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3:02 PM
@StrixVaria Season 1 was the best because he'd flat out murder the bad guys
 
@Sterno Oh does he stop doing that? :(
 
Oh geez why did people star that
 
That's pretty much the last episode of season 1 IIRC
 
@twobugs What are my choices?
 
@SaintWacko this is the bridge, did you expect it to not get starred?
 
3:05 PM
@StrixVaria In season 2, he makes a big effort not to do it, and acts like he doesn't, but if you actually watch the action scenes from season 2 on, he and his allies kill plenty of guys
 
@KevinvanderVelden I should have
 
But usually only scrub footsoldiers
 
@SaintWacko no, you shouldn't have
 
@Sterno If anything that's morally worse than just killing the important guys.
 
3:08 PM
@twobugs Arbalest, Crusader, and Hellion sound interesting
@StrixVaria Hey, I'm halfway through it right now!
 
@StrixVaria It's okay, because they don't acknowledge they're killing anyone!
(It seems kind of like the fight choreographers are out of touch with the story)
Or that you're not supposed to assume an arrow to the heart will kill a guy. Maybe he'll get immediate medical attention off-camera
 
It's also quite hard to disable someone without killing them
 
Honestly, that's always bothered the shit out of me about superheroes that have a "no killing" philosophy. Cops kill when they have to. Why not superheroes?
Better to let the Joker escape for the 500th time and murder another thousand people?
 
@SaintWacko You'll be my Crusader then!
 
@twobugs Yay! I'm currently playing a Paladin in WoW, so it fits
 
3:11 PM
@Sterno The idea, and this isn't always well articulated, is that they're trying to hold themselves to some sort of standard
 
I'm sure they're all "blah blah blah I'm a vigilante not an actual law enforcement officer so it would be murder blah blah blah". Yeah. You're already beating them to a pulp and sending them to prison.
 
Thankfully I have my trusty 'arrow in the heart cure' potion.
 
@twobugs I understand that. Their standard is just ridiculous.
 
Like for Batman, it's what separates him from the criminals. Take that away, and he's really not much better (again, not always well depicted)
 
Nobody got the joke in that poster
 
3:12 PM
Cops hold themselves to a standard too. They (generally) don't just kill people for no reason
 
You all fail
0/10
 
For Superman, the no killing thing is supposed to be a parallel to him being a journalist. He wants to help, but he doesn't want to be the ruler
 
the Knightfall comic arc for Batman explores what happens when Bruce temporarily gets replaced by someone else to be Batman. A Batman in 90s cool future armor with claws that murders criminals.
 
> A recent windows update is causing Skype to prompt for credentials several times a day. OA is going to uninstall this one update this Thursday, 1/21 beginning at 8pm.
It will require a reboot of your workstation.
 
@fredley I didn't even notice that
 
3:13 PM
Yay, so glad we get buggy updates pushed.
 
50 secs ago, by fredley
0/10
 
@RonanForman I still haven't
What's the joke?
 
@Sterno Cops are also accountable to someone. Superheroes? Not exactly
 
OR should I say
whatsthejoke.jpg
 
@fredley I don't know the actual poster.
 
3:13 PM
Oh the little face?
 
@fredley That's because about 2% of the Bridge understands or cares about Undertale jokes.
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The actual poster does not contain Lesser Dog
@Sterno Bridge is 98% awful
 
@twobugs hence the term vigilante =p
 
I didn't look at the full res version until just recently
 
@fredley And I'm assuming the text?
 
3:14 PM
@RonanForman yes
The Lesser Dog text
 
@KevinvanderVelden Right, and that's how they partially justify the the vigilante activities... they're just bringing bad guys in, not passing judgment
 
I like Undertale humor. Not so much the Undertale fandom humor.
 
Undertale fandom humour is mostly putting Undertale refrances into things
 
Refrance humor is some of the lowest of the low
 
Heartwarming skeleton brother art. This is okay. MY NEW UNDERTALE FANFIC/OC not so okay.
 
3:16 PM
No you lot is some of the lowest of the low
 
Mashup of Dogsong/pop culture song: GET OUT.
 
