The Bridge

user15026

18:01

@James that is one way to deal with it. :p

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot Yeah, it is

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice What resolution is that image?

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot 1680 x 1039

Says on the lefthand side.

I wouldn't make it your desktop background unless you want to go insane.

OrigamiRobot

I was looking at it on my phone.

GnomeSlice

Scribblenauts is coming to Steam!?

OrigamiRobot

18:04

@GnomeSlice From the scaling or from the subject matter?

James

@AshleyNunn Hehehe... Feeling better today?

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot Oh.

@OrigamiRobot Subject matter, isn't he the god of insanity or something?

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice For months. :P

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice Not the god of insanity, but he does make people go insane.

GnomeSlice

Wow Cthulu is in the Scribblenauts video too.

Krazer

18:06

@GnomeSlice don't forget Shoggoth

GnomeSlice

@Krazer I never got why those were in the original scribblenauts... kind of thing nobody knows about.

Ullallulloo

@AshleyNunn Numbers are amazing! D:<

fbueckert

@InvaderSkoodge How are you enjoying Defender's Quest?

GnomeSlice

I never tried the iOS Scribblenauts, I wonder if they fixed the controls.

badp

HALLO.

@GnomeSlice Sounds interesting!

Ullallulloo

18:08

@badp HAI.

GnomeSlice

@badp Ignore the bonus TF2 hat. Is it still interesting?

fbueckert

@Canadians Aboriginal Chiefs up to their old tricks, as usual

badp

@GnomeSlice There's a TF2 hat? OMFG MUST HAVE

GnomeSlice

@badp .....................................................okay.

badp

"This item is currently unavailable in your region"

Awwww.

OrigamiRobot

18:10

@GnomeSlice It's another Lovecraft thing.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice I enjoyed discovering typing Large Hadron Collider, and discovering that that worked.

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo What, it did?

There was this one creature you could make in the original DS game that had various names. And it was indestrucible.

Krazer

@GnomeSlice Why? Why not?

GnomeSlice

'Ooze' was the only name I can think of right now.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice Yep, it made a particle accelerator that you could turn on and make a black hole.

GnomeSlice

18:11

@Krazer I guess that's as good a reason as any.

badp

Uhhh... how many gigabytes is GW2 again?

25?!

GnomeSlice

Somebody play Greed Corp with me!

Krazer

@badp wait not... mine is ~14.3GB (15,364,391,888 bytes)

user15026

@Ullallulloo numbers are weird and frustrating.

badp

@AshleyNunn 3

user15026

18:14

@badp 3 is weird. It feels weird and doesn't divide nice

Powerlord

@Krazer What scares me is that TF2 is apparently larger than GW2.

badp

@AshleyNunn uh? It divides nice one every three numbers!

Krazer

@Powerlord must be all those hats

Powerlord

@Krazer What, there are only like 600!

(may be an exaggeration)

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord TF2 is ungodly large.

user15026

18:15

@badp yeah but it is just a weird feeling number. It's hard to divide physical things in threes.

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Part of the problem is that they pull in all the "shared" HL2 assets.

Which includes all the dialog from HL2.

badp

@AshleyNunn Water packs e.g. come in groups of 6. 3×2.

Powerlord

(ever since the OSX update in 2010)

badp

Beer cans are often packaged in 3s.

@Powerlord wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Hats says 268 hats and 267 miscs

Krazer

@Powerlord Last time I checked there were 235 hats (excluding the 124 Miscellaneous items)

user15026

18:16

@badp but dividing a pie or something in 3 is hard.

GnomeSlice

Oh sick, my ranked heroes are still here.

Powerlord

I was counting the Misc items as well.

badp

@AshleyNunn Only the second cut is actually hard.

Powerlord

And I have a feeling at some point, Valve's going to just get rid of the Head slot and turn it into a third Misc slot.

Krazer

@AshleyNunn dividing by pie is delicious

badp

18:18

Once you've made that you turn the pie you've cut until the third you have cut is approximately the same to the left and to the right. Then you just cut straight down from the center!

Powerlord

As it is, all hats already have wearable regions (hat, whole_head, etc...)

fbueckert

@Krazer Why bother even dividing the pie?

user15026

@badp or you just eat a whole pie.

badp

@AshleyNunn YOU CAN'T HAVE A PIE AND EAT IT TOO

You'd need three pies!

You can't escape from three, sorry.

Unless you're Valve

Krazer

@fbueckert so it fits in the (w)hole

fbueckert

18:19

@AshleyNunn Great minds think alike!

badp

fbueckert

@Krazer That's a bad joke.

badp

~ 5 GB / ~ (1/5) = ~ 25 GB! It's, like, a FACT.

