The Bridge

FEichinger

2:00 PM

I raise your 99 potions to 198 potions.

fbueckert

So now, who gives who 99 potions if it turns out to be true?

Wipqozn

@fbueckert You.

You give me 99 potions if the offline mode is paid dlc.

I give you 99 potions if the offline mode is free.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn And if EA goes, "Ha! Gotcha! Consumers suck!"?

FEichinger

Then I get 99 potions.

From both of you.

fbueckert

@FEichinger You don't even play Monster Hunter.

Kinda sorta hard to cash in on the bet.

FEichinger

2:04 PM

@fbueckert So? At least I can be smug and say "I told you so."

That's enough for me.

Wipqozn

fbueckert

@Wipqozn That's gorgeous.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert Battle of the Trident.

Ben Brocka

Pilotwings now available via Wii U Virtual Console http://sbn.to/13puMrd

Tweeted by Polygon on July 5, 2013 at 2:00 PM

How well does pilot wings hold up? I remember playing it as a kid at a friends' but completely forget how well it controls

I think we just crashed into stuff all the time

Intentionally

fbueckert

@BenBrocka I believe I played it on Wii VC. It's surprisingly short.

It wasn't too bad on controls, though.

Grumpy Lazers

2:10 PM

0

Q: which pets are Tank pets in Cube World?

I was wondering what pets where Tank pets in Cube World ,I know turtles are but I would like to know some some.

cube-world

0

Q: What are various block heights in Minecraft?

Can someone provide me with list of Minecraft blocks with non-standard heights, including these heights? I know there are blocks both taller than 1m (fence, wall), slightly shorter (soul sand, farmland), half-size (various slabs) and quite thin (pressure plate, carpet, trapdoor) but is there any ...

minecraft

StrixVaria

2:23 PM

Speaking of the Wii U Virtual Console, I don't get how they're charging $8 for Super Metroid.

All the prices on there felt really high.

Tim Stone

Happy belated birthday to our most corrupt of moderators, @badp!

fbueckert

@StrixVaria Gamepad support!

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria It's probably because they know you can't get them anywhere else. Well, legally.

fbueckert

Not that I agree with it, but that's probably their reasoning.

OrigamiRobot

I don't care what anyone says, the difference between motels and hotels is door placement

4

StrixVaria

2:33 PM

@OrigamiRobot I stayed in a place that had 10 separate 5-story buildings, but the doors were outside. Hotel or motel?

OrigamiRobot

MOTEL

StrixVaria

My key stopped working and I had to call security on two separate occasions.

It was really trashy.

FAE

@StrixVaria 10 5-story buildings? Wow.

OrigamiRobot

Multiple buildings only confirm its motelness.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Is anything with multiple buildings a motel?

OrigamiRobot

2:48 PM

I did not say that.

Unionhawk

@fredley Anything that rents rooms for a night with doors on the outside is a motel. Period. If it has multiple buildings, it tends to place the doors on the outside, ergo, motel.

Ullallulloo

Well, I'm rather upset at Animal Crossing now.

Unionhawk

(Or, for some motels, rents rooms for the hour. But that's another issue)

fredley

Multiple buildings, doors on outside: motel

Unionhawk

@fredley Well aren't you a clever one

OrigamiRobot

2:52 PM

@fredley Agree.

fredley

@Unionhawk Disproving naively absolute assertions is fun!

Unionhawk

@OrigamiRobot I think that transcends the motel/hotel classification...

Private Pansy

Oh great, I'm infected with something again

OrigamiRobot

@Unionhawk If you wanna call it one or the other, I'd call it a motel.

Martin Sojka

@Unionhawk "Motorboat hotel". Sounds fine to me.

StrixVaria

2:53 PM

@FAE It was right in the heart of the touristy part of Orlando.

OrigamiRobot

I never said "anything with doors on the outside is a motel"

fredley

@PrivatePansy Man Flu?

OrigamiRobot

I only said the difference between a hotel and motel is doors on the outside.

Unionhawk

I'd call it a dock, or a pier, that happens to exist in a fancy fancy Caribbean resort somewhere

FAE

@StrixVaria ah gotcha

fredley

2:54 PM

@Unionhawk The word you're looking for is resort

Unionhawk

And that also happens to have rooms

Martin Sojka

Things can belong to multiple categories. Fancy that.

