The Bridge

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?

two "how do I get gold" questions in two days that aren't gold adverts?

:D

Massively multiplayer Bomberman

@fredley I don't want to.

I have to get some work done today

11:14 AM

@kalina Yes you do.

no

I REFUSE

@kalina But you know you want to

wow

did you just link me to tvtropes?

I thought we were friends

@kalina :D

wow lag.

11:15 AM

@kalina Never trust a hungover porkchop

I should have worn trainers today

walking out to the sandwich van I became very aware of how broken my balance is today

still drunk?

I don't drink

@djsmiley2k No, I sobered up on the plane yesterday

I had wondered why you hadn't been in chat

I felt like the chat exchange morning crew had disbanded without me noticing

11:25 AM

@kalina I was away for like, two days.

and in those two days, everything changed

@kalina Really? Can you summarize?

no, my memory is not cooperating

did you know that they're making a new deus ex <something> ?

It could be a game, or a movie, or something

did you know that @OrigamiRobot doesn't like sour cream?

OR salsa?

@kalina How does he eat doritos?

by themselves

11:29 AM

@kalina Could be interesting

just doritos, straight out of the packet

I have never heard such madness

did you know, that my lifeforce is being sucked out of me by EVE online?

@kalina I think you should play less EVE

EVE Online: officially worse than crack

11:31 AM

@kalina EVE: Come for the addictive gameplay, stay for the addictive gameplay

I had issues with doing 100 wipes in a night on some random raid encounter due to one person standing in fire

yet I have no issues spending twice as long sat in an asteroid belt mining

btw @fbueckert the "dancing" remark was to Retrosaur who wouldn't keep his mouth shut about just how many more points you can score when you unlock the Dance button in Runner2 - not real life dancing. Just to be boring and explain the joke in order to avoid miscomprehensions

explain

@badp don't try and back out of it, we all know you don't like dancing.

@kalina I also don't like dancing, but that's my problem.

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@badp trying to disguise your hatred for @fbueckert's passtime by blaming it on a computer game!

11:35 AM

busts a move, causing instant horror in kalina so that she never brings up the topic anymore

badp's bust a move misses kalina

you need more hit rating

ducks

in a completely different topic

Retrosaur did repeatedly bring up dancing in the space of an hour to the point where it was annoying just reading what he was saying

woo I survived until lunch without doing any work

now I have half a day to do a day and a half worth of installing

how's the non-installing going on?

well

I got as far as zipping up all of the files I need and uploading them to drop box

i get out an hour early today.

:/

should have asked for the full amount of extra time I'm here, 1.5 hrs

but alas. I thought they'd say no anyway as it's my fault I was here at 7:30

eye-twitch

11:40 AM

this particular install is using a new method of installing the product

so I have to read the install guide

and unfortunately my brain mounted in read-only mode this morning

so I guess you'll only-read the guide? :P

I've read the guide, I honestly couldn't tell you what I've just read

to give more context

I was sure that @fredley had been gone for a week or so

well.... my drugs are having some weird side effects

today my sense of touch is all wonky

and I was fairly confident the "I. Do. Not. Care. About. Retrosaur" comment was multiple days old

@djsmiley2k that's a weird sense to have wonky.

11:42 AM

@badp also I feel like someones actually removed in the insides of my muscles.

@kalina It just feels like that long

@fredley obviously I missed your presence

somebody just can't have enough fredley

@badp yes, this must be it

@kalina Aaaw

11:43 AM

maybe I just like semi-intelligent conversation in the morning

I need @retrosaur to make a M-I-S-S-I-N-G comment

compromises, compromises. Either you go full blown intelligent or not all I say

@badp Intelligent is not a binary measure. There are degrees.

you know when the dentist has numbed your face?

Well my sense of touch in my hands is kind of like that right now.

@djsmiley2k I usually do, yes

11:44 AM

@djsmiley2k I read that was numbered

:D

and was like WTF DENTIST DO YOU GO TO

one of the guys in the office just freaked me out

@kalina A face numbering one, clearly.

oh god don't make me laugh

I might not stop today.

and i'm kind of hunched over my desk right now

he just walked around and went "Aaahh.. that's a relief" with both of his hands in his pocket and a massive grin on his face

11:45 AM

@fredley There are actually many dimensions of intelligence, we should first clearly define what is meant by that.

