The Bridge

Also, apparently I am reading 4 books at once right now. Partially because I can't figure out where my copy of Essential Dykes to Watch Out For has gone, so i can't keep reading it

FAE

@fbueckert Yeah, some of my friends have read Mistborn and highly recommended it to me.

@AshleyNunn I always do this, I like to be able to bounce around depending on my mood.

user15026

@FAE Me too! Or I lose the books. I know I moved the Alison Bechdel stuff, I just cant find it.

FAE

@AshleyNunn I like to sprinkle shorter, lighter books in between the heavier fare.

Wipqozn

@Mana: Did you ever finish reading A Song of Ice and Fire, or did you stop reading after LessPop spoiled it for you?

Ben Brocka

7:09 PM

@Powerlord Partners in time was the only Mario & luigi game I got, hadn't heard of the series before it

user15026

@FAE Yeah, I do that a lot.

Mana

@Wipqozn stopped

Mad Scientist

@fbueckert He should write faster ;-). Though you really can't complain about Sanderson in that regard

user15026

Right now I am reading a graphic novel, a serious book, a ridiculous mystery novel, and some YA.

Wipqozn

@Mana That's upsetting. It's a rather excellent series. You should just resume reading it despite the puppet.

Powerlord

7:09 PM

@BenBrocka Bowser's Inside Story is after Partners in Time.

fbueckert

@MadScientist Nope. He's planning on writing two books in the series, and then moving to something else.

Mana

@Wipqozn nah

FAE

@Wipqozn I will read this when it is over.

fbueckert

Obviously writing WoT sorta put a kink in those plans, but I sincerely hope he puts in two more books before anything else.

user15026

@FAE Which might be never. :(

Powerlord

7:10 PM

Superstar Saga is M&L1, Partners in Time is M&L2, Bowser's Inside Story is M&L3.

user15026

@Powerlord All three games were amazing.

fbueckert

I love his Mistborn series, but Stormlight Archives has so many unexplained things.

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord Oh, huh. Either way I missed it

FAE

@AshleyNunn I think it's kinda sucky that he refuses to write anything down and properly catalog stuff and has stated he won't let any other author finish the series if he dies.

user15026

@Powerlord I still love Fawful's "And this shall be the mustard on that bread, the mustard of your doom!" line.

FAE

7:11 PM

I'm not trying to be all "rawr, entitled reader!" but that just seems kinda mrrrrgh to me.

user15026

@FAE Yeah, that's disappointing in a way, but then I always get scared about people continuing work after the mess of crap that followed VC Andrews's death

user15026

....yeah, I have read a lot of her books.

FAE

@AshleyNunn That's not like "wrapping up the series" though, that's "milk the cash cow".

"We found manuscripts." Uh huh. Sure you did.

user15026

@FAE Yeah, this is true, but it started as a wrapup deal

user15026

and then BOOM EXPLOSION OF SHITTY BOOKS

FAE

7:13 PM

My mom's read a lot of her stuff. I read some of her shorter series when I was younger, but I can't remember the names of what I've read really.

user15026

I liked the Flowers in the Attic books, and My Sweet Audrina.

user15026

Those were the best ones.

Wipqozn

@FAE Which is probably a good idea.

FAE

@Wipqozn Yeah, I have plenty to keep me busy in the meantime.

StrixVaria

5

STUPID GOOGLE WHAT THE FUCK

Google's reputation has been irreparably damaged.

user15026

7:16 PM

@StrixVaria What.

FAE

@StrixVaria ...seriously?!

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria That's what happens when you outsource your spell check to the Internet at large.

user15026

Maybe they really like Hyperbole and a Half. Yeah. That must be it

StrixVaria

This is killing me.

Powerlord

Aw, the image doesn't show for me

tiddy

7:17 PM

lol calling google stupid

Jason Berkan

Strix typed "a lot". Google suggested "alot".

badp

Strix wrote "( i like this one a lot. Rod" and "a lot" is marked red with Did you mean... "alot"

Honestly I'm much more horrified by "( i" :P

StrixVaria

I didn't actually write that. It's a shared doc.

But the "a lot" -> "alot" correction is still killing me.

