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Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

08:00

The all time set of data is subject to bias as new flairs are introduced. The most recent set isn't.

On the other hand, the all time data is more complete.

user15026

I would go by the all time data - the completeness of it makes more sense

murgatroid99

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I feel like the all time data has a more predictable bias, if you know what I mean

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Yeah

murgatroid99

And I feel like it has to be more valid to include everyone

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

08:35

imgur.com/a/qYdEJ#0

Any takers on why Twilight is more popular in the recent data set?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

08:51

So reddit.com/r/ABraThatFits is actually a thing...

Blem

morning people

SaintWacko

09:19

@fbueckert It's your fault I'm just now going to bed at 3:30 in the morning

Lazers

10:28

0

Q: EVE Online - Aggression Mechanics

I have a few questions regarding the latest aggression mechanics. Lets say I'm with a buddy down in the ice fields, and gankers show up and start shooting him. If I were to apply shield/armor rep to my buddy in an effort to keep him from getting ganked, will I get a suspect flag and/or lose secur...

eve-online

0

Q: Unrecognised disc

My game doesn't get readed. I have tried everything I also went to the support center and did everything they told but still it says unrecognised disc can someone pls help me

xbox-360 modern-warfare-2

badp

10:40

So I'm parsing the community eval results

Spoiler alert: mixed signals

In a few ways the results are awesome, in a few ways they are concerning

I'll start by dumping the most confusing chart only I, its maker, could love

Review score is the number of "Excellent" votes minus the votes of "Needs improvement" votes. If you can figure out how to intelligently put Satisfactory votes in the equation I welcome suggestions.

Good: visiting our site is a waste of time only "11% of the time"

Bad: we only provide something of value only "40% of the time"

Eh: I suppose that 90% of the time, we present the same information or better in a superior way.

How does that relate to post scores though? Do we reward excellent answers?

Good: yes, we do.

Bad: ...but only marginally.

Eh: Voting isn't supposed to reflect the quality of information vs the quality of information on other sites, but quality of information itself. So a steeper curve would've also been concerning

If you can think of something else I'll be happy to share

For now I'll dump the raw data too.

...once Excel is done crashing.

Lazers

11:01

0

Q: Community Evaluation Results - #2, February 2013

Since Stack Exchange doesn't support tables (hint hint wink wink nudge nudge knowwhatImean knowwhatImean), you can click the following link to obtain the... Community Evaluation Results for February 2013. Please answer with whatever SCIENCE you can extrapolate from this data. ← Previous comm...

discussion quality-evaluation

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MBraedley

11:37

Yay, a Brit to keep me company while I nervously watch flights get canceled.

MBraedley

12:21

@wipqozn Wake up! I need a weather report!

That's discouraging. I'm on Air Canada flight 686 from Montreal.

user58869

12:36

@Mbreadle is there a list of games that work with windows 8 on arqade?

StrixVaria

@user206586 Probably not. We don't really do lists.

user58869

I was reading about it on the meta site

user58869

One of the posts, the one with the highest number of votes, was against lists of games that work and in favour of users posting questions about a specific game that they tried to install that didn't work

user58869

I can see how that would fit in nicely with a q & a format website such as arqade, however I imagine that most people would rather know before they try and install the game whether it is likely to work or not

user58869

Then again, if someone tries to install a particular game and posts the outcome as a question they would certainly learn from that, so it's the same thing really

user58869

12:40

Is there a tag for such a thing in the absence of a list

user58869

I have quite a few old games that I haven't played for a while and I got windows 8 several months ago

StrixVaria

If you install it and you can't get it to work, use technical-issues.

user58869

I was thinking of installing one of them this morning, but it was released in 2003 so i'm worried about trying to install it only to find that it doesn't work and somehow messes up my machine or leaves loads of rubbish scattered about the hard drive

StrixVaria

Then search Google for compatibility information.

user58869

Instead of trying to install I've decided to make a virtual machine of windows xp and try and install it on that

StrixVaria

12:42

How will installing it on Windows XP help you figure out if it's compatible on Windows 8?

user58869

I've searched google but found nothing in this particular instance

user58869

Installing it on a virtual machine of windows xp will not help me to find out if it's compatible with windows 8, however it will allow me to play it on windows 8 via the virtual machine, that's the idea anyway, i've not played games on a virtual machine before, it might not work well through the emulation, i'm not sure if hyper v uses the gpu of the host

StrixVaria

That, I can't answer for you.

user58869

If it works it would be great

badp

13:09

@MBraedley You're on the flight?