I'm like "erm, that's close enough."

i feel like i'm back in college, in the art class on a friday morning, after headbanging on thursday night, unable to actually point my head in a upwards direction anymore.

@badp yes.

@badp Off you go

on the scale of intelligence measuring +10 to -10

@badp is a 1

@fredley is a 6

everybody else is a -10

@kalina And you?

11:46 AM

:(

I am content with a 1

Wait,

right now? I'm probably a -10 as well

10 to -10

that means I'm at the top

YOU CANNOT TRICK ME.

@kalina I'm hovering around -8 at the moment

11:47 AM

@djsmiley2k I play EVE, get over it

@kalina Weee, I am the most intelligent person in The Bridge!

EVE is slowly rewriting my brain

what I want to know is

and this is a serious question

if I can make my accounts free in the space of 2 months by earning 2 bil isk/month currently

why can't I do that in real life

relevant

Do what/

@kalina you don't pay monthly for your right to live

11:48 AM

@badp rent, employment tax, council tax

food

That is wonderful

...

you have a space ship?

@kalina 2 bil isk/month

If you do, theres plenty of metal up there flying about on asteroids which you could farm.

11:49 AM

@djsmiley2k when I fall asleep at night, I have a spaceship

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@djsmiley2k There's a fair bit in the earth's crust too

@fredley, yah but others have easier access to those.

@kalina When I fall asleep I'm in a world where everything is in 1m cubed blocks, but I am also God.

I used to dream of being in q3 world

o_O

with low grav

@fredley games ruin people, it's official

11:50 AM

Vs my brother mostly.

in the past when I fell asleep I was an elf

@kalina It used to be worse. I used to dream about Tetris.

:O

:8306402 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_psychology

Oh, and I used to dream about sitting at a PC playing Q3.... that was truely weird.

11:51 AM

Aaw

since my perception of reality is skewed at the moment

its 8 days until SimCity right?

yes

8 days

Google's approach to nightclub decoration:

interesting

I woke up in about 7 different bedrooms this morning before I got up. Some of them never existed and corresponded to summer camps I'd never gone to.

lol

that sounds like a bit of a nightmare, if you have to wake up 7 times before waking up

11:55 AM

woah

I've done 3 times

dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream

Par for the course for me. Not really a nightmare.

and on the 2nd and 3rd I knew I was asleep, and started screaming for my wife to wake me up

@GraceNote Do you have a totem?

I've also done some other weird things in dreams, including reading a book

11:56 AM

strangely enough, I only seem to dream on the days I don't get much sleep

when its the weekend and I'm allowed to drop off the face of the planet for 18 hours, I literally die for 18 hours

I wish I could, maybe then I'd feel like i'ma ware

at least I'm no longer down constantly.... it's still such a relief.

It's usually a lot more annoying than waking up that many times, though.

during the week, cars driving past, next door walking up and downstairs, wind, rain, dogs barking... everything will wake me up

weekend... phone is ringing, alarms are going off, people slamming doors... don't stir at all

Usually I spend some time writing in my dream diary about the dream I just had, or telling my brother/roommates/friends/family about the dream I just had, when I wake up from that, usually extremely angry because in the process I'll have started to forget what happened in the original dream.

@kalina I sleep through that all the time...

11:58 AM

@kalina I hate this

however I wake up and I feel like I haven't slept at all.

@fredley Like, a construct in my possession? No.

@djsmiley2k oh I always feel like I've slept at the weekend

@GraceNote I wish I could experience that.... not all the time, but because its so interesting.

@GraceNote I had a friend who trained himself to recognize when he was dreaming, not sure how though.

11:59 AM

@kalina in the last... 6months. I can recall one night where I woke up actually feeling refreshed. I went to bed at 2am that night :D

@GraceNote it's very rare that I will wake up with in depth details of the dream I was having

@fredley theres lots of ways to do it.

if I vividly remember the contents of my "dream", it was more likely a nightmare

I have lots of vivid memories. That's why I keep a dream diary, after all. The stories I observe or partake in overnight are extremely fascinating, sometimes. Other times they're still very interesting.

