The Bridge

@Retrosaur right, I'm not going to argue with you, if you think your PC can run with just a GPU then go ahead and rip out your CPU and carry on chatting

Retrosaur

4:15 PM

@kalina I'm saying you can still run it with a Pentium and a Geforce 6000. I never said to "not need a CPU at all"

Ben Brocka

Though that doesn't count the crazy markup on the intel Extreme edition, which seems pretty lame this generation

Retrosaur

Speak for yourself, not for me.

fbueckert

@kalina This is the time where we need computers powered by Doritos.

kalina

@Retrosaur and I'm saying that if you use a PC, at all, there is always a noticeable difference in performance with intel chips vs amd chips

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

> Why is my ball flashing?

Should I post a question with this title?

kalina

4:17 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone yes

Ben Brocka

We don't need to hear about your problems with your balls

kalina

it would be better with plurals obviously

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Absolutely, will upvote.

Retrosaur

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Why are my balls flashing?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Only one, unfortunately. wizorb

kalina

4:17 PM

I am putting Retrosaur on ignore

Retrosaur

Better yet, "Why are my balls spinning out of control"

Powerlord

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Maybe you should see a doctor?

kalina

byebye

Retrosaur

@kalina This isn't facebook.

fredley

The important thing to remember is that a question should only make sense once you've read the tags.

Powerlord

4:18 PM

@Retrosaur See my previous statement

Retrosaur

@Powerlord I hope @YiJiang'sEvilClone didn't swallow a strobe light or anything

kalina

@fredley the question should only make sense once you're read the question :p

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Done.

fredley

@kalina It should make an alternate sense when read without the tags

fbueckert

@Retrosaur I fail to see the significance of that remark. What does chat not being Facebook have to do with anything?

Retrosaur

4:19 PM

You don't announce what you're doing on Facebook

I'm making the laundry @fbueckert

Ben Brocka

@fredley which is why our site ads omit the tags

Lazers

0

Q: X3 AP Saved Game Editor?

I'm looking for a X3 AP saved game editor. my game became modified some how and i was hoping that a saved game editor would help me fix this, i do not want to have to start fresh again after all I've done.

1

Q: Why is my ball flashing?

I noticed that when the orb has bounced around for a while without breaking any blocks it'll start flashing. When it bounce off the wand again the flashing will stop, and a chime can be heard. So what is the flashing signify, and what happens when the flashing ball bounce off my paddle?

wizorb

Retrosaur

I'm playing Borderlands2 @Fbueckert

kalina

@Lazers "you only have one ball?"

Retrosaur

I'm walking to the bathroom @Fbueckert

I'm in the bathroom with my laptop @fbueckert

fbueckert

4:19 PM

Grats. You just hit my ignore list, too.

SaintWacko

@kalina @LanceArmstrong

kalina

@fbueckert hey, we agree on something

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina I've also tried playing with the three ball upgrade

kalina

again

Retrosaur

-8

Q: Your account has been suspended for posting inappropriate content

May I ask what this "inappropriate content" was, since following the link says that stating "and 2006" is inappropriate. This looks like another case of moderation abuse that I do not mind escalating to team@stackexchange.com

discussion chat

kalina

4:20 PM

2013 is the year that @fbueckert and I agree on everything

2

fredley

6

Q: If I destroy a computer, will it lose its programs?

If I destroy my computer, will the programs on it remain if I replace it somewhere else?

minecraft minecraft-computercraft

Retrosaur

So what's this all about?

fbueckert

@kalina I tell ya, the world is gonna end soon.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

But I keep losing two of the balls after the first rebound

@badp Oh, neat. I never noticed that.

Retrosaur

So much hypocrisy here. @fbueckert starts telling me that chat is for announcing everything you do in real-time

Ben Brocka

4:21 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone even more concerning

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

-25

Q: I think moderators start to close every single question possible before the election to gain rep

I'm looking at closed questions by moderators that nominate at current election, and I feel like 70% of question the closed are usual questions, with no real reason to close them. I have checked more then 100 last closed question. I could share the links, but do not want to do this work again...

discussion reputation closed-questions election

-25 in 8 hours

badp

eye twitch combo ×3

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

There's a typo in your answer though

Ben Brocka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That guy's such an idiot

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone honestly... spikes of activity right before elections aren't unheard of

I don't know if his claim DOES have merit or not but...

Ben Brocka

4:23 PM

Hah at the spam answer there too

@badp His post's still full of crap in pretty much every way

@Yannis I don't know what they gain (I'm not very intereseted how this works) Flag, Rep, Stars, Diamonds, I don't care. — Alex Burtsev 8 hours ago

Retrosaur

I remember him saying that, but I can't remember whether anything happened with it. — SaintWacko 2 mins ago

badp

GODDAMN RUNNER I AM PRESSING LEFT THERE

Ben Brocka

I don't care about moderation, just don't moderate me

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

The first day I return to SO chat and already I'm seeing two users committing vote fraud in public

Powerlord

I noticed that the question he linked to has been reopened.

