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@LessPop_MoreFizz "Stack Overflow in Simple English"?

OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz Layman.SE

Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living; GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income (See Standard of living and GDP). Under economic theory, GDP per capita exactly equals the gross domestic income (GDI) per capita (See Gross domestic income). GDP is related to national accounts, a subject in macroeconomics. GDP is not to be confused with gross national product (GNP) which allocate...

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@FEichinger Stack Overflow in Simple English actually isn't a terrible idea

> Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time.

12:10 AM

user20683

though it kind of already is

I'm not sure how weak in English you have to be unable to understand that sentence

@WorldEngineer Kinda, sorta. I dislike the general idea of localised sites, though.

user20683

@FEichinger as do I

OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm not watching this

12:11 AM

@OrigamiRobot The sloth dies.

user20683

@OrigamiRobot you're missing very little

@PrivatePansy simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product

user20683

if you want to see sloths dying, I can post Harpy Eagle videos

user20683

if you are in the technical profession, you should English well enough to not sound like a total idiot.

@WorldEngineer "you should English well enough" :P

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12:13 AM

@FEichinger yes

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In short, your English should not suck.

I fully agree.

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Mein Deutsch ist no gutt.

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Mi Español es bien mas o menos.

It just makes no sense whatsoever to seclude a community based on language when talking about something so very reliant on English like programming.

12:18 AM

Ughhhhh I ate a turkey burger and now my stomach is mad at me

see, this is why I shouldn't eat healthy

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@spugsley eat some apples

@spugsley Healthy is evil.

@FEichinger agree.

@WorldEngineer I don't have any ;.;

I have no food but I have honey bourbon.

This will not end well.

Especially because I need to drink it all before I fly to soviet canuckistan tomorrow

@LessPop_MoreFizz if by 'not well' you mean incredibly well

user20683

12:20 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz how big a bottle is it?

@WorldEngineer Little more than half of a 375 ml bottle left

user20683

@LessPop_MoreFizz That's not that bad

user20683

maybe order pizza or similar?

@WorldEngineer I also have 2 pints of beer that need to be drunk.

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@LessPop_MoreFizz Might end less well

12:24 AM

@WorldEngineer It was also more than "a little more than half" an hour ago.

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Q: How to change weapons?

How can I change my characters currently equipped weapon? I have two weapon slots with two different pistols in, and I would like to use the second pistol, but I've no idea how to change weapon. Any ideas?

shadowrun-returns

I am going to go down to the hotel bar and eat dinner and probably drink more because I don't have to drive for a whole 36 hours so might as well fly hungover

@LessPop_MoreFizz The best way to fly

Welp. The actual controls in Mark of the Ninja don't match what they're telling me on screen.

@MBraedley No, the ebst way to fly is drunk

A: Are Skylanders "Adventure Packs" compatible with Skylanders Giants?

12:33 AM

^ where I spend time in the summer. cc @spugsley

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-8

i pooped my pants in the 3rd grade

@MBraedley lovely!!!

@spugsley Why do boats have to float... and move

A: Are Skylanders "Adventure Packs" compatible with Skylanders Giants?

44 mins ago, by Fluttershy

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i pooped my pants in the 3rd grade

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I UNBRICKED MY PHONE

12:42 AM

Anyone else having trouble with the flag count on the main site?

This is a super cell that passed right over our heads. For those not in the know, super cells spawn tornadoes.

user43095

@MBraedley Where do you live?

@jeffreylin_ This was at my summer vacation area in Cape Breton.

Jul 21 at 0:54, by MBraedley

Everyone who had a tornado warning in the past few hours raise their hands. (raises hand)

user43095

Well, not that close to New York I'm good.

12:45 AM

@MBraedley I get tornado warnings/watches often here. =P

@jeffreylin_ um, so, yeah, this cell passed to the north of you. It's also the only tornado warning I'm aware of that I've ever been under.

@jeffery just for that remark, NYC is going to get a tornado. :(

We've had a few in recent memory.

