The Bridge

7:00 PM

@AshleyNunn An answer detailing how it's supposed to work will tell me if mine if broken or not.

user15026

@GnomeSlice But you ask so MANY specific things, that it is damn near impossible to answer all of them

@GnomeSlice Changing the word "question" to the word "point" doesn't change the fact that you're still asking four separate questions.

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy They weren't separate questions to begin with, people just assume so because of the word.

user15026

@GnomeSlice They are though.

GnomeSlice

I want to know how steam's download manager works. All of that shit is part of the way steam handles downloads.

Fluttershy

7:01 PM

Is this how this works?

What causes these games, and only these games to 'stick' in my list of current downloads?

How do I remove items from my Downloads page?

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy Also related to how steam handles downloads.

Fluttershy

How is this page supposed to display content?

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy slightly less related, but that's a dupe so I can remove it

@Fluttershy yep. how steam handles downloads

Fluttershy

Either that's four, or I never grasped the concept of counting.

user15026

@Fluttershy Nope, thats four. Or I cant count either

GnomeSlice

7:03 PM

If I asked 'how does steam downloads work' I'd probably get 'games show as paused or completed or downloading in the downloads tab' as an answer and there's more to it than that. Unless I specify that I want information about all of the features, I won't get information about them all in my answers.

So I did.

user15026

@GnomeSlice which is totally fine

user15026

but

user15026

you are asking FOUR questions

user15026

in ONE

Powerlord

@Fluttershy That's OK, you'll get to learn all about digital roots in 999 when AshleyNunn is done with it.

GnomeSlice

7:04 PM

@AshleyNunn No... I'm not. You just said what I said was fine, and that's what this is.

user15026

@Powerlord That stuff blows my mind

GnomeSlice

They're phrased as questions, sure.

Fluttershy

@Powerlord I don't know what that means...

user15026

@GnomeSlice I said BUT

GnomeSlice

If I said 'I'd like information about the progress bar', what does that sound like I'm asking for?

user15026

7:04 PM

@Fluttershy You will!

Powerlord

@Fluttershy ...but you'll learn. :D

GnomeSlice

You could say 'it's white'.

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice That's what downvotes are for.

I'm done arguing this with you. I'm casting my close vote because you fail to see reason here.

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy So I should post a vague question and downvote all of the shitty answers instead of explaining what I want.

@Fluttershy Yes, I'm always the one 'failing to see reason' aren't I.

You don't have to be a douchebag.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Chill, man.

Fluttershy

7:06 PM

@GnomeSlice No. You should post a good question about what you want to know, but keep it in scope. As for the downvoting? Yes. If an answer doesn't answer your question that is what downvotes are for.

@GnomeSlice You're lucky I don't flag this for calling me a douchebag.

Powerlord

So, how about those [insert sports team]?

Ullallulloo

@Powerlord Beat the Lions.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Powerlord Bloodbath Monday has been particularly bloody this year.

Ullallulloo

Wait...

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Ullallulloo The Lions lost yesterday.

Ullallulloo

7:08 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yes, we beat the Lions. That's what I said.

user15026

@Powerlord Local Junior Hockey Team is not doing so well, and that makes me a sad Ashley.

Fluttershy

@Powerlord What are sports?

user15026

@Fluttershy Live Action Video Games! But usually without guns.

Powerlord

►

MBraedley

@AshleyNunn but team Canada is doing good at world juniors

user15026

7:09 PM

@MBraedley Which is part of why my team is doing not so good XD

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy I still don't see how posting a question and just downvoting every answer because nobody knows what I'm asking about is better than detailing exactly what I'm looking for.

Maybe it's just me.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Because you are asking like four questions!

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn No I'm notttttttttt

SaintWacko

Afternoon, Bridge!

user15026

@SaintWacko Afternoon!

GnomeSlice

7:10 PM

If I rephrased them to not be questions and just explain what I want, would that be better?

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn I gave my cats a catnip toy yesterday :D

They're so cute on catnip!

They're like kittens :)

GnomeSlice

Instead of 'how does this progress bar work' I could say 'first, I don't understand how this progress bar works'.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Petulant tone doesn't change the facts - your question is too crowded

user15026

@SaintWacko I am saving the new catnip sock I bought for my cat as a reward post-move in a couple weeks. He gets all adorable and silly.

