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@OrigamiRobot Dance

@OrigamiRobot Maybe not for you!

OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz ERROR: NOT MY REAL DAD

Told you

IT IS PAST MIDNIGHT

WARNING: FLAG SPAM INITIALISED

@kalina It's 7 PM.

It's not even dinnertime.

12:04 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm sorry for your loss, fortunately for me, Stackexchange operates in a real timezone

Coronus

@LessPop_MoreFizz I can't wait for 5 PM in an hour...

@kalina StackExchange is here in New York with me, regardless of what the clocks say.

@LessPop_MoreFizz UTC > you.

I could decide to go the SE office and be there in twenty minutes if I didn't hit traffic. (This would not happen. I'd hit traffic. It'd take over an hour. I'M MAKING A POINT HERE.)

@kalina Here in the time zone with the highest concentration of power in the world, we don't really care about your fancy UTC nonsense. The sun just went down two hours ago. It's dinnertime.

@LessPop_MoreFizz subjective, VTC as off topic

Blem

12:09 AM

@kalina I 2nd that VTC

@kalina There's nothing subjective about the US East timezone containing an inordinate amount of raw concentrated power. The worlds financial and diplomatic capitols are both here, to say nothing of the capitol of the United States and the center of the US News Media and one of the two poles of the global entertainment industry.

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz That logic works for me, as I am currently waiting for my dinner delivery.

@LessPop_MoreFizz The East Coast of America is not the center of the known universe

Coronus

I'd like to temporarily switch to New York time so that I can head home and get back to my new Ni no Kuni...

@kalina I didn't say it was. I said it was the strip of earth in which the most power - political, economic, diplomatic, financial, cultural, however you measure it - is concentrated.

Blem

12:12 AM

We all know the highest concentration of power in the world is in asia, or it is just a question of time before it is

@Blem this

America just like to believe it's them

@Blem Not there yet, but getting closer with each passing year.

TIARA is letting me down

I've already flagged all the obvious stuff

I only need 3 more flags for marshall

The only thing keeping the East Coast of the US on top at this point is Asia's multipolarity - competition between Tokyo, Shanghai, Delhi, Etc. is keeping them each individually weaker than the Northeast DC-Boston Megalopolis. But obviously that's where the momentum is.

Here in the declining empire, we cling to what we have left.

I'm going to end up completely destroying my accepted flag ratio

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm English, I know how that feels

12:15 AM

@kalina Declin ing. Not decline ed.

Feel good video of the day

@LessPop_MoreFizz oooOOoooo

@MBraedley Speaking of this, a Dolphin got stuck in the Gowanus Canal today.

Q: What are dynamics of battle in Starcraft 2?

-3

...and precisely: How long are Starcraft II games now, after the growing pains are presumably over, as compared to Starcraft Original? Is there an ebb and a flow, where one side can still make it back after a decisive loss in a single battle? How decisive is micro in a battle? Are there any do...

starcraft-2

12:16 AM

(The Gowanus Canal is Brooklyns hippest SuperFUNd site.)

delete vote ^

It's really, really, really filthy.

Gowanus Canal

The Gowanus Canal, also known as the Gowanus Creek Canal, is a canal in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, geographically on the westernmost portion of Long Island. Connected to Gowanus Bay in Upper New York Bay, the canal borders the neighborhoods of Red Hook and South Brooklyn to the west and Park Slope to the east — as well as the neighborhoods of Red Hook to the north and Sunset Park to the south. There are five east-west bridge crossings over the canal, located at Union Street, Carroll Street (a landmark), Third Street, Ninth Street, and Hamilton Avenue. The Gowanus Expres...

It is basically New York Cities industrial toilet.

nobody wants to delete that super bad question?

it only needs one vote

!

12:17 AM

Lookit dat poor dolphin. :(

@LessPop_MoreFizz I said feel good, not feel crummy!

@MBraedley They rescued it!

That is feel good!

But the fact that it got there is kind of shocking.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Well then show me that picture

Though it is not the first time. There was a whale a few years ago that they nicknamed sludgie.

