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MBraedley

11:00 PM

@fredley How is it that the best counties in the Eurovision competition aren't actually in Europe?

fredley

@MBraedley Phoenix

@MBraedley Euorivison magic

MBraedley

@fredley I don't know why Apple decided that's what I said.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@TimStone I literally came here to reprimand the Bridge for not linking me this while I was out working today.

fredley

HD Eurovision 2011 Moldova: Zdob și Zdub - So Lucky (Final)

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Rapitor

@GnomeSlice awesome! I love when the sound is "glitchy" like this. The pacific rim image was also my wallpaper for a while

fredley

11:04 PM

Actually, this is probably the best:

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Bonus moomin vs. santa chess match at the start

because why not

God I love Eurovision

badp

@GnomeSlice I've seen a few videos, the enemies look REALLY bullet spongy

GnomeSlice

It's really fun

the enemies aren't too hard to kill either, they're mostly just hard to hit

some of them

LessPop_MoreFizz

Holy shit. Literally the first friend I made on my first day of Kindergarten, a guy I have known for over 25 years just got arrested on charges of creating, distributing, and soliciting child pornography.

GnomeSlice

@badp most of them only take a few shots to kill

some weapons are stronger than others

like staves are fast and precise but weaker

both alchemical weapons I've tried oneshot everything I tried them on but they use a shitload of mana

Lazers

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Q: How to get Minecraft to run on Ubuntu 14.04

I've been playing minecraft on Ubuntu 12.04 for ages and recently upgraded my OS to 14.04. Since then I've not been able to play Minecraft. The launcher comes up but when I click Play it just dies after thinking for a bit. I've been trying with my current install (saved games, mods etc.) but I'...

Tim Stone

11:20 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz [status-preempted]

@LessPop_MoreFizz [status-holyfuckyouthinkyouknowpeople] :/

LessPop_MoreFizz

@TimStone newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/03/06/…

I just... I'm literally in shock.

I remember when he came out in high school; he was basically the first person to do so, in a school of ~1000 people. And it was a huge deal, just because he was a well liked guy who tended to have a very public life, for a high school scale of things.

MBraedley

Dear Google: when I watch a video through the YouTube TV interface, mark the video as watched. I know it's possible, because you've done it before.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Wow, that's just... wow.

Tim Stone

Yeah, damn.

Lazers

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Q: help Minecraft keep crashing can even open

I have no idea why my mind craft keeps crashing can some please help me fix this the crash report is below.: ---- Minecraft Crash Report ---- // I'm sorry, Dave. Time: 3/6/15 5:17 PM Description: Initializing game org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated at org.lwjgl.opengl.W...

minecraft

fredley

MBraedley

11:27 PM

@fredley But what if I have a 56k modem? Or a 300 baud modem?

badp

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@LessPop_MoreFizz innocent until proven guilty

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp Everything I'm reading points to some very concrete evidence. :/

badp

although I guess there's more than just browser cached images here

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp Yeah, he is charged with creating child porn, paying a teenager 500 dollars for nude photos, all sorts of other shady shit.

Lazers

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Q: Minecraft forge help

I run Minecraft 1.6.4 when i downloaded forge it keeps saying you need to run mine craft 1.6.4 at least once but i already ran it multiple times.i uninstalled my mine craft and entire folders and the forge but it still just says that someone help please.

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badp

11:33 PM

I dunno, I have mixed feelings on the topic of pedophilia. This is probably not the place to elaborate.

(Mostly about the legal framework.)

Speaking of health!

Peanut Allergies Are Getting a Little Nuts

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Frank

Wow, Comcast is throwing a major temper tantrum on California's conditions for buying out Time Warner.

Which basically amount to, "You're not letting us screw everybody over any more!"

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp Be that as it may, I'm pretty sure the stuff he's accused of is unequivocally and irredeemably bad. (I'll reiterate here that he is a Public School Teacher - i.e. in a position of power, etc.)

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yes.

Ktash

@Frank I keep forgetting that's a thing... :(

Frank

@Ktash Yeah. They want it to happen, but they think they can throw the vote so that they can continue screwing over their customers.

