The Bridge

5:05 PM

Oh boy

The skies opened up above where I work, but instead of Jesus or Longcat emerging triumphant to reclaim their kingdom, all that came down was lightning and a shit-ton of rain.

We did have a brief power outage while I was out at lunch, though.

Powerlord

Wait, the movies room is @kalina's prison? I thought The Bridge was!

Grumpy Lazers

1

Q: Do you have to pay off each loan all at once (not including the down payment)?

I just got my full house so I owe 38,900 bells. (I know you have to pay the original down payment at once.) I keep trying to pay off a little bit and it isn't reacting. I accidentally paid off 900 bells and I just lost them. The owed amount stayed the same. I saved and quit and went back in imm...

animal-crossing-new-leaf

Shotgun Ninja

Animal Crossing. The reason the housing market crashed earlier this century.

James

gog.com Just about everything is 50% or more off

Shotgun Ninja

2005: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing:_Wild_World

2006-2008: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble

2008: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing:_City_Folk

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

FEichinger

5:14 PM

@ShotgunNinja Obviously it was a carefully planned conspiracy.

Shotgun Ninja

;D

whoa wait a minute

the power went out

but my computer is still logged in and everything I had open before lunch is still open.

ALIENS

FEichinger

Not aliens.

Ullallulloo

Anybody have any criticism on this?

FEichinger

They realized you're onto them.

Shotgun Ninja

I'm not saying it was aliens...

@Ullallulloo idk

bwarner

5:19 PM

Whatever happened in the after math of this? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/180100/…

Did we just agree to go on using titles as we have always done?

Ullallulloo

@bwarner We ignored it.

@ShotgunNinja :-/

RedRiderX

* Takes a _significant_ time to load for me.
* Maybe add a little bit of padding to the text description boxes.
* There is a strange jitter at the end of the slide-in animation
* It could use a bit of **pizazz**
* It reminds me of how tone deaf I am. :P

It's a pretty good job mate

Curse you markdown.

Blem

@Ullallulloo It loads slow

RedRiderX

Curse you...

FAE

@Ullallulloo My main criticism would also be the slow loading, aye.

Ullallulloo

5:31 PM

It's about 3 MB cuz I have to embed like 50 separate note sounds. I have no idea how fast the server it's on is though.

The server likely pretty slow due to being a free website hosting thing.

Blem

3mb is nothing, the server must be crap

Shotgun Ninja

Could you reduce the sample frequency on those sounds in Audacity or something, then reupload them?

That might cut download time in half

FAE

2750 points with staffs \o/

FEichinger

So ... hold on ... this is a thing?

2

FAE

@Ullallulloo Hitting Quit seems to have... broken something...

Ullallulloo

5:33 PM

Which boxes?
I've noticed the slide-in jitter, but I have no idea why.
Add sparkles?

FAE

I have a grey overlay on the whole thing now and nothing's happening.

@Ullallulloo It's just a bit plain in execution/UI.

Blem

@Ullallulloo it totally bugged on me now

RedRiderX

@Ullallulloo The "How to Play" and "Credits" bits.

Ullallulloo

@FAE noooo

FAE

@Blem When I hit quit, it like, ate itself or something.

Ullallulloo

5:35 PM

@RedRiderX ah, that's simple enough then.

FAE

@Ullallulloo And now I have 2 games on top of each other.

Blem

@FAE worked when i shoose play blind, but same thing happend for me when i played with staffs

RedRiderX

@Ullallulloo No not sparkles, pizazz:

Shotgun Ninja

The quit from Blind mode seems to work, but from With Staffs mode doesn't. Testing on Chrome.

FAE

That's what happened when I quit from Staffs Mode.

I could still click the buttons, but I had the grey overlay.

and it let me start a new Blind game that was on top of the old thing

RedRiderX

5:38 PM

@ShotgunNinja @Ullallulloo Yes, I had this occur too.

