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12:14 AM
What if all the time we wasted was the TV Tropes pages we visited along the way?
 
user15026
12:24 AM
Bridge, tell me the happiest thing you encountered today please
 
@Ash Hmm... I saw a puppy at Whole Foods?
 
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Q: How many Monoliths are in each system?

DpeifI interacted with a Monolith and accidentally chose the wrong option (not the option that helps you locate a Portal). Now I can't interact with it, and my navigation beacon isn't locating any more Monoliths. Is there another Monolith in this system I can locate and use to find the local Portal?...

 
user15026
Puppies are good!
 
user15026
@Yuuki hello there what do you have is it good is it for us hello can we have pets hello
 
12:42 AM
0
Q: How to keep ships after buying them

Normal guyI bought a ship and went to go sell stuff I farmed and when I came back the ship I bought was gone! I was really mad. (S rated ship)

 
1:38 AM
Well, that was stressful
Got sucked into a pvp group
And then killed enough that I became an assassin and was marked for death
 
user15026
O.o
 
user15026
That sounds stressful
 
It was
I am now going to play Stardew Valley to relax
 
 
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2:41 AM
ooo, new payday 2 game mode
this... looks cool
 
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Q: Execute command showing feedback

Ethan CoulthurstI run 1.12, trying to use the /execute command in a repeating command block however it spams my chat with feedback messages when it executes a command as another player. commandBlockOutput, sendCommandFeedback, and logAdminCommands are all set to false, and this still happens. Not sure why.

 
(Wave based hostage holding. At the end of each wave, you're presented a ransom offer, which you can either take, or survive another wave)
 
payday 2 always seems like it would be a good game to get into if it wasn't buggy as hell
 
lol
It was fun like 5 years ago
 
@Ash my daughter has listened to some System of a Down and will now spontaneously yell “you wanted to!” Then run away giggling
 
3:10 AM
Parents, talk to your kids about the importance of TLS
 
user15026
3:35 AM
@GodEmperorDune giggles that is fantastic
 
3:55 AM
@Ash however while the song is playing, she will say "i wanted to" after the song says "you wanted to"... i guess it makes sense to her
 
user15026
I am curious what her logic is there
 
@Ash like the song is talking to her and she is confirming it and switching the subject to first person?
 
user15026
That's what it feels like!
 
4:22 AM
here's an abridged version of the full list of food puns i turned in with my first draft of tonight's #TheGoodPlace episode
cc @ash @Wipqozn @Yuuki
(@ash i highly recommend the linguine manuel-miranda)
 
user15026
4:57 AM
These are fantastic, especially that linguine.
 
its so much i'm kinda overloaded right now
A baby jaguar's first swimming lesson Happy #BlackCatAppreciationDay from @MayaTheJaguar! #BigCatsAboutTheHouse https://t.co/5w4irYqGYO
more cute things cc @ash
 
user15026
I didn't realize swimming was so important for them!
 
6:12 AM
0
Q: Stock purchases don't show in portfolio

Nathan LeeWhen I buy stock on LCN exchange it doesn't show up in my portfolio. I put $1 million in for Debonaire for the 4 person assassination from Lester. I lose all of the money in my account but when I go to my portfolio it doesn't show the shares I have purchased.

 
 
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9:42 AM
0
Q: my minecraft keeps crashing and i need help

sami cant seem to launch my minecraft without it crashing if anyone could help me that would be appreciated. here is the crash report: ---- Minecraft Crash Report ---- // I let you down. Sorry :( Time: 18/08/18 6:55 PM Description: Failed to start game java.lang.NullPointerException at java....

 
Ave
10:00 AM
ugh wtf
wirex doesn't allow me to register
I can't cash out my bitcoins
 
 
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11:17 AM
@Ave bet you you'll be able to register when the value drops bellow what you paid for them, which is a complex why of having a RNG to determine if people can register or not
 
11:57 AM
0
Q: My Minecraft freezes on loading up

reversedI am a PC User and have been experiencing some technical difficulties with my Minecraft. I am able to load up the launcher as usual, and press play. The launcher disappears and the minecraft application comes up, however the application freezes on loading up. This happens on every version of mine...

