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12:02 AM
So apparently the Orlando shooter was actually a regular at the club he did the shooting at and had a profile on Grindr
This is one hell of a story
 
@twobugs some sort of self shame thing?
in any case, super fuct
 
Yeah. I'm just eating dinner now. Science seems to have worked for my modem, will attempt streaming soon
 
@twobugs also he was apparently originally from the same neighborhood where I grew up.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz wat
i thought you grew up in NYC
 
anyone know what time the badges update?
 
12:10 AM
@ardaozkal Wasn't that something they invented for Silicon Valley?
The Weissmann score, that is.
 
@Yuuki weissman is real
The Weissman score is an efficiency metric for lossless compression applications, which was developed for fictional use, but has real-world uses. It compares both required time and compression ratio of measured application, with those of a de facto standard according to the data type. It was developed by Tsachy Weissman, Stanford Professor, and Vinith Misra, a graduate student, at the request of producers for HBO's television series Silicon Valley, about a fictional tech start-up. The formula is the following; where r is the compression ratio, T is the time required to compress, the overlined...
 
@ardaozkal But it came from the show.
 
@Yuuki It was invented for Silicon Valley, but it's mathematically valid
 
I never said it wasn't...
 
ooh, yep misread you
 
12:11 AM
twitch.tv/twobugs More Odin Sphere!
cc @AshleyNunn
 
Yeah, it was invented for Silicon Valley, but it is real and working.
 
@badp Why does that guy sound like Timon when he's angry?
 
@ardaozkal It's not necessarily the most useful way of ranking a compression algorithm
 
@GodEmperorDune So was the shooter.
 
user15026
@twobugs sweet, just got home from the park. Will hop in shortly.
 
12:15 AM
@murgatroid99 never really researched that topic, what is the best way to ranK?
 
user15026
@KutuluMike there are a lot of these.
 
19 hours left on election.
cc @fredley since you seem to be updating it in 3 hour intervals
 
@ardaozkal I don't know. But when the value of the measurement depends on the units you use (as the Limitations section describes), it's not something you can reasonably publish as an objective measurement.
 
"T is the time required to compress" ouch
I can compress a TB worth of files in seconds if I grab an F16
 
12:18 AM
@ardaozkal what?
 
@murgatroid99 Azure's most powerful server
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz RAHH MOD ABUSE
 
let me see the price
 
MOD ABUSE IS REALLY IMPORTANT
 
@ardaozkal Obviously you do the comparisons on the same machine
Like literally any benchmark ever
 
12:19 AM
sure
but results are not specific
 
I don't know what you mean
 
You can compare
But you can't say that you get x score as you add in time.
 
The Weisssman score is a comparison
 
you can say that your score is n times better than other compression thing
 
@ardaozkal What you're saying doesn't make any sense
 
12:21 AM
@murgatroid99 possibly
 
The score is based on the time your algorithm takes to run compared to the time gzip takes on the same file on the same machine
 
oh. now that makes sense
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz well you won't hear arguments from me that every subreddit should have its meta given how well the setup works here
 
user15026
@LessPop_MoreFizz yeah, this is one of the reasons I have never really been able to understand reddit as a thing, because it just seems so unwieldy and messy and easily broken and corrupted. Maybe if I had tried touching it before last year, when i randomly decided to see what the internet fuss was all about? I dunno.
 
user15026
Like I am sure there are good chunks of it but it's not really that easy to engage with from my admittedly limited experience
 
12:25 AM
@AshleyNunn eh you unsubscribe for everything default and choose the subreddits for your interests
 
In my experience, Reddit is most useful for specific interest news and content: fandoms, video games, stuff like that
 
like there's probably one about desserts or cakes or cupcakes or…
yeah the more specific the better
 
user15026
@badp yeah I just couldn't really find stuff that was interesting enough that kept me there instead of the other places I find out about the things that interest me
 
@badp There's at least one of each
 
@AshleyNunn well then reddit solves a problem you've already solved otherwise
 
user15026
12:27 AM
@badp That's kinda what I figured.
 
