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@LessPop_MoreFizz wat
...so how do they actually salt the pasta?
I mean, the taste of salt-less pasta is quite different
@badp They don't.
I'd expect much more than 7% saying something is wrong if it was actually without salt.
It's basically night-and-day different.
16:08
because they've gotta save that .0000025 cents per plate.
...that's impossible. The data disagrees with that conclusion
Only 7% are complaining about it, whereas I would expect 99% complaint rates
I have absolutely no ties to this thing or reason to defend it
@badp 7% use the specific word bland. I'm sure another 12% used "Flavorless" and another 9% used "garbage"
...in which case they would've presented those words in the charts
16:10
@badp Also something something dumb american palates.
Have you actually ever accidentally made pasta without salt?
...or eaten the result
I suppose they could get away with it if they used very generous amounts of sauce and parmigiano, but the very first slide you shared showed they don't.
@badp oh god, yes! all of this! Went to Olive Garden last week for parent's 32nd anniversary. The food served was not worth the premium price.
@TrentHawkins In general, if it's a chain and we've never heard of it, you should be extremely careful
The only actual Italian restaurant chain that I'm aware exists is Giovanni Rana's.
He has a store in New York and I'd assume nothing else in the US.
@badp Well, I mean there is a distinct strain of specifically Italian-American cuisine.
It's just that Olive Garden is, well, very, very bad at it.
@badp Generally, I think most people are aware Olive Garden isn't authentic - it's at best an 'Americanized' Italian.... like an Italian version of all the TexMex
16:15
I'm just saying, restaurant chains are alien to our culture to begin with
@TrentHawkins 1) I think you are even giving them too much credit with 'at best'.
"I'm tired, I'm going to take a nap..." FIRE ALARM! WAKE UP ASSHOLE "Arg"
There's a few more pizzeria chains but they're still very much the minority
2) There's nothing inauthentic about Tex-Mex or, for that matter, Cal-Mex (i.e. Burritos). Both of those states were part of Mexico for hundreds of years. There were Mexicans there from day one that they became part of the US. Their Mexican food is just as much mexican food as Oaxacan food is Mexican food, even though Oaxacan Mexican food is nothing like Baja Mexican food, etc. etc. etc.
Saying Cal Mex isn't Mexican food is kind of like saying that Cantonese food based on Hong-Kong stuff isn't Chinese food because it's what got brought to America by immigrants first and only food indigenous to Shanghai counts.
(Sorry, kind of a pet peeve of mine.)
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....Europe, why do you play ALL of your soccer at the same time? wonders
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16:27
(well, not all, but holy crap that was a lot....)
@badp Some people also consider Olive Garden fancy. Americans are not so good with measuring quality. "Better than what I microwave from the freezer at home" being a point of consideration and all.
I refuse to believe that you can't tell if pasta is salted
@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, I read the highlights, it was pretty amusing (and accurate, the stuff Olive Garden is focusing on seems super dumb)
@AshleyNunn Prime time television.
Same reason that America plays 90% of it's football at the same time.
user15026
@LessPop_MoreFizz There were, no lie, like 40 games going on at once.
user15026
16:31
It made for an interesting few minutes.
@badp I'm not sure about that, but it's not about not being able to tell, it's about what they actually expect based on their usual exposure. "Hey, this is pretty good crap!"
@AshleyNunn Quick search says there are ~55 NCAA football games today.
user15026
@LessPop_MoreFizz Yep.
@AshleyNunn Every single country has his own competition.
user15026
They're not all starting at once though.
user15026
16:33
They're in waves.
@AshleyNunn hahahahahahahaha good luck with tomorrow
user15026
@Arperum This I know, but holy crap, having to keep track of all the grading was epic fun
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@badp I don't work til late tomorrow :D
And most of europe is in two or maybe three timezones, whereas US has a couple more.
user15026
(I get the 7-midnight football shift)
16:33
@AshleyNunn try and keep it that way
15:00 on Sundays must be brutal
user15026
@badp It does get pretty special
@Arperum US has 4 timezones.
(Alaska and Hawaii don't count, as they aren't relevant to professional sports.)
