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8:01 PM

@kalina How is that even possible?

quite easy

I keep pushing the button that fills up my cup

@kalina You're still alive, aren't you?

Sure, but how is that "too much"?

my eyelids seem to be spring loaded, like I can't close them

@kalina Do you set off motion detectors while standing perfectly still?

8:02 PM

I don't know, I have no motion detectors to hand to test such a theory

Maybe if you keep drinking you'll phase into another reality.

Sci-fi has taught me that happens if you vibrate really fast.

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Q: Why didn't Geordi and Ro fall through the floor in "The Next Phase" episode of TNG?

In the TNG episode "The Next Phase," Geordi and Ro are "phase shifted" such that they are invisible to the entire crew, and they can walk through walls. But why didn't they fall through the floor? And how could they breathe or speak? Weren't their lungs and vocal chords out of phase with the ai...

star-trek star-trek-tng

sorry I saw the word vibrate and was lost in another train of thought

You never let me down when it comes to stupid questions, SciFi

@kalina DENIED

Okay you guys are right

That thing i posted earlier was really dumb.

I won't do that again

@Sterno "It was in the script"

8:10 PM

@FEichinger Undenied it seems.

sigh

@Arperum No, because she'd never star bait.

I don't star bait

completely innocent

See?

Yeeeeh ... that whole "innocent" thing doesn't really fly, no.

8:11 PM

Cleaner than a preacher's sheets.

@kalina Only if the definition of innocence has changed from the globally accepted one.

I'm seriously sorry about posting that earlier. I mean it.

> Innocence (or guiltlessness) is a term used to indicate a lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, or wrongdoing.

@Sterno Doesn't need much for that. Dirty pedophiles.

I'd buy you all games but my parents took all my money...

8:12 PM

@Arperum I committed no wrong doing or crime = innocent

nor do I feel guilty

@kalina Yes, you did. You clearly star baited. Again. Like you always do.

as such, I am innocent

@GnomeSlice I for one don't even know what you're talking about since it's deleted and I was absent, but I don't think anyone wants that. They just want whatever it is to not continue.

44 mins ago, by Wipqozn

2 mins ago, by Wipqozn

If you're really sorry then change your behaviour.

No, you feel and pretend to be innocent. But you are not.

8:13 PM

@Wipqozn I did.

@FEichinger am too

3 mins ago, by GnomeSlice

I won't do that again

We haven't declared star baiting to be a wrongdoing yet, have we?

It's natural that discussion of the word vibrate would lead to baiting.

@FEichinger you're not one to preach about innocence - angel cake

8:13 PM

@GnomeSlice For how long? More than 24 hours?

@FEichinger Ever.

@kalina Hey, that ... Oh, just ... Uh ... screw you.

@GnomeSlice hahhahahhahhahahaahhahaha

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Q: How to avoid Ice Storm Scroll suicide

I have a scroll of Ice Storm. Whenever I try to cast it, the storm seems to be centered on me. It inflicts damage on me and my follower, quickly killing us. From reading the UESP and Wikia pages on Ice Storm, it sounds like it's supposed to be a slow-moving projectile launched at my target. Whe...

@GnomeSlice funniest thing I've ever read, would read again

8:14 PM

@GnomeSlice Don't buy us games, place the money on a seperate bank account and tell your parents you bought us games.

@kalina I hate you

I wish you guys could understand what it's like to be screwed up because then we would get along so much better

Wait a minute... how did your parents take all your money?

@Sterno My mother transferred most of my money out of my account to stop me buying more games or music online

@Sterno they have a joint bank account

You're > 18. Get your own account.

8:15 PM

@GnomeSlice I kind of understand, you just have to learn to control your impulses, it's really hard, but you have to learn it.

Then again, maybe not. Your mom is probably a smart lady and doing what's best for you.

My parents think I'm much more handicapped than I actually am.

Maybe they're right, to be honest.

And yes, that is the word I meant to use.

@GnomeSlice You are not retarded, just very impulsive. And need to learn to control your impulses.

@GnomeSlice This is an example of you not changing your behaviour.

I'm socially retarded.

8:17 PM

You need Yoda as a mentor.

@GnomeSlice To be honest, you really do need to work on your impulse control, but that does not mean retarded.