FAE

I let the time run out on the Blind game and now it's a white screen with the menu that's unresponsive when I click the buttons.

with the Game Over screen

Blem

also in the options the Accidentals should say on/off instead of true/false?

Ullallulloo

@Blem Yeah, I'm literally just printing the variables there. :P I'll change that.

Is it breaking only if you let the time run out?

No, even then I can't reproduce it at all.

Although I had that happen a lot with different bugs.

What version of Flash do you guys have?

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: Can't connect to LAN server on Minecraft

Me and my brother have been tying to step up a LAN to play minecraft. I have a mac running Mac OS X and he is using a pc running window's 7. We have tried with him creating the LAN world and when I try to automatically it gives a message that it has 'time out' and when I do Direct connect it fai...

minecraft

James

whistles innocently

FAE

5:46 PM

@Ullallulloo 11.7.700.224 running on Firefox 21.0

Ullallulloo

@FAE That's the same as me. =/

FAE

@Ullallulloo I dunno. :(

fbueckert

2.5 minutes to rebuild a database row from the history table.

FAE

I've gotta make dinner now so I can't test anything else

Blem

@Ullallulloo 11.7.700.225 in chrome

@Ullallulloo damn you, got me playing my old flash game from graphical programing class i had blem.org/flash.html

Ullallulloo

5:55 PM

@Blem nice

I made one similar to that.

Blem

I made mine in under 48h, i had been slacking all semester so sat down 2 days before i had to hand in the assignment and learned flash and made that with most the the key points we had to include (sprites, looping sound, sounds, key press collision detection etc)

Ullallulloo

@Blem It took me over two weeks. :x

fbueckert

@GrumpyLazers Well. That user deleted himself quickly.

Blem

you got alot more gfx

Shotgun Ninja

@Ullallulloo Nice

The most I've ever made is a 2d basketball game with collision, bouncing, and gravity.

user15026

6:06 PM

I know someone likely said this already but OMG hte GOG sales

user20683

@AshleyNunn OMG the steam sales

user15026

@WorldEngineer I haven't looked yet. I don't dare.

user20683

@AshleyNunn It's Paradox

user20683

it's safe for you

user20683

for me...not so much

user15026

6:08 PM

@WorldEngineer Ah, Okay, I am good

user15026

I am drooling over a lot of the GOG stuff...

user20683

@AshleyNunn Crusader Kings II stuff is 75% off

user20683

frack me

user20683

>.>

user15026

@WorldEngineer bites her tongue

Ben Brocka

6:11 PM

> You've earned the "Nice Question" badge for Why did I punt this baby like a football?. See your profile.

3

Tim Stone

@Fluttershy \o/ Looks like we're in 4th at the moment.

@BenBrocka I haven't earned any badges on Parenting, I don't think.

SaintWacko

Is Europa Universalis like Civ?

user20683

@SaintWacko sorta?

user20683

not really

user20683

It's much more complex than Civ is

user20683

6:14 PM

You basically pick a country and then play as that country for however long you feel like

Ben Brocka

How was Sam and Max season 2? As good as season 1/devil's playhouse?

fbueckert

@SaintWacko You now own a 3DS. You must play Monster Hunter.

user20683

there isn't any official way to "win".

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Oh, you bought me one?

fbueckert

@SaintWacko ...don't you?

I was pretty sure you were going to order one.

SaintWacko

6:15 PM

@fbueckert Not yet. I was going to buy one last weekend, but then @ChrisHateZ introduced me to ToME, and I've been playing that instead

I'll be buying one before July 5th

user15026

@SaintWacko Oh, ToME, the game where I just basically die, forever.

SaintWacko

Because that's when I leave on a cross country trip with my family

Shotgun Ninja

ToME?

