The Bridge

Retrosaur

8:00 PM

@StrixVaria Well, that's true I suppose

Yuki

@Retrosaur This implies that the Devil died at some point.

StrixVaria

Except goto in mid-high level languages, which is literally worse than Hitler.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki also that it exists

Yuki

@KevinvanderVelden And that world is officially Buddhist.

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria except in assembly! goto is perfectly fine in assembly

OrigamiRobot

8:00 PM

While the majority of my classes "required reading" was not really required except for homework, I still have a fair number of professors who had us working out of the books in class.

Yuki

Or Hindu. They believe in reincarnation too, right?

OrigamiRobot

And that could easily be a difference in majors.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot I suppose that's true.

I never had a college class where we actually did work in class.

Class was when the teacher lectured, and homework was work.

I guess there were labs.

Maybe just a difference in terminology.

Yuki

The big problem is that for a lot of (US, don't know about others) universities, courses are required to list at least one textbook.

OrigamiRobot

No, we had labs too.

Yuki

8:01 PM

And there will always be parents like my parents who insist on purchasing each and every textbook.

MBraedley

@Yuki I've had courses without a text-book. My history elective (Military History: Plato to NATO) didn't have a textbook

As one example

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria Sometimes our lecture was "Find a problem in the book you don't understand and I'll show you how to do it."

user15026

Coursepacks are worse than textbooks imo

FAE

Is anyone here from the Boston area?

Sterno

College was such a waste of money :(

Unionhawk

8:03 PM

My school doesn't require textbooks for all classes. Just by professor's discretion.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot That actually could be really useful.

Retrosaur

@Sterno I just torrented all my classes, professors, and tests. That could've saved you a lot of money!

user15026

user15026

This is amazing

Fluttershy

@Sterno Regarding your "games with stupid names" thing, where would you rank "Dawn of Fantasy: Kingdom Wars"? I'm guessing pretty high up there.

Retrosaur

8:04 PM

@Fluttershy How about Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria Given the right professor, it was.

Powerlord

@KevinvanderVelden That's because assembly doesn't have a lot of the higher-level constructs that wrap it.

Frank

@AshleyNunn I want those. Now.

Kevin van der Velden

@OrigamiRobot this was not that professor?

@Powerlord indeed it is :)

Yuki

@kalina OH MAI GAWD, I'M INTERNET FAMOUS.

OrigamiRobot

8:04 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Some yes, some no.

Unionhawk

so famous

RedRiderX

@Yuki Aww I want to be internet famous too :(

@Unionhawk much viral

Powerlord

Pssh, I was internet famous YEARS ago.

Decades even

OrigamiRobot

@KevinvanderVelden The ASM I used didn't have goto, it had jmp.

Same same

Powerlord

Of course, the Internet was a lot smaller back then

Yuki

8:06 PM

@Powerlord That usually means you aren't Internet Famous now.

Kevin van der Velden

@OrigamiRobot exactly, different word same thing

LessPop_MoreFizz

I just gave somebody a 65% tip to make up for the @OrigamiRobot's of the world.

Retrosaur

Yuki

Internet Fame only lasts for about one week.

Kevin van der Velden

@Powerlord just you and a neighbours network interconnected right?

Retrosaur

8:06 PM

feast on my eyes

Yuki

@KevinvanderVelden That neighbor was @Sterno.

RedRiderX

What mighty heroes are these?

StrixVaria

LessPop_MoreFizz

Also because he delivered me food in a snowstorm and therefore has fucking earned it.

OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz I gave the pizza guy a 50% tip the other day because they gave him the wrong address to deliver to.

StrixVaria

8:07 PM

This reminds me that I bought that Deadpool game and haven't played it yet.

Sterno

@Fluttershy Super generic but at least makes sense.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuki ofcourse, @Sterno was absolutely amazed at all that new technology. Just imagine! LIGHT WITHOUT FIRE

Sterno

Let's say... D+?

Fluttershy

@Sterno Just so I'm clear... Is the goal for your list to get an A? Like, would a game with an A+ have the worst title, or the best?

Retrosaur

Sterno

8:08 PM

No. Legend of Dungeon is F-

it's generic and nonsensical

RedRiderX

@Sterno Wow really?

