The Bridge

Sterno

14:00

Or drive 10 mph slower and let other people whine about how they'll get to work 73 seconds later than they would have

Tim Stone

Old man get out of my way

Martin Sojka

@badp My car usually goes to 190km/h without much of an issue, though obviously I can only really drive that fast when there's almost no traffic. 160km/h for extended periods is what I can realistically count on most days.

badp

@Sterno The main source of accidents on the highway is lane changes. If you drive slow enough that you cause others to make lane changes around you -- fuck you.

:P

Martin Sojka

Anyway, got to go.

badp

(This is how I justify constantly driving on the rightmost lane on the highway anyway.)

Sterno

14:02

@badp Alternatively, if you start raging out on the road and cut between lanes unsafely just so you can get in front of someone and go 5 mph faster, fuck you

(Note, for the record, I typically am not slowed down by rain)

Origami Robot

@Sterno DRIVING UNDER THE SPEED LIMITS MAKES OTHER DRIVERS MAD WHICH CAN POTENTIALLY CAUSE AN ACCIDENT TOO

Sterno

What really bothers me is the people who speed past cyclists and get real close to them

cyclists annoy the shit out of me but that's no reason to POTENTIALLY KILL THEM

badp

@Sterno Oh yeah, people who get really close behind you because they have to pass you are annoying. Sure, okay, I'm going to let you through, just wait for me to go on the other lane safely.

Sterno

@OrigamiRobot If people in rain shouldn't feel uncomfortable, people going slightly slower shouldn't get mad

badp

What they do in Sicily is they just turn on their headlights D:

Tim Stone

14:03

@Sterno Right, you should only do that when answering email on your laptop

Wipqozn

@Sterno But then they won't be there to annoy you the next day

Tim Stone

...and being a police officer, minor additional detail.

Origami Robot

Tim Stone

What I don't understand is when there's heavy rain/snow and people are still in the left lane even though clearly they're afraid to be on the road at all.

StrixVaria

@badp Where I live, people don't tend to understand that if someone behind them wants to go faster, then they should move over and safely let that person go faster.

Sterno

14:05

@OrigamiRobot I don't see why we aren't both put unreasonable restrictions on people!

StrixVaria

They just ride in the left (fast) lane forever going the speed limit and congesting the road like assholes.

Tim Stone

@StrixVaria To be fair, you live in New Jersey and most of your drivers don't understand anything to do with driving /cc @LessPop_MoreFizz

Origami Robot

ALSO, DON'T STAY IN THE TURN-ONLY LANE TIL THE LAST MINUTE, YOU ASSHOLE

StrixVaria

@TimStone Driving here sucks.

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria most of our highways are 120(/130 at night) with 2 lanes, at night with most people going 100 in the slow lane I have no prob going 130 in the fast lane. Even if some dick wants to go 140

badp

14:06

@StrixVaria In particular the local highway only enforces average speed limit, so it's technically legal to drive 150 km/h so long as it averages out to 136 or lower

StrixVaria

I rented a car in Florida and it was so much nicer of a place to drive, and that's Florida which is still really shitty.

Tim Stone

Although that does remind me of a funny YouTube video where a NJHP officer puts on his lights behind someone driving slow in the left lane and once they've moved over to the right to try and pull off he disengages and zooms past.

StrixVaria

@KevinvanderVelden If someone behind you wants to go 140, that's his choice, and if you can safely let him pass and choose not to, then you're the dick, not him.

Origami Robot

AND IF YOU'RE AT A STOP LIGHT IN A LEFT TURN ONLY LANE, DON'T GO PAST THE FUCKING LINE AND PREVENT THE PEOPLE TURNING RIGHT FROM SEEING

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria if I'm going to have to move lanes twice in a minute because some asshole wants to go fast and then sits half a second behind me I'm not going to budge unneeded

Arperum

14:08

#$ù%*%*% JAVA. Dammit you and nested panels and secretly setting a size.

Sterno

Also, get off your fucking cell phones while you're driving.

StrixVaria

@KevinvanderVelden Then you're part of the problem.

Kevin van der Velden

If they keep distance as they are required I will move

If you push, well you can wait

badp

@KevinvanderVelden He's going to be driving very dangerously behind you

StrixVaria

You are causing a more dangerous situation by being stubborn.

