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12:16 AM
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Q: How to change Starbound character difficulty?

user1306322I made a character and the difficulty I selected doesn't suit me anymore. How do I change it?

 
@ash just fyi (i know you're not playing anymore) tinker island becomes much less frustrating after you unlock all the resource generation buildings. it's still very much a "organize things now and check back later" type of game though.
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune good to know, but I just got too frustrated :p
 
fair point, but thanks for introducing me to it anyway :D
 
user15026
Huh, the house beside me is for sale. 529k for a house that includes 2 apartments attached. Come live near me! Replace the screaming crazy neighbors!
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune no problem!
 
12:25 AM
@Ash oh those enviable canadian home prices... but then again, cold weather ... but then again, justin trudeau, ...
 
@Ash that would cost like 2.5 mil in california.
 
@Dragonrage easily
 
well, i guess that would depend a lot on the location and property size.
it could easily be twice that
california pricing for houses is ridiculous.
you can buy a mansion in Texas for the price you would buy a very small house here
 
yep, pretty much
the median home price in my city is between 700k and 800k
 
@GodEmperorDune for me it is roughly 300k.
but I also dont have the greatest neighborhoods here either.
san bernardino county is quite a bit cheaper than la county.
 
12:34 AM
oh yeah
 
where i work, the average price is closer to 600k, which is surprising considering the amount of money here.
where my brother works, the average price is 1.1 mil
 
i mean it's cheaper up in palmdale and lancaster but then i would have a horrendous commute so...
 
did someone say lifehacks
 
@Dragonrage ok
 
12:38 AM
@arda this was inb4d like a week ago
 
@GodEmperorDune ah dammit
 
@GodEmperorDune at least
@GodEmperorDune you could have a nice 1.5 h commute like me
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune it doesn't get that cold, we aren't Winnipeg!
 
@Dragonrage i had that at a previous place (Tujunga to fox hills)
it was horrible
also the 405 is a terrible freeway
 
every freeway is a terrible freeway when it is rush hour
but some are more terrible than others
 
12:48 AM
@Dragonrage nah my current freeway commute is glorious
against traffic both ways
 
must be nice
 
@Dragonrage so nice
 
@PrivatePansy I'm finally Notable!
 
@Ash according to google maps, it is super green there
 
i can make it from work to home without any traffic in 41 minutes.
 
12:56 AM
@Fluttershy Nice! I just need my last 5 for the 50/50 Moment
 
1:08 AM
@RedRiderX Oh you should have told me
I would have transfered one point to you
The first point is the hardest to obtain
 
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Q: No Mans's Sky galactic map details

OGCthuluHas anyone found out what the galactic map looks like in the final version? Is there a search function for stellar bodies, I.E. can I find a certain solar system and figure out how to fly to it, similar to Elite: Dangerous? Are there any parameters for stars that can be set to find only certain p...

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Q: Why doesnt my pokemon go display anything?

Joel Half HumanMy Pokemon Go doesn't display gyms, Pokemon, and pokestops. My phone is an iPhone 6s. Anyone know the solution?

 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune Hm?
 
@Ash your city
google maps has it all green and lush on satellite view
compared to beige california
 
user15026
1:30 AM
Ah, yeah, we're pretty green and stuff
 
user15026
We've gotten some good rain lately too
 
user15026
(although never when I am outside and ready to use my awesome umbrella)
 
1:46 AM
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Q: Pokemon Go App Says I need to update it. However, I can't since my phone's not compatible

CharI already installed the pokemon go app through the link posted on the asus zentalk page since my phone is not compatible. However, after logging in it says that I need to update the app to continue which in turns brings me back to the playstore app, stating that my phone is not compatible:(Is the...

 
@Lazers2.0 i installed the app in some weird way because it said it was not compatible, now the app says its not compatible...
 
@Lazers2.0 lol
 
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Q: Pokemon Go login difficulties

Ryan ErinAfter the recent Pokemon Go update I was logged out of my account. When I tried to sign in with my E-mail it said I had not created an account with the email given. After many attempts I was still unable to sign in. Is there any way I can possibly recover my password without my E-mail with perhap...

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Q: How do I easily move a complex structure?

NelsonI have assembled a rather complex structure in Fallout 4 but needs to move the entire thing. It consists of multiple parts. The hardest part is that once I move pieces of it and place them down, higher up pieces cannot be placed due to something else blocking it. How do I move large, complex s...