Ronan Forman

@Ben All the sam and max games I've played are good, check my library to see if I own it.

user15026

@SaintWacko oh yeah, the 3DS will be nice for that

user15026

6:16 PM

@ShotgunNinja te4.org

5

user20683

@SaintWacko EUIII is a solid game

user20683

Crusader Kings II plays more like an RPG than EUIII does

user20683

EUIV is coming soon

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Make sure to get Monster Hunter with it.

user20683

If you like Game of Thrones, there's a mod for CKII

user15026

6:18 PM

Why is it that Econ always makes sense until I sit the exams for it

user15026

like I feel so much like I know stuff

user20683

@AshleyNunn because reasons

user15026

but when I get to the exam today, my brain is gonig to be like hurpderpderrrrr

user20683

@AshleyNunn you may just not test well.

user15026

@WorldEngineer I suspect I don't

user20683

6:19 PM

talk to student services about that

user15026

because I am looking at the stuff, and doing the prep quizzes at my own pace, and I rock those

user20683

you might be able to get arrangements

user15026

I hit the exams and I m like OH GOD WHAT

user20683

how do you do on papers?

user15026

@WorldEngineer That is true, I enver thought about that. I just assumed I was stupid

user15026

6:20 PM

@WorldEngineer I am good at those

user15026

anything not a paper makes my brain pop

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Some people choke on exams. It happens.

user20683

@AshleyNunn you are as smart as I am from what I can tell.

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert You gotta chew, bro

user20683

possibly more so

user15026

6:20 PM

@fbueckert I just feel like an idiot

user15026

I am not....academic smart

fbueckert

@BenBrocka But paper doesn't taste gooooood!

user15026

like I know a lot of stuff

user15026

I just cant explain it

user15026

@fbueckert sprinkles chocolate on it?

fbueckert

6:21 PM

@AshleyNunn Chocolate....paper?

Shotgun Ninja

@Ashley, you're making me d'awwww

user15026

@fbueckert There are worse ideas I think

user15026

@ShotgunNinja I am ridiculous, and I know it :D

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Well, chocolate does make stuff better.

user15026

@fbueckert it does!

user20683

6:22 PM

@AshleyNunn Chocolate Paper

badp

hmmmmmmmmmmmm rice salad

Shotgun Ninja

chocolatepaperroanoke.com/paper/vmchk.html

Best page ever

Grumpy Lazers

-1

Q: If hostile mobs can attack you why don't they attack farm animals in Minecraft?

Is there a special reason that hostile mobs like zombies attack you and not farm animals? I know they attack villagers but I think those are the only type of mob they will attack? Can they attack anything else that I should protect?

minecraft

0

Q: How long does it take for the Club to appear?

Dr Shrunk showed up 4 days ago and had me gather petitions for a new club. I got the signatures and he said they'd be working on it. But several days later there's no Club LOL and no apparent indication of any work being done. Is there anything I have to do to make the club appear or am I done? ...

animal-crossing-new-leaf

0

Q: What towers are good for deflection in Bloon Td5?

What towers are useful to blow balloons back or to make them immovable for a few seconds?

bloons-td-5

RedRiderX

The Ultimate Indulgence of Nectar and Pulp.

Best slogan ever.

fbueckert

@GrumpyLazers Minecrafters want to weigh in on this? Is this something that can be explained?

badp

6:25 PM

I don't see much there

fbueckert

> The ultimate indulgence of nectar and pulp.

user20683

@badp turn on your javascript?

fbueckert

Yeaaaaaah. I think not.

Powerlord

@AshleyNunn Nein!

badp

@WorldEngineer The only thing I disable is flash.

Powerlord

6:26 PM

Nein Nein!

badp

@fbueckert The question in the tile, no. The question is the body looks fine

Powerlord

turns off the subliminal messager

badp

> I know [hostile mobs] attack villagers but I think those are the only type of mob they will attack? Can they attack anything else that I should protect?

Ben Brocka

@RedRiderX "Yes I'd like an orange juice without the juice. Yes just a glass of pulp, please."

fbueckert

> Is there a special reason that hostile mobs like zombies attack you and not farm animals?

user15026

6:27 PM

@Powerlord ......staaaaaaaahp

badp

@fbueckert Yeah, that part probably needs to go.

but after that the question is probably okay

RedRiderX

@BenBrocka With some nectar on top please.