user15026
There are times all of us dread because we know it will be chaos. Like saturday morning Europe soccer finishing
@LessPop_MoreFizz Huh, I expected more.
I went to an Olive Garden for the first and only time a while ago and the only good thing was the soup that I got, the rest of the dishes made me sad, and I don't even have a baseline for quality Italian food.
16:35
30 secs ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz
(Alaska and Hawaii don't count, as they aren't relevant to professional sports.)
@LessPop_MoreFizz Unless you count DST, but no one should count that
@Arperum US is ~45 degrees of longitude wide, give or take. A time zone is ~15 degrees.
@LessPop_MoreFizz For most things we really only have two, screw everyone in those silly middle states.
@TimStone Also true!
user15026
Now it is pretty quiet til football ends (well, quarter/half/end). I can actually have breakfast!
16:37
Yay breakfast!
The middle two timezones are basically ignored for scheduling. They exist only for the convenience of the people who are there.
That's what I think I'll do
I refuse to run on corn's schedule.
and I think it is a waffle day
@LessPop_MoreFizz I was being an ignorant european.
16:37
@AshleyNunn Rob Ford dropped out of the mayoral race!
user15026
@LessPop_MoreFizz But his brother hopped right in
@AshleyNunn Indeed!
user15026
So really, six of one half a dozen of the other.
@AshleyNunn If anything, isn't the brother a more overt criminal?
user15026
@Ktash Here it is banana bread and tea at 12:40 pm because that is the first time I have had time for breakfast!
16:39
@AshleyNunn :(
user15026
@LessPop_MoreFizz They're both a bag of spiders.
Want a waffle with me?
I've got strawberries and whip cream
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@Ktash ooooh that does sound tasty :)
@AshleyNunn Just come on over and we can have some :D
We can stay up late, swappin' manly stories
@LessPop_MoreFizz The abdominal mass will probably turn out to be a new organ previously unknown to science that has the primary function of spewing crazy.
I now remember why I'd stopped playing PvP TF2
It's way too stressful when you lose and way not enough joyful when you don't
If only you could make a PvP game where everybody won 80% of the time!
@badp They have those. They're called PVE
@Ktash but then the P part turns onto you for not following meta
So it's really Meta vs You vs Enemy
I don't know what you mean by meta there...
@Ktash "Thou shalt face thy enemy using a soldier, a scout, a heavy, a demoman, a medic and an engineer. Thou shan't face thy enemy using anything else but this. Thy soldier shalt use a regular rocket launcher, a buff banner und a whip; thy demoman shalt..."
"...If thou failst to follow this, thy shalt be kicked from thy server, for ye failed thy Olde English Grammar and thy Meta, which is The Word. The End."
16:49
I should ping @Sterno (hmm, no autocomplete... is he also @ReginoldS.Terno?) on that last image.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I believe so.
Someone on Facebook has implied that what Adrian Peterson did was worse than what Ray Rice did and I'm afraid to find out if they're serious. ...So I'm just going to shut down the internet instead, we had a good run everyone golf claps
@badp Ah, yeah. PvE is for friends, not for rando's
@Ktash Playing with friends? What do you think, that friends list on Steam are to hold people to play with?!
because they're not in my experience :P
@TimStone Why must we measure the comparative value of violent abuse. :(
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16:53
@TimStone Everything is terrible, basically. (Had a guy going on about both in detail in my work chat, spamming the chat over and over and over.)
@TimStone It's been an honor serving with you.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I don't know. :(
@OrigamiRobot salutes
don't cry don't cry don't cry don't cry don't cry don't cry
@AshleyNunn Well, except for that solar flare not plunging the world into darkness and chaos. I guess that's not terrible.
@badp I currently have 3 people on my friends list. One doesn't use steam, and the others are @AshleyNunn and @spugsley. So nope
user15026
16:54
@TimStone There is that at least.
This is pretty much how I feel a lot these days.
HALLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@LessPop_MoreFizz Yes
@Ktash :O it's like you summoned me
@spugsley WEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
16:56
@spugsley Wait, I have that power?!?!
@TimStone 48 days!
@TimStone Ween? :O
thinks really hard about you being here -_-*
