The Bridge

MadMAxJr

6:00 PM

Today Dora explores the derelict alien ship and identifies the Xenomorph.

TheAce

NOTICE: Tabletop Sim is on sale

Sterno

By the way, people. The SyFy series 12 Monkeys is good.

And got renewed for a 2nd season, so yay

Matt Giltaji

@MadMAxJr alien, no facehugging!

Sterno

@MadMAxJr She did ride a magical unicorn through space, once

MadMAxJr

Sad facehugger. Skitters away.

Sterno

6:01 PM

Oops. Pegasus, not unicorn

Origami Robot

@TheAce HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Sterno

This question appears to be off-topic because it is about Dora the Explorer. Questions regarding children's programs where the fantasy elements primarily consist of anthropomorphic talking animals have been deemed off topic in the past. — TGnat Oct 27 '14 at 15:33

I like that it has 27 upvotes, yet the question is open

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria SHOULD GET THIS AND BUILD AN EDH DECK

MadMAxJr

Tabletop sim has so many games that I wonder what happens when copyright claims occur.

Lazers

0

Q: Need help finding an old game

i used to play an old RTS when i was a kid it was set futuristic settings i can remember that there was like a flying base and something like mortars. and you could control factories. Thank you guys.

windows

TheAce

6:02 PM

me and @RedRiderX have been trying to plan something wiith it

Unionhawk

Best new TLD

Matt Giltaji

@Unionhawk brb, off to buy domain names of every famous person with .sucks

MBraedley

@MattGiltaji It's not going to be $10 a pop like you're used to with .com

Matt Giltaji

@MBraedley unless i can get certified as a "consumer advocate"

Unionhawk

Aaaaaaand, sub 18 oot

Kevin van der Velden

6:10 PM

@Sterno well it's obviously because @OrigamiRobot said "Closers, no closing!" with 69 upvotes

Unionhawk

Goddammit SwiftKey

MadMAxJr

So who is buying Lifehacks.sucks ?

2

Sterno

So, I'm watching YouTube with my daughter. Some Dora the Explorer kinder egg videos. And before it starts, they put up a 15 second unskippable trailer for a horror movie

GOOD JOB TARGETING THE DORA EGG VIDEO DEMOGRAPHIC WITH THAT, YOUTUBE

Unionhawk

Ha

I've been getting the same android ad consistently for a week

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno I dunno, maybe your daughter is secretly watching a bunch of horror movies when you're not looking!

Sterno

6:18 PM

I'm always looking.

Always.

Kevin van der Velden

That's what you think

MadMAxJr

@Sterno Adblock

Also didn't they make a kid-safe youtube fork? Or is that only on mobile?

Unionhawk

Mobile

Wipqozn

2

Q: What is the best setting on iPad for reading eBooks

I am an avid reader of eBooks and I do that mostly on an iPad. But there are many people who warn of deterioration of eyesight due to continuous exposure to the screen of an iPad. But I can't give up this habit. So what are the best settings I can use on an iPad to ensure my eye sight is saved in...

substitute-tool technology eyesight

How is that even remotely asking for a lifehack?

Matt E. Эллен

they need to rephrase it. "What is the least practical way to not damage your eyesight while using an iPad to read eBooks?"

Stack Exchange

6:28 PM

Jason Berkan has added Wipqozn to the list of this room's owners.

Kevin van der Velden

This is an absolutely evil exploit and I love it

SERIOUSLY. WE HAVE A SOFTWARE EXPLOIT THAT USES QUANTUM PHYSICS TO HACK YOUR COMPUTER

MadMAxJr

I'll worry more about quantum entangled hacks.

Kevin van der Velden

Also, googles sandbox to run native code in your browser can now no longer flush the CPU cache

Matt Giltaji

good thing about a quantum hack is that your computer may or may not be hacked... you only find out when you take it out of the box

MadMAxJr

Observing your computer causes it to be hacked. So never open your PC.

... Can I tell some of my worst users this?

Kevin van der Velden

6:34 PM

@MadMAxJr what if I have a window in my case?

Sterno

@Wipqozn Look who answered it

Matt Giltaji

@KevinvanderVelden let it get so dusty that you can't see inside

Kevin van der Velden

@MattGiltaji Done! :D

Wipqozn

@Sterno Oh I know. I found it by looking through his activity. He reviewed it earlier, and took the action of leaving it open. He has two close reviews on the front page of his history, both of which resulted in "leave open", and him answering the question.

