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4:00 PM
@OrigamiRobot They aren't really looking into it. They're listening to feedback to see if there is enough interest for them to do it.
 
WHICH I PERSONALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT, BUT I GUESS SOME PEOPLE DO. THERE'S A BIG FUSS IN THE FORUMS.
 
Hi everybody and sorry to disturb. I admit I am not exactly a common user of this room but someone suggested me to try here.
I am trying to recover an old music from Chrono Trigger but to no avail. Yes, I know what you are thinking... just look at the official OST. There is a problem: the music I am thinking of isn't used in the game. *The only way to access it is to use a specific action replay code, enter a specific place and have the game freeze when trying to load an unfinished area. The music will still play*
 
@Sterno Well, yeah, but unless you know about the bug with the Horn in advance...
 
@Fluttershy THAT... IS LOOKING INTO IT
 
@SPArchaeologist No idea what music you're talking about
 
4:01 PM
@Powerlord That music was a re-arrangement of Final Fantasy 6 Tera Theme
 
@SPArchaeologist Resource extraction from a ROM tends to be a bit of a laborious process.
 
@SPArchaeologist First time I've heard of it.
 
remember that they used to call it Tera Funky
@Frank They even had a midi on one of the 10000 fan site
 
@SPArchaeologist So...can't you use that?
 
I was trying to see if someone knows it
 
4:02 PM
@SPArchaeologist Which surprised me that I hadn't heard of it. I used to run vgmusic.com
 
@Frank lost it - that is the whole point:P
 
@Powerlord really? i used that all the time years ago
 
@OrigamiRobot Not really. They're trying to decide if it's worth looking into. So, they're looking into looking into it.
 
They've really got bigger problems overall. Bigger fires to extinguish. Like the entire forums.
 
"IS THIS WORTH DOING" IS ONE OF THE THINGS "LOOKING INTO IT" CAN MEAN
 
4:06 PM
The forums are in a constant state of on fire
 
THE OTHER BEING "HOW DO WE DO THIS"
AND THEY ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE
 
I might have to reroll in Pillars of Eternity again
 
@Sterno Well, you can trigger that bug accidentally pretty easily, and it's not really obvious if you don't take a close look on your stats. But it's fixable on anyone except the main character
 
@Powerlord like I said, it was a specific action replay code I used back then. I think I got it from GameFaqs. You set it, go to a spot on the 1000d.c. map, press the enter button like you would on an actual area. The game freezes with a black screen, but a remixed version of the final fantasy 6 theme plays
 
@MadScientist how do you trigger it on the main character? i thought it was companions only
 
4:08 PM
much more metal like
 
@MattGiltaji Hmm, I think I was thinking of any of the other stat bugs, there are a few
 
While I could probably still have access to the actual cartridge, I don't have the code anymore
 
@MadScientist there was the one where if you equip items in the wrong way, it nukes your passives. that one is unfixable on the main char unless you revert to a pre-bug save
 
I have a ~30 intelligence Aloth due to the drinking horn of moderation
 
4:13 PM
> deleted by @Frank, @murgatroid99, @Wipqozn just now
BY OUR POWERS COMBINED, WE ARE DELETION
 
Now go do the same thing to Lifehacks.SE
 
@Sterno I get it. That's funny.
 
YOU'RE FUNNY
 
@Sterno ur... wait, nvm
 
posted on April 02, 2015

On 2015-03-31 at 10:00:00 UTC, it was Midnight, April 1st in Samoa (GMT+14). At 10:23:14 UTC, we enabled StackEgg for all logged-in users across all sites the Stack Exchange network. This resulted in a heavily increased load to our primary load balancers as a result of the additional AJAX hits to get game state. In the initial deploy, there was an additional request per page load. Though this w

 
4:23 PM
Hi
My local paper had an article about Bloodborne today
 
user15026
@GnomeSlice What sort of article? :)
 
Just like a brief overview along with some really high praise
 
@Unionhawk Forums are nearly always in a constant state of fire.
 
Want to click but not on phone
 
4:30 PM
it's pretty nifty
 
user15026
@GnomeSlice Awesome.
 
 
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Q: how do I reinstall java?

sniffylongnoseMy game doesn't work and many suggest that I reinstall java but I don't know how.I'm afraid I mess up and my data gone. I don't know how to back up either. Please help me. Thanks

 
Looks appetizing, but too much cheese for me.
 
Don't eat the big globe of cheese then
Glib
Glob
 
4:36 PM
@Rapitor I do not understand these devices. Supposedly each button is a sample, but what on earth do the lights represent?
 
