« first day (1139 days earlier)      last day (3902 days later) » 

5:00 PM
I uh, dont know if thats a yes or a no, hah.
 
@Shiester Nope. :P
 
@3ventic The main problem I have is that you have to assume knowledge of the answer to know to close it as a dupe.
 
What you're saying is correct by the site policies, I'm sure, but it's confusing to new users when you have 2 exact same questions with exact same answers, but one is tagged "counter-strike-cz" and the other is "counter-strike-source", and then we go around marking (to a non-native English speaker) seemingly different questions as dupes.
 
oh, well then nevermind.
 
However, as I say in the meta, the Monkey Island remake is in a similar boat, but I feel it would be kind of silly to not dupe stuff about those
So I'm not real sure how to define my position on this
The Spelunky remake is another interesting example, because some mechanics are exactly the same, and others have changed.
 
5:02 PM
@Sterno And it would be silly to dupe only some questions and not others.
 
Should we be double-tagging the questions about it that happen to have the same answer, and separating the tags when they don't?
 
I enjoyed that game, the only thing I don't like is that it seems harder somehow, like as if the level layout was randomized a bit more ... well, screwily. Something doesn't feel fluid about it.
 
I doubt it's a popular opinion, but I've always felt that duplicates are for exact duplicates only. The point of closing as a duplicate was to prevent the old USENET issue of having to answer the exact same question every friggin' day.
2
 
@JasonBerkan I agree with this.
 
And I'm old enough to remember USENET, so there. :P
 
5:05 PM
@JasonBerkan And that definition depends on just how pedantic you want to interpret it.
In the end, regardless of what we decide, it's all going to come down to how people vote. Makes Meta seem kind of pointless.
 
@GnomeSlice No, they smell like imaginary.
 
@GnomeSlice I downvoted it too!
I feel so cool.
 
Why don't any other SE sites let you click on the number to see how many upvotes and downvotes a post got? I want to see how many upvotes @GnomeSlice got for his suggestion.
 
@Gigazelle You need 1000 reputation on the site.
 
@Gigazelle They all do. You need a certain amount of rep.
 
5:11 PM
Oh! Good to know! ...Though I think it's a little silly to require that much rep just to see that.
Can anyone tell me its stats, since I can't see it myself?
 
101 rep says nope
 
=[
My MSO rep is too low for like any of the priveilges.
Mostly because all of my posts are dumb.
 
No, MSO is dumb. And weird. And the people with high rep there are strange.
Especially if they have no rep anywhere else. You want to specialize in Q&A about an engine you don't use for any other purpose?
 
It's funny that the last privilege I got was that trivial ability to see vote counts.
 
@3ventic It's not trivial, It's Advanced!
 
5:14 PM
eeeeeerrggghgghhhh 3 years later and still not at 10k
 
@GnomeSlice So close, yet so far.
 
@3ventic ^
I earned 5 rep 2 days ago.
Sweet!
 
I forgot how much Vechs loved silverfish in older maps...
 
1
Q: Which food items heal you?

GnomeSliceIn Pitman's help topic for 'items', it mentions that some food items won't just fill his belly, they will also heal him, but it doesn't say which ones. I'd like to prioritize picking up healing food items over standard ones due to my limited inventory capacity. Which food items heal you, and by...

 
Arqade has taught me that there are so many games I have never heard of.
 
5:20 PM
i also love that MSO has a bunch of bounty questions on it. I see meta rep on par with 'whose line is it anyway' points.
 
@JasonBerkan Ow
 
@GraceNote I was wondering when you would show up. Um, sorry?
 
0
Q: Resources usage in Counter Strike:Source server

Amirreza NasiriI'm trying to make a Counter Strike:Source server with fallowing properties: Maximum players: 15 CSSMath plugin Fully voice enabled A server has the above properties, how much Resources (Bandwidth, RAM, CPU, etc) are needed? and how can I calculate the resources needed?

 
say, what are "voting irregularities" in context of account suspension?
 
That moment when your friend is jealous of himself..
 
5:25 PM
@Gigazelle Usually sockpuppets.
Or two people upvoting each other.
 
hmm, interesting. i noticed our friend young guilo was suspended.
forgive me if this makes me a cruel, heartless jerk, but that does bring a little smile to my face.
 
1 hour ago, by fbueckert
Oh, hey. YoungGuilo got suspended for sockpuppeting, it seems.
 
hahaha, i am very late then!
that's what i get for not reading chat transcript before entering the room.
 
@Gigazelle Meh. No worries.
 
If you like turn based strategy, but don't own an iOS device, today is your day: polygon.com/2013/8/27/4663402/sid-meier-ace-patrol-steam
 
5:38 PM
?_?
 