OrigamiRobot

Nov 18 '13 at 3:08, by OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz I always tip people who deliver. They are putting their life at risk to allow me to be lazy.

Ullallulloo

@Retrosaur That's...interesting.

Sterno

I reserve the right to change to a completely different scale tomorrow

Retrosaur

RedRiderX

8:08 PM

oh names

yeah it's a bad name

Fluttershy

@Sterno Gotcha. Now that I know how this scale works--... oh. Nevermind.

StrixVaria

Tipping delivery people is nice, but I hate delivery fees that don't go to the driver.

Corporate greed much?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@StrixVaria Oh yeah, those are monstrous.

Jason Berkan

@LessPop_MoreFizz I delivered pizzas in high school. I would make an unbelievable amount of money in tips during storms.

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria Also, ordering online and not being able to tip online.

LessPop_MoreFizz

8:09 PM

the worst part is that those fees actively discourage tipping on the part of idiots who think that the fee is adequate in lieu of a tip

Retrosaur

Yuki

@OrigamiRobot Eh, the problem with tipping online is that you're not sure it'll go to the driver.

Retrosaur

Sterno

I order from a place that delivers from lots of restaurants, but they talk on a delivery fee and a fuel charge charge totalling about $5-6 before you even get to a tip.

OrigamiRobot

@Yuki As opposed to me writing in the amount on the receipt?

Sterno

8:10 PM

It's a bit frustrating but I don't let it affect the tip.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Sterno delivery services are vampires

Sterno

However, I'm also likely to upgrade a tip on a $20 delivered meal and downgrade a tip on an $80 delivered meal.

FAE

Eating out and/or getting delivery is not cheap here, so we don't really do it.

Yuki

@OrigamiRobot Oh, when I tip delivery folks, I just give them the cash.

OrigamiRobot

I never have cash.

FAE

8:11 PM

Ordering 2 pizzas is like €27.

Retrosaur

I once gave a delivery driver canadian cash

Sterno

@LessPop_MoreFizz But once I had a kid and couldn't get out of the house at dinner time, it because oh-so-convenient.

RedRiderX

@FAE Woah

OrigamiRobot

I have zero convenient opportunities to get cash unless someone gives it to me as a gift.

Retrosaur

Anyone want to hear a bad story

RedRiderX

8:11 PM

@Retrosaur Were you in Canada at the time?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Sterno grubhub et al are the best thing

Retrosaur

@RedRiderX Viagra Falls

RedRiderX

...

Unionhawk

...

Sterno

@LessPop_MoreFizz I thought you just called them vampires!

Retrosaur

8:12 PM

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Sterno

The one I used is called OrderIn but it looks a lot like GrubHub

RedRiderX

@Retrosaur viagrafalls.net/main.html ?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Sterno grubhub is not a delivery service.

Retrosaur

Anyways, I used to work in electronics retail

There used to be this one guy who'd always come in, cocky as fuck

LessPop_MoreFizz

It is just a website where you can place orders. Most restaurants handle their own fulfillment.

Retrosaur

8:13 PM

Thought he knew everything

He was having issues with his CPU, as it was overheating or something

Sterno

@LessPop_MoreFizz Ah. This place is specifically for restaurants that don't otherwise deliver.

Retrosaur

we checked the inside, and we deteremined he needed thermal paste

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Sterno Yeah, those are delivery services.

Retrosaur

I jokingly added that he should add thermal paste to his tower

as thermal paste would help dissipate heat and help regulate the systems

LessPop_MoreFizz

there's a bunch of them; usually local businesses, that will pick up a to-go order from the local TGI McChilibees or whatever and bring it to you for a fee.

They are vampires.

Retrosaur

8:14 PM

But he dismissed it initally

Sterno

@LessPop_MoreFizz Well, sure, but I've seen in-house restaurant deliveries that do the same ripoff routine with delivery + fuel charges

Powerlord

Hmm, gotta love how Grubhub has no clue how far things are away from my house.

Retrosaur

he gets his computer fixed, and three months later, comes back in

Unionhawk

Aka, "We paid some college kid to deliver your food to you instead of carrying out you lazy..."

