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murgatroid99
murgatroid99
12:01 AM
I think you still have to MITM someone to send them false Windows Updates.
This bug is bad, but I suspect that the threat of hackers forcibly updating random people's Windows machines with malware is overblown
 
Private Pansy
Private Pansy
Oh no, someone asked on company Slack for opinion on Hawaiian pizza and it blew up
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
don't question the guy who can blow up planets. Pineapple on Pizza is an abomination
@murgatroid99 i would have assumed that would be an issue all the time which is why you need network security
 
murgatroid99
murgatroid99
@Memor-X It's not easy for just anyone to intercept traffic going to a specific predefined address.
 
Private Pansy
Private Pansy
HR won't intervene because they're also split on this extremely political issue
 
murgatroid99
murgatroid99
To be clear, there are definitely state-level actors who could intercept people's traffic and do all sorts of bad stuff with this kind of bug, but it would probably have to be targeted at individual people, or at least areas
 
Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
12:16 AM
0
Q: Minecraft map keep saved file

LexiSo I download a minecraft map and played for quite a while but the map is being updated so I was wondering if it would be possible to keep my current saved file while playing in the updated version. Otherwise I'd have to start all over.. :(

minecraft
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@murgatroid99 yeh, China/Russia is not interested in my yuri so i'm safe
*starts encrypting government data in the blurred pixels of yuri handholding*
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
12:44 AM
> Knowing is half the battle. The other half? Violence.
 
 
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Elise
Elise
2:18 AM
^it's a google home mini, but the newer one that they renamed to nest mini
I got two, one on my account and one on my wife's :D
 
 
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Dragonrage
Dragonrage
3:46 AM
@Elise Available only to users who are current paid members of an individual plan, student plan, or family plan (including head-of-household and dependants), of YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium or Google Play Music on December 4, 2019.
 
Elise
Elise
@Dragonrage well, some people might be eligible and not know it 🤷🏼‍♀️
 
 
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Memor-X
Memor-X
5:13 AM
https://society6.com/product/woman-yelling-at-cat-meme-ukiyo-e-style-1-in-series-of-2_print
https://society6.com/product/woman-yelling-at-cat-meme-ukiyo-e-style-2-in-series-of-2-art-print2544787_print?sku=s6-13189807p4a1v45
god dam memes. infecting other cultures and ruining them
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
5:43 AM
@Wipqozn Oh I read that as "The Witcher" for the longest time.
 
Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
0
Q: Is this a Daycare feature?

Valic FairSo the other night I stopped Masuda breeding and started to breed a few duplicates of starters with my Japanese Ditto, in the Hope's of trading them on the GTS for other starters. So i go and breed charmander, cyndaquill, and fennekin (X/Y fire starter I think) and obtain all three of their eggs....

pokemon-omega-ruby-alpha-sapphire
 
 
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Ave
Ave
7:21 AM
trans culture is wild
 
Nzall
Nzall
7:36 AM
@Ave It's almost like trans people really like taking their hormone treatments and are treating them like candy
Is there a similar tendency to come up with nicknames in the trans men community?
 
 
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Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
9:30 AM
0
Q: How Do You Set Leaderboard Player Stats Using The Costume Dummy In RecRoom?

RookieDevIm trying to set some stats to a leaderboard using the costume dummy in rec room. How do i do that in a way thats efficient.

rec-room
 
Elva
Elva
@Ave that'sg reat
 
Ave
Ave
@Nzall dunno
 
Elva
Elva
I have seen the first one and anticistamines I think
The latter from someone who has allergies too
Yesterday someone started on spiro and someone else was like "Spiro is a dragon, those are dragon pills" -> "I get to be a dragon? 👀"
Also also, morning chat!
 
Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
9:50 AM
0
Q: Is there any prerequisite for meeting Thanatos?

Mr ScapegraceOn my 24-th run I've managed to slay the final boss for the first time, yet I've never met Thanatos. He is the only entry I'm missing in the codex. Is there some kind of prerequisite for him to spawn (like feeding enough nectar to Hypnos or something) or am I simply really unlucky? I have a Stea...

hades
 
Ave
Ave
10:08 AM
@Elva I saw titty skittles/skitties, anticistamines, femme&ms, but not the rest
but I am very much in love with "Notorious H.R.T."
 
