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I need 57 more rep to get one more delete vote

I am going to go and eat

is Rift dead?

@Meraj99 considering the latest tweet on their twitter was today, no.

@KevinvanderVelden well, good to know

I like a article that starts with:

Some descriptions here might be hard to stomach, and the squeamish should not under any circumstances watch the videos of the extraction process. Unless the circumstance is someone tricking you into it, which would be pretty funny

1:13 PM

i just got 4 free low-quality reviews :D

@KevinvanderVelden er, their latest tweet was on 21? xD

@Meraj99 ooh, close enough

@Meraj99 Close enough.

@KevinvanderVelden but did you just randomly say that? o_O

@KevinvanderVelden STOP THE NINJAING ALREADY!

fredley

Much weather, very rain

1:15 PM

@Meraj99 no, I made a mistake. It happens sometimes.

@Arperum NEVER, it is way to much fun.

50 mins ago, by 5pike

@Wandang -doge

@KevinvanderVelden ... speechless

@Meraj99 I know, it still amazes me sometimes that I'm not absolutely perfect, just very very close.

Oh well, we all have our burdens to carry.

@KevinvanderVelden i was just wondering how in the world you made such a mistake

@KevinvanderVelden I like my complete and utter lack of perfection. Have fun with your burden of near-perfection.

1:17 PM

@Meraj99 I'm at work so looked at it for all of 2 seconds, and I didn't sleep well so I'm tired.

@Meraj99 Missing two days is not that big a mistake. Hell, my clock is off a day about ~25% of the time.

nvm, CLOSE THE TOPIC

@Meraj99 can the next topic be this pretty new spider?

December 22nd was 2 days ago

Are you kidding me?. This is my internet speed: speedtest.net/result/3183003846.png

1:21 PM

@3ventic that is factually incorrect, if you live in holland and various other timezones.

It's still very much the 23rd.

im starting to like the []() :D

Q: Is it necessary to get The Memoir Pages?

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I'm in sequence - 4 ( I think that I am in S-4) , and want to start collecting the DNA Fragments / The Memoir Pages , I was browsing through the Internet and found that people got in the Hagia Sophia without doing anything in particular. But I can't find the Hagia Sophia , so is it necessary to...

ac-revelations

@3ventic while stack exchange is usually not to be questioned, I must insist that in this case it is partially wrong.

@3ventic what OS is that o_O my tooltip is stylish, unlike yours

1:27 PM

Windows 8.1

Chrome

@3ventic well there's your problem!

Better than 7

oh shit

I'm late D:

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Q: Which is the better armor?

I'm stuck on a choice between the two armor sets - The Master Assassin Armor The Ishak Pasha Armor I know that both armor gives you the same health , but what I want to know is what armor is best to get ????

ac-revelations

@Lazers is removing 75% of his question marks a large enough edit? I feel it should be -,-

@KevinvanderVelden id approve that

1:31 PM

@Meraj99 fortunately I have enough rep to directly edit it I think, so that wouldn't even be a problem =p

Q: StackExchange cannot count time

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From this question I arrived to ChrisJJ's profile and found out that December 22nd, 21:11 is 2 days away from December 23rd, 13:25. The time now is 2013-12-23 13:30:17Z. (I'm hovering over 2 days, not 12 hours, confirmed the title attribute on the 2 days element)

bug timestamps

@KevinvanderVelden :P

@Lazers Isn't this pretty much opinion based? If they give the same bonus?

@Arperum my guess is, there are other bonuses the op hasnt stated

@Arperum so... not clear?

@Meraj99 If there are other bonuses, poeple who know the game should know more about that, I don't own it, so I'm restraining from flagging at all.

Q: My Mine-craft login is broken

1:35 PM

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When I put in my email and password correctly, trust me i know its correct, it says that user or password is not right. ive tried both user and email neither work and ive only had one password so its driving me crazy please help.

minecraft

If there's no difference in the armours other than looks, the answer is that they're equal.

There's no opinion there.

@Arperum i own it, but its a long time since i played it, can i flag? :D

@Meraj99 certainly not unclear. If he has the other stats already, then he wouldn't ask the question in the first place.

yawn

Why is max payne 3 so huge?

