The Bridge

two bugs

12:10

@PrivatePansy These guys look so evil

badp

do you guys still have a link to that wonderful kickstarter scam about the USB key that would load up internets to reuse on the train or on the plane

it might've been on indiegogo instead

chat search is being garbage as usual. I refuse to believe no one has ever said "prefetch" in here

Kevin van der Velden

I remember reading it but don't have the link stored somewhere

two bugs

If it's scam it would probably be Indiegogo. You can set campaigns there to do partial funding so you get the money even if no goal is hit

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: How do i detect if a dummy command has a certain score in 1.9?

I have been trying to figure out recently how to test if a team and or player has a certain score like 3 or 5 or something. If someone could tell me how that would be great!

badp

Kernel memory corruption in Symantec/Norton antivirus, CVE-2016-2208 (more patches soon). https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=820 https://t.co/F22xDIelSU

Tweeted by taviso on May 17, 2016 at 12:20 AM

Arperum

12:27

@badp Is this a lead in to this other scammy kickstarter that is currently running?

badp

@Arperum no, but I wanted to bring that old favourite of mine into a discussion of that maximumoversecure thing that protects BOTH kinds of known file types and extensions

who knew that encryption came in chown form

with the sexy snazzy Windows 3.1 era user interface @fredley loves

two bugs

That is not up to the Windows 3.1 era UI guidelines. Do not give me false hope like that

badp

@twobugs I mean we are talking about a scam

fredley

@badp I like how CRYPT moves by one pixel

two bugs

Okay, when I tabbed back the gif made itself EVEN MORE SECURE by turning itself invisible

Well played, gif

badp

12:32

@fredley that's because with this wonderful saviour of humanity encryption is always one pixel ahead of the bad guys and their decryption

@twobugs yeah those gifs trip up chrome big time

two bugs

Wow, so it's possible to guess the first letter but nothing else? Incredible

fredley

wat

6

@badp 0/10 giffing

two bugs

Actually, according to that .gif it's trivial to guess the first letter. That's not great security!

Unionhawk

> I just spent a fair while arguing with them on Twitter. I lost my shit somewhere around the moment they invoked the #FourthAmendment hashtag.

Incidentally, my work computer running IE has no problems with those gifs

fredley

omg this sub

badp

12:35

@fredley for $5000 you can be on the plane! such value

fredley

this is my new favourite sub

Unionhawk

Yes I'm running IE11 by force. It's pretty whatever.

two bugs

@badp What a great deal

Arperum

@twobugs Yea, noone would ever think of trying two different patterns one after the other. Or how you can guess a specific letter of a password? What on earth are you doing at that point already...

fredley

PANT-ALONE

Unionhawk

12:36

@fredley A while back they banned shitty as in potato salad and now it's just shitty as in actually awful

(iirc)

fredley

badp

@fredley now THAT's a good italian-english pun

just think about the fashion possibilities

two bugs

@fredley This is great

Now I can finally be a Final Fantasy character with One Pants Leg and One Jorts leg

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum I mean, there's a dailywtf about that from years back

two bugs

fredley

12:39

I can't even

Private Pansy

@fredley The bigger WTF comes from the realization that every single paragraph on that page is an image

two bugs

What was that Arthur C. Clarke quote? "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Final Fantasy"?

Unionhawk

@badp Hold the fuck on what are they claiming that 1) brute force attackers can know if they got a letter right in a password and that 2) supposing they can their system causes them to magically forget if they got the second one wrong more than twice?

What the even fuck

two bugs

No love for FFX? Or my Clarke quip? Fine, I'll just go work

badp

@twobugs what's a ffx?

Arperum

12:41

@fredley Having a hearing is overrated.

@Unionhawk Yes.

badp

friends for xever?

two bugs

@badp It comes after FFIX

Duh.

Private Pansy

The page has about 20MB worth of animated gifs

badp

friends for intermittently xever?

two bugs

I mean, just look at that image I posted of Meg Ryan cosplaying as someone with really bad fashion sense

badp

12:43

I'm afraid I will require a car analogy of the current situation

[old internet memes intensify]

two bugs

Okay, car analogy. Hm.

COMPUTING OPTIMAL CAR ANALOGY...