@MBraedley Oh dear. Best of luck

...wait a second, the flight leaves in nine hours. What are you doing at the airport already?!

The flight isn't probably going to depart early. :P

Lazers

2

Q: When does part 1 end?

I was googling for missable quests in Nier and found out that the game is split into two parts. I won't be able to finish quests from part 1 after starting part 2. Could someone give me a spoiler-free hint about when the first part ends so that I'll know when I really have to finish all quests?...

nier

StrixVaria

13:25

@badp Isn't English fun? In some cases (there are no rules; just know them) you can use present tense to mean future!

badp

@StrixVaria Maybe the flight boards very early!

StrixVaria

Because a short flight isn't bad enough, I want to be cramped in the plane seat for an extra 9 hours before takeoff.

badp

@StrixVaria What did you buy your Mac Book Air for anyway? Gotta use the reported 11 hours of battery somehow.

StrixVaria

Let's make this clear: I do not nor will I ever own an Apple computer.

badp

@StrixVaria Isn't English fun? In some cases (there are no rules; just know them) you can use "you" to mean nobody in particular!

StrixVaria

13:29

Actually, the rules for that are pretty explicit.

It's just impossible to tell when you're using them :P

(Not you specifically...)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

13:56

Despite having absolutely no idea what I was doing, I just played three hours straight of Alien Crossfire

The graphics was crappy (16 bit colors!? What is this, 1999? Oh wait...). The game doesn't support alt-tabbing. The interface is really annoying. And yet I played for three hours straight.

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yi Jiang and Alien Crossfire, sitting in a tree, B O R E D.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Sorry, it has to be 7 letters or the rhyme is off

badp

It's an odd number. It still works in my head

user43095

0

Q: How can I stop being electrocuted?

In Feed The Beast, I have this setup with an MFE, a low voltage transformer, some gold cables, and my other machines. Whenever I touch the MFE, transformer, or gold cables, I get shocked. This somewhat annoys me because I have died twice. Here is a picture for reference: In case you can't see, th...

minecraft-feed-the-beast

user43095

@badp Yi Jiang and Alien Crossfire, sitting in a tree, A N N O Y E D

Wipqozn

14:10

@MBraedley It's barely snowing right now.

Well, barely might not be the right word, but it's not bad right now.

user43095

@Wipqozn The snowing is over, but there is about three inches of snow.

Wipqozn

@jeffreylin_ Not in Nova Scotia.

@jeffreylin_: Also, 3 inches? HAHAHAH! That's nothing. You weak Americans. Us Canadians laugh at 3 inches of snow. Isn't that right @fbueckert?

fbueckert

@Wipqozn I get mildly annoyed due to the amount of shovelling I'll have to do, but that's it.

user43095

@wipqozn I love snow! I was standing outside in the hail yesterday and people were looking at me like I was crazy.

MBraedley

@badp I just got through security in Victoria, 2500km away

@Wipqozn so I should be good in 10 hours, assuming I make my connection in Montreal?

Lazers

14:20

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Q: How can I stop being electrocuted?

In Feed The Beast, I have this setup with an MFE, a low voltage transformer, some gold cables, and my other machines. Whenever I touch the MFE, transformer, or gold cables, I get shocked. This somewhat annoys me because I have died twice. Here is a picture for reference: In case you can't see, th...

minecraft-feed-the-beast

0

Q: Dead Space 3 Save Problem?

When I load up a saved game in Dead Space 3, I do not end up in the exact place I save and exit, nor do I start anywhere near my last location. Can you please fix this problem?

dead-space-3

Mana

-2

A: Are statistics and achievements global or not?

so no one else can look at your stats

StrixVaria

Every year I forget how much it sucks to shovel snow.

