The Bridge

kalina

17:00

HOMETIME

boo

@kalina 4 seconds late

kalina

waits for one other person from the department to leave before leaving

and... there go the network team

BYE!

Yuki

Quick! Ping @kalina as often as you can while she commutes back home!

SaintWacko

@Yuki Why are we so mean to @kalina?

3ventic

Is it mean to ping @kalina?

Jin

17:06

►

Sterno

-doge

Jason Berkan

jin-fanclub

Jin

are you guys excited about the new Winter Bash????

3ventic

@Jin I don't even know what the old winter bash was, not to mention a new one

Jin

shhhh no one tells @3ventic what it is!

3ventic

17:13

Fine, I'll go dig it up from MSO

Hats, broken icons and Nicolas Cage apparently.

Sconibulus

wuzza winter bash?

Tim Stone

@Jin ALL THE EXCITE

Jin

The restroom signs at #stackexchange uk... #keepingitclassy http://t.co/7iy9XvaOS8

Tweeted by marcgravell on December 12, 2013 at 4:20 PM

i want that in my house..

3ventic

That's awesome

Lazers

-2

Q: PvZ 2 Update Out Today

There is a new update for Plants versus Zombies 2 out today, folks! Don't forget to get the update! (It's pretty awesome what they have done, by the way.)

plants-vs-zombies-2

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Q: 1.7.4. Will not launch because it gave up trying to download. please help!

I have updated my minecraft to the latest version (1.7.4) and it comes up with a message saying "Gave up trying to download" is there a way i can fix this, if so i that would be great.

minecraft

boo

17:16

@Jin hats?

HATS?

HATS??

Rory Alsop

@Yuki I usually ping @kalina in the DMZ, not here :-)

@Jin - hats when? when hats? hats nao?

3ventic

My assumptions weren't denied so I will keep assuming they're correct.

Unionhawk

@Yuki You're so mean to @kalina

Stop being mean to @kalina

Jin

@RoryAlsop hats swoon

Sterno

I'm sad. The house I'm trying to buy just appraised for $20k less than our offer, which means I can't get a loan for it.

3ventic

17:25

@Unionhawk You're doing it to @kalina too

Sterno

Of course, I'm happy if this results in the seller dropping the price by 20 grand!

Tim Stone

@RoryAlsop Monday, I think.

Unionhawk

@3ventic Oh crap. Sorry @kalina!

Dammit I did it again

3ventic

We didn't mean it @kalina!

FAE

@Sterno Tentative yay?

3ventic

17:26

Ok, enough

Sterno

@FAE Maybe. I think the seller is pretty motivated to move it, but you never know.

boo

@Jin Whatever the impossible hat to gain is this year, can I please be given it in advance now please?

3ventic

@Jin 6 to 8 weeks?

Sterno

We looked at a lot of houses and really liked this one though.

boo

buzzfeed.com/robinedds/how-british-are-you

Jin

17:27

@boo of course, there will be skeret hats

fbueckert

Dungeon of the Endless is fun. And rather mean.

boo

@Jin plz

Unionhawk

I know I'm going to get 3 letter pinged quite a bit for that >.>

Sterno

@fbueckert how did @Gnomeslice never link this?

(he probably did and I lost it in his other 300 links)

fbueckert

@Sterno There's been a video of it he did, from what I can remember.

But it only came out on early access yesterday.

FAE

17:29

@Sterno Good luck!

Rory Alsop

@TimStone :-) Yep, I sorta remembered that, but was being silly :-)

Tim Stone

Ah. :P

Sterno

I keep getting excited when I hear games are out. Then I find out they're in Alpha

SaintWacko

@boo I'm probably American

Rory Alsop

@Sterno Elite Dangerous? Can't wait for Beta - I didn't pay enough in the kickstarter to get Alpha

Wandang

17:31

much better: youtube.com/watch?v=z0wEYtmmuFQ

Sterno

@RoryAlsop In this case, I'm talking about Dungeon of the Endless. But the list has been rather long lately

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Huh, that sounds really cool

I wish I could buy it off Steam

fbueckert

@SaintWacko It's a rather good cross between a roguelike and tower defense.

Sterno

And OH GOD ANOTHER KING'S BOUNTY GAME

I need more hours in the day.

Oh, this one is F2P and online. Thank God. I can avoid it.

Lazers

0

Q: Is my immigration policy going to haunt me?

