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1:00 PM
I'm so hungry
The breakfast van had a day off so I just stuffed my face with sweets
Now I feel still hungry and also ill
 
Maybe I'll do the same and eat some skittles
 
Honestly, terrible idea
Also, Skittles. Doublely terrible.
 
Your opinions are being automatically ignored, skittle hater.
 
You still remembered the last time I got convinced to purchase a packet of sour skittles? I ate half a dozen, then threw the rest away
Some of the worst sweets I've eaten my entire life
 
@kalina You are probably just dehydrated - drink some water
 
1:05 PM
I am never dehydrated
 
@kalina Yes you are
Now drink water
 
@PrivatePansy SOUR SKITTLES ARE THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD WTF
@5pike Due to my recreational drug abuse, I am well versed in keeping myself correctly hydrated
 
1 min ago, by Private Pansy
Some of the worst sweets I've eaten my entire life
 
@PrivatePansy How dare you.
 
@kalina Good. Now drink some more water.
 
1:07 PM
stomach ache is not one of the symptoms of dehydration
 
@kalina If you ate sweets - it is
at least for me....
 
I now want skittles, and none of the vending machines here seem to sell skittles. Fml.
 
@OrigamiRobot THE WORST
 
@TZHX do you have a baby around?
 
If you like skittles and sour things, how can you not like sour skittles?
 
1:11 PM
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Q: Does camoflauge paint affect your camo rating

JLaBellaTanks can use 3 different paints, for the 3 types of maps, summer, winter and desert. My question is does using these paints affect the range you can be spotted, or is it strictly cosmetics. If the latter is true, do certain paints affect it more? For example, would the pure white winter camo b...

 
They are skittles with sour on them.
 
No they aren't.
 
Yes, they are.
 
Any MySQL experts here?
 
@3ventic I dabble
They taste like... fake fruit flavoring coated with lemon juice
 
1:13 PM
@3ventic another for the dabbling group
 
@Wipqozn
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Skittles + Sour
 
is there a way for single query to access two databases?
 
SKITTLES
I NEED THEM
also
American sour skittles are not as good as European sour skittles
Our sour is built in, rather than sprayed on
@3ventic yes
 
1:14 PM
Sprayed on is better.
 
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Q: Select columns across different databases

GravitonIs it possible to do a select ( or insert) statement across different databases that are located on the same server? If yes, how?

 
@3ventic doesn't the [databasename].[dbo].[table] syntax work?
 
Then you get the excess sour powder at the bottom. mmmmmmmmmmmm
 
@KevinvanderVelden That's something I was looking for.
 
@3ventic select * from databasename.schema.table a inner join databasename.schema.table b on ( a.column = b.column )
 
1:15 PM
I'm really bad at SQL xD
 
@3ventic see privatepansy's link, its minus the "[dbo]." bit
 
I need to use something like UPDATE SET stuff = stuff + 3 WHERE user = [a bunch of usernames from another table based on certain restrictions]
I doubt user = (SELECT stuff FROM blargh) will work if there's many that match..?
 
@3ventic Subqueries should work
Use IN - WHERE user IN (SELECT stuff FROM blargh)
 
@5pike the midwifery department probably has some hanging around. I don't think violence against them would be helpful for my employment status though.
 
that's not selecting from two tables at all
joined together anyway
 
1:17 PM
@PrivatePansy Okay, thanks, I'll try that
 
just update blah set column = stuff where user in ( select user from othertable where stuff is true )
 
@TZHX But ... but you get skittles.
 
@TZHX You work in a hospital?
 
@5pike so you get fired and you have lousy candy
 
@KevinvanderVelden Well, he wants skittles, but the vending machines don't have them.
 
1:18 PM
I want skittles even more, the longer you talk about them
 
Solution - baby kneading
 
@PrivatePansy no, a University medical science research unit.
 
@5pike yes, whoever stocks the vending machines don't want people to have lousy candy. They're making the world a better place, what are you doing with your life?
 
@KevinvanderVelden skittles is the best "candy" in the world
die in a fire
 
grabs popcorn
 
1:19 PM
@KevinvanderVelden Don't ask me, ask @TZHX - he wants skittles. I just give advice.
 
throws 10 candies on the ground
 
do people in the UK really use the word candy now? I thought it was an American thing.
 
He could walk to a store
 
@TZHX no, but if I say sweets, they get confused
only an American would wear their pants on the outside
easily confused people
 
@kalina And only a Brit would call "Gasoline" 'Petroleum'. That's like calling Bread 'flour'.
 