Ullallulloo

But then the Packers lost so I feel sad I guess.

GnomeSlice

7:11 PM

Also, unrelatedly

12

Q: Has anyone ever written anything on the particulars of GLaDOS' voice processing?

One of things I'm particularly interested is why and how they transformed Ellen McLain's voice to GLaDOS' musical one. I don't think it's entirely a natural effect by voice acting, though I have to admit I was impressed when I listened to McLain's unaided attempt at GLaDOS on a commentary just n...

This is too localized.

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn My dog keeps trying to steal the catnip :P

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice Not really.

user15026

@SaintWacko How do your cats take that?

Ullallulloo

Too localized isn't used much.

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice Seems more off topic to me

@AshleyNunn Depends on how high they are

Ben Brocka

7:13 PM

@GraceNote got the Conquest ending. While depressing IMO it's much better written than...really most of the rest of the story. Odd so much work went into an ending that's absurdly impossible to find unless you already know of it. Harder to get than the true ending too

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo Uh. Too localized in time.

What if someone hadn't wrote one but has now.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice It's not too localized at all.

@GnomeSlice You are being far too literal.

Lazers

0

Q: Minecraft Bug Why wont my compass point to my Spawnpoint (It doesn't point at all)

When I try to use my compass the arrow/needle doesn't move!

minecraft

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice What if someone wrote one what?

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz I got a question closed for asking about the size of a game client.

LessPop_MoreFizz

7:14 PM

@GnomeSlice Also, then it would call for an updated answer, not being too localized.

GnomeSlice

@SaintWacko 'something on the particulars or GLaDOS' voice processing'

Ben Brocka

I'm honestly surprised the conquest ending came from the same people as the extreme strawman piracy group and such...

user15026

@SaintWacko Mine gets really protective. XD

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz So mine shouldn't have been closed, wtf. Everyone told me it was too localized.

Wow, it got DELETED

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice Which I don't really agree with.

GnomeSlice

7:15 PM

Bullshit

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice Non-dupe closures do automatically.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz Okay, let me put it to you a different way, then. If I asked if anyone had ever written about what software and techniques they used to do the 3D modelling in the Halo series, would that be acceptable?

Because this feels like exactly the same thing.

user15026

@gnomeslice I think you need to watch your anger levels here, btw. Just a friendly reminder.

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn I'm not angry. How come whenever I come up with an example to explain what I'm trying to say, you think I'm angry?

user15026

@GnomeSlice Your language.

LessPop_MoreFizz

7:17 PM

@GnomeSlice Stop being a pedant about the askers choice of wording. Would you like me to edit the question to "How was the Voice Processing for GLaDOS done? Can I replicate it?" just to shut you the fuck up?

@GnomeSlice You are being like the people who got angry about questions phrased as "Is it possible" rather than "How do I" when the question is functionally identical in either case.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice It would probably be on-topic, but likely not very interesting since it doesn't seem very unique, so it'd get downvoted.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz You should edit the title of that question, doesn't sound like he's asking how to recreate it until the very end.

Ullallulloo

GLaDOS's voice is more unique and interesting.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz This is probably the exact opposite of what is true.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice It is exactly what you're doing. The asker phrased his question under the assumption that he would be pointed to an external resource. That's the only thing wrong with the question.

Mana

7:19 PM

yo, what's up?

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo Well, it's interesting anyway. But wait, did you just say that people downvote things they don't find interesting?

What is the point of that.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice To provide another example, you are flipping out the same way people stupidly did any time the word 'guide' shows up in a question for a while.

@GnomeSlice The point of it is to discourage the future asking of things they don't find interesting, and to cause that uninteresting content to be buried - by contrast, content they do find interesting is upvoted, in hopes of promoting it to other people.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz No. I just read the title. If his question was actually what his title is, it would be bad. But he wants to know how to recreate it. That should have been his title.

LessPop_MoreFizz

It's a fairly common way of using voting.

GnomeSlice

I was confused.

LessPop_MoreFizz

7:21 PM

@GnomeSlice Yes, so you are doing the same thing as the idiots who flip out over the word 'guide'.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz So if someone plays a game you're not interested in, you shouldn't downvote it so he stops asking about it?

