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6:00 PM
Bottled water is regulated by the FDA whereas tap water is regulated by the EPA (is what I read somewhere on the internet)
 
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It took me a long time to stop asking Jochem if water was drinkable here at various places. He used to look at me funny when I asked. Water's drinkable here everywhere and it's all really good. No taste of chlorine, no taste of sulfur, it's just great.
 
@FAE I don't even know what that means.
It sounds gross though
 
@OrigamiRobot Water that doesn't taste like chlorine or sulfur is gross?
 
How has steam not fixed screenshots for non-steam games yet?
 
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Q: Flans Mod keeps crashing

SparowWhenever I spawn in vehicles in Flans mod 1.7.2, my game crashes. Is there any way to fix this? Here is the crash report: ---- Minecraft Crash Report ---- // You're mean. Time: 9/12/14 1:56 PM Description: Ticking entity java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking entity at com.flansmod.commo...

 
6:05 PM
If you don't keep the name of the game in your library exactly the same as the filename, screenshots aren't associated with it in-Steam.
 
@GnomeSlice No idea. You mean F12 screenshots?
 
@Powerlord Yes.
It's been broken for like a year now.
 
@5pike I have no idea how to read this sentence...
 
fixed, sorry.
 
No, I don't know what sulfur tastes like, but it sounds gross.
 
6:06 PM
@OrigamiRobot Oh, now I get you.
 
@OrigamiRobot It's also toxic, so you shouldn't be tasting it at all.
 
FAE
@OrigamiRobot You've never had well water?
 
@FAE My grandma had a well, the water tasted like all water: nothing.
 
FAE
Sulfur water is a condition where the running water contains a high amount of hydrogen sulfide gas that escapes into the air when the plumbing line is opened, giving a distinct "rotten egg" smell. == Cause == The condition is not dangerous, but indicates a high level of sulfate-reducing bacteria in the water supply. This may be due to the use of well water, poorly treated city water, or water heater contamination. == Treatment == Various methods exist to treat sulfur in water. These methods include Use of a Carbon Filter (useful for very small amounts of hydrogen sulfide) Filtering the ...
 
The best way I could describe the taste is "very cold"
 
FAE
6:07 PM
That's what well water was like where I grew up.
 
We had sulfur water at Philmont twice. That was a great time.
 
I know what sulfur smells like and I image that tastes gross.
 
FAE
Luckily, I lived on a lake so we could get water filtered straight from the lake, which was really good, except for when the lake turned over twice a year, then it smelled a bit like fish.
 
@FAE Oh, oh, my cousin in Ohio must have that.
The water at her house always smells like farts.
 
Well, I'm just glad that I can drink tap water without any concerns. Heck, you can even drink the water out of streams and lakes around here, without filtering.
 
6:09 PM
Gotta shower in fart water up there.
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It's a very firey taste. Like burning, but if you're thirsty enough, you'll drink it.
 
FAE
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, that's sulfur water.
 
Good thing I never drink the water there (or anywhere)
 
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Q: how to disable internet psp2000?

Hand of DonI'm not allowed to get a psp unless my parents can disable the internet, and preferably if there is a password for my parents to use. Is there a parental control planel with internet restrictions? and if not, is there a way to permanently block internet access?

 
Camp staff me still wants to tell you that's definitely not healthy
 
6:11 PM
@Lazers He wants to be a mod after 15 days? Such ambition.
 
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@Unionhawk All @OrigamiRobot drinks is pop and iced tea.
 
@FAE To be fair, all I really drink is coffee.
 
FAE
@GnomeSlice huh, wow
 
@FAE soda and sweet tea*
 
FAE
@Frank Everything you people drink is a diuretic, agh!
 
6:13 PM
and gatorade.
 
@FAE Unless I've been dancing a lot. Then some water. Maybe wine.
 
Coke is dipoopetic
 
Hydrate or die, people (I'll allow gatorade though)
 
I'll die, thanks.
I'd rather be happy drinking soda than feel constantly overfull.
 
