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Arperum

11:05 AM

gaming.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/101380 How did you miss the huge "answer" textbox?

5pike

@Lazers That's actually pretty clever.

badp

@5pike I've set it to upload to gfycat, so most of the time you're actually looking at mp4's

I'm uploading mp4's, not gifs.

5pike

@badp I see

badp

5pike

Pretty cool program, this ShareX

Cool, there's even a setting for owncloud.

Kevin van der Velden

11:14 AM

@badp so, what does the text upload setting do?

Or is it more than a gifmaker

badp

@KevinvanderVelden ShareX wants to be some sort of universal uploader tool

5pike

Mhhh.. needs a bit tweaking.

meme scientist

11:31 AM

@badp so that shitty question of papers please

someone's deliberately editing the title to mislead others

5pike

I should have used the sandbox, sorry.

Mad Scientist

@memescientist titles that are slightly misleading without context (e.g. in the hot questions list) are a time-honored Arqade tradition

Kevin van der Velden

@memescientist there's no editing the title to mislead others, the only edit in the title is from "Fastest" to "What is the fastest". Assuming we're talking about gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/139127/revisions

Wipqozn

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Q: How do I kill people with poison?

There is some point in the story where you receive poison to kill someone, but every time I click on the poison I die. I tried shaking the dusts over the papers or using the seal with them, but no luck. How do I apply the poison on their passports without dying??

papers-please

oh, well maybe it's the one kevinposted.

Kevin van der Velden

Aah, different papers-please no-context thing

Wipqozn

11:44 AM

Either way the titles are accurate.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn probably not, @memescientist is involved in the one you linked

Wipqozn

Funny titles are fine so long as they are still accurate.

Kevin van der Velden

Also, he's just reverting the changes you made because he disagreed with your changes.

And to remove (or at least decrease) spoilers. I agree with the reverted title if it's the one @Wipqozn posted

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden I don't even care about it being better or not.

The original title is fine. It's concise and clear.

That's enough justification for the OP to stop others from changing his title.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn Agreed.

But still, I think the old one is better than the one meme proposed

Wipqozn

11:48 AM

. Forcing an OP to change a perfectly fine title makes no sense, even if your proposed revision is better. It's just pointless edit waring and upset.

On the other hand, if their title is terrible then yeah, feel free to edit it and bring it to mod attention if they roll it back and won't keep your revisions even after you explain why the title is bad.

But if the title is perfectly fine, and they roll back your edits, then just drop it.

badp

@memescientist ...link?

meme scientist

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Q: How do I kill people with poison?

There is some point in the story where you receive poison to kill someone, but every time I click on the poison I die. I tried shaking the dusts over the papers or using the seal with them, but no luck. How do I apply the poison on their passports without dying??

papers-please

Wipqozn

Okay, so it is the one I thought it was.

There's nothing wrong with that title.

RedRiderX

@fredley oh now you got me wanting to make a game about the frustration of breastfeeding for the first time!

But I don't know how to make a game in 48 hours :-(

Kevin van der Velden

@RedRiderX it's fun though!

meme scientist

11:54 AM

@Wipqozn Except it has nothing to do with the question

if he had a real fucking question he wouldn't have worded it like that

Martin Sojka

@RedRiderX Copy Tamagochi? Feed the breast every so many hours or it withers and dies. Teach it to make tricks and jump around.

meme scientist

I guess this site is now a popularity contest, seeing who has the most outrageous title

RedRiderX

@KevinvanderVelden I'm sure it would be but it would probably take more then 48 hours to learn how

meme scientist

Edits that would have been approved a year ago are now getting ridiculed for being too "serious"

Wipqozn

@memescientist I don't understand how this is the case at all.

meme scientist

11:55 AM

@Wipqozn "How do I poison people"

even though Day 20 clearly wants you to poison one guy

who has a set name

the event is scripted

Wipqozn

How is the OP supposed to know that?

Kevin van der Velden

Yes, and those are all spoilers for the game that are to be avoided, especially in a title

Martin Sojka

Can't you use the poison on someone else's passport?

Wipqozn

Also doesn't the game have a sandbox mode as well? It does from what I remember.

meme scientist

@Wipqozn He's fucking playing "Papers please"

how could he not know

5pike

11:56 AM

@MartinSojka You can poison anyone you want.

RedRiderX

Oh well it's a pretty obvious idea I'm sure someone will do it

meme scientist

@5pike Right, but the Ezic agent asks you to poison that one specific guy

Martin Sojka

@5pike So "how do I poison people?" is a valid question then.

Arperum

@memescientist I would not fucking know that an event is scripted.

Wipqozn

@memescientist Because he didn't code the game...? I wouldn't know if this was a scripted event or just a random occurrence on a certain day unless I played it a few times.

5pike

11:57 AM

@MartinSojka Yes

meme scientist

@Arperum So? The game itself tells you "hey, poison this one guy", not "please murder everyone waiting in line, glory to glory to arstotzka"

Arperum

Hell, some people don't even know the concept "scripted".

5pike

@memescientist What if he wants to?

