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4:00 PM
 
But really, people, hold onto your butts.
It's not over yet.
Technically it hasn't started yet
 
@MadMAxJr Yeah, it's a great game. A sealed copy can get you 100 € easily.
 
Fine starrable link
 
Really?i i think mine is still sealed
 
I was lucky and could buy the limited edition for only 15€. The box is a bit damaged, but it should still net a nice profit, once I sell it.
 
@Sterno Look it up on ebay.
 
I bought it, then played it emulated on Dolphin instead
 
@Sterno Same.
 
Where by "played it" I mean played for a total of maybe 2 hours
 
Is it available legitimately via other methods? Did they make it a WiiU download or anything?
 
4:06 PM
@Unionhawk Good. GOOOOOOOOOD.
 
Like I said though, not over yet
 
I'm not a dingo.
 
@MadMAxJr there's a 3DS port on the way, but that's it
 
So, first Office Depot and Office Max merged... now Staples and Office Depot are going to merge?
 
Dear Mr. Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the FCC: I take everything back. <3 @Uni
 
(on the condition that you're prepared for the "all the ISPs are going to sue" thing)
 
Oh good, more Marvel shows to help me get over just how awful the DC tv shows are...
 
@EliteDangerous is it to late to add screen shots .... like this close call :P http://t.co/BNc6NqrhbB
 
@MadMAxJr Really? I've heard Gotham (a DC show) is quite good.
 
@Unionhawk Well that is why they waited so long
So...hopefully
 
4:14 PM
...I haven't seen it though.
@Unionhawk Didn't I mention a story like this one yesterday?
 
@OrigamiRobot Conflict zones are possibly still meh for money at this time, reddit says an Eagle is worth 2k, Anaconda's worth 18k. So not quite as dumb but 18k for a conda is meh
@Powerlord Did you? Probably
It's been in the "This will probably happen" stage for a few days
 
@Powerlord 100% personal opinion here, but the writing on Flash hurt my head.
 
@MadMAxJr DC Live Action might ot be great, but they make the best animated ones.
 
@Wipqozn This I can agree with. Good old Batman: The animated series, and Justice League / JLU were fun stuff.
 
@TimStone Meh, full shields, viper, you'd be able to eat at least a seeker
 
4:16 PM
JLU has that wonderful spot of Lex Luthor switching minds with Flash, "Ha ha, now I can know who The Flash is!", pulls off the mask, looks in the mirror... "I have no idea who this is."
 
1.1 has explosives balanced to not do shit against shields, but still do good hull damage
 
@Unionhawk Yeah, but I wouldn't want one to pop right in front of me like that :P
 
It wouldn't be a hostile missile either. That would have been one hell of an accidental shot
(PD would have shot it if it was a hostile missile)
 
Okay, that looks pretty darn cool.
 
Aren't all missiles hostile?
 
I looked at the URL and I refuse to click it.
It's too early for rage.
 
@MadMAxJr That's a seeker, so it locks on to the ship you're targeting.
 
I guess I'm supposed to feel guily about "married privilege" now in addition to all my othwr privileges
 
@Sterno if the words start with "women studies scholar" it probably shouldn't be taken seriously...
 
How come no one ever talks about the privilege of having no privilege and thus being guilt free? We need to make these people feel bad too!
 
4:23 PM
@Sterno I saw someone talk about how that measles cartoon was just "uneducated liberal nonsense" on facebook, so.
Oh look lunch.
 
Since when has Chrome had this sick colour picker?
Can't screenshot it, but it's awesome
 
I haven't seen the anti-vaccine people nail one side or the other of the political spectrum. The defining characteristic is stupidity
 
> In the marketplace, married couples are advantaged when they pay less per person for car insurance, health club memberships
Well sure, I pay 0 for health club memberships.
 
or, in the two People I actually know who are anti-vaccine, they are both pretty hardcore conspiracy people. One about it being the goverment, the other about it being the greedy drug companies who want to test on us
 
4:27 PM
Split the difference, just be anti-people.
 