@MBraedley Oh fuck, rescue failed. :( I had heard that they were waiting for high tied, but I guess it died. :(

:(

Goddamnit. :(

user15026

That makes me terribly sad

FAE

12:19 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Nooooooooo. :(

Fuck, now I need to go watch ninja cat or something and pour a tall one. THANKS A LOT @LessPop!

FAE

@MBraedley Knowing him, he will not regret something that inspired someone else to imbibe.

I'mma go drink a beer for the poor dolphin.

@FAE qft.

FAE

Hehe

12:21 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz cc: @OrigamiRobot

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz In a couple hours, I will also drink a beer for the poor dolphin.

@LessPop_MoreFizz It took a while for me to actually see the Dolphin. I just thought it was a rock.

You've earned the "Marshal" badge. See your profile.

Blem

@kalina grats

and good night to you all

@Blem nn

12:39 AM

gaming.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/24720

Opinions? O_o

@kotekzot Users with 1 rep can't post answer until 8 hours pass since posting the question. It's easier to move the answer from question to a community wiki answer for someone else. — user1306322 15 mins ago

@user1306322: Maybe do that after they have a chance, though? =/ — Ullallulloo 24 secs ago

I'm thinking about declining and doing that tomorrow?

Q: What are the requirements to be shown in the battlelog leaderboard?

@Ullallulloo I honestly have no idea what the correct solution is here. =\

Lazers

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Recently I've been viewing the leaderboards and I saw that this guy has the highest K/D Ratio(64.76). But then I've found another guy whose ratio is even better(477.25!!!). So I've got that question: what are the requirements to get to the leaderboards? Do you have to have a minimum of some amou...

battlefield-3 battlelog

OMG

Play the SimCity Beta Now.
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A: Best way to deal with questions answered by the OP in the question instead of in an answer

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For the few reasonable quality questions I've seen (e.g. this one) where the OP has answered the question in an edit rather than as an answer I've usually: Suggested via a comment that answers should be answers. If the OP doesn't reply to that within a reasonable time period make an edit to co...

12:43 AM

@kalina I'M CLICKING AND IT ISN'T DOING ANYTHING.

Am I allowed to raise questions about SimCity months before it is out?

It's a closed invite only beta so no, right?

@kalina No.

@kalina Did you read the NDA first?

I don't care about NDAs

My Origin account is in a fake name

@LessPop_MoreFizz If you buy the pre-order now the site says you can start with the beta already

12:45 AM

SIMCITY IS INSTALLED

starting now

My weekend is so ruined

hey can I like, raise questions, delete them, and then undelete them in a month or so?

... no

but but but

Just no

not sure if just hating on me or not

@agent86 Thoughts on Europa Universalis III? I realized I owned it but never played it, I think due to it crashing or something... noticed you've played. Thinking about seeing if I could get it working.

12:49 AM

If I just ignore you all and raise them anyway, I'll just get downvoted into hell, right?

@kalina You cannot seriously think that that's proper behavior, right?

@kalina yeeeeppp.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm hardly ever serious

I wouldn't even dream about posting 100 questions regarding a game that nobody else can play yet

It's not going to stop me from reminding you that I'm already playing it though

@kalina I'm super series

Tim Stone

@kalina You can't get down voted if they're deleted!

12:50 AM

@TimStone I know right

Tim Stone

The perfect plan

I'm wondering how all of these haters are even going to know that I'm deleting them

creates simcity tagwiki as "ner ner closed beta is mine all mine :p~"

Ooh, HL1, CS1.6, and X3 all got ported to Linux on Steam.

@Wipqozn Should I move in and attack, or wait for them to get to me?

@fbueckert You and I should probably both move up, so there is a couple squares between the skeletons and the non-melee guys

12:56 AM

@Wipqozn Woo! Crit!

@fbueckert NIce!

@fbueckert Watch out of tile traps, like the flame trap @badp put down.

@Wipqozn What do they look like?

Oh, no, I see it.

That's subtle.

Very subtle.

The Turret Anthem.

1:08 AM

@kalina Sim City beta?

@Wipqozn yes

RedRiderX

Also, Steam sales have been getting a little aggressive lately:

@RedRiderX They'd pay you to play the game. Wonderful :D

RedRiderX

@YiJiang'sEvilClone But hey, I'm sure they'll just make it up in volume.