Mana

I have to admit that I'm getting a bit tired of seeing the generic "this is not an answer" comments used in places where it doesn't fit.

user43095

@mana Um, that is very incorrect and doesn't answer teh question.

Mana

@jeffreylin_ Yes.

MBraedley

14:23

@StrixVaria sucker, I don't have to shovel snow!

Mana

The problem is more comments like "If you have a new question, please ask it by clicking the Ask Question button. Include a link to this question if it helps provide context."

Wipqozn

@MBraedley I think it's supposed to get worse, though.

StrixVaria

@MBraedley I only have to shovel out my car, but even that is a pain in the ass.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn now you tell me

fbueckert

Nooooo! I lost my big cloaking ship!

Wipqozn

14:24

@MBraedley: Actually, never mind. Looks like we're not getting that much snow anymore

Mana

I don't think that answer looks anything like it was intended to be a question. But people seem to be copy-pasting the same comments over and over again on bad answers regardless of whether or not the comment glove fits the answer hand.

What's the point, then? I guess it works most of the time, but doesn't that kind of lose the intention of trying to guide the user on how to use the site properly?

I guess I'm just frustrated because I used to put a lot of time into personalizing my deletion comments for each user to make sure it addressed their problem and it seems like it was a waste of time.

Wipqozn

@Mana It might look incorrect to you or me, but the commenter may have just thought this was someone asking their own question.

In which case that generic comment is a good fit.

Mana

fair enough.

Wipqozn

I agree that the other comment is better, since I honestly have no idea what this person is trying to say, but someone else could read it differently.

Mana

I was over-reacting. On a second read, I see that it could also be seen as "So, no one else can look at your stats?"

fbueckert

14:33

@Mana Automated comments are now a thing, sadly.

Mana

anyways, I guess I'm just in a lousy mood. whatever.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert In some cases they make sense. If someone is asking a question in an answer, then a generic question describing that an answer is not asking questions, and you can ask your own with the Ask question button makes sense.

fredley

Cocks

Wipqozn

Also, I'm hungry. I desire food.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn In some, yes.

I think people are relying on them a bit too heavily, though.

Wipqozn

14:35

@fbueckert Oh, I'll agree with that.

I certainly don't disagree with @mana that some users rely too much on generic comments, I just don't think this is one of those cases. I think this is just one user thinking that answer was clearly intended to be a question, and responded accordingly.

Also, food get.

badp

@Mana :(

I think the review feature used to post automatic comments and then it stopped.

I'm not sure about its stopping however

Wipqozn

15:06

@AshleyNunn: I think you'd enjoy this.

fredley

15:25

@TimStone Hi?

user15026

@wipqozn that is awesome and I want it.

Lazers

0

Q: Can I use a wired "Xbox360 gamepad for Windows" on an Xbox360?

I currently own a "Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows". This is obviously the exact same gamepad in its shape as the ones which come with the Xbox console. My question is: can I use it on an Xbox console as well, or can it be connected only to PC?

xbox-360 pc controllers

badp

@Wipqozn I moved back one spot to let you get off the buffeting waves and you remained there?

...doing Defensive Posture instead?

Wipqozn

@badp I was letting @fbueckert in. I can attack 2 squares in front of me, he can't.

badp

and I was letting you in at 32 since you take 2 dmg/turn where you are and 33 is slippery

@MBraedley Something makes me think you'd kinda prefer your flight was cancelled already :P

Wipqozn

15:36

Also, I thought you said if I stood in front of you I'd take friendly fire?

badp

@Wipqozn You can soak friendly fire. You've got the healths.

MBraedley

@badp yeah, then I can plan on booking a hotel in montreal

badp

@MBraedley Maybe you should book it already, rather than risking waiting until they're all full.

Considered how many people are being left stranded there

MBraedley

There are more than enough hotel rooms, even if I have to stay downtown

badp

Okay

Wipqozn

15:40

@MBraedley: Unless the storm takes an unexpected turn for the worst I don't your flight will be cancelled.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn although they did cancel the later flight

Montreal to Moncton is an option as well

So what games is Ubisoft working on? There are three devs (presumably from Ubisoft) sitting across from me.

