The Bridge

Yuki

10:00

@kalina Wasn't TF2 vaporware for about a decade?

3ventic

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina there'll be bitching and moaning and if we had a way to generate power from fanboy tears we'd have solved the energy crisis.

kalina

Team Fortress 2 is not an epic story driven game

@Yuki a better comparison would be DNF

Yuki

@kalina Neither is Half Life. Half Life is an epic physics puzzle driven game.

kalina

@Yuki Half Life didn't have a physics engine

it was a narrative driven game

Kevin van der Velden

10:03

@kalina you can have puzzles without physics, they'll just be different puzzles :)

kalina

You can't have physics puzzles without physics

and you said physics puzzles

Yuki

@kalina I said "physics puzzles", not @KevinvanderVelden.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki And I tried to correct her, missing the physics bit in your statement=p

Yuki

Dear god, I just about had a heart attack.

The fire alarm in my room is just went off for a second.

And then stopped.

Kevin van der Velden

Well that is... interesting

What kind of fire alarm? Building wide or just your regular single room one?

Yuki

10:08

Whoops, misname.

Single room smoke detector.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki might be a warning that it's batteries are about to die, I believe some have that feature

Yuki

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the case. Although I wish it wouldn't be so loud about it.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki better a bit of a headache then dead cause you didn't hear it =p

5pike

@KevinvanderVelden was just about to say something similar...

Yuki

@KevinvanderVelden There's loud and there's "school fire alarm" loud.

IIRC, most industrial fire alarms aren't as loud as school fire alarms. Mostly because companies get sued if their alarms deafen their workers.

The alarms at my school were definitely loud enough to make you deaf if you stayed inside during a fire drill or something. Which I guess is sorta the point. It really doesn't need to be that loud though.

Oh... god...

My database instructor is using reserved words/keywords as table names.

And is forcing us to do so.

What the frak.

3ventic

10:16

►

5pike

This is definitely a sock-puppet show

Yuki

@3ventic Seriously not sure if serious.

Sepia Lazers

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Q: Update the FAQ tag or create a new tag

At least once a week I bump into a meta post about some site policy and I only feel like I should have read that ages ago. As it stands, the help pages are very limited, which helps new users to understand the site better, but there is no easy way to get to all the important meta posts, especiall...

Lazers

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Q: How to get a quick upgrading for the game Grand Battle?

Have anyone played the free Android game Grand Battle? I am a novice in this game, and I notice that to be a successful commander, it is very important to get a quick upgrading. Could anyone give me some advice? Thank you so much!

android game-center

Yuki

WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME USE RESERVED WORDS, INSTRUCTOR? IT MAKES ME BLEED FROM MY EYES.

Gaming Topics From Outside

10:24

0

Q: Running "Crusader Kings II"

I am trying to run "Crusader Kings II" using wine, and a lot of workarounds suggest using WINEDEBUG command, but whenever i use it in terminal, it shows a message that command not found. Does anyone know how to solve this?

wine games

Yuki

AND EARS.

5pike

@Yuki Go and ask him

If you can, without repercussions.

Yuki

@5pike Probably not the best thing to do when the project is due in... less than 12 hours.

Lazers

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Q: Infinity Blade III Worker of Secrets Level?

Okay, so. I was playing IB3, I wanted to check my status on GC and I found this: http://m1310.hizliresim.com/1g/9/tdyxz.jpg "Worker of Secrets Level" What does that mean?

infinity-blade-3

kalina

SO MUCH BACON

Blem

10:28

@kalina mmmmmhhhh bacon!

kalina

sometimes I just have an insatiable desire to fill myself with meat

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tombull89

uh.

kalina

perverts

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina Twinkle, twinkle, little starbait

tombull89

well, at least we didn't flag it.

kalina

10:33

innocent of all charges

5pike

kalina

My favourite flag against me, was when I was at my friends house, one of my friends grabbed my phone and typed "penis" into chat, I got flagged and banned without even being here and was unbanned by the time I realised I'd been flagged

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina nice :D

kalina

so stupid

because, obviously, the word "penis" is insulting and/or offensive

unless it was an association thing

penis belongs to man, and man is insulting and/or offensive

must have been that

Yuki

Energy drink is starting to cause stomach unease.

Blem

10:41

@kalina I have also tried getting banned and not realised it before it was over

kalina

@Blem I didn't even try to get banned

Yuki

I've probably completely digested my dinner by now so all that's left it is energy drink.

