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Q: Minecraft Modpacks vs MCPC+

Andy LevesqueI run a private server for my friends and I that started out simple, but has slowly been growing in plugins and mods. What started in vanilla, quickly changed to Bukkit for essentials and permissions, and then switched over to MCPC 1.4.5 so we can maintain functionality and add mods. We kept ru...

 
9:19 PM
This is why the only sporting events I support are operated by the Superb Owl league
 
9:31 PM
The average football game play to play is only 12 minutes long
 
So my annual performance review should be happening sometime soon. That will be a fun conversation.
 
@tiddy Oh-so-boring Soccer averages 60 minutes or so
 
Yeah soccer needs to get its shit together
 
erring more on the 50 than the 70 side of things.
 
@fbueckert Can't wait to basically demand a promotion when they don't give me one.
That'll be fun.
 
9:38 PM
Besides, it's hardly true that nothing ever happens in soccer; it's just very hard to actually score.
 
@StrixVaria Don't care about any title change. I care more about them giving me more money.
 
The time spent attempting to score simply brings tension that is then liberated at once when the scoring happens.
Not unlike sex. :P
TF2 update upcoming.
 
@fbueckert That's all a promotion means for me where I am now.
A number would go up after my title.
 
I wonder why I keep TF2 installed; I haven't played it in months. All it does it take up more bandwidth.
 
But my salary would also go up accordingly, which is what I care about.
 
9:43 PM
I like the fact that fake football uses discrete plays rather than continuous action - it makes it easier to see the strategy develop. I find fluid games (football, hockey, basketball) difficult to see the strategy in.
 
@StrixVaria Indeed. It's all about more money for the same job.
Sadly, we don't have anything like a progression model here, so I get to go, "My workload has tripled since I started. Raise plz."
 
@fbueckert I have been doing the job of someone a level above me, which is the issue.
"Here's some more responsibilities, but we don't want to pay you for them lol"
 
@StrixVaria Sounds like what happened to me after the only other programmer went on stress leave.
And we were in the middle of moving the company into a new space.
 
@StrixVaria It is always going to be like that, if they can get the job done by a person they have to pay less while still asking for the same money, they make more profit
 
"Hey, here's all this extra work that needs doing, and nobody's doing it. Guess we give it to the one competent guy in the department, and refuse to give him a raise for doing two people's jobs."
 
9:48 PM
@fbueckert "stress leave"?
 
@StrixVaria We were expected to provide unlimited unpaid on-call support.
She got called about three dozen times on New Year's Day.
 
@fbueckert Clearly you need to play it more.
 
It got so bad, she'd start feeling ill just from hearing the phone ring.
 
@fbueckert That's stupid.
 
@fbueckert Still tho, unlimited unpaid on-call support will hardly cause stress tho
 
9:49 PM
@StrixVaria Welcome to my old company!
@Lyrion You haven't worked tech jobs, have you?
 
@Lyrion All tech support causes stress.
 
@JasonBerkan Mostly due to sheer human stupidity that you are expected to rectify.
 
@fbueckert Nope, I worked at bars tho where i had to do everything myself, while people keep pouring in... now i'm a programmer it's pretty chill now, except during weekends of the release where you have to be on call the whole weekend
 
@fbueckert rectify under an impossible deadline.
Fix this NOW!
 
There is nothing more annoying when you get a call at 2 am that something has stopped working
 
9:52 PM
@Lyrion Suffice it to say that most companies see their IT department as a cost center that doesn't bring in money, and they get treated accordingly.
Our CEO always saw us as lazy bums that did nothing all day.
 
@fbueckert It depends tho, i've had to solve cases for the tech support that could have been easely solved by them
 
@Lyrion I should mention my job was doing everything. Help desk, programming, tech support, PC maintenance, you name it.
 
@fbueckert Not to mention the issues that have been solved already, but they were to lazy to check for themselves
 
@Lyrion I have several links in my profile to some of the horror stories of my last job. I suspect I've seen most of what can happen in a tech environment.
 
@fbueckert You have me there, I work at a bigger company
@fbueckert The problem with big companies is tho, is that you spend 2 days trying to show your dba, that the problem isn't your program but there ldap that isn't configured correctly
their*
@fbueckert Atleast when there is a problem you can say it is your fault ;)
 
9:57 PM
@Lyrion Most of the time, though, it wasn't.
It was the fault of bonehead decisions made higher up than me.
 
@fbueckert Well if you do everything you can't blame it on someone else ;)
 
@Lyrion Start here for some context.
If you tell your boss that something will break if you can't get another server, they don't believe you, and then it breaks, it sure ain't your fault.
 
@fbueckert That is true, but that wasn't clearly your fault... you had nothing to blame.
 
