The Bridge

nice name lmao

@GnomeSlice I'm playing through on Novice and I don't know if I'll bother ever changing difficulty.

I like time trials much more than racing against AI who can randomly ruin your lap by smashing into you or shooting you with a missile.

I mean it is satisfying to pass the AI, but this game supports ghosts so I can be satisfied by racing my own ghost instead.

It adjusts time trial goal times too

But doesn't seem to affect gameplay

@GnomeSlice I'm hoping there's a more friendly UI for doing time trials than having to navigate a hex grid and remember both which of the 8 hex grids has the level you want to time trial and which specific hex it is.

Jutschge

Has there been a recent debate about whether ITG questions should be banned completely? (wasn't active for about a year or so)

1:14 PM

@Jutschge No.

@Beedrill I swear we were talking about it being banned completely the last time it came up

@Beedrill racebox

but the human memory is fickle so I might be wrong

Racebox lets you see all time trials

Q: What is an audiovisual artifact?

We have this question:

12

There's been a debate going on over whether or not this question should be closed: https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/123362/can-someone-identify-this-game-music-please The controversy is stemming from confusion over what an audiovisual artifact actually is, so I decided to make this me...

discussion site-policies identify-this-game

1:15 PM

Also looks like scores shown there also include campaign scores

Q: "Here is a thing. Look at the thing. Do you see the thing? I would like to know what this Thing is Called." A plea for sanity

And this one was the origin of the exception to banning all ITG:

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identify-this-game was a Bad Tag. It was applied to Bad Questions. It is gone forever, and I could not be happier. But it appears, that we have been throwing some babies out with our admittedly filthy bathwater. So, before I move on, I want to talk for a second about why identify-this-game is b...

discussion allowed-questions identify-this-game

For anyone who wants to look through history.

@GnomeSlice Nice, will have to check that out after a cursory completion of all campaigns.

I need to come up with some better lines for some levels; I can't figure out how to not smash into the wall on some of the tighter turns, especially ones that are back and forth like a quick right followed by a quick left.

Theres a map where the first turn gets me like every time

I can do the rest perfect but not the first turn

Q: Should we make an exception to the "Identify This Game" ban if the question explicitly states the series or franchise the game is from?

1

There has been some discussion in chat about allowing "identify this game" questions if the asker can narrow the game down to being part of a specific franchise or series. This discussion is prompted by the following question: Castlevania game title Start of discussion in The Bridge: https://c...

discussion allowed-questions

This is what I was thinking of when I said "our last conversation"

@Beedrill none of the "friends" section of the time trial scores show you, they're all just me

It only shows one name though

Jutschge

I mean ITG questions are either off topic/VLQ or completely overhyped and overvoted. The tag is simply a mess.

1:22 PM

@GnomeSlice My scores haven't been uploading because I suspended the PS4 and resumed playing without exiting to the main menu and reestablishing a connection.

I think the ragdoll is the best part of this shrine shortcut.

They didn't stick the landing

1 hour ago, by BlueBarren

@BlueBarren You beat me to it

@MBraedley I'm used to beating reposts

wait what?

violence implied

When did you stop beating your ~~wife~~ reposts?

1:29 PM

... stop?

I don't follow

It's a leading question, which you're not allowed to use in court, and which you're not supposed to use in journalism or politics.

TheGreatDuck

@Beedrill So I'm presuming that we were just expected to ignore the other mod then, even though they were clearly trying to continue the conversation?

@TheGreatDuck Drop it.

That is what we're supposed to do.

TheGreatDuck

already left dude

@Beedrill oh I see

1:32 PM

A lot of other games would prompt me to reestablish connection but I'm not too concerned; I'll be racing all the tracks again at some point if my interest persists that long.

And if it doesn't then I don't care that my scores aren't on the leaderboard :P

Boo

@MBraedley ...

Proof that, now more than ever, Americans need affordable health care, because of the Trump presidency.

I just hit Super Zen on Anulpha Pass @Beedrill

Barely. I died like right as it switched

@GnomeSlice Sick, I haven't even made it to Zen.

