The Bridge

kalina

3:00 PM

@fbueckert resolution dependant

fredley

So many pins

They're messing with my stars

Ben Brocka

Mega Man OCRemix album is out

Not exactly the songs I'd have picked though

Kevin van der Velden

I'm fairly sure we can at least remove the pterodactyl noise. The "you idiots." should just be moved to the room description.

Also anyone else got disconnected for a few minutes?

OrigamiRobot

Yea

Lazers

0

Q: How do you defeat royal ripeness in Final Fantasy XIII-2?

He's so hard! He's invincible! I just need advice on how to beat the hell outta him! Please I've literally tried for months and he won't die! Advice needed make it a simple answer! 😩sigh

final-fantasy-13-2

Ben Brocka

3:07 PM

...in fact I'm not even sure I'll but it, just maybe a couple songs. Listing to the samples this is...not...very...yeah

fredley

+you-idiots

Ben Brocka

Is Ocremix usually this hit and miss?

fredley

+you -idiots

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Sometimes. It's kinda hit or miss whether or not a particular album is hit or miss.

RedRiderX

This is a very well done and heartfelt article, The Logic of Stupid Poor People.

2

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah.

Jason Berkan

3:09 PM

@RedRiderX You tried every kind of brace to see which ones worked? :P

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote I definitely wasn't expecting a Mega Man album of all things to be hit or miss. Especially when capcom officially colaborated

ZX Tunes and ZXA tunes were fantastic

RedRiderX

@JasonBerkan I don't really know what happened there. >.>

It was a bit like this:

It also got stuck in the void for a while, so that didn't help.

Wipqozn

It is a chilly day.

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn I'll chilly your day!

Buuuuuurn

Wipqozn

You sure put me in my place.

fredley

3:16 PM

@RedRiderX Is that a chicken with antlers?

fbueckert

1

Chinese student in the USA

Proposed Q&A site for all the Chinese students studying in the USA.

Closed before being launched.

That was fast.

Morning, Bridge

@SaintWacko morning

@SaintWacko Morning

@OrigamiRobot Remember that time you left mumble on overnight and @RonanForman and I woke you up?

OrigamiRobot

3:18 PM

Yes, I was so confused and grumpy.

fredley

@Wipqozn lol

Ronan Forman

Did I miss why that was relevant?

Wipqozn

@RonanForman I say kalinas message in the starred list and it made me think of itl.

I'm just being nostalgic about the past, jeez.

JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ

OrigamiRobot

Remember that time @RonanForman got all mad when you pinged him?

fbueckert

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/61494/b-boying/61509#61509

Ronan Forman

3:21 PM

@OrigamiRobot Grrrrrrr...

fbueckert

Hah. @LessPop is trolling the B-Boy proposal.

fredley

@fbueckert upvotes

SaintWacko

@RedRiderX Wow, yeah

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot Good times!

SaintWacko

@fbueckert What? No, @LessPop_MoreFizz is really interested in B-Boying

fbueckert

3:24 PM

@SaintWacko If he was, he'd be following the proposal.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Probably just missed the button. I just know he's fascinated by it

:P

fbueckert

@SaintWacko :P, indeed.

Also, I'm reading Lord of Mountains from the Emberverse. Good series.

M'vy

heya

RedRiderX

@fredley Very probably maybe not I'm unsure.

@SaintWacko Oh yeah.

fbueckert

-1

A: What are the recipes in the Secret Lab?

There was this little secret lab apprentice that was bored and decided to experiment with the ingredients. He decided to mix each of those 5 ingredients. And nothing happened. But wasn't happy, and he decided to mix 2 of each ingredient. And nothing happened. He was disappointed, but didn't gi...

@fredley I don't think he likes you.

RedRiderX

3:31 PM

I still need to finish it, it's a little dense.

fbueckert

Software rec that slipped through the cracks

fredley

@fbueckert I'm going to avoid casting a delete vote on this, can others do so for me?

fbueckert

@fredley I can't for at least a couple days.

fredley

@fbueckert GET WITH IT @FBUECKERT

fbueckert

@fredley Give me 9.3K rep, and sure, I'll do that.

fredley

3:34 PM

@fbueckert Can't you delete at 10k?

Oh, only questions

fbueckert

@fredley Not until it's been sticking around for two days.