For some of my interests I wouldn't even know where else to go, like formula 1 or soccer
 
I like it mostly for the fact that I can get recent content about a variety of stuff that I'm interested in all in one place
 
user15026
So this frozen yogurt thing I am eating promises a billion live active probiotic cultures in each bar. I am assuming that's a good thing? I have no idea what it means.
 
user15026
But a billion of something has to be good, right?
 
It's many millions!
People will disagree on how many millions
If only you had milliards
 
12:30 AM
The jury's still out on whether probiotic cultures actually do anything.
 
user15026
@Yuuki Well I have a BILLION of them so I must be made of magic and wonderment
 
user15026
(I just like the lime yogurt-ness of these things, I just happened to read the box today)
 
@AshleyNunn i think that just means they are really small
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune Considering I only have 80ml of frozen treat happiness, they'd have to be ;)
 
@GodEmperorDune A billion is a lot of anything, even really small things
 
12:34 AM
@murgatroid99 yeah but its not like a mole of things
 
A billion is pretty much the largest magnitude of number that actually shows up frequently in our daily lives
 
user15026
I can't comprehend stuff on that scale.
 
The richest people are billionaires. Our computers work with Gigahertz and Gigabytes
 
user15026
After like a hundred of something I stop being able to understand it
 
@murgatroid99 the human body has something like 37 trillion cells iirc
 
12:39 AM
@Dragonrage Sure, but to most people, that number isn't really relevant to their daily lives. But most people probably know that they have gigabytes of data storage or RAM
Fun fact: in one billionth of a second, light travels about six inches
 
user15026
@murgatroid99 Stuff like this really upsets my brain because it's just too....big.
 
@AshleyNunn No, no, haven't you heard? The less of something you have, the more effective it is!
 
Actually, I had that wrong. It's actually a foot
 
user15026
@murgatroid99 how do we even measure something like that?
 
god I just realized that I can now understand english. I probably was able to for a kinda long time but still, feels weird.
(understand as in not having to translate stuff in mind)
 
12:45 AM
@ardaozkal That's awesome!
 
@AshleyNunn We measure the time over much longer distances using very sensitive clocks
And then just divide
 
user15026
@ardaozkal That's pretty great
 
user15026
@murgatroid99 Still, that's crazy. Science is maddening to think about sometimes.
 
@ardaozkal one of us, one of us
 
I got 7 badges today O.o
 
12:46 AM
@Dragonrage wat
 
I certainly didn't feel this way 2 years ago when I took ESOL PET.
@Dragonrage O.O I got 3 last month
 
@AshleyNunn I think it's awesome how accurately/precisely we know some of these measurements
 
user15026
@murgatroid99 It's awesome but also like...I struggle with even trying to comprehend it as a thing sometimes
 
@murgatroid99 how a meter is determined by a certain wavelength of something instead of a stick in a museum
 
@GodEmperorDune 2 nice answers, 2 nice questions, reviewer for edits, sufferage, and vox populi
 
12:47 AM
@GodEmperorDune Actually, a meter is now defined by the speed of light
 
@murgatroid99 so its the distance light travels in X time period now?
vacuum, of course
 
The metre, or meter (American spelling), (from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m. The metre is defined as the distance travelled by light in a specific fraction (1/299 792 458) of a second. The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole. In 1889, it was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar (the actual bar used was subsequently changed twice). In 1960, the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain...
 
i think the krypton measurement was cooler because comics
 
@murgatroid99 why do people spell meter "metre" it makes me want to pronounce it "met-tray"
 
user15026
It's funny, I never really considered how we knew a metre was a metre
 
12:50 AM
@Dragonrage like how you shop at a sto-ray
 
I think they basically measured the speed of light as accurately as they could, said "It's approximately this many meters per second", and then just defined the meter so that it's exact
 
hmm, that was weird. i saw a little blue circle to the left side of my icon that had the number 5 in it, then it disappeared.
 
flags.
5 is a lot tho
 
When you're working with physics, having your units be defined from universal constants can be nice. Otherwise, having a well-machined meter stick is basically good enough
 
@KutuluMike so that means one of my posts got flagged? shouldnt i have been timed out then?
 