1:36 PM

@Meraj99 Flag if you think it should be flagged. I can't decide for you.

@Arperum in that case, he is stuck on 'overall stats'

@3ventic yep, I had a perverted moment just there

@kalina embrace your inner pervert! ... in a non perverted manner, let's keep it SFW

I... what?

@kalina needs more wooden tables to be honest

1:44 PM

@KevinvanderVelden hey I have an idea, let's chat to each other in two channels at the same time

-.-

@kalina not my fault we share channels, I'm in like 4

or... 3 actively at least

totally your fault

@kalina Of course, you're the innocent angel, never your fault.

yep

@KevinvanderVelden innocent ~~pony~~ bunny right now.

1:48 PM

@Arperum fiery seraphim in "pony disguised as bunny" disguise

@KevinvanderVelden Disguising a disguise to lead people away from the fact that the original disguise is a disguise is not necessarily a good disguise.

@Arperum it's festive! It's the hat season, people and ponies should wear hats

Bunny ears are a valid hat apparently

2:05 PM

@kalina Isn't the entire point of a flowchart to have one singular flow of action? No -> Yes splits up into two flows.

@Yuki uuh that's a pretty standard flow chart. Rectangles are questions, lines are your answers. Follow the correct one.

I've never seen a flowchart with a singular flow of action, I'd just write that down as a list of "Do this, then this, then this"

@KevinvanderVelden knobhead isn't really a question...

It also contains an infinite loop...

@Yuki I didn't see that, meh.

This is hilarious and very depressing

2:19 PM

FEichinger@work

@kalina HAH!

@kalina This is not a correct flowchart.

@5pike This is irrelevant.

@Yuki And this is exactly what I was gonna say.

@FEichinger Really? I wouldn't make a chart that has an infinite loop. For sake of humour, yeah, but not in a real one.

@5pike It's still a flowchart. It's an indefinite one, but still a flowchart.

Usually you'd add in a breaking case to kill it if it's stuck, but technically an indefinite flowchart is still a flowchart.

@FEichinger the humour value is lost on the humourless

@kalina Did you just call me "humourless"? ... Now I feel old like @Sternold.

@feichold

2:27 PM

... :(

@FEichinger An infinite loop in a flowchart just looks so ... wrong

@5pike You've never seen an indeterministic algorithm in a flowchart, have you?

It's not ideal by any means, but it exists.

IMMA BACK

@FEichinger Nope. I don't work with flowcharts much.

Oh, well ... yeh, I do that on a near-daily basis ...

Frank

2:33 PM

Good morning, Bridge

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Yep, writing array_unshit instead of array_unshift is a smart idea, brain. Thank you for that.

@FEichinger It would be even better when that effectively did something.

31k internet points \o/

@FEichinger That sounds unsanitary.

AAAH A RAT OF GLORY!!

WHATDOIDOWHATDOIWHATDOIDO

MY CANDLES ARE NOT SAFE!

THEY ARE NOT SAAAAFE

Also hi.

2:39 PM

@RedRiderX What just happened?

I'm going to assume Fallen Londen?

@RedRiderX hello, did you remember to turn off your candles before leaving the house?

@Arperum Last night I caught someone with a half-finished Rat of Glory in my parlour.

@Arperum I could of course write a function for that very purpose ..

Also did everyone get that extra email advent message?

@Yuki No shit! Pun intended.

2:41 PM

@RedRiderX I still have no idea what to make of that. I don't play Fallen Londen, but assume any crazyness you cause is derived from that game.

@RedRiderX No, but I got what appeared to be an advent Opportunity card.

Q: What beer is the beekeeper seeking?

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In order to get the White Bee's Honey, I need to brew a certain beer but all I have is this clue: I've heard tales of Germany's people who act like my bees. Post winter's leave they swarm to please newly awakened thirst for these.

fiz

@Arperum That seems like a fairly good estimation.

@5pike That's definitely unsanitary.

2:43 PM

@5pike fallen london?

@5pike GETITOFF. burned

I mean, it's fairly insane

@KevinvanderVelden Just the usual insanity on imgur.

@5pike ... that's the usual insanity? Glad I don't use imgur for browsing

@Yuki It seems that this email was sent out about 4 hours ago, would you like me to give the code to you?