Elva
Elva
Yuh it's good
I usually just hear them called "girly pills"
 
Ave
Ave
most just call it "hrt"
there's the ongoing inside joke we have with my partner
which is calling taking hrt "risking life"
 
Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
0
Q: Whats the most efficient way to push constant signals from combinator chips to a ring store in recroom?

RookieDevIm trying to build up a reference to some questions i have been asking myself. Whats the best way to push a constant number so you dont deal with constant signals messing up a ring store.

rec-room
0
Q: Which game first introduced the concept of weapon recoil?

Pierre ChevallierContext This morning while watching a video of Wolfenstein 3D from 1992 and Doom (1993) where the weapon don't need to be compensated for any recoil. Then on my trip down memory lane I watched a Half Life (1998) video and there, automatic weapons at least seemed to have some form of recoil. The...

first-person-shooter gaming-history
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@Ave but isn't calling it that just framing it as a bad thing
 
Ave
Ave
(it comes from the fact that some big twitter person attacked one of the best sources of HRT, accused me of risking people's lives when I defended it by saying that while it could be safer, it's already safe enough that no one out of thousands had adverse effects so far)
@Memor-X it is, and that's the joke ^
 
Nzall
Nzall
10:24 AM
@Ave Everything risks lives. You can die of a heart attack while taking a shit.
 
Ave
Ave
@Nzall which is the thing, really. I got a lot of negativity on that twitter argument because person on the other side was somewhat popular.
but ironically, to the best of my knowledge, not trans.
 
badp
badp
@Elva I'm a dragon, hear me meow
 
Elva
Elva
Oct 31 '19 at 20:51, by Elva
mew
 
Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
10:51 AM
1
Q: What happens if you dont shake the polaroid photo in Uncharted 4

BlackBoxIn chapter 16 of Uncharted 4 there is a moment when Sam finds a Polaroid camera and takes a picture of himself and Drake. He then gives it to you and you have the option to shake it so that the collors appear and the more you do it the better it becomes. If I recall correctly you have the option ...

uncharted-4
 
Ave
Ave
11:33 AM
I made a mistake, bought a crate of club mate.
on first bottle I felt like I made a mistake, my mind saying that it's not as good as I remember
I'm on third bottle now, and heck, I forgot how much I like it, and how much of an acquired taste it is.
 
badp
badp
11:47 AM
club mate is a CCC meme
I really did not care for it when I tasted it
it's like the headhunter in path of exile. it's really not worth ~a mirror but everyone acts like it is so...
*half a mirror
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
12:16 PM
Only the freshest of memes with Wipqozn
Also, I should probably watch The Witcher.
 
Elva
Elva
Probably it's pretty good so far
 
user15026
 
Nzall
Nzall
Yeah, the witcher is good. It has a lot of that grey and grey morality that the books are know for, and it has that sex, blood and gore angle that made GoT so well known
 
user15026
12:36 PM
It also means I won't ever watch it but that's okay!
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
@Ave good old Twitter
I haven't opened mine in a long time
 
Elva
Elva
@Ash yeah those bits I also am like "Why is this in here?"
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
@Memor-X I love this tho
Plus smudge is from my city!
 
user15026
@Elva the latter half especially because I mostly get bored?
 
Elva
Elva
If I want to watch people have sex then gestures vaguely at the internet
And blood and gore are just eh, who cares?
 
user15026
12:45 PM
I mean right now I am very much in a state of "soft cozy media only please" (which for me is like Voyager, Downton Abbey, romance novels, etc) but even if I wasn't, I still would likely ignore it. And that's fine, not all media is for me and I am not for all media.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Seems legit
🤭
 
Nzall
Nzall
At least most of the nudity is relevant for the plot or for worldbuilding. Like, it's situations where you expect them to be naked, like a magic ritual for cosmetic surgery, or a character trying to fix her infertility by attempting to enslave a genie where her womb used to be
 
Ronan
Ronan
1:14 PM
@Nzall That's a wild sentence right there
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Ronan I mean, if you're going to magically turn a hunchback with a hare lip and a droopy eye beautiful, it makes sense that she should be naked, especially if part of the procedure requires drawing lines on her with ink made of her womb
 
Ronan
Ronan
 
Nzall
Nzall
Not that again...
 
