The Bridge

@KevinvanderVelden If you kill yourself by running under a car, you'll probably traumatize the driver.

I can't say I've ever walked into a lamppost

I have got into a terrible habit though

@JourneymanGeek I'm sure it happens to everyone at least once.

of using speech input to put text on the screen while driving

I have this image that from outside of the car I look really weird

@5pike I don't even need a phone for that.

9:01 AM

@Arperum true, people should just walk off a cliff or something if they wanna go for the darwin award. Not walk under a car

@Arperum You only need a distraction... Phones are the #1 distractor nowadays.

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Q: Wii U multilingual support

I am currently living in Italy and I am looking into buying a wii u. Only thing that bothers me is will I have option to set it to english if it is bought in Italy? As far as I know it should be EU region which should have multilingual support. Can anyone confirm?

wii-u

@5pike "Watch out, there's a lamppost!" "Yea, I know, I've seen it." bloing

That was exactly how it happened.

im bored

@kalina did you get your hat?

9:06 AM

which hat

the one you needed 500 question views for

Gaming Topics From Outside

oh yeah I got that yesterday

pulled in a favour on a site I hate visiting

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Q: Some questions about of runescape the graphics card

I'm in the market for a computer around $700-$900...But I don't know a whole lot about graphics cards. I want the computer to be able to play Runescape on medium-high settings. I know about all the other specs, but graphics cards confuse the hell out of me. Which ones would be reasonable for the ...

gaming

yawn morning

@GamingTopicsFromOutside That title insinuates that runescape is a GPU...

9:19 AM

It's just missing a colon.

Journeyman Geek

its also off topic

It's also ridiculous. Runescape of all things, and they worry about graphics.

Q: Does Heirlooms yield the XP bonus when the level range is exceeded?

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I am currently levelling a Death Knight with heirlooms, and some of the heirlooms that I have, are with the level 1-80 range (not upgraded to 1-85) While playing the game, I went past level 80 and into 81. But does the heirlooms with the range of 1-80 still yield the 10% experience bonus? I kn...

world-of-warcraft

0

Q: how to make the distance in Zombies, Run! game work

I have Zombies, Run! game on the iPhone. I ran for 36 minutes and on the statistics it says total distance 0.00 km is there a way to fix it. Ps - location (on iPhone settings) is on. and I'm assuming there is not need to have internet data for GPS to work!?

zombies-run

I also doubt that superuser allows shopping recommendations anymore then we do

@FEichinger Yeah, the requirements are really, really low

> - For DirectX or OpenGL graphics: 128MB 3D Graphics Card (i.e. Nvidia® GeForce™ 4 or above, or ATI 9800 or above)

9:21 AM

That was my comment :)

I deleted it once I noticed it had already been moved :)

You could play runescape on a goddam toaster.

@Rob Ah, that's why it didn't onebox.

@Rob Didn't notice it even got moved.

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Q: Is XKCD 1305 True?

Is xkcd 1305 real? Is there really such a chat room?

windows hidden-features

@boo ...

@boo what?

9:27 AM

Really now? ...

Ufoguy

9:46 AM

Anybody here who wants humble bundle but doesn't have a credit card?

@Ufoguy and/or paypal

Ufoguy

No paypal too. Those who have no means of buying

No paypal, no credit card.

You can link paypal direct to a bank account cant you?

Surely thats the option for people with no credit card.

Ufoguy

No, for many Third World countries it is not possible. Atleast not in India.

Paypal sucks outside USA

Ah, right, Wasnt aware of that.

It's ok in the UK

Q: Is it always possible to complete a pass or score a goal?

9:51 AM

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I've been playing Flick Kick Football Legends on my android phone lately. For those unfamilar with this game you have to flick a football past defenders to another player on your team. The game constructs mostly static scenes with your player usually behind a defender or two. Sometimes the player...

android football-legends

Oooh, I've earned a secret hat.... Chuck Yeager. Any idea what I did?

@Rob quickly given an answer probably

Thats when I got mine at least, seems to be related

lol I'm playing runescape

and I have an unread message that the site refuses to show me because it's like 5 years old now

@3ventic That'll learn you to not read messages for years!