Ugh.

kalina

@Yuki I am powered by energy drinks

although right now, I'm drinking cream soda

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki Yes, as far as I can tell that is the purpose of energy drink, to mes up your stomach

kalina

Eat a bag of liquorice allsorts while you're feeling dodgy from energy drinks

it makes it 10x worse

Blem

10:42

@kalina I wasn't expecting to get banned either but some people don't like cleavage or it might have been for a rape sloth meme

Yuki

I'm also experiencing a persistent cough, slight soreness in my left foot, and shoulder aches.

kalina

@Blem I wouldn't flag for people posting breasts. I would flag and stamp my feet loudly about the latter though

If I flagged for the former, @GnomeSlice would be still banned

5pike

@kalina Cream soda is vanilla flavoured soda, right?

tombull89

Cream soda is foul.

kalina

I wouldn't say vanilla flavour

its close to that though

5pike

10:45

I can't say, I ever had cream soda. Don't think they sell it here.

kalina

water, cream of tartar, Epsom salts, sugar, tartaric acid, egg, and milk, mixed and heated, once it's cooled, add a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate and some more water

no vanilla in there that I see

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina homemade cream soda? Neat

kalina

I didn't make this

I bought it

I just googled the recipe

I struggle to make pasta without merging it all to the bottom of the pan on a molecular level

don't ask me to make soft drinks

Kevin van der Velden

Aah kay

@kalina but it'll be fun!

kalina

I can just about use a microwave without there being a major fire hazard

Kevin van der Velden

10:49

My coworker is trying some new pineapple tea.. somehow it turned bright pink

kalina

and then occasionally I'll bake something and it will actually work out alright

but others I'll make a cheese sauce and scorch it all to the bottom of the pan, give up, and order pizza

spyder

@kalina and what kind of drinks we can ask?

kalina

how I manage to live on a day to day basis without dying from food poisoning is beyond me

Kevin van der Velden

@spyder water, possibly tea water

5pike

@spyder I wouldn't trust her with any liquids.

kalina

10:50

I have a coffee machine to make coffee

so I don't have to punish myself by making crap coffee

5pike

Waiting for something to arrive is agonizing.

I hope I get the parts on Friday, so I can upgrade my PC in peace during weekend.

But such statements like "ships in 24-72 hours" usually means "definitely 72 hours"

Yuki

@5pike I know what you mean. I'm waiting for the specialty screwdriver so I can open my PS3.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki drill/sledgehammer not working for you? :)

Yuki

@KevinvanderVelden I don't own a sledgehammer and drills are for destroying giant galaxy-sized enemy mecha.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki improvise with a brick then, that should work.

Yuki

11:02

@KevinvanderVelden How am I going to hit my PS3 with my PS3?

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki portals

5pike

@Yuki Mhhh...the phat ps3 uses torx heads. These are usually available at every hardware store.

Yuki

@5pike Ah, but the PS3 Slim uses security Torx screws.

The nasty little buggers.

5pike

@Yuki Ok, that's nasty

Yuki

I'm worried that I need to replace the entire lens assembly.

I used the lens cleaner disc that came in yesterday. Nothing.

Okay. I really dislike my instructor now.

Not only is she making me use reserved words for column and table names, she doesn't even allow the typical work-around for using reserved words in this manner.

Kevin van der Velden

11:08

@Yuki the [keyword] thing? Or some work around I don't know?

5pike

@Yuki Sounds like a wonderful instructor.

Yuki

@KevinvanderVelden Yep.

The SQL interface/editor we're working looks at [keyword] and goes "You're not supposed to do that".

And I reply, "I know. Blame the person who made you".

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki And you question your instructor "Hey, were supposed to use keywords but the editor can't use the bracket notation to make that work. How are we supposed to do this again?"

kalina

@KevinvanderVelden dynamic t-sql

declare var as type, fill it with the sql you want to run, exec( @var );

Yuki

46 mins ago, by Yuki

@5pike Probably not the best thing to do when the project is due in... less than 12 hours.

Kevin van der Velden

11:11

@kalina That could actually work!

Yuki

If only we were using that.

kalina

well it's obviously going to work, if they're using microsoft sql server

Yuki

@kalina We're using Oracle 9i reasons unknown to me.

Kevin van der Velden

Use this:

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Q: How To Handle Table Column Named With Reserved Sql Keyword?

I have an old table that has a column named "RANK" and this name is Keyword in Oracle , I don't know how this table created and I can't rename this column because it is used by other applications . Now I need to insert data in this table : inser into mytbl (RANK) select RANK from other_table w...

sql oracle

Apparently that's what double quotes are used for in oracle sql, who knew :o

Yuki

Which is completely stupid because the department has free copies of SQL Server, if it's not free already.

kalina

11:13

you can double apostrophe in t-sql as well

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina never seen them used in such away

Yuki

I'm not sure if we're using T-SQL. Most likely not.

Kevin van der Velden

Only time I see apostrophe's is if I've just switched to SQL after writing C# for a while and want to start a string :)

kalina

Oracle is not tsql

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki this is a oracle sql thing as well

Or even better, it's an ISO thing

So yeah, mystery solved @Yuki, use double quotes :)

Sterno

11:17

@Blem I think I'm the one who flagged that.

For the latter, not the former

kalina

The solution as I see it is for it's to all flag spam sterno

Yuki

Ugh. I just worked around it by adding "my" in front of the offending names.