Ben Brocka

@AshleyNunn IIRC they're testing stuff that learns non-dictionary stuff to correct fictional/neologism words, that might be a byproduct of that

tiddy

@StrixVaria Is "alot" misspelled in other parts of the document?

Grace Note

7:22 PM

@badp "Writed"?

Ben Brocka

@badp Maybe he's only got two fingers and one of them is mangled :(

fbueckert

Why must you all butcher English? My poor brain.

Jason Berkan

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Fluttershy

@FAE She was a pretty awesome waitress.

@JasonBerkan Oh gods... What is that from? I wanna say The Simpsons...

Jason Berkan

7:38 PM

@Fluttershy Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons.

Fluttershy

@JasonBerkan Woo! I haven't watched that show in years, but still remember it! Yayy!

Jason Berkan

@Fluttershy Many moons ago, I would watch it 2-3 times a day...

Lazers

7:53 PM

0

Q: My mouse doesn't show up during gameplay

I am playing Age of Empires on Windows 8, through my Mac with Parallels, and I am thinking that it is either a problem with Windows 8 or Parallels because it didn't happen on my home computer running Windows 7. Any advice? I'm using a MacBook with Retina display 15in and Parallels 8, running Wind...

Tim Stone

spreads the word

8

The Stack Exchange Blog

Blog - Stack Exchange: Podcast #42 – It’s The Exception That Proves The Rule

Alex Miller on February 05, 2013

Welcome to Stack Exchange Podcast #42 – it’s our usual gang back this week with Joel, Jay, David, and Producer Alex. There’s plenty of inside baseball, so put on your rally caps and make sure to stick it through to the end!

David Mamet, apparently. Jay was a drama major.

Michael forgot to pay the Google bill, so our hangouts are back down to 10 person limits (but its fixed now!)

We have one big thing to talk about that made a change and generated controversy. Joel correctly guesses what it is: we no longer display your accept rate (the percentage of questions you asked that you accepted an answer for). …

Mana

@TimStone OH SNAP YO. LIFE JUST GOT REAL>

fredley

@TimStone Interesting

Jason Berkan

@TimStone Now he needs to replace meta.* with his new software.

Tim Stone

8:06 PM

It's a pretty nifty piece of software. Will be interesting to see if it catches on.

StrixVaria

I will need to explore this a bit more once I'm not at work.

I like the idea a lot, though.

badp

Mods can no longer merge users. If you need accounts merged, click here.

3

Powerlord

@TimStone This reminds me of why Coding Horror is in my humor bookmarks

Mana

Yo, I totally forked it.

I even gave that shit a star. I'm bigger than life.

swag

Powerlord

I'm out of mana! I need more mana! You must construct additional pylons! Work need doing?

er... those last two just kinda slipped in there.

Ullallulloo

8:17 PM

@JasonBerkan I like the current one more.

Voting is good.

Powerlord

> The server side of Discourse is written in Ruby on Rails with a Postgres database.

Humor, I love it!

tiddy

?

Jason Berkan

@Ullallulloo You... like the current meta? The 35 message long comment discussions where you can't follow anything?

3

Tim Stone

@Ullallulloo Discourse has a polls feature but it wasn't ready for launch. I didn't really get to play around with it, so I'm not positive if it would serve as a direct stand-in for that.

Wipqozn

I think a mixture between the two would make more sense.

Powerlord

8:20 PM

@JasonBerkan The problem you're going to have is that StackExchange runs a .NET stack, whereas the new discussion system was written in Ruby on Rails.

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn This. There needs to be Q&A on meta, discussions on meta and voting on meta.

Ullallulloo

@JasonBerkan They'll usually have @replies. Why would putting the comments in a forum where everything's bigger so you have to scroll to read everything be better? Plus, there's no answers then.

Lazers

0

Q: How can I change the screen resolution?

I am looking for a file that has the video settings for StarCraft (Original + Brood War) and for Diablo II (and Lord of Destruction). The file should be located in the folder for the game itself. Does anyone know where exactly the file would be located? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

diablo-2 starcraft

Ullallulloo

Also, this doesn't seem that easy to follow either.

There's just the @replies like comments and the new replies that only go one back without an easy way to go farther.

Jason Berkan

@Ullallulloo Putting discussions in software that understands you are having a discussion and not answering a question would be better. Once you get three people having a discussion in comments, it's a mess.