Krazer

@fbueckert I'm full of them today.

fbueckert

@Krazer I see that.

I must struggle not to respond with sarcasm and condescension.

user15026

18:20

@badp I can have a whole pie if I want!

badp

@AshleyNunn But then you can't share it with three people.

fbueckert

So, hey, have a daily facedesk!

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Just tell him to shut his pie hole :)

user15026

@fbueckert dude, I love pie. :p

user15026

@badp they will have to get their own pie

fbueckert

18:21

@AshleyNunn As do I.

badp

@AshleyNunn Then it's three pies!

fbueckert

@SaintWacko You. You've been added to the bad joke list.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert I wasn't on it already?

user15026

@fbueckert pie is amazing.

SaintWacko

Huh

user15026

18:22

@badp but then I don't have to think about it.

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Nope. You are now, though!

badp

@AshleyNunn Thinking is fun!

user15026

@badp you have a strange idea of fub

user15026

fun

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn I have a strange idea of fub, too

badp

18:22

What are you doing when you're not thinking?

user15026

@saintwacko >. <

SaintWacko

In fact, I have no idea of fub!

badp

I can only think of sleeping, which is nice but not fun

user15026

@badp having adventures.

SaintWacko

@badp meditating?

badp

18:23

@AshleyNunn Then you must concentrate on your adventure, aka think

user15026

@badp that's not real thinking.

user15026

Math is real thinking and I hate that.

badp

@AshleyNunn citation needed

user15026

@badp it makes sense to me!

badp

If you don't think while adventuring you'll fall to traps and your adventure will end abruptly!

SaintWacko

18:24

Yay, one of the major road sections is completed!

badp

And that is not fun!

user15026

I would rather write a thousand analysis papers and not do math.

badp

@AshleyNunn You can write papers without thinking?

SaintWacko

Only 11 more

user15026

@badp I guess you have a point...

user15026

18:25

@badp yeah. It's a skill.

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn The thing about math is that 2+2 always equals 4.

Whereas words can be tangled up in any combinations at all to mean anything at all.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert That's what's so much fun about them

fbueckert

So, in general terms, Math is men, words are women.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Of course, that's also what's so much fun about numbers

Krazer

@fbueckert I beg to differ, sir.

fbueckert

18:27

@Krazer Notice all the words?

user2334

oh neat I came just in time for 80s gender standup. "Men: who needs em? Am I right ladies?"

fbueckert

@MarkTrapp I'm making general, sweeping accusations!

user15026

@fbueckert hey, I tend to be sorta logical some of the time....

Krazer

@fbueckert but some don't add up like others.

fbueckert

@Krazer Words confuse it.

Math is pure.

Simple.

Clean.

user2334

18:29

Wordist.

user2334

Next you'll be saying words should get their own schools

Krazer

@fbueckert If you use complex numbers: 2i^2 + 2i^2 = -2 - 2 = -4

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Not in base 4. then it equals 10

fbueckert

Now you're all nitpicking.

WHY MUST YOU DESTROY MY LOVE OF MATH?

Wipqozn

@fbueckert They're terrible people. That's why.

OrigamiRobot

18:32

@fbueckert Because math only works like you say when everything is agreed upon. Just like words.

user2334

In Oceania, 2 and 2 make 5

user2334

►

user15026

See this is why I like words. I can make words work like I like.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Math is the universal language. 2 + 2 = 4. Always. The symbols we use to express are falliable tools, and thus, all math problems can be attributed to people misusing the symbols.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert I disagree.

badp

18:34

@Krazer What's confusing about that? Answer: nothing

@OrigamiRobot's closer to it.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot I'm making sweeping, general statements again.

badp

2

ducks

fbueckert

@badp runs the hell out of the way

badp

(I dunno, it sounded funny in my head. I'm sorry)

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert And I am making sweeping general disagreements. Nothing is universal.

user15026

18:36

@badp yeah that looks like my papers.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Absolute zero?

Rate of universal entropy?

Speed of light?

user15026

Also now I want pie on a train.

SaintWacko

I hope there's some way around entropy

The idea of the heat death is depressing

user2334

That Joe Montana was the best quarterback the 49ers ever had?

OrigamiRobot

Everything is framed in our limited understanding of reality.

badp

18:37

Speaking of interesting maths, is there a space equivalent to the quantum of time?

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot That, I agree with.

And math is our expression of that understanding.