Ronan
Ronan
It's not my fault it keeps being relevant
 
Nzall
Nzall
The fun part is actually that you're using this as a counterclaim while it in fact reinforces what I say: neogaf.com/threads/…
TL;DR: that Thermian Argument video is based on a hypothetical situation meant to create revulsion, which is not a valid criticism to a work. TL;DR argues that to make a believable world and story, you have to come up with logical and consistent reasons to explain why this certain set piece happened in the story. If the story does not have internal consistency, then the set pieces will not be believable and will disengage the audience
 
Ronan
Ronan
1:25 PM
The argument isn't that world building is bad, but that it's arbitrary so you can't use it as a reason for real world discussion about the text
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Ronan That's the same like saying you can't use the excuse of historical accuracy to explain why your Roman Era RTS doesn't have female units
Historical reasoning was just as arbitrary as worldbuilding in some cases
 
Ronan
Ronan
Yeah exactly, all decisions in media are made by the writers. They may have reasons behind them but they weren't forced to do things the way they did it so they can't claim they had no choice
 
Elva
Elva
"Yeah this is the logical conclusion of way $thing is happening in the story" .. "Well yeah... But you didn't need to have $thing happen in this way"
Magic, having no basis in reality, can be shaped with whatever rules you decide to give it. It can just be swirly particle effects and the body starts reshaping if you're lazy
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Ronan I personally think it's more important that fictional media are internally consistent with their own history and worldbuilding rather than trying to fit the arbitrary internal morals of an arbitrary group.
 
Elva
Elva
Or if you want some slow reveal and drama... have I 'unno, some kind of pool you can't see in and have the person slowly enter into said pool before exiting it. It's supposed to hurt? Well the pool is burning like a light acid or something
 
Nzall
Nzall
1:33 PM
everyone has their own ideas on what is acceptable or not in fiction, and it is not my place to judge or condemn a work of fiction because I don't like what happens in it, because it's not aimed at me
Because someone could just as well make the thermian argument about orcs violently raping a woman as they can about 2 guys making tender love to each other
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
...
 
Elva
Elva
You said "At least most of the nudity is relevant for the plot or for worldbuilding", the point we're trying to make is roughly "But there's no reason that it's relevant for plot or for worldbuilding, different decisions could have been made"
 
Nzall
Nzall
everyones morals are just different
 
Elva
Elva
I'll repeat: This is not about morals
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Elva Yeah, but would the work of fiction be just as good if they made other decisions?
Maybe, but maybe not
 
Elva
Elva
1:35 PM
Why not? Maybe it'd be better if it didn't hinge on a cheap trill of "lololol she is the nekkids"
 
Nzall
Nzall
the witcher is intended as an adult and morally grey world. It wouldn't make sense if Yennefer's transformation was just a wave of a wand and a puff of smoke
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
check us out we're freakin hbo here
 
Nzall
Nzall
Let me put it differently: Pokemon would be an entirely different kind of show if pokemon didn't glow bright white when they evolved and you could instead see their bodies deform itno their new shape
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
not really
 
Nzall
Nzall
and dragonball Z would be an entirely different show if fighters didn't get all bloody and half-naked as the fight goes on
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
1:38 PM
would it?
I mean I guess in a highly literal sense
 
Nzall
Nzall
good shows use all tools at their disposal to build the mood and tone they want to set in the show. You wouldn't make a kid's show where you show decayed bodies, and you wouldn't make a horror movie which involves the actors saying Swiper no Swiping
and if you want to set an adult and grim world, in the current culture that usually means that you want to show sex, nudity and gore, because that's what currently is considered for mature content only
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
why
Like, usually you don't want to do the thing just because the show is rated TV-MA
 
Nzall
Nzall
No, but you want to create a certain expectation of the world
Witcher books are aimed at an adult fantasy audience. it's something entirely different from a series like Harry Potter or Percy Jackson
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Honestly "gestures vaguely worldbuilding" is a way better argument than "well it's intended for mature audiences, so"
less tautological
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Unionhawk As an author, you want to tell a specific story. You have a world you want to explore, a set of characters to develop and a plot you want to create. All three of those determine what kind of story you want to tell: horror, fairy tale, adventure,...
and if an element is out of place in all of that, your story doesn't work as well
maybe not one element, but if you consistently have elements that are out of place, your story just becomes worse
Like, Jar Jar Binks made Star Wars a lot worse because his comedic hijinks just did not fit the story Lucas wanted to tell about Anakin
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
1:49 PM
Right but it's your story. You get to make the decisions. And you don't get to handwave your decisions like "look I had no choice the story gods told me I had to"
 
