The Bridge

Sklivvz

12:00 PM

i need to check whether the deletion is supposed to work that way or not

fredley

@Sklivvz Regardless of whether it's supposed to or not, I kinda think it should.

Can RO's edit the schedule?

Unionhawk

I think so

I'm on mobile so I can't test

RO's?

room owners

room owners

12:03 PM

that said room owner events probably don't cause tweets

ardaozkal

RO me so I can test :)

StackExchange

badp has added ardaozkal to the list of this room's owners.

ardaozkal

So I'll schedule something and edit it?

Unionhawk

I think it'd be in the room dropdown or something

badp

@ardaozkal here chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/35/the-bridge?tab=schedule

just create

Feeds

12:04 PM

ardaozkal has added an event to this room's schedule.

ardaozkal

I have no edit button

but I can remove

badp

hold

ardaozkal

That is not visible on the sidebar either. I think that it only adds automatically for mods.

badp

yeah your events won't be tweeted or affect the sidebar

we have some extra text that explains what will happen

Unionhawk

Interesting, I guess that's because owners don't have /admin as an accessible page

Chippies

12:05 PM

Free uPlay games once a month until the end of year

Unionhawk

Because, obviously

StackExchange

badp has removed an event from this room's schedule.

badp has removed ardaozkal from the list of this room's owners.

badp

thanks for ze science

Wipqozn

@Chippies I don't think it can be considered free when you need to use uPlay.

ardaozkal

I WAS SO CLOSE

Tim Stone

12:06 PM

@Chippies ooo

Wipqozn

@ardaozkal Way too slow man

badp

@ardaozkal AND YET SO FAR

Wipqozn

You should have started with that

Chippies

@Wipqozn it's only shit until you give in

Wipqozn

@fredley is the last person to remove me from room ownership when it still mattered anyways

Chippies

12:07 PM

it's still shit, but free is free

ardaozkal

@Wipqozn nah that picture is a min before this. I respect ya so I missed my chance

Wipqozn

A great honoour.

@ardaozkal What a charmer

Chippies

@Wipqozn I wouldn't buy anything on uplay at full (or even discounted price), but free and humble bundle is worth dealing with uplay just a little bit. It's actually not completely shit as a stand-alone launcher, but it's bad as a store front and as a middleman drm between steam and the games

two bugs

uPlay has never been a problem for me /shrug

ardaozkal

@twobugs same

two bugs

12:09 PM

Origin is actually semi-decent, too

Unionhawk

Rahh uPlay is evil because reasons

Tim Stone

@twobugs LIAR

fredley

Origin is awful

two bugs

Origin has always worked fine for me

Chippies

@twobugs one thing Origin has going for it is that it's not a middleman between steam and the games (which can also be a bad thing, because you can't buy those games on steam)

two bugs

12:10 PM

@Unionhawk I mean Ubisoft is evil

But uPlay is True Neutral

Chippies

@twobugs except when your internet dies and you can't log on... I hope they added some sort of offline mode to it in the last couple years

Unionhawk

#steammasterrace #halflife #volvoplsnotice

Tim Stone

I haven't had to use Origin in a while but when it first came out it was awfully slow and the UI was very unintuitive

two bugs

@Chippies Offline mode for Origin has worked significantly better for me than on Steam

ardaozkal

early uplay was terrible

two bugs

12:11 PM

Last time I tried you just had to 'prepare' a game for offline or whatever

Tim Stone

Hmm, did we figure out when the Steam summer sale starts so I can preemptively lock up my wallet?

two bugs

But Steam offline mode has literally never worked for me, ever

Chippies

@twobugs I have never had issues with offline mode on steam and there's even the option to go offline mode while still keeping internet connection

ardaozkal

@TimStone 24

23 june-4 july

Unionhawk

@TimStone Tuesday.