@LessPop_MoreFizz I was basing my argument entirely off the question title.

3

Q: How the heck does Steam's 'Downloads' page work, and how do I remove items From It?

Steam seems to arbitrarily keep things in the Downloads screen and have them show up later. Lately, most things that I have been downloading one or two days previously (why would anyone want to see recent downloads in progress, right?), and my Downloads page has a bunch of unfinished stuff I hav...

steam

@Mana Do you think we should close that

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice More to the point, you of all people should know by now that judging questions suitability purely by their title is moronic.

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz This.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz Right. But why wouldn't he ask 'how can I recreate her voice' instead of something really dumb sounding

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice Yes, which, for the 5th time, is exactly what the idiots who obsess over the word guide do.

Fluttershy

7:22 PM

Ahem...

LessPop_MoreFizz

Listen @GnomeSlice, If you're not going to stop being willfully dense, I am not going to continue engaging with you.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Because he felt that that was what he wanted to know

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz Would you shut the fuck up, I'm not just doing it to piss you off.

LessPop_MoreFizz

You are capable of forming complex thoughts like an adult human being, and I am fucking tired of having to speak to you as if you are a small child who is not.

GnomeSlice

Well, I originally brought it up because asking if someone had written anything about something at the time of the post is too localized in time, but them someone explained to me that it's not too localized in time.

I was basing it off the fact that I had a similar question closed...

LessPop_MoreFizz

7:24 PM

Here's a tip to get you started: Part of being able to engage on a subject like this, is taking the 1 seconds away from getting angry to actually understand what the fuck it is that you are getting angry about.

@GnomeSlice Your question is in no way similar to that one.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz Why do you people keep trying to tell me that I'm angry.

@LessPop_MoreFizz answer subject to change over time

yes it is

Mana

@GnomeSlice Because you just told LessPop to "shut the fuck up".

user15026

@GnomeSlice Because your cursing and insults seem to dictate that you are

Fluttershy

Poe's law

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user15026

@Fluttershy Ah, i was trying to remember what that was called. :) Thank you for finding it for me!

GnomeSlice

7:25 PM

@Mana He was being a dick. This isn't a pissing contest anyway why are we arguing about arguing.

user15026

@GnomeSlice You need to calm down, me thinks.

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn For the last time, stop telling me that, I'm not angry.

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice For someone trying to avoid a 6 month chat ban, you sure are letting the name calling flow today...

SaintWacko

How about everyone just moves to a new topic

I tried to change the topic to cats, but failed :(

user15026

@GnomeSlice Then maybe you need to start taking a five second break between typing and sending to make sure you aren't going to do things that indicate you are in a heightened emotional state (not just anger)

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user15026

7:26 PM

@SaintWacko My cat is trying to eat my pizza

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Hehe, my cats try to do that

Fluttershy

I HATE CATS

Ullallulloo

@AshleyNunn This is pretty much what I do always.

user15026

@Fluttershy I hate your FACE

GnomeSlice

I'm frustrated, sure. I don't get why it's localized for me and not for him. =[

SaintWacko

7:27 PM

They especially love turkey legs, for some reason. When I'm sitting on the couch eating one, they all gather around and stare at it

user15026

@GnomeSlice Different stuff.

Ullallulloo

It keeps me from sounding dumb lots.

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice Here's a solution, too. Since for some reason it always seems to be @LessPop_MoreFizz on the receiving end of your overreactions, just hide messages from @LessPop_MoreFizz and problem solved.

Mana

@GnomeSlice because they're different questions.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn This this this this this. @GnomeSlice Read this. Do this. Not only will it allow you to assess the emotional tone of what you say, you might also be able to catch yourself before you say something very very stupid because this whole 'operating without a filter' thing just isn't working out for you.

user15026

7:27 PM

@SaintWacko My roommate's cat goes nuts for icecream.

GnomeSlice

@Mana How are they not both subject to change over time?

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz Amen, not-my-brother-but-gonna-call-you-brother

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice Every question is subject to change over time. Look at Minecraft, or WoW, or League of Legends.

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Seriously? Ice cream?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice Since when is 'subject to change over time' synonymous with 'too localized'?