Actually that's a tragic story
Sorry I posted that
 
@Sterno This is awful.
 
@fredley A bit after FF got one
 
@RedRiderX Alright alright
 
Well done wordpress plugin: allow the superadmin to modify the rights of the admin in such a way that you magically fuck up SA rights, don't give admins the extra rights, and after removing your data: stay fucked up.
This is just amazing.
 
4:28 PM
I still use ColorCop though because I can't be bothered using different pickers in each program.
 
Real-life discussions with conspiracy theorists, and how strongly they believe with no actual evidence, is kind of terrifying. Especially when they seem totally normal up until then
 
@Arperum Sounds like par for the course for WordPress
Honestly you're lucky the server didn't explode into flames.
 
@Sterno And it's even weirder when they turn out to be true
 
@Sterno Their brains are wired the same except that extremely wrong turn at Albuquerque
 
Like people who thought the NSA tracked American citizens 3 years ago.
 
4:30 PM
@TimStone That would've been awesome actually, Then the project would be dead, and I wouldn't be blamed. Noone would believe you when you tell them wordpress burned down a datacenter.
 
@RedRiderX haven't had that happen yet
 
@KevinvanderVelden Wow
@Sterno You think people who pre-Snowden thought the NSA tracking stuff was happening were not labelled conspiracy theorists?
 
They may have been, but not for any good reason. The post-9/11 laws that were passed pretty much opened the door to all sorts of intrusive behaviour no one should have been surprised about, except insofar as the government was actually able to successfully complete a project.
But at the time everyone was like "OMG stop the terrorists" so no one considered the ramifications and here we are.
 
True
 
4:34 PM
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Q: Terraria - Caster AI - how to make a slope they don't teleport to?

KvBI want to make a dungeon grinder for a Wisp in a Bottle. Casters are giving me a problem, though. How can I make sure they don't spawn to specific areas? How do these "slopes" work?

 
I still think the breadth and completeness was not widely believed to be plausible though.
 
@RedRiderX I'm talking about people I know and the theories they've shared with me. Besides, if you have enough conspiracies, every squirrel finds a nut
 
@RedRiderX That's fair
 
Hah good point
 
@CyberSquirrel1, Shorting a Transformer
I'm in your Infrastructures eatin your cables. Disrupting at the highest levels! It's CyberWar4Ever!
741 tweets, 607 followers, following 72 users
 
4:36 PM
We're talking stuff like the "chemtrails"
 
@Sterno Ah right
 
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.
 
Yeah...?
 
.m
According to the chemtrail conspiracy theory, long-lasting trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed for sinister purposes undisclosed to the general public. Believers in the theory argue that normal contrails dissipate relatively quickly, and contrails that do not dissipate must contain additional substances. These arguments have been dismissed by the scientific community: such trails are simply normal water-based contrails (condensation trails) which are routinely left by high-flying aircraft under certain atmospheric conditions. Although...
 
4:37 PM
Boo
I think we need that rainbow conspiracy theory video linked again
 
@KevinvanderVelden wut.
srsly.... wut.
 
You... didn't know about this? O.o
 
Look, planes are the source of clouds we all know that! </sarcasm>
Fuel goes in, clouds come out, you can't explain that.
 
@fredley They can already do that! They just can't do that and allow people in
 
4:40 PM
@fredley wat
 
> He suggested that restaurants that did not require hand washing would have to alert customers with prominently displayed signs - itself a regulation.
I can't even his stance
 
No restaurant would ever do that
Like
That's the dumbest thing I've eve-- wait that's not true
I wish that was true
 
> His argument was that restaurants which did not require workers to wash their hands would quickly go out of business.
 
@fredley I didn't really think the germ theory of disease was still disputed.
 
Probably due to people getting infected with fecal bacteria! But they'd go out of business, probably, so it's okay.
 
