The Bridge

djsmiley2k

17:04

wait, yesssss

I'm a 'Prominent member of the bridge'

YESSSSS \o/

Wipqozn

@Sterno lolol

Sharing that one with the office

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice hue

GnomeSlice

Bored of Brexit?

►

Man, I love Pie

badp

17:22

I'm not bored of Brexit, it's just that I'm giving @fredley a break before March

djsmiley2k

what happens in march?

that's how little notice i'm taking XD

badp

@djsmiley2k actually probably nothing.

djsmiley2k

lol

what are the news papers saying will happen in march?

BlueBarren

@djsmiley2k the Switch is released obviously

djsmiley2k

@BlueBarren I think even less people careabout that XD

BlueBarren

17:24

@djsmiley2k you're just about ruining dreams, aren't you?

GnomeSlice

Pie needs to get his own show

djsmiley2k

yah, sry

Jason Berkan

@djsmiley2k The snow should melt.

djsmiley2k

already has :(

BlueBarren

@JasonBerkan it's melted already for me

Yuuki

17:26

What's "snow"?

Jason Berkan

Then y'all are going to have to find something else cool that happens in March.

djsmiley2k

holy crap

once the world gets ... weird enough

I just realised why ice ages are self sustaining

BlueBarren

think about this, I'm in Canada, it's January, there's no snow

djsmiley2k

I've never been, is there normaly snow?

Jason Berkan

Depends. Canada's a big place.

BlueBarren

17:28

supposed to be

djsmiley2k

so anyway

once it's cold enough

water vapor stops... happening

evaporation stops happening

the air is 100% dry

clouds don't form

the earth gets colder

Yuuki

@djsmiley2k Evaporation doesn't stop happening even at freezing temperatures, IIRC.

It's just very, very slow.

djsmiley2k

it doesn't rain in the arctic

or snow

Yuuki

Evaporation != precipitation.

djsmiley2k

yes sure

Sterno

17:30

@Wipqozn What's wrong with you?

djsmiley2k

but one helps the other

Sterno

Or are you trolling them like I'm trolling The Bridge?

BlueBarren

@Sterno he doesn't like bacon

djsmiley2k

@Sterno orly?

Yuuki

Also if there's no humidity in the air (or no clouds), I imagine direct sunlight might be more powerful with clouds to disperse it.

djsmiley2k

17:30

more 'powerful' ?

if the land is white, the sunlight (and so the heat) is largely reflected back into space

Yuuki

Sorry, "powerfuller".

djsmiley2k

clouds cause it to defract all over the place

lol no

i mean what do you mean by more powerful ?

Yuuki

"Powerfullerest"?

djsmiley2k

staap

Yuuki

Powerfullerester?

At some point, replace "fuller" with "buckyball".

djsmiley2k

17:35

;)

BlueBarren

Powerfullesterfulerest

djsmiley2k

buckminsterpowerfullerbuckyball

Yuuki

spaceshipbuckminsterpowerfullerbuckyballearth

BlueBarren

pineapple pen

badp

/cc @fredley

SaintWacko

17:46

Ugh. Is there any way to keep a css text-shadow from applying to text which has been hidden due to overflow?

Yuuki

Congress plans to roll back parts of the Endangered Species Act.

> Republicans complain that fewer than 70 have recovered and had protections lifted.

I get the concept of "if it's not working, fix it", but this is like taking someone off life support because they haven't gotten better. Which is also an understandable decision, but that particular decision depends on the existence of a DNR order, not outside fiat.

arda

@GnomeSlice @GodEmperorDune soundcloud.com/gravitas-recordings/sets/…

Unionhawk

@Yuuki "if it's inhibiting logging or mining, get rid of it"

In this case

And the general "business interests >> environment" sentiment of the party

Wipqozn

18:19

@Sterno well clearly I hate my coworkers

badp

@Yuuki we "only" saved less some 60-odd species in 44 years

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Stop Camera Rotation During Wild Battle

When attempting to find shiny variations of Pokemon, using the new "Call for Help" feature, I often find that within seconds the camera starts to jump around in what I can only describe as an "action camera" style mode with various close-ups, moving shots, different angles of what is going on. ...

pokemon-sm

badp

SAD! if you really cared about them you'd chuck them into a Trump Zoo

the bars are gold and the floor is moquette

elephants love it

Yuuki

MadMAxJr

Trump Zoo only has the most wealthy animals.

Yuuki

18:24

Gotta look on the bright side, @Uni.