I don't know the map names yet though.

1:49 PM

Well my day is ruined

Almost 50 people waiting at Union Pub, D.C. bar offering free drinks for each Trump tweet during Comey hearing. https://t.co/NIcf0iFTzV

Tweeted by lauraolson on June 8, 2017 at 1:27 PM

I hope ambulances are on scene

@HazyKingdom I don't understand the excitement behind that game

ToxicFrog

@TimStone yeah I was about to say, that's gonna kill people

Frank

@TimStone That's...going to end up in bar bankruptcy.

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

@BlueBarren It's a really unique series. Basically you're just a run of the mill guy. you should try Shenmue I but I don't even know if it's available on newer consoles. I played both on the dreamcast. Buried a couple hundred hours in the game.

1:52 PM

1

careers

Proposed Q&A site for those who want to know what they should have or what they should learn to get to a position they want

Currently in definition.

@HazyKingdom You're not selling this series very well

@HazyKingdom that is some horrible news

not because I particularly care about the series

but because the reasoning screams "development hell"

I wouldn't expect the game to be out by then, either

"Too massive of a project"

"Too much pressure to deliver"

@BlueBarren I'm terrible with describing games. From the Wiki - _Shenmue[a] is an open-world action-adventure video game developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for the Dreamcast on December 29, 1999 in Japan and late 2000 in other territories. Directed, written and produced by Yu Suzuki, it is the first game in the Shenmue series, which Suzuki plans to span at least four games.

Shenmue consists of open world 3D environments interspersed with brawler battles and quick time events. The game's detail was considered unprecedented at the time, including a day-and-night system, variable we…

They were doing quick time events before quick time events were a thing.

@badp Tell me about it, the way they put it I have a feeling we're seeing a cancellation.

397 pages of unanswered questions

1:55 PM

Comey's view https://t.co/Pc0Q16Wfz9

Tweeted by kyledcheney on June 8, 2017 at 12:08 PM

this is terrifying

WATCH LIVE: James Comey testifies about Russian interference in U.S. election

Reminder, this starts soon:

it's going to be such a huge disappointment

I can feel it

@badp Which one, Shenmue or Comey?

@HazyKingdom Probably both

@badp Let us all hope that this leads to Trump having a heart attack out of rage.

2:02 PM

Preet got a good seat https://t.co/9fb5xZIQI1

Tweeted by BraddJaffy on June 8, 2017 at 2:01 PM

Hah

I wish Twitter users would upload with imgur

it's a video

@BlueBarren Why?

@Nzall Twitter is blocked at work

and imgur isn't

video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DBzdVONXcAAkIj7.mp4

That's the video directly

does that load?

2:04 PM

twing is also blocked for me

thought as much, not much use blocking only half of Twitter

most video platforms are

Watch live: Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before Congress

Another option for watching the hearing

That chat

uh oh , here we go.

2:05 PM

the thing is happening now

So many covfefe's flying around

> Chat is disabled for this live stream

Apparently TWITCH is streaming this too.

@badp not on the one mbreadley linked just now

For me at least

@MadMAxJr this is huge, it's important

and I'm not even American

2:11 PM

The PBS chat is disabled, not the Vox

Darn.... Is there a feed with captions? (Doubtful...)

Q: How do I pick a fight with the CEO of Square Enix?

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In the promotional material and surrounding articles for the 3C3C1D119440927 DLC, I saw a few things mention that I'd be able to fight the CEO of Square Enix as a boss. However, having beaten all of the arena trials, I still don't know how to challenge him. Unlike the arenas, I was not given a q...

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As a distraction:

Star Wars-themed Billy Bass with Admiral Ackbar's head shouts "It's a trap" http://boingboing.net/2017/06/08/king-yos-kolina.html https://t.co/SKdZswWvUW

Tweeted by BoingBoing on June 8, 2017 at 2:05 PM

Coco - Official US Trailer

DanmakuGrazer

@Lazers2.0 Retrosaur 2.0

2:18 PM

lol

> this is not a witchhunt, this is not fake news

^

this made me lol too, especially the straight shooter comment

@TimStone has anything happened yet

Mad Scientist

Comey called some Trump statements lies, as far as I can figure out, but I can't watch it right now, just going by comments

Can this guy stop whispering?