Private Pansy

Wet cough, sore throat, stuffy nose, sneezing. Flu like symptoms, though I'm not quite sure which strain

Unionhawk

@fredley Used in sentence.

Journeyman Geek

@Unionhawk there's 'hotels' that do that here ;p

Unionhawk

2:55 PM

I guess technically, if you think about it hard enough, the whole resort area is the "inside", making these doors on the "inside", of the resort as a whole.

fredley

NOT EVERYTHING CAN BE ABSOLUTELY CLASSIFIED, OH NOES.
IT'S LIKE TAGS ALL OVER AGAIN.

Unionhawk

But maybe I'm thinking about it too hard.

Well dammit, I'm thinking about it too hard then.

fredley

Basically is exterior-doors a synonym of motel ?

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Yes it can, you just have to be stubborn enough.

@fredley No.

My apartment complex has exterior doors, but it's not a motel.

fredley

Is exterior-doors redundant when tagged motel?

Private Pansy

2:57 PM

Anyway, an army camp in which everyone is in extremely close contact with each other is an ideal place for something like flu to spread

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Yes.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot But what if the motel has interior doors?

Or no doors at all

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Then it's not a motel.

@fredley Then you're in Night Vale.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot You are wrong

user56

@OrigamiRobot So what's a Night Vale motel then?

fredley

2:58 PM

@OrigamiRobot I'm only up to glowing cloud

OrigamiRobot

@fredley What part of "anyone" in "I don't care what anyone says" did you not understand?

user56

@fredley It's not a specific reference I think, Night Vale is just the sort of place where motels would have no doors.

Private Pansy

And of course it is the camp's official policy to disallow you to bring in your own drugs, even if its something as simple and non-prescriptive as cough drops.

OrigamiRobot

@user56 A terrible, terrible place.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot says

user56

2:59 PM

@fredley You mean the Glow Cloud. All hail the Glow Cloud.

Private Pansy

Instead to get something for coughs you have to waste half a day and see the camp's medical officer

OrigamiRobot

@fredley That's not part of "anyone"

Private Pansy

Also, I noticed how reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics is basically becoming Politics.SE

fredley

@user56 THE GLOW CLOUD SIMPLY 'IS', ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GLOW CLOUD

Private Pansy

With a lot more discussion, of course, but most followup second layer comments are much shorter

fbueckert

3:01 PM

@PrivatePansy Is this actually followed?

Journeyman Geek

@PrivatePansy: just get candy ;p

Private Pansy

@fbueckert Bag check for recruits every time they enter camp. Cough drops are confiscated

Journeyman Geek

/me recommends eumenthol jujubes

Private Pansy

@JourneymanGeek No food allowed either

Journeyman Geek

....

no food?

Private Pansy

3:03 PM

No food

Journeyman Geek

WHAT KIND OF CAMP IS THIS?

fbueckert

@PrivatePansy I don't know of any military where there's no way around it.

Journeyman Geek

@fbueckert: Even basic lets you bring in food

Private Pansy

@fbueckert You can hide it in your shoes, but at that point it's kind of ridiculous just to get cough drops into camp

Journeyman Geek

invariably oreos and those chips that ~~come in cans~~ pringles

fbueckert

3:04 PM

@PrivatePansy Since when are military policies NOT ridiculous?

Private Pansy

@JourneymanGeek Not our company, though one of the three that forms up this batch of BMTV does

Martin Sojka

That's neat, IAU is handing out more new names for solar objects. After Styx and Kerberos (moons of Pluto), we have ...

(5099) Iainbanks

(5099) Iainbanks is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Henri Debehogne at La Silla Observatory in Chile on February 16, 1985 and numbered 1985 DY1. It is the same body that was also numbered 1971 TD1, 1979 WC7 and 1990 HJ2. On 23 June 2013, the Committee for Small Body Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union named the asteroid for author Iain M. Banks. See also *List of minor planets: 5001–6000 External links *[http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=5099 JPL Small-Body Database Browser] References

fbueckert

Also, I'm looking forward to Shadowrun Returns. Looks to be pretty darn good.