OrigamiRobot

That doesn't make it universal

@badp Two objects occupying the same space at the same time.

badp

I mean, yeah, I guess that in relativistic terms there's no real distinction between space and time and if time is made of quantums then so is probably space

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Saying, "This is how we understand it, but it might not be true, so your statement is false" is not really an argument.

user15026

@badp I hate you for Making me want pie.

OrigamiRobot

18:38

Or one object being in two places at once.

@fbueckert I am saying that claiming things are objective is inherently flawed.

Within the confines of our understanding at this point, yes, math is universal.

badp

I wanted to see how much a quantum of space would be long however because for some reason I've been making sad jokes about the minimum speed of non-stationary objects while referring to the university's canteen and now I want to know if such a thing actually exists

Arda Xi

Are we talking about special relativity?

OrigamiRobot

@ArdaXi Depends on who "we" is.

badp

the joke involves the guys from our department of physics monitoring the canteen's staff for research on the topic

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi No. @fbueckert is saying Math is awesome and @OrigamiRobot is trying to ruffle his jimmies.

OrigamiRobot

18:41

@Wipqozn Oh, math is awesome. I am not disagreeing there.

Arda Xi

badp

@ArdaXi What if you dream of tears?

Arda Xi

user15026

@ardaxi augh scary monkey

Krazer

@badp cover up those tears with some tape.

OrigamiRobot

18:42

@badp Oh man there is a good pun about a robot made of paper and tears. Give me some time on it.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn Isn't it, "rustle my jimmies"?

badp

actually no trollfaces are lame

Arda Xi

fbueckert

Heh.

user15026

Apropos of nothing I just watched a squirrel meticulously open cigarette butts and consume what was inside. He got very angry when I walked by.

Arda Xi

18:46

@AshleyNunn It's probably dead by now.

OrigamiRobot

@ArdaXi The cigarette? Yea a squirrel was eating it's butt.

Arda Xi

@OrigamiRobot Yes. The squirrel too.

user15026

@ardaxi I am adequately horrified now.

Arda Xi

@AshleyNunn Aren't you happy I'm back?

user15026

@ardaxi not if you keep making me sad and horrified!

Krazer

18:49

@AshleyNunn Nicotine kills.

user15026

@ktaxer well aware! Poor squirrel.

OrigamiRobot

@ArdaXi Mufasa says that's the circle of life.

Lazers

0

Q: what implants are available to increase researching ability?

i have recently started playing the old game neocron by reakktor which has just launched a new server called titan with some friends, and i am making a researching alt spy to identify my unidentified tech parts. i have noticed there are some implants that increase researching like the advanced ne...

neocron

OrigamiRobot

@AshleyNunn @fbueckert Relevant

user15026

@origamirobot that is a thing of beauty.

OrigamiRobot

18:56

Feb 13 at 20:14, by OrigamiRobot

@agent86 When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

user15026

@origamirobot which is why words are more interesting.

OrigamiRobot

Whoa whoa whoa, lets not go that far.

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot Wow, that is awesome

@OrigamiRobot Numbers!

user15026

@origamirobot that's pretty and I bet it is math

user2334

Mandelbrot! Mandelbrot! Mandelbrot!

Wipqozn

19:01

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Q: How do I make sure all the Teen Girl Squad girls die?

I am playing Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and have the option of playing a Teen Girl Squad mini-game. I know I have to set up the story the right way, using object at the right times so that all the girls die gristly deaths, but I am having trouble figuring out the order of thin...

untagged

OrigamiRobot

@AshleyNunn And why do you think they use math as an adjective in Adventure Time?

Wipqozn

2

Q: How can you reliably melee?

It appears that melee attack is pressing attack plus jump at the same time, but that more often than not triggers a secondary jump-attack. Am I doing it wrong? How are you supposed to melee?

untagged

@badp ^

FAE

@AshleyNunn Fractals are amazing.

SaintWacko

Two sections completed, ten to go!

user15026

@origamirobot yeah but I still like words

Beofett

19:03

@Wipqozn This game called "untagged" seems very complicated to play....

user15026

@FAE they are. I don't get how they work but they are pretty.

SaintWacko

@Beofett Yeah, it has so many different game mechanics!

OrigamiRobot

@AshleyNunn Fortunately, you don't have to pick just one to like!

FAE

I now have JoCo's Mandelbrot Set song stuck in my head. Must play it.

Invader Skoodge

@fbueckert It's awesome.

I need to not abandon it, though.

I finished all the missions in the first playthrough, but I didn't 3-star them yet, and I didn't start NG+ yet.

badp

19:18

@Wipqozn good question

I think it's Team Fortress Arcade

Powerlord

@Wipqozn I assume this should be tagged sbcg4ap which is how the game abbreviates itself... somewhere.