I've made my sound 4 times louder and I still can barely hear him

Comey said that Trump did not ask him to stop investigation into Russia. he now says that he does not know Trump's motives when asking him to stop investigating Flynn

2:30 PM

What is the point of this if he's going to say "I can't answer that in an open setting" to any interesting question?

Didn't he plead for an open testimony?

@Beedrill Because after this, there will be a closed setting where he CAN expand on those questions

At least, that's what I understood from the chairman's intro

@Nzall I understand that, but why bother having an open one at all?

@Beedrill because the person asking the question is hoping he can answer it in a public setting

although you'd assume they would already be briefed on what can and can't be asked in a public setting

but you can't always anticipate someone else's answers.

And also a bit of showmanning, i.e. showing that this is a thing they want to know to the general public

2:33 PM

@Beedrill it's now public information that some information is not public!!!

Even if they can't give the answer to the general public

@Beedrill It's a difficult challenge. On one hand, he asked for an open testimony because the people deserve the truth, on the other, he obviously can't answer some questions in that setting because the answers would endanger national security

@Nzall Trump is a danger to national security and yet he still holds the highest office in the US

lololololol

Lol "I was honestly concerned he would later lie about the contents of the conversation"... damn

2:39 PM

@BlueBarren The difference is that Trump, as the president of the USA, has very wide authority with regards to making secret information public. Comey, as a unemployed civilian, does not have that authority

@Nzall And yet I trust Comey more than I trust Trump

@BlueBarren it's not about how much you trust either party, it's about how much authority the law gives to each party

Be sure to read that, because the Sun is trying to throw the Election

@Nzall the President is supposed to represent the American people, if you don't trust him I don't see how he can do that

Rupert Murdoch and the public schoolboys who write the Sun hate the real Britain of tolerance and kindness… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/872761707206193154

Tweeted by paulmasonnews on June 8, 2017 at 10:26 AM

@Unionhawk The UK is weird simply because going to "public school" is a sign that you are part of the rich elite.

2:44 PM

@Nzall I hope this is a bad attempt at a joke

Whenever Comey says "that's not something I can answer in an open session," I'm just going to pretend he said "The pee tape is very real."

Tweeted by ParkerMolloy on June 8, 2017 at 2:30 PM in reply to ParkerMolloy

@Yuuki I like that dutch wikipedia's entry for public school starts with "A public school is a private school in england"

To highlight the weirdness that is ~~@fredley~~ uuh britain

@Yuuki that makes zero sense unless public schools cost money in the UK and private ones are free

(Well paid vs free directly out of one's pocket, I have some concept on how taxes work)

> A public school in England and Wales is an older, student selective, fee-paying independent secondary school which caters primarily for children aged between 11 or 13 and 18. The term "public" should not be misunderstood to mean that these are public sector schools: they are in fact private sector.

> Public schools emerged from charity schools established to educate poor scholars, the term "public" being used to indicate that access to them was not restricted on the basis of religion, occupation, or home location, and that they were subject to public management or control, in contrast to private schools which were run for the personal profit of the proprietors.

Public schools in the US sense are called "state schools" in the UK.

2:52 PM

Is "free school" a different thing?

The Twitch version should have health bars above everyones head.