Unionhawk

YEAH ON THE BRIGHT SIDE WE ELECTED DONALD TRUMP

#MAGA #SAD #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I need a "this is why I hide behind sarcasm" westworld gif

cc @GodEmperorDune

(I may have answered "Elsie" in my developer survey "which fictional character most correctly portrays what it's like to be a developer")

Arperum

@Yuuki goddammit.

Unionhawk

The environment is a myth

It's just an excuse used by #liberals to try to tell us not to burn everything to the ground

When clearly the correct business decision is to burn everything

Because America is cancelled

I don't know where I'm going with this

badp

crviewer.com/targets/150708/150708.htm

@Unionhawk when you don't know where you're going there's one way to know

keep going

Unionhawk

Oh, nevermind, America was cancelled in 1986

Sad

GodEmperorDune

18:38

@Unionhawk can confirm, every dev I know behaves like Elsie

Unionhawk

That was a dumb joke @Uni

badp

so what are the latest, newest and most exciting ways in which Europe was actually the Enemy all along?

I'm really fascinated

Yuuki

@badp Well, they currently oppose Russia.

Unionhawk

@badp The pound went up after the PM announced "full brexit no staying in the EU free market thing" so obviously Europe was the problem all along

badp

what with our "borders" and stuff.

Yuuki

18:40

And since Russia is and has always been our bestest friend, we're now at war with Europe.

Unionhawk

Has the US even declared war in the last 40 years?

Like, officially?

badp

terrorism comes to mind

does that count?

Unionhawk

I don't know

I was under the impression that was always just "the president told the military to do a thing" without congress formally declaring it

We declared War on Drugs in the 80s I guess

But I guess if I'm counting that War on Terrorism should count

But then again can you really declare war on an idea?

Ronan

Fond farewell to the greatest Vine of all time: https://vine.co/v/eTu9JOJ1AM0

Tweeted by doougle on January 17, 2017 at 6:19 AM

Unionhawk

I need to up my caffeine tolerance good lord

Yuuki

18:44

@Ronan Is this something I need sound for?

Ronan

@Yuuki Yeah.

Unionhawk

@Yuuki yes

badp

@Yuuki yea.

Unionhawk

transcript: [gamecube startup sound] - SHIT

Yuuki

Ah, mute button was in top-left corner while volume control was in bottom-right.

No wonder Vine is closing, jesus f--k.

GodEmperorDune

18:47

RIP dog dancing to africa by toto

Unionhawk

Vine will be deeply missed. This was by far my favorite one. 14/10 https://vine.co/v/ea0OwvPTx9l

Tweeted by dog_rates on October 27, 2016 at 10:53 PM

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Stuck at some level in think-different android game

I really need help at this level because its really hard to me

think-different

0

Q: Reward for killing fire salamander at the bottom of the forest of fallen giants

This is my first playthrough of Dark Souls 2 so I decided to ask it here and avoid looking on wiki to avoid any spoilers. After reaching the bottom of cardinal tower, there are two caves. In one of them is fire salamander which casts fireballs at us and a fire sword to get from the chest. I b...

dark-souls-2

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk i believe the iraq/afghanistan wars had congressional authorization

Yuuki

Dog dances to Africa

►

GodEmperorDune

but i am too lazy to research so

Unionhawk

18:49

same tbh

MadMAxJr

Is today Vine shutoff day?

Unionhawk

Yes

Most of the good ones are rehosted on youtube

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki sadly its not as good without the automatic repeat

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune youtuberepeat.com

Although it tends to get weird after a few hours.

Unionhawk

listenonrepeat.googleit

Yuuki

18:51

@Unionhawk youtuberepeat redirects to listenonrepeat.com

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki it would be great if it threw an "endless redirect" browser error

or is that too meta?

Unionhawk

3meta, I think

approximately

You can also go to stackoverflow.com/admin.php for a random 10 hour if you're looking for endless entertainment

(and a few other paths, feature added by Nick Craver for great justice)

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

1

English Proficiency Tests

Proposed Q&A site for students, teachers and Academics of English language that want to master, practice and learn about English proficiency tests.

Currently in definition.