@fbueckert Again?
 
Dammit it doesn't work
?_??_??_??_??_??_??_??_?
 
@OrigamiRobot Yup.
 
AAAAAAAAAAAA
 
@GnomeSlice You need an editor that can handle Unicode.
 
5:38 PM
@JasonBerkan A what?
 
And his "sister" Dragonness got suspended, too.
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
4
A: ಠ_ಠ button for chat

AsadHere's something that should work as a userscript in both GreaseMonkey (Firefox) and Chrome: // ==UserScript== // @name Disapproval Button // @author Asad // @version 1.0 // @namespace pleaseletthisbeauniquenamespace // @description Grimace disapprovingly more efficie...

ಠ_ಠ
It works if I use my look of disaproval chrome plugin
but the userscript I just linked doesn't
 
@GnomeSlice Whatever you saved the script in doesn't handle Unicode. It converted the ಠ_ಠ to question marks.
 
@JasonBerkan It worked for him though
 
5:40 PM
@GnomeSlice et moi: ಠ_ಠ. Though his script doesn't refocus on the textbox after the click, which is annoying.
 
newButton.innerHTML = "ಠ_ಠ"
 
@GnomeSlice Whatever you saved the script in.
 
@JasonBerkan it does for me, although at the beginning
@OrigamiRobot erm
 
Notepad?
 
oops. yeah
notepad++
looks like it got changed
bah
I'll do it when I get home
 
5:42 PM
@GnomeSlice Under Encoding, select "Encode in UTF-8".
 
ಥ_ಥ
 
I just Meta'd.
 
?_??_??_??_??_??_??_??_?
oops
I think I only changed the button text
 
@GnomeSlice ಠ,ಥ
 
ಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠ
yaaaaaaaaaay
 
5:45 PM
It is a dark day for The Bridge.
 

Sandbox

Where you can play with chat features (except flagging) and ch...
 
although you're right, it doesn't autofocus back on the text box
@Krazer ಠ_ಠ
 
@Krazer gesundheit
I forgot any HTML I learned during school
 
> In the case where the answers are the same, a good answer can still help reduce duplication by pointing back and the original question/answer.
Emphasis added, @Sterno
 
5:47 PM
@GnomeSlice Add textarea.focus(); as a line right before textarea.value += "ಠ_ಠ"
 
sweeeeet
I should make it include a space too
 
@fbueckert fixed
 
ಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠ
So useful!
 
@Sterno I wish I cared more about this question.
 
@Sterno I looked for a Meta post from you but was sad to find none.
 
5:56 PM
@GnomeSlice Oh, and as a web developer: ಠ_ಠ
 
^^ Fun Skyrim Stream (can hear me commentate at times :D)
 
@JasonBerkan I can happily say that I haven't forgotten any but that's because I only learned the sheer basics of basics of HTML while in school.
 
@GraceNote ಠ_ಠ
(It's not HTML. It's JavaScript.)
 
Any HTML, Javascript, or PHP I know is by osmosis and probably bad.
 
I haven't forgotten any JavaScript either. But that's because I didn't learn any JavaScript while in school. ♪
 
6:00 PM
@GraceNote Consider yourself blessed.
 
I learned PHP when I got signed up to run the Genericon website one year.
 
@fbueckert Pretty much done giving him the benefit of the doubt.
 
@StrixVaria I had hopes after the talks we had with him.
 
Yeah, he seemed to be getting better for a while.
 
His insistence on, "I don't care about rep!", though, was blatantly false.
 
6:01 PM
@GraceNote Either I am misunderstanding you, or here
 
@Sterno Oh, I found that zounds ago, but at the time I was only looking for questions.
As a note, it is rather important that people give job requirements before soliciting help to fill a position.
 
Ah! Trying to catch up on all the work I wasn't doing while writing that meta, so I got behind on chat.
 
@James who's co-commentating? It's hard to hear her
 
@Krazer Gaming friend of mine known as Ocellatusa, shes quiet on your end??
 
0
Q: What happens if you have to much land under one control?

Wojtek 'Charkz' HordyniecWhat happens if in CK2 one persons denseness is like 6/4 or 6/3 etc. What happens if you keep that over a large amount of time?

0
Q: how is the daily first battle bonus multiplier chosen?

SF.Every tank gets a special experience multiplier bonus for the first battle won on given day. I've seen this multiplier to be x2, x3, x5, but couldn't find any rule when is it which. Does it follow any rule as to which multiplier is used on given day, or is it random?