 
Ave
12:16 PM
So I'm playing skyrim
and some guard was like "no way you're dragonborn, right?"
I made the mistake of using a shout at him
now all of whiterun is trying to kill me
and sheathing my weapon didn't help
 
@Ave i think you did more than shout
like it sounds like you racked up a large enough bounty that throwing you in prison is no longer an option
and Unrelenting Force just pushes people
lol, i just now have this mental image of @Ave walking down the street and a random person goes ""no way you're dragonborn, right?"" and her response is to breath fire on their face
or yells out at the top of her lungs "FUS!" and throws into a spike
though on the other hand if a stranger came up and went "no way you're dragonborn, prove it by taking your clothes off" fire to the face would quickly fix that
 
Ave
@Memor-X i sheathed my weapon in front of them and they finally let me pay bounty
40 gold
@Memor-X hah, indeed
 
12:31 PM
@Ave ahhh so they got to see you put it away
strange how the whiterun guard work like the US Police. unless they see you throw away a weapon assume your still armed and kill on sight
so what shout did you use on them anyway?
 
12:57 PM
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Q: How do I disable hard mode in terraria mobile

Jellyfish Gaming YgcIs it even possible? I tried in the settings in creating a karacter and karacter settings.

 
1:42 PM
0
Q: Does game time increase while paused in God of War?

Steven VascellaroIn the God of War collection for PS3, there is an achievement named Speed of Jason McDonald for beating the original God of War in under 5 hours. (Total play time is shown when loading a save file) Does time spent on the pause screen or upgrade menu count as time played in the original God of War?

 
1:57 PM
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Q: Where can I find the Marathon Demo levels?

GreenonlineTL;DR I woke up really wanting to play Blaspheme Quarantine - but the version of the level that was included in the three level demo version of Marathon and not the actual released version. Where can a get it for Aleph One? The marathon demo levels do not appear to be listed on the AlephOne...

 
2:12 PM
My university roommate just reminded me that one time, in first year, I signed up to be a guinea pig in a psychology study and it was the best study ever...
a thread
 
user15026
2:34 PM
@quartata I HAVE DONE THIS SURVEY
 
user15026
I ATE MANY COOKIES TOO
 
Looks like Adventure is going to win this splatfest
4/7 games I've played have been Relax v Relax
 
@quartata I like the story, but I got the weirdest anti-science vibe there. Like, she didn't ruin their experiment. At least, not if these guys were actual scientists.
Even when you make a hypothesis, you're not supposed to go in there trying to prove your conclusion.
 
3:13 PM
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Q: How can I play Minecraft with friends without being on the Same WiFi

user217100I would like to now how to connect with friends on Minecraft without using the same WiFi.

 
3:28 PM
0
Q: Purchases on fortnite mobile not transferring to PS4

kittykahtI bought a lot of vbucks on mobile. I even bought the battle pass and a few skins and dances (on mobile). I also have a ps4 account which has the exact same username as my mobile. I linked my account to my ps4 and everything, but none of my purchases are showing up on my ps4, not even my progress...

 
3:47 PM
@Ash were they as good as described in the thread?
@Yuuki i mean it is kind of a dickish hypothesis
 
@GodEmperorDune You're actually just reading what her interpretation of the hypothesis was
 
@GodEmperorDune It would be functionally the same as "being shamed doesn't influence people to eat less".
 
Ave
@Memor-X the first one you get from a dragon
this was right after I killed the first one
 
i am quite happy to die on the hill of "connecting shame and eating is a bad thing"
 
@GodEmperorDune What I'm saying is you don't actually know that's what they were trying to do
They could have just been testing the hypothesis of "Is this actually a effective"
because a lot of people say that is is without any actual evidence to back it up. They could have went "okay let's actually test that', because that just sounds like an excuse to harass people"
 
3:54 PM
But instead, let's not make these experiments and go ahead with shaming people for eating because some people think it works.
 
@Wipqozn all of these college studies have huge problems with sample selection bias
 
@GodEmperorDune That's completely unrelated.
 
@GodEmperorDune What are you basing this on?
 
It's true that college studies have issues with selection bias, but selection bias is a different issue.
 
@Wipqozn if you want to figure out if a thing is happening for people at large, just doing a survey of college students will give you results for the college student population
it is not necessarily representative of larger populations
 
3:57 PM
@GodEmperorDune Okay I see what you're saying and yes, you're right that if this was a college study that's a common problem. But that's why studies done by undergrads aren't really published in journals.
And that's just a symptom of undergrads lacking resources to do a proper study
but the point of ungergrad studies are just to teach them how to do a study anyways
 
@Yuuki Her data might have to be thrown out is I assume what she meant
 
@quartata That's not how studies work at all
 
The study was not really conducted properly to begin with as Wip pointed out but meh
 
Her data would be used to show "Fat shaming doesn't work"
 