@Wipqozn 'retarded' is not a dirty word.

It has an actual meaning

@GnomeSlice In the context you're using it in it is.

@Wipqozn Not really, no.

I just don't want you guys to be angry with me or dislike me because of this

It's important

6 mins ago, by Wipqozn

44 mins ago, by Wipqozn

2 mins ago, by Wipqozn

If you're really sorry then change your behaviour.

8:19 PM

We're not angry with you because of this particular thing.

@Wipqozn Stop posting that, I get the fucking message

user20683

@GnomeSlice Predicating your entire existence on other people's opinions of you is a path to ruin.

We're angry with you because you keep doing it, you keep apologizing and you never actually change.

@GnomeSlice You obviously don't.

Hey @GnomeSlice - Let me ask you this: Do you get in trouble for saying/doing the wrong/inappropriate things anywhere other than here?

8:21 PM

0

Q: Reconnect to Ubisoft servers

From time to time, my PS3 loses connection to the Ubisoft servers. Normally, I wouldn't care about it too much, but I really do enjoy using my tablet as a map thanks to the Assassin’s Creed® IV Companion app, which is pretty much useless when the game is no longer online. Unfortunately, I haven...

assassins-creed-4

0

Q: How many wards do I have to use to make sightstones efficient?

I know that wards are extremely important in League of Legends, and I know that often, people like to buy the sightstone. However, many times I go for straight up wards instead. The sightstone is not used enough, in my opinion, to be more beneficial than the cost of buying that wards themselves. ...

league-of-legends

@Coronus No. Never, in fact.

I don't know what my problem is here.

user15026

@GnomeSlice While I understand and well-know the original intended meaning of the word, it has become a pejorative insult, and has long lost that meaning, and unlike some words that have been reclaimed, is long and far away from that being even remotely possible.Here is a really good blog post of the word's history. It is SUPER insulting.

Is it because you act differently in here than the rest of your life? Would you have told that dream in that exact way to someone over lunch?

@AshleyNunn This was not my intention at all

@Coronus Probably. ...Maybe...

Okay I see your point.

Well I've already agreed it was stupid to post that part of it

Now I just feel dumb

user15026

@GnomeSlice Intention or not, you have to be aware of how it will come across, and I have tried many times to explain to you why that particular word is super not okay.

8:23 PM

Though to be fair, we say a lot of things in here that are insensitive to someone or another, and calling @GnomeSlice out for this particular one is likely a pot/kettle/black incident.

@Sterno Are we the kettle or the pot?

> I also think using “retarded” to describe a mentally handicapped person is legitimate also.

@OrigamiRobot I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure @kalina is the fire on the stove.

user15026

@Sterno This may be, but this is one word I myself have a lot of trouble just being okay with.

user20683

@OrigamiRobot Frying Pan

8:24 PM

@AshleyNunn I was just trying to point out that I am handicapped socially by not having much exposure

user15026

@GnomeSlice Did you read all of it, or just pull that?

@AshleyNunn I did read all of it, thanks for assuming otherwise.

@AshleyNunn That's a pretty valid reason to complain, then. We can all be accommodating to each others preferences in here.

user15026

@GnomeSlice You know that isn't actual retardation as medically defined?

@AshleyNunn Yes. But retardation just means to be slowed down doesn't it

user15026

8:25 PM

Social awkwardness DOES NOT AND WILL NOT EVER equal retardation

user15026

:1193742 Not in this case

Okay.

@GnomeSlice If you had an actual impairment, it would show up in your daily life outside of The Bridge.

user20683

@GnomeSlice You are undersocialized.

user20683

That is the word we shall use.

8:25 PM

@WorldEngineer What was your first clue

Yeeeeh, I think I'll just close this tab for an hour or two ... o.ô

@WorldEngineer I would go with socially inept

I have to stop using up phone data.

user15026

I am trying to find the specific medical definition, but it is so antiquated (for good reason) that it is harder to find than I would like.

@GnomeSlice Okay, I tell you what @GnomeSlice. Go into a special education class, at any school, and say "hey you retards, what's up?". See how that goes over.

8:26 PM

@Wipqozn If you actually think I would do that, you are really mistaken.

@kalina Sheltered is another thing I'd say.