@OrigamiRobot You do that.
 
6:15 PM
@5pike I have been.
 
FAE
@Frank Wine does not hydrate you properly!
 
I'm confused. Do you like, chug a whole bottle if you do drink water?
 
@GnomeSlice Could be a sockpuppet account.
 
@FAE I know. But it's awesome when you've been sweating!
 
@Unionhawk No, water just instantly makes me feel full.
 
6:16 PM
@Lazers Did somebody downvote this just because they didn't like his other questions, or is there something wrong with it I'm not seeing
 
You've got to be doing it wrong
 
@Unionhawk It just sits in my stomach and sloshes around
 
All of his stuff is in the negative.
 
@Frank Yea, I drink water if I'm doing a lot outside.
Oh, I guess I technically drink water because I like to eat ice.
 
@OrigamiRobot Same thing different form.
 
6:20 PM
Yay, I have projects I was assigned to that aren't in Changepoint, which is preventing me from updating it farther than mid-January.
 
@KernelPanic If we're talking about the guy who just posted that PSP2000 question, yeah. He shows zero research before asking here.
 
FAE
Jochem can down a liter of water in one go and then be like "more plz"
 
@GnomeSlice Wait, what?
 
@Frank AFAIK even if the answer is as simple as a Google search you're still allowed to ask it as long it's not a duplicate, and is within the sites rules.
 
@Powerlord His profile says he wants to be a mod.
 
6:21 PM
@KernelPanic I ain't closing them. But I'm downvoting them as hard as I can.
 
Also @Powerlord you can join the site again, agent86 isn't a mod any more.
 
Zero research = instant downvote.
 
@Frank I'm not saying it's good that's he doing it, but AFAIK he's allowed to.
 
@FAE I can do that with soda or tea, but not water.
 
@KernelPanic Yeah. And close votes are unallowed questions.
Downvotes are not useful questions.
 
6:22 PM
Sep 8 at 18:14, by Powerlord
I should register an account on Arqade at some point.
Sep 8 at 18:15, by Powerlord
@AshleyNunn Yes, and the reason I said that is because I just read the stars list.
 
His profile is copied across at least 3 sites, I suspect he means Christianity.SE
 
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@OrigamiRobot He just did it right now because I asked him how much he could
 
@Powerlord On second thought, maybe you shouldn't come back
 
Someone finally figured out what I meant when I said "because I just read the stars list" !
 
@Frank Whatever floats your boat dude.
 
6:23 PM
@FAE For some reason that makes me want to see how long I can hold my breath.
 
@GnomeSlice All of his questions are in the negative
 
BREATH HOLDING CONTEST GOOOOOOO
 
@KernelPanic Downvotes have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not questions are allowed. If you think they do, you should probably take a look at our most downvoted question.
 
NO EXHALING!
 
FAE
@OrigamiRobot I used to be so much better at that than I am now. :(
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I haven't gone swimming in more than a few years though.
 
6:24 PM
breathes
no fair
I have tourette's
 
enevnggging
 
@FAE I can't hold my breath as long underwater. Must be a psychological thing.
 
@Frank Link?
 
My brain is pudding tonight
I tried sleeping but it's no less delicious
 
@badp my brain is pudding all of the nights
 
6:25 PM
@badp Who would I contact if I wanted to get a chat room unfrozen?
 
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Q: How did you end up at the beginning of borderlands 2 story line

user62393Well as you know quite a while ago a sequel to Borderlands came out known as borderlands 2. I have played through the game but I still wonder about the beginning. In the tutorial, you wake up on a snow covered mountain and claptrap is trying to bring you along because he thinks you are a corpse...

 
@KernelPanic me, e.g.
 
What @Batophobia said.
 
@badp Can you unfreeze Kalos?
 
