The Bridge

MBraedley

21:00

Well, attempt X at reinstalling windows failed. X, BTW is at least 3 at this point.

Frank

@MBraedley I think @TrentHawkins has you beat.

MBraedley

@Frank is he doing that today too?

Frank

@MBraedley He's spent the last couple of weeks trying to get Windows working.

Trent Hawkins

the installation alone was 10+ attemps, not counting the eventually aborted XP-SP3 attempts.

MBraedley

@Frank crazy thing is, windows was working. I just had enough with Firefox not working.

It's really annoying when ~~porn~~ YouTube doesn't buffer properly.

Frank

21:03

@MBraedley And just reinstalling Firefox wouldn't do it?

MBraedley

@Frank well if I had done a completely clean install, maybe

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo That looks pretty good.

MBraedley

I'm not convinced it would have solved the constant crashes, either.

GnomeSlice

Keen Software House weekend sale on Groupees

All of them are Steam'd.

I should play through miner wars 2081

I preordered it, and then for whatever reason, never played it

I did the first mission a few days ago

Pretty good.

I suck at 6DOF controls though.

Also

A pair of Canadian sisters won gold and silver medals at the olympic ski moguls

Take that, other countries!

I just ripped my sweater sleeve

=[

MBraedley

Okay, preparing for attempt X+1. Preparations take a while though.

Yuki

21:12

Dammit, @MBraedley!

We only needed 3 more messages before my entire chat window was just @GnomeSlice talking.

MBraedley

There, you can have my glory

2 hours ago, by MBraedley

Canada gets gold and silver in women's moguls! Congrats to the Dufour-Lapoint sisters!

GnomeSlice

@MBraedley Not starred, so irrelevant data.

There we go.

Yuki

I'd be disappointed if Canada doesn't get 1st or 2nd place in the medal count.

For me, it's kinda expected at the Winter Olympics.

MBraedley

@Yuki actually, we came in third by total count in Vancouver. Had the most golds though.

US is typically the most dominant.

Gaming Topics From Outside

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Q: How to forcibly enable Dual Graphics/Crossfire support for Kaveri and R7 250?

I recently built one of those newfangled AMD Kaveri systems, but am having a little trouble setting it up for dual graphics/Crossfire. Here is the hardware list: Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer (Updated to BIOS v1.8) CPU: A10-7850K GPU: GIGABYTE GV-R725O5-2GI Radeon R7 250 2GB 128-...

Powerlord

21:24

@Yuki Of course, igloos and all that

Lazers

0

Q: how do you find stronghold libraries in minecraft?

I have searched all the strongholds I can find, but I have never found a stronghold library. Does anyone know of a 100% accurate way to find stronghold libraries?

minecraft

Ktash

Done!

GnomeSlice

I see

canada is cold

so we must be the best

MBraedley

21:58

Windows is mostly installed!

3ventic

Yay

MBraedley

> The product key is not valid

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Lazers

0

Q: Enable Tnt on spigot

I host a spigot server and one of my ops has disabled TNT. We cannot figure out how to enable TNT. doTileDrop is true, essentials is not disabling it, the factions mod is not disabling it. Does anyone have any ideas?

minecraft

0

Q: Is There any quick way do obtain Daedra Hearts

My armor right now is Ebony with the (Epic) improvement, my smithing is level 85 and i am saving any daedra hearts i encounter for the daedric armor, my friend told me after i do the mehrunes dagon quest there will be 4 daedra's waiting to fight me with a lovely daedra heart each at his shrine , ...

skyrim

MBraedley

Fuck you Microsoft!

user15026

@MBraedley That's really really annoying

3ventic

22:13

Aaaand again

MBraedley

So, do I dig in and buy a Win8 license, or do I dig out a Vista disk and go about this again?

I also have a Win7 Home Premium disk easily accessible. I wonder if that would work.

3ventic

I don't think it will let you upgrade to windows 8 if you haven't activated 7

It's still better than the 7 to 8 to 8.1 nonsense I went through last autumn..