Retrosaur

4:25 PM

@badp Try kicking before it. I've found out that kicking when you hit the barrier never works.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I miss SO chat sometimes.

BoltClock

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Where

badp

@Retrosaur I am doing that you silly goose

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BoltClock Can you see messages deleted with spam/offensive flags on chat?

Retrosaur

@badp :C SORRY. I was only trying to help :C

BoltClock

4:26 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yes

SaintWacko

@Retrosaur Yes?

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone give him either the room or the user links

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BoltClock chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/7974720#7974720

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord It also got significant edits

Retrosaur

@SaintWacko Woops, my bad, I linked the wrong link

BoltClock

4:27 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Ah. I've seen them then

SaintWacko

@Retrosaur Ah

Retrosaur

I meant to copy the question, but somehow I copied your comment

1

Q: Getting my reward in Zeryphesh

I remember travelling in the Frosted Hills and encountering a group of injured Zeraphis and their ambassador Lord Taldimut. He offered two quests, which I completed in due time, the Zeraphi Envoy, and the Lost Key. After I finished the Lost Key, he said: This is it! The Golden Gear! I thank...

torchlight-2

@badp Which level is it? I'll go in game and see what I can do

Powerlord

@BenBrocka The last edit was before it was closed (and reopened)

(You did check the edit history, right?)

badp

...

Retrosaur

@BenBrocka You are right! He is an idiot

@NullPointer it's not community, thr real community who uses this site doesn't know or care about meta site, I tell you more most of them is not even registered users of SO. In my development department (we have lot's of developers) all use SO in read only mode, I'm the only one registered user. So N down votes mean nothing, or that your small moderating community have rotten — Alex Burtsev 8 hours ago

Ben Brocka

4:29 PM

@Powerlord Yeah, but I bet most of the votes were before the last edit

badp

the hard path on Cloud Canter does not let you get a perfect

sigh

Ben Brocka

Yeah, his comments completely over shadow any point he might have had completely by accident

He's just an idiot who doesn't want to learn how things works but wants them to stop happening

Powerlord

Can someone remind me where the option is to switch from the useless "yesterday" to an actual date/time on SE sites?

BoltClock

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Your question's only been up for 10 minutes and it's been tweeted already

fbueckert

@BenBrocka "This is wrong. I don't care how it works, this is wrong."

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

4:31 PM

@BoltClock Yay me

Grace Note

@Powerlord I don't think there's a setting for that.

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert The anti-vaxxers of stack exchange

fredley

www.filldisk.com

badp

@fredley This is your official warning

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord On hover they show the exact time. I think that's the best you'll get without a userscript

Powerlord

4:32 PM

@GraceNote So, I should start a Meta topic about it?

Wipqozn

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh MSO, you always manage to get the users with the biggest "deeerrrr"

fredley

@badp It's not a malicious site

kalina

@Powerlord you can hover for tooltip

Retrosaur

@badp Once you get to level 2-2, the real challenge begins.

kalina

@badp oooh, official warnings are new, when did that happen?

Powerlord

4:32 PM

@BenBrocka Yay undocumented features!!!!!111

fredley

@kalina You're not special enough for warnings

Powerlord

Because when I hover over random text on a webpage, I obviously expect it to display more information.

kalina

@fredley apparently so

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord It's just a tooltip

Grace Note

@Powerlord There's probably already a few.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

4:33 PM

@fredley Should've at least labelled it

kalina

@Powerlord stop being so stuck in the 90s :p

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Proof of concept attack that can crash your browser in less than 90 seconds is pretty bad

4

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Eh. The clientele here can cope with a few MB being used up for a few seconds.

Powerlord

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It... requires you to click the button and tells you exactly what it's going to do.

SaintWacko

@Powerlord Oh, okay

fredley

4:34 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Ok, I guess you guys have faster internet than me. It was going pretty slowly

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Powerlord Oh? A few hours ago it was doing that automatically

When it first popped up on HN anyway

Powerlord

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh whoops, you're right.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

It doesn't work on Firefox

Powerlord

(plz unstar my previous post whomever starred it)

11

kalina

@Powerlord just star all surrounding messages and one of the room owners will fix it

Shotgun Ninja

4:36 PM

Starred again.

kalina

;)

Powerlord

So, if I flag my own post for moderator attention (since its too old to delete now), what happens?

fredley

Reverse psychology

Reverse psychology is a technique involving the advocacy of a belief or behavior that is opposite to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what actually is desired: the opposite of what is suggested. This technique relies on the psychological phenomenon of reactance, in which a person has a negative emotional reaction to being persuaded, and thus chooses the option which is being advocated against. Children Reverse psychology is often used on children due to their high tendency to respond with reactance, a desire to rest...