 
2:27 AM
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Q: My psp won't play psn psone games

mattI downloaded a few psone games to my psp but when I start it it goes to the setting menu were u change disc's and whatnot but X and O don't work I need help it's software 6.61

 
2:41 AM
wat
 
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Q: Issue with downloading nds4ios

icebuilder789I'm attempting to get Pokemon X with this emulator. I'm trying to download it from iOSEmus, however it stops just over halfway and tells me that it 'cannot be downloaded at this time.' Messing with the date and time does not work and I can't find a source on the internet that deals with this issu...

 
2:56 AM
Rufio doesn't really look any older, and that one guy looks like an older version of @Frank.
 
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Q: A Pokemon stop in my neighborhood

Sammy Michel ChapmanHello i want to ask you guys if you could make a Pokemon stop as my house because there is no Pokemon stops. In my neighborhood and i want to put one in it. So we have a place to go to get pokeyballs and eggs and everything. So no one has to waste gas to drive to a park or drive to places that ha...

 
user15026
@Fluttershy Some of their faces have changed so much, and some really haven't, it's kinda fascinating
 
@Lazers2.0 poor kid :( I'm happy to see that post got edited really quickly
 
That's going to remain in the edit history unless mod measures are taken, I believe. cc: @Ash
 
Yeah, need an admin or mod to nuke that
Hopefully before Google caches it
 
user15026
I've started the ball rolling to redact
 
I always mod flag those when I see them.
 
@RedRiderX Also remember that Notability is a pain in the ass to maintain. I mean, not as much as it used to be, but still pretty bad
You want to have at least one point of it, but otherwise don't go too high
 
user15026
There, it's done now :)
 
3:59 AM
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Q: How does the nearby tab work in Pokemon Go (after 2nd update)?

The Pickle TicklerWith the new Pokemon Go update (on 8/8/16), the nearby tab's functionality has been changed significantly. Rather than the old 'tracker' with footsteps, there is now a page that shows 'Sightings' and 'Nearby.' I found this question: How do Pokémon "Sightings" work?, which explains how sightings ...

 
4:16 AM
@Ash didn't know mods could do that, wow
 
user15026
@arda It doesn't come up often but yeah, we can redact things by our powers combined :D
 
5:07 AM
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Q: Created a valid room upstairs, don't know how an NPC can go back down after successfully going up

Jim JonesSo I created a few houses, some are upstairs that they're not on the ground. So I put wood platforms as stairs to let them go up. Soon a merchant moved. I can't seem to let it go upstairs to their room when night falls, but that's not the real problem, because after exploring a jungle, I went bac...

 
5:37 AM
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Q: How short or long can my trainer name be?

InsaneI'm trying to think of my new trainer name but I don't get any chance to check if the username is available before trying it. What I'm wondering is what the minimum and maximum characters are for your trainer name?

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Q: What is the limit to the number of KSP installations I can have on my account?

Ashwin GuptaSo, the title is pretty self explanatory, but I'll clarify just to be safe. I've recently purchased KSP and installed it on my desktop PC at home. However, I am going somewhere and I want to have access to the game on my laptop. Can I also download the game on my laptop? Will this mess up the dow...

 
@arda General reaction of "nothing happened, aside from the cat being scared"
 
6:17 AM
@Arperum earthquakes in california are just like "oh, that happened, w/e"
 
@Lazers2.0 This dude is really careful before changing his name... that's the third question in two days about it.
 
6:37 AM
@Arperum yeah
i kinda want to tell him to make an alternate account and go science it
 
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Q: Is the PC release going to use the same exploration data as PS4?

VermilinguaHas there been any official word as to whether PC players are going to see the worlds discovered and named by PS4 players? The early leak seemed to show that the servers were accessible pre-launch, does this indicate that both platforms share backend infrastructure?

 
@GodEmperorDune He's asking us to go make a second account and go science it.
 
@Arperum it seems people are happy to for a few rep
 
@GodEmperorDune His entire account has only posted related to pokemon go.
@Lazers2.0 The pc release is still speculation.
 
@Arperum maybe its the first game he played
 
7:26 AM
 
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Q: The challenge room is locked but I have full health

spugsleyThis question here: How do you open the barred doors in the Binding of Isaac? says I should be able to open these challenge doors with full health. But I've had multiple instances where the room is locked even when I have completely full health. In fact, check this out, I started the level with...

 
@Lazers2.0 zomg @spugsley!
 
@GodEmperorDune ALso double zomg for BoI playing!
 
7:46 AM
I don't want to claim an early victory but I think I've overcome this morning's hiccup
I forgot I'd checked in, and then someone came to check
Haven't had an hiccuping in the last minute
but it feels like it could come back at any minute
 
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Q: What should I upgrade next?