Nzall
Nzall
Ewoks similarly: you have this grand finale for a massive war that decides the fate of the galaxy... And it's fought by a tribe of stone age teddy bears
@Unionhawk Yeah, but if you want to build a specific world, tell a specific story as an artist and creator, putting in elements that detract from that story make your story worse
Zapkowski wanted to tell a specific story about a mutant monster slayer who finds that sometimes the monsters are scarily human
in a situation like that, a sorcerer who needs to undergo a violent and naked ritual to become beautiful fits a lot better than if there's just a magical fairy that goes pop and she's pretty
you don't want Cinderella's fairy godmother in this case, because that's just not believable in that world
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
honestly we're just back at tautology; "the writer wanted to do the thing, so they did the thing"
 
Nzall
Nzall
yes, you get to make the decisions on what to add to your sotry. But as a writer you want to tell a story in a believable world with an internally consistent logic
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Yeah but you also get to write your own logic
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Unionhawk yeah, but again, your logic has to fit the kind of story you want to tell
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
1:54 PM
There's no pre-written handbook like "well, you see, this is how genie fertility magic works"
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Unionhawk true, but that goes back to the worldbuilding: Witcher has a magic system where mages need to sacrifice something for stronger magic, which sometimes means something alive. it's part of the "sometimes the monsters are humans" world. In such a system, giving up your fertility for beauty is a fairly logical trade. Then Yennefer wanted a child so she needed her fertility back, and she wanted to use a genie for that because very few magics can fix a removed womb
 
Batophobia
Batophobia
Smash stream for the next DLC fighter is starting in a couple minutes
 
Nzall
Nzall
The entire story of Yennefer is that she's a butt ugly mage who gave up her fertility for beauty and power. then she comes into a situation where she can't save a child and wants to have one to make amends, so she needs her fertility back, but she needs powerful magic for that
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
"and it says in my monster manual that you have to take your clothes off to do it don't look at me it's just the logic of the world that is definitely necessary for this"
 
Nzall
Nzall
Okay, that's where my knowledge of the story fades and I can't really come up with an answer for why it works that way.
 
Elva
Elva
2:04 PM
Because arbitrary decisions were made
And that was our point. They are arbitrary decisions that someone made
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
another fire emblem character
 
Nzall
Nzall
Yeah, and my point is that it's fine to make an arbitrary decision, but it should make sense and fit the world and the story that the author wants to tell
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Of course it's fine to make an arbitrary decision, most decisions I make are
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Unionhawk What's your favorite game?
Like, the game you've played that you think is best
Because I'm fairly sure that just as you can find the sex and nudity in the Witcher distasteful because it feels gratuitous and unnecessary, i can do the same with something from your favorite book, series, film or game
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
I mean, I don't really care, but it is literally arbitrary
 
Nzall
Nzall
2:10 PM
@Unionhawk Yeah, it is arbitrary, but it fits the world, and I think that's most important
for me, the worst flaw a story can have is that it's internally inconsistent
I don't mind it if a story isn't consistent with the modern world, because it's entirely fictional
Unless a story is set in our modern world, then the only inconsistencies should be related to the conflicting areas with our world
 
Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
0
Q: Where to find the broken key parts?

SuperstesIn Deltarune, I've found a singular part of a broken key. It's called 'Broken Key B.' I know you have to take it to the Blacksmith for him to fix it, and I maybe know what it unlocks. I've searched all in the maze, the forest, and the fields. I'm currently at the elevator in the Card Castle. So, ...

deltarune
 
badp
badp
the first two episodes of the Witcher (2019) were actively bad
and this is an objective truth
 
Nzall
Nzall
@badp Why?
Like, what is so bad about them?
You need to keep in mind that Season 1 of The Witcher is a series of 3 stories that happen at different paces between episode 1 and Episode 7. The stories don't converge until the final episode, and before that the story of Yennefer and the story of Geralt don't meet until episode 5, and then those stories don't even get to where Ciri's story from Episode one starts until Episode 7
 
badp
badp
and that
is objectively bad
 
Nzall
Nzall
2:25 PM
@badp I disagree. Asynchronous storytelling is a classic trope in fiction
 
badp
badp
and when you do it, you usually afford the viewers clear demarcation between the multiple stories
 
Elva
Elva
If people have to go, after half an episode has past "Oh! This happened previously to the other things!" then... that's not good generally
 
badp
badp
even the goddamn games will just say "THREE MONTHS AGO in GRIFFITH" or whatever to clearly mark discontinuity points
but the Witcher leaves the work of recognizing the current setting where things are happening to you
which is great when multiple storylines involve extremely similar settings like "medieval-looking village with a nearby forest" vs "just a forest maybe" vs "medieval-looking town and the forests around it"
 
Nzall
Nzall
2
Q: In multiple narratives, does time have to be in sync?