12:53 AM
To be fair, there was a reason for there to be a lot of flags
 
no, it means 5 other posts got flagged.
 
you have >10k rep, you get to vote on flags network wide
 
@Dragonrage No, it means you now have 10k rep sitewide, which lets you see and act on flags
 
if you'd have clicked fast enough
 
12:53 AM
oh, too slow :(
 
they rarely last long
every 10k in chat sees them.
 
@KutuluMike I think it was one post that got flagged 5 times
 
in every room
I thought you could only flag a post one flag at a time?
 
@KutuluMike No, stop that
 
@KutuluMike Multiple people flagging one post
 
12:55 AM
The point of flags isn't to be the first to act on them
The point is to actually figure out if it's valid or not before acting on it
 
if you don't click the button fast enough you never have to worry about it.
 
The whole idea that it's good to be fastest to act on a flag is a huge problem
 
besides, you only have to be fast to open a flag, then you can read it.
and then you can make a reasoned decision, and the system will tell you that it's too late and the flag was already handled. it's fun!
 
@KutuluMike I know, it's very annoying
Because people want to be the one to act on flags for some reason, they feel rewarded for making snap decisions
 
0
Q: How to get exclusive skins in Smite?

RainMakerIn Smite there are many skins you can choose for each hero, but how does one get the skins that say EXCLUSIVE in the picture? There is not an obvious way of purchasing these skins, please help I want the one for Ragnatoskr.

 
12:59 AM
because they are afraid 5 other people will disagree with them if they are too slow
I have previously claimed the flagging system on chat.SE is fundamentally broken, but I lost interest in that discussion many moons ago
 
blargh. tags.
 
ok then, time to drive home. Here's to hoping traffic is light. It only took me 40 minutes to get to work today instead of the usual 70-80
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz richard has 2 doctorates?!
 
1:12 AM
> Hey Marvel: I’d like to see a Watcher movie which consists entirely of the Watcher watching The Watchmen movie, which would then answer the question of who watches the watchmen? Answer: the Watcher.
 
1:26 AM
the allegories to current events are great
 
1:39 AM
oh boy. I might be thinking in english too..
/offtosleep
 
Apple, on announcing that Apple Pay will be supported in desktop browsers
 
2:01 AM
THE LAST GUARDIAN RELEASES IN OCTOBER
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS
 
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Q: How effective is this design for an archer tower?

Sam WeaverI have built my fortress in Dwarf fortress with the entrance on the side of a mountain. About 8-10 levels up is the peak of the mountain, upon which I have built an archer tower. My question is how effective this is going to be for picking off invaders outside my fortress... are archers able to s...

 
@badp Roughly 1:47:00 for REGICIDE
 
Man, Sony knocked it out of the park with their E3 presentation this year.
 
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Q: Minecraft Realms Struggle!

Master_TaviWhen playing minecraft realms with a couple friends we defeated the ender dragon and I want to spawn him in again. When I place the four end crystals at the exit portal it does nothing and the crystals sit there without activating the respawn animation. I am playing in 1.10

 
user15026
Watching @twobugs play Overwatch makes me get why everyone likes it
 
2:38 AM
Goddammit I need to take this laptop in for support
:(
I think it's under standard warranty right now though
So that's good, and the place I bought it from is an authorized repair center
The screen is messing up if it isn't at precisely the right angle, like, remembering the previous image on half of the lines of display messing up
 
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Q: Stalking an haressment thru real time chat live

user151120Im in real time chat live thru my neighbor an I'm in Tampa now how do I report him I don't own a kinect Xbox 360 an stalking me every day ban nite

 
@AshleyNunn it's got very rewarding team play moments and also 21 different characters to play
It's great
 
user15026
2:57 AM
I don't think it is a thing I would want to play but I liked watching it
 
@Fluttershy except that FF15 trailer. What in the world.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz The FFXV VR?
 
