The Bridge

There's this one female type you can use online that has these two long hair things, and if you spin in a circle really fast the wonky physics make her hair stretch out really long.

kalina

I have downloaded a copy of Microsoft Excel, to fulfil the prerequisites for EVE Online

SaintWacko

This is amusing

@kalina Good choice

kalina

@OrigamiRobot I saw spugsley had started playing, it's fine that I am so easily replaced

SaintWacko

@kalina Also download Evemon and EFT

kalina

I don't wanna

SaintWacko

4:07 PM

@kalina Trust me, they're incredibly useful

I played EVE for a couple years

Wipqozn

@MichelAyres No sir.

kalina

any game that requires me to download/run multiple other applications is not worth my time...

I never had to do it with WoW!

Oh...

SaintWacko

@kalina :P

fbueckert

@kalina Add-ons count, I believe.

SaintWacko

You don't have to have them running during the game, they're just for testing builds and planning skill training

kalina

4:08 PM

@fbueckert I was referring more to simcraft etc

SaintWacko

There's also a useful Android application sorta like Evemon

Also, you're making me want to start playing EVE again :(

GnomeSlice

I want to play Lost Planet 2 again now. And I can't, because school. =[

Also, LP2 has the best graphics I've ever seen in a game.

stop upvoting it

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice As much as I don't like his attitude, it is a valid answer that answers the underlying reason.

kalina

@GnomeSlice upvoted

fbueckert

Good answers can provide alternate solutions, beyond just the base question.

GnomeSlice

4:12 PM

@fbueckert It tries, yes, but what I'm getting out of it is 'if someone is better than you, just accept it and get better'.

It needs to be cleaned up, at least.

I don't think it should be DELETED.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice So clean it up. I just tore out the cruft.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert You're asking me to clean up a post. Ahahahahahahahahahahaha.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice If you feel so strongly about a post, fix it.

kalina

WHINE SOME MORE @GnomeSlice

GnomeSlice

@kalina DON'T MIND IF I DO

I wish you could reply/ping people in caps.

kalina

4:15 PM

I don't find internet people attractive but if I did, your whining would make you less attractive

Maybe you should think about that!

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Well, since I know her IRL, you never had a chance. She is a lot more fun to make fun of.

GnomeSlice

@kalina I do. Every day. I'm lonely.

kalina

@OrigamiRobot It's fine, I can handle rejection.

GnomeSlice

ಥ_ಥ

kalina

rofl

gaming.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/23186

editing a post that should be deleted

Ullallulloo

4:18 PM

@GnomeSlice Except the second to last level is in the middle of blizzard.

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo Right, whatever.

@kalina Hey, credit where credit is due. He can't cast delete votes, so he's doing his best to fix it anyway.

kalina

@GnomeSlice everybody can flag

RedRiderX

So has anyone mentioned that Valve is doing the steam box for reals? (according to RPS)

2

GnomeSlice

You shouldn't have rejected it.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice You can't fix an "answer" like that.

kalina

4:20 PM

Reject is the correct course of action

It is "not an answer"

giving people rep for changing capital letters to lower case on a post that is going to be deleted is wrong

GnomeSlice

@RedRiderX Awesome, is this like a Steam console?

RedRiderX

@GnomeSlice Pretty much.

GnomeSlice

@kalina If they're trying to help, what's the harm in giving them the reps.

kalina

@GnomeSlice Steam + Big Picture Mode + Controller

OrigamiRobot

@kalina meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/3391/…

kalina

4:21 PM

@GnomeSlice because rejecting with a reason telling them they're wrong IS helpful.

@OrigamiRobot old....

GnomeSlice

@kalina I suppose.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Part of trying to help is educating new users on what is and isn't acceptable.

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot grumble 10k grumble

Ben Brocka

@RedRiderX That is an extremely tiny box

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot Wait, what, she has more rep than me?

Tim Stone

4:21 PM

@kalina is now blog-famous.

fbueckert

Editing what clearly will be deleted is not kosher.

kalina

@GnomeSlice Now, stop this madness, you've put me in a situation where @fbueckert and I agree with each other.

GnomeSlice

I don't gain rep any more. =[

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice Slacker

GnomeSlice

@kalina That's terrible, okay.

@OrigamiRobot Not for lack of trying.

kalina

4:22 PM

@TimStone boooo

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Over 1 year old in fact.

kalina

@TimStone I mean, representing Arqade! Wooo!

GnomeSlice

@TimStone Where's my our soundcloud onebox

kalina

@TimStone Even though none of you wanted me to post that many questions and answers

Tim Stone

@GnomeSlice Over there! runs

GnomeSlice

4:22 PM

:P

@TimStone Wait, for real?

:D

RedRiderX

@BenBrocka Yeah, it's supposed to be grapefruit sized or something.

Ullallulloo

Pokémon X & Y! Gen VI! 3DS! FULL 3D!!! Rollerblades!

GnomeSlice

A steam console would be awesome.

