The Bridge

6:16 PM

There, I think this is wired up properly, now I can get down to the actual work of figuring out when I need to add the vote hook.

Arda Xi

6:37 PM

@Wipqozn Yes.

Lazers

0

Q: Get notified if you are mentioned in an answer

If somebody mentions you in a comment with @my_username, you get notified. However, this doesn't seem to be the case with answers. While this should happen less often, I still feel a notification would be a good thing. For example, I didn't get notified for this answer.

Loktar

@Powerlord yeah but last years summer sale started a bit earlier. Im hoping they do another scavenger hunt. I want another sweet hat.

Hope your right about it starting tomorrow

CruelCow

Odd. I just got 100 reputation out of nowhere and it doesn't show up in my reputation log.

Powerlord

@CruelCow Do you have an account on another StackExchange site?

Oh wait, you're not a new user, so linking accounts wouldn't give you a bonus.

Juan Manuel

He jumped from 971 to 1071

CruelCow

6:47 PM

Well, I just logged in to the main site with steam, but I did nothing with it.

Powerlord

@CruelCow Well, basically, if you link two StackExchange accounts, you get 100 rep on one... or is it both?

CruelCow

So... if I did this on all 40(?) sites I could swim in rep?

Powerlord

11

Q: Should all linked accounts get the 100 bonus?

Should all linked accounts get the 100 bonus? My stackoverflow account has about 1300 points, I created accounts on all the other sites. My meta.so, and stackoverflow got a 100 bonus, but my superuser and serverfault didn't get bonuses. Is this correct? I'm asking because of this question that I...

status-completed reputation association

No, you only get the 100 once on each account.

It seems kinda weird that if you create an account on any other SE site, instant 100 rep. :P

CruelCow

Hmm, vote up only requires 15 rep, so you could abuse this to easily create voting sock-puppets. Weird design decision...

Powerlord

7:04 PM

Well, there is a catch: One of the accounts also needs 200 or more rep.

Oh, and the accounts must have the same OpenID.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord The idea is that you should be able to use stuff like comments on any SE site once you've proven yourself on one.

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Mana

7:30 PM

Whassup?

Stack Exchange

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Q: How to find all the blocks in a circle, in a grid, fficently?

I am trying to create a server plugin for the popular Indie game Minecraft. What I have so far is a non recursive method of finding all the blocks 2 spaces away from the player's location. I am looking to create a method to do this efficently. I would like to be able to specify a distance. Here i...

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Arda Xi

@Mana It's so quiet in here lately, isn't it?

I mean, compared to what it used to be.

Juan Manuel

We are closing in on the year

badp

Being active about lack of activity won't bring activity

If you want more chat just chat

Juan Manuel

uh oh, he got mad

Mana

7:43 PM

@badp seems more angry lately!

badp

I'm not mad, I wrote that matter-of-factly

Mana

Also @Juan seems more active on the chat lately.

Two great things!

Juan Manuel

yes, he's mad alright

I'm having a little more free time lately

let's see how long it lasts

Mana

:x

You know, sometimes I still wonder if closing down game-rec questions was the right decision. While it may have increased the quality of the content on here, I can't help but feel like it also hurt our traffic quite a bit.

Juan Manuel

The core problem was that it wasn't a fit for Q&A format

Mana

7:48 PM

wait what the hell am I saying; if we were concerned about just traffic we wouldn't close anything at all and just let the place become a discussion-filled zoo

Powerlord

@Mana Speaking of which, we should talk about TF2 now.

Mana

punches self in the jeans

Powerlord

I'd rather not know what part of the genes you punched.

badp

@Powerlord relevant: tf2b.com/?id=kromak

Mana

Huh. That icon's the same as Juan's!

What a coinkidink.

Powerlord

7:50 PM

@Mana I can't see icons on there... blocked or somethin'

Well, user icons. I can see the items.

badp

That's not @Juan's backpack. It belongs to a close friend of him however.

Mana

sadface

Juan Manuel

<strike>There goes my secret identity</strike>

Mana

quick, everybody look up all the information you can on kromak

it might lead us to Juan's account name

Powerlord

@JuanManuel You bought a Pickelhaube? :O

Juan Manuel

7:52 PM

What do the "levels" on items mean?

Powerlord

@JuanManuel They're mostly a joke on Valve's part.