Daniel CannThis goes for any amount of narratives, dual, triple, quadruple, whatever. I'm writing a story with three points of views going on simultaneously right now, about at the same time. However, is it okay to have one of the characters a day ahead of the others, or one a day behind? If I end one chap...

fiction creative-writing structure
 
badp
badp
let me know when you intend to read what I'm writing by the by
I'm not saying you can't do "asynchronous storytelling" but you can certainly do it poorly and the Witcher 2019 does it poorly
 
Nzall
Nzall
2:29 PM
I actually really liked the surprise in episode 4 where you suddenly realize that Geralt's story so far actually was flashbacks
because all of a sudden he's in Cintra before it fell
 
badp
badp
what the fuck is a Cintra, nzall
 
Nzall
Nzall
Cintra is the country Ciri is the princess of
 
badp
badp
you mean the one with a forest in it
 
Nzall
Nzall
and where Geralt came to save her mother and then claim her with the Law of Surprise
 
badp
badp
as opposed to the other two with a forest in it
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
2:30 PM
@badp american singer born in 1915 famous for the evangelion outro
 
Nzall
Nzall
Here: witchernetflix.com/en-gb this might help. it's an interactive map and storyline of the first season
 
badp
badp
and do you not think
that this website
being a thing that exists
is not possibly a sign
that this show is actually shit
 
Nzall
Nzall
No, not exactly
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
no no no, that's Sinatra. Cintra is a Princess of Power
 
Nzall
Nzall
Again, it's a narrative choice
 
badp
badp
2:32 PM
if you need an external website and a bunch of friends who actually already know the entire story to make heads or tails of what is going on
you have failed at storytelling
 
Nzall
Nzall
The Witcher is not an easy story to watch, and it's not trying to be
 
badp
badp
you're just vomiting plot all over me
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
being bad at storytelling is certainly a choice one can make, it's true
 
Nzall
Nzall
Like, Witcher 3 also has a load of story flashbacks
though definitely organized in a different way
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Unionhawk sometimes if the only other choice is not telling a story...
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
2:34 PM
It is currently legal in most jurisdictions to release a confusing TV show on netflix
2
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
I mean I enjoyed Netflix Witcher, don't get me wrong
 
Nzall
Nzall
Have you guys ever watched the movie Memento
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
but the flashback ambiguity was unnecessary
 
badp
badp
is that movie seven hours long
the games are also not afraid of being like WHY CAN'T I HOLD ALL THIS PLOT but if you decide that you actually care about the story line you can hit a button and read up a bunch of extra blurb that explains who the fuck Magicka of the Crownbellies or whatever is and why is she relevant in any way
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@badp it is if you watch it 3.5 times in a row
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
2:36 PM
@Nzall a film about a person whose memory is in a bad state and who is the PoV character? once, yes
 
Nzall
Nzall
No, but it's essentially the same thing: it's a story that's narratively told in non chronological order and it isn't explained or concluded until the last scene
 
badp
badp
sure, and that requires me to be interested and engaged the entire way through in order to get it
you've got to make that happen
 
Nzall
Nzall
Maybe the Witcher is like Rick & Morty in that you need to have a certain amount of IQ to understand it
/s
 
badp
badp
two episodes in I have no wish to go watch a third hours of unintroduced people going through unclear plot events in unspecified timelines of unobvious importance about unexplored politics in unexplained places
it's like somebody giving me a book except instead of a book I get the list of words in it in alphabetical order while smirking in a "I'm 14 and this is deep" fashion
whereas all you've given me is half a kilo of Geralt confetti
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
that's a lot of "confetti"
 
badp
badp
2:46 PM
whatever you call the tiny rectangular paper pieces that you litter places with in celebration
except there's a word on every piece of paper
and you're like boy howdy what a fun puzzle I've built for you
and every puzzle piece is rectangular
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@badp oh, I was being more euphemistic
what you describe is confetti
 
badp
badp
@MattE.Эллен :blobcatnomeggplant:
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
quite :D
There is a weak argument for the parallel story telling in that Ciri and Geralt are experiencing similar journeys of nobody liking them and being left without their friends, only to find each other at the end. But everything we learn along the way makes the stories so different that the parallel is lost in the confusion.
 
