The Bridge

agent86

7:01 PM

@Tristan on the site? nope, still 200

Tristan

@agent86 I'm sitting at 234 for today.

agent86

of course, bounties and accepts can go over this amount

@Tristan +30 for 2 accepts, +4 for one accept you did, and one undownvote (corrected)

Ian Pugsley

@Tristan looks like two accepts of your answers, one accepted answer, and one un-downvote

Tristan

@IanPugsley Ah, yep. That's the one.

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 ha!

agent86

7:03 PM

@IanPugsley shush or I will unupdownupunvote you

OrigamiRobot

@Tristan I can un-accept if you want.

Tristan

@OrigamiRobot No thanks.

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 the false authority of @agent86 will no longer be swept under the rug! Rise up against your false ~~king~~ mod! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Tristan

Anyone know if you can download tracks from SoundCloud?

Ian Pugsley

@Tristan artists have an option to provide a download link, or provide a limited number of downloads

occasionally you'll see people use the "buy this track" link to a free DL as well

Tristan

7:05 PM

@IanPugsley darn... =(

Oh there it is! "Buy on iTunes" O.o So tiny.

Ian Pugsley

@Tristan if it ever had a public download you can definitely find it if you Google a bit

user2334

@IanPugsley Sic unupsemper tyrannis!

Ian Pugsley

@MarkTrapp lol

agent86

@IanPugsley you already used up your right to rant incoherently, criminal scum!

now get back in the bad user pen before I have to tase you

OrigamiRobot

@agent86 I read "taste" and was very creeped out.

agent86

7:08 PM

@OrigamiRobot :P~~~

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 you gave me that right, you can't repeal it now!

I haven't been properly ~~Miranda'd~~ @agent86'd! You've gotta cut me loose!

badp

ooooh TF2 update.

agent86

@IanPugsley I have modomatic immunity - I can do what I want!

OrigamiRobot

I am calling for a revolt. @agent86 could you please make an event for the revolt against you? Thanks.

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 What are you, the pope?

agent86

7:16 PM

@OrigamiRobot yeah, maybe I should start a meta thread or something.

@IanPugsley well, we mods are infallible.

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 regular infallible, or pope infallible?

agent86

Dec 17 '11 at 13:43, by agent86

badp's law of infallibility: whenever you think badp did something incorrect, he meant to do that

DarkAveril

Excuse me, I was wondering when they will announce the winners of the RP and Lol Competition that was on this last weak within Stackexchange.

Resorath

@DarkAveril Contest doesn't close until "tomorrow" at midnight UTC. so basically 4? hours from now

Probably announce it before the end of the week

agent86

@DarkAveril You'll probably want to visit this thread on our meta site, which will probably be updated some time after the contest ends

Lazers

7:18 PM

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Q: Dragon Quality vs Quantity vs Diversity?

I have what I consider a fairly solid base for my dragon park in DragonVale. What I am trying to figure out is the way I should proceed. I would like to have a park where the dragon coins and dragon food are fairly available so I can focus on expanding and laying the park out. What gives the bes...

dragonvale

DarkAveril

Ok thank you ^_^ I just want to see if I might have won something. ok thank you both.

first time ever competing in anything XD

agent86

@DarkAveril well, keep on coming back, we do lots of cool promotions and competitions :)

Resorath

@DarkAveril g.se has a lot of "good chance to win something" contests too these days. Last time I won something outside of g.se was the game "sorry" from some tv station. It just wasn't as satisfying

Rapida

@DarkAveril Plus we are all sorts of awesome

DarkAveril

lol yea I can tell XD

OrigamiRobot

7:22 PM

@DarkAveril We promise not to bite! Except maybe @agent86.

He has been known to lick people.

DarkAveril

I hope my question can win me a vid card. I need a new one badly for my compy my old one is about to kick the bucket XD.

Sterno

@DarkAveril I've won about $900 worth of stuff here in the last 3 months. Stick around. Ask good questions. Give good answers. WIN STUFF :)

DarkAveril

I have been keeping an eye on the competition and most of them are 1 or two votes behind me but every time I think I am ok someone comes and votes me Down XD but eh thats alright there is still one more chance to win something during the GG Classic.

Tristan

@Sterno I hate you... <3

Grace Note

@DarkAveril Views are the winning point for questions, actually, not votes.

badp

7:28 PM

I hate that in Tribes Ascend the generator is always so out of the way

Wipqozn

@agent86 so very, very true

@Tristan: So my friend drew me a picture of fluttershy and applejack haha

pretty awesome

badp

it's hard to get to it, it's hard to know there's a guy camping it, it's hard to get the spammer out of it too.

Tristan

@Wipqozn You should scan it and upload it here so I can see it.