kalina

you get banned

Powerlord

@kalina Yeah, that's what I thought. :P

fredley

4:37 PM

@Powerlord Yeah, don't ban yourself

badp

@Powerlord it's like flags for mod attention on the site

fredley

@Powerlord Not sure if you're special enough to get a warning

2

badp

we get a pop up with the message and your flag

kalina

@Powerlord Lets find out... for science!

fredley

@kalina I think @badp should be the one to perform the experiment

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

4:38 PM

Why is my ball flashing? http://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/107091?atw=1 #wizorb

Tweeted by TheArqade on February 28, 2013 at 4:29 PM

badp

children, flag as spam is not flag for mod attention

fbueckert

I've flagged my own messages before to be deleted before; hasn't resulted in a ban.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

11 minutes, hmmmm

Powerlord

@fredley I'm special enough to get 10 stars in just a few minutes. 60 more and I can fight Bowser!

4

kalina

@fbueckert you look cute in a suit though

You have fully used your vote allowance for today

6

NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooo.................

dies

fredley

4:39 PM

@Powerlord I hope that this message gets 60 stars somehow

Ben Brocka

Use the "flag for moderator" one, which lets you put in a message, and annoys far less people

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Maybe it's the second upvote that triggered the tweet

fredley

@kalina I hate this too. Chat is really dull when you can't ~~abuse~~ star things

badp

@BenBrocka you can't flag your own messages as offensive anyway

kalina

@fredley this is my punishment for starring everything earlier

7

fredley

4:40 PM

@kalina You still room owner?

kalina

@fredley rofl no

that's never going to happen again, guaranteed

Ben Brocka

@badp People still regularly use spam/offensive flags for posts that need to be deleted for non-spam/offensive reasons

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BenBrocka Like the vote fraud case earlier on

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone flag as spam, inappropriate or offensive

let me play the world's tiniest violin for them

Wipqozn

@badp IT's actually just spam/offensive, assuming you're referring to chat flags.

badp

4:42 PM

@Wipqozn hover text

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp It really doesn't help, though. If the post got deleted while no moderator was around to check on it the vote fraud might actually go on unnoticed

Ben Brocka

Yeah. Anything else should get a mod flag. Especially since it's less clear why something like a spoiler or false info is "spam or offensive"

Wipqozn

@badp dang, you put me in my place.

Ben Brocka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Also that.

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone mods can't do anything about vote fraud anyway

besides, you did contact @BoltClock about it.

Ben Brocka

4:44 PM

@badp We can report it. Depends on the type

badp

@BenBrocka sending an email is hardly a mod power :P

fredley

"Matrix" made a reality, at least for rats

Ben Brocka

@badp We should really get a button for that

Ratrix

OrigamiRobot

@kalina scribbles more notes

fredley

> If you want to get information into the brain, then putting electrodes right at the brain sites is the way to do it.

> ... the sort of things we should be talking about is: Why are we doing this?

These researchers sound crazy

kalina

4:48 PM

@OrigamiRobot you have an obsession

Shotgun Ninja

@kalina Everyone likes being told they look good in a suit.

Ben Brocka

@OrigamiShipbot

2

OrigamiRobot

@kalina I am gathering evidence so that you will no longer be able to plausibly deny things.

kalina

@OrigamiRobot I can deny all of the things

badp

@kalina You are nuts.

kalina

4:49 PM

@OrigamiRobot There is nothing to deny anyway

Grace Note

Teehee~

7

kalina

@badp wow, am I? I'm really nuts? DO I LOOK NUTS TO YOU!?

badp

@kalina YES

kalina

@GraceNote hey, that's not fair

ok you know what, I will just say it

@fbueckert looks hot in a suit

that doesn't mean I want to sleep with him.

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote lol

kalina

4:50 PM

@OrigamiRobot is just jealous

OrigamiRobot

@kalina I don't recall anyone accusing you of this.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina ABANDON SHIP

Grace Note

@kalina I don't actually think anyone were on this train of thought.

badp

@OrigamiRobot wait, is it a crime now?

fredley

> You have fully used your vote allowance for today

2

:(

2

kalina

4:51 PM

@fredley lol

@fredley we are the starless club

Shotgun Ninja

I still have mine ;P

fredley

@kalina That sentence is bugging me

"Fully Used" as opposed to "reached"

BoltClock

@kalina I never understood the correlation between thinking someone is/looks hot and wanting to sleep with that someone

fredley

Fully used

Fully Used

FULLY USED

kalina

@fredley yes

Lazers

4:52 PM

1

Q: How much iron ore is there?

I play Minecraft on the Xbox. I'm a bit of a resource hoarder. I'm just wondering if I need to be. I know that there are a lot of resources in the world, but I also know that the world is of a limited size - thus there is a limit to the amount of resources that one can collect. Is there an a wa...