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6:00 PM
@AshleyNunn Indeed.
 
user15026
What.
 
@Ullallulloo That's one line of CSS. Always sad to see when people do it though :/
 
@AshleyNunn Also, America gets a special 8 SB code today because we beat the British.
 
@Ktash There should be a way to tell your browser to ignore certain types of CSS rules.
There probably is, actually.
 
user15026
@ullallulloo no fair.
 
6:05 PM
Greasemonkey also works, as does a number of other things
 
The fact that this comment doesn't have double digit up votes is a crime:
3. Check your flag history obsessively and then come to Meta and yell at badp when he disagrees with you. — Matthew Read 3 hours ago
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz It's funny, because that's what some people do.
 
'MERICA!
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz You have to call the acting mod a nazi, or at least a fascist or it doesn't count
For bonus points, demand for the mod to be immediately fired
 
Which goes to show you just how important gamers actually are to Microsoft.
 
6:14 PM
@wipqozn you don't have to pussyfoot around it by calling me 'some people'.
@fbueckert gamers are very important to Microsoft! Who else would they show advertisements to?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Brain dead Halo and CoD players.
 
@fbueckert Did you forget? The Xbone isn't a gaming device. It's for TV!
 
@madscientist now now, I don't call just any acting mod a member of a totalitarian dictatorial regime. Just @badp. And he's Italian, so calling him a nazi seems gauche. Fascist will have to do.
At least the trains lazers run on time.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I think the word you're looking for is wannabe-Mussolini
 
@FEichinger I have never owned an MS console, and I hope to keep it that way.
 
6:18 PM
@fbueckert It's not like they're making that choice hard.
 
@FEichinger If Gust releases an XBone exclusive game, though, I'm going to be mightily tempted.
Heck. I bought a WiiU specifically for Monster Hunter.
 
@fbueckert yeah I kind don't see that happening
 
@BenBrocka I don't either.
I'm just pointing out what it would take for me to buy that hunk of junk.
I get that Microsoft is a huge company, and their entire goal is to make as much money as possible.
Making it less blatant, though, shows a modicum of respect for their userbase.
 
There are lots of different ways to make money
 
They might as well have said, "Don't bother thinking. Just give us all your money."
 
6:31 PM
> Xbox One was designed with advertising in mind, members of the Xbox Live advertising team have confirmed.
oh, wow
I thought they said there weren't going to be dashboard ads anymore, just recommended games, kind of like the PS3 does?
 
@BenBrocka Recommended games and ads are basically the same thing.
 
@BenBrocka Yup. I think Microsoft should be giving me $500 to have this stupid thing in my living room.
 
And PS3 ads are only on the shopping tab, right?
I don't recall seeing them anywhere else.
 
@Wipqozn yeah, if you hover over the shop icon there's a pane with recommendations
I assumed that's what the Xbox One would do, more or less, but I could be wrong
 
That;s what I thought.
That's where the ads should be.
Not all over the entire interface.
 
6:34 PM
MS is worse, because to play online, you have to pay for the privilege, so they're essentially double-dipping.
I can see if online play was subsidized by ads, but in this case, it's blatant, in your face, and invasive.
 
Whoo, beat the giant eye boss~
 
> “With the new Xbox One, the technology and Kinect has improved a lot, so that actually the voice recognition, the way you speak to your Xbox and the transition between gaming and watching TV is a lot smoother, and hopefully we can transpire [sic] that into advertising that we do.”
 
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Q: In World of Warcraft, how can I find an armor selling merchant?

NilI can't seem to find a similar question on Arqade. Yesterday I managed to find a thread somewhere where one person said pressing M to bring the map up would give you the option to look for venders. However, for the life of me, I cannot find that same thread no matter how hard on google I try. Wh...

 
I'm reminded of that (sony?) patent for yelling "McDonalds!" at your TV. I hope neither of them actually do that (not sure where that would even come into play)
 
My interview went well :)
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6:37 PM
Not sure Sony even has any sort of ad-supported services that would be relevant for. Maybe Hulu?
 
also HIIIIIIIIIHIHIHIHIHI
 
@spugsley Yay!
 
Fireworks: implemented
 
@spugsley awesome
 
I've been meaning to ask; did anything else happen with your other employer?
 
