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12:00 PM
When I used to play the piano, I always picked songs from the Romantic era to play, and my piano teacher got mad at me that I wasn't showing my versatility.
I didn't care, because Baroque wasn't fun to play.
And classical is only fun if it's Beethoven, for the most part.
 
Baroque is my least favourite era.
 
@Wipqozn You are in the wrong
Baroque is the best
 
@fredley Damn, you're a mod now, so I'm not allowed to disagree with you.
 
Does anybody else in here have absolutely no idea what these three are talking about, or am I alone in my lack of knowledge of old things?
 
12:02 PM
@StrixVaria Chopin <3
 
FAE
@kalina I'm only a casual listener of classical music, so I don't really know either. I'm also bad at musical genres and history, so... yeah.
 
I'm glad it's not just me
 
I've been really into Tchaikovsky lately.
 
@Wipqozn Chopin <3 also
 
@Wipqozn When my second piano teacher found out I'd never played any nocturnes, he picked this one because it was a nocturne but still allowed me to play big and loud (which is what I liked; hence Beethoven).
 
12:03 PM
Used to live with a concert pianist
So much Chopin
 
FAE
A good friend of mine is a classically trained pianist, though he doesn't really play anymore, and I do like listening to him talk about it. He also loves Chopin.
 
@fredley He's one of my favourite composers.
 
My favorite composer is Liszt.
 
It's hard for me to pick a favourite composer because it changes so often.
 
FAE
He explained to me once how like... the... I don't know what you call it, sort of the equivalent of a musical certification process or whatever worked, and it was really interesting.
 
12:04 PM
Right now it's Tchaikovsky, though. Chopin was my favourite for a long time though.
 
FAE
How he got his pianist cred, basically, and what he had to do.
 
@Wipqozn So emo
Signing this in a few weeks
SO EXCITE
One of the best pieces of music ever
Although that as a crappy recording
 
<insert obligatory "I'll be Bach" joke here>
I recently discovered Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov as well, thanks to a snow day.
 
@Wipqozn The "flight of the bumblebee" guy?
 
I also needed to look that up since I couldn't remember how to spell it.
 
12:06 PM
@Wipqozn Rimsky Korsakov is good
 
@StrixVaria Correct.
 
Sad that he's best known for that.
 
FAE
And time to go. flees
 
He has a lot of other great stuff too.
I don't know symphonic classical music nearly as well as I know piano solo stuff, though.
 
This was the first piece of his work that I heard:
Or, at least the first piece I heard realizing it was by him.
It was played during one of the music stations on a snow day a couple weeks ago.
 
12:09 PM
Bach wrote a whole cantata about coffee:
 
Also, slight side:
@fredley Oh Bach, you're such a character.
 
@Wipqozn It's actually hilarious
 
@Wipqozn lol
 
It's about a man who threatens to prevent his daughter from dating unless she gives up her coffee habit
 
Sometimes I wonder what a new user joining this chat for the first time would think...
 
12:11 PM
@3ventic we've all been there
 
@3ventic this wouldn't be the worst time to join
 
@fredley haha, okay, I'll need to listen to that later.
 
@KevinvanderVelden This is so true.
 
If they joined now they'd just think we're classy
Or well, Wipqozn and fredley are at least
 
@3ventic That we're classy as fuck monocle shades
 
12:12 PM
They'd think they accidentally clicked on music.SE or something
or that the area51 proposal for being a gentleman went through
 
@Wipqozn and then you said this :p
 
Although the "traditional fish sex" in the starred list might make them rethink us being classy.
 
and the Rez comment
and well, we have a rainbow dash in there as well
 
@Wipqozn The double violin concerto is awesome as well
 
This has always been one of my favourite pieces of music:
 
12:15 PM
@Wipqozn A classic
 
Prelude No 4 by Chopin.
 
I used to be able to play that
 
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So emo
 
The first time I heard it was in a movie, and I had no idea what it was. I tried to track it down for a while until I eventually found it.
At which point I instantly fell in love with Chopin.
 