Private Pansy

@MartinSojka I saw his last book in the bookshop today. Wanted to pick it up so badly

Anyway, I'm getting out of this shithole come Thursday

I should've brought along some surgical masks

BoltClock

Interesting. The Ultra and Ultimate graphics options in Tomb Raider max out everything except AA and shadows, at least in my new setup. I get FXAA and normal shadows instead of ultra

Not that I'm complaining: in 720p SSAA eats more fps than TressFX

Private Pansy

3:11 PM

Anyway, the past four weeks of training has destroyed my confidence in the ability of the Singapore Armed Forces to actually defend Singapore, more than 10 years of "National Education" ever did

Powerlord

> Zynga lures Microsoft's gaming chief with bulging package

BoltClock

@PrivatePansy How so?

Powerlord

Does The Register realize how this headline can be taken wrong?

FAE

@Powerlord Likely.

fbueckert

@Powerlord I would assume so.

fredley

3:13 PM

@Powerlord I think it just might be on purpose

Private Pansy

@BoltClock By the simple fact that the company cannot even coordinate the simple task of sending 50 men to a driving center every morning and getting them back in the evening on time

The company is the Supply and Transport Center, by the way

Powerlord

Wow, Microsoft's PythonTools package is absurdly complex.

Private Pansy

Simple things like watching out for an infectious disease spreading through the entire company

Journeyman Geek

lol

Private Pansy

The company orderly sergeant keeping track of keys

Indenting enough food for everyone

Journeyman Geek

3:16 PM

@PrivatePansy: stupidity is a infectious disease.

one that runs rampant the moment you wear green ;p

Private Pansy

For goodness sakes I saw the sergeants themselves coughing and sneezing and wiping their nose. How can they not notice that there was something in the air?

And pity the ammunition supply assistant section of 50 men, who got back one glorious night at 11.30pm from their training without having had their dinner

Powerlord

Ooh, one security researcher said this about next week's Microsoft Patch Tuesday:

> To say that all Microsoft products are affected and everything is affected critically is not an understatement.

Private Pansy

I can go on, but it just depresses me. And I should remind you that we're being trained under the Army Logistic Training Institute. Which can't even be arsed to set a good example to its trainees.

Powerlord

Affected products are: Windows (all supported versions including RT), IE (all supported versions including 11), Office (all supported versions), Lync, Visual Studio (all supported versions including 2013)...

Wipqozn

fbueckert

3:27 PM

@Wipqozn Are we playing identify-this-castle again?

fredley

@Wipqozn Castle De Haar - Haarzuilens, Utrecht, The Netherlands

BoltClock

@Powerlord That's hardly "all Microsoft products"

Powerlord

@BoltClock No, but there was no mention of things like SQLServer, Exchange, and IIS.

And that is the majority of products Microsoft currently supports.

FAE

@fredley I have been there a few times.

That's where the Elf Fantasy Fair is held every year.

Fluttershy

@FAE When is that, so I can plan my visit?

FAE

3:30 PM

@Fluttershy We don't go anymore, it kind of sucks now. Too commercialized and busy and they don't get decent guests anymore.

Fluttershy

@FAE =( Will you still show me the castle?

FAE

@Fluttershy Could still go. It's kind of boring. I only ever saw musical guests in there and I've never gone outside of the Fair, so I don't know what the visitation's like normally.

Fluttershy

@FAE I just wanna see a castle.

FAE

@Fluttershy Well there's a ton in Europe, not sure how many are in the NL

Private Pansy

I think the US might have its share of old fortresses

Though perhaps not castles

Fluttershy

3:33 PM

@FAE Woo!

fbueckert

We've got some rather old cathedrals and forts here in Winnipeg.

Martin Sojka

Taos Pueblo

Taos Pueblo (or Pueblo de Taos) is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos (Northern Tiwa) speaking Native American tribe of Pueblo people. It is approximately 1000 years old and lies about north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico, USA. They are considered to be the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States. Taos Pueblo is a member of the Eight Northern Pueblos. The Taos community is known for being one of the most private, secretive, and conservative pueblos. A reservation of 95,000 acres (384 km²) is attached to the pueblo, and about 4,500 people live in...

Powerlord

@PrivatePansy I don't think I've ever seen a castle in the US.

Private Pansy

@MartinSojka That's not quite what I had in mind. I was thinking of Revolutionary War era structures

Sterno

Powerlord

3:41 PM

@Sterno Yeah, I meant a real one.