Depends on the controller
 
Good news for Canadians!
 
Some have a showboat mode where you can just program in a lightshow
 
The Jigglypuff Amiibo is a Target exclusive!
 
@StrixVaria Nev mostly uses them for lightshows (wtach some of his other videos)
but the lights are usually just to show what is playing
by default anyway
 
user15026
4:37 PM
@Yuuki Of course it is.
 
Others do shit like show you which samples are playing, show you what's queued up, or you can program in quests for yourself
Queue years
Queueueueueues
 
user15026
@Rapitor That was rather awesome
 
@GnomeSlice what came is this where i can program in quests for myself?
 
If you make it long enough apple doesn't try to correct it
Not quests
I was talking about the launchpad
 
@GnomeSlice :(
 
4:41 PM
And actually the word I wanted was cues
Whoops
So what's. Ed
What's new
Or KD
Old DDS
blah
How do I teach it to say ffs
I gotta go back to sign survey
 
uh.. what if you long press the word?
 
Peace
Nope
 
Yay, surprise meetings are fun.
 
A postmortem of the #stackoverflow outage on March 31st is now up (spoiler: we DDoSed ourselves): http://stackstatus.net/post/115305251014/outage-postmortem-march-31-2015
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@Yuuki I hate you so much right now.
 
4:51 PM
@GnomeSlice 1. blame apple, 2. weep softly, 3. continue with life.
 
@Unionhawk I still dislike @Sterno more.
 
Is it possible for us to let users know when they've done wrong by approving an edit suggestion that is clearly bad?
 
@Brian I think you can give a reason when declining an edit.
You can also do "accept and improve" if you think part of the edit is bad, but others are bad.
 
@Wipqozn I mean, I found a question that doesn't make any sense, and when I checked the edit history, I learned that it doesn't make any sense because a bad edit was approved.
 
@Brian oooooohhhh. Now I see what you mean.
 
5:00 PM
Rollback and silently punch 2 users in the face through the internet*
 
In that case, no, not much you can do aside from pinging the users in chat if they're around.
Could also leave a comment on the post.
 
*note face-punch-over-internet-protocol is still in development
 
If you see a trend of bad edits being approved you could make a meta, too, but wouldn't worry about it if it's just a one off
@Brian What question is it? Just curious.
 
@Wipqozn One second, trying to fix it before people jump on it.
The original question did need an edit, but that wasn't the edit that it needed.
 
@Brian I recall seeing that. I just skipped it, as I don't play Smash.
 
5:11 PM
@Frank It looks like he added a suggestion to the question, which normally should be a comment or an answer, but even then, it doesn't make any sense in the context of Smash.
 
warning: it's.. uh... strange
 
@Brian Probably didn't read the tag and thought Pokemon?
 
@Yuuki Probably. The reviewers shouldn't have approved that even if it were pokemon though.
 
@Yuuki That's what it looks like to me
@Brian I think the change actually would make sense if the question was about pokemon
 
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Q: Which god should I pray to in Teir Evron

Mad ScientistI'm in Teir Evron, and I now have the choice to pray to one of four gods: I know a bit about the gods in general, but not that much. The priests of Hylea suggested to me that I pray to her before trying to slay the dragon that is causing them trouble. Does that have any particular benefit comp...

 
5:17 PM
@Rapitor WTF did I just watch?
 
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Q: What does RNG mean? comments extension

NiteCyperThis question is being created at Rapitor's behest to take the discussion taking place in the comments of What does RNG mean? elsewhere.

 
9 mins ago, by Rapitor
warning: it's.. uh... strange
 
Green is not a creative color
 
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Q: Is there a way to play the HEadshot soun in CSGO competetive?

jonnybI want to hear the play'headshot' sound from Unreal Touranemnt ( or whatever file I give ) in CS:GO competetive mode when the console says something like this: you killed 'x' with a headshot... or 'x' killed you with a headshot... I know you cant mess with the game files i.e: you cant...

 
Well, that was amusing
 
5:30 PM
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Q: i maked some minecraft screenshots but i can`t find them someone know where i can find them?

frederiqueik heb op minecraft een aantal screenshots gemaakt, maar kan ze nergens vinden. ik heb zelf gezocht in de documenten waar ze echt niet te vinden zijn!moet het ergens op internet ofzo ik had gelezen dat je iets met %appdate& moest doen ofzo..? waar kan ik ze vinden? ps; computer; windows hp dankje...