Kevin van der Velden

explodes

badp

catb.org/jargon/html/D/Don-t-do-that-then-.html

MBraedley

Guys guys guys, I'm (almost) a homeowner now!

(There's the whole paying the sellers thing, which my lawyer is taking care of. Funds just need transferring.)

And with that, I now have no money to buy new games. Time to clear out my Steam backlog.

Kevin van der Velden

You need a lawyer for buying a house over there?

MBraedley

12:47

@KevinvanderVelden Oh yeah. They're the impartial third party that holds all the money.

Among other things.

Kevin van der Velden

Aah, we have notaries that do that, who aren't lawyers over here =p

MBraedley

Well, technically a notary could probably perform that job here, if you wish to waive legal counsel for all the contract stuff, but notaries just aren't common here to begin with.

two bugs

"Dear customer, here's a long and thorough explanation of how to get this feature enabled on your machine. Since there is a 10 hour time difference, I'm including every step so we can avoid a back and forth which would waste our time"

> Great, thanks! I didn't do those steps and it doesn't work, why is this?

Kevin van der Velden

@MBraedley I don't think a lawyer could legally do the job here, it's a different education IIRC

two bugs

...

Kevin van der Velden

12:50

Because "I didn't do those steps" so "it doesn't work,"

Fluttershy

Can this be deleted yet?

Kevin van der Velden

Bloody hell that's a lot of comments

badp

I'm not hitting that delete button

two bugs

Yeah. I'm shocked it has 4 reopen votes

Frank

I am, and did.

StrixVaria

12:53

@Fluttershy Oh cool, it has enough delete votes that if I cast one it would be deleted even if I weren't a mod.

badp

and that was the end of it.

MBraedley

@badp You can delete it for me then. I can't seem to do it from my phone.

StrixVaria

And then I didn't even have to!

This is a great day.

badp

@MBraedley that's because you were beaten to it

two bugs

Sometimes the strangest questions seem to become controversial

I'm assuming that one was controversial since it had like 20+ comments I'm not going to read

badp

12:54

I think it's more that sometimes users are more forceful than usual that their questions should be allowed

and any rule that causes their precious question to not be allowed is automatically stupid and wrong

Kevin van der Velden

And lots of reopening it

two bugs

That seems to be a decently widespread thing that I will readily admit I have trouble with

It's My Question so the lizard brain takes over and prepares for war

Chippies

@AshleyNunn that seems like good stuff, until you read the bit that it's only available to people with xbox gold subscription for over a year... My gamertag is also not old enough to qualify anyway, since it was a windows gamertag. I've never owned an xbox console :P I may try and see if it's available anyway when the time comes, thanks :)

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria \o/

badp

@twobugs you need to be a loominati membership card for that to work

it's not enough to identify yourself as a lizardkin to be a lizardkin loominati

two bugs

12:57

I collect them. I have foil versions of all but one of the original loominati membership series

badp

there might be a discount for true pro much core gamer club member carrying cards

two bugs

Sadly, I'm still missing the fabled foil loominati lizardkin

That one is earned by streaming 10,000 of Hearthstone and I don't think poor @badp's heart could suffer such betrayal

10,000 hours

badp

pls

you will definitely give up permanently on your humanity if you do that

no amount of coupons will undo that

two bugs

In the path of true much pro core very mlg gamerhood humanity is just a shackle

Chippies

@badp he's a pro dark souls player, he has plenty of humanity in stock

badp

12:59

@Chippies ten thousand hours

two bugs

Yeah I'm going to MLG for Dark Souls 3 this year

(That's coming up, right?)

badp

@twobugs only to get VAC banned for inconsistent soul count midway through

Wipqozn

cc @Yuuki

Also do you still wtch Frozen daily?

MBraedley

@Wipqozn Frozen is good, Lion King is better

Also, you needed to have a "Let it Go" joke in there.

Fluttershy

I still have not watched Frozen.

Private Pansy

13:08

@Fluttershy It's eminently missable

It's not bad or anything, but it didn't feel like anything special

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn A noble fight. The Lion King is definitely better than Frozen.

Tangled is better than Frozen.

MBraedley

I think we can all agree that Aladdin is by far superior to them all, though. We can all agree, right?