MadMAxJr

I don't know what effects the window will cause, but in every inch of space outside your cone of vision is filled with cats blinking in and out of existence.

Wipqozn

6:36 PM

Actually he did the reviews after posting his answers.

Unionhawk

Oh nice

Matt Giltaji

@Wipqozn are you stalking lifehacks mods now?

Kevin van der Velden

He is kinda obsessed

Wipqozn

@Sterno I doubt he'll reply to you

Sterno

@Wipqozn His reply is unnecessary.

Wipqozn

6:38 PM

@Sterno Very true!

He didn't reply to your comment from the other day either. Or mine.

Sterno

He's busy doing mod stuff. He doesn't have time to reply to questions about why he's taking the actions he takes.

Yes, people, keep telling me that the overlords chose who were most qualified to run the site, and didn't just go by the 3 top votes on the nomination post.

Okay, here's the weird part. He clearly read that meta post. He posted an answer that he "agrees with it very much"

Matt Giltaji

@Sterno let's also remember that most of the nominated mods declined

Kevin van der Velden

BUT THE INTERNET POINTS

MadMAxJr

.... Do we need to build anti-lifehacks?

Wipqozn

@Sterno link?

Sterno

6:42 PM

@MattGiltaji That should have told the overlords something

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A: Let's make this clear: this site is **not** the same as Lifehacker

I agree with this very much. However, I don't think that something is off-topic just because it is on-topic on another SE site, inclusive of computer issues. For example, if I'm looking for a hack to keep a child from deleting my files, it could be on-topic at either of the following: Super Us...

Wipqozn

You edited your post, you goose.

Sterno

P.S. - I like to say "overlord"

MadMAxJr

Overmod

Sterno

@Wipqozn All I did was add the link

Batophobia

Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want.

Kevin van der Velden

6:43 PM

@Batophobia something like that =p

Batophobia

https xkcd doesn't onebox :(

Sterno

I guess maybe I see where you came from? You approached it from a non-software standpoint. He was asking specifically for iPad settings which reduce eye strain, but your answer had nothing to do with settings. I still believe this is off-topic as currently written, though. — Sterno 6 secs ago

i.e., you suck at answering questions too

@Wipqozn Well, he's reading the question. He just added the tag comfort

MadMAxJr

Starting to sound like a witch hunt.

Unionhawk

I think he may be taking it from the perspective that our mod rec mess is maybe. Look at the core problem not the presumed solution.

Sterno

@Unionhawk It's not our job to change the scope of a question like that though. The question is pretty clearly about particular settings

Unionhawk

6:51 PM

Sure, I'm trying to see where this may be debatable

Sterno

I see the other point of view. It can be turned into a question that isn't about settings (even though the title and body both say he cares about iPad settings)

And if the question is edited to that, it's fine

But that isn't its current form.

If I asked for a Chrome extension that made viewing Bridge chat easier on my eyes, it wouldn't be on-topic because someone could say "just look away every once in a while, that should help" #lifehack

Ktash

Every time lifehacks comes up, I'm always so happy that I don't have an account there and don't have to worry about it's drama :)

Arperum

@Sterno At some point you need to ask yourself, do we really need that many tags on a single question? like eyesight. Really? How many lifehacks are there about your eyesight?

Sterno

@Ktash But that's the whole reason to have an account!

Matt Giltaji

@Arperum i don't see very many

Sterno

6:55 PM

@Arperum You are probably right, but I just ignore the tags there since they're meaningless anyway. Unless we suspect there will be eyesight experts and the like

Arperum

@MattGiltaji "How do I not lose my eyesight?" "Try not to stab forks in your eyes. #lifehack"

Matt Giltaji

@Arperum wooosh

Arperum

@Sterno If you can't have experts in a specific tag, that means said tag is bad, and should be killed with fire.

Sterno

@Arperum I challenge you to think of any tag you could put on lifehacks that someone could be an expert in

Okay, I take that back

Matt Giltaji

@Sterno like an ophthalmologist?

Sterno

6:57 PM

I can think of tags

but they basically map up to other sites. Like cooking (just go to Seasoned Advice!)

Arperum

@Sterno Doesn't that kinda point to lifehacks being not fit for the system?