Private Pansy

@Powerlord Given that gunpowder weapons made castles somewhat obsolete, I guess that would be the case

Sterno

Bounce castles are the best castles.

Powerlord

While we don't have castles, we instead have mansions built by insane people. Like this one:

Winchester Mystery House

The Winchester Mystery House is a well-known mansion in Northern California. It once was the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester. It was continuously under construction for 38 years and is reported to be haunted. It now serves as a tourist attraction. Under Winchester's day-to-day guidance, its "from-the-ground-up" construction proceeded around the clock, without interruption, from 1884 until her death on September 5, 1922, at which time work immediately ceased. The cost for such constant building has been estimated at about US $5....

Martin Sojka

@PrivatePansy Way too modern for a castle to be any "real" defensible structure, though palaces are certainly a possibility.

Private Pansy

Powerlord

3:44 PM

@PrivatePansy My work is blocking that image. :/

Gaming Topics From Outside

1

Q: How to control car racing games using kinect?

I am trying to control some online flash racing games using kinect (using visual studio c#). The user needs to hold his hands in air and act like he is behind a steering wheel of a car. To increase the speed, the user needs to move the (imaginary) steering wheel away from his body. The problem i...

c# uigesturerecognizer kinect gaming

Martin Sojka

Modern-ish forts were almost never meant to be a permanent feature (yes, dear French people, you should have known that ...) so they weren't build to last ... and generally didn't.

Wipqozn

@Powerlord It's a picture from the cartoon Gravity Falls.

Private Pansy

@GamingTopicsFromOutside I don't have any knowledge of iOS programming and even I know that uigesturerecognizer is an iOS component

Wipqozn

Gravity Falls

Gravity Falls is an American animated Disney Channel Original Series created by Alex Hirsch, former writer for The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Fish Hooks, for Disney Channel. The first episode aired as a preview on June 15, 2012 and the series officially debuted on June 29, 2012. On March 12, 2013, the show was renewed for a second season at Disney Channel upfront. Plot The show follows the adventures of 12-year old twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines, whose parents send them off to their Great-Uncle Stan in the town of Gravity Falls, Oregon. "Grunkle" Stan lives in...

Private Pansy

3:47 PM

> The power of players, creatures, items and skills doesn't scale linearly or exponentially with the level, but it scales tangentially. So while levels can be between 1 and infinity, the corresponding power is between 1 and 100. A power of 100 can only be reached with an infinite level.

I don't think that's quite what the word tangentially means

fbueckert

@PrivatePansy aka. your power is whatever I say it is.

Martin Sojka

@PrivatePansy It should be asymptotically.

Sterno

I don't understand why Ghost Hunter type shows are so popular.

Private Pansy

@MartinSojka Yeah, that was the word I was reaching for

I'm not missing some other definition of "tangentially", right?

Martin Sojka

Nope. "Tangent" (in analysis) has something to do with rate of change (in other words, first derivative), not the overall characteristics of the change.

Private Pansy

3:50 PM

@MartinSojka Yeah, I know that. I was thinking more of in common usage

Martin Sojka

I wouldn't know, English is my fifth language. :D

Wipqozn

:10212874

Second one just because it made me laugh.

I've watched ancient aliens ones just to laugh at it. It was so bad.

There were "experts" literally claiming that aliens visited ancient earth because ancient civilizations drew cave paintings of things in the sky.

I'm not even exaggerating. It was ridiculous (and hilarious).

Martin Sojka

2

Sterno

I wish I had hair like that.

fbueckert

Ooh, that ESEA bitcoin thing just got hit with a class action lawsuit.

Fluttershy

4:22 PM

I forgot my kindle today and now I am sad. =(

user43095

-2

A: Is there a standalone free offline version of Minecraft?

dannyluvzred@yahoo.com danny da

user43095

QUICK SPAM IT TO HELL

Ullallulloo

4:41 PM

Big TF2 update coming soon! \o/

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert good

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: Can you sell turnips in another town?

Can you take turnips safely to another town and sell them? I know they are sensitive to changes in time. I imagine if I travel to the town of someone who changes around the time on their system, that the turnips will spoil? What if I travel to a friends town and our clocks are off by a minut...

animal-crossing-new-leaf

1

Q: How many bandages does a Gnome use up when bleeding?

