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12:17 AM
Aww crap Reddit is down. Now I have to be productive
 
Don't lie to yourself like that, you never have to be productive
 
12:29 AM
What do we do with questions that have lost their artifact?
 
@Frank i assume the artifact was an audio or video right?
like images are mostly a safe bet if they are uploaded to stack's imgur account, if not they should have been edited to be that
 
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1:04 AM
@Frank link?
 
1:15 AM
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Q: Award claim screen hangs when completed 7 stamps

Dongfang WenWhen I clicked on the claim reward, it turned to blue/white screen. No field research or special research can be done as it kept to say “you must claim you research Breakthrough first!” I tried to change devices and reinstalled the program, but no luck. It drived me crazy, please help.

 
1:30 AM
0
Q: Do 3 star rankings unlock anything in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon?

Steven VascellaroIs there a reward for getting a 3 star ranking on every mission in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon? Or are the star rankings just for bragging rights?

 
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Q: What is the game shown in this video?

DulkanI've just watched this video below. While I recognized the first two games (Force Unleashed (I think) and Overwatch), I'm at a loss for the one shown in this link (timestamp is 10:22). What is it? As a bonus around 15:30 another game I don't recognize is shown, what is that one? ...

 
@Frank seeing some promise with Wayback Machine so could edit with the Youtube Link and if they provide timestamps, some screenshots
like it's loaded the page but video is still loading
otherwise i'd close with a comment saying that the artifact has suffered from link rot and unless the OP can find another source it's off-topic, regardless if it's been answered or not
 
2:29 AM
@Ash ^ Hat in Time for the Switch announced! Also a ton of other stuff - DLC with new chapter, co-op, new game mode
DLC is free if downloaded on launch day
Which is super nice
 
2:45 AM
oh damn
is the co-op coming to PC
 
when software engineers care about observability
 
@PrivatePansy not really because if it's anything like Etrain Odyssey Untold 2 it's free for the first month and then you have to pay after that. so it only benefits those who plan to play it when it's possibly incomplete
 
3:46 AM
yay! i got gold on Arqade.‌​.......dam it! i got gold outside Winter Bash
 
@quartata I assume it is. It’s split screen local co-op
 
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4:15 AM
613) Puppybot. Imagine: you're having a bad day and you hear a knock on the door. You go to answer it and find that someone has sent you a small robot! But what does it do? With a smile it opens its front hatch and.... ...PUPPIES! SO MANY PUPPIES!
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@Ash yasssssss
might i also suggest this great article
in This Is Fine, 39 mins ago, by GodEmperorDune
You didn't really think I was gonna finish my time at BuzzFeed without writing about pugs, did you? https://www.buzzfeed.com/mariskreizman/area-of-expertise-pug-instagram-pugstagram?utm_term=.rm26kJmE3#.sejPz45k6
 
4:27 AM
@Ash and all of them are pugs!
 
@Memor-X hell yeah
 
@GodEmperorDune and i was just looking at the good smile email i got and i was thinking "you know what they need, a figure of the pug from Space brothers"
man i love how Homura can read my mind and warp reality to make it true
 
oooooh what is this
 
@GodEmperorDune oh right sorry, the link
 
oooooh
 
4:35 AM
> Hibito's beloved pug is becoming a Nendoroid Petite?!
From the popular manga series that has sold over 16 million copies 'Space Brothers' comes a Nendoroid Petite of APO, to be included with the 27th volume of the manga! APO's unique and rather hard to describe expression has been carefully shrunk down into Nendoroid Petite size!

His cute little doggy spacesuit has also been faithfully recreated and even includes the trademark heart shape on the arm! The included Nendoroid Petite stand allows you to display him floating as if in space to really bring out atmosphere of the series, and his
 
oh you can't buy just the figure, its a promotional thing?
 