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@LessPop_MoreFizz :(

The best was the flash hailstorm that happened in like - a 3 mile by 10 mile strip along the city line and broke the windshield on my car (and like 8 others on the block)

One of the cells (there were 3 or 4, this was the closest) did spawn a tornado in northern New Brunswick (not rare, but not as common as say Kansas or Saskatchewan).

12:50 AM

It basically only affected little neck, douglaston, bayside floral park new Hyde park great neck bellerose and maybe parts of fresh meadows or St. Albans or Hollis.

Damn it! I hate when the review queue changes the order of review items.

@Sterno When it what?

You mean when items are different places in different queues?

I see a flagged post, click to that full question for context, come back, mark flag invalid, and then realize since it reordered everything, I just marked an invalid flag on the wrong answer.

@Sterno Oh, you mean the mod queue, not the poor person queue.

I guess. The 10k one

1:00 AM

@Sterno Yeah, I'm still 250 rep away from that.

Sounds annoying though.

The one I'd been looking at was first in top. When I came back it was at the bottom.

Not the first time I've fucked it up.

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@Sterno you think that's annoying, you've not met the chat flags.

@WorldEngineer ?

Mod flags vs 10k flags, or something?

user20683

@Sterno When someone flags something in chat but the concurrency is weird so half the time they vanish

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but the notification doesn't

1:03 AM

I get that all the time.

<- has 10k

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@Sterno ah, right. Should get coffee then, I clearly need it.

Mark of the Ninja triggers twice off any input I give it.

If I press down in the menu, it goes down 2 rows.

If I press a button (like attack), it triggers that action twice immediately.

Stupid game.

User error!

@StrixVaria You're using a controller on PC? It's probably capturing the raw input as well as a translated keyboard input.

@MBraedley 360 gamepad (the only one "officially" supported by the game, actually)

@MBraedley Have you seen that happen before?

1:13 AM

@StrixVaria Not in a situation like yours. I see it occasionally with my IR remote and Ghost Event, but that's because Ghost Event isn't de-duping the multiple IR codes that are sent.

1:35 AM

Give un hombre un fisho, feedo him para un day. Teacho un hombre to fisho y arresto him por que fishingo estan illegal withouto un permito.

Tweeted by ElBloombito on July 28, 2013 at 1:21 AM

Bloombito is the best gimmick twitter.

ISAAC WAS GOOD TODAY CHALLENGE COMPLETED

...after 2 hours 15 minutes, most of which was spent using slot machines over two hundred times in total

for all of one heart container

I did get a shitton of soul hearts though, and those are always good.

How did you get so many coins?

@PrivatePansy The dollar, secret rooms, portable blood donation machine, etc

If you want I streamed everything in painful detail and it's still up on Twitch

:P

Bonus appearance by my USB drive deciding to be unreliable and interrupting the background music about seven times

and the Windows OOM killer who split the stream in two parts

and much OBS + Python abuse.

A sample from my vacation photos. My mom water skiing:

1:52 AM

ENGAGING FACIAL RECOGNITION ENGINE POWERED BY PRISM

SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AND ADDED TO WATCHLIST FOR ANALYSIS

ERROR: SUSPECT WAS ALREADY REMOVED FROM WATCHLIST. READDING ANYWAY.

2:08 AM

@StrixVaria I don't remember every seeing that happen and I've played the game a lot

Did you try unplugging your controller or restarting the game

@GnomeSlice I can't play it until it's fixed.

I feel bad for you because Mark of the Ninja is awesome.

I've unplugged the controller, restarted the game, and restarted my computer.

@StrixVaria The keyboard controls are arguably better than the gamepad controls.

2:15 AM

@GnomeSlice Maybe I'll mess around with that then.

I played through it the entire first time with the keyboard and mouse.

I found instructions to force keyboard, but I figured gamepad would be better.

Which is only really needed for aiming

@StrixVaria They both work pretty well. It can be hard to hit things with thrown items with the gamepad.

OrigamiRobot

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They did a good job on the keyboard controls.

I'm going to bed. Peace.