Chippies

12:12 PM

steam just relaunches in offline mode and everything works

as long as you have logged into online once, you're good to go

Tim Stone

I'm not sure which one of you to believe

two bugs

Steam offline mode for me has always been "You have to go online to tell Steam it can go offline"

ardaozkal

@TimStone vg247.com/2016/05/16/steam-summer-sale-2016-dates-leaked

two bugs

Which is not very helpful when I'm already offline

ardaozkal

*23-4

Chippies

12:12 PM

@twobugs that was my experience with Origin, except it didn't even mention offline

Tim Stone

@ardaozkal Ah, in this case I can just assume @Unionhawk confused Tuesday with Thursday and all is right in the world

Chippies

Origin is decent for how little I use it though

it's not as bad as it used to be

two bugs

Origin offline you had to prepare each game I think, which was stupid, but that was literally 4 years ago and I'm sure it has improved

Tim Stone

I knew it was soon because I got a trading card but I wasn't sure how soon

Chippies

and uplay seems to be more usable than it used to be as well

Unionhawk

12:13 PM

@TimStone Nope definitely Tuesday.

Tim Stone

@Chippies That's good

two bugs

People are just way too harsh on Origin and uPlay

MBraedley

But that's when my new video card and HOTAS arrives! I'll need new games to put those to work!

two bugs

Steam still has a lot of problem

Chippies

@twobugs well, uplay shouldn't be included in games sold on steam, imho

two bugs

12:14 PM

@Chippies I don't think that has anything to do with the service and is instead Ubisoft being a Bad Company

Derpy

@twobugs mwhahahahahaha. So true, and yet every time someone on a gaming forum says something similar to "Is there a drm free version of xyz game that doesn't include Steam" it causes the usual flood of "Steam is not DRM, you can play with steam in offline mode" posts....

Tim Stone

@Chippies It would be weird for Ubisoft to not indoctrinate you into their rewards for their own games though

At least the launching is pretty smooth now

ardaozkal

Darth Vader and the Imperial March on Bagpipes and Unicycle - The Unipiper

►

in "weird side of Youtube"

Tim Stone

There's even a hope that one day they'll implement auto-redeeming, since that's really the worst part of it now

two bugs

Oh good, Mainstream media is finally picking up on how the Orlando shooter frequented the nightclub and several gay chatrooms/dating services

Unionhawk

12:15 PM

@twobugs no, Bad Company is an EA IP

Chippies

@twobugs it does kill a lot of its customers though, because why buy on uplay when I can have it on steam? Oh wait, because I have to use uplay either way. So you either give in and buy it on steam and use both, or buy on uplay and don't have a steam version (which most people prefer) or don't buy at all and "vote with your wallet"

two bugs

This was not a religiously motivated killing. This was a hate crime motivated by him being fuct in the head

Private Pansy

@twobugs The BBC was reporting that since yesterday

two bugs

@PrivatePansy It's been known since like... Sunday though :P Gawker, of all people, accurately broke the story

Private Pansy

Well, I'm not entirely sure which 'yesterday' it is, since timezone

two bugs

12:17 PM

Tomorrow's yesterday

@Chippies I agree that this is fuct

Chippies

I think that's part of the reason why I dislike uPlay more than Origin tbh

Tim Stone

@Chippies Oddly enough the Assassin's Creed Chronicles games had the benefit of having Trading Cards on Steam. No idea why, but they sold for a decent amount, so no complaints :P

Chippies

Origin at least moved all its games away from steam and now I don't have to choose to use both or not have a steam version

two bugs

@Chippies I don't see what that has to do with uPlay though

Chippies

I either have the game on Origin or don't have it at all, which makes the choice really easy

two bugs

12:19 PM

The software's quality is separate from Ubisoft being draconic

Chippies

@twobugs does uplay even have an offline mode?

two bugs

I'm pretty sure it does

3ventic

pretty sure it does

ardaozkal

it does

3ventic

I know I've played while having network issues

Chippies

12:20 PM

well, the servers being overloaded was still a massive issue at Watch_Dogs launch