Ullallulloo

8:25 PM

And it's way more spread out than in comments.

@JasonBerkan It's not super, but it's not that bad.

And I don't see this being a ton better.

Unrelated:

►

Powerlord

@Lazers Pretty sure the original Star Craft is fixed at 800x600

Jason Berkan

@Ullallulloo Having looked at a bit, it may not be - it looks like it's just the comment system expanded. Don't know why Jeff is 100% against threads.

agent86

man, yeah, I hate having discussions on meta

FAE

@TimStone Thanks for linking this, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it, it looks kinda neat.

agent86

meta is my least favorite place anyhow, and discussions are terrible there

Tim Stone

8:40 PM

@FAE Aye, sure thing :)

tiddy

@agent86 But it's where you guys make the internet a better place

Think of what is at STAKE

agent86

@tiddy we do keep the nuclear launch codes there, that is true

tiddy

Are there any plans of changing the "internet a better place" tagline

agent86

@tiddy no, our Glorious Leaders like it that way

Jason Berkan

@agent86 Because SE is an awesome Q&A engine, but a terrible discussion engine.

tiddy

8:42 PM

@agent86 K. My eyes get tired of rolling when I read it :(

agent86

@JasonBerkan yeah. trying to present a counter argument to something on meta that isn't (in and of itself) an answer to the "question" is painful, painful painful

@tiddy please stand by while our reeducation team re-issues you the complimentary packet of "kool-aid" for your consumption pleasure. You are feeling thirsty.

tiddy

@agent86 As long as there is a low-sugar version

I have a figure to maintain

agent86

@tiddy consumption of sugar is prohibited by article 4 section 6 of the conglomerated stack exchange FAQ-beast.

tiddy

@agent86 Well at least I know they're making the internet less fat

agent86

diabetes has been linked to a .02% decline in correctness across sites, and must be eliminated at all costs.

tiddy

8:46 PM

Master Wilford Brimley will be pleased

agent86

I guess there's some improvement in discourse over reddit, but I don't know that it outweighs the size of the community. I guess it works as a "better" forum platform?

one hopes they've been super sensitive with respect to security. lord knows wordpress and the popular forum software(s) are hack-prone

tiddy

Nested comments just read easier

agent86

oh well, best of luck to them. not something I'm particularly interested in m'self at this point.

Ben Brocka

@agent86 we talking about SE or Discourse with a capital D?

tiddy

I wish they would have gone with Discoursia

Ben Brocka

8:51 PM

I see they used the 3 headed chicken thing from Travel.SE

Jason Berkan

@BenBrocka Thanks. Now I can't unsee that.

agent86

@BenBrocka discourse, the new site thing platform forum object json api ++

Ben Brocka

Note now the Discourse 3 headed chicken is looking inwardly, introspectively, while the Travel Answers chicken chimera is looking outward, using his wide visual range to survey his future travels

agent86

@BenBrocka reminds me of reginald

FAE

@BenBrocka I dunno, the Travel one still only has a single eye, I'm not sure it has a wider visual range really.

Ben Brocka

8:54 PM

@agent86 it does remind me of reginald

Ullallulloo

discourse.org

No magic pucture.

agent86

now how long will it take for SE to onebox discourse?

I'm betting 6-8 weeks.

Lazers

1

Q: Recording PC gameplay in 1080p

My system build I thought was adequate enough to record most games with great ease, but I'm facing issues. I can record at 720p no problem, any game. I want to be able to record at 1080p, but when I try my system begins to bog down and gameplay becomes choppy. How can I improve this? Intel Core...

pc recording

0

Q: Is breaking a ToS\ToU agreement illegal, and if so, why do we support this?

This question is not the first of its kind. I've seen plenty and so have you. In these kinds of questions the asker is clearly going to violate the ToS\ToU agreement the game throws in your face when you install it. Is this act illegal? If it is, why do we encourage\support\answer these questions?

discussion

0

Q: Is there a hidden exit at "The End"?

After finishing the game, there is still a large square at "The End", is there more than one exit here?

antichamber

0

Q: What elements of the world reset when I respawn at a checkpoint?