2:16 AM

@GnomeSlice I'll try that out in a bit, then.

@StrixVaria I recommend you do the first level again to get the tutorial for the keys. Or just read the bindings.

G'night bridge.

@GnomeSlice I couldn't even finish the first level because of the controller issues.

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@LessPop_MoreFizz

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@WorldEngineer flashbaaaaaaaackssss

tumblr social justice people terrify me.

2:25 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Best enjoyed reading from bottom to top

@badp I'm sorry franz has to deal with that kind of abelism. :x

@LessPop_MoreFizz Check your food eating privilege, man

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lack of an anus can be solved with a colostomy bag. It's not pretty but it does the job.

It must be pretty shitty to not have an anus and also to be offended any time someone else talks about the joy of pooping.

... What on Earth did I just walk in on?

2:28 AM

@FEichinger poop

4 mins ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz

JOY TO THE WORLD

THE SPUGSLEY COMESSSS

6

hmmm. That's more blasphemous than I anticipated

Bleh. Can't find the fourth treasure in the junkyard.

I finally got to triangle in Super Hexagon on Hexagon.

@Ullallulloo Is that 30 seconds on the first level?

2:32 AM

@StrixVaria Probably.

Yeah.

Q: Is it possible that I have enough standing and an agent still refuses to give me missions?

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I've bumped into an agent named "Adari Jammalgen" in EVE online who is refusing to give me missions. The description says that I need an effective standing of 3 and I have 4.1. What could be the reason? Note: this is an agent in space who is taking Angel Brass tags for faction standing

eve-online

what are you all playing that has treasure and hexagons and what not?

Super Hexagon is so good.

I should play that again.

Nope, 20 seconds.

20:53

I'm not very good.

Everyone is not good at Hexagon at first.

2:35 AM

Anyone know where to find the fourth, "Message in a Bottle" in the Scarlett DLC?

AHHH NEW PROJECT RUNWAY YAY

@LessPop_MoreFizz my time to shine:

reddit.com/r/tumblrinaction

@2____ No, this goes way too far and mocks a lot of legitimate shit.

Also, that sidebar is like a greatest hits list of Shit That Is Terrible About Reddit.

not trying to start a fight but... examples of legit stuff?

I agree that every so often stuff is legit but that is rare

2:49 AM

1, 2 3 4 5 and I am starting to feel dirty browsing this shit

And like I said, that sidebar is seriously a greatest hits of some of the worst shit on reddit. All it's missing is a link to the monstrosity that is mensrights

yes 2 is weird

I don't think that it was this sub though

knowing the people on there they def. wouldn't do that

@2____ All links are from that sub

that was a meta post. It did not confirm that the emails were from people from that sub.

Whatever. You are nitpicking to get away from the real issue, which is that we are talking about a subculture on reddit full of despicable monsters.

switching to your side for a sec

If you really want to get rid of these guys I suggest you make a tumblr that points out the bad stuff they do

They will mock you for making a blog against them

But if you find enough genuine dumb stuff then success

other people have done it

2:55 AM

:effort:

/SRS does an adequate job, IMO.

hmm

reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays

yes some of their stuff is good

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@LessPop_MoreFizz And that right there is why we are so hard on "Not Constructive".

but some of it is kind of cyberbullies

Q: Odd Graphic change in Tropico 4

3:11 AM

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Two days ago while playing Tropico 4, I stepped away from the game for a bit, and came back to find that certain specific smoke effects had changed. Here... see for yourself... and and That one is just scrolled back slightly. Also, the graphic overlay for laying down road changed, to t...

tropico-4

Psychonauts is invading Tropico 4.

3:41 AM

reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1j6tqk/…

3:53 AM

Oh so. Today the husband and I saw RIPD

don't waste your money. It's not good bad, it's just bad

Q: Civ 5 no cities count unhappiness mod

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Coming from other strategy games without such an expansion limitation I find the unhappiness penalty due to number of cities crimping my macro. I'm fairly happy with skill level and ability to manage unhappiness so it's not about that. I just want to play a different style of game, a game with a...

civilization-5

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@spugsley I suspected as much

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I had this crazy idea for a photo project btw

@WorldEngineer :o

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we can discuss here or on Steam if you'd like

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4:04 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz how goes the pre-Canuckistani bacchanal?