12:16 PM
@Lazers MOD POWAH ACTIVATE
 
SLOW
 
I think this was the movie:
Philadelphia is a 1993 American drama film and one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, and homophobia. It was written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Jonathan Demme and stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Andrew Beckett in the film, while the song "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Nyswaner was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but lost to Jane Campion for The Piano. Plot Andrew Beckett is a seni...
It was back in high school though, so I'm not sure.
 
@3ventic he just has to be faster than the other mods, not faster than all the users =p
 
True
faster than all other mods, or 5 users
 
whoa, whoa, a mod is using his powers? Time to cry abuse!
 
12:18 PM
@Wipqozn If you like that try this:
Rach MM No. 5
 
@fredley Trying now.
 
@Wipqozn More famous rach:
 
Yeah, I've heard this before. It's quite nice.
When I'm at work I like picking "Best of Composer" videos which are an hour or two long, and then just crawl through different composers via the "Related" sidebar.
The station I have on appears to be playing all the music from A Midsummers night Dream.
 
This used to be my favourite piece to play. I miss having a piano :(
 
In fact they might be performing the play itself... I'm not sure...
 
12:23 PM
Anyway, I think I'm going to get out of bed...
 
That sounds like a horrible idea.
Also, @StrixVaria, you should play some monster hunter again before your child is born!
Okay, I don't feel like listening to a play, so I'm switching to a different music channel.
 
@Wipqozn I do have my better chair in the same room as the TV now.
 
@StrixVaria That's good!
You're HR4 now, righT?
I know you were just at the start of high rank for a while, and I know we ran you through few quests. Can't remember how high we got you.
 
ooh, Elite: Dangerous update
 
@Wipqozn I don't even remember.
On my single-player I'm not even in HR.
 
12:32 PM
@StrixVaria You'll need to play tonight and find out!
What game have you been playing on the train? Is it final fantasy iv?
 
@kalina Does that have an official release date yet?
 
@Wipqozn I finished Pokemon Y and started FFIV yesterday.
 
1 hour ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz
Oh boy, look whose asking questions on Skeptics again!
 
@Fluttershy my brain is tired. I read that as "Does @kalina have an official release date yet?"
 
12:51 PM
Well, she did some 20-something years ago, if I remember correctly.
 
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@MartinSojka but is it official
 
@badp I'm pretty sure it's written down in some official papers, but digging those out would be too stalker-y even for me, and also likely illegal.
 
@KevinvanderVelden When @kalina is officially released, there will be no safe place.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm blown away
Like, seriously America
 
Huh. That wasn't yesterday. That was two days ago.
 
So, uhm.. What was he advertising?
 
@3ventic legal services.
 
...but he didn't even offer any kind of contact information, just a name
 
1:02 PM
 
He's an ass-kicking no-names lawyer!
 
@3ventic there's this thing called google. Also this thing called the phone book.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz It's not two days ago yet!
 
@gracenote it's more than a day ago.
 
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1:04 PM
And no matter what, it's objectively not yesterday.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz But it's not two days ago yet!
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz #CasinoSlaw
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Google isn't very helpful when most of the results are links or articles about the Super Bowl commercial...
 
I think I need to make an MSO post about this blatant misuse of 'yesterday'
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz dupe
There's a question about it about once a month
 
1:05 PM
@Fluttershy no
 
I see that now as I search.
How monstrous.
 
And then there's stuff like
2 hours earlier = 2 days ago
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@Fluttershy still in alpha
 
Dang.
 
I have sneezed eight times and still no pleasure
 
1:11 PM
that's bug you should fix right away
 
aw, I thought I'd been sent a second beta key for ESO
shame that isn't the case
but, there is another beta test at the weekend
cc @OrigamiRobot
apparently we get to keep playing our characters?
maybe they've fixed stuff
STILL UNDER NDA
maybe I should just say nothing
 
@kalina I believe it's long been apparent how little you care about NDAs =p
 
Is that why you're using default gravatar? DID THEY CONFISCATE YOUR COTTON CANDY?
 
@kalina press NDA reportedly goes up on Friday
 
@KevinvanderVelden rules in general. If a rule doesn't make sense to me and nobody wants to explain it, I'll disregard it
@OrigamiRobot no, the gravatar was my choice
 
1:14 PM
@kalina NDAs are about preventing spoilers and preventing bad press, basically.
 
