The Bridge

11:21 AM

> user9983

RIP @OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria I'm currently not room owner.

I had to double check though.

@Wipqozn what happened?

I'm never sure if I'm room oner or not. sometimes I've been room owner for a few days and didn't realize it.

@5pike He deleted his account

@Wipqozn where? On Arqade? Or sitewide?

StrixVaria

Just on Arqade, and it was like a year ago that he did it.

@StrixVaria dam it @StrixVaria, you ruined my fun!

you're a monster.

He did it around the time of the last elections.

Although he stopped using the site long before that.

11:25 AM

Ok, that I know. I thought he ragequitted the whole of SE for some reason.

@5pike nah, just came across a question of his, and was all THOSE WERE THE DAYS

11:36 AM

@Wipqozn It's easy to check you know, just see if there is anything WRONG with the Bridge. If there is, chances are you are a room owner.

@KevinvanderVelden The WRONGNESS starts, as soon as he enters the room.

Naah, it's just WRONG if he's in here but not room owner

Q: Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead Demo+ Arma 2 Original

11:53 AM

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If i buy Arma 2 (Original) and get Arma 2 Operation Arrohead The Demo. Whould i be able to Play Arma 2:DayZ?

steam

I'm so loved.

@Wipqozn False. Nobody likes you.

@Wipqozn Yeah, we love to hate you.

@PrivatePansy :(

12:08 PM

@Wipqozn Your suffering fuels the bridge.

@5pike That's @Unionhawk. You're being slow again, Slowpoke!

@Arperum multiple people can be wrong at the same time

@KevinvanderVelden Yea, but @uni causes all-round WRONGNESS.

True, true

Next friday sabaton and delain and battle beast!

Next week friday*

I know what I'll be listening to this Friday

12:19 PM

Good music?

@KevinvanderVelden lolno

@KevinvanderVelden The sound of my own sobbing

Your loss

@fredley that's not music!

@KevinvanderVelden It's still audible. Just.

@KevinvanderVelden It's to some people

12:20 PM

@5pike Wait, did I say my own? I meant @Wipqozn's

@fredley That as well.

@5pike Your use of It's there troubles me

It's just a contraction

@fredley Why? it's = it is, right?

Since the emphasis in that sentence is on 'is', it ends up on the apostrophe instead. It's like a missing step on a staircase.

Q: If I delete a game from my machine, is it deleted from Steam?

12:24 PM

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Say I buy a game on Steam, download / install it on my machine, and then delete it. Does it stay in my games library on Steam and can I download it again? And if so, what about my saved game data? Does that persist on Steam for a game which has been deleted from my machine?

steam

@5pike Hmmm, because some people (like me) actually reads "it's" as "it's" instead of mentally expanding it out and reading the sentence

@KevinvanderVelden Yay! I'm looking forward to it :D

@PrivatePansy which is the correct way cause you won't know what it's expands to until you read the rest of the sentence (it is, it has, possessive 's)

@KevinvanderVelden Wouldn't the third one be "its"?

@Arperum aah true

But who remembers that

12:29 PM

@KevinvanderVelden I just did!

Lies

@KevinvanderVelden That's my sister. She's not here.

Just when you need her

@KevinvanderVelden She's having a secret meeting with @5pike's brother in Vietnam or something.

ALso: going to see Hexa Mera and Basement Critters tomorrow. Yay! (@KevinvanderVelden won't like the vocals though)

I have no idea who they are =p

12:34 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Local bands. Hexa Mera sure is, and since Basement Critters is support I assume they are too.

I know the sound/light technician from Hexa Mera.

@fredley I won't fall for anymore of your tricks.

@Wipqozn bookmarking this for future reference

@fredley Bookmark away!

@Wipqozn I will

@fredley Good!

12:36 PM

@Wipqozn Well then!

I should answer more questions. I decided to post an answer (first one since december): suddenly 40 rep.

Our reps are palindromes

I have no idea why I saw that but

@Arperum Yeah, posting answers is a great way to make rep. Strange,eh?

