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waves videospam goodnight
 
@Arperum tries to wave but fails in a terrible infomercial way
 
@arda I'm pretty sure it's even later over there, doesn't your bed call for you?
 
@Arperum It does.
And the call of the bed became too tempting to refuse now. Good night folks :)
 
12:34 AM
Oh man I couldn't ___ ___ at the end of Life is Strange ep 2 and now I actually feel sad :(
And apparently everyone on my friends list could
 
1:17 AM
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Q: Mindcraft Skin Button

siobhanarielWhen I press the skin Coat hanger button on my son's Mindcraft game on his Kindle it sends me to his home page. I have removed the game from the kindle and reinstalled it but it still does the same thing. I have seen a few YouTube videos with the same problem but with no instructions for a Kindle...

 
1:27 AM
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1:55 AM
This is how I'm spending the last night of my vacation before I have to go back to work.
 
2:37 AM
I've never understood this bee movie thing
 
Neither have I
I guess it's a meme right now?
Taking one thing and replacing every instance of a certain thing within it with something else?
 
Yeah
 
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Q: Error when trying to play custom sound from resource pack on my MC 1.9 server

AwesomeMan2812So I'm trying to make a resource pack for my server which has custom sounds. Did my usual stuff, added one sound file to replace the entity.ghast.death, used the /playsound command and it worked! I then tried to add a folder for a different mob (irongolem in this case) and after converting it to ...

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Q: Loot bonus during war

DustinHi my clan mate has the same th as I do just a little more level 10 walls.... during war he always says he gets atleast 100k more in loot then I do....is this possible? I've tried to trick him and say I got more then what is offered and he still says his is 100k more so I know he's lying but wasn...

 
"without bees" just seems to be the entire movie removing all the scenes with bees in them
 
3:07 AM
Oh shit
 
That clearly means the reddit theory was either confirmed or not confirmed!
 
user15026
Guys. I backed the Geeks Doing Good fundraiser thing Pat Rothfuss did a while back and my Foxen nightlight arrived while I was away and I just got it now and it is the MOST BEST THING.
 
@Sterno well, just a general oh shit
To literally everything
 
Well, Grey Cup got interesting. Down to tie breaker.
 
Ever
But also yes
Reddit is some level of correct, even if reddit is stupid
Unrelated
https://t.co/WIHHhXwp40
 
3:25 AM
@SaintWacko Sorry, my daughter woke up sobbing from a nightmare so I had to quit fast
 
0
Q: Where is my Steam Folder?

BuckyIt's not where it's supposed to be, which is This PC > OS (C:) > Program Files (x86) > Then it should be there under steam. But it's not! I've searched all over my PC and it's not there. Where can I find it? Below is where it should be.

 
3:42 AM
@Sterno I understand completely
 
@RedRiderX kate?
 
4:03 AM
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Q: Does mastering a DLC song count towards the "The Complete Package" achievement on Dance Central Spotlight?

Pico RileyDance Central Spotlight's achievement "The Complete Package" is unlocked after the player Collect[s] every move in every routine in the game. The game comes with 10 songs initially, but more may be purchased as DLC. I've been able to use DLC songs to unlock achievements like "Total Pro", which r...

 
@SaintWacko yeah, lazytown memes started the extreme editing memes, mostly. And no, you don't want to know.
 
The Internet is stupid
 
Yes
The lazytown memes were started back after Stefan Karl announced that he had literal cancer and that he was setting up a GoFundMe campaign. It only got like 10k before the memes resparked again, and got more than 40k since then (most meme videos linked the GoFundMe in description of video). Overall, it's a meme for a good cause.
 
@arda Gotta admit, not the literal cancer I was expecting him to have. I think he had a problem with severe chain-smoking when not shooting.
 
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Q: Locating Hydroponic Farms in Tropico 5

rs232Is it possible to locate hydroponic farms anywhere on the map, or do I need to place them in locations that are ordinarily good locations for the crop I am growing?

 
4:33 AM
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Q: Clash royale future update? :)

Abby NashIf you make a new update soon, could you try to make it so that we can open two chests at once?? At the moment we can only open one, and if you are busy this would help lots. Thank you!