@kalina Blink twice if you need help!
 
@KevinvanderVelden not an acceptable reason
 
@kalina you never said anything about it having to be acceptable :)
 
@KevinvanderVelden "doesn't make sense"
 
> Spread the word and quest with your friends
More like "Do your quests while they do theirs."
 
1:16 PM
the word has been spread
@OrigamiRobot you don't know that, they might have fixed it
 
@kalina it makes perfect sense for them!
 
@KevinvanderVelden irrelevant
 
Just spent an hour using the snowblower to plow the street. The city should pay me for my service
 
@Sterno snowblower, you say?
 
Like this, only even manlier
 
1:18 PM
oh is this another one of those things women aren't allowed to use?
 
I am not sexist. Please use one! You'd look very manly using one.
 
@kalina to you, yes, and I'm not disagreeing per se. I'm just explaining it, which you said noone ever does =p
 
@Sterno I would paint it pink first
and wear a fluffy bobble hat
 
@Sterno Psssh. That's not manly. You're not manly until you've cleared the snow with one of these.
 
@Fluttershy Sounds like a lifehack
 
1:20 PM
@Sterno depends on the scale, that could be the world's largest shovel
 
@kalina I wonder how big the folds in that fabric would be if that was shovel sized
 
@Sterno We're so manly down here, the snow doesn't even show its face.
I'm using the word "we" very loosely here.
 
It doesn't get manlier than my daughter's bedroom.
 
that is the most awesomest bedroom ever
you must be a great dad
 
She doesn't have that bed though. That was the former owner's. She's got a crib
But she will, once she's out of the crib!
 
1:24 PM
@Sterno Where is her giraffe?
 
It's actually pretty awesome at nap time. You pull the pink curtains over the window and you just get a soft, pink glow through the whole room. So relaxing!
Not pictured. Next to the crib. Or sometimes in it. She likes to ride it like a pony.
 
British Spies Have Hacked Anonymous With DDoS Attacks < so much confusion and misunderstanding in that title
hacking people with denial of service attacks
 
@kalina I read "British Babies"
I need more sleeps.
 
who did you get babies from spies?
 
1:28 PM
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1 min ago, by OrigamiRobot
I need more sleeps.
Stupid @FAE kept me up all night.
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So, wait, if I'm reading @badp's tables right, there's two random people that just voted Strix as 2nd place votes, and no one else?
 
@badp's tables make no sense to me at all
 
sarcastically obvious sockpuppetry
 
@OrigamiRobot For some reason, I don't think it was her fault. <_<
 
1:32 PM
@OrigamiRobot OH REALLY?
what were you and @FAE doing all night hmmm?
 
@fredley The blue line marks who the first choice vote was, then the downwards dictates who the second choice vote paired with that first choice is, and you read across to see how many vote combinations existed with each of the following options as third choice vote.
 
FAE
@Fluttershy My soothing voice enchanted him, obviously.
 
@badp is confusing us back.
 
@FAE That's probably what it was.
 
16 secs ago, by FAE
@Fluttershy My soothing voice enchanted him, obviously.
 
1:34 PM
@GraceNote I think I get it
 
FAE
@GraceNote Yeah, apparently.
 
The numbers in the blue line up until the total simply dictate how many people, in raw, voted that particular first-and-third combination, as it's just a sum of the numbers for second choices beneath it. The total column for the non-blue lines tells you the first-and-second combinations, and on the blue line it's simply how many people voted for that particular first choice combination regardless of other choices.
 
FAE
14 hours ago, by badp
@Arperum 2 people voted for StrixVaria second choice, and nothing else.
 
Funky funky.
 
@FAE wat
 
1:36 PM
I voted for @Strix as my third choice
primarily because I couldn't cast three first choice votes
 
@StrixVaria This is a thing. There are only two votes that do not have a first choice option, and both of them are just you as second choice.
 
That's so weird.
 
They may have cost you the election, possibly.
 
@GraceNote RECOUNT!
 
That is the worst way to lose an election
 
FAE
1:37 PM
@GraceNote Unsure how serious this statement is.
 
I noticed more total people chose me than Ashley, but the people who did choose her did so more confidently.
 
