really is. sigh

Whenever a client closes a menu, it decrements the player count. When the player count reaches 0, the vote ends.

Okies @Raven and @Grace, got you both added :)