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1:01 PM
@badp I like how he wrote out "strong text" and "emphasized text".
Especially how the "emphasized text" started in the middle of a word.
 
@StrixVaria I... hope it's an IME/javascript fuckup or similar
 
hmm... you'd think if you flagged your own post, it would automagically go through
 
@StrixVaria Probably direct insert from our UI, if you input I or B on the input without text selected, it inputs those phrases by default.
 
awww, he was fixing it
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Q: The owner doesn't have to "vote" to delete, so why vote to close?

EarlzOk so everyone is aware of the well defined and good behavior of being able to delete your own questions(within reason). Now then, my question is why can't you immediately close your own question? Often times I will find a duplicate question and (or someone will post it) but the question has lo...

...basically because WE DON'T TRUST YOU PESKY USERS angry glare
:P
 
Ahh, ok.
 
1:04 PM
...actually, the more relevant point is "If you have a singular vote to close, you also have a singular vote to reopen".
 
@GraceNote why don't flags to close a question bump it into the VTC review queue?
 
@badp I don't know, ain't my project.
 
other than the fact that a FTC isn't technically a VTC.
 
I didn't want to delete it because I got some good answers, maybe better than the question I realized it was a dupe of
 
Aw crap, it's BenBrocka.
 
Shit. Later
 
but it definitely is the same question
 
@Sconibulus Dupe stuff has always been the exception to the whole "closure -> deleture" theory.
 
And, hey, review embargo lifted. Here comes the reviews...
 
I have this opened in a tab but I haven't read it yet.
 
1:08 PM
@badp annoyingly it still CALLS it vote to delete
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Q: Make it clear a self-delete vote isn't a "vote", it's just deleting

Ben BrockaA sensitive issue erupted recently and part of the problem was a user didn't realize the "delete" button was binding, because they're presented with this dialog when they click "delete": It seems they interpreted this as "it's just a vote, it won't happen immediately" and defaced their questio...

 
I'm... amazed that's not a dupe.
 
Yeah. It actually took years for someone to raise this issue.
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Q: Why do I have to 'vote to delete' my own answer?

John the SeagullActually, I don't, but the message leads to confusion: Wait... I have to wait for more votes to have this embarassing and compromising answer deleted?

Perhaps?
 
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A: Why do I have to 'vote to delete' my own answer?

Jeff Atwoodsee http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/ edit: updating the client-side javascript to negotiate with the server and figure out this distinction is far more code work than this justifies.

Oh it's one of the Jeff declines
boo hiss
Just delete all of the upvoted jeff declined features and start anew
 
@Sconibulus can you do me a favour and flag to close something else?
 
It's pretty fair to revisit the issue all the same, I think.
 
1:12 PM
even if it's bogus. I just need it for a screenshot.
I NEED IT FOR SCIENCE.
 
umm, sure
there you go
 
@Sconibulus nope. flag to close
perhaps as exact duplicate
or not constructive or too localized or whatever
 
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Q: How much speed does a down ramp impart?

ShadurI'm working on my third major project in this fort (the first was a 4.8 kilodorf water turbine reactor and the second was a 90 Z-level magma pump stack to move the magma forges and smelters up to the main work area) -- a downward spiraling mine track to let my dorfs move food directly from the ma...

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Q: Are some areas impossible to beat om Expert/Master?

SandokanSo far, I have encountered two areas that I haven't been able to get past on a difficulty level above Adept. First it was the quest för the Companions where Farkas(?) takes me to a dungeon where he reveals himself as a werewolf. There we were overrun by mercs and his health dropped in like five s...

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Q: Changing my Minecraft Username

jacen.garrissI want to change my minecraft username, but I can not find a way to do this anywhere. Is this possible?

 
@Lazers I wish I could do this :(
 
oh, ok, sorry
 
1:14 PM
@GraceNote @djsmiley2k Sounds like a bug if no error message is presented
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Aye t'that, but we'd need a good replication of the event and I can't personally get data on it since I can't suggest edits anywhere.
 
@BenBrocka Wut
@GraceNote Make a sockpuppet?
Or just steal Jeff's Eggs McLaren
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone web design
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone When I open this page as anon, I see no "improve this post" button
 
1:16 PM
@BenBrocka Wut
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Even if I hand craft the edit link to my answer I get "There is a pending suggested edit in the queue, try again in a few minutes."
(the question is now old enough to be edited)
 
@badp Hmmm, perhaps the bug is he shouldn't see the edit button in the first place
No wait, SE doesn't hide buttons anymore; it just greys disabled actions out
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Just open gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/110453/edit as anon
 
@BenBrocka This is ridiculous, Spiderman would never work with Mac Gargan's Venom.
 