Unionhawk

I think it does

Chippies

and probably other game launches

3ventic

but that's true for most huge game launches

Chippies

@3ventic not when you can't log into uplay and play the games you own because other people are trying to play Watch_Dogs

two bugs

@Chippies That was a feature to protect you from the buyer's remorse inherent in playing Watch_Dogs

ardaozkal

12:21 PM

@Chippies steam gets inaccessible on sales

and it was crazy slow on gta v release

Robotnik

I bought Far Cry 3 through Steam, which forced me to install uPlay, which I couldn't launch separately to steam as Steam held the game license. If I launched uPlay by itself it wouldn't show the game in my library.

So hitting 'Play' in Steam would launch uPlay, which I then had to launch Far Cry 3, giving me both the Steam and the uPlay bloat stealing precious resources from my poor old PC.

Needless to say I was not impressed with uPlay

3ventic

@ardaozkal the store does, the community features not so much

Chippies

@ardaozkal if you're already logged in, you don't get logged out

two bugs

I mean, the community features for uPlay and Origin aren't great. I kind of prefer them to Steam's continually half-assed attempts, though

Chippies

I also beat a pirated version of Watch_Dogs days before it was officially launched and I had no issues the legit buyers had, which just shows who's getting the short end of the stick with uplay

ardaozkal

12:23 PM

@3ventic actually, know the error that causes newly bought/downloaded games to be not launched? It happens on sales too.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: (MC 1.8) Is it possible to change FallingSand's damage?

Can you increase the damage that the entity FallingSand does to you? Like a damage tag? I want falling anvils to deal 9 damage each or otherwise be a 3 hit kill to players. How would I do that?

3ventic

@ardaozkal don't remember encountering anything like it..

Chippies

@ardaozkal I have never had that issue

the most I've had trouble with steam is login servers and store servers being overloaded

two bugs

@Chippies I think you can say this for basically any always online thing

ardaozkal

support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6218-USFX-5568

this

3ventic

12:25 PM

@Robotnik you can launch games you bought via Steam directly from Uplay now

but you still need to have Steam running

Chippies

@twobugs but it wasn't the game that had the issues, it was uplay

ardaozkal

this happens on sales' first few hours too

Chippies

people who could manage to log into uplay could play just fine, iirc

Robotnik

@3ventic Oh thank god. Maybe I'll go back and play it

ardaozkal

Diamond really fits your profile picture

Robotnik

12:26 PM

@3ventic oh, wait, that's kinda the same problem :P

Chippies

I haven't heard any reporting of uPlay crapping out like that since Watch_Dogs, so I guess either they've improved their servers or people just stopped caring as much for their games

3ventic

Clicking play on Uplay actually goes "Oi, Steam, this game is from you, launch it" and then Steam goes "Oh, it's a Uplay game, please launch it" and then the game is launched

two bugs

@Chippies If something works fine before and after a launch...

Robotnik

@ardaozkal <strike>diamond</strike> chaos emerald

ardaozkal

@Robotnik no, you aren't @Wipqozn

Chippies

12:26 PM

@twobugs I'm not sure what you're trying to say there

two bugs

@Chippies It works fine 99% of the time and almost everything has problems with launches these days

ardaozkal

@Chippies they didn't get same hype since WD

Robotnik

@ardaozkal But I am Robotnik, so Chaos Emerald :P

Chippies

@twobugs Well, probably so, but when the few times you consider using it you hear it being broken beyond imagination, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth

Robotnik

4

Chippies

12:28 PM

either way, I already said it's pretty usable if you get games directly from uPlay

Robotnik

^also relevant :P

two bugs

It just seems like people are trying to hold uPlay and Origin to much higher standards than they do for Steam