1:23 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz no, that would be if we called "Gasoline" "Crude Oil"
 
@kalina Stomach ache is a symptom of dehydration. <_<
 
@Fluttershy after headache, dry lips, etc yeah
it's not the first symptom
 
@kalina Crude Oil, which is, y'know, Petroleum.
THESE ARE CHEMICALS WITH PROPER NAMES.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz the wikipedia article has been vandalised by an American, I have no come back
 
Note to self: vandalize Wikipedia before future arguments with @kalina. Early study indicates this strategy is highly effective.
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1:26 PM
@kalina I never said it was a first symptom, just that it was a symptom. =P
 
@Fluttershy WELL FINE
STOP GANGING UP ON ME
cries
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz @kalina dutch is siding with the brits in this one, petroleum is what you get when you distill crude oil (150 °C – 290 °C)
 
@KevinvanderVelden thanks for the support, Europe is the best place on Earth
 
Or well, one of the things of course
 
indeed, many different things come from processing crude oil
 
1:27 PM
Not setting the bar very high there, @kalina. Earth's a shithole.
 
@TZHX yeah America drags down the average by more than 400%
yesterday I learned that there is a show called Talking Bad
 
> UPDATE storage SET freeMaps = freeMaps + 3 WHERE account IN (SELECT name FROM tgmtaniq_ipboard.members WHERE member_group_id = 9 OR mgroup_others LIKE '%,9,%')
 
which talks about breaking bad
 
That look good?
 
@3ventic looks good, excepting that mgroup_others is a CSV =p
 
1:29 PM
@kalina It is so awful.
 
@kalina you really want to start a shitstorm discussion of which continent is better?
 
petroleum is defined to be whatever people think the "p" means in "bp" when I play online games with that nick.
 
@3ventic if you're intending to set freeMaps to freeMaps + 3 where the member group is 9, then sure
 
That's exactly what I'm trying to do
 
@5pike this is what I do, ask anybody who has been here longer than you and they will tell you that I am little miss controversial generalisations
 
1:30 PM
Steam being the only sufficiently rad service I know to allow 2-char long nicks.
 
Most of them just ignore any generalisation I make these days
 
@kalina Ok, I see.
 
Antarctica is obviously the best continent; it has very few people, most of which are really smart, and penguins.
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hence the lack of reaction
@Sconibulus apart from the fact it's freezing cold constantly
which is a big downside
 
@Sconibulus On the other hand, you could get mauled by a polar bear just walking down main street trying to get a donut
 
1:31 PM
@Sconibulus Penguins is always a plus
 
couldn't you have chosen an uninhabited island somewhere around the equator?
 
@PrivatePansy Lies spread by Canadians, polar bears don't live there
 
@PrivatePansy only in the Arctic
 
@kalina Sounds like where I live! Except the uninhabited bit.
 
@kalina equator is hot... and doesn't usually have penguins
 
1:32 PM
I'm the only living person in a radius of 5 meters! That counts, right?
 
@PrivatePansy er... no
 
@PrivatePansy also up and down?
 
@kalina Dang
@Blem No, probably not. Just planar.
 
@PrivatePansy if we're going to do that, I'm the only living person in a radius of 12 meters in all directions
 
@PrivatePansy also garbage is a real PITA
 
1:33 PM
if you give me a few minutes to set fire to the rest of the office, it will be 40 meters
 
@kalina Sounds good. Do it.
 
I feel so proud, asking a meta with nothing but downvoted answers.
 
@Sterno link
 
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Q: When is it appropriate to close a lore question as "not addressed directly through in-universe sources"?

SternoThis is the text for one of our off-topic close reasons. However, I feel we've got a pretty serious problem with this close reason. This is popularly interpreted as "If the game (or series) doesn't tell you the answer, then the the question is off-topic." This is problematic, in my opinion, a...

 
Being stuck at work with TLoU and GTA V sitting at my house sucks! :(
 
1:34 PM
@Sterno they're even more downvoted now
 
Yay!
 
@Fluttershy Being stuck at work when I only need a few hundred xp to get to level 84 in payday 2 sucks
 
@Sterno A big part of the problem is the rule has mutated substantially from it's history; Originally, we basically just didn't want questions about tie-in novels and such (and regardless of any other outcome of that Meta, we still don't). The rest of the problem falls under the umbrella of what I call "stupid thought experiments".
 
I might just not play it again until there is more DLC though
 
1:35 PM
 
And now I go to work. Bye chat.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz BYE
ENJOY
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah. I think really the main resolution is that the text of that close reason should probably change or be removed. Somehow.
 
@kalina I will not enjoy it I am surrounded by french people.
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@LessPop_MoreFizz what's wrong with... oh wait
right, nevermind, my condolences
wait, are they north french or south french?
 
@kalina Canada French.
 
it's generally only parisians that are the issue
oh
 
Oh no... Quebecois...
 
quebecers
 
(cc @StrixVaria and @fbueckert)
 
1:37 PM
right
 
you poor thing
 
they're not french
they're canadians in denial
and don't let them tell you otherwise
the equivalent is an American claiming to be English
 
@kalina think all the haughty protectionism of parisian french, with none of the cultural achievement to back it up.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh I've been to Quebec
 
I've spoken to far more Americans who claim to be Irish or Scottish than English.
 