Perfectly on topic. Horribly lacking effort
 
6:26 PM
Incidentally, why is meta.gaming.stackexchange.com giving me certificate issues in Firefox, but gaming.stackexchange.com isn't?
 
@Frank I think I see what you mean now.
 
@Powerlord I have those issues as well
 
@Powerlord The certificate is for *.stackexchange.com, which the former isn't valid for
 
@KernelPanic here you go
 
@badp Thanks!
 
6:30 PM
@FAE 2:05
 
FAE
@OrigamiRobot I used to be able to do 90+ seconds underwater
 
I'm not wired to hold my breath for long, since you can't on scuba
 
I can comfortably hold my breath for about 1:45. The 2:05 is the OH GOD MY LONGS ARE GOING TO EXPLODE point
 
Lung overexpansion and whatnot
 
Man, I wanna go scuba diving.
 
FAE
6:34 PM
dinnertiiiime
 
SCUBA if you're a purist, I guess.
 
@FAE but I haven't had breakfast yet...
 
It doesn't matter, really. It's technically an acronym, but technically who cares
 
@Unionhawk Technically, I want to show off.
 
Technically, you call fins flippers.
 
6:36 PM
Technically, that's what they are.
 
Which will get you a lecture about terminology from every dive instructor ever
 
FAE
@Unionhawk no one really says LASER either
 
In which case I will switch.
To calling them flappers.
 
If you are thinking about learning to dive, though, most dive shops run Discover Scuba Diving, which is literally confined water dive 1 from the open water course without having to commit to the whole thing.
 
6:46 PM
@Unionhawk I don't know what the last part of that means
 
@Frank I would.
 
user15026
@Ktash "I hate myself."
 
@AshleyNunn Well in this case I imagine you would be alone ;)
 
user15026
@Ktash laughs
 
user15026
Likely, yes
 
user15026
6:50 PM
but today is actually an awesome day.
 
user15026
(because I don't have to work)
 
@OrigamiRobot Basically, the program puts you in a pool environment to see if scuba is a thing you want to pursue. You don't do any skills, other than breathing underwater and swimming.
 
@Unionhawk "confined water dive 1 from the open water course" wat
 
@OrigamiRobot The open water diver course consists of I think 5 confined water dives (dives in a pool) and 4 open water dives (with PADI, anyway. SSI is slightly different).
 
6:59 PM
 
I still have no idea what that part means, but I know what you are trying to say
 
@Chippies ;_;
 
@Chippies I could totally see Bela doing that.
 
@Frank I just hope you wouldn't jump to conclusions in case she did that
 
@Chippies That's easy; I'd never get a dog.
 
7:01 PM
@Frank Then Bela wouldn't have to do that either. Win/win
 
> Try Scuba Birthday Parties
Oh god that sounds like a terrible idea
 
> other than breathing underwater
wat
 
@badp Skills as in mask remove and replace, regulator remove and recovery, etc.
 
@badp What, you can't do that?
 
Because those are both the sorts of things that one needs to be able to do while breathing underwater before being able to dive autonomously.
 
7:06 PM
WHERE ARE YOUR GILLS MAN?!
 
And of course by "breathing underwater" I do mean "with a tank and regulator" ...
 
@Unionhawk That's less fun
How would I communicate with all my fishy friends?
 
@Ktash If you could you wouldn't scuba :P
you'd just go to the bottom of the ocean, tap on the inter-continental cabling and never emerge again ever
JUST INTERNET FOREVER
 
The big fish live on the bottom of the ocean >_> we stop being at the top of the food chain pretty fast at those kind of depths.
(technically, we don't know what lives on the bottom of the ocean, but it's safe to say it probably wants to eat you)
Or use you as bait; scuba divers from one particular dive shop were feeding hot dogs to an octopus. And instead of eating it, he used it as bait to catch fish.
 
@Unionhawk Nice!
 
7:17 PM
@Unionhawk Thus proving that an octopus is much smarter than a fish.
 
@JasonBerkan Fish are pretty stupid. So that's not hard.
 