4:43 PM
@fredley Precisely the same argument could be used to say that this idea is stupid.
 
I mean that's the only logical reason for proposing this.
 
@Unionhawk There are legitimate arguments, in some cases, for ramping down government regulation of small business's activities. This is not one of them.
 
Yeah
 
I should pick a conspiracy theory to believe in. Some of them are awesome to read about.
 
There are many unproven conspiracy theories of varying degrees of popularity, frequently related to but not limited to clandestine government plans, elaborate murder plots, suppression of secret technology and knowledge, and other supposed schemes behind certain political, cultural, and historical events. Some theories have dealt with censorship and excoriation from the law such as the Holocaust denial. Conspiracy theories usually go against a consensus or cannot be proven using the historical method and are typically not considered similar to verified conspiracies such as Germany's pretense for...
 
4:45 PM
Oooh. I like the sound of Vril Society Conspiracy.
 
@JasonBerkan The electronic banking one looks fun
 
The list of conspiracy theories is a conspiracy to make you believe that those are the only conspiracies.
 
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Q: How to unlock new Mounts?

GuillelonI already did the Master of horses quest, so I've the option to change my mount on Haven when I go to Dennet location, but all of them are blocked. How do I get new mounts?

 
@fredley Meh. That's just Revelation in a different skin.
Maybe I should start my own.
 
@MadMAxJr 2meta4me
 
4:50 PM
I'd do something around that fake text that no one can translate.
The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The vellum in the book pages has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912. The pages of the codex are vellum. Some of the pages are missing, but about 240 remain. The text is written from left to right, and most of the pages have illustrations or diagrams. The Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and amateur...
 
@JasonBerkan No, you should go with the digital TV transition conspiracy theory
 
@JasonBerkan oh hey, that thing
I once watched an episode fo some shatner show about that
they lined up all these "experts"
and then ended it with a historian saying "it's fake"
 
@JasonBerkan One monk just wanted to troll everyone...
 
@JasonBerkan Something something xkcd D&D handbook.
 
@fredley column80 is down :(
 
4:57 PM
@KevinvanderVelden Is row24 up at least?
 
@Yuuki That's perfect. I'll claim to translate it as an ancient RPG rulebook and make all my followers play games with me.
 
@Powerlord No =[
 
Ooh! Good for the FCC!
 
In other monopoly news, Staples is acquiring Office Depot.
 
@Yuuki I wonder if it will be an easy acquisition
 
5:10 PM
@SaintWacko they can just press that button
 
@MattGiltaji :D
 
@SaintWacko Oh?
 
@Frank I just saw the expected reclassification
 
@KevinvanderVelden The shit has well and truly hit the fan.
 
5:11 PM
Great find by @GnomeSlice - Starr Mazer http://kck.st/1JmYiwy
It's like an old sierra game except not old.
Also with shmup sequences.
 
Because of course the people that stand to lose the most from this will scream the loudest.
And now they can't actually be anti-competitive.
 
We can only hope that the FCC has their case together and that's why it took this long
 
@GnomeSlice My favorite Sierra games were Homeworld and Silent Thunder
@Unionhawk I'll bet they do. It sounds like having a solid case has been a big deal for Wheeler
Also I have a very sweet kitten in my lap
It is turning into a good day, even though it started with me working until 3AM
 
@Unionhawk Pretty sure the delay was Wheeler feeling out support and legal chicanery.
 
@SaintWacko Neither of those is technically a Sierra game. GET OFF MY LAWN!
3
 
5:16 PM
Black Cauldron or GTFO
 
And it's actually free right now. Anyone can play it.
 
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Q: What is this TRS-80 game with castle and maze-like walls?

Tyler DurdenWhat is this TRS-80 game with castle and maze-like walls? It appeared in this weeks Wired magazine and looks like a publicity shot. God, I loved the TRS-80, what a great computer. If you consider what the Tandy TRS-80 accomplished with 4 kilobytes of RAM, it makes modern computers look like junk....

