The Bridge

12:00 AM

-1

gantrylargescalablevariant is a part in a craft I downloaded, and I don't have the mod for it. Unfortunately, I don't know which mod does. Help?

Tim Stone

12:57 AM

[on phone to mum] Mum: how's Australia? Me: there's a dingo eating a shark and two snakes are rooting on the beach Mum: *laughs and scolds me for speaking in an uncouth manner Me: *sends SMS Mum: WTF?!?!

Tweeted by MaverickBistro on April 25, 2018 at 12:07 PM

Memor-X

@TimStone and as an Australian i can't say WTF.....because that does not at all surprise me

Tim Stone

:P

Frank

1:55 AM

I just saw a video of an idiot trying to run ten amps through a pencil.

Memor-X

@Frank i just had the mental image of the pencil exploding into splinters in said person's face

Frank

@Memor-X Nah, that doesn't do it.

It does, however, start smoking, and then catch on fire.

Memor-X

@Frank and burns the person in question?

Frank

@Memor-X Not really. Looks kinda cool, though; the flames are shooting out of the ends, so it looks like a rocket.

Lazers 2.0

2:45 AM

0

Q: What are the outcomes from loan sharks interactions?

In the Battletech, during the shakedown screen you can choose between Sweet talk Ignore Be hostile Afraid of doing something stupid, I opted to Sweet talk the bank, what resulted in the following outcome: In my estimation that is good because I "gained" the Loan Status : Fair The thing i...

battletech

Lazers 2.0

3:33 AM

0

Q: What if there is only one demon alter in my world?

What if i only find one demon alter in my terraria world, is there an easy way to find more or am i a screwd lazy person with just cobalt

terraria-mobile

Lazers 2.0

3:50 AM

-2

Q: I can talk tomorrow night and talk to you

Go do I get to the movies And I’ll be

grand-theft-auto-5

Lazers 2.0

4:08 AM

1

Q: Level designer responsible for q3dm17

I'd like to know the author (or authors) of a Quake 3 FFA map called "The Longest Yard" (q3dm17).

quake-3

Yuuki

5:25 AM

🤔

Memor-X

@Yuuki a cute chimera, that's a first

Yuuki

@Memor-X Yeah, trying to find cuties in chimera pictures is a pretty good example of barking up the wrong tree.

You'd have to be pretty dogged in your pursuit to come across one.

Nzall

7:32 AM

our coffee machine has problems

MBraedley

8:15 AM

Guys guys guys! I'm on a plane!

Ave

nice

MBraedley

...You haven't clued in on the meme, have you?

Ave

nice is my generic meme reply so

Nzall

8:29 AM

And the problems are fixed. Apparently it started a decalcination cycle and was waiting for someone to do something

Kevin van der Velden

9:16 AM

@MBraedley get in the damned plane already, what's wrong with people, getting on planes, sheesh

StrixVaria

11:54 AM

@KevinvanderVelden Prepositions are silly.

You go in a car, but on most other vehicles. Plane, train, boat, bike.

In German you use "mit" which is neither in nor on, but "with".

Prepositions are the bane of language learning in my experience.

Memor-X

Belgium Rules FIFA, Overwatch, & CSGO Must Remove Loot Boxes or Face Fines/Prison

►

MBraedley

Hey @KevinvanderVelden, I'm in another plane!

Kevin van der Velden

Good job!

Way better then being on a plane, too much wind

Ronan

Not as cool though

MBraedley

But now I'm covered with jet fuel, and it's entirely more uncomfortable.

Kevin van der Velden

12:06 PM

You're in the wrong bit of the plane

StrixVaria

Why do I feel the need to keep explaining even though I know you're being facetious?

MBraedley

Hey, I just said to the gate agents I'd rather be in the plane instead of on it and this is where they put me.

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria because duty calls?

StrixVaria

Yes that's probably it.

Frank

"But there are seven billion people in the world! I can't possibly stop to consider how ALL of them might interpret something!" "Ah, yes, there's no middle ground between 'taking personal responsibility for the thoughts and feelings of every single person on Earth' and 'covering your eyes and ears and yelling logically correct statements into the void.' That's a very insightful point and not at all inane."