Wipqozn

@MBraedley Watch Dogs and Rainbow six are current projects of Ubisoft Montreal.

MBraedley

No, they're talking about creature (c++) pointers. Although probably multiplayer.

They are talking about client/server

20 minutes. That's enough time to make a connection, right?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

15:59

Server connection?

MBraedley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone flight connection

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

And, hey, look, happy Chinese New Year everyone

MBraedley

I don't know why they delayed this flight though, I think the plane at the gate is the one I'm taking. And the flight doesn't leave for an hour or so.

Gaming Topics From Outside

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Q: How should I properly set up my CCSM, Xorg.conf and nvidia-settings for fullscreen games?

Good afternoon, I'm a new Ubuntu user and I need some help to duly set up my GPU with Unity3D. I'm really lost, I have read a lot about how to configure it but I can't possibly solve a matter related to compiz, Nvidia, the 'benchmark' glxgears (Well, most of linux users claim it is not a real ben...

12.04 nvidia games

Wipqozn

phew, that was a tough boss battle.

MBraedley

16:13

@Wipqozn not as tough as my timed challenge will be this evening

badp

@Wipqozn What are you playing?

MBraedley

I'm making air travel into a game :)

badp

Worst. Game. Ever. :P

MBraedley

No arguments.

Wipqozn

@badp Ni No Kuni (cc @AshleyNunn @Fluttershy)

MBraedley

16:17

First mini boss is security, but in any level other than the US, it's fairly easy to defeat.

Raven Dreamer

@MBraedley Heh.

Tim Stone

@fredley Hmm?

fredley

@TimStone Server is not happy

Tim Stone

:O

Why not?

MBraedley

Hmm, there's lots of red lines near my flight.

Fluttershy

16:19

> very low quality – Feb 5 at 2:32 declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention

I'm glad whoever declined that explained how flags work. I never would've figured it out.

MBraedley

@Fluttershy that's a default decline option

Must... Bite... toung, lest I be labeled a mysoginist

Fluttershy

Also, I'm not really sure how this isn't "very low quality."

Raven Dreamer

@MBraedley @Fluttershy this.

Tim Stone

@TimStone Oh, never mind, I see now.

Lazers

0

Q: How to delete a building in pixel people

Once I have A worker assigned to a building how do I remove the worker so I can remove the structure? You can't seem to fire workers and you can't delete a structure that has them. In this case I'd rather not have a stadium but an athlete is already in place.

pixel-people

badp

16:36

@Fluttershy I honestly don't know what the game is, but it sounds like an edit could possibly fix this?

0

A: Can I Rotate a Part When Placing It?

Try rotating the camera with the right mouse button before plugging it in.

> This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.

In a way the default decline option here could've been "A moderator reviewed your flag but found no evidence to support it" instead.

Fluttershy

@badp That's a good point. But I'm still wondering exactly what the point is of the Very Low Quality flag option. Technically everything here could be salvaged through editing.

badp

"I can has when the right mouse button click drag component but not plugged won't wrok"

?

maybe.

I mean, you have 10k reps, you can go back through your flag history and see what "very low quality" flags you've made and were accepted :)

> Different levels unlocks new planes but some plane can only be obtain if niblet gives you the of win in flight crew. I an lv 18 and my best plane is areo angle

posted in a question where other answers say the same things, except in English - even if salvaging is possible, it's not worth it because it doesn't add anything new.

Fluttershy

@badp But say that's an answer to a question about a particular game in which someone is pretty knowledgeable. There's a chance, albeit a small one, that they'd make sense of it and be able to fix it.

> place gravel on lava or use a bucket of water

That was VLQ and it was marked helpful.

badp

@Fluttershy Look at the other answers

> ...if you want to remove the lava completely and then be where that pool is gravel/sand really is the best way to go about clearing that out...