2:45 PM

@RedRiderX I wouldn't even know how to use it.

@Yuki It's just a link like every other advent thing

Ah.

Do you want to know what it does?

@KevinvanderVelden The stuff on the frontpage is a nice timewaster.

@RedRiderX Depends. If it lowers Menace, then sure. Otherwise, surprise me.

2:46 PM

@5pike Was expecting lemons.

@Yuki Well depending on when you get stuff it could be wasted.

I didn't really get the full effect.

But not a menace thing, no.

Bonus Email Advent Item for Fallen London

You can ask what it is if you want.

@RedRiderX I'm guessing it's a bunch of Christmas cards.

And you get more if you don't really have any.

@Yuki Good guess.

I just got Time the Healer yesterday.

I was lucky I used most of the cards yesterday or else I would have felt a little jipped.

I think someone doesn't know what words mean... How do you "selfishly sacrifice" yourself?

I mean, isn't "not selfish" part of the definition of "sacrifice"?

@Yuki Wait, what?

2:53 PM

@Arperum Someone posted something stupid on Facebook.

@Yuki If you know that the result is good and you play it out like it is a sacrifice?

Maybe?

That kinda kills the sacrifice part though.

@Yuki I guess it's a thing

@Yuki I selfishly sacrifice stuff in MtG all the time.

@RedRiderX I swear they mean to say "selflessly sacrifice" in so many of those links...

But I guess "selfishly sacrifice" works when you're not referring to yourself.

As in sacrificing others. Yeah, that's definitely pretty selfish.

@Yuki It can work when referring to yourself.

2:56 PM

I love this post so much:

@OrigamiRobot Not in your MtG example though. You're sacrificing other monsters/spells/cards/etc.

> From now on, every time someone complains about the weather, I'm going to raise the maximum allowed song length by one second. I look forward to being able to put one of the Disintegration Loops in there soon.

> ... Elton John and other entertainment "icons" who are willing to selfishly sacrifice children to the god of sex ...

@Yuki For example, if the only reason I am sacrificing myself is to be revered as a martyr, that's pretty selfish.

WTF @RedRiderX first thing I noticed when I clicked on your link.

2:57 PM

@Arperum .... WHAT?

@Arperum Elton John is sacrificing children to David Bowie?

@Yuki Isn't everyone?

@5pike it seems to be an excerpt from a homophobic christian blog. Although, it is surprisingly peacefull in how they want a solution.

@5pike sacrifice has two meanings. You can sacrifice someone else to (for example) a god to get something for your self (i.e. selfishly sacrifice)

@OrigamiRobot I haven't worked up to children yet, I'm still on the "2-week old pet hamster" level.

2:59 PM

Ah, so young.

catholic.org/ae/music/story.php?id=52632

the first comment.

@LessPop_MoreFizz ?

@KevinvanderVelden I know that. I was just highly confused by this excerpt.

@5pike I properly cleaned all the context from it, I added ... to hide it.

@OrigamiRobot Just Wikipedia'd it, the first record has an hour-long track followed by a ten-minute track.

Yep, not a single one of the The Disintegration Loops albums has a song under ten minutes.

3:02 PM

I gathered from context clues that they had long songs...

@Yuki 10 minutes is perfectly acceptable length for a song, 3-4 minutes is stupidly short.

@Arperum Most of the songs on those particular albums run 40+ minutes.

I just had to cover the two outliers (10 and 12 minutes).

@Yuki That's getting rather long.

Q: How can I proceed to the next day?

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I have been through all of the screens and clicked through a bunch of options but can't work out how to proceed to the next day so that I can complete my research work and arrange a few test days for my drivers. How can I proceed to the next day?

racing-manager-2014

@Lazers That ear in the gravatar is weird.

3:10 PM

@origami not just long songs.

The disintegration loops are long form sound collage art pieces about 9/11 and death basically.

The Disintegration Loops is not the part I am asking about.

Oh. Joe fink is just tired of people complaining about the weather.

Somebody else complained about the weather and that was his response to them.

Q: Is it a more cost effective strategy to upgrade the cars you already have or purchase new cars?