I miss my old supervisor. My performance appraisal consisted of him asking me if there was anything we should discuss, me saying no, and then him going to the bosses to demand a huge raise for me.
 
@JasonBerkan Whatever happened to that thoughtful guy?
 
10:07 PM
@Krazer He left when the bosses wouldn't give him the money he wanted.
 
"Got fired for giving out too many raises"
(sorry, had to say it)
 
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Q: How do I open a magically sealed chest?

WipqoznI came across a Blue Chest in the Deep Dark Forest which was magically sealed. I initially thought this meant I needed to a key, but I didn't find one anywhere in the forest, which leads me to believe there is a different method for opening magically sealed chest. How do I open a magically seale...

 
Speaking of open ended list question...
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Q: Which NFL ( American Football) simulation games work under Linux?

txwikingerMost of the simulation games for NFL (American Football) are written for windows. Are there any that have also native releases for Linux? Which windows releases work well under wine or other windows emulators on linux? Thanks.

 
@OrigamiRobot Wow. Rules have clearly gotten stricter
 
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mmmmm my house smells like bacon :D
 
10:10 PM
@Lazers Clearly you need to power up Nadia's Pendent.
@AshleyNunn :D :D :D
Oh hey, any farther in 999?
 
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@Powerlord I am having breakfast for dinner
 
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@Powerlord Slightly. Then I lost my game card case.
 
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I swear the universe does not want me to play that game
 
@AshleyNunn Quite possibly.
 
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@Powerlord Which is frustrating. I want to know what happens in the story!
 
10:13 PM
@Powerlord We're consultants. As long as the company can charge us out at a rate that covers our salary, no raise is too big.
 
@AshleyNunn Well, after fighting through 8 dungeons, you finally can enter the final labyrinth and beat Ganon.
Wait, that's the Legend of Zelda.
 
@AshleyNunn This is a wonderful thing to do
 
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@Powerlord I was going to say, hey I think I have played that one...
 
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@SaintWacko Toast, poached eggs, bacon. :D
 
Legend of Zelda's over 25 years old and most of the series revolves around a similar plot.
 
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10:16 PM
@Powerlord This is true.
 
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But I still like the games. Except Skyward. It was too hard.
 
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So apparently Karma Sutra cookie cutters are a thing that exist.
 
@AshleyNunn o_O
 
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@Powerlord That's about the face I made!
 
10:20 PM
That's how Laverne's face always looks in Day of the Tentacle.
Or is that O_o
I forget.
 
@AshleyNunn Whoa
 
Bleah, I have no idea if L4D or L4D2 have specific ways of determining which votes appear in their respective vote menus or if they just use cvars to do it.
 
Ooh! My phone's in the city!
 
Time to go home! \o/
 
Oh crap
I clicked on the tab.. I have been Sooo careful not to get distracted by this today
But now... it will count up when someone says something! :(
 
10:36 PM
@AshleyNunn Did not like the combat :/
@BenBrocka I hit 13 today.
 
@RavenDreamer Congrats, here's your first Teen rated game!
 
@BenBrocka Well, it was in an M rated game to begin with...
You said you had a lower-level BL2 char, no?
 
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@RavenDreamer The combat was not awesome.
 
"Hit me up when you get to your low teens" or somesuch
 
Spoilers: I am a smartass
Yeah I think one of my guys is in the mid teens
Probably could play tonight if you're around, I get off work in 10
 
10:45 PM
@BenBrocka I think that's preferable to being a dumbass.
 
You're a Siren right?
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Q: Blank screen if kids yell too much

Leonid VolnitskyMy kids (4 and 5) yell a lot when playing games on computer. I found an effective cure for this. I ssh into game computer and do: chvt 3; sleep 15; chvt 7 when I hear loud noises. This will turn off screen for 15 seconds on linux. I've told them that computer don't like loud noises. The...

Parenting via shell scripts
 
@BenBrocka The way it's meant to be done.
 
11:14 PM
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Q: How are gem prices set?

CarribI just listed my first gem, a radiant star amy. It is listed at 20 mill. Over the last couple of hours Ive watched the price go from 21 mill to 24 mill, yet mine is still unsold. Obviously they are not using the lowest price available when u buyout, so how do they que? This makes no sense. I read...

 
@Lazers Pretty sure this is a dupe.
 
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A: How are gem prices on the auction house determined?

CarribI just listed my first gem, a radiant star amy. It is listed at 20 mill. Over the last couple of hours Ive watched the price go from 21 mill to 24 mill, yet mine is still unsold. Obviously they are not using the lowest price available when u buyout, so how do they que? This makes no sense.

Originally an answer to the dupe.
 
@Ullallulloo VTCing, then.
...We can't dupe to unanswered questions anymore? What the hell?
Or the new interface is bugging out, preventing dupe votes.
 