 
4:44 AM
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Q: Making people nonessential

LizahrdNow, before you go and say "Use 'SetEssential 0' you dummy!", I've tried that, all it gives me is "item "0" not found for parameter Actor Base". I've scrolled through the targets to ensure I'm not targetting a light effect or something, to no avail. What am I doing wrong?

 
4:56 AM
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Q: My Minecraft won't Launch on Windows 10 for me, PLZZZ HELP!

ZacDaGamerEvery time I press play on the launcher it crashes and says this ---- Minecraft Crash Report ---- // Who set us up the TNT? Time: 28/11/16 5:47 PM Description: Initializing game org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Na...

 
5:26 AM
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Q: Can the flare gun be resupplied in BF1?

smuggledPancakesI keep forgetting to see if this works. Will my flare gun resupply in the Support class drops an ammo crate?

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Q: PS4 Plus on two accounts

Sam LissamanOk so I just purchased a ps4 Slim and then got ps4 plus for one account, I have heard that multiple accounts can use the same ps4 Plus but on my PS4 it only has the icon for it on one account, any answers?

 
6:30 AM
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Q: Woodland Exploration Maps repeat?

Matthew LeonardDo Woodland Exploration maps ever repeat Mansions or does it consistently find a new one every time? If it does repeat, does travelling away a couple thousand blocks or so decrease the likelihood? On a slightly unrelated topic, how do Exploration Maps display in an item frame? Seems to me like it...

 
7:24 AM
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Q: Pokemon Sun&Moon: Leveling Guide + Lucky Egg

PhoenixI just need to know (;-_-) Sorry, sorry... I need to grind some levels before the battle in the Altar of the Moone. Is there a place where the Pokemon typing are the same? Or at least, have a high Experience yield? The only place I train as of now is the area before entering the Dragon Trial si...

 
7:35 AM
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Q: How to set usb stick to defult downloading system on xbox 360

juliegames 110It's really annoying that it downloads games onto my xbox system instead of my usb and when i try to transfer it to the use it won't work

 
8:10 AM
whoosh. Seems like a panicky morning today... Two coworkers are frantically doing stuff to fix the live webapp that somehow got broken in an update.
I haven't worked on that thing yet.
 
8:22 AM
Guess whose pebble is broken
 
@arda How did you break a rock?
 
@Nzall I mean pebble smartwatch.
And its not really broken tbh, I just can't install anything, which kinda kills the point.
 
@arda I thought as much, I just tried tob e funny
or rather, tell a lame joke like you'd hear in Friends
 
@Nzall sorry, I got genuinely asked that multiple times in the past so I started to take that question seriously.
In other stuff that is broken: m.imgur.com/a/BmqQj
 
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Q: Fallout 4 on Steam not launching?

GipsyDOk. So I bought Fallout 4 again on another account on Steam. It downloaded and installed and what have you. When I went to launch the game, the launcher appeared as normal, but when you clicked play. The game gave me a black screen and then kicked me out, as well as crashing Steam itself. I have...

 
8:41 AM
Ooooohhhh I see lol
Its sent to Gmail and forwarded from there, hence unsubscribe doesn't work
 
9:01 AM
@Nzall A hammer usually works for me
Depending on the size, you may need to get a bigger hammer
 
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Q: Will I lose Quiet when replaying a mission?

MeerkatI currently have a completed run and Quiet still sticks around as a buddy. Now I would like to replay some of the older missions. So does replaying missions have any effect on the storyline or can cause the lose of a companion, specifically her (because keeping her was kind of tedious)?

 
@KevinvanderVelden Why the extreme "why?"? Those kind of questions keep popping up.
 
Why do they keep popping up? Why do people think we're the gamedevs. WHAT MADE THEIR BRAINS MAKE THAT ASSOCIATION
 
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Q: PS4 LAN party Online

MauritzMy name is Mauritz. Last weekend we've tried to have a LAN party with some friends all with PS4's, in total about 6 PS4's. We would like to play online FIFA 17 profclub and Battlefield 1 with each other. We decided to have a LAN party at one of our friends, but when trying to play online a few ...

