The Bridge

3ventic

11:01

You're so insane you think insanity is sanity.

derp

Garan

11:21

Good morning!

Kevin van der Velden

Morning

Garan

How is everyone?

Blem

good

Garan

Lively crowd we've got here.

Kevin van der Velden

Well, I am at work so

Garan

11:25

I have a fun story of the class I just had

It involved one guy leaving frustrated because he couldn't respond to my superior logic.

And then what was the effect of denouncing my teacher as a heretic!

Well, the heretic part was over lunch, not during class. But yeah, fun times!

Blem

a lot of people at work or sleeping

not that many aussies and asian people here

Grace Note

Ausian

Garan

@Blem cough cough Israeli cough cough

Kevin van der Velden

@Blem it's noon for us dutchies, there are several people in the same time zone as I am

Blem

@Garan technically you can be defined as an Asian... even though it makes no sense

@KevinvanderVelden ... we are in same time zone

Garan

11:36

@Blem Eh, it's ok, I'm originally from NJ.

Kevin van der Velden

@Blem I didn't know that! I know Arperum, FAE, badp, FEIicher are in the same time zone at least

3ventic

I'm at home

Garan

@3ventic Where's that for you?

3ventic

Finland

Blem

@3ventic AKA mini Russia! ;D

3ventic

11:37

a lone house next to a lake, second floor, bedroom

Garan

@3ventic Ah. D'you mind sending over some snow? We could use more water this year.

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic zipcode, housenumber? You're skipping the important bit for the stalkers!

3ventic

I only give those to people who send me stuff

waiting to get his Arqade/SE shirt in 6-8 weeks

Garan

There are shirts for it?!

How do I get one?

3ventic

You do something in the community

like win a contest or nominate yourself in a moderator election

Garan

11:40

Does talking here count?

Kevin van der Velden

It should!

SE should really just sell merchandise I'd say

3ventic

They used to

It wasn't worth it

Kevin van der Velden

=[

3ventic

The book keeping was too costly or something

Garan

:{(}

3ventic

11:41

+ it makes it less ~~valuable~~ special

Kevin van der Velden

There are websites for that, upload a design and they send you a check basically. As far as I understand

3ventic

114

Q: What happened to the Stack Exchange Store?

There used to be a place where you could buy Stack Exchange branded gear, what happened to it?

Garan

Eh, it would be nice, but I'm not up in arms about the lack of merchandise.

Oh hey, Syria's being loud again.

3ventic

I changed my location in profile to "Jyväskylä, Finland" and the site asked "Did you mean Jyvaskyla, Finland?" ಠ_ಠ

Garan

Wow. I don't think it'll even bother with where I am.

3ventic

11:45

I think it just dislikes ä and ö

Garan

Especially since some people still think of it as "occupied syria"

Even though it was officially annexed.

3ventic

That part of the world is as messed up as Stack Overflow's tagging

Garan

And the UN has no problems cruising around up here.

</rant about the UN's stupidity>

3ventic

Which roughly means that there's some order but everyone does as they please

That sentence doesn't sound right to me ^

FEichinger

@KevinvanderVelden YOU MISSPELT MY NAME.

Garan

11:47

Nah, looks ok to me.

Kevin van der Velden

@FEichinger I ALWAYS DO THAT

Garan

Oh hai @fei

Kevin van der Velden

The alternative was to ping everyone so I could have autocomplete

kalina

@FEichinger "fitchingor"

Kevin van der Velden

One day I'll remember how to spell your name without looking it up

Hey @kalina

kalina

11:48

I'm not here

Kevin van der Velden

You're just an illusion

kalina

please leave a message after the air raid siren

3ventic

@kalina Hi @not here

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden It's not that hard. FEichinger, just like fbueckert wasn't hard to type.

FEichinger

@kalina I know you know how to spell it ò.ó

Kevin van der Velden

11:48

These are not the angels of death you are looking for

Arperum

Also back home! Yay for good music!

Garan

@KevinvanderVelden Everyone knows the angels of death are metaphorical.

3ventic

@Arperum Are you implying @FEi should rename to something like @Frank too?

FEichinger

@3ventic It would just get worse.

3ventic

@FEichinger Not if you rename to something that's 3 letters long.

FEichinger

11:49

@3ventic I will gut you.

3ventic

Like @fei

Arperum

@3ventic No, I'm implying that @Frank never shouldn't have changed his name.

kalina

@Arperum never shouldn't have?

so he should have?

so you agree with @fbuasdsabert renaming to @Frank?

