The Bridge - 2013-03-04 (page 3 of 7)

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2:14 PM

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Q: How do I end a romantic relationship with the butler?

Just to have some fun, I built up a romantic relationship between a sim and her butler. For a while it was amusing to see him get excited about the occasional WooHoo in the shower, but it pretty much has run its course. Now that I'd like to end the relationship, I noticed that the "mean" interact...

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Q: Can I buy the PC version of SimCity & run through Mac Parallels, then switch to Mac version when it is released without paying twice?

If I buy SimCity for PC released this week, will I need to buy it again when the Mac version comes out? Or does the PC license entitle me to the Mac version? SimCity Mac Faq doesn't say: http://www.ea.com/uk/news/simcity-apple-mac-faq I've found one forum post from a Maxis dev saying that you c...

@Lazers KILL HIM!

o_O

Bwahhahaha

You know, sometimes I wonder if Sims 3 is like Dwarf Fortress with less magma and more cruelty ...

@MartinSojka And less complexity

Morning, Bridge

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2:23 PM

@MartinSojka Nah, you're only controlling one character.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I thought you could give orders to multiple people

@SaintWacko Morning =)

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Hmmm, really?

Note that I've never played Sims, so it's quite likely I have no idea what I'm talking about

but I'm not the bridge =(

2:24 PM

@Michel Ah...

/me looks around

Where do you think you are?

Good morning, Bridge

Is this place accredited?

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talk.js was pretty awesome. You should've been there @BoltClock

@SaintWacko But I'm not the bridge, I'm AT the Bridge. is like someone says "Good morning Glass" and the guy behind the glass answer it.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone :|

2:29 PM

Anyone here from Ireland ?

@fredley O.o

Ireland~ Ireland~ Ireland~ ♪

@GraceNote You are there? or are you from there? o.O

or neither =P You just like to sing

Neither. I felt like twiltzing about and singing.

Rolf

See? You get it. ♪

2:34 PM

^_^

Eeyup

@GraceNote How does one twiltz?

@Michel Oh, I missed that there wasn't an at/on/in there

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@fredley It sounds like a combination of tweeting and waltzing

Twirling.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Sounds like a coordination nightmare.

2:36 PM

@SaintWacko o.O ? Explain (not native English here, I'm not sure if my understood was right or wrong... Did you mean that YOU forgot the at/in/on on your phrase?)

@Michel He parsed your message as you not being at/on/in the Bridge, not as "You are not 'The Bridge'".

@Michel I read over your comment quickly, and my mind filled in at/in/on (I'm not sure which) between "not" and "the", so it changed the meaning for me

@SaintWacko btw, I was just mocking a little your phrase =)

AHHHHHH

=)

@Michel Yeah, I get what you're saying. Generally, though, referring to something such as the Bridge is understood as referring to everyone who is a member of the Bridge

Holy crap.

Pieter Geerkens, Hamilton, Canada

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discussion down-votes feature-request formatting meta voting

2:39 PM

@GraceNote and @SaintWacko Thanks for the explanation. I could make myself clear too, like "but I'm not the bridge itself =(". Sorry.

He's been a member of meta.SO for three days, and he's already got a question with -41.

@Michel No, it would have made sense if I hadn't mis-read it

@fbueckert Wow, that's impressive

@fbueckert he does have a positive question

@Michel +2. Which got totally murdered with the next questions he asked.

I suspect some of it is because of the religious allegories in the question

2:41 PM

@SaintWacko i do the same in Portuguese and English

@fbueckert Eeyup

And the utter ridiculousness of the suggestion

Wtf, my two-finger scrolling just quit working -.-

Oh, geez, no it had just lagged

That was odd

I love to comment in SIM questions =)

@kalina is so quite o.O she was so "motivated" early this morning =X

@Michel I was hitting the spam limiter earlier, I'm being quiet before I get silenced again

@kalina How many do you need to get punished?

It's not automatic, but it happens without any warnings and I'd rather I'm able to chat when I want to than chat constantly all day and then not be able to chat when I want to

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2:51 PM

@kalina You got spam flagged?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone by a mod, yes

@kalina in chat?

@MadScientist yes

I'd rather be quiet than keep having this conversation though

There is no flag on your profile today

no, not today

just in general

if you want information, go and find my most downvoted post on SE

---> back to work

2:56 PM

@fbueckert Needs to update his icon again, -42!

Complaining about downvotes on meta is rarely a good idea

@BenBrocka Because you just get hammered with more of them.

So he's breaking out the "the community is silencing me" shtick.