I quit and didn't play for over 3 months and they won't show messages older than 3 months

9:56 AM

Or to start playing Runescape again

I'm not going to start learning to play Runescape...

@Rob - If it's the same as in Walking Dead 1 - it's continuous and there will be spoilers.

Q: Do I need to completely finish Season 1 before starting Season 2?

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The second season of The Walking Dead episodic game has just been released. I've not yet finished all the episodes from season one jsut yet. Is the second season a continuation of the same story ( so may include spoilers ) or it is a totally separate story and is playable without ruining the end...

the-walking-dead

I know S1 was continous from episode to episode, but I'm wondering if episode 1 of S2 directly carries on from episode 5 of S1.

@Rob I think it somewhat does.

Haven't played it, though, but it looks like that things from S1 carry over to S2

10:11 AM

I wonder how that copes with the differnt choices the player makes in S1 which decide which characters live and die. (Unless al the 'choosable' characters die off over S1 anyway)

@Rob Can't really comment without spoilering

Yeah, thats fair enough

@Rob What Colin said: finish season 1 first. It's totally worth it.

Thats another one for the To Be Finished pile...

Steam is ruining my free time

@Rob The backlog rises with every steam stale and every humblebundle

Damn, I even have to finish some PS2/GC games...

and PS1

10:23 AM

Dammit. I HATE WordPress.

I need to stop buying these Open World style games, as they are essentially unfinshable

I need to stop buying games

@Arperum Feel that hate flow through you

@3ventic HAHAHAHAHA... Good one

I have 243 games in my Steam library and I've played maybe 80 of them

I haven't even played half life 2 yet ._.

10:26 AM

@3ventic Seriously?

Yup

@3ventic It is a really fun game

and I really should play it

or them

@boo watching your avatar suddenly grow a mustache on mso is quite amusing.

@boo I am currently modifying the corefiles of a theme and a couple plugins... because this site doesn't fit in the template options they offer. Also: translation is broken. So I've been hacking away at the code.

10:29 AM

@Arperum Use bootstrap

@boo If I would have made this thing from scratch myself it would've been long done.

@boo I'm not allowed. it has to be wordpress, because wordpress is the word of god or somesuch. I hate that specific god so much.

@Arperum Quit job, burn it to the ground

2

@Arperum how many plugins?

@boo I've been thinking about it. Both options.

@tombull89 Mostly Woocommerce, and woocommerce-nl and the theme that fucks around with woocommerce.

plus a couple addons for woocommerce.

as long as it's not a billion plugins that do all sorts of stuff

10:37 AM

@tombull89 There is woocommerce "this base thing of woocommerce is bad, get it out" and the theme that is "supports" it, but it doesn't properly support translations or something. so the theme, woocommerce and woocommerce-nl are all fighting.

@Rob this isn't true

you must be doing it wrong

@kalina and/or he is not as obsessive compulsive about games as you are

@tombull89 "The payment option shouldn't be there, it'll be handled afterwards by mail or something."

"here, place this random text at that spot" "that text is bad, change it."

What isn't true?

19 mins ago, by Rob

I need to stop buying these Open World style games, as they are essentially unfinshable

10:44 AM

...

Only if you can mod them ...

@MartinSojka ooh so that's why I'm still playing skyrim

@KevinvanderVelden That's why I'm still playing Morrowind.

@MartinSojka I should play morrowind again sometime

Boots of blinding speed + magic resistance exploit for the win!

Morrowind was fucking great.

10:46 AM

Ah, well isn't there always something still to do in most of these even when you may have finished the main story?

@Rob only a finite number of things

@kalina not counting things like radiant quests, but do they really count?

You dont get a big The End though, do you? kill the final baddie and roll the credits?

even games with random quest generation only have a certain number of similar quests to generate new quests from

@Rob even open world games will usually have something like this

the only kinds of games that don't really have this are MMOs

and multiplayer only games

Yeah, I suppose so. Things like Assassins creed 2 have so many "Collect all 1.5 million feathers" type tasks...