Comey on relationship with POTUS:
Our relationship didn't get off to a great start

Comey hearing in a nutshell

Comey: He's guilty Democrats: He's guilty Trump: I'm guilty Republicans: We may never get to the bottom of this

Tweeted by longwall26 on June 7, 2017 at 9:59 PM

@Unionhawk huh, from what I'm gathering with this hearing that's not what's happening

All I'm getting is, "yes the Russians were involved with the election"

Specifically "do you think the Russia investigation played a role in your firing" "ya the president said so himself on TV"

3:04 PM

I'm following sarah jeong for my coverage btw

🤷🏻‍♀️

@sarahjeong, Portland, OR

contributing editor @Motherboard. law and technology and stuff. sarah@sarahjeong. net | Signal: 626-592-5024 | PGP: https://t.co/VFHtzPsGIK

99.8k tweets, 47.2k followers, following 1.3k users

Who will incidentally have an airport cases newsletter with cats in it next time

Q: Are 2B's and 9S's default swords the same?

3:19 PM

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When playing through the game as 2B and 9S, you start with their default weapon. 2B starts with the Virtuous Contract, and 9S starts with the Cruel Oath. Other than having different descriptions and appearance, both swords seem to be identical. They have had the same stats each time I have upgrad...

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Obstruction of justice Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US House of Representatives https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=784477444&oldid=781746147

Tweeted by congressedits on June 8, 2017 at 3:01 PM

lmfao

ugh

she's asking old questions

oh no

I have thought something was from the wrong prequel

Reddit is onto me

Or maybe it's not wrong

I'm crossing my fingers it isn't (I didn't actually check)

Well, wish I could see the rest of this hearing, but I've got to go.

3:38 PM

I'm just watching the reddit live-feed.

@BlueBarren same

So far they're just verifying what he said and how he reacted to the president. And that he didn't like being left alone with him.

so did Trump get fired yet

No

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

@Unionhawk you told me this stuff was important

how could you

3:40 PM

@badp they locked up hillary

It's a little more important for those of us living under the stars and stripes right now. We'll let you know if we're going to do something about the big, bad, orange man.

@MadMAxJr there are stars at night here and chemtrails™ probably count as stripes

Pretend this is the worst questioning session in a Phoenix Wright game.

DanmakuGrazer

@MadMAxJr They're just pressing the same replies over and over

@MadMAxJr I'm still hoping for at least one OBJECTION!!!

3:43 PM

@Avery do politicians actually ever get arrested?

erdogan was arrested

for like 6 months before he got elected

Now they're asking if Comey suggested/proposed/instigated dinner. Did you call the president?? "I have not, but was instructed to call back." This is the worst 'How was your date last night?' conversation.

So a criminal got elected in Turkey?

'Senator Angus King'. Is he being questioned by the literal Burger King?

@MadMAxJr if he owns the chain or a cattle ranch then I want to say yes

3:47 PM

> Yaklaşık bir ay sonra, 27 Nisan günü tutuklandı ve bir hafta kadar Bayrampaşa Cezaevi'nde kaldıktan sonra 500 bin lira kefaletle serbest bırakıldı.[40] Mahkeme ise kendisini "hakime hakaret" suçundan altı ay hapis ve 20 bin lira para cezasına çarptırsa da, Türk Ceza Kanunu'nun 72. maddesi gereğince hapis cezası tecil edilerek 920 bin liralık para cezasına çevrildi.

(translating)

Uh. Translation?

I thought Trump said he was livetweeting this thing?

Well he doesn't tweet fake news.

He was originally arrested for 6 months but he paid the 920k Turkish Lira thingy and he was let go after being arrested for a week.

that's back in 1983

So he got out on bail, or Turkish equivalent.

3:49 PM

yup

btw, 920k TRY is a huge sum of money

$260,475 by current standards.

So roughly a quarter million.

Average income is ~2k turkish lira, mind you.

it was less back then

Madrid bans manspreading on public transport

I understand the issues with manspreading but it's also necessary

like I can't sit with my legs super close together

but I also understand past a certain extent I'm using up too much space

so I just be reasonable

but I have no idea how you police that

Q: Is it possible to get the Minecraft 2.0 April fools update on the 6th Minecraft launcher?

-1

I have been wanting to play the April fools Minecraft 2.0 version for a long time but, all the methods I have found on the internet only work on the previous Minecraft launchers. For example, one of the methods is to switch out your current minecraft.jar inside of your bin with a "minecraft2.jar"...

minecraft

4:06 PM

there are arrests about it apparently independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/…

@BlueBarren what about she-bagging?