Sterno

@Arperum Maybe. My argument is pretty weak though, now that I think of it. The C# tag on SO could be its own site

Arperum

We should just migrate every stupid question we don't like to lifehacks, and use it as the garbage bin it really is.

Sterno

anyway, I don't get too hot and bothered about tags since I never really read them

Matt Giltaji

"i need a lifehack to make my minecraft install not crash"

3

Unionhawk

6:59 PM

Remember not all sites can have as clean tagging as we for the most part do

MBraedley

Simultaneous yay! and fuck! I get to pull 12 hour days next week.

StrixVaria

"Arqade has a clean tagging system." - @uni 2015

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Ktash

We are also very rigid with our tags. Which works well for us (especially experienced users)

Wipqozn

@MBraedley That sucks

Chippies

We had snow at our door up to my chest and I just shoveled it all. Wife took pics before I started shoveling and I even asked her if the memory card is in the camera and she said yes. Turns out there wasn't.

so that's one less "Oh Canada" photos from me

MadMAxJr

7:02 PM

It's memoryless memory card.

Unionhawk

@StrixVaria I mean it isn't perfect but it could be (has been) worse

djsmiley2k

@MBraedley I've applied for a job doing 5 x 12 hour night shifts...

but then 2 days off, 2 days in, 5 days off

and the ability to book holiday consectively giving 2.5months off

Origami Robot

@Chippies This doesn't tell me much since I don't know anything about your chest.

MBraedley

@djsmiley2k I will be getting flex time for this, although I'm not going to be able to use said flex time until the project is finished.

Chippies

@OrigamiRobot would you like to know more about my chest?

djsmiley2k

7:07 PM

@MBraedley not surte exazctly how i'd feel about that :D

Origami Robot

If you want the above sentence to have more value, it is needed.

MadMAxJr

@MattGiltaji We would be terrible people to start redirecting crash log posters there.

djsmiley2k

ooo ooo i wanted to ask something

you guys do a movie night right?

Yuuki

@Chippies The answer to "do you have a memory card in the camera?" is always "no, no you don't."

MBraedley

@djsmiley2k The project will be finished (hopefully) by the late summer/early fall. I'm more than willing to not work through almost the entirety of November and December.

Matt Giltaji

7:09 PM

@djsmiley2k yeah, @yuuki and @ktash organize it monthly

djsmiley2k

how's that work exactly, everyone just watches the same movie at the same time?

Chippies

@OrigamiRobot I'm 175cm tall, it was slightly below my chest, so probably around 1m~1.2m'ish high, maybe

djsmiley2k

@MBraedley ah december off would be nice, nod

Yuuki

@djsmiley2k We use a service that basically works like a remote desktop that everyone streams.

djsmiley2k

In iceland I lost my leg in a drift

so yeah, that was deep D

Chippies

7:09 PM

djsmiley2k

@Yuuki oooo that's very cool

right gotta run, dinner o/

Chippies

the snow was higher than that ledge thingy

Matt Giltaji

@Chippies that's not lifehacky at all!

@djsmiley2k there is also a built in chat with the service, so we can write comments and whatnot while watching

lols during funny parts, etc

Chippies

that picture was taken after most of the snow was shoveled and wife had realized that her countless photos were not on the memory card, as it was not in the camera

Yuuki

2 mins ago, by Yuuki

@Chippies The answer to "do you have a memory card in the camera?" is always "no, no you don't."

Chippies

7:12 PM

@Yuuki I asked twice, she was very confident about the card being in the camera

Yuuki

@Chippies Always "no, no you don't."

Even if you open up the camera and see that a memory card is present, you do not have a memory card in the camera.

Chippies

"The camera hasn't given me the message about no card yet"

apparently it took 10-20 pictures to notice that message

Yuuki

No matter what, you never have a memory card in the camera.

MadMAxJr

Does a memory card have to be observed to exist?

Yuuki

@MadMAxJr Even when observed, it does not exist.

Chippies

7:15 PM

Until observed, the camera has and doesn't have a memory card.

Schrödinger's memory card

now I have to wait for next snowstorm (probably not a long wait) until I can post my annual complaint about winter in canada on facebook

and then another one in may, when there's another snowstorm

it's a tradition that I can't break!