Bhaskar VashishthI am level 113 player and upgraded my TH to level 10. First troop I upgraded was witches from lvl 1 to lvl 2. They will be upgraded in a couple of days. Now I have 60k elixir saved up. My giants, archers, barb, loons are all level 6, wizards level 5, Ddragon lvl 4, pekka level 3 and baby dragon ...

 
8:10 AM
waiting 20 seconds before you can continue is the worst.
 
@Arperum downloading mods from the 90s?
@Wipqozn remind me next time to get games off G2A
 
@badp No, having an ajax call that takes ~400ms be required to run 50 times on pageload. and need to do other ajaxrelated stuff which gets queued by chrome.
 
@Arperum oh then at least I'm happy you have an idea of what's wrong
 
I do not think this is acceptable. So I will find a way to reduce the time until the ajax loop is done.
Other dev was like "oh, 20 seconds, that's not bad" "..."
NO A SITE THAT TAKES 20 SECS TO REACT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
 
8:27 AM
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Q: Does uncollected "training" vault dwellers over time still max out the S.P.E.C.I.A.L perk?

MrWittsEvery time when i dont collect them for long periods of time (say 2-3 days), i come back to find all my dwellers being maxed out on the SPECIAL stat they were training on. Now i open the game often, but every time i had to leave it for a few days i have noticed that this happens. Its possible t...

 
@Arperum you would be surprised
 
@badp :(
I tried to fix it by taking away the 50 request nature. (bundled it all into one) still takes 20 seconds. because the server has to do 50 calls to the API and apparently this is stupid slow.
I'm going to try to get that feature kicked out. SInce it seriously negatively impacts the user experience.
 
@Arperum 20 second loading times was roughly the average for that bank site thing I was working onto on my previous job
 
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Q: Minecraft name update

MCCCSDo you know the name update in Minecraft? Since when can't I register usernames shorter than 3 characters? I heard that, the date was ~2011, but I'm not sure whether it's true or not.

 
@badp This is a site where people filter items in a shop. and you have to wait 20 seconds before your filter works. That's not going to happen.
 
8:52 AM
@Arperum just put in funny loading messages, it's gonna be fiiiiiiiiiine
 
@badp I'm oading in the prices of the items, the rest of the page has been loaded in fine.
 
> Reticulating Splines
 
@Arperum wait how does fetching a price take that long
TO THE PROFILER
 
@badp I access API that goes to get the price at other API.
 
@Arperum let me guess, you have no control on other API
 
8:56 AM
@badp I have no control over either API.
 
Caching?
Slap a cache between the API and the client
 
the problem is, how do you invalidate the cache
"but I need the price to change 24 times a second"
 
I can request minor changes on API 1(until this afternoon, because then the creator of said api goes on holiday)
 
We are in API hell. An API is going away, so we need to push some code that doesn't use that API. Unfortunately, another API we depend on is borken, so we can't test our new code until that API comes back.
It's APIs all the way down
 
@fredley Isn't that what mocking is for?
 
8:57 AM
@PrivatePansy Big no. price has to be always gotten from API.
 
@PrivatePansy We mock, yes, but we can't get the build through integration until that API comes back
hand-sitting intensifies
 
@badp Basically. Because people are stupid. ANd you don't want to cache the different prices for 1M items for 20k users on your server apparently?
 
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Cache invalidation: how hard could it be?
 
@fredley Never underestimate stupid. All I have to do is build a website in front of an API that is used for a mobile app.
 
9:00 AM
The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy
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I even had to go explain caching at some point, because using it for stuff would be a good idea.
 
@fredley I... I may need to get that hung up somewhere
 
Everyone should follow @Pinboard, it's literally the best Twitter
 
@Arperum how do you... one million... twenty thousand... what.
How is this business in business
 
No little robot, there's a table there. You can't go through the table to get home
 
9:04 AM
@Arperum wait so how does the mobile app do it? do they only show like two prices on screen at any one time?
 
@badp One. on a product detail page, but I have to show it in the product overview, because screenspace available.
 
unless this is some sort of microbetting website fetching a price should never take 40ms
wait
ESPECIALLY if you're a microbetting website
 
@Pinboard web programmers should love the olympics, it's got everything: 1) loops 2) a/b testing 3) localization issues 4) shitloads of ads
 
@badp not 40, 400.
 
@Arperum what
oh oh I know! only show the price on hover!! that'll make for a fun game of find-a-mole
 
9:06 AM
400ms includes network?
Probably acceptable if it does, extremely bad if it does not
 
I'm also not convinced that using mongodb instead of some relational database is getting speed gains.
@PrivatePansy Yes.
 