And maybe only questions.

kalina

> You've reached the maximum of 22 Deletion votes per day; come back in 8 hours

That's started to happen more and more frequently

fredley

I can't remember what it's like to have a pitifully small amount of rep any more

kalina

@fredley this best not be aimed at me since you know the truth

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Yeah, only questions, I think

fredley

3:35 PM

@kalina It's aimed at @fbueckert, worry yourself not

kalina

good because I would destroy you

fbueckert

@fredley Meh, would you really want me with enough delete votes to cast them indiscriminately?

kalina

no

fredley

@fbueckert It would make the site... cleaner

kalina

we'd all be much happier if you were restricted to downvotes

fbueckert

3:36 PM

@fredley That it would.

And we'd be left with the 5% of questions I deem acceptable.

user15026

Oh man that was super confusing

kalina

we need to retain enough questions to still get hits from google

user15026

Last night my cat stepped on my keyboard and changed a whackload of things

kalina

@fbueckert would remove too much content

user15026

one of those was ignoring @fbueckert.

user15026

3:37 PM

Now chat makes sense.

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Smart cat.

Kevin van der Velden

@AshleyNunn everything makes more sense if you ignore @fbueckert

kalina

@AshleyNunn you should take this as a sign

also how the hell did you manage to ignore somebody with keyboard shortcuts

that is pretty impressive

SaintWacko

@kalina Haha, that was exactly where my mind went

user15026

@kalina He was stepping on a lot of the laptop, so perhaps the mousepad and clicky buttons got involved

user15026

3:39 PM

I have no idea

SaintWacko

There is a plugin that gives keyboard shortcuts in chat

user15026

I am still figuring out what all happened when my cat stomped all over this thing

SaintWacko

Do you have that, @AshleyNunn?

user15026

@SaintWacko Yeah, but I can't remember if there is a keyboard shortcut for ignoring.

fbueckert

I'll have to see what my little kitty can do on the keyboard once I get it.

I get to go play with it a bit more on Monday!

user15026

3:39 PM

@fbueckert Dangerous things. :P

user15026

@fbueckert yaaaaay kitten

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Yeah, I think I'll enjoy having one.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Isn't @TrentHawkins enough?

user15026

@fbueckert I hope so! :)

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot He talks back. And makes me want to hit him often.

OrigamiRobot

3:41 PM

Cats can talk back too.

fbueckert

To be fair, he does look after himself fairly easily.

OrigamiRobot

He also hates squirrels.

I have come to the conclusion that @TrentHawkins is a cat.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Which is good, because so do I.

user15026

I don't mind them, and they are tasty.

user15026

Well, the time I had them in a pot pie was very nice.

fbueckert

3:44 PM

@AshleyNunn Now I want chicken pot pie.

A cafeteria at one of my old jobs had such good ones, too.

user15026

@fbueckert It is one of my favourite "its cold out" foods.

OrigamiRobot

I need to decide what I want to eat for lunch

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Food is usually a good choice.

Sterno

Garlic knots. Endless garlic knots.

OrigamiRobot

There is a Fuel Pizza near here.

Wipqozn

3:49 PM

@OrigamiRobot Sushi.

OrigamiRobot

Sushi is grooooooossssssssssssss

Get it anyways.

There is no part of sushi I like

fbueckert

If we're going on a list question close spree, this one caused lots of drama and is currently open.

Ben Brocka

3:50 PM

So I heard you like terrible ads

2

user15026

@OrigamiRobot Wrong.

5pike

@OrigamiRobot your face is grooooooossssssssssssss

OrigamiRobot

Can't argue there.

Wipqozn

I hate axe commercials.

fredley

Oh God, he's submitting pull requests on github now

3ventic

3:55 PM

@Wipqozn Me too

fbueckert

@fredley Mr. "Your hints suck!"?

fredley

@fbueckert Luckily you can block people on github

@fbueckert Basically

Lazers

0

Q: am I trapped in velika?

I am at the part of the tutorial where I am supposed to leave Velika, but I don't have money to pay for the pegasus - slightly over 10 silvers. I took the tutorial armor crafting quest and spent all my money on materials which I have used up crafting the training armor. That training armor is not...

tera

Gaming Topics From Outside

0

Q: If Nvidia Shield can stream a game via wifi, why can I not do the same via ethernet to any other PC?

I think it absurd that a wireless game streaming solution is the *first to hit the market when a 1000mbps+ Ethernet connection would accomplish the same feat with roughly 6x the available bandwidth. I can only assume that there must be some reason behind this or a limitation preventing this, but...

networking video nvidia streaming gaming

SaintWacko

@fredley Hm?

5pike

3:57 PM

@SaintWacko fredley has a stalker

fredley

@SaintWacko Someone is trying to give me feedback on ALL CHANNELS

SaintWacko

@fredley Ahhh

Haha

fredley

-4

A: What are the recipes in the Secret Lab?

