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3:01 PM
Wow, there's so many people that misunderstand what Area 51 is for.
 
@fbueckert aliens and reverse engineering space craft
 
@FAE Yes. I think it caused permanent brain damage.
 
@kalina Heh. Nice reference.
 
you are being sarcastic, I can feel it
 
@kalina Actually, that one was completely genuine.
 
3:03 PM
@fbueckert oh ok, my sarcasm detector is obviously still not completely calibrated
 
Unless the Independence Day reference wasn't what you were going for?
 
@fbueckert they make for some hilarious proposals though
 
Why is iTunes awful at everything?
 
I hope they eventually do release the upgraded version and make it a lot more clear what's going on there
 
@fbueckert oh I suppose I could claim I was going on about Independence Day but I was actually talking about the real world
 
3:04 PM
@BenBrocka I was running through the discussions about the proposals; so many people use it to ask actual questions.
 
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Q: how can I fix loss problem in CS:GO?

emmettI'm dealing with loss problem atm. It is approx. 0-6 % . I dont know if it is related to last update. or maybe it is because valve servers r so terrible. ps: I dont download anything atm. and usally playing on valve 64 tickrate servers my rate configs are : rate "100000" cl_cmdrate "128" cl_upda...

 
@Lazers This guy. Again.
 
Independence Day is just a cover up for the truth, get the message out there so that all of the "sane" people can claim the "crazies" have just watched too many movies
 
@fbueckert Oh yeah, that's annoying too
Why is the Homeschooling proposal not a dupe of Parenting?
 
@BenBrocka Why is ELL not a dupe of ELU?
 
3:07 PM
Because ELU doesn't want garbage. But Parenting is fine with Homeschooling
 
Bill Pullman for President, 2016!
 
I like the implication that ELL comprises entirely garbage questions.
@Sterno The guy who wrote His Dark Materials?
 
For your daily facedesking quota:
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Q: Why did I get banned for asking a good question?

AlexWhy do power hungry idiots go around reporting new users like myself from asking questions which are irrelevant? I went and answered all their questions. Like how do I change an ip table for this ip address and port forwarding? Like what Pretensions’ idiot is asking on how to make a firewall and ...

 
@StrixVaria I was thinking more "The guy who played the President in Independence Day. And Lone Star in Spaceballs."
 
FAE
@Sterno Hahaha
 
3:10 PM
Ah that was "Philip Pullman".
I only remembered the last name.
 
Hey dont make me speak in CAP LOCKS. — Alex 7 mins ago
Ahahaha
@fbueckert I just found that independently
 
@fbueckert SO has automatic banning?
 
I take the guilty pleasure of checking MSO for rants every so often
 
@kalina For super low quality questions/answers, yes.
Which they need to ensure their userbase doesn't go insane due to the massive amount of activity there.
 
@fbueckert awesome can we have that feature here? :)
 
3:12 PM
@kalina Personally, I'd love it.
 
of course you would!
just think though, you'd get less flags
 
Gaming seems to get many more one-off terrible questions from new users. the question ban is only useful for people who ask lots and lots of terrible questions
 
Right well
I best start packing all my stuff away
ready for my boring train journey home
hf bb ttys gl ttyl <more random letters>
 
hey guyzi plyed this game once with dudz who shots at me with guns and i think thar waz a basooka 2 can u tell me wat game it was k thx bai
 
@BenBrocka To be fair, we do, on occasion, gather users that don't seem to quit. It would be useful for those people.
@Sterno MLP: Friendship is Magic.
 
3:16 PM
@fbueckert +1000 votes
 
@fredley You bastard.
 
@fbueckert Unless it's a lot more common than I've noticed, manual suspensions seem like plenty for the cases we have
Except the robots guy, but I'm not sure an auto-ban would have kicked in there
 
@BenBrocka He just kept creating new accounts.
We haven't seen him around in a few months.
Now that we've mentioned him, we're going to get more questions about time-travelling robots.
 
@fbueckert Good. They don't like when people ask about them.
 
3:19 PM
Aww, the question got deleted.
 
@kalina omgwtfbbq
@MartinSojka New question: "How do time traveling robots feel about people asking questions about them?"
 
@SaintWacko ANSWER: WE DON'T
 
@fbueckert :O
 
@SaintWacko No, I'm not a robot.
 
@anna_debenham CATCH-A-WEBSIIIITE!
 
3:23 PM
I can just see the future.
 
Can't we all?
Like "I'll hit that car in 2 seconds from now."
 
@MartinSojka It's important to set goals for yourself
 
@SaintWacko I don't mind.
 
@BenBrocka "Hey, kids! Today, I'm going to teach you about the practical applications of physics! To be specific, what happens when two objects attempt to occupy the same space at the same time! Isn't science fun?"
 