Retrosaur

literally his computer tower is coated in crusted thermal paste

Powerlord

8:15 PM

Google Directions literally pins Mancino's as being nearly twice as far away as Grubhub does

Sterno

@LessPop_MoreFizz They are indeed vampires, but they're vampires who bring me the delicious Indian food I would otherwise not be able to acquire.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Sterno Well sure. Delivery charges are becoming increasingly common; but the delivery charges charged by the third party services are often several orders of magnitude higher.

Jason Berkan

There's a restaurant around here that just hires a taxi and throws your food in it.

Retrosaur

and said he had no idea what went wrong

spugsley

Ramen Day 2. Let's see what happens

Retrosaur

8:15 PM

So he ends up having our techs open his computer out

LessPop_MoreFizz

It's a two dollar surcharge for the pizza place to deliver my food. The delivery service wants 10 dollars to call chilis for me and send a guy to pick it up.

Sterno

GrubHub just told me it hates me.

Powerlord

Which I kinda expected since I know where a closer Mancino's is to where I live.

Retrosaur

it's like his computer is drowning in thermal paste

Lazers

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Hello dear ST or strategy fans :) I play this game only occasionally and thus am not fully aware of everything. By the way I was registered at this forum years ago, but I don't remember the user name. Recently I've read a guide. From the guide a few questions evolved, where one is this. Here i...

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Fluttershy

8:15 PM

There's an Indian food place opening up near here! I'm so excited!

spugsley

@Fluttershy Yay!

Unionhawk

@spugsley This sounds like some bad sequel.

Sterno

Damn it. Now I'm hungry for Indian.

Kevin van der Velden

@Retrosaur nicely done that guy ><

spugsley

@Unionhawk oh it is. It's like the only thing that's been ok on my stomach

Retrosaur

8:16 PM

I'll tell you guys a story about an Indian Restraurant

Sterno

inb4 wildly inappropriate story

user15026

@Fluttershy I like the idea of indian but it doesn't like me

Retrosaur

So there's this one guy, in a local Indian Restaraunt right?

C-dizzle

@Retrosaur At least he used thermal paste and not toothpaste... I had someone who decided to try to build his own computer he wasn't very smart mind you, and used toothpaste instead of thermal paste. True story!

Retrosaur

restaurant's burning, food dying blah blah blah

and this customer rushes me with a spoon

a fricking spoon

And I'm just laughing

FAE

8:17 PM

Does anyone know of any shelters in the Boston area that can handle someone with say, panic attack problems?

user15026

....I really wanna call bullshit on this.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Love, Actuarially.

FAE

long shot, I know, but

Retrosaur

So I scoop out his eyeballs and he's like WAHHHHHHH

and his kids are all like UGGGGGHG

LessPop_MoreFizz

> He retasked his bots to gather another sample: 5,000 women in Los Angeles and San Francisco who’d logged on to OkCupid in the past month. Another pass through K-Modes confirmed that they clustered in a similar way. His statistical sampling had worked.

> After a month of dating equally from both of his profiles, he decided he was spending too much time on the freeway reaching east-side women from the tattoo cluster. He deleted his A-group profile. His efficiency improved, but the results were the same. As summer drew to a close, he’d been on more than 55 dates, each one dutifully logged in a lab notebook. Only three had led to second dates; only one had led to a third.

GEE I WONDER WHY

user15026

8:18 PM

@FAE Lemme see what I can find, I know I have contacts in various cities, not sure if that is one of them or not

C-dizzle

@LessPop_MoreFizz Guess I'm deleting my profile from OkCupid now...

Retrosaur

@C-dizzle Did his computer smell Minty Fresh

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE I can ask around. Any particular sort of shelter? DV or whatever?

FAE

@AshleyNunn Thanks muchly. I have a friend who's in a bad place right now, I'm trying to see if I can find anything to help him with my limited-because-of-distance means.

C-dizzle

@Retrosaur The processor fused with the toothpaste, bad smell

user15026

8:19 PM

@FAE Can you ping me on steam, with more details?

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz Just homeless, for a male friend.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn @FAE ditto

fredley

*sets up new account, calls it ronnie* - I've got 6 days

Beer is a site!!!

Yuki

@LessPop_MoreFizz Interesting how one of those groups of women is just named "Samantha".

Sterno

We need an 11th mod candidate to extend the election drama.