I liked the last trailers a whole lot but oh my god this new one is so bad.
@Fluttershy yeah, and the trailer leading into it with that awful awful Chocobo theme remix that I just couldn't stop laughing at.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I think I was AFK for that one. But man... I'm so excited for Horizon: Zero Dawn. :3
And Spider-Man.
 
Trials Blood Dragon is a thing
wtf
gib pls
 
3:04 AM
It's out now.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz The trailer seems okay, but the dubstep Chocobo is pretty awful.
 
@Fluttershy it's such a massive step down from the last trailers.
I was super looking forward to Final Fantasy: Chill Road Trip With My Bros, but this looks much more ho hum.
 
Honestly, I've not expected much from a Final Fantasy since X. :( I have been so disappointed in every outing since then, save for FFXIV.
 
I liked 12 all right.
 
user4704
3:18 AM
I thought what they showed on the stream this morning was messy and cluttered and incomprehensible
 
@JoshPetrie For Final Fantasy XV, specifically? Or in general?
 
user4704
FF15
 
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Illuminati

Proposed Q&A site for members, researchers, believers and deniers of the Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era founded secret society

Currently in definition.

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It was definitely busy.
The VR thing just looked awful, too.
 
user4704
I don't even recall that
 
3:27 AM
@JoshPetrie It's at the end of @LessPop_MoreFizz's video up there.
I'm also tentatively excited for this:
 
3:42 AM
@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Hahahaha
 
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Q: Why don't my dwarves haul corpses to corpse stockpile?

sun qingyaoAs you can see, my fortress is filled with miasma, which is generated by lots of rotten dwarf corpses. I have a corpse stockpile outside and one idle dwarf who has Refuse Hauling labor enabled. I've waited for quite a while, but he is still under no job state. Why?

 
4:06 AM
Hearthstone being supremely dumb again
 
tfw when your playing nepal and you have 3 torbs on your team
 
4:22 AM
I'm seriously like the most unlucky person ever in Hearthstone
 
posted on June 14, 2016 by thelmason

Learning is one of many most beneficial things you certainly can do to acne problems that are slow or retard. One other issue will be to get good sleep and therefore beat stress. You skin might respond well to the appropriate amount of sleep. Healthy Eating practically goes without saying doesn't it? But nonetheless a lot of men and women all around the earth consume

 
@LessPop_MoreFizz hue
 
@GodEmperorDune upvotes plz
It's been too long since I did that to an Area 51 proposal.
 
4:39 AM
I will except a51 is being annoying with my login
 
@GodEmperorDune illuminati interference at work!!!!
They are on to us!!!
Also I am real mad at myself because I just thought of a better question!!!
 
Delete and re-ask
 
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Q: "Dark Souls Series" tag?

BenShould there be a dark-souls-series and/or dark-souls-lore tag? There are a few questions I have found that could use one or both of these tags, and with multiple games in the series now, (for some reason) people can confuse the dark-souls tag as a tag for the series, rather than the first insta...

 
There we go. That's a thousand times better than my dumb lizard people question.
 
I was more partial to the lizardman rivalry
And wow, kenorb is not even part of this
 
4:43 AM
@GodEmperorDune yeah but the whole Beyoncé illuminati thing is real.
Like there are whole websites and YouTube channels of Beyoncé truthers dedicated to exposing her membership in the illuminati and decoding every song and music video for illuminati symbols.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz how else would she get so popular?
 
It's right up there with Stevie wonder truthers for the best conspiracy theorists in pop music.
 
