The Bridge

Looks like Ron Maimon is right, and the efficiency is pretty much the same for a microwave oven and an electric stove. There are some results of an actual comparison for boiling a cup of water (the method does not look very accurate though, and the models used are old) at http://michaelbluejay.c...

kalina

1:35 PM

@fredley nobody will tell us, we just get hints about it taking place in the Mathematics channel

fredley

@kalina What on earth was he doing in there?

kalina

answering flags, I duno, I was asleep at the time

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

IIRC he wasn't banned for things he did in chat

That wouldn't have gotten him a ban from the main site

badp

you are both incorrect

kalina

@badp pray tell

fredley

1:36 PM

@badp Pray enlighten us, @badp

badp

it was for what he's been saying in this chatroom

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Oh, hmmm. Okay.

kalina

@badp have those things been removed from the chat log?

fredley

@badp Give us the jist

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@fredley *gist. Sorry.

badp

1:39 PM

I'm sure you can think of at least one thing

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone :'-(

LessPop_MoreFizz

The math incident was merely highly visible and occurred in close proximity to other remarks.

fredley

@badp Well yes, but what was the event that tipped the balance?

badp

although it was no one thing by itself

fredley

@LessPop_MoreFizz What was the math incident?

kalina

1:39 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz are you are not a moderator, you're allowed to detail what happened in the math room :P

fredley

@badp Well yes, I understand that. What I want to know is what converted the 6-month suspension from a threat to an actual event?

badp

it's not my place to say

suspensions are private matters and if you were on a "fuck up once and you're gone six months" condition you would know

LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina Math people flagged stupid shit. I made a joke about them being the only people that cast flags more trivial than Gnome. Gnome proceeded to head into mathchat to see for himself and reprimand them for making stupid flags.

kalina

@LessPop_MoreFizz I imagine that part of that includes failing to articulate his reprimanding in a way that didn't result in him getting flagged to hell

what did he do in here?

badp

Unrelated to the suspension

somebody flagged gnome

flag got quickly rejected

some guy came here saying that our flagging standards are too low, our room is very lenient

kalina

1:48 PM

well as it's not their room that's not really any of their business is it

badp

I told him off because if you are going to argue stuff on a room by room basis he should do so in his own room, and if there are instead global standards to be upheld this room is way more laid back than many others

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

... and?

badp

later that day another weird flag, one of many, came from Maths

gnome went there to lecture these

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Was it the same person?

badp

I also told off gnome once my palm disconnected from my face

LessPop_MoreFizz

1:50 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone No.

badp

no

LessPop_MoreFizz

The math flag was just very very dumb.

kalina

most flags I've ever seen from other rooms would never happen if it was said in here

badp

the flags kept on and gnome continued, my pin notwithstanding

eventually he got told off by others here and he snapped

LessPop_MoreFizz

Put another way, Gnomes long suspension has as much to do with math as World War I does with the assassination of the Archduke.

kalina

1:52 PM

so it was just gnome being gnome

badp

in the meantime other mods took the situation in their hands and put off the flames

kalina

it all sounds very silly

LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina Basically.

kalina

but he has been warned enough times

you'd think somebody who has been told that the next time they get banned it will be for six months would behave a little

badp

this is the end of the public side of things that happened yesterday

kalina

1:53 PM

@badp well thanks for sharing that much

badp

, though you would be mistaken in believing that it was just yesterday's snapping

kalina

well he's known for like a month or so that he was close to being banned

Lazers

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Q: Rushing strategy in Dota 2

If the enemy team consists of late game carrys it might be a good winning strategy to push as hard as you can to finish the game as soon as possible. However when the standard laning phase ends, teams start to go together and it becomes dangerous to stay on the lane alone or with another teammate...

dota-2

Michel Ayres

@kalina Thanks ^_^

kalina

I just printed out an email, it printed everything on one page and then page two contained a single line of text saying "Think of the trees - do you really need to print this email?"

the irony is not wasted on me -.-

LessPop_MoreFizz

2:02 PM

@kalina Previewing printouts and printing selected pages is your friend

kalina

@LessPop_MoreFizz that's too many clicks, ctrl+P+enter is easier than all of those clicks

LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina Think of the trees.

kalina

@LessPop_MoreFizz it's not on my conscience, it wasn't me who wanted the print out and I'd already vented my frustration at not simply 'forwarding' the email

StrixVaria

Not having the ability to refund the whole passive tree in PoE pretty much means that your whole first character is a waste.

Which is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

kalina

@StrixVaria just do what I did and don't assign any points until you're comfortable with all of the other mechanics

another great piece of advice blocked by the chat ignore function

StrixVaria

2:15 PM

@kalina I guess I'm not that far in yet. I could comfortably restart or probably save up all my respec points to undo bad decisions.

I still don't know what the good decisions are yet, though.

kalina

oh you unignored me

yeah anything before level 20 is just easier to restart

StrixVaria

Now that I know the mechanics better the beginning will probably be really quick.

kalina

well all diablo clones are very similar

StrixVaria

I mean more along the lines of being comfortable with the timing of using flasks and such.

kalina

I don't know how long I'm going to play this though, it's got some clever stuff in it but it doesn't really innovate enough to make it stand out

I like the way the potions auto refill based on killing, that's quite cool

but I wouldn't say it's a "core" game mechanic

it's a much better solution to the problem of potion mashing in D1/D2 than what they did in D3 with the cooldowns

StrixVaria

2:17 PM

Yeah the potions in the game are really well-done.