 
9:15 AM
Also, can we fix it with hammers
 
@KevinvanderVelden Yes, but that might not be 100% legal.
 
We should get on fixing that
 
@KevinvanderVelden By hammering the legal issues?
 
@KevinvanderVelden there's nothing that cant be fixed with a hammer
 
9:37 AM
@fredley Wow. Tony is an ass.
 
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Q: Is it possible to find Dittos by catching some rare Pokémon?

333-blueSometimes I am thinking if I encounter a Dragonite or Lapras, will it turn into a Ditto?

 
@fredley yup, trump voter
I don't think she voted for Trump but he is bragging about it between edamame shell chews
Sums it up
 
\o/ one of the api's we call just suddenly without warning decided to change everything and add captchas
 
9:53 AM
@PrezTurkey, United States
The official feed of the National #Thanksgiving Turkey presented @whitehouse by the chairman of the National Turkey Federation
139 tweets, 473 followers, following 11 users
 
@KevinvanderVelden So now your server has to fill out captchas?
 
@Arperum something like that
They were originally like "Automated tools are fine, as long as you don't hammer the server, we have no plans for an API though" now they're "No automated tools >:("
Fortunately this was fail safe so services weren't impacted over the weekend
 
@arda Also known as "Next months' @Wipqozn jokes, today"
 
Cc @Wipqozn and I think also @GodEmperorDune
 
9:57 AM
> "It is my great privilege — well, it's my privilege — actually, let's just say it's my job to grant them clemency this afternoon,"
Obama slowly just tuning out of reality
 
> Yes, we cran — literally Obama, 2016
 
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if next year, Donald Trump refuses to pardon those turkeys
 
Trump steaks are the best steaks in the world
Btw uh I heard that votes were being recounted and that HRC has another chance to win, is this real?
 
HRC has added support for vote recounts, haven't heard anything else
 
AFAIk, votes are being recounted in one state for now, there are three states that would need to switch before CLinton actually wins. A recount also doesn't mean she will now win.
 
10:03 AM
Following Republican nominee Donald Trump's victory in the United States presidential election of 2016, a group of computer scientists, cyber security experts, and election monitors contacted the Clinton campaign staff. Following the recent disclosure of alleged hacked e-mails by Wikileaks, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency released a statement that the hacks are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts, the statement also emphasized that it would be extremely difficult for someone, including a nation-state actor, to alter actual...
 
@KevinvanderVelden Are you saying @Wipqozn is going to be a dad next month? Why was noone else informed? Are you the second dad of his future child?
 
@Arperum you don't technically need to be a dad to make dad jokes, you just need to make terrible jokes. And we all know @Wipqozn is great at that. The best
 
@KevinvanderVelden Meh. He could be a mom too?
 
He could, I guess, I didn't check
 
He also could be a dom
(dad + mom)
 
@KevinvanderVelden SO you're saying the both of you are adopting a child and you did not check if your co-parent would be a mother or a father?
 
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Q: Why does the research item have a blue bar?

ValamasThere are 3 research items in my screen shot. One I am researching, two others which are boosted. One of the boosted has a blue bar. Why is it blue?

 
@Arperum but if Trump lost Wisconsin and still won it might put doubt in the other 2, especially if the irregularities in the other 2 states were also found. also someone else already said that Trump's got nothing to bitch about if the voting was fair....unless he knows it wasn't
 
@Arperum errrr, no
 
@Memor-X That someone else was me I'm pretty sure :)
 
10:12 AM
@Memor-X when have you ever seen trump not bitch about things?
 
@KevinvanderVelden Ssssh. It's monday, let me have my weird brainconnections.
 
@Arperum probably. i haven't been a regular here enough for me to remember people's names against the tiny tiny tiny avatars
 
@KevinvanderVelden He's now also declaring that he also won popular vote if not for millions of illegal votes, and the recount is stupid and ridiculous.
I don't understand how those two sentiments link up though.
 