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Q: Killed Crestfallen Saulden

NikkoI killed the crestfallen saulden for his ring, and i want to ressurect him but i dont know where his grave lies. The question is: where is his grave? I think ive checked all places in majula not anywhere else.

 
I took what I thought was going to be a Java previsor for the recruiter I'm working with. Because she doesn't work with Java herself, she accidentally sent me one for Java EJB
Which I have never heard of, much less worked with
I still managed to score Advanced on the previsor
 
user15026
Nicely done!
 
@SaintWacko You've... never heard of EJBs?
 
@AshleyNunn Thanks!
 
Enterprise Java Beans. Although JPA kind of did them in.
 
5:34 PM
@Powerlord Nope
The only "bean" related thing I know of with Java is the NetBeans IDE
 
@Powerlord I had never heard of it before just now
 
Wow.
 
I've never used EJBs, but I've heard enough about them to know that they're PITAs to use prior to EJB3
 
(photo of Super Typhoon Maysak taken from the International Space Station.)
 
Wow
 
5:39 PM
> Simplifying Container Managed Persistence
I see this in a doc about the differences between EJB2.x and 3... and notice the annotations they're using and calling EJB3 are actually JPA annotations
 
Hello :)
 
@Entity
@Table(name = "EMP")
 
@ChaseC Morning
 
Good afternoon!
 
@ChaseC o/
 
5:50 PM
Please explain the logic of using speakerphone in a crowded public area.
 
@Yuuki It lets anyone chime in whenever they have something relevant to say
 
The asker has rolled back his question, so I believe it's now about as acceptable as it's going to get. Needs one more reopen vote
 
This question should probably be reopened, since it is now once again clear what they are asking
@Frank inb4
 
@Frank It's not going to be my vote >.>
 
@Brian That's fine.
 
5:57 PM
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Q: How much damage does Purification Nova do?

SoreanThe protoss have gained a new unit in their arsenal called the Disruptor. New Unit: Disruptor A light-mechanical unit from the Robotics Facility that can use Purification Nova. Ability – Purification Nova: Once activated, the Disruptor becomes invulnerable and gains increased movement s...

 
No one is required to reopen it.
If we can't get another, then that shows the community's (non) support of the question.
And honestly, I am totally fine with that.
And now it's open again, and we can put this whole thing behind us.
 
He's even at net positive rep from the question
 
Put what behind us? Did I miss drama?
 
@murgatroid99 He's making me wish you could downvote comments
 
@murgatroid99 +35/-38. Not quite.
 
6:01 PM
@murgatroid99 Makes sense, I guess. I thought the ambient noise would be too high to distinguish anything anyone says while on speakerphone though.
 
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Q: What does RNG mean? comments extension

NiteCyperThis question is being created at Rapitor's behest to take the discussion taking place in the comments of What does RNG mean? elsewhere.

 
@Frank Question downvotes are only -1
 
@murgatroid99 Wha? Since when?
 
@murgatroid99 i thought downvotes were -5?
 
@Frank I'm nearly positive, and since forever
 
6:02 PM
@murgatroid99 Okay, I'm going to downvote one of your questions. FOR SCIENCE!
 
@Frank ok
 
> You lose reputation when:

your question is voted down: −2
your answer is voted down: −2
you vote down an answer: −1
you place a bounty on a question: − full bounty amount
one of your posts receives 6 spam or offensive flags: −100
 
I'm sad that I missed an opportunity to post
 
@MattGiltaji huh
 
@Sterno nah, rngesus only listens to prayers of frantic yelling at the screen
 
6:04 PM
I could have sworn question upvotes and downvotes were both worth half as much as answer upvotes and downvotes
 
@murgatroid99 There.
 
@Frank yeah, it's -2
 
@MattGiltaji To which he smugly whispers in your ear, "No."
 
Okay. We cleared that up.
 
i love how we used science rather than the official docs :D
@Brian basically
 
6:06 PM
@MattGiltaji Empirical evidence > documentation.
 
I guess I kind of feel for NiteCypher, after my struggles to get my shitty answers undeleted on BCG
 
I think he got really unlucky...
rng must hate him
 
@Rapitor Possibly. But we actually some questions with worse scores.
And the user complaining about all the downvotes.
 
I know, but we also do have a pretty decent handful of questions that can be answered by a simple google/wiki search, and they aren't taken nearly as bad.
 
Just sort by votes, and go to the last page to see our dregs that are acceptable, but not welcomed.
 