...Unless I had to re-download all of my ~~shit~~ high quality merchandise.

kalina

@GnomeSlice you would, sorry for you

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice No

GnomeSlice

4:24 PM

@OrigamiRobot What, why? I could play my Steam games from the comfort of my living room.

@kalina =[

@OrigamiRobot shield your eyes, there's a lot of ports here.

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice Because then all Steam games would be designed for a specific set of hardware.

GnomeSlice

The Stack Exchange Blog

Blog - Stack Exchange: Winter Bash 2012 Conclusion: Boxing Day

Aarthi Devanathan on January 08, 2013

So. We’ve torn through the advent calendar, tossed aside all the wrapping paper, and (hopefully) obsessively screencapped our gravatars wearing various kinds of silly hats. As of last Friday, Winter Bash 2012 is officially over!

This event was awesome. We had a total of 46,710 users participating across 76 sites, and we gave away 108,924 hats total. The most common hat was the And I Feel Fine hat, which 23,171 users earned for activity on December 21st. The least common hat earned was I Do Say, which was obtained by Bohemian, on Stack Overflow, and kalina, on Arqade for posting an epic 30 …

kalina

woo \o/ fame

...

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot I don't think that's what this is doing. It just means that everyone with the Steam box will have the same hardware.

Ben Brocka

4:26 PM

@OrigamiRobot A specific set of underpowered hardware in this case

Unless of course they've made the most advanced CPU and graphics card of all time which generate almost zero heat

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice Think about it for a second.

agent86

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot I have... just because the Steam box exists doesn't mean games will all be designed for it in the future (although some of them probably will be). It might mean that some games will offer a specific graphics setting optimized for the Steam Box, which would be excellent.

agent86

professor layton chocolate FTW

kalina

I knew that 30 upvoted questions hat was worth getting

agent86

4:28 PM

also let's all slip into something a little more comfortable (cc @AshleyNunn why can't I ping you omg)

GnomeSlice

@kalina Are you the only one who got it?

kalina

@GnomeSlice there were three of us on the whole of stack exchange

GnomeSlice

@kalina Ooo, can I have your autograph?

kalina

@GnomeSlice no, you'd publish it on the internet and/or try and steal all my monies

OrigamiRobot

God, I hate Hat Dash.

kalina

4:29 PM

@GnomeSlice plus my signature is readable, so it would be like telling you my real name

GnomeSlice

@kalina No. =[

Krazer

@agent86 I raise you some expensive Ghibli Zippos.

GnomeSlice

@kalina A signature of your screen name is acceptable.

kalina

and while I think you are awesomely funny at times, you are not going to be the first person on the internet to find that out!

by funny, I mean to laugh at

GnomeSlice

@kalina Figures.

At least that's something, right.

kalina

4:30 PM

yes

OrigamiRobot

@kalina That honor is reserved for @fbueckert

kalina

@OrigamiRobot never

GnomeSlice

Fuck, I just failed the Paypal survey.

kalina

I don't know where you got this thing of me and @fbueckert having something between us

GnomeSlice

As soon as I selected 'not working' I got 'that's all the questions we have for today'.

OrigamiRobot

4:31 PM

You two are so cute together.

kalina

for a start, he's not my type

GnomeSlice

So much for entering to win $1,000

fbueckert

@kalina Neither do I.

kalina

and you know, I feel he thinks the same

fbueckert

@kalina You smoke pot. Very much not my type.

kalina

4:31 PM

that is so shallow

badp

> Works of testimony and opinion, and artistic works, don't have to be free as in the four freedoms, but their users should have more freedom than now. I think people should be free to share them (noncommercial redistribution of exact copies), and to remix them. [...] I use CC-ND for my statements of my views, including this one. -RMS

fbueckert

@kalina Welcome to the internet!

kalina

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S HOMETIME?! ZOMG

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert Hey, that's a skill. Pot is hard to smoke.

kalina

BYE

GnomeSlice

4:32 PM

Then again, I've only tried it once. And I almost died.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice I wouldn't know.

GnomeSlice

And it didn't get me laid.

Such is life.

fbueckert

I'm a very straight arrow.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I don't even drink.

NOT THAT IT'S A CONTEST

OrigamiRobot

EVERYTHING IS A CONTEST THAT I WILL WIN

fbueckert

4:34 PM

OrigamiRobot becomes the first robot to become permanently stoned and drunk

2

SaintWacko

@kalina I can't wait for hometime. I can't believe I've only been at work 2.5 hours

This day is going by far too slowly

GnomeSlice

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert tautologically*

SaintWacko

@fbueckert second*

OrigamiRobot

WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN

GnomeSlice

4:35 PM

@OrigamiRobot Can someone explain this word to me, I can't focus enough to figure out what it means every time I look it up.

And I'm supposed to have a wide vocabulary and I hate not knowing words.

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice Well, a tautology is sort of a self-referential definition

I'm not quite sure how @OrigamiRobot is intending it in that case, though...

GnomeSlice

Okay, then, I don't get what he means with it there.