Elva
Elva
I think it'd be a lot better if it at least at the start told us that there's different time periods being shown
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
yeah
 
Nzall
Nzall
2:56 PM
@MattE.Эллен It's not entirely sure though. Geralt definitely goes through some popularity increases because of Jeskier's barding
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@Nzall How does horse armor increase your popularity?
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Nzall around the same distance into Ciri's story where she is doted on by her grandmother and mousesack?
 
Nzall
Nzall
At the start Geralt was hated by everyone and had to kill a bunch of people, but after Jeskier met with him his reputation slowly shifted from The Butcher of Blaviken, who murdered half a village and was cast out because of it, To that of the White Wolf, a monster killer for hire who will help you get rid of your monster
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
as I say it's a weak parallel at best
 
Nzall
Nzall
@MattE.Эллен No, over the entire story. Ciri slowly loses friends to Nilfgaard, while Geralt slowly earns respect and standing
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
3:00 PM
So all of a sudden my shoulder started hurting yesterday. And it's still hurting now. And breathing from my belly causes a sharp pain in my side.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
sounds like you pulled a muscle?
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@MattE.Эллен Well that doesn't sound fun.
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Yuuki if you got healthcare and can afford it, you could go to a doctor instead of complaining to friends
They'll probably be more able to help than random people on the internet
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
very true
I Am Not A Doctor
IANAD
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@Nzall Judging by this response, I'm definitely not complaining to friends. I'm not saying "fix this", I'm saying "oh hey, this kinda sucks".
 
badp
badp
3:03 PM
@Yuuki it's a great party trick
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Yuuki barding as in being a bard
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
ugh byleth is the new smash character
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
@Nzall then I guess it's inverse parallel. Ciri starts high and falls low. Geralt starts low and gets high
 
badp
badp
@Yuuki :( please take care of yourself. It's always easier to tell that to frienda and doing it yourself and I'm often guilty of do as I say not as I do in this field
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Could they not have picked one of the lords? Edelgard, Dimitri, or Claude would have all been much better choices.
 
badp
badp
3:05 PM
but still
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
Edelgard -> Edgelard
 
badp
badp
how are you gonna keep inflicting critical puns on us if you're… WRITING in pain
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@MattE.Эллен -> Edgeguard
It works so well.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
:D
 
Nzall
Nzall
@badp with his shoulderpen?
 
badp
badp
3:06 PM
They're taking the hobbies to Edgelords
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
I'll probably talk to my trainer some time today, could've been a result of training day before yesterday.
Although if it's a pulled muscle as a result of working out, it's a bit weird that it would take a day to appear.
 
Matt E. Эллен
Matt E. Эллен
maybe it was shy
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
If it doesn't change by tomorrow, I'll try to get a doctor's appointment Saturday.
 
badp
badp
delayed exercise injuries are a thing
whenever I'd go climbing my wrists would take a couple of days before feeling crippled
 
Nzall
Nzall
@badp true, sometime I don't feel the pain from overstretching my legs during certain inattentive activities until the day after
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
3:11 PM
> From the Garreg Mach Monastery to the battlefield, Byleth is joining #SmashBrosUltimate as DLC fighter 5!

The fighter is planned for release on 1/28. Purchase the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighters Pass to obtain Byleth immediately following release!
Supreme eh...
Seriously, any of the lords would've been better choices because they at least use different weapons. Axes, lances, bows rather than the "oh hey, another sword person".
I suppose the Sword of the Creator might have some gameplay uniqueness because it's a whip sword but still.
The Cuphead costume looks pretty cool though.
oh hey, the daniel radcliffe in a bathrobe with guns movie is coming out
> I saw this at TIFF and it's beyond terrible. It's like a bad imitation of the humour of Deadpool and the manic action of Crank without seeming to realize what actually makes those movies fun. Also some of the most poorly edited actions scenes I've ever watched. Overall it's just incredibly cringeworthy and headache inducing.
:|
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
3:33 PM
@Ronan @Yuuki Also, I'm now up to 3 victories with the watcher (and 3 losses, I think). She's started to click with me.
She's a lot of fun. I'll be playing her more tonight.
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
I only have Slay the Spire on Switch and I don't think 2.0 will be live for at least another week or so.
They sent out an announcement saying it'll be soon though.
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
YEah, it'll be a few weeks at least, I suspect.
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
4:05 PM
 
Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
4:18 PM
0
Q: Where are the Aperture Science Logos?