6:09 PM
most of the terminology questions.. actually
 
@Rapitor It's...a bit of a crap shoot. It's pretty inconsistent, for most.
Personally, I think the entire terminology should be offloaded to a dictionary, and I shoot them all on sight.
 
I don't think it is that bad a question. What RNG means as a gaming concept has some nuances that wouldn't be available with a simple Google search.
 
@Rapitor I don't think it would have received as bad of a reaction if he hadn't edited it.
 
@Brian he was trying to salvage it... downvotes mean the question is bad and should be fixed
he did what the downvote tooltip said to do (research) and was shot even more.
 
@JasonBerkan It's a Random Number Generator. It's something that generates random numbers. What else is there?
 
6:11 PM
Yeah, just a simple map of RNG = Random Number Generation ... great, what does that mean? Why are there random numbers, and why are they out to kill me
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@Rapitor But in the process of his edit, he invalidated the entire point of the question.
 
@Rapitor The way he edited seemed kind of spiteful, too
 
@Rapitor I know, but he would have received a few downvotes and it would have been forgotten, instead he edited it and made a fuss about the downvotes, so it got more attention and more downvotes.
 
@murgatroid99 The way gamers use it as an object. The way certain games use the pseudo fact to ensure that the game is actually not random.
 
@Unionhawk that's probably the question he was going for
 
6:12 PM
I don't think English is his first language, which has contributed to the confusion.
 
more of an explanation of their existance. not what are they
 
I believe I've run into this type of thing with him before.
 
And that's the more important question here
 
@Frank What makes you think that?
 
12 secs ago, by Frank
I believe I've run into this type of thing with him before.
Of course, I could be totally wrong about that.
 
6:13 PM
Indeed, there are in fact two possible states of correct in this case
You could either be right, or you could be totally wrong
 
@Unionhawk At least make them even.
I could be totally right, or totally wrong.
 
@Frank That just shows similar behavior. I didn't see anything wrong with his English.
 
It's a binary solution set.
 
Nope
 
meh, i got to play devil's advocate... usually @Frank always takes that role. so I had fun
 
6:15 PM
Then it's official: @Wipqozn, you're no longer the worst! @Unionhawk is.
 
Uhg, I have a meeting in 15 minutes that I forgot about.
 
Congrats on your promotion!
 
@JasonBerkan Asking about pseudo-random number generators and how they are used to avoid true randomness is a different question
 
I need to talk to a coworker before then, so I'll catch you guys later.
 
@Frank @Rapitor I just caught an octopus!
 
6:17 PM
@Yuuki What?
 
@SaintWacko Story of Seasons.
 
@Yuuki Oh
 
I honestly don't see what kind of answer is needed here if you know what the acronym stands for. Unless you're looking for something like "The Random Number Generator generates random numbers. When the game needs a random number, it uses the Random Number Generator to generate the random number."
 
@Yuuki Nice. Just dove down and get one?
 
6:18 PM
@Frank Mhmm.
 
@murgatroid99 Why does the game need a random number?
 
@murgatroid99 I could see adding in a basic implementation of an RNG as an example.
 
@Unionhawk To keep things random
 
@Frank int getRandomNumber() { return 4; }
 
@Frank I don't think an implementation of an LCG would help clarify anything
 
6:19 PM
@Yuuki chosen by random die roll
 
@MattGiltaji Nah, I flipped a coin.
 
@Yuuki a 4 sided coin?
 
@MattGiltaji No, a coin with the number "4" on both sides
 
@MattGiltaji The choices were 4 and 7
7, of course, is the most random number between 1 and 10
 
@murgatroid99 Not how to generate a random number, but how random numbers are used in games.
Also, I had no idea what an LCG was, so I had to look that up.
 
6:21 PM
@murgatroid99 which is why the distribution curve of 2d6 centers on 7
 
That's no-- ...
 
> "Heads, I return 1. Tails, I don't."
> "Heads, I return 2. Tails, I don't."
> "Heads, I return 3. Tails, I don't."
> "Heads, I return 4. Tails, I don't."
> "Huh, heads. 4, it is."
 
@MattGiltaji but 2d6 ranges between 2 and 12
And 7 is halfway between those
 
@Yuuki i've caught a few. they are very big
 
@Frank The game needs to do something random. So it gets a random number
 
6:22 PM
@murgatroid99 Ah! So it seems they're defining the P's as shorthand for the polynomials and evaluating them for (n)
 
@murgatroid99 nope, my 2d6 is broken. it only ranges from 1 to 10
 
@John The P's are the names of the polynomial functions
 
@murgatroid99 Right :D
 
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Q: Marketplace to sell virtual goods online?

