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I hate it when non-medical people demand to be referred to as "doctor" because they have a doctorate. NO ONE CARES IF YOU HAVE A DOCTORATE IN MATH.
@Sterno It's perfectly reasonable if they are being specifically referred to based on their expertise in their field.
If you're a student in the classroom, sure. If you're on a glorified internet forum, complaining when you're called "Mr." instead of "Dr." is childish.
But you're right, if you're on a math site, knowing that the person has a doctorate in math is valuable
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It'll be streaming on youtube, right?
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@FAE Yeah, google, huffpo or yahoo, take your pick
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Gotcha, thanks.
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Q: How do I trade my friend's genuines?

Shadow ZorgonMy friend got some genuines, and he wants to give them to me, being that he does not play TF2. I got on his account and got them, but they are untradable, even though some of them are from older games. Is there a certain time that must be waited from the time they are earned. He is not premium, b...

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Think I'm just going to close that little dial/comment thing.
@FAE lol.
lololol@ that opening pivot from Obama
01:18
I can't tell what is even going on here. They are just going back and forth saying the other is lying without really citing anything.
@StrixVaria Yup.
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@StrixVaria Huzzah politics.
Evening, Bridge!
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@Fluttershy Evening!
@LessPop_MoreFizz That background image frightens me.
01:20
@FAE Because it's true?
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@Fluttershy I specifically mean the Two-Face like amalgamation of horror there.
Romney is more well spoken than reddit had me believing.
@StrixVaria he just keeps saying stupid things
@murgatroid I don't really know enough to make that judgment.
most recent one (or at least the most recent funny one):
As Romney walked back to the plane to shake hands with the five individuals who drove vans in the motorcade, your pooler asked Romney if he was going to be campaigning a little harder from here on out.
"Ha ha. We’re in the stretch aren’t we? Look at those clouds. It’s beautiful,” he said, pointing to the sky. “Look at those things.”
01:25
They haven't said anything new in fifteen minutes.
"I'm going to make jobs by cutting back on government employees."
@lesspop my phone is animating that faster and faster and faster and it's great
Bridge, I love you all, but... Politics is my favorite thing not to talk about, so I'm gonna be avoiding The Bridge tonight. >_> No offense.
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Lehrer is just getting completely walked on.
@FAE Yeah, he's awful.
Just looks lost up there.
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01:41
@Fluttershy No worries, I am thinking I shall also be MIA.
@AshleyNunn I just don't see any point in following this election (or any for that matter, since I don't vote, but I digress). From what I hear both options are crap.
@Fluttershy @AshleyNunn It'll be over in about an hour.
@Fluttershy Why don't you vote?
At least they aren't MO Senate Candidate Todd Akin who claimed "abortion clinics have been performing abortions on women who weren't pregnant."
@LessPop_MoreFizz Just don't. No reason, really. Just don't do it.
@Fluttershy You should really look into fixing that.
I will harass you about it endlessly and at every opportunity.
Voting is fucking important man.
@LessPop_MoreFizz It will fall on deaf ears, as it is something I will not do. =)
01:44
@Fluttershy Seriously. This Shit Matters.
@LessPop_MoreFizz To you, and several other people I'm sure, but not to me.
@Fluttershy No, to you too.
@Ronan Just so you know, plans have changed, and I should be able to play on Saturday for the full time.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I suppose the outcome could have some effect on my life. But I'm still not gonna vote.
@Fluttershy Much more than 'could'. Will.
01:49
@LessPop_MoreFizz Still not gonna vote, though.
@Fluttershy You should. You live in a state in which a very important race is taking place, and your vote could have a real impact in ensuring that a man who thinks that doctors perform abortions on women who aren't pregnant and that there is such a thing as 'legitimate rape' which does not cause pregnancy does not get elected to the Senate.
And he has a very real chance of winning.
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Why is Lehrer even theeeeeere.
@FAE To add 'gravitas'
@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm sorry, but until someone can actually show me an election that was won by a margin of one vote, I will continue to disagree with the argument that one vote matters.
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Q: Has one vote ever made a difference?

Thomas OMy friend told me that he doesn't bother voting any more in elections, because "it's not like one vote ever made a difference." I will vote when I can and I think it is important, and although I share his sentiment about politicians... it got me thinking. Has there ever been any major election ...

