@pixel I don't know what to make of this information.

Home Movies is good too

@Wipqozn Having more people playing it gives me more incentive to play it.

@FAE Same here, although they're still not starting until next year iirc.

@OrigamiRobot you obviously need a patch to update your default preferences

I don't even think production has started yet.

@FAE I am way behind on Venture Brothers I think

@Wipqozn Yeah, I believe so.

oh

there's already a season of venture brothers I haven't seen

downloads

@badp I love the tag you added to this question. Ironically, though, it'll likely get deleted in 6 months.

Wait, no, I'm caught up.

@DaveMcClelland I really wish they would be acted on. looks at @AnnaLear

@Wipqozn hmm?

lol

@Wipqozn *leers at @AnnaLear*

summon succesful

@YiJiang /rimshot

@pixel I'm a level 3 cat summoner.

@AnnaLear Any word on this feature request from the SE team?

There hasn't been any official response as of yet. I'm curious if it's something they're willing to do.

@AshleyNunn So you just need to get nice and warm, then.

I know Jeff was opposed to it, but Jeff is gone now.

@Wipqozn To be honest, it hasn't come up for discussion in a while that I'm aware of. Last I heard, there wasn't much support for it.

Soon, I should be able to start producing an army of steel golems to defend the fortress

There are some possible complications here. This request makes total sense for game tags, but not so much for everything else. So I wonder... how many non-game tags get created and disappear. I've no idea if this is something we even track.

Woooooooooo I am the only non-mod with a meta-tag badge other than discussion. (Oh, and Jin for design. But Jin doesn't count.)

@AnnaLear It would probably still be less work though. We're really good at killing stupid tags.

ಠ_ಠ

@AnnaLear We've mentioned we'd be curious to see that data. If you guys have it, would you share it?

@Wipqozn Sure. But having supporting data never hurts. (Unless it's not in your favour, but you know what I mean.)

Oh man, and I am one answer away from being the only non-mod with a silver tag badge on meta! Whoooooo.

@DaveMcClelland I don't see why not.

Quick, everybody downvote @LessPop_MoreFizz 's meta answers!

@LessPop_MoreFizz Quick, downvote all the answers into oblivion!

@DaveMcClelland Heh

@LessPop_MoreFizz Congratulations. When you get a gold meta tag badge, we'll mail you a stuffed sad trombone.

@SaintWacko Ha, I win

@AnnaLear I AM GOING TO HOLD YOU TO THAT.

@DaveMcClelland Yeah, yeah :P

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But I'm making an army of steel golems and slademantine armed/armored dwarves

@AnnaLear What's equivalent to a stuffed sad trombone?

@SaintWacko Get a gold meta tag badge and find out!

@AnnaLear Ha!

@SaintWacko A picture of a stuffed sad trombone.

Incidentally, @badp is only one answer away from a gold tag badge.

@InvaderSkoodge How is this equivalent to a stuffed sad trombone. It's stuffed?

@GnomeSlice It's also sad.

@GnomeSlice @AshleyNunn is sad because she can't have one.

oh, @LessPop_MoreFizz, game-rec died, finally.

@InvaderSkoodge I guess that's acceptable.

@AshleyNunn and stuffed, no less... well, this conversation took a turn.

@AshleyNunn I've got fish traps!

@AnnaLear Indeed

@InvaderSkoodge I have one of these!

@AshleyNunn I also have over 20,000G. :P

@fbueckert If I luck out and manage to get on I plan to take a picture of me hugging it and then posting it to the bridge whenever @AshleyNunn enters the room.

@AshleyNunn Not really; I just about kill him every day that it doesn't rain.

@fbueckert That's exactly what I do!

And I'm now going to be entering the crop festival with a potato.

I murdered the final questions on the tag yesterday, and the digested blog summary of their info + whatever else I could think of came out this morning.

For the first month I'm anti-social as fuck in Harvest Moon, and I bring my guy to the brink of death everyday.

@Wipqozn I do that until I have too much money to know what to do with.

I got the blacksmith, though, and to upgrade your equipment, you have to give them stuff.

So now the day includes giving them something they like.

@fbueckert Usually by the second month I'll have upgraded my watering can enough that I can still make a nice profit without killing him. Plus I'll have animals.

All of my dwarves are very slowly hauling slade bars upstairs

They weigh 1200 urists apiece o.0

@Wipqozn Only upgrades here come from the blacksmith, and they won't give you upgrade plans until they like you.

So bribery ahoy!

@SaintWacko Get them minecarts or wheelbarrows.