But sometimes it's hit-or-miss for my memory. For example, prior to the whole seven bedrooms deal, I had a much more interesting dream that involved this very cute boy. But I can't actually remember much of what we did together.

@GraceNote dreams with cute boys are the best

12:02 PM

/me attempts to be cute

not sure my wife would approve tho :D

a friend of mine bought me a book a few years ago that details what different types of dreams mean, my problem is that once I had read through the book, I then proceeded to have one of each of those kind of dreams

I suspect I have a very impressionable subconscious

I've long since acknowledged that, for the most part, dreams are devoid of deeper meaning.

@GraceNote My dreams are just a reflection of what's on my mind usually.

People who show up play whatever role the story flows. There's not necessarily meaning behind the assignment beyond familiarity.

makes sense to me

12:04 PM

I think the dream where they made a movie about my exploits 300 years in the past is written somewhere in this chatroom, let me see if I can find it.

Ah, here we go. Exploits involving faking death to steal from the afterlife.

you should turn that into a script

that's a better concept than most things coming out of Hollywood atm

Let me dig through my diary and see if I can find a nice one that I haven't written about in here yet. Probably one that doesn't involve saving Wilbur Wright from being killed for practicing witchcraft.

MBraedley

@Lazers What are people's opinion on this? I was about to VTC as NARQ

@MBraedley I would have said "launch it into the sun"

@GraceNote hah. Right after that, Raven posted this:

Jan 3 '12 at 17:02, by Raven Dreamer

12:12 PM

but instead I'm trying to comprehend the super convoluted method of 'hotfixing' our product, which has 20x more steps in it than simply uninstalling the old one and installing the new one

Guess what video has @BenBrocka uploaded a few hours ago?

@MBraedley I don't even see what lasers last posted...

The same song?

No, a "let's play" of the characters in the thumbnail (youtube.com/watch?v=ftJG4bu30Bw)

I don't know if the song is from the same game the characters in the thumbnails are from

MBraedley

@djsmiley2k You can hit the replied arrow to take you back

12:13 PM

@MBraedley ah nice, ty :)

...apparently it's the same game, but a different port

I didn't hear that song in Ben's demo

Clearly there is a deeper meaning to this, a deeper meaning that doesn't exist

MBraedley

If it shows up in my review queue, I'll VTC, but right now, I have to go to work.

Bye

ttyl

@MBraedley I'm fairly certain it's a dupe of something I answered

....hmmmm not quite

12:29 PM

I do wish my toes were more bean-like

12:47 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz lol

I am fairly sure that I've gotten to the point where I say Warp Drive: Active in my sleep

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Sterno

@GraceNote Play any EO4 yet?

1:03 PM

@badp Think I should take it down for now? I can't edit the source until tonight (not sure how much I can do in post anyway)

gaaah

badp got in the way of @kalina taking all the stars

ALL THE STARS.

Michel

Morning =)

@GraceNote Except the one of me dancing in a gorilla costume. That had all kinds of meaning.

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@OrigamiRobot Did everyone not notice you while you were wearing the gorilla costume?

2

and goddam, what happened to the stars list

wtb some room owner to undo the obvious abuse of stars

1:09 PM

You can't abuse stars.

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you people do frequently

You can't abuse them. There are no rules for them.

2

ok watch this

having fun?

How is that abuse?

1:11 PM

demonstrating how fundamentally flawed @OrigamiRobot is

Spam maybe, but not abuse.

@OrigamiRobot spam is abuse

Nope.

@OrigamiRobot do you know what else is abuse?

Punching

1:12 PM

@OrigamiRobot not liking sour cream

sink riding?

This is acceptable to me.

Sigh.

Sterno

I miss @gnomeslice. He kept chat reasonable.

So I just searched this room's transcript for "Lara Croft". Looks like the new game hasn't been well received here

@Sterno Unban

Sterno

1:19 PM

Never woulda been banned if ronnie had been elected!

fbueckert

@badp No worries; the context was pretty clear.