Yup, found it too. I wonder what would happen if I try to buy it...

Oh, the store page is still showing the normal price. Blah.

RedRiderX

1:11 AM

Also, an awesome hidden doorway that someone added to their house:

HERDING LLAMAS...

The latest in innocuous server griefing

tutorial complete!

@kalina Reticulating splines!

what, I only get to play the closed beta for one hour?

really?

sadface

1:14 AM

Huh?

"You only have one hour, so make the most of it"

Ouch

@kalina Well at least your weekend won't be destroyed

@MBraedley no now it's even worse

at least I would have enjoyed it before

!

So much YouTube to watch, so little time to watch it all. Well, now that my annual review basically saws I watched too much youtube at work this year.

1:17 AM

ah, and there goes the crashing. Okay, let's see if I can fix this.

I am a little disappointed at EA's decision to go online only for the new Sim City. I'll probably still get it though.

Oh, apparently it's an issue with the Tutorial. That's nice.

DNews, I don't want to think about the ethics of medical and science research on chimps on a Friday night. Couldn't you have saved that video for Monday?

1:44 AM

My father just pronounced cereal as serious. Time for me to put on my serious hat.

SaintWacko

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Better than saying serious as serial. That's just annoying

Note to self: don't do any major banking after having a few drinks, especially when it's about time to have another financial review.

Although given my recent raise, I should probably double check that my info is up to date.

2:02 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I finally got beyond track 3 of My Dick. it's so good.

@Mana ahahahahahahaha

Have you heard Baker Dick yet?

@LessPop_MoreFizz No, on Fast Dick atm

@Mana Fields of Dick is also a treat

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm in for a good next few tracks then

@Mana "See my dick rise, when you kiss my dick, among the fields of dick."

It almost doesn't get better than that.

And then there's Baker Dick. Which constructs a saxophone solo out of My Dick.

2:07 AM

aw you spoiled it

SPOILERS

SPOILERS RUINING EVERYTHING

jk

Oh man, I find it more amusing when he doesn't say "dick" because it's so unexpected.

@LessPop_MoreFizz OH MY GOD

THIS IS AMAZING

@Mana Did you just get to Baker Dick?

Because yeah. It's SPECIAL.

@LessPop_MoreFizz YES

@Mana It seemed like an odd choice at first because really, who knows anything about Baker Street besides that solo, but then I heard that 'solo' and just HOLY SHIT

The one at 3:40 is even better because his voice starts cracking and it's amazing.

wow.

my life will never be the same.

@Mana I don't think I can ever listen to the original sax riff from Baker Street ever again without bursting out laughing

2:17 AM

Buncha talk 'bout dicks in the Bridge tonight...

4

Okay, I'll have to finish that album sometime this weekend.

@Fluttershy mydickband.bandcamp.com

You'll remember my dick, when the west dick moves, among the fields of barley...

@Mana It's the 'fields of barley' that kills me, you're right.

@Mana Imagine Dick is pretty special too.

@LessPop_MoreFizz did he really just say "Imydick all the people"

2:20 AM

Imagine there's no My Dick. It's easy if My Dick. No hell below my dick. Above my dick, only sky.

@Mana Yes. Yes he did.

@Mana My Dick religion too.

@LessPop_MoreFizz but I'm not the only dick...

and the world is my dick...

This is some seriously great ESG footage.

@LessPop_MoreFizz History lesson -- who are ESG?

@Mana Basically the best funk band ever.

ESG (band)

ESG (Emerald, Sapphire and Gold) are a band that emerged from the South Bronx, New York, U.S. in the early 1980s. Trouser Press called it "one of the most dynamic bands that New York could offer at the top of the '80s." ESG have been influential across a wide range of musical genres, including hip hop, post-punk, disco, and dance-punk. History The band originally consisted of the Scroggins sisters, Renee (vocals), Valerie (drums), Deborah (bass) and Marie (congas, vocals) and friend Tito Libran (congas, vocals). A later incarnation of the band consisted of Marie (congas, vocals), Renee...

DOZE DRUMMMMSSSSSS

@LessPop_MoreFizz funky!