Sorry, I had to >_>
01:53
@TimStone I was just about to link to that
This is a list of close election results at national and state level. It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1000 (a margin of victory of less than 0.1%). The large number of close results in Canada's federal parliamentary elections is largely due to the way that Canadian ridings are structured and allocated. Canadian ridings are set by an independent commission based on the current formula of 308 seats, with some other variables in structuring what are formally known as the "electoral districts", making ridings often unusually balanced in political af...
Also of note (but completely unrelated).
@LessPop_MoreFizz and that
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@LessPop_MoreFizz I am darkly amused that a lot of these are Canadian, because I have an extreme dislike of how our system works.
@Fluttershy Is that enough of them for you? And you'll note that many are quite recent and amongst fairly large electorates.
01:55
@LessPop_MoreFizz Alright, so... Out of all of those, only one in the single vote margins was in the US. And that was in Alaska. Still not gonna vote.
@Fluttershy the argument that an election has to be won by one vote or my vote doesn't matter is flawed. Consider that argument in aggregate. If any particular vote doesn't matter, then none of the votes matter. If none of the votes matter, then why does one candidate win?
@murgatroid99 Regardless of the flaws, I still choose not to vote. I don't hound people for wanting to vote. I don't try to convince people not to vote. Show me the same courtesy.
@Fluttershy A 2 vote margin is functionally the same as a 1 vote margin in a race with an even number of ballots cast.
2 mins ago, by Fluttershy
@murgatroid99 Regardless of the flaws, I still choose not to vote. I don't hound people for wanting to vote. I don't try to convince people not to vote. Show me the same courtesy.
18 mins ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz
I will harass you about it endlessly and at every opportunity.
This is a subject on which I have absolutely no respect for those who disagree with me.
None. Whatsoever.
And quite frankly, it greatly damages my respect for you or your statements on any and every other subject.
02:02
@LessPop_MoreFizz Then I'll just put you on my ignore list, if that's the way you want to be. I'm not voting. I don't vote. end of discussion.
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Holy crap people, can we just chill out in here?
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This. Everyone needs to just like chillax a bit, hmmm?
Here, have a GIF:
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Q: Age of Mythology Rise of the Titans Download

AlwaysdeadfredDespite Age of Mythology being rather old it's still one of my favorite games. Unfortunately my disk for the Rise of the Titans expansion pack has gotten scratched over the years and now no longer works. Is there anywhere I can download it? I still have the activation key and disk and am willing ...

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Q: Minecraft Running Slowly

KecoeyI'm trying to play Minecraft on my 64 bit HP dv6, with a Core i7 3rd gen. processor and a Nvidia Geforce GT 630M graphics card. I am able to play games such as Borderlands 2 without any lag at all, but when I try to play Minecraft it is really, really slow and laggy. I have 64 and 32 bit Java ins...

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Q: Legandary Monster breeding

user33948i was wondering how many times peopld trif the adult flower monster with the mountain monster before they gave up? i kept using that same combo about 20 times and Finally just got a legandary monster from that combo with flower on left side and mountain on the right. good luck to everyone playing...

@FAE Only if you close my Facebook tab for me before throw a table at someone through the screen. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ --- [ f ]
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02:13
@TimStone Too late. Have a cupcake instead? gives cupcake
Yay cupcake!
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See cupcakes make things better
That they do.
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Dang, now I want a cupcake.
Me too :(
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02:17
All I have are ice cream bars.
Those sound pretty tasty too
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They're pretty spiffy. I like to eat the chocolate off the outside and then eat the ice cream.
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Well at least Lehrer's self-aware.
02:25
@FAE He's so helpless up there.
I feel bad for him.
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Yeah, it's kinda sad.
Like, I want to comfort him somehow.
@Sterno What am I voting for?
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02:42
@OrigamiRobot Reassure me you aren't a Japanese sex robot. just back read
@AshleyNunn ahem No comment.
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Q: What are those red glowing monster supposed to be?

WarfaceI was driving to do some mission when suddenly a red glowing monster just spawned in front of me. Are they some kind of rare? Because he was petty easy and not a Badass.

