The Bridge

9:01 AM

Actually, no, what's going to kill me is the fact that I've been on my medication for about... 20 hours now? Out of the recommended... 9 hours. I can feel the weridness that happens when my body says "sleep", but my medication says "focus" right now.

Kevin van der Velden

@qwertyk31 I don't know, I assume theres a runtime for it given that there's one for both windows and mac

qwertyk31

no you can only export the games to linux

Well doesn't seem like anyone knows, i might have to contact the unity3d team

Kevin van der Velden

@qwertyk31 did you try running the file directly from a shell? ./filename

qwertyk31

no how do you do that

Kevin van der Velden

Also, double check that you are on a 32 bit platform given that's the version you're compiling

Uuh, open a terminal emulator. Go to the proper directory (cd dirname), ./filename

qwertyk31

9:03 AM

yes I am running ubuntu 32 bit

Unionhawk

Are suggested edit reviews binding for the original author of the post?

Lazers

0

Q: Finding Missions

I am at a point where money is an issue. As a result, I need to start doing side missions for some extra gold. Problem is, other than flying around each station with scrupulous care and looking for the missions, I don't know a way of getting missions. Do we really have to spend so long just look...

x-rebirth

Arperum

@Unionhawk What do you mean?

Unionhawk

Looks like they are.

@Arperum Someone suggests an edit on your post, is your say of reject/approve a binding (doesn't need any other review) review. Looks like it is.

Arperum

@Unionhawk I know you can surely reject binding. approve seems logical.

Also: that sentence is broken.

Blem

9:08 AM

Unionhawk

Oh man ~~tomorrow~~ today is going to be a weird day I can tell.

It's going to be one of those "running on pure fumes and also coffee" days. woo.

Blem

@Unionhawk yea, first cup is down!

Unionhawk

It's 4 am here, I have gotten no sleep. But I think I've got the most beautiful BS paper I have ever written.

Don't procrastinate, kids.

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk but procrastinating is fun!

Arperum

@Unionhawk Sounds like someone is teaching himself a lesson, but not for the first time.

Unionhawk

9:16 AM

Procrastinating keeps you up until 4:30-5 on a paper deadline day. It's no good.

@Arperum I... yes.

5pike

@Unionhawk Sounds familiar... It's in the same category as "I'll never drink alcohol ever again"

Unionhawk

Ironically, this paper's about the integration of technology in education, so I take several stabs at myself on the topics of "if you mess around in college you're dead" >_>

Arperum

@Unionhawk know what you feel, I once finished some deliverable at 6AM, it had to delivered at 8-9 AM. I ended up sending a mail to the rest of the group "Here is the result, deliver that. I'm going to bed. I'm not coming because snow."

Unionhawk

I'm seriously though. Next semester is going to be a no-procrastination deal. I've got to keep this GPA above a 3, and me barely getting my shit done at the last minute is not going to fly much farther.

Though I think I can get away with it this time because the prof has expressed how much she likes my writing - even though all of it is 100% USDA certified BS

Blem

Local election brings out the freaks (sorry it is in danish)

Lazers

9:24 AM

0

Q: Which actions do shopkeepers consider hostile?

In one of my recent Spelunky runs, I had an item that allowed me to see gems embedded in the ground/walls. Two particularly lucrative gems were embedded in a shop's ceiling, and I assumed the shopkeeper would not begrudge me giving him a new skylight. Boy was I wrong. Seeing how I do not conside...

spelunky-hd

0

Q: How much does a Game Director get a year in money? And what goes into Directing a game?

I'm thinking of going into the gaming industry and would prefer to be a Game director. What skills do you need to be one and what amount of money (Approximate) would you get a year?

terminology

Trent Hawkins

The worst thing I've ever done throughout school was get an A+ on an essay I wrote the morning of the day I was supposed to hand it in. I kinda learned the wrong lesson from that.

Unionhawk

@Lazers Smells like game dev...

boo

Good morning

Unionhawk

@TrentHawkins If I can get an A+ on this thing, it will be a great victory. But the lesson here is me being dead tired all day for the next week or so.

boo

@Unionhawk ew

5pike

9:26 AM

@Lazers This question would be better at gamedev.stackexchange.com

right?

