The Bridge

badp

2:00 PM

@kalina still not a nice round number!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy Yup

fredley

@badp I have nearly 1,000 flags, beat that

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone what is the thing you have on your desktop with the statistics?

badp

@fredley I handled more than twice as many

kalina

@fredley he has a diamond

consider yourself beaten

fredley

2:01 PM

@kalina :(

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Rainmeter rainmeter.net/cms

Ben Brocka

@DaveMcClelland Well then I'll find my own raid boss. With blackjack. And hookers.

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone ah ok, so you've skinned it to look like your desktop

CruelCow

FTL just warned me that the enemy ship is warming up it's FTL. Both cockpit and engine are destroyed though o0

Wipqozn

@MBraedley Nope. Staying home today. My mother called me after she got to work and told me the roads are terrible, traffic is terrible, and there are a few accidents.

Ben Brocka

2:03 PM

@DaveMcClelland btw you didn't find any of the new uniques yet did you? I don't recall seeing any

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Eh, I dropped in a few text-only widgets as well as the network graph, if that's what you're asking

Rainmeter's gotten better since the last time I used it. The memory footprint is lower, and it doesn't seem to be using up as much CPU cycles

Of course, maybe that's just because I opted for something simpler this time

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone How would a pony help you stop procrastinating?

Ben Brocka

@badp Even been kicked by a pony? It's motivating

Motivate you all the way to the hospital

badp

@BenBrocka Useful if I needed motivation to go all the way to the hospital, that is true

Maybe some people find the hospital a pretty motivating place to be in anyway.

I guess Yi's one of those people.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp My browser window sits on the left side half of the screen by default, like in the screenshot. If I'm doing work, Photoshop or Sublime Edit will cover the entire desktop. It probably won't work though.

badp

2:08 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's a pretty weird setup. Also nothing prevents you from covering the pony with a background copy of Photoshop or Sublime Edit.

Ben Brocka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone what font is that?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Yeah, that's the problem.

badp

@BenBrocka Are you seriously looking for a font with no baseline? :P

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BenBrocka Celestia Medium: mattyhex.net/CMR

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I see you starred the message asking for people to comment without commenting yourself. This is a serious crime!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2:12 PM

@badp It would work better if Windows had (for the fifth, or six time), better window management

Ben Brocka

@badp Clearly the solution is to make a program where the pony can pop into the foreground if it detects you're procrastinating, say by writing a script to make a pony pop into the foreground if it (infinite loop detected)

fbueckert

And now that I'm at work,

Good morning, Bridge.

Fluttershy

I feel like this is overly broad.

Wipqozn

-1

Q: Why are Melee enemies able to attack on their first sighting intro?

I have constantly heard that the aliens can not attack on their first sighting. I discovered that rule does not apply to Melee enemies. I had a Berserker, show up, do his intro dance, and crush my soldier from the otherside of a wall. I have had a Cryssalid, show up, do his spitting because I ...

xcom-enemy-unknown

kalina

victory, I has network graph on desktop

Wipqozn

2:21 PM

NARQ in it's current form, and based on the title it looks like it could only be turned into a "Why did they do it that way?"

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn BUT SOMEONE UPVOTED IT

This is proof that pity upvotes exist.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria It was probably the guy that replied to Oak.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina There are some ridiculous Rainmeter setups. I'm using a very minimalist one here

kalina

I just wanted the real time network graph

StrixVaria

It was probably @GnomeSlice.

Wipqozn

2:23 PM

@StrixVaria We've had proof before. Gnomeslice has admitted on multiple occasions to giving pity up votes.

kalina

it's not the same as yours, I downloaded a bunch of random skins until I found one that looked ok and then disabled everything except the graph

fbueckert

@Wipqozn There might be an actual question in there, but right now it's disguised as a rant.

Let's see if I can fix it...

Fluttershy

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I want a desktop background like yours. >_>

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

kalina

it's too white

Fluttershy

2:29 PM

@Wipqozn Remember that one time GnomeSlice almost got suspended for 6 months?

kalina

how can you sit in the dark with such a white background

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina I don't... sit in the dark

Ben Brocka

@kalina MS paint + bukcet tool

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

My room is quite well lit

kalina

:O

Wipqozn

2:29 PM

@Fluttershy When was this?

Fluttershy

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Clearly I would need a black background, and Fluttershy saying something instead of Twilight.

@Wipqozn <12 hours ago.

kalina

@Fluttershy obviously fluttershy would be saying 'yay'

Ben Brocka

@Fluttershy Grab the font, a high res PNG and MS paint and you could make it in a minute

kalina

+ background colour

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy Oh, yeah. THought you were referring to something else.

kalina

2:30 PM

+ text

that image already has a transparent background

Fluttershy

@kalina She could still be saying "Stop procrastinating.." It would just need to be followed by "um... I-If you want to..."

Lazers

2

Q: How do you get pass the agony wave for jade maw boss in Fractal of the Mist at 40+ difficulty scaling?

At this point in time you can only get a max of 30 agony resistance(AR) which is insufficient for surviving the agony that hits you when fighting the jade maw boss at this level. I can only imagine this getting worse as you approach FotM 50 and 60 where AR won't help at all. What strategies and ...

guild-wars-2

kalina

@Fluttershy lol

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy The font is Celestia Medium. Here are some Fluttershy vectors: browse.deviantart.com/?q=fluttershy+vector. Grab a tool like Paint.NET and go nuts

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Stop procrastinating... sometime

Ben Brocka

2:31 PM

Clearly Angel should be the one scolding you

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka BL2 Angel?