Lazers

0

Q: Can you get charged creeper spawners without any external programmes?

I have been searching on youtube for ages, but I can not find any tutorials on how to get charged creeper spawners without mc edit or nbt edit. Is there a way to get charged creeper spawners without the use of external programmes?

minecraft

MBraedley

@3ventic I would do another fresh install. Not going to get an upgrade license.

3ventic

That would work

MBraedley

22:24

what are the differences between 8.1 and 8.1 pro?

3ventic

not sure

Lazers

0

Q: What was first football game to have a draft?

Friends and I were debating on the first (American) football game to have a draft of any kind. I definitely remember playing a DOS game on 3.25 floppy in late 80s to early 90s that had this functionality. You were basically the GM/Coach. During games you would choose each play - I think ther...

dos

3ventic

@MBraedley microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/…

MBraedley

Hmm, I don't need BitLocker or the ability to join a domain. Do I really need an RDP host for my primary machine? Especially since my HTPC and tertiary machine both have an RDP server (for admin purposes). I can also add VNC

@3ventic windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/compare

3ventic

RDP is remote access?

MBraedley

22:29

yep

3ventic

It allows me to play hearthstone on my android tablet :p

MBraedley

I mean that's all they've listed. There could be more

3ventic

I think hyper-V is only in the pro version

MBraedley

@3ventic Don't really need virtualization

and I'm running AMD anyway

3ventic

Me too

MBraedley

22:31

or do I have those backwards

3ventic

I'd use hyper-v if it didn't cut out my internet connection

RedRiderX

I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore.

Tweeted by dongatory on February 8, 2014 at 7:02 PM

AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

Is this real?

3ventic

I think it's just a problem with using Vista drivers

RedRiderX

If it is this is amazing.

3ventic

@RedRiderX That's on top of the starlist lol

MBraedley

22:32

@RedRiderX old!

RedRiderX

Oops

Well I just got here

3ventic

Read the starlist!

:p

But yeah, as I was saying, probably not the best idea to use Vista drivers for 8.1...

MBraedley

So, @RedRiderX, do I install Vista and then perform an upgrade to Win7, or do I buy Win8.1 and only do one more installation?

3ventic

It's mostly a question whether you use something a lot that's only compatible on Windows 7 and not 8.1

There's barely any real downside to 8.1 except getting used to it

MBraedley

Steam is the only thing to really worry about, I think. But that's been mostly solved, right?

3ventic

22:35

Steam runs fine for me on 8.1

Fluttershy

Flappy Bird https://vine.co/v/MaY3Tqxi6EF

Tweeted by RoosterTeeth on February 7, 2014 at 11:08 PM

3

MBraedley

I mean I presume OBS will work fine, my Logitech and Cyborg stuff will be fine, etc

Fluttershy

That vine is worth watching. :P

Lazers

0

Q: Should I be a Vampire Warrior

I am a level 33 Nord warrior wth my perks in Smithing, one-handed, Block, and Heavy Armor, I completed the Dawnguard quest AGAINST the vampires, i have auriels bow tested it and got tha fancy achievement, Serana is my follower and is just Begging to turn me into a vampire lord, I was a vampire be...

skyrim-dawnguard

0

Q: Is there a way to tell if an alien is aggressive or friendly on Starbound?

I have found that some aliens cause me no harm at all, whereas others will try and kill me. Is there a way of knowing for sure if an alien is going to kill me or not before I go stabbing it? I'd rather not go killing 20 peaceful creatures if they were never going to harm me in the first place!

starbound

3ventic

@MBraedley Check driver compatibility

My mouse doesn't have drivers for 8.1, but it does for 7

I'm only losing the macros though

MBraedley

22:38

I'm trusting enough in Logitech, and just checked Cyborg. I should be good.

David M

Ahoy, Bridge!

MBraedley

Okay, standard edition. I'm doing it! Need to move back to HTPC

Maybe

David M

@Lazers I'm gonna go with: If there's ever a choice to do so, take it. I know nothing of the game, though.