KutuluMike

Brief Synopsis of Frozen

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Dota 2 web api gather public profile

i want to create a script in any language ( prefer java, or python ). Where I call the steam web api or any good libary. https://steamcommunity.com/dev http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/GetPlayerSummaries/v0002/?key=xxxxx&steamids=xxxxx Like this one where the result look like : { "res...

dota-2

Kevin van der Velden

@MBraedley Yes

Private Pansy

13:13

@MBraedley Yes

Unionhawk

@MBraedley Yes

fredley

@MBraedley Yes

Chippies

@MBraedley No, but I don't care enough to argue

Unionhawk

You ruiner

Chippies

Thanks

Arperum

13:15

@Unionhawk Yes

fredley

@Chippies One message moved to Android Hell

MBraedley

@Chippies Well obviously you're wrong.

fredley

@MBraedley Yes

Chippies

@fredley mod abuse!

fredley

@Chippies Yes

Unionhawk

13:16

Incidentally, I don't actually have enough of an opinion either way, I just wanted to turn it into a yes train

And it apparently created an infinite loop in core @fredley subroutines

fredley

@Unionhawk I didn't even read what it was before replying Yes

@Unionhawk Yes

Chippies

Lion King is the best Disney movie (and the only one that made me cry every time I watched it, so therefore also the worst)

fredley

@Chippies lik dis

StrixVaria

@MBraedley Prince Ali is one of my favorite Disney songs.

fredley

Little Mermaid

MBraedley

13:17

@Chippies Bah, these youngens who've never seen Bambi

Chippies

I never cared for songs in movies/cartoons...

@MBraedley I've seen it, it wasn't as bad

Bambi's mother died in the beginning of the movie before you got any sort of attachment to anything and anyone

MBraedley

@Chippies AND YOU DIDN'T CRY!?!

Chippies

well, it was sad, but meh

StrixVaria

@Chippies They're not along the same lines as the music I listen to for music's sake, but the music in Lion King is pretty incredible anyway.

fredley

CHIPPIES HAS NO SOUL: DATA ACCEPTED

2

Unionhawk

13:18

Do pork chops have souls?

I should think the soul gets cooked away

Hmm

fredley

NO DATA FOUND

Chippies

@StrixVaria I mean, the music is alright in the Disney movies, but I don';t really care/like musicals much, I'd rather it had just a story without 3 minute long songs every 10 minutes

StrixVaria

Would still pick.

Chippies

@StrixVaria so it goes from an owl to velociraptor? Is the whole birds are dinosaurs thing widely accepted in Japan now?

Unionhawk

(fanart)

(not revealed)

Kevin van der Velden

13:22

@StrixVaria Does it also eat you if you don't read?

Unionhawk

The only thing we know is the name of the game, that the region looks like an island with a cool volcano, and the three starters in the first stage of evolution

And I guess that character customization is remaining a thing

And probably a bunch more stuff but whatever

StrixVaria

@Unionhawk Nothing else meaningful.

Unionhawk

Yes

My HYPEr drive is focused on 7 days

That was an offensively bad pun @Uni

Derpy

You meant Kimba, didn't you?

Chippies

there's also the legendaries

Unionhawk

13:24

Oh are they reveal?

Chippies

@Unionhawk they were in the trailer

StrixVaria

imgur.com/a/5mJg1

Some pretty cool starter evolution fan designs.

Chippies

Unionhawk

Oh right

Chippies

there's nothing really known about them besides what they look like

More stuff here

StrixVaria

13:25

Wait, the legendaries aren't Lunatone and Solrock?

Unionhawk

Well several websites claim to have "LEAKED legendaries types" and stuff

Chippies

@StrixVaria considering they never were legendaries, why would they be now? :P

Unionhawk

mega evolution or some nonsense

StrixVaria

@Chippies They could figure it out.

Chippies

that generally doesn't change them into legendaries though

Unionhawk

13:26

> or some nonsense

StrixVaria

It would be unprecedented, but every pokemon game has done something unprecedented so whatever.

They could have done it.

Unionhawk

But no, yeah, if they did that it'd be p dumb afaic

Chippies

although it would be hilarious if you fought this mega evolved pokemon and caught it, only to realize that it's a regular garbage pokemon

StrixVaria

@Unionhawk As long as they're in the plot somehow I'll be ok.

