The Bridge - 2014-02-05 (page 13 of 13)

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10:06 PM

So you have childhood memories but you put your current self inplace of your old self?

@RedRiderX Not quite.

> "Our memory is not like a video camera," Bridge said. "Your memory reframes and edits events to create a story to fit your current world. It’s built to be current."

Hmm okay

Interesting.

@Krazer It makes sense. That way it's easier to relate to now.

10:23 PM

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Q: In which Zelda games does Zelda have a large active role?

Across the Zelda series, Zelda herself is largely a passive NPC character, and the games epicenter is instead Link. In which games, if any, does Zelda take on a larger role, allowing the player to guide her actions?

I JUST WANT TO EXTRACT A METHOD IN PYTHON. I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE A 'WORKSPACE', OR A 'PROJECT FILE.'

I ALSO DO NOT WANT TO LEARN VIM OR EMACS TO EXTRACT A METHOD IN PYTHON.

@Lazers A His name is LINK God Damnit!

@James He is actually talking about Zelda.

@badp I know :) Hence why my answer is in here instead of in the actual question :D

he's asking "in which game(s) can I play as zelda"

10:25 PM

/me sighs

@James guess what

I shall not try to make you guys chuckle again :P

zelda he's asking

can he play

;)

@James You ruined it at "his"

and then you capitalised D in Damnit

not to mention you started with an "A"

also, he's asking which games he can play as zelda in

10:26 PM

It ate my :

gets coat

Ahem.. ya dont say? :P

@James Better.

I already got my coat

@FEichinger Protect me from their inane harassment! :(

10:27 PM

@James BWAHAHAHAHAHAH.

I'm going to go sit outside the bridge, in the vacuum of space, looking in through a window

Me? Protect you?

he doesn't have 15k rep, needs 15k rep to protect

@FEichinger Why not? You cant let a bad p win man.

@James Oh, no, I'm not letting @badp win. I'm letting @kalina win. :P

Big difference!

10:28 PM

Or the bad mojo that used to infest Gnome that now infests kalina

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NO YOU DON'T GET TO STAR THAT.

suicide

@FEichinger We are now officially Rep Buddies Forever. There is no difference.

@badp nah, soon I will pass Oak, and then you and Oak can be rep buddies

@kalina Rep Buddies is transitive. Spoiler alert: we are all Rep Buddies.

you mean I have to be buddies with EVERYONE?

10:30 PM

@badp Naaah.

@badp Am I part of We and All? :D

@kalina No, no, rep buddies.

That's more than just "buddies".

less, surely

@kalina This one and this one.

really? You're giving me a free answer?

I'll take it!

10:31 PM

@Krazer inb4

@kalina Reeeeep whooo--... Nah, I'll just go grab some food ...

@kalina Forever

@James Did you have 1 or 101 rep at any point in time?

@Unionhawk There's also Spirit Tracks where you occasionally "control" Zelda

YOU ARE REP BUDDY! YOU ARE REP BUDDY! YOU ARE ALL REP BUDDIES! BEEES!

room topic changed to The Bridge: General gaming chat room, wherein we breathe air and celebrate the diamondification of three suckers [+fun] [+rep-buddies-forever] [jin-fanclub] [lazers] [murder]

isn't jin-fanclub a bit old now?

10:34 PM

Get mob drops, drink potions, buy swords, break it in even more ways

@RedRiderX Jin Fanclub is eternal

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I see.

@RedRiderX You are banned from Jin Fanclub for not being a true fan

:O

We need to find something to put as [tag:+/-xxxxxxx]

Hm

Or not

@SaintWacko -badp-tyranny?

10:37 PM

@fredley that tag will never be seen in The Bridge

@SaintWacko Well, it is seen in the Bridge now, isn't it?

inb4 @fredley puts it in the description

@FEichinger Hm. Fair enough

@Unionhawk -badp-tyranny +fredley+badp-tyranny

@badp oh, murder is back

fantastic

*rubs hands together*

10:39 PM

@kalina No. No murder for you.

it's on topic, it says so in the tag list

@badp Both actually.

I had a 1 when I signed up then it saw my gamedev and gave me 100 points :)

@kalina I didn't realize it would be considered a shopping recommendation, but clearly the community hated my Q as it quickly got -3. Just wanted to say thanks, since you helped me out anyway. :)

10 mins ago, by Krazer

@kalina This one and this one.

