The Bridge

Ullallulloo

12:10 AM

The city of Detriot has declared bankruptcy.

Fluttershy

I can't decide if I want Euro Truck Simulator or not...

Wipqozn

@Ullallulloo DEtroit is that city which everyone says is terrible, right?

@Fluttershy You do.

Coronus

@Sterno I'm scared.

Ullallulloo

@Wipqozn Fastest shrinking city in the country.

United States cities by crime rate

The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports statistics. The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end. The number of murders includes nonnegligent manslaughter. This list is based on the reporting. In most cases the city and the reporting agency are identical. However, in some cases such as Charlotte, Honolulu, and Las Vegas, the reporting agency has more than one municipality. Murder is the only statistic that all agencies are required to report. Consequently some agencies do no...

@Wipqozn It has the highest aggravated assault rate; second highest violent crime, murder, and vehicle theft rates; and it has the highest burglary rate outside Ohio.

Mark Henderson

Hey all. I have a question. Does anyone actually understand this Steam Trading Cards thing? I just found some random borderlands cards in my account and was able to sell them for like 40c. What do people want with them? Maybe I'm old but I don't get it...

FAE

12:17 AM

@MarkHenderson Collection OCD.

Mark Henderson

And is that real money that they paid for them with?

Wipqozn

@MarkHenderson Yes. You can sell the cards for real money.

Ullallulloo

@MarkHenderson If you get one of each, you can craft them into a badge.

Mark Henderson

They sold in about 10 seconds flat, so I think I under-priced them. Not that I particularly care

@Ullallulloo So... cards become badges? What do you do with a badge?

Goddamnit I think I'm too old for this shit and should just go back to pretending that I never found that button

RedRiderX

@MarkHenderson Put it on the front of your profile.

Ullallulloo

12:18 AM

@MarkHenderson Badges give you experience, which give you levels, which give you various perks like a bigger friends list, a higher booster pack drop rate, and more showcases on your profile.

Also, crafting them gives you other stuff like emoticons, backgrounds, and coupons.

FAE

@Ullallulloo You can get a higher booster pack drop rate?

Ullallulloo

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A: How do trading card booster packs drop?

Per recommendation I extracted this from question to answer. Valve released an announcement on June 19th on the Steam Trading Group with more details and updated the FAQ. Here's extract from the announcement: Booster Pack Eligibility - you can now confirm your eligibility for a booster ...

Mark Henderson

@Ullallulloo So... steam actively stops me from having lots of friends unless I play their steam game? Isn't that like SE stopping me from answering more than 5 questions a day unless I had 3k rep or something?

FEichinger

17

Q: What use are Steam Trading Cards?

Is it purely a 'gotta-have-them-all' mindset, or do they actually serve some purpose? I notice that you are able to sell them on a community market. For a test I listed one, and someone bought it for 50p. Not exactly a huge amount, but I don't understand why someone would spend real money on the...

Ullallulloo

@MarkHenderson It raises it from 200 to 300 or something.

FAE

12:20 AM

@MarkHenderson The cap is like 300. 350 if you connect FB.

Mark Henderson

Just as well I don't have any friends. And dare I ask what a booster pack drop rate is?

FEichinger

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Q: How many friend slots do you start off with, and how many do you get per Steam level?

According to What use are Steam Trading Cards?, additional Steam levels grants extra friend slots. Given that I have as many Steam friends as there are fingers on my hand, I didn't realize there was a limit in the first place, so in the interest of finding out how useful gaining a Steam level act...

steam steam-trading-cards

Mark Henderson

My god, I thought Steam was just a place that I could make an exchange of real-life money for games

Wipqozn

@MarkHenderson Most gamers use it as their IM.

Ullallulloo

@MarkHenderson It's a pack of three(?) cards that randomly drop for people that have gotten all of the card drops for a game when other people craft badges of that type.

RedRiderX

12:20 AM

@MarkHenderson It's a secret to everyone.

FAE

@Ullallulloo aaaaaaaaaargh

Wipqozn

Steam is my primary IM.

FEichinger

@Ullallulloo Yep, three cards.

Mark Henderson

@Ullallulloo I literally have no idea what you just said.

But that's OK

It can all basically be summed as as a gamification of the Steam platform to squeeze a few more dollars out of the most hardcore gamers out there

FEichinger

@MarkHenderson Basically, yes.

Fluttershy

12:22 AM

@MarkHenderson Bingo.

Wipqozn

All I know is that @OrigamiRobot and I think cards are stupid.