@GodEmperorDune well you would have when it was first announced. after a while good smile takes down the buying button
anime = good
pugs = great
anime pugs = greatest!
 
yasssss, agreed
 
anyway. figure page shows that such a thing exists. sure with some hunting you can find one
 
$50 on ebay, not worth it imo
 
5:15 AM
0
Q: Looking for name of described game (AoE like)

Mehdi DehghaniI don't know if here is right place to ask this question. Around 10 years ago, I played a game and I'm looking for the name of that. The game was like Age of empires, I tired AoE 1 and 2, but non of them wasn't that game. The main different between that game with AoE are: There was no ships,...

 
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@PrivatePansy I somehow know nothing about this game but it looks like something I would like!
 
5:45 AM
0
Q: how do you make breeding bows

user217219How do you make breeding bows In Minecraft

 
6:00 AM
@PrivatePansy @Ave was the one who wondered if it will be out on Switch - my brain mixed the two up
@Ash A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck platformer in the style of Super Mario Sunshine hatintime.com
 
 
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7:46 AM
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Q: Is the bee mount actually obtainable in BfA?

dly I know you can ride one when you use the flight master near the bee hive in Stormsong Valley, but that's just a taxi and no obtainable mount. Is there a real bee mount in BfA we can actually obtain?

 
 
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9:16 AM
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Q: Battery Indicator fixes answer clarification

user213800READ THIS FIRST: My console is using the latest firmware update I bumped into the not-so-widespread bug that tells you the incorrect percentage of your battery no matter how long you charged it. Before I say I need answers for this fiasco, let me tell you what I do to my switch before this happe...

 
Ave
9:49 AM
@PrivatePansy ty!
I saw it on a discord today, someone posted it within the minute it was announced. It's crazy.
I'm so excited.
let's hope that they don't ask for 6.x as required firmware version as I don't plan to update anytime soon
 
Ave
10:24 AM
(also note: if any of you decide to do homebrew/modding stuffs with your switch, please contact me first. Some people out there are sharing files that destroy your prodinfo [which stores all console unique keys etc] as a "joke" and I'd rather not have any of you get hit by those)
 
10:50 AM
cc @Staravia @Niro Character creation and a campaign mode are returning
(also @Niro just a reminder that Voldo is returning too!)
 
11:11 AM
@Wipqozn Is this the perfect fighting game?
 
@Staravia I mean it's not Shrek Super Slam, so no
 
@Ave Honestly, I think it might be worth to have 2 switches: one for modding and one to keep pristine to play new games on
 
Except, you know, switches are expensive
 
Yeah, that's true
Not everyone has 300 EUR they can drop on a switch on a whim
but on the other hand, if you fuck up royally and break your switch beyond repair or restore, you also need to spend that money, AND you still can't game
 
11:31 AM
0
Q: How to know someones coords using block patterns

FiiVee7Ive heard you can find someone coords just with a screenshot and seeing the grass, sand etc patterns. Is it true? If its true, how can i use it?

 
not sure how the image relates to twitch though
 
Isn't that kappa?
 
it's the KappaPride global emote yes
 
Ave
11:46 AM
@Nzall if you don't know what you're doing or you like messing around, yes
 
@Memor-X The usage of drops as both 'announces' and 'removes' is confusing.
Literally the most confusing thing
 
Ave
@Ave I have a backup of my whole nand, my boot0/1, my joycon firmwares. Unless I fry a part, I can recover from any brick.
 
@Ave It also means that if games require you to update your firmware, you can still play them on the secondary machine that you keep updated
 
Ave
And even if I fry a part, I can buy a new nand for $20, new screen for ~$11, new joycons at around ~$40/ea, new sd card controller at a couple dollars etc
 
I'm fairly sure that at least some of your homebrew colleagues have 2 devices to avoid any unpleasant surprises
 
11:50 AM
@fredley aren't they announcing they are removing it
 
Ave
@Nzall choidujournx exists, you can upgrade in a way that won't burn your efuses so that you can downgrade later
@Nzall yeah, some people have multiple, sciresm has 5. I don't see a point to get more than one right now.
@Memor-X he's talking about how you can say "drop support for thing" (remove) and "drop a new feature" (add)
and how it gets confusing.
 
ahhhhh
 
12:08 PM
@Memor-X I had prime before Twitch Prime was a thing and this still pisses me off.
 