Arperum

@kalina Dammit time limit. I think it was unneeded, but it's irrelevant anyway.

Kevin van der Velden

@Garan I'm an atheist, I think it's all just stories (several of which are actually horrible morals). But I was referring to kalina.

Garan

11:54

@KevinvanderVelden It's ok, I'm considered a heretic by a lot of people.

3ventic

Let's not discuss religion

Nothing good ever comes out of discussing religion online

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic but it's fun! Anyway I was just referring to the well "accepted" bridge "fact" that Kalina is an angel

Garan

@3ventic I usually try to stick to "oh hey, I denounced another few people as heretics today" stuff.

Kevin van der Velden

And I'm to lazy to look for the time she said she was an angel of death so meh

FEichinger

@KevinvanderVelden She most certainly is an angel.

3ventic

11:55

Being a heretic is fun until the pope declares a crusade on you.

Garan

@3ventic Crusader Kings II much?

3ventic

...yup

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic well, at least I can finally blaspheme legally in my country!

Arperum

@3ventic Crusaders were just middle age terrorists.

Garan

@3ventic I was more going along the lines of how I effectively called my rabbi a heretic.

But yeah

3ventic

11:56

The real pope should call for a crusade some time, that would be interesting

Garan

@3ventic Oh god. Against whom?

3ventic

I don't know..

The people on Mars?

Kevin van der Velden

@Garan against those who fight in the war against christmas!

FEichinger

I love how "let's not discuss religion" comes from the same person who then proceeds to ask for a crusade.

3

3ventic

Yeah

Kevin van der Velden

11:57

It's almost time for Faux news to start on that bullcrap again

Garan

It's always the quiet ones.

3ventic

I like to contradict myself.

Arperum

@3ventic You sure?

3ventic

No

Garan

@KevinvanderVelden That is an awesome name and i shall call it that henceforth.

Kevin van der Velden

11:59

@Garan I got that name from somewhere else, probably Pharyngula

3ventic

Thief keeps downloading 0 bytes every few minutes..

Garan

Oh, it was finally released?

I still haven't finished the original.

3ventic

It's not released yet

Kevin van der Velden

@3ventic PIRATE!

3ventic

Preloaded

I can't play it until thursday

The Onion is great

Garan

12:05

Hmmm... Curiosity time! How did each of you decide on your username?

Lazers

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Q: Check balance of inactive account on EVE

Since I can't post on the forums with an inactive account, I thought I'd ask here. I'd like to reactivate my EVE account, but if I have enough ISK I want to buy a PLEX. So I was wondering if there was any way to check my balance before activating "Hours for PLEX".

eve-online

Kevin van der Velden

@Garan well... it's my name so

Mostly my parents decided it

3ventic

Formed over time from event, which was the first available random username that came to mind when I had to register a new account on FlyFF

Garan

@KevinvanderVelden That works, I had assume that already. But, for example, mine is the base that I use for pretty much any game it's not already taken in. If it is, I tack on 105 to it.

Mine started, though, from my first Morrowind character.

3ventic

Mine has the awesome trait of being something that people rarely pick so I get to use 3ventic pretty much everywhere

Garan

12:08

And the 105 is from my first Runescape character.

3ventic

hah

Garan

Yes, that's right. Runescape.

FEichinger

@3ventic Thanks to last night's discussion, I now always read your name as "buttventic", though ...

3ventic

My Runescape account is t aika3, so I guess the 3 in my name comes from there

lol

Garan

@FEichinger Ass winking!

3ventic

12:09

Maybe I should rename to ventic here and let my avatar take care of the 3

FEichinger

But that'd be backwards.

ventic3)

3ventic

Not on the site!

ventic3 was my first linux account's name

Garan

Who cares about the site?

2

3ventic

because the 3 wouldn't go first because invalid username blah blah blah

@FEichinger Not if I type big!

Arperum

My name comes from a random name generator when I needed a new character name is some rpg game. It looked nice, doesn't sound terrible and is unique. unlike my real name.

3ventic

12:11

My real name is unique in Finland

Garan

@3ventic Hello, unique.

FEichinger

@Arperum I always want to insert an E before the U, for whatever reason.

3ventic

People always misspell it when I say it out loud..

@Garan facepalm

Arperum

@FEichinger The problem with my lastname is that people forget to insert an e half of the time...

Garan

@3ventic I've got a similar case. My name is the same as a very popular one, only without a very subtle syllable. So they don't hear that I said a different name.

3ventic

12:13

People like to stick an i to the end of a lot of words and get rid of foreign characters

Arperum

My name is stupidly common. Heck, there are even multiple other people with the same firstname-lastname combination...