@Fluttershy Yeah! What's the deal with that guy? He's making a fortune off the game, and now he's pulling it? It's interfering with his simple life????

Powerlord

@DavidM Or he doesn't want to be sued out of existence by Nintendo.

Seeing as he's using some of their graphical assets in his game

David M

@Powerlord He's claiming it's not due to a lawsuit. But, yeah I thought the same.

Lazers

22:43

0

Q: Can i play installed games on xbox 360 without cd'

My xbox only reads original discs it's pal region and i want to know if it's possible somehow to play installed games without discs

xbox-360

Tim Stone

Really Ubisoft?

3ventic

What is that even trying to say?

Tim Stone

"or in"

3ventic

oh

FEichinger

@Powerlord To be fair, changing the visuals wouldn't be much of a problem.

3ventic

22:45

maybe it was hand-written and later copied on the computer without any thought put into it

@DavidM Isn't it a free game?

Tim Stone

They're evidently not fans of the Oxford comma either, I guess.

David M

@3ventic I thought so, but he is making Ad revenue.

$50K/day

Per the reports I saw.

@TimStone I'm a huge fan of the Oxford Comma! But, many are not. Ubisoft, however, is clearly not a fan of copyediting.

FEichinger

@TimStone Nobody except for English majors is a fan of the Oxford comma. ಠ_ಠ

Tim Stone

D:

Unionhawk

@FEichinger wat

David M

22:48

@FEichinger Microbiology major.

@FEichinger nearly 20 years go . . .

Lazers

0

Q: How do can I know if my xbox damages discs

About a week ago while i was playing my friend took console up and it started making awful voices, game cd was damaged and i want to know if it's bad for xbox? Console is making voices when disc is in

xbox-360

David M

2 mins ago, by David M

@TimStone I'm a huge fan of the Oxford Comma! But, many are not. Ubisoft, however, is clearly not a fan of copyediting.

Unionhawk

@DavidM cough

Yuki

@DavidM I just use the serial comma because that's how I've always been taught.

David M

@Unionhawk We all have our weird little things we like . . .

Ullallulloo

22:51

@FEichinger What kind of monster doesn't like the Oxford comma?

3

Unionhawk

@DavidM No, cough at 20 years ago (I'm nearly 20 years old >_>)

David M

@Unionhawk Well . . . I graduated from High School in 1993. So, there's that.

Unionhawk

@DavidM Before I was born: confirmed.

David M

@Unionhawk I don't believe I'm your father, though, if that's what you're asking . . .

Yuki

@DavidM He's not asking. He knows you're his father.

Unionhawk

22:52

@GnomeSlice is my father, obv

David M

@Yuki I did used to get around in the 90s . . .

FAE

Why Oxford Commas are important (not quite SFW, drawn though, not actual people)

Unionhawk

@DavidM ಠ_ಠ

David M

When I first got to this site, we had to determine that I wasn't @gnomeslice 's dad! Now, yours. Sheesh . . .

Yuki

@FAE I don't foresee an occasion in which I would ever invite strippers, JFK, or Stalin. Let alone all three.

David M

22:54

@FAE Brilliant!

Fluttershy

@Yuki Depends on the party!

David M

Although that would require a colon in my book of style.

MBraedley

God I hope windows is downloading the ISO and won't automatically install Win8.1 on my HTPC

Yuki

@Fluttershy Well, I don't expect to be anyone's best man, so I doubt I'll ever be the one to invite strippers.

FAE

@Yuki Given that JFK and Stalni are dead, that'd be quite the occasion if you managed.

FEichinger

22:55

@Yuki You can always invite strippers to your own parties!

David M

Inviting them is easy. Getting them to show up is the hard part . . .

FAE

@DavidM It's actually a common enough cartoon that if you google "Oxford comma", "Oxford comma strippers" will show up in the search options

Yuki

@FAE Granted, "Oxford comma strippers" is a pretty unique search term.

FAE

@DavidM Which is kind of awesome in itself.

