The Bridge

2:05 PM

when my coworker asked that very question and the answer was about a hour long

the unfortunate thing with perl is that there is quite a bit of weird shit you need to grock

and people are like "oh no let's solve the learning curve by writing more articles about basic shit"

which try and sugar coat or mislead you with sweet lies

and then when you need a straight answer you can't google for it.

Q: Steam - Block all communications

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For a short period of time, I need to make it so some of my friends can't see what games I'm playing on Steam. I've seen some threads about this "Block all communications" feature and while some say it only makes it so you don't receive messages you get from them, others say it also makes you app...

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in particular my coworker got confused by the fact that he used an iterator like my @row = $iterator->next(); and then he had to access the data like my $thing = $row[0][0]

because he was instead meant to write my $row = $iterator->next() and my $thing = $thing->[0] instead

and if I just tell you this you'd probably take it at face value and write the thing as I told you and you'd maybe even be happy, but he understandably needed to understand why both approaches worked and looked the same in the debugger but actually weren't blah blah blah

Hmm, my coworkers have an issue. Instead of doing for each database: read database.value1 and write it to database.value2 they went read $customer.value1 and write it to database.value2

That's almost but not quite the same

what's a class variable

SQL

Q: Are you able to use the Nintendo Switch pro controler when the console is undocked?

2:19 PM

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I would like to know if you are still able to use the Switch's pro controller even when the console is undocked? Also, how many controllers can be connected to the Switch, docked and undocked (or is there no difference)?

nintendo-switch

@Lazers2.0 I wonder if this person is looking for some easy rep or genuinely doesn't know...

Yes

I'm surprised he-of-many-names hasn't been spamming easily googleable questions

@BlueBarren I think that's an entirely reasonable question.

Incidentally the answer is yes

Which isn't to say that the answer isn't easy to find

Avery

2:26 PM

@Unionhawk even the trailer shows it

In the user's defense I know you can connect a pro controller in portable mode but I don't know how many off the top of my head. Probably 8?

For those that don't play chess: he's complaining about En Passant, which is a completely legal chess move

so maybe his other question is valid

Ronan

@Nzall In fairness, that person hasn't played chess since 1200.

2:30 PM

@Nzall I'm not familiar with the name "En Passant", what move is that?

@Lazers2.0 Ugh goddammit this is catching on fire

Ronan

@BlueBarren If a pawn double moves, then another pawn can capture it after it only moves once, before it can move again.

@Ronan this sentence is too complicated for me

welcome to my grade 2 reading level

En passant

En passant (from French: in passing) is a move in chess. It is a special pawn capture, that can only occur immediately after a pawn moves two ranks forward from its starting position and an enemy pawn could have captured it had the pawn moved only one square forward (the capturing pawn must be on its fifth rank prior to executing this maneuver). The opponent captures the just-moved pawn "as it passes" through the first square. The resulting position is the same as if the pawn had moved only one square forward and the enemy pawn had captured it normally. The en passant capture must be made at the...

@Unionhawk wow... crazy

my chess game has completely changed

I'll be taking this play into 4 player chess

2:33 PM

@BlueBarren if a pawns first move is to move 2 squares, and doing so puts it in the same row as the opponent pawn, then the opposing pawn can capture that pawn by moving you the square it skipped.

@Unionhawk much easier than me trying to explain

@Wipqozn now that's a description that makes sense

but the picture really helped

Gameplay footage of the new hero Orisa in Overwatch

She's got some good voice lines

Her ult callout (self) is great

@Sterno on mobile, but I assume Friday?

@Dragonrage I don't know if it's just the games I've watched but every one I've seen of SKT is that they play this conservative game up until the other team makes a mistake and then suddenly they close in and basically suffocate them until the end.

2:36 PM

@Wipqozn yes

Starts with kfv

I tried

There was an attempt

And it's fun to go against her as Rein in ptr

But really though she's pretty fun

Pretend chat reversed those two

@Sterno You can't fool me

You can wait for her shield to be destroyed, or walk at them through it, or wait for them to walk through it, and earthshatter their entire team

2:39 PM

@Wipqozn You probably tell kids that there's no Santa Claus, too. YOU RUIN EVERYTHING

@Sterno but is ruining a bad thing not a good thing?

@Unionhawk Wait, you as Rein like taking on an Orisa? No, you should die almost every time unless you have ult.

It is indeed not a good thing

@Unionhawk So no. Do you not own a WiiU, or just waiting on Switch version?

I'd like to get the hard numbers on Orisa's abilities

2:41 PM

@Sterno I'm gonna need a second opinion for that

@Wipqozn I don't own a working wii u

It crashes pretty consistently

Damn, she's 144 dps.

That's almost S76

But that reload time...