Yuki

8:25 PM

@Sterno Not me! touches nose

GnomeSlice

The Humble Audiobook Bundle

Yuki

@GnomeSlice Wait... huh?

inb4 giant backlash as gamers complain about not having games in the newest Humble Bundle.

GnomeSlice

@Yuki Tough?

user15026

And mostly terrible books at that

Fluttershy

@Yuki They do that from time to time. They've had eBook bundles in the past as well.

fredley

8:27 PM

beer.stackexchange.com

No one box :(

Anyone wants invites give me a shout

Yuki

@AshleyNunn I have not picked up a single Meg Cabot book and made it past ten pages.

Sterno

@fredley Private beta.

FAE

I've read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius but it was over 10 years ago and I don't remember much about it.

user15026

@Yuki I read her princess diaries stuff when I was like 10

Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice ooh that reminds me, if anyone likes Yathzee from Zero Punctuations humor he has two books

Ullallulloo

8:28 PM

@Yuki They did an eBook bundle before.

Kevin van der Velden

I haven't read jam yet but mogworld was hilarious

FAE

Otherwise, Blood Meridian and The Satanic Verses are the only other things I've heard of.

GnomeSlice

Awesome anti-poaching robot art

Fluttershy

@fredley Aaaaaah!

That's me shouting.

Powerlord

Aaaaaah! Real Monsters!

LessPop_MoreFizz

8:31 PM

@fredley I am already writing a question!

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz Like there's anything you don't already know.

LessPop_MoreFizz

It will probably get closed!

@GnomeSlice There is!

fredley

I got the first question on the site

Retrosaur

@fredley Is it legal enough to get invites if I'm still underage

fredley

Screen capped the empty site for novelty value

Retrosaur

8:32 PM

@fredley Could I get an invite

fredley

@Retrosaur You're legal age in France!

Retrosaur

@fredley Oh wait, and in Russia as well

Michel

I wish there were an app to access the chat.

Fluttershy

Wait... Can you actually be invited to a private beta on a StackExchange site?

Without actually committing, I mean.

Arperum

@LessPop_MoreFizz Holy shit. That's frigging awesome

FEichinger

8:34 PM

@Fluttershy Yep.

Anyone in the beta can send out invites.

Fluttershy

waits patiently

Michel

That is new for me

fredley

I just created inebriation

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Arperum Ummmm.... that is not my reaction.

Arperum

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm kind of interested in math too. I don't say I approve of what he did. I just find the whole concept of seeing the pattern and working it out awesome.

Yuki

8:36 PM

@fredley -1 for not calling it falling-down-drunk.

fredley

@yuk closed as synonym

SaintWacko

@Michel Don't we all...

@LessPop_MoreFizz It is my reaction

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz I find it both interesting and alarming.

Sterno

> He was already sleeping in his cubicle most nights. Now he gave up his apartment entirely and moved into the dingy beige cell, laying a thin mattress across his desk when it was time to sleep.

Arperum

@Retrosaur In Belgium you'd be allowed to drink beer for three years already.

Sterno

8:40 PM

Yet another thing that makes one so confused why he had trouble getting dates!

Arperum

@Sterno That's the creepy part.

Michel

@SaintWacko ... I can't even start your comment on the chat T_T

Star****

Powerlord

Hey, apparently the most often used password on the Internet wasn't "password" in 2013! Now it's "123456"

Unionhawk

"Mobile chat is terrible" is practically a meme around here

2

Arperum

@Powerlord Uhm... yay?

RedRiderX

8:44 PM

@Unionhawk Well throw it on the meme pile then.

Frank

More like, "YAYYYYYYYyyyyyyy*facedesk*"

Arperum

@Frank You mean like "YAYYYYYYYyyyyyyy yhngb"?

Frank

@Arperum Or reasonable facsimile thereof.

Arperum

@Frank Mine was a literal facedesk.

spugsley

@AshleyNunn it has a happy ending though :3

user15026

8:46 PM

@spugsley This is true.