Chippies

I wouldn't buy anything on there at full price, just because I don't support Ubisoft's practices

ardaozkal

Also if you haven't already, please consider upvoting the Mario Marathon Community Ad

two bugs

I've had plenty of technical issues with Steam. Friends regularly craps out, tags are still a joke, curators are a mess. It's bloated and full of ridiculously useless features

Chippies

12:30 PM

@twobugs Steam is an established storefront with tons of games and a lot less intrusive drm, people are used to it and trust that Valve won't fuck them over for pennies

Robotnik

@twobugs Valve should get some of our community to curate the tags on Steam

Chippies

uPlay and Origin are run by the some of the worst companies in the world

two bugs

@Chippies Okay, I want to make it absolutely clear: you're being hyperbolic, right?

Just making bad video games does not make you one of the worst companies in the world

Meraj99

Um, guys, does anyone know of an animated story-type game based on 'The Wizard of Oz', where you play as a detective on a case..?

Chippies

@twobugs partially

Meraj99

12:31 PM

It sounds like the type of game you would find on [GameHouse](www.gamehouse.com), or [Big Fish Games](www.bigfishgames.com).

two bugs

There are far, far worse companies out there

Robotnik

Putting aside the fact they are terrible companies, Steam has all the features I want/need. Never had a problem with friends/chat and that's all I use it for

ardaozkal

Emerald City Confidential

Emerald City Confidential is a 2009 computer adventure game conceived by Dave Gilbert, developed by Wadjet Eye Games and published through PlayFirst. It follows the protagonist Petra, Emerald City's only private eye, as she is approached by a strange woman named Dee Gale. Dee's fiancé is missing, and she is willing to pay Petra above the going rate in order to find him. Lacking any other prospects, Petra agrees. What starts off as a simple missing person case soon takes Petra deep into the seedy underbelly of the Emerald City's criminal underground and beyond. She encounters many characters from...

two bugs

I mean, Activision is way worse as a publisher anyway and people keep patronizing them

ardaozkal

is this it?

Robotnik

12:32 PM

If I live in an area with a local shop why would I travel interstate to pick up the groceries?

Meraj99

@ardaozkal Perfect. That was fast lol.

Thanks xD

Chippies

@twobugs honestly, I don't even know what Activision does these days, because they don't seem to be on my radar as much

ardaozkal

I googled "wizard of oz detective game" :P

Robotnik

That's my stance on uPlay/Origin

Unionhawk

Whoa Delta has bag tracking on their app?

Chippies

12:32 PM

they own Blizzard, but I don't see their games being shit or Activision even being advertised in them

Unionhawk

That's awesome

BAG ON PLANE

ardaozkal

@Chippies not really- they are partners

Unionhawk

AKA NOT LOST

two bugs

@Chippies They don't 'own' Blizzard

Chippies

@twobugs I thought they bought them, but I guess I was wrong

two bugs

12:33 PM

They're autonomous companies that are owned by the same overhead

ardaozkal

they are on an umbrella company

Chippies

in that case, I literally have no idea what Activision does these days

ardaozkal

blizzard-activision or smth

two bugs

Anyway, Activision is the company that regularly fires entire development teams after they ask their contracts be honored

Chippies

@twobugs that's bad and all, but the average consumer isn't concerned by those things

two bugs

12:35 PM

(That's what they did with the Infinity Ward team after Modern Warfare 2.)

Chippies

nor is activision trying to push their own drm/storefront on everyone

Wipqozn

@Robotnik Excellent.

two bugs

@Chippies I'm not talking about the average consumer? We were talking about the quality of companies

EA/Ubisoft are not the worst companies in the world by any reasonable metric

Not by a longshot

Chippies

@twobugs I was talking about EA winning the Worst Company in America award twice, not about what really happens behind the scenes

two bugs

@Chippies Both of these times were people xD trolling

If the worst thing you can say about a company is they make bad video games, that's Not Bad in the grand scheme of things

Chippies

12:38 PM

@twobugs seems like a lot of organized effort to do something like that

two bugs

I don't see EA supporting Apartheid, etc.