There was this little secret lab apprentice that was bored and decided to experiment with the ingredients. He decided to mix each of those 5 ingredients. And nothing happened. But wasn't happy, and he decided to mix 2 of each ingredient. And nothing happened. He was disappointed, but didn't gi...

He is slightly insane I think

But is apparently a Google Engineer.

@badp Can you do something about this?

SaintWacko

@fredley Huh

5pike

@fredley I think he is obsessed with you.

Well, was nice knowing you @fredley

fredley

3:58 PM

@5pike Luckily he is in Brazil

kalina

Adobe hack worse than first reported - if you have an account there you really should change credentials.

FEichinger

@fredley That's what he wants you to think.

fredley

@kalina Another reason pirating Adobe products is a good idea

kalina

apparently the source code for photoshop was stolen as well

fredley

@kalina Oh...dear

That's kind of a big deal

kalina

4:03 PM

"kind of"

OrigamiRobot

I still need to decide what to eat

Kevin van der Velden

@OrigamiRobot silly robot, you're a robot! You eat nuts and bolts

user15026

@OrigamiRobot Soup? That's what I have right now.

OrigamiRobot

@KevinvanderVelden That's racist.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot botist

OrigamiRobot

4:04 PM

Today is the low country boil and I didn't RSVP because I still don't even know what that is.

user15026

@OrigamiRobot I have no idea.

Ben Brocka

kalina

@BenBrocka yeah I got a chuckle out of it as well

fucksake

court order has passed to block the next group of torrent sites I've moved to

fredley

@kalina kickass.to is still going I think

user15026

@OrigamiRobot Apparently a bunch of stuff like corn and shrimp and maybe sausage or potatoes or whatever

user15026

4:07 PM

all....boiled.

OrigamiRobot

What I gathered was "A bunch of stuff but maybe not some of the stuff"

Pretty much the least descriptive thing of all time.

user15026

Shrimp/corn/sausage/potatoes together, boiled with whatever Old Bay seasoning is, seems to be the usual recipe

kalina

wtb a couple more upvotes (upvote=agreement) on this so I can commence MASSIVE BURNINATION FRONT PAGE ANNIHILATION

fbueckert

notalwaysright.com/blame-a-lack-of-concentration/6412

That's...just so wrong.

kalina

@fbueckert so is your face

fbueckert

4:13 PM

@kalina You like my face.

Especially when I'm wearing a suit.

kalina

@fbueckert it's the big fluffy beard

fbueckert

@kalina Which is currently a nice, neat goatee.

Sterno

@kalina what, is TPB gone?

kalina

@Sterno that was the first site to get blocked

plus every alternative url I've ever known of

Sterno

I haven't torrented in months.

kalina

4:14 PM

oh that reminds me

ncis day lastnight

Sterno

Is the site shut down, or just blocked by your ISP?

kalina

@fredley blocked for me

blocked by my isp

blocked by pretty much every isp in the uk

fredley

@kalina Get a better ISP

Not blocked by mine!

(Plusnet)

kalina

don't talk to me about "better ISPs" and then say plusnet

Sterno

Move to the US.

kalina

4:16 PM

lol.

I've recently been using my phone to download the torrents I want and then rely on the additional trackers

Jason Berkan

As soon as I mail this form, my 9 month old will finally have a name! Government bureaucracy sucks.

fredley

@kalina Plusnet is pretty brill, been with them for a few years

decent speed, no throttling, no blocking

Sterno

You could live across the street from @OrigamiRobot. You guys could play Magic with each other on the weekend. And you could release live sloths in his house.

fredley

Call centres in fucking Yorkshire

kalina

I used to be with Be

user15026

4:18 PM

@JasonBerkan Yay your child is almost not-nameless!

fredley

@kalina With what?

kalina

but then I moved to an area where the only fast internet I could get was BT Infinity

@fredley ...

the ISP is called Be

fredley

Jason Berkan

@AshleyNunn My wife is probably more excited than I. She can stop making immunization appointments for Baby Boy Berkan.

Sterno

@JasonBerkan do you just call him/her untagged right now?

fredley

4:19 PM

@kalina What?

kalina

I got 8 IP addresses for free

it was awesome

fredley

@kalina That is nice

kalina

for a brief period of time my iPad had its own internet facing IP

Ben Brocka

@fredley the hell is that

fredley

@BenBrocka a baby sloth

ennit cute

kalina

4:20 PM

@Sterno I would never play magic cards

Jason Berkan

@Sterno He's a fourth kid - he gets called by all the other names before I ever remember his.