You know, when people put their bags on the seat next to them

Also what about people who are just too fat or big to fit in one seat

I mean I try not to interfere with anybody else on the bus but arrests? Really? Maybe if the person is being like really obnoxious about it

Speaking as a person who uses a messenger/courier bag, "she-bagging" isn't a gender-specific thing. Although speaking as someone who has used public transportation, "manspreading" isn't gender-specific either.

Eurgh.

Lots of dutch people like doing both

@Yuuki if manspreading is, sure it can be

Although it's pretty much half and half for both from what I've seen on the bus

She-bagging is just the funniest way to say it

@Yuuki this

@GnomeSlice when I road the bus to school I would do this until someone needed to sit down

Or when I knew my friend was getting on the bus two stops down

4:11 PM

Yeah I do it too if the floor is wet or dirty or something

But not if my bag is also wet or dirty

And not if the bus is full

because one time I had a random lady sit beside me then my friend got on the bus and we were like "uh...."

@Yuuki this

Please use this responsibly. Pay attention to bind() calls.

@GnomeSlice yeah basically if the seat is needed I'll move my bad. I'm putting my bag on the seat to indicate I don't want random people sitting beside if there's room for them not to

because some people just don't care as much as I do and will sit anywhere

which they have the right to do I guess

I'll put my bag on the seat next to me when the train has left the station

4:14 PM

Yeah I mean it's public transport if somebody asked me for some reason to move it so they could sit beside me on an empty bus I probably would

@GnomeSlice wait on an empty bus?

I wouldn't

the bus is empty, sit somewhere else

Jason Berkan

Empty buses? What is this sorcery?

^

@JasonBerkan ride the bus at 11pm

Mostly empty

I honestly want to move to Toronto just for the subway system

4:18 PM

@GnomeSlice that's my brother's life now

he's lived in Toronto three times and is now going to be there for the long half

I sit on peoples bags, because lol

and he's an advocate for not owning a car

Buses at 11PM? wtf is this

@djsmiley2k no you dont

@djsmiley2k ._.

4:18 PM

@djsmiley2k I've done it too when I work late

Jason Berkan

@BlueBarren That's too late. I should be in bed.

@djsmiley2k I forget the exact schedule but the GRT in Kitchener has some pretty late schedules

@JasonBerkan I've only had to ride a late bus once

hmmm

if you travel on 11pm here, it's like yelling "stab me"

@Yuuki horseception

@Avery that's what my AR-15 is for

4:19 PM

I've only been scared I was gonna get hurt on the bus once

@BlueBarren wtf?

s/AR-15/Ability to punch you in the throat

@djsmiley2k good luck.

(No one has guns here really)

@Avery I've had people pull knives on me before

@GnomeSlice what you don't just have an AR-15 lying around that you normally carry on your person?

it didn't end well for them.

@Avery but if they were bigger than me

1. they wouldn't need a knife

2. it wouldn't end well for me

4:20 PM

open carry is illegal. non-pistol and non-hunt rifle is illegal.

or else I'd have a ton of AR15s

It's that, or the time that someone stopped me while I had the hatchett in my back pocket because was helping a friend with a tree that night

;D

I did a Crocodile dundee

I'm also joking

'Call that a knife?'

@BlueBarren I know

as a docile Canadian I don't have any guns and I don't think I'm allowed to

but I've never felt crazy in danger in my neighbourhood

4:22 PM

Also a skateboard acts as a nice weapon in self defence

so going out at 11pm is fine

2

brb moving to colorado

brb moving to california

or canada

@Avery y tho

TIL: All places that allow cannabis starts with C, because all places are only what I can just think of ATM and your opinion doesn't matter and fake news

@GnomeSlice I'm actually against firearms

4:27 PM

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

4

I was hearing yesterday that someone wants to decriminalize marijuana like super soon before the legalization in 2018

@Yuuki hue

which I think is smart

why punish someone for something you're going to change the rules on

just because the process takes time

@BlueBarren Because you thought the KKK was fantastic up until you found out that they smoked pot.

so did the comey hearings start? is trump impeached yet?