@FAE I could run numbers if I tinkered with the ballot file on those two but I'll wait for badp to show up to do so.
 
@FAE He only lost by two votes, I think? Or something like that.
 
Only 5 people put LP, me, Ashley in that order
 
I'm genuinely curious to see if those two votes are indeed what could've won him the slot.
 
1:38 PM
I wonder if I voted for myself first instead of LP first, if that would have changed anything :P
 
@StrixVaria You what?
 
@fredley I felt it was more important for the site that @LessPop_MoreFizz become a mod than for my personal ego that I become a mod.
 
FAE
@fredley @LessPop didn't even vote for himself at all.
 
@GraceNote I can't make sense of this election data file either...
@FAE wow
 
@FAE Indeed I didn't.
 
FAE
1:40 PM
@fredley I always have difficulty with those. I've ran in 2 elections, voted in 4, but I still have trouble completely grokking Meek STV.
 
@fredley are you saying you voted for yourself?
 
You can interpret that as overconfidence, insecurity, or selflessness. I'd like to think it's a combination of the three.
 
@kalina I did
I wanted to be a mod!
 
3 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot
@GraceNote RECOUNT!
@LessPop_MoreFizz Overconsecurlessness?
 
Okay I think I'm understanding the file
Give me a sec and I'll do some recounts
 
1:41 PM
I don't think I voted for myself in my election either, let me check...
Yeah, I didn't.
 
Nope, with those two votes Ashley would have still won
 
I did not personally congatulate you three yet, so Congrats @LessPop_MoreFizz, @fredley and @AshleyNunn
 
@fredley Cool to have data, thanks for that.
 
It was so close though :(
 
@GraceNote Assuming I did it right
 
1:42 PM
@StrixVaria You'll always be a diamond in my eyes. :(
 
If someone only only voted for strix, then wouldn't their vote just be first choice anyways?
 
@fredley what if one of the fredley/lpmf/strix votes had been strix/fredley/lpmf
or is it actually not that close
 
If I understand correctly your full vote just goes to your highest rank candidate who hasn't won or been dropped yet, with left overs trinkling down. If someone only voted for strix then it shouldn't matter what choicehe was.
 
@StrixVaria If you'd voted for yourself first choice, and got those two votes, you still wouldn't have been elected
 
@fredley Yeah I think I lost by around 6 votes to @AshleyNunn.
Nothing I could have done about it. I'm not about to ragequit the site over it.
 
1:44 PM
@StrixVaria why not?
 
@StrixVaria All this Meek stuff is over-complicating the fact that LP got the most first choice votes, then me, then Ashley.
 
seems like the right opportunity
 
@fredley It's 33 to 52 in first place votes so for just a pair of votes to be all the difference, I'd be surprised.
 
@StrixVaria You were my #2, but you ended up counting like my #1!
 
7 mins ago, by StrixVaria
I noticed more total people chose me than Ashley, but the people who did choose her did so more confidently.
@Sterno Woo!
 
FAE
1:45 PM
@Sterno Currently reading this with juvenile humor.
 
@FAE I did this the first few times reading it
 
@FAE So, standard Bridge reading context, then!
 
@StrixVaria If we had a plain old single-choice FPTP system, the results would be the same
 
@fredley Yep.
 
@StrixVaria I wonder if that's not the case for any elections
 
1:46 PM
@fredley If you assume people would have voted the same.
 
Yup. FPTP makes people vote differently.
 
@fredley The real question is, would the results have been the same in a FPTP election where first choice = 3 points, second choice = 2 points, and third choice = 1 point.
 
That's why FPTP is terrible.
 
@Wipqozn Tactical voting!
 
googles FTPT
 
1:47 PM
Vote against candidates!
 
yay! Democracy in action! Go FPTP!
 
@kalina That won't get you so far, try FPTP
 
Yes, next election, let's only allow downvotes. Whoever is hated the least wins.
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@fredley Gaming the system. That's what we do.
 
@Sterno I wonder who would have won if that was the case.
 
1:48 PM
@fredley it actually got me to the right place
 
checks
 
@Sterno This was done once by Rolling Stone I think, Cheap Trick won. This is not good.
 