6:38 PM
@fbueckert yeah she called crying to me like two days after I quit about how hard life is and that she is sorry and that she told the client it was my fault and that she feels really bad about it :/
 
@spugsley Told the client it was your fault?
 
@fbueckert yuppp
 
That's incredibly unprofessional.
 
yeah she is horrible
 
Good riddance.
 
6:39 PM
agreed
 
She just wants her low-paid errand person back.
 
@spugsley Did you kick her in the shins through the phone?
 
@TimStone multiple times
 
Excellent
 
and with great ferocity
 
6:41 PM
And hopefully with spiked shoes.
 
I tried to put a question link in the alt-text of an image
Which breaks everything.
 
can now be won!
 
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Q: Is there such thing as short term revenue sharing?

GavinI have an iOS game that I need developed. I wanted to know if I can make a deal with a third party developer where we share revenue for the first year or two (50/50). I just do not feel it is fair to share revenue long term because I have designed the graphics, features, and will be doing all the...

 
6:54 PM
Anyone else able to repro this:
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Q: Close and flag links do nothing on mobile site

tripleeeThis morning (it's about six AM here) I find that I can no longer submit close votes; the link just jumps to the beginning of the page. I'm on IOS, using a third-party browser called Grazing, but a brief check with Mobile Safari shows the same problem there. Here on Meta, where my score is muc...

 
Oh yeah, I meant to debug that since no one has fixed it yet...
I'll take a look in a few minutes.
The delete link is also messed up, but in an annoying-yet-still-functional way.
 
@TimStone Yeah.
The other two are infuriating though.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz They're broken in Firefox 21 in Windows 7.
 
interview for what @spugsley?
 
@Blem Books-A-Million. Not the highest paying job but yay books :3
 
7:06 PM
@spugsley Books are awesome.
If I ever worked in a bookstore, I'd probably ask to be paid in books.
 
@fbueckert this store is cool because one of the perks is you can check books out like a library for two weeks at a time :) So cool!
 
@spugsley Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 
@OrigamiRobot I know!
EVEN GRAPHIC NOVELS
 
Well, GOG is ending their summer sale today... by putting most of their previous sales back up.
@Ullallulloo What about Firefox 22?
(You did you know 22 was out, right?)
 
0
Q: Fly the Blackjack

PhaDaPhunkCan you fly the Blackjack freely in the overworld ? I just finished the opera scene and it brought me to the other continent. I can't seem to be able to fly it freely like the Highwind in Final Fantasy VII. Am I missing something ?

 
7:15 PM
@Powerlord Yeah, I'm just waiting to download it.
I don't like the new logo.
There's no add-on to change it yet.
 
I put a lot of effort into this answer, just sayin'
 
Btw, as part of the GoG sale, Fez is only $4.99
 
@Powerlord It's definitely worth that, IMO.
 
> No one remembers the worst game ever made. We don't remember the games that are purely awful; we remember the games that fail spectacularly.
I remember Hydlide quite well Hardcore 101, thank you.
(This quote is from their ET Atari 2600 review)
 
7:44 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz sighs Yeah, that's rather silly. At least it's an easy fix.
 
0
Q: Do the Wii U remotes work with the old Wii system?

Wayne HartmanI know that the old remotes work with the new system, but do the new remotes work with the old system?

 
@Blem Bets on how long it takes before that's flagged?
@GrumpyLazers What new remotes? I thought the only WiiU remotes other than the tablet were standard Wii Motion Plus controllers.
 
8:06 PM
So how are you 'muricans enjoying your day of Exploh-sions?
 
8:32 PM
0
Q: Do new WOW players benefit from learning manufacturing professions

NS.X.I AFK'ed from WOW 6 years ago and now play again, starting new characters from scratch. Compared to back then, the material price in AH is magnitudes higher making gathering professions much more profitable, especially for new players. But at the same time it makes manufacturing professions much ...

 
@fbueckert It's not dark, so no EXPLOSIONS yet, but reading /r/MURICA today is one of the best things ever.
 
8:43 PM
@ashleynunn the Skullgirls Steam beta is live
 
I hear Final Fantasy VII is on Steam now.
Probably the same version Square-Enix has in their online store... except part of Steam.
 