@MartinSojka Yeah, I need to figure out how to use minecarts

But I can only put a max of 3 wheelbarrows in a stockpile

So it's faster in the long run just to put a garbage dump in the stockpile I want the slade bars in, and order them all dumped

Appears to be the same for that one too.

The yellow one is the Japanese box art.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Lmfap what the fuck is this.

@GnomeSlice Somebody hacked Petraeus's email!

(Where by hacked, I mean 'made a funny photoshop')

@LessPop_MoreFizz Buhg, I don't know who that is.

Googles

@GnomeSlice You don't read the news much, do you?

Oh, maybe I do know who this is... sort of.

@YiJiang Not really, no.

@AshleyNunn Oooh, which one?

I must say, at this point, I've come to find @GnomeSlice's state of oblivion towards the world around him to be... almost comforting.

That reminds me, I should finish the second one, I got the thousand year door open and then stopped playing.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'd like to say I'm footloose and fancy free, but I'm not.

@GnomeSlice bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20308225

@AshleyNunn There's... a new one??

:o

I still need to play the Wii one!

I have it, just haven't played it.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh man this is hilarious now.

@AshleyNunn I'll be paying that one before too long, I think.

Although, I've always been a sucker for Harvest Moon, so I suspect I'll be playing the shit out of that one.

Ooh, did you find out about crop branding?

Anyone who hasn't listened to this album should: Preschtale

Oh, huh it's not free any more.

@AshleyNunn About a week or so before the crop festival, the old dude will come talk to you about it. You'll find out about crop branding, which essentially means that if your crop wins the festival, it will become a "brand", which means it ships for more.

@AshleyNunn Yeah, and there are three or four levels of branding, so it gives you incentive to focus on a single crop type each season.

I suspect animal products will have the same thing going for it, too.

But I'm still in spring, so I haven't the foggiest.

My cow has a full heart, though!

Asked this about an hour ago

I wonder why the downvotes, so if anyone could help me improve my Q I'd appreciate it

@JohnoBoy I did a fast search of electronics.SE, and they have nothing on DualShock controllers.

I think the downvote is due to, "I don't think this belongs here."

@fbueckert gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/775/…

wasn't downvoted

@JohnoBoy It's also from the birth of Arqade. :P

@JohnoBoy Because Arqade users are a monolithic hive mind and the same users vote the same way on every question.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Well, I wish they'd at least comment :P

@JohnoBoy One or two downvotes is noise. Reacting adversely whenever you see one is just going to piss you off and make you tired.

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@JohnoBoy Just accept that downvotes are a part of the SE network.

@fbueckert ಠ_ಠ

@KitFox Hello!

@GnomeSlice What? It certainly could be.

@fbueckert But it does belong here.

@fbueckert Yeah, I got used to it.

Maybe they misclicked. Maybe it's some jerk who thinks that the PS3 is awful. Maybe it's an employee of MadCatz who hopes you buy a new controller. Maybe they don't think repair questions belong on Arqade. Maybe they think you have a stupid username. Maybe they don't like how you attempted to pluralize SIXAXIS. Maybe they want a badge. Maybe they have a rep number that ends in -1 and they want it to be a round number but don't realize that downvotes are free. Who knows?

At least it's a personal vendetta

@GnomeSlice And people will stop downvoting for stupid and incorrect reasons instantly.

There's a reason why voting is anonymous; specifically so you can't confront someone for it, and go off on your own downvote rampage.

@LessPop_MoreFizz SIXAXES

@InvaderSkoodge That's a stupid pluralization. downvotes.

And it got another downvote. Heh. Sorry, dude, that sucks.

@fbueckert Eh, it's still at a net +11 rep and in the positive column, so whatever. The downvotes are still just noise.

@LessPop_MoreFizz True. I'm just saying that getting people to explain single downvotes is an exercise in frustration.

@AshleyNunn It's one of the most popular meta questions on SO, too. And it comes back every time as, "No, that's a horrible idea."

@AshleyNunn Requiring comments will result in one of two things: A) It'll be entirely non-constructive ("asdf;asdkfjdasd"), or B) the comment will be constructive, the asker will disagree, and will downvote something of the original downvoter as revenge.

Rarely, rarely, will the asker actually go, "Huh. Ok, maybe it can be improved."

@LessPop_MoreFizz I hope the tag isn't minecraft

oh, it's discussion

Yeah, I can do that then.

go forth, earn precious meta reps, and get a sad trombone or whatever.