Fluttershy

@badp Right, I realize it's just restating other things they've already said. That doesn't really support "Very Low Quality" though. There were no formatting problems, the content answered the question, it didn't really need editing.

badp

16:47

Honestly, I don't really pay too much attention to the stock flag reasons for answers; I approach both "very low quality" and "not an answer" in pretty much the same way

If it needs deleting, I'll delete it.

This one didn't need deleting imho.

Fluttershy

There should probably be some sort of consistency in how flags are handled, don't you think? When I flag something like that Minecraft answer as VLQ and it gets deemed helpful, then I flag an answer even worse than that one that gets declined, it's pretty confusing.

badp

(Also I wouldn't get too worked up about having a flag declined with an enviable track record like yours.)

Fluttershy

@badp I was more worked up with the condescending tone I mistook for an actual moderator comment. But I was over that when I saw it was a default reply. <_<

badp

@Fluttershy For your convenience the default replies are "flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer", "a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it" and "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention"

Fluttershy

@badp Thanks. The last one just came off as condescending to me. I read it and thought, "Well no shit. I know how flags work. This isn't my first time flagging something." O_o

theUg

16:52

Would the following two answers be exact duplicates of each other with the first being much better (more detailed)? Would it then warrant deletion of the second?

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A: How do I get to Orgrimmar from Silvermoon City at level 11?

In Silvermoon City you need to go the Sunfury Spire, pictured in the map below (it is near at the top of the map, near the middle). The Inner Sanctum has a teleport which will take you to the Undercity. Directly outside the Undercity are zeppelin towers, pictured below. The tower on the left...

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A: How do I get to Orgrimmar from Silvermoon City at level 11?

This is very easy simply go to Silvermoon City and go to the Sunfury Spire, go into the room at the back and there will be a portal that will take you to the Undercity. Leave the Undercity through the main gate and you should see the two zeppelin towers board the zeppelin to Orgrimmar and your al...

Sterno

Wasteland 2 gameplay video

(not Rebecca Black. Really)

badp

@Sterno It's Saturday

however, gameplay video? on vimeo? clearly a troll.

Vimeo hates videogames.

Fluttershy

@theUg Doesn't warrant deletion. But they are essentially the same answer. The lengthier, in-depth answer took more time to write up. We get double answers like that fairly often, I think.

@badp Duplicate questions, you mean. Not answers. Right? Some answers get deleted if they were just rehashing stuff said from an answer made weeks before.

badp

whoops, yeah, er, I r dumbs

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theUg

But then everyone could go about repeating shit, and getting rep.

Fluttershy

16:55

@theUg That's oversimplifying a bit...

badp

@theUg What the pony said

Fluttershy

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Q: Kingdom Hearts Timeline

I recently started playing the Kingdom Hearts series (for the first time - I realise this is a little delayed) and am kind of confused at the sheer number of games there are and the amount of platforms they are available on. Could someone provide me with a SPOILER FREE timeline in which the game...

kingdom-hearts-series

Sterno

theUg

@Fluttershy But, you know, there are many people who suffer from TL: DR; syndrome, and shall just post short answers without reading longer answers stating same thing.

Fluttershy

That question, for example. The two answers were posted just minutes apart, meaning they could've both easily been answering at the same time. Just one took longer to write than the other.

theUg

16:57

I understand, that in my example both posted at the same time, and better answer clearly winning, but the other still getting rep, and I don’t know why.

Blem

►

Wipqozn

@theUg We don't delete duplicate answers unless it's a word for word duplicate. If you think the other answer is bad, just down vote it.

theUg

And, to clarify, I don’t have an axe to grind with any of the participants there, I am just curious.

Fluttershy

@theUg That's just how people voted. Not much we can do to control that.

fredley

@TimStone It keeps crashing, not sure what the issue is

Ben Brocka

16:58

@Blem oh shit

Blem

:)

Wipqozn

Personally I up voted the other answer, because for some users the shorter answer is preferable.

fredley

@Blem Holy crap

@TimStone And now it seems to have died for good

Tim Stone

Yeah, I know

Wipqozn

Also, as @Fluttershy said, my answer was posted after the other answer. We're not going to go around deleting answers because someone came along with a better one. That's silly.