Frank

Ow. I've had a headache all day. :(

Chippies

@Frank have a nap

Sterno

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Q: Is this question about iPad settings be on-topic since it deals with the physical problem of vision?

What is the best setting on iPad for reading eBooks This question, in its current form, asks in both the title and the body what the best iPad settings are to reduce vision strain. Note: I'm keeping this question purposefully minimal so that my own bias is contained only within my answer, to h...

discussion questions

cc @Wipqozn

Frank

@Chippies Can't. At work.

Matt Giltaji

3

Q: How to quickly cure headaches without medicines

I've experienced this sometimes when I go for hours without water or little food and suddenly I experience a headache that gradually gets worse as time goes on. Until now I used to just pop a pill and get it over with, but I've always looked for alternatives and frankly the internet is filled wit...

substitute-tool comfort

Chippies

7:20 PM

@Frank :(

MadMAxJr

#StopPostingLifehacks

Chippies

resting your forehead against a cold hand helps a bit usually

Origami Robot

@Chippies I HAVE TROUBLE ENOUGH VISUALIZING IMPERIAL MEASUREMENTS, MUCH LESS SI

Sterno

@Unionhawk I addressed the XY problem in my answer.

XY Problem is essentially for when their solution is on the wrong path. That isn't the issue here. The issue is the question isn't within scope

Chippies

Sep 12 '14 at 21:54, by Chippies

so, I am 6 1/4 A4 papers tall +/- half cm

Sterno

7:22 PM

Changing iPad settings may well be the (or at least, a) solution to his problem

Origami Robot

@Chippies NOT SURE IF SERIOUS

Chippies

@OrigamiRobot very serious

Origami Robot

A4 IS NOT AN AMERICAN PAPER SIZE

MadMAxJr

A4 is awesome paper plane size

Chippies

@OrigamiRobot gosh, can't you Americans do anything right?!

Batophobia

7:24 PM

Original Lifehacks

Frank

I'm just waiting for the Advil to kick in.

MadMAxJr

Lifehack: Oog want to make fire but have no fire rock. What Oog do?

Chippies

I'm just gonna assume that A4 is part of the SI system, which is why americans are boycotting it

Batophobia

Supporting Lifehacks.SE is actually supporting the tobacco industry

MadMAxJr

Answer: Find tribe with fire. Take fire!

Origami Robot

7:25 PM

@Chippies IT'S NOT A CANADA THING EITHER

TMK

MadMAxJr

Well if it's not american and it is not canadian then why does every printer in this building have a tray full of it?

Chippies

@OrigamiRobot Canadians are weird anyway, they want to be like their big brother America, but they also want to please Queen of Britain. Canada is confused.

MadMAxJr

@Chippies Except for that small part that wants to please France.

Batophobia

@MadMAxJr prevent lawsuits of paper discrimination

Chippies

we can and do buy A4 paper here in Canada though, even if it's possibly not the main size

Matt Giltaji

7:27 PM

@Batophobia these are harsh

> A scout's staff, a walking-stick, or even a handkerchief or hat may be held before you as shown. The dog invariably endeavours to paw down your defense before biting, thus giving you the opportunity of disabling him by a kick.

Serverfrog

did you know about this?

Batophobia

Lifehacks are a harsh reality

Origami Robot

I'M SURE I CAN BUY A4 PAPER HERE, BUT MY POINT IS THAT YOUR ATTEMPT TO PUT YOUR HEIGHT IN MORE ACCESSIBLE TERMS FAILED MISERABLY

> 210 by 297 millimetres (8.27 in × 11.7 in)

CLOSE ENOUGH TO LETTER SIZE

Matt Giltaji

even these old lifehacks have scope issues

MadMAxJr

Lifehack: I need standard paper and all I have is A4, what can I do?

Wipqozn

7:28 PM

@Sterno mooseman just edited the post to change what it was asking, and lockled it

Matt Giltaji

cutting a tree down is not a lifehack, that is a regular way to do things

@Wipqozn mod abuse!

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn BEST MOD

Sterno

@Wipqozn He did that in the reverse order. He locked it right after I meta'd

MadMAxJr

Cutting down a tree is a macguyver issue.

Sterno

I'm not going to get too down on him over this one. I see where he's coming from

I just disagree with it

Batophobia

7:29 PM

How to cut down a tree with only a banana peel, plastic spoon, and @Wipqozn's socks

MadMAxJr

I'm pretending Sterno is in the tree, full camo/ghillie suit, watching over the perimeter wall of Lifehacks, watching the mods commit atrocities against the denizens(posts).