Unionhawk

12:10 PM

i'M X-POSTING THAT ON CAPS LOCK

MBraedley

@StrixVaria my best guess for the etymology is that you "get on board"

Unionhawk

but also "on a plane" is common terminology so

suck it... prescriptivists? Is that what this is?

MBraedley

And now I have to go

Unionhawk

words

Fluttershy

12:22 PM

@StrixVaria @MadScientist So, I started over anyway, because I'm stubborn. I'm already caught up to where I was, but now I have an extra two skills for Atreus that I didn't have before, thanks to the xp that I missed before. And I have an Idunn apple that I didn't have before. So that's pretty cool.

StrixVaria

@Fluttershy There have been a few of those chests where I found 2/3 of the runes and spent 10 minutes looking and couldn't find the last.

That is probably the most frustrating part of the game so far for me.

I didn't get to play last night at all because the BOS/TOR game 7 was really good.

I should get some in tonight because the game that's on at a time I can be awake is between two teams I hate.

Mad Scientist

@StrixVaria there was one chest where I looked for a guide, and one where it looked like the timing is too frustrating and I skipped it. I didn't have much issue with all the other chests, but yeah, that one where I simply couldn't find the last rune was seriously frustrating

StrixVaria

Thinking about those chests more, I actually really don't like the design behind them.

They are presented as optional diversions with good rewards, but the reward of increasing your max health is so valuable that you are seriously hampering yourself later on by not getting them.

Mad Scientist

@Fluttershy One thing I only noticed later is that in some fights you can just hide behind your shield the entire time, instead of trying to parry with proper timing. That should work for the early revenant fights

StrixVaria

So if you start thinking of them as mandatory so you can have enough health late game, now they're busywork time sinks.

Anyway the combat is super fun and I hope only having 1 health upgrade is sufficient later on.

Mad Scientist

12:34 PM

The later health upgrades give smaller increases, at least it looked that way to me

StrixVaria

One thing I really like is that if you do die in a fight, when you respawn at the checkpoint you have full health instead of however much you had last time.

I also get a very vague sense that the fights might be made easier in some fashion if you fail enough times in a row, but that could also just be me improving as I learn the fight.

Mad Scientist

I think it's just you improving.

Nzall

@Jutschge I just canceled my WoW sub. Gonna take a break for a month or 2

I still got beta if I want to play

Arperum

@StrixVaria so you can be like "take that!" whenever someone scores, the only minor point is that in the end the winner is stupid.

StrixVaria

12:50 PM

@Arperum I just want it to be a long, brutal, tiring series so whoever wins loses in the next round.

Unionhawk

1:01 PM

Tweeted by maoexe on April 23, 2018 at 9:51 PM

Lazers 2.0

1:15 PM

0

Q: Mafia - Mouse not working on windows 10

I am trying to play the original Mafia game, and have an issue where the mouse does not move at all in-game. I am using the version of the game I have on steam which is listed as Mafia 2002. The behaviour is such that when I first open the game the mouse cursor shows in the top-left but will no...

technical-issues windows-10 mouse mafia-1

Arperum

2:02 PM

@StrixVaria That works too.

Jutschge

@Nzall oh ok :(

user15026

@StrixVaria bike is on because it has no in, otherwise it seems to be a solo (ish) vs mass transit distinction

user15026

(boats I am guessing are an on because many of them have no in)

Unionhawk

"I'm in a plane" just sounds incorrect

words are all made up anyway

StrixVaria

@Ash This makes sense. I would use "in" for rowboat or canoe, but "on" for a bigger ship.

user15026

2:11 PM

@StrixVaria yeah, that makes sense.

ToxicFrog

@Ash chikkens confirmed for saturday :D

user15026

@Unionhawk okay I assume that you are being facetious and taking the most descriptivist take possible but yes, words are made up but there is a certain amount of agreement needed on meaning. The problem with prescriptivist thinking is that they assume that agreement is immutable.

user15026

@ToxicFrog heck yes, I can't wait to see pics and eventually meet your chickens

Unionhawk

@Ash yes

ToxicFrog

@Ash yessssss

Apparently we're rendezvousing with the hatchery team in Arthur on saturday to collect them.

Unionhawk

2:19 PM

incidentally, ELL has a thing (I was hoping for ELU but I'll take what I can get)

35

A: "In" and "on": How can I decide which one to use for vehicles?