1:39 PM
@kalina I did not know you'd been to North America.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I have been to both Canada and America
multiple times
 
@Fluttershy is the hero The Bridge needs.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I tried upvoting your comment twice. :( Also, should I add in the fact that SF&F has openly stated that they support lore questions regardless of answerability?
 
@tzhx yeah, but that's more the inherent American obsession with ancestry and genealogy.
 
I disagree with banning all lore questions
 
1:41 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz I never quite got that
 
I do think the current way we handle them is crap though
however, lore questions do not fit in with "problems you actually face in a game"
which is our scope
 
@sconibulus it's the whole nation of immigrants thing.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz it's not a whole nation of immigrants, you just stole the country off the people who lived there first!
 
@kalina Did they have a flag?
No flag, no country.
 
a habit you got out of until the world dragged you into various world wars
and then you picked it up and continued kicking people out of their own countries
</minirant>
 
1:43 PM
@kalina I just get so tired of it always coming up, and people always trying to find a loophole to allow their question. It's not worth the hassle. Especially when we already have another (for some reason) popular site who deals with questions of that... type.
 
@Fluttershy from the most pragmatic point of view possible, any "lore" question is not a problem you face in playing a game
and is therefore offtopic
I upvoted you even though I like lore questions
 
@kalina I like them too! Just not here.
 
@kalina This.
 
@fluttershy but what if I want to ask a lore question about the latest high-realism Manshoot? CALL OF DUTY ISNT SCIENCE FICTION.
 
@LessPop Good point.
 
1:45 PM
@Fluttershy I'll even put that on your post so I can steal comment upvotes
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Wait for Call of Duty: Future Warfare
Actually, are you sure CoD isn't sci-fi? I thought it is set in the near future?
 
@PrivatePansy blops2
 
@kalina I don't think anything actually says that anywhere except certain users in chat and comments
 
Comment up votes are best up votes.
 
Anyway we can always pass it off as fantasy, right?
 
1:45 PM
The closest is You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.
 
FINE. BATTLEFIELD 1942 ISN'T SCIFI.
 
nowhere does it say "problems you face in the game"
 
@Sterno you know what, I'm sure it was in the FAQ
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Historical Fantasy
 
but (a) the FAQ no longer exists
 
and (b) the new help page doesn't say it
 
@Sconibulus Alternative history
 
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Q: Quick U-turn on foot [mini spolier]

PaulBI was playing the first Trevor rampage mini game when I'm sure it popped up saying press 'X' and something to perform a quick u-turn. Any ideas what it is or did I just misread it?

 
@Lazers Great, now we have "[mini spoiler]"
What next, [micro spoiler] and [mega spoiler]?
 
@PrivatePansy isn't that a subcategory of historical fantasy?
 
1:48 PM
@PrivatePansy
 
@Sconibulus I've always thought that alt. history is more of a branch of sci-fi
 
@PrivatePansy Oh, I guess that's fair
 
@PrivatePansy depends on the method used to create the alternative history, surely?
 
@Fluttershy I would make you a room owner for this but you already are one.
 
sci-fi and fantasy are only really different on what/how they handwave
 
1:50 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm all ready for Halloween.
 
@StrixVaria Now that you've brought it to the attention of some, I suspect I won't be for long.
 
FINE. CRUSADER KINGS II ISN'T SCI FI.
 
@StrixVaria Make me one. He and I are basically the same person.
 
DONT DO THAT
 
@Lazers Also, spolier
 
1:51 PM
Bad things happen when @OrigamiRobot is room owner.
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@PrivatePansy needs a hides
 
@kalina No no no,
 
@PrivatePansy is the best tag hides more
 
I always make my intention clear when I am going to go on a rampage. This is not one of those times.
 
1:51 PM
The only good thing that happened when @OrigamiRobot was room owner was I became room owner.
 
I think you both need a .
 
@StrixVaria See? I do good things.
 
1:53 PM
Mar 26 at 23:17, by OrigamiRobot
@StrixVaria is owner too.
Mar 26 at 23:17, by OrigamiRobot
I promised
 
I'm bored
 
@PrivatePansy me too
 
I'm taking votes against this to mean "No, I don't see a problem with needing to know the answer before closing to vote, let's continue as-is." Which is a perfectly valid opinion (though one I obviously disagree with). If there's something else about it you disagree with, though, please speak up. — Sterno 34 secs ago
 
I'd make @OrigamiRobot a room owner if I trusted him to not go on another rampage.
 
1:54 PM
@Sterno I disagree with it, it doesn't have enough cake
 
If you make me a room owner I promise to never care.
 
If you make me room owner I will remove myself again
 
@Sterno That would have the added benefit of bothering @OrigamiRobot too!
 
@kalina You can do that?
 
@Wipqozn I already said I wouldn't.
 
1:55 PM
@PrivatePansy of course you can
 
@PrivatePansy Yes.
 
@badp are you here?
 
I want to play dwarf fortress, but I still have to work for about an hour :(
 
Or is anybody else here using Windows 8?
 

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