Ktash

11:41 PM

Can we just, like, dismantle comcast or something? Just make it go away

Frank

Would be nice, but they're too big to fail now.

RedRiderX

Yeah it would leave quite a few people with no choice rather then one awful choice.

Ktash

That's why I really mean dismantle. Just turn it into a bunch of smaller, more local companies

RedRiderX

While it is too big to fail, I'm not quite sure it's reached Ma Bell status

It's close, though

MBraedley

How do I convince my brother that, in the consumer space at least, Android is superior to Blackberry?

Fluttershy

11:48 PM

Comcast is also screwing over people who want to use HBO GO.

murgatroid99

The problem is that there are other companies. Those companies are just only providing service in other places

Ktash

@MBraedley To Blackberry? Is that really a question??? Even Blackberry is giving up on Blackberry

RedRiderX

@Ktash Yeah no

They are releasing like 4 new models this year

And the Passport is gaining some ground it seems.

MBraedley

@Fluttershy Yeah, that's crazy. It's like "The FCC just told us we can't screw over customers, so until they can actually do anything about it, we're going to screw over customers."

RedRiderX

If my business type coworkers are to be believed.

Frank

11:50 PM

@murgatroid99 And Comcast is doing everything they can to ensure they don't have to deal with competition.

Ktash

I don't know of a single person anymore who even knows Blackberry still exists, let alone has one

Fluttershy

@MBraedley And now Congress wants to undo everything the FCC did, because, "The feds shouldn't infringe on private companies."

MBraedley

@RedRiderX Yeah, there is no doubt that in the enterprise environment, Blackberry is still king.

RedRiderX

@Ktash Half my office is BB fanatics and only use them

Still

MBraedley

@Fluttershy Obama will veto it if it ever gets to his desk.

RedRiderX

11:51 PM

And they are going crazy over the Passport

Tim Stone

@RedRiderX I don't think it's even that close from a telecom market share perspective, but it's potentially more dangerous in that it owns the entire distribution chain from content production to your eyeballs.

I still don't really understand why the NBC Universal merger was allowed, but yeah.

Frank

@Fluttershy Not Congress.

Congressmen in the ISP's pocket.

RedRiderX

@TimStone Hmm yeah it's getting close to 90's Microsoft at that point.

Frank

Because, obviously, what good are politicians if you can't buy them?

murgatroid99

@TimStone I'd bet they have a team of lawyers making sure they get as close as possible to violating anti-trust laws

RedRiderX

11:52 PM

But they don't seem to have quite enough of a monopoly anywhere the warrant anti-trust in the same way.

Fluttershy

@Frank Which is, at this point, a large chunk of congress. :P

RedRiderX

(to my eyes, as a non-American)

Frank

@Fluttershy Yeah, but I think the distinction is important. :P

Tim Stone

@Frank Hey now, Marsha Blackburn may be the Tennessee sort of backwards but she's not a man!

Frank

@TimStone Congresspeople? I guess?

MBraedley

11:54 PM

@TimStone look north of the border. Bell Canada owns a broadcaster, several cable channels, a satellite TV servicce, and telephone and internet services, not to mention other media companies. While smaller on scale than NBC-Universal, they do have the same scope.

Tim Stone

:P

Ktash

@RedRiderX Maybe. But BB now has less than 0.5% marketshare

RedRiderX

@Ktash Where? America?

America has forgotten sure, but the rest of the world not as much

Tim Stone

@MBraedley How'd you guys let that happen? :P

Ktash

@RedRiderX Android is king around the world. iOS is king in America

Frank

11:56 PM

@TimStone Comparitively, we have a respectable amount of competition in most areas, I think.

I could be wrong, though.

All I know is that Bell doesn't really have a presence in my neck of the woods.

Ktash

Seriously, in some countries, Android is pretty much the only thing anyone has

MBraedley

@TimStone That's a very good question. Little by little, until the Globemedia consolidation. Globemedia was going bankrupt (IIRC), and they were considered too valuable for a non-Canadian corporation to purchase them.

@Frank Yes, in phone, internet, and TV service.

That's largely due to the unbundling rules the FCC decided not to take.

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