Hint: it's not.

user15026

7:28 PM

@SaintWacko Yep. Any kind. She gets RIGHT IN YOUR FACE about it. Tries to lick the bowl and everything.

user15026

That and margarine.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz That's what I was told 'too localized in time' was. My question got closed for exactly that reason. :(

user15026

She's a weird cat.

Fluttershy

@AshleyNunn The expression on my gravatar sums up my reaction to this.

LessPop_MoreFizz

I think your problem here is that you completely misunderstood the reason asking about the filesize of a game was not a well received question.

SaintWacko

7:29 PM

@AshleyNunn Wow, I don't think I've heard of a cat wanting ice cream before

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz It was closed as too localized.

user15026

@Fluttershy ...damn you, Fluttershy-face. I can't keep up even mock anger.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice Why do you assume 'in time'?

> This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice No, because you're not the target audience. If it's in a tag that you frequent, and you don't think that it's a common problem though...

user15026

@SaintWacko Yeah, the first time it happened we were both like...uh, cat? Cat, what are you doing?

SaintWacko

7:30 PM

@AshleyNunn Cat, staaaaahp

LessPop_MoreFizz

Emphasis mine.

Fluttershy

@AshleyNunn You should answer my Adventure Time question.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz 'a specific moment in time'. The general consensus was that the game size would likely get larger with each update.

user15026

@SaintWacko Precisely!

user15026

@Fluttershy Ooooooh I didn't know you asked one!

SaintWacko

7:30 PM

@AshleyNunn I usually share my food with my cats if they want it

Also, why does my computer keep lagging?

I blame @Wipqozn

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice You just... completely ignored the emphasis there...

user15026

@SaintWacko If I don't have chocolate or something else that will kill her, I let her lick the bowl when I am done XD

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Hehe

You have a spoiled cat :P

user15026

@SaintWacko No, my cat is not spoiled.... >.> my roommate's is XD

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm the only one who plays Wurm? This argument makes no sense to me, we allow questions about shit that even I consider to be too localized in terms of target audience

Fluttershy

7:32 PM

@AshleyNunn Chocolate is bad for cats? I know it's bad for dogs, but I didn't know it was bad for cats...

user15026

(That might be a lie. I might also have a spoiled cat)

user15026

@Fluttershy Yeah, they aren't supposed to have it either, afaik.

Ullallulloo

@LessPop_MoreFizz No, I'm pretty sure his was closed for the time reason, although I'm not 10k, so I can't check.

SaintWacko

All our pets are spoiled :D

Ullallulloo

You defended Gnome though.

StrixVaria

7:32 PM

Why is there no way to flag a comment for moderator attention (rather than just spam).

Oh hm maybe there is, but the tooltip is misleading.

Fluttershy

@Ullallulloo Is there a way to list all deleted questions and stuff?

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria What other attention do you need?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy No.

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko Flagging this to get a mod to fix his link.

SaintWacko

"Not a comment"? :P

GnomeSlice

7:33 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I was involved in the closing. I think I closed it myself after being told it was too localized in time.

Ullallulloo

@Fluttershy This is the link though.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria Oh, I see

user15026

@fluttershy my DS is dead atm - you need 12 stars to level everything, right?

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice It's @Wipqozn's fault.

SaintWacko

The way to do that is to come in here and point it out to a mod :P

user15026

7:34 PM

Want to make sure my math is not borked.

GnomeSlice

My point is that if he wants to know how to reproduce it, that should be his question title. Putting that at the end of his question body doesn't make that the question if the title is something completely different.

StrixVaria

@Fluttershy Only for mods.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice Their the same question though.

Fluttershy

@AshleyNunn Correct.

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo How can I be the only one who doesn't agree with this.

user15026

7:35 PM

@Fluttershy Sweet, than I have a rocking answer for yoooou

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice I can't speak to what other voters did. There are 175 people with close votes. Improper closures are relatively common. Personally, I consider questions about file size to be pretty fucking stupid, and would be inclined to vote accordingly.

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo To me, the current question title is like asking 'Has anyone ever made dance remix of the Halo theme?'