12:24 PM
They claim it’s for the streamers, but somehow I doubt streamers will be getting more money out of this
 
When they introduced ad-free streaming they said that it wouldn't negatively affect streamers' income.
So if they have to re-add ads now to compensate streamers, were they full of shit before?
 
@PrivatePansy going by what SidAlpha said all ad revenue goes to Twitch and not to the content creators
 
streamers get some money from ads but I don't know how much generally
subscribers are the more stable revenue stream
 
Yeah, fairly sure one subscriber is worth hundreds or thousands of viewers
And that like, if those viewers watched every single thing shown for that month probably
Uuuuuuuuuugh this song. It's a cover song of rhianna's unfaithful and I hate the lyrics sooooo much
 
12:49 PM
Do any of you know your way around RHEL and Oracle Linux?
We have an Oracle Linux VM where we need to change the keyboard layout
 
Ave
uh
just a se
localectl set-keymap <keymap>
localectl list-keymaps to get keymap list
that's for RHEL
 
Ave
1:10 PM
woo, pebble archive reached 100 bookmarks on data.world
 
we tried that, but we got a message "command not found"
However, turns out that it wasn't related to the VM itself, but rather that we were using the vSphere web accessor instead of VMware player
We swapped to VMWare player and we immediately had the right keyboard
Not sure what causes the vSphere web player to work differently in that regard from the desktop player client, but it's fixed for now
Here’s a game I won’t be buying. If your team is advertising your game with transphobia it won’t get my money.
Come on CDPR, you were doing so great with Witcher 3, why are you suddenly like this?
 
what's that all about? all it is is an image
 
@Memor-X "Did you just assume their gender" is a transphobic meme
 
oh man epic joke guys
 
@Nzall ahhh i see
 
1:25 PM
,,,,xD
 
I'm sure @Ave can tell you more about that, assuming she is comfortable doing so
 
It's bad, is more about that, honestly
And stupid too
 
Ave
^
 
le epic 9gag joke from 2012 xD
imagine typing that sentence in 2018
the post doesn't even make sense in context
it was a reply to "we want to see more, guys!" or something like that
 
@Unionhawk yeh if you removed the comma it could sound like "we want to see more males/men"
 
Ave
1:43 PM
blegh
apparently linus is making a video on using google apps for unlimited google drive
and apparenlty he uploaded 300TB to google drive
when that video goes out... rip my unlimited account
 
k
XD
unlimited via education account?
 
Ave
I just wanted to store some goddamn backups without paying a ton :(
 
I just pay for google drive
 
Ave
@djsmiley2k yes. but he's using an enterprise account for it.
 
how damn big are your backups?
 
Ave
1:44 PM
and they grow quite a bit
 
@Ave Like, wait what? How does he even have 300 TB? did he upload HD footage of his entire video series or something?
 
Ave
@Nzall possible.
 
@Ave If he has an enterprise account, I don't think he's the only one with 300 TB
and that Google has provisioning for this
 
Ave
@Nzall problem is, his followers will jump on this and google will very likely either add stricter limits or ban us all
and that's not fun
 
i thought you were using backblaze for elixire?
or is this something else
 
Ave
1:52 PM
@quartata this is for my personal backups.
 
oh ok
that sucks
 
Ave
I do use backblaze for laptop backups too but everything else goes to gdrive
there's also some pretty hard to find stuff on there that I backed up (like the nintendo switch firmware 4.0.0, it's so rare that even one of the biggest names in the scene [rajkosto] doesn't have it, even though he's trying to get his hands on it [and not succeeding])
 
get that in a safe deposit box
:D
 
Ave
yeah I'll probably hide that in at least 5 places pretty soon. Might even put it online. Update files are zipped anyways, and they have a long random AES password.
 
you could put some of the more important stuff in a repo if you kept it small maybe, I don't know what the file size limit at gitlab is
github will decline your push if there's one file >100 MB
but the entire repo can be bigger
 
Ave
1:59 PM
yeah, this archive is 263MB
 
user image
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cc @GodEmperorDune @Wipqozn @Ash (@badp)
 
Ave
you have earned a star
 
@Ave compressed?
 