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In Asphalt 8 it is possible to upgrade your current cars at the car upgrade store, or purchase new cars. Is it a more cost effective strategy to upgrade the cars you already have or purchase new/better cars?

Why are people complaining about the weather? Most of the time it's not my thing, but I think it's a great idea.

3:13 PM

Because goons are dumb.

Aaarrrrgggghh my sore throat is making me sound like a 50 year old

@privatepansy So sorry you have yo pass for an adult. ;P

@PrivatePansy Still not as old as @Sterno.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm already as cynical as a 50 year old, I don't have to sound like one when I speak

@privatepansy quit smoking.

3:16 PM

@PrivatePansy and no whisky

@LessPop_MoreFizz morning

@kalina Hi!

@LessPop_MoreFizz But I want to audition as the narrator for the sequel to Bastion

@PrivatePansy Then this is the perfect time

@privatepansy Start practicing your Tom Waits impression.

I recommend doing Karaoke to every song on Rain Dogs twice a day.

(is Karaoke as big a deal in Singapore as in other parts of Asia? There's got to be an insane karaoke bar that will let you sing all the super depressing shit from Rain Dogs.)

3:20 PM

Good morning, Bridge

Also, everyone listen to Rain Dogs.

@LessPop_MoreFizz No, it's super depressing.

I think it's pretty depressing that my greatest accomplishment at work today was getting two things out of the vending machine for the price of one.

@5pike only some of it.

In fact, most of it isn't.

Mainly just "Hang Down Your Head."

@LessPop_MoreFizz Karaoke used to be pretty big, though you should still find karaoke bars around town. Not sure if they'll let you bring your own disc in though

3:27 PM

@Yuki Did it involve breaking it loose from the wall and/or breaking the glass?

Both of these things happened multiple times at my university.

@Arperum Nope. Our vending machine has an auto-detect feature for stuck items, so it rotates a second time when something get stuck. Inevitably, this means you get two things.

@Yuki Oh, fancy.

So it's one of the few machines where you actually are not angry when your stuff gets stuck?

@Arperum Pretty much.

Q: How to change coins to Bux?

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I've finished building all levels of the game, so my coins (credits) are accumulating all the time, but I don't have much use of them. Since I can not build more levels now. I've noticed in the game you can change Bux into coins. But is there a way I can change coins into Bux? So that I can do ...

tiny-death-star

In fact, it's invariably the complete opposite: happy when things are stuck, since you'll probably get two of the thing you wanted.

3:33 PM

@Yuki That is awesome. I'm kinda curious how long the machine would survive in some of the cities around here though :s. Everything gets vandalized prety quickly there.

@Arperum I would imagine quite a few of those vandalism cases come from people having their items stuck and not getting what they paid $1 for.

@Yuki I don't think that's needed, I know of one newspaper stall that had a display with some magazines behind glass. They repeatedly smashed the glass, even after an iron grid was placed behind the window...

►

@Arperum Some men just want to watch the world... shatter?

I had completely forgotten that the first track on Rain Dogs is actually the song titled "Singapore".

3:40 PM

@Yuki There are some horror stories I can tell about that city. I went to school there, and only got threathened once.

@Arperum With a weapon?

Or just the "usual" verbal threats?

@5pike "Gimme your lunch money, nerd."

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I CAN'T MAKE THIS HAT WORK

@kalina the ears? Looks fine with the small avatar

The hat can't handle your fire

3:44 PM

no the before it was cool hat

I have fulfilled the requirements that seem to work for everybody else and it's just not giving me the hat

nevermind

got it

@5pike Nope. Some moron set my (3 days old) schoolbag on fire, I was angry about it, and expressed this pretty loud, so a teacher scolded the moron and sent him to the principal. He then got a friend after school to come threathen me for some bullshit reason. I explained to the other dude that his reason was a lie, and that resulted in the moron getting quite an angry glare from his friend/gangmate.

@Arperum Wow, you had a gangmate you could reason with?

Seriously?

@Yuki I was bullied for a solid ~9 years in school. I hated school as a direct result.

@kalina so what are the requirements?

@5pike Arson is srsbsns.

3:47 PM

@MBraedley in public? for real?

@kalina why not, we're all friends here.

