The Bridge

FallenAngelEyes

13:00

at least you won't have to actually speak

Arda Xi

Woah, Time Lord Victorious is creepy.

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi Waters of Mars?

This is really starting to get annoying :/

in Gaming Town Hall Chat - Questions for Candidates, 5 mins ago, by Tom Wijsman

A particular user is flooding the front page with a lot of trivial edits, in which way would you guide him to prevent other users from being annoyed for an extended duration?

Second town hall question about it, along with the meta. All of which were posted after I ceased.

Arda Xi

Hehe.

user2334

@Wipqozn That wasn't the only incident; the recent reframing of the meta question to be solely about that was ill advised

Arda Xi

If you are elected mod, what will you do to stop the recent rash of Wipqozn?

Wipqozn

13:05

@ArdaXi HUR HUR HUR

FallenAngelEyes

@ArdaXi More calomine lotion

Arda Xi

@Wipqozn Yes.

Wipqozn

@MarkTrapp Well that's good to hear. Just seems like everything has been aimed at me, even though no one has been naming names.

Arda Xi

I hate the fact the chatroom links in the sidebar don't open in a new window.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Wipqozn :( Sorry man.

Wipqozn

13:07

@Manaಠдಠ It's okay, I don't blame you, I only blame everybody else.

user2334

@Wipqozn It's been going on for a few days now; rarely has the front page not been consumed by retags and other minor edits since the election started

Arda Xi

@Wipqozn Your edit's bad and you should feel bad.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Arda No, it's "Your edits are bad and you should feel bad", silly

Wipqozn

@MarkTrapp I have noticed that increase as well, mostly from nominees who I rarely seen on the site before nominating.

badp

Your Your X are bad and you should feel bad snowclones are bad and you should feel bad.

listens to the sound of groans

Mana ಠдಠ

13:11

HI @WIPQOZN

Wipqozn

@Manaಠдಠ HELLO @MANA

Well I'm just happy to hear it's not just an isolated incident, and everyone is just blowing what I did out of proportion. Based on chat conversation the friday I started it seemed like it was perfectly fine to do. When you (@MarkTrapp) came along and pointed out otherwise I made sure to stop immediately and limit myself to 5 such edits per day, 10 edits if my initial 5 are pushed to the bottom of the active page before I head off for the night.

user2334

@Wipqozn Yeah, I was frustrated then (sorry about that!), but I considered that matter settled. My reason for asking the question in Town Hall was to see if the recent trend of "minor edits or death" was a sign of things to come. Using it as my litmus test for the election

Tom Wijsman

@ArdaXi SHIFT+Click

Arda Xi

@TomWijsman I know, but sometimes I forget.

And by window I mean tab.

Dave McClelland

@MarkTrapp Is there any way to make it so that retags and edits of already answered questions don't bump questions? That seems like it might solve some complaints while at the same time improving the questions

It's probably useful to still bump questions that don't have accepted answers yet, though

FallenAngelEyes

13:18

@DaveMcClelland It's bumped though as part of the peer reviewing process

Tom Wijsman

@DaveMcClelland That's been asked in different forms, the problem is that you get hidden edits to questions and answers so there could slip in malicious edits into the community.

user2334

@DaveMcClelland That's by design: every edit, no matter how small, needs to be peer-reviewed. It may seem silly, but we've had people on Programmers be silly even with minor edits

FallenAngelEyes

If retags or edits on already answered questions weren't bumped, you could edit the question to say "LOL BUTTS" and it may go unnoticed.

Wipqozn

@MarkTrapp Your question by itself didn't actually bother me, and I starred it. Since tag clean-up is something we need to do, but it can prove difficult if tag edits bumps questions to the front page. It bothered me somewhat combined with everything else, since it seemed like everything was aimed at me. Although I can clearly now you were not aiming that at me. Thanks for speaking up now, has made me feel better about the whole thing.

Dave McClelland

Thanks for the responses by all three of you - valid points. Perhaps there could be a new tab for "recently modified" that wouldn't bump them to the active questions?

Lazers

13:19

2

Q: Is there a way to create a water item-slide from a creature-trap without chickens passing through it in Minecraft?