Also here's that other A51 with my favorite question
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Conspiracy

Proposed Q&A site for people who want to learn about proven conspiracies, crackpot conspiracy theories and the shades of grey in between

Currently in definition.

 
@GodEmperorDune "How many times has the government harvested my kidneys" is A+++++++ stuff
 
It's srs bsns
 
Oh no, not the Steam Summer Sale
 
@TimStone the real conspiracy!!!!
 
Against our wallets!
 
5:07 AM
Is that a... triple escaped backslash?
 
5:40 AM
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Q: Getting enough gold to upgrade walls

CeleritasI'm at TH 8 and have upgraded everything to max but the walls. It takes a really long time with all the gold that's needed. Any advice on how to accelerate the process? In the past I use gibarch armies to gain resources, but now that I've got too much elixir and not enough gold I tend to use more...

 
@PrivatePansy It's double escaped. A single escaped backslash is \\, so to doubly escape a backslash, you need to escape both: \\\\
 
Ah, that makes it clear. Sort of.
 
Or it could be matching a pair of backslashes
 
No, quite sure it's not that
 
Oh, wait, that first one is inside a character class. So double escaping is the only thing that makes sense
That's a weird regex. It looks like it's matching [ followed by zero or more of (any character but []\ or '...$escapedChar...' or \ ) followed by ]
But starting with "any character but []\ " means that it will never match the second group. And matching "any character but []\ " or "\ " is strange
 
5:59 AM
@Lazers2.0 only 500k? mine cost 3 million a piece to upgrade
 
6:12 AM
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Proposed Q&A site for discussion of our sole natural satellite

Currently in definition.

 
 
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7:52 AM
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Adobe Creative Cloud

Proposed Q&A site for this site would be for creative professionals such as Photographers, Videographers, Illustrators, and Graphic Designers.

Currently in definition.

 
8:08 AM
@PrivatePansy one of the few good things about perl is that you choose your own regexp delimiters so you can avoid escape hell
s😭/😭//😭g
 
@badp So you've escaped from hell into... hell?
 
try😈a-z😈A-Z😈
 
8:24 AM
Wouldn't it be simpler to just switch to MarioLANG?
 
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Q: Karliah With Skrim No quest

King Scorpian100 XxDaltonKillaOk So I went to the motel thing to talk to her I finished talking to her and I didn't get the message by the way I'm on Xbox help me plz

 
8:43 AM
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Q: Can you beat the game without visiting the human outpost in The Ur-Quan Masters?

mmKALLLNote: I am still somewhere around the early parts of the game, having befriended several of the alien species. I am unsure about any details of the victory condition (and in fact don't even know if there is one), and have only vague ideas about the overarching mysteries of the game. I would great...

 
8:53 AM
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Q: Error while opening the men of war assault squad pc

Cavin KumaranI'm using Windows 7 ultimate 32 bit with 1gb RAM and 512mb graphics card. I have Intel Pentium D CPU 2.80GHz and 2.80GHz. I have recently installed men of war assault squad in my PC. When I try to open the game it shows an error: Program will be terminated. eip=00590deb EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLAT...

 
Damn @badp's morning conjecture!
 
Apparently BuzzFeed, HuffPo and Politico also banned
 
Freedom of the press? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah that's not important
 
@HuffingtonPost https://t.co/FPu7z74z5v
 
9:15 AM
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Q: F710 lost my nano reciever, can I connect with bluetooth dongle as alternative?

KarlHi my problem is exactly as the title says, Im planning to buy a bluetooth(4.0) dongle so I could use my f710 again. But to play it safe, I need to know first if it would realy work before going to the store. And I'd like to know if there are disadvantages from using bluetooth as a reciever. li...

 
@Ronan you're welcome
 
9:35 AM
@badp Reveal your magic to me!
 
@Ronan Friendship, obviously.
 
@Ronan show up late enough consistently enough until the standup time is pushed back 30 minutes
 
@badp Haha nah that's not the problem.
 