So I murdered a cop for his uniform the other day. I had planned to use it to infiltrate a strip club and murder the owner, but on the way, I realized that I'd be better off dressed as a bouncer. Luckily, there was a bouncer in a secluded area nearby. I let the alive out of him and absconded wi...

hitman-absolution

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Discour.SE?

4

SaintWacko

I hate when an instruction doesn't behave the way all the documentation says it does

Wipqozn

9:04 PM

fbueckert

@Wipqozn Rory the red shirt.

Powerlord

@SaintWacko What instruction?

Lazers

9:26 PM

0

Q: Dark Souls PC FPS drops - can I fix that at all?

My configuration: Mac machine using Win 7 with Bootcamp, ATI Radeon HD 6490m display adapter. And the game runs horribly, compared to what I see for consoles. I tried different things, most notably installing catalyst control center and unchecking "Application Settings" for Anti-Aliasing and Ani...

dark-souls

Tim Stone

@BenBrocka That was the first thing I thought when I saw the logo

badp

@BenBrocka I don't know how they're hoping to find three companies willing to bet their forums with them

fbueckert

@badp There's probably some backend networking going on with Jeff in there, I would bet.

SaintWacko

@Powerlord tRANSLATE AND TEST

fbueckert

9:50 PM

When did the close vote dialog box change?

Grace Note

Friday

fbueckert

@GraceNote Neat. It looks much cleaner.

StrixVaria

Quick give me something to close so I can use the new box.

Lazers

0

Q: Xbox kinect Zumba rush, do you have to use xbox live to save/track progress?

I have an xbox in my living room, but all my computer stuff is across the house. I am not wireless and can not get a hard line that long to reach xbox. Is it possible to use the track progress feature on my new Zumba Rush game w/o having it connected to xbox live?

xbox-360

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria New Box? What?

Ben Brocka

10:02 PM

Katamari any webpage with this bookmarklet

BEST THING EVER

Wipqozn

20

Q: How do you know whether a game is in the Public Domain?

There's a lot of games out there whose original creators have long gone out of business. How (if at all) do these enter the Public Domain, and how can you tell? Are there other kinds of abandon ware?

legal abandonware

Maybe that one?

It's possible this falls under legal advice.

In fact, the only answer is essentially legal advice.

Nah, that question is fine.

The accepted answer is just a little iffy.

agent86

@Wipqozn you're a little iffy.

Ben Brocka

@StrixVaria oh it is different, no border anyway

Wipqozn

@agent86 Not as iffy as your face.

Ben Brocka

Oh wait that's still on other sites

agent86

10:11 PM

@Wipqozn your mom is as iffy as my face BURN

badp

@agent86 your face is your face, BOOM.

Wipqozn

@badp your face is @agent86s moms face.

agent86

@Wipqozn your mom is BURN face iffy face.

Ben Brocka

badp

@BenBrocka I hope you're humming the theme as you roll

Ben Brocka

10:17 PM

Your conversations will make an excellent Katamari

Wipqozn

@agent86 Are you secretly a woman named Grace who owns a photography business?

Ben Brocka

@badp the bookmarklet plays the theme too

badp

oh? it didn't use to, I think.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn No, he's a guy named Max who is a sec... I mean Greeting Card Salesman.

agent86

@Wipqozn no.

Wipqozn

10:24 PM

@agent86 I see. Very well then.

agent86

@Wipqozn are you secretly a bear named Yogi who steals pic-a-nic baskets for entertainment?

Wipqozn

@agent86 Of course not! I would never do that.

Also, this is why I asked

Ben Brocka

The cape and the cowl are to convey the idea of a terrifying creature of the night. The underwear and tights are because I lost a bet.

Tweeted by God_Damn_Batman on February 5, 2013 at 10:14 PM

agent86

@Powerlord would you believe....

@Wipqozn a likely story.

Lazers

0

Q: In Red Faction: Armageddon, I played Infestation coop and resumed later, the difficulty seemed to have dropped, why?

A friend and I played up to wave 10 on normal difficulty. By the time we'd hit wave 10, there were monsters everywhere and it was total chaos. We were having a great time. We continued playing today on wave 11, normal difficulty (this was pre-selected on the lobby screen) and for some reason it ...

red-faction-armageddon

1

Q: Does a hunter's machete increase damage from smite?