Probably whoever is the most unknown.
 
Not that Cheap Trick is bad, but they don't deserve Diamond
 
@Sterno You and your downvotes
 
1:49 PM
@Sterno No, actually. more unknown people seem to have got a lot.
 
@Sterno That would likely be @Lazers.
 
If we did most downvotes then it would have been me, jason and strix.
 
@Lazers would be a boring mod.
 
FAE
@LessPop_MoreFizz On a note mostly but not entirely unrelated to this current conversation, House of Cards has officially been renewed for a third season, if you didn't hear already.
 
I actually have the least downvotes. People hate me the least, yay!
 
1:50 PM
@FAE Is 2nd season on Netflix yet?
 
@FAE Before the second season is even out?
@Sterno Valentines Day I think
 
FAE
@Sterno It starts this month.
 
FAE
@Sconibulus Yes.
 
@Sconibulus Cheap Trick fucking rules, FYI.
 
1:50 PM
@StackExchange I kind of had to.
 
@FAE I know! Excited!
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz They're pretty good, but they're not diamond quality
 
@Sterno You really did.
 
FAE
@Sconibulus Correct.
 
1:51 PM
@StackExchange yay! @fredley for supreme overlord!
 
I BEG TO DIFFER.
 
Weird seeing so much blue in chat.
 
@Sterno if it had been most downvotes, I'd have won by miles
 
1:52 PM
All the blue chat
 
@StackExchange yay! @FAE for supreme overlord!
 
@StackExchange I'm so abused.
 
@kalina Really? I thought you were net positive when you withdrew.
I guess you just had a lot of ups too
 
@Sterno She was at +8.
 
@Sterno I had the most downvotes by a significant amount
 
FAE
1:52 PM
@Sterno And no one's been flagged!
 
Refresh!
 
I guess that means I am hated the most
 
I'm still pretty surprised by the voter turnout.
I wonder what the current active userbase is compared to the time of the last election
 
1:54 PM
Hey, that was fun!
 
..................
 
FAE
@Sterno Same. It's hard to see the actual upward trend considering we didn't have any elections last year.
 
@Sterno The last election was 2 years ago, and was only a few months after Skyrim launched, which is what marked the really big increase in userbase.
 
I'm surprised @Wipqozn can even chat, given how often his screen refreshes.
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@Fluttershy It does seem to happen fairly often.
 
1:55 PM
Oh, 2131 eligible in 2012. 4248 this time
 
FAE
@Sterno Wow. Almost exactly double.
 
@Sterno The site has grown quite a bit.
 
Still, double the eligible voters but 3.5 times as many actual voters.
 
I do believe there's also the whole matter of badgers.
I mean badges
 
there were quite a lot of people who signed up to the site during the election specifically to vote
 
1:57 PM
Wait a minute
 
based on the number of 101 rep users submitting suggested edits and the conversations I saw elsewhere
 
1,240 visited the site during the election, 1,263 visited the election page
More people visited the election page than the site?
 
@Sterno yeah I saw this too
 
@Sterno wait... what?
that makes no sense.
 
FAE
@kalina Really?
 
1:58 PM
@FAE a fair few, yeah
 
Well, I mean, it could, if site is main site, and people just went straight to the election page
That does seem pretty odd though
 
@kalina And they got themselves the requisite 150 rep how?
 
@fredley Don't you need 300 rep to vote?
 
1 min ago, by kalina
based on the number of 101 rep users submitting suggested edits and the conversations I saw elsewhere
 
@Wipqozn 300 to nom
 
1:58 PM
@fredley you're kidding right?
 
@JourneymanGeek there is always the matter of badgers. Who knows what those things are up to!
 
I've generated 1k rep on AU just from editing
 
@kalina Most users are not like you
 
getting 24 rep is not difficult
that's 12 edits
or, 2.5 answer upvotes
or, 5 question upvotes
 
@kalina People are that motivated by a mod election on a site they don't even use?
 
FAE
1:59 PM
@kalina I wonder like... what they're motivated by then. If they're not already a member, what motivates them to want to vote in the election?
@fredley This.
 
I don't know, I was already a member
 

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