@GnomeSlice Why wouldn't you do that? I thought there was nothing wrong with the word?

@Wipqozn That is definitely not what I said.

@AshleyNunn It's antiquated, but not gone. My wife's a doctor and actually uses it (medically speaking). Though typically said as "MR".

@Sterno I learned that from Arrested Development!

8:27 PM

10 mins ago, by GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn 'retarded' is not a dirty word.

3 mins ago, by GnomeSlice

> I also think using “retarded” to describe a mentally handicapped person is legitimate also.

user15026

@Sterno Yeah, my sister and I were talking about that the other day (she's in Nursing). I am trying to find a medical definition for it at the moment, but also writing a paper on something completely different.

3 mins ago, by GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn I was just trying to point out that I am handicapped socially by not having much exposure

@Wipqozn what do you want me to say

user15026

And while it is used medically, it isn't really accepted socially.

@GnomeSlice The point of the question was for you to realize "oh, crap! you're right, okay yeah I get it."

8:29 PM

Agreed. I suspect doctors say "MR" as shorthand to each other, but probably don't say to a patient (or his/her parent) "You/your son/whatever is MR"

I'm sure there's a more PC way.

user15026

(Sorry, I think my disability advocate sensibilities are showing, I apologize.)

But that didn't seem to be what happened at all.

@Wipqozn Sorry...

1 min ago, by GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn what do you want me to say

user15026

@Sterno There are quite a few. As with a lot of things, different people like to use different ones :)

8:29 PM

That reminds me though of the doctor who got sued for telling a patient she was obese.

Which is a word with a medical definition.

As someone who is disabled (or at least has been most of my life) I have never had a problem using the word about myself.

Althoguh I guess since my ADHD was undiagnosed at my last test I can't say that any more

Because I am no longer disabled

This is exactly what the problem with your attitude is. You don't care about changing, you only care about saying whatever it takes to get people to stop being mad at you.

@OrigamiRobot I can't change my attitude

Yes. Yes you can.

You can't change who you are, but you can change how you behave in certain social circumstances.

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user15026

8:31 PM

@Sterno It is. When I say I am obese, I say it because I know I fit the medical definition. (BMI over 35, I think?)

user15026

@GnomeSlice Yes you can. Totally possible.

user15026

I think we have discussed this before, and @LessPop_MoreFizz and I BOTH mentioned what terrible shits we used to be to people.

@AshleyNunn I think so. Or maybe 30. It's got different names every 5 from like 20 to 50

I would have done it by now if it were possible

I looked it up earlier today but can't remember.

8:31 PM

@AshleyNunn I can't imagine you ever being a terrible shit to somebody.

user15026

@Sterno Yeah, I used to know exactly where I fell, but I forget now.

@LessPop_MoreFizz on the other hand, I can totally imagine being a terrible shit to somebody.

:P

@Sterno Except you can change who you are.

user15026

@GnomeSlice My point exactly. I worked and learned and became someone who WASNT a terrible shit.

I am not a terrible shit...

user15026

8:32 PM

I used to be a really shitty super religious judgemental terrible person.

I am NONE OF THOSE THINGS

I used to be one of the stereotypical Christians who called people sinners for being gay or having sex before marriage.

@GnomeSlice this varies at times, sorry

@kalina NO IT DOESN'T

I changed.

8:33 PM

@GnomeSlice For example, I haven't really internalized the word "retarded" as being super-offensive in the sense that other words are. That said, knowing that people in here strongly dislike it, I'll simply not say it (though it's obviously impossible to avoid when discussing it right now). I'm not changing who I am. I'm just changing how I behave in here because it's more comfortable for everyone that way.

user15026

@OrigamiRobot Me too!

@GnomeSlice Trucker's Delight.

@Sterno That seems reasonable... I guess...

@kalina I don't want to talk about that

@GnomeSlice all I'm going to say is that if somebody I knew showed me that video there would have been violence

@kalina I am somebody you know...

And I apologized.

user15026

8:34 PM

We all adapt to places we're in. I have a terrible terrible penchant for cursing (ask @WorldEngineer.) but like if I am around kids or in any environment where it isn't okay, I curb it.

She couldn't punch you through the monitor.