 
6:05 PM
@James yes, compared to you
 
@Krazer Yeah she is just a bit quiet by default, hehe
 
@James would it be possible for her to turn up her mic? it sounds like mumbling compared to your crisp, clear voice
 
@Krazer Hehe, Shes Danish, she does mumble a bit in english but Ill ask :)
 
"Crisp" I hear in reference to potato-based snacks and autumn leaves, so it never really struck me as a complementary adjective with "clear".
 
@GraceNote probably mixing visual and audio terms~
 
6:09 PM
Sightwise or hearwise it's all crunchy to me.
 
@GraceNote Come visit here right before winter hits. Most days are crisp.
 
@fbueckert Right, same crispness I get in my own before-winter times. Crunchy!
 
>8)
 
Don't make me shout "CRUNCHY ICE CREAM" now, because I know I probably will if provoked!
 
CRUNCHY ICE CREAM
 
@GraceNote Aww. Nobody wants to visit me for winter. :(
 
Winter is the best time for ice cream!
 
@GnomeSlice Ending addiction for good
 
@Krazer And Slurpees. They are always nice and thick in the middle of winter.
 
@JasonBerkan mmm
 
6:17 PM
@fbueckert Whereabouts is this, anyway?
 
@GraceNote Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canuckistan.
aka. Winterpeg, aka. The place where it gets really cold for six months of the year.
 
@fbueckert Ah, in that case... this would be relevant...
 
@fbueckert I would. At least you have snow in the winter.
 
Nov 1 '11 at 15:53, by Grace Note
@Mana Since our refridgerator doesn't work, we actually moved a bunch of stuff into the snow outside in order to keep it cool. I bet this is what it's like to live in Canada.
 
@GraceNote I did that when my deep freeze died.
Just dumped everything in the garage.
 
6:19 PM
@GraceNote That is actually true. My deck becomes an ad hoc freezer in the winter.
 
I don't like leaving it exposed outside, since the wildlife tends to get at it, even in the city.
 
@GnomeSlice Oh it's just a giftbasket, I thought that was like actually her stuff or something
In other WTF gaming news
The King of Fighters Online MOBA Game Goes Into Beta Next Month http://goo.gl/fb/xjlEk
I'm still waiting on the SF4 shmup
 
@fbueckert During that snowstorm, wildlife wasn't a major concern since the main food nabbers (the local bear as well as various rodentry) aren't around when it's that cold.
 
0
Q: wine and nvidia optimus problem

user187262I have Asus N53SN computer which has nvidia optimus. Rift online is working on my ubuntu but its using intel card. i need to make it work with geforce. But optirun wine riftpatcher.exe saying to me ; wine: cannot find L"C:\windows\system32\riftpatchlive.exe" so how can i make it work with gefor...

 
@BenBrocka ...huh.
 
6:24 PM
I had to click the link to be sure it was THAT King of Fighters
 
So did I.
 
@GraceNote It it's only short term, yeah, it's not a huge deal.
 
I have to say that I'm not convinced it's a terrible idea, at least in so far as adaptational existence.
But then it's yet another MOBA, yet more bottom-left-to-top-right.
@fbueckert True that.
 
@GraceNote We tend to have a squirrel problem in our area. Ask @TrentHawkins about it; he holds a special grudge against them.
 
Right now there's an insect population that provides a bigger threat than anything.
@fbueckert Did he ever step outside the door only to be surrounded by squirrels in an almost-stick-up?
 
6:29 PM
@GraceNote they caused several thousand dollars worth of damage to my car.
 
@GraceNote Nah. They did a number on the wiring harness in his car, though.
 
Fortunately Insurance covered that.
 
@TrentHawkins I parsed this as there being a company named "Fortunately Insurance", which... actually that wouldn't be a bad name.
Also, ow about the car.
We had a family of mice nesting in our tractor/lawnmower once, many years back.
 
I'm already planning a Fortunately Insurance video ad in my head
2
 
@GraceNote I've had a mouse nest built in my heater fan, of all places. That ended...interestingly.
 
6:33 PM
Question: How many "voting irregularity" offenses does it take for a suspension greater than 7 days?
 
Amazingly, we'd ran that lawnmower repeatedly and nary a corpse or any actual damage to the mice from it. Certainly made the machine not want to properly run for the longest time, though.
 
@BenBrocka I would so switch to a company called Fortunately Insurance.... if we weren't forced to use MPI.
 
@Fluttershy Depends on the case in question.
 
@GraceNote I'm only asking because this is YoungGuilo's 3rd or 4th suspension for it...
 
6:34 PM
@GraceNote Yeah, I think I'd've noticed some red misting coming from the air vents if I ever did manage to chop one up in there.
 
@fbueckert Hey. I'm eating lunch here.
 
