The Bridge

Martin Sojka

12:00

@fredley They all do.

5pike

@Lazers Mhhh... duplicate of gaming.stackexchange.com/q/131012/49182

fredley

@MartinSojka True dat

Arperum

@fredley And this bat doesn't otherwise he would have bitten the puny human.

Private Pansy

kalina

I am now going to make you all very sad by linking my work PC desktop

fredley

12:04

Is that... zune?

Private Pansy

@fredley It is, yes

fredley

@kalina Ew, IE

@PrivatePansy Do you actually own a zune?

Private Pansy

My previous phone was a Windows Phone phone

Phone phone phone phone phone phone phone

3ventic

Y so many desktop shortcuts?

fredley

@3ventic clutterbug

3ventic

12:06

Private Pansy

It's also a decent media player / organizer

kalina

and here is my work pc when it is in use:

and well, I've linked a screenshot of my desktop pc's desktop before

so I don't think you need that

also, dell monitors using whatever that stupid x1050 resolution is need launching into the sun

1680x1050!

DIE IN A FIRE!

1600x900!

DIE IN A FIRE!

3ventic

My second monitor is 1680x1050

and I don't like it

kalina

eww

if you're going multi-monitor, make sure they're all the same size

I hate my work setup on account of them not being the same size

I'm not petty at all

3ventic

I got the second monitor for free, so can't really complain

kalina

12:11

I stole my third from first line, while laughing loudly

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina I've got a 1200x1920, a 1920x1080 and a 1680x1050, it's not pretty

3ventic

I like my main monitor a lot though, 1920x1080 hdtv, better and bigger than the old CRT tv we have in our living room :D

kalina

I have 3x1920x1080 at home

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden You got a vertical monitor?

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy Jeah, you can turn it portrait or landscape, but my desk isn't big enough for all three next to each other

Private Pansy

12:13

I really want a 1920x1200, but I didn't manage to get one

3ventic

I used to have a 1280x1024 monitor above my main monitor.. That wasn't great..

kalina

Weapons of mass destruction please:

-2

Q: Civ v Getting mods from steam workshop?

I am playing pirated civ v g&k. How can i get mods from the steam workshop? Is it possible?

Private Pansy

@kalina Nuclear launch detected

kalina

@PrivatePansy Ion cannon: activated

3ventic

@PrivatePansy Check that the pirate ship won't shoot it down

kalina

12:15

CHA-CHING-A... Chew on this!

Ben Brocka

@kalina I hate weird resolutions that aren't at least 720p 0r 1080p. At least follow some standards

fredley

@kalina DESTRUCTION CONFIRMED

Ben Brocka

@spyder bats are adorable

kalina

@BenBrocka largely my problem is having multiple panels, each running at different resolutions

3ventic

@BenBrocka Indeed.. varying screen sizes make it a pain to program for large variety of users..

kalina

12:17

but yeah I prefer something that follows a standard

I still don't understand why companies haven't started making bezel-less panels

Ben Brocka

@kalina That's even worse, though a variety of weird resolutions is part of why that's common

Private Pansy

I much prefer 16:10 to 16:9

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina they have, they're just pretty rare

Ben Brocka

@kalina because they're assholes

kalina

because I know I would buy new screens the moment I could find three nice looking bezel-less screens

and I know I'm not the only person in the world that would

Private Pansy

12:17

@kalina I thought I've seen those before

kalina

@PrivatePansy there's a couple that I've seen that claim to be bezelless, but still have a black border around them

fredley

@kalina If you don't have bezels where do you put your post-it notes?

Private Pansy

Oh, these are TVs, not computer monitors

fredley

@kalina There are technological limitations

kalina

I... this isn't the 90s, I don't use post it notes

Ben Brocka

12:18

I'm not sure I've ever seen a commercial bezel-free panel or even anything with a near-zero one. I've seen some modified ones that have the casing removed

kalina

@BenBrocka I thought about doing that

fredley

@kalina How does the decade affect usage of post-its?

kalina

but knowing me and electronics, I'd end up the other side of the room with my hair standing up

Ben Brocka

I can't, I have a cat

kalina

@fredley the same way you don't see many people getting their head drilled to resolve colds anymore