My gnomes seem to bleed a lot and use a lot of Bandages. It is not like I don't have an excess amount of cotton, but I can barely keep up with production to satisfy they are need for treating their wounds. How many bandages does a Gnome use up when bleeding? Does he use 1 Bandage for each wound...

gnomoria

1

Q: How do you generate mud plots for planting mushrooms?

With the latest patch, the game introduced mushrooms to grow them underground. This special plant can only grow underground and on mud plots. How do you generate those mud plots?

gnomoria

0

Q: How to stop being redirected to other servers in CS 1.6?

I have been playing CS 1.6 in a particular server for a long time. The problem started just from today evening. Suddenly I observed everytime I connect to that particular servers address, I am redirected to some random server where the redirected server may be full or empty. The server is enliste...

counter-strike

fbueckert

@Ullallulloo I bet that'll coincide with the Summer Sale.

Or at least, I hope it will.

4:59 PM

@TimStone Whassat?

Stack Exchange cake

@BenBrocka Are you hacking your WiiU?

Tim Stone

@stackchefs made a great first lunch!! http://t.co/UPsRPS07nE

Tweeted by ZompZ on July 5, 2013 at 4:06 PM

fbueckert

5:05 PM

No summer sale. Boo.

Powerlord

@Ullallulloo Figures, blocked.

Great, Explorer appears to be locking up while I'm launching PuTTY Portable

or rather while I'm navigating to it

Ullallulloo

@Powerlord They're making a few blog posts about the update beforehand. This one's about how they're rebalancing Badwater and adding Process and Standin.

Yawus

So... like two people, not including me, showed up to work this morning.

We all decided to take a half-day.

Powerlord

@Yawus We ended up with 9/60

fbueckert

@Yawus Those are awesome days.

You crack a book and read.

OrigamiRobot

5:09 PM

Are youtube videos supposed to be right up against the left side of my screen now?

Ronan Forman

@OrigamiRobot Nope, they should be left aligned with the search bar.

OrigamiRobot

Well, they're not.

Ullallulloo

@OrigamiRobot Did you hide the guide somehow?

Powerlord

Holy shit, Valve is actually going to rebalance maps to fix sentry-jumping?!

user56

@OrigamiRobot Well, they should be.

OrigamiRobot

5:11 PM

@Ullallulloo No idea

Ullallulloo

It didn't take long before clever players discovered how to use sentry jumping to build on roofs, Jumpers to move quickly behind enemy lines and spawn camp, and sneakily place buildings inside of their spawns. While we love players coming up with new and inventive ways to win, let's face it: It's never fun to be gunned down from above and behind.

[Goodnight, sweet prince that was the roof sentry nest.]

[Was a good day to spawn camp while it lasted.]

And Badwater is just one of the maps with fixes in this update. In fact, the majority of maps in TF2 have gone through the same process. By …

fbueckert

@Powerlord The fact that people did that is sad.

Powerlord

This is going to be a crazy huge update

fbueckert

"Hey, let's exploit the game and remove all challenge!"

Powerlord

@fbueckert Well, it used to take some skill to pick up your sentry while jumping

FEichinger

5:13 PM

@Ullallulloo Setting the guide to display: none doesn't realign the player, so it's probably a different thing.

fbueckert

@Powerlord Until it became common practice.

Powerlord

@fbueckert Well, no, Valve added the Rescue Ranger which made it dead simple.

fbueckert

@Powerlord You honestly think people didn't make macros before that to trivialize it?

Sconibulus

Huh... I always thought they did it with teleports

Powerlord

@fbueckert Possibly... I never really got into it.

SaintWacko

5:20 PM

Okay, so fire emblem is awesome

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Yes. Yes, it is.

SaintWacko

I need more master seals

Sepia Lazers

-1

Q: Is an edit that only changes formatting, e.g. removing bold text and shortening link labels, too minor?

I made an edit that got rejected claiming, "Many links were removed during editing" which is wrong, as I didn't remove any link, I only shortened the label to ease readability as too much blue made it hard to determine what the link was about and also I find the idea that a whole sentence is need...

discussion support suggested-edits

fbueckert

@SaintWacko You can eventually buy them.