@Ktash :OOOO
24 secs ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz
@TimStone 48 days!
16:57
@spugsley Mediocre art rock band with a scatological lyrical bent.
@spugsley It didn't work :( :( :(
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@LessPop_MoreFizz Between work being, well, stick a bunch of sports bettors in a box..., and the world being itself, yeah. That.
@Ktash booo :(
@spugsley I know :(
and I have waffles
and whip cream and strawberries
user15026
@Ktash I like the way it looks around being like "no one saw that, right?"
16:59
That is what the internet is really for. Anything else is an illusion
perpetrated by the Illuminati meant to throw us off of the scent of truly great cat.gifs
>.>
Also, I always relax with my snow. Calms everything down
user15026
Oh yay my tea is readyyyyy. That will make things more awesome
@Ktash .....oh....oh.....;o
@spugsley I don't know if your head is now in the same place as mine. But if it is, I like the way you think
@Ktash baww this looks like a kitty version of my cat and it make squeee
17:16
@LessPop_MoreFizz How else are we going to make the relevant Top 11 list
> 1. This guy 2. This guy 3. This guy 4. This guy 5. This guy 6. This guy 7. This guy 8. This guy 9. This guy 10. This guy 11. This guy
You can write the article but you still need pics.
Looks about right
Yep
Very well done visualization though
Trawling through the map is super intersting
@badp I find it interesting that we are transitively allied with most of the players, including the Taliban by 3 hops
@murgatroid99 In other words, you never really were on our side fade away
Also, by 11 hops, we are allied with both Iran and Russia
Wait, less than that
17:32
@badp The small image here could have fooled me. If you said it was the geopolitical situation around June 1914, I wouldn't have any reason to doubt your words until I looked at the names.
@MartinSojka shhhhhh
Here, have June 1914
does that make you feel better? no it doesn't. oh well.
I know, I subscribe to them already. :)
@badp Yeaaah Extra History!
And this was published yesterday:
it almost seems like we're rehearsing for practice
It always amazes me how utterly random the archduke's death was. If it was in a game or book, most writers wouldn't be able to pull it off convincingly enough.
18:01
Does anybody here like open-world puzzle games?
18:13
ffs, Mindcrack marathon having issues, and people are whining that their donation incentive isn't working. I hate people.
@GnomeSlice How would that work?
@Unionhawk Where do the donations go?
@OrigamiRobot ExtraLife
@MartinSojka Run around the world, solve puzzles to progress to new areas and get stuff
Is that a charity?
18:22
Yes.
"Ugh, my money is only going to charity? This is the worst."
People who donate $10 get access to a special spectator mode, to see the UHC action in-game.
But the mirror servers are not working
And people are like "I didn't donate for things to not work!"
I hate people.
"I need something in return for giving money to the less fortunate!"
Well, they would have a point if their money didn't go to charity ...
18:25
But their money is going to charity, so they don't have a point.
@Unionhawk If you're giving money for something in return, that's called a purchase. It's not surprising that people complain when they don't get what they purchased.
@murgatroid99 No. Fucking no. A donation bonus is not a purchase.
@Unionhawk why?
Exchanging money for goods and/or services has all of the trapping of a purchase
Because at the core of it, it's a donation.
The money goes to charity
18:29
@murgatroid99 The people complaining are the ones calling it a donation.
@OrigamiRobot And I'm saying that those are not mutually exclusive.
If you pay money with the promise of getting something in return, it's not entitlement or something to expect to get what you were promised
No, the people complaining are the ones on the side of "I MADE A PURCHASE DAMMIT" ignoring the fact that their money goes to charity. And I'm saying that 1. Those people are dicks and 2. They've missed the point.
If you are more than slightly concerned about donation incentives, you have fucking missed the point of donating.
@Unionhawk If I buy something from Goodwill, should I expect to get nothing because the money goes to charity?
@murgatroid99 That's not what goodwill is for.
Goodwill is about creating jobs.
Not saying that discredits the point you're trying to make, just not the best example.
@OrigamiRobot Fine, ReStore. The proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity
Should I not expect a fair exchange of money for goods because the money goes to charity?