Ave
@quartata yup
 
@Yuuki tsk
@Ave if you have time to kill you could run zopfli on it to see if you can get it smaller
takes forever
does Mastodon always have a chibi elephant pounding on a keyboard for its 500 page or is that specific to this instance
 
2:07 PM
@Yuuki leaning tower of hue-sa
 
2:20 PM
@quartata well, it's JPEG compression artifacts: Joint Pisa Experts Grain
 
I wasn't replying to the image
But that was good
 
@Ash @SaintWacko Since you guys are Alliance, you might be missing the Horde stuff in BFA so here's the introductory cinematic.
 
3:03 PM
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Q: Stuck on first floor | any ideas?

Joseph Jonathan SmithI just ate rotten food, stabbed air for a bit, then almost got killed by a zombie kobold on the first floor. This all happened after I ran around in circles for 5 mins spamming the 's' key which I was told can be used to search for hidden doors. I'm frightened and scared, so if somebody could t...

 
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I did a whole minute of bunny hops today. Thats a lot of hops, let me tell you.
 
@Ash so many hops it should be an IPA
@uni was that the correct refrance? i dunno what beers have many hops
 
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That was excellent, @GodEmperorDune
 
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Sorry I am on mobile and have hella the shakes because rain plus shunt plus pressure plus lots of vertical direction changes in my workout made for a wobbly me
 
can't believe ash can bunnyhop in real life, phoon should get lessons
 
3:18 PM
@Ash and with you IPA also has the linguistic double entendre
 
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@quartata so much hops
 
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54 hops
 
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@GodEmperorDune yesss double good
 
@Ash yeah i think i can do maybe 4
 
pls to rename "wireless mouse" to "hamster"
 
3:26 PM
@Yuuki hue
 
@Yuuki genius
 
4:03 PM
Back on his feet, Luigi hopes his next trip to a haunted house turns out better when #LuigisMansion comes to  #3DS on 19/10 – just in time for Halloween! 😱
I didn't realize this was a thing
 
@Wipqozn what about wahluigi's mansion?
 
@GodEmperorDune Sorry mate. No love for the wah.
 
waaaaaaaaaaaah
 
user15026
@Wipqozn This was such a good game
 
@Ash @SaintWacko I have heard rumors that possible new allied races would be snek people for Alliance and fox people for Horde.
 
user15026
4:16 PM
@Yuuki oooooh, both sound good
 
Interestingly, both are encountered in a Horde zone.
So shrugs
Also, because you are Alliance, you will have missed out on this gloriousness.
 
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Q: How do I stop receiving news for some accounts?

NolonarIn order to buy a Japanese game, I went and created a Japanese Nintendo Account for my Switch. Ever since then, I've been receiving a ton of Japanese news, along with the usual non-Japanese news, many of which are duplicates. I would like to stop receiving news for my Japanese account only. Is ...

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Q: Which is the more beneficial side of the Civil War

AnthelothWhich side of the civil war in skyrim gives better perks?

 
So here it is for your enjoyment.
 
user15026
I will have to check these videos out later
 
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I mean I do plan to do the content with my Horde main but she's just like a baby (level 20ish) so it will be a while, I don't play her nearly as much as my Alliance main (because the Alliance chara is the one I play with my husband)
 
4:20 PM
> It sucks working from home today. | Peter (52), Fireman
 
@Ash Clearly, the solution is that you need to singlehandedly unite the Horde and Alliance so we can all play on the same side.
 