FAE
@Unionhawk I've always found this fascinating and terrifying.
 
@Unionhawk Wouldn't you be crushed to death at those pressures anyways?
 
FAE
When I was little, I wanted to go to the Marianas Trench.
 
@Yuuki Details, but, probably.
 
7:18 PM
Also, I doubt anything's big enough to eat humans (scavengers don't count) at the bottom of the ocean.
I think the pressure's too much for anything of the right size.
 
The parts of you that are most susceptible to pressure are your sinuses, which are mostly air, which you can equalize. The rest of you is virtually incompressable.
 
Okay, maybe giant squid...
 
But pressure rises pretty fast in water, so...
 
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@Yuuki yeeeeeeah
 
@Yuuki What if they try to lure you with hotdogs?
 
7:20 PM
@Arperum Well, I'm Chinese so I'm safe.
 
At those depths, it's so dark, you probably would just get immediately devoured by something and not even know it.
 
I'd worry more about the German-Americans and the baseball fanatic.
 
@Yuuki You'd eat the squid?
 
@Arperum This is entirely possible.
 
(I'm sorry for the horrible racial stereotyping)
 
7:21 PM
@Arperum Squid is pretty tasty...
 
FAE
they had fresh fish at the Makro today and it's been a really long time since I've seen dead fish on ice.
 
@Unionhawk but -- INTERNET FOREVER
just you and your computer monitor
FOREVER NIGHT
and NO PEOPLE
just those on the internet
 
@FAE Speaking of fish markets, ours has @Wipqozns for sale.
By which I mean grass turtles.
 
FAE
they had a huuuuge cod for sale
 
@badp Because those are the people I want to spend forever with.
 
7:22 PM
Of course there's the problem where gills only work if you actually keep on moving forever
 
Yay, time to head over to Meta.SE
 
maybe I could get a water fan
 
Bug reporting is so much fun.
 
FAE
@Yuuki I've never eaten turtle
 
so it could push the water towards me.
@JasonBerkan aren't you a person on the internet
 
7:23 PM
It depends. Some fish can force water across their gills by opening and closing their mouth (nurse sharks, barracuda, and moray eels come to mind)
 
@FAE I've had turtle soup exactly once.
 
FAE
@Yuuki How was it?
 
It was "meh". I mean, it wasn't bad as, say, shark fin soup but not really something to rave about.
 
FAE
@Yuuki I won't eat shark fin, I don't want to support that industry. :(
 
Well, I don't know exactly by what mechanism nurse sharks can just chill in one spot, but they're one of the only sharks that can just chill in one spot.
 
7:23 PM
@Unionhawk hmmm... internal gills might make for less awkward videochatting
 
At some point, I should go edit the TF2 wiki so that it has the Taunt unusual effects listed.
 
@FAE You're not missing much anyways. It's basically watery rubber.
 
Incidentally... whaps @badp for missing Silver Cyclone in his list
 
FAE
@Yuuki Blegh.
 
@badp Yes, and I'm awesome. Not everyone on the Internet is as awesome as me, though.
 
7:24 PM
@Powerlord what list?
 
FAE
I don't like eating fish in general though.
 
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A: What unusual effects can taunts come in?

DispensadorLooking here it seems like there's a pretty good number of taunt effects out. Names are taken off of the imgur album I found. All of these can go on any taunt, or at least those dropped off of the new crate, the Audition Reel. At the moment, any unusual taunt is going for stupid amounts of cash/b...

 
> answered Jun 19 at 21:02
>
> Dispensador
 
Oh wait, you only edited it
Anyway, using a TF2Items server plugin, I should be able to add unusual effects to my existing taunts to get screenshots of them.
 
at any rate welcome back?
 
7:26 PM
I have the appropriate numerical values of them, although it's not clear how it chooses which of the RED or BLU showstopper particle sets.
@badp One weird thing... one of my answers from 2011 was automatically re-associated with my account.
...but just one.
 