The only way to be sure is to memorize. However, you can use guidelines to make the right choice 90% of the time or more. If there is no compartment involved, you get ON it. (bicycle, motorcycle, skateboard, etc.) (Note: partial compartments, such as those of convertible cars or open-topped b...

user15026

@ToxicFrog that's awesome

user15026

@Unionhawk "I was hoping for ELU" not sure why ELL is not as good?

Unionhawk

idk

ToxicFrog

I have no idea how we get them back. I assume either the hatchery brings them in a box, or we bring a large cardboard box to put them in. I don't think having loose chickens in the car would be wise.

StrixVaria

I'm still not sure why ELU and ELL both exist.

user15026

2:21 PM

@ToxicFrog I would think either they will have a box or they will expect you to have one. I know usually if my dad is buying chickens he takes a chicken cage

user15026

Mind you he is usually selling chickens so he has his with him anyhow but afaik the expectation is usually that you will have a chicken container (you will likely want one that has some sort of top for adult chickens, because they may try to escape)

Tim Stone

2:38 PM

Dire Straits-Sultans Of Swing Gayageum ver. by Luna

►

(from 2016, but new to me, and pretty awesome :o)

Nzall

Question: if you guys open stack overflow and click something on the right on the top menu that used to be a dropdown, does it still open as a dropdown?

For me it redirects to a new page

which is REALLY annoying

Tim Stone

It's broken

> Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'small' of undefined

lol

Arperum

@Ash "may" is quite the understatement.

Also: I'm still confused by the being required a license to own chickens.

Unionhawk

lol it falls back on just going to a full page version

that's amazing

ToxicFrog

@Ash yeah, these are 6wk and we were figuring a large cardboard box with air holes

quartata

2:45 PM

@Unionhawk it's gotta work on IE420

but yeah SE has always been really good about browser fallbacks

Nzall

it was reported really quickly though

Arperum

@ToxicFrog Do they still need a heat lamp when at home?

quartata

@Nzall Not really, it actually was broken about 2 days ago as far as I can remember

I just figured it was a hiccup in the left-nav rollout to everyone and shrugged it off

Nzall

It worked earlier today for me. Hell, I had pages open from an hour ago that still worked

quartata

...huh

maybe they

fixed it

then broke it again?

because I definitely remember hitting the rep inbox and having it redirect me yesterday

ToxicFrog

2:51 PM

@Arperum at 6 weeks they're fledged and can stay outside as long as it's not too cold

Arperum

@ToxicFrog I always forget the ages what is what.

user15026

@Arperum well yes

ToxicFrog

@Arperum rule of thumb for chicken thermals is 35° for the first week, then take off 3° a week. So at 6 weeks they're comfortable at 20°. It's not that warm outside yet, but having an enclosed coop to stay in helps.

(and actually two of them are 6wk and two of them are 10wk)

Actually I guess it's more like 8/10, math is hard

user15026

(I am terrible because extrapolating there means eventually chicken will be impervious to cold)

ToxicFrog

So yeah, the older birds will be a-ok in this weather and the younger ones will probably want to snuggle at night but should be fine otherwise

Nzall

2:58 PM

@quartata It's a rollout. you probably got the bug before me

quartata

@Nzall Possibly. I always had the left-nav though since I'm in an SO Team

so I do think it's something new-ish

(as an aside, kind of annoying that notifications from Channels don't show up in your inbox if you've got a shit browser)

Maximillian

Ah so the dropdown menus aren't just broken for me.

Whew.

I'm not crazy.

Nzall

it seems to be fixed now

6

A: Top Bar icons are misbehaving - dropdowns aren't functioning, instead linking to Stack Exchange

quartata

that was fast

yeah works for me

Nzall

Stack Overflow is usually pretty fast at fixing bugs, once they're reported that is

Ave

4:40 PM

discord drama is fun

ToxicFrog

"""fun"""

Ave

yeah, it's """""fun""""" at best

I'm at like

"do i trust this friend's proof or this friend's"

I'm not allowed to share too much data from one side, so all I can say is, "see DAMN report 666".

user15026

Drama is not fun

Yuuki

@Ash, what are Neggs (Neopets) for?

user15026

@Yuuki I have been trying to remember since I saw you mention it and I CANT

Ave

4:49 PM

@Ash I agree, I was using gun in a sarcastic way here.

Yuuki

@Ash It's bugging me a lot more than it should.