Metal cover of dogsong: acceptable
 
I've got your refrance right here
 
makes a Mashup of TemmieSong/pop culture song
 
@Powerlord May all your TF2 servers be populated by only snipers. >:|
 
3:19 PM
...that joke only works if people know that the songs have the same notes, just a different instrument and tempo.
 
@fredley Pundertale?
 
@MadMAxJr Just the other day I saw a fanfic complaining about the ridiculous amount of Undertale fanfics. It was on Fimfiction.net.
 
Like, in-universe?
U wot
 
@PrivatePansy The hypocrisy is strong with this one.
 
@MadMAxJr Since I play Spy a lot, why would that be a bad thing?
 
May the forces of evil always become confused on the way to your enemy's house.
 
2Fort with Engis as far as the eye can see
Walls of sentries staring each other down
 
Also not a problem for the powerlord
 
That's the TF2 I remember
 
3:23 PM
@ardaozkal Except they're not.
 
2Fort is already hell.
 
@PrivatePansy Subbed, nice sub. "May your article load that little extra bit as you're about to click a link so you click an ad instead"
 
Any map with a single unified choke point is bad.
 
> Zykov isn't planning to turn the entire Underworld 3D, just fragments to use as part of a custom adventure—a fan game in which a mysterious entity converts things to 3D for spooky reasons known only to itself.
 
@Sterno they'll be using a part of it, ikno
Still close enough
 
3:24 PM
@twobugs 2fort is the worst
 
And "Someone is remaking Undertale in 3D" is more of a clickbait than "Someone is including a part of Undertale in his 3D game"
 
@Powerlord Probably a trollfics, since the site moderators at least skim through the contents of the incoming fics to make sure they're about FiM
 
@Unionhawk If the Engys aren't braindead, it could be.
 
It's 2fort.
 
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3:26 PM
Let's be honest about the playerbase of that map
 
Anyway, I detest 2fort because it just isn't that well designed.
 
@Powerlord It is the WORST map.
 
ctf_doublecross is like Valve took a look at 2fort, figured out why it sucked and made a new version.
 
Those who know of the game hate it, so logically
 
I detest 2fort because whenever I think of facing worlds I say 2fort
 
3:27 PM
...and then for no reason made a giant area of the map you can fall into and die.
 
The mapmaker of if can go throw their pc off the window.
 
Plus it isn't even a legal c variable (though admittedly ctf_2fort is)
 
Facing Worlds isn't exactly the best map either. At least later versions of the map moved the spawn points behind the tower to prevent spawn sniping.
 
ctf_turbine FTW
 
John Goodman shaking his hips in front of that jukebox is the most terrifying part of the 10 Cloverfield Lane trailer.
 
3:28 PM
tc_hydro
 
@StrixVaria Now this one really is the worst map.
...pretty sure a lot of it has to do with the game mode, though.
 
Okay, Adventure Capitalist has gotten too crazy. Within a few minutes of restarting I have doubled my Heavenly Investor count
 
The game mode was kind of a neat idea, executed in the worst way.
 
Yes
 
I've heard of servers that convert tc_hydro into a 6cp map... however, the map is really too large to do that in a sane manner.
 
3:30 PM
@StrixVaria aka Google+
 
Having said that... tc_meridian is an interesting idea. It's a Territory Control map, but uses CTF flags instead of capture points.
 
I remember when there were only 6 maps, and one of them was tc_hydro, so if you didn't pick a server dedicated to a specific map, you were playing tc_hydro 1/6 of the time.
 
Okay I need some advice from you people. Let's say you have a map, right? You want to display some data on that map, so you highlight the area. This works well for one or two datasets, but when they're overlapping and you start getting into 3+... not so much
 
Actually more than 1/6 of the time, since matches on tc_hydro never ended.
 
Hydro was added when I started really getting tired of TF2
 
3:32 PM
@StrixVaria Is it sad that I can name all 6 maps? cp_dustbowl, cp_granary, cp_gravelpit, cp_well, ctf_2fort, tc_hydro
 
If it's the one I'm thinking of
 
@twobugs Well... they are just adding planets at this point just to keep expanding the game. It's pretty silly right now.
 
ctf_well is the one that replaced the yardhouse in the middle with the more open area, right?
 