10:48 AM

@Rob SR3 certainly has, you can just continue after it.

Skyrim I've never actually seen it cause I see the main quest line coming and go the other way

infinite quests would require infinite development

Or randomized quests

@kalina or procedural generation, that can create a suitable large number at least =p

2 mins ago, by kalina

even games with random quest generation only have a certain number of similar quests to generate new quests from

Not within a set of rules

totally random

10:50 AM

Elite crammed in a lot of content onto a couple of floppy disks,

@3ventic "totally random"... lol

With todays game size surely these /should/ be almost infinite

Not that it would make a whole lot of sense

infinite numbers of "collect 10 hats" is still just one quest - collect X Y's

@Rob Elite used procedural generation, most games today do this only in a very limited fashion if at all

10:51 AM

@Rob Elite only really had a handful of missions

Doesnt procedulral generation suggest a different configuration each time?

well, "jobs"

What if the game gave you a quest to buy the sequel, which gave you a quest to buy its sequel and so on?

same shit, different name

That would be an infinite quest

10:51 AM

Elite's galaxies were identical each time

@KevinvanderVelden Similarly, I reached Little Lamplight in Fallout 3, then went "Nope. That's dumb." and never progressed there.

And don't get me started on Little Computer People

@MartinSojka I contemplated installing the child killer mod...

@Rob that's because they set the seed to a fixed number, you can do a simple rom edit on elite and have a completely different universe

@5pike the invincible children annoyed me

10:53 AM

@KevinvanderVelden , Wow, I didnt know that.

@kalina What also annoyed me (if I remember correctly) that the children would just run away if attacked, instead of fighting.

Of course you need to be able to kill your children..

The children annoyed me. Them being invincible just meant that in a world big on "choice and consequences", they didn't need to face the consequences.

by the time I got bored of skyrim, all of the major cities only had children left in them

@kalina There are mods to fix that.

10:54 AM

I got bored of Skyrim about 30 hours into playing it

after completing the main story line

and then uninstalled it

I haven't had it installed since

@kalina Never completed the main quest. I always get distracted.

I have played 262 hours of Skyrim

and still not bored

because mods

@Arperum Same. Got distracted by another game

so many things in skyrim annoyed me

like every other npc saying the arrow to the knee line

@kalina you can mod that away

10:56 AM

I was glad to get it uninstalled tbh

@3ventic there were no mods on release day, when I completed and uninstalled it

@5pike That too, and the everlasting "Oh shiny mod!"install "New save because new modsetup"

@Arperum this. So much this

One does not simply change their save because of mods

brb

@3ventic Changing save?

@Arperum I got distracted before mods were created.

10:58 AM

@5pike me to, then I waited a year and started playing again

And now that there are tons, I just don't feel like sifting through them...

I got other stuff to do

The amount of games I finished is way too low. I keep restarting, or get distracted by something else, and then later restart from scratch.

Non-productive stuff, but stuff nonetheless.

@Arperum Oh yeah, I hate when that happens.

<(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+>

It's always like "Where the hell am I? I don't remember this at all"

11:01 AM

@kalina regexp == bad.

@5pike Yup, so I restart all the time.

nope, use regex for everything

and for everything else... jQuery

@Arperum I read walkthrouhgs or in-game journals to get up to speed, but it doesn't always work.

@kalina What are you even trying to match with that? o.ô

@FEichinger Cthulu chat easter egg

@kalina I got 99 problems, but a regexp ain't one

11:08 AM

@boo this looks like you're trying to evaluate your problems, you should totally drop that and use jQuery

@kalina eval(problems);

Let's all drop jQuery and use assembler, what could possibly go wrong?

@KevinvanderVelden Bytecode is better.

@KevinvanderVelden asm.js

asmjs.org

Assembler in the browser!

What could possibly go wrong

Imagine a world where, instead of javascript, people ran straight up assembler in their websites. Think of all the fun things you could have with it!

11:09 AM

@KevinvanderVelden Hardware bugs, yay!