Sterno

12:20

I ordered a sausage biscuit and got a sausage McMuffin. Thanks, Obama!

fredley

@kalina I don't follow

kalina

@fredley times change

fredley

@Sterno Don't even say the b word in here

kalina

all the cool kids use google notes instead of post-its

fredley

@kalina Hah! Google Keep

Ben Brocka

12:21

@Sterno Does McDonalds even have different varieties of sausage McX? I thought they were all McMuffins

fredley

@kalina Google Notes is so 2012

kalina

@fredley I don't have anything to retort to that with

it still says notes on my phone

Sterno

@BenBrocka Bagel, Biscuit, Burrito, McMuffin

fredley

@kalina It's all Keep on mine

Esp since they integrated Keep with Now

Sterno

Only the "muffin" get the "Mc" on the front

kalina

12:22

nope, still got notes

google now is so horrible

I feel like I have a stalker on my own phone

sat there, monitoring everything I say and do

Private Pansy

@Sterno There's also a McGriddles

Sterno

Oh god, those things

Yeah

kalina

only to pop up randomly and go OH, YOU GOOGLED LONDON, 1 HOUR 30 MINUTES AWAY VIA TRAIN, YOU WANT TICKETS?

"It looks like you're in bed, would you like to set your alarm?"

Ben Brocka

@kalina You can disable it or specific card types

kalina

er... are you watching me?

HAL9000 appears on screen

"Yes."

@BenBrocka I would actually rather both Google Now and HTC Sense would die

Private Pansy

12:25

@kalina It tells me my ETA to home before I even reach my workplace. It's horrible.

kalina

@PrivatePansy same

Lazers

Recent Questions - Arqade: Minecraft Launcher Taking Forever To Login

posted on September 20, 2013 by ReallyGoodPie

So I reformatted my computer (as you do) and after downloading Minecraft again I can't seem to login. I have no clue what the problem is, but it certainly is not my network as I am still using it while it is logging in. It has now been over half an hour and I all that is being displayed is the following: All that is being displayed is my username (after clicking…

Private Pansy

@Lazers ???

kalina

I've never seen it formatted like that before

the question is deleted

Private Pansy

@kalina That's the normal formatting for a RSS feed whose items do not onebox

kalina

12:27

I wonder if the asker happened to delete the question at the moment in time @Lazers spammed it

Private Pansy

@kalina Probably

fredley

Ben Brocka

I thought that was a blogpost or something and was like whaaat

kalina

actually google now is not currently telling me that it will take 13 minutes to get home

fredley

Sausage Biscuit

Sterno

12:28

@OrigamiRobot Maybe we can just start linking that Stonehenge video on Fridays instead.

OrigamiRobot

@Sterno fredley will just kill it.

Sterno

British people have a stupid definition of "biscuit", because it is not my definition of biscuit.

kalina

sorry but the language is called English

Sterno

I mean, who came up with language anyway? AMERICANS

kalina

nope, you were too slow

Arperum

12:29

@Sterno Your definition of stupid is stupid!

Sterno

I know. You win. This time.

kalina

remind me what an American biscuit is again

Sterno

dictionary.reference.com/browse/biscuit?s=t

fredley

@kalina Something like an English Muffin I think

Private Pansy

@kalina A cookie, right?

Although I'm not sure what an American cookie is, then

Sterno

12:30

Definition #1, not lame #2!

kalina

@PrivatePansy actually a cookie is to the Americans what a biscuit is the us

I think

fredley

@Sterno American Dictionary, not an English Dictionary

kalina

@fredley looks like a muffin description to me

Ben Brocka

@Sterno From now on the proper type of biscuit will be called FREEDOM BISCUITS

Sterno

@fredley Well, of course it is, because America > England

RedRiderX

12:30

@fredley What is in between those biscuits? Ore slurry?

kalina

FREEDOM FRIES

Private Pansy

@kalina Yup, definitely muffin

fredley

@Sterno By area, I'll give you that

Private Pansy

So what's an American muffin?