Yuuki

> Doctor: "I'm sorry, you only have 10 hours to live..."
Me:*rushes home, opens laptop*
Search Bar: 'Gandalf Sax guy 10 Hours'

arda

19:17

GUYSSS AHAHHAHHAHAHA

TURKEY JUST RELEASED THEIR OWN SEARCH ENGINE

IT USES GOOGLE API

geliyoo.com/js/app.js

badp

@arda is it just google api

or is it... enriched

that javascript file isn't loading

arda

and they're claiming they worked on it for 10 years

badp

I mean, remember the european search engine effort

arda

and they got 10 million turkish liras investment

Jason Berkan

@arda Which is like $50 USD, right?

badp

19:20

Quaero

Quaero (Latin for I seek) was a European research and development program with the goal of developing multimedia and multilingual indexing and management tools for professional and general public applications (such as search engines). The European Commission approved the aid granted by France on 11 March 2008. This program was supported by the OSEO. It was a French project with the participation of several German partners. The consortium was led by Thomson SA. Other companies involved in the consortium were France Télécom, Exalead, Bertin Technologies, Jouve, Grass Valley GmbH, Vecsys, Vocapia...

arda

gist: geliyoo app.js, 2017-01-17 19:20:12Z

app.js

@JasonBerkan pls no tease

Jason Berkan

@arda :P

badp

@JasonBerkan or £900,000,000,000,000?

Unionhawk

@JasonBerkan Little more now, the dollar is too strong according to PEOTUS

arda

It's 2.65m usd

badp

19:21

@Unionhawk too strong respective to wh--- wait, according to the peotus. That makes sense.

arda

Used to be around 3.3m usd last month

yay economy

Jason Berkan

@Unionhawk That's fine with me. If he wants to weaken the USD versus CAD, I'm good.

arda

and 5m last year

crying intensifies

Unionhawk

So literally worse than the GBP

as far as relative performance over last year

badp

clearly you should buy dollars now while the going is good

arda

19:23

@badp I'm broke already, and parents aren't really into change

Jason Berkan

@badp Always good advice. Historically, when economies have melted down, those owning foreign currency made out like bandits.

badp

indeed the USD lost a bunch of value today

Unionhawk

yup

yaaaaaaaaaaay

we're deaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

I mean this is fiiiiiiiiiiiiine

badp

@Unionhawk you're just a little bit broker than yesterday

Unionhawk

Yeah it could be worse

badp

19:27

Trump doesn't care. He's got properties everywhere.

He differentiated his risk.

See? IF ONLY YOU STARTED OFF WITH A COUPLE MILLION DOLLARS LIKE HE DID

Unionhawk

He's just smarter than me

badp

You didn't try hard enough

Unionhawk

Yup

It's 32 dimensional chess

badp

and the GBP actually did gain a little in value

Unionhawk

Yes

badp

19:30

they've now only burned a buck every 6

good on you @fredley

look at that, that's almost an euro every 9!

9 is a big number.

Also the biggest digit.

It doesn't get better than 9 in the decimal system.

arda

I just read something and holy hell, if this is true, this is smart as hell. Basically it says that google uses the heat generated by servers to generate electricity with thermoelectricity generators. That's... really smart.

murgatroid99

They probably get a few percentage points out of that, which adds up.

Yuuki

Now all we need is electroelectricity generators to generate power from all the power that the datacenter consumes.

murgatroid99

19:45

Why not just use magic electricity generators, which generate electricity from literally nothing and power everything forever?

Unionhawk

Because magic is expensive

Yuuki

Besides, witchcraft is probably illegal because of religious reasons or something.

Unionhawk

Plus we can't just put coal miners out of business by solving global energy problems with magic!

Lazers 2.0

-4

Q: Best program to record Minecraft at source quality 720p

Minecraft is not great in terms of performance optimization. FPS will always drop or cause lag spikes while walking due to constant chunk loading. After buying my first proper graphics card nVIDIA GTX 650 1GB I was shocked how smooth my gaming experience became. Some modern games get to 40-60 or...

minecraft recording fraps

Yuuki

@Unionhawk But we could also put those vile wind and solar energy producers out of business...

A true quandary, this is.

arda

19:57

geliyoo.com/#q=%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22xssisfun%22)

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Which Black Market decals come out of which crates?

There seems to be a lot of confusion around the rocket league community regarding which Black Market decals come out which crates. Crates 1, 2, 3, and 4. These are the Universal Black Market decals thus far. Biomass Heatwave Hexed Labyrinth Parallax Slipstream As far as I know, Biomass and...

rocket-league

fredley

@badp Due to News Diet 2017 I have no idea what's caused this, but I'm guessing I probably don't want to know?

Unionhawk

Half USD weakened, half PM talked about things, we think

half "investors do what they want shut up"

It's a 150% type situation

Dragonrage

So I started playing xcom again because of @Wipqozn

I've only lost 4 people total, and I think I'm getting close to the end. And 3 of them were rookies.