BurgiI'm replaying the original Half-Life on Steam. I seem to remember there being Aperture Science logos on the laser equipment that you pass on the way down to the containment chamber at the start of the game. However they no longer appear to be there. Am I just mis-remembering or did Valve remove ...

half-life half-life-series
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
Ooh, when did they add the Timeline button?
 
Elva
Elva
Hmm anyone here have any experience with remotr? Or some other in-lan streaming thing for games? I want to play games on my laptop mostly without messing around with getting them registred in steam if they're not-steam-games
 
Sterno
Sterno
5:00 PM
My complaint about the Witcher series is none of the other episodes lived up to the battle scene in the first one. GIMME MORE BLOODSHED
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
wtb more 1v1s
 
user15026
5:43 PM
@SaintWacko Today!
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
Oh wow finally
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
@Ash Ah, cool!
 
Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
6:04 PM
0
Q: Is there a Minecraft direction facing by hotkey mod?

Tommy WoldtI’ve already scoured the internet to the best of my searching ability for a client side Minecraft mod that can set my camera rotational coordinates to pre-set directions with the press of a hotkey. Obviously I couldn’t find one so I come here to crowd source a solution. I am trying to make an aut...

minecraft mods
 
 
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Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
7:46 PM
0
Q: How can I remove items with custom tags from a players inventory in 1.14?

HelpmeplsI have no problem giving a player an item with a custom Tag, and I have no problem detecting that item with the specific tag, my issue is running the clear command for that specific item AFTER detecting the item in the players inventory Here is the command to give the player the item: /give @a ...

minecraft minecraft-commands
 
badp
badp
7:59 PM
@Yuuki she's... weird
a lot of her cards feel super OP
but she ends up taking a LOT of damage for some reason
 
Ronan
Ronan
You take double damage in wrath mode I think
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
(previous WR before this route is I think a 16)
lol the last split is just called "woah"
???????????????????????
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
8:17 PM
Oh, I should go back to Slay the Spire
But Monster Hunter...
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
ugh punishing draw is actually probably a bad skill for long sword
Because it encourages you to go for the head, which is something you should leave for hammers and other impact weapons.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
I'm sure there's some silly set out there that works with Iai Slash
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Yeah, I have parts of one right now.
I have Punishing Draw from the Barioth 2-set bonus.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
Honestly, there's no reason for Hammer users to not have Flinch Free
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
And my other pieces have Sheath and Crit Draw.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
8:21 PM
Become the Iai master
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@Wrigglenite People wanting to make numbers go up without thinking about context.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
I honestly disagree, I've seen a loooot of people bash on pure damage sets
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Long Sword is fun but the Spirit Gauge mechanic feels more annoying right now than in previous games.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
And Flinch Free is a damage skill in a group anyway
Why so?
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
I suppose it depends on the monster but when I was hunting my first Barioth solo, I never got past orange gauge because the monster would move around so much.
There must be somewhat to cancel into the Spirit Roundslash because having to get the whole combo off to upgrade your Spirit Gauge is frustrating.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
8:22 PM
Hm, I find Foresight Slash helps a lot with that
Or you could do the short combo, starting with the Fade Slash
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@Wrigglenite Doesn't Foresight Slash consume a level of Spirit Gauge if you don't i-frame an attack with it?
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
It empties the spirit bar, but doesn't drain a level
You might be thinking of the... what is it even called
Spirit Iai Roundslash?
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Something crazy like that.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
It normally consumes a level, but if you time it right, you keep your Spirit level
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
The timing is actually fairly generous from my experience, the tricky part is anticipating the monster so that you're in your draw stance before an attack.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
8:26 PM
The Foresight Slash just requires some amount of the Spirit Gauge, and empties it when using it
But if you hit the counterattack, that fills your gauge all the way
And then you can go straight into a Spirit Roundslash
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
I'm wondering whether it's worth it to do regular attack combos or whether I should just Iai Slash all the time.
I suppose if I have a draw skills set, Iai Slash is likely better.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
Iai Slash is slow, from what I've seen
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Otherwise, regular attacks probably have better throughput.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
You know what, I'll go find an arena quest with a Long Sword and mess around with it
 
Nzall
Nzall
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
8:29 PM
I've only touched the Hunting Horn so far
 
Nzall
Nzall
Cyberpunk 2077 delayed until September
If they keep delaying it like that it's going to release as alternate history rather than speculative fiction
 
Mage Xy
Mage Xy
First we get another FE character for Smash, and now CP2077 getting delayed? Time to riot! I'll get the pitchforks.
 