Ullallulloo

@MarkHenderson Pretty much. It's also really new.

Mark Henderson

@Wipqozn Yeah... I pretty much agree

Wipqozn

@MarkHenderson My plan is to just hold on to them, and eventually start selling them.

Mark Henderson

@FEichinger Ok, so I have 3 friends on my list and just want to play the games that I paid money for, 99.99% of the time single player, so I'm going to pretend that trading cards don't exist and I shall move on with my life

FEichinger

12:24 AM

@MarkHenderson And the world keeps turning. :)

Wipqozn

@MarkHenderson Yeah, they only impact you if you care about them.

Because the 350 friends limit has always existed, and I can't imagine having that many steam friends.

Mark Henderson

@Wipqozn Kids these days...

FEichinger

@Wipqozn 300. 250 + 50. ;)

Mark Henderson

Just because someone let you look at their bellybutton fluff behind the bike shed in 2nd grade doesn't mean that they need to be on your facebook/steam friends list

Wipqozn

@FEichinger Oh, thought it was 350.

Well I can't keep.

FEichinger

12:25 AM

@MarkHenderson I doubt there's even that much personal interaction in most cases.

Ullallulloo

@MarkHenderson I have like 50 because of all the wonderful people in this chat room.

FEichinger

@Wipqozn I only know for sure because I repwhored over it.

Wipqozn

@Ullallulloo I have a health mixture of real life friends and Arqade friends.

Ullallulloo

@Wipqozn I have four RL friends. Most people I know are dirty console peasants. :(

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FEichinger

In Sales News: CS:GO is going on Community's Choice sale at -66%.

Powerlord

12:31 AM

@FEichinger Bleah

Wipqozn

@Ullallulloo ew.

I have a friend in a similiar situation.

Most of his friends don't do PC gaming

Powerlord

Nintendo apparently put a release month on the new Zelda game.

November

Wipqozn

@Powerlord The 3DS one?

FEichinger

@Powerlord Well, when it's Arma 2 vs CS:GO vs UT3 ... What would you expect? :/

Powerlord

@Wipqozn Yeah

Wipqozn

12:36 AM

@Powerlord Yeah, they announced that a while back I think.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn The game yeah, but not a release date

Wipqozn

@Powerlord No,I meant the release date.

They announced it in a Nintendo Direct around E3 I think.

erre, release month.

Ullallulloo

@FEichinger I'm tempted to buy it, but I don't really like Counter-Strike.

Wipqozn

@Ullallulloo Then don't buy it.

user15026

What the hell is this SkipIt shit, Twitch? Complete scammy offers to earn "skips" for your preroll ads? NOPE

Ullallulloo

12:41 AM

@Wipqozn I'm not.

Powerlord

Oh right, less than a month until the new Mario & Luigi.

Ullallulloo

I just keep forgetting that I don't like it.

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Wow

That's dirty

as in not good

user15026

@Powerlord I am excited for it :D

SaintWacko

Not the normal dirty in here

user15026

12:43 AM

@SaintWacko Or you can get a Turbo twitch membership thingie

Wipqozn

Utah lawmaker calls for end of compulsory education

> Some parents act as if the responsibility to educate [...] their child is primarily the responsibility of the public school system,"

SaintWacko

@Wipqozn It's a nice theory, but the problem is that if they're given a choice, a lot of parents will choose not to bother

Krazer

@Wipqozn what strange reasoning, you can't just suddenly become better parents

Wipqozn

> Utah's public education system is currently the lowest-funded in the nation in terms of per-pupil spending.

Krazer

I can't help but think that there's some hidden agenda here

user15026

12:54 AM

" But Castle said ending compulsory education would affect far more than just culture. She also worried the tone of Osmond's article was indicative of the general sentiment in Utah's Legislature, which she said has continued to place responsibility for student success on teachers and schools while failing to provide adequate support or funding."

Krazer

@Wipqozn lol ironically... porn subscriptions are up in the same state

Coronus

@AshleyNunn Which drives schools to force teachers to build curriculum around standardized tests.

user15026

@Coronus It's a big mess

Coronus

@AshleyNunn Tell me about it. I talked to the kid down the street and she said she didn't do any science the last half of the school year because they'd met the test requirements.

