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15:00
@fredley That sitename kind of sounds like an asylum for leprose people to me, it doesn't look like it though.
I wonder why I can't vote to delete this but can VTD the other three questions.
@Sterno it's locked
Oh.
@Arperum It refers to itself as a leper colony
I also wonder why the hell it's tagged with
15:03
The migration rejection leads to silent locks that are rather confusing
1 week and 1 day until new Phoenix Wright
@Sterno Delete votes cast
PROTIP
If something decides to murder your computer and Linux stops responding completely
If you have a Google Plus account, go here and opt out of them being allowed to use your name and avatar in advertisements
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15:07
Alt-SysRq-R + Alt-SysRq-F a few times
maybe press it once every few seconds
@Powerlord Facebook has been doing that for a while now.
Not sure if that applies to all Google accounts or just Google Plus.
@Sterno It won't let me :(
@Powerlord I've done that, but I do have to wonder
I'm not sure if it was opt-in, but they didn't add a large, fairly noticeable banner warning people of the policy change that allowed them to do that
15:08
@PrivatePansy I deleted my Facebook account years ago.
@PrivatePansy Facebook or Google? Google is showing this on every search page.
if you object to Google+ showing your reviews in a public manner, maybe you shouldn't be making public reviews on Google+ in the first place
@Powerlord It's only things that you've endorsed, though
@Powerlord Facebook. Google is showing that banner, yup
@SaintWacko That's not what their ToS page says.
@Powerlord Which part of it?
15:10
Maybe I should rephrase that... that's not what their "plain English" section of the ToS says
Lets see... it's Monday so Youtube will probably try to trick me into creating a new Google+ account. Again.
Since it does so once a week
@Powerlord Any idea why?
@Powerlord But now my friends are less likely to benefit from my recommendations! Google is just looking out for me!
@Arperum cause google+ is new and better and stuff
I'm starting to feel like @MichaelDunfield is the only one who actually talks about video games in here.
I talk plenty about video games. I'd talk even more if I had more people to talk with.
@3ventic naah, he's the one who talks about unreleased games and how you should kickstart them :)
@KevinvanderVelden Kickstarting is for people with too much money on their hands
@3ventic and live in america, and have a creditcard
15:18
Also, Happy Thanksgiving, Bridge.
@KevinvanderVelden It's available to Canadian creators now too.
@KevinvanderVelden I've kickstarted once
@3ventic me to, once, it even arrived :D
@KevinvanderVelden I don't think mine is coming out
I've kickstarted... four things?
I don't even really have a credit card.
It's been 3 months since I heard anything from the dev
and the kickstarter was over half a year ago
15:19
Wait, I backed one on indiegogo too
Bought humble weekly
Again
@3ventic You got scammed.
@3ventic I talk about games in here fairly often. I was talking about Dark Souls like an hour ago! =P
15:20
@Arperum Well, not really
@Arperum Because I refuse to accept the Pages terms of service and Google refuses to stop bugging me about it.
Taking a risk is part of being an investor.
He did mention that his objective was to get money for robot research and a game would be made with that project
@MichaelDunfield you're not an investor in kickstarter though =p
And, since Youtube and Google+ have different terms of service, it would be illegal for them to automatically create one for me with me refusing the terms of service.
15:21
@KevinvanderVelden Well, you are.
C'mon database restore, move from the 0% thingy already
@MichaelDunfield legally? Nope, investors have certain rights they are entitled to which you don't get on kickstarter
@Powerlord Bug them to stop bugging you? @badp @StrixVaria Fix it pl0x!
15:22
@MichaelDunfield Got mine already
@MichaelDunfield That's the node.js blog software, right?
@Powerlord I don't know?
Yeah, k, nothx
Dealing with PHP on a server is bad enough. I'd be totally insane to install a server-side JavaScript too.
Ah, they don't have a hosted service yet?
huh
Server-side javascript, uh
15:25
@3ventic That's what node.js is.
@Powerlord Then it must automatically be bad
Netscape used to have their own server-side JavaScript too, but it was lost to history. For the good of mankind.
I hope 'GnomeSlice' doesn't get taken before I get my GameStick
I didn't preorder or back them or anything
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Q: Have drop tables been created for non-void levels?