Well there's your problem. You're taking the things trump said as if they're things said by a single regular person. Trump doesn't work that way, he has no long term memory
 
@KevinvanderVelden when he won
 
10:15 AM
@KevinvanderVelden This is also a case of no short term memory.
 
@Memor-X hmm, maybe!
 
I think this is the classic problem: Trump's critics take him literally, but not seriously, while his followers take him seriously, but not literally
 
10:34 AM
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Q: chiliad mural mystery easter egg maze bank fountain puzzles and clues

Dj DozerWhy would rockstar threaten to fire its employees for revealing the chiliad mural mystery and anything else that is hidden in the game?

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Q: How to order generals not to accept duels during battle?

Ayase EriI made an officer and then went to serve Cao Cao. January 199 I asked Cao Cao to send troops to attack Lu Bu in Xia Pi since for whatever reason the Battle of Xia Pi event is not triggered. We fought fine, and conquered Xia Pi. However, in the battle we lost Xiahou Dun since the idiot went to du...

 
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A: Defending a gym with a high CP rare pokemon that has had its name changed?

333-blueMost people have the Pokémon, if they don't have them, those may be famous and/or rare Pokémon.

That's quite the special answer.
 
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Q: When should I use KERS?

AlexSo far, I've been using KERS when: Starting a medium/big straight line. Overtaking. Starting a race. I don't really have any preference on them, so I just use KERS whenever I feel to. So, when should I use it?

 
10:53 AM
@KevinvanderVelden did Civ VI arrive already?
 
It did not
Also I'm at work
So even if it had I couldn't play =p
 
@KevinvanderVelden So am I :p
I did notice yesterday evening that there are two different greece leaders. Never seen that before for a Civ game.
 
I think greece is the only country with that
Probably a thing for easier expansions =p
 
Yea, or for mods. it's just that this is the first time they actually use this option, while it was very clear also in civ V that leader and nation where separate, but they were always linked anyway.
 
11:13 AM
It has arrived \o/
 
@KevinvanderVelden With worldmap? Or just the plastic dvd box?
 
11:29 AM
@KevinvanderVelden didn't take you long to give into peer pressure
@KevinvanderVelden didn't take you long to give into peer pressure
The bridge is such a bad influence
 
@Wipqozn The best part is that he at least partially pressured himself.
 
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Q: How can the Xbox One S have a higher clock speed than the normal Xbox One without causing bugs?

Jop V.The New Nintendo 3DS and the PlayStation 4 Pro limit their clock speed for older games. But the Xbox One S doesn't, reportedly causing a framerate increase of 2-9 FPS for some games. But how is this possible? Shouldn't this cause glitching because the games weren't written with this clock speed...

 
OK, new best Twitter: twitter.com/DUNSONnDRAGGAN
There is a 2x4 EXPEDIT here. >EXAMINE 2x4 EXPEDIT It looks furious. It is made of oak. It has 64 HP remaining
 
11:46 AM
@Arperum haven't opened it yet
 
@KevinvanderVelden I'm making jokes bad again.
 
@KevinvanderVelden Booh!
 
Also, you know one thing that kind of annoys me?
 
@Wipqozn Your own face?
 
Developers who are "This is the way you do things, that old way is so last week. This is the way everyone is doing it! It's the best way. only way to do it. et cetera"
You shouldn't decide your entire build based on some article you read on the top of /r/webdev and nothing else
or "this is the standard so we use it"
but okay, why is it the standard? Do the reasons it's a standard make sense for us at all?
 
11:53 AM
I feel this is a rant about that one coworker of yours :p
 
and is it really the standard, or is it just the standard for a few people who are loud?
@Arperum nah man :P
You'd think I hate my coworkers but I totally don't
Actually that "one dev" I always complain about actually stepped up his game, so that's good.
 
@Wipqozn Did you ever stop?
@Arperum I'm at work! :(
I want to open it but work
 
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Q: How to make an infinite loop say a raw JSON message once?

CrazedFireballI'm currently making an adventure map and I have an infinite loop that when I wear a helmet named "Helm of Knowledge", it'll empty my helmet slot, replace my ninth hotbar slot with the helmet and display some commands/hints for my map. The loop however will always spam the text no matter what I ...