@OrigamiRobot Clearly they're fighting against a common evil.
SPAM.
 
1:19 PM
@OrigamiRobot Even in a crossover?
I mean, he even worked with that spiderman with like 6 arms. His standards aren't that high
 
@BenBrocka He worked with Scientifically Accurate Spiderman?
 
@BenBrocka Unless they are both Peter Parker and there's some timey wimey stuff, there is no crossover.
@BenBrocka I don't remember either working with Doppelganger. That was Carnage.
 
You can never rule out Weird Time Shit™ for it is the nature of Weird Time Shit™ to go backwards in time and be Weird and Time and Shit and ™
 
FAE
 
@OrigamiRobot It wasn't Doppleganger, it was a good, alternate spidey, along with like half a dozen other spidies with slightly different powers. It was a weird arc but I have no idea when it occured
 
1:25 PM
ok, I need to stop reading bioshock reviews now
lest I get spoiled
 
@agent86 Rapture is a sled
 
@agent86 You were dead all along.
 
Morning, Bridge
The alarm on a Pebble is really good for getting up in the morning
Your wrist just starts buzzing
 
Good morning, Bridge. My computer takes forever to boot.
 
@fbueckert Is it your personal or your work computer?
 
1:32 PM
@badp Work, of course.
My own takes no time at all to boot.
 
@fbueckert Same here
 
The few times I let it restart, anyways.
 
So much corporate software
 
@fbueckert Heh, Gotta run all those enterprisey VBS stuff.
 
@BenBrocka Oh like when Peter Parker was mutating?
 
1:33 PM
@OrigamiRobot That sounds familiar, but there were a bunch of alternate spidermen physically in the same timeline for some reason
 
@BenBrocka That sounds like comics.
 
@badp you just showed up in the low quality queue. Are you drunk already?
 
[tag:🍌]
Huh.
 
Is that an unicode banana?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I think so.
Someone posted a Meta about it not playing nice with tags.
 
1:44 PM
Infinnnniiiiite
 
So I was testing it.
 
Peter Parker is going to dieeeeeee
 
@fbueckert Asterisks don't play nice with tags either
 
:/ i am so bored!
 
I had no idea the phenomenon of cheaters spinning crazily while moving normally was so common it's documented on the TF2 wiki
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone yes
Your Location

Latitude: 55.667
Longitude: 12.583
City: Copenhagen
Country: Denmark
Country Code: DK
Region: København
not sure if the Latitude/Longitude is correct, but the city is
 
Interesting. It doesn't work for me, it seems.
 
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Q: What items to buy to enhance Nidalee's tankiness after the last "balance" patch?

Adam AroldBack in the days when Nidalee had a nice armor/resist bonus when in I only had to buy a and/or a in order to survive jumping in and comboing: + + enemies. Now Riot took the bonus away and I'm a bit puzzled what items should I buy to compensate for the squishiness and still retain the burst...

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Q: Sim City 3000 bug(?)

poepjeThere is this strange bug (or so I assume) in Sim City 3000 where my neighbour deals are messed up. What happens is, I make a deal of selling power to a neighbour town, and immediately this deal gets cut off, and i'm bankrupt. But I know I have plenty of excess power to sell. Additionally, apar...

 
> Google was not able to detect your location
 
@StrixVaria Same here
 
1:52 PM
@Blem What browser are you using?
 
chrome
 
Gah!
 
the cordinats are a couple of km off
 
Dungeons of Dredmor doesn't store saves in its install folder >.<
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone not here
 
1:55 PM
@SaintWacko It uses Steam Cloud I believe
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Not for a non-steam install, it doesn't
 
@BenBrocka So that's 1/5 success rate. Hmmm.
 
I wish games would stop doing this
It makes mobile installs very difficult
 
@SaintWacko Just play KSP!
 
@fbueckert My work computer doesn't have enough power for that :(
 
1:56 PM
@SaintWacko Aww.
 
It stutters the whole time
 
Actually putting saves in the install folder is very annoying for when you want to back them up. I wish they'd just put them all in a standard place
 
It's so much fun.
 
@SaintWacko request a better one. "I need a better processor for...advanced physics calculations"
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@BenBrocka Yeah, there's really no ideal way
Actually, there is
Make it so you can choose where the saves go, either during install or through a config file
A few games do that
 
1:58 PM
@BenBrocka Just put the save files in the install location, than installing yourself in Program Files! I don't see any problem with this plan at all.
 