Also, that's a stupid proposal.

...I have the Gradius III ship select music stuck in my head. For no reason.

Voting is about the question or answer, not the author of the post.

@fbueckert it is, it's counter productive for the way that stackexchange works

I've generally found that the people who raise those kinds of posts are the people who post crap in the first place

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@BenBrocka Complaining about downvotes anywhere where voting is allowed is stupid

2:58 PM

@fbueckert I swear people intentionally try and make it look like people are downvoting their bad ideas for some other, cosmetic reason. Defense mechanism, I guess

@BenBrocka oh noes, I'm being downvoted, it must be everybody else's fault

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I usually automatically downvote any comment that have been edited to add in a snarky complaint about downvote on reddit. Just because.

@BenBrocka "My idea is awesome! Why are people downvoting it!? I know, it's because of superficial reason X!"

Yeah, I hate it when the world doesn't conform to my wishes too.

And then there's the people that think a [discussion] tag should mean downvotes are off limits

3:02 PM

well downvotes and upvotes are just a method of relaying an opinion

No, upvotes mean this is good, downvotes mean "I am evil and hate people for no reason". That is the only explaination

oh right, that means 8 people are evil and hate me for no reason

rather than just disagreeing

@kalina Why? who? when?

please 1 post for each of the questions.

:3

@Michel I wasn't being serious

@kalina I imagined that, but I just want to see you talk =)

3:07 PM

huh?

Am I mean o.O?

Also I just read the whole "abstain from downvoting" question, and it's even worse than I expected

@BenBrocka yeah it's pretty stupid

@kalina Wait, only 8?

Every time I've seen a "you guys downvoted this without reading!" meta post, the actual body is far stupider than the title makes it appear

3:09 PM

arruuuuuugh

remote workers

i hat you all.

@BenBrocka I'm running through the comments now. He's assuming that downvoting is worse than it actually is. Mostly because he's taking it super personally.

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@djsmiley2k Hat? Hat hat hat hat, hat hat. Hat! Hat hat?

yes, hat attack!

@fbueckert You mean downvotes don't physically wound the recipient? Then why the hell am I casting all these votes?!

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3:12 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone What it does?

@BenBrocka Sometimes, I really do want the ability to shock people through the internet.

I mean, visually specking

It would really lower my frustration level with some people.

@fbueckert ~hug~

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Does the punched user see anything?

3:14 PM

@Michel Most people in the Bridge are cool. There are only a few notables I've ignored.

Need an opinion

gaming.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/27901

THAT is a punch

gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/107435/revisions

*Look at the comment in the answer

People keep trying to edit 'simcity' back into the title

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3:15 PM

@kalina I think that might be related to the recent Meta question

@kalina MAybe comment on it telling them not to, and why

@kalina Rejected in my opinion. The SimCity is on the tag already

I put a comment on there, it disappeared

I must have refreshed the page or something

@kalina o.0

@kalina Opinion given.

3:20 PM

I sense a rollback war in my future

@kalina Nah; just don't worry about it. Opinions have been expressed. We've got a question about game names in titles to wage war in.

@fbueckert I've commented on that, there was a brief discussion in chat

I have nothing more to say about the issue, only suggestions regarding the cause

which is not what the meta post was about

you guys are close minded.

Sorry and all but you are.

Imagine walking into a shop

Seeing bottles of "Sauce!" then having to read the ingredence to see if it's tomato or bbq.

@djsmiley2k SEO dictates all.

When a multimillion dollar corporation goes, "Duplicate words drop your ranking when we list you.", you damn well make sure you don't duplicate it.

Arqade's in a bit of a unique situation with that, as our tags are the game names.

@djsmiley2k I think it's more akin to walking down the clearly labeled cereal aisle, and then random boxes are called "Cinnamon toast crunch cereal" sitting along side "Cinnamon toast crunch"

3:30 PM

@TrentHawkins Food comparisons should be bannable.

@djsmiley2k click this link: gaming.stackexchange.com/q/107435/27134

tell me what the PAGE TITLE says

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@MartinSojka But... but... how can I do terrible analogies without food?

@djsmiley2k Although all bottles of sauce that claim to be 'hot' should be mandated to list their scoville rating... >.>

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"My love for you is like jam - sweet and sour in equal parts" is the perfect terrible analogy

@fbueckert my suggestion on that meta post, should I raise in on MSO?