Fluttershy

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm at work! Clearly the only solution is for me to tell you what I want and expect to find it in the backlog later today. Duh.

Ben Brocka

@SaintWacko No the MLP rabbit

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Oh fine... since I'm procrastinating anyway

Sterno

too many ponies

Fluttershy

2:32 PM

<3

kalina

I struggle finding a sonic rainboom at 5760x1080

Fluttershy

Ooh! Throw an "... I'm sorry..." in it somewhere. I really need it to... pop. =P

kalina

otherwise my desktop wallpaper would be a sonic rainboom

fbueckert

-4

Q: Are Berserkers and Cryssalids supposed to be able to attack me when I discover them?

I have constantly heard that the aliens can not attack on their first sighting. I discovered that rule does not apply to melee enemies, apparently. I had a Berserker show up, do his intro dance, and crush my soldier from the other side of a wall. I have had a Cryssalid show up, do his spitti...

xcom-enemy-unknown

Fluttershy

@Kalina Is your desktop a tv?

fbueckert

2:33 PM

@Wipqozn Check that out; better?

Ben Brocka

@kalina you use a double wide wallpaper?

kalina

@Fluttershy no I have 3 1920x1080 monitors

so triple width

yeah I have 17 triple width wallpapers in a rotation

clouds, mountains, countryside that kind of thing

Ben Brocka

I just duplicate, almost no one has double wide, let alone triple wide, wallpapers

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Let me see... triple width wallpapers

Double width is fairly common. Triple is much harder to look for

Fluttershy

@YiJiang'sEvilClone If you need relevant info for my background... It's 1600x900. >_>

Ben Brocka

2:35 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Depends on what you're looking for. For anything even half obscure it's a pain to even find 1080 wallpapers sometimes

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka Oh. Not familiar with MLP

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Didn't find anything relevant, but I did find this

Hmm, hotlinking and imgur blocked

SaintWacko

@kalina What is a sonic rainboom? It sounds kinda awesome

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

That's a first

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Indeed.

Ben Brocka

2:37 PM

fbueckert

Sounds very...matrix-y.

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka Wallbase ftw!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

wallbase.cc/home

Ben Brocka

@SaintWacko I don't know the sites, I just google image search for "X wallpaper" and set the size to Large in search tools

Fluttershy

@SaintWacko A sonic rainboom is at least 20% cooler than a regular rainboom.

SaintWacko

2:39 PM

@BenBrocka Use wallbase. Much better for finding wallpapers

@Fluttershy I don't even know what a regular rainboom is

Ben Brocka

@SaintWacko Huh, 162 disgaea wallpapers. Not bad

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Ben Brocka

They REALLY like brunettes. And Superman. Possibly brunette superman

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BenBrocka No surprise there. At least the search defaults to SFW

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Most of the internet is made up of adolescent boys.

Gaming Topics From Outside

2:42 PM

0

Q: A script format markup and generator

I work on creating online games, and in my work sometimes I need to script game events. As an example, here is a very simple script format: ID,ID,ID where "ID" has to be a number from the following table that is weighted: value,weight 1,3 2,2 3,1 so I write a tool to generate random scripts b...

script generator markup gaming

Fluttershy

@SaintWacko It's like a sonic boom. But it creates a rainbow.

Oak

@fbueckert not any more

Used to be the case

But according to recent papers, social sites - such as twitter and facebook - are actually dominated by adolescent girls

Or at least, that's what somebody told me :) but he has experience in that field

Ben Brocka

@Oak Hence the justin spam

Wipqozn

@fbueckert looks fine

Oak

@BenBrocka precisely

CruelCow

2:45 PM

@GamingTopicsFromOutside What happened to the avatar?

Fluttershy

@BenBrocka LEAVE JUSTIN BIEBER ALONE

Ben Brocka

@CruelCow looks like it lost it's transparency

Oh, right, that's one of the goodies of SE using imgur to replace gravatar in some places

Fluttershy

I am bored.

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy Eat a cookie. Problem solved.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

There we go: "Fluttershy death stare" - fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/218/b/f/…

Fluttershy

2:48 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That'd be perfect for my wallpaper! <3

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Nice

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot I don't have any cookies. =(

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Make/go buy cookies?

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy So if a regular rainboom is a sonic boom that creates a rainbow, what is a sonic rainboom?

CruelCow

@OrigamiRobot It involves screwdrivers and hedgehogs.

Fluttershy

2:50 PM

@OrigamiRobot If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

@SaintWacko I'm at work. =(

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy Afford it? What?

CruelCow

Does the Magicka free weekend include the single player?

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot You heard me. NEXT TOPIC

Ben Brocka

@CruelCow Sonic's coming out party was rather over dramatic

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy NO I AM NOT SPEAKING TO YOU UNTIL YOU ANSWER MY POINTLESS QUESTIONS

Fluttershy

2:51 PM

@CruelCow I dunno. =(

So, Hot Topic sells WeLoveFine stuff. They had the Rainbow Dash hoodie with wings and a mane.

Anyone know if PSN is back up? It was extended last night, and was supposed to come back up in the wee hours of the morning, but it wasn't when I checked.

Ben Brocka

I didn't check

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Me too :(

Fluttershy

GG Sony...

Ben Brocka

@Fluttershy according to their times listed ,it should be up: support.us.playstation.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/237/~/… but I dont' see a confirmation of it being back up. It's supposed to have a banner here when the network is down: support.us.playstation.com and there's no banner

Fluttershy

@BenBrocka Well... Hopefully it's up and running when I get off work. I have wallet credit to spend. <_<

Ben Brocka

2:58 PM

Buy all the things

all of them

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