18:34
If you're going to give to charity, I don't think you should expect anything in return.
It makes me sad that people need incentives.
@OrigamiRobot If you're promised something in return, it's not giving, it's buying.
It's the people making the profit on that transaction who are giving
I just got pre-approved for an $800 loan! With a 349% interest rate! What an offer!
So Warframe seems pretty rad
@murgatroid99 Then what I said doesn't apply.
Might be more than my laptop can run but meh
18:38
before you ask
@OrigamiRobot I think it's not so much about the fact that people "need" incentives as the fact that incentives will inevitably bring more income
@murgatroid99 I don't see how I should feel better about that.
@OrigamiRobot And, with a large number of charities to choose from, incentives are a way to draw income to yours as opposed to others
I think donation and purchase are mutually exclusive concepts.
58 secs ago, by Origami Robot
@murgatroid99 I don't see how I should feel better about that.
@OrigamiRobot OK, then I don't see why you're criticizing people for complaining when they paid for something and didn't get it
18:41
@murgatroid99 My only problem was them complaining when I thought they were calling it a donation.
Which is apparently not the case.
@OrigamiRobot I too wish we could live in a communist utopia where everyone freely gave all of their extra money to those in need
@OrigamiRobot Do the semantics really matter? They were promised something, and they didn't get it
I'm saying that this is a charity marathon, the promise was a spectator mode using code being used for the first time on a large scale built from the ground up. They are having technical issues with it. Some people who donated are complaining that it doesn't work. I am saying that these people have, indeed, missed the point, because they can still watch on the stream.
@murgatroid99 I'm saying when you are promised something in return, I don't think that's a donation.
They are working on it, as well.
If you give money in exchange for getting a thing, that's a purchase and you can complain all you want. If you are donating money, pretty much the only time you can complain is if the money doesn't go where you were lead to believe it was going.
If I buy a thing for $100 and the profits are going to charity, I'm not going to claim $100 on my taxes went to charity. Like you said, the people who would have profited are the ones giving, not me.
18:50
And I'm saying that people who are phrasing it as a "waste of $10" have missed the point of a charity marathon.
@OrigamiRobot Right, the tax thing. As I understand, when you report that stuff you have to subtract the retail value of goods you received.
@Unionhawk Yes, calling it a waste is quite rude.
Someone needs to convince me to put pants on and do things today.
I don't even need a thing to do, I already have that.
@OrigamiRobot I'll donate $100 to the charity of your choice if you do it
Now I want to do it less to "prove" a point!
And in doing so, I would be contributing to the charity losing a potential $100.
So now you've just made me a worse person too!
@OrigamiRobot Or you could just do it, and a charity will get $100
@OrigamiRobot I'm proving my point. Before this, I had no reason to randomly throw some money at charity. But now I do, probably
19:04
Oh, maybe I can spin this in my favor.
I am a hero for getting you to give to charity, but you are a bad person for needing incentive.
That ought to do nicely!
GO ME!
@OrigamiRobot I didn't say I needed incentive. I was the one who offered, wasn't I?
Shhhhhhhh, let me have this.
In other news, I have now used 20 of the 26 dishwasher capsule thingies that I bought 13 months ago.
cc @FAE
@OrigamiRobot So are you going to do it, or not?
@murgatroid99 Eventually
I have to brush my teeth first too
And take apart these nerf guns.
Painting them is the thing I previously referred to.
@OrigamiRobot Well, when you do, tell me who you choose
19:07
> I'm asking for a refund!
^ That's what I'm talking about
You donated to a charity marathon.
Sir.
@murgatroid99 I choose the best one.
Whichever one that is.
@OrigamiRobot This doesn't really work unless you pick a charity.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing, but mean your mother. — SrJoven 2 days ago
I laughed.
@Arperum That joke is really old
@murgatroid99 Probably. I still laughed.
19:20
@Arperum I can't even figure out how old because it's the name of a book about puns
19:36
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Q: How do i unflood my house on minecraft