STRAAAAANNNNGGEEE

STRAAAAANNGNGNGENGEKGJNKNSKGNSDKLDJADLKSAJD

watermelon

Someone reboot the turtle

ex-turtle.

12:46 PM

@KevinvanderVelden kill -9 @Wipqozn.exe

@PrivatePansy unis style kill with windows style filenames? ಠ_ಠ

@Arperum Just ask some more questions, you'll also get rep, but you don't have much to do.

@KevinvanderVelden :P

@5pike I did ask at least one question last month (too lazy to check it it were actually two questions)

(The command was intentionally eyebrow raising)

Rapitor

1:14 PM

\o

o/

Q: Answers which contain standard solutions and hacks

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I've read a lot of answers in the last few days that predominantly recommend a non-hack answer to the question, but also save themselves with a paragraph or two containing some kind of hack. Here are two examples: How to shred papers/letters without using a shredder machine In this example, ...

discussion scope answers

> But that's insane: if an asker presents a problem, someone else provides a conventional solution to it, and the asker is satisfied with this solution... Then it's not the answerer's fault that this isn't a Lifehack question! What you have to guard against here is the temptation to keep around every question that gets an answer, even if it becomes apparent that the asker does not want - and the problem does not warrant - a hack.

uuuugggghhhh, why does this site still exist

SaintWacko

/me yawns

Morning, Bridge

@Wipqozn Because things take time to die

Morning @SaintWacko

cc @Sterno

1:27 PM

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Q: Tropico 4 Modern Times

How can I switch from Modern Times to normal campaign?I played some classic campaign and then I tried Modern Times and now I want to switch back to normal.(Sorry if I misspeled some words,english is not my main language)

tropico-4

Just buy a new pack

Wait wait wait, what? If you rename an HTML file (with a table in it) to a .xls file, excel will try to convert it to an actual excel file

Just buy a new ruler

Just buy a new house

@fredley Wrap your house, top to bottom, in ductape

@KevinvanderVelden Keep some pet spidervoric spiders

1:28 PM

Also fun!

Rapitor

@fredley shoot it with a gun

@Rapitor hahahaha

@KevinvanderVelden dat feature bloat

SaintWacko

@fredley I'm voting to close this as a duplicate of this

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Although I agree with everything you've said, it seems like the core problem here isn't that someone asked a non-lifehack question, but that there's no way to determine if a question requires a Lifehacks solution without the asker already knowing the answer. This is one of the core problems the site has, and it still hasn't been resolved, despite being in beta for 2 months now. I really don't see problems like this going away because of that. — Wipqozn 1 min ago

Q: Dragon Ball Xenoverse collecters edition

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I'm planning on getting Dragon Ball Xenoverse for PC via steam. If you pre-order you get special content but I want to wait for release so i can see how it turns out. The same content is in the collectors edition. Can you purchase the collectors edition even after the game is out for a while so i...

steam

1:38 PM

@fredley Burn it down. All of it.

@Arperum Thought you meant lifehacks.SE there for a minute

@fredley Good place to start.

Q: Is my gpu temperatures high? How can i lower it?

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I've recently bought a Gigabyte R9 280x 3gb gddr5 graphics card, and honestly, i'm pretty happy with it. But one thing i'm concerned is with it's temperature. After one hour or so playing, its temperature goes to 70-72C. I've only tested it with two games Resident Evil HD remaster Skyrim (with...

technical-issues hardware

@Lazers Move further North

HI CHAT.

1:50 PM

HI FIZZ

@LessPop_MoreFizz LOW CHAT.

@fredley SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE CHAT.

Thai crown prince’s poodle, Air Chief Marshal Foo Foo, has been cremated

RIP Air Chief Marshal Foo Foo

Had the dog actually the title of Air Chief Marshal?

@5pike yes. Yes it did.

Hahahaha, nice.

2:04 PM

It was a commisioned officer in the Thai Air Force.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Is the rest of the airforce the other pets of the royals?

@Arperum no I think they have real planes and pilots and guns and bombs and missiles and such.