I have one sniper who has been on like all 25 missions and has like 89 kills

badp

20:16

@fredley Your guess is as good as mine

How is the diet going for you?

Wipqozn

Details on Long War 2 finally existing

@badp noooooooo your avatar

Unionhawk

status-norepro

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk It's only one size too

I blame @Chippies

He obviously infected me

Arperum

@Wipqozn Heh. You got the @Chippies infection.

MadMAxJr

:O LONG WAR 2?

Wipqozn

20:23

@Arperum It's terrible

@MadMAxJr Yup. Supposedly we'd be getting details weeks up until ti's release, so wouldn't be surprise if we saw a march or feb release.

more details here

MadMAxJr

yay a link that's not blocked.

Yuuki

> Rebels can die during retaliations and other missions, and even some can be Faceless in disguise.

Oh snap.

This adds another level to XCOM Bridge characters.

Wipqozn

Oh snap indeed

Yuuki

What if @badp turns out to be a squid monster?

What if I turn out to be a squid monster?

Wipqozn

I mean would any of us really be surprised if @badp was a squid monster?

Unionhawk

20:28

@Yuuki Then we probably should have seen that coming tbh

Yuuki

(I haven't played XCOM 2, are the Faceless squid monsters?)

Wipqozn

@Yuuki They're basically Clayface from Batman

MadMAxJr

I'm probably a faceless but I'll still keep fighting aliens. Because sectoids like BRAD seem to think labels on food in the UFO fridge are a recommendation, not a rule. I'm coming for you Brad.

Yuuki

Man, f--k Brad.

Unionhawk

Woo one of my kickstarter rewards scheduled for december 2016 is out for delivery

(damn you fidget cube get with it)

MadMAxJr

20:33

Hope they revamp SPARK units.

Unionhawk

To be fair, the update from this one said "We received the glassware on 12/22, and a lot of it was damaged upon arrival"

and Fidget Cube's excuse is probably "holy shit there's like 200,000 packages to send we're kind of drowning in packing peanuts here"

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How exactly does targeting work during the fight phases?

The card minigame used to resolve encounters in Thea is a bit confusing at first, at least partially due to the lack of clear instructions. I've got a pretty good grasp of it at this point, and the fight phase usually goes about as I expect, but sometimes I'm left wondering why one card attacked...

thea-the-awakening

Fluttershy

I don't understand why everyone is so mad about the Fidget Cube.

Wipqozn

Hoooly snap this is why people who can't use a computer shouldn't have any special privs on the herald site

Someone deleted our entire homepage menu

THANKS, GOOD JOB GG

Unionhawk

@Fluttershy Other than December reward backers are still waiting yeah

BlueBarren

20:39

@Wipqozn herald site?

Unionhawk

But it's only January and there were at least like 50,000 december backers

Wipqozn

I didn't even know people were upset about the fidget cube

Fluttershy

@Unionhawk That's... Not that bad. They've been transparent about the entire thing.

Unionhawk

Yeah

GnomeSlice

you can buy fidgety toys at like... the dollar store

get something to tide you over lol

Fluttershy

20:40

Maybe I just think it's dumb because of my track record with Kickstarter, but two weeks late is really nbd.

Unionhawk

Yeah it's fine

MadMAxJr

Are they fidgeting about the fidget cube?

GnomeSlice

Unionhawk

Like I said, both of my 2016 kickstarters were late, but one of them was panicking that the glassware they ordered to ship to backers that month came in broken

Fluttershy

I backed Star Citizen, Broken Age, Barkley 2, The Phoenix Project... I don't have a good track record with Kickstarter. But I'm perfectly happy with the fidget cube progress.

Unionhawk

20:41

and, like, that wasn't my primary investment reason on that project anyway

BlueBarren

I've only ever kickstarted Yooka Laylee and Bloodstained Ritual of the Night

Fluttershy

At least I didn't back Ouya, I suppose...

Yuuki

Oh yeah, I need to do something about Yooka Laylee and the Switch.

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy What was wrong with broken age?

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice It was broken.

... age.

BlueBarren

20:43

@Yuuki you backed for Wii U initially?

Yuuki

@BlueBarren Yeah.

BlueBarren

@Yuuki why not just back for PC? That's what I did

Yuuki

@BlueBarren Because I don't want to play it on PC.