fredley

@RedRiderX Nobody knows, but it's delicious

kalina

12:31

@fredley by stupidity too

@fredley pollution output

fredley

@RedRiderX In my image I've put sausages though

kalina

@fredley weapons purchased/year

fredley

@kalina Not sure about that

kalina

@fredley there is no way England purchases more weapons per year than America

fredley

@kalina Oh guns, yes ok

Private Pansy

12:31

@fredley In terms of monetary value

kalina

random people get guns for signing up for bank accounts over there

Sterno

^ Muffins

fredley

@kalina Yes, thought you meant as in international arms deals rather than individual purchases

kalina

HERE YOU GO LITTLE KID, YOUR FIRST BANK ACCOUNT AND YOUR FIRST FULLY AUTOMATIC ASSAULT RIFLE

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fredley

@Sterno Fairy cakes

kalina

12:32

HAPPY EIGHTH BIRTHDAY!!!!1111oneone

Sterno

^ biscuits

kalina

@Sterno scone

fredley

@Sterno Scones

Private Pansy

Scone

kalina

's gone

RedRiderX

12:32

@fredley That... that doesn't look like any sausage I've seen before.

fredley

@RedRiderX The image lost a lot of clarity in downsizing

Sterno

You guys say what you want. I'm going to be over here waving my American flag, firing all my guns in the air, and doing donuts in my pickup truck.

2

Private Pansy

@RedRiderX Bak Kwa, perhaps?

kalina

@Sterno lol

Ben Brocka

@Sterno salutes

fredley

12:34

@Sterno I shall sit here and sip tea from a porcelain teacup, sitting in my leather armchair by the fire.

RedRiderX

@PrivatePansy Perhaps, but that didn't immediately come to mind as a potential sausage.

Sterno

Quite.

fredley

@Sterno Indeed

kalina

@fredley don't forget the little finger thing, must point it out while drinking tea from a teacup

StrixVaria

@Sterno British words for these things are so ambiguous.

kalina

12:35

and the pointing of your nose in the air

Private Pansy

@RedRiderX Potential sausage

fredley

@kalina Naturally

StrixVaria

They call cookies biscuits.

fredley

My upper lip is stiffened

kalina

@StrixVaria actually cookies are a distinct category of biscuits

Ben Brocka

12:35

Probably call it a royal with cheese

kalina

cookies are far nicer than biscuits

Yuki

They also call chips crisps.

Sterno

@StrixVaria I know. They're horrible. There should be a UN resolution correcting this or something.

RedRiderX

@RedRiderX WHA THE HECK!? WHA DAT GET STARRED FOR!?

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kalina

@Yuki that's because chips are fries

Sterno

12:35

And fries are "chips"

Private Pansy

43 secs ago, by Private Pansy

@RedRiderX Potential sausage

StrixVaria

@Sterno Wat.

What are chips then?

kalina

@StrixVaria crisps

Sterno

35 secs ago, by Yuki

They also call chips crisps.

fredley

@StrixVaria Crisps is a sensible word for them, they are crispy

kalina

12:36

but to make it confusing

StrixVaria

So is celery.

Yuki

And they call French fries "abominations".

fredley

You can also roll the R for immense satisfaction

kalina

Fries are an actual thing here also

Sterno

The US copies them at stupid times though. Go to a restaurant and order "fish and chips", and it means fries. But only in that one case, ever.

fredley

12:36

Crrrisps

Ben Brocka

@RedRiderX There are only three reasons things get stared: Humor, spite, and lack of context

kalina

so we have crisps, which are chips in America

fredley

Fries are thinner chips

kalina

we have chips, which are fries in America

and then we have fries

Private Pansy

@kalina Which I believe are also fries in America

StrixVaria

12:37

What are British fries?

kalina

@PrivatePansy I was just thinking that, perhaps America misses "chips"

fredley

@StrixVaria Thin chips

Ben Brocka

Everyone stop arguing and look at bunnies

kalina

@StrixVaria super thin crispy chips

Yuki

Po-tay-toes are also called po-tah-toes over there.

Sterno

12:38

The main thing I learned on my trip to the UK is that they have better Indian food, way worse anything-involving-beef, and that having a culture in which you don't tip does lead to worse service.

fredley

Fries:

Sterno

And there's beer everywhere.

kalina

@Yuki no, I pronounce it the first way

fredley

Chips:

kalina

@Sterno er, no

fredley

12:38

kalina

our beef actually has beef in it

StrixVaria

@fredley These are fries.