@BenBrocka I don't think you can do much now. I'd say shit happens and maybe leave an apologetic comment.

/me rocks out to some deep purple

@Sterno Don't worry we can always hold another election

@badp Already have, but I can level the audio if I could get the stupid file into Camtasia. It might sound weird, but there wouldn't be large fluctuations in audio level that way

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

1:22 PM

I'm playing Torchlight right now and I have to say, I have no idea what the hell am I doing

Tim Stone

Killing all the things?

@BoltClock Well, those of us who aren't interested in half assed 'edginess' weren't fond of the prerelease hype anyway.

Is that the one where the gameplay centers around receiving horrible injuries?

I thought you saw the whole ass..... </snort>

@BenBrocka I think so

"<sigh> I hate tombs!"

1:25 PM

@BoltClock Francis confirmed for Lora Croft

@BenBrocka lol

Reminds me, I never finished that tombraider game I got with PS+. I think I got stuck at a giant squid, or just got passed it

Tim Stone

@BoltClock "Why'd it have to be snakes?" ...Oh, wait.

I prefer Uncharted's style of "climb shit and do puzzles" to Tomb Raider, myself

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I'm not sure how it happened, but I just beat a boss who's almost half my level in Torchlight

1:29 PM

@BenBrocka I dunno about the gameplay, but the introductory scene was... deservedly controversial. Even moreso because of the incredibly tone deaf manner in which the devs talked about it.

"attempted rape"

Oh wait, introductory scene? Never mind

I just recall a preview where the journalist explained all the horrible maiming you'd receive, only to continue on playing. Haven't seen the intro

Their latest "Reborn" trailer is... weird

@BoltClock Is it not the introductory scene? Because yeah, that's the one I'm talking about.

@LessPop_MoreFizz She's been caught by the bad guys by then - it's about a couple of hours into the game I think

1:32 PM

@BoltClock Ah, well, doesn't exactly change anything.

The part where she makes her first kill and is like "OH GOD I KILLED SOMEBODY"

"OH GOD"

The core problem is the devs were talking it up with statements that amounted to "Rape builds character!" and other really really bad ways to talk about a really sensitive topic.

@BoltClock Far Cry 3 has that too

...

I think

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@LessPop_MoreFizz I... feel more manly just reading that

1:39 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone "long thrusting zoom lens"

A: What does clicking the "party hat" do when visiting someone's park?

@LessPop_MoreFizz And then they were like "Just kidding! Nobody gets violated or that sort of thing, it's just tripping and falling"

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Ive never seen a party hat and i dont think they exist

@BoltClock Yeah, the whole thing was just handled really, really, poorly.

StrixVaria

Trying to write a "Your answer sucks." comment without coming across like an elitist asshole.

Welcome to the site! Unfortunately, everything in your answer is merely a guess, and not backed up by actual, verifiable information. Please help us all to provide high-quality answers! Not everyone has time or willing friends, which is why this site is so useful. — StrixVaria 2 mins ago

Not sure how well I did.

@StrixVaria seems friendly to me.

Q: Who killed Martin Luther King Jr?

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Nearly 45 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assissinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. James Earl Ray, a fugitive on the run, was arrested in London and extradited to Tennessee. He confessed to MLK's murder and was sentenced to 99 years in Tennessee state penitentiary where he d...

united-states law-enforcement

Because StackExchange is going to get to the bottom of a 50 year old conspiracy theory.

Yup.

1:43 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Who killed JFK?

probably the same people

let's just go with "The American Government"

CAPITALISM

and aliens

Q: Did Lee Harvey Oswald kill John F. Kennedy?

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L.H. Oswald claimed he was innocent and didn't kill J.F. Kennedy. There are various theories on what could have happened that day, but I didn't "study" all the evidence and research, so I don't know what really happened. The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963–1964 conclu...

history united-states

Funny you should mention.

Who killed Robert Kennedy?

also probably the same people

OSWALD WAS A PATSY

he was set up

I have proof

it was on red dwarf

JFK killed JFK to prevent JFK from going to prison for being JFK