Ave

This had been going on for a couple days and had been extremely mentally taxing for me, mostly because one side is expecting me to help them.

user15026

I think they were like neopet food? And maybe some of them did stuff like gave your neopet better stats or whatever for the battle thing?

user15026

I don't remember exactly other than they were food

Yuuki

Yeah, I know some of the basic ones were food but I definitely remember some of them being special for some reason because they were expensive as heck.

I also remember getting a Negg from playing Neoquest? Maybe?

God, I played the heck out of Neoquest.

user15026

5:10 PM

@Yuuki Neopets wiki to the rescue: neopets.wikia.com/wiki/Negg

Lazers 2.0

5:28 PM

0

Q: Fortnite- how can I win a game

I try as hard as possible but I can't win. Plz tell me how to win. (Solos) And I've gotten into second place. I want that Victory Royale!!! On the Xbox.

fortnite-battle-royale xbox

Dragonrage

@Lazers2.0 git gud

Unionhawk

hmm bored

Maximillian

You don't have a thing that's due in 20 minutes?

Unionhawk

Unsurprisingly no

and none of my trello tasks can be done right now (because we don't use trello but I'm using it for OSRS stuff because I'm a weird person)

Maximillian

I'm looking at our sprint board and I see this ugly nesting chain of dependencies all the way up to one that says "Add three fields to table X"

So about.. Seven tasks are backed up until someone adds three fields to a table.

Unionhawk

5:36 PM

I'm looking at my backlog at a nesting chain of about 6 tasks ending up at "access to fairy rings" but all 6 of the things are hard quests

Dragonrage

i wish i had a list of things to do

Yuuki

You can sorta see baby eagle!

Dragonrage

well, technically I do have one. it has one item. rebuild this old vb6 application in c#

user15026

@Yuuki I see some fluff! :D

Yuuki

@Ash The parents were eating earlier and baby floof just sorta waddled around and stared at them.

Like, "pls to gibe food pls"

user15026

5:46 PM

@Yuuki eeeeeee

StrixVaria

@Yuuki That pile of half-eaten fish, man they must be really efficient hunters to stockpile that much.

That's impressive.

Unionhawk

Actually, now that I'm looking at it again it should be relatively soon that I can do the thing...

SaintWacko

Anyone found any good incrementals lately?

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko Idle Zoo Tycoon on Android.

It's one of those long-haul ones though.

SaintWacko

Looking for a web-based one

StrixVaria

5:52 PM

Haven't played a good web one recently :(

Yuuki

Arachnids aren't popular subjects for video games except as enemies.

Unionhawk

fucking, amazing

I tripped Symantec with completely benign code

Yuuki

Ooo, is momma (or daddy) eagle sleeping?

Unionhawk

apparently symantec does not like whatever Task.Run(() => Thread.Sleep(10000)) without an await builds to

do I get an achievement for tripping the antivirus with my own code

interestingly, it doesn't come back now that I renamed the solution from idk.sln to AsyncTesting.sln (and therefore it builds to AsyncTesting.exe now)

oh wait no it doesn't

Maximillian

Huh So that's how an eagle sleeps.

Next to a pile of corpses and children.

Eagles are pretty hardcore.

Pretty windy up there.

MBraedley

6:08 PM

I've been awake for 12 hours now

And I still have to put in 4 hours or so at the "office"

After yet another short flight

StrixVaria

I once went to work in NYC, left work to go to the airport, took a flight to Germany, then went straight from the airport to the office in Germany and attempted to work another full day from there.

It didn't work.

MBraedley

No, I don't see how that would

StrixVaria

The hotel room wasn't going to be ready until 3PM so I had to kill time elsewhere anyway.

As soon as I got into the hotel room though I took a nap until dinner.

MBraedley

I did get a bit of a nap on the last flight, though.

Frank

@StrixVaria Only one I can recommend is Idle Champions.

Not web-based. But its been keeping me going.

Lazers 2.0

6:18 PM

-4

Q: Is there any real strategy/sim iOS game?

I mean, there is a lot of strategy and simulation games for iOS. But, if you know a little bit about game design, you know that most of those games has little strategy involved. Most of the time, you are not making any decisions. You are just making obvious choices because you want to build the X...

ios mobile

Yuuki

@StrixVaria I think I just need one more day or so and I'll be back to my regular sleeping schedule.