It's actually @Krazer that helped you out

I just wrote up the answer :p

Hey, I wrote a comment up in anticipation of our new mods jumping on the "on hold" train faster than they did >_>

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10:43 PM

@Letharion No worries BTW, I know questions like yours are kind of a weird edge case that doesn't look like a game-rec at first glance.

nobody reads comments, second class citizens

didn't you read the memo?

it was in a comment... oh

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The problem is that we used to get people who would throw a hissyfit claiming that they didn't want a reccomendation, they just wanted a list of every game that met their criteria, claiming that made the questions 'objective and answerable and on topic'.

I've just realised there are two posts in the star list about GnomeSlice eating poop

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11 mins ago, by Krazer

@Unionhawk There's also Spirit Tracks where you occasionally "control" Zelda

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And... well, that just doesn't work.

10:44 PM

and in between them, @LessPop_MoreFizz talking about how classy we are

The classiest.

Stay classy, Bridge.

@kalina Three now, I suppose.

#SochiProblems

@LessPop_MoreFizz I almost thought of it as a lore question though, which I believe I've previously read are on-topic. Clearly the community didn't like it though. :)

@Kalina, ah, ok.
Thanks @krazer then. :)

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10:49 PM

@Letharion Lore questions are nominally on topic, but they're 1) unpopular, and 2) not immune to our other rules and guidelines. Just because it's about lore doesn't mean it isn't also a question about, say, developer intent and design which is off topic.

I love lore questions

you will get a lot of hate for asking them from everybody else though

@LessPop_MoreFizz @kalina Why are they unpopular? If I frequented the site I would also love them :D

@kalina If I had a lot of rep on this site to waste I'd try that statement by asking a few lore question ;)

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@Letharion there's a lot of debate about whether they belong at all, since so many of them are fundamentally unanswerable or speculative.

There's only so many legitimate lore questions you can have when your scope for acceptable is "Please clarify this thing I didn't understand" rather than trying to have an actual discussion about character motivations or underlying themes or narratives.

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Q: Can you pray too much?

I recently acquired Rosa and have been making very frequent use of her free healing and MP restoration with Pray. It seems to have been decreasing in power as I use it, and most recently went completely unanswered. Does praying too much lessen its power or is it just random?

final-fantasy-4

@James DOUBLE REP BUDDIES FOREVER

10:55 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I see

@badp AWESOMESAUCE!

@James You have to put out twice as much rep buddies forever per second as everybody else

@badp I have no idea what that means

@James You have to go at two seconds per second in forever rep buddiness terms

It's like being dudebros where others are just bros

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I rep buddied urmom lastnight.

11:01 PM

journos in Sochi: I have a dictionary of Russian curse words. Please let me know if you need me to look up anything. #SochiProblems

Tweeted by lorettaprencipe on February 5, 2014 at 7:54 PM

These are briliant

Fellow journo: Colleague lost hotel room key. Hotel did not have copy. So instead of giving a new key, they removed the whole door.

Tweeted by SeanFitz_Gerald on February 5, 2014 at 6:12 AM

To anyone in Sochi: I am now in possession of three light bulbs. Will trade for a door handle. This offer is real: http://t.co/7AeesqDi8Y

Tweeted by DanWetzel on February 4, 2014 at 10:23 PM

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@SaintWacko Sochi is a literal Potemkin village.

Sochi Olympians rules of engagement for the bathroom. Fishing? Seen by Canadian snowboarder @SebToots #SochiProblems http://t.co/r4Sw8KTwjy

Tweeted by GavinLeeBBC on February 5, 2014 at 1:04 PM

It is forbidden to rub your butt on the floor of the bathroom with one banana in your hand.

That's the kid-safe version, anyway.

Oh my.

Ok seriously only 10 people are frequently in this room?

How do they calculate that?

11:17 PM

@RedRiderX I'm assuming people who have most messages here or something?

Well yeah but what is the cutoff for that?

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Q: Where can I buy this speeder bike?

I am looking for this specific model since quite a while, but was unable to find it ingame. A google search turned up a lot of stuff from SWG, but I couldn't find a location for SWTOR.

is it only the top 10 people?

Yeah

Oh

Darn

That's a hard list to crack, then

11:23 PM

You have 16k posts

Lurk moar

also I hadn't realized my "lead" on Gnome was this slim

not that I'd realized I was in the lead or anything

@badp BUT IM ALWAYS LURKING

@RedRiderX You are clearly doing it wrong

Um where do I see my number of posts

I seems to have lost it

Aww... Someone changed the tags, but they forgot to add poop-remedies :(

Oh wait I found it

Hmm and I made 1.5k messages this week...