Q: Transfer MCPE World from iPad to iPhone on creative during LAN party

4:36 AM

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I was able to be on the world on both devices, but when I went into the pause menu on the iPhone that I wanted to "quit and copy world" to, the pause menu only had the typical "back to game", "options", and "quit to title" in the pause menu, not a "quit and copy world". Thanks for any help!

ios minecraft-pocket-edition

4:48 AM

@FEichinger Hey, I just finished Psychonauts. <_< Weird timing.

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@Fluttershy Thoughts?

@WorldEngineer It's one of my favorite games. :3 This was my third or fourth time beating it.

user20683

@Fluttershy ah

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I've gotten to Meat Circus and that's as far as I've gone.

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I think playing it with a gamepad would be good should I do it again

5:03 AM

@WorldEngineer Yes. I'm surprised you made it that far without one, honestly. I've had awful luck with my mouse while playing. <_<

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@Fluttershy I've been a PC gamer since I was 5

Also, Meat Circus is hard. It's where the difficulty gets a tad ridiculous.

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That's 23 years

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to be fair though, it's really only about 21

user20683

since everything before that was with parental assistance.

5:04 AM

@WorldEngineer I just mean that the mouse doesn't actually work for me. I dunno if it's my dpi or something else, but I'd have to move the mouse across the length of my mousepad several times just to rotate 45 degrees, even with the sensitivity at maximum.

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@Fluttershy ah

user20683

hard to say

Luckily, I have a wired 360 controller. It worked like a charm! =D

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I first played Dead Space with an off-kilter mouse due to the screen resolutions not matching. It actually made things more interesting.

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Since it felt sluggish as though I was playing a 40ish Engineer which Isaac is rather than say Commander Shepard.

Q: I need help playing on a server

5:18 AM

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Can you play on other servers if you're on offline mode?? I tried adding my friends server & playing on it but it wont let me. I'm on offline mode because I don't know how to make minecraft account aha

minecraft

civilization-5 os-x civ-5-gods-and-kings

6:00 AM

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Q: civ 5 MainMenu.lua

I allowed my friend to play on my mac and he thought he would add mods for me. . . I had already done this my self well he messed up a good bit of this file so I need someone to please copy and paste theirs to here, I will be able to figure it out from there. thank you for your time

njallam

6:19 AM

I don't suppose anyone here is familiar with Steam's developer APIs?

Gaming Topics From Outside

8:07 AM

*yawn*

8:19 AM

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Q: Android emulator

I installed virtualbox, but now what? I'm computer illiterate. There's just one specific game I'm trying to play. My smartphone was stolen in a home invasion and this is really the least of my problems, yet here I am. I downloaded the game, I downloaded virtualbox. The game says their no device...

virtualbox games android

9:13 AM

So... a very quiet weekend, then?

Q: Which mod changes the bucket recepie?

9:28 AM

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Apparently in the new feed the beast unhinged mod pack buckets require steel plates and a hammer. Which mod implements this change? This sounds like the kind of thing gregtech would do but I have been unable to confirm if that mod is in fact the culprit.

minecraft-feed-the-beast

A: Is there any way to ensure you become a Vampire?

9:48 AM

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wot wood be the best person to use ??

"Wot wood"... shudder

Q: What are the requirements for purchasing a house in Amber Creek?

10:07 AM

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I was trying to purchase a house in Amber Creek. I talked to Jalma about this, but was told that they "don't know me well enough to allow that". Aside from the 10K gold, what are the other prerequisites (i.e. which quests and how many quests do I need to finish) for buying a house in Amber Creek...

skyrim falskaar

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Q: Are mob spawners versioned in minecraft?