Blem

@boooooooooo! your name has updated

Kevin van der Velden

@5pike no it wouldn't, it'd be closed there as well =p

5pike

@KevinvanderVelden ok

Kevin van der Velden

Just burninate it

We are way faster at burninating anyway =p

Unionhawk

We don't migrate bad questions for good reason. There's a reason that only mods can do migrations outside of migrate to meta.

Lazers

9:38 AM

0

Q: Is Kinect Star Wars Region Free?

I want to know if Kinect Star Wars PAL is playable on a NTSC-US Xbox 360. Thanks

xbox-360 region-locked kinect-star-wars

Arperum

@Lazers region-locked looks like a terrible tag.

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum meta tags belong on meta, go away bad tags D:

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden It has 50 questions even...

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum indeed o.o

Unionhawk

for your convenience

Lazers

9:51 AM

0

Q: Any great games like the Apollo Justice and Pheonix Wright series?

I love games like the Pheonix Wright ones, but cant find any! Please help.

pc

Unionhawk

At this rate I might as well stay up until a naptime after class, fwiw.

Arperum

@Unionhawk Do a little dance! Then game a bit.

Then fall asleep during the lecture.

It's awesome to fall asleep unnoticed in a lecture when there are about ~20 people in the whole auditorium...

Unionhawk

10:14 AM

you know it's late when even the go-to late-night entertainment, speedrunner streams, aren't happening.

Arperum

@Unionhawk Europe is working you know.

Unionhawk

@Arperum And America is asleep. Except me, apparently.

Martin Sojka

@Unionhawk Except you and the NSA.

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk well go wake the rest of america up, they shouldn't be asleep in the middle of the afternoon! Silly americans

Unionhawk

IT'S 5 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING GO AWAY WITH YOUR SILLY TIME ZONES

Arperum

10:20 AM

@Unionhawk Your caps lock is still awake.

Unionhawk

MY CAPS LOCK IS ALWAYS AWAKE

boo

@Unionhawk If it's always morning when you arrive in the Bridge, and always evening when you leave, what time are you at now?

Arperum

@Unionhawk And loud. Try telling it to calm down a bit.

@boo I'd assume noon.

Unionhawk

@boo I... Yes.

It's one of those days.

boo

10:43 AM

Another of these excellent videos

Unionhawk

11:06 AM

And this is the point in the paper where I just go "screw it, good enough"

qwertyk31

LOL area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/62014/rant-overflow

Kevin van der Velden

@qwertyk31 meta-trolling? Nicely done

Unionhawk

Now the question is do I want to get 2 hours of sleep and be angry in 2 hours, or do I want to power through it?

and be angry in like, 3 hours.

yea f this 2 hours is better than no hours.

Blem

11:22 AM

@boo ...

Blem

11:45 AM

@boo She just QQ the whole time

Martin Sojka

I'm disappointed at the lack of Oblivion in the game list.

Blem

@boo youtube.com/watch?v=HJihi5rB_Ek

Lazers

12:04 PM

0

Q: How do I use Power Cubes?

I know what it is, but, how do I use it? I have three buttons when I navigate to a Power Cube in the Inventory, Use, Drop and Recycle. What is the purpose of each of those?

ingress

kalina

12:26 PM

Bleugh

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina bleh

kalina

i still haven't slept yet

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina well there's your problem, find the nearest bed and go to sleep

kalina

The nearest bed?

I don't do that

i have standards

Arperum

@kalina Where are you now then? That your own bed is not the nearest?

kalina

12:30 PM

Downstairs

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina you can kick whomever is in the bed out first if you must.

kalina

No

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden I think the owner of the bed matters in this case.

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum it's kalina, s/he will move out for fear of her fire anyway

Arperum

IIRC @kalina moved in with an ex for reasons of fired and out of money or something.

kalina

12:43 PM

still not heard back from my interview yesterday

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina =[

boo

@kalina And you're surprised? It usually takes weeks to hear back.

