The Bridge

@Frank Except businesses already consider IT a cost sink.

Without stopping and thinking what IT actually gains them.

Kevin van der Velden

Damnit twitch. I know you're wrong and think this stream is pirating music and are therefor muting parts of it. BUT DON'T MUTE THE WRONG PARTS

So, I just realized today that the app I work on hasn't had a push to production since June last year.

So, all the bugs I've squashed? Still exist on prod.

This is an internal app that has literally 6 users at this point. So, there's no excuse for us to not push things, particularly since I just had a "new" bug reported to me that I fixed in Dev 6 months ago.

Well, technically the cause is IE11's compatibility view doing weird shit, but we fixed the reason they needed compat view 6 months ago in dev.

Q: Did they break King Dedede's infinte combo?

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Before I start doing this answer, I will explain King Dedede's infinite combo (for those who do not know it). If you use King Dedede's basic A attack to the second swing, then wait, only to re-attack with it (but not soon enough after to do the spin or the finisher), the player can re-activate t...

super-smash-bros-4

@Powerlord Which is the bigger issue.

6:17 PM

rolls eyes I just noticed one of our classes is a wrapper around a list that adds sorting capabilities.

Have the other devs here not heard of a Comparator before?

But at this point, I've basically told my old company and new company that this is a sticking point, and I expect them to resolve it.

Arperum

@Wipqozn I can't. Have a visitor over the whole day(picking her up later tonight actually) and in the evening three more friends come over and we're going to see some local bands.

Wipqozn

@Arperum They can just watch you play

Pretty sure that will be loads of fun for them

@Powerlord Maybe not? I haven't.

@Yuuki Do you do Java Development?

6:24 PM

@Powerlord Not... yet?

@Yuuki Then I wouldn't expect you to know about Comparator.

Basically, if you do Java development and need to sort something, you're probably going to run into the static methods Collections.sort or Arrays.sort.

Which only have two versions. The first requires that the object type in the Collection/array implement the Comparable interface. The second takes a Comparator as the second argument.

Needless to say, if you need objects to be sortable in more than one way, you need the latter.

Well, you could manually write your own sort... but why?

@Powerlord The second takes a Comparable or a Comparator?

Q: How to cycle through the various units/buildings in a single control group?

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I usually assign all of my command centers to hotkey 4. Let's say I have three command centers hotkeyed. Double tapping 4 would take me to the CC which I selected last when creating the hotkey assignment. Are there any tricks/tips for quickly cycling through all CCs (i.e., centering the screen...

starcraft-2

@murgatroid99 Whoops, fixed now.

I'm way too lazy to write my own sorting algorithms when there's another well documented, well tested one already there.

I just looked at our logic. The descending sort just sorts the collection then reverses it.

So, Nintendo sent me a free wallpaper for my birthday. Not a 3DS Theme, an actual wallpaper file for a desktop computer

@Powerlord A free image file? Wow, they really went all out

6:33 PM

@Powerlord so generous

@Powerlord An actual roll of wallpaper

Oh yay, rather than storing a User object, this object only stores the user id.

Q: How do I play the "Homeworld Remastered Original Soundtracks"?

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Gearbox recently released the original Homeworld soundtracks via Steam, and also provided DLC codes for Collector's Edition owners to download them for free. Having purchased the Collector's Edition, I've already received my DLC code and activated it in Steam. This appears to have prompted an upd...

steam homeworld-remastered

6:56 PM

Well, I need to be able to foreach on this, so I slapped an Iterable on it and made it return the collection's iterator.

Again, something I wouldn't have to do it we'd just used a Comparator.

Q: Does the Nintendo 3Ds System Transfer delete the data on the target system?

7:07 PM

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I want to do a system transfer, but I have different Nintendo IDs for my two systems and I've downloaded games on each of them. I have quite a few questions because I'm confused with the info on the internet and on the actual systems during transfer: Will the data on the target system be delet...