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@OrigamiRobot ....oh dear. This changes so much.
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03:04
Dear Bridge - I am feeling weirdly unawesome. Any chance we could link me to some things like kittens or something to make me feel more awesome?
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@MarkTrapp That was cute til the last like... second. Then I felt bad.
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@MarkTrapp He just...bam.
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Kittens gotta know their place. Ain't got no right to wear hats.
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03:06
@LessPop_MoreFizz I read that earlier, and I loved it. Loved it. Just blew my mind.
@AshleyNunn Puppy!
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@AshleyNunn Relatedish, thought you'd like to hear about it.
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@OrigamiRobot AUGH SO MUCH CUTE chase the butterfly chaaaase it
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03:08
@LessPop_MoreFizz That reminds me of my cat. :P
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@TimStone I wanna snuggle that puppy forever and ever and ever
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Robots know what the ladies like.
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@FAE THIS IS THE BESTEST NEWS.
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@MarkTrapp And tears of angels, which taste like chicken.
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@Fluttershy Sinkful of hedgehogs being awesome. I want a sinkful of hedgehogs.
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Thank you, Bridge. You have cheered me up immensely because you are awesome.
As are you! Now's the time when cupcakes rain down from the sky in celebration, right? 'Cause I'm looking forward to that.
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grins CUPCAKES FOR EVERYONE.
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03:17
Any flavour preferences?
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Before I start up the cupcake sky machine, that is.
I don't discriminate when it comes to shoving delicious cupcakes in my mouth.
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Mmm. Red velvet with cream cheese frosting, and vanilla with caramel buttercream it is then.
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Man, I should make cupcakes again. Making apple crisp for Thanksgiving this weekend, but that is just not the same as a cupcake.
03:36
You should like that
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@fbueckert I do. I hope we actually get the 1.5 remix.
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Q: Editing Team Names in Perfect Dark

SynetechI have a copy of Perfect Dark (for N64), but the previous owner seems to have entered some juvenile, how shall I say, less than polite terms for the team names. As such, whenever a challenge is played, these family-unfriendly terms are displayed. I searched the game’s interface, but could not fi...

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Q: Does Manamune consider its own bonus mana in its passive?

PedroJackI was playing Urgot and one of my itens was Manamune. At some point of late game, I realize that my mana pool was about 3900 but Manamune was only providing 58 AD bonus (with full stacks). So, does manamune make the AD calculation without its own manabonus (1000 mana at full cap)?? If it does not...

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Q: What is the optimal Melee build for Zero?

tzenesZero has two diametrically opposed ways of being built. You see this throughout his talents. I want to specifically focus on a Melee build, and I was looking for the optimal talent/weapon combination to pull this off.

 
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@Lazers Some how I find this to be a very good question even though it is a game I have never played and something I would not have a problem with.... And it makes me lol a bit :)
Hello bridge. Can someone with high rep look at this?
It would seem the two are for the same exact game
The second one only has one question
retag that one?
07:20
@desaivv yep
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Q: CS Go having problem playing with friends

BanditoBunnyWhen starting a private game with friends I always get a white arrow cursor which prevents me from using my mouse (I have to kill cs go to get rid of it), my friends were getting this as well once they have joined the game. The cursor appears right after the team was picked. I've read some post ...

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Q: Why do the reapers need ground troops?

aditya menonThe Capital Ships being sentient and armed spaceships, they can just enter planetary orbits and blast away till the planet is reduced to rubble. It is shown that their Kinetic Barriers are incredibly powerful and it takes a lot of hits to damage them - which can't be landed because they are able...

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Q: What is the nature of reaper destroyer weapons?

aditya menonAre they nuclear? Because the radiation from that can kill/mutate the next cycle of evolution, so they wouldn't want that. Is there any intel on how their weapons work? Is it simply thermal destruction with laser power?

 
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Q: Is it possible to get an 'S' rank?

musefanIs it possible to get an 'S' rank in Resident Evil 6? If so, what are the general requirements? I know some will probably be subjective to the level (time and enemies) but what about accuracy and deaths? is there a set rule for an 'S' rank? (assuming it is even possible) This was the case in mos...

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Q: Do Melee Override skills benefit from +melee damage?

BrysonicFor Melee Override skills such as Maya's Scorn, do melee damage enhancements like badass ranks and +melee damage weapons increase its damage?