I've decided to wall off my fortress with my initial seven dwarfs and bar all access from the outside. The immigrants will be denied entrance and will eventually die outside to hunger, sieges or wild capybaras. Since I don't plan on going outside, will they eventually return as ghosts? I ask bec...

dwarf-fortress

Sterno

17:35

Good title.

Wandang

DotA

Everything related to DotA

any1 want to chat?

how are chatrooms promoted?

OrigamiRobot

@Wandang ne1*

Wandang

should i add them to answers?

@OrigamiRobot ne1* = ?

Ullallulloo

@Wandang No. Generally just by people interested in the topic hearing about it chat and having enough to talk about.

Fluttershy

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Q: Do I need to claim my Playstation Plus Instant Game Collection?

Just signed up for a year of Playstation Plus. Do I need to download games to claim them for my collection or will any games in the collection be automatically considered owned as long as I am subscribed? For example, I downloaded Dragon's Dogma right before it got removed at the beginning of...

psn playstation-plus

99% sure that's a duplicate

Wandang

17:40

does lazers then spam that chatchannel too if the tag dota was used?

SaintWacko

@Wandang No, you have to add a feed to the room

Wandang

can some1 link me to an tutorial for that?

ah found it

gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dota putting that in is enough right?

via a slide-down ticker overlay at the top of the room
recommended for high-volume feeds
or
as chat messages in the room
recommended for low-volume feeds

since it wont be many i should take low volume right?

fbueckert

Don't we already have a room to talk about dota? I thought we did.

Wandang

i created one a year ago

did die cuz i had no idea what to do

we do not even have a moba room, if dota dies again i will do a moba

if i insert dota-2 as a feed. will that include dota2 tags?

fbueckert

@Wandang If it dies, it should tell you something.

Wandang

17:44

because they are linked as the same

@fbueckert it is all about promotion

SaintWacko

@Wandang That's not what this site is about

If you start putting links to your room in answers, they are quite likely to be edited or flagged as spam

I've seen it happen before

Wandang

@SaintWacko are u telling me getting a group of people to chat about a game topic is not the goal of this chat subsite?

fbueckert

@SaintWacko And I'll be one of them spam flagging it.

SaintWacko

@Wandang I'm telling you that bugging people to use your room is not the goal of this chat subsite

fbueckert

@Wandang It's organic.

SaintWacko

17:46

@fbueckert Exactly the word I was thinking

kalina

All of you people who pinged me while I couldn't respond...

fbueckert

We've had a user before that kept trying to promote his A51 site; it got bloody annoying.

Wandang

@SaintWacko i asked for that beforehand and u answered me no. what gives you the expecation that i will do it anyway?

kalina

You smell

Lazers

0

Q: How can I disable a Memory of Light?

I need to go to A State of Some Confusion, but I have a Memory of Light, so whenever my Nightmares gets too high, I go to the Mirror-Marshes instead. Is there any way I can go to A State of Some Confusion without selling my Memory of Light?

fallen-london

Unionhawk

17:46

@kalina <3

SaintWacko

@Wandang What?

Wandang

@SaintWacko my english isnt good sry

@SaintWacko why do you think i would include it in my answers if you already told me no before

i asked because i do not want to do something against the rules

fbueckert

The point is, it's not about promotion. If there's interest, people will naturally use the room.

Like when I made one for Monster Hunter.

Wandang

@fbueckert well it seems to me that many people dont know about chat

in general

SaintWacko

@Wandang Oh, because you then went on to say it's all about promotion

fbueckert

17:50

@Wandang And if you're directing people to chat, and it stops them from asking questions on the site itself, that's exactly what we don't want.

kalina

oh no

the spammer is back

Wandang

@SaintWacko well i am allowed to promote on playdota am i not? promoting arqade as a good source for dota questions?

Unionhawk

@kalina I know

kalina

@Wandang there's nothing wrong with linking it once

Wandang

@fbueckert thats not my intention

kalina

17:50

however, this is a chat room, so the main objective here is chatting.

which gets incrementally more difficult if every other post is a link to some random thing that nobody ever clicks

Wandang

@fbueckert you guys are too onesided. it took me like 20 min to debunk the statement that i am a cheater

so i wont do it another time

kalina

@Wandang you're a cheater

fbueckert

@Wandang My experience with MOBA games is that we get lots (and lots, and lots) of utter crap asked on the site.