@AshleyNunn I could kinda see @Strix leaving this. <_<

@FAE :(

@agent86 Apparently I already have the precious meta reps. All I need to do is post "PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS."

Maybe I can get around to do something more than that.

@badp I'd say this would be a broken window, but that's probably more coherent than most of what's on meta, so

@InvaderSkoodge Tell me you've never thought it. >_>

@agent86 Well yeah I'd get a complimentary -100 for it.

@fbueckert but does she have any full stomachs?

@FAE I've typed up comments on many occasions and then never posted them.

@badp but you'd get the badge, and that's all that matters.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

@InvaderSkoodge hehe

@agent86 Hence "All I need to do"

@InvaderSkoodge Who hasn't, really?

@fbueckert The obvious solution is to just downvote everyone, to make sure you get him.

@agent86 I'd be much happier to see untagged go

@badp I'm calling my game untagged just for you then. <3

"untagged: a postscript longer than tag length allows" will be the full title.

@agent86 untagged-the-game or untagged-or-agent86-sucks

@badp burn.

that was almost a @Wipqozn-quality burn.

OY

almost.

Has anyone actually ever been burned by Wipqozn?

@agent86 "Untagged: A counterfeit clothier's tale"

@badp Turtles are probably fairly clumsy with matches, so it's possible.

height = letter frequency (in English, the Only True Language)

@agent86 Incorrect,whyisn'tthespacebarextrudedatall.

SPACES ARE NOT LETTERS

@badp They are characters!

and thus not letters

IT STILL SEEMS WRONG OKAY

@AshleyNunn That's... I dunno.

@agent86 This would make a sweet Mirror's Edge level.

Possibly.

@AshleyNunn it's pretty, yeah? probably a real pain to type on, but I guess that's not the point :P

Salad Fingers could probably type on it no problem.

@badp Why isn't that a special tag, anyway? Like a meta tag.

j would be very annoying to press

I'm getting pretty good at modifying the DF raws

@AshleyNunn Nah, I'd just kill the keyboard and get a proper one.

customizing it to be easier to use and more sensible

@AshleyNunn Practical. A keyboard like that can't fulfill it's purpose properly.

@AshleyNunn As a showpiece, maybe.

For general use, no way.

@fbueckert It can if its purpose is not for typing. =]

Which is clearly isn't.

@GnomeSlice It's a keyboard. It's purpose is to type. Ergo, it can't fulfill it's purpose.

If it's just a showpiece, you don't even need electronics inside it. Or a cord.

@fbueckert I'm guessing it's a keyboard with covers placed over the keys, I don't think it's actually built as a single unit. If it was, I doubt it would actually have any electronics inside it.

It might even be a 3D model.

@GnomeSlice Exactly.

We're talking about how hard it would be to use.

And I'm saying I'd murder it and get a proper keyboard.

@fbueckert yes, but you're assuming the primary purpose of it is for typing, which is clearly isn't.

@GnomeSlice Hi!

GODDAMMIT BORDERLANDS

@GnomeSlice A reasonable assumption.

Oh, relevant to earlier Petraeus jokes.

Having time limits sucks when whenever you try to do things fast you get stuck in ALL THE FUCKING CORNERS

@fbueckert I think its primary function is as a showpiece. i.e. if you had that keyboard, you wouldn't need to destroy it and get a new one, because you wouldn't be using it for typing in the first place.

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@LessPop_MoreFizz Is it actually supposed to be him? Or does it just look like him.

@agent86 Odd, that didn't ping me.

@AshleyNunn Read the first two paragraphs, pinged, continued reading.

@Wipqozn probably because the burn was so far below your standards. the chat interface decided it wasn't ping-worthy.

@agent86 Sounds likely.

@AshleyNunn It doesn't say other than:

> A rep for Call of Duty: Black Ops II publisher says Petraeus was "not involved in making the game."

I don't know if that means it is or isn't based on him.

@AshleyNunn I didn't get that out of the article, hence my asking. =]

@GnomeSlice Didn't do your homework. downvotes :P

@fbueckert No

Heat Legend die

no

@SaintWacko To subjagate it, just jumpstart it's height by jiving up and rejuvinating your jumbo enjoyment of j, ja?

FUCKING HELL EVERYTHING IN YOUR WAY

@AshleyNunn By the way, I found something a while ago I think you'll like (assuming you don't have epilepsy). omfgdogs.com

@AshleyNunn It jenuinely doesn't get enough usaje.

@Ullallulloo Ow. You have hurt my brain.

Is there any point to this other than spinning a bike wheel with clicketyclackers? leduchamp.com

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