 
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@OrigamiRobot The scaling rather ruins the effect
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Good afternoon all
@OrigamiRobot Wow, that would be a serious migraine trigger for a friend of mine.
@fredley YEA, WELL, SHUT UP!
RUNS AWAY CRYING
I prefer this (not a gif):
Or this one:
12:27
It only took Google Now three days to figure out where I live and where I go to school
@YiJiang It's creepy. I read an email invite to a party, and look up the address. Google Now gives me a card telling me how long it'll take to get there.
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@fredley Wow. That's impressive/scary.
@FAE Yes. I have web-history enabled (willingly), so it looks for things in your search queries that Now can use to give you info
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Huh. Craziness.
I haven't seen anything besides time to place for location searches yet, but the tech is in place. The possibilities are exciting/scary.
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Unsure how to feel about this question:
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Q: What is the nature of reaper destroyer weapons?

aditya menonAre they nuclear? Because the radiation from that can kill/mutate the next cycle of evolution, so they wouldn't want that. Is there any intel on how their weapons work? Is it simply thermal destruction with laser power?

It's kind of in a similar vein to the one that caused this meta discussion:
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Q: Why did people vote to close this question about Harbinger in ME3?

KtashWhy does Harbinger have only 4 claws? This question was closed, and I honestly don't know why. In reading the question, I am confused as to how people thought it was not constructive. I've voted to reopen, but I want to hear the other side.

Which the community seems to be a bit divided on
@FAE The community? Divided? How rare.
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@fredley I know, right?
@FAE Usually everyone gets along all hunky-dory when it comes to closure policy.
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@fredley I'm partially unsure how to go about this because I know the answer, but I'm not sure if I should post it.
@FAE There has to be a line at which we stop lore questions. This one, especially, seems kinda iffy.
12:44
@fbueckert Send all lore questions to SciFi.SE
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@fredley We have plenty of lore questions here that have been considered on topic though.
@FAE Send all lore questions we don't like to SciFi.SE :)
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@fbueckert There is an answer to it and I know it, but the issue is the whole "just because it has an answer doesn't make it a good fit here". However, while this was brought up with the previous question, which was initially closed, that question was also reopened. So I'm not sure what to do.
@FAE I gotta head off to work, so I'll pick this up once I get there.
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@fbueckert Drive/travel safe!
12:55
@fredley My thoughts exactly
Morning, Bridge
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@SaintWacko My recent updates feed in Goodreads is all you.
@FAE Am I reading too fast? :D
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It's just filled with ratings, haha.
Oh
Yeah, I keep thinking of other series I've read
Also, everyone should read Variable Star
I had forgotten how good it was
@FAE Should I add a short story on Goodreads?
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@SaintWacko It's not part of a preexisting collection?
13:04
@FAE I think it is, but I'm not finding it in a title search, and the way I have my books, it's not in a collection
It's The Deadlier Weapon by Larry Niven
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@SaintWacko Does the version you have have an ISBN?
I usually search by ISBN, personally.
@FAE No, it originally appeared in a magazine
It is in a few collections, according to isfdb
And while all the stories in those collections are great, I wanted to point out that story in particular as being excellent and though-provoking
I just cannot wait to read all the political blogs this morning exclaiming why their candidate was awesome and the other sucked!
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@SaintWacko What kind of magazine? Is it a periodical?
@FAE It says it was Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1968
I would just go ahead and add it, but I figure you know the rules there better than I do
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13:15
@SaintWacko Yeah, I'm a Goodreads Librarian so I've done a bunch of book adding myself. It would be appropriate to add it in, yeah. You can see here that there are a bunch of editions that have been added.
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Q: Is there a fix for the bugged playthrough 2 in Borderlands 2?

DannyI finished playthrough 2 quests with my friends all out of order and it seems that my playthrough somehow got forever stuck on playthrough 2. I have no story missions left and if I accept new side quests they are not scaled to level 50, like they would be in playthrough 2.5. The last story missio...