Kevin van der Velden

Still, hearing back in a day would be pretty damn fast?

kalina

UNACCEPTABLE

what you're saying is I need to adopt a normal sleep schedule for an unspecified period of time just in case they phone me up

this is not acceptable

I will give them 24 hours to respond and then burn their building down

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina burning down a building will prevent them from hiring you you know. It would be counterproductive

Cathartic, but counterproductive

kalina

12:49 PM

no it wouldn't

it would be very productive

since I could begin applying for more jobs without the potential issue of getting asked to start at two separate companies due to this one suddenly getting back to me 6 weeks from now

Blem

Monty Python to reunite for stage show

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina that shouldn't stop you from getting multiple interviews. Heck, if you get multiple offers at the same time you might be able to get paid more

5pike

@Blem Cool

boo

@KevinvanderVelden this

Start a bidding war

Lazers

-1

Q: Multiplayer Games that don't Require Firewall Allowance

On a laptop where I am not admin, it has rather locked down security settings to prevent viruses and other issues. As a side effect, I am unable to play the vast majority of multiplayer games on it. Games which get a message like this: I want to know any games which I would be able to play on it...

windows-7 windows networking hosting

Sterno

1:00 PM

I do not understand unboxing vids.

Wow, yesterday must have been a slow star day.

> Tomorrow, we will announce the title of the new Berlin expansion, Shadowrun: Dragonfall.

Aren't they announcing it RIGHT THERE?

RedRiderX

This site is kind of amazing

RedRiderX

1:15 PM

I guess I've decided to pick a fight with Jack-of-Smiles.

Martin Sojka

@Sterno It'll actually be Shadowrun: Mauerfall.

And it'll be rendered in Comic Sans.

... in hot pink

Blem

RedRiderX

@Blem Is this supposed to be a retro selfie?

Blem

1:34 PM

standaard.be/cnt/…

Arperum

@Blem Since when do you read Belgian newspaper things? confused

Unionhawk

blarg

Arperum

@Unionhawk Morning? I assume?

Unionhawk

mornings can officially die

Blem

@Arperum I have belgian friends

Unionhawk

1:48 PM

►

Arperum

@Blem Didn't know you spoke Dutch too.

Blem

@Arperum I use chrome that can translate :D

Arperum

@Blem Ah, so you get some crappy translation from google. :)

Ben Brocka

2:00 PM

@Blem Augh I read about that in slightly a more English publication

Blem

Famous Photos Reimagined as Selfies in Newspaper's Wonderful Print Ads

OrigamiRobot

@Unionhawk A+

Tim Stone

I should have done an unboxing video of when Verizon sent us a box in a box to put our set-top box in to send back to them. Would have been very meta.

3ventic

My Nexus 7 came in a box inside a box inside a box.

Unionhawk

GODDAMMIT PRINTER YOU CHOOSE THE WORST TIMES TO RUN OUT OF INK

3ventic

2:14 PM

@Unionhawk It's always the worst time to run out of ink.

Sterno

2:29 PM

Editing XAML in visual studio is so fucking slow

Powerlord

Bacon

@Sterno Which version of Visual Studio?

Sterno

2010

Powerlord

Which reminds me, I need to grab a copy of VS2k10 from MSDN

Sterno

It also drives RAM usage up to 1.4gb

Powerlord

I keep forgetting to install it on my laptop

Sterno

2:34 PM

I've read tips that hiding the design view and telling it to open with the "Source Code(Text)" editor speeds it up, but it's still godawful slow

Arperum

@Powerlord What is the logic behind this message? or is it just "Bacon", no more, no less?

@Sterno Design view is terrible.

Powerlord

@Arperum I need a reason to say Bacon now?

Sterno

@Arperum And almost always blank for me, as a bonus, because whatever the hell we do on my project, it has problems with

Powerlord

It was more or less a "hey, I'm here now" message.

Arperum

@Powerlord This was basically what my second option tried to say, except less clear.

Sterno

2:37 PM

But it's really sad when I type Grid.Column="1" and it takes VS 8 seconds to catch up to what I typed

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn I KILLED THE FAIR LADY FOR HER FIRE KEEPER SOUL AND I FEEL TERRIBLE! D:

Arperum

@Sterno Wouldn't notepad++ be an improvement at that time?