Kevin van der Velden

14:09

@badp making it extra risky to move

Origami Robot

33 secs ago, by StrixVaria

@KevinvanderVelden Then you're part of the problem.

badp

@KevinvanderVelden If he bumps into your back, it's his fault, but the collar is on you.

StrixVaria

If someone is tailgating you and you can't let him pass, then what I do is slow down to a safe speed for the distance he's chosen to ride behind me.

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden ANd then they fly past you via the slow lane. I've seen soem crazies.

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria if I can safely move I will, if there's another car I'd have to move back for soon I'll wait until I can safely do it

FAE

14:10

I don't like deliberately trying to piss people off on roads because I grew up in the US where road rage can potentially get you shot, so...

StrixVaria

@FAE I have had someone slam on the brakes and jump out of his car because of something I did. Luckily, I didn't do that so I was long gone by the time he could manage to do anything.

Origami Robot

ALSO, IF AN 18-WHEELER IS TRYING TO GET ON THE INTERSTATE, FUCKING LET THEM!

Tim Stone

@OrigamiRobot We have an intersection (two-way stop signs entering an uninterrupted road) that's really bad about this because the traffic from the left is coming around a bend and the traffic from the right is obscured by a sign/tree.

Chippies

I don't get it, do you people not stay in the right lane at all times unless passing?

FAE

@StrixVaria That would scare the hell out of me.

badp

14:12

I once crashed into a car in front of me -- they slammed on a yellow light, which is the opposite of what you do, while it was raining. We were going at the stratospheric speed of 30 km/h. The people in the car ahead still had to get a collar.

It's actually the only car accident I ever was involved in so far.

Origami Robot

@TimStone THERE ARE A LOT OF POOR DESIGN DECISIONS LIKE THAT HERE.

user15026

I've never been involved in an accident with other cars

StrixVaria

@Chippies That is the law. If there are no other cars on the road, there's no reason to move over (except maybe at night if there is known to be a big deer population around so you have more reaction time if one decides to dart into the road).

user15026

I've never actually been in any accidents as a driver.

Frank

There's talk of replacing some of our traffic lights with roundabouts.

Tim Stone

14:12

@OrigamiRobot People tend to merge in front of trucks with far too little room too. I make sure to put my signal on for a few seconds before coming over so they aren't caught off guard, because I don't want to be a dick.

Frank

I'm...not sure how I like that.

Tim Stone

@Frank YOU TELL THEM NO

Chippies

@StrixVaria is that on a regular or divided highway?

badp

@Chippies That's the law in Italy, but what we actually do is we pick lanes based on cruising speed

Frank

@TimStone I'm not sure if it's something I like or not.

FAE

14:13

@TimStone There's tons of roundabouts here.

Origami Robot

@TimStone I ALSO GET NERVOUS WHEN PEOPLE RIDE RIGHT BESIDE TRUCKS IN NON-RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC

FAE

They seem to work pretty well.

StrixVaria

@FAE It was a road with 1 lane in each direction and a dashed yellow line. He was trying to pass a moving truck parked on his side of the road, and I was going the opposite direction. He came into my lane, almost hitting me, and I honked my horn out of reflex as I dodged him. I think honking my horn pissed him off or something. I just drove away since we hadn't collided.

Origami Robot

I KNOW THEY HAVE THOSE SECONDARY MIRRORS NOW, BUT STILL

Tim Stone

I had a huge argument with the DOT when they replaced perfectly good four-way stops with traffic circles claiming it was "safer" by pointing to a study that said it was safer for two-way stops across an uninterrupted road.

Frank

14:14

@TimStone I love being behind big trucks like that. If they're in an accident, I have my very own personal bulldozer to move things out of the way.

badp

The local highway has 4 lanes: "playing with speed limit" lane, "120 km/h HOLY SHIT IS THAT TRUCK GOING TO CUT IN FRONT OF ME" lane, "100 km/h OH FUCK THAT TRUCK IS GOING TO CUT IN FRONT OF ME" lane and "truck" lane

StrixVaria

@Chippies That is on any multi-lane road, at least in New Jersey. No one follows that law, because everyone is an asshole, but the law is to stay to the right unless passing. If there is enough traffic that you're constantly passing, it's fine to ride in the middle or left lane, etc. But if there's room to move right and maintain your speed then you should.

user15026

@Frank They actually work remarkably well AS LONG AS they are built big enough

Tim Stone

@Frank It's not because people are morons and will go the wrong way around the traffic circle because North Americans don't know what they are.