Martin Sojka

@memescientist ... and he might be trying to poison the next guy just to see how the game reacts to the "wrong" person dying. I know I would.

Arperum

@memescientist How does it matter that it is on day 20, would it be any different on day 27 or day 12?

5pike

11:58 AM

Hell, I killed the next guy that came up

And then myself

And then some other random guy

Mad Scientist

I miss murder

2

meme scientist

the biggest thing is that he fucking contradicts himself in the body of his question

his title is worded How do I kill people with poison

yet his question is "How do I apply the poison on their passports without dying??"

Could you guys have not just put that into the question title?

5pike

@memescientist Or short "How do I kill people with poison?"

Martin Sojka

In context, it's asking the same question. And it's good form to avoid repeating oneself word-for-word.

meme scientist

I'm really getting sick of the lack of quality control here. You guys are letting shitty "inside joke" titles that are designed to gain attention and nothing else become Arqade. The titles have gotten to the point where everytime I see an Arqade question on the hot questions list, it reminds me so much of a Gawker article

"HERE PLEASE FEED ME ATTENTION AND FEED ME CYBERNET POINTS"

instead of "Hey I have a problem with X, how do I fix it?"

Wipqozn

12:00 PM

@memescientist He could of, but he doesn't need to. The question is perfectly fine and understandable without it.

Martin Sojka

"You guys clearly don't lack a sense of humour. How dare you!"

Wipqozn

If he put that in his title, and someone tried to convert it to his current one I'd oppose making that change as well.

meme scientist

@Wipqozn Well consider this

I got banned for fucking changing my own title of my own question

back to the first one

Wipqozn

@memescientist I can't really comment on that.

Kevin van der Velden

@memescientist And what was the first one?

meme scientist

12:02 PM

@Wipqozn And you know what? The edit was REJECTED by top members of the community, coincidentally ones that support having stupid titles like the question I linked above

Wipqozn

@memescientist Can you link the question you're talking about?

meme scientist

gaming.stackexchange.com/revisions/127958/6

Not bad huh

I call out others on making stupid "attention getting titles"

then they say "wow this guy just doesn't want to have fun, what a loser"

then I go back change my question title

all of a sudden, it's a full 180

"NO FUNNY TITLES THIS IS SHIT I AM A MODERATOR I WONT LET YOU DO THIS"

yeah, that makes a whole bunch of sense

"We hate people who think they have every right to criticize our fun"

Martin Sojka

No comment on that specific question. I don't play or know enough about TF2 to decide which version is more fitting.

meme scientist

@MartinSojka My point exactly. If the title had been worded "What is the splash range of urine", you wouldn't even think of TF2 as the first thing that pops in your head

if you had read "How do I poison people", can you say truthfully that you'd 100% know it was a question about Papers, Please?

Martin Sojka

Note that I asked about the Papers Please one as well before making a judgement call. That "I don't decide on stuff I have no idea about" stance is universal.

meme scientist

12:05 PM

5 mins ago, by Martin Sojka

"You guys clearly don't lack a sense of humour. How dare you!"

Martin Sojka

@memescientist That's why I look at tags first, then the question title.

meme scientist

nice backtracking there

Martin Sojka

@memescientist Are you calling me a liar now?

meme scientist

@badp Can I get some clarification

on why I was banned

considering since the moderators of this site think "it's not wrong to have a little fun"

so I went to a question I thought would work with a funny title and added it

all of a sudden "HEY YOU CANT DO THAT NO YOU CANT DO THAT"

then I go to my own question

"WOW WHAT A TROLL PERMA BAN"

Kevin van der Velden

If I would have to guess, it's the urine bit

Note: guess, not a mod

meme scientist

12:08 PM

@KevinvanderVelden That was the first revision of the title, ironically

That was my first fucking title, I rollback'd to revision 1, and they go nuts

So I can't change my own title to the way I want it, but I have no right to change others titles to the way they want it

so much hypocrisy with all these mods

Kevin van der Velden

There is no irony here. I was pointing to the urine bit as probably being the unwanted aspect

meme scientist

@KevinvanderVelden Consider this

I got 30 upvotes on the question

when I used the first "attention grabbing title"

After I changed it to a less misleading title

I received something like 1-4 upvotes

Clearly shows something about the titles of questions here

badp

The matter of "funny titles" is an open one and mostly one that's based on judgement calls. I think that there is a difference between "what is the splash radius of my jizz" and "How do I kill everyone"

Kevin van der Velden

That's not how votes work

badp

and I find it weird that you're finding issue about "killing people" vs "killing a person"

meme scientist

12:13 PM

@badp NO, it's not that

it's that his question is "how do I not die from the poison"

but his title says "how do I kill others"

?????????????