Most hats have random levels, as do certain Vintage items. However, everything else has a level based on the item itself.

Mana

Stupid Valve.

badp

They're cosmetic.

Juan Manuel

I had no idea what to buy, I wanted to upgrade to premium

Powerlord

Kritzkrieg is always level 8.

@JuanManuel Oh, I thought you had an account since 2010... since that's what your badge says

badp

7:53 PM

@Juan Was it true that the main screen nagged you to upgrade?

Powerlord

eyes Mercenary Badge that has a join date of Oct 8, 2010

badp

@Powerlord Could it be a free weekend?

Juan Manuel

You had a popup pointing to the store every time you entered the game

Arda Xi

@badp I'm metachatting.

Powerlord

@badp Oh, could be. That'd be an interesting bug. :P

Juan Manuel

7:54 PM

Yes, it was a free pass I got somewhere

Arda Xi

has the lowest join-date on TF2

Powerlord

@JuanManuel But yeah, buying a starter set's not a bad idea if you're buying something. Some of them have sucky hats (Heavy set) some of them have nice hats (Spy set).

Seriously, Football helmet for Heavy versus Fedora for Spy?

Juan Manuel

I can always buy more stuff later

badp

(The Fedora hat isn't just cosmetic.)

Powerlord

I still think the Fedora is one of the best Spy hats.

Juan Manuel

7:56 PM

@badp has a lot of unopened crates

Powerlord

He should clearly give them all to me.

badp

Yeah. Crates need keys to open. Keys cost money, or can be traded for.

Mana

Dear god, is it possible for me to stumble upon a discussion on SQL injection where XKCD isn't mentioned?

badp

I'm too lazy to treade however

Powerlord

@Mana No.

I actually have that comic printed out and hanging on the wall of my cube. :D

Mana

7:57 PM

It's like everywhere I go: "loololololololololol Bobby Tables lololololololololololololo"

Juan Manuel

And the crate contents are random?

badp

There's a 99% chance of getting one of the items listed when you hover the crate

Powerlord

@JuanManuel Not completely... there are a certain set of items that each has. Or a random unusual hat.

badp

I don't think that site shows the lists, but you do see them ingame.

In the remaining 1% you get a "completely" random hat with special effects.

Powerlord

@badp The TF Wiki page for Mann Co Crate also lists them.

Juan Manuel

7:58 PM

It reminds me of peter griffin trading the boat for the mystery box

Powerlord

Also, if I haven't said it, The Enforcer = Best Spy Gun ever.

badp

Also I'm annoyed that I've been crafting dupes for so long, when crafting tokens and smelting them requires half as many weapons.

Powerlord

Before, I had to aim well for the first shot to two-shot a Razorback Sniper. Not any more!

I had a Spy who had a slight overheal bitch when I one-shotted him with a crit-shot from The Enforcer. :D

(Enforcer crit = 144 damage)

badp

The spy got the most important buffs, with pyros getting a nerfed detonator that's no good for spychecking and the engineer getting nothing.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord You know anywhere you can find high-res versions of them for free?

Powerlord

8:01 PM

@badp Really? I thought tokens took 3 weapons of the same slot a piece.

badp

@Powerlord Three of the same class, or slot

Arda Xi

I still want a print of Duty Calls.

badp

Three tokens give a reclaimed.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi No, sadly. I have several comics just printed on a sheet of paper.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord Ah. Well, I guess I could trace it in Illustrator.

Powerlord

8:02 PM

@badp That's 9 weapons versus the 6 it takes to make 3 scrap.

badp

So it's a reclaimed for 9 weapons, instead of 3 scrap from 6 dupes wtf

Okay, I've done it right so far. Phew

Arda Xi

It's not like xkcd comics are terribly detailed.

@Mana s/XKCD/xkcd/g

badp

The TF2 wiki must have confused me there for a moment.

Powerlord

The 3 I have printed are Bobby Tables, the Windows Copy Dialog guy, and rectangle full of little lights one.

Mana

@Arda It's a meaningless acronym; does (a lack of) capitalization really matter?

Arda Xi

8:03 PM

@Powerlord Computer Problems.

badp

@Mana That makes nitpicking about it even more enjoyable.

Arda Xi

> It's not actually an acronym. It's just a word with no phonetic pronunciation -- a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings.