Ben Brocka

@RedRiderX the nectar is what's holding the pulp together

fbueckert

@badp There. Fixed.

RedRiderX

@BenBrocka Ah but of course.

badp

6:30 PM

So, who got message 10,000,000?

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/10000000

fbueckert

@badp If you're gonna photoshop, at least put some EFFORT into it.

user15026

@badp says not found

badp

@fbueckert Luckily I didn't photoshop

Powerlord

@AshleyNunn Not until you play it!

badp

@AshleyNunn Same. I guess it must've been in some private room.

user15026

6:31 PM

@Powerlord I caaaaant

Powerlord

Although, if you hated the game and decided to "lose" it, you could just tell me.

user15026

@Powerlord No, seriously, I liked it, and I lost like 15 games and there is no way in hell I would lie

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn You still have Pandora's Tower to play!

user15026

I do! I just need time that isn't like OMG studying for stupid econ or something :P

Ben Brocka

Gonna freeze

Tim Stone

6:32 PM

@badp It was quoted in the TL, it was just "ok" :P

Powerlord

Tandora's Power?

badp

@TimStone :(

Man, a guy from Blender.SE got it

Shotgun Ninja

@badp What?

badp

@ShotgunNinja the "10M GET"

Shotgun Ninja

Oh, 10M GET?

Was just the word "ok"?

if so, LOLOLOL

badp

6:34 PM

apparently

Shotgun Ninja

BETTER LUCK NEXT YEAR SNIPERS

badp

Oh well, 20M should come by in three more years or so

@ShotgunNinja hey it was 5am for me! I blame all of our US regulars. That means you too.

user15026

@badp That's special

Powerlord

@ShotgunNinja Bullets come out of the slim end, mate!

user20683

@badp 10M?

badp

6:36 PM

@WorldEngineer This is message 10,002,485

fbueckert

winnipegfreepress.com/local/…

user20683

@badp ah

fbueckert

Wow. I can't even conceive of being in prison for more than half your life.

user15026

@fbueckert That is unnerving

user20683

He'd have been fried in most of the US

Powerlord

6:38 PM

@WorldEngineer I thought less than half the states had the death penalty

badp

@WorldEngineer Boast about it

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Indeed.

user20683

@Powerlord not 23 years ago

badp

@AshleyNunn I guess the members of the board also have a family and friends and whatnot

user20683

many of abolished since then

user20683

6:39 PM

so he's still have life

Ben Brocka

> Earl Giesbrecht, 40, was given permission for "unescorted temporary absences" in a unanimous decision by two board members at a hearing this week.

..is two people really a "board"? Hardly even a plank

Powerlord

> "A method and system for sending and receiving Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in electronic mail over the Internet."

Wait, someone has a patent over copy and paste?

badp

@WorldEngineer in the states that abolished death sentences what happened to those who had such sentences pending on them?

user20683

@badp Life without Parole

badp

k

user15026

6:41 PM

@Powerlord ...what

Powerlord

@AshleyNunn Well, isn't that how you send a URL via email?

badp

Thomas Higley is the genius who invented it

user15026

@Powerlord Yeah, I suppose you have a point

Powerlord

Enter an email address, optionally enter a subject, copy a url, paste a url, click send.

Sending an email message is itself patented (expired by now, I'm sure)

Actually, sending URLs by email shouldn't be patentable at this point in time because even the web itself is outside the patent period, let alone urls which predated it.

badp

He also owns "Processing messages which include an address to further information" and

fbueckert

6:43 PM

@Powerlord Or hotlinking.

badp

oh wait, that is the patent in matter

Sterno

Hey, we haven't made fun of SciFi lately. Someone go find a question for us to mock.

user20683

@Sterno How's this one?

user20683

4

Q: Why is Chekov in engineering in Star Trek into Darkness?