So... 2 5CP, 1 single stage A/D CP, 1 multi-stage A/D CP, 1 TC, and 1 CTF
 
@Powerlord cp_gravelpit was the main one with the "build a sentry under the level" exploit so blue could never hope to capture the last point.
 
3:34 PM
xbox players still have that exploit today.
 
yawn
daughter on my knee drawing
 
@MadMAxJr So do PS3... except PS3 version is even buggier because it was a port done by EA and not Valve.
 
@MadMAxJr *goes off to buy an xbox*
 
notes @ardaozkal down as a horrible person
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3:35 PM
@Sterno wtf
 
Anyway, in a way it amuses me that the most popular game mode for TF2 is one that didn't exist until the second major update... Payload.
 
@fredley Did you not actually watch the 10 Cloverfield Lane trailer?
 
@Sterno I don't even know what it is
 
YOU POSTED THE FAKE POSTER FOR IT
The movie actually looks interesting
 
@KevinvanderVelden I'll be a terrible mod.
 
3:36 PM
@ardaozkal That's a bit optimistic.
 
Is there a way to suppress images in chat?
 
@Powerlord pl_frontier_final till the end of my days.
 
@nukeforum Other than using an adblocker to block individual images? Not that I'm aware of.
 
@Powerlord Payload is by far my favorite game type in TF2.
 
@MadMAxJr Fun fact: I played Frontier before the version that actually made it into TF2... the cliff face between points A and B was added in the final version, presumably so players could be pushed off of it.
 
3:38 PM
@Powerlord Ok, thanks
I guess I'll just suffer
 
I played it pre release too. The building at the top of the hill underwent changes, specifically the nook where everyone makes an engy nest
 
@nukeforum Disable imgur with adblock?
 
But it had a shark-bomb-train!
 
Like, the domain
Or there are image switch plugins for chrome, you click to it, and it disables image displaying on that tab
 
@nukeforum Use a userstyle and add img { display: none } will probably work
 
3:41 PM
@ardaozkal I just didn't want to have to leverage adblock to solve this. It's really not a big issue, was just curious
 
If you're on Firefox, right click and select 'View Page Info', go to Permissions and unchecking 'Load Images' will also work
 
@PrivatePansy That's a neat trick with the userstyle
I'm on Chrome atm
thanks for the help!
 
Just tested
The one on firefox works
 
That will block ALL images on this page - including gravatar and probably the site logo on the bottom right hand corner
If you just want images from messages gone, you can make the selector narrower, like .messages img or .user-image
 
oooo
 
3:45 PM
@PrivatePansy ugh, how am i bad at this? it's just css T.T
 
i want to edit theatre mode in youtube so that it aligns the video to the left
 
@djsmiley2k I just set the width of the browser to the size of the theatre mode and snap the window to left/right
but then again, I have an ultra wide monitor
so I always have two browser windows side by side
 
yeah my monitor isn't ultra wide
so theres a black border when it loads
then i have to scroll sideways, relaly annoying
 
Yay! It works! Thank you @PrivatePansy!
 
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3:49 PM
@nukeforum PONIES
 
@Chippies Isn't this just the default layout for the Bridge?
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@StrixVaria change.org, petition to make it default
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Q: How can I perform the Pick and Roll to Coach's satisfaction?

SconibulusI'm playing as a Center in MyPlayer, and have learned to do most of the things asked of me. Rebounding, Fast Break, Protecting the Paint. I can get B's or better in most of these pretty much whenever I'm asked. What I can't seem to figure out is the Pick and Roll with the Ball Handler. I tend to...

 
inb4 someone actually does it
 
@fredley Is this another Undertale joke I won't understand?
 
3:52 PM
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@fredley Ohhh, cool!
 
Won't actually stop them from being loaded if your concern is bandwith
 
Never use Bridge without PONIES
 
But then I'm not sure any CSS trickery will
 
I just added stylish to chrome and added a custom style just for this url that does display:none on images in a .message
I can toggle it on and off if I want
 
3:53 PM
I can't think of a clever acronym for URMOM for a user script.
 
Stylish is pretty neat with that
 
Okay, posted my question to UX.SE
Hopefully this goes at least a little better than some of my non-gaming questions
 
@KevinvanderVelden I'm at work and I'm tired of my screen sometimes being covered with images
 
@Powerlord What does it do? Anything that moves? Like urmom?
 