3ventic

So cup becomes kuppi, glass becomes lasi

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum same

And he took the bloody domain name!

3ventic

So they replace the W in my name with V and stick an I in the end..

Blem

►

Garan

12:15

@Arperum As far as I'm aware, there's only two other people with the same first-last combo. One of them apparently wrote a book.

Arperum

@Garan First page of google gives five different ones... even a company with my name. And none of those results leads back to me.

Garan

@Arperum Damn, what is it, something like John Smith?

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum oh man, there are so many companies with my last name

3ventic

As far as I can tell, there's only one person in the whole world with the same first-last combo as me..

Arperum

@Garan First name is stupidly common here. I once was in a class with two other with that name.

Garan

12:19

@KevinvanderVelden I know of at least one extant one, mostly because it's run by my dad.

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden company with firstname lastname combo?

3ventic

@Arperum What's so weird about that?

Kevin van der Velden

Sewer management, a car dealer, a garden center, boat seller, building materials supplier

@Arperum no, just my last name

Garan

@Arperum Heh, at least you don't know people who have a custom to name their oldest children after certain famous people.

Arperum

@3ventic Do you have a company with your name? like literally "firstname lastname"? And you are not the owner.

Kevin van der Velden

12:20

If I don't care about the n there are even more ><

3ventic

@Arperum No, because I don't think there are any people with the same first-last combo as me, and I don't own a company.

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum there is a professional photographer with my name, does that count? =p

Arperum

IIRC we once looked up in school how old our name was, and my last name exist from 1406 or something.

3ventic

But I've seen a few trucking and catering companies with "firstname lastname" as the company name

@3ventic This is what I get for having a German firstname and a Finnish lastname..

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden In that case I can count the nephrologist prof dr. too.

Ben Brocka

12:23

Is tpp grinding? Haven't seen them do that in days

Lazers

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Q: How to increase chance to hit target?

In Might & Magic X Legacy one of my group members is a dwarven defender. But almost everytime (90%) he misses the target when trying to provoke it. I'm not sure of the correct translation but it's one of the defenders first skills to provoke/taunt/challenge a single target in melee combat. How ...

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Wipqozn

I have a backstreet boy tune stuck in my head.

This is horrible.

I don't even remember the lyrics, just the tune, so I'm singing random things like pokemon names.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn making the best of a terrible situation I see

Wipqozn

I blame @Fluttershy

...now I'm singing "I blame @Fluttershy

this is the worst

Kevin van der Velden

I blame @Arperum

Ben Brocka

12:27

@Wipqozn Now that's a catchy tune

3ventic

This song is still in my head after over a decade since the last time I heard it

Ben Brocka

haha gen 1 wrap

Lazers

0

Q: I accidentally TTd to moving day! Help!

Please keep in mind that my game was ONE day ahead during all of this! Ok so I've had my villager patty let me know a few days ago that she would be moving on the 26th, so naturally I decided to go and find someone to trade a villager I'd prefer for her. Everything was fine except the person I'm...

animal-crossing-new-leaf

Ben Brocka

Hardcore botting going on in TTP?

> DEMOCRACY SCRIPT DEMOCRACY SCRIPT ***/1fPH0ZK ***/1fPH0ZK ***/1fPH0ZK ***/1fPH0ZK DEMOCRACY SCRIPT DEMOCRACY ***/1fPH0ZK ***/1fPH0ZK ***/1fPH0ZK ***/1fPH0ZK

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka Scripting is the worst.

Lazers

12:47

0

Q: Top-lane Ezreal

I want to ask whether you think toplane Ezreal could be viable or not. I am currently platin 5, because I didn't use to play so many rankeds this season yet. I was platin 1 (with 99 points >>) last season. I thought of it because I want to main a champ I really can play everywhere, except support...

league-of-legends

Garan

So what is up, ladies and gentlemen?

Kevin van der Velden

@Garan the opposite of the direction of the average gravitational forces acting on you

Garan

@KevinvanderVelden Thanks, I was wondering.

Kevin van der Velden

@Garan any time :)

Garan

@KevinvanderVelden So then what is left?

Kevin van der Velden

12:58

@Garan a subjective property of your current orientation, take your current orientation, shadow it down on the plane perpendicular to your current up, and rotate it 90 degrees counter clockwise

Garan

@KevinvanderVelden Oh right, you are also in gamedev.

Kevin van der Velden

(rotation on the same plane referenced earlier)

3ventic

@Garan Some food on the table

Garan

@3ventic Only if it's not vegetarian.