MiaI kinda sorta flooded my house on minecraft and i kinda sorta want to know how i fix this. Urgent help me fix this quick!

drying is the worst part of painting
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Q: Minecraft won't load Forge Profile/Forge version 1.7.10

SikareI've had this problem for a while. I try to use the Forge profile so I can play MC with 2 mods that are Forge-compatible, but that doesn't happen. The Minecraft Launcher loads up the profile quick after clicking "Play" but after a few seconds, the "Play" button unlocks itself from being blocked (...

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Q: Can I force the minions to attack me, when no enemy chamion is around?

Philipp SanderI know that you can get minion "aggro" when you attack an enemy champion or when nothing else is around. But how do I force them to attack me, when no enemy champion is around?

20:01
color test
user15026
@OrigamiRobot Oh, that looks nice
20:17
@AshleyNunn wish i had more wood grain vinyl
user15026
It looks really good :)
blegh the top rail is hard to see
stupid metallic paint!
I also scratched the cylinder.
The vinyl might not work out :(
user15026
20:33
Oh? why not?
@AshleyNunn The corners make sharp points. That's what the scratch is from
So, anyway, why aren't guns paintable in TF2?
We know it's possible as Valve screwed up and accidentally made the Cow Mangler 5000 paintable for a short time after it was released
@Powerlord Reasons. And raisins.
Not sure why I stopped by since I'm going to go out to dinner in a few... well, other than to tell this anecdote.
I think I'm going to go watch Guardians again later this afternoon.
20:41
I'm so used to grabbing my work ID when I grab my phone and keys that I was clipping it on my belt before realizing I wasn't going to need it for dinner...
Also, Rainbow Rocks apparently comes out in 2 weeks.
Oh well, normal brown paint it is :/
20:57
Does anybody here like open world puzzle games?
@GnomeSlice Do you have examples?
have you guys seriously not heard of this
Holy crap that just went down.
I haven't. Not really. Most of the puzzlers I play are pretty linear, even if the puzzle solving itself isn't
Huh.
Well I have a copy of the excellent Full Bore to give away if anybody is interested.
21:03
@GnomeSlice This trailer makes no sense.
Which part?
The whole part.
Do you know a good LP for it
I don't get what's confusing you
@OrigamiRobot No, I don't really watch those
doesn't that kind of ruin the puzzles anyway?
@GnomeSlice Everything that is happening.
@GnomeSlice I'm trying to figure out what the game is even about.
21:18
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Q: Age of Empires 2 Zoom

МикроПингвинWhy was zoom not implemented in Age of Empires 2? Was this because of technicalities or style of gameplay? I read somewhere that Age of Empires utilizes an isometric tileset and the engine doesn't support zoom. Is this true?

Gotta go to work
21:36
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Q: How to do basic Civilization V operations with keyboard only in, even just moving

PaulI play Civ V on my Mac in my rare free time but I'd like to reduce my mouse use. I have found numerous charts with keyboard shortcuts for exotic actions, but cannot find anything on how to do many basic actions. For example, the key for move is M. So if I press M, I can use the arrow keys to s...

22:09
I see La Mulana is on sale in GOG's Indie game sale (not the year 6 sale)
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Q: Why can't I place some downloaded rooms on the lot?

Thomas OwensI downloaded some rooms from the Community. When I go to place them in the lot, they just don't show up. There's no indication as to why this is happening. I have sufficient funds and there's no error message. What would be causing ths?

22:36
The black bun doesn't really bother me. That 'cheese' on the other hand, looks gross.
user15026
The black bun they've done before but the cheese just looks horrific
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Q: When is the maintenance available?

ScribblenauticalI was playing Pixel People and I pressed the Arrival Center to splice a new clone. Then, I see the word maintenance on the bottom. After pressing maintenance, I am greeted by another screen with repair on it. Then, I pressed repair and it told me that all systems were functional. Is there a time ...

anyone know if there's an easy way to lock mouse cursor to a single monitor in a multiple monitor setup in windows?
@Chippies Why? For a game?
@Ktash yeah
I wanna watch a show while I play a game
Hold on, there is, just have to find it. I used to use it for WC3
and the mouse doesn't lock to the game and it loses focus if I accidentally click in 2nd monitor area
23:07
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A: When "extending" my desktop across multiple monitors, how can I limit my mouse to one monitor when playing full-screen?

WikwocketHere are some more mouse-trap applications, like CSMMT which Shaun's answer mentioned, that trap your mouse cursor in one screen of a multi-monitor setup: MouseTrap MouseJail MurGeeMon (supports Lock Mouse Cursor On a Monitor) Script for AutoHotkey I can't vouch for any of these, but you can ...

@Ktash thanks, I'll look into that
Not the stuff I used, but I used mine back in the WC3 hayday, so I don't know if it is still around and still works
okay, the MouseTrap.exe doesn't seem to work, gonna try the others...
Holy shit, watching people try to narrate the sims 4 (like, narrate what the sims are trying to say) is hilarious
@LessPop_MoreFizz glhf
also:
@user568458 the Android app is currently mid-way through a tablet UI refresh too. It'll look drastically different on a tablet soon (right now it's just a blown up version of the phone's UI) -- but not exactly like the iPad app. — Kasra Rahjerdi ♦ yesterday
23:31
I honestly didn't think I'd enjoy a Sims 4 let's play this much holy crap
@Chippies Apps running in real full screen mode (and not faking it using windowed mode set to the screen size) do this automatically.
@Unionhawk link?
One of these things is not like the others...
23:50
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Q: Where can I get easy double kills with the Fusion Rifle?

SeanI have a Vanguard bounty ("Overcharge") to "kill 2 enemies at once with a Fusion Rifle, 20 times". I've tried cornering enemies to get the double kill, but it doesn't seem to count. Is there an area or technique that is most efficient for completing this bounty?

@Powerlord The bunny?
@3ventic Thanks, I had no idea
lol
I just wanted to draw a red freehand circle :(
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