@5pike Yup, I seem to have some calming effect on people.

basically, you need to ask the first question in a tag, it needs to be upvoted, and not deleted

then, somebody else needs to ask a question in tag

which may or may not also have to be upvoted

@kalina You were never cool, always firey hot.

and then you get a secret "before it was cool" hat

3:48 PM

@Arperum Something like that happened to me, but the guy just started hitting me.

So that's why you were playing that racing manager

@kalina What about the bunny ears?

@MBraedley yeah, I went through the cheapest games on Steam and chose the first one I found without a tag

oh, STEAM SALE

brb must vote

SNOWGLOBES I NEED

@5pike I've been in a list of fights myself, most of them caused by random bullying, and me loosing my temper.

Anyway, I'm going home.

Steam sale is super boring so far.

3:50 PM

SNOWGLOBES

in other news the DOTA 2 tutorial is surprisingly unterrible.

@Arperum The fights I was involved in (which I didn't start) went often like this - "lol, you see the guy? Let's fuck him up."

Schooltime was fun, I tell you.

@kalina Steam cards are as stupid as hats.

@OrigamiRobot I bought mighty quest for epic loot stuff, that game is awesome

you're stupid

3:51 PM

@kalina CHEEEEVOOO WHOOOORE

I mean, I still refuse to be sucked into a game where you must play for 50+ minutes straight without a pause button, because it's not compatible with me, but still.

@badp it's such a good game though :)

Also it does have a pause button... it's just that there's an immediate UNpause button for the other team

@FEichinger I can't help it

Okay, now I have to ask a question about [the game I recently bought] so I can get that hat too. Unfortunately, I'm nowheres near my computer.

I am driven by the never ending quest for more collectibles

that's why MMOs are a bad mix for me

3:52 PM

@5pike I had one friend from kindergarten that was pretty big with the gangs, so that helped.

@kalina avoid TF2 for it is now outright toxic for you

Anyway, hometime.

@badp TF2 is nothing compared with something like WoW

Frank

Oh, hey. I have three booster packs.

...one more level

...one more mount

...300 more valor points

...10 more quests

...need to explore this zone

3:53 PM

@kalina I know, I know. I still get to call you out for it.

...10 more achievement points

....4 more dots

FIUSAHYFGUIOASHFUOBASIFUB{OASF

@KevinvanderVelden "Die in a fire."

...one more Bridge member on fire

3:54 PM

@FEichinger an accurate translation I think

Worth it though!

@kalina If you don't actually set fire to him, I'm not counting it for the list.

is that list even still updated?

Yes.

@kalina does WoW reward you for collecting 200 of the same item by upgrading that item to collector's edition?

only for the bridge? Or is it network-wide yet

3:56 PM

I think I'm missing a few right now, because I haven't gotten around to recompiling it.

@kalina Only for the Bridge, but I think I can extend it some time.

@badp no but it has stuff that's too difficult for casual players to get

fire.vad-systems.de

@FEichinger I'm on the podium. Hooray

> Last updated: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:04:43 GMT

you should reset it for 2014 and archive this years stats

3:57 PM

@FEichinger @OrigamiRobot seems quite fire resistant for a paper robot

@kalina Maybe.

@OrigamiRobot is the crispiest person in the bridge

@kalina Pretty sure this is more than one year's worth already, though.

@FEichinger all the more reason to archive it off

But I'll look into it once my current project is done. I mean, the messages all have timestamps after all ;)

3:58 PM

@FEichinger I'm pretty sure I've been set on fire at least twice

►

@kalina Flattery will get you nowhere.

I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT to not work for a phone company anymore in 8 days.

Seriously, what the fuck is that commercial.

@MBraedley I think I've discarded a few that weren't really setting fire to someone.

@LessPop_MoreFizz YOU'RE QUITTING?

3:58 PM

IT IS WEIRD AND CREEPY AND I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS SELLING BUT I DON'T WANT IT.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz I thought you worked for a mapping company?

If you can find the second one, I'll bookmark it and add it later.

@kalina No, the company I work for sold the phone business to microsoft. Deal goes through on Jan. 1.

@LessPop_MoreFizz you work for Nokia?

Okay, so, TODO:
- yearly archives
- per-room, not just the Bridge
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