Chippies

assuming it appeared in the battle already mega evolved

StrixVaria

13:27

They don't need to be the legendaries.

Unionhawk

Just for the sun/moon joke?

StrixVaria

Also because I am biased towards awful pokemon.

I want to see them become relevant.

Chippies

@StrixVaria but then they wouldn't be awful anymore...

StrixVaria

@Chippies And then I would shift to liking different pokemon, but for some amount of time I would be satisfied and that's what I want.

I hope I can get a Cradily somehow in the new gen during the regular playthrough. That would make me very happy.

Chippies

"I liked those pokemon before they became cool." - HipsterStrix

StrixVaria

13:30

That couldn't be further from what I said.

Nate Kerkhofs

Always fun when you're able to XSS your own product without even trying hard

Chippies

I never claimed that you said it :P

of course it would be great if pokemon were perfectly balanced, but that's not happening

I hope the Sun/Moon will run fine on the old 3DS, because I am not buying n3ds

Kevin van der Velden

There's only one way to balance that many pokemon, make them all identical

Nate Kerkhofs

I haven't even finished any of the Pokemon games since the DS came out

Chippies

I got literally all pokemon in alpha sapphire (I did hack in some event legendaries though...)

and I don't mean I filled my pokedex, I mean I actually have every evolution of every pokemon in my storage

the worst part about it was having to play X/Y for some pokemon... that game was horrible

Unionhawk

13:34

The 151 run of gen 1 is really fun to watch

Chippies

@Unionhawk can that be done without trading?

Unionhawk

Yes

Chippies

huh, didn't know that

Unionhawk

It's heavily glitched

Chippies

oh well, in that way, sure

Unionhawk

13:35

Because you know, gen 1 pokemon speedruns

Chippies

I thought you mean legit

two bugs

Wasn't there something about Aladdin being extremely similar to another animated movie in production at the same time

Unionhawk

@Chippies I mean, it doesn't require external modification of the game

The game is just broken

Chippies

@Unionhawk yeah, I understand, but I mean, it's still not 100% legit

Unionhawk

Held together by the hopes and dreams of the developers

Chippies

13:36

it's the most legit of non-legit ways tho

two bugs

Well, it depends on how you define legit

You can force an encounter with Mew

Unionhawk

They at least moved to duct tape by gen 2

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria Tangled is better than most Disney movies. Not all, since The Incredibles will always be my favorite, but most.

Chippies

@twobugs if it requires exploiting bugs and glitches, it's not 100% legit imho

two bugs

It's not a glitch! It's how the game rolls encounters ;)

Basically it's rolled off the SPECIAL stat of the last enemy you fought

Chippies

13:38

@twobugs well, Idk the specifics, but it still sounds like you're exploiting mechanics in an unintended way :P

two bugs

There is a single Pokemon with the right stat for Mew

Private Pansy

@Fluttershy I kinda mentally separate Pixar and Disney movies

two bugs

So if you do things in a specific order you can force a Mew encounter

It's absolutely not intended, though :P

Unionhawk

It requires a different level of execution to pull off a lot of it

Chippies

@twobugs I suppose it's somewhat legit then? gray area, meh

I used to abuse rng to encounter perfect/shiny pokemon in diamond and soulsilver, that was the most fun I had with a pokemon game tbh

it sounds like that mew encounter thing is very similar to rng abuse

if not the same

two bugs

13:40

Did HG/SS have the streak thing some of the games had?

StrixVaria

@PrivatePansy Yeah, me too.

Unionhawk

This is why the speedrunning community gets to decide which glitches are legit

two bugs

I honestly don't remember

StrixVaria

@twobugs Streak? You mean like for finding shinies?

Unionhawk

(some are apparently banned)

Chippies

13:41

@twobugs no, that was the platinum/diamond series

two bugs

@StrixVaria Yeah, or specific repeated encounters

Okay, they add and remove mechanics in such a nonsensical way I can never remember

Chippies

HG/SS rng abuse was mostly done with breeding

StrixVaria

@twobugs I don't think so.