@GnomeSlice you're an internet person, you don't count as "somebody I know"

user20683

I used to be a reactionary misotheist who hated everyone and everything.

@kalina That... makes me really sad...

I have this terrible tendency to speak English whenever I talk, but whenever I'm around my family, I switch to Chinese.

8:35 PM

@GnomeSlice facts of life

Man, you guys are all making me feel really good about myself by talking about the crappy people you used to be.

This is great.

user15026

@WorldEngineer I am trying to figure out "misotheist" and all I get is soup. Define please?

@AshleyNunn 'God-hating'

I was taught and believed that having non-Christian friends was a sin and that I should be doing my best to convert everyone I knew.

@GnomeSlice I view everybody on the internet the same way - although just like in real life there are varying degrees of how much I want to be associated with each individual internet person

user20683

8:35 PM

@OrigamiRobot Instead you developed a fantastic sense of style.

@GnomeSlice If you act anything like you do some of the time around here in real life though, and we "knew each other", I would likely have stopped talking to you a long long time ago

user15026

And all of us changed and became less shitacular people. I am super tolerant and loving, @WorldEngineer doesn't hate everything, etc, etc, etc.

@kalina I don't really. But I don't interact with people much 'in real life'

I'm going to go before I bring you guys down any more

Just like if @kalina was anywhere near as violent in real life as she says she is on here, we'd all be dead.

Sorry

8:37 PM

I used the words "gay" and "faggot" and "retarded" as insults. It took a lot of work to remove them from my vocabulary. Especially since the people I was around used them all the time. But it can be done.

@AshleyNunn I didn't change. I've always been handsome and awesome and funny and smart and handsome and modest.

@OrigamiRobot I grew up in the 90's I did that too. I don't any more.

Especially modest.

@GnomeSlice This is nothing. You should read the chat earlier about the book "Love You Forever"

I've always been modest.

user15026

8:37 PM

@OrigamiRobot Oh man, removing words from your vocab is HARD.

I know everybody on the internet is real people, and as such I don't like actually hurting people's feelings because that's not who I am - but I don't classify them as "people I know", because that would involve having enough faith in humanity to believe anything I read on the internet

user15026

@Sterno ....I am glad I missed that. That book is...weird

How does everyone already know about this book?

user15026

@Wipqozn The most modest

@Sterno Because Robert Munsch is super popular.

8:38 PM

@AshleyNunn They just get so ingrained that it becomes second nature. TBH, I still probably struggle with "retarded" every once in a while.

user15026

@Sterno Because it is CREEPSAUCE, and Munsch is like one of -the- children's authors, especially for when most of us grew up

user20683

@kalina I fully expect we could sit down in a pub and have a pint without killing each other. It might be a little icy but it'd be civil.

user15026

@OrigamiRobot As do I, to be honest.

@Sterno Lots of Canadians.

@AshleyNunn More modest than anyone else.

I am the best at being modest.

8:39 PM

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Q: Getting Battlefield raw weapon data

I know you can get weapon data from symthic.com. However, i am wanting to get RAW weapon data from the game files. Symthic, claims they are getting their data from the game files. I was wondering if anyone knew how to get this information. For battlefield 3 or 4.

battlefield-3 battlefield-4 battlefield

@AshleyNunn Ahhh... so basically, because I'm old and it was after my time.

@JasonBerkan Go Canada! high five

user15026

@Sterno ....yes :P

user20683

@Sterno I am also old

@WorldEngineer while I wouldn't bat an eyelid at setting somebody on fire in real life under the correct circumstances, those circumstances are well outside of the circumstances I'd type it out online

user20683

8:39 PM

I know this because I've not read that book

@WorldEngineer but you're not @Sternold.

@WorldEngineer also, I don't drink

user15026

@kalina Fair enough.

user20683

@kalina Pints of juice then :P

@Sterno - I went to a "concert" where Munsch read all of his books to the kids.

user15026

8:40 PM

@WorldEngineer no you aren't. I don't date old people

user15026

@JasonBerkan He came to my school! :D

Drinking alcohol is for squares. All the cool kids drink smoothies.