@FAE Ooh, fancy! Right then, my favorites shelf is about to gain a third book!
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@SaintWacko If you want to be able to do stuff like edit info on books and such, you can apply to be a Goodreads Librarian. All you need is to have 50 books in your library. It's an opt-in system. I think this link should work, if you're interested.
@FAE Hm, I think I qualify :P
@fredley The problem with this is that the core tenant of migration is, "Don't migrate crap." If all we're giving them is our unwanted crap, I think that defeats the purpose.
13:19
I'll have to do that. Reading more of the hint things on the add book page, I'm not sure I should add the story by itself. I'll just favorite one of the collections it's in and pick out that story in my review
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@SaintWacko Yeah, it'd be better to add the entire magazine itself.
@fbueckert Sorry. I have a bias against SciFi.SE (I view it as a big bucket of crap), so migrating crap there makes sense to me.
@fredley I'm not a fan of it any more than you are. :P
And I do see if we continue to allow any and all lore questions because they're related to video games, we're shortly going to become SciFi for video games.
Well, I think it is a wonderful place!
@fbueckert Lore is the raison-d'etre for the entire site. Even if it's crap here, it's on-topic there
13:21
Just different from here
@fredley Those questions really would fit in there, although most questions on SciFi deal with book/movie universes rather than games
@fredley Another problem is that new users aren't going to understand why we'd be punting all their questions over to a different site. "This is about video games! Isn't that what this site is about?"
@SaintWacko True. I just dislike lore personally because it's an instance of 'why did they design it this way?'
@fbueckert Migration is a much better experience than closure.
@fredley Yeah, but right now, we don't do EITHER of those things, no matter how much we hate it.
@fredley Most of the lore questions I see on SciFi aren't asking that at all. They're just looking for information about it. Not why but what
@SaintWacko Fair enough.
13:26
I'd love to come up with either A) All lore-type questions are off-topic and punted to SciFi, or B) We draw the line somewhere about what lore questions are allowed and which aren't.
Admittedly, that's a bit of a slippery slope, as lore is inherently hard to define.
In the confines of a video game, anyways.
You peeps are too close-happy. Once ronnie is elected, every question will stay open forever.
@fredley what? how?
what wacko said
@fbueckert There is already a line. If it's in the canon it's in. If you need to speculate it's out.
@badp And exactly how are we supposed to figure out if it's canon or not?
Until we get an answer, we don't know.
@fbueckert If you have to make shit up to answer it's not canon.
e.g. a question we already did get is "Why doesn't Valve use portals to make infinite energy"
1. who cares? 2. Portal doesn't say
@badp That one's a pretty obvious instance of making shit up.
13:32
@fbueckert It's also a concrete example.
@Lazers @badp What do we do about the vast majority that are like this?
Where there's no way to tell if it's canon or not until somebody answers.
@fbueckert If you played the game you know if the game tells you or doesn't
It is perfectly normal to require field knowledge of a question before you can vote to close on it
That's why you need 3k on each site you want to be able to close questions on
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@badp FWIW, I started this discussion here.
@badp Then we have a lot of field experts in very different areas, all under the overarching umbrella of "Video games". :P
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@fbueckert Well, yeah, we do.
13:35
@FAE Eh. We've been bashing away at this for quite some time.
We just take another crack at it whenever we acquire another lore question.
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@fbueckert I know, I'm just giving him some context for the current iteration.
@fbueckert and yet often I simply did nothing on, say, Skyrim questions because no matter how many times I read them they just didn't make any sense to me
@FAE Okay, since you know the answer - is it canon? Does the game tell you? Maybe is the answer in a book? If yes it's fine to answer
The question might also belong on SciFi but it was asked here and it's on topic here.
No need to change our topic based on other sites'
@badp As much as I hate it, yes, it's on topic.
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@badp Ingame. And CaulynDarr just answered with the right answer.
So yes, it's canon and the information is available ingame.
@FAE then what's the hold-up? :)
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13:50
@badp Well, it's already answered now. :P Personally, my hesitation stems from the apparent division over this class of questions that's been brought up recently. I don't feel entirely comfortable answering things that the community doesn't seem clear on. I didn't ask ITG questions when they were up in the air either.
@FAE banbanban
As I'm sure someone else would say.
...that seems like a pointless question. you can change the size of the room your self. just make it bigger! — TrewTzu Sep 30 at 13:53
@StrixVaria Yeah, I saw that.
I don't know why people like that even come to this site.
@StrixVaria And why they answer questions for games they apparently don't know that much about
13:54
@StrixVaria I'm pretty sure I can answer the question decently. It won't be exact (as I'm at work), though.

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