No idea. 30 bonus reps!
 
That's not the bug I was going to file at Meta.SE though, it's that it redirects you to http from https when you make an edit.
 
(or suggested edit, it's not clear)
 
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Q: What was the 2xSR and 1xSR card cutout in the latest event "Can I Really Shine"?

MindwinThe event ended, but before I could look up the stats to update the english wiki (http://decaf.kouhi.me/lovelive/index.php?title=English_Version_Info#Past_Events) the infobox has vanished from the game lobby. Does anyone have this info? retag as [love-live-festival] - delete this line afterw...

 
7:29 PM
 
@OrigamiRobot The ocean is weird.
That's what I've learned, throughout the years.
 
I guess that's where we all figured this "life" stuff out
so it's where the weirdest offshoots are
 
@OrigamiRobot wtf is this
 
The black swallower, Chiasmodon niger, is a species of deep sea fish in the family Chiasmodontidae, notable for its ability to swallow fish larger than itself (for which it is sometimes named the "great swallower"). It has a worldwide distribution in tropical and subtropical waters, in the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones at a depth of 700-2,745 m (2,300-9,000 ft). == Description == The black swallower is a small fish, with a maximum known length of 25 cm (10 in). The body is elongated and compressed, without scales, and is a uniform brownish-black in color. Its head is long, with a blunt snout...
 
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Q: New Steam UI won't update

Ryan CallinanI have steam on my windows 7 PC and I knew about the new UI for a while, yet I still have the old UI. Even when I check for new steam updates it say that steam is up to date. I also can't completely uninstall steam since I have many games installed. All I want to know is how to update steam to th...

 
7:35 PM
@Unionhawk Nature, and especially aquatic nature, is fucking weird.
Bah. @Unionhawk already said as much.
 
It gets weird at depth, yeah.
 
Teach me to work on a Friday afternoon.
 
@JasonBerkan NOOOOOOO!
 
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Q: What's a good way to get Demonite ore in terraria?

RyanI want to get as much Demonite ore as possible to make Shadow armor and to sell the leftover ore, but there is no way I could get enough from mining.What should I do?

 
@Unionhawk Not only that, but he distinguished it so it appears with a red name and [A] next to it, with highlight text "Reddit admin, speaking officially"
 
posted on September 12, 2014

On Thursday, September 11th, a number of users were unable to successfully load any Stack Exchange Q&A site.  One specific resource, a CSS file, was failing to load from our CDN provider, CloudFlare. The cause of this was twofold: Between 18:55 and 19:00 UTC, CloudFlare’s monitoring systems began detecting 50% packet loss from 6 of their data centers to our servers. This loss was later t

 
@Powerlord Yep. Though, in fairness, it was apparently to draw attention to the extra life marathon, which is an official thing.
 
Just goes to show admin abuse is universal and beautiful. :P
 
8:17 PM
Technically, admin abuse != mod abuse :P
 
Our postmortem of yesterday's troubles, subtitled "You didn't want really want that CSS, anyway" http://stackstatus.net/post/97322396704/outage-postmortem-sepember-11th-2014
 
I like the art but the game itself looks really uninspired. :/
 
@OKAY,PANIC. Shouldn't it be "Our thanks to the team at CloudFlare"?
 
user15026
@Yuuki It should be, yeah
 
@AshleyNunn Okay, just wondering if I was going crazy.
 
8:22 PM
What to you talking about? Are to implying that to did it wrong?
OK, inserting to for random words is boring.
 
user15026
@Yuuki Nah, you're good.
 
@Yuuki Isn't it past time to worry about that?
...for some reason, I'm now tempted to edit a video in Valve's video editor of my Spy loadout using my Spy taunt and a Medic running up shouting "Free money over here" and being killed by someone on my team.
Is it sad I forgot what the editor's name is?
 
@Powerlord Source Filmmaker?
 
Nice.
 