3:30 PM
This is why we can't have nice things. Actually, I think the entire Bridge is why we can't have nice things. — mmyers 57 secs ago
 
Everyday I'm shufflin'.
Unless I'm feeling lazy.
 
@fbueckert that's the episode of Magic Schoolbus they don't show anymore
 
@BenBrocka Yup. The one time the Magic School Bus, wasn't.
 
I honestly wish I had the DLC for Hammerlock
So I can run around at 110% speed
Anyone know if Axton's glitch still works?
 
@BenBrocka I wonder if they still air the episode where Andrew like... dies.
 
3:34 PM
Spoilers?
I thought we covered this yesterday....
 
Oh god I don't know how to cross tab
 
I haven't even finished the Magic School Bus videos. Thanks @Fluttershy for spoiling it for me.
 
cross tab?
@Retrosaur Karma hurts eh?
 
@Fluttershy This is morbid
 
3:35 PM
Flagged.
 
Who?
 
@Fluttershy Lesson to learn: Don't take off your protective gear while submerged in liquid nitrogen.
 
Fluttershy/Tristan
He spoiled the movie for me
 
Awww I thought I'd been naughty. Shame. Must try harder.
 
@Fluttershy that's slightly worse than when people keep doing it in Dead Space
 
3:36 PM
Do you know how disappointing that is....
 
@MartinSojka On Pluto, specifically.
 
yesterday, by OrigamiRobot
Stop flagging stupid things.
 
@Retrosaur You'll get the same answer we did yesterday. There is an ignore button, use it.
@OrigamiRobot how do you do that?
 
Wait wait wait wait.....
I don't understand the hypocricy here
First I get flagged for writing spoilers
 
@Retrosaur It's not hypocricy, its karma.
 
3:37 PM
BUt I can't flag others for writing spoilers
 
yes. you can
 
@Retrosaur Copy the permalink from the post
 
but you get treated like they did yesterday.
 
Are we flagging for spoilers now?
 
I really don't understand logic. @djsmiley2k you don't even understand the context
 
3:37 PM
43 secs ago, by djsmiley2k
@OrigamiRobot how do you do that?
 
@fredley ty, I kind of guessed after asking ¬_¬
 
spoilers don't seem flag-worthy
 
24 hours ago, by Retrosaur
Also, I'm trying to be less obnoxious here
 
they seem like flag abuse
 
3:38 PM
@fbueckert Is it really a spoiler if it's a 20 year old show?
 
I got two MSO posts actioned in one hour
 
Snape kills Dumbledore. Suck it.
 
I should get some kind of award
 
it's almost irony.
 
I just wanted to tell @Fluttershy not to spoil an age old movie series I haven't even watched and probably will never watch.
 
3:38 PM
@Fluttershy I dunno.
 
So you flagged for something you don't care about and isn't current.....
 
It's still offensive to some
 
Apparently someone thinks it is.
 
Someone got their shit spoiled
 
But they didn't.
 
3:39 PM
Gods... Magic School Bus actually is almost 20 years old...
 
How do you know?
 
Because they aren't complaining about spoilers.
 
@Retrosaur Dude, it's 20 years old.
Let it go.
 
@Fluttershy Hey! They still watch this in elementary school
>still in elementary school
 
First of all, the show doesn't even have continuity. Secondly, stop flagging stupid things and move on.
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3:40 PM
Wait, Magic School Bus got flagged for spoilers?
 
I'm crying right now. I had no idea Andrew died. T.T
 
It doesn't even matter if they're still watching it in elementary school.
 
I swear chat somehow got stupider without @GnomeSlice around.
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@Sterno I have a theory as to why.
 
@Sterno He was here earlier.
 
3:41 PM
@djsmiley2k He's still here now
 
@Sterno He IS around, though. He just can't talk.
 
It's like there's a black hole of stupid that we keep trying to fill.
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@Fluttershy I remember not wanting to be an astronaut as a kid because of this.
 
Watching us with his tearful eyes
 
Anyone here play TF2
 
3:41 PM
@Sterno Someone wants to be famous.
 
ALSO HIS NAME IS ARNOLD HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS
 
someone said andrew
 
Someone was wrong.
 
@Retrosaur No, because it won't let me yet. Need to try and fix tonight. Stupid radeon driver.
 
7 mins ago, by Fluttershy
@BenBrocka I wonder if they still air the episode where Andrew like... dies.
Andrew?
 
FAE
3:42 PM
@OrigamiRobot I don't, I never really saw this show.
 
ANDREW? ANDRREEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!!
 
@Fluttershy is a sack of lies
 
@FAE UNFRIENDED
 
I just assumed it was Andrew lol
 
Doesn't Arnold die like every episode?
 