I don't feel like dropping those tables and starting over.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki double quotes should work in oracle to you know

Yuki

Well, it's something to keep in mind for next time, I guess.

spyder

I love TES:

Kevin van der Velden

11:23

I had fun during SQL classes, they never specified which database server to use so I could use all the (non-ANSI) features of mysql like "SELECT TOP n, m" ^^

@spyder nice, did you find it like that? :o

3ventic

@KevinvanderVelden elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Easter_Eggs_(Skyrim)#Pac-Man

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic Nice

Yuki

And the records she gives to insert don't have enough values. What the frak is going on in this class?

Lazers

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Q: Fez: how do I go into the golden door opened after I got the writing cube?

I got the writing cube early on Fez, in a room with jump-mushrooms. When I came back, some golden door-like decorations appeared on a wall. Instead of going there, I went elsewhere first; when I came back that reverted to a normal wall. I've found no way to go through there: did I permanently mi...

fez

TZHX

why are people editing out spam from these grand battle questions?

Kevin van der Velden

11:33

@TZHX I did it to remove the spam immediately, is that not the right thing to do?

TZHX

I don't think so. I thought it was just flag and downvote.

Kevin van der Velden

@TZHX badp removed the spam out of the first grand battle question, but that was before there was an obvious pattern

kalina

14 hours ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz

Spam and offensive posts are now automatically hidden. There is no more reason to censor them out.

also, you shouldn't edit out spam, it makes it harder for other people to realise it's spam and allows posts to slip through the net

editing out spam is an immolation worthy crime

Kevin van der Velden

@kalina aight won't do it again, even without threat of immolation =p

kalina

it wasn't a threat, merely a promise

TZHX

11:38

I'm sensing kalina has issues with fire.

3ventic

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Q: Please, please, please, don't edit out spam links

So, a Wild User Appears. He posts several answers of dubious quality, all of which include a wildly unrelated commercial link. In other words, SPAM. Now, in each of these cases, well intentioned community members edited those posts, removing the spam link. Problem solved right? The answers, wh...

discussion editing flags spam

kalina

needs more please

3ventic

I took a good hour browsing the meta earlier today finding all kinds of stuff I wanted to read

kalina

you found things you wanted to read on meta?

you need to get out more

3ventic

@kalina I'm weird, get over it.

kalina

11:39

I can't, impassable road block

3ventic

I don't eat candy, I don't drink anything but milk/hot chocolate, I don't eat vegetables.......

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic hmm hot chocolate

kalina

YOU DON'T EAT CANDY?!

3ventic

Nope, unless you count chocolate as candy (which I don't)

spyder

Kevin van der Velden

11:40

@3ventic chocolate the drink or chocolate bars? Bars would count as candy***

kalina

Rejected @3ventic's friendship request: irreconcilable differences

3ventic

@KevinvanderVelden Both

Kevin van der Velden

@spyder that's pretty damn cool

3ventic

@kalina Isn't it a good friendship where all the candy goes to you?

kalina

no

Kevin van der Velden

11:42

Also those power plugs are still hilarious every time I see them

Though of course the real question is: @3ventic do you eat liquorice?

spyder

@KevinvanderVelden like <_< ?

3ventic

@KevinvanderVelden Nope

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic DEMON!

@spyder I don't know, they just are, they like a little D= face

3ventic

@KevinvanderVelden ∃ n ∈ "Finnish people": n does not eat liquorice.

spyder

@3ventic you from Suomi, aren't you?

3ventic

11:46

@spyder Yeah

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic my set notation is a bit rusty, finnish people don't eat liquorice?

3ventic

@KevinvanderVelden There exists at least one... and so on

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic aah aight

3ventic

I'm wondering if my PSU can support HD 7970 if I buy one

Kevin van der Velden

Still, liquorice is awesome! And my browser still doesn't recognize it as a word

@3ventic possibly, if you keep it in 2d mode ^^

@3ventic tomshardware.com/reviews/…

spyder

11:48

5pike

@3ventic how strong is it?

Yuki

Huh. My SQL decided to randomly change to Spanish language mode. I just entered INSERTO INTOO....

3ventic

@5pike 600W

AMD's website lists 500W as system requirement for HD 7970, which is the same requirement as my current card has

(HD 6850)

spyder

@3ventic 600 watts or 600 chinese watts? :D

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic depending on your CPU and mobo it might work, link I posted said it uses about 314 watts on load

And @spyder has a good point, got a PSU from a decent manufacturer or an el cheapo one? =p

5pike

11:51

@KevinvanderVelden They like to fake the CE marking.

3ventic

@KevinvanderVelden Hm... makes it really hard to say.

Kevin van der Velden

@5pike they like to put a decent capacitor in so it has a high peak rating (which is what the W rating is, peak) while having a crap transformer so it has poor average

spyder

Kevin van der Velden

@spyder that's horrible! Who taped that dogs ears

Yuki

@spyder Poor laser pointer dot. Nobody asked it if it wanted to be placed on the kid's crotch.

Kevin van der Velden

11:56

@Yuki bla, why you edit? Now I can't ridicule you for your simple mistake!

5pike

@3ventic Mhhh... Toms hardware says, that the 6850 doesn't use that much power

spyder

@KevinvanderVelden Doberman Pinschers often have their ears cropped. I don't know why

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