Chippies

platinum/diamond was a lot easier to abuse rng

because of the repeated encounters

two bugs

It's a symptom of them having multiple teams that each kind of do their own thing but have the same blueprints, I guess

Unionhawk

13:42

And glitches are the only thing that make 151 possible

Other than playing 3 different pokemon games at the same time from NG and trading eevees to one of them, and then trading a gengar too

Chippies

@twobugs I think they justify it with "different regions have different mechanics"

Unionhawk

But the glitches make it fun to watch because to the new viewer, the runner is doing seemingly random things and then all of a sudden he talks to a sign that gives him an eevee

StrixVaria

@Unionhawk And Machamp and Golem and Alakazam.

Unionhawk

Because he manipulated the text pointer for the map

Fluttershy

@PrivatePansy That's fair. The Incredibles is my favorite Pixar movie, then. But Tangled sits very high in my list of top Disney movies.

StrixVaria

13:45

I'm trying to think of a Disney movie I actually liked more than Tangled.

Does The Avengers count?

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria Wreck It Ralph, for me. I think that may be number one.

StrixVaria

@Fluttershy Oh, I haven't seen that one yet.

I really should.

Plus I could watch that with my daughter in the room.

Fluttershy

Though I haven't seen Zootopia yet... And The Rescuers Down Under is also fantastic.

StrixVaria

We're at the point where I have to start changing my watching habits depending on time of day, which is a pain.

Private Pansy

@StrixVaria You might like it more than she does

Fluttershy

13:48

But, The Emperor's New Groove is objectively the best 2D Disney animated movie.

StrixVaria

@PrivatePansy For now I'm sure I will.

Fluttershy

Emperor's New Groove > Wreck It Ralph > Tangled, I think, for me.

two bugs

Emperor's New Groove is pretty much David Spade's best movie

Unionhawk

Oh man, they're pretty serious about emulators too apparently

StrixVaria

@twobugs Patrick Warburton made that movie.

two bugs

13:50

@StrixVaria As he always does

Unionhawk

> as emulator has an advantage doing hard resets (there is no Gameboy/gamecube logo), there is a 5 second penalty for each hard reset in a run on emulator

badp

what are the chances that the actual time difference isn't 5 seconds

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria Squeak squeak squeaker, uhhhhhh.... squeakin.

two bugs

Early Geforce 1080 GTX reviews are sounding very good

Unionhawk

@badp Iunno

StrixVaria

13:51

@twobugs Thought this was a snowboarding game.

two bugs

There, better? :P

Unionhawk

no

Fluttershy

@twobugs I need a new video card, but that's too expensive for me.

two bugs

It's perfect for my price range. I'm still waiting to buy 100% in on the hype, but things are looking good

I don't really have any company loyalty, I'll go with whatever card benches better for my pricerange (typically Nvidia since they target higher end consumers)

badp

@StrixVaria or another cinematic 24fps six hour next gen movie like gameplay experience

Fluttershy

13:55

I still don't understand all the fuss over frames per second.

two bugs

Neat, new Fast Sync is basically Vsync without the latency

@Fluttershy I like having it at 60 if possible, but stability is more important for me. People make more of a fuss than they need to usually, IMO

That being said, some stuff like ~15ish fps or inconsistent fps can cause motion sickness

Fluttershy

@twobugs This I can understand. I had this in Battleborn the other day. I never get motion sick, but I did thanks to some janky fps for a couple seconds.

Unionhawk

pcmasterrace demands 300000 FPS

or, 30 kFPS, if you will

badp

but really 60 is so much better than 30

Unionhawk

That is true

Kevin van der Velden

13:59

@Fluttershy the difference between 24fps movies and 24fps games is that with movies you take a frame of 1/24th of a second (or a bit less, whatever) so it's smooth. With games you don't have that, it's a snapshot of a single point in time. So you need more fps to get the same smoothness you'd have in a movie

two bugs

30 doesn't bother me when I'm actually playing it but when I go back to a 60fps game I'm like "Good lord, this is so much smoother"

badp

that's literally it. that's all those pcmasterrace maximum overerks want :P

two bugs

And 30fps is the lower end of acceptable for games, IMO. Don't do 24fps because it's "filmic"

The Order devs tried that and it failed miserably, they went back to 30 for release

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