Ullallulloo

Except that that title would almost require advising using specific software, where this one doesn't.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz I closed it myself after everyone told me it was too localized... people HERE, regulars, important folks.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice And again, I'm telling you to stop being a pedant about question titles, because we have dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of questions that are phrased as "Where can I find a guide to X" that are answered not with links, but with actual explanations of X.

GnomeSlice

7:38 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm not being a pedant about the wording or whatever, to me it sounds like an entirely different question.

1 min ago, by GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo To me, the current question title is like asking 'Has anyone ever made dance remix of the Halo theme?'

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice From what I can find, it was @Wipqozn's fault only pretty much.

Fluttershy

In regards to @GnomeSlice's "too localized" question, would the proper course of action be to undelete it due to a content dispute? And just have Gnome make a meta about it?

SaintWacko

@Ullallulloo It's always @Wipqozn's fault

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice I'm not sure that would be too localized, but I definitely would downvote it.

@Fluttershy Maybe.

Mana

okay, that's enough.

Fluttershy

7:40 PM

A suspension? For what?

Powerlord

@AshleyNunn DS is dead? :/

Ullallulloo

@Fluttershy Calling Gnome a bleeping idiot.

SaintWacko

The removed message

Mana

Calling Gnomeslice a "fucking idiot" is a good reason.

GnomeSlice

:7474361 Are you actually just blinded by rage, or what because to read about it he first has to know if it exists. I just find questions like 'does x exist (loosely related to a game)' to be kind of bad in general.

Why is everyone always mad at me. =[

Fluttershy

7:40 PM

@Mana Okay. I didn't have time to read the message before the flag got validated.

user15026

@Powerlord Well, in the whole "did the death blink and died" so now it needs to charge for a while. Not actually OMG panic dead.

Powerlord

@AshleyNunn Oh, OK.

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn plays a violin sadly

StrixVaria

I think it's funny that it deletes the message and then everyone just echoes the message again immediately afterwards.

SaintWacko

(and badly)

GnomeSlice

7:41 PM

Am I not allowed to have a different opinion without everyone getting angry at me. :(

Powerlord

So, how about that Bacon?

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria I noticed that. Hence why I didn't quote it in my answer to @Fluttershy lol

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice When you call people douchebags for expressing their difference in opinions, no you are not.

KitFox

@Gnome You want to come over to EL&U and chat with us for a while?

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko I answered @Fluttershy on Steam rather than here :P

SaintWacko

7:42 PM

What's EL&U?

@StrixVaria Smart

Ullallulloo

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko English Language & Usage

SaintWacko

Ah :P

Ullallulloo

@StrixVaria Mine's purtier.

Fluttershy

@SaintWacko Those ^

GnomeSlice

7:42 PM

@Fluttershy I called you a douchebag because you made a rude remark and told me you were voting to close it because I was too dumb to get your argument.

Essentially.

user15026

@Fluttershy question answered! :D :D :D :D

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice Oi!

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice That's not what I said at all.

KitFox

Come on, @Gnome, ditch these guys and come hang with us.

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy you said I was 'failing to see reason', which suggests you think my argument is retarded.

y u guys get mad at me when I express opinions. =[

SaintWacko

7:43 PM

Seriously, guys, can we just move on to another topic?

StrixVaria

2 mins ago, by Powerlord

So, how about that Bacon?

Ullallulloo

@Powerlord I am about to eat some.

GnomeSlice

Maybe I'm just really bad at speaking.

I don't know.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria MMMM BACON I LOVE BACON

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko I was just discussing bacon today with my vegetarian coworker.

Powerlord

7:44 PM

I think it was someone at work who told me about somewhere that served Bacon Sundaes.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria How'd that go?

Powerlord

I wonder if those would taste good.

user15026

@Powerlord Burger King, I think

GnomeSlice

@KitFox How did you even get here?

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko He seemed offended that we wanted to bring our own bacon to his party at his house.

SaintWacko

7:45 PM

@GnomeSlice Magic

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice Flag party.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria Tell them they should prepare a omnitarian meal as well as their vegetarian meal

They would expect you to prepare a vegetarian meal if they were coming to your house

Ullallulloo

@StrixVaria Why's he vegetarian?

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo What, did someone flag me.

For what?

StrixVaria

@Ullallulloo Religion.