11:27 PM

@RedRiderX Click on your avatar, hover The Bridge

Ah okay

Yeah that is a good place to find it

And about the 3rd place I've seen it now

I don't know of any other place where you can see those numbers for just about any pair of active user-room

Arg, why does Firefox always want to crash? I think it's time I do a wipe and reload, though.

@badp Well there is userprofile>currently in rooms

Ahhhhhhhh! Internet is not going my way!

11:34 PM

@MBraedley WHY IS INTERNET WRONG?

unless internet agrees with me. Then you're wrong

@badp lurking isn't the solution

typing out epic rap battles of history is the solution

@kalina once you lurk, you find people who are wrong on the internet.

shame my battle buddy probably won't do that anymore

The rest happens automatically.

Firefox crashing, YouTube not buffering, other things

11:35 PM

> "Are you trying to be a knight in shining armour?"

"I'm originally a knight. That's why."

the perfect follow up...

@MBraedley did you restarted your system?

I have a weird issue in Google Chrome

@Braiam no, Firefox has been crashing regularly for the past couple of months

whenever I middle click the back/forward button to load the previous/next page in a new tab, that new tab loads and then hangs

and YouTube is on my HTPC

@kalina I know what your problem is... use Firefox instead... :D

11:37 PM

@Braiam eww

I'd rather use Internet Explorer than Firefox

@kalina Tsk!

@kalina HERESY!

@kalina That's terrible!

I have two browsers installed on my PC

Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 11

@kalina extensions etc. etc.

11:38 PM

@badp Google Mail Checker and Ghostery

@kalina who are you and what have you done with the intelligent young woman we knew as kalina?

it happens with them disabled though

@MBraedley I have never seen such a sentence, praising me in so much like this

what happened with the real @MBraedley?

> intelligent

also I will say that I have all three browsers installed on my laptop and Firefox is the one I use with the least satisfaction

but

@badp yeah, Firefox annoys me

I use it at work, because I have to check stuff in all major browsers

11:39 PM

@kalina I've complimented you before

@badp "all three" Psh!

@MBraedley not to such an extent

Opera is a thing, too ... Well, was ...

@badp Same here, but that's because I never use IE...

I have a warm glow inside

11:40 PM

@FEichinger All version of Opera after 12 no longer count

@FEichinger webkit

now I know Chrome is technically not webkit anymore

Chrome crashes with normal system use because my system doesn't have swap and, while IE is the least memory hungry of the three, when IE does finish up the system memory, Windows would rather kill the windowing manager or the sound subsystem than IE

@kalina I know. I still cry every time. :(

but if you think I'm going to install Safari, I'd rather set fire to my PC

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@badp you really need a new PC

@kalina Ha, Safari.

I'm using Safari, but that's because it's the native Mac browser and I'm too lazy to install anything else.

11:41 PM

how you've tolerated that laptop for this long is truly amazing

@kalina Problem is, depending on news I might get in a couple weeks this purchase may have to wait until end-of-year.

Yeah, Safari's a piece of ****.

@kalina Chromebook is how.

@badp oh I thought that news was last week?

@kalina last week I had the actual interview

11:42 PM

or did you have some meeting last week and it's waiting a decision

ah

feedback from my team has a deadline of Friday

brb mailing your entire team

after that all the cogs set in motion and then I'm told that I'm banned forever from all Google properties

@badp this isn't like you to be pessimistic

you're supposed to be upbeat and optimistic

@badp Wait, huh?

11:43 PM

I'm sure you'll do fine

and if you don't, I'm taking a week or two off so I don't get all of the hate sent my direction

I think I solved my buffering problem. Steam was downloading an update

@kalina I'm surrounded by really smart people. I don't feel like I'm smart enough to fit!

Some people merely dream about Google. Who am I to actually make it in?

@badp Real life is like the Bridge. Today I learned. :P

@badp that's... a lack of confidence

@badp well, you have technically been working there for what... a year?

@kalina 5 months 2 weeks 3 days

11:44 PM

I know, as an intern, but still

oh really, six month internship

interesting

5 months 3 weeks intership. Yeah

Huh. Didn't realize I can just edit tags willy nilly without approval.

That's neat, I guess.

48 hours remain yadda yadda

brb bus home

you lasted this long, you just need to have more belief in yourself

@StrixVaria tag wikis are at 20k

@kalina that's the contractual length

11:45 PM

@badp if you were bad, you wouldn't have lasted that long

Bridge, what do I want for dinner?