Sterno

@Arperum Usually restarting visual studio fixes it (for a while). I could do notepad++, but then I lose intellisense and Resharper

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy You monster!

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot Hey, you've been considering it too! :(

OrigamiRobot

2:39 PM

@Fluttershy I monster!

Fluttershy

It's easier for you though. She isn't the head of the covenant you should have joined, which is the case for me. :(

Sterno

3

Q: Visual Studio Performance problems when writing XAML

I've dealt with Visual Studio performing terrible for too long now. Now I'm past the point of being emotionally broken and need help. I can't figure out how to fix the issue of the Visual Studio XAML editor performing so badly. When I type a set of characters each one takes at least a second ...

performance visual-studio-2010 visual-studio-2012

Heh. I love that 2nd sentence.

Arperum

@Sterno Are you past the point of emotionally broken and in need of help?

Sterno

Yes.

Arperum

@Sterno gives cookie have a cookie!

Powerlord

2:42 PM

I don't do enough .NET coding to justify paying for a Resharper license.

5pike

@Sterno Do you need a hug?

Sterno

No. My daughter gives me sufficient hugs.

5pike

@Sterno nice

Jason Berkan

I'm always torn when it comes to Resharper. On one hand, it helps a lot. On the other hand, that's another thing I have to convince every freaking client to purchase.

Sterno

So worth it.

Kevin van der Velden

2:46 PM

@JasonBerkan you don't use a laptop of your own then?

Jason Berkan

@KevinvanderVelden Depends on the client. Smaller clients, I'll use my laptops. Bigger clients - no way in hell are their IT departments allowing an untrusted laptop on the network, so I get my own machine.

Kevin van der Velden

@JasonBerkan and how much time do you spend installing the stuff needed to make you productive again? ><

Jason Berkan

@KevinvanderVelden Bigger shops have developer images. Every developer gets the same setup.

Sterno

Aren't ReSharper licenses for a user rather than a machine? Can't you just use your license on the provided laptop?

Kevin van der Velden

@JasonBerkan yes, this sounds like a good idea. goes back to working in vim

Jason Berkan

2:49 PM

@Sterno Don't know. Would it allow multiple installs per user, because that's what I would need - installed on my laptop and installed on possibly multiple client computers.

Looks like the personal license does. I still would need to get IT approval to install, but that's one step closer.

Sterno

@JasonBerkan I think you're just not supposed to use them concurrently

Jason Berkan

@Sterno Yeah, and that wouldn't be a problem - I'm only one man.

Though $149 cuts into my gaming budget a little bit...

Lazers

0

Q: What affects field upgrades in BF4?

Firstly, how do you gain the score exactly? I know it shows in the bar on the side of the map, but I remember a match where I was lone-wolfing and still got a pretty high score in that bar. I suppose my other squad members were together, but do I also gain for their work? Also, does the score re...

battlefield-4

Ben Brocka

3:05 PM

@spugsley PS4 supply will be sufficient for holiday season according to Sony

3ventic

@BenBrocka What holiday season?

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic easter

FEichinger

@BenBrocka Edits are for losers.

Ben Brocka

Christmas, they seem pretty eager to meet that 3 million target (and with 1 million on day one with the UK launch not even done yet they probably will)

Sterno

3:19 PM

Still waiting for games that make me want to buy a nextgen console

fbueckert

@Sterno For me, it'll probably be Kingdom Hearts 3

SaintWacko

Morning, Bridge

Ben Brocka

@Sterno some solid ones coming out next year

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy @OrigamiRobot @Yuki I had a good night after you guys went to bed

Killed the Titanite Demon

Killed the Crystal Butterfly

boo

I've been in a meeting since 10

Kill me

SaintWacko

3:24 PM

Got my Balder Side Sword to +5, and my Balder Shield to +4

Got the Elite Knight Armour

Now I'm working on boosting my endurance enough to use all of it

Oh, and I have to remember tonight to go back down to the hydra and get my souls. Hiding behind a rock, I discovered, is not sufficient protection >.>

Kevin van der Velden

@boo you are a hamster! Why were you in a meeting and not running on a wheel?

boo

@KevinvanderVelden The wheel was trapped in a room in which a 5 hour meeting was taking place

5pike

@SaintWacko The hardest part about the hydra is getting close to it.

boo

I am a hamster, and cannot open doors

Kevin van der Velden

@boo poor hamster =[

SaintWacko

3:26 PM

@5pike Yeah

Oh, and I also found the bonfire in darkroot

Martin Sojka

One of my hamsters could open doors. He did so one night, jumped into the nearby aquarium, and drowned.