I have created a vertical trap that uses water to drag unsuspecting creatures from the surface into a vertical pit, they literally fall to death. Well, except chickens, and sometimes spiders. Right now I have to open a door and enter the trap periodically to recover loot from the creatures. I ...

Tom Wijsman

@MarkTrapp Indeed, that's a good example. I remember that he was angry about something I did, it's a wrong thing that he did but such things simply just happen.

badp

20 hours ago, by GnomeSlice ツ

Dave McClelland

From what I understand, people think candidates are making minor edits to questions just to appear that they are more active editors than they may really be to the community at large. I think that there would be less hostility toward it if they didn't get bumped on the active page and instead to a different page

Powerlord

~This is the world we live in. These are the hands we're given.~

badp

~Remember when you tried to kill me twice?~

Powerlord

13:22

Yay for 90 minute meeting starting in 60 minutes.

badp

@Powerlord You have another 60 minute meeting starting in less than 9 hours.

Loktar

I prefer 90 minute meetings with friends involving tf2.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Dave IMO, especially for newer sites, you need the edits on the front page for the site to appear more active. Because it is.

Powerlord

@badp No I don't.

Loktar

anyone excited about Bastion, and From Dust today!?

Powerlord

13:23

You'll notice I didn't post a nomnomnom.

Dave McClelland

@Manaಠдಠ I agree - really, I think that people should be less hostile to candidates who are editing. Even if they have ulterior motives, they are legitimately improving the site, and they deserve such credit

badp

So? You can still make bacon jokes and annoy Rebecca with them while making other people who nomnomated uncomfortable. Sounds like your kinda stuff :P

Tom Wijsman

@DaveMcClelland There shouldn't be minor edit floods like that, it's as simple as that. People should focus more on quality than quantity...

Mana ಠдಠ

@TomWijsman The fact still remains that platform tags used for games themselves rather than general questions about the platform need to go.

Anna Lear

@Mana @DaveMcClelland I dunno. I think trying to beef up an activity record at election time is an unfortunate practice. Either you're consistently active or you're not . A flurry of activity aimed at getting votes doesn't seem trustworthy to me. What's gonna happen when the election is over?

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Wipqozn

13:25

@Manaಠдಠ Exactly. The issue isn't that one or two questions have them, it's that a sizable proportion of them do.

user2334

@Wipqozn Sorry about that :/ I'd just like to see Gaming, as a community, figure something out that's equitable because I really like visiting Gaming and browsing the front page whenever I get a few minutes :P

Dave McClelland

@TomWijsman I agree that quality is more important, but if the edits are truly improving the question then why chastise the editor?

Tom Wijsman

@Mana: Consider that they can go without bumping a single edit onto the front page. Retag requests are made for this purpose, a moderator can do it for you...

Dave McClelland

@AnnaLear Then make a note about it and don't vote for that person in the election. That's why it's a community process, right?

Sorry- wrong person. That was meant for you, @AnnaLear

Mana ಠдಠ

@TomWijsman This isn't a matter of deleting a tag, it's a matter of removing it on only certain questions.

Anna Lear

13:27

@DaveMcClelland Absolutely. I'm not saying it's an unfair practice to other nominees or anything like that. My point is more that I don't think the solution here is to make edits bump questions to a different page.

Tom Wijsman

@DaveMcClelland What kind of edits are you referring to? Quality and quantity often does not go together, so if they do improve quality rather than being a trivial edit there shouldn't be an edit flood that goes from top to bottom...

Mana ಠдಠ

@AnnaLear Fair enough; to be fair I wasn't really paying attention to other people beefing up their activity.

Wipqozn

@AnnaLear I strongly agree. You want someone working on the site because they actually care, not because they want a shiny diamond next to their name.

Dave McClelland

@AnnaLear That makes sense - I thought the argument against the practice was more along the lines of "that person keeps bumping to the front page and getting their name seen by a lot more people in the community"

@TomWijsman Something like retagging - it's a rather trivial edit, but it makes the question much easier to be found if done correctly

badp

After all the real moderators are the guys patrolling all the questions raising flags for us to see

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Tom Wijsman

13:29

@Manaಠдಠ That indeed makes more sense, but I would still suggest to plan to do it together than a single user doing them all at once. If there is a moderator (which can do silent edits, I'm not entirely sure) that wants to jump in and edit as well that's still better than doing these things alone.