I'm sure there are enough escape clauses in said contracts to get rid of bad people

@Fluttershy you want a pizza

@badp Really? It's not at-will?

Oh hey, I found something interesting, @AshleyNunn, too bad I can't show it to you because you haven't seen Frozen yet.

@kalina Hmm...

11:46 PM

@Coronus I have the impression (although I don't know where I got it) that at-will is an American thing.

I wonder how many of those I'll get in before @AshleyNunn finally watches that movie...

In other countries companies may not be able to fire you on the spot.

@StrixVaria during probationary periods they can normally

disclaimer: I have no idea where I learned this information.

@kalina That makes sense.

like, if my employer decided they didn't want me around, they could literally just say "nope, not working, please leave"

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11:47 PM

@fluttershy you want Kung Pao Chicken.

@kalina Does that go away if you're there long enough, though?

That's always the case in the USA.

@StrixVaria yeah, for me it's 4 months

@LessPop_MoreFizz Speaking of Kung Pao chicken, Panda Express is ridiculously overpriced.

I have ~6 weeks left

and then they have to give me a month paid notice

@LessPop_MoreFizz Can I substitute the Kung Pao for Hot and Spicy? (I'm somewhat picky, but would be willing to add Chinese food to this list randomizer if that's okay. :P)

11:48 PM

and then next... last week of November, that increases to two months

@kalina I like that system.

@StrixVaria it works both ways

@StrixVaria Yeah, no kidding. I want that.

ie: in April, I have to give them one month's notice if I want to leave

@kalina You are required to give them X notice if you want to quit?

11:48 PM

@StrixVaria you can be fired on the spot in Canada and the US. But you get severance

and next November, I have to give them two months notice if I want to leave

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Q: How to get back to fullscreen in Broken Age on OS X?

On OS X, after switching away from the Broken Age application in fullscreen mode, the game goes windowed and I can't find a way to go back. It is not among the options, neither in the menus. Does anyone know a keyboard shortcut?

os-x broken-age

@kalina Or what? What happens if you just up and leave?

Indentured Servitude is bad.

two months starts getting a little iffy, because most employers don't want to wait two months for a new starter

11:49 PM

Even if it's only for 1-2 months.

@Coronus well, they can refuse to give your next employer a reference, they won't pay you, and it will generally piss people off

You can normally arrange to like... book all of your holidays during the last X period of time of your contract though

It's illegal to give negative references over here

but refusing to give one at all is basically as bad

Probationary period here is 2 weeks for interns

@badp wow that's short

This is the EU, not the US; firing is hard

@kalina I think that's pretty much it here. I think less than 2 week's notice means a bad reference.

11:51 PM

Taco Bell it is.

@Fluttershy Sushi.

@kal internships can be very short

@badp I do wish you the best of luck though, I know it's something you want to do

@Coronus TOO LATE IT'S BEEN DECIDED I AM LEAVING

just... stay relaxed, it's not good to stress

11:52 PM

But thank you for the suggestion. :)

At any rate for some reason I remain stubbornly but optimistically humbled

@Fluttershy sushi taco

no matter what others tell me

so... I guess I'll wait and see

@badp well you do work for what is essentially most people's dream company

Question: if you got a job offer from Google and Stack Exchange, which one would you choose?

11:54 PM

@badp Just tell them you're an internet moderator. They'll need to let you in then!

Hum. I love how all question of the 2 first pages average at <5 upvotes and a single itg question gets +20 in less than a day.

@Yuki If I got a job offer from those two, I'd choose Google

Also you're a pretty rad guy, and the fact that you managed to get an internship at Google to begin with just shows you're rad enough for them to at least consider you.

Which, for Google, is saying a lot.

@Yuki depends on the job

@Wipqozn this so much

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11:56 PM

#libertarianismin4words Pothead who is racist

Tweeted by BrooklynJuggler on February 5, 2014 at 11:51 PM

Laughing so hard.

@M'vy I think part of it comes from the fact that someone actually paid attention to the FAQ and included a relevant audiovisual artifact without being asked to.

If we can find a user that reads the FAQ before asking a question, we sure as hell are going to do our level best to keep him/her.

@Yuki a new user at that!

@Yuki Yeah I got that. But it made me rethink my reputation strategy. Or maybe not :P

@M'vy you play a dangerous game by asking ITG questions

I nominate "Infornographer" for Best New User of 2014.

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