3ds

Bonbon Cakery out on Android!

cc @Rapitor @AshleyNunn

F2P

Q: Is it possible to un-learn crafting recipes?

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I've.. "accidentally" taught the blacksmith a recipe at level 23, and now it's useless at level 70. I've heard recipes don't drop after you've taught the blacksmith the item, so am I screwed now? Have I completely botched that Legendary for all my characters?

diablo-3

Ben Brocka

Fun Fact: Binding of isaac: Rebirth was the 5th most played game of 2014 41.5 million collective hours... http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/steam-gauge-measuring-the-most-popular-steam-games-of-2014/2/

Tweeted by EdmundMcMillenn on March 6, 2015 at 7:08 PM

5th most played game, out for 2 months

@Frank neat!

i now have 6 kairosoft games installed.

@BenBrocka I'm not surprised

Ben Brocka

7:21 PM

also good lord at the sim games on that list

I wonder if that audience will be into VR

I don't really get the appeal (of the sim games) but it's certainly thriving

Q: How to perform multiple tricks whilst airborne

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I am able to perform tricks whilst preparing my ollie on the ground, but I don't seem to be able to perform any subsequent tricks whilst in the air. What button combinations should I use to perform multiple tricks whilst in the air, or do you just complete one trick and then focus on getting you...

olliolli-2

Q: How to read map triggers in Descent 1 and 2?

7:36 PM

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Could you recommend me how can I read map triggers for Descent 1 and 2? I have tried DLE – Descent Level Editor 1.12.4 but it seems to be crashing whenever I click Wall tab so I cannot get to trigger opening door. Tested with Descent 1 Level 2. Which editor are you using to learn map logic? Wh...

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Q: Why is the clock frozen?

When I'm in the space center, the little box with the time in it just reads Year-232, Day-161--3h,-14m. Why is this? Is there some sort of maxint that the developers implemented?

kerbal-space-program

7:52 PM

@GnomeSlice

Just a reminder. It's Friday.

@MadMAxJr yeah, but I'm a cool kid.

Hmm. Google Play birthday.

tombull89

8:07 PM

PSA: uTorrent now installs a bitcoin miner on install

@tombull89 not secret, optional, and its for a charity service

Kevin van der Velden

@Rapitor except lots of people report it auto instaling

tombull89

@Rapitor If I wanted to donate to charity, I'd donate money, rather than CPU and GPU time and power.

@KevinvanderVelden when you rush through "next->next->yes->next" it probably seems that way. I denied the installation and it didn't do it.

@KevinvanderVelden it's probably checked by default, which still makes it optional

8:21 PM

@Chippies Yes, but it still makes it opt-out and just as sleezy as Adobe and Oracle.

Also, wtf jsp compiler

Why does c:choose work in one file and not a different one when both files declare the same tag library as c

@Powerlord it's sleezy, but a whole lot of software bundles shit with it and if you just spam next/accept then it's kinda your own fault

Guild Wars 2 on sale for 10$

good time to buy it, for those that don't have it yet

@Chippies Again?

It was just $10 when they announced it was going to have an expansion

Also, apparently the error I was seeing was because I somehow had a " in the tag. Despite using auto-complete to fill in the tag name.

@Rapitor I played this one a bit over Christmas. I kinda liked it.

@Powerlord I think the expansion is getting released quite soon now, so maybe that's why? Idk

I missed the previous 10$ sale

It's neat and cheerful.

8:25 PM

@Chippies hm, tempting.

Ben Brocka

guild wars may be $10, but Binding of Isaac Rebirth is LESS than $10!

(for very small amounts of "less")

@Rapitor definitely a good value

since it has no subscription, you can go on long hiatuses and still come back when there's more updates and stuff without having to pay a penny

Right. need to buy tickets to Chappie this weekend.

Chappie looks weird.. idk. like the previews don't even know what it is. a kids movie with a childish robot or a michael bay war movie.

I'm told it's just even more of Blomkamps strengths and weaknesses.