Powerlord

In other words, it was an open 4-letter domain? :P

Arda Xi

> For those of us pedantic enough to want a rule <---- me, here it is: The preferred form is "xkcd", all lower-case. In formal contexts where a lowercase word shouldn't start a sentence, "XKCD" is an okay alternative.

Powerlord

Likely the first one he found when he created the comic.

Mana

8:04 PM

It went okay.

Arda Xi

Unless you're German, you don't just capitalise words mid-sentence, except proper nouns.

badp

btw @Juan if you're playing TF2 localized and want to suggest a few localization fixes, send 'em my way.

Juan Manuel

localized as in "not in English"?

Powerlord

@ArdaXi erm... In English, it is a proper noun since it's a name.

badp

Yeah

Arda Xi

8:06 PM

@Powerlord Not really, because it's stylised.

The same thing goes for eBay, iPhone, etc.

Juan Manuel

Nah, I really hate translations

in games, movies, books, tv, I consume everything in English when possible

Arda Xi

@JuanManuel Me too. If I see a Dutch UI, I can't use it. I can only laugh.

badp

I also do, that's why I joined the Steam group for improving the Italian localization.

Arda Xi

@badp Why would you want to improve that which you hate?

Juan Manuel

In order not to hate it

I guess

badp

8:07 PM

So that I can see for myself how hard can it be to do localization properly

and for pity to my fellow italians and to stop it and for the promise of a hat.

Arda Xi

@badp Oh, I know that. Call me back when you've tried subtitling a film from scratch.

Juan Manuel

Hate leads to suffering

Arda Xi

I subtitled Clear Skies 2 in both Dutch and English.

badp

In priority order. Whichever of the two.

Powerlord

Oh, that's the other thing. The TF2 server knows what language you're playing TF2 in. SourceMod will use it for plugins if they have a language file for the appropriate language.

badp

8:08 PM

@ArdaXi That's not even the same, you don't really have space contraints in a movie.

Arda Xi

@badp Oh?

Powerlord

For example, if you play TF2 in Italian, on my server, all the voting phrases should appear in Italian.

Arda Xi

You do actually have to make the subtitles short enough to have the audience read them before they disappear.

badp

Well sure if you use too many words people won't manage to read the subtitle in time

Arda Xi

Exactly. Idem if you make them too complicated.

Powerlord

8:09 PM

(Note, I didn't do the Italian translation, it was submitted to me by a user)

badp

but you don't have situations where you need to figure out how to lose a couple inches on "NESSUN USO"

Arda Xi

Fair enough.

But subtitling is a hell of a lot more work.

badp

Oh sure.

Arda Xi

Seriously, it's one of the most under-appreciated jobs that exist.

badp

BTW, Meet the medic is also on the Steam translation servers

I fixed a few lines of the italian subtitles, but found most of the work already done for me.

Mana

8:11 PM

cool

Juan Manuel

the world should just have one language

someday...

badp

Someday we'll all speak the Juan.

Juan Manuel

yisi bi yabidi

Arda Xi

@JuanManuel Doubleplusgood.

CruelCow

It is kind of going towards everybody being able to speak english at least as a second language

Arda Xi

8:12 PM

@CruelCow I wish. I don't know how it is near you, @badp, but when I was in Italy, the average English was horrible.

badp

That's perhaps because we dub too well.

Arda Xi

(I mean, obviously you're very good at it, but that didn't seem like the norm.)

@badp Everyone does. Everyone except the Dutch.

CruelCow

@ArdaXi even for the younger generation?

Juan Manuel

According to the documentaries from the future, the united federation of planets is near... there, they all speak English

Arda Xi

@CruelCow Yes. We did an exchange with them. (15/16)

@JuanManuel They speak Federation, actually.

CruelCow

8:14 PM

The Tardis translates it for you

Arda Xi

The documentaries are dubbed in English.

@CruelCow Wrong future.

CruelCow

Hmm, my spellchecker doesn't know TARDIS. Time to rectify that

Arda Xi

I've never even watched a single episode of Dr Who.

CruelCow

@ArdaXi Time travel, parallel worlds and bad fan fiction will easily marry everything together.

Arda Xi

@CruelCow Especially the latter.

Mana

8:16 PM

drop kicks Arda in the face YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED DOCTOR WHO?!?

badp

@ArdaXi I'm glad, because I won't really manage to learn Dutch in 6 months.

I haven't watched Doctor Who either.