FEichinger

Also, well done @FAE. Shifting the topic from the Oxford Comma to strippers - I'm impressed.

2

Unionhawk

22:56

@FAE "Oxford comma strippers" is not a phrase I would ever think to u-- GODAMMIT

David M

It sounds like a minor league baseball team from Oxford: The Comma Strippers.

FEichinger

Stripping the comma is what got us here in the first place.

David M

@FEichinger That just makes it sound dirty.

FAE

@FEichinger Unfortunately, not a marketable talent.

FEichinger

@DavidM Of course that was never my intention.

@FAE Oh, that depends.

Unionhawk

22:58

@FEichinger never

@FEichinger? Dirty? Never

For definitions of "never" meaning "always"

David M

►

RedRiderX

@MBraedley umm

Just get win 8

That's where the drivers / support will be.

FAE

@FEichinger Okay, not in the market I want to go into.

RedRiderX

And with start 8 or something like that it's not the worst thing ever

FEichinger

@FAE Heh. That's true, I suppose.

FAE

23:01

@FEichinger ...Okay, not in the market that I want to go into on a google-logged transcript.

FEichinger

@FAE See, that is what I figured. :P

David M

Google-logged . . . feh. Let them search me!

FAE

@FEichinger I've been told before I have a voice that people would pay to listen to for certain circumstances.

4

FEichinger

@FAE That's already more detail than I ever asked for.

David M

@FAE I assume you're referring to making subway station announcements.

FAE

23:04

@FEichinger Do you regret it?

FEichinger

@FAE Not really, no.

:P

FAE

@DavidM "Please stand away from the closing doors."

Fluttershy

It's not After Dark yet, Bridge. :P

David M

@FAE I have to say, the best of those I've heard around the world was in Prague. There's something so melodic about it in Czech (and I don't speak Czech!)

FEichinger

@Fluttershy That depends on where you live!

David M

23:06

It roughly translates to "If everyone will please finish entering and exiting the car, we can close the doors and begin the journey." Or so I've been told by a Czech speaking friend.

LessPop_MoreFizz

HI CHAT

FEichinger

BYE LESSPOP

3ventic

HI CHATTER

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yo!

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz HI PUPPET

FAE

23:07

@DavidM It seems things often sound prettier in languages outside your native tongue's language family.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM I spent my day (and will spend the next few days that I work) in yer old stomping grounds.

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz So, this predicted 30 inches turned into a major fizzle, eh.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Which ones? Port Wash?

Unionhawk

HI AWESOME PERSON NAMED LESSPOP...

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM 30 inches was never predicted. People just forwarded a year old gawker article and freaked out

David M

@Unionhawk Ahem . . . He's a youngling compared to me . . .

@LessPop_MoreFizz I know. I've been laughing at that all week.

FAE

23:08

@DavidM I think it's like the whole "it's so foreign I have no idea what that is saying, but it sounds so nice" even though someone's disparaging your mother's sexual history or your personal hygiene.

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz There's a size joke in here somewhere ...

Unionhawk

@FEichinger You would >_>

Well, technically you did

David M

I'm actually at JFK ATM, sitting in the Delta Sky Lounge. Heading to Utah for the week.

FEichinger

@Unionhawk Well, no, I have respect for your poor young untainted soul.

FAE

@Fluttershy Pfft, I don't hear you complaining about my voice.

@DavidM Have a safe flight!

LessPop_MoreFizz

23:09

@DavidM Lucky bastard.

Unionhawk

@FEichinger Aren't I older than you?

David M

@FAE Thanks!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM And yes, Port Washington.

FEichinger

@Unionhawk Doesn't really help your case, does it?

Unionhawk

>_>

GnomeSlice

23:09

Door Kickers is now available on Steam

FEichinger

@FAE And this is even more not-asked-for detail. Why thank you!

Unionhawk

Jan 30 at 20:45, by Unionhawk

I hate each and every one of you.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Barring some sort of catastrophe in it's recent history, I either have today, or will this week drive by your childhood home.