@fbueckert Yeah, I have a satellite and the beginnings of a space station in orbit
 
@SaintWacko steam cloud + local saves is pretty close to ideal. However apparently that's flawed too
 
@BenBrocka That's not at all ideal
 
Was playing Dishonored on Big Picture mode this weekend and steam itself randomly crashed. Game still ran fine so whatever. Over an hour later I go to load a save and find it hasn't been saving since it crashed
 
Completely impossible on a mobile install
 
1:59 PM
@SaintWacko It's taking a backseat to Monster Hunter right now. I've got a new station core in orbit, and am working on connecting some fuel tanks to it now.
 
@SaintWacko Why would steam cloud be impossible on a mobile install?
 
@BenBrocka Oof, it doesn't save locally at all?
 
@BenBrocka %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games
 
man, I blew like 5 keys yesterday on the BL2 chest and rolled grenade mods every. single. time...
 
Oh but that has a space in its folder name :(
 
2:00 PM
@SaintWacko It should...it uses steam cloud but I'm pretty sure it's not always online or anything
 
then I opened it to find class mods for THE TWO CLASSES I DONT PLAY
 
@BenBrocka Steam can't be installed on a flash drive, can it?
 
It just totally lost access to save files at some point
 
EFF YOU CHEST
 
I just had an awesome thought: cloud saves for KSP! Not that I need it.
 
2:00 PM
@SaintWacko no, but you can put the game files on it and point steam to them
 
Hey, Octodad does save in %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games. That's neat.
 
@BenBrocka But then I'd have to install Steam on my work computer
That's what I'm avoiding
 
@agent86 That sucks. Give them away to other less fortunate players?
 
The whole point is that all this stuff only exists on my flash drive
 
Oh, haven't messed with anything like that
 
2:01 PM
@MBraedley eh, sold em already. diamond ponies are expensive!
 
@BenBrocka I have a 16gb USB3.0 flash drive that I use as a mobile gaming storage
 
@MBraedley have I?
 
@STRIX'S PIG IS BACK
 
@SaintWacko How many games do you run off it?
 
Which reminds me I haven't reinstalled Steam yet
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Eleven, and two emulators
So far
But I put more on it as I want to play them
 
Aww. I just found out a friend of mine from dance class passed away.
 
This is interesting. For some reason Google used Chinese there
Where is my browser / Google account leaking this information that leads to the page autofilling Chinese?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone There's a hole in the browser and the information is leaking ouuut!
 
2:06 PM
@fbueckert :(
 
Hmmmm, which bit of JavaScript is inserting that box
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I think autofill uses the name of the form field to determine what to pick
 
IP Geoloc?
 
I'm not reading the Chinese version of the docs (do they even have a Chinese version of the docs?)
Everything on the page is English. That's why the autofilled Chinese tag stood out for me
 
when I use my proxy server (which is in las vegas, nevada) google thinks I'm in indonesia
like, youtube ads tell me all the awesome deals I could get at indonesian mcdonalds
I think it's because the IP block that the VPS provider is leasing is from indonesian IP space or something
even though google knows where I live
like, could probably lazer me from orbit to within .01 micron accuracy
for a long time all my google results through there were redirected to the indonesian google page
until I finally said "stop that, I don't know this language"
and then it grumbled and kind of said "fine, we'll put you to google.com. but we won't like it"
 
2:14 PM
Well the NSA is saving literally every communication in at least the US, so even if they aren't looking for you, if they ever needed to, they could find everything
And then give the signal to vaporize your face
 
yeah. no doubt. luckily I saved the wrapper from my hot pocket, so I'm immune to face vaporization. plus, my chin smells like pepperoni, so BONUS
 
@tiddy Vote Boss
 
for who exactly
The guy that says, "hey, NSA, stop it"
 
@agent86 if you can fit in a hot pocket wrapper you have a freakishly small head
 
@BenBrocka I'm only protected from frontal vaporization attacks at the moment. Luckily, I have a family pack of ham and cheese in the freezer.
 
2:17 PM
Mar 18 at 0:47, by LessPop_MoreFizz
See also: http://www.jeffbossforpresident.org
 
Yeah that guy looks sane
 
Mar 15 at 14:38, by Grace Note
@OrigamiRobot Totes
 
@OrigamiRobot re: pic picture. I love gravity falls.
 
@Wipqozn Me too and I am mad at everyone for not telling me about it sooner.
 
@agent86 I buy those when I realize I'm too lazy to make non-hotpocket breakfasts. I'm not sure whether going without breakfast or getting the hotpockets is worse for me
 
2:19 PM
@OrigamiRobot I wanted to tell you, but @Fluttershy wouldn't let me.
 