@Batophobia Yeah, that's it.
Oh right, the above makes more sense if you know the Spy taunt I'm referring to is a Buy a Life w/ Skill Gotten Gains... i.e. the Spy throwing money while money shoots up from the floor.
(and the Medic already has a "Free money!" voice clip from MvM)
 
user15026
8:39 PM
If anyone is interested, I got 4 3DS smash demo codes, I am going to use one, but the other three are up for grabs
 
user15026
It's an early demo and unlimited (unlike most Nintendo demos.)
 
<---- This guy wants one
 
user15026
@Batophobia Alright, cool. :) They're NA codes, I think, if that affects anything
 
What a coincidence, I'm in NA :D
 
user15026
I never know in here where people are :P
 
user15026
8:41 PM
Code: A05V5XGA2SFCC4LY
 
user15026
Anyone else? :)
 
FAE
@AshleyNunn Oh wow, really?
 
user15026
@FAE Yeah, people who were platinum last year and have a 3DS and registered it are getting early demo codes
 
@AshleyNunn have you played it yet?
 
user15026
I have one left (a local friend took one)
 
8:45 PM
wondering how the controls are on 3ds
 
I gotta go to work
 
user15026
@Chippies Not yet, my 3DS is charging
 
@AshleyNunn I haven't charged my 3ds in like, 2+ months...
but then again, I've only turned it on to pick up event pokemon :P
 
user15026
I use mine all the time
 
the battery lasts surprisingly long when you don't use it, hehe
 
user15026
8:46 PM
hahaha I suspect it would
 
we'll probably just get it for WiiU for christmas, I can't imagine playing something like that on a 3DS...
 
FAE
@AshleyNunn I wouldn't mind one but I'd probably pass it on to one of my friends who is a big into the Smash fighting scene. I'd understand if you'd want to give it to someone else.
 
user15026
@FAE Nah, it's not like I need more than one :)
 
FAE
He's so sadface right now, haha
 
user15026
Aw
 
user15026
8:48 PM
I can toss it your way :)
 
FAE
he's got a ton of EU friends with them but he's NA
Sure, you'd make someone's day by proxy!
 
user15026
There, sent to you on Steam :)
 
@AshleyNunn how does one become a platinum member of nintendo club anyway?
at first I thought you have to pay for it, but that doesn't make sense...
 
FAE
@Chippies Gotta enter codes into the Club Nintendo site, you get them from buying games.
 
user15026
@Chippies Buy lots of crap, register it, do their surveys
 
FAE
8:49 PM
Or from having family buy games and give you all their registration codes!
 
user15026
Hahaha that too
 
user15026
that reminds me I should bug my dad for his WiiU codes
 
at what point do you become a platinum member though?
like, is there a value that you have to pass?
or something
 
user15026
Yeah, you have to have x coins/year (year lasts from July 1 to June 30)
 
user15026
I think its 300 coins for gold, 500 for platinum
 
8:51 PM
ah, I see, thanks
 
user15026
and you get 40-60 coins/game plus some for the survey after you've played (so a week after the original code is registered)
 
I hate that club nintendo always logs me out and I have to look up in the email the login info because I can't be bothered to remember it...
1st world problems
 
user15026
It's one of the things I tell Chrome to remember for me
 
@AshleyNunn I do it too, but it doesn't seem to
maybe LastPass will remember it, when I remember my password...
of course, just as I'm trying to log in this happens:
> Club Nintendo is currently unavailable due to site maintenance.
 
user15026
Mind you, the Club Nintendo site seems to be down right now (likely related to the code stuff)
 
user15026
8:56 PM
Today is turning out pretty great. Smash demo code, awesome dinner in the slow cooker (although I gotta make my potatoes yet, but that will happen in a bit), not working today...yeah, I am a happy me
 
FAE
@AshleyNunn I learned today that they don't really have crock pots in the Netherlands
 
user15026
@FAE Huh. That would be weird for me because I use mine a lot
 

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