Excellent visuals, interesting sci-fi ideas, mediocre plot pacing and dialog.

8:36 PM

@Chippies expansions are free too?

I'm going into the movie under the premise, "Wolverine gets angry about robots."

@Rapitor this is going to be the first expansion since launch, there has been a LOT of free content updates though

I actually haven't researched anything about the expansion

but I am assuming it's not free

maybe I'll just do a @Sterno and buy it to not play it.

@Rapitor for 10$ it's still good value

you get the privilege of telling people that you own GW2

@elite people

8:43 PM

I'll wait for Standard Dangerous.

> The Oracle error message is ORA-00904: "DATA_PACKET"."DATA_PACKET_ID": invalid identifier

Really Pro*C? You really believe that?

HELLO FELLOW ERRORS

This needs another reject.

It's pulled straight from Wikipedia.

Unionhawk

Oh heh. Even with the [1]

8:53 PM

GUESS WHO'S HERE

Not @Wipqozn?

Me?

youtube.com/…

Again with that?

Though I like the "Did you mean: the dress is blue and black"

@Batophobia That was the point

8:55 PM

If only it didn't go both ways

ME

BUT WITH MORE BEER

@Batophobia I think they want to reference it without taking a side (and it would be seen as "taking a side", whether or not one is actually correct)

I wish the answer box had clippy for new users. "I see you haven't used any punctuation in your answer..."

Battle for Zendikar is the fall set

c @murgatroid99

@OrigamiRobot hoping for Zendikar basics

9:00 PM

@OrigamiRobot Is Zendikar where Eldrazi started?

Flip card planeswalkers in Magic Origins

@Batophobia yes

The cards at least.

They plan on bringing those back?

Probably

I am so great! G R A T!

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Flip cards... great, those things that make sleeves mandatory.

9:02 PM

@MadMAxJr That's double faced cards, which are different

@murgatroid99 That's what I meant

@Batophobia If you read the story of the current block, it's about Sarkhan trying to find a way to fight the Eldrazi

Or, at least, that's how it started

'transformed'? I don't know that mechanic.

@MadMAxJr That's what it's called when you flip over a double faced card

9:04 PM

That's how all DFCs worked...

<<-- Stopped playing a bit before Planeswalker cards were a thing.

I want that card for my EDH deck

More planeswalkers that are technically commanders

though, exiling and then returning transformed is weird

@murgatroid99 To clear counters and auras and such

Though most auras would fall of anyway

9:06 PM

@OrigamiRobot Counters carrying over shouldn't matter.

Maybe it's so that they don't have to specifically say to put loyalty counters on it as it transforms

That too

Garruk didn't have a problem because it started as a Planeswalker

@Rapitor That's.... that's glorious.

You can exile a planeswalker?

@Yuuki imperial courier

9:08 PM

@Batophobia you can exile anything

@Rapitor I can't wait.

It better be no more expensive than the Asp.

@Batophobia And technically, in that situation, you're exiling a creature

I thought planeswalkers were considered like players, you can't exile the person you are playing against

@Batophobia Planeswalkers are just permanents

Are emblems basically tokens that are only there for the purpose of saying you have X ability?

9:08 PM

@MadMAxJr Pretty much

@Yuuki it's in the newsletter and they say it's going to be large.. so.. probably will be pricy

@MadMAxJr Emblems can't be touched by anything, and they sit in the command zone

Although the term "token" means a specific thing that doesn't apply

So even "Destroy all permanents" or "Exile all permanents" or "Restart the game" don't get rid of emblems

So it's a shiny police officer badge.

9:10 PM

@murgatroid99 Restarting does

Emblems can also (I think) have activated abilities

@OrigamiRobot no, it doesn't

@Rapitor Why??!!

> 6/1/2011 Players won't have any poison counters or emblems they had in the original game.

@Yuuki because FD hates cheap things apparently.

Ruling on Karn Liberated

9:11 PM

Yeah, last time I played, mana burn was still a thing.