I've just made a mobspawner trep in my world after updating to 1.6.1, after the world (and chunk with the spawner) was created a while ago maybe in 1.2/1.3? The world was spawned before zombies dropped iron, and potatoes/carrots. Does this mean my mobspawner trap is never going to drop anything...

minecraft

Q: How to fix the glitched shopping / inventory menu?

10:49 AM

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Every time in BL2 when I enter the shopping / inventory screen, I use the mouse wheel to scroll through the items. More often than not, it glitches out and gets stuck alternating between two items in the list. It does not respond to arrow keys or the mouse wheel anymore. It keeps alternating betw...

pc borderlands-2

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Q: Should I specialise in a single weapon or work on two?

As you can unlock another raged weapon slot is it worth working on two weapons or specialising in one? I guess this is linked to how abundant karma is in the game, but currently I'm working on Pistol, which makes having the second weapon slot feel a little redundant. So ideally, is putting point...

shadowrun-returns

11:10 AM

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Song Meanings

Proposed Q&A site for anyone trying to understand references made in song lyrics, or the over all meaning in a song's lyrics.

Currently in definition.

UGGGHHHHHHHHHH

@WorldEngineer STOP TYPING SO LOUD.

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Popular Science

Proposed Q&A site for people interested in popular descriptions of Physics, as opposed to physics with technical (mathematical) details.

Currently in definition.

^^^ is bad enough, but the real fun is in the clear sock puppeting going on by the creator.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Most of the answers to those topics would be opinion based or guessing.

And dumb.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Well I wouldn't say it's dumb. There are some songs who's exact meaning I'm not sure of, but would like to know. However this Q&A site for Song Meanings would most likely just throw a bunch of guesses at me, so i don't see the point of it.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Interestingly enough the actual example questions aren't all that bad.

Time to start trolling with bad questions.

11:21 AM

Well, "What is X about?" still is, but the other two seem pretty deterministic.

And damn this Shadowrun Returns and it's retarded save system. I'm done with this game untill they release a patch that will improve the save system.

> In "Purple Haze", Jimi Hendrix sings "excuse me while I kiss this guy." Who was "this guy?" Was Jimi Hendrix gay?" added by LessPop_MoreFizz 0 secs ago

Q: How should questions about Falskaar (Skyrim mod) be tagged?

@FEichinger Well there are definitely questions that have a known answer. But a lot of them would be opinion based guessings though.

Sepia Lazers

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This is about how to tag questions related to Falskaar, a Skyrim mod: Falskaar is a new lands mod that adds an entirely new worldspace to the world. It's accessed by a dungeon the first time, then by boat from then on out. Falskaar's goal was to act as a DLC, adding content in almost every ar...

discussion tags

Q: Battlefield 3 Server list shows no pings

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Q: How do you cast supernova?

One of the achievements says "Cast supernova". I tried many things but nothing works. How do you cast a supernova?

magicka

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The BL server browser shows no ping values for servers. http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/servers/ I googled on the problem, there are quite some report on the issues, none of the tips worked. Firewall Browser in Admin mode Another browser Using Firefox 22, also tried Chrome 28 and IE9 New ...

multiplayer battlefield-3

11:44 AM

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Computational Origami

Proposed Q&A site for computer scientists, mathematicians, and Origami artists with an interest in the science of how paper folds.

Currently in definition.

wat

@OrigamiRobot Explain.

The plot thickens ...

@FEichinger Should I ask some dumb pop sci questions on the pop sci proposal?

i.e. "What are the current technological limitations preventing easy, affordable, time travel?"

Also, I am SO GLAD I saved a little bit of whiskey from last night for some hair of the dog in my juice this morning because it is making this morning managable.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Go wild. If they fit, I'm not even gonna VTC them. :P

Weekend project - Steam profile background gallery: meebleforp.com/steam-background

@PrivatePansy It's very slow, but that could be hotel internet

11:58 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz lots of images, so not surprised

@PrivatePansy Is there any rhyme or reason to the sorting at the moment?

The listing come in the same order as you get when you search for 'background' on Steam market. When the page is first loaded it chooses a random offset so you don't see the same backgrounds all the time

Things that I would love to see: Sort by price on market; particularly descending from highest, since there are so many in the 3-10 cent mark that ascending is unhelpful. Filter by game. Sort by rarity.