Brad ParksAre there any marketplaces to sell virtual goods online? I know of course that some (probably most) games don't allow the selling of virtual goods in their EULA, for example Blizzard. But there must be some that do allow it, and I'd like to see what's available in these types of markets.

 
@Lazers Not sure if too broad or recommendation question
 
6:28 PM
@murgatroid99 Service request.
 
@murgatroid99 why not both
 
 
@Yuuki somehow, this gif is always funny
 
@Yuuki is that a file explorer window?!
 
@Yuuki That doesn't actually look like a person.
 
6:30 PM
@MattGiltaji Someone said in a comment on reddit that it looks like audacity
It definitely has wavy lines that could indicate sound or some sort of vital signs
 
Wow, this kid just won't stop.
And now he needs to be deleted again.
 
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Q: this jus wont work can someone help me

Assley Gamingthis jus wont work can someone help me fix this and also whats a 20 tps clock First command summons a Armor stand with a custom name of Target at every player who has a air block 2 blocks below him. Secondly, it fills the area 2 blocks below every armor stand that has a custom name of Target. Th...

 
what are these questions lol
 
@Lazers Kid's twelve, needs to be deleted. Again.
 
can you IP ban and stop him from making new accounts?
 
6:36 PM
@Yuuki Found it
 
@ChaseC Doubt it.
 
Can we stop with the nightmare fuel?
 
@Yuuki I really love the fact that this gif is the first image hit for "scientifically proven"
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@ChaseC Each case of an underage user has to be handled by an SE employee, they'll block him if it gets too annoying
 
6:39 PM
Hey! Does anyone know of any marketplaces to sell virtual goods online?
I know of course that some (probably most) games don't allow the selling of virtual goods in their EULA, for example Blizzard.

But there must be some that do allow it, and I'd like to see what's available in these types of markets.
 
Steam Market.
 
@Frank How do you know he's 12? He claims to be 13
 
my birthday is on the 13 June 2001 — Assley Gaming 3 mins ago
 
@MadScientist Interesting, I'm sure they can do more than we can right.
 
@Arperum that's over 13 years ago
 
6:41 PM
@Arperum Last I checked, that makes him 13.
Like I said.
 
@John Previous accounts were stated to be under 13.
 
@Yuuki Ah
 
And it hasn't been June 13 yet.
 
@Yuuki june 13 would make him 14
 
@MattGiltaji Assuming that year is correct
 
6:42 PM
@murgatroid99 Shuttup. For some reason I assumed 2014 as current year.
 
@John Also assuming any information they gave is correct
 
@Arperum 2014 is always the current year.
 
Regardless of his age, he's posting multiple horrible questions after being told not to
 
@Arperum its been 3 months
 
@murgatroid99 true
@ChaseC also true
 
6:42 PM
@MattGiltaji I'm saying that he just subtracted 1 from his birth year to get over 12.
 
@MattGiltaji I even had my birthday already.
 
@ChaseC That is actually a thing, but it's a last resort and I'm not positive site mods can do it, might be SE employees only
 
Also: three months is nothing, I take years to learn a phone number. And you expect me to remember a year in less then 9 months?
 
@Yuuki ok... good point! how about for non steam games? any other spots come to mind?
 
6:45 PM
How many chances would you give a 13-14 year old or just someone who posts low quality questions before it's acceptable for a SE employee to step in?
 
@ChaseC An SE employee shouldn't step in at all in that case
The issue is when the user is under 13, and COPPA comes into effect
 
@ChaseC @murgatroid99 Like I said, I'm not sure the specifics of how or when they IP-ban, I just know it's possible, and seemingly rare.
 
I do think they IP ban spammers, but that's a separate issue
 
Maybe we should ping a mod?
 
@murgatroid99 Think so yeah
 
6:49 PM
@John that's what flags are for
 
@murgatroid99 Why flag when you can ping-spam?
 
Why ping-spam when you can flag-spam? (don't actually do that)
 
are we pinging @Wipqozn?
 
@MattGiltaji Always
 
or did @Wipqozn nuke his account yet?
 
6:54 PM
@MattGiltaji He did. RIP @Wipqozn
 
@Wipqozn
 
@Unionhawk @John i WONT BE AROUND TONIGHT EITHER... OR TOMORROW... OR TILL MONDAY...
 
@OrigamiRobot :(
 
How convenient, I'm at home and have limited access to free time. Ironically enough.
 
I AM JUDGING MAGIC EVENTS TOMORROW AND SATURDAY
 

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