Matt Giltaji

@MadMAxJr no need to pretend, that is real life

MadMAxJr

radio click Observing the eyesight tag.. nothing new to report

Origami Robot

MAN, REMEMBER WHEN @Wipqozn POSTED HIS FILTHY SOCKS?

3

Matt Giltaji

@OrigamiRobot they were so dirty

Origami Robot

7:30 PM

SUCH MISTAKE

Matt Giltaji

guau

Origami Robot

@Sterno SHOULD MAKE A MOD FOR TABLETOP SIM SO WE CAN ALL PLAY ECLIPSE TOGETHER

Sterno

@OrigamiRobot You should just buy an iPad

Origami Robot

GROSS

MadMAxJr

Sterno Watches Lifehacks - The Boardgame

Yuuki

7:35 PM

So my car is now NSFW.

Matt Giltaji

@Yuuki nice

Yuuki

@MattGiltaji Stupid pollen season.

Chippies

@Yuuki did someone draw a penis on it?

3

Yuuki

@Chippies There's plant unmentionables all over it now.

Chippies

@Yuuki kinky

Lazers

7:40 PM

-2

Q: Still need help with dawnguard dlc

I'm still confused on how to check and see if I have dawnguard dlc. My game system is xbox360 . Do I go to options on skyrim or xbox menue to see

skyrim-dawnguard

fredley

HOW DO THEY NOT LAUGH

Origami Robot

@Yuuki GAMETES?

Yuuki

@OrigamiRobot Yep.

Unionhawk

Ocarina of Time any% WR 17:55 by Jodenstone (sub 18!)

Yuuki

inb4 @spugsley

Unionhawk

7:52 PM

(sum of best segments is about 10 seconds lower still)

spugsley

HALLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk cc @StrixVaria!

Ktash

@spugsley OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLAH

Kevin van der Velden

AAAH

ALSO HELLO @spugsley

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn cc @Unionhawk

Batophobia

7:55 PM

@OrigamiRobot cc @fredley

fredley

TOO MANY CCS

Also I have never Zelda

spugsley

TUNA FISH

I am eating tuna fish

Batophobia

@spugsley You can tune a piano....

spugsley

@Batophobia you're a monster

Batophobia

ba-dum-tsss

fredley

7:59 PM

@Batophobia But you can tuna bass

NEXT LEVEL FISH PUNS

Origami Robot

ignore me

spugsley

@fredley you're next level terrible rn

Yuuki

@fredley But bass != tuna. And when was the last time a bass guitar was in tune?

StrixVaria

@spugsley Can't tell if you wanted a newline at the end of your message or if @fredley is just a terrible nurse.

Sterno

I won my Lifehacks meta argument but lost my Lifehacks meta argument. I'm so sad.

spugsley

8:06 PM

@StrixVaria more like "right now" but let's go with the nurse thing

GnomeSlice

girls are fighting over me in everlasting summer and now I feel bad because I chose the bitchy one's path and the nice shy one is crying

fredley

@StrixVaria Don't be shellfish

Origami Robot

@GnomeSlice I don't know what you're talking about but I'm sure it means you're terrible

StrixVaria

@fredley You are the wurst.

fredley

@StrixVaria that's a sausage.gif

StrixVaria

8:09 PM

You are meat it's close enough.

My avatar is decidedly not a shellfish.

(Please don't mod abuse my avatar to a shellfish.)

5

Frank

@StrixVaria This statement needs to be mod abused, to say that you do want your avatar mod abused to a shellfish.

MBraedley

I'm doing a wiki-walk, someone stop me!

Wipqozn

@MBraedley Play cities skylines

StrixVaria

@MBraedley tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StandardTimeUnits

MBraedley

@Wipqozn Not at home yet

I got into work a little late this morning

Batophobia

8:14 PM

@MBraedley Paranormal.SE

MBraedley

@StrixVaria That just shifts the wiki-walk to another site. Not a solution, would not recommend.

Arperum

@Frank And then pinned, so some other mod than the one doing the message abuse actually doing it.

Wipqozn

@Sterno Something else that bothers me is it would make more sense to suggest checking out ASk Different, if our primary concern is with helping the user, which it should be.