Mana ಠдಠ

I agree @Tom, and that's why I suggested that we hold off on edit sprees until after the elections are all done and settled.

Wipqozn

@MarkTrapp Which can probably be difficult if the entire front page was filled with "Wipqozn removed the MMORPG tag!" on the entire front page :P

FallenAngelEyes

Ok, 8.5 hours before Town Hall, so I have to get the apartment cleaned, pack, and make sure I've got enough laundry done before then so I can leave tomorrow morning. Gonna AFK for now so I can get some of this work done.

Tom Wijsman

@DaveMcClelland True, on Super User you get away with such necessary tag edits and nobody really cares. But on Gaming the amount of activity is a lot lower so we have to take care of the front page or it won't help if we run around with T-shirts and other promotional stuff if all there is on the webpage are questions that look very similar because of recent edits.

Wipqozn

If you delete a tag from the site itself, that wouldn't bump up questions, correct?

Mana ಠдಠ

13:32

@Wipqozn Yes, it would not.

Dave McClelland

@TomWijsman That's why I suggested bumping edits to a different page. Maybe instead have a filter that will filter edit bumps? I don't know, there's a lot of potential solutions and I'm not sure what would work best

Wipqozn

@Manaಠдಠ In that case, maybe the best solution would be to just delete the genre tags, and then re-tag the questions which should have had them in the first place.

The number of questions which should have the genre tags is significantly less then the questions that shouldn't.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Wipqozn The problem there is that it would make finding the questions which had them to begin with more difficult.

Wipqozn

@Manaಠдಠ We would make a list of them before hand.

Tom Wijsman

@DaveMcClelland: The only way to actually get a change in this is to do an actual study on the already done feature-requests on this subject, and then think of an actual system that really works. Worst case the feature-request gets down-voted into oblivion, but you have at least learned why it is not a good idea.

Anna Lear

13:34

@DaveMcClelland I really think the solution is for the people doing the edits to do the right thing and not edit everything at once. Edited questions being bumped to the front page is a valuable sanity check and occasionally can also get some new attention on an old unanswered question.

Wipqozn

We could make a file on google docs which contained the list, and users could strike them out as they re-tagged them.

Powerlord

@Mvy: I think your question would sound better if it mentioned "Why so serious?"

Mana ಠдಠ

Didn't really think of that. Hmm...it could work, I suppose @Wipqozn. But again, I think we can worry about this once elections are done.

@Powerlord wrooong chaaaat

Powerlord

@Manaಠдಠ In case you didn't notice, mods are aggressively pruning chat in the other room.

Mana ಠдಠ

oh

so they are.

Tom Wijsman

13:35

As for example, to be more specific: People that edit their own question need to have their edits be bumped on the front-page. And there are many cases like that where an edit actually needs to be shown, hiding edits away and having nobody (or only X users) check them isn't a good idea.

Anna Lear

@Wipqozn @Mana A meta post is a great way to organize something like that. :)

Tom Wijsman

Perhaps the concept of having trusted prolific editors? Still dangerous though...

Powerlord

@Mvy: Oh, and if you could make it sound like the Joker said it for the rest of the question, that'd be even better.

Dave McClelland

@TomWijsman That was my other idea - but I thought that was the entire purpose of getting edit privileges with 2000 rep anyway

M'vy

@Powerlord It is basically a way to get to know our candidates. Plus I I don't want someone that cannot understand gaming to be mod :P

Anna Lear

13:37

Honestly, we're all human and we all occasionally make mistakes. Even moderators' actions are logged and public as much as possible and there is arguably no position on a site that should be more trusted.

M'vy

@Powerlord The Joker? LOL

Lazers

-1

Q: How to change the color of Razer Mamba?