Tim Stone

@Chippies When they merged, Vivendi actually had majority stake shudders But they initiated a buyback in 2013, and Vivendi afterwards sold more of its shares so it now only has like 5-6% ownership

two bugs

@Chippies Are you denying this literally happened...?

badp

work ethics are a thing that also matters

Chippies

@twobugs yes, not bad in grand scheme of things, but they're bad from consumer stand points

badp

12:39 PM

see also the "saint"'s presentation last month

Unionhawk

Let's be honest here, @Wipqozn is the worst company in the world

two bugs

@Unionhawk This has seriously become the least funny meme

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk Man if I was a company I'd uPlay so hard

Unionhawk

That's an irrefutable scientific fact

two bugs

Yes, I know what I said

@Chippies Okay I'm confused because you keep jumping around

Chippies

12:39 PM

@twobugs I'm not denying, I'm just saying I don't have enough information to say either way. It seems hard to believe, but I don't know the specifics on how the voting works

badp

@Wipqozn instead all you can do is uWorst. or maybe uMod

Tim Stone

Vivendi: Worse than Everyone™

badp

FOR SOME PEOPLE THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE ANYWAY HAHA

Chippies

@twobugs should I have put the "worst company in america" in quotes? :) I didn't make that title up myself

two bugs

No, I'm aware

Unionhawk

12:40 PM

Oh man I have an entire row to myself

This is amazing

Wipqozn

@TimStone MAn, I think I will wind up playing Bayonnata tonight. I think I did the first level at one point, but I should start it up.

two bugs

But there are far worse things even for consumers to than putting out a good but not great video game

Chippies

I am aware there are worse companies in the world, but most of those companies are under the radar of the average consumer

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk wat, are you suddenly on a plane?

Unionhawk

There are far worse things than even putting out a bad video game

Chippies

12:41 PM

the average consumer doesn't know what goes on in most companies besides what they get to interact with

two bugs

Even for the 'average consumer' they still by these video games en mass.

Robotnik

That thing with Activision/Infinity Ward was that they witheld the profits from MW2 until MW3 was released. Same thing happens with bands & producers.
It's a dirty tactic but AFAIK if that's the contract they signed then they can do it.

Unionhawk

@TimStone I mean for definitions of suddenly

badp

@Wipqozn Do you put Bayonnaise on your true pro much gamer fuel

two bugs

@Robotnik Well they fired the IW people for trying to get the profits they were contractually obliged to

Unionhawk

12:42 PM

As suddenly as one could enter a state of being on an airplane

Robotnik

@twobugs They fired some but like 80% of the company left after that IIRC

Unionhawk

I've been traveling since 3:30 this morning

two bugs

@Unionhawk ON_PLANE is a bool and is not a gradual transition

Chippies

anyways, I'm gonna watch some youtube videos as I finish my almost-cold-because-I-keep-typing-and-not-eating food

Unionhawk

@twobugs but there's a process by which it's set

two bugs

12:43 PM

@Robotnik That's possible

I mean, Team Bondi did that after LA Noire

Except they forced their employees to work 6+day weeks 12+ hours a day!

Wipqozn

@badp Yes

Robotnik

@twobugs either way IW didn't have much of a team left after the purge, hence why they had to bring in that other company to help with dev work

Unionhawk

Though I guess the transition from jetway to airplane was indeed instantaneous

two bugs

Game shipped? Have a nice vacation everyone - you're fired!

badp

@twobugs that is the sort of stuff that does make EA very very bad indeed

Wipqozn

12:45 PM

@Unionhawk where you flying to? Is it Canada?

badp

@twobugs or whatever the parent company was

two bugs

@badp THAT'S NOT EA!!!!

badp

I think EA tho

Wipqozn

You should come visit me in Nova Scotia, and then I can ride you into the Ocean.