@Arperum if you're using mongodb then congratulations! You're already using caching
 
@PrivatePansy how, what, no, it's still bonkers
 
Cause that's about what it's good for in anything that is meant to grow
(And by grow I mean in features)
 
keep in mind that he's going to be calling it ~50 times per pageview
 
9:08 AM
@KevinvanderVelden API 1 is using mongodb. I use API 1, API 1 ask API 2 for the actual price.
 
@PrivatePansy it's not going to keep responding in 400 ms
 
@badp 400ms round trip to an API from the client browser? Doesn't seem too bad
@badp Well... not when you put it that way
But the solution is to not use ~50 calls to the API
 
API 2 gets you one price in that amount of time
I understand API 1 gets you a negligible time penalty
 
Because most of the 400ms would come from the tubes, and unless you can convince your users to move to the datacenter it's not going to get much lower
 
@PrivatePansy No can do. rewriting API for getting multiple prices requires a db restructure or something insane?
because in a relational DB, that would be simple.
 
9:10 AM
he said that even if the 50 API 2 calls are done in the backend and the frontend makes a single API 1 query, it will still take approximately forever
 
Welp, sucks to be you
@badp It would not incur, as I imagine, the roundtrip latency of 50 HTTP calls
 
I am going to make sure this "feature" gets kicked though.
 
Browsers have limits on parallel HTTP calls to a single domain
 
@PrivatePansy Wellll. I have to access the API through json requests.
 
(They are made in parallel, right? Because running 50 HTTP calls in series is insane)
 
9:13 AM
@PrivatePansy currently series. going to see if I can parallel it. Insanity is a requirement for this project I think though.
 
@Arperum wat
 
@Arperum Yeah... that explains a lot
 
I am not well versed in async stuff. Trying to figure shit out now.
The API also requires you to be validated/logged in as a defense against ddos. I have no clue how that helps defend against ddos.
 
I have no idea how you're managing to make the calls in series tbqh
 
@Arperum what language?
 
9:14 AM
@fredley c#
 
oh, okay
 
@Arperum I have 0 c# knowledge
 
@badp await response of call, then call next.
 
I thought you were doing javascripty things
 
I'm doing a toy project in node.js
node is horrible, but promises are cool
 
9:16 AM
@Arperum sounds like you need to make some sort of mapping between products and futures, produce all of the futures first then await on all of them afterwards then
 
@badp javascript was paralleling them, but got snuffed by browser to not send shittons of requests at the same time.
 
@fredley Node 6.x can run most ES6 code natively
 
or whatever the abstraction du jour for parallelization is
 
Not a clue.
 
9:17 AM
I need to do 50 calls to API, and get all 50 results together in a single list.
that is all.
 
@fredley but now you can catche nodemans
 
isarray@1.0.0
 
@badp Yea, need to get all of them into the air at the same time. no clue on the how though.
 
@badp I do use nodémon
 
@fredley 1.9.0 kept insisting "NaN" is not a number
 
9:18 AM
from@0.1.3
 
@fredley I have the same horrified experience trying to setup a gulp asset pipeline
 
@Arperum worst case scenario make/reuse a thread pool
 
As someone who is used to installing Django and maybe 2-3 extensions, this is horrifying
I mean, at least bcrypt doesn't have dependencies
 
each thread does its synchronous fetch and list assignment
 
@fredley Django does have it's own internal dependencies
 
9:21 AM
but that's probably going to be a little bit messier than something that uses futures
 
@PrivatePansy True, but requirements.txt for a clean Django project is not more than a dozen lines long
 
what you really want is an async http library
 
@fredley JavaScript is the sort of language where if you really want to make sure a number is a number, using a library is probably a good idea
 
and it sounds like you already have one?
 
The big problem is the lack of a stdlib and polyfills. If JS comes with lodash and all the packages can drop node 4.x and below support, that list would probably be cut in half or more
 
9:23 AM
@fredley slightly related, what are you using for your django automated testing? the built in test case class or a different framework?
 
for thing in input:
   futures[thing] = api.getPrice(thing)
for (thing, future) in futures.values():
   price[thing] = await futures[thing]
 
@GodEmperorDune built ins
 
@fredley But requirements.txt only gives you one level of dependencies, no?
 
@fredley cool, i started with those but am slowly switching everything to pytest
 
The react boilerplate app that I tried out recently came with ~20 dependencies and ~30 dev dependencies
 
9:26 AM
I lied, the requirements.txt for django is literally just Django==1.10, that's it
@PrivatePansy Depends how you generate it
 
@fredley Well... yes
 
@PrivatePansy pip freeze produces only Django
 
@fredley Huh. That's interesting. It doesn't freeze the internal dependencies?
 