3:42 PM
Test:
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A: Chat throttling should kick in after the second message

Marc Gravellok; I'm game... I've enabled a "grace" system that relaxes the rules just a little (not much) - and only applies to the "new" and "edit" actions. It allows quick 2-liners, or ninja edits - but after that one action, you're back to normal rules. Deploying now. Let me know your opinions...

Oh that felt good
 
In the same sense that he doesn't die, yes.
 
@OrigamiRobot Yes it is! Sorry! Was a typo.
 
@mmyers So Arnold is the lesser equivalent of Kenny?
 
Wait, Lily Tomlin was Ms. Frizzle?
 
FAE
@OrigamiRobot Only one of the TVs in the house could get PBS and Fox. The upstairs one, which my sister and I mostly used, couldn't.
 
3:43 PM
@Fluttershy Unforgivable.
@FAE TOO LATE
 
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Q: Deleted my thread again because of website link

AlexWhy isent my question valid how can you ask a question with out any evidence be valid bu providing a link to my website not

Wee!
 
FAE
@mmyers Yes
 
@fbueckert DIS GON B GUD
>thread
>implying thread
 
@Retrosaur Yay, you're replying!
 
@Retrosaur I guess nobody actually died. They just got really big boo-boos.
 
3:43 PM
>implying stackexchange is a forum
@mmyers So Pseudo-Kenny
 
> Why isent
twitch
 
I literally lol'd at this
On my site it would be nice if people would be able to upload videos so content could be shared for free. What upgrades should I do to achieve this? Also does anyone know an algorithm to detect network speed or compression method for video files streamed across a broadband? – Alex
 
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Q: Video bandwidth detection and multiple streaming quality

AlexOn my site it would be nice if people would be able to upload videos so content could be shared for free. What upgrades should I do to achieve this? Also does anyone know an algorithm to detect network speed or compression method for video files streamed across a broadband?

 
@fbueckert Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
 
who wat i dont how what?
 
3:45 PM
@mmyers His head froze.
 
@Fluttershy So much copypasta :C
 
FAE
@BenBrocka At first I thought this was maybe just ESL, but that doesn't seem to be the case given his comments.
 
@fredley who. what. wmuah?!
 
@OrigamiRobot I guess "Put some ice on it" isn't the way to go here.
 
@Fluttershy Grats. You just tripped the interpretation center in my brain.
I'm waiting for it to reboot.
 
3:46 PM
@djsmiley2k My favourite thing about it is the tag
 
@fbueckert You're welcome.
 
@Fluttershy Oh, good, it's back.
 
Does @Fluttershy have another name
Just curious, it's kind of weird for me to keep referencing a make-believe penguin
 
@fredley Sometimes when I'm in..... places with certain ettiquate and ways of doing things. People like that appear. They make me go "was I ever that bad." Then I slap myself for being so stupid.
 
>ponies are penguins
 
3:47 PM
> Arnold then demonstrates what will happen to her if she remains on Pluto by taking his helmet off, which freezes him and forces Janet to leave Pluto immediately. This ending, of course, makes Arnold the hero instead of Janet. Among arriving back to Earth, all Arnold got from the freeze-over was a cold, and then the alien-obsessed Ralphie fakes a news announcement about aliens discovered on Pluto, complaining about the junk Janet left.
 
@djsmiley2k I know how you feel. I used to write php too.
 
@mmyers Huh, I thought Arnold removed his helmet just because he was frustrated with how Janet was taking something from every planet.
 
@fredley I'm not a PHP writer. I "help" randomly with Gentoo stuff... not a programmer infact. Just a random sysadmin who has some wide views of "stuff". I see a lot :D
 
@GraceNote OR IS IT ANDREW????HMMM????
 
@Retrosaur It's Arnold. I actually watched this show as a kid.
 
3:49 PM
@djsmiley2k Exceptional PHP programmer is an oxymoron.
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..... no, its arnold.
 
@GraceNote I remember him taking it off in a tantrum.
 
@djsmiley2k Linux?
 
@fredley Ok then, I once touched php when writing my disseration for my comp sci degree. Because I had to program in "something". I touched it again for random stuff on my non-existant website. :D
 
@OrigamiRobot Ahha, so we do recall it well enough the same.
 
3:50 PM
@Ullallulloo Yes, as apposed to windows, unix, palmos, android, osx...
 
Reading the logs and...confirmed: @Retrosaur is just a troll.
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@djsmiley2k shudders
 
@StrixVaria Was that necessary?
 
@mmyers Yes absolutely.
 
3:50 PM
@GraceNote Arnold then demonstrates what will happen to her if she remains on Pluto by taking his helmet off, which freezes him and forces Janet to leave Pluto immediately.
 