I don't ever remember Chekov in the original series ever have anything to do with engineering. Is there an in-universe reason for him being there?

star-trek star-trek-tos star-trek-into-darkness

Powerlord

@Sterno I don't know is this is dumb enough, but...

6

Q: Is there a specific reason why Justice League ended on Batman?

In the end of Justice League Unlimited animated TV series, all of heroes were displayed running towards us (viewers) and disappeared one by one out of view. The last one was Batman. The screen went black forever on Bats’ symbol on his chest. ...

tv batman justice-league

user20683

6:45 PM

@Powerlord Batman was the first animated DC series of that run on the WB.

user20683

which now looking at the question...is precisely the answer given.

user20683

damn I'm good.

user20683

also, damn I'm a nerd.

user15026

@WorldEngineer I liek you that way? If that helps?

Sterno

I deem Powerlord's question to be dumber, and therefore the winner.

user20683

6:48 PM

@Sterno fair enough

Wipqozn

3

Sterno

It seems like question where "Because shut up, that's why" is a valid answer.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn This guy's giving Game Freak all sorts of ideas.

Wipqozn

4

Q: What is the first instance of advanced races becoming beings of light in scifi and fantasy?

In the Malloreon of David Eddings, Star Trek, and the game Loom, among many others, there are races of beings who are shown as being highly advanced, who have the goal of becoming beings made of pure light (although in Loom, some became light, some became birds, etc,). When did evolving into bei...

history-of

Ben Brocka

@Wipqozn is there a tumblr for these or something?

Wipqozn

6:51 PM

@BenBrocka I'm coming across them via Facebook. My friend keeps sharing them.

user20683

@fbueckert it's pretty sad that mashups of two gen 1 pokemon are better than many of the later gen official stuff.

fbueckert

The vast majority of questions from SciFi would be burned at the stake here.

@Wipqozn I wonder who's actually drawing them.

Those are rather well done.

user15026

@fbueckert There are various tumblr artists taking stabs at the drawing

Wipqozn

Wow.

That was a really, really stupid flag.

Powerlord

Wow, Novell v. Microsoft regarding WordPerfect antitrust stuff is still going on in 2013?

Wipqozn

6:57 PM

in Electrical Engineering, 20 mins ago, by coding_corgi

Waaaaaaaaaaah....

and on a 20 minute old message...

This is a good example of why there needs to be flag history.

Whoever flagged that shoudl receive a 24-hour chat ban.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn flags

FEichinger

@Wipqozn Hmmm ... Repeated vowels seem to attract flaggers recently.

Sterno

I need to get around to playing Knights of the Chalice.

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: How do i pick up the batteries inSlender man unknown chronicles?

I was playing slenderman unknown chronicles and I couldnt pick up the batteries. How do i pick up the batteries inSlender man unknown chronicles?

slenderman

DragonLord

Just got started with Final Fantasy IV on Android a few days ago:

> Tellah: You spoony bard!

user20683

7:07 PM

Anyone got experience with running Swift Shader?

Powerlord

I just noticed in some SourceMod plugin code that I accidentally did #include <sdkhools> when I needed sdktools and sdkhooks

spyder

I just leave it here:

- It's sales time! - No, Steam, NOOO!

user20683

@spyder I have exactly half that many games

user20683

and exactly half of those are playable on Mac

Powerlord

I can't see that image

James

7:14 PM

@Powerlord Curse you! I think I read through almost 4 years of that comic yesterday :P

@James :D

ftlgame.com

@spyder Still can't see it. imgur's probably blocked where I work. Again.

spyder

@Powerlord Imageshack too :(

FEichinger

7:16 PM

Another Paradox sale? Interesting.

spyder

@FEichinger yep. And pre purchase Europa Universalis IV!