Sterno

It looks like it came from Satan's bottom.

Lazers

0

Q: Did Not Receive Maude's message to start Bail Bond missions?

I'm using Trevor & do not receive Maude's texts or emails to start Bail Bond missions, even I have completed the main story, as well as Mrs. Philips' storyline. I have completed Special Bonds mission as well. What will trigger the 1st mission ?

grand-theft-auto-5

Sterno

@kalina haters gonna hate!

kalina

@Sterno unless actual fire was involved

but then I'd win by default and there would be a lot of unhappy nerds with stacks of ash that used to be magic cards

Sterno

4:23 PM

You seem unhappy. Everyone in America is happy. Another reason you should move here.

fredley

@Sterno I think your axioms might be off

kalina

I'm not unhappy, you seem unable to understand me

Sterno

Something something guns

kalina

you think letting me hold a loaded weapon would be a good idea?

Ben Brocka

@Sterno freedom

Sterno

4:25 PM

@kalina yup.

kalina

@Sterno the population of America would decrease rapidly

Sterno

So you're saying the only thing keeping you from mass murder is lack of access to guns?

kalina

and being surrounded by Americans

Sterno

We have so many cornfields here to bury the bodies in.

kalina

I would be selective in my mass murder

I would ask each person I killed a question beforehand

user15026

4:27 PM

@JasonBerkan Yeah, I can see how that would be less than awesome

kalina

if they couldn't answer it, they're too stupid to remain alive

they'd be simple questions

like "how many letters are in the alphabet"

"how do you spell colour"

3

"name a country in eastern europe"

etc

fbueckert

@Sterno What world do you live in?

Jason Berkan

@kalina I have a feeling this one will be a problem.

fbueckert

Americans are perpetually grumpy, from my experience.

Powerlord

So, it sounds like the 3DS Batman game is going to play even more like a Metroidvania game that the previous games do.

kalina

4:28 PM

@JasonBerkan I have a feeling that for at least 50% of the American population, all three of those questions would be difficult to answer in a good enough time frame

Sterno

If you ask "how many letters on in the alphabet, are you required to shoot yourself?

kalina

@Sterno no I get to throw my keyboard at the wall

Ben Brocka

oi m8 ow mny ltters in dis der alphabet

Jason Berkan

@BenBrocka Not enough, apparently.

Sterno

@fbueckert I live in America. That is the whole world, right?

kalina

4:29 PM

@Sterno this statement, even joking, would result in death

Sterno

Man, this makes me think the UK is full of murderous psychopaths!

Powerlord

@kalina So, does this mean I can shoot you if you can't name a country in Central America without googling it?

kalina

@Powerlord mexico

panama

Powerlord

@kalina Mexico is part of North America, but nice try

kalina

and

there are a bunch I can't spell and costa rica

Arperum

4:31 PM

@Powerlord Honduras.

kalina

@Powerlord really?

Arperum

@Powerlord Nicaragua

kalina

now I have to google that, because I'm sure that was central america

Jason Berkan

@kalina Yahoo! Answers to the rescue.

Arperum

@Powerlord AFAIK I learned in school that mexico is central America.

kalina

4:32 PM

@Arperum same

3ventic

@JasonBerkan it depends whether the question is "how do you spell colour" or "how does one spell colour"

Powerlord

@Arperum Your school is weird. I mean North America only has, what, 3 countries? And schools are trying to put the third one into Central America instead? :P

Lazers

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Q: How to play Fury

So I've gotten back into WoW PvE and just started grinding gear from the Timeless Isle, but I wanted to try out Fury Warrior. Questions Is Fury better then Arms in PvE? What's the main moves and general rotation of Fury? What gems should I use? What glyphs are helpful or needed for Fury? How s...

world-of-warcraft

Sterno

Unnecessary "u"s are a crime against nature.

Powerlord

Well, I suppose Greenland is also technically part of North America

user15026

4:34 PM

Yeah, I always was taught that Mexico was NA

3ventic

@Sterno Why do yo think they are like that?

Ben Brocka

kalina

@Powerlord as far as I'm aware it is

it's also the world's largest island

Arperum

@BenBrocka Right on time!

Powerlord

@BenBrocka So, they shipped your flux capacitor?

kalina

4:35 PM

now, @Powerlord, back at you

name an eastern european country without google

Sterno

Wiki answers told me Central America is part of North America. Then when posed the question of why Central America isn't part of South America, it had the useful answer of "because ur a fag". Stay classy, wiki answers.