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Q: What prompts enemies to pillage improvements?

Bar AkivaNumerous times both barbarians and other civs just sit on my tiles without pillaging. I find the enemy pillaging to be a random thing. What prompts pillaging?

 
@KevinvanderVelden I'll never stop
 
12:08 PM
@Wipqozn so it's not really an "again" thing
 
@KevinvanderVelden How does that stop you from unwrapping a thing?
 
It's not work related =p
I already opened the package it came in to check for damage though
 
12:36 PM
 
it all makes sense now
donald trump was a cia plot to kill castro
 
@KevinvanderVelden Yes
 
@KutuluMike INF
 
@KutuluMike I think you need to upload that to a location we can accss
 
pfft.
 
12:41 PM
Slack wants me to log in
 
hold.
 
no. I refuse.
I demand results now
 
YOU WILL HOLD
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Yeah I saw that image before
 
you can delete the other one, it's too old to edit
 
12:43 PM
I DEMAND ORIGINAL CONTENT
 
what do i look like, No Man's Sky
 
@PrivatePansy I keep seeing this comic appear in this feed, and I like what I see so far. What's the source? Might give me something to binge on
 
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Q: in pokemon x is there a way to see how many pokemon you have encountered

zaceyi need to know how many pokeom ive encountered so i know how many till i get a shiny please help me

 
@PrivatePansy oh, I am going to have so much fun with this one...
 
12:54 PM
 
@arda Yeah, have you played life is strange?
Oh I must not have you on steam
There fixed
 
1:18 PM
Yee
 
@KevinvanderVelden Apparently Belgium is exchanging some land with NL, with as endresult that Belgium will be ~10ha smaller.
 
Given enough time we will eventually devour all of belgium \o/
 
@KevinvanderVelden You'll have to move that river quite a bit for that though.
 
... we're the dutch. Moving water out of the way to get land is what we do
 
@KevinvanderVelden Yea, and you're not even stopping with stealing it from the sea, you also steal it from other countries!
 
1:25 PM
@Arperum you stole it from us first >:(
 
tbf, Belgium gained some land from Germany as fine for WW1
@KevinvanderVelden We did not steal, it was all official.
 
Bigger army diplomacy strikes again
 
@RedRiderX yup, was one of the lead translators in Turkish translation project of it even
 
Baarle-Hertog (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌbaːrlə ˈɦɛrtɔx]) is a Flemish municipality of Belgium, much of which consists of a number of small Belgian exclaves in the Netherlands. While some of its territory consists of exclaves in the Dutch province of North Brabant, it is part of the Belgian province of Antwerp. On 1 January 2006 Baarle-Hertog had a population of 2,306. The total area is 7.48 square kilometres (2.89 square miles) which gives a population density of 308 inhabitants per km² (798 inhabitants/sq mi). == Geography == === Border with Baarle-Nassau === Baarle-Hertog is noted for ...
Baarle-Nassau ( pronunciation ) is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands, located in North Brabant province. It had a population of 6,626 in 2014. == Geography == === Topography === Topographic map of the municipality of Baarle-Nassau, June 2015. === The border with Baarle-Hertog, Belgium === It is closely linked, with complicated borders, to the Belgian exclaves of Baarle-Hertog. Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 separate pieces of land. Apart from the main piece (called Zondereigen) located north of the Belgian town of Merksplas, there are 22 Belgian exclaves in the Neth...
I don't know, seems legit to me.
 
1:28 PM
@RedRiderX also fixed
 
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Q: Is it possible to permanently miss important items/aeon in FFXV?

LikaelI was getting ready for the FFXV release tomorrow, when the following came through my mind : In my distant memories, in previous episodes, it was possible to miss some puzzles during the early part of the game, which would definitly prevent you to obtain some Summon/Aeon/etc. later in the game. ...

 
@KevinvanderVelden Are you saying that the newly formed Belgium had a bigger army than all of NL?
@MBraedley those two places are quite crazy about borders too :p
 
@Arperum But are they really 2 places?
 