The UglyI've been grinding Illad on Phobos for Miter parts for a while now, and I am only missing the Blueprint now. However, I have had everything else for a while, and despite doing 4-5 more runs beyond that, I still have yet to find the BP. I looked around for a drop table for Lt Lech Kril (he drops t...

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Q: SWTOR Download problems

Andrew KallasSo i've been playing SWTOR for about a week now, and the game has been completing the download in the background. It stopped at 99.18% of being done three days ago. Now, I'm level ten and finished on my planet, but I can't get off the planet because the game "is not fully downloaded". How do I ge...

@Powerlord I regularly check to make sure they haven't tricked me into creating one.
15:29
> After trying solutions in several other programming languages he chose JavaScript because of the lack of an existing I/O API
Why would you choose a language because it doesn't have the feature you want?
@Powerlord because he REALLY wanted to reinvent a wheel but not be called out on it. So he went to a store and bought a three wheeled car to reinvent the fourth wheel on
Apparently javascript is very popular since microsoft decided WinJS was a good idea
@Powerlord In related news, about 30% of people confessed they have had masochistic dreams in the past at least once.
Is a masochistic dream like a nightmare that inexplicably doesn't suck?
That just seems like a weird thing
@Sconibulus It's like a wet dream, only you're getting whipped or similar.
15:33
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Q: What is the maximum amount of Poke dollars you can hold?

ReafexusIn Lumiose City there is a man selling the Mega Stone of the Gen 1 starter that your own starter is weak against. If you chose Squirtle, he is selling Venasaurite. If you chose Charmander he is selling Blastoiseite. If you chose Bulbasaur he is selling Charizardite (X/Y). But he is selling it...

oh...
people are weird
@Sconibulus this is new?
I kind of wonder how big the expected pool of users is who subscribe to Arqade's tweets so that they can be notified in case they want to answer one of the super small handful of questions that is randomly selected.
Why, oh why does Final Fantasy VII on Steam have 'OK' mapped to 'x'? There is a perfectly good key on a keyboard that makes more sense. It is called 'enter'.
It seems kind of pointless
15:35
one handed control?
so playing the game while fapping off to tifa?
@ken.ganong They figured most players often misclick and press x instead of enter
Bla, I'm off, maybe the database restore will work during the night >.>
Cya people
♫ Please unicorn eat tacos with me ♫
@fredley Just watch out for those robot unicorns... they tend to attack.
15:38
@3ventic misclick 'x'??
@TZHX For one-handed control (ignoring reason for one-handed control), 'enter' would be better--it is closer to other commonly used keys, like the directional keys.
Controller > Keyboard
@MichaelDunfield In this instance yes, but mouse > gamepad for FPS games.
@Powerlord I still prefer controllers, honestly.
More precise spatial movement. And it's what I'm used to.
controller is more precise than a mouse?
15:42
@Sconibulus For movement? Yes.
@MichaelDunfield I prefer controllers, but especially for twitch games. Of which, FF7 is not.
@StrixVaria People who tip to an exact amount are dumb
Google Plus, everybody
Just tip an even amount and save everyone time
15:43
@StrixVaria It makes me sad that the person likely did that because they found subtracting 9.54 from 15 to be too difficult.
Good tip, though.
Also, that's over a 50% tip!
@Sterno I tipped $18 on a $1.45 bill the other day. That's because I used a $75 gift card, though.
@StrixVaria What? That's like way more than the bill was
I never remember to tip
Tipping is an evil practice
Except for the time I gave the pizza guy like an 8 dollar tip
15:45
Get a fair minimum wage
Tipping should be reserved for pizza and strippers
@MichaelDunfield 75 + 1.45 = 76.45. 18/76.45 = 23% tip
I thought tipping was dumb until I went out to eat in the UK. Now I'm happy the US tips
Because UK servers suck.
@MichaelDunfield Pay strippers a decent minimum wage!
The only people I don't begrudgingly tip are delivery people.
And I'm sure my sampling of 3 restaurants makes my judgment on this matter infallible.
15:47
@Sterno They are also the only profession in the UK to get tipped!
@OrigamiRobot Does this mean that you tip them non-begrudgingly or that you don't tip them at all?
@fredley What? Maybe that's why my service sucked then.
They are putting their life on the line so I can be lazy.
Wait, no, they wouldn't have known I wasn't tipping them until after, so that can't be it.
@Sterno Yes
15:48
@StrixVaria The former.
@Sterno Service in the UK is always awful anyway
@fredley Oh. That explains it.
proof that tipping is not the factor here
@Sterno I'd much rather have someone bitter than someone cheery serving me
15:49
Honestly I don't understand why people get assed either way about it, in terms of price. You're paying the same amount either way, really. It just comes down to whether or not you have to do some math.
I always order my steak with a side of math.
I used to do really well in math
Now I can barely add and subtract
@Sterno Tipping allows the employers to pay next to nothing for quality staff.
@Sterno Being shouted at to pay a tip because someone is being paid $2 an hour to work at a bar and they rely on tips is not acceptable
@OrigamiRobot this
In the US, the only type of voting we understand is voting with our wallets. And we like voting on waitresses.
@OrigamiRobot It really doesn't change the equation much. You're just paying them directly instead of passing it to the restaurant owner first.
14 secs ago, by Sterno
@OrigamiRobot It really doesn't change the equation much. You're just paying them directly instead of passing it to the restaurant owner first.
15:51
I remember once leaving almost no tip. The waitress chased me outside.
Why did the alarmist Google Plus thing get pinned?
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Q: Fastest method of leveling 50-60?