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz Annual ~~ski trip~~ conference on the boss's dime.

Unionhawk

ESPECIALLY THAT @FEI PERSON

FEichinger

23:09

@Unionhawk ♥

Unionhawk

DIE

FAE

@FEichinger He's my boyfriend, I talk to him almost every day on Skype. :P

FEichinger

@FAE I know, hence why. ;)

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz Well done. Head up Port Blvd, and check out a place called Hickory. It's a dive, but the BBQ is excellent.

Fluttershy

@FAE Well no. I'd be crazy if I did. :P

LessPop_MoreFizz

23:11

@DavidM Might do. I haven't spent time up there since I was a little kid; once my much older cousins went off to college, I never had any reason to head that way

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz I haven't been back in a few years. But, when I head down there, it's a highlight.

FEichinger

@Unionhawk Nope. Very content being alive still.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM everything west of the train station / south of main street is done. :)

FAE

@FEichinger haha

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah. There isn't much down that way anymore. Used to be a few good places, but I think they've dried up. A lot of people like Shish Kebob, but I was never a fan.

LessPop_MoreFizz

23:14

@DavidM Ayhans? lolchain.

I used to get takeout from the one in Westbury now and again when I worked in the Source.

3ventic

Seriously... HOW?! (Original post at bottom, response at top)

LessPop_MoreFizz

@3ventic I dunno but you should give me your new key

3ventic

Where do you want it?

Fluttershy

Sent to my Steam.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@3ventic Contact in my profile

Fluttershy

23:16

:P

GnomeSlice

►

This looks really fun.

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah. His first location was in Port Wash, then he expanded to the source and nearly lost his shirt.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM ahahahahahaha I'm not surprised based on the traffic that location did.

It was convenient and occasionally beat the food court though.

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz Big food poisoning scare.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Especially in the desert that was The Source.

3ventic

23:18

@LessPop_MoreFizz The steam link goes to my own feed... I guess I'll just send an email

David M

Fortunoff's going out of business was criminal!

That family did everything in their power to fuck that one up.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM Yeah, they imploded in a big way.

I was working there as they finally went under and died for good.

David M

For those not of the lower New York persuasion, @LessPop_MoreFizz and I are talking about a store that sold housewares and high-end jewelry for the better part of 60 years at a huge markup in a very affluent area. And, then the patriarch of the family dies, left the business to his children in a fractional ownership arrangement, and they killed it.

3ventic

Check your mail @Less

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM housewares, jewelry, and the sort of swarovski crystal statuary only purchased and displayed by little old jewish grandmothers.

@3ventic Yay! I shall not ban you this day!

David M

23:21

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yup! Back before it was hot to bling out your phone with that shit.

3ventic

:P

MBraedley

@LessPop_MoreFizz my mother may be a grandmother, but she's not Jewish.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM No, I mean the little statues of swans and shit.

Those never came back in style.

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz What do you do for a living these days? So far I know that you have been employed: in the LIJ gift-shop, Fortunoff's, and as a public health lobbyist/advocate type.

@LessPop_MoreFizz True.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM I do fieldwork for Here.com

which means I spend my days driving in circles and taking notes and shit.

Currently working on a pattern that covers literally every single block of Nassau County north of the LIE.

GnomeSlice

23:23

►

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz Nice work if you can get it. :-)

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz misread "taking a shit"

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz I loved crystals like that when I was a little kid, haha. My parents got me a tiny replica of Cinderella's chariot thingie.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM it pays okay, and it means I can bank a substantially above average percentage of my income because I spend such a large part of the year travelling.

David M

@FAE Ah yes, the ever popular "Cinderella's Chariot Thingie"

LessPop_MoreFizz

23:25

@DavidM Also, that list is missing: Community Organizer, Apple Store, Record Store, Kitchen Remodeling Sales, and Newspaper Delivery. (Not in that order.)

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz Noted. I will add it to my data bank on you.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM It's also entirely possible that you went to high school with one of my cousins now that I think about it.