@nukeforum aight
 
3:55 PM
I think I've asked a total of like 5? Non-gaming questions. Some of them I was met with pretty harsh and unhelpful feedback
 
@nukeforum PONIES is designed for this
 
@KevinvanderVelden CSS might, since browsers are intelligent enough to not bother loading images that aren't being displayed
 
Works well with my dark theme too
 
"Oh, you CLEARLY didn't attend my section at this conference with several thousand people!"
 
@PrivatePansy *Some
 
3:56 PM
Yeah... I didn't. Sorry.
 
Script definitely won't, since userscripts only run after DOMReady
 
@PrivatePansy but that'd break image preloading
 
@Powerlord User Removal Mod Obliteration Means?
 
@PrivatePansy You could do it with a browser extension
 
@fredley Yeah, I'm tempted to use the raw css from that ponies post, but for now suppressing the images entirely works for me
 
3:57 PM
With a script that simplifies kicking mods.
 
Or a rule in µBlock
 
@KevinvanderVelden There's a proper way to do image prefetching. CSS definitely isn't
 
User Removal: Maximum Over-Moderation
 
@fredley muBlock requires a target source for the image to be suppressed, doesn't it? With CSS injection, I can just tell the page not to show anything with an img tag
 
@fredley With guidance @fredley found a proper use for a URMOM acronym.
 
4:12 PM
Can css tell if the image is a pony and then block it
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@GnomeSlice .....
@GnomeSlice ......
@GnomeSlice ....yes
 
Only if it has the pony class though.
 
Haha
that was just starbait
I got a 52 in css, i know how it works
jk I got a 52 in javascript
 
52 is... not good?
I don't know what rating system you crazy canadians use
 
@KevinvanderVelden Out of 52. You know, like playing cards.
 
4:15 PM
@RonanForman So it's terribad. Makes sense
 
No, it's barely a pass
 
@KevinvanderVelden Aces high.
 
lol
Alabama of all places
 
@GnomeSlice I considered learning the required tech stack to try to reverse image search each image posted in the Bridge automatically, then parse related resources to see if the word "pony" came up, and selectively block it if so.
 
Feel the bern
 
4:16 PM
Then I just installed @fredley's extension that dims all pictures by default instead.
 
Yeah they arent even that bad I guess
OoopS, i feta go back to work
potty
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GOTTA
 
@StrixVaria A neural network running a classifier will probably be better since it doesn't suffer from network lag
 
@GnomeSlice #FEELTHEBERN
 
@PrivatePansy One of the reasons I decided that was a dumb idea was the silly number of network requests it would require.
 
Of course to train it you'll need to download a couple of gigabytes of pictures of ponies
 
4:21 PM
I'm sure you'll be willing to share your stash, right @PrivatePansy?
 
@PrivatePansy tbf, identifying mlp pics should be pretty easy
limited colour palette, easy features
 
Posted by @PrivatePansy
 
@fredley Fan art isn't that limited. Although derpibooru has fairly accurate tagging, so training data should be easy to come by
 
Salutations.
 
@GnomeSlice Mmm, feta
 
4:30 PM
 
ugh the starlist has been real weak the last few weeks
back in my day it was all 4 or 5 stars
none of this 1 or 2 star business
 
The star economy requires some quantitative easing
 
By the way, anyone wanting their daily fix of drama should check this out
 
@PrivatePansy wOW. jUST wOW
 
@fredley I love drama
 
4:37 PM
I love watching shog hand out sick burns
 
yeah shog is pretty badass
 
I do not want to get on Shog's bad side. Ever.
 
I don't even know what's happening over there, but it sounds nasty
 
@AshleyNunn Since it's been awhile:
 
Honestly I don't know why you guys aren't more angry at sff.se. Reading some of their Star Wars questions fills me with intense anger
 
4:40 PM
@twobugs any specific one? I haven't seen anything particularly offensive
 
It's a bunch of ridiculous "The Force Awakens sucks! The prequels were good! Let's try to tear open plotholes in The Force Awakens that prove we didn't even watch the movies!"
One of them is expressing intense incredulity that someone from a backwater sand planet could become a pilot
The trick here is that the question is about TFA but accurately describes A New Hope.
 