@MBraedley He's playing on PTR, which means everyone and their mother wants to play Orisa right now regardless of whether or not they're actually good at it.

DID ANYONE SAY 144 FPS

2:42 PM

@MBraedley With 200 rounds, you're not going to reload that often, I think.

@MBraedley I mean we had a game where we were informed by the enemy that their Orisa was raging

So me on Rein and @Yuuki on Tracer focused her down a couple times

She liked to turtle behind her barrier too much. I just Blinked in and ult'd her a few times.

Remember when nano'd soldier would wipe teams? Now you don't even need Ana to do it, and the rest of the team can help!

(I like her ult)

CEASE YOUR RESISTANCE

And that 15 second duration

craziness

2:44 PM

@Unionhawk Yes, Rein plus a DPS can ruin an Orisa's day, but Rein and Orisa 1v1 is very lopsided.

It's destructible, I think, because I've seen it on the killfeed.

It is, sure, but it's pretty hard to target when the entire enemy team is doing +50% damage to you

@Sterno Yeah I'm a monster. See, I need to wait until late afternoon to play zelda, so I want everyone to suffer.

Q: Is the Nintendo Switch region locked?

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Many Nintendo devices often come with regional locking, which means if you purchase a device in one country, you won't be able to play games from another (generally). Is the Nintendo Switch also region locked like many of its predecessors such as the Wii U and Wii?

nintendo-switch

@Yuuki Yes, and I think that more people will focus down on them when possible.

2:45 PM

@Wipqozn Let me know if they got around to make a new Zelda game that doesn't kind of suck

It's been getting 10/10s across the board

ugh it's not even 10am yet...

@Sterno Metacritic has it at 98% the last I checked.

and I have to be here until 4:30pm

Didn't it surpass Ocarina of Time as the most highly rated game like last night?

2:48 PM

I dunno

Possibly

On what metric?

I know it joins the 40/40 club with WW, OOT and a handful of others from the magazine that rates on a 40 point scale

It seems like it should get negative points for the cartridge tasting bad though

**whispers to exasperated IRS employee** do it https://twitter.com/arappeport/status/837448672791101440

Tweeted by elongreen on March 3, 2017 at 2:09 PM

@TimStone There's a good reason for that, BTW

lol

@TimStone all Switch games -1 review point for tasting bad

@TimStone DOOOOOOOOOOOOO ITTTTTTTTTTT

2:51 PM

I wonder what made them make that decision

@MBraedley I assume it's a bitterant to keep small peoples and pets from nomnomnoming it?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Have people been swallowing 3DS games or something?

@TimStone Pretty much.

2:52 PM

@TimStone Yes, exactly this.

@TimStone yeah, they literally denature their carts

> To avoid the possibility of accidental ingestion, keep the game card away from young children. A bittering agent (Denatonium Benzoate) has also been applied to the game card. This bittering agent is non-toxic.

theverge.com/2017/3/1/14778316/…

cc @Ash

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New nintendo consoles should have cartridges made out of candy

user15026

@Yuuki I don't know why i love this so much but I do

2:55 PM

lolololololol

@KevinvanderVelden kind of like that lego brick candy. Both functional and tasty

I have found it, the dumbest headline of the week

> Curt Schilling Backs Shiva Ayyadurai to Challenge Elizabeth Warren in 2018

> Breath of the Wild is, without question or debate, the hardest Zelda game of the last 20 years.

Good

I was so disappointed by that DS one that looked like the SNES Zelda but was almost impossible to die in

@Yuuki OMG I WANT A DOG LIKE THAT SO MUCH!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!

@Sterno do you mean DS or 3DS? Because I feel like you're referring to a Link Between Worlds

2:58 PM

@TimStone oh god

@BlueBarren I am. Which I see Metacritic gave a 91

So I don't really trust metacritic

The reviews I've read of the new one sound good though

@Sterno does metacritic actually rate games themselves? I thought they just calculate an average based off of everyone else's scores

I liked albw

@BlueBarren Yeah, they're like Reddit, they aggregate.

@Unionhawk I do too although I won't deny it is rather easy

even though I died 3 times...

3:00 PM

@Unionhawk "Guy who defrauded the state of Rhode Island out of $72.5 million backs guy who pretends he uniquely created email"

DON'T JUDGE ME

@BlueBarren Yes to the 2nd one

It was a more roundabout way of me saying I don't trust the masses

@Sterno So I don't see why you'd stop trusting Metacritic

oh there you go

Expectations vs. Reality

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you clarified that

3:01 PM

Or rather, I typically trust them for super low scores but not for high ones

likewise rotten tomatoes

@Yuuki NEW HERO IN OVERWATCH!?

Yeah, aggregators are good for finding out what to avoid. Not so much for finding out what to get.