FAE

@TimStone So many people have no idea how to drive through 4-way stops though

Tim Stone

14:15

I saw someone MAKE A U-TURN in a traffic circle the other week. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

Frank

@TimStone We've got a couple in the city already. Pretty tiny ones, but we do have them.

Chippies

@StrixVaria oh okay, so the law actually does say to stay on right, just no one cares about the law

user15026

(aka there is one in town that is so tiny buses can't get around it so they literally have to drive straight across it)

FAE

@StrixVaria Geez

badp

@TimStone How is that a problem?

FAE

14:15

@AshleyNunn that's silly

badp

That's possibly the only redeeming feature of roundabouts -- easy, legal U-turning

user15026

@TimStone We have so many here, people are used to them. They've been here for years.

user15026

@FAE It baffles me.

Tim Stone

@badp They literally made a u-turn within the lane of the traffic circle instead of taking it all the way around

Feeds

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

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badp

14:15

@TimStone wat

Tim Stone

YES

Frank

@TimStone Okay, that's a problem.

FAE

@TimStone oh god why

Tim Stone

I need those missiles on my car man >_>

Frank

I was wondering, "...but that's what traffic circles let you do."

Kevin van der Velden

14:16

On one of these? O.o

StrixVaria

@Chippies I mostly follow that law. I don't like riding further left than I have to for the speed I want.

badp

StrixVaria

I see a lot of people going 5 under the speed limit who move to the middle lane as their first order of business upon entering a highway, though. Those people need to get ticketed. Idiots.

badp

like so?

FAE

@StrixVaria Uuuuuugh I hate that

Sterno

14:17

Traffic circles are awesome if you just remove the people who don't understand them from the equation

badp

3 mins ago, by badp

The local highway has 4 lanes: "playing with speed limit" lane, "120 km/h HOLY SHIT IS THAT TRUCK GOING TO CUT IN FRONT OF ME" lane, "100 km/h OH FUCK THAT TRUCK IS GOING TO CUT IN FRONT OF ME" lane and "truck" lane

Tim Stone

@FAE They don't but at least they come to a (mostly complete) stop before attempting their stupidity

@badp Yes ;_;

badp

@TimStone wat

Chippies

@StrixVaria if it's 3 lanes in same direction, you can pass on the right, right?

FAE

@TimStone WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS

Frank

14:17

We only have two lanes each way at most for our highways here, except in a city.

Arperum

@FAE Some roundabouts around here have some sort of road going through them for those super huge trucks that need an escort. They'll have to temporary remove the little pillars that are placed on it though.

Tim Stone

@FAE I just don't know

FAE

@Chippies Still technically not legal, at least here in the NL.

Frank

So we have a slow lane, and a fast lane.

StrixVaria

@Chippies You shouldn't have to pass on the right if everyone follows the law, but sometimes you do because people are being idiots. It's not technically legal.

FAE

14:18

@Arperum Yeah, I've seen those too. I think in Belgium actually, haha.

Chippies

@FAE hm, I thought it was legal, just shouldn't be done if you can pass on left

Origami Robot

@FAE IT'S NOT EVEN THAT HARD

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Tim Stone

@StrixVaria I just look at it as me getting out of the left hand lane and that lane magically going faster than the moron on the left >_> <_<

badp

It is legal to pass on the right -- if the street is clogged up

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE definitely illegal (unless it's ... what's the word, file)

FAE

14:19

@KevinvanderVelden traffic jam

Chippies

only on 3 lane highways I mean

Kevin van der Velden

That

StrixVaria

@TimStone Yeah I justify it if I'm going to maintain that speed in the lane I just entered for a while.

Origami Robot

WHOEVER GETS THERE FIRST, GOES FIRST

IF YOU GET THERE AT THE SAME TIME, YIELD TO YOUR RIGHT

StrixVaria

"I'm just driving at the speed I chose. It's not my fault idiotface to the left of me is illegally going slower."