@Ronan what do you mean that is the biggest problem
 
I'm just always done getting ready to leave exactly when I need to leave.
I can't make it earlier.
Our standups are at 9:45 anyway.
 
9:49 AM
@Ronan I was always done roughly 1 or 2 minutes late
 
@badp That's a more accurate statement.
 
10:03 AM
> This is 88.9 BBC World Service, also livestreaming on Periscope
I didn't realize the budget cuts hit the BBC so hard
 
@PrivatePansy They're one of the few companies that don't care where you watch them, so it makes sense.
 
10:33 AM
mornin
 
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Q: McCree's Deadeye Damage

Kim MinseoDoes McCree's Deadeye damage increase beyond the killshot if you charge it for longer duration than the killshot? Like for example, if a McCree ults, and holds the ult there for the full duration before releasing it, does it deal more damage as compared to just firing it off the moment he lines ...

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Q: Mcpe 15.0 server joining issues

DennisI am trying to join a server in mcpe 15.0 but it says invalid username so I changed it but same thing keeps happing plz help

 
> You're going to get fully uncompressed pixels. [...] These are the highest quality pixels you'll ever see coming out of a game console
 
@PrivatePansy uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh
I saw that bit, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh
 
Organic, free-range pixels
 
10:39 AM
where is that from
 
eeew...
*shiver
 
When the Sony give your TV pixels, they don't send their best pixels. We have the best pixels. The highest quality pixels.
 
Give us an offer on our vast selection of pixel, this is a pixel blow out!
All right, we got white pixel, black pixel, Spanish pixel, yellow pixel, we got hot pixel,
cold pixel, we got wet pixel, we got smelly pixel, we got hairy pixel, bloody pixel,
we got snappin' pixel, we got silk pixel, velvet pixel, nalga high pixel,
we even got horse pixel, dog pixel, chicken pixel!
Come on, you want pixel, come on in, pixel lovers!
 
Why would a console compress anyway? Surely that uses up more CPU, and you're not storing the images anywhere.
 
10:43 AM
@Ronan Yeah, that was totally weird. There's no reason to 'compress' since you're not sending the pixels down teh internetz or anything
I assume he actually meant upscaling
 
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Q: Can my laptop run Skyrim?

JoshuaI want to play Skyrim but i'm not sure if I can run it. I have a HP laptop and my specs are Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz RAM: 4 GB Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000

 
Let me transcribe the lines
> We can render at 60Hz. We can render fully uncompressed pixels. These are the highest quality pixels anybody has seen.
2
At 1:58
Oh god it's so bad
 
How are they planning on making games run on both?
 
And there are already memes. Thanks Internet.
 
Unless it's just a graphics thing.
 
10:48 AM
@Ronan Presumably it's going to be like (whispers) PC gaming
 
At 1.11 - as the guy says "that has no limitations"... Right then the image seem to flicker.... This seems pretty ironic.
 
@PrivatePansy Yeah, but the only difference between games on different PCs is graphics.
 
Also framerate I guess, since the pixels guy also mentioned 60Hz
 
I kinda count that as the same thing.
 
Although since they said this console will also be used for VR, there would be some exclusives
 
10:49 AM
we have the best hertz you will ever see
 
That's true.
I can see the appeal of just graphics upgrade things for consoles.
 
@PrivatePansy oh god
also apparently gamemaker is now a job
ouch
 
well, we need some gamemakers for the upcoming hunger games, right
 
project scorpio will cost at least 2-3k at this rate
8 core cpu, 32gb ram, gpu (6TeraFLOPS) that can handle 4k@60fps
 
its over a year away, until then that wont be that expensive
 
10:58 AM
it still will cost a lot
 
but they cant make it too expensive, people also go for consoles because theyre cheaper than pcs
 
also what da hell does holiday 2017 mean
 
@ardaozkal End of.
 
christmas? summer holiday?
oh
 
its always end of...
 