JulianAs the title says, what gives the most experience in Rift for Storm Legion leveling? I'm currently at level 56 and would like to reach level 60 prior to the Autumn Harvest event that starts later this week. So far my main method of leveling has been running instant adventures, however I'm not sur...

@Sterno You're not getting what I'm saying.
@StrixVaria Wow
15:51
@OrigamiRobot I get exactly what you're saying.
It has nothing to do with me paying anything.
@SaintWacko I hadn't seen her all night except to take initial orders and to collect money.
@StrixVaria Sounds like ideal waitress
I hate being bugged
@fredley Not when you want things.
Whether you give the waitress $5 directly, or you pay $5 more for your meal and then the owner then uses that to pay the waitresses higher wages doesn't really matter
15:52
49 secs ago, by OrigamiRobot
It has nothing to do with me paying anything.
@Sterno Exactly, and the latter is a much fairer system
Like a refill on my water so that I don't have to choke down my food.
Unless your assumption is that the restaurant owner who suddenly pays higher wages for workers is not going to increase his food prices
You're making it sound like the greedy restaurant owner is screwing over the waitress. Not really, usually.
15:53
I have a rule, that if I have to actually get up out of my seat to find a waiter/waitress because they haven't stopped by in too long, that their tip is gone.
It's only happened once.
@Sterno Uh, yes. Alot.
@Sterno No, not at all.
@StrixVaria Amy's Baking Co?
@fredley What?
@fredley I used to work in food service. Tips are fucking awesome when it comes to making money if you give good service and the restaurant is busy
They really only suck for wages if you work at a place with no business.
> This video contains content from Little Dot Studios, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
As a bus boy, who got paid out of the tips of the waitresses, usually about 15% of what they made, I pulled in $200 some nights. This was in the late 90s.
Of course, that was working for 3-4 waitresses. So I was getting about 60% whatever they were, in tips
Look at any other field. Lets say I have two choices of someone to hire. One is obviously more experienced than the other. If I want to hire the more experienced person, I'll have to make them a better offer.
@Sterno Wtf, were you working at Hooters?
If I am hiring someone who works on tips, fuck the less experienced person.
I'm paying them $2 no matter what.
15:56
@MichaelDunfield You might as well change your name back. It didn't work.
@StrixVaria Yes it is, it's working
Food time.
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@OrigamiRobot I'm not following your logic at all.
15:58
@OrigamiRobot It still seems like good waiter = more money, bad waiter = less money. Why the employer paying $2 either way is a factor is unclear to me.
I wish Valve would spend money on making Steam be not terrible instead of making a terrible controller.
@Sterno Because the employer isn't the one paying them what they deserve.
@Lazers A Tortoise. Teehee.
@OrigamiRobot They're earning what they deserve on their own. It's cutting out the employer as a middle man
Basically, I think the only time tipping screws you, as a waiter, is if you work in a restaurant that is dead.
Because then your wages are eating the lack of business.
@Sterno The employer is making money off of them while not paying them for their work.
16:00
@OrigamiRobot He is providing them the opportunity to make money in his establishment.
What kind of logic is that?
No worse than your logic that the customer has to first hand the money to the owner, who in turn hands it to the waiter, for it to suddenly count as "paying them for their work"
8 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot
49 secs ago, by OrigamiRobot
It has nothing to do with me paying anything.
@OrigamiRobot Your issue seems to be entirely about who is handing the money to the waiter.
My issue is that the owner is making money off of quality staff while not having to pay for said quality.
16:03
@OrigamiRobot And my argument is that either way, it's the customer and not the owner paying for it.
Otherwise your argument seems to be that the owner would have to make less net profit in a non-tipping system.
@Sterno I don't care that the customer is paying anything.
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Q: Is there any way to tell when another player has given you an O-Power?