 
Old adventure games were so awesome. I just died in the first 4 seconds
Clicked the mouse, fell in the water. Dead.
 
5:22 PM
@Lazers That's... a bit rambley.
 
@Sterno You're only an assistant pig-keeper too. Starting at the bottom of the bottom. None of that inherent hero bullshit here.
 
@Sterno They never were shy about killing you off.
 
@TimStone Heck yeah.
 
I replayed one of the Quest games a couple years go. Played for almost two hours without saving, because what game doesn't auto-save. sigh
 
5:27 PM
You fool.
 
@fredley That seems about 100x more reasonable then potato salad.
 
@fredley "buy me a bike pls"
 
If they release the pictures or something of course
 
@RedRiderX 100 x 0 = 0
 
True
 
5:33 PM
What's this?
A unique ubisoft title?
Inconceivable!
Oh okay, they're just publishing it.
 
that looks god damn adorable
 
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Q: What content does "LA Noire - Complete" contain over "LA Noire - Standard" for PS3

DaenythRight now Standard is available on amazon for $11 while the complete version is $70. What additional content is available in Complete? I assume it's DLC material. If so, how much does the combined DLC material cost?

 
@GnomeSlice Jack-bot and the Beanstalk
 
Yeah!
 
I repeat: I hate Access.
And the fact that we have Access databases run as scheduled tasks saddens me greatly.
Especially when they break.
 
5:42 PM
dammit i keep getting rect in space quest
 
@GnomeSlice Beyond Good and Evil
 
@Fluttershy Was that ubisoft?
 
@GnomeSlice Child of Light
@GnomeSlice Valiant Hearts
 
@Fluttershy That was another case of just being published by ubi wasn't it
@Fluttershy same with that
 
@GnomeSlice ... No.
 
5:45 PM
Also I was mostly making a joke
 
@GnomeSlice I think he's trying to recommend games to you, as revenge for yesterday.
oh, nvm
NVM
 
Huh those were unibosft games.
Cool.
Anyway, Grow Home looks awesome.
 
@Wipqozn That is why I listed them separately, instead of one message. :P
 
@GnomeSlice UbiArt games are still Ubisoft
 
@Fluttershy I'm a hero
 
5:50 PM
It's so hard to move shit around my steam wishlist
everything is super laggy
 
@GnomeSlice maybe you shouldn't wishlist the whole steam catalog
 
I haven't
Just the ones I want to play
Which is, admittedly, a lot.
 
No - he owns a good chunk of the Steam catalog as well.
 
My bandcamp wishlist is even worse, it's over 900 items now.
 
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Q: If I create an account on Game Of war will I lose my progress?

Tinklepop560I have Game of War on my Phone and I have 1.9 million power. It keeps asking me to create a account for it. So if I listen and create and account will I lose my progress or will it still stay there?

 
5:52 PM
@Lazers only if you are angryNeeson52
 
That's Clash of Clans.
 
@JasonBerkan ah, i get the ones in that genre mixed up all the time
 
Finally convinced some of my lunch game group here at work to play Fluxx.
I lost every game, but we had fun. \o/
 
Daughter put in bed for nap. Darkest Dungeon time!
 
@Sterno Nooo! I'm not home to watch :(
 
6:09 PM
RNJesus, why do you hate me?
Just lost during the tutorial after missing 4 rounds in a row
 
@Sterno You should have strategied better.
 
@StrixVaria No, the game just sometimes wants you dead
 
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Q: Which trophies can only be obtained through the Trophy Shop?

ken.ganongI have read that some of the trophies in Super Smash Bros. 4 are available exclusively through the trophy shop. For example, alternate colored fighter trophies are a Trophy Shop exclusive (source). Which trophies can only be obtained by purchase in the trophy shop?

 
My starting guy is always a Kleptomaniac :(
 
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Q: How fast does poop fall?