I just bought a Razer Mamba and I was in the process of configuring it when I noticed that the "Lighting and Power" tab was just "Lighting" and didn't give me the option to change thing. I've seen Youtube videos and I'm wondering how to get the same Razer Configuration program as all these other ...

drivers mamba razer

Mana ಠдಠ

@TomWijsman I dislike the "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than other animals" philosophy going on there. Except for mods/admins and very special cases (i.e. CHAOS) I think that we should stick to the rep system and the bumping system and not have different classes of users.

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn I would think that it's unnecessary to be that specific, just the statement of questions that are tagged X but have Y don't need tag X would be enough to determine what questions need their tag removed. A meta question should fit that purpose...

Wipqozn

@AnnaLear Yeah I'll make one.

Dave McClelland

13:38

@Lazers Wouldn't this be better suited to SU? Just because Razer mice are frequently used by gamers, it's not entirely gaming related

Mana ಠдಠ

@DaveMcClelland I agree

Tom Wijsman

@Manaಠдಠ Indeed, as Jeff Atwood says there isn't an actual problem regarding edits bumping the front page. But it is still annoying to some people because it isn't planned out well...

Anna Lear

@Manaಠдಠ Even edits done by mods bump questions. Title editing by CHAOS is/was the only exception I'm aware of and even now they're going through suggested edit mechanism for it. It's always been peer-reviewable.

Dave McClelland

@Manaಠдಠ I can't vote to close, so I'll let you high-rep folks do your magic

Wipqozn

@TomWijsman The reason for that is to remove all the tags without bumping all the questions to the front page.

Tom Wijsman

13:39

Someone suggested it back on meta, it isn't my idea, that's why I say it's dangerous.

Mana ಠдಠ

@Anna I know, I wasn't talking about editing specifically, I was talking about just having more privileges in spite of reputation

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn Unless you want to remove the whole tag, there is as Anna Lear just set no way to do that.

Wipqozn

@TomWijsman i think you need to re-read my suggestion, because I think you misread it.

Anna Lear

@Mana Oh, sorry. Nevermind. I missed the "and the bumping system" part. :)

Wipqozn

@TomWijsman Because removing the whole tag is exactly what I was suggesting. After which you would then you would go in and add the genre tags back in to the questions which should have had them in the first place.

Mana ಠдಠ

13:42

It's cool, I tend to not write very coherent sentences in situations like this (and all situations in general)

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn No... If there is an edit job that necessarily needs to be done, there are two options:

badp

I wish installing the TooManyItems mod didn't mean mucking around with minecraft.jar

Anna Lear

@Mana It's all my bad. My attention is split 3 ways right now.

Wipqozn

@badp TooManyMods?

Tom Wijsman

1. Working together and doing it as fast as possible to keep the mass flood as short as possible, afterwards you simply edit/answer some recent questions to return the page to normal activity.

2. A single user that does the edits to the posts out over time, so that 2 or 3 edits are shown every 15-20 questions on the front page.

user2334

13:43

@badp I really dislike using mods, but I made an exception for TooManyItems because of McPatcher. Made it really easy to add it and remove it

badp

I'll look at it then

I can't wait for official mod support though.

Tom Wijsman

In none of these options it's really necessary to put up a separate Google Docs to collaboratively track the progress, it can be done but you just lose time on it...

Powerlord

@Mvy You've never heard the "Why so serious?" line from The Dark Knight?

M'vy

@Powerlord Ah yes! Did not match the quote!

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn Ah, in that case, a list is indeed handy to have. Seems I missed that detail, didn't know we were still talking about that...

M'vy

13:45

Besides, I only saw the Dark Knight in English once.

Wipqozn

@TomWijsman I like that idea, and I had thoughts about doing something similar. However I think instead of making the edits afterwards, you should have a user who is editing recent questions while the other users are doing the mass minor edits. This way even when the edits are being made the page should still have recent posts on it.

Powerlord

@Mvy I've only seen it in English once, too!

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn: That happens naturally, you could of course boost it.

Powerlord

In the theater, but still...

Wipqozn

Plus this method would work for any type of edits, and not just mass re-tagging.

@TomWijsman The issue is if you're doing mass edits, even in a small time frame, it would still destroy the front page for a time.