SaintWackoI occasionally get a message that an O-Power has expired, which is very annoying, considering that I could have been focusing on battling in the time before that, had I but known. Is there any indication that an O-Power is in effect, or that you have been given one?

For him to be "paying for" the quality staff
@OrigamiRobot You can't remove it from the equation.
The owner's money comes from somewhere.
I am paying the same either way.
I am fine with this.
Right. We are in agreement on that.
16:04
It has no impact on my complaints.
Wounds, Scandal, Suspicion, and Nightmares, oh my
Employers should have to pay more for higher quality employees. In every area.
...
@kalina Same to you!
16:05
In tipping jobs, they do not.
End of complaint.
@OrigamiRobot Okay. Let's say I owned a restaurant and had some wait staff. I'm deciding between a tipping or non-tipping scenario. Are you saying I make more money, as the owner, when I do the tipping style business?
somebody jumped out onto the tube line I would have been on if I had left on time on my normal route home
Whoa how long have we had that
@Sterno No, I am saying that by choosing a tipping system, you get free quality.
@OrigamiRobot it's only not free if it costs me something in terms of net profit
So I can't make the same net profit either way, and one method is "free" and the other is not
16:07
Why is Fallen London so much fun?
@kalina o.0 yikes
@Sterno If you are choosing between two people, what incentive do you have for choosing the lower quality employee?
Lucky you for avoiding that
@Sterno You understand that in a tipping situation, you pay employees less, right?
brb, going to lunch and not tipping
@Powerlord Yes. Theoretically, you also do not raise your food prices to cover their increased wages though. "Being a dick" absent from the equation, theoretically your net profit as an owner would be the same either way
16:10
@Sterno If your income stays the same but your expenditures are lower...
@Powerlord My entire problem with this argument is the theory that income stays the same. It doesn't.
> Theoretically, you also do not raise your food prices to cover their increased wages though.
@OrigamiRobot None. I think that's kind of the point.
@Unionhawk That is my entire point.
You just said yourself that income stays the same
16:12
@Powerlord I said it badly. What I'm saying is that if you're counting on tipping for wages, your food prices to the customer are lower than if you are not.
@Sterno In theory
I mean, you can screw over your waitstaff by paying too-low wages, too
Under a tipping system, the waiter/waitress wins when they are good and/or the restaurant is busy. They lose when they're bad and/or the restaurant has no business.
@OrigamiRobot The person with more experience or skill has a greater opportunity for higher tips at finer dining or busier places. But service is only a small part of the food service equation.
Paying by wage levels that out. Which is good if you are bad, or work in a slow restaurant.
I mean, it's a big part on the front-end, but at the end of the day, you're there to eat food. So you need quality staff in the kitchen and good food to attract quality staff out front, etc.
16:15
Has anyone I'm arguing with actually worked as a waiter or waitress? I'm not discounting your argument by asking. I'm merely asking because I've never known someone who actually worked as one to dislike the tipping system.
(except the occasional night when some customer with a huge bill fucks them over)
@Sterno That's assuming I dislike the tipping system.
But no, I'm never worked waitstaff.
I've seriously wondered if waiters at like Ruth's Chris or whatever make more money than I do.
@Sterno Everyone I've ever known loves a tipping system. On the whole, it increases service quality.
I only dislike the tipping system in that it adds work/obligation on the part of the customer, but given that it's the cultural standard in the US, whatevs. Well, and that you really do end up screwed if you work in a dead restaurant. But the solution there is to not work in a dead restaurant.
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16:21
Now I'm hungry.
Bah, I keep forgetting to install Visual Studio on my laptop.
Grrr
That's twice today I've got soaked heading to a train
@kalina Stop using the train?
@Lazers Is that tagged right?
the xbox one
@Ullallulloo Probably not.
16:32
At least
@Unionhawk I don't care about how much the employee makes.
21 mins ago, by Unionhawk
I mean, it's a big part on the front-end, but at the end of the day, you're there to eat food. So you need quality staff in the kitchen and good food to attract quality staff out front, etc.
@Ullallulloo I've fixed itu p.
It was tagged wrong, sicne it was about XBOX 360 for starters
The original XBOX doesn't have live support anymore.
@Unionhawk That has nothing to do with my complaint.
@OrigamiRobot Do you feel the same way about salesmen who work on commission?
16:39
I don't know anything about commission so I don't know.
they get a salary, but get a percentage of the sales they make. Thus, good salesmen make more money
posted on October 14, 2013 by Thebestwithin