Rapitor

14:19

@badp highways here in florida are usually 3 lanes, far left being "just try to at least keep it under 100mph", middle being "I'm going the speed limit (70mph)", and far right being "we'll get there when we get there... 50mph is perfectly fine".

FAE

@Rapitor aka far right is the retirement lane

Rapitor

@FAE yep

badp

@OrigamiRobot It would be easier if it weren't for the occasional perversion

This is a thing that exists

Arperum

@badp I can one up that. But can't be bothered to search now.

badp

@Arperum Oh me too.

Arperum

14:21

Like a roundabout with roundabouts on it.

Batophobia

►

Frank

@badp Is that a roundabout with more than four directions?

Tim Stone

@OrigamiRobot I think that's the part that people have "trouble" with

FAE

@Rapitor My grandpa used to have a house in FL, we'd drive down to visit him for Christmas (Pine Island, near Ft. Meyers)

Batophobia

@Arperum Olympic Roundabout

Origami Robot

14:22

@TimStone THAT'S THE PART THAT SHOULD MAKE THE MOST SENSE!

IT'S WHAT SELFISH PEOPLE WOULD DO ANYWAY!

Jutschge

wat

StrixVaria

badp

@Frank No there's 4 directions, but you need to yield to incoming traffic

StrixVaria

@badp here's one I've had to navigate.

badp

Arperum

14:22

@Batophobia I'd say Belgium, or Brussels. Brussels has the worst drivers ever. But hometime now.

badp

This one is the same, but with traffic lights in the middle!

Tim Stone

@OrigamiRobot People "stop" five feet behind the line because they want to beat you to the right to go

StrixVaria

It's similar to yours but even worse.

Tim Stone

Origami Robot

@TimStone THAT'S IDIOTIC

Jason Berkan

14:23

@agent86 - Now I am having a very sad Friday. :(

Frank

@badp ...Which is how it's supposed to work, no?

Chippies

$user image$

Tim Stone

We have this, I don't know what the hell went into that design decision

badp

@Frank Yeah, except the people doing the yielding are the people who already are in the roundabout.

Kevin van der Velden

Tim Stone

14:23

Also someone was going around it the wrong way a while back, that was fun.

badp

As opposed to people wanting to get in the roundabout.

Kevin van der Velden

We have this

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan: There you go!

badp

@TimStone Parking spot!

Frank

@TimStone Thor lives near you.

Kevin van der Velden

14:24

There are about 2 or 3 lanes, but they're not marked :D

Wipqozn

Now someone can remove me again, and the circle of room ownership continues.

Jason Berkan

The roundabout around the Arc de Triumph is ugly.

FAE

@Jutschge Haha that's so true

badp

@KevinvanderVelden This doesn't seem that bad.

Rapitor

@FAE I live about 45min from there. Port Charlotte/punta gorda

Kevin van der Velden

14:24

It's not, except the first few times you go through it, it is pretty much chaos

Tim Stone

@badp It might as well be, there's not really a good way to use it

Batophobia

badp

This on the other hand

Batophobia

better friday

badp

This is a clusterfuck

FAE

14:25

@Rapitor Ah okay, I vaguely remember Punta Gorda. We also used to stop by Cape Coral a lot too. There's a large mall there, IIRC.

Kevin van der Velden

Wuh, yeah you win

Frank

@badp That's not even a roundabout!

FAE

@Arperum I hate your intersections.

badp

@Frank You can go in circles around it!

but you can also cut across!

or maybe not!

Batophobia

@badp That is terrible planning

badp

14:26

who knows!

Origami Robot

THIS IS THE ONLY TRAFFIC CIRCLE I KNOW OF AROUND HERE

AND IT'S PRETTY MUCH A BACKROAD

FAE

we have a bajillion

badp

@Batophobia This is where Mussolini died

Chippies

badp

I don't think highways were even much of a thing back then

Kevin van der Velden

14:27

@OrigamiRobot if I take the car to the train station (5km from home) I get 2

Chippies

haha, oldschool ads

user15026

If my sister drives me home, we hit 4.

badp

@AshleyNunn 4 people?

user15026

@badp Roundabouts.