$ pip freeze --all
Django==1.10
pip==8.1.2
setuptools==25.1.6
wheel==0.29.0
@PrivatePansy only with --all
 
9:28 AM
@PrivatePansy nah, django carries copies of its own dependencies
 
@GodEmperorDune Ah, that's why
 
i mean i love pypi so i don't think i have any stuff with a one line requirements.txt
 
@GodEmperorDune static linking probably more sensible
 
@fredley same concept
ugh how did it get to be 2:30 already?
time to brexit
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@GodEmperorDune Except that npm has no code signing...
 
9:35 AM
@fredley are you using some weird django transpilation that runs on node?
 
@GodEmperorDune ...no
 
@badp Oh SNAP!
@GodEmperorDune Oh buuuuurrrrnnn
@GodEmperorDune lololol
 
oh man I'm up so late that @Wipqozn is awake
 
It's 6:30am here
ait you haven't gone to bed yet?
Don't you live in Freedomland?
If you were over in Euroland I could get you being awake
but Beaverland and Freedomland timezones aren't that different
 
WIPQOZN LIVES IN BEAVERLAND: DATA ACCEPTED
 
9:44 AM
@fredley It's a good thing
Also @fredley lives in Brexitland
 
9:55 AM
@Wipqozn How are you so happy that early in the morning?
 
@Arperum it helps that I go to bed at grandpa hours
 
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Q: Unable to log in with Google account to Pokemon Go despite numerous fixes suggested by this forum

Luke PhangI know this others have asked this question before but hear me out before marking this as a duplicate. I have trouble logging into Pokemon Go using my Google account on the 0.33 version of the game. The game was working fine the day before but after the update on Aug 10, when I started the game ...

 
10:14 AM
they're trying to send to somewhere in america for work :(
would rather not, I'm allergic to guns
and overzealous customs officers
 
"My flat smells of death and the photographer goes outside to have a panic attack"
 
> Sickened, I crank the handle and watch an air bubble inflate the tip of the pig middles, followed by a slow crawl of pink
I don't think I can ever eat sausages again
 
10:31 AM
Eh. I've helped sausages being made before.
I'm still alive and I still eat them.
 
10:47 AM
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Q: Please help with steam files

AlbaZXIf your friend has a game on steam is it possible to get the game from your friends steam files put it in your steam files so you can play it without it being a shortcut?

 
@PrivatePansy really you can transfer a point of notability?
Far out
 
Only to someone who doesn't have it
 
Ah well
 
11:03 AM
aaaaaaaaaargh
Someone is wrong on the internet and I cannot downvote them
That is the most stupid thing I have read today
 
If you don't want to read stupid things, don't read the internet
 
man, if nothing else, civ vi is serving as great proof that sexism is alive and well with how many mental gymnastics folks are willing to jump through to explain why every female leader is terrible choice and all these mle leaders (and maybe this one female leader) would have been better
 
Love the unintended juxtaposition
 
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Q: Increase font size on PS4 for No Man's Sky

Paul VerbeekIs there a way to increase the font-size? My TV is 32" my eyes aren't the best, so I have to sit really close to actually read most of the menus.

 
@PrivatePansy PC LOAD MALWARE
 
11:17 AM
The guy even continus to argue after folks including links pointing out the evidence for warrior woman, but stil herp derp nope that's dumb
 
I'm surprised this hasn't shown up on r/badhistory yet
 
18 mins ago, by fredley
If you don't want to read stupid things, don't read the internet
 
@fredley but I WANT to read stupid things :(
It makes me keep my faith in humanity low, so I'm not disappointed
 
@Wipqozn r/the donald?
 
@fredley oh man, they accidentally invited a clinton supporter for an AMA the other day
so much rage, so much drama
 
11:26 AM
@Lazers2.0 more games need text size options
 
@Wipqozn wat
 
GTA5 story mode was all but unplayable on my 32inch tv, couldn't read any of the hud or map
lack of adjustable text size always suprises me, I thought it would be pretty much required for accessibility
 
> Chinese traffic-straddling bus hits wall of criticism
The BBC headline writers are having a good day
 
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A: Any way to prevent monsters without light in Hexxit?

ViveggeneControl your anger so that you can prevent the monsters from growing. Monsters are always dwelling in our mind ,therefore if you will not control your anger the monsters can easily grow.

wat
 
11:41 AM
Bahahaha
"To avoid monsters, think happy thoughts"
 
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Q: playing parkour/adventure maps in co-op

user162195If I've downloaded and am playing a mc parkour/adventure map how can I get my friend to join the map and play with me

 
@PrivatePansy Haha
 

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