I thought that's what it meant...

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice Yeah, neither do I

GnomeSlice

Okay, good.

SaintWacko

Best word: Floccinaucinihilipilification!

Also, I can't access Crawl :(

brb, restarting

GnomeSlice

4:38 PM

@SaintWacko It's not even the longest, you stink.

Grace Note

@SaintWacko "OrigamiRobot becomes the first robot to become [...]"

It's not a traditional rhetorical tautology but that's the best I can make of it.

GnomeSlice

New IndieGameStand deal - Rico: A Tale of Two Brothers

@GraceNote By the way, I've been meaning to ask you; are you familiar with War of the Human Tanks?

Seems like it might be your kind of thing. But maybe that's just because of the art.

Ullallulloo

Ooh, Pokémon X & Y and then presumably Z, like axises in 3D which it is now.

GnomeSlice

In which case I apologize if it isn't.

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice Nope, not familiar, but thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Ullallulloo

4:44 PM

Also, simultaneous international releases!

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote All of the reviews I've read about it have been extremely positive. Was just wondering if you had played it. No problem! ^^

SaintWacko

@GraceNote Oh, I see. I was thinking rhetorical tautology

Fluttershy

@Ullallulloo @OrigamiRobot We made it past that part in Conclave! Woo!

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Yay!

Grace Note

@SaintWacko It's not really a logical tautology either.

GnomeSlice

4:46 PM

Can someone download Pixel Window for me and send it to me via dropbox or something? It's tiny.

Since reinstalling my laptop, not a single Adobe Air download will work.

And I can't figure out why.

SaintWacko

@GraceNote Yeah, but I think that's the closest we'll get to making sense of @fbueckert's remark :P

Well, that's depressing. They seem to have done something here that makes it so I can't connect to webtiles :(

Sterno

TOME looks nice. Any roguelike fans have an opinion to offer on it?

Ben Brocka

@Ullallulloo That's what I suspect too. Though gen v didn't have any "third" games, they had the weird version 2 thing

user30

@RonanForman Did everything work okay? I've launched the server in a screen session.

user30

some mates came down to have a look at a couple of problem sheets

fbueckert

4:51 PM

@SaintWacko That way lies madness.

kalina

@fbueckert I'm sure I've said this before, but I don't go around telling people who drink alcohol that they're disgusting, smell, destroying their liver and act like complete retards under the influence

Don't see why people classify weed as worse than alcohol, alcohol is proven to be far more dangerous

fbueckert

@kalina I don't; I drink. But my experience has shown that people who smoke weed, since it's illegal, tends to be the rougher crowd.

Powerlord

I heard a rumor that the "Piston" isn't going to be the only Steam Box.

fbueckert

That, and they also tend to be barely functional idiots, so I stay the hell away.

kalina

@fbueckert tbh, people who smoke just weed are generally lazier, rather than rougher

GnomeSlice

4:53 PM

@fbueckert This is not true of a great number of people who smoke weed.

fbueckert

@kalina I would like to point out the massive population of native americans in Winnipeg.

GnomeSlice

A lot of people use it to relax.

fbueckert

So, that tends to reinforce the double stereotype.

kalina

@fbueckert I'd like to point out how the same massive population react to alcohol

fbueckert

@kalina That's a good point.

SaintWacko

4:55 PM

I'd like to point out this kitten

Fluttershy

I've smoked pot and I've been drunk. I definitely feel more productive on the former. I'm not advocating either one, and I'm not talking crap about either one, just felt like pointing it out. Both are fine in moderation, and pot should be legalized. My issue is with people who advertise regularly.

kalina

...

sigh

SaintWacko

@kalina Fascinating kittens, there

Fluttershy

@SaintWacko He looks so saaaaad!

kalina

@SaintWacko what*ever*

Ullallulloo

4:56 PM

@SaintWacko I counter your kitten with this drawing of a cat.

fbueckert

Hmm. I don't have a response to that. I'm not a fan of mind-altering drugs in general, but I drink, so that's sort of hypocritical of me.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert I'm in exactly the same boat

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert It's been my experience that Marijuana is the least destructive of drugs that people use recreationally. Including booze and caffeine.

kalina

@Fluttershy don't take this mini discussion as advertisement, it was in response to somebody else

@fbueckert tbh, alcohol has more of a mind altering effect

but, nicotine is far more dangerous to everybody

fbueckert

@kalina Hence why it would be hypocritical of me to just go, "Mind altering substances are bad!"

Fluttershy

4:57 PM

@kalina Oh, I know. I just felt the need to clarify due to my poor manner of expressing past advertisement annoyance. <_< So... Yeah... I QUIT SMOKING!

fbueckert

@Fluttershy Grats!

That's definitely something to be proud of.

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Yay!

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy WOOHOO!

kalina

@Fluttershy ah well if you quit smoking then people talking about smoking is not nice at all

Ullallulloo

@fbueckert The fact that it's illegal is kind of a good reason not to do it though.

kalina