@Sterno I messaged you about that

I have that book

My mother and I read it hundreds of times when I was a child

uuugghh this looks so gooood

Also the reason I apologize so much is because there's basically no other way for me to tell you guys I'm actually sorry

8:41 PM

@WorldEngineer I like to think of myself as an exceptionally nice person who only turns nasty once I feel somebody has violated my view of what is morally acceptable. I largely don't care about the legality of things

I personally love The Paper Bag Princess. That was one of my favourites growing up.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Apolgize once, move on. It will be accepted or not as people wish. Adapting and changing so you don't have to apologize over and over for the same things is likely to be noticed more

user20683

Animalia

@GnomeSlice you apologise so much that the word "sorry" is relatively worthless when you say it

user20683

Dinotopia

8:42 PM

@AshleyNunn I would never notice something like that if it were me

Why would anybody else?

user15026

@JasonBerkan Moira's Birthday, or Purple Green and Yellow (which I have mostly memorized)

user15026

@GnomeSlice Because, well, for one thing, we are not all you :)

user15026

Different people notice different things

@GnomeSlice What she means is don't spend an hour saying sorry over and over again.

user15026

but as a whole, people will notice repeated behaviour in a more negative light than changed behaviour.

8:43 PM

@GnomeSlice I think we'd notice because eventually we'd think, "Huh. When was the last time I thought, 'Dammit, @GnomeSlice!'."

Like you just did.

We all moved on and you brought it up. In fact it happened twice.

@Yuki this

@Wipqozn Because I don't want people to stop caring about things I have to say because of stuff like that

I do not believe you are really sorry. I believe you regret that people are mad at you and you say sorry to try to avert that. That's not what apologies are for.

user15026

@GnomeSlice The more you bring it up, the more we will remember, because you give our brains more chances to memorize the information. If you want us to forget about it and move on, you need to give us space to do so.

8:45 PM

If that's wrong, it's only because you make it seem that way by apologizing and then repeating the things you're apologizing for.

The channel topic needs changing to "The GnomeSlice intervention"

@kalina It's only the millionth time we've had this talk with him.

@GnomeSlice since you're probably taking this the wrong way - this is a friendly conversation, regardless of how critical it is, an unfriendly conversation would either contain far more profanity or most of the channel ignoring you

please understand that

user20683

@kalina Unfriendly on my part starts with kicking and ends with much worse.

user15026

@kalina Yeah, we are coming from a place of honestly wanting to help, not just an angry screamyplace.

8:49 PM

@WorldEngineer the kick button should make the moderator that clicked it burst into flames in real life

At any rate, thank you guys for putting up with me for so long.

you're hardly retro, scootaloo, game addict, etc

user20683

@kalina Johan

Or Hitler.

Hitler is such a huge jerk.

He's literally the worst.

hitler is somewhere between gnomeslice and johan/retro/gameaddict

8:53 PM

@kalina

user image

@kalina

@kalina =[

@qwertyk31 ...

@kalina

@qwertyk31 lol

8:53 PM

fuck

stop it already

I want to ping @kalina, too!

@FEichinger angel cake

@kalina ♥

the heart worries me far more than the 'screw you' ever did

user15026

@qwertyk31 I am a whale or a manatee depending on my mood

8:54 PM

I know. :)

you best not be feeling warm and fuzzy

@qwertyk31 To answer your question, @kalina is an element. That element is fire.

@kalina So, you haven't set fire to me yet, then?

user20683

@OrigamiRobot Kalina is more like FOOF.

good thing "wherein everything is fireproof "

8:55 PM

On that note, no, I don't feel warm and fuzzy, because I'm still sick :(

@qwertyk31 excludes my fire

they keep trying to come up with ways to control my fire

every attempt has resulted in more fires

user20683

Hence the "FOOF"

@WorldEngineer you're going to have to spell this out for me, because I just googled it and I'm 100% sure you're not trying to say that

Drei seems like an interesting concept.

user20683

@kalina Di-Oxygen, Di-Flouride

user20683

8:58 PM

Ignites almost anything

user20683

Then there's Chlorine TriFlouride

user20683

it ignites with anything

@WorldEngineer this is acceptable. Incidentally, the urban dictionary entry for FOOF does not mean what you're saying it is

user20683

@kalina because this is the chemical usage

@GnomeSlice Thank you, I can google too.

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