Smite deals 460+(lvlx30) damage to minions, pets and monsters. Hunter's Machete causes a champion to do +10% damage to monsters. Does a Hunter's Machete increase smite damage to monsters by 10%?

league-of-legends

Wipqozn

10:31 PM

@agent86 You always seemed like a Max.

BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft

@fredley @RonanForman @ThomasMcDonald Please whitelist BlueRaja, ponsfonze, and messiah220

kthx

Wipqozn

@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft Don't you mean kthxbai?

I've never heard just "kthx"

It's madness I say, MADNESS!

agent86

@Wipqozn all the cool kids are saying kthx now.

kthxbai is soooo 2012

Wipqozn

@agent86 I don't trust you, old man.

agent86

@Wipqozn oh. I see how it is, nemesis.

Wipqozn

10:41 PM

@agent86 You better believe it.

@AshleyNunn: How far you in Ni No Kuni? (cc @Fluttershy)

user15026

i hate you

3

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn Why the hell did that ping me? O_o

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy Because I pinged you...?

1 min ago, by Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn: How far you in Ni No Kuni? (cc @Fluttershy)

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn I don't see my name in it anywhere...

HUh.

That's weird...

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy I think you've just gone insane.

It's probably the hat.

Fluttershy

10:44 PM

Ben Brocka

(@Fluttershy's gone crazy someone distract him and I'll get the tranqs)

5

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy and...? Your name is in my message to you.

Ben Brocka

@Fluttershy the post was edited but you didn't get the chat update. My workplace connection misses updates sometimes too, refresh and you'll see the updated message

Wipqozn

IT clearly shows it in that picture.

Fluttershy

@BenBrocka Aaaaaaaah. That did it. That was weird.

Wipqozn

10:45 PM

@BenBrocka NO! DON'T TELL HIM THE ANSWER! WE NEED TO MAKE HIM THINK HE'S LOST HIS MIND!

agent86

I got the tranquiliz.... dammit.

oh well, shouldn't let these go to waste. GONNA BE A PARTY TONIGHT

ain't no party like a tranquilizer party cause a tranqulizer party don'..... zzzzzz

Wipqozn

@agent86 Good way to keep the kids quiet.

Ben Brocka

@Wipqozn Just trying to put him at ease while the sniper gets in position

fbueckert

Wee! Shovelling done. Again. For now.

C'mon, UPS! You've had my phone for a whole day, and done nothing with it!

Put it on a truck and get it over here!

Wipqozn

@fbueckert May I suggest burning down their head office?

I'm pretty sure that would solve your problem.

fbueckert

10:55 PM

@Wipqozn Is that little turtle-chaun whispering in your ear again?

Suffice it to say that burning stuff is NOT the solution to everything.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert That's crazy talk.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn Or is it sanity?

We'll never know.

Wipqozn

I'll know.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn You wouldn't know sanity if it rose up and ate you.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert I'm a Tortoise. We've very wise.

fbueckert

11:00 PM

@Wipqozn Because burning everything is the pinnacle of wisdom.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert It really is.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn When all you have is matches, every problems looks like wood.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert I don't have any matches.

fredley

@RonanForman ^^

@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft Done

fbueckert

11:23 PM

Today's Cracked articles are amusing.

fredley

@RonanForman: KSP in Minecraft

Ben Brocka

Dead Space 3 on the way. Sounds like the PC port is sort of lazy (no texture detail settings) but not bad

fbueckert

11:39 PM

...Damn. The 3DS Fire Emblem requires an update.

Grace Note

...already?

Wipqozn

Most 3DS games require you to make an update.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

The Witcher 3 Announced, get the first two for 50% off on GOG

That means $5 for the first and $15 for the second

Hmmm... idea for today: Use 3D CSS transformation to make elements on a page "explode" into the viewer's face

fbueckert

@Wipqozn Sadly, even the absolute minimum update for Fire Emblem locks out my flash cart. Dammit, I don't LIKE having to haul around extra carts.

Fluttershy

11:59 PM

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?

Warner Bros. is delaying the release date for Cloud Atlas on DVD/Bluray because it didn't get Oscar nominations!?

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