James

gog has just about -everything- on sale right now

3

spyder

I love Europa Universalis <3

FEichinger

@James And I don't use GOG. :P

James

@FEichinger Pitty

INQUISITOR $3.74
DRIFTMOON $3.74
TORCHLIGHT $3.74
DIVINITY 2: DEVELOPER'S CUT $4.99
LEGEND OF GRIMROCK $3.74

:D

spyder

7:24 PM

Warlock - Master of the Arcane is very nice game. Shared lore with Majesty

Blem

Im considering Fez, Don't starv and Arma (for DayZ mod)

spyder

@Blem DayZ? No way

Sterno

You need Agricultural Simulator 2013

spyder

ArmA is good but DayZ... Terrible thing

Sterno

It has dung tanks!

FEichinger

7:25 PM

@Sterno Don't joke about simulator games. Joke about the companies so bad at making them.

@Blem If you want to play DayZ, just wait for the standalone. I agree on it being terrible, but if you really want to dump money into it, go for the thing that might actually be decent + have players in two years' time.

Powerlord

I hope this Spy ragdoll fix really is this easy.

FEichinger

@Blem As for Fez and Don't Starve - Do it. Right now. Seriously, just do it.

spyder

►

Sterno

I'm starting to think I'm the only person who finds Don't Starve kind of boring.

user20683

@Sterno I've 0 interest in it.

Ullallulloo

7:30 PM

@Sterno How far'd you get?

Sterno

@Ullallulloo I'm not sure how to measure that.

I did not yet have a bee farm

Ullallulloo

@Sterno What science tier did you get to?

murgatroid99

The newest question on the site is the height of eloquence

> i try many time of conclusion like do port and some thing but it didnt work

Sterno

@Ullallulloo 2, I think

Ullallulloo

@Sterno That's as far as I've gotten too, then. :P

Grumpy Lazers

7:39 PM

0

Q: Bad login In Minecraft,own server how to fix :(

I make a server then when i want to join it say Bad Login,i try many time of conclusion like do port and some thing but it didnt work

minecraft hosting

Ullallulloo

@Blem @FAE @RedRiderX Okay, it's supposed to fade to white when you click Quit, but I typed the variable name for the grey instead at the actually showing it part.

Sterno

My main problem is that I didn't like collecting things. Chopping down trees and breaking rocks, and constantly having to create new implements to do so because they deteriorate so fast, was not fun for me

RedRiderX

@Ullallulloo Dem bugs.

fbueckert

Oh, right. Today's the first day of summer.

2

Powerlord

@Sterno That's kinda why I skipped it.

SaintWacko

7:49 PM

@AshleyNunn I didn't realize you played it too :D

Shotgun Ninja

@fbueckert And it downpoured here in Milwaukee.

fbueckert

@ShotgunNinja Calgary's undergoing the flood of a century, apparently.

Shotgun Ninja

@fbueckert I was here to hear about that from earlier.

fbueckert

gog.com/promo/turnbased_strategies_supreme

Anyone who likes Civilization-type games should buy this pack.

Space Empires IV is old, but still worth trying.

badp

I now remember why System Shock 2 is so scary and honestly a lot of it is in its being... a product of its age

No such game with such atrociously bad combat systems would get greenlight now, but if you don't dread getting into fights where is the horror?

Powerlord

7:55 PM

@badp Hey, do you know if Spy fake death sounds (when disguised as a friendly) are playing the disguise's death sounds?

badp

@Powerlord I... think so. It would be fairly obvious if you killed an enemy engineer and it screamed like a spy.

user15026

@saintwacko yeah, I do. I am not very good at it, mind you, but I play it. (I have one of my SOs to blame)

Powerlord

@badp Well, the problem is that the ragdolls are being dropped as the Spy ragdoll, so I was just wondering if the sounds were wrong since the MvM update, too.

You'd almost think I'm writing a script to fix the ragdolls.

badp

we can try if you care

Powerlord

I'm at work at the moment.

I'll test it later, I was just wondering if it was something else I needed to fix.

spyder

7:57 PM

Good night, The Bridge :)

Powerlord

Since I'm still at work for another 90 minutes.

user20683