@fredley well..... i support an office of windows users..... and the board/higher ups now have macs too.... then theres the iphones.... <shudder>
 
I also remembered it was because he didn't believe in something, but that was Janet.
 
@StrixVaria I think at least half the room has him on the ignored list now
 
@djsmiley2k Tell me about it. I'm writing an iPhone app. By which I mean dealing with Apple's bullshit all day every day.
 
I gave up.
@djsmiley2k I meant that if it's the line 561 seg fault, that's what I was getting, and I'm pretty sure it's just a driver bug.
 
3:51 PM
@OrigamiRobot You just copied what mmyers already wrote.
 
@mmyers Wait, what? You wouldn't freeze that fast on Pluto. There's not enough atmosphere on that.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I kind of wish there was a super, super duper ignore where they don't even show up in the transcript.
 
@fredley Wait, are there blocks on that?
 
@MartinSojka Kid's show.
 
@fredley I'd love to program.... I'm slowly getting somewhere with the learn python the hard way series.... slowly.
 
3:51 PM
@StrixVaria A userscript could do that
 
I'm lazy.
 
Someone really has a hate vendetta against me doesn't he.
 
@MartinSojka Well, I missed that.
 
@StrixVaria I want a space enabled ignore laser which wipes their existance from the timeline of humanity itself.
 
@OrigamiRobot I had to check the weather forecast myself to be sure.
 
3:52 PM
@MartinSojka You're complaining about the accuracy of a show predicated on magic?
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@Retrosaur Yes
 
@mmyers If that show is supposed to teach children, yes.
 
That took forever to find.
 
@Retrosaur It might be a she.
 
3:52 PM
@djsmiley2k Python is an excellent place to start. I <3 Python.
 
FAE
@djsmiley2k Balefire. sagenod
 
@MartinSojka Plus, that ice is way larger than his head.
 
@MartinSojka It's supposed to teach and entertain. Death by instant headfreeze is funny. Er, wait...
 
@fredley I tried it once many years ago and got utterly confused. However this learning series is actually working for me.... and then when I'm randomly looking over at the coders assisting, I have some idea of what the C they are looking at is doing :o
 
@OrigamiRobot MY REPLY BUTTON WORKS HOLY FUCKING SHIT
 
3:53 PM
@FAE whut?
 
@djsmiley2k C is voodoo.
 
FAE
@djsmiley2k Wheel of Time reference. :)
 
@fredley C++'s syntax constantly throws me off
 
@StrixVaria Well, the (very) lazy way to do this for a single user is to use a userstyle like this
 
3:54 PM
@FAE Ah, one in the list of things to read.
 
@-moz-document domain("chat.stackexchange.com") {
    .monologue.user-26091 { display: none !important; }
}
 
@mmyers Depends, magic based universes can and generally should still be internally consistent, unless inconsistency is part of the point
 
I honestly wish I hadn't been taught JAVA first, because C++ is messing me up. Python on the other hand....
 
16 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot
24 hours ago, by Retrosaur
Also, I'm trying to be less obnoxious here
 
@OrigamiRobot I don't get the context here o.O
 
3:55 PM
@Retrosaur Yeah. I'm switching around between C++, Obj-C and python at the moment. I'm approaching the edge of the cliff of sanity.
 
You'd have to do this for every user you ignore, but hopefully the list shouldn't be too long
 
The funniest part is how I keep pointing out the source of a bug in their code, which then takes them 20 minutes to come to the same conclusion. I guess its due to me seeing it from a different pov.
 
@Retrosaur You don't have to continually tell me about your replies.
 
Is uncharted 3 anywhere near as good as 2? It's only $17 on newegg, I loved 2
 
@djsmiley2k That's the best way to find bugs. Get someone else to look at your code.
 
3:56 PM
@Retrosaur You have to ask?
 
@JasonBerkan I also act as a semi inteligent rubber duck.
 
@Powerlord With all due respect, every starred message about me replying is always written by @OrigamiRob ot
 
@Retrosaur ಠ_ಠ
 
Thankfully they trust me enough to ask about anything system specific, especially when it comes to fixing file system issues (which they have a lot of right now).
 
Ubuntu is such a bitch to deal with; i kee eep getting all these freeze-ups
 
3:57 PM
shred: /dev/sdb: pass 1/3 (random)...38GiB/150GiB 25% - usb, why you so slow :(
 
@Retrosaur I kept Ubuntu on my PC just long enough to get the TF2 Tux on both of my accounts, then removed it.
I need a meeting skip excuse now
 
FAE
@BenBrocka 3 was not a bad game by any means, but narrative wise, 2 was the better game, IMO.
 
@Powerlord Ate too many apple pies; need to use the loo
 
@Powerlord Yeah, I'm still having rouble even starting the game.
 
@Retrosaur separate install or using wubi?
 

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