Nope, it seems changed.
 
@Ullallulloo Yup, same thing I'm getting.
Problem is, the question we're trying to dupe it to HAS been answered.
 
11:19 PM
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Q: bug in closing duplicate question

BЈовићThis review is not possible to finish, because I get that this question can not be closed as a dupe of this question, because it has no accepted or upvoted answer (although it has two answers - each with 6 upvotes).

 
This same thing is happening for manual close votes on Arqade, too. — fbueckert 21 secs ago
 
11:31 PM
HI CHAT.
 
@fbueckert Try now, the thing seems to not give me an error and things are kinda in flux
Perhaps my modness allows me to escape the new "is answered?" check though.
 
> This question does not have an upvoted or accepted answer
 
Okay then, it's just my modness
 
@badp Problem is, that question is answered, though.
 
@RavenDreamer when are you able to play BL2 this weekend?
 
11:36 PM
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Q: bug in closing duplicate question

BЈовићThis review is not possible to finish, because I get that this question can not be closed as a dupe of this question, because it has no accepted or upvoted answer (although it has two answers - each with 6 upvotes).

↑ status-completed
 
@badp Yeah, he just marked it status-completed.
I'd say re-open so we can test, but that might be overkill. :P
While you're on your mod binge, can you tear this NaA out, too?
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A: How are gem prices on the auction house determined?

CarribI just listed my first gem, a radiant star amy. It is listed at 20 mill. Over the last couple of hours Ive watched the price go from 21 mill to 24 mill, yet mine is still unsold. Obviously they are not using the lowest price available when u buyout, so how do they que? This makes no sense.

 
You can no longer vote to close question as a dupe of an unanswered question. If there's a need to - flag.
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Hm, on the fence about that change
 
There's apparently an exception to this check whenever the two questions are by the same user.
 
Okay, thats a bit better
 
11:39 PM
@badp That seems like a bad idea. If a question didn't get an answer it doesn't mean it's not the same question
 
@BenBrocka Yeah, it makes sense but... what about questions that just didn't receive answers?
 
Yeah, that's where I find fault with it too
 
FAE
@badp What if it's answered well but the asker just never accepted?
 
@FAE An upvoted answer is okay too.
 
Actually, a question having an answer and it being equal to another question are entirely independent
 
11:40 PM
if any...
 
It seems excessively focused on helping the one user not get their post closed unless there's an answer, rather than consdolidating duplicates
 
@murgatroid99 This. I don't see any point in this change.
 
@Ullallulloo I think it's a terrible idea
 
New SHiFT code, btw: CTWBT-X5ZWC-9WRB3-BJ3B3-RWF96
 
It's not even in the recent features list
 
11:43 PM
@murgatroid99 I was looking for a meta post to go downvote & complain, actually
 
@BenBrocka As was I. I can't find it going back to the last MSO post I read
 
@badp so mods can still close regardless, right?
 
@BenBrocka Seemingly
By the way, I'm not exactly supposed to say it but this is apparently one of a few changes to how close votes work. (I don't have a full list; this was a surprise to me too.) I suggest we all prepare ourselves psychologically for the worst enemy of all: change.
 
@badp There are other changes?
 
@badp I don't mind change, but this one sorta hobbles us unneccessarily.
 
11:46 PM
@murgatroid99 Who knows! I don't work for SE.
Rumour is there's more to come.
 
@fbueckert Right. I don't dislike all changes, but this one seems to have no redeeming qualities
I'm going to make reversing this a feature request on MSO
 
@murgatroid99 Could be fairly easily gamed, too. Ask question, get no answer, ask same question with sockpuppet, continue until answered.
For your Friday humor:
 
@badp He knows more than he's letting on. GET 'IM
 
@BenBrocka Probably most of it. I don't have superbovwl plans
 
@BenBrocka It's true, I had the list of changes, but I didn't read it. I simply put it under @RavenDreamer's tongue.
 
11:52 PM
Oh right it's the superb owl weekend
 
Remember this dude?
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Feel free to obtain the now unreadably moldy list of changes from behind Raven's orderly columns of teeth.
 
I know how football works, I just don't like sports
I did go to college after all, I even watched some games willingly
 
11:54 PM
I like how the wrong half of my pair of links got starred. :(
@BenBrocka You should read the Kotaku thing anyway because it is pretty funny.
No seriously, that image macro is dumb and people who like it are dumb.
 
Huh. A literal shooting star with a comet tail that's 13 light years long.
 
@ThomasMacDonald 'Flying is not enabled on this server' -- yes it bloody well is
 
@BenBrocka I only watch football so I can see the skaters fall over on the ice.
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@Fluttershy ....you. Stahp.
 

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