Unionhawk

@Wipqozn basically the opposite of Canada

two bugs

12:45 PM

That was Take Two (for LA Noire)

badp

EA does have a proud independent tradition of chewing through and shutting down its acquisitions

two bugs

EA was rightfully criticized for this stuff but they took a lot of steps to improve

badp

which I do not currently have the time to look into

Robotnik

didn't they buy Maxis

and then release the travesty of Sim City

two bugs

@badp Lots of companies do this, sadly

GnomeSlice

12:46 PM

imgur.com/gallery/gIolqiS

two bugs

@GnomeSlice Excellent

badp

@twobugs ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com

two bugs

Don't get me wrong, Sim * is one of my favorite meta-series and I'm still mad about that

badp

warning: that tumblr will give you existential dread and crippling depression

two bugs

I just don't think it's fair to blame a few companies for something lots of companies are doing

Robotnik

12:48 PM

@twobugs I loved SC3k

never really played 2000 or 4

two bugs

I prefer a lot of the mechanics of 4 but it has some weird shit too

GnomeSlice

Hey @SparksStreet, what's the deal with the T-Rex invasion this morning? #ottawa https://t.co/0nbW02N0QJ

Tweeted by CBCOttawa on June 14, 2016 at 2:12 PM

two bugs

Like... quests....

3k is great though. 2000 was my jam as a kid

I loved other stuff like Sim Tower, Sim Ant (wonderfully weird), Sim Farm...

Robotnik

@twobugs I never owned 2000 only played it at school/friends houses

Ooh I had Sim Theme Park

that was fun

GnomeSlice

@Robotnik best sim game

two bugs

12:49 PM

Cities: Skyline is apparently the only competent citybuilder made in the past decade

GnomeSlice

I have been unable to find a copy that runs on my current PC of Sim Theme Park

two bugs

I'd kill for a compatible version of Sim Tower

Robotnik

@GnomeSlice My disc got scratched to crap and I haven't played it in years

two bugs

I love that game

GnomeSlice

@twobugs Banished was pretty cool. Not exactly a city though

two bugs

12:51 PM

There was the cities XL series but that was by this tiny studio was that criminally underfunded and overambitious

So they released several XL games that didn't really work

@badp I can't, this is too much

I'm going to try and stream tonight, hopefully my modem will hold out until tomorrow

That's when my new one arrives from Amabong

badp

@twobugs speaking of I wanted to thank you all for this incredible journey, @badp will shut down at some point before the year 3000. At least that's everyone's hopes and dreams

Please consult a doctor if @badp lasts for longer than 1,011 years

GnomeSlice

Triple Town is best city builder

two bugs

SAVE the @badp

You tried to SAVE @badp... nothing happened.

Private Pansy

$ save badp
The program 'save' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install atfs

badp

sudo apt-get install libsouls

Tim Stone

1:03 PM

@PrivatePansy The American Tree Farm System?

badp

the rest you might have to compile from source

Private Pansy

@badp I don't think I have the repo for that. Do you have a ppa?

@TimStone Probably some sort of filesystem package

Tim Stone

Yeah, it's a versioning file system

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Can I stop notifications of Steam groups I have joined?

I am member of many groups because of the freebies I get from Gleam. I don't want any notifications or their feeds in my friend's activity while being the part of group. Is this possible ? If yes, How ?

steam

GnomeSlice

ca.ign.com/articles/2016/04/25/…

cc @StrixVaria

wait, maybe it wasn't you who wanted to know about this one

GnomeSlice

1:24 PM

also

We Happy Few Gameplay (E3 2016)

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Lazers 2.0

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Q: How do I /give myself a commandblock minecart that already has a command in it?