Ullallulloo

Hanlon's razor

Hanlon's razor is an eponymous adage that allows the elimination of unlikely explanations for a phenomenon. It reads: ' This particular form is attributed to a Robert J. Hanlon. However, earlier utterances that convey the same basic idea are known. Origins The adage was popularized in this form and under this name by the Jargon File, a glossary of computer programmer slang. In 1990, it appeared in the Jargon File described as a "murphyism" parallel to Occam's Razor". The name was inspired by Occam's razor. Later that same year, the Jargon File editors noted lack of knowledge about the te...

Krazer

12:58 AM

@Ullallulloo i mean with no more compulsory education, can't they just cut school funding even more than they have already?

SaintWacko

@Ullallulloo I like the Jargon File

FEichinger

Borderlands 2 on Flash Sale.

Also: Dungeon Defenders, Chivalry, Age of Empires 2 HD. CC is Trine 2, Payday, Amnesia.

Private Pansy

Ah, desecrating graves for fun and profit

FEichinger

Don't forget: The Borderlands 2 sale also applies to the DLC.

Private Pansy

1:19 AM

Serious profits. I have something like 55 pieces of gold now, just by digging up a few graves

user15026

@PrivatePansy O.o

Fluttershy

@PrivatePansy Check your sanity.

FAE

@PrivatePansy watch your sanity

Private Pansy

I know. I have a top hat. Everything's fine and dandy as long as I have a top hat.

3

FAE

Ah, nice

Fluttershy

1:20 AM

@PrivatePansy That works.

I had to use a tent after digging graves. x_x

Private Pansy

Wickerbottom's sanity meter is the highest, but she has insomnia

Lazers

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Q: How do I get the six hidden achievements in Indie Game: The Movie?

I see that there are six (6) hidden Steam achievements (Feature Complete, Extra Lives, Nice to Meat You, Teh Internets, Bonus Levels, and Behind the Scenes) with no descriptions and I have no idea how to get them. Do I need to rewatch the movie if I have already? Can I skip around? What are the u...

achievements indie-game-the-movie

0

Q: How can I get lava in a bucket without taking the source block?

I am trying to make a moat out of lava, but I can't get the lava in the bucket. Do I have to take the source block?

minecraft-pocket-edition

Fluttershy

@PrivatePansy I wanna get Maxwell. His sanity meter constantly refills.

RedRiderX

@Lazers Wait what? The movie has Steam achievements?

user15026

0

Q: Game For Google Chrome Laptop

Can I Play Cube World On A Samsung Google Chrome Laptop?I Really Want To Know Because I Saw Lets Plays And Like It So Much!

minecraft steam team-fortress-2 cube-world google-chrome

user15026

1:29 AM

THE TAGS WHY

Tim Stone

Because Caps, Obviously.

FAE

@AshleyNunn Some people conflate "can have up to" with "must have"

Fluttershy

@AshleyNunn The Better Question Is Why Does That Person Type Like This?

And What Should The Custom Close Reason Be?

Coronus

@Fluttershy Because They Really Want To Know!

user15026

@FAE I figured. But man.

FEichinger

1:31 AM

@AshleyNunn google-chrome is technically inappropriate.

user15026

@FEichinger Aw, shit, I left it there? sigh

FEichinger

For that matter, I don't think that's even close-able.

user15026

@Fluttershy Put on hold until user learns how to use a keyboard?

Ullallulloo

@FEichinger It arguably could have been Too Localized if they didn't get rid of it.

Maybe a dupe of gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/517/…

Fluttershy

I thought we didn't allow "Can I run it" questions?

Ullallulloo

1:37 AM

Unless he's asking about the OS, I guess.

FEichinger

@Fluttershy "Is there a platform X version of game Y?" isn't so much a "can I run it" question, imo.

And that's pretty much what the question is actually about.

murgatroid99

@Ullallulloo I think it's OK because he seems to to be asking a compatibility question, not a game requirements question

FEichinger

@Ullallulloo That I can agree on.

Right now, I'd say it's just downvote-worthy for blatant lack of research.

Trent Hawkins

The two "answers" he gave before that question do not fill me with high hopes for the quality of his future postings.

murgatroid99

@TrentHawkins Well, if he keeps asking bad questions, the question ban will kick in

MBraedley

1:44 AM

Arg, wifi pineapple isn't working right. Well the pineapple is, but the usb wifi radio isn't.

Or actually, the pineapple isn't.

user15026

@MBraedley what

MBraedley

@AshleyNunn wifipineapple.com/index.php

I'm trying to create a wifi relay, but the second radio won't start.

FEichinger

@MBraedley I'm disappointed that it doesn't look like an actual pineapple.

user15026

@MBraedley I am really disappointed this is not anything to do with an actual pineapple

MBraedley

@FEichinger the old models did

FEichinger

1:47 AM

@MBraedley I don't care if the old models did! It doesn't look like a pineapple now.