@twobugs as usual with TFA answers, "what about the same exact situation happenng in the original trilogy"
 
I was going through them last night and ugh, so many awful questions and awful answers
 
the early questions were pretty good
 
There's a very high rep user on SFF I have an intense dislike for based on their conduct on that site and several other networks, and that is all I will say
 
4:43 PM
@GodEmperorDune And in the prequel trilogy..
 
@twobugs I refuse to believe that this is anything other than parody.
 
@nukeforum yeah but we don't talk about that
 
@Yuuki It's real, and highly upvoted
People there defend the prequels as well, now
It's cool to like Lucas and uncool to like TFA.
 
I don't get it..
 
thats bullshit, lucas made terrible movies
 
4:44 PM
Man, I lost 20 rep from users being removed
 
WOW, DID THESE GUYS SPEND THE LAST TEN YEARS MISREADING "WARS" AS "TREK"?
 
the original trilogy was good despite lucas
 
I mean, it's fine to dislike TFA. But this is a QA site, it is not your soapbox
Don't post false bullshit because you're upset over a movie
 
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Okay, that's a bit far. Lucas does do some good work. He's great at visuals and cinematography. He's complete garbage at scriptwriting though.
 
4:45 PM
cc @fredley I suspect you in particular will enjoy this
 
Also, I'm approaching 20k rep!
 
I think Lucas is a good creator but he needs a good editor (or a team of them)
 
Haha
 
@Wipqozn This is too accurate for me to even chuckle
 
@twobugs He doesn't even need a good editor. He needs someone with a spine.
 
4:47 PM
@Wipqozn It hurts, but it's true..
 
@Yuuki he is great at stealing ideas from eastern religions
 
32
Q: How much of Star Wars did George Lucas actually write?

AerovistaeI got into a semi-argument with a friend recently regarding how much credit to give George Lucas for Star Wars. She was commenting how he's an awful director and that's why the new Star Wars trilogy was so terrible and I countered Well I've read the script to the original Star Wars and that at le...

Relevant and quality answer
 
That too. I guess when you have made billions of dollars nobody really wants to say no
Basically, remember how there was that stupidly paranoid and dumb question about the Windows 10 open beta on infosec? And @kalina posted an amazing answer? That needs to happen to each and every TFA question
 
@twobugs DVK was posting quality stuff but he's leaving SFF now
 
Random thing I learned, Force Awakens is actually the first time that there's a canonical reference to a "light side" of the Force.
 
4:50 PM
good morning bridge
 
@Yuuki really? now i need to rewatch them
 
Up until now, it's just been "The Force" and the "The Dark Side".
Or, at times, "the good side".
 
or "the midichlorian side"
 
@twobugs link?
 
@Sterno HE COME TO TOWN
 
4:52 PM
@GodEmperorDune Yeah, it's interesting. And it kinda serves Lucas's original vision that the so-called "light side" and the Dark Side aren't two sides of the same Force coin, but rather than the Dark Side is out-and-out evil and corrupted.
 
@GodEmperorDune A++
 
@Yuuki There are lots of references about "The dark side of the force", which leads me (and I would think most people) to think that there are two sides of the force. You can use those powers for good or evil. (or maybe I'm misreading your statement)
The force is their tool, good/light is how they choose to wield it. I don't think that's ever been questioned. I think there's not a lot of references to the "light side" because people don't turn light -- they start out as jedi (which are "good") then get turned/seduced by the dark side.
 
@Yuuki what about during the vader/luke interactions in ROTJ whre luke explicitly sets out to return vader to the light?
 
@GodEmperorDune I'll have to rewatch it, but Luke apparently never says "light", but "good".
 
is he really saying "the good" the entire time?
damn
 
4:59 PM
@TimS. The point I'm making is that since there's no canonical reference to a "light side" of the Force before VII, you could argue that rather than being two sides of the Force, there is the Force as it should be and the "Dark Side", which is actually corrupted Force. They're not yin-yang, as it is. Milk can turn rancid but you don't call spoiled milk "the dark side of the milk".
 
He says "there is still good in him"
 
@twobugs That was @kalina? That post was brilliant and was incredibly badly needed.
 
... I am now calling expired milk, "the dark side of the milk".
And I'll do it for cheese too.
 

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