Tom Wijsman

13:47

@Wipqozn The problem is, that users won't keep up with the flood.

Wipqozn

@TomWijsman Yeah, you're probably right. That user would probably be better served making the mass flood go faster.

M'vy

@Powerlord Is it you native language? :P

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn Indeed, they should only be done when really necessary.

Powerlord

@Mvy Yes. :P

Wipqozn

@Mvy He's American, so no :P

M'vy

13:48

@Powerlord That changes a lot :P

@Wipqozn LOL

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn: Also, consider that they can be done at the least active time of the week. On Super User this is Saturday Night...

Wipqozn

@TomWijsman Yeah, I think that goes without saying.

I'll make a meta post suggesting both my suggestion, to simply delete and retag; and yours to do the mass edits in a short time span. See if the community would be up for doing either, and if so which they prefer.

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn Also, it's important to open a bunch of tags and do the actual edits in advance. And then click them all through to the front page, when I did this on Super User to do CHAOS-like work I didn't even get the Captcha once. Right after, I just went through the recent questions to restore the top half back to normal activity. Funny enough, the captcha appeared when editing one of the recent questions...

@Wipqozn It depends on the size of the questions that need to remain with the tag versus the amount of questions that are currently tagged with that tag...

Wipqozn

@TomWijsman Oh my, you just made me think of something. During my mass edits I never once came across a captcha. Could this be a bug?

Tom Wijsman

I would say that it's best to go for the least work.

Stack Exchange

13:52

0

Q: Ideas for improving my Sudoku game

I am looking for ideas to improve my Sudoku game in cool ways, if you can think of any, please drop a line. thanks. http://www.sudokubum.com/

web-app games

Wipqozn

@TomWijsman Yeah, I'm going to take a look through the questions that would need to be re-tagged before I make the meta, to see how many that need the tag vs. who don't

badp

FLAG WEIGHT HERE I COME

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn: It could've been to my relative high reputation, but I doubt if it's implemented to be a modifier in the time till the captcha. Perhaps it was triggered too much so they changed the rate limit?

Wipqozn

@TomWijsman The latter is more likely. It seems unlikely that having high rep would make the captcha appear more often.

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn: I mean, less often.

Wipqozn

13:55

@TomWijsman Ah okay, I misunderstood.

Tom Wijsman

@Wipqozn: But it could indeed be a hole in the system: One could work his way up to 2000 reputation on Super User, which can be done in 2 weeks if you really want to. And then flood the whole home page with really useless content...

badp

@MarkTrapp Hm, well, adding the .zip file to the list of mods didn't really help

Tom Wijsman

Well, on other communities too, but at a slower pace in terms of gaining reputation...

badp

oh. right. I need to press Patch at some point.

who woulda thunk

user2334

Heh

Powerlord

13:58

@badp Don't press that button! Never press the RED button!

badp

@Powerlord But... the button is BLU!

user2334

@badp You might have to create a mods folder in your minecraft folder and patch it from there. I didn't have any luck selecting the zip file from any location

user2334

Sort of like the texturepacks folder

Ronan Forman

3

more rough poster drafts, suggestions?

GnomeSlice ツ

@RonanForman I like the guy with the poking stick.

Powerlord

14:04

> Samsung Mobile has hired one of the homebrew market's most notorious and successful Android hackers, Steve 'Cyanogen' Kondik, best known as the creator of the CyanogenMod for Android.

Ronan Forman

just the poses, I need to design the "gaming mascot"

Powerlord

Question, is this in defense because Google is buying Motorola?

Wipqozn

@GnomeSliceツ yeah that's my favorite one

Powerlord

So, I finished Shakugan no Shana (first season) yesterday. Now, should I bother watching the movie or just go to season 2?

Ronan Forman

I'm thinking that one'd have to be landscape, but most posters are portrait...

GnomeSlice ツ

14:07

@RonanForman Nah, it wouldn't. The corpse isn't the main character, just have like only the head and shoulders visible.

Ronan Forman

good idea, any suggestions for the design of the mascot?

GnomeSlice ツ

Uh

Wipqozn

@RonanForman I think something generic would be good.