Gaming Topics From Outside

3:33 PM

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Q: Kernel Event ID 41. My system keeps shutting off during games

here's hoping you guys can help me. This is a homebuilt system I put together myself. This is the build (I got a 7870 instead of a 7850, though): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/eZgE This error has happened to me 5 times now. Once a couple of months ago (Oct 20th), again a month later (Nov 18th), then...

troubleshooting freeze power gaming

@kalina Hmm. I dunno how SO does it; do they allow language names in the title?

Seems counter productive, depending on what's being asked.

well, the tagging system works the same

in the instance of that screenshot, it would resolve the problem

I can't say it would look pretty

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@fbueckert They do, though most SO question titles are usually statements instead of questions

but it's not my job to dictate how it is implemented

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Though if I see something like "jQuery - How do I foo the bar" I'll usually drop the "jQuery - " part of the title

3:34 PM

@kalina Yeah, the tagging works the same, but Arqade is sort of special, like I said.

@fbueckert yeah, we have the problem is how we're special

@fbueckert In the same way we do, in that "Don't put it at the front, but it is fine to do it organically".

@fbueckert The "tags end up in title" only applies if the tag name isn't already in the title, so I'm not sure that this is actually an issue.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone This would mean that I would enjoy half of it, and never comprehend the other half.

@GraceNote I've noticed that it sometimes gets duplicated in the title, due to the workarounds for SEO, though.

@fbueckert Example?

@GraceNote Looking

3:40 PM

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Q: Please show tags in the list of suggested questions that may already have your answer

Over on Arqade we've had a meta discussion recently regarding the inclusion of game names in question titles due to an issue where the 'Questions that may already have your answer' suggestions when raising a new question causing confusion. Take a look at this screenshot below; All of these que...

feature-request asking-questions

Ok, not quite what I'm looking for, but this doesn't have the tag in the title at all.

Might as well start collecting some downvotes on MSO

While this does.

@fbueckert "pokemon" is cancelling out the tag

if you remove the word "pokemon" from the title, the tag will show

Acronyms throw off the tagging

3:43 PM

@fbueckert That's an acronym and a full name. Not technically a duplication.

@GraceNote Yeah, I know.

If the tagging system takes the game name into account, why have we been so anti-game name in title?

@kalina Time for me to check in on when this was last requested.

Is this a recent development, or did we just banhammer them period?

We didn't banhammer it. Ever.

I have no idea where people are getting this misconception that sticking the tag in the title is anathema. Fabian had the right of it, it's perfectly acceptable if it's organically in there, and quite frankly it's pretty helpful especially for the otherwise exceedingly vague titles out there.

@GraceNote Really? I'm pretty sure it was somebody here in chat that told me we don't put game names in titles, 'cuz SEO.

3:47 PM

@fbueckert Absolutism of a statement doesn't necessarily quantify its veracity.

@fbueckert I think the wording was as @MadScientist said - don't put it in there for the sake of it being there

I always thought it was "We try not to put full names into the title because of the title length".

@GraceNote When it comes from a local blue name, I tend to take it as gospel.

but since it has been stated that SE sites previously got outranked before the tags appeared at the start of the page title "cuz SEO" is valid

'Cuz they've been here much longer than I have.

3:48 PM

What is it with you and 'cuz today?

@MartinSojka This is more of a satellite issue of sorts. Putting ginormous names is just a hassle.

Where is the real @fbueckert?

WE WANT THE REAL @FBUECKERT BACK

If it's not such anathema, then what have I been doing for last few months!? My life! Wasted!

@kalina This was a problem that resulted in why we have the mechanism of today, but at the same time the deduplication exists for the reasons stated above. Organic inclusion makes sense because that's also a common way that people ask things.

@kalina 'cuz apostrophes

3:49 PM

@GraceNote yeah, I never edit out instances where it is grammatically correct

@kalina Dead, I'm just talking from his computer 'cuz he never logs out.

But seriously, though, if the tagging already takes it into account, I'll stop peeling game names out of the title.

except when the title rolls over onto a separate line

I hate titles that wrap, they look ugly

Everything looks ugly when it raps

@kalina People need to learn the art of copywriting before posting on this site

@SaintWacko Incorrect

3:51 PM

@GraceNote See also "The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II: Rise of the Witch King" ;)

@MartinSojka "Once Upon A Time There Were Two Twintailed Sister Princesses Who Did Not Get Along With Each Other Very Well".

That's a real game?

@fredley shrugs

That's the rough translation of the title of a real game, yes.

@GraceNote Ayesha comes out tomorrow!

3:53 PM

@fbueckert That it does.

More alchemy to be done!

@GraceNote Bloody hell ...