> DID THE NSA KILL JFK, RFK, MLK? BECAUSE THE NSA IS TRYING TO KILL JEFF BOSS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE 2ND TIME .
I honestly expected that sentence to end with a conspiracy about killing people with initialisms for names
 
son: "ugh, I hate doctor who." wife: "that's because you're five."
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If you have to go to a personal website to find out someone exists....they are not going to be president
Kind of a big rule
 
@OrigamiRobot AHHHH. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! MY EYES. THEY BLEEEEEEEED.
 
lol aol.com email
email prez4lyfe66@aol.com inquiries not in txtspk will not be accepted
 
2:22 PM
@agent86 Let us extend this to @kalina
 
@agent86 I dislike your son.
 
@tombull89 yeah I have to wonder who, regardless of design knowledge, would look at that and think "yeah, that's just fine. Let's publish that"
 
@BenBrocka It's the NSA screwing up the design, obviously.
my car blue honda nj w31 acy has microwave radiation coming through the seats I LOL'D
 
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Q: Empire Earth 1 problem when load map

Vladimir_TubicHelo First of all sorry for my bad English. I have a problem with Empire Earth 1. It work fine but last week I when game starts video (intro) work fine main menu work ok but when it start to create world (load map) it take some time and game starts and all players including me are defeated! Whe...

 
2:23 PM
But seriously the NSA is climbin' in your virtual windows, snatchin everything up: wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all
 
ARIAL BLACK CAPSLOCK IS FOR WHEN REGULAR CAPSLOCK ISN'T QUITE CAPSLOCK ENOUGH
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@BenBrocka Chat uses Verdana though
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone jeffbossforpresident.org sure doesn't
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone The future is in the past.
 
@BenBrocka He must be good, he's got his own Wikipedia page.
 
2:30 PM
@Wipqozn I dislike your turtle-ness
 
@agent86 At least, unlike your son, I like Doctor Who.
 
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A: Make it clear a self-delete vote isn't a "vote", it's just deleting

OdedAdded some client side magic. Self deletes will prompt "Delete this post?" as of the next build.

Woohoo!
 
@BenBrocka Enjoy~
 
@Wipqozn You joined my dwarf fortress the other day
Then some dwarf got pissed off and tried to start a fist fight with you
But he just bruised his hand on your shell
 
@SaintWacko Excellent.
 
2:34 PM
@SaintWacko Was it a turtle or a tortoise?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone turtle*
 
@OrigamiRobot ^
 
I had no idea my comment on the question was gaining votes itself
 
@OrigamiRobot Was it a turtle or a turtle?
 
2:40 PM
@BenBrocka ... has he forgotten to [status-completed] your question?
 
@BoltClock Not until it's actually deployed.
 
@GraceNote Hm. Other devs I've seen retag the question just as they answer "This will be fixed in the next deploy."
That's why I was wondering
 
@BoltClock Oded decided otherwise while we were working on it.
Just a quirk, really.
 
Ah
As long as he remembers to retag it when it actually goes live
Also, Kevin hasn't yet learned how to write proper "this is now fixed" answers: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/171956/… meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/172590/close-x-5-spacing-off/…
 
@GraceNote Then my smartass flag was for naught :(
 
2:44 PM
@BenBrocka ♪
 
@BenBrocka LOL, just looked at it...
@GraceNote That was brilliant
 
Huh, there's two Chinese MLP dubs. One for mainland China and one for Taiwan
 
The eyebrowed one has arrived!
 
@SaintWacko \o/
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Different dialects?
 
2:55 PM
@GraceNote Different censorship, more like
 
No, but there is a slight difference in accents
 
Could be that, too.
 
And the translation is different too
@SaintWacko Pretty unlikely. I don't think there's much on MLP that's actually censorable
Yup, the mainland China translation seems to be better, though coming from mainland China I might be a little biased :P
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Funny, I was thinking of coming to the opposite conclusion. From an equal amount of bias. ♪
 
@SaintWacko Soviet dub is best dub. Twilight: Do you want to go OVERTHROW CAPITALIST SYSTEM, Pinkie Pie? Pinkie: DA COMRADE. I never leave home without my REVOLUTION cannon
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2:57 PM
The Elements of Harmony becomes The Crystals of Harmony in the Taiwanese version while they become the 'Basis' of Harmony in the Mainland Chinese version
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone You weren't born and raised a Singaporean Chinese?
 
@BoltClock No, immigrant
 
Ah. I'd always thought otherwise
 
Yeah, the mainland China dub definitely seem to have slightly more natural translation
 

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