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@Yuuki I will get right on that!
 
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There needs to be more time in the day so I can level Evumeimei more. She's fun. (Troll Hunter)
 
@Chippies I've already stolen this and told it twice
 
4:33 PM
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Q: Name of the 90's puzzle game where you control monkeys

yaskaI used to play a puzzle game back in the 90's but I don't remember its name. The background story goes something like this: a scientist has invented a consciousness device that can control the actions of monkeys. Each level had 4-5 monkeys but you could control only one or two at simultaneously. ...

 
Oh man, getting so many github contributions over the last 2 days (lol)
(it's because I'm currently the only one who is both on hand and knows how to put things on our website)
 
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@Yuuki It took me a second to realize what you were implying, my first answer was yes because he tends to ruin things, but then I realized the underlying joke
 
@Ash The best jokes have multiple levels of doneness.
 
5:04 PM
@Ash hue
 
5:19 PM
Without comment
 
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5:33 PM
I was writing up a reply as to why this is, but this reply says it better:
 
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@andrewjgrimm @Rob_Russell Yes and no. The 0*0 division is the misc. one. But 000-009 specifically is computer related things. The paranormal can be classified under 040 (officially unassigned but used if you have a large enough collection in a random subject) or 130 " Parapsychology & occultism".
 
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Q: How to force the undeath quest to begin

matthew darkflameI just installed the undeath remastered for my skyrim se on pc; i know that the mod is active since the tower appeared and solitude has sewers, but the quest doesn't start. I tried this mod with and without the "no auto-start for undeath remastered" mod, without any succsess PS: my character is a...

 
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(aka yes, I am enough of a nerd that I went "wait, why is unexplained phonemena in an 0*0, I'd expect it in a 100 somewhere")
 
@Ash this is a dewey decimal system thing?
 
Yes.
 
5:44 PM
ah
 
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@GodEmperorDune yes :)
 
Ave
bridge I found the perfect job v2
while I don't have 2 years of aws experience, I have long long years of (non-professional) devops experience, I know hella python, I host my own ejabberd based server (and did contributions to other XMPP based projects like gajim), I despise mysql but I know my way around it, we use redis on prod and I know how to use it, I despise docker but know how to use it, I have a github account and I did a bunch of contributions.
fingers crossed
I wouldn't feel particularly good about working at a social media site that's, well... it has a fuckton of creepos and has a lot of stuff centered around dating and hookups (even though the site doesn't embrace it, it enables it and doesn't stop it). But yeah. Something is better than nothing.
 
@Ave You didn't really say "hella" or "despise", did you?
 
Ave
did I really manage to fuck up "despise"?
oh nope
 
no, sorry, that's my mistake
 
Ave
5:56 PM
I did say it here, but not on my CV.
 
Good, because using slang and negative language in a document like that is a good way to get sent to the trash
 
Ave
oh it'll get sent to trash either way dw
I applied to jobs where I fit literally all requirements and "would be nice" stuff and I didn't get a single call.
 
@Ave sorry fam, employers are jerks
it's their loss
 
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@Nzall I kinda assumed how @Ave explained it here wasn't how she explained herself on the actual thing
 
@Ash oh are we supposed to code switch? i better recall those emails i sent to the CEO with rebecca black links then
 
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6:03 PM
Awww no those are still fun
 
Ave
@GodEmperorDune While it may be their loss, I'm the one who's having difficulty paying for all the costs for hosting these services.
 
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Q: Solar flare Dragon

Emma Ok so I started playing DragonVale like forever ago and only got to like level 6 and then stopped. But before I stopped I had bred two of my dragons, I can’t remember which ones but all I had was a fire, flower, and plant dragon. Somehow one of those combinations gave me a solar flare dragon. H...