KitFox

7:46 PM

@GnomeSlice Not you, silly.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice No, LessPop got banned though.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria What religion?

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko I don't pay attention to details like that. One of the ones where you have to be a vegetarian.

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice I was sorely, sorely tempted.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria I didn't even know there were any of those

StrixVaria

7:47 PM

@SaintWacko They're mostly in India, I think.

Ullallulloo

@SaintWacko Hinduism and maybe some other Eastern ones.

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy I didn't straight up 'call' you a douchebag. Maybe I misunderstood your message, but it came across as really negative to me. Sorry.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria Ah, okay

Lazers

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Q: How can I improve my planet's approval in Galactic Civilizations 2?

I have a lot of planets that have an approval rate of 50 and. A huge number of it always comes from "population". What does it mean? Say for example this: http://imgur.com/a/Ox527 What can I do to improve my approval?

galactic-civilizations-2

Ullallulloo

=/

user15026

7:47 PM

@GnomeSlice You did though.

StrixVaria

WONDERFUL NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RELIGION IN THE BRIDGE THIS IS BETTER

2

SaintWacko

Hinduism bans beef, but I don't think it bans other meats

Ullallulloo

@SaintWacko Maybe.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria It is! It's not an argument about religions, it's a discussion

KitFox

So...do balrogs have wings?

SaintWacko

7:48 PM

@KitFox I don't think so

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn I said he didn't have to be one lol

user15026

@GnomeSlice Implying heavily that he was one

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn he was acting like one...

Ullallulloo

@StrixVaria I just meant that if he thinks it's wrong for anyone to eat meat then that's not too bad to ask people to not eat it at his house.

StrixVaria

Watching Constantine the other day, I was reminded how interesting some of the Christian mythology is.

GnomeSlice

7:49 PM

Why are we arguing about name calling.

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn, @GnomeSlice, Shhhhhhh

user15026

but honestly, I am so fed up with behaviour in here over this that I am done.

Ullallulloo

@StrixVaria ...

Powerlord

So, about those games.

user15026

@GnomeSlice .....nope, cant say anything remotely constructive to this, so I am going to go back to folding cranes out of candy wrappers

StrixVaria

7:50 PM

@Ullallulloo Stories of fallen angels and demons and horsemen of the apocalypse and such.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria Yeah, there is a lot of really cool stuff there

StrixVaria

Got some really cool themes going on there.

KitFox

But seriously. Balrogs. Wings. Huge debate.

user15026

@Powerlord I am charging my DS so it can accompany me on my long bus trips today so I can play some more 999

SaintWacko

@KitFox Really? I can't recall any depictions of them with wings

Powerlord

7:50 PM

I had forgotten how annoying the battle against Metal Gear is in Metal Gear Solid. You have to throw a Chaff grenade between like every single time you attack so it can't fire its lock-on missiles.

SaintWacko

If they had wings, how would falling have killed one?

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn I didn't even know that was possible, that's intense!

user15026

@GnomeSlice Can do it with any square bit of paper

user15026

I like using candy bar foil because they look awesome

Powerlord

And if you consider it a spoiler that you end up fighting Metal Gear in a Metal Gear game, wtf were you expecting?

SaintWacko

7:51 PM

@GnomeSlice It sounds difficult. Candy wrappers are small

user15026

Like the purple Dairy Milk foil

GnomeSlice

@SaintWacko And they don't crease like paper.

KitFox

Balrog

Balrogs are fictional demonic beings who appear in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Such creatures first appeared in print in his novel The Lord of the Rings, though they figured in earlier writings that posthumously appeared in The Silmarillion and other books. Balrogs are described as tall and menacing with the ability to shroud themselves in fire, darkness, and shadow. They frequently appeared armed with fiery whips "of many thongs", and occasionally used long swords. In Tolkien's later conception, they could not be casually destroyed—significant power was required. Only...

Powerlord

(Note: I've played 4 Metal Gear games, you fight Metal Gear in all 4)

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice This is the hard part.

KitFox

7:51 PM

> Whether Balrogs have wings (and if so, whether they can fly) is unclear.

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice Yeah, the foil ones wouldn't, anyways

user15026

@SaintWacko I am currently using the wrap from Reese's Miniatures

user15026