SaintWacko

@kalina I'm loving the innovation in it. The flasks, the barter system

It's very similar to D2, but there is nothing wrong with that

StrixVaria

The materia-style skills are kind of neat.

kalina

oh no, it's much better to be similar to D2 than D3

StrixVaria

I really dislike everything about the passive skill system.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria I wish you could respec it more easily, but other than that it seems neat

kalina

2:18 PM

The passive skill system is a little intimidating for new players

SaintWacko

What don't you like?

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko That decisions you're expected to make before you even know the game are mostly permanent.

kalina

@SaintWacko providing you too many options with no way to undo them en-mass that you're required to populate before you actually know how the game pans out

it's the classic "Deus Ex and putting all your skill points in swimming" dilemma

StrixVaria

There's too much to take in, honestly, to be able to just "play" the game.

kalina

you can actually just "play" the game without speccing anything in the passive skill tree

Trent Hawkins

2:20 PM

@kalina But you're all set for the water temple!

kalina

I'm at level ~12 or so without spending any points yet

StrixVaria

@kalina This will probably not last through the whole game, though.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria Okay, yeah, that I don't like

kalina

ultimately I'd prefer to have the choice to make mistakes than be given abilities like in Diablo 3 though

SaintWacko

I'll probably end up remaking my current character

@kalina I love the skill gems

kalina

2:21 PM

@StrixVaria oh no, certainly not, once it gets too hard to continue though I will be able to spec all my passives and stroll through it though most likely

SaintWacko

They work almost exactly how I thought runes were going to work in D3

@kalina Yeah, that's a good idea

I should have done that

I kinda have an idea where I'm going, though

I'm headed in the direction of piercing arrows

I didn't want to go to bed last night, because I was having so much fun

kalina

I feel I won't get much sleep tonight

StrixVaria

The combat still feels a bit clunky to me.

My basic attack (not that it's useful anyway) misses half the time for no reason.

I guess that's "evade" at work, but it's stupid.

"Hey guys, you know what was fun in D2? Attacking from 2 inches away and missing 6 times in a row. Let's keep that."

kalina

lol yeah

StrixVaria

I remember using a Zealadin "woosh woosh woosh woosh woosh......woosh woosh woosh woosh woosh"

SaintWacko

2:28 PM

@kalina I didn't last night :(

Actually, I'm really not that sad about it

Lazers

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Q: How can I knock people out?

So far the only way I've found to take people down without killing them is Sleep Darts. None of my skills (that I've noticed) seem to be able to knock people out/put them to sleep. I noticed the "parry" button is also "choke" but when sneaking up on someone and pressing parry I just block, I don'...

dishonored

kalina

I was playing around with it most of lastnight, and then went to bed at a normal time

Ender

I FUCKIN DID IT WITH THE KESTRAL LAYOUT 1, AND NO REPAIRS IN BETWEEN THE 3 PHASES NEITHER

WHAT

COME AT ME BRO

SaintWacko

@Ender Nice!

Ender

COME. AT. ME. BRO.

kalina

2:29 PM

@Ender Hull breach: warning

SaintWacko

@kalina I stayed up about an hour past the time I usually go to bed

kalina

hi @GnomeSlice

Ender

puu.sh/1SqlS

kalina

hey if I added @GnomeSlice as explicit write access

would that circumvent his chat ban in here?

jmfsg

@kalina no

kalina

2:32 PM

ok

not like I was actually going to try it, I was just curious

badp

The neighbour's vacuum cleaner sounds roughly like a curfew siren

also they've started loudly listening to the last thing I'd expect in this neighbourhood, the skyrim theme

followed by other unidentifiable music

Ender

ironically enough, I got a higher score on one of my failed runs. Ain't that a bitch

Trent Hawkins

@badp Ooh... is it Lindsey Stirling's rendition?!

badp

@TrentHawkins The original version I believe

Trent Hawkins

@badp soo.... not youtu.be/BSLPH9d-jsI then?

badp

2:41 PM

@TrentHawkins <fi>I calculate a 2% probability that what you linked is what they played</fi>

Ben Brocka

Klout's job ads are exactly as douchey as you'd expect

badp

@BenBrocka You just aren't bro enough

Ben Brocka

Bro isn't bro enough, you gotta be dudebro to bro with these brosephs

Trent Hawkins

@badp Oh yeah?! well... <navi>HEY! Listen!</navi>

badp

@BenBrocka I guess excessive amount of brottitude helps in your interbroview

Ben Brocka

2:44 PM

You gotta have brotacular amounts of bro. The job's going to be bronominal

badp

@BenBrocka Asbronomical amounts of bro

fbueckert

Good morning, Bridge

Ben Brocka

Gotta be bro at the brolecular level

fbueckert

After attempting to hack up a lung, I have dosed myself into seeming normality.

user15026

@fbueckert Morning

badp

2:48 PM

@BenBrocka Abromically bro

user15026

@winterswift There were no muffins when I woke up :(

badp

You need brotons in your atoms and broteins in your food

user15026

Also, for the record? A kitchen timer is not a terrible alarm clock.

Trent Hawkins

@fbueckert You! be cured by tomorrow!

badp

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