MBraedley

@FEichinger but they looked too much like grenades, so you couldn't take them on planes

FEichinger

@MBraedley Sooo? Don't take a friggin Wi-Fi Pineapple on a plane then.

Buy a ... Wi-Fi banana instead.

Which would probably cause different connotations at the airport.

user43095

user43095

Nobody is logged in.....

Lazers

2:03 AM

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Q: Will Cube World run on a Samsung Google Chrome laptop?

Can I play Cube World on A Samsung Google Chrome laptop? I really want to know because I saw Lets Plays of this game, and I liked it and want to play it.

cube-world

Krazer

2:17 AM

A summer sale conspiracy appears!~

SimonL

Some people really enjoy over thinking simple things.

user43095

Half of that 'math' doesn't make sense.

Krazer

and now the missing piece...

Ullallulloo

@jeffreylin_ thatskindofthejoke.jpg

user43095

@Ullallulloo I take most serious things jokingly and most jokes seriously.

Fluttershy

2:32 AM

GOODNIGHT BRIDGE

SimonL

night

Is it possible to do different styled ordered lists with the SE editor?

Krazer

@SimonL different, how?

user43095

@SimonL This is the best you're going to get.
- text
- text?

SimonL

so for example <ol><li>something<ol type="a"><li>sub list</li></ol></li></ol>

would look like
1. something
a. sub list

I'm asking because I am editing a post where someone is doing something like 1)do something 2) do this 3)two options here: a) option a b) option two.

I am trying to reformat the post so its in lists .

StrixVaria

Krazer

2:39 AM

you could do something like this:

    1. Bullet one.
     1. Bullet one A
     2. Bullet one B
    2. Bullet two

user43095

@SimonL
     1. Do this
     2. Do this
     3. Do
         - A
         - B

Sepia Lazers

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Q: Different accounts?

Should two people like my little brother and I share the same account or should I allow him to have his own account (I've done this before and failed horribly) and allow him to learn the rules of the website on his own and allow him to make the same mistakes I did?

discussion

user15026

@SepiaLazers Hmm, I wonder why this is being asked ;)

user43095

@SepiaLazers Is his brother @LiQuid?

StrixVaria

@Krazer I guess I'll star yours since I didn't bother checking if it was posted before I added it again.

SimonL

2:42 AM

@Krazer This doesn't seem to produce a nested list, it keeps everything on one list in the 1. list

@jeffreylin_ this does create a nested list, but it is an unordered list (has circles)

I guess I'll just do some hacky stuff to make it "look" good.

user43095

@SimonL Actually, it's like this:
 1. BLAH
 2. BLAH
1. BLAH

user43095

Last one has no indent.

user43095

Just checked, works on Arqade.

Krazer

you can do something like this for three levels:

1. Bullet one.
 * Second 1
  1. Third A
  2. Fourth B
 + Second 2
2. Bullet two

@SimonL ^^

Ullallulloo

@SepiaLazers I don't actually dislike Young Guilo.

user43095

2:50 AM

Hmm... Windows Firewall won't let the .jar version of the Minecraft server through but will let the .exe? So I need to use the .exe instead of the .jar?

user43095

Any way around this?

Krazer

@jeffreylin_ did you open up TCP port 25565?

SimonL

Both of those create nested lists which is good, but I don't think I was being very clear. Is it possible to create a nested ordered list that increments alpha numerically. I.E. i.imgur.com/4rlw6D4.png

user43095

@SimonL You have to do that manually.

user43095

2:53 AM

Just tested, it's not the firewall.

SimonL

ok - thanks guys :)

Krazer

@jeffreylin_ so.. what's the issue?

user43095

@Krazer Can't connect using external IP

Ullallulloo

Shoot, I forgot ".), but"

user43095

I'm running the server on the same machine. Localhost connect works fine. Must be the router, but I don't know how or why.

Gaming Topics From Outside

3:01 AM

0

Q: How to align (georeference) images using QGIS?

I'm completely new to all this. I'm trying to make a map of Han dynasty-era China for a mod for a game called Crusader Kings 2. I've downloaded QGIS and Natural Earth 2, but I need the following image to align with the rest of the map so I can use it as a guide for province boundaries. I tried ge...

qgis georeferencing crs gaming

SimonL

@jeffreylin_ @Krazer gaming.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/42978

user43095

@SimonL What about it?

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