@MBraedley One town, actually a mess of national borders. Origin lies in tax-evasion reason IIRC.
But yes, it's officially two different villages.
 
1:38 PM
@KevinvanderVelden So Basically: the Dutch noticed that it went sour, retreated, waited until the secession was official and then tried to reclaim, only to have france say "no you don't."
 
@KevinvanderVelden They basically did a "We'll go to the bigger countries for help, and if I don't like the result I'll take it myself." But it did not work out that way.
 
@Arperum btw thank you for delaying my morning commute by 10 minutes
 
What'd he do?
 
1:54 PM
pretty much what I'm replying to
 
@badp I'm not entirely sure about the levels of sarcasm in this message.
@KevinvanderVelden Send a king to give you some land.
 
@Arperum aah, couldn't you have just faxed it instead?
 
Bridge, save me from getting FF15 which I know I'll hate after an hour
 
@KevinvanderVelden Don't think the king would have appreciated being stuffed in a fax.
@Sterno Buy Civ VI instead!
 
@Arperum I don't see a problem
 
1:57 PM
I already have Civ VI
 
@Arperum hey you inb4-ed what I wanted to type
 
@KevinvanderVelden \o/
 
I didn't type it yet though so I'm not sure it counts
 
@Arperum the 10 minutes were real :(
 
@Sterno I'm getting it.
And will absolutely love it.
 
2:00 PM
Ugh one of the battery life tools I installed disable internet when I lock my phone, and that causes Spotify to fall back on 180kbps (the difference with that and 320kbps is very very visible/audible)
 
though most of those 10 minutes are actually on @KevinvanderVelden
@Arperum merely caused me to be unable to use the workaround
nice teamwork
 
@Frank Yeah, but you loved 13. Which I'm not judging, but also did not fit my tastes.
I SHOULD WAIT FOR REVIEWS
 
in Mos Eisley, 4 hours ago, by b_jonas
Today's Heavenly Nostrils strip http://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2016/11/28 contains another reference to this American institution where they cancel school days in some elementary schools for bad weather, and announce this in the radio. I'd heard of that concept before, but as I grew up in Budapest, it is still very alien to me. Why would you cancel a school day? It just doesn't make sense. (10Z is obviously the wrong time to say this, Americans are sleeping.)
 
(I'm not going to wait for reviews)
 
@b_jonas cancelling school for bad weather is like off-schedule christmas
I'm sorry that you had to survive in such an hostile environment
surprise! it's snowing! no school!
 
2:03 PM
Surprise! You're 38! No school!
 
@Sterno surprise, you have no sleep either.
also holy hell you're actually pretty old. Old as mom. Damn.
cc @Wipqozn on that self-burn
 
@Sterno How's Pokemon Moon coming along?
 
@badp From that strip and other references I've seen, it doesn't seem like an off-schedule christmas, but a much more regular occasion (in some parts of the US).
 
@Sterno I don't see the connection
 
@Sterno if no school comes as a surprise to you then you might need to get some things looked after
 
2:09 PM
@b_jonas You cancel it because it's deemed not safe for people to travel, or potentially not safe. If there's a blizzard going on, and the roads are covered in snow and you can't see more than 5 feet in front you then it isn't safe.
 
@Wipqozn Basically if you can't get your teachers to come over.
 
@Wipqozn Does this game ever get harder or more interesting? So far I've got a level 15 dude crushing level 8 dudes, plus a 6-man party versus a 1 or 2 man party. Basically it could play itself
 
@b_jonas regularly scheduled off-schedule Christmas? awesome
 
(which I guess is good, because my daughter enjoys pressing buttons and winning)
 
I'm just saying, in some areas of Italy it snows about once a day per year
 
2:12 PM
@Wipqozn Right. And since I live in a big city, and even in the country there are elementary schools close enough to everywhere, that can't happen. If the roads are unsafe to travel, a few children might not be able to go to school that day, or more likely they'd arrive late, but the school must still have teachers and other service because the parents who have to work can't just leave the kids at home at a totally unscheduled basis.
 
it's economically cheaper to have the city grind to an halt than to buy and maintain all of the equipment required to keep things going while it snows
and building roads in a way that makes this possible in the first place
 
@badp The city does slow down, sure, but doesn't grind to a complete halt.
 