@Powerlord That's what I would assume, as it requires Squeenix Online Store authentication.
 
8:57 PM
@Ullallulloo Our fireworks show was yesterday
presumably so people could get wasted yesterday but not be hung over for work friday
 
9:08 PM
5
Q: RSS feed for major Steam sales?

MaslowIs there somewhere I can subscribe that would only show 40% off or more game sales? Steam is a must; bonus points for aggregating multiple sites/stores. I'm rarely catching the sales on steam, and I imagine steam isn't the only company doing really nice occasional special sales.

We still allow questions like that? <_<
 
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Q: Finding idle workshops in Dwarf Fortress

Me againIs there a way or a mod to highlight all idle workshops? It seems to be somewhat easier than finding out the idler's profession and then finding a vacant workshop for him to use. It is very annoying to find workshops where repetitive task was by cursor over'ing it. Using a manager is not always...

 
user15026
9:27 PM
@benbrocka that's actually what I was just popping in here to tell you :p gonna download it when I get home tonight
 
Had a good day today :)
Got signed with another agent - this one requires exclusivity but they are the best in the biz :p
 
Excellent
 
@spugsley You go girl! highfive
 
WOOT!
@fredley MURICA!
 
@fredley Needs more eagles and wolves.
 
FAE
9:41 PM
Anyone else remember those American Thunder t-shirts that were popular back in the mid-90s?
 
@FAE No.
 
FAE
@Wipqozn Not you. :P
 
My 90s wardrobe looked something like this
 
FAE
 
9:50 PM
0
Q: Why do all launchers crash on my system after being run?

Ethan722The new launcher slows down everything tremendously after going through the first time setup, then it sometimes pulls up the launcher and sometimes leaves the screen as it was before the setup finished, but always stops responding to all interactions after this. All older launchers simply slow do...

 
10:05 PM
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Q: GoG on Linux installation Procedure

LateraltwoI wanted to install GoG on Linux ( http://gogonlinux.com/ ) and as I went through the install process (which is for Ubuntu12.04) and the result is that I have all the files built by python, but no executable or any way to access the client at all. I've checked the forums there, but I don't belie...

 
Anyone want to help with some balancing?
 
@fredley Balancing what?
 
@Ktash A game
 
What game and how?
 
At the moment all of the prices are very cheap, need to work out decent price points
Play Asteroid Attack for a few minutes, and tell me how many coins you end up with
 
10:09 PM
Chrome only or something?
 
@Ktash What do you mean?
 
I get a black screen on FF with just a timer in the top left
 
@Ktash Correct
 
ah, now there is an ascii arcade thing, I get it lol
 
@Ktash It's a candy-box-like
 
10:10 PM
Never played candy-box
 
@Ktash Ah
All the better
 
got 27 coins at the moment
 
@Ktash Ok
Once you start getting some B and A bonuses things start to rapidly accelerate
I think I need to make the end game a lot more coin intensive though, currently potions are stupidly cheap
 
got 56 now
 
@Ktash AVO... too late.
 
10:19 PM
@Ktash Not bad. I ended up with about 30k after 10 minutes
 
well, I'm not quite accelerating that quickly
@Powerlord Also, too late for avoiding it? I don't quite think so
 
I missed an offer to get Super Metriod for $0.30 on the Wii U Virtual Console, and now it's $8.
Nope.
 
10:37 PM
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5 Star Life Style

Proposed Q&A site for the people who wants to learn/research about Rich Victorian life styles.

Currently in definition.

It's only getting better.
 
I was hoping that was about people with lots of chat stars
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz NOPE
@LessPop_MoreFizz Area51 needs a vote to close button
 
@fredley I think it does. It's just that it's much harder to get rep on Area 51.
 
Yesterday was Wednesday, Wednesday and today is Thursday, Thursday. Tomorrow is Friday and Saturday comes afterwards.
 
10:49 PM
VTC on A51 is 2000 rep
Steven Murdoch is committed to the Tor proposal
 
@fredley Yeah, basically, if you didn't write a proposal that made it to beta, there's no way you'l have enough A51 rep to moderate anything.
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@LessPop_MoreFizz That doesn't even get you that much rep, and it's a terrible indicator of how good you'd be at actually moderating the site
 
The metric should probably be that you have X rep on at least Y separate sites.
Area 51 rep doesn't make any sense.
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@StrixVaria I know.
 