I want to /give myself a commandblock minecart that already has a command in it. I already tried using the {BlockEntityTag} in the /give command but that didn't work. /give @p minecraft:command_block_minecart 1 0 {BlockEntityData:{Command:/say hi}} Anyone know how to do this?

minecraft minecraft-commands

GnomeSlice

Undertale Remixed - Fallen Down (Holder Remix) - GameChops

►

two bugs

@badp What should I stream tonight? I'll let you influence my selection

Probably not Odin Sphere since I'm trying to stream that when @AshleyNunn can watch live

It's going to be interesting to see if Trump's reaction to the Orlando shooting hurts him because it was really bad. Completely off base on almost every aspect

This might finally be the thing that sticks

Lazers 2.0

1:40 PM

0

Q: List of chat Commands

When playing The Division I used the chat command /g to talk just to my group. Then every other message automatically went to group chat. What I could not figure out is how to return to global chat. So is there a list of chat commands I can reference?

@Unionhawk Adanac?

Even worse... Qanada

2

Q: How do you differentiate "soft" CC from "hard" CC?

This question is about the difference about what is generally called "soft" CC and what is referred to as "hard" CC. I can of course feel the difference to some extent : slows are soft and stuns are hard, obviously. However, I'm hesitating about silence, for exemple. I was wondering if there was ...

league-of-legends

ardaozkal

2:00 PM

@twobugs vi badp :wq

Lazers 2.0

1

Q: Can a skin alter the hitboxes on a hero?

Can different skins affect the hitboxes on heroes? For example, with Zenyatta, the Ifrit skin adds a headpiece. Is this now an area that can take damage? Can skins increase the effective headshot hitbox?

overwatch

two bugs

Man, I really want to play more Splatoon now

It's pretty indicative of Nintendo as a company. Bizarre and quirky, for better and worse

Sepia Lazers

0

Q: Why did we get 2 new mods?

RE: If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged election. Firstly, this isn't to complain or criticise the election process or question the worthy winners of t...

support election

two bugs

One thing that was fascinating is the game would figure out what your playstyle was (i.e. if you preferred to fight other players or focus on painting) and would match you up with similarly inclined folks

StrixVaria

@twobugs I wish Overwatch would figure out who plays sniper despite it being a terrible team comp choice and puts them all together so they can have snipefests while everyone else enjoys the game.

two bugs

2:12 PM

That would be a win/win!

What always bugs me is in huge scale shooters (like Battlefield or Planetside) when like half of each team is a sniper

So you walk out of cover at all? You're immediately dead

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria hmmm hellbanning

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn all fear the wrath of @modqozn

Wipqozn

@GodEmperorDune Yes.

Derpy

@twobugs Need Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the rock-climber more.

MadMAxJr

The event horizon is the point of no return around a black hole. The event wipqozn is when a statement reaches the point of no return from being the worst.

Derpy

2:28 PM

> "black holes ain't as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Things ~can get out of a black hole, both to the outside, and possibly, to another universe. So, if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out."

Kevin van der Velden

I wouldn't call being tossed out as virtual particles made real by quirks of quantum mechanics as getting out

MBraedley

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, you will never get out, even if some of your information does.

Kevin van der Velden

Well yes, for the quantum mechanics definition of information

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Why do I sometimes experience a delay despite a very low ping?

My latency is a consistent 20ms which is more than suitable for a responsive gaming experience and yet I regularly encounter unresponsive and laggy phenomena. Some examples include: Being hooked through a wall by Roadhog Dying from damage I avoided using Genji's Swift Strike or McCree's Combat...

overwatch

0

Q: Civ 5 won't load

So I got Civ 5 a while ago and it worked perfectly. But a few days ago when I tried to load it up it did everything fine until the loading screen where the game just turns off. I dunno why this is happening but it happened after I got an update for steam.

civilization-5

MBraedley

Mind you, you will never make it in to a black hole. You'll be dead long before you're reduced to your constituent molecules long before you're reduced to your constituent atoms.

Wipqozn

2:33 PM

I have 12 days of vacation left to take this year (so far). I've taken 2 weeks off around Christmas. I'll probably take the monster hunter launch off. WHEN ELSE TO BOOK.