Wipqozn

@Tristan I shall

Tristan

@Wipqozn Weeew!

Arda Xi

7:34 PM

Gah, trying to recover from Doctor Who withdrawal... I miss it.

OrigamiRobot

@ArdaXi We all do.

Arda Xi

:(

Re-watching the Season 5 finale now.

Ian Pugsley

@ArdaXi I thought Season 5's finale was corny but I liked it way more than Season 6's

Arda Xi

@IanPugsley I dunno... I prefer Davies' finales to Moffat's.

DarkAveril

Ah

agent86

7:39 PM

doctor who is awesome and I will jam my sonic screwdriver into an uncomfortable part of anyone's body who disagrees

Rare Candy

@ArdaXi Who?

Resorath

@agent86 Ive never even seen it. Is it a medical program?

Arda Xi

@RareCandy Eccleston and Tennant, Doctor's 9 and 10, their scripts were written by Russell T. Davies.

OrigamiRobot

@ArdaXi I love Moffat's timey-wimey stories, but I loved Davies approach to stroy arcs.

Arda Xi

Aside from a few incidental Moffat episodes.

agent86

7:40 PM

@Resorath omgwtf

Resorath

@agent86 I like "House" better personally

OrigamiRobot

@agent86 bbq

Arda Xi

@OrigamiRobot That's exactly what I've always said.

agent86

doctor who is the best science fiction show ever

Ian Pugsley

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord, a time-travelling, humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient, telepathic time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior appears as a blue police box from 1963 London, when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, he faces a variety of foes while working to save civilisations, help people and right wrongs. The programme is listed in Guinness World Records as the lon...

Resorath

7:41 PM

@agent86 You mean "Stargate SG-1"?

agent86

OF ALL TIME

Resorath

@IanPugsley haha I know Ian I was just trolling

agent86

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

Arda Xi

@OrigamiRobot Like, literally. Blink, Forest of the Dead, brilliant episodes.

Resorath

<3

Arda Xi

7:41 PM

@Resorath I hate you.

Rare Candy

@ArdaXi It was a pun

Ian Pugsley

@ArdaXi lol

Arda Xi

But that's okay, I hate lots of people.

Ian Pugsley

@Resorath I figured it out after this one :P

OrigamiRobot

@ArdaXi Forest of the Dead/Silence in the Library are my favorite episodes.

Arda Xi

7:41 PM

Not as much as people hate me, of course.

Resorath

@ArdaXi I'm okay with that. But I think I've watched stargate sg-1 and atlantis 4 times from start to finish (16? seasons worth)

Arda Xi

@OrigamiRobot Ah, that was the name.

Ian Pugsley

@Resorath I'm sorry

Arda Xi

How the hell did I put love there? I'm not thinking straight.

Sterno

@Resorath Best episode: Golfing through the Stargate

Resorath

7:42 PM

@Sterno The groundhog day one right? that one was brilliant

agent86

goes on murderous pro-doctor who rampage

LessPop_MoreFizz

So, Kanye West has a new website, which he is billing as THE FACEBOOK OF WEBSITES.

whodat.biz

Wipqozn

LessPop_MoreFizz

It is a Whois search for people to dumb to know what WHois is.

Resorath

@LessPop_MoreFizz That is a lot of scrolling for so little content

OrigamiRobot

7:44 PM

@ArdaXi If anyone had to take over for Davies, I'm glad it was Moffat, but Bad Wolf was an awesome arc. And Torchwood. And Vote Saxon.

Resorath

@LessPop_MoreFizz I don't get it. is it just a whois domain search?

Arda Xi

@OrigamiRobot And the Medusa Cascade.

And the bees disappearing.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Resorath Yes. it is just a whois domain search.

Lazers

0

Q: How can I most effectively produce food?

In terms of producing food for my dragons in Dragonvale, the cost of food vs. the time it takes to produce said food seems to be a little ridiculous. For example: I can produce 75 Zazzberries for 1000 gold in 30 minutes. However, I can also produce 800 Pumpermelons for 15,000 gold in 8 hours. Ei...

dragonvale

LessPop_MoreFizz

Except that it's also THE FACEBOOK OF WEBSITES

And has an awesome URL

Resorath

7:45 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm going to use this now from all time for everything.

Arda Xi

@LessPop_MoreFizz So can websites make a profile and befriend other websites now?

Ian Pugsley

@LessPop_MoreFizz please let him actually be doing this

Arda Xi

Can ArdaXi.com befriend Gaming.StackExchange.com?

Resorath

oh wow I must be some kind of "friend" to Kanye West. whodat.biz/#tophatandmonocle.com

Ian Pugsley

bahaha

Arda Xi

7:46 PM

Oh wow, Dreamhost puts ads in the WHOIS queries.

user2334

I like that it doesn't do exact matches

OrigamiRobot

@ArdaXi "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."