@Wandang I'm just pointing out that those are great ideas, but previous executions have shown that it doesn't work very well.

Wandang

@fbueckert does not seem to me. do you play them?

fbueckert

@Wandang We had a promotion for Arqade with a LoL contest.

kalina

17:52

@Wandang whether we play them or not is irrelevant, it doesn't change the fact that 50% or more of all of the MOBA related questions ever asked on Arqade have required deleting

fbueckert

It shall never happen again.

kalina

and whether we like you or not has no bearing on our dislike for MOBAs

Wandang

lol and dota

come on

kalina

also, I think he has me on ignore

Wandang

different stuff

Unionhawk

17:53

I think so

kalina

no they're not, they're both populated by little kids who're illiterate and have bad attitudes

Wandang

@kalina who has not?

fbueckert

@Wandang They're both MOBAs.

Unionhawk

Or not

Wandang

@kalina should be default :P

fbueckert

17:54

And their communities are probably the same, although I can only speak for LoL.

Fluttershy

Anyone have any input on my linked duplicate

Wandang

@fbueckert they are arts ...

Unionhawk

Damn, I was about to have a conversation with @kalina that would be confusing to him

fbueckert

Which is unremittingly hostile.

kalina

@Wandang rofl

@Fluttershy link

Wandang

17:55

if you guys would give me the power i would moderate dota posts

and delete accordingly

fbueckert

@Wandang Yeah, no.

Wandang

but no.

Fluttershy

@kalina I linked it like ten minutes ago! :P

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Q: Do I need to claim my Playstation Plus Instant Game Collection?

Just signed up for a year of Playstation Plus. Do I need to download games to claim them for my collection or will any games in the collection be automatically considered owned as long as I am subscribed? For example, I downloaded Dragon's Dogma right before it got removed at the beginning of...

psn playstation-plus

fbueckert

You get that with reputation.

kalina

@Fluttershy I wasn't here 10 minutes ago!

Sterno

17:55

@Wandang You gain that power by gaining rep!

fbueckert

@Fluttershy I feel like it's also a dupe, but I can't find it.

Sterno

Oh ~~shit~~ fiddlesticks, I agreed with @fbueckert

kalina

@Wandang reputation is earned

Fluttershy

@fbueckert In the comments!

kalina

not given

Wandang

17:56

btw guys

friendships between accounts is forbidden right

fbueckert

@kalina Actually, bounties are given.

Unionhawk

...

Wandang

like i add user b to a friendlist

kalina

@Fluttershy I HAS GIVEN ZE CLOSE

fbueckert

@Wandang Friendships, no.

kalina

17:56

@fbueckert bounties are earned

fbueckert

Upvoting BECAUSE they're your friend, yes.

Fluttershy

@Sterno I'd welcome your input. I know you've been vocal before about duplication in answers vs questions and whatnot.

Wandang

but we can reach each others profiles via chat easily... where is the sense?

Sterno

I refuse to be friends with a ny other user.

OrigamiRobot

-friendship

Unionhawk

17:57

NO FRIENDS

Wandang

why not give a friendlist after 1 k rep?

Unionhawk

I HATE ALL OF YOU

SaintWacko

@Wandang You are allowed to promote on other sites if that site's TOS allows promoting

Unionhawk

>:(

fbueckert

@Wandang Because we're not a social site.

Wandang

17:57

@Unionhawk :-*

kalina

@Wandang Stack Exchange is not a social network

Blem

boo

@Blem Looks like it's fallen out

kalina

@Sterno you're my friend though, right?

Wandang

chat = social

you cannot deny that

Unionhawk

17:58

@kalina Well, you're his sock puppet, so...

OrigamiRobot

DON'T TELL ME WHAT I CAN'T DENY

Unionhawk

I CAN DENY WHAT I WANT

Lazers

0

Q: Could I download GTA V and play it without the disc?

My disc drive doesn't work on my xbox anymore, but if I download the game from the marketplace, is it possible to bypass using the disc and ONLY play the downloaded version?

grand-theft-auto-5

kalina

@Wandang group chat is generally not a feature of a social network

Sterno

@Fluttershy I'd say similar but not dupes

But I definitely fall more on the "dupes need to be almost exact dupes" side of things than most people, I think.

Powerlord

17:59

@Jin No.

DotA

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