Yeah - it's more snow in areas that don't get lots of snow and it's easier and cheaper to just wait for it to melt. We never, ever have cancelled school for snow.
 
I wonder if Cyber Monday is to blame for my remote desktop connection to work being slow. I'M GOING TO BLAME IT ANYWAY
 
@Sterno Haven't played sun/moon yet, but no. Pokemon games are way too easy. It's why I know I'll get bored of it really quickly and regret getting it come christmas.
 
2:14 PM
There's always a lot of traffic chaos.
 
user15026
I am playing Disney Emoji Blitz on my phone and I can unlock a churro Emoji and that makes me weirdly happy. /cc @GodEmperorDune
 
I may have to get this shirt
 
@JasonBerkan Halifax has, but Halifax is also terrible at snow cleanup.
 
@Wipqozn It's because they can't just dump it in the harbour anymore.
 
@Wipqozn You also get crazy storms off the ocean where you get 4 feet of snow overnight.
That would shut us down too, but it never happens.
 
2:16 PM
@Wipqozn :(
 
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@JasonBerkan I grew up in the country, we'd get a handful of snow days a year because it was too dangerous to drive. I lived in a river valley so we ended up with more days than some of the counties around us.
 
@b_jonas Sometimes you literally can't leave your drive way due to not being cleared out yet.
 
@JasonBerkan Halifax generally doesn't get that. That happens more in Northern New Brunswick than here.
 
user15026
But it was more bus cancelations than actual entire school closures
 
When the snow is taller than you are, you ain't going anywhere
 
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2:17 PM
@KevinvanderVelden pretty much!
 
Well, it's not like I didn't know I'd end up not liking Pokemon. I just figured it would be for reasons other than "It practically plays itself"
 
@Sterno Yeah it's a shame. They seriously just need to add a hard mode. B/W2 supposedly had one for once you beat the game. Trainers got more pokemon, higher levels, and the ai was better.
 
@Ash Yes - that happens here. Buses stop running. Schools will still be open, so rural kids are stuck at home, but the urban kids are at school.
 
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Crap, this is just another reason to move on to the disappointment that is FF XV
 
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2:18 PM
@JasonBerkan Yeah we had that a lot when I was a kid, us country kids got way more days off than the urban kids
 
@Sterno Just play Fire emblem instead
 
@Sterno If you don't have 800+ hours in Civ VI, I would play more of that.
 
@JasonBerkan He doesn't even have 4 hours
 
The game also has a lot of weird UI choices, like after every item you pick up (with a message you picked it up), you get another message telling you which pocket you put it in. EVERY TIME. And every time you win a battle, it lets you know that you are XP sharing. EVERY TIME.
Just lots of extra clicking through messages, which have weird little tiny delays in them so you can't just insta-click them
 
Sounds like a pokemon game @Sterno =p
That's been the case since gen1
 
2:22 PM
Then why does everyone tell me these games are awesome?
 
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Q: Who performs the scene in the instance of a tie?

Fredy31In Mario Party 2, there's always the scene at the end with the superstar defeating Bowser by himself. So the scene is setup in a 1v1 fashion. But if there's a tie (same stars and coins) who does the scene?

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Q: How to know if a Pokemon is a Ditto?

C-dizzleSince the release of Ditto in Pokemon Go, I have managed to catch a couple of the sneaky little insert expletive. But instead of wasting all of my Pokeballs catching every single Pidgey, Rattata, Zubat and Magikarp... is there a way to tell if that Pokemon is a Ditto or not? I'm talking about o...

 
@Sterno Nostalgia
 
Basically, you're all awful.
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I think my daughter would enjoy it if she could read.
 
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Damn you past me!
 
@Sterno There are some options to make them scroll somewhat faster.
 
2:29 PM
@Arperum I have it at max. Even after the message fully appears there's this tiny delay before you can click to go to the next message. It's weird
 
@Sterno Yea, it's a weirdly slow game.
 