Are you playing on Normal, or Hard?

SaintWacko

Hard casual

Grumpy Lazers

5:29 PM

0

Q: Portal: The First Slice Demo Glitch

I thought of trying out the demo of Portal before I bought the game and was amazed. But then after chamber 10 something weird happened that wouldn't allow me to continue to chamber 11. I wasn't sure whether this is a glitch or the demo was over. The problem is that the exit from the elevato...

portal

Powerlord

@GrumpyLazers Since the final game only has 20 test chambers (0-19), the fact that you can play through the first 11 of them seems overly generous for a demo.

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Boo.

Casual is for beginners to the series.

user56

Hmm... okay, I like Under the Dome

I don't like VLC much lately

fbueckert

@user56 I've been using Media Player Classic.

user56

For me it'd be either VLC or mplayer2

I like VLC, but it has some weird audio playback issues

FAE

5:38 PM

@user56 I still need to read this.

user56

Audio will just not play for a few seconds every so often, very annoying.

@FAE You really should!

I'm referring to the TV series they made of it and of which two episodes have aired.

FAE

@user56 I know, I've heard really good things! Just haven't gotten around to it yet. And aye, I know they did a series recently, I read Stephen King's recent AMA.

user56

He did an AMA?

FAE

@user56 Yes

user56

I have probably read more of Stephen King than any other author.

FAE

5:41 PM

So has one of my exes, he's a big fan.

I've still only read the first Dark Tower.

I read quite a bit of his work back in high school and I'm incredibly fond of his short story collections.

user56

Yes, like Minutes to Midnight

FAE

Everything's Eventual is still one of my favorites.

I've got Just After Sunset sitting in a pile I can see from here but I haven't read that yet.

user56

That's the one with 1408 right?

@FAE Me too.

FAE

Everything's Eventual is, yeah.

I still haven't seen that movie.

user56

The film's okay. It goes in a very different direction from the book, though.

fbueckert

5:44 PM

Woo! Finally got 1K views on a year old question!

FAE

The Mist messed me up when I first read it.

user56

Still have to read that

LessPop_MoreFizz

1

Q: What does PROC mean?

I understand what it is, like an item proc that delivers an effect on hit for example. But what does PROC actually mean? Does it stand for something or is it short for another word?

terminology

One more reopen vote if anyone agrees that this is a bad forced dupe.

Powerlord

Xbox One advertising will integrate with Kinect

LessPop_MoreFizz

(I'd also encourage downvotes on the question to accompany the reopen. But that's me.)

fbueckert

5:55 PM

Relevant to @Strix's interests

@Powerlord I posted that yesterday.

Powerlord

Of course, this brings up another point: The Xbone will have ads like the 360 does now.

Blem

@LessPop_MoreFizz after thinking about it for a bit i decided to vote for reopen

StrixVaria

@fbueckert I didn't get as far as he did, and luckily I also spent much less.

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert It's apparently an error from the Amazon Video app

FAE

@fbueckert Yeah, the female characters were the reason I gave up my first run.

LessPop_MoreFizz

6:04 PM

Today in SciFi Is Dumb: Lightsaber Nunchucks.

7

Q: Are there any other weapons designed using lightsaber technology?

I know Darth Maul used a lighesaber staff which was basically two lightsabers end to end. I had thought that lightsaber nunchakus would be amazing, but the fact that you'd rather quickly loose your own hand during a change over would be problematic!! So are there any other weapons designed usi...

star-wars jedi

OrigamiRobot

22

Q: Is Santa Claus a Time Lord?

Consider the following about Santa Claus: He can carry presents for every little boy and girl around the world in one bag that sits on a sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer, so his bag has to be bigger on the inside. He's able to make it around the entire world, including time to go down every...

doctor-who timelord santa-claus

gasp It's closed!

Is there hope for SciFi yet?

StrixVaria

I really can't find any redeeming factors in WoT. The fact that @fbueckert and one real-life friend both say it's great is the only reason I got this far.

But the fact of the matter is that reading it is a huge chore and puts me off reading and writing in general for long periods of time.

Trying to read that series has no benefit to me.

OrigamiRobot

20

Q: What's the real world equivalent for the greyscale disease?