Mana

Come to think of it, I haven't seen any either. :(

Arda Xi

@badp Dutch is easy!

CruelCow

Am I really the only one? I'm around too many british people it seems

Arda Xi

@Mana Why do you hurt me so much? :(

Mana

8:17 PM

Tough love. :/

Arda Xi

My vowels still hurt.

Do you have any idea how much it hurts to say queuing now?

Mana

cringes Oh, god.

I'm sorry. I had no idea.

CruelCow

3.7 megahurts?

Arda Xi

(xkcd reference)

Mana

Well, thanks for that relationship advice.

Arda Xi

8:19 PM

That alt-text is wrong by the way. In the word voyeur, y is a consonant.

So it's really two consecutive vowels at most.

Also, I really wonder what database he ran that on.

Mana

Arda...

Arda Xi

Mana...

Mana

shakes head

I have no words. I'm gonna go do stuff.

CruelCow

xkcd text search used to be so good. But I can't find the comic by searching for "queueing"

Arda Xi

shifts eyes

@CruelCow I could.

google.com/…

Mana

8:22 PM

And by do stuff I mean watch this

Arda Xi

@Mana 9 words to describe how you have no words. Way to defeat your point.

CruelCow

Ahh, chrome still has the old search engine cached for me.

Arda Xi

@Mana That link froze Flash for me, which broke chat.

>.<

(Yes, this chatroom uses Flash)

Lazers

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Q: The form for flagging an answer obscures the answer being flagged

I've been noticing something about flagging answers that I forgot to put into a question until today ... when you flag an answer, the modal form that appears is covering the answer that was flagged. Sometimes the answer is so clearly in a certain category that it's enough to click a single ra...

feature-request design

Mana

8:36 PM

@Arda It's an interesting talk about the tools that are available to a hacker, but I'm not very impressed with the speaker so far

Lazers

3

Q: Is this question about the history of cinema and game-console design decisions on topic?

I hate to be the one always making meta questions arguing that things are off topic, but this case is particularly bad. As usual, it has nothing to do with gaming and everything to do with something tangentially related to gaming. Why do video game framerates need to be so much higher than TV a...

discussion allowed-questions

Powerlord

9:17 PM

Whoa, I just noticed that the Splendid Screen is listed as having styles.

Arda Xi

I feel special now.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi I don't get it.

So, anyway, who thinks I should renamed my Enforcer to Die Another Day? :)

Since most of my Spy items are named after James Bond movies and references.

Darn, I'm out of Description tags, according to tf2b

Anyway, going home time.

Arda Xi

9:41 PM

@Powerlord I named my domain "Xi Industries"

Lazers

0

Q: What do the different statictics related to a pursuit represent?

Note that this question is relevant to several recent Need for Speed games, which use similar pursuit mechanics I just got busted in Need for Speed: Undercover, and I'm been wondering for a while what the different statistics after a pursuit mean. I know what Cost to State is, but I'm not sure ...

game-mechanics need-for-speed-series

Mana

Y'know, I just realized...wouldn't it be crazy if @tzenes turned out to be the internet version of Calvin's Dad?

And we're like Calvin, reading his long amazing explanations and thinking "Wow, this guy knows everything"?

Arda Xi

Mana

I'm debating changing my icon to one of those faces and spending the rest of my gaming.se life trolling with barely plausible, but long, answers.

Wait that's what I do already. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Arda Xi

@Mana Sans the barely plausible.

Mana

9:50 PM

:(

Arda Xi

They're totally plausible!

Mana

Haha, suuuuuuuuure, that's what you meant.

Dude, I'm still so bored. Why can't I get an e-mail challenging me to a duel or something like that?

badp

because we don't have your email duude.

then we'll challenge you to come up with a challenging challenge to challenge the challenged with.

(Challenge is now an amass of letters with no meaning.)

#22 crates are dropping - reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/icn5c/refreshing_summer_coolers

sigh, I've played my hours already.

Rapida

11:21 PM

Tom Wijsman

WoW now free for first 20 levels (with some restrictions).

Lazers

11:39 PM

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Q: How do you quit during hero selection?

Yes, I know it gives me a 5-minute penalty before I can try to join another lobby, and that it's a horrible unsportsmanlike thing to do. But the only way I can figure out how to do it is to close the entire application and re-launch. Is there no better way to quit a lobby than this? (I'm tryin...

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