SaintWacko

@MartinSojka o.0

RedRiderX

@MartinSojka Oh my.

boo

@MartinSojka Stupid hamster

user15026

@MartinSojka That is terrible

boo

3:27 PM

Darwin award for that hamster

Kevin van der Velden

@MartinSojka I... but... HOW? o.o

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/armor

Martin Sojka

If you're a hamster, better stick to your cage. There might be cats and aquariums waiting outside.

4

Sterno

@SaintWacko It is if you do it right.

5pike

@MartinSojka At least he died a free man...

Hamster

SaintWacko

3:32 PM

@OrigamiRobot Oh, and I found the Wolf Ring

Fluttershy

@SaintWacko If you have a ring slot open, use that! Also, hydra is ezpz if you can get close to it. But not too close! Or you die.

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Is melee range too close?

And I am using the Wolf Ring and the Blue Tearstone Ring

5pike

@SaintWacko You die because you fall into a pit

Just don't go to deep into the water and keep your shield up. You'll be fine

SaintWacko

@5pike Ah, okay

Sterno

@SaintWacko Hide behind rock. Run out and try to provoke it to melee you. Run back when it does. Run back out and whack head before it retracts. Heads near the rock are easy. Getting the last few is tough since you have to be careful not to fall in the deep water

SaintWacko

3:36 PM

@Sterno I hid behind a rock, and its projectiles just splashed :(

3ventic

0

A: Is PS3 / PS4 Online Multiplayer Cross-Platform?

nah cuhh, don't be akin lyk dat doe, i mean fo rea and fo shooooo daw

Is that English?

Sterno

Play around with where you're standing. There are spots you can stand where you're safe

SaintWacko

@3ventic I don't think so

5pike

Mhh...I remember that if you have your shield up, you take no damage from her melee attack.

And she always attacks if you stand in the water

OrigamiRobot

@3ventic I'm sad I can translate that. Still nonsense.

Kevin van der Velden

3:38 PM

@3ventic it's... something. Also memes

SaintWacko

Ugh, I can't comment "what?"

user15026

For some reason, gravatars don't load for me and none of the SE pages load right (just text, no images/style)

5pike

@AshleyNunn do you have an adblock installed?

3ventic

@5pike Shouldn't block any of those

Martin Sojka

Back in the days, all you needed to defeat the Medusa was a helmet of invisibility and a mirror. And a sharp sword, obviously. Ah, those were much simpler times ...

2

5pike

3:40 PM

@3ventic Ghostery does...

user15026

@5pike I do, but it wasn't a problem til now, and it is only on this laptop, not my desktop machine which is running Adblock as well

3ventic

Is teamspeak site down for you too?

SaintWacko

@MartinSojka Heh

Wait, we're talking about hydrae, not Medusa

Martin Sojka

Oh, right. My bad.

Fluttershy

This hydra doesn't grow more heads when you cut one off.

Lazers

3:43 PM

-1

Q: How can I play Indiana Jones: The Infernal Machine on Windows 8?

However due to it being designed for prehistoric computers I can't run it on my windows 8 laptop. How can I go about making it run on a current operating system?

lego-indiana-jones

user15026

Hm, after a shut down and a restart, it seems to have sorted itself

Fluttershy

Also, @SaintWacko, if you go straight instead of left (toward the hydra), you should see a tower. Havel is behind that door.

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Ooh, okay

5pike

@SaintWacko His ring is awesome.

SaintWacko

Also

I'm sorry, posts on this site need to be in English. — SaintWacko 16 mins ago

RedRiderX

3:57 PM

Ben Brocka

@3ventic In a way

SaintWacko

@RedRiderX That kind of keyboard mashing "speech" annoys me

fbueckert

@Lazers I edited this, so it should be valid now, I think.