Anyway, I'll probably just hand it to my daughter while I'm in grass and she can run around and beat up vastly underleveled pokemon. She can't read, but she knows how to attack, which is all she needs
 
Note: I'm not sure I fully completed any pokemon game ever. I think I beat the elite four in one or two versions, but that was because some competition between friends or somesuch.
 
Doubt I'll keep playing now that I know it never gets harder. :(
 
The only real challenge is in the story things, where you can't leave
Then there's some resource management in keeping pokemon alive while fighting many weaker people
Unless of course they put a bed near there, which also happens often
 
2:33 PM
Turning off sharing experience adds a bunch of grind to the game.
 
I get the feeling grind wouldn't really be difficulty, just obnoxiousness
 
SGR
All grind is obnoxious if it's required to beat the main story
Grind should only be for post-game content
 
Yup. No added difficulty, just added work.
Though you could always attempt to take gyms with the wrong Pokemon.
 
SGR
@Wipqozn 'Challenge Mode' was unlocked if you completed Pokemon Black at least once, then could be shared with someone who has Pokemon White. Pokemon White unlocked Easy Mode that you could share with someone who had Pokemon Black. It was the oddest thing ever
 
user15026
I stopped beating/playing Pokemon because the grind and difficulty and all the state optimizing got too much for me
 
SGR
2:40 PM
XY, ORAS and SuMo are significantly less grindy than the other games. Exp Share affecting all Pokemon allows you to actually run a team of Pokemon that can take on different types rather than just having 1 ridiculously OP starter who blows through everything. And actually, even Comp Pokemon is massively less grindy in SuMo due to Bottlecaps
 
My kid loves it. It's really a game aimed at pre-teens. Though I'm annoyed that I can't play it because there is only one save on the cartridge (at least last version that was the case - he hasn't asked for the new one).
 
SGR
@JasonBerkan Still the case you only get 1 save
 
@SGR Bottlecaps? Isn't that something from Fallout 4?
@SGR Really? I think that's one of the last major game series left that only allows 1 game at a time
 
All this talk of Pokemon is making me regret buying it, and I'm not even the one paying for it.
 
user15026
Yesssss Letterkenny season 2 finally has a release date!
 
SGR
2:44 PM
@Nzall Yes, still only 1 save. If you know what IVs are, Bottlecaps in SuMo can be used to essentially make the Pokemon have 31 in an IV of any stat without it actually changing the IV
 
OH WELL. I'd return it, but I bought it from a small local shop so I'd feel guilty.
This is exactly what I expeted to happen QQ
 
I'm getting it anyway, even though I never finished the 4 previous games in the series
 
user15026
I am still talking myself out of getting it.
 
I think I got 6 or 7 badges in Pokemon Y
 
SGR
I've got a complete living dex of every Pokemon Gen 1-6. I love Pokemon
 
2:45 PM
@Sterno My point is, if I like something, you should hate it.
 
@Frank Oh snap! that's a good point @Sterno
 
@Frank Valid!
I'm annoyed that I have to order 3 things separately on Amazon to get the $5 credit on each item for not using prime shipping (since you can only get it once per order)
 
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Q: New game and "returning player" exclusive in single player?

DrakaSANI am hesitating to grab GTA V for PS4, now that the price is low. While I have no interest in GTA Online, I want to remake the single player campaign. Since I like rail gun, and am entitled to one since I have the PS3 version (and finished the single player), I'd like to know if getting the retu...

 
Also, for me, a pokemon game is finished once everything that's left is completing the pokedex. So for the very first games, that's after the E4, but for the second series, that's after you finished Ash/Red/Blue/???? on top of mount silver
and so on
so I'm not quite sure how much I have left to complete in them
 
@Nzall for me, that's when the game starts. The story is the worst part of the game
 
2:57 PM
@Chippies I actually understand that SuMo story is one of the highlights for the game
 
@Nzall I hope it's good, it's supposed to be different than in other games, so maybe I will actually enjoy it
I got the game sitting in the kitchen on the table, waiting to be wrapped up for Christmas
 

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