@Fluttershy Generally the first or second would be 7 days (escalating scale, depending on how benign/accidental the first instance was it could only be for 1 day instead of 7)
 
@Fluttershy 3rd or 4th? I must have missed some, then, because I only remember a single one before this one.
 
@fbueckert I also only remember one previous.
 
@fbueckert IIRC, there was one shortly after he became a member, there was one when it was his "siblings" upvoting his stuff, and now this one.
 
6:38 PM
@Fluttershy I don't recall the first one out of those, then.
 
Automated unit tests should not take 90 minutes to run.
 
If this is his third, yeah, sounds like education efforts with him are disproportional to the amount of utility we get from him.
 
@Sterno Better that than a multi-week manual regression cycle.
 
@BenBrocka In some places we do a 3 day suspension first, used to be the protocol before we actually added a nicer date selector there.
 
There's a chance I'm confusing him with our other perpetually suspended user danRhul, but I'm pretty sure this is YG's 3rd.
 
6:39 PM
@Fluttershy You don't recall correctly.
 
@StrixVaria Yes. It's just annoying because the only reason they take so long as that they're badly written, and some do things like Thread.Sleep and whatnot
 
@GraceNote That has been known to happen!
 
@Fluttershy Yeah, he got a rather massive suspension.
I still don't know what triggered that.
 
@fbueckert Repeated offenses.
 
@Fluttershy I never noticed any sockpuppeting on his part, though.
This was before I had developed my sockpuppet senses, though, so I may have missed it.
 
6:42 PM
@fbueckert There was. There was also the issue of down voting a correct answer for a 50 point bounty.
And some other stuff.
 
@Fluttershy I remember that one. Figured it was rather bad form.
 
@fbueckert Wow nearly a year?
 
@OrigamiRobot I think it actually is a year.
 
It was a whole year.
 
I'm a sockpuppet.
 
6:43 PM
Then it got shortened.
 
How many times do you have to run afoul of the mods before they hammer you with a suspension for that long, I wonder.
 
@Sterno I knew you secretly liked ponies! You're @PrivatePansy's sock puppet aren't you?
 
@fbueckert You should run some experiments, for SCIENCE!
 
I'm @Lazers's sockpuppet.
 
@GraceNote Yeah I've done 1-3 days as a first time thing before I think
 
6:45 PM
@RonanForman And you, as my trusty assistant, shall carry them out in my name!
 
@fbueckert He hasn't even been a user as long as I've been running afoul of the mods, so I don't think that's it.
 
I assume @TrentHawkins is engrossed in squirrel projectile videos.
@GnomeSlice I feel like you are proud of this statement.
 
@OrigamiRobot they were largely cathartic
 
@TrentHawkins We could always build a few, if it makes you happy.
We can call it the SSP: "Squirrel Space Program"
 
@fbueckert I'd be more comfortable building something like this is we had, say, a vision impeding fence around our backyard. As I'm fairly sure it's someone near-by feeding the damn things.
 
6:54 PM
@TrentHawkins If we fire them halfway across the city, it'd be safe to say they won't be doing that anymore.
Or we can just release lots of feral cats in our area.
 
@TrentHawkins Yeah - I had a coworker get a ticket for killing a gopher in his backyard.
 
@JasonBerkan WTF, why?
 
@OrigamiRobot He used to mock the city, because it was for "inhumane treatment of an animal".
 
I never saw this ad before
So good
 
@JasonBerkan Did he torture it or something?
 
6:56 PM
@fbueckert Yes, but someone feeding squirrels is quite likely to complain to the city about our innocent little contraption that the squirrels 'just happen to' keep setting off, and then there's charges of animal cruelty.... it'd be much simpler to load up that pellet gun of yours and shoot the damn things.
 
@OrigamiRobot Depends on your point of view. He did the classic farm kid solution - put a snare over the hole and flood it. When the gopher appears, yank.
 
@GnomeSlice "There's no messy desktop" as a slogan makes me sad. I don't know why people find a desktop so hard.
 
@TrentHawkins There's always people who think you have to treat every animal like it's a special snowflake.
 
@JasonBerkan Wow I hate to think of what that city would have said about my grandpa's mole solution.
 
@Sterno Same
Fuck you, now I'm piss,
 
6:58 PM
To those people, I present, a squirrel launcher.
 
@Sterno I didn't either up until recently, I've found my desktop has started to collect shit.
But anyway, the ad itself is amazing.
 
@OrigamiRobot this looks inhumane
Is that like a corkscrew for corking moles?
 
@GnomeSlice No, that's a spring.
 
If we do find out who's feeding the stupid things, I'm going to go have a talk with them.
And start presenting them with repair bills.
 

« first day (1139 days earlier)      last day (3902 days later) »