@Yuuki hue

4:29 PM

@Yuuki o_o

@GodEmperorDune yes, no

@BlueBarren Welcome to our current US Attorney General.

@Avery "CThe Netherlands", seems legit

ugh some people I swear

they just don't get it, you know?

@Avery so... Why would you have a big pile of them

Because he lives in turkey, where armed insurrection against an unfair government is an actual thing that happens and not just some nuts feverdream

4:32 PM

@Yuuki <h1>what.</h1>

This is what I've learned about IT support:

> My sole motivating factor for upward movement job-and-skill wise is that the farther up the ladder I go, and the more technically-inclined my job becomes, the more distance I will put between me and any end-users.

Tritonal - Wild Kind ft. Varpu [Lyric Video]

Daily reminder until I get tired of this

So uplifting!

This is why I can not, will not, and do not do support work

@Yuuki <marquee>what</marquee>

@KevinvanderVelden yup!

@KevinvanderVelden [it's not he]

@Avery uuh crap sorry

I'm usually good with that =p

4:37 PM

On my way to check out my new store

Wait

Did I forget to tell you guys I got a full time position

@GnomeSlice \o/

New store but about as close to home

All old people apparently

@GnomeSlice Not when I was around \o/ grats

don't worry it's just the 8th time this is happening this week

Still bakery too

@KevinvanderVelden Thanks!

4:40 PM

@GnomeSlice \o/

Q: Why are a lot of my edits being rejected?

@Yuuki wow, just wow. Great read though

Sepia Lazers

1

Recently a lot of my edits have been rejected by the same user, all of these edits were correcting basic English, such correcting "cus" to "becasue", or "dose" to "does". Is there a policy against allowing minor grammatical changes to a post (which I doubt given how my posts have been edited for ...

support suggested-edits

> correcting "cus" to "becasue",

Chat, should I order greek food y/n?

^C

4:47 PM

@KevinvanderVelden I dunno, do you like Greek food?

Yes

y

if you're asking should I? You want the answer to be yes

@KevinvanderVelden no

Testimony over.

So apparently John McCain went on some insanity?

5:01 PM

@Unionhawk One of my friends who I never discuss politics with messaged me saying "what the fuck is up with John McCain?"

I didn't see it first-hand though.

@Unionhawk was he the one doing the "But what about her emaaaiiils"

If so I saw it first hand but I don't know names

Damn, this IS all old people

@GnomeSlice That's not a nice thing to say about John McCain

Meanwhile Kurt Eichenwald (explore the actual thread at your own risk)

Q: Create custom items in plugin

0

is it possible to make a new custom item in a plugin so that in-hand 3D models and textures don't interfere with vanilla Minecraft items?

minecraft minecraft-spigot

0

Q: Can a hidden tesla stay hidden for the entire battle?

This has been always a very big mystery to not only me. When I attack, hidden teslas always spring up when I get close. I haven't ever noticed any other ways of it revealing itself. BUT: What happens when a player destroys the whole base and doesn't get near a hidden tesla for the whole attack?...

clash-of-clans

@Unionhawk ugh tentai

5:15 PM

@Unionhawk Oh, this provides some well-needed context for another tweet, ahahahahaha

@TimStone this is way better than "that one time joshtpm accidentally a porn link and just fuckin left it there"

I need more context

he apparently posted a screenshot with a tab containing that

Q: Which machines can I use to fight with in the Underground Colosseum?

0

In the Underground Colosseum you can participate in as 9S, you are forced to use machines you've remote controlled in the past to fight in the trials as. Naturally, I had the Short Stubby (plus a variant or two), as well as versions of the Short, Medium, and Goliath Bipeds and the Small Flier. H...

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oh, this is the context (racist imagery)