GnomeSlice ツ

Wipqozn

Although I'm aware that's a very generic term (lolololololol)

sjohnston

14:09

@GnomeSliceツ THIS

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSliceツ What? Who? How? Why?

GnomeSlice ツ

@sjohnston THAT.

FallenAngelEyes

@GnomeSliceツ Damn you, now the song's stuck in my head

sjohnston

Might be able to get some comedy milage out of combining a couple game character tropes

GnomeSlice ツ

Actually, I was thinking of this:

brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/d13/unsecured/media/62009797001/…

Wipqozn

14:10

@GnomeSliceツ no idea what that is.

Although it looks like something from the original Star Trek

FallenAngelEyes

@RonanForman It's an image from the music video of Always by Erasure, aka the Robot Unicorn Attack song

Ronan Forman

He needs a gaming shirt, I can't decide whether he should have the existing one or i should make a new one...

FallenAngelEyes

If you've never seen that music video before, watch it, it'll be burned into your retinas forever

GnomeSlice ツ

@sjohnston Like this?

Ronan Forman

Kirby Touchdown?

FallenAngelEyes

14:12

@GnomeSliceツ ...Travis Touchdown did not need a Kirby version

GnomeSlice ツ

@FallenAngelEyes You're probably right.

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes Everything needs a kirby version. Everything.

FallenAngelEyes

goes back to more cleaning

GnomeSlice ツ

"Poor Batman. Look at that expression on his face,
he just knows Superman is going to go and kill him."

CruelCow

@GnomeSliceツ Somebody discovered superdickery :D

Wipqozn

14:16

@GnomeSliceツ lololo. Batman both would, and has kicked supermans ass. In fact, Batman has kicked his ass on multiple occasions.

GnomeSlice ツ

@CruelCow Quite a while ago, actually.

trololol

Why is batman even in these.

'Witness what is quite possibly the greatest Batman quote ever.'

Wipqozn

@GnomeSliceツ superman and Batman are BFF. Didn't you know?

GnomeSlice ツ

But my favourite is still this one:

FallenAngelEyes

EA's livestream from Gamescom, just started 20 minutes ago, going on now

Powerlord

Speaking of wrong things:

4

Mana ಠдಠ

14:20

ahahaha that one's awesome

GnomeSlice ツ

Hahahahaha.

Powerlord

All the other super-heroes are worried about women... except Batman, who worries about Robin.

badp

@FallenAngelEyes Are they showcasing Origin? :P

Mana ಠдಠ

YES. WE GOT IT @POWERLORD.

Powerlord

I wonder if the authors were trying to tell us something!

GnomeSlice ツ

14:21

@Powerlord Oh I get it now

Mana ಠдಠ

@GnomeSlice ...:(

Powerlord

@Manaಠдಠ Why do you have four right-eyes? :P

Wipqozn

Batman was gay before being gay was cool.

GnomeSlice ツ

Speaking of wrong things:

Mana ಠдಠ

:::.)

GnomeSlice ツ

14:22

'fill my hole superman'

trololol

Mana ಠдಠ

oh god, not that image again

GnomeSlice ツ

@Manaಠдಠ Yes.

That image. Again.

Tom Wijsman

@FallenAngelEyes Cool, live co-op going on now.

CruelCow

'You might be wondering, "Mike, if you
insist that Batman's not gay, why do you
keep posting pictures that make it look like
he is?" And honestly I don't know the answer.'

superdickery.com/…

GnomeSlice ツ

LOL

LOLOLOL

CruelCow

14:26

I've read through that entire page multiple times. Too bad it doesn't get updated anymore

GnomeSlice ツ

@CruelCow Yeah. =[

"I can't stop laughing at how ridiculous
she looks in that little Popemobile go-kart."

Ronan Forman

7

CruelCow

Oh god, I'm gonna spend soo much time on this again :(

Curse youuuu @GnomeSlice

Mana ಠдಠ

@Ronan <3

GnomeSlice ツ

@RonanForman Wh... no.

@CruelCow Hahhahahaha what?

I love the rolling pin breaking over his head.

Also, it's kind of scary that she can throw one that hard.

"Well that's what you get for keeping a safe full of their stuff, you dick."