@BlueBarren No.

Again, I don't trust review scores by magazines or individuals until the Fanboys have placed their reviews. I dare say that all those high reviews are from people who play every Zelda game released and wouldn't even dare give this one anything but a perfect score

It's not out on PTR or anything

3:02 PM

@KevinvanderVelden but it's been announced?

@BlueBarren </sarcasm>

@KevinvanderVelden oh so it is out on PTR

Yes

oh you dog you

Dragon*

3:03 PM

dog

I wish PTR would bring over my friends list from the main game

I bought a golden Orisa gun on PTR :P

@Sterno I wish it wouldn't have friends lists per region

I have to run 2 clients if I want to see my friendslist on battle.net

@KevinvanderVelden have you ever read Power Unlimited (Dutch gaming magazine)?

Yes, I think I still have a box full of old issues

SaintWacko

@Sterno Orisa is pretty cool

Her health feels really low, though

3:07 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Remember how Boris used to give like one or 2 "feelings-based reviews"?

SaintWacko

It's going to take a bit to get used to how to survive as her

@Nzall Vaguely? It's been a while since I stopped reading them

he actually got death threats when he dared to give Dead or Alive Extreme 2 a higher score than Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess because he didn't like the Zelda graphics

Aaah assholes, not just on the internet!

Note: he didn't review Zelda, someone else did and gave it a 98

3:08 PM

@SaintWacko I agree, but she's got her Fortify, plus with her DPS it has to be low

Then Boris went and gave DoAX2 a 99 because he thought the graphics were better

I think it's mostly that she's super easy to headshot

SaintWacko

@Sterno Exactly. She's more of an active tank rather than a passive tank

Still feels tougher than Winston :P

@Sterno *cries*

3:14 PM

Roadhog is still my favourite

and not just tanks

overall

Roadhog is practically DPS

With a heal

I love it when Roadhog is the only enemy tank. Free soldier ult charge

I should really play more Overwatch

Unionhawk#11375 Americas PC-US

3:20 PM

I really like Overwatch but I'm so insanely bad at shooters :(

@Jutschge Become a Mercy main

Or a Rein main

If you suck at aiming, play Symmetra.

Or Torb

Eeh I don't like Rein... At release I played the a lot of Zenyatta and Mercy tho. I usually have a somewhat supportive playstyle in most games.

Nah, Torb's Rivet Gun needs a bit of aiming.

3:24 PM

Alt-fire

I like Anya as a healer

Still needs more aiming than Symmetra.

Just spray hot molten goo everywhere

@BlueBarren You mean Ana?

is it just Ana?

3:25 PM

Yes.

I really don't play Overwatch

Rein is the best how dare you

@Unionhawk There's nothing wrong becoming a Rein main. Many teams will love you for it.

@Unionhawk I think you mean Roadhog

Also I'm super mad that I missed the Eidgenossin Mercy skin :(

3:27 PM

@Jutschge The chinese new year one? I got it, and like it more than the witch skin

@MBraedley No, the Summer Games one.

Because sometimes you accidentally get shit like this...

It was available during the Olympics AFAIK. I don't even know what I was playing back then but it wasn't enough overwatch...

Stream Highlights #35 - D.va Earnhardt

►

@Yuuki Didn't get that one. I got the Zarya one, and maybe the Tracer and/or Lucio one

3:29 PM

@Unionhawk Random pins are the best thing.

THE CHAMP

There was this one game when I kept getting blind pins on the same Reaper over and over again.

I got a card for charge kills.

And he yelled at me.

It's also fun to just go off and solo ult guys

Especially Mei

Having the opponent yell at you is always great

@Yuuki I have no idea what that means

3:36 PM

@KevinvanderVelden I was accused of hacking recently because I was getting ults as Mei at a rate of once every one or two minutes.

It felt good.

@MBraedley If you really were hacking, then you wouldn't have bothered with only once every one or 2 minutes, you'd just always have your ult bar. Otherwise, what's the point of hacking?

BTW, the way you do that is to do tonnes of self healing, harass the enemy when they're in groups, make clutch iceberg-icewall escapes, and then capitalize on the ult by killing at least 2 of them.

are the ratings in for Logan?

I heard it was good

I'm seeing it in ... uuh, 2 weeks? I think

All the movie theaters are super faraway from my apartment so idk if I'll go see it in theaters

It looks worth it though

3:45 PM

@Nzall The three or four cards that you can vote on at the end of a match.

Hmm, I may be going to amstelveen in 2 weeks

Delain \o/

Also aeverium support

@Yuuki like this one:

First try

Dutch people \o/

Or at least dutch speaking

4:07 PM

Trump exempts Keystone pipeline from "buy American" pledge: http://hill.cm/YsEZWSV https://t.co/zMTDpo2FuE

Tweeted by thehill on March 3, 2017 at 4:07 PM

Feb 3 at 2:58, by badp

@TimStone "Buy American... Unless it's oil, then buy Canadian."