Greyscale gets mentioned a lot of times, but at the back of my mind it seems like its some sort of leprosy. What's the nearest real world disease that comes close to GRRM's greyscale.

a-song-of-ice-and-fire george-r-r-martin

12

Q: Are Storm's mutant powers plausible?

Most level 4+ mutants in the X-Men universe have powers that have at least partially scientific (or at worst, pseudo-scientific) explanations: Professor X - Brain cells can interact with a 'psionic field', which could be a form of quantum entanglement. Wolverine - Body produces its own stem cel...

x-men powers storm

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: Why Use EU to Power Quarry?

NOTE: I'm playing FTB Ultimate pack. I'm thinking my quarry is horrible powered and highly inefficient. Currently I'm using an Ender Tank pumping lava in from the Nether to power two Thermal Generators. This is hooked up to a BatBox, keeping it maxed out all the time. I then have an Electric...

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LessPop_MoreFizz

@Strix break free, it's awful, and it's well established that @fbueckert has The Worst Taste in Things.

FEichinger

6:11 PM

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Q: how can I become a better game programmer from scratch ( preferably programs or software)

my question is in the title, I need help with programming for my futur endevers. if I were to start from scratch what should I do.

pc

OrigamiRobot

0

Q: Why does Abracadaniel look like a penis?

Why does Abracadaniel of adventure time take the human body shape of a penis.

adventure-time

^ Thankfully closed

LessPop_MoreFizz

And this is why we need a 'No Game Dev' close reason that is not simply a migration path.

Yes, we do.

I wrote it. And people fought me claiming migrate to game dev was food enough.

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz Meh. There's a lot of things wrong with the close changes. I'm not in the mood of getting into that.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRob I often think the Stack Exchange network as a whole would be greatly improved if the word 'why' were categorically disallowed from questions.

Ktash

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A: How do you progress to a new rank on the CS:GO Elo system?

wtf are you talking about this isnt league of fucking gay ass legends

free flags

LessPop_MoreFizz

6:16 PM

@ktash flag butan still broken on mobile. :(

i am 13... and I have a faulty keyboard — callum 1 min ago

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz The next comment is even better.

Tim Stone

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm almost worried that they aren't as concerned about the mobile site because they're making apps for no particular reason.

Powerlord

Oracle just switched BerkeleyDB to AGPL instead of BDB v6 that it used to be.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@timstone AUGH. :(

FIX THE BROKEN THINGS THAT WORKED LAST WEEK. :(

Tim Stone

That said, I had hoped my answer would convince someone to make the quick fix...maybe I should just test and include the direct code changes...

Powerlord

6:19 PM

AGPL is the version of GPLv3 with the annoying "if you use this in a webapp, the source code of your webapp has to be available" bit added.

user56

@Powerlord AGPL makes sense with SaaS being on the rise.

For something SaaS GPL is practically the same as something like MIT

Powerlord

@user56 True, but it's still going to kill what little support DBD had left.

What reason is there to use it over SQLite these days anyway?

Gaming Topics From Outside

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Q: Syberia not running under Windows 7

I want to run an old game named Syberia on a Windows 7 PC. But whatever I do I get the Error No 3D accelerator available: either your graphic card does not reach the requirements for that Game or an error has happened which requires the reboot of your computer. Windows 7 64 bit AMD FX 4100 ...

windows-7 gaming 3d

user56

@Powerlord I am in favour of anything that kills support of anything of Oracle's

FEichinger

but i am just 13 seriously.. — callum 32 secs ago

user56

6:25 PM

@FEichinger I love your replies there.

I am tempted to comment with a Kleiner comment

FEichinger

@user56 Plural? I gave one reply, which was legitimate advice. And for that I've been notified four times now.

user56

@FEichinger Yes, reply, sorry.

Fluttershy

Isn't 14 our lower limit for age? Or is it anything under 13 that gets insta-deleted?

user56

13, COPPA

Fluttershy

I knew it was somewhere around there. Just couldn't remember which.

Powerlord

6:46 PM

That was weird... I loaded one of our map apps to write some new user tests against it... and it came up with a map of the surrounding states with an empty white box around our state.

user56

Eerie.

Grumpy Lazers

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Q: How can I become a better game programmer from scratch (preferably programs or software)

My question is in the title; I need help with programming for my future endeavors. If I were to start from scratch, what should I do?

pc

user56

I was more literate than that at 11.