@Wipqozn Not because she was an outlier but because she knew she was in the experiment group
 
4:04 PM
@Wipqozn outliers outside of several standard deviations are usually not relevant
 
@quartata She didn't know until the end of the study so it doens't really matter
 
Person running it doesn't necessarily know that, that's why I said "might"
 
@GodEmperorDune No, but you're assuming she was an isolated case. Quite literally the only insight we have into this is her own biased account of events from years ago which took place part way through the study. She could have just been the 10th person out of a 100.
and up until then "yeah people usually stop eating the cookies", but then they brought in more folks and it was like "...oh"
 
@Wipqozn except the experimenter said most people didn't eat many cookies
 
@GodEmperorDune Except as I said in that sentence you just replied to we don't know how far into the study they were
 
4:07 PM
I like how we've completely diverged away from our original topic of whether such hypotheses/experiments should be done without ever resolving it.
 
@Wipqozn i feel you are carving a very specific corner case to be technically correct
 
my only point was that from the experimenter's perspective her actions might have been influenced by a vague idea of what the hypothesis was
She seemed to know what was up
 
@GodEmperorDune No, I'm not.
 
That's why she said she "ruined" it
That's all
 
eh i am over it
 
4:09 PM
My point is that our only insight into the motivations of this study is this twitter thread from one person who took the study years ago via her own lens of bias. That's nothing to go on.
She clearly paraphrased what was going on based on how she interrupted it, and then made further assumptions about the reasons behind that motivation
 
@Yuuki I mean it's a dumb hypothesis. The people who were already going to eat more cookies are less likely to be affected
 
And to be clear I'm not saying fat shaming is okay, because fuck that, but condemning these people for some study based on this just pure nonsense
 
I wonder why they picked furniture for the control group
 
@quartata There have been dumber hypotheses for experiments that ended up overturning "common sense".
 
A soothing bucket of beige paint would have worked wonders
 
user15026
4:16 PM
@GodEmperorDune I recall them being delicious
 
4:58 PM
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Q: How do I do this?

RandomGamer_2010I want to make a command where you click something and a piece of text pops up but I don't know how. I've seen other versions, but they don't work on MC 1.13. If any of you guys have MC 1.13, pls give this question an answer. Thank you.

 
 
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6:08 PM
FRED AND OTTER: BROS FOR LIFE
Cc @Ash
 
6:30 PM
The true reason why Waluigi isn't in Smash.
 
@GodEmperorDune uhhh be very careful with that twitter
dude apparently draws some super nsfw stuff
 
Yes, this pic is entirely SFW, the artist is not
 
6:47 PM
Yeah, Shadbase has created some really depraved NSFW stuff. good quality though
 
@Nzall Probably best not to mention anything specific.
 
and let's stop about shadbase now before we get into trouble
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune awww such snuggles
 
user15026
I think pretty much we could have easily stopped at "this pic is entirely SFW, the artist is not", but that's just me
 
@Ash me as well
 
7:00 PM
@Nzall Yeah we don't really need even a mention of something like that in chat
 
@Wipqozn Sorry, I keep forgetting that this isn't the place for such htings
even if sometimes the conversation seems to be steering towards such things
 
That's not at all where the conversation was going
 
@Wipqozn I mean, we were talking about an artist, usually when something like that happens, you discuss his art, although you probably should steer away from the NSFW stuff
 
user15026
No.
 
user15026
We were stating that things were NSFW, then it should stop there
 
user15026
7:08 PM
We don't need examples, or mention of it
 
Exactly, and additionally "you probably should steer away from the NSFW stuff" is right, in fact that probably is a "definitely". And since that's a quote from you, you obviously know that.
 
@Wipqozn Okay, I'll try to keep that in mind. Sorry again
 
Anyways, moving on, I'm probably going to be giving Dwarf Fortress another go. Either that or booting up Stardew Valley
I should probably play some dead cells but dying that king when I was so close was so upsetting
 
user15026
I really should give Stardew Valley another go sometime
 
user15026
I think this weekend I might try Okami HD - I downloaded it about a week ago on my Switch but I have been playing so much WoW that I've not really gotten to it
 
7:14 PM
Stardew is amazing
 
user15026
But Sunday afternoon/Monday I am not going to be home, and part of that involves a bunch of being in a car, so that strikes me as a good time to try Okami out
 
Switch version of Stardew is also a great car attempt
 
user15026
@Wipqozn I suspect I'd like it, I liked what I played but it is not a game I would play a lot on PC (where I have it)
 
user15026
@Wipqozn Yeah, but I'd have to buy it, and I am trying not to spend money
 
@Ash That's totally fair
I'm trying to cut back my spending too
With some success
 
user15026
7:16 PM
nods
 
Oh hey that reminds me, I got a raise!
 