@LessPop_MoreFizz btw, have you heard the new Local Natives album yet?

It's really good.

2:35 AM

@Mana It is pretty good.

I've been listening to the new Joy Formidable record for a few days now and digging it a lot.

ERASE YOU.

Serious proto-hip-hop funkpunk shit.

Also this track that has been sampled more times than I can count:

YOU KNOW DAT BEAT

Holy shit. 17 year old LL Cool J teaches a bunch of white folks from Maine what rap is in 1985.

This is incredible footage.

3:01 AM

Living in the middle of hickville USA sucks when it comes to finding Street Pass people for the 3DS. =(

agent86

@Wipqozn, I played Europa whatever for maybe 10 minutes. it's so dense as to be impenetrable. I gave up and went back to playing something else :P I'm sure there's a good game there, but I didn't have the patience to find it.

> Eat every fatcake in fatcake universe with a hamburger for a face.

2

oh awesome

I can just keep playing it one hour at a time

that's the best news ever

@kalina So basically, you just can't ever get too far into the game, but can replay the first hour over and over?

well

the beta is heavily crippled

so you can get as far as you realistically can, in a single region

I will demonstrate

3:17 AM

Oh woah, there's a new Strokes single. /cc @Mana

ahahahahahahaha what the fuck is up with these A-HA Keyboards.

@kalina But you can adjust the simulation speed to max and just watch, right?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone it actually gets a bit tricky to not ruin the city at max speed

@kalina That doesn't look nearly as pretty as some of the trailers would suggest. Are you playing this on low graphics setting?

yeah I can't run it on super high graphics

Let me see... the thick dotted line is the city boundary. That seems rather small.

3:27 AM

this game is seriously insisting on showing you my origin name

Hmmm?

everything I click on is like Hello <origin name>!

right, lets try this again

Just blank it out using paint or something

agent86

ugh, I just spend like 20 minutes debugging an audio issue that turned out to be just a halfway unplugged headphone wire. sigh.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The only city size in the new one is about the size of a SC4 medium one.

3:30 AM

@Ullallulloo I know, but from the screenshot it looks much smaller

@agent86 I have done this more times than I can count.

It's definitely smaller. There's no way in an hour of play you can zone out the entire width of a medium sized city in SC4 with even low density residential like that

Herro Breedg.

Unless... is that the tutorial city?

agent86

@LessPop_MoreFizz we should form a support group. headphone cable morons anonymous

3:41 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone sec

@agent86 heh, I played it for 10 minutes too and had the same impression. I'll probably try it again tomorrow though.

ok

basically you don't have one city

you have a region that contains multiple cities

yes they all appear to be that size

no it's not a tutorial city

no I'm not running it on high graphics

yes most of the features in the beta are none-existent

yes I am terrible at making videos of me playing games

So wait, are the cities the size of a SC4 medium city, or is the entire region the size of a SC4 medium city?

and there is this annoying thing where it lets you build roads too close together

which wastes large chunks of the map

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm encoding a video which shows it

@agent86 You must needs play The Cave!

3:43 AM

if there is an NDA, I'm breaking it

and while my PC is fast, my graphics card is crap

TIL Sweden is better than other countries

so I can't run it with all the graphics options on high, let alone ultra

apparently the video is going to take 12 minutes to encode + whatever to upload

@YiJiang'sEvilClone basically, the city size you see in the screenshot

is one of three cities in a region

with a 'main attraction' in the middle, shared by the three cities

I forgot how much I enjoy the insanity of Just Cause 2.

but unlike previous simcities

if you zone residential for example

over a period of time that residential zone with experience growth

and go from a small house to a big house to a block of flats to a skyscraper

Uh huh...

3:47 AM

@kalina I'm fairly sure that models SC Societies.

@winterswift Actually, no

SC Societies has no zoning. You just plop everything

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh wait.

I meant Cities XL

That's the game that does the whole zones-construct-themselves thing.

holy crap my youtube account shows my full name

@kalina That is pretty much how every SimCity game works. Hmmmm?

WTF

3:49 AM

@kalina You accidentally turned that on

YouTube has been asking people to use real name for a while now

Google+ integration

I think it's kind of silly. I mean, of all the portions of the internet I would trust with my full name...