BlueBarren

Of course

Yuuki

Also, Yooka Laylee is why I bought a Wii U. /s

Unionhawk

20:44

I think gaming projects tend to have more problems

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice Other than it being nearly two years late? Nothing. But a lot of people were suuuuuper mad about it.

SaintWacko

@Arperum and I are waiting on a supr late Kickstarter

Fluttershy

Personally, I enjoyed the documentary enough to not care to wait on the game.

Arperum

@SaintWacko YES

MadMAxJr

I backed Mighty No. 9. I'm sorry I helped make that a thing.

GnomeSlice

20:46

@Fluttershy Oh, right

Yuuki

Well, did any of you back "Dude eating a burrito"?

Unionhawk

No

djsmiley2k

@Unionhawk no it's, oooo these are fun, are we meant to be doing something?

GnomeSlice

I backed that ship sinkiing simulator on indiegogo that ended up being posted by some guy who had met the dev one without his knowledge and the dude was in school and had no plans to even work on it

Fluttershy

@Yuuki No. I also didn't back potato salad.

GnomeSlice

20:47

once

BlueBarren

@MadMAxJr I still haven't played that

MadMAxJr

Neither have I.

GnomeSlice

I backed Full Bore, Deadwood, Basement, and Innerspace. Distance too. And Drift Stage.

arda

can I ask something deep?

Fluttershy

And I didn't back that one where the guy said he burned everything and that capitalism was awful or whatever, either. So maybe my track record for Kickstarter is a wash at this point...

Arperum

20:48

@SaintWacko My girlfriend and I are assuming it will arrive by my birthday this year (end of march)

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy lolwhat

arda

What's better? Being liked as someone who you are not, or not being liked as yourself?

Yuuki

@arda I don't know too much about ocean floor biology, but go ahead.

djsmiley2k

@arda be yourself

being anyone else is like effort.

Unionhawk

BlueBarren

20:49

Do you guys remember the ant simulator kickstarter story?

GnomeSlice

@arda This is gonna sound shitty but being liked at all is really nice

djsmiley2k

Also, I don't give a crap what people think

GnomeSlice

I started making an effort to try and fit in better about a year and a half ago and i have never been happier

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice mashable.com/2014/03/06/kickstarter-comic-burns-books/…

@arda I'd rather someone hate me for who I am than like me for who I'm not.

I even had a bumper sticker to that effect when I was a sad emo nerd in high school. :P

Yuuki

Honestly, no matter what other people say, do what makes you feel comfortable. If being comfortable means pretending to be someone else and you're okay with that, then you do you.

3

GnomeSlice

20:51

@Fluttershy Jesus, lmao

Yuuki

Of course, the flip side is that if you start feeling uncomfortable or you don't like pretending to be someone else anymore, then you should stop doing that.

GnomeSlice

Yeah

Yuuki

Something something American Psycho.

djsmiley2k

@Yuuki yup, this.

I'm not sure you can even pretend to be someone else

GnomeSlice

Sure you can

djsmiley2k

20:53

the more i think about it

the more it doesn't seem true

GnomeSlice

Eventually that person becomes who you are though

djsmiley2k

because that pretending, is actually part of who you are?

Does that make sense?

GnomeSlice

especially if you're happier as that person

Yuuki

How Can Our Lies Be Real If Our Pretending Isn't Real?

djsmiley2k

yeah, exactly @GnomeSlice you can do it very short term i guess.

GnomeSlice

20:53

that's how I became confident tbh

arda

soundcloud.com/pegboardnerds/sets/nerds-by-nature-ep @GnomeSlice @GodEmperorDune

djsmiley2k

In my deepest darkest times, i'd pretend to be the party guy

and so i became the party guy

Yuuki

To distill it into something concise: "Be who you want to be."

2

Which is not the same as "Be yourself."

GnomeSlice

can't listen right now @arda but if it's from the new Album then yeeee

SaintWacko

kickstarter.com/projects/haynes/…

GnomeSlice

20:55

preordered that shit

@Yuuki Yes. this

@Yuuki important distinction

Unionhawk

I feel like we're getting into some "what is the definition of self :thinking:" now

GnomeSlice

nah dude

Yuuki

How Can We Be Real If The Next Zelda Game Is Going To Have Voice Acting? Like Seriously, Dude, That's Crazy.

GnomeSlice

if you aren't liked and you wanna be liked, either change who you are or change who you associate with

arda

(ignore that q, am going through mind phases again)

GnomeSlice

20:59

self improvement should be a goal for everyone

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