Oh wait, since I can't read the question, I can't say which episode it was for, since each episode has a Teen Girl Squad minigame.

user15026

It's the first episode.

user15026

@fbueckert Emma has a sorta sentient engagement ring. This book is freaking awesome.

Oak

It's like untagged questions are the new identify-this-game

badp

Turns out 25% is not 1/5. Whooooooops.

Oak

19:21

@badp close enough!

badp

Yeah, it's, like, off by one right?

I'm doing computer science! I get to make these mistakes!

<_<

Oak

It's 5% off, it's within a reasonable error margin

badp

@Wipqozn Does this actually work?

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn That's also one of the freaking building blocks of the world.

And it's a jerk.

@InvaderSkoodge I'd recommend 3-starring them.

And trying to do as many of the challenges as possible; they'll give you an advantage in NG+.

Wipqozn

@badp I don't use Trello, but using patterns is a commonly used alternatively for the color blind. That's why a lot of puzzle-block based games (i.e. puzzle quest) have patterns inside of the gems.

fbueckert

19:27

storage.canoe.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/…

For all of you that don't see snow on a regular basis.

Lazers

0

Q: Can I play ps3 games to another ps3 from another country?

I'm going to buy Assassins Creed 3 on amazon.com, but my friend told me if I buy it from there, I can't play because I have a PS3 from Iceland (where I live). It is true? Does the PS3 have region locking that will prevent a US copy of Assassin's Creed 3 from playing on an Icelandic PS3?

ps3 region-locked assassins-creed-3

0

Q: what stats are useful for pistol users

I have been leveling my private eye using pistols, but I don't do much damage. I was wondering what stats are best for a pistol user to do the most damage, and if there is anything else that will increase my damage. I'm currently 63/55 and I'm using a spitfire gatling pistol, but struggle to ki...

neocron

badp

@Wipqozn I was just wondering if those were patterns enough to make all 6 distinguishable (off by one!)

Oh god, Birgirpall found out about GTA 4.

Powerlord

~ Well here we are again, it's always such a pleasure. ~

GnomeSlice

This is really neat sounding!

OrigamiRobot

Nov 11 at 20:51, by OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert NC would completely shut down.

Oak

19:31

@Powerlord yo

GnomeSlice

It gets really good the farther you get into it.

@OrigamiRobot Lol, we just dig them out.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot So you've said. I'm just pointing out that snow is a thing. And places in the world get LOTS of it.

GnomeSlice

People at my highschool used to bury other students' cars in snow as pranks.

Oak

@GnomeSlice I heard @Aubergine mention soundcloud. What is it?

GnomeSlice

@Oak Music/audio sharing platform.

It's pretty neat, they have a new version of the site in beta right now too.

Wipqozn

19:33

@badp Yeah, there is.

Oak

@GnomeSlice so, just sharing? Or is it some social mix/edit platform?

GnomeSlice

soundcloud.com/gnomeslice

@Oak There's not really any mixing or editing, but there's comments, sharing, favourites, reposting, following, etc.

Powerlord

Boring Meeting ETA 25 minutes! :(

GnomeSlice

So yeah, there's definitely a social aspect to it.

Powerlord

I didn't bring a pillow with me today

OrigamiRobot

19:34

@GnomeSlice Here, schools close at an inch or less.

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot wat

I don't even put on SHOES for an inch of snow if I'm going out to get the paper or something...

pixel

England grinds to a halt if we get a couple of inches of snow

badp

@Powerlord ~ Remember when you tried to unmod me twice? ~

GnomeSlice

I don't actually like the Soundcloud beta site.

pixel

@GnomeSlice they've changed soundcloud?

GnomeSlice

19:36

@pixel They've had a new version in private beta for a long time.

It adds a whole bunch of new social aspects to it, but it's confusing and hard to navigate.

pixel

oh private, that explains why it doesn't look any different

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice In our defense, an inch of snow usually means ice underneath.

GnomeSlice

@pixel I'm surprised you haven't gotten any invites.

@OrigamiRobot That's often true, actually. Black ice is the worst.

pixel

I probably have, I pay so little attention to my email

GnomeSlice

@pixel It shows up right on soundcloud.

pixel

19:37

@GnomeSlice if you log in right?

user15026

@fbueckert Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

GnomeSlice

@pixel Well, yeah.

user15026

I am going to have to pick up the rest of these books.

pixel

I will have a play around with it in aminute then

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Thought you'd enjoy them.

pixel

19:38

well, a few minutes, I'm just heading down to the restaurant

badp

@pixel Don't believe you're special for that

You guys are special in many ways, but not being prepared for snow is not one of them.

pixel

@badp I never implied we were -.-

GnomeSlice

@Oak Soundcloud is also really neat because they support people in the community who develop various apps that interact with soundcloud in different ways.