 
@Ave yeah unemployment sucks for sure
 
Ave
and patreon's being dumb so I can't even cash that out
speaking of, I should renew nothing.domains
there goes another $22, sigh
 
Dear Windows 10: If you are forcing users to automatically upgrade, at least have the common decency to not change their sound settings every time you install a patch. I have to manually turn on loudness equalization 3 times a month and it's really starting to get annoying
 
6:05 PM
@Ave is paypal connected to turkey or are they weird like steam?
 
@Ave wow, you even got XMPP in there
 
Ave
@GodEmperorDune paypal's banned in turkey. I'm trying to get cashout to a team member, but patreon's doing all this security bs and while domain is going to expire in 3 days, patreon will only initiate transfer in 4 days.
 
@Ave ughhhhh
 
Ave
@quartata yeah haha, I never thought that setting up a3.pm xmpp server would even have a chance of helping me with employment.
speaking of, bradesco's being bad so guess we're not renewing it today
 
:(
in return, please have a giant kiwi
kiwi birds are big as shit and I don't want to deal with that right now
 
6:19 PM
@Yuuki pls
 
Ave
@GodEmperorDune cute.
 
@GodEmperorDune They also lay pretty big eggs.
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune That is much bigger than I expected
 
 
@Ash yeah i thought they were like sparrow size
@Yuuki wow that is big
 
6:27 PM
A kiwi's egg can be up to one-fourth of its body mass.
 
user15026
@Yuuki well that's terrifying
 
@GodEmperorDune zomg
@Yuuki ....oh
that instantly ruined it
thanks
 
Also, their feathers behave a lot like fur apparently.
 
Also sometimes they try to kill you
 
6:37 PM
@ToxicFrog wat
 
No, that's Kiwis.
We're talking about kiwis.
 
@Yuuki i know it looks so cute and fuzzy but then you see the terrifying torpedo egg
 
@Yuuki yes. I have seen, in person, a kiwi try to disembowel an adult human who was trying to feed it.
 
That's ratites for you.
 
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@ToxicFrog It's terrible that my first thought is "which one of you"
 
6:39 PM
@Ash fortunately this was a trained professional wearing protective gear
 
Ostriches and emus are well-known jerks.
The Australians even lost a war to the emu.
 
(at the Otorohanga Kiwi House & Bird Park, for the curious)
(if you're ever in NZ, go there and ask about the murder kiwi)
 
@ToxicFrog "which one"
those beaks and that size look intense
 
user15026
@ToxicFrog ....wait they had protective gear? Daaaaaange
 
7:13 PM
@Ash yeah, they had a whole speech first about how kiwis are normally quite shy but this particular one was filled with bloodlust
Delivered while putting on heavy overalls and protective boots and gloves
And then she picks up the bucket of food and walks into the enclosure and BAM the kiwi is right there trying to take her legs off
Also holy shit this rain
Your veggies may be a bit soggy
 
@ToxicFrog I think that's how Canada works. They channel all of their rage and fury into their geese and meese.
 
@Yuuki yeah, but everyone expects geese to be assholes. Kiwis don't have the same expectation.
 
user15026
@ToxicFrog When it started pouring I aws like "oh no I hope @ToxicFrog stays dry when getting veggies"
 
user15026
@ToxicFrog Yeah anyone who expects geese to be sweet and docile is lying to themselves
 
@Ash I have a hat, but I don't think it's going to be enough
Good thing I didn't wear the corset today, it doesn't like getting wet
 
8:24 PM
a person talking on a cell phone wearing a microphone
 
@Wipqozn For all we know, this person just might be standing on a cell phone.
> There's a few ways I usually react to @picdescbot:

1. "Aww, almost." (like this one.)
2. "Eh, not quite."
3. "Not even close!"
4. "Whoa, it managed to figure out that detail somehow!"
Missing "5. Where's it getting 'train'?"
 
8:41 PM
@Yuuki well the answer is obviously that ghost trains are a rampant problem
 
9:36 PM
0
Q: What is a 'Timed Boost Landing' and how to perform it?