RedRiderX

@SaintWacko Yeah it can get pretty tiresome.

Arperum

@SaintWacko There was no speech involved in that post. My cat can type better English, and she doesn't even speak it at all.

SaintWacko

4:04 PM

@Arperum Exactly. Which is why "speech" was in quotes

Imagine the heaviest air quotes you've ever seen

That's what those quotes were

Fluttershy

I need to decide what to do next in Dark Souls...

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy SYMBOL OF AVARICE AND CSSR

user15026

And now SE is running like crap again

user15026

I am starting to think there is something about this machine making things borked

user15026

but I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on

Ben Brocka

4:11 PM

Xbox One won't let you livestream gameplay at launch http://sbn.to/1aDR0FH

Tweeted by Polygon on November 19, 2013 at 4:02 PM

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot Which means Catacombs and Nito, right?

Ben Brocka

Kefka laugh

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy YOU DON'T HAVE TO KILL NITO

LessPop_MoreFizz

0

Q: this is big-whats the problem with my country

I'm a Chinese and I used to be proud of that. Not any more. I'm workin class and underpayed for my line of works. I bust my ass off working for fat guys don't know squad about programming but gets 100 and more times my earn. I want to have a break but can't, can't afford to lose job. I can travel...

china

Arperum

I get errors like this in firebug console a lot:
Image corrupt or truncated: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/802366c7558ab9df5c5125ea8c0858c4?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG

user15026

4:12 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz where is this from?

Kevin van der Velden

@AshleyNunn travel.se according to the link

user15026

Feels like a case of "I found your text box let me put words in it"

user15026

....my prof's handwriting looks like a small child's.

user15026

It makes it hard to read, and also makes me trust his opinion less

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot Oh. Well that's good, at least. Though it does require me to do both the Catacombs and Duke's Archives, right? Are there any mimics in the Royal Woods?

OrigamiRobot

4:21 PM

@Fluttershy THERE ARE TWO PAST THE ROYAL WOOD, BUT YOU CAN USE THE FARMING TECHNIQUE IF YOU DON'T WANNA FIND AND KILL THEM ALL

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot WHY ARE YOU YELLING?

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot Lloyd's Talisman?

@SaintWacko AutoCAD

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy aH

Er, Ah

user15026

.....blergh, discussing Twilight

Yuki

@AshleyNunn Sounds like... ufn.

3ventic

4:32 PM

@Fluttershy Not in the woods, no.

Yuki

Yes, I spelled it that way on purpose.

3ventic

CANADIANS! What is a Canadian Transit Number

user15026

@Yuki I am trying to not take a nap on my laptop

user15026

@3ventic Context?

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko SEE, I JUST GIVE UP HERE AND YELL ALL DAY

@Fluttershy YES

3ventic

4:33 PM

@AshleyNunn SteamworksAccess_PaymentInfo_CanadianTransitNumber

That's all context there is.

Jason Berkan

@3ventic Identifies your bank.

user15026

@3ventic Likely a bank idenitifier

user15026

Tells what bank you are with

Jason Berkan

Routing transit number

A routing transit number (RTN) is a nine digit bank code, used in the United States, which appears on the bottom of negotiable instruments such as checks identifying the financial institution on which it was drawn. This code was designed to facilitate the sorting, bundling, and shipment of paper checks back to the drawer's (check writer's) account. The RTN is also used by Federal Reserve Banks to process Fedwire funds transfers, and by the Automated Clearing House to process s, bill payments, and other such automated transfers. The RTN number is derived from the bank's transit number orig...

3ventic

So it's likely something that's more useful in English than it is translated..

OrigamiRobot

4:34 PM

Routing transit number

A routing transit number (RTN) is a nine digit bank code, used in the United States, which appears on the bottom of negotiable instruments such as checks identifying the financial institution on which it was drawn. This code was designed to facilitate the sorting, bundling, and shipment of paper checks back to the drawer's (check writer's) account. The RTN is also used by Federal Reserve Banks to process Fedwire funds transfers, and by the Automated Clearing House to process s, bill payments, and other such automated transfers. The RTN number is derived from the bank's transit number orig...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO @JasonBerkan

user15026

yay we are all good at wikipedia ;)

Jason Berkan

I WIN! Also, I have written code that creates the flat files used by Canadian banks to process EFTs, so I have intimate knowledge of that stupid number.