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord your state doesn't exist any more. I'm sorry you had to find out this way

> I need help with programming for my futur endevers

user56

It has been replaced by a white void. You know, cutbacks.

Ben Brocka

6:51 PM

Hate to see his code

user56

To start from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Ben Brocka

Then scratch it

Powerlord

@BenBrocka Must have been temporary because it's showing now.

Also, I'm not sure if the current test case should include the search tools other than waterbody search.

fbueckert

@GrumpyLazers Ugh. Bad question is bad.

Ben Brocka

> appologuise

arg

fbueckert

7:04 PM

@BenBrocka I would've smacked my 13-year old self if I'd spelled that badly.

Wipqozn

@GrumpyLazers ...I can't believe gnome actually edited that.

StrixVaria

fbueckert

I maintain any question that says, "question in title" is a shitty question.

Wipqozn

I'm going to just stand by the assumption this is just a troll.

Ullallulloo

woot

Ben Brocka

7:10 PM

@StrixVaria Also he's somehow only got 100 points

user56

:o

Blem

:( Pacific Rim does not come to the Nordic countries before start August :(

fbueckert

I've taken to idling in Steam games for trading cards.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria It's also not plugged into anything.

Powerlord

@fbueckert Should I call you @badp?

Ullallulloo

7:12 PM

@fbueckert It takes like an hour to get all the drops.

fbueckert

@Powerlord I have to be a mod before I can emulate him.

I mean, sort of hard to mod abuse without mod powers.

Sconibulus

@fbueckert Is there a way to figure out if any of your games have uncollected cards?

fbueckert

@Sconibulus Profile --> Badges

Powerlord

Valve's been busy this week. I had a 20MiB download for source-2013-sdk

430 file updates

user56

There's a 2013 engine?

Trent Hawkins

7:17 PM

@StrixVaria "too happy for someone playing so bad" - What if he's P2, and kid brother over there, who is playing at a 90 degree angle from the screen (seriously, I doubt he can see any of it with more than one eye) is P1. It may explain jumping into the pit for no reason.

Tim Stone

If he's seasoned, can we eat him? — Emrakul the Aeons Torn 40 mins ago

BoltClock

@Powerlord I wonder what else that TF2 update has to offer besides new and updated maps

Powerlord

@BoltClock ...you're seriously asking that?

I can't imagine wHATS new other than that.

Ben Brocka

A small text file encrypted in 256 bit AES that reads only "Half Life 3 confirmed"

Grumpy Lazers

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Q: I'm a 2 stared village in Dungeon Village. I need more income, right now I have only 17,000 income, but I need 35,000. How do I get more?

How do I get more income? I tired getting help from my sister and Answers.com! I'm clueless! My sister said to get more shops, or get rid of some shops and get better shops. I have 74,150 coins too.

dungeon-village

0

Q: Is it possible to unequip a piece of Gear?

I found some Gear, but when given the option to either take it or equip it, I pressed buttons too quickly and equipped it right after examining it. Now I have some Gear on me that I don't want to use (Fire Bird, for the curious — and I do see the irony in not wanting fire-based Gear here) but th...

bioshock-infinite

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Q: Is Anabelle supposed to be a Pangolin?

The villager Annabelle is an "anteater" but she definitley looks like she is based on a Pangolin. Does anyone know if this is true?

animal-crossing-new-leaf

fbueckert

7:28 PM

@GrumpyLazers Dupe.

@GrumpyLazers Really? Does it matter WHAT the character is?

Ben Brocka

I refuse to play a game that is not inclusive of the Pangolin people

They make good shields

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Race....ist? Is Pangolin even a race?

BoltClock

Species?

Pangolin

A pangolin (also referred to as a scaly anteater or trenggiling) is a mammal of the order Pholidota. The one extant family, Manidae, has one genus, Manis, which comprises eight species. A number of extinct species are known. A pangolin has large keratin scales covering its skin, and is the only known mammal with this adaptation. It is found naturally in tropical regions throughout Africa and Asia. The name, pangolin, comes from the Malay word, pengguling, meaning "something that rolls up". Description The physical appearance of a pangolin is marked by large, hardened, plate-like scal...

fbueckert