Jason Berkan

@kalina Poland.

Ben Brocka

It's true, you know. Much of earth's geography is a result of @Sterno's sexual orientation

Powerlord

@kalina I thought about saying Belgium, but my geography skills are notoriously poor outside of north america

kalina

@JasonBerkan you don't count, you're Canadian

Jason Berkan

4:37 PM

WWII History knowledge FTW.

fbueckert

@Sterno I could go with a, "ur a crime against nature!", but that might be pushing it a bit far.

kalina

@Powerlord Belgium?

fbueckert

Plus, that hurts to misspell.

Grace Note

Oh, hey, Italian Language & Usage Stack Exchange hit 100% commitment today.

Jason Berkan

@kalina Half American.

fbueckert

4:37 PM

@JasonBerkan I have some friends from here! Good people.

@fredley Mr. Crazy deleted his answer and actually answered the question.

kalina

It's ok, at least my answer was a country next to the region, and taught differently depending on where you are in the world

the American gave a name of a country that has water on the west of it as an eastern european country

Arperum

@kalina This.

Sterno

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A: Is there any difference between "color" and "colour"?

According to the OED— This word comes to us from Latin, the world color-em, which was inherited by old French. The o segment was actually somewhere between [o] and [u] and was represented by the digraph ou in Old French. When this syllable became accented, it became fronted, represented by eu (th...

Powerlord

@kalina I could have gone for the easy route and said Russia, but some places teach that as being part of asia

3ventic

I wonder if I can still name all European countries off the top of my head

Sterno

4:40 PM

Now I'm just happy it's not "coulour".

Arperum

@3ventic I sure can't. i think.

Grace Note

I'm amazed this was the first search result I got just on a curiosity check.

kalina

@Powerlord 75%+ of Russia is in Asia

Grace Note

@Powerlord I've always figured it as part of Asia myself but basically resigned myself that no one really agrees on it.

Ben Brocka

RE America

Know what's great about America? There's so much America there are two Americas because America is too much America for just one America.

Tweeted by TheXbone on October 30, 2013 at 4:32 PM

4

Sterno

4:42 PM

All this is telling me is that if geographic skills are necessary for survival, most of the world would be dead.

kalina

@GraceNote Russia is a bit weird, since it was formally a large group of different countries

It is simultaneously in Europe and Asia

Powerlord

@kalina Russia was part of the USSR, not the other way around.

Grace Note

@Sterno I am great at reading maps. Give me a map and things happen.

kalina

but the bulk of the Russian population lives in the part of Russia that is classified as Europe

Sterno

In Dora the Explorer, map reads you.

Arperum

4:43 PM

@GraceNote Like canooing over the ocean to get to the next town?

kalina

@Powerlord explain who ran the USSR

Jason Berkan

@kalina Like the bulk of the Canadian population lives in the part of Canada that is classified as "one hour's drive from the US".

Sterno

(Sorry, I may have been subjected to 8 hours of Dora over the weekend)

badp

@fredley his Google+ profile says "Work*ed* at Google" so... status-completed

Sterno

Ponies > Dora

Powerlord

4:44 PM

@kalina Lenin! :P

badp

take credit

Grace Note

@Arperum Kayaks.

kalina

@Powerlord hah

@mods - you know the FAQ meta post

Powerlord

Speaking of changing governments, when are we planning on overthrowing the US government again?

kalina

can we start actioning the ones that have >=10 upvotes by tagging them as faq ?

Sterno

4:45 PM

I think what we can all agree on here is that @kalina is a terrible person who should, after all, never be given a weapon.

3ventic

Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Monaco, Italy, Vatican, San Marino, Malta, Macedonia, Greece, Albania, Croatia, Serbia, Herzegovina, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czeck (spelling?) Republic, Switzerland, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Estonia

No I can't

kalina

@Sterno I don't need a weapon, I am a weapon

badp

@3ventic ?

Sterno

@kalina You've got American ego. You'd fit right in!

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3ventic

6 mins ago, by 3ventic

I wonder if I can still name all European countries off the top of my head

Powerlord

4:47 PM

@Sterno The number one trait we look for in our citizenry!

Sterno

That and obesity.

badp

6

Q: When crafting the new armor recipes introduced in 1.0.7, what is the best plan to use for each slot?

There are different stat affixes that affect the maximum stat attribute roll for each armor piece. If we look at all the possible affixes for the Strength stat: "Ruthless" (max +100 Vit and Str) and "of War" (max +200 Str, see affix Str 16 on "Strength [Amulet, Axe, Belt, Bow, Ceremonial Knife...