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz Misread as: Communist organizer. LMAO!!!!

@LessPop_MoreFizz Name please?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@DavidM Not entirely inaccurate

FAE

@DavidM He has read a lot of Marx.

David M

23:26

@FAE Who hasn't. Haven't you heard? We Jews control the media, are responsible for Communism, bring the plague, etc. etc. etc.

I do enjoy controlling the media, though.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Who be your cousin?

@LessPop_MoreFizz Not even a tinkle.

FAE

@DavidM The question is whether or not you control a larger share than the Lizard People though!

David M

@FAE They're just a straw-man we created years ago to divert attention.

OK. I gotta board soon. I will likely pop back in around 20,000 ft. (6 km).

Yuki

@DavidM I really don't see how some people can connect "owns the world's banks" with "responsible for Communism". With the way banks are acting these days, that's kinda counter-intuitive.

FAE

@DavidM Oh yeah, I forgot that domestic flights have internet now.

David M

@Yuki That's the beauty of baseless accusations. They don't have to make sense!

@FAE Yeah! Some international carriers have it, too if memory serves.

FEichinger

23:31

@Yuki Oh, I bet there's a paper on that somewhere.

FAE

@DavidM None I've ever been on. :(

LessPop_MoreFizz

... DOWNLOAD MAC CLIENT.

How did I not know this!?!?!?

David M

@FAE You're not flying Emirates, etc. (Neither am I, though)

OK. Ciao, Bridge.

FAE

@DavidM Later!

Journeyman Geek

@Yuki They're that smart those damned socialist yids

I mean, they're obviously trying to destroy capitalism through greed

(note, I'm being entirely sarcastic)

GnomeSlice

23:42

@FAE I love the menu music in Jets'n'Guns.

So retro.

FAE

@GnomeSlice All the music is awesome. <3 Machinae Supremacy forever.

@GnomeSlice They're one of my favorite bands. They're metal, but they incorporate a SID chip from a Commodore 64 in their music.

GnomeSlice

@FAE That's awesome.

@FAE Are you familiar with C-Jeff?

If not, I highly recommend you listen through this. It's more prog rocky than metal, but I still think you'd probably like it.

FAE

@GnomeSlice That's okay, I'm a fan of prog rock as well.

GnomeSlice

That album is amazing.

(in my opinion)

FEichinger

In other news: Pizza!

FAE

23:51

@GnomeSlice Cool, I'll check it out later

@FEichinger Oooh portabello pesto

Also why do these people use imgur for this

GnomeSlice

@FAE Make sure you listen to the whole thing all at once.

Ktash

@FEichinger ... the hut?

Frank

Just got back from visiting my buddy in the hospital.

Good news! He's on the road to recovery, and should be able to go home on Monday.

FEichinger

@FAE Because it started out as a single gallery for some imgur rep ...

And then it turned into, well, this.

It's also not "these people". It's just thefoodguru.

FAE

@Frank Glad to hear it. :)

Frank

23:54

@FAE Yeah. He's a cool guy to hang out with. I'd rather not have him croak early, if I have any say in the matter.

FAE

@FEichinger Ah, thought it was several people or something. Usually you see recipes posted more on Pinterest.

@Frank A sentiment most people share about people they care about. Unfortunately, we don't always get a say. :(

Frank

@FAE Indeed. He's not going to like it much, though, since he's going to have to slow down. He's not used to just sitting around and not doing anything strenuous.

Lazers

0

Q: Where does the ESO beta installer download the files?

I finished downloading the beta and ran out of space while installing the game. Then the installer decided to start downloading everything again; and so I decided to uninstall everything and play something else. However, I'm still missing several GB of storage that I had free prior to beginning ...

the-elder-scrolls-online

0

Q: Original Wii doesn't output to TV

We have a Wii that is a few years old. I'm trying to get it to work on a new Samsung SMART TV. It turns on and accepts/ejects disks, but remotes don't pair and it doesn't output anything to the TV.