Oh. Well, price sorting at least should be possible then

Shouldn't be too hard to do. All the data is there already, I just need to write the interface

Filter by games is annoying though, because there's so many of them. Around 180, and increasing all the time

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12:27 PM

Good morning Bridge

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yerg

o/

user15026

Good morning Bridge. :)

@WorldEngineer I AM BLAMING YOU.

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@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm a mod. That's my job.

12:39 PM

STOP PINGING ME SO LOUD.

@LessPop_MoreFizz ping

@AshleyNunn o/

1:28 PM

Hey guys, did anyone play Zafehouse Diaries?

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh? I'm not seeing any sockpuppeting going on.

Also, good morning, Bridge!

@fbueckert 3:30 PM here. Good morning though.

Good night. It's Only 9.30 but I need to get up early

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Explain.Me

Proposed Q&A site for all the people who want an EASY EXPLANATION about something. For example, to have an idea about the GDP I should go to wikipedia and learn about a lot of difficult economical concepts. A site where difficult things are explained for common people.

Currently in definition.

facedesk

@fbueckert look at the names of the proposal supporters.

1:34 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Dimension10 and Dilaton?

And area51.stackexchange.com/users/91196/s-dual-of-dimension10

@fbueckert You've got to be kidding me lol.

I linked that one a while ago. Or maybe last night.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Ok, missed that.

DumbPeople.se

1:35 PM

That one is a clear sockpuppet.

1:47 PM

Just to summarize that last tweet- my toddler seems to be under the impression that children with two daddies eat more ice cream.

Tweeted by Jewyorican on July 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM

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ahahaha

What if the toddler is right?

This calls for a comprehensive study.

So after some ~~photoshopping~~ gimping, I produced the above. I hate to admit it, but I cheated

I wish YouTube would tell me how long in terms of time a playlist is.

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2:11 PM

@MBraedley Is that based off an image or is it a painting?

@WorldEngineer It's 4 photos

but the noise kinda stacked too

I need to learn how to stack images such that it reduces noise, not increases it.

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@MBraedley I don't recall off hand how to do that. I think we covered it in my image processing class but I can't recall.

2:28 PM

@WorldEngineer I know the signal processing concepts behind it. Basically, line up the images exactly, then average the pixels. There are other processes where you basically convolve each sub image with an appropriate comb filter, additively combine the sub images, and then down sample that result with a simple low pass filter.

user20683

yeah that sounds right

Bleeeeh. I can't use Steam for the next ~4 hours. =(

@Fluttershy Oh noes! How are you to ever play your games?

@MBraedley I can't until my laptop finishes backing up the files to transfer them to my PC.

2:41 PM

Well... You could watch Equestria Girls twice in 4 hours. But don't do that - it's pretty awful

2:54 PM

My cat is sick

Yessssssssssssssshit.

I have no idea why the video stops at 1:10 but oh well

Fun weekend in the sun? Not for me!

Yessssss

Google Music Pi should be usable by this evening

Google has a music service?

@GnomeSlice Not sure if trolling

???

Also gamesrage.org

3:08 PM

@GnomeSlice Google Music has been around for well over a year.

@fredley That's not exactly a long time, but okay.

In internet time, a year is an unfathomably long period.

If you say so

@GnomeSlice It's your ban times two :P

Ergh, must resist bundle

3:18 PM

Bleeeeeh. Steam backups are the worst.

Have any of you played Soulcaster?

Also new BC2 gif

This game is going to be pretty great.

> Doom something something Borderlands something something Rogue something something

KAG Beta is out

spammyspamspam

3:35 PM

Hey, it's @GnomeSlice! WB

@MBraedley Hi! And thanks. =]

> The Google Play music player is currently available in select territories.

:(

@MBraedley Proxy round it to sign up, once you're signed up it'll work everywhere

@MBraedley I had it ages before it launched in the UK by doing this

@fredley that takes work...