Tim Stone

We also have this one, where the goal is to go as fast as possible around the small turn like a race car driver.

badp

14:28

@TimStone Courtesy roundabouts, a.k.a. "please have the courtesy to not cross the center circle"

user15026

She has not (afaik) hit a person yet. Other cars, yes, but not a person who isn't ensconced in their own metal death machine.

Tim Stone

Also note the sidewalks to nowhere because hey why not.

@badp They had to rip up a roundabout and redo it here after realising that it wasn't big enough for school busses. The roundabout is, of course, directly in front of the school.

user15026

I think the sidewalks line up with where you are supposed to cross as a pedestrian

Tim Stone

@AshleyNunn They do but there's no sidewalks anywhere beyond the traffic circle for that to be useful.

FAE

@badp Seriously?

user15026

14:31

@TimStone Okay, that is really weird

Tim Stone

It was probably built with federal money, which has weird stipulations. Like adding bike lanes, which is a nice feature but not so useful if the road connects to other roads which don't have them.

Chippies

I hate when images don't hotlink, makes life so complicated

badp

@FAE Yes. Or, well, close enough

Batophobia

Mythbusters says roundabouts are more efficient

user15026

@TimStone Yeah, they tend to add all these things to roundabouts that aren't actually features of the surrounding roads :P

badp

14:32

Piazzale Loreto

Piazzale Loreto is a major town square in Milan, Italy. The name Loreto is also used in a wider sense to refer to the district surrounding the square, which is part of the Zone 2 administrative division. The name "Loreto" derives from an old sanctuary that used to be there and that was dedicated to Our Lady of Loreto (a city in the Ancona province). Piazzale Loreto was the scene of one of the most well-known events in the modern history of Italy, namely the public display of Benito Mussolini's corpse on 29 April 1945. The day before, Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and some other high-ranking...

FAE

@badp My grandfather was there then. :o He fought in WWII and he saw Mussolini hanging after he died.

Tim Stone

Braiam

@Batophobia Y U NO HTML5?

user15026

@Batophobia They are - I know the one out in my parents direction used to be a 4 way stop light that would literally backup to the next town in each direction (it was equidistant between 4 tiny towns)

Tim Stone

This is the roundabout in front of the school. If you look closely you can see where the part of the road they tore up to add it has a bike lane, but then it just randomly ends where the old road is.

user15026

14:33

Now there is hardly ever any need to actually stop there, the traffic flows so much better

Kevin van der Velden

@Batophobia which makes sense, the 4 way requires you to stop, the roundabout only requires you to yield

Batophobia

@Braiam First link off Google didn't so why should I

Kevin van der Velden

Heck, I've never seen a 4 way stop

badp

@KevinvanderVelden Here's a rather luxuriously large one.

FAE

@badp interesting

Frank

14:34

@OrigamiRobot That's paved. That's not a backroad.

Jason Berkan

@KevinvanderVelden The town where I grew up was all 4 way stops off the main roads through town. When delivering pizza, I would just fly through them all, trusting in the other drivers to stop. Teenagers are stupid.

user15026

@KevinvanderVelden There are lots of them in the country here, and quite a few in the city I live in as well

Private Pansy

China has some amazing roads

badp

The only thing to know about 4-way stops with semaphores is "don't go left with people are coming across"

Tim Stone

@Frank We have a road where they recently decided instead of repaving it, they'd just put down some gravel and let it get crushed into new road. Does that count?

badp

14:35

As for 4-way stops without traffic lights... yeah, those are rare.

Private Pansy

Amazing, jaw droppingly bad, that is

Frank

@JasonBerkan This sounds like a fantastic way to cause an accident.

Braiam

@Batophobia because you are badp! dailymotion.com/video/…

wth

Frank

@TimStone Considering that I grew up on gravel roads, that have always been gravel roads, yeah, ok, sorta.

FAE

........uhm, are any of your perchance named Horny Rooster on Steam?

Batophobia

14:36

@Braiam I'm not badp, I can't do nearly enough mod abuse

Jason Berkan

@Frank It is. I'm amazed I survived unscathed.

Tim Stone

@Frank I had that in Canadia too on the island we lived on, where they'd just annually come put down gravel and spray it with tar. Made riding bikes quite difficult.

badp

user15026

@TimStone Summer pavement!