Huh. Juan is the top user overall on A1
 
10:54 PM
There will come a time hence, when MSO will become MSE
The coming of the meta of metas
And MSE rep will be a thing, and the people shall rejoice
And MSE rep will be used on A51
And Jeff will come back to pass judgement on all SE sites
He shall cast SciFi.SE into the pits of Yahoo! Answers.
He will banish NOPE into thin air
And feed Math.SE to itself
It will be a glorious, terrible time
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/prophecy
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I could have guessed that.
 
I have 647 A51 rep, presumably because I'm rad.
Also, you get +50 rep for referring somebody who fulfills a commitment, so spam those twitters!
Seriously though, I have no idea how the hell I got 600 rep on that crazy-ass site.
Or "crazy ass-site" to be fully xkcd-compliant.
 
user43095
11:09 PM
-5
A: What's the maximum height mobs can fall from without dying?

epic_gamer2:D :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

 
:D :D :D :D
 
user43095
So many D's... It hurts my eyes.
 
user43095
Can't tell if its a happy or sad face.
 
I keep thinking today is the weekend. But I have to go to work tomorrow.
 
user43095
A51 rep should be an average of whatever rep you have on every SE site... Like all the reps totaled and then divided by the number of accounts.
 
11:14 PM
@jeffreylin_ That'd be great if it wasn't so much of a pain to delete accounts.
For instance, I have 35k rep on one site, 1k on another, and 4 more with < 500
 
@jeffreylin_ That would be horrible. There's potential for people to lose a ton of A51 rep by participating more on a new site - where they'd have low rep and thus drop their average.
 
user43095
Maybe only sites you've been actively participating in for a year or so?
 
@jeffreylin_ Still, I have 9.2k on Arqade and like 600 on my next two highest sites.
 
@jeffreylin_ Doesn't help. My programmers account has existed long before that, I just simply don't participate there any more.
 
user43095
Then I don't think there's a good way to handle A51 rep, unless you add up all the reps and make privileges require even more rep?
 
11:21 PM
Seriously, I have small amounts of earned rep on 18 different sites, none even close to Arqade.
 
@Ullallulloo Sum of all rep sans association seems perfectly fine.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, this makes the most sense.
That's how they handle chat powers.
 
@Ullallulloo alternately, set it equal to your highest single site rep.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz That's rather pointless on A51. A51 in particular requires a broad experience of SE, rather than a single site.
 
user43095
11:25 PM
@FEichinger add up all the reps and make privileges proportionate for each person? May be a bit overboard.
 
@jeffreylin_ What... it's the Steam Mobile App. Why is that weird?
It's also in the Android Market
 
@jeffreylin_ I'm honestly very torn on A51 rep. I've yet to make up my own mind in that regard.
 
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Installation & Configuration

Proposed Q&A site for all forms of developers who use frameworks, databases, code libraries, and systems/applications requiring installation and configuration steps.

Currently in definition.

 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Dupe of Server Fault, I'd say.
 
@FEichinger SF or SU.
Or I guess SO maybe for some things.
point is, it is bad.
 
11:37 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Hmmm ... you're right. Didn't look at it from the consumer side, SU would be just as appropriate. But I agree, it's bad and it should be burnt.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I still want to strangle half the media outlets here for using Internet slang in a serious manner.
 
@FEichinger Shitstorm is not internet slang.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Not directly, no. But the way it was "imported" to Germany was pretty much solely the Internet.
 
@FEichinger Well, that's the way most linguistic exchange happens these days, to be fair.
 
11:48 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Sure. Doesn't stop me from cringing over it, though.
 
I am error
I am also full of delicious foodstuffs
 
6 hours ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz
@madscientist now now, I don't call just any acting mod a member of a totalitarian dictatorial regime. Just @badp. And he's Italian, so calling him a nazi seems gauche. Fascist will have to do.
6 hours ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz
At least the trains lazers run on time.
 
You must've missed the part where I destroyed almost 400 users
I missed the part about declined flags though
 

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