Arda Xi

@OrigamiRobot "We know who you are!"

Resorath

@ArdaXi wow I didn't even notice that. oh well Im still a fan of dreamhost.

Arda Xi

I liked them, but they're too expensive for my tastes.

OrigamiRobot

7:48 PM

@ArdaXi Needs moar caps and backticks :P

Resorath

$10/month? Their the same as 1&1 and other similar hosts

Arda Xi

@Resorath Mhm, and they're all too expensive for my tastes, just for hosting.

Ian Pugsley

@MarkTrapp haha awesome

Arda Xi

I host my site myself, same cost, but I can also run a game server, IRC, etc on it.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Ian Pugsley

7:50 PM

Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.ALL.THE.PEOPLE.WHO.SPAM.THE.WHOIS.ARE.SERIOUSLY.ANNOYING.SOMEPONY.COM
IP Address: 50.62.130.9
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: registrar.godaddy.com

Resorath

@ArdaXi I'd love to do that but I don't have the bandwith at home. I'd feel bad exploiting my work's near-unlimited-bandwith-no-firewall line

Arda Xi

@Resorath I pay for a VPS.

agent86

@ArdaXi VPS FTW. This agent86 is brought to you by: VPS.

Resorath

@ArdaXi now THAT is pricy

agent86

@Resorath mine's like $4/mo

Arda Xi

7:51 PM

@Resorath Hell no.

Resorath

please to link

wow why aren't I doing this. And you can run a LAMP stack no problem? no port restrictions?

Arda Xi

@Resorath On Fanatical, sure.

I run a LAMP stack. Well, a LNMP stack.

And their support is brilliant.

Grace Note

I love lamp.

Resorath

Well I love dreamhost's support. I might take a look at that.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote I hate the a and the p.

I strongly dislike the m.

Ian Pugsley

7:54 PM

@ArdaXi lol

@ArdaXi P for... ?

@badp PHP

@badp ALL the Ps

Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP

Resorath

@ArdaXi So whats the alternative? WIMN? I might have just made that up

Arda Xi

7:55 PM

@Resorath Winning.

Nah, I use Linux, Nginx, sadly MySQL and PHP

Mono is a brilliant alternative.

Resorath

@ArdaXi I've heard good things about Nginx and also lightHTTP. After using Microsoft SQL all week I've come to appreciate mysql's simplicity

agent86

@Resorath virpus.com - their support kind of blows, and my uptime is probably more like 95%, but it's cheap. You can run whatever you damn well please - it's like having a linux box with SSH root access

Arda Xi

@Resorath It's Lighttpd.

Resorath

@ArdaXi :/

Arda Xi

@agent86 I strongly advise against using a service with crappy support. You need that support.

Resorath

7:56 PM

@agent86 I like how on their front page they have clouds INSIDE of other clouds.

Grace Note

An interesting read, possibly, thinking about recent talks about our own newcomers and treatment thereof.

Arda Xi

@Resorath I dunno, using MSSQL with Linq is very nice.

Resorath

And yes I 100% agree support is very important.

agent86

@ArdaXi eh, I know what I'm doing, and they respond to help desk tickets pretty fast. There's not a lot of hand holding, is all

for the price I'm paying, I can't really expect them to help me troubleshoot issues that aren't related to their service

Arda Xi

@agent86 Fanatical responds to tickets within an hour usually, do as much as they can for you. 99.9% uptime guaranteed.

Resorath

7:58 PM

On dreamhost I usually get an e-mail reply back in 5ish minutes. usually with them admitting they broke something. its oddly satisfying when someone else admits they did something wrong - it SHOULD be frustrating because they have random problems... but its not.

Ian Pugsley

@ArdaXi I like MSSQL quite a bit - if I had the time/dedicated, Azure would be fun to try

agent86

like they're not going to fix my apache install

Arda Xi

Which means, if they do have downtime, full refund.

Resorath

@GraceNote You should summarize this and meta it imo

With quotes and everything!

badp

@GraceNote oh god, that's a blog? They don't have to fit everything in the wikipedia stylesheet.

Grace Note

8:00 PM

@Resorath I haven't even fully read it. Someone just tossed it in my direction with the following quote:

> What this means is that while just as many productive contributors enter the project today as in 2006, they are entering an environment that is increasingly challenging, critical, and/or hostile to their work.

badp

(a comment similar to the post that went viral earlier today about people commenting on the lack of CSS on the webpage that was the author's "coming out of the closet")

Grace Note

@badp Consistency in expectatoralisms!

Arda Xi

@badp Like we don't have to fit everything into ours?