@OrigamiRobot That's not in the rules

@Rapitor What kind of courier uses a large ship??!!

@Yuuki i may have misread the line.. "Take a seat beneath the huge, open canopy of the Imperial Courier. Soon."

@murgatroid99 The game ends.

Rulings are part of the rules

9:13 PM

@OrigamiRobot not exactly

You're reminding me of Platinum Angel arguements.

@Batophobia .

huge and open canopy instead of the huge [ship with] open canopy

> 714.1. One card (Karn Liberated) restarts the game. A game that is restarted immediately ends. No players in that game win, lose, or draw that game. All players in that game when it ended then start a new game following the procedures set forth in rule 103, "Starting the Game," with the following exception:

@OrigamiRobot oh, ok

9:14 PM

But anyway, nothing directly interacts with emblems.

At least not yet.

I'm pretty sure they're only mentioned by abilities that create them

I'm still holding out for Denimwalk to return.

@MadMAxJr Platinum Angel is the simplest card. I can't understand what could possibly be confusing about it

@MadMAxJr I would bet that they will never print a card that can effect emblems (except by restarting the game, I guess)

Attention Roller Coaster Tycoon fans: the next one is coming

9:16 PM

@murgatroid99 Or anything in the command zone

@Batophobia And is, apparently, super crappy on the graphical side.

@OrigamiRobot probably.

@Frank The videos are weird. Some parts look good, others terrible

@OrigamiRobot I guess that's basically the point of the command zone. Stuff in it can affect the game, but the game can't affect anything in it

Exactly

9:18 PM

Then again, RCT was never really all about graphics for me

@Batophobia The criticism seems to all be focused on the graphics looking like they're ten years old. Whether that affects gameplay or not, I dunno.

So help me god if Jenkins doesn't build, because I've done a tonne of work these past 2-3 days.

I stopped playing after the second; isometrics were where it's at.

and with that, it's weekend time!

@Frank It's also not out yet, so it may not be that bad at release

9:20 PM

@Batophobia If the last game is any record to go by, it's going to be horrible.

probably, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt until launch

Aggravating Angel - Players cannot enjoy the result of the game

I'd rather promos be bad and game be good then get something like Watch Dogs or Unity

Whatever you do, don't pre-order it.

Give reviews time to come out, and see if it's worth playing.

@Frank Don't pre-order anything anymore. Not since Destiny

9:22 PM

@Batophobia Only thing I've pre-ordered lately, was the MH4U N3DS.

How is the N3DS by the way?

@Frank it looks pretty much just like RCT3... disappointing there isn't any improvement, but RCT3 didn't look that bad and graphics were never an important thing about RCT

The headtracking makes ALL the difference.

@Batophobia awesome.

I don't get headaches with the 3D anymore. I have it turned up all the way.

9:23 PM

@Batophobia I love it.

@Frank Finally, really want to get it

@Rapitor I agree with this, but when the last game was filled to the brim with microtransactions, they've lost all goodwill in my book.

Is the C-Stick any good?

@Batophobia that looks like Theme Park World

@Frank we don't talk about that

@Batophobia i've had trouble with it... it can be very touchy, but most of the time it's really good

9:24 PM

I want a little less Rollercoaster Tycoon and a little bit more Theme Park.

@Batophobia It's a little on the small side, but it's pretty good.

@Rapitor We have to, so that publishers don't get a free pass when they fuck up good franchises.

@Batophobia It's good for what it's designed to do: namely camera control.

@Frank you say that like they learn.

@Rapitor Infinite Building sounds promising. Able to continually make a bigger park would be fun

It probably won't be very good for any precise use, like a second analog stick.

9:25 PM

@Rapitor They do, when it hits their pocketbooks.

@Yuuki I approve of this link. +1

Infinity park? Oh dear. That means Mr. Bones Wilder Ride

I remember trying to make a ride in RCT3 that took the whole park. Riders were on the ride for like 3 years

@Batophobia That's awesome value for their money.