If it was, there'd be nothing left.

3ventic

ha-ha

:D

Kevin van der Velden

12:59

@Garan also I like math ^,^

3ventic

I like math

Garan

I enjoy maths.

3ventic

I hate spelling math(s)

►

Kevin van der Velden

Clearly the solution is to just call it Wiskunde, dutch speaking people at least understand that

Ben Brocka

they made it back to the SNES!

Tim Stone

13:08

NewEgg just sent me an email asking if I could answer a question someone asked about a product I had purchased a while back...

> A shopper asked: will this be compatible with my wireless Bluetooth speakers also?

closes as too broad/unclear what you're asking

Ben Brocka

yeah I've gotten those too

Tim Stone

I wouldn't mind answering if there was actually a way to know the answer, but...

Meh, answered "Probably". I've now made the internet a worse place, shame on me.

Garan

You know you've been watching TPP too much when you look next to your arrow keys looking for the "Anarchy" and "Democracy" buttons.

Kevin van der Velden

@TimStone no no no, you're seeing it wrong. You've made the not stack exchange internet a worse place. Making the stack exchange internet a better place by comparison!

Tim Stone

I like that. Excellent, mission accomplished.

Sepia Lazers

13:24

0

Q: Performance issues with mousewheel scrolling

I'm experiencing an unexpected drag whenever I use my mousewheel to scroll up and down in either the main site or the Meta. By drag, I mean I roll the wheel up and the system takes about half a second to respond. The transition isn't seamless. This doesn't seem to happen on other SE sites. Also...

support bug

Grace Note

imgur.com/gallery/V5XQT

Lazers

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Q: How do I adapt this housing block for Poseidon?

I'm trying to adapt Aegius's common housing block to the Poseidon expansion since it seems to be the most compact and dense block. However, I noticed that he put in all the original Zeus culture buildings, which I suspect is not required. What is the minimum science required to allow my common ...

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z -

woohoo, someone cares about me today! i.imgur.com/LoJUi1q.png

Grace Note

I'll keep an eye in case the script doesn't pick it up

OrigamiRobot

13:41

@3ventic Aluminum vs Aluminium is even funnier because Aluminum is the original word the British scientist decided on.

Sepia Lazers

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Q: What constitutes as opinion based in terms of League of Legends

So, I see a ton of League of Legends posts, most of them asking what the best builds are, how to play a certain champ, or who works the best in certain lanes/areas. My question is, when do we say that the question is too opinion based? Is it when it's just a general build request, or when someo...

discussion

3ventic

@OrigamiRobot I just call it alumiini

aluminum sounds like latin

OrigamiRobot

At first he wanted to call it Alumium.

FEichinger

@SepiaLazers Oh boy ...

Stack Exchange

Sterno has added Wipqozn to the list of this room's owners.

Sterno

13:52

ATTENTION EVERYONE: PLEASE STOP SAYING "FAUX" NEWS. INTENTIONALLY MISPRONOUNCING THAT WORD TO MAKE A STUPID PUN HURTS MY BRAIN

badp

@BenBrocka slow mode only helps them

@Sterno Thanks for bringing this brillant pun to my attention

I will make sure to use it whenever appropriate or otherwise

FEichinger

@Sterno Always call it Faux News from now on, okay.

OrigamiRobot

@Sterno Who has ever said Faux News?

Sterno

I hate you all.

But especially @Wipqozn

Stack Exchange

Sterno has removed Wipqozn from the list of this room's owners.

kalina

13:54

Faux News?

do you mean Fox?

FEichinger

@kalina No, no, Faux News.

Wipqozn

@Sterno Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News Faux News

Sterno

ring ding ding gering gering gering

kalina

what does the faux say?

Sterno

inb4

kalina

13:55

nope

Sterno

Yup.

OrigamiRobot

That's what I see too.

kalina

no I mean in order for it to be inb4 we'd have had to say basically the same thing

Garan

I like the idea of calling it Faux News.

Tim Stone

It's true, by the rules of chat they didn't inb4, they tag-teamed.

FEichinger

13:58

...

OrigamiRobot

@TimStone Who did they tag team?

FEichinger

I hope you do realize you're now arguing the semantics of "inb4".

badp

Wipqozn

Garan

@FEichinger I am not even familiar with this phrase.

kalina

@FEichinger I'm not arguing, I merely stated factual truth and then let everybody else get on with it

Tim Stone

13:59

@OrigamiRobot I can't think about it that much, I'm only half way through my coffee.

Sterno

@kalina What I did is next level inb4'ing

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