Frank

@TimStone I loved fall time; the new gravel had time to get crushed into the road, making the gravel road actually quite smooth.

user15026

14:38

This happens a lot near my parents

FAE

@TimStone at least you got tar, we had uh, dirt and sometimes they'd fill in the dirt ruts with gravel

Tim Stone

The tar smelled quite bad and didn't seem to do too much, so I don't know if it was an improvement or not. :P

StrixVaria

Holy crap the Sims 4 not only is Origin-only (obviously), but it's $70.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria What...the...fuclk

Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria wat?

user15026

14:39

@StrixVaria O.o

FAE

@StrixVaria My friend, who is a huge Sims fan, as in he literally had every single piece of Sims 3 DLC, is skipping Sims 4 because of how much they gutted it.

Wipqozn

That gamehas already been recieving a lot of flack for having very little content, but they are marking it up to $70?

Tim Stone

This weird Sims 4 cheat lets you build toilets the size of houses http://bit.ly/1r9JQOU http://t.co/ysl4Jy723Y

Tweeted by pcgamer on September 4, 2014 at 9:43 PM

Frank

@StrixVaria Like Sims isn't already regurgitated crap.

Wipqozn

Man, fuck you EA.

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Private Pansy

14:39

Today I came across a controlled roundabout. There's no sign that the roundabout is actually controlled, and since there's a bridge above it, all the traffic lights are hidden so that you'd only see them when you turn into the roundabout

Tim Stone

Value man, value.

eye-rolls

Origami Robot

Private Pansy

So much potential for rear end collisions

Origami Robot

THIS IS THE WORST SPOT

StrixVaria

@FAE I've really enjoyed the games in the past. What's "gutted"?

FAE

14:40

@StrixVaria As in removed so many parts of it.

StrixVaria

So they removed a bunch of features and are charging $70?

FAE

@StrixVaria There's not even varying terrain anymore. It's all flat.

And limited to like... 4 lots or so.

@StrixVaria Yep. :/

StrixVaria

@FAE To be fair, the very first thing I ever did to a lot was completely flatten it.

That one doesn't bother me as much.

user15026

That sounds like they took out all the fun

StrixVaria

4 lots sounds dumb, though.

FAE

14:41

@StrixVaria Yeah, but you should at least let people have the option

Frank

@FAE Sounds like the SimCity'd the Sims.

FAE

@Frank pretty much

Frank

You'd've thought EA would've, y'know, listened to the massive backlash they got.

One more reason to not ever buy an EA game.

Sorry, devs, if EA's your publisher, I don't care how good your game is. Should've found a different publisher.

Rapitor

nah they just do what every single sims game does. relase it completely bare and dumbed down except for one new feature. then expansions expansions expansions, to put everything back

Tim Stone

@FAE You mean "reappropriated features for future DLC" right?

Origami Robot

14:43

@Frank IT'S A BACKROAD IN THAT NO ONE EVER GOES THAT WAY BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING TO GO TO (YET)

Rapitor

@Frank i don't know.. EA has gotten a little better about leaving dev's alone.

FAE

@TimStone I made that joke last night, about seeing variable terrain in future DLC and it's depressing to think that that could happen

Powerlord

@Frank Why would you need more reasons? Aren't the ones we already had enough?

Rapitor

Titanfall and plants vs zombies garden warfare are both great examples of EA doing things correctly.

FAE

@Rapitor Man, I still haven't played Frontier's Edge yet...

Tim Stone

14:44

@FAE :(

Rapitor

@FAE I don't do any DLCs if they are just maps...

Tim Stone

Okay, first, screw you Facebook. Secondly, that's not even a convincing image for that clickbait shit.

Sterno

Did the chat font in here change recently or is my browser just being weird?

Powerlord

I'm still surprised that Titanfall decided to use the Source engine.

FAE

@TimStone ...wow.

Frank

14:45

@Powerlord It just reinforces my current stance.

FAE

@Rapitor Ah, I got the Season Pass, so

Powerlord

...since Valve still hasn't released Source 2, Source is really... aged at this point.

Frank

@Rapitor Doesn't matter. Until EA stops making dumb decisions like this, they get zero of my dollars.

Wipqozn

@TimStone clickbait is the worst.

However it sells, because people suck.