9:27 PM

@Frank There were lots of complaints of trivial things like food and bathroom from people on the ride

@Batophobia Did they actually die if they didn't get either of those?

not if you're in Canada!

@Frank Nope

I can see a roller coaster pulling into the station filled with bones being a bit of a turnoff.

djsmiley2k

9:28 PM

;D

well it wouldn't be the first coaster designed to kill people at least :/

Make it horror themed, everyone will think that's normal

I still want a game to let me design a roller coaster, fire it off the rails, and catch it on another set somewhere else.

@Frank Minecraft

Or Terraria IIRC

@James Clarification: An RCT game.

@Frank Ah

9:30 PM

drunk tagpro best tagpro

@James Terraria doesn't have minecarts

@Chippies Yeah it does

@James It will*

@James it didn't last I played and I don't think it has had any major updates since...

terraria.gamepedia.com/Minecart_Track

@OrigamiRobot Does now

History[edit]
1.2.4.1: Booster Tracks and Minecart Track intersections can no longer be triggered as rapidly. You can now turn when placing Minecart Tracks.
1.2.4: Introduced.

9:34 PM

@James hm, added on may 8, 2014

Minecarts are not part of 1.3, they were 1.2.4

I didn't know they were still updating it

I should play it sometime

Oh, hrm, I thought they were in 1.3

1.3 has been 'coming soon' for like 8 months now

The fuckers

They are NOT Blizzard

@OrigamiRobot Just a couple of days ago I played against a Scion of the Ur Dragon EDH deck, which would love that card

9:36 PM

Ugh, Scion decks

@James sounds like it will come soon then. Maybe I'll play when 1.3 is released

@Chippies Yeah we have been saying/waiting for that for months man

Their last update was a video about the new music

Soooo Screw them, Imma playing it now :D

I don't want to play it now only to burn myself out and not be interested in the update

I'll wait for the update, play for a week or two and then quit until next major update

I think after 1.3 the next major update is 2.0

9:55 PM

Guys, guys.

Stop and listen for a second. This is important.

Today I discovered that amazeballs is now a dictionary word.

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I'm hereby done with the human race.

@Sterno Make sure to tell Skydrift that you're never coming back!

She's going to be so heartbroken.

I AM THE KING OF DICTIONARY

@Sterno Why are people always so unhappy to discover that the English language is not static?

but I didn't get the demo.

@badp Go home porkchop, you're drunk

9:57 PM

@murgatroid99 That's not my problem. My problem is amazeballs

I think amazeball being a dictionary word is frankly the shitnitz.

@badp You should s/frankly/literally

@Sterno The problem is always with words like that

i.e. words that are newer than the vocabulary of whoever is complaining

@murgatroid99 Shizzle is not in the dictionary. I hear shizzle way more than amazeballs

TheAce

any rimworld homies here?

djsmiley2k

9:59 PM

o_O

@Sterno You don't live everywhere.

@murgatroid99 That is a true statement.

@Sterno So the implication "I don't hear this word often, therefore it is not common" is obviously wrong

This makes me wish I were still in high school, just so I could write English papers that use amazeballs as much as possible.

@murgatroid99 That doesn't make it obviously wrong at all.

@Sterno Also "in a dictionary" != "teachers would be happy with you using it"

@Sterno OK, assuming the existence of regional vernacular

10:02 PM

It's in the Oxford dictionary

@Sterno I have had teachers that didn't like papers that used the word "very"

@murgatroid99 That's amazeballs

Lots of words are in dictionaries that are inappropriate in many situations

If I wrote a paper filled with the word "fuck", the argument that it's in the dictionary probably wouldn't help

@murgatroid99 That is very amazeballs.

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GnomeSlice

@Rapitor

10:05 PM

OH WAIT

Thank God

Shizzle is in the Oxford dictionary

We're okay now.

GnomeSlice

@Rapitor This is SO DOPE

Leonard Nimoy immortalized in Star Trek Online statues

I think that's fitting.