Aww... more snow? Stop snowing! risk of spring flooding increasing >.<

@TrentHawkins Yup. Shovelling will be happening today.

We have ... a clear sunny day, 10°C (50°F). This should stay this way for a few more days if you want to believe the meteorologists.

3:56 PM

@MartinSojka The title in original is むかしむかしあるところにとてつもなく中の悪いツインテイルの姉妹姫様がいらっしゃいましたとさ.

This is hardly the longest title I know, but it's the one that I can actually write from memory easy enough.

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Q: Why was my PS3 hardware question closed?

Gaming FAQ says this: Game-specific hardware and utilities under acceptable questions. I asked this question on Gaming, but it was closed (I deleted it so as not to make a duplicate by posting it on SU - I realize SU is not the place for it either): http://superuser.com/q/559682/160458 Technica...

my first trip to MSO is going far better than I expected

@Lazers doesn't even contain a link to the question that was closed -.-

@kalina He deleted it here, and reposted on SU.

And it got closed there, too.

@kalina Only because a search bug stopped my progress earlier.

@GraceNote awww

@GraceNote waits for impending doom

dooooooooooooooooom

4:04 PM

Speaking of which, I heard Doom 4 was announced or something. I think it's supposed to be you battling the hordes of hell in an FPS or something like that.

@kalina Muhuhaha ♪

I'd have never guessed that Doom 4 would be an FPS!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Lazers Because it was a dumb question.

@GraceNote 2 years old! Doesn't count!

@fbueckert I suspect once I return friday/saturday, we'll be able to murder all the 1 sword challenges in Fire emblem. My avatar just did a 200 damage crit to a great knight... with a ladle.

4:05 PM

@kalina Sure does.

I really liked the rage engine, after it was patched

@TrentHawkins Indeed. I'm up to ~Chapter 13.

@kalina You used red circles, it can't go that badly

@GraceNote noooo don't dupe me

If they put more effort into their texture streaming for high end GPU's I think a new Doom would be amazing

4:06 PM

the world can't handle one of me let alone two!

Even is listed under "Questions that may already have your answer" when I input your title. ♪

@GraceNote @kalina fail

@GraceNote I didn't know it was a feature-request, since it didn't have a tag in the list

;)

@TrentHawkins Sidenote: Holy crap, what are you feeding him?

Ok so I returned

seems we went back off my topic of * sauce.

4:07 PM

That's like a 70+ straight up damage hit.

@djsmiley2k before you continue your * sauce topic, you should read the things I said which invalidates the topic

@kalina so we already agree?

@djsmiley2k I don't know, I purged the topic once I invalidated it

my brain doesn't have space to store useful information in it

@tiddy I always forget that it was id Software who made RAGE

@kalina I wonder what @OrigamiRobot has to say about your * sauce matters

4:09 PM

@kalina lol

@BoltClock I find it sad that id software are known as "the company who made RAGE"

@fbueckert Well... ladle = MT 1, STR = 42, MAG = 32 and Ignis triggered in the same attack as the crit (Add half mag or str to the other value)

rather than "the company who mainstreamed the first person shooter genre"

@kalina Seriously? ಠ_ಠ

@BenBrocka @OrigamiRobot has no taste

4:11 PM

@TrentHawkins Ok, skills are involved. That makes more sense.

Ahahahaha! Duplication is now marked! Now for the finishing touches!

@fbueckert plus whatever bonuses pairing up with a general gave me...

@GraceNote the new question is more upvoted than the old question

Lon'Qu just got Astra. That will be straight-up murder for anything he hits.

and the old question doesn't have an accepted answer on it!

the system should save me from your EVIL STREAK

4:12 PM

The new question is unowned, ancient, and not as flashy. The answer is also not actually an answer.

@TrentHawkins Also, I bought the Champions of Yore pack. Stupid tax, making me not able to buy the Golden pack with the rest.

@GraceNote the new question is unowned?

hmmm?

HMMMM?

lol

Of all the tags you didn't consider adding, it was "tags".

@GraceNote <3

zomg head ¬_¬

@kalina Once I get through with it, aye.

@GraceNote this sounds like you're able to delete me

either that or I am confused and misunderstanding

4:14 PM

Psh, I have to be more subtle than that.

(which is what I am)

Just slowly remove traces of your existence. So that not only are people increasingly unaware of your presence, but you also become increasingly unsure about your very essence.

@fbueckert I'll be aiming for that with my avatar after I finish off Hero. Just picked up Sol - 50% chance to heal for half the damage dealt... not that anything hits my avatar for more than 5 damage.