YouTube doesn't come in on the top of the list.

Or the middle.

Or the end.

pcworld.com/article/259753/…

Nowhere does it appear.

its ok I have created a separate account just for this

but yeah this beta is only probably about 25% of the game maybe

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I don't know, I always found it a little more unpredictable in previous games

IIRC they only have two zone densities now

3:54 AM

no, there are still three

but you only layout one

then the quality of the surroundings dictates its type

Q: What happens to my FTL progress when I quit during combat?

Hmmmm?

Lazers

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In FTL, the "Save & Quit" options is disabled during combat. If I am in the middle of a battle and have to quit, will I lose all my progress, or can I still continue from some recent point, like right before the battle started?

ftl-faster-than-light

The automated grid lines are a bit random as well

@YiJiang'sEvilClone you put down residential zoning

if you increase the land value to threshold X it becomes medium wealth

if you increase it further to threshold Y it becomes high wealth

and you increase the value of the land by placing parks, police, fire, etc

Well, in SC4 wealth is not dependent on density

3:57 AM

well then there is only one density now then

If you drop high density in an area with low education / land value high rise slums can appear

~2 min

@Wipqozn You beat me by 30 seconds. ;___;

@winterswift That's just how I roll. tortoise shades

@Wipqozn AH VANT ALL ZE REPPUTASSHIN

4:01 AM

@winterswift Me too!

@Wipqozn Yeah, well share the wealth.

@winterswift Nope, sorry.

Not gonna happen.

@Wipqozn It's the new thing bro. SEocialism.

@winterswift Nice try.

4:03 AM

spam

nice thumbnail

anyway -> simcity

The interface is really nice

oh that video doesn't even show half of it

let me build up a city and I'll do another quick video and show you all the overlays

Hmmm, automatic gridlines. Curved roads, wooo

the gridlines are horrible

half the time they're in the wrong place

curved roads is really well implemented though

4:10 AM

There's no micromanaging the budget

no there isn't

you can turn individual buildings on or off though

Anything I need to know about connecting to the Arqade mumble server?

Oooo, bus stops can be build along roads. Finally.

The weather system is back

A: What do all the items in Drugbound do?

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Hi guys I'm the person making Drugbound, thanks for looking at it. The game is in alpha right now and should be completely done and released on the web on Jan 31st. Until then not all of the items are in the game yet. In fact i'm on my couch finishing up the code for the remaining items as we spe...

4:25 AM

@MBraedley I think there's a password... I'm not sure. @OrigamiRobot / @Fluttershy would probably know

@Wipqozn Although I'm not getting a ping back from it, so it might not be up

@MBraedley I think the address has changed a few times too.

HI PEOPLE

I has a question

for a tech person

@spugsley Go on.

@spugsley Shoot

4:27 AM

my sound only works when I plug headphones in. Why?

@spugsley what do you have set for your default audio output?

You mean you can't get sound out of your speakers if your headphone is not plugged in?

@spugsley Your audio port might not be properly detecting your speakers, and or your speakers aren't properly plugged in

Q: Where Are the Items for "078 The Young Alchemist"?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone yes

Lazers

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In order to complete this errand you need one of each: Flint Dagger Emberstone Where can these be found? I'm guessing the emberstone is either found or dropped near / at the Old Smokey volcano, but rather than wander around I thought I'd ask.

ni-no-kuni-white-witch

4:28 AM

@MBraedley hmmm ok. So weird. They were working fine earlier and then I plugged headphones in. After I unplugged them, the speakers weren't outputting sound

@spugsley Are the speakers on?

@spugsley Sounds like what @Fluttershy said then.

Looks like it changed the audio output to your headphones, and didn't change back

@Wipqozn how do I change it back?

@spugsley Double check that your sound settings are detecting that the headphones have been removed. It could be that it changed the default output (as per @Fluttershy), or it never detected that the headphones were removed

@spugsley start > control panel > sound

And then see what's showing under Playback

@spugsley right click on the sound settings task bar icon -> Playback Devices -> select your speakers then click set default

4:31 AM

@MBraedley the speakers are set to default ;.;

what is going on with my crazy computer?!?