The Bridge

Powerlord

17:05

@5pike Why would you ruin a perfectly good hat by snapping off its brim!!!

I mean, I paid good metal for that hat!

5pike

@Powerlord For massive damage, of course

Sterno

The general rule for pizza in the US is that if the pizza place has a TV commercial for it, you don't want to eat there.

(unless it is free)

Powerlord

@Sterno ...but I like Jets Pizza.

Sterno

@Powerlord You're what's wrong with America.

Powerlord

Also, I know Michigan is well known in the US for being the US auto capital... but turns out that a lot of the US pizza chains started here as well.

Sterno

17:13

You, and people who don't know how to drive through roundabouts.

Powerlord

GAH, don't mention roundabouts. The Michigan Department of Transportation is obsessed with putting as many as they can in these days.

Sterno

Typically they make things better.

Typically.

Powerlord

I mean, it made sense at the corner of Hamilton and Marsh because despite being high traffic, it's a T intersection where the east end of the T is barely used.

Then there's one in an area with high pedestrian traffic, which is a huge mistake.

Sterno

Pedestrians should get out of the way for awesomer-moving traffic

Unless I'm the pedestrian. Then all traffic should yield. Obviously.

All the roundabouts they've built around me have been very pedestrian friendly though

Powerlord

Sorry, had to go afk for a few minutes there.

Anyway, this particular roundabout is bad enough that stop signs were put before the crosswalks, so all traffic going into the roundabout is required to stop for pedestrians.

Problem is, they never do.

The downtown police department is a half block from this intersection. They could make a mint ticketing people for running those stop signs.

(So yes, you do have stop signs followed immediately by yield signs)

Sterno

17:22

@Powerlord That's not a roundabout. That's a clusterfuck.

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Wipqozn

We have a roundabout just outside my work. It would work better if people didn't speed through it.

Jason Berkan

I would think that adding stop signs would immediately make the roundabout less efficient than whatever other traffic control setup was there previously.

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan It would. The entire point of a roundabout is to not need stop signs.

StrixVaria

Regional dialect differences! Apparently New Jersey is the only place where those are called "traffic circles" instead of "roundabouts".

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn Though there is the disaster around the Arc de Triomphe...

@StrixVaria No, we call them traffic circles. Roundabout is very British.

StrixVaria

17:25

Then why are all these Americans calling them roundabouts?

Powerlord

I thought traffic circles were the ones where the inner people have to yield to people coming into the circle.

badp

"Traffic circle" sounds so horribly vague and boring and yuck

Whereas, well, we're going to go round and about on a fabulous adventure! (cue music from the Stanley Parable)

Powerlord

@badp One of my friends and I did that on a large roundabout on MSU's campus a few years back.

I forget how many times we went around it.

StrixVaria

New Jersey does have the monopoly on jughandles, though. After driving in Florida for a week, I now know why everyone hates driving in New Jersey.

badp

The most I've looped around a roundabout must've been twenty or so times... in NFS: Most Wanted.

Powerlord

17:27

Petrol costs so much these days we wouldn't do it now.

badp

Those who played the game know about police chases around the university area.

@Powerlord It still costs about half as much as it does here

Sterno

@StrixVaria If it helps, my dad calls them loopty loos

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria Blame your government:

> The U.S. Department of Transportation adopted the term modern roundabout to distinguish those that require entering drivers to give way to others. This article follows that convention and refers to other types as traffic circles or rotaries.

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan There are traffic circles where the entering driver doesn't have to yield? How in the world does that work?

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria Traffic lights.

Roundabouts are exceedingly rare around here. I don't believe there is a single one in this province.

StrixVaria

17:33

@JasonBerkan You are in Saskatchewan?

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria Yup.

Powerlord

I know of where at least 4 roundabouts are just in the area around where I live/work.

StrixVaria

I like having excuses to say Saskatchewan. It's a fun word.

Frank

@JasonBerkan I always thought you were in Ontario.

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria You're saying it wrong.

Powerlord

17:34

Two are incredibly inconvenient and shouldn't exist. Two are infinitely better than what used to exist.

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan That's ok.

Powerlord

So, apparently this area has a 50% success rate for roundabouts.

Jason Berkan

(Everyone says it wrong. You can identify locals via the pronunciation.)

@Frank Nope. SK my entire life.

Except for three months in Yellowknife.

Frank

@JasonBerkan You're just on the other side of me, then.

Unionhawk

"TOURIST ALERT! TOURIST ALERT! AWOOGA" (how I imagine @JasonBerkan responds to someone pronouncing it wrong)

Jason Berkan

17:37

@Unionhawk Usually it's just cringing at the football announcers.

badp

17:48

huh

Technology 2 is compatible with Azazurel

so I can be shooting lazers while charging my brimstone

I AM CHARGING MY LAZERS BY SHOOTING LAZERS

5pike

@badp Do you mean Azazel?

badp

@5pike that one yeah

Powerlord

I do wonder if they'll ever change how Technology 2 works with the Ludovico Technique.

'cause right now, that's Bad Juju.

badp

and now I have the three dollar bill on top of that

5pike

@badp Just had a ridiculous OP run: First, got moms contact and then Moms knife. So petrifying knife. Then I got spoon bender - petrifying knife that homes on enemies. Then some damage ups and common cold. Petrifying homing knife that poisons...

Powerlord

17:51

I have a laser... except it only fires in the direction my controllable tear is from me and not the direction I'm pressing...

badp

@5pike :D

SaintWacko

This sounds like fun

Is it available off Steam?

badp

@SaintWacko PS4/Vita (but with delayed updates)

SaintWacko

@badp Bleh

No DRM-free PC?

5pike

@badp I love how ridiculous OP the runs can get. Every time I think, it can't get more OP, I discover another insane thing

badp

17:52

@SaintWacko I'm sure it'll happen eventually

Powerlord

When did this happen? I thought Obama wasn't going to comment on Net Neutrality.

badp

@Powerlord The wayback machine's earliest snapshot for it is today

Unionhawk

Yeah, that happened today

Powerlord

> Nor should ISPs be able to intentionally slow down some content or speed up others — through a process often called “throttling” — based on the type of service or your ISP’s preferences.

...I'd nominally agree with that, except that kills QoS.

AJ Henderson

@Powerlord I guess he decided not to stay neutral on the issue

SaintWacko

17:56

QoS?

Powerlord

@SaintWacko Quality of Service. It's why VOIP generally has higher priority than random web requests.

Quality of service

Quality of service (QoS) is the overall performance of a telephony or computer network, particularly the performance seen by the users of the network. To quantitatively measure quality of service, several related aspects of the network service are often considered, such as error rates, bandwidth, throughput, transmission delay, availability, jitter, etc. Quality of service is particularly important for the transport of traffic with special requirements. In particular, much technology has been developed to allow computer networks to become as useful as telephone networks for audio conversations...

SaintWacko

@Powerlord Ah, I see

Sterno

Thanks, Obama

SaintWacko

Yeah, it's hard to allow something like that while not allowing them a loophole

Sterno

(no, really)

Frank

17:57

@Powerlord Holy crap.

That's more or less the entire premise of net neutrality, basically telling ISPs to suck it.

Unionhawk

@Sterno Seriously though, thank you, Obama

AJ Henderson

ehh, you just have to make it something that a user has to request

opt in to QOS wouldn't be the end of the world

or put restrictions on being paid for QoS

Sterno

Republicans take the House and Senate. BALL IS IN YOUR COURT. DON'T BE JERKFACES

Frank

And mobile internet = wired internet. Yes!

Lazers

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