MBraedley
MBraedley
@Nzall Better that than releasing a buggy game. Just look at how well that went for ME:A
 
Nzall
Nzall
oh man, that bug in the Windows 10 Crypto API is a doozy
finally another major flaw I actually understand
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@MBraedley Well, that wasn't the only thing wrong with Andromeda.
Or Anthem.
Counterpoint: look at how well releasing a buggy game went for Skyrim.
 
MBraedley
MBraedley
8:46 PM
@Yuuki I mean, the story was meh and the gameplay a bit repetitive, that those had nothing on the bugs.
 
Nzall
Nzall
essentially, it revolves around Elliptic Curve cryptography, which is a way to generate a public key from a private key by using a standardized curve generated from the private key by a standardized generator. Turns out that if you take the same curve but can specify a different generator, you can essentially derive a different private key from the same public key that will still be accepted as a valid key
so then you can generate another certificate using this new private key
and more importantly, you can generate a rogue CA intermediate certificate so you can actually claim that you're resolving to a trusted root CA
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
It turns out I suck with Long Sword
 
JBis
JBis
insert coin
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@Wrigglenite Long Sword is a bit janky. The attack animations are slightly longer than average and you rely on combos. And you also don't have a guard.
It can be pretty annoying to learn.
Also, the hitboxes on the attacks are somewhat janky as well.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
9:32 PM
Okay
Spirit Iai Slash into Spirit Thrust is one of the coolest things you can do
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
I have mixed opinions on Spirit Thrust. It costs you a level of Spirit Gauge because it automatically combos into Helm Breaker on hit, which consumes a level whether or not it does damage.
 
Wrigglenite
Wrigglenite
Helmbreaker at red gauge is THE strongest move you have
It's high risk, high reward
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
I mean, I understand, I just have mixed feelings about it.
 
Nzall
Nzall
9:51 PM
 
user15026
Why are you linking random spam here?
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Ash because it's funny
and/or creepy depending on your perspective
Like, the first 3 words alone tell a story by themselves
 
user15026
....I see.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
 
Nzall
Nzall
I'm not a woman, so it's somewhat eyeopening to see how they are treated over private channels
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
9:55 PM
Surprisingly inspirational, but definitely NSFW lyrics
@Nzall That's gross dude, lol
 
user15026
@Nzall ....okay.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Also @InvaderSkoodge I have no idea if this is interesting to you or not but Time Warpers is fully released on steam now. It's like... FPS + idle game? It's a 'sequel' to time clickers (free) if you ever played that
 
Ave
Ave
@Nzall speaking of this
I got my first (random) nude sent to me on twitter
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Fun, lol
report
I got a bunch on snapchat one time. My info was added to a gay dating forum or something, I later found out
That was an experience
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Ave next time, ask them why they sent you a picture of a child's penis and then show a picture of you reporting them to whatever organization Turkey has for fighting child pornography. I saw a picture of someone doing that on Reddit and it was glorious
 
Dragonrage
Dragonrage
10:08 PM
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Yeah pretty much
 
user15026
@Dragonrage laughs Dangerous wind, that.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
10:24 PM
 
Ave
Ave
10:55 PM
@Nzall This person is trans, so as much as I hate receiving random nudes, I'd rather not make their life any harder.
I'll talk with them when I find the spoons for it
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@Nzall and from what i heard Final Fantasy VII was coming out at the same time so was going to compete with Cyberpunk. the universe aligns itself to allows these not to complete
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
11:31 PM
My word John Williams.
 
user15026
O.o wow
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
You know, pretty much everything star wars except for the first 2 movies and part of the third might be terrible, but my Zeus is the music well done
 
Lazers 2.0
Lazers 2.0
0
Q: How do you get angry grandmas in cookie clicker?

user242775I have no idea how to get angry grandmas. I have the Bingo/Research Facility upgrade but I don't know how to get the upgrades that are being researched.

cookie-clicker
 

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