Wipqozn

14:31

@RonanForman YES. GAMING MASCOT FOUND.

GnomeSlice ツ

@Wipqozn No.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSliceツ Yes.

GnomeSlice ツ

"That's all kinds of messed up."

Ronan Forman

I ought to save a picture of a cropped mana head so i can shop it onto everything

GnomeSlice ツ

@RonanForman You know it's a character from Homestuck right.

Ronan Forman

14:33

Yeah, but I don't read that so...

GnomeSlice ツ

"General consensus is that this is the best of the lot."

THE PERFECT MURDER.

Lazers

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Q: What's "Signature Edition"?

I intend to pre-order a game on GameStop, the title was followed by "Signature Edition". What does it mean? And, why can't I pre-order digital version (so I can download it and all the bonus), GameStop says it's not available in my location (Vietnam). But I can still pre-order non-Digital version.

buying-advice

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Q: Which websites use Konami Code?

Can you share any website you know of that uses the konami code to display an easter egg? What is the coolest use of the konami code on a website you have seen?

website easter-egg konami-code

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Q: Accessing Downloaded Trackmania Maps ingame

I recently downloaded a few extra maps for the free version Trackmania. Where should i put these maps so that i can access them from within the game.( through the browse option). I will also like to host them in a LAN environment

trackmania

Wipqozn

@Lazers ah dang @mana, beat me to comment. You rebel you.

GnomeSlice ツ

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Mana ಠдಠ

vomits rainbows all over GnomeSlice

FallenAngelEyes

14:45

Oh hell yeah, The Secret World presentation

! Beta! Finally!

Argh it's coming out in April. Gaaah, TSW and GW2 likely at the same time. D:

Ronan Forman

@Mana which comic did you get you logo from?

Mana ಠдಠ

@Ronan Homestuck

Ronan Forman

I meant which number? I suppose you don't remember though

FallenAngelEyes

bah FIFA 12, no interest goes do dishes

Mana ಠдಠ

oh

uhh, one sec, I should be able to get it pretty quickly

except massive spoilers so I don't really want to post it

oh well

Ronan Forman

14:50

I don't read it so I don't care

Wipqozn

@Manaಠдಠ post it as a link, then just state it's spoilers.

Arda Xi

Post the image in spoiler ta— oh wait.

Mana ಠдಠ

Got it. (SPOILERS)

Ronan Forman

Definitely spoilers.

Wipqozn

@RonanForman Definitely.

hello @BrettWhite

Brett White Ψ

14:59

hello all

Mana ಠдಠ

What's up man?! :D

Brett White Ψ

Just doing a ton of work, ya'll!

trying to come up with other ways to spend money for the site

other than the weekly gaming grant

Ronan Forman

@BrettWhiteΨ You could pay me to make some posters, right now I'm doing it for free.

Wipqozn

@BrettWhiteΨ Suggestion: give the money to me.

Brett White Ψ

@RonanForman What posters are you making?

@RonanForman I might be ridiculously behind on this info.

Ronan Forman

15:05

36 mins ago, by Ronan Forman

wrong one

Mana ಠдಠ

Truly a worthy investment.

:(

Ronan Forman

1 hour ago, by Ronan Forman

they're just some drafts

18 hours ago, by ChrisF

"Can't get to the other castle? Ask Gaming.StackExchange for help"

Brett White Ψ

Nice!

boo, i have to run to a meeting about SWAG and STUFF

i will return!

M'vy

@RonanForman : I guess you could make one with Orange/Blue portals and some kind of "You think you are doing it wrong?" catch phrase.

Ronan Forman

I don't get it...

M'vy

15:13

Making some ridiculous situation with portals :P

Brett White Ψ

Back for a second, does anyone know of any OTHER big gaming conventions that will be happening in the next few months, before 2011's creaky bones are laid to rest? As in, the rest of the year.

Ping me if you know any, I will be back and check on it. Thanks!

M'vy

You mean appart of gamescon I presume?

Ronan Forman

@Mvy A guy punching himself though portals?