Private Pansy

@kalina Also, horse

StrixVaria

@fredley These are steak fries.

kalina

@PrivatePansy also... horse

fredley

12:38

@StrixVaria They are also chips

Yuki

@kalina Well, you're doing it wrong then.

fredley

Fries is a subset of chips

Sterno

@StrixVaria I'm not talking about crappy McDonald's beef or something. I'm talking real restaurants.

Sconibulus

@Sterno English beef is delicious, I don't know what you're talking about

Sterno

everywhere I went overcooked the shit out of it

StrixVaria

12:38

@Sterno I don't like beef anyway.

fredley

@StrixVaria WTF, they're not made of steak

Yuki

@Sconibulus Don't you mean English horse meat?

StrixVaria

@fredley I didn't make up the word.

Sconibulus

nah, I was over there like 15 years ago

fredley

TESCO FINEST HORSE

StrixVaria

12:39

That's what you call them in this country if you want to be understood.

Sconibulus

that was before Ikea

RedRiderX

@PrivatePansy You lot are hornier then a sack of brass instruments.

5

Sterno

I'm sure my one week experience across 4 restaurants is a perfectly acceptable generalization of the entire country!

OrigamiRobot

12 hours ago, by OrigamiRobot

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Steak

StrixVaria

12:39

I have to go to work but I hope we're still arguing about this when I get there.

4

kalina

@StrixVaria I asked for chips once in an American restaurant

@OrigamiRobot what if I want it cooked?

rather than just burning the outside

Sconibulus

@kalina then you're doing it wrong

Yuki

@kalina You say "well done".

OrigamiRobot

That is cooked.

fredley

@kalina This meat is well cooked, your tastes are wrong

kalina

12:40

@OrigamiRobot that's practically still alive

Sconibulus

But yeah, Roast Beef and stuff is much better in England, from what I remember

fredley

@kalina Ideal.

Sconibulus

didn't try much steak though, I'll be honest

fredley

I like the blood to run down my chin

Sconibulus

meat pies were tasty

kalina

12:40

eww

Sterno

@kalina This is exactly the problem I had with beef over there. It was overcooked like crazy.

RedRiderX

Anyway, I see you got my... uh... package, @PrivatePansy.

Private Pansy

@kalina Maybe get two of accessories.us.dell.com/sna/… instead

kalina

@Sterno I will be honest and say I'm a bit out of my depth when you start talking about meats, I'm practically a vegetarian except for breakfast

Yuki

It really varies from region to region, but most American steakhouses default to Medium Well or Medium.

RedRiderX

12:41

How did you like it?

fredley

@Sterno Roast Beef is another matter though

Sterno

@kalina Thanks for reminding me, I forgot about all the sausages!

kalina

@PrivatePansy no, it has to be three

fredley

OM NOM NOM

kalina

there is a technical reason why it has to be three

Arperum

12:41

@fredley IMAGE NOT FOUND

Yuki

So if you want your meat cooked thoroughly, then you have to straight-up ask for "well done".

kalina

its very important

@Yuki BURN IT, SET IT ON FIRE

Private Pansy

@RedRiderX Instead of office chair package contained bobcat. Would not buy again.

Sterno

I used to always get my steaks well-done and wondered why people liked steak. I finally got medium rare and understood.

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fredley

@kalina That will cook it quickly on the outside, and leave the inside red...

Arperum

12:42

@fredley Looks tasty now.

Sconibulus

@fredley you say that like it's not ideal

Private Pansy

@kalina So you won't have to find new wallpapers?

fredley

@Sconibulus @kalina Implied it wasn't her ideal

Yuki

@Sterno I used to get medium rare and then I just got rare. Oh god, it was great. Gonna see if I can get close to raw without getting e. coli or something.

Sconibulus

@fredley but she also suggested the cooking method...

fredley

12:43

I've had steak tartare, was tasty but not as tasty as cooked meat

kalina

@PrivatePansy no, with two monitors, your game character is in the middle of the two screens

@PrivatePansy in first person shooters, your cross hair is between two screens

fredley

@Sconibulus Quite. She made a logical error

Private Pansy

I'm not sure if many games support dual or tri-screen setups anway

Sterno

@Yuki Yeah, I go rare if I trust the place.