Buns GlazingStrangely, none of the classes in Onrush seem to have much in the way of documentation explaining their abilities. The Vortex buggy has a skill that says: Touchdown: Timed boost landings are more effective How do I make use of this?

 
10:50 PM
ummmm, what?
are we really being told to treat low rep users differently from everyone else?
 
@Memor-X Yeeeeeeep
 
user15026
Not really, no
 
I dunno; it feels like we're supposed to be giving new users special treatment, for no other reason than they're new. Creating segregation between, "being new" and not is going to cause some major issues when users transition over. Do new users get additional info on how to respond to feedback they don't like, too? — fbueckert Aug 17 at 16:41
 
user15026
Okay, look, here's the thing, you kinda do gotta give new people time to adjust!
 
user15026
Stack Exchange is awesome because we're not like the rest of the internet
 
user15026
10:53 PM
but that also means LEARNING CURVE
 
Ave
@Ash "Anyone who can legally work in Canada can apply for this job. If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada, your job application will not be considered." and they're not doing remote or relocation. Won't work for me sadly. Thanks for linking anyways.
 
user15026
and all this does is goes "hey this person possibly does not know the site's ins and outs as well as the rest of you lot, be patient, be willing to help them learn"
 
@Ash And we do that anyways.
 
user15026
It's not saying "treat them special" as in "plz sacrifice quality"
 
We don't need a banner to do that.
 
user15026
10:54 PM
@Frank Trust me, not as well as people think
 
It's a two way road; they're new, but they've got a ton of help put in front of them when they first post.
 
user15026
Everyone acts like they're perfectly kind and nice and all of that all the time, but....that's unfortunately less true on the whole scale
 
user15026
@Frank Not really, and it can be kinda firehose like
 
I don't like how all these new features target new users, and shove all the work onto established users.
 
user15026
@Ave Yeah, that's why I phrased it specifically as the working on work auth, because of the lack of remote etc. I was just like AUGH IF ONLY because you'd be so perfect
 
user15026
10:55 PM
@Frank It doesn't really shove that much work on them
 
The only thing this new banner is going to do is make me add a blocker to my adblock.
So I can dispense with the idiocy entirely.
 
user15026
it mostly just comes down to "hey, bring your most patient pants"
 
Which won't actually do anything but make people ignore new users.
 
user15026
They already do
 
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A: New Contributor Indicator! Can we make it less intrusive?

CerbrusHere's a quick rule for your favourite adblocker to make the element as unobtrusive as it can possibly be: ##.new-contributor-indicator That'll completely remove the banner from the answer field and the user information block on the question.

 
user15026
10:57 PM
sigh
 
@Ash And this makes it better, somehow?
 
user15026
@Frank ffs
 
user15026
sorry
 
user15026
but like
 
user15026
come on, it feels like you're going "I don't want to be nice and I don't want to help people learn this place"
 
user15026
10:57 PM
and like...then what are we even doing, if we're going to be weird gatekeepers
 
user15026
We all had to learn this stuff, it sucked
 
No, I'm going, "I expect users to read the damn rules and try their best to follow them."
And this banner is, "Hey, you have to treat this new guy super nice so he doesn't leave in a huff!"
 
user15026
@Frank There's a shit load of rules and a shit load of edge cases and a shit load of people who don't treat new users well because tehy see just another MC crash dump or just another ITG or just another person who thinks this is a free for all discussion forum
 
user15026
So all this is trying to do is go "hey, this person doesn't know this stuff as well as you do, take that into consideration with your approach"
 
Ave
ngl I've been here since forever
and I probably didn't go through all of the rules yet.
 
user15026
10:59 PM
Like heck, even how we do things vs how SO does or Cooking or IPS or whatever is different
 
user15026
and like....that's a lot to hold in your head
 
I can't agree. Game-id, especially, is in the help center. For the more obscure cases, sure, I see no problems with gently guiding users.
 
Ave
it's spread through so many meta posts etc
 
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