Frank

@Arperum I like that idea.

Wipqozn

Edit the question to make it on-topic, that's agood... but don't try to shoehorn it into the site, at the expense of the user

Also suggest checking out our sister site, which would be better at answering the question actualy asked

Sterno

8:15 PM

@Mooseman That would be a case of us assuming that the information the user is after is not the information he specifically asked for. Compare the answers he's going to get after we change his question here to the answers he might get on AskDifferent. It's drastically different. We're changing the intent of the question. And I'll concede, maybe that's okay, if that's what we want to do. But we can't pretend it's actually still the same question as originally asked. — Sterno 12 mins ago

Sorta said that there, but badly

Or to put it another way, our first priority should be helping people get answers to their questions, not growing the list of questions on our site. The user may be best served by being pointed at AskDifferent so they can get the specific settings they're after. If they're really just after general eye-strain reduction advice, then we're a good fit. But we don't know if we just make the assumption and change the question on them. — Sterno 20 secs ago

Better maybe

I think I'm done.

Wipqozn

@Sterno yeah, that's better

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk @TimStone Federation drama again

Tim Stone

Oh?

Origami Robot

Shadow President calling out actual president for war in Lugh

Unionhawk

Heh

Basically "No we're not doing well because the president, we're doing well because of all the independent pilots"

user15026

8:29 PM

@Sterno And this is why I won't touch Lifehacks

user15026

Because changing a question that much just...no why

Unionhawk

Yeah. I flagged the question implicitly requesting an unlock. Which was marked as helpful and not actioned. Which bothers me much more than it should.

This is all @Sterno's fault

Frank

@Unionhawk If you feel that badly, it may behoove you to contact SE with a link to the perceived mod abuse.

Unionhawk

eh

Sterno

@Unionhawk Victory

I would like to be clear that I see no mod abuse.

Except @fredley

and @badp

fredley

8:33 PM

@Sterno :(

Sterno

I don't trust an Arqade mod who doesn't abuse

8

eyes @AshleyNunn warily

user15026

@Sterno Maybe you just don't notice it

Sterno

@AshleyNunn That's why I'm so wary.

Wipqozn

@Sterno Are you saying it's better to run around closing questions instead of helping users understand what is or isn't on-topic? I'm trying to help build a community here. — Mooseman ♦ 45 mins ago

That's why

Sterno

murgatroid99

8:36 PM

@Wipqozn So, "helping users understand what is on topic" = "replacing users' questions with on topic questions"?

Sterno

@Wipqozn I resisted the urge to point out that before I even brought it to meta, he wasn't trying to help a user understand anything. He was just leaving an obviously off-topic post open

Origami Robot

Which question was changed? The iPad one?

fredley

@Sterno for Lifehacks mod

Origami Robot

I didn't see any drastic change there

Sterno

I don't really agree with the edit but I don't think it's that big a deal either.

Frank

8:37 PM

@Wipqozn If your main focus is to build a community, you don't do it by unilaterally changing questions.

Sterno

My issue was with it being voted to be left open and answered in its previous form

Wipqozn

@Sterno His argument would hold more weight if he actually left a comment on the question saying "hey, this isn't on-topic, but this is!"

Origami Robot

In fact, I didn't even really see a change.

user15026

@OrigamiRobot The change from "what settings" - which makes it a Ask Different question to "how do I not burn out my tender eyemeats" - which apparently makes it a LH question

Wipqozn

I don

2

user15026

8:38 PM

@Sterno My main issue atm is the lock

Unionhawk

Yes

spugsley

No

Sterno

@OrigamiRobot I don't know what you're looking at, but the original version was "What iPad settings can I change to make it less hard on my eyes?" and the new version is "How can I reduce eye strain when using an iPad?"

Frank

@Sterno That's Zachary Levi.

Where's that from?

Sterno

@AshleyNunn I'm just going to say that's a newbie mod mistake and leave it at that

spugsley

8:39 PM

@Frank ...no that's Ben Stiller

user15026

@Sterno I hope so

Sterno

@Frank What @spugsley said

Or Robert ee Niro, in case you were really wrong

Frank

@spugsley It was two seconds, if that.

It really looks like him.

spugsley

It's Meet the Fockers

or whatever iteration of that movie

Origami Robot

@Sterno I honestly don't see how that's a significant change, but I don't know anything about whatever other site you guys are talking about.