Mad Scientist

@memescientist You should see a moderator message here that should explain the suspension (I can't see the message myself). Discussing this in public here is probably not useful, contact the SE team if you want to complain about the moderators.

badp

@memescientist It's "how do I kill others without killing myself, too"

meme scientist

@MadScientist Yeah I contacted the SE team

and they said something along the lines of "you were a criminal in your past so we probably dont care much for your situation"

or something like "you were bad before, you deserve this"

like okay bring up the past, like that even fucking matters

badp

@memescientist The past is explicitly called out in your complimentary suspension message

meme scientist

@MadScientist I think I'm referring to when I was site-banned, but thanks for that I appreciate it

@badp Wow you did some bad things before that weren't a big deal at that time, but now we've decided to ban you because reasons

badp

12:16 PM

@memescientist Yes, the sum of minor offences can grow large enough to warrant a suspension

Gnomeslice should know something about this.

Blem

Martin Sojka

Coming back to the breast feeding idea game, I thought of a fitting game title relating it to Tamagotchi: "Chinomigotchi" ("chinomigo", "乳飲み子", meaning "suckling child" - "乳" is milk, "飲" drinking and "子" child).

Kevin van der Velden

@Blem IT'S OVER 362880? :O

Lazers

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Q: Steam Purchases: Can you store pre-purchased items in your inventory?

On the Steam store, there are some games/software that can be pre-purchased/ordered, purchased as a timed license/one-time license (which most games/programs use; basically binds to one Steam account, only that account can use purchased license). Can pre-ordered products bought as a gift item th...

steam

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Q: Sion's ultimate speed

so with the 4.18 patch, i have some question about Sion. 1st: if he is wearing Ravenous hydra(don't know if this is the correct item) will the kills from the hydra also go to the 2nd? 2nd: about his ultimate skill, does your boots come into play while "bull rushing"?

league-of-legends

Koviko

I forget... Was the policy on "funny" titles to not make them or to just get rid of the annoying comments that come with them?

Wipqozn

12:32 PM

@Koviko Funny titles are fine so long are still good titles.

Funny does not really play into the quality of a question title at all. The quality of title comes down to if it's clear and understandable to those who play the game.

Koviko

Alright, good.

Why won't the prostitute on Grove Street get in my car?

Wipqozn

Comments on funny titles are also fine in small numbers. The problem is when we get several of them on one questions.

That's what @fredley posts was about. Constructive comments were being buried under comments talking about the funny title.

Koviko

@Wipqozn Yeah, that is a problem. Wait wait wait

Why aren't you a turtle?

5

Wipqozn

If there are just one or two funny comments it's not a big deal.

@Koviko Because I want everyone else to be miserable.

Arperum

@Koviko There are scripts going around to fix it. I have one active on this pc.

Wipqozn

12:45 PM

@Arperum You make it sound like me changing my gravatar is a bug.

Koviko

@Wipqozn Maybe I should submit a ticket.

Wipqozn

I must say, I knew there would be drama around me changing the gravatar since there always is, but I enver expected this large of a fall out. I never knew I was so loved and that my avatar ws considered such a vital part of the community.

@Koviko You probably should.

LessPop_MoreFizz

TURNIP FOR WHAAAAAAAAAAT

Koviko

@LessPop_MoreFizz why michelle

thanks obama

Matt Эллен

you're welcome

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:50 PM

Because pun.

Koviko

@LessPop_MoreFizz Corporal PUNishment.

Wipqozn

@Koviko Puns rock.

Lazers

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Q: Minecraft crashing after joining my server

My minecraft is crashing after i am joining my server. Crash Report: ---- Minecraft Crash Report ---- // I feel sad now :( Time: 15:50 15/10/14 Description: Unexpected error java.lang.NullPointerException: Unexpected error at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Precondit...

minecraft

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn it is, fortunately we have work arounds

Arperum

1:05 PM

@KevinvanderVelden I was away for a bit, came back and wanted to post exactly the same. GET OUT OF MY HEAD ALREADY.

badp

2 days ago, by badp

If you don't turn puns into existential dread, you're letting the terrorists win

Frank

Turtles are just bugs writ large.

Also, good morning, everybody.

5pike

Oct 1 at 11:14, by 5pike

Returtle the turtle - now on userstyles.org

badp

1:25 PM

Zone 500 beaten, zone 500 achievement get, gild get, 49 souls get, 1e49 DPS achievement get

188+454 souls

5pike

@badp I'd love to make a joke, but that would be hypocritical.

badp

@5pike shoot

5pike

And/or offensive..

But ok, probably not in best taste.

badp

it's okay, I can ban you if it's offensive no problem :P

5pike

@badp I wanted to write "Did you also get a life?"

badp

1:29 PM

@5pike Lives are overrated

They're full of people and places you have to go and things you have to do

oh the people

Koviko

badp

So should I get a life?

fredley

<3 Allie

Frank

2x4GB RAM for ~$82.

Koviko

@badp hahaha my first laugh of the morning. Thank you!

Frank

1:30 PM

That's a pretty decent price.

badp

@Koviko hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.it/2010/06/…

Hyperbole and a Half is the best

Kevin van der Velden

It is, despite using the horror that is mspaint

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden That's partly what makes it so great

Frank

►

RPi Awesomeness

@Koviko Because he is a horrible person. You should install the Returtle the turtle user script by @5pike

Frank

1:50 PM

Huh. Pre-Sequel has an unacquirable (so far) gun.

Excalibastard

5pike

Intriguing.

Lazers

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