Fluttershy

16:59

@Wipqozn @theUg This is another good reason. Upvoting increases visibilty. Some users like the tl;dr version, others like to figure out the minute details.

fredley

@Wipqozn Very confused there for a moment

Fluttershy

@fredley He thinks I'm a pork chop.

theUg

Ah, the old lowest common denominator. The root of all evil. ;)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

17:20

stackstatus.net

If anyone's interested in what's happening to the site right now

theUg

Yea, those basterds, I was in the middle of the edit. :(

Tim Stone

@fredley It's probably back now. I doubled the size of the server. If there are problems with the Minecraft installation itself I don't know how to fix those. :P

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Your edit should be safe, I think. The auto save function should hopefully still work

fredley

@TimStone Wow, thanks

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

They did forget to put up a banner in advance though

It only appeared on MSO

theUg

17:25

I saved my edit in Opera’s notes anyway, just in case.

badp

This is a good moment to remind you guys of our back up chat - steam://friends/joinchat/103582791433330483

although chat should be unaffected

badp

17:49

fbueckert

18:03

@SaintWacko

Ben Brocka

Krazer

LessPop_MoreFizz

@BenBrocka Storm wickedness confirmed

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy If you haven't watched S3E11, it might be more interesting to watch S3E12 before S3E11. Just a thought.

Fluttershy

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm already caught up. Episode 12 aired today, didn't it?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

18:15

Yup.

LessPop_MoreFizz

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Applied propaganda

Proposed Q&A site for everyone who's looking for arguments to convince others to something. It's the place to give arguments (essential, emotional, demagogic etc.), but not for discussion about the validity of asker's case.

Currently in definition.

1

Stereotypes

Proposed Q&A site for stereotype victims in particular countries and travellers

Currently in definition.

1

Health and Safety at work

Proposed Q&A site for asking about health and safety at work and fundamental working rules and standards.

Currently in definition.

A51 in rare form.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@LessPop_MoreFizz That sounds more like a proposal for racism

LessPop_MoreFizz

@YiJiang'sEvilClone racism.se

> How to convince an Eskimo to buy a fridge?

Quality question.

> How to prove that sunbathing in bathing suit is illogical and making partial suntan looking unaesthetic?

Yes. How can I convince people to sunbathe nude. This is a quality stackexchange question.

Ben Brocka

@LessPop_MoreFizz "How do I convince my friends I simply enjoy chicken and watermelon based on their own merits?"

2

I seriously don't get what they think would be on topic for that

Krazer

@LessPop_MoreFizz Tell them that they can use it to keep food and drinks at a warmer temperature. (e.g. keep water liquid)

Ben Brocka

18:38

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how to make eggs

CruelCow

I really wish I could downvote proposals.

Ben Brocka

@CruelCow you need soooo much a51 rep to close them

theUg

Ah, since we are at it, here is more:

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Motorcycles, Mopeds, and Scooters

Proposed Q&A site for those who operate motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, and similar vehicles, who are interested or knowledgeable in riding, riding safety, cornering, accident avoidance, and general maintenance.

Currently in definition.

Ben Brocka

Are motor-unicycles on-topic or is this yet another two-wheel-biased community?!

theUg

One, two, hacks and sidecars, whatever.

You can have that MiB3 giant wheels.

Ben Brocka

18:46

Was MiB3 any good? I'm always suspicious of sequels that come out far later than the previous installment

> OMG IM FUCKING LAUGH MY ASS OUT LOUD !

I don't even want to know how that works

Krazer

@BenBrocka I thought it was the worst out of the three

theUg

I actually enjoyed it. And I generally avoid blockbusters, like vast majority of superhero movies.

Ullallulloo

Ninja Blade for free.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Wow, nice fleet

Have you ever used a Wolf-class frigate?

fbueckert

@SaintWacko That one doesn't ring a bell.

That's from the Tachyon corp, right?

SaintWacko

18:58

@fbueckert No, but it's as technologically advanced as most of theirs

I've only found one in the orbital base

It's incredibly powerful, though

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