Sterno

8:40 PM

@OrigamiRobot Asking about how to change iPad settings is not a Lifehack question

spugsley

@Frank disagree. Zachary Levi is delicious. Ben Stiller looks like a melted mannequin

user15026

@Sterno We have a whole Apple site for a reason!

user15026

And a migration system!

Origami Robot

I'm not making any statement about whether or not either version is a lifehacks question

I just think those two questions are the same.

Sterno

@OrigamiRobot One restricts the scope of answers to iPad settings, and is basically "How do I configure this particular iPad software?" The other is a more general "How do I keep my eyes from hurting when using a bright screen"

MBraedley

8:42 PM

Seriously? All of these conversion functions are in the global namespace? Even after someone created the logical namespace in the very header file!? Fucking legacy code.

Sterno

@AshleyNunn What is the mod guidance for when things should be locked?

Origami Robot

Seems like a good edit then.

Sterno

Do you guys have a How To Not Mod Abuse Like @Fredp manual?

user15026

@OrigamiRobot Umm...can't recall off the top of my head. Feel like there is an M.SE post someplace that would tackle that

murgatroid99

@OrigamiRobot How is it a good edit if it changes the intent of the question?

Sterno

8:44 PM

@OrigamiRobot Just go ask your question about shampooing your hair there already.

I've got a +100 bounty ready for you

Origami Robot

I don't see how it changes the intent

Intent: Eyes stop hurting

Unionhawk

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Q: What is a "locked" post?

A post can be locked. What does it mean to lock a post? Who can lock a post? When should a post be locked? Return to FAQ index

support faq locked terminology

Origami Robot

@Sterno I'm not touching that site

Sterno

@OrigamiRobot It doesn't really change intent. It changes the scope of desired answers. If I want to know what settings to change, I want to know what settings to change. I don't want to know how to fashion a tinfoil hat that might reflect light in such a way that it lowers eye stress

Matt Giltaji

> Posts should generally only be locked in cases where something seriously bad is happening. In particular, where the ongoing updates and edits are actively detrimental to the system.

Origami Robot

8:46 PM

@Sterno I was answering @murgatroid99's question

user15026

@Sterno thiiiiiiiis

user15026

@Unionhawk I knew it :D

Origami Robot

@Sterno I understand that, I just don't see why that's bad here.

murgatroid99

@OrigamiRobot The user asked for a particular kind of answer. The edit made it so that they wouldn't get that kind of answer

user15026

@OrigamiRobot because it changed everything the OP was asking and now they wont get the help they need

Origami Robot

8:47 PM

If we're operating under the assumption taht Lifehacks can work as a site, that's the kind of scope I'd want.

Matt Giltaji

@OrigamiRobot that's a pretty big assumption

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote indiegogo.com/projects/crosscode

Origami Robot

@murgatroid99 I'm pretty sure the new question includes the scope of the former.

GnomeSlice

Hrm.

Lazers

0

Q: Is there an Android space combat simulation like X-Wing or TIE Fighter?

I'm looking for an Android game that uses the gyroscope to fly starfighters, analogous to the old X-Wing or TIE Fighter MS-DOS games. I found one game (Assembly of Worlds) that's very much like X-Wing, but uses on-screen controls for steering. Anyone find a game like this?

android game-identification

Origami Robot

8:48 PM

Anyway, I just thought you guys were talking about a different question. I'm perfectly happy to not get it and move on.

Matt Giltaji

@Lazers tie fighter was such a fun game

Frank

@spugsley I had less than two seconds. I could put up a side by side, if you really want me to.

Although, I agree that Zach is awesome.

Sterno

@OrigamiRobot The edit was a very minor disagreement. I can definitely see your viewpoint on it and am not terribly bothered by it. The initial issue wasn't about the edit. It was about the lack of an edit but rejection of close votes

spugsley

@Frank nah because if it's too close I'll have a crisis

user15026

@Sterno FYI that person that just steam requested you is me :D

Origami Robot

8:57 PM

Speaking of which, if anyone here tried to add me on Elite, tell me your name first because I have no idea who you are

Matt Giltaji

@OrigamiRobot my name is chris dolan

Unionhawk

@MattGiltaji that's an NPC (you can tell because there's no CMDR in front)

Origami Robot