Sconibulus

Oooh, yay! Full moon!

kalina

12:44

@PrivatePansy Eyefinity

Sterno

I always shoot for rare when cooking at home and end up with medium :P

kalina

makes the screen look like a single super wide screen

Private Pansy

@Sconibulus It was Mid-Autumn Festival yesterday

Wipqozn

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen!

kalina

it's not a case of "supporting multiple screens"

Wipqozn

12:44

Oh, and creepy old men (cc @Sterno)

kalina

it's a case of "scaling well across one wide one"

@Wipqozn o/

RedRiderX

@PrivatePansy Wait, so you actually got a straight look at it?

Sconibulus

@PrivatePansy Hmm? I don't think that gives me a luck bonus

Sterno

@Wipqozn Flagged as you're a horrible person

RedRiderX

Sometimes even that's hard to get.

fredley

12:45

@Sterno You're the one with the Rebecca Black problem

kalina

really? You're going to star that after all the shit you gave me yesterday?

Sterno

@fredley Evidence suggests that it's you with the Rebecca Black problem.

kalina

bunch of whiny hypocrites

Wipqozn

@Sterno I can't disagree with that.

Sterno

"Good morning ladies, gentlemen, and horrible persons".

Private Pansy

12:46

@RedRiderX It told me it was a spider

And it bit me. Hard.

fredley

@Sterno I'm only filling in during your NYR phase

kalina

@OrigamiRobot are you back working normal hours yet?

RedRiderX

@PrivatePansy Ahh, a sorrow-spider then.

kalina

or are you going to guilt trip me when I play payday 2 and don't invite you later

Sterno

@fredley I don't know. It just feels like the magic is gone.

Maybe we need a three month moratorium to really take them by surprise when it resumes.

kalina

12:48

@Sterno the problem is, @fredley isn't as funny as you

fredley

@Sterno You're only telling me this now?

@Sterno But...but...

Wipqozn

@BenBrocka This explains how the damage works

kalina

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Q: How do you short stocks in GTA5?

One of the most interesting elements in GTA5 is the stock market. I understand that often Lester will have assassination missions for the player, such as the one involving the LifeInvader CEO, and was wondering how I could profit off missions such as these? For example, LifeInvader's stock took...

grand-theft-auto-5

22086 views in 22 hours

that has to be a record surely?

Private Pansy

> You ask around the more infernally informed of your contacts. A few hours later, there's a whole coterie of devils, each inviting you to stab or strangle them. This can't go well.

RedRiderX

@PrivatePansy You must be more discreet, friend.

Ben Brocka

12:53

@kalina the limited-time dragonvale questions have probably gotten near that many views, surely lots of Skyrim ones too

@Sterno Beef is worse? Not enough space to raise the cattle right?

Arperum

@BenBrocka But in the same timeframe?

Lazers

0

Q: No new villager has created a plot to move in yet?

I've had a normal villager move out four days ago, and no new plot has appeared. Usually when a villager of mine moved out, two days pass and a new plot appears, or a camper the day after they move. I have eight villagers now, and I do have space for a new villager, so what's happening? Is it ...

animal-crossing-new-leaf

RedRiderX

@PrivatePansy Oh, I finally got your ping from earlier...

Private Pansy

Oh, and I noticed the local Build-a-Bear have Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash plushies

RedRiderX

Yeah that can happen.

Ben Brocka

12:57

@Arperum yeah they got 'em pretty fast, since everyone's searching at once. I'm sure I've gotten atl east the 10k badge within 24 hours

Private Pansy

Would buy them, but the mane and tail...

Sconibulus

@PrivatePansy but... but... those are not bears

RedRiderX

@PrivatePansy You know why they are called sorrow spiders?

Ben Brocka

@PrivatePansy ...but are they terrible? The hasbro...er, everythings, are pretty terrible

Private Pansy

@BenBrocka Judge for yourself

@RedRiderX The tears that fall after you get bitten?

Ben Brocka

12:59

@Wipqozn Is there a visual indicator when you're hitting the right/wrong hitzone?

Wipqozn

My family is so dumb. My mother fell for a stupid facebook hoax yesterday, about privacy settings., and I just saw my aunt post this

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