CruelCow

@BrettWhiteΨ PAX, but that's in a good week so it might be a bit short notice

M'vy

@RonanForman The ridicule of the scene is left to the imagination of the artist :P

But why not :P

FallenAngelEyes

15:16

@Brett PAX Prime August 26th to August 28th

Wipqozn

well shit. I just got killed by a tree :/ (ADOM)

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M'vy

@BrettWhite : in France we have the Paris Games Week - 21->25 Oct 2011. We had the "Festival du jeu vidéo" but it seems to have been merged with the PGW.

Wipqozn

Oh wow, @FallenAngelEyes. I was unaware of this fact with regards to Guild Wars 2.

A different dungeon for exploring? Yes please.

GnomeSlice ツ

@Wipqozn Tree powers, activate!

Wipqozn

15:31

@GnomeSliceツ Apparently.

The ironic thing is, I was trying to help them. They were neutral, and being attacked by a gargoyle. I tried to help them, so the attacked me instead.

sjohnston

@Wipqozn Once again proving the old aphorism, "Never help a tree, because it will murder you."

GnomeSlice ツ

@sjohnston I thought I was the only one who grew up by that rule.

sjohnston

There's bound to be a 20 upvote question title in there somewhere

Wipqozn

@sjohnston Yeah, I'm tempted to walk out side and kick a squirrel as revenge against mother nature.

GnomeSlice ツ

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@Wipqozn Say, that reminds me:

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Chipmunk, not squrrel, but eh.

Wipqozn

15:41

@GnomeSliceツ same idea

GnomeSlice ツ

I like your teeth.

Kotsu

so are those Gaming.SE shirts happening?

GnomeSlice ツ

It's neat seeing how much TheSwain's animation progressed throughout the series.

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Wipqozn

Question all, in meta questions like this one:

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Q: Reconsidering how we tag games in a series

As of late there has been a lot of discussion in chat on how games in a series should be tagged, and it is a topic which has come up in the past. However, we have never been able to reach a consensus on how we should tag games in a series, and some games were discussed in the past and never decid...

discussion tags

When should you accept an answer?

GnomeSlice ツ

@Wipqozn I wouldn't even bother.

It's a discussion.

Lazers

15:47

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Q: How to play NFS Hot Pursuit (2010) in LAN?

Can somebody guide me on how to play NFS Hot Pursuit (2010) in LAN mode? I am playing Most Wanted but its kinda dark and comparatively NFSHP is much better and fun filled game. I know officially its not available, but if somebody knows a hack or trick to make it work. Thanks.

pc local-multiplayer nfs-hot-pursuit

Wipqozn

@GnomeSliceツ Yeah, that's why I wasn't sure. The support seems to be in favor of @badp's answer, so I was uncertain if after a certain amount of time I should accept that.

GnomeSlice ツ

@Wipqozn Not sure. Ask a mod.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSliceツ Yeah I pinged badp, so I assume he will step in with his opinion.

Either that or sit at his computer laughing at us.

GnomeSlice ツ

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Lazers

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Q: Should we violently murder buying-advice?

buying-advice is evil. As essentially a synonym of "shopping advice", it gives the impression that we handle shopping questions and recommendations. 25% of questions tagged with it are closed, I'm thinking one or two others should be as well (or at least rewritten). The newest and some others ...

discussion tags retag-request

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Q: What should the role of patch changes be?

We've talked about the affect of patches on old questions/answers a couple times before. However, after recent discussion I am more concerned with questions about the effect of the patch itself. I can see two sides to this issue: On one side we have speculation before the patch (which is bad)...

discussion patches

badp

15:54

@Wipqozn lol.

Wipqozn

@badp Called it.

badp

@Wipqozn It's no surprise that I got support, because I explained the current system basically.

Wipqozn

@badp yeah, you did.

I think the importance of the meta was more to establish the system, since their was some confusion.

badp

so, did I manage to convince you? If so tick. Otherwise comment.

GnomeSlice ツ

@badp Why must you destroy everything that is good.

Mana ಠдಠ

15:58

@GnomeSlice That's, that's slightly dramatic.

Also, Homestuck, read it. Act 5 is soooooo goood, I'm just going through the archives again.

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