Derpy

@MBraedley remember: all is determined from a slice of cake.

MadMAxJr

Hmm. So is there a quantum worst state?

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: Monitors best for all purpose

Samsung S24E510C or benQ EW2440L which one is a better monitor and why

monitor

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn tomorrow

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden Tomorrow is a lame day to take off. LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME.

Kevin van der Velden

2:45 PM

Well then you should definitely take it off, you lame guys should stick together

Wipqozn

Oh okay the vote is the 23rd.

I thought it was yesterday

well booked off the 15th for MHG.

cc @Yuuki @fredley @fredley @Frank

Man took me three tries to ping frank

GodEmperorDune

Man @modqozn is the worst

fredley

3:04 PM

@GodEmperorDune @Wipmodzn?

badp

The Patent Scam Intro

►

SaintWacko

@fredley @Wipqozmod

Does @Wipmodzn ping @Wipqozn?

GodEmperorDune

@SaintWacko @wip modzn does

fredley

@SaintWacko It should

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: CS:GO - Should i be getting higher fps?

I have been looking for fixes / information on this for the last couple of hours. My specs: processor AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 RAM 8.0 GB Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 (build 10586), 64-bit And my monitor is BenQ GL2450HM which is 60hz. ...

counter-strike-go framerate

GnomeSlice

3:17 PM

thenextweb.com/apps/2016/06/15/…

fredley

streetsblog.net/2014/06/13/…

GnomeSlice

cc @fredley

badp

in case that link was a tl;dw -- it's about the East Texas district and patent lawsuits. I guess the more novel thing is finding out that, often, the lawyer is the judge's actual son

GodEmperorDune

@badp i don't see how that would be a conflict of interest at all

fredley

@GnomeSlice Yesterday's news today with @GnomeSlice

GnomeSlice

3:29 PM

K

Unionhawk

Current status: heading from South Florida to Souther Florida

(non Americans: hundreds of miles from Orlando)

(which is like a lot of kilometers away)

badp

is it a lot of kilometers away from southest Florida?

what about southeastest Florida?

Unionhawk

It's about a hundred kilometers away from southestest Florida

MBraedley

I missed the SpaceX launch webcast today. Unfortunately, the first stage didn't land intact on the droneship.

@Unionhawk So you're headed to Miami?

Or Key Largo?

Unionhawk

Islamorada, about 70 miles north of key west

SaintWacko

3:43 PM

@Unionhawk I love the Keys

two bugs

Oh wow. Despite how important Pre-Kindergarten education is for children, teachers of that age group earn half as much as primary school teachers

That's fuct

Especially when you realize that teachers in general aren't paid well for how important their work is

murgatroid99

What makes you say that Pre-Kindergarten is so important? Where I lived, at least, it was the only year of school that wasn't mandatory by law

fredley

@twobugs Yeah this is news to me too

two bugs

@murgatroid99 Research. It's shown to have a big impact on learning and development.

murgatroid99

Well, maybe Kindergarten too, I'm not sure about that one

fredley

3:45 PM

What age is this?

murgatroid99

around 4, I think

two bugs

Here's the actual report, looking through it now

MBraedley

@Unionhawk You mean 70 miles east, right? 70 miles north, you'd need to be on a boat.

Unionhawk

@MBraedley 70 miles headed northbound on the overseas highway

So whatever, northeast

MBraedley

I will accept this explanation.

(Although inbound and outbound would be better terminology. That's how the highways and major roads are termed, both officially and unofficially, around Halifax.)

Unionhawk

3:51 PM

@MBraedley I believe it's referred to as north/south US 1

MBraedley

@Unionhawk Yeah, but that's because it runs from Miami to Key West, which is more north/south than east/west. The problem is that Key Largo to Key West is more east/west than north/south.

ardaozkal

meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/a/11700/87186 one last upvote needed

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