Lazers

0

Q: Garry's mod map problem

I downloaded a Pokémon castle map in Garry's mod, but when I went to "START A NEW GAME" the map was not there. I got other maps too, and they don't work either.

garrys-mod

Kevin van der Velden

@Lazers I just love questions that are "Hey, I'm having problems with this specific map/mod.... Oh and btw also all maps/mods in general"

That won't change the potential answers at all

user15026

Every time I apply to a job, I get a little hopeful. But then I never hear anything, and I just feel sad.

Fluttershy

@AshleyNunn I know that feel. :(

user15026

@Fluttershy I am starting to think I am just not ever going to get a job at all ever

RedRiderX

8:50 PM

@AshleyNunn Yeah that can happen

Fluttershy

@AshleyNunn Don't get discouraged! It's hard not to, but... yeah. You just have to keep trying. :\

SaintWacko

Fuuuuuu-

user15026

@RedRiderX Can happen? :P It is all that has happened to me for a month now.

SaintWacko

I just beat the first level of Risk of Rain in 5:07

7 seconds too late to get the achievement

RedRiderX

@AshleyNunn Hah exact same situation a few months ago

FAE

8:51 PM

@SaintWacko You'll get it!

user15026

@Fluttershy Yeah, I know. Applying to two more things today, and tomorrow, if I don't kill myself getting out of the house again, I amgoing to look at a couple things that want me to apply in person.

RedRiderX

But you just make getting a job your job for a while

If you really need one.

user15026

@RedRiderX Oh, I know. I am just feeling massively discouraged.

RedRiderX

That's part of the job, sending out notes.

@AshleyNunn Yeah, that can definitely happen too. :(

Ben Brocka

@AshleyNunn It's become pretty standard for places to just not even send rejection anymore. It's lame but it's normal. Just keep up!

user15026

8:53 PM

@BenBrocka It annoys me because then I am like in limbo forever.

RedRiderX

@AshleyNunn Well you definitely don't have to just wait on them to respond

But it sounds like you know that

user15026

@RedRiderX Yeah, I am not really looking for advice, I am 26, I've done this before, I know how to do it

user15026

It is just damn frustrating.

RedRiderX

Hah true :P

@AshleyNunn Very True

user15026

Because if I was a dev? I'd have a million fucking things here to apply to

user15026

8:54 PM

but I am not

user15026

so.

user15026

(seriously if you need a dev job in like anytihng we have millions)

Frank

@AshleyNunn Any idea what the pay's like?

Krazer

@AshleyNunn Do you want to be one?

RedRiderX

Heh yeah I guess Toronto / GTA has a lot of tech stuff going on right now?

user15026

8:55 PM

@Krazer Theoretically, but tehy want like a degree and shit

user15026

@Frank depends. I've seen from 30k to 100k

user15026

(it really depends what company, what level, etc)

user15026

@RedRiderX Loads.

Krazer

@AshleyNunn Relevant work EXP!

Frank

@AshleyNunn Huh. That sounds roughly around my level. If things don't pan out here.

user15026

8:56 PM

@Krazer I have none of that ever

user15026

I like computers, but I am not even remotely a dev

user15026

I am a library-loving english nerd with some customer service/social work experience

user15026

who doesnt want to work in social work anymore

LessPop_MoreFizz

There's a new Drunk Rob Ford Video.

Krazer

@AshleyNunn project managment!

Yuki

8:57 PM

We should all just move to Toronto and be @AshleyNunn's neighbors.

5

user15026

because, well, it's not worth literally wanting to kill myself over.

LessPop_MoreFizz

He uses the word 'Bumbaclot'.

user15026

@Yuki oooh we could have a Bridge commune

RedRiderX

@LessPop_MoreFizz At this point that feels like saying that there is another blizzard in Toronto.

user15026

and it would make hte idea of looking not in KW, but in Toronto, a lot less scary

Yuki

8:58 PM

@AshleyNunn Everything is purchased with rep.

Frank

@Yuki I wouldn't mind moving to a suburb nearby or something, but never in Toronto.

Yuki

And instead of citations, we have chat flags.

user15026

@Frank It is totally possible to do that. :)

Krazer

@Yuki What about Mod Abuse?

user15026

@Krazer Psh, wouldn't happen ;)

RedRiderX

8:59 PM

@Frank There is a lot of GTA.

Frank

Wouldn't mods be the local law enforcement?

FAE

@Frank This is why they have Go trains!

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