@GraceNote who am I? what? hmm

oh you duped the old question to me, you must love me really

@TrentHawkins 50%? Wow. That's a pretty good trigger chance.

4:16 PM

@TrentHawkins Is the end goal to solo the end boss?

@fbueckert At this rate I probably already can if I dip into my backlog of special weapons and forge them up a bit.

@GraceNote Based off skill, which is 48(+2)

I remember when 30 was the max for Skill.

So, at least it's still based on stats. That's comforting.

ooh I have downvote privs on MSO, the world will burn

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You fooled me into thinking they made it into just raw percentage chances.

@TrentHawkins Take a look at the item description of Lief's Blade.

4:19 PM

...that's what his sword is being called now?

@GraceNote I believe so, yes.

@fbueckert Well aware, started using it when I re-classed to merc for the Armsthrift skill.

There's lots of new items like that in Awakening.

@TrentHawkins So you're garnering money like there's no tomorrow, then?

Hrm.

@fbueckert I have 69335G ... most of that is not from Leif's blade however (Side note, I forged it, and called it "Loan $hark")

4:22 PM

@TrentHawkins ...Damn. I'm really going to need that Armsthrift skill.

@BenBrocka One of my favorite LPers is doing Disgaea! =D

Money isn't easy to come by on Hard difficulty.

@TrentHawkins ...wait, what?

@Fluttershy Cool...odd game to let's play though. Not much to say. Was thinking of doing a tour of my D3/D4 casts after I'm comfortable with the capture card though

@GraceNote Lief's Blade has an ability that gives you a chance to gain a Bullion(S) when you kill someone with it. Trigger chance: (Luk * 2).

4:25 PM

@GraceNote What what? my total gold, or the side note?

Just that I confused the sword for being a different sword.

Or is it just Luk?

Either way. Combine with Armsthrift, which has a (Luk * 2) chance of not using up durability, and you all of a sudden have an overpowered weapon.

@fbueckert Trigger % = luck stat

@TrentHawkins Ok, so just straight up Luck.

Well, okay, it does go to the same guy, but why is he... AARGH

Also, isn't it Leif?

4:27 PM

@GraceNote Probably.

@BenBrocka I think his goal is to skip the bulk of the grinding, and just do the main chapters on screen.

@GraceNote It is.

@Fluttershy Nice thing about the series is that you really don't need to grind to clear the story.

The class changes in this game are killing me.

@Fluttershy yeah, there's little grinding in the "main" game

Unless you constantly decide to reincarnate characters early, which isn't really necessary

Is it Disgaea 1?

@BenBrocka Yeah

4:31 PM

Paralogue 13 is fun... whichever army you don't support gets reinforcements... and you can choose to fight them both! Generals.... Generals everywhere!

@TrentHawkins Not quite there, yet. Just finished Chapter...12?

And it opens up three other Paralogue missions.

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Q: Life time coins temple run 2

I have taken more coins to complete Midas touch objective. But in game it is showing that I have not completed. What should I do ? enter image description here

@Lazers Pretty sure that's a dupe.

> enter image description here

back

4:48 PM

Kill it

@fbueckert Flagged

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Oops, I think I accidentally flagged it as spam

For some reason my browser is trying to download every link I click on Kickstarter as a .gz

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@SaintWacko The site isn't sending the file with the correct headers perhaps?

Or maybe some badly configured proxy between you and the site

Chrome started doing that (as HTML though, not gz), killing it and restarting it fixed it

4:52 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone There is a proxy I'm running through

@BenBrocka And I am using chrome

Wasn't a proxy for me

My turn @fbueckert Kill (Close) it

Come to think of it if the site's gzipped it would make sense if chrome's downloading them as gz

This is an open ended list question, which will turn the answers into popularity contests; no one answer will be more correct than any other. To that end, I have voted to close it. — fbueckert 11 mins ago

Good job, Deputy.

@fbueckert Thank you Marshal =)

4:55 PM

lol you two

I'll make a silver badge for me. So, I can be the real Deputy =D

@Michel Could always see if @fredley will accommodate you.

@fbueckert I am quite accomodating

@fredley is an artist ?

@Michel I am many things to many people

4:58 PM

@Michel He made my badge for me.

@fredley Draw me like one of your French bitches =) (I mean, the silver badge for the Deputy, can have ponies too xD)

@Michel Ok

@Michel lol

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@fredley You'll always be a pork chop to me ♡

@YiJiang'sEvilClone ♡

4:59 PM

@fredley For real ?! * - *

Mmm, pork chops

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