I would like to have a grate way to get energy to the other side of the map.

@Sterno So the employer is paying them more when they do good work?
The employer is paying them a fixed percentage of what they sell. So yes, and no.
The fundamental difference in our viewpoint is that I'm happy to let the customer decide if the waiter/waitress was good or not. You want the employer to be the judge of that.
16:41
I am back at my desk with lunch in hand, and ready to move on to a new topic.
@Sterno Are you saying no to drama?
Oh, right, you americans don't have a day off today.
@OrigamiRobot No. Just that this one went stale.
@Sterno I had to go buy a sandwich.
We should start a meta about tipping
16:42
@OrigamiRobot Did you tip the server?
@OrigamiRobot Why not?
Because this wasn't a tipping place.
@OrigamiRobot Why not?
The worst places are the non-tipping places that still have a Tip line on the credit card receipt
16:44
@Sterno Finally something we agree on.
Always very awkward to draw a line through that.
Or places where you have to sign the receipt even in the drive through.
I don't understand the rules that govern when you do and do not have to sign.
I thought there was a rule that after $50 you had to, but apparently if that's true, the butcher shop I shop at never got that memo
I will never understand the need to sign things nowdays.
If you're following the rules, THE SIGNATURE IS ON THE CARD
What does signing the receipt do?
Credit card companies give better rates to people who require a signature.
16:49
hello all
And if a business doesn't get your signature, they're liable for the cost of the fraud. If they do, the bank is.
My signature is horribly inconsistent anyway. The only way they'll be able to tell fraudulent charges from that is if it suddenly becomes consistent.
The actual appearance of your signature doesn't matter. Apparently it's just about who to blame. yay laws!
> and obviously, there was no signature for doing things like buying concert tickets. And those transactions are called card-not-present transactions. And in a card-not-present transaction, the merchant is responsible and will have to pay the cost. Now, what happened a few years ago is companies like Starbucks decided it was not worth keeping track of all these little pieces of paper so that they wouldn't have to pay for a five-dollar fraudulent charge for a latte
I'm seeing how long I can go without signing the back of my card.
So far so good.
What I need to do is just get a card with my picture on it.
@Wipqozn Lots of Americans do have a day off today actually.
It is a federal holiday.
Banks are closed, etc.
16:55
@LessPop_MoreFizz So's the government.
@OrigamiRobot Well yes, but the government would be closed today, even if we did have a budget. :P
Oh, so it's no big deal!
I was all worried about nothing.
I'm just happy it's not a holiday that daycare closes for. Those jerks.
They really like closing for holidays that most people don't have off.

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