Right now I'm just trying to focus on actually making my own meals on a regular basis again, with uh, some success
@Ronan Congrats!
 
@Ronan congrats!
 
user15026
@Ronan Yay! :D
 
@Ash yay, adventures!
 
7:17 PM
I'll have an additional £250 in my paycheck next month
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune I am going to my aunt's house in the country on Sunday, and sleeping over there so we can get up early Monday and go see my family who are camping this week! There will be beach time and birthday cake! (My brthday is Wednesday, we're celebrating it on Monday when we're together)
 
user15026
@Ronan Nice! that's a lot of cookies, I'm just sayin'
 
It's quite a lot of cookies indeed
I've been here for a year so it's my "you weren't completely awful" raise
 
user15026
Yay for being not completely awful! confetti cannon
 
user15026
user image
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user15026
7:23 PM
This made me think of @Yuuki
 
@Ash hue
 
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Q: How to attend for the event quests?

ZaibisFrom my Guildcard when I view it and in the log in screen it says I am hunter level 5. I have 4 pending Event quests that require me to be at least level 5. Anyways, when I try to post them it tells me that my level isn't high enough. Is this a bug, or are this 2 diferent kinds of Hunter level i...

 
7:58 PM
@Ash he can't even because it's really odd
 
@Ash this is your first time with Okami?
 
user15026
8:13 PM
@Chippies You just made it better. (Or worse, depending on)
 
user15026
@quartata I played a bit of Okamiden, but never Okami
 
8:29 PM
0
Q: Minecraft Witchery Mod - Sentinel Fetish for farming?

kutschkemI tried setting up a mob farm with the Sentinel Fetish from Witchery (Minecraft 1.7.10), but it looks like drops are destroyed. Is that correct and is there a way to turn this behavior off?

 
8:44 PM
0
Q: How many Titantite Slabs are in Dark Souls 3?

DeepDeadpoolThe DS3 Wiki states there are 15 total slabs possible. On my new-game character I have 5 fully upgraded weapons and 10 slabs, but I haven't defeated Midir, so Shira couldn't have given her slab to me yet. My fully upgraded weapons are The Rotten Ghru Dagger The Lothric Sword The Hollowslayer...

 
 
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user15026
This feels like a spin on Papers, Please
 
Yeah it definitely is
Also I really want some cookies
chocolate chip
@Ash you should grab a plane to nova scotia and make me some cookies
 
user15026
Sorry, I'm busy waiting for two giant loaves of squash bread to bake
 
user15026
Otherwise you know I'd be right over
 
@Wipqozn all glory to ukip?
 
10:48 PM
@Ash uuuugggghhhh homemade bread
 
ehhh, $20 is too much for a meme game imo
 
user15026
This more cake than bread
 
user15026
Think like banana bread kinda
 
@GodEmperorDune relatedly
 
user15026
Specifically, I have 3x this recipe in the oven: theseasonedmom.com/summer-squash-breakfast-bread
 
10:49 PM
@Unionhawk whew comrade, the discourse
 
user15026
@Unionhawk but how do they think that...why...what....oh no
 
There's no way anyone who has ever played Papers Please would say that
 
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
 
Probably saw the store page, thought "ha it owns to make fun of communism" and posted
 
perhaps they thought it was about bureaucracy enthusiasts
 
10:51 PM
I can see someone who's never played the Stanley Parable thinking that about it too
 
@Ash I'm just picturing a guy with a BioShock avatar to cap this off
Or like a nitw avatar
Although, I suppose all of those are technically more subtle, so
 
nitw is only political if survival is political :thinking:
@Unionhawk I can see someone who only played half of bioshock miss the point
 
well my favorite non-political game is "this war of mine"
definitely no political content in there
 
buh
dril is making fun of people for squatting his name on mastodon
 
@quartata no it's like unironic ayn rand people who never pick up on the point and just go "wow this is a cool place actually"
They exist
 
10:59 PM
@quartata lol yassss
 
Anyway, yeah, The Gamers
 
11:36 PM
@Unionhawk bioshock 1 maybe but come on bioshock infinite
that takes power of will
 
well, infinite is some both sides type stuff but
 
11:51 PM
@Ave wait, so this was the guard who asks you to try to shout after you absorb the dragon soul?
 
Ave
@Memor-X nope
it was near the gates
 

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