Gaming Topics From Outside

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Q: Comparison of Cloud Services

I am trying to find a comparison of cloud services and platforms offered today. Is there any research article or something similar that could give me the numbers? Not concerned about the price, but about parameters like, latency, responsiveness etc.

cloud cloud-hosting gaming

Oak

@GnomeSlice that's kinda cool

GnomeSlice

19:39

@Oak Lemme find a cool one that I remember.

@Oak spectrogr.am for example.

badp

A typical day of snow in Italy

GnomeSlice

Although most of them are more useful.

badp

(yes, that's a three hundred seventy five minutes delay. That train broke and the recovery train sent to help also broke.)

Oak

@GnomeSlice nice :)

GnomeSlice

Silly non-Canadians

fbueckert

19:42

@OrigamiRobot Yeah, and? Ice is a part of snow. We get tons of ice.

GnomeSlice

I love that scene. =]

fbueckert

@GamingTopicsFromOutside That's shopping rec if ever I saw one.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert Ice!

I want to watch that movie again.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice That was a good movie, yeah.

GnomeSlice

> Whatsa matter, you guys cold?

Hahahahahahaha

►

fbueckert

19:44

@OrigamiRobot Wait until you encounter loose snow on top of ice.

Not even boots help you much with that.

GnomeSlice

Such a good scene.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert So it doesn't snow/ice enough in NC for schools to justify the equipment needed to deal with it.

GnomeSlice

What the fuck is this shit is written all over their faces.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot That's fair.

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot Does it snow infrequently enough for them to justify being a bunch of whiner-babies? :P

Invader Skoodge

19:47

@fbueckert Yeah I want to do that before NG+.

GnomeSlice

I WANT TO PLAY Zombies. GODAMMIT.

Distance has been successfully funded!

Also, anyone want a free chiptune from a great game?

SaintWacko

Five sections complete

seven to go

GnomeSlice

Or maybe this one.

Invader Skoodge

@GnomeSlice When is the expected release?

GnomeSlice

@InvaderSkoodge Dunno, I don't have time to read the update right now.

> [NEW!] You can now back the project via PayPal: bit.ly/DistancePayPal

WAT

Invader Skoodge

19:53

@GnomeSlice You sure it's not because you don't have internet?

GnomeSlice

@InvaderSkoodge I'm at school.

They have lots of internet.

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fbueckert

Oh, speaking of Kickstarter, I wonder if Star Command is actually going to make it out this month.

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice Last winter we had no snow or ice at all.

user15026

@fbueckert Yeah, I am not really holding my breath. At this point I will be surprised that it comes out at all

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot Haha, silly people and your fake winters.

fbueckert

19:54

@OrigamiRobot Christmas ain't Christmas without some snow on the ground.

OrigamiRobot

Yea, it was the first winter I experienced with no wintery weather.

user15026

Also, we are talking about the technological singularity and how it relates to rhetoric. It is weird

GnomeSlice

I've actually had green Christmases before too.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Our snow comes more often in Jan/Feb. White Christmases are rare here.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot I re-iterate.

That's not Christmas.

GnomeSlice

19:56

@fbueckert It's happened to me in Ottawa before. But not often.

There's actually no snow here yet, surprisingly.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice We got lucky last year; we didn't get snow until Christmas Eve.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I wish it snowed on Christmas Eve, and then no other days.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Move to the coast or something.

Ask @Wipqozn if you can shack up with him. :P

Lazers

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Q: Does party size influence magic find percentage?

I have heard many a rumor going around in the Guild Wars 2 community that you get a hidden magic find buff if you are in a party of five. After looking everywhere I have found no evidence of this claim, and yet...I still create parties of random people just to get a potentially hidden buff. Every...

guild-wars-2

0

Q: What rare cars are available, and how do I find them?

I am trying to track down all the Barn Finds. Where can I find them?

forza-horizon

0

Q: what side effects are there to using law enforcer #1?

What are the effects are not removing the law enforcer #1 implant that is in you rhead when you first create a character in neocron? is It something that i should keep in or should i remove it? what does it do? thanks

neocron

user15026

@GnomeSlice Yeah I don't have snow either

Wipqozn

19:59

@fbueckert No.

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I mean... I don't have room...

I love my cat. She was lying down on the other side of the house, and I picked up my laser pointer and she came bolting into my room to play (she heard the chain).

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