10:59 AM
also is it just me or is the guy on 1:09 broken
 
just like end of business does by no means mean "when i go home", but "23:59:59,999" ^^
 
@ardaozkal yes christmas
 
11:22 AM
@Ronan some pcs may load slower, run faster, be more prone to crashing
 
@GnomeSlice None of those are actual gameplay things.
 
lol
I made a gag mail a few weeks ago
OUTLOOK AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHED TO THAT
 
Although actually, I guess things like complexity of AI would be determined by specs.
 
EIGHT HOURS TO GO
 
@Ronan they're not
 
11:30 AM
GET YOUR VOTES IN KIDS.
 
@KevinvanderVelden Why not? More CPU means you can try more options in a timely manner.
 
Sure, in chess
But games aren't min-max or monte-carlo search machines
They're fiddly with tons of moving parts, adding more variables when you don't need to si a bad idea
There's not a lot of simulation going on and planners aren't that expensive. The most costly part of AI is probably pathfinding which you can't reduce to a lower accuracy version
Besides, the CPU budget for game AI is usually on the order of a few procent
 
Lots of strategy games do simplified AI for units that aren't near you and things.
 
Also, AI is IIRC one of the few things in games which are relatively amendable to multithreading
 
@Ronan I've not heard of that and a cursory google can't find any references
 
11:34 AM
@KevinvanderVelden I think Solaris does it.
 
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Q: What can Reinhardt's shield not block?

StudokuReinhardt's shield blocks most enemy projectiles and bullets but there are certain attacks which can go right through it. Which attacks ignore Reinhardt's shield?

 
Also, think of all the stuff you can do if redstone will be able to work on larger distances :P
 
@PrivatePansy it is. There's a few synchronisation points (what did the player do and what did the ai do), but that's still not a lot of CPU =p
@Ronan do you mean stellaris?
 
@KevinvanderVelden Yes. That's the one.
 
11:38 AM
No wonder I couldn't find anything =p
 
Oops.
 
Can't really find anything about that either =/
 
Yeah I couldn't either.
 
Xbox One S. Oh god, please don't tell me they're going after the Apple naming system
 
There's not a lot you can do, it's not like pathfinding in a space game is that difficult (all you need to do is pathfind over the star systems, which is trivial in comparison to even a 64x64 map)
 
11:44 AM
They should have gone with Xbox One R.
 
They should have gone with xbox one 1.1
 
Xbox One Up
 
Xbox Three
 
Then we'd be able to call it the Xbone R.
4
 
@Ronan 10/10
 
11:47 AM
Dammit, I can't find the tweet I stole that from.
 
@PrivatePansy would you prefer XBox One Jellybean?
 
@KutuluMike Xbox Cupcake. Xbox Donut. Xbox Éclair.
 
knowing Microsoft it would be more like XBox Tulsa or XBox Topeka
 
@PrivatePansy It doesn't even have a Kinect port!
 
@Frank seriously? o.o
 
11:49 AM
@KutuluMike Don't you mean Xbox Pikachu?
 
@KevinvanderVelden Seriously.
They're going to be selling USB adapters for it.
 
@Frank I think they may have to pay people to use it
 
Cortana Queries will cost $4.99 each.
 
@PrivatePansy And it was such a core component of the XBone when it first released!
 
Yeaaaaah
They really should have called it the Kinect 180
It'd have gone with both the themes of the 360 and the one!
> This adapter will be available for free to customers who have an existing Xbox One console, an Xbox One Kinect and an Xbox One S console
So if you've already spend a thousand bucks will give you the adapter for free! How nice of us
 
11:54 AM
well at least unlike sony playing old games doesn't cost money
 
Okay so Zelda videos are at 1PM my time. GET HYPED.
Oh also last day of the electiont oo I guess
Also The Last Guardian finally has release date, so I could finally play Ico.
 

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