Note to anyone taking intercontinental vacations: do not come back in the middle of the week.

Or if you do, definitely do not go to work the day after you get back.

ToxicFrog

@Maximillian there's a live owl cam locally and it's basically the same

Maximillian

This eagle is making me want to take a nap.

ToxicFrog

@Bedtime adult owl, three baby owls, giant pile of corpses and body parts

"Is that some shed feathers? Oh wait, no, that's the back half of a squirrel."

Maximillian

Office chat. "I wonder what eagles dream about?" "Probably murder."

Yuuki

6:33 PM

Is it murder if it's a fish?

Maximillian

Eagle is awake!

Fluttershy

@Yuuki I will be forever grateful to my military service for giving me the unnatural ability to almost immediately reset my sleep schedule. lol

Maximillian

6:49 PM

Night time for eagle.

Lazers 2.0

7:43 PM

0

Q: Minecraft 1.12 - Automatic crops farm Pressure plate issues

I built an automatic potatoes farm but the potato block that is supposed to be popping out on stone pressure plate activate isnt popping out even thou the light level is 8 block 7 light. Here is a screenshot of the debug menu, in 1.9 it used to work. I've made sure the light is below 9, I tr...

minecraft

Ave

agh

2 hours until ubuntu 18.04 deadline, yet still no release

Yuuki

ohgodits3pmwhatthef--k

Yuuki

8:38 PM

one hour and twenty minutes, I can do this.

Wipqozn

Speaking of, tempted to go some last minute tickets to go see avengers

Dragonrage

ive been getting 3+ spam calls a day on my cell e.e

Yuuki

9:06 PM

I'm sorely tempted to take a short 15-20 minute nap in my car after work before driving home.

Ave

heyyy

18.04 is out releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso

Kevin van der Velden

Maybe you shouldn't link directly to the 1.8gigs iso =p

Yuuki

Okay, I think I'm hitting my second wind.

Ave

@KevinvanderVelden problem is

it's not officially released

it's still being synced to the mirrors

and server build isn't even uploaded yet

that link works, but you need to use that link specifically

not even torrent is authorized on their tracker yet

correction, just got authorized

Maximillian

Anything super duper awesome in this releasE?

Ave

9:15 PM

faster boot, minimal install, more bugs.

like, "I'm not moving my tiny dedi to this" level of buggy

at least it was on the daily build 3-4 days ago

let's see how much upload I get overnight

oh god this is going to take up my whole gigabit connection won't it

it is already doing that use.elixi.re/i/hww.png

Lazers 2.0

9:42 PM

-1

Q: Where is the second power core?

I know where the ultraweave armor is, and I know that one of the power cores is in the beginning, but where is the other one?

horizon-zero-dawn

Memor-X

10:40 PM

ha! take that Flat Earthers!

Lazers 2.0

10:55 PM

0

Q: Can i summon this mob in 1.12.2?

/summon Slime ~0 ~0 ~0 {Invulnerable:0,Size:2,CustomName:Spikes,CustomNameVisible:0,Attributes:[{Name:generic.attackDamage,Base:30.0},],ActiveEffects:[{Ambient:1,Amplifier:1,Duration:999999999,Id:},],Riding:{id:Skeleton,Invulnerable:0,CustomName:Dinnerbone,CustomNameVisible:0,ActiveEffects:[{Ambi...

minecraft minecraft-commands

0

Q: Reload Time in World of Tanks?

So I noticed a long time ago in World of Tanks when I look at any gun specifications, for Aiming time It gives me a value (Lets say 2.7), and then once I go in battle, the reload time says 5.1 (Near the aiming circle)! My point is, there is no indication while looking at gun specifications wher...

world-of-tanks

user15026

@Memor-X I have no idea what this is trying to convey

Memor-X

@Ash it's an anime meme in which Earth is an anime girl, neither flat or round in the traditional sense

user15026

@Memor-X ... Alright then

Lazers 2.0

11:12 PM

0

Q: What is the max level for every building at town hall 10

I want to know what level every building can be at town hall 10?

ps4

GnomeSlice

11:53 PM

Hedonic Treadmill: "More educated people require better circumstances to be equally satisfied." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167487017302210

Tweeted by DegenRolf on April 26, 2018 at 6:31 AM

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