Why, virus writers wouldn't even need you to use java or the adobe PDF readers.

give me some things I can answer

NOW

I need to generate another 220 rep today

go go

@kalina what is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

ARQADE RELATED FOO'

@kalina well you should be specific, I'm a programmer.

11:11 AM

the currently selected context is Arqade

@kalina /unanswered

@kalina no, the currently selected context is the Bridge, which runs on spite and pedantism

@boo THAT I CAN ANSWER

Everything unanswered on this site is a bad question

it's unanswered because it's a bad question missing information, about something mundane, about something that doesn't have an authoritative answer or about something made before I was born

@kalina I still say we should nuke every unanswered question and get our answer rate up to 100%

yes

we should get rid of all unanswered questions older than 2 weeks old

and every user who has downvoted me more t han 5 times, to get rid of all of these serial downvoters

and every user who has flagged me more than 5 times, to get rid of all of these flags trolls

11:15 AM

And every user who hasn't upvoted me more than 5 times, that should get rid of the people who are mean :(

We should get rid of anyone with more downvotes than upvotes, certainly

@KevinvanderVelden So we should get rid of you?

*cough* @fbueckert *cough*

@boo people with more delete votes than questions and answers posted

@Arperum ... I did not think that one through did I?

11:16 AM

@KevinvanderVelden No you didn't.

@Arperum oh well, it'd clean up the site pretty rapidly, I'd be removed and then noone will have upvoted me, so everyone is removed :D

@boo I have greatly closed the gap on you

We should just bribe the mothership to dump the bad questions to sf&f

sf&f will take them

that is a site full of bad questions

@kalina I don't care about your gap

11:18 AM

it's their thing

@boo yes you do

@kalina I am not as competitive as you.

this is like the "who is going to take that space on the third row" thing all over again

@kalina Except this time it's the 2nd row

yes

and this time strix is the victim, not fae

@kalina Indeed

11:19 AM

the good news is though

soon badp will be on the third row, not the second

~~@Stri~~ ~~@MechanicalLoon~~ @Hitler

I have 10k network rep soon :o

and then we'll both be on the second row!

@3ventic yay chat flags

@kalina It'll take me a while to get @bad

Can you see flags on your own messages?

11:20 AM

yes

Great

@boo it's only 3k or so

remember there are a lot of new games coming out nearly next year

watchdogs \o/

elite beta \o/

Mad Scientist

@kalina If the questions are bad, downvote them. If they are at -1 and older than a month they're automatically deleted

world of warcraft 4th expansion \o/

another payday 2 map \o/

I don't know what else \o/

3

@kalina So the more upvotes you give me, the sooner we relegate @bad

11:23 AM

you know I can't do that, boo

Why do people still take SE as a forum...

@kalina Open the upvote bay doors please, @kal

because it's on the internet

because they're users

because they're stubborn

because of the reason

because... fire

@boo I refuse to upvote minecraft content

@kalina Fire is not a reason, it's a solution

and I've pretty much upvoted everything else you've posted

11:25 AM

@boo Maybe it's both

@kalina Even candy box

yep

reluctantly

since that was the day I got fired and I wanted to spread the hate around evenly

but I still upvoted you

@kalina Fired == Fire?

...

@kalina I know

11:27 AM

-.-

Q: Who are the people on meta stackoverflow? :)

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What's the main personality type? How much are they all experts in a specific stack-related domain? To what varying degrees are they affiliated with the official company behind StackExchange sites, if at all? Just (very) curious...

discussion meta

why

> Just (very) curious...

@kal Our answering strategy for stupid questions is quite different.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz The bridge just wouldn't be the same without your constant reminders of human stupidity. We'd start to have faith in the human race or something, and that would just be terrible.

11:34 AM

Hehe, I just thought up what is perhaps the most evil game mashup ever. Cookie Clicker + Endless Runner

Why didn't I know of these?

@boo I am the "helpful" type

you are the "strange" type

apparently a stupid link answer gets more upvotes than trying to be helpful though

@kalina Stupid questions == stupid answers, preferably with narwhals.