Rapitor

@Powerlord this.. a billion times this. Although the answer is the respawn guys are ex-cod... and CoD uses modified source as well, so they knew how to use the engine already.

Frank

14:46

Titanfall and PvZ Garden Warfare are both games I don't care for.

Rapitor

that being said... Titanfall wouldve been a billion times better if it used Unreal or Cryengine..

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT WORD MEANS

Powerlord

@Rapitor So... you're not getting the Mario Kart 8 DLC then?

Frank

Especially the silly microtransactions they added after they hooked people.

Powerlord

Oh wait, those add new cars and characters too

@Rapitor I mean, I know Source is iteratively designed, but the game engine itself is showing wide cracks now.

Granted, it's nice that Valve is teasing Source 2 with its updated DOTA2 dev tools, but just release it already!

On another topic, I see Atwood is getting flak from the MarkDown creator.

Kevin van der Velden

14:48

@Sterno chrome updated or something, ask @badp

badp

@TimStone wat

Tim Stone

1 hour ago, by Tim Stone

10 hours ago, by Tim Stone

...Everything's gone Arial for some reason. I shouldn't have updated Chrome.

Tweeted by tmslft on September 5, 2014 at 3:34 AM

badp

@Sterno Chrome is basically disowning all fonts but Arial, Roboto and Times.

Tim Stone

@badp Yes

I mean I know things are kind of expensive but if that's all you get for thousands of dollars I think you got a bad deal.

Kevin van der Velden

Well, unless there wasn't a basement yet

badp

14:50

@TimStone Ikea is a thing that exists

Powerlord

Turns out his "small private working group" should have contacted MarkDown's creator. Especially since it's been around since 2009 and the MarkDown creator found out about it when Jeff and co went on to announce ~~Standard Markdown~~ (rename pending) a few days ago.

Kevin van der Velden

I think that building a basement beneath your house might be more expensive (assuming "thousands of dollars" means about 4000+)

badp

@Powerlord That is bullshit

Rapitor

@Frank they are both pretty great games, considering... PvZ is especially surprising fun. it's one of those games that has no right to be good, yet it is...

Chippies

@TimStone I knew I wasn't losing my mind!

Frank

14:51

@Rapitor They don't run towards my type of game.

They look kinda sorta interesting, but not enough to overcome my massive hatred of EA.

So it's easy enough to just ignore them.

Journeyman Geek

@Rapitor: The first one was great. The second one suffers from ea-titis

badp

Jeff started complaining about the state of Markdown in 2009 but only annouced that they'd start working in 2012, where the bottom of the post reads:

Tim Stone

@Chippies You are, but just for other reasons.

Powerlord

@badp Work blocked that image

Tim Stone

@badp They also, you know, emailed him, but he apparently has better things to not do.

badp

14:53

@Powerlord It's okay; it's at the bottom of the post

Rapitor

@JourneymanGeek how? there's no paid DLC (it's all free), microtransactions are merely for buying cardpacks (which you can do in-game at a plenty quick enough rate), and servers are stable... most of the time.

Chippies

@TimStone that's a relief!

badp

@TimStone like making the umpteenth hilarious Moto 270 joke oneliner.

When Jeff asked in 2012, the public reply was literally this:

well, no response from @gruber on the Future of Markdown. Looks like the new name for Markdown is gonna be YankeesSuck.

Tweeted by codinghorror on October 27, 2012 at 7:29 PM

@codinghorror When you tell me to jump, should I ask “How high?”

Tweeted by gruber on October 27, 2012 at 8:18 PM in reply to codinghorror

user15026

Oh boy.

badp

I dunno if that's a "yes" or a "no" but it's certainly a "fuck you."

Powerlord

14:55

Incidentally, since when do browsers treat "//i.imgur.com/2q8urml.png" as a valid url? I can see it in the chat source code.

Tim Stone

Always, it just inherits the scheme of the current document

badp

@Powerlord is it maybe the protocol-relative URL format? I forget

Tim Stone

That, yeah.

badp

(if it was http, use http; if it was https, use https)

Powerlord

@TimStone ...I've never heard of a protocol relative link, only absolute and relative (which is relative to the current domain).

Add to this most web servers habit of condensing multiple slashes into a single one...

Tim Stone

14:59

The browser requests the resource by substituting in http or https, so it's not like the server sees that

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