James JenkinsSome building are really tall, if you flush the toilet and the contents go into a pipe and straight down, there could be a lot of energy, potentially enough to cause harm to the sewer pipe at the end of the fall. I know that in my home, the pipe goes straight down and then there is just a 90 deg...

 
6:20 PM
@Batophobia How is that at all building physics?
 
@Frank did you read the text of the question?
 
> "What is the potential for the things that are falling to damage the pipes?"
 
@murgatroid99 I did. And it's not anything I would have thought of.
Building engineer is an unglamorous job, it seems.
 
And I thought Arqade had weird questions.....
 
@Batophobia I think we're still the best at it
 
6:30 PM
0
Q: Needs to be approved by regent?

rs232For some reason when I have a regent, I am not able to declare war, or do some other tasks. It says it "needs to be approved by regent." How do I go about getting regent approval?

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Q: Is there a limit to the amount of "pieces" you can place in the map builder?

Shadow Z.I remember in Super Smash Bros Brawl, the game limited you on how much stuff you could put down in the maps you made using the map builder. Is that still a thing in the Super Smash Bros 4? I have yet to get it (or a Wii U) on the Wii U, and only have it on 3DS.

 
0
Q: How do I earn these types of badges?

Shadow Z.I am enjoying earning badges and collection reputation on this site, but as I browsed some of the more veteran users, I saw a type of badge like this: Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 non-community wiki answers in the [enter tag] tag. How exactly do I go about obtaining these typ...

 
hey, if I put a screenshot that I found on the internet in my answer, do I have to credit it and if so, is there a proper way of doing it?
 
@Chippies I usually just include a link to where I found the picture.
 
hm, makes sense, thanks
 
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Q: Can any other characters besides Ganondorf play Home Run contest with out a bat?

Shadow Z.In Super Smash Bros Brawl and Super Smash Bros 4, Ganondorf has been able to play Home Run Contest without needed the Home Run bat, thanks to his Reverse Warlock Punch. But, are there any other characters that do not need a Home Run Bat to get over a decent score (1000 FT) in SSB4?

 
6:48 PM
@Batophobia For a moment I thought that may have been on lifehacks.
 
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Q: In what order are catnip bonuses applied?

corsiKaI'm trying to determine how my farmers factor into my bonuses, and I just can't make the math work out. Is there an easy way to calculate what my catnip production will be given the following factors? Number of fields Number of aquaducts Whether or not you have mineral or iron hoes Karma/parag...

 
I'm delving into this issue now, but long story short — You cannot have a site that insists the best way to drive in a nail is with the back of a shoe. If the question itself doesn't specify some out-of-the-box situation, you cannot fault folks for actually answering it. When someone with that problem finds this site through search, they expect to find the best possible answer. We can't turn this into a game show where the "best" solution isn't allowed at all. The scope of a "lifehacks question" is still up for debate, but if it's asked, it has to be answered... completely. — Robert Cartaino ♦ 4 hours ago
cc @Sterno
@Duncan I cannot express how patently absurd it is to share with someone how you solved their problem only to be told your answer is not weird enough; unwelcome. Gilles has some of the best insight I've seen on this site, and his ideas about people simply looking for a solution to their problem has a lot of merit. This idea of an "everyday site" was interesting but problematic, but I'm trying to figure out how to constrain something like that within the scopes of lifehacks. — Robert Cartaino ♦ 3 hours ago
@Duncan The apparent disconnect between "it answers the question" and "I'm going to down-vote it anyway" is exactly why I have no idea what to do with this site. I hope everyone doesn't feel that way or this site will not work. With that thought, I'm out. — Robert Cartaino ♦ 3 hours ago
 
It's extra funny since Shog's the one that put the path on the site of downvoting conventional answers
You'd think it's already obvious the site doesn't work
 
@Sterno i dunno why they haven't shut it down yet
they still have not appointed mods
but somehow leaving private beta was approved?
 
It probably had a not insignificant push from an employee.
If as a test site or something.
 

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