Well, this is about the steel to produce the pipelines even

> Trump: Keystone, Dakota Access pipeline makers must buy US steel

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

:o

(non-source? source)

Q: Will having an engineer on board let me extract more fuel from an asteroid?

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Here's a simple question that I couldn't easily find an answer to: Will having a skilled engineer on board my asteroid resource harvester (equipped with a Convert-O-Tron 250 and a pair of Drill-O-Matic Mining Excavators) let me extract more total fuel from a given asteroid? Both of these pa...

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NOTHING MATTERS HAIL SATAN

Frank

@TimStone That looks like the sort of thing I'd build.

4:25 PM

Q: Is game ownership required to rate games on the Ouya store?

4:39 PM

-2

Ouya game store: https://www.ouya.tv/games/ If it is, the amount of ratings can be used to estimate sales numbers.

ouya

4:57 PM

@Wipqozn :(

GUESS WHAT TIME OF YEAR IT IS

@Unionhawk I KNOW WHAT TIME OF YEAR IT IS

@Unionhawk a few days before daylight savings starts?

@fredley OH YEAH WELL THEN WHAT TIME IS IT

THIS TIME OF YEAR

5:07 PM

Close

Oh wait, that's next weekend.

The correct answer is "fish sandwich time"

Ew.

wat

who puts fish in a sandwich

Lent

Lent (Latin: Quadragesima: Fortieth) is a solemn religious observance in the liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday. The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer through prayer, doing penance, repentance of sins, almsgiving, atonement, and self-denial. This event is observed in the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Methodist, and Roman Catholic Churches. Some Anabaptist and evangelical churches also observe the Lenten season. Its institutional purpose is heightened in the annual commemoration of Holy Week, marking...

5:07 PM

unless it's smoked salmon

Q: Does the Nintendo Switch not adjust to your TVs aspect ratio?

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Just bought my Nintendo Switch and when I tried docking it to the TV the, the image was much larger than the TV screen. When I tried adjusting it, I had to make the screen so small that there were two black bars on either end of the picture. I'm using a standard 16:9 HDTV and I would imagine tha...

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@Lazers2.0 Turn off picture zoom on your TV.

A common observance is to do no meat on Fridays in lent but fish doesn't count for some reason

Which actually comes from some in the early church having connections to Big Fishing

> Giraldus Cambrensis, in his Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, reports that "in Germany and the arctic regions," "great and religious persons," eat the tail of beavers as "fish" because of its superficial resemblance to "both the taste and colour of fish." The animal was very abundant in Wales at the time.[49]

Beaver tails also fish

5:12 PM

But it's common in the United States for Catholic churches to hold fish fry events as fundraising

Do No Meat

I don't know what I was trying to type there that SwiftKey fucked up that badly but eh

I imagine technically fried fish on a sandwich is an American thing

GodEmperorDune

@fredley wait, are you making lent great again?

@Yuuki most defintely a good dog, brent

Fish during Lent.

@Sterno Will do, but so far i t's getting fantastic praise. Looks like a cross between Skyrim and Zelda.

5:24 PM

IT'S LIKE DARK SOULS EXCEPT ZELDA

Dark Souls is the Zelda of Dark Souls games.

GodEmperorDune

i thought tasting zelda was the dark souls of playing zelda

I like how marketing these days is always "It's like <good game X> crossed with <good game y>"

It's mostly irrelevant because LOL at finding a Switch

This is just one game I'll have to not-play without buying it first

Besides, Horizon Zero Dawn is the Zelda of the PS4

Kojima attempts to explain the plot of Death Stranding.

GodEmperorDune

@Sterno platform exclusive titles are the worst

Chippies

5:36 PM

@Sterno I mean, you could not-play it on WiiU

I don't understand how Nintendo manages to sell the same accessories (controllers not being cross-platform) and same games (VC) with every generation of consoles and no one even bats an eye

@Yuuki you know the explanation is simple really... 7 days later ... and that's how Solid Snake stopped Liquid Ocelot and the patriots

Q: Ghost Recon Wildlands cd key

-3

Does someone know a store that is already sending out keys? I want to play at the weekend any hint would be appreciated ;)

steam

Chippies

@Lazers2.0 lol @ not a single comment/answer related to the actual question

murgatroid99

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Q: Gold-badge holders and moderators can now edit duplicate links

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FANCY

Ugh

> Incompatible version detected (version 17.4.1.1) You must now exit the system and get the latest client (version 17.4.0.0)

PLS

5:58 PM

Why is everyone breaking the inter/anets this week? shakes fist