3ventic

Translating Steam can be a pain in the butt when the developers sometimes forget that languages can have varying lengths of words...

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic why are you translating steam?

3ventic

@KevinvanderVelden For fun and hats.

Yuki

4:41 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Isn't that what everyone does in the free time?

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki no, I make games in my free time

And also sometimes play games but meh

user15026

There is a girl in this class that needs to always respond to everything and she is so often wrong that it is getting hilarious

Jason Berkan

@Yuki No, because Steam is already in English, so they don't need my help.

Martin Sojka

"Playing games" is overrated.

RedRiderX

@MartinSojka Totally.

Martin Sojka

4:43 PM

Though "helping with translation for free" can be a totally fun game of "see how many penis references you can hide in there".

3ventic

@JasonBerkan Pirate English has a lot to do.

Time to yarrr some

Yuki

@AshleyNunn There's someone like that in one of my classes but it's "goes off on so many random tangents" rather than "so often wrong".

RedRiderX

@MartinSojka duolingo.com

Crowd sourced translation.

3ventic

@MartinSojka For TF2 translations, that wouldn't even be hard...

user15026

@Yuki She likes to think she knows everything about fantasy lit ever when she....doesn't at all.

Yuki

4:44 PM

@RedRiderX Well, that doesn't sound fishy at all.

OrigamiRobot

@3ventic I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!

RedRiderX

@Yuki It's been around for a little while now and is very neat.

Martin Sojka

@RedRiderX minecraftforum.net/topic/939530-very-very-bad-translate

murgatroid99

@RedRiderX It's not just that. It also teaches you the languages

RedRiderX

@murgatroid99 Well yes, the translation is sort of a by-product.

But I did expect people to read the site. :P

@MartinSojka Oh my.

Yuki

4:47 PM

Crowd-sourced translation just feels all kinds of iffy.

Translate "cabeza". *Penis*.
How about... "agua"? *Penis*.
Umm... "madre"? *Cocksucker*.

3ventic

@OrigamiRobot Oh my...

I didn't even get it until you pointed that out :D

Yuki

Weird how it's not italicizing...

murgatroid99

@Yuki The thing is that multiple people need to agree for the translation to be accepted. It's like how reCAPTCHA doesn't fill every book with the word penis

@Yuki yeah, formatting doesn't work with multi-line chat text

Yuki

@murgatroid99 Yeah, I figured that was probably the case, but multiple independent verification like that can be spoofed.

And some people will go to surprisingly far lengths to get penises everywhere they can.

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RedRiderX

@Yuki And I don't think you're translating for people right off.

3ventic

4:49 PM

Moderators need to accept the translations for Steam, then admin goes over the accepted translations and decides to scrap or apply them

RedRiderX

You actually have to do their courses for a bit.

The translation is like practice.

3ventic

And that admin is someone who works for Valve

murgatroid99

@Yuki There's probably some heuristics for what words it sees in the source material and what it would translate to

OrigamiRobot

5 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot

@3ventic I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!

SaintWacko

Removing context, HO!

Yuki

4:51 PM

@SaintWacko Surprised it took so long for someone to star that for out-of-context hijinks.

Martin Sojka

@3ventic I wonder why Valve couldn't just go and hire someone to do the translation instead.

Yuki

"Hijinks" is quickly becoming one of my favorite words.

SaintWacko

@Yuki I just tabbed in and saw it

3ventic

@MartinSojka Because it's more expensive, I would assume

SaintWacko

Hijinks and shenanigans!

OrigamiRobot

4:52 PM

@Yuki I'LL REFRAIN FROM POINTING OUT THE MINISCULE ACCURACY ONE COULD PERCEIVE IN THAT FIRST ONE.

Yuki

@MartinSojka If people are going to do things for you for free, why bother paying for it?

3ventic

Hiring a full time translator for each language vs having a community manager who merely oversees community translations.

+ it gets the community more involved

Martin Sojka

I'm not so sure about the quality though ...

boo

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/19/…

Blame Canada

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