The Bridge

John

00:06

Wow @Mana you have an enemy already...

@ArdaXi Yesterday you hated Ruby. What happened?

Speaking of @ArdaXi, why did he make a room for himself?

Yes! Chat says I have >10K! :D Now someone flag someone so I can see what happens. :P

badp

@Mana Renamed the user back

John

@badp Mods can do that? Very cool yet kinda scary...

badp

@John Yes we can™

Mana

@KevinY No, I didn't

Lazers

0

Q: Name of top-down space shooter for consoles

I'm looking for the name of an old console game that I played years ago with a friend. It was NES, SNES, or Genesis (I honestly can't remember which) Supported 2P versus mode In versus, each player picked a ship to pilot (like your standard arena fighter games) One of the ships you could play w...

Tim Stone

00:22

@badp I always suspected that you were secretly Bob the Builder.

John

@Lazers I can answer that question but my internet won't let me!

:(

Wipqozn

00:39

@Lazers my word. I'm using a close vote on that. Very vague, with generic information.

Also, The Emperor's Club is such a wonderful movie.

Kevin Y

@Mana It was quite offensive. ._.

Mana

heh

Wipqozn

@KevinY What answer was this?

Nick T

01:10

so am I alone in that gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/29051/… is bad form?

why not just lmgtfy.com/?q=portal+easter+eggs

John

@NickT I can't tell. It won't load.

Nick T

what wont

John

Ah there we go.

@NickT I've having DHCP problems. My internet is very finnicky right now.

Nick T

fun

John

@NickT Tell me about it. One second I can't ping any computer on my network, the next it's working fine.

Nick T

01:12

DHCP or DNS?

John

@NickT No you're not alone. I agree that is a useless "answer".

@NickT Chrome says DNS, but since I'm on LAN and recently had some DHCP trouble and had the DHCP machine changed, I strongly suspect DHCP.

Nick T

Isn't DHCP just one and done?

I don't know much about networks

Wipqozn

@NickT -1. Not an acceptable answer at all.

Leaving a comment now.

John

@NickT The way I understand it, DHCP is the LAN form of DNS.

Nick T

AFAIK, DHCP hands out IP addresses, DNS resolves names (e.g. google.com) to IP addresses

John

01:17

@NickT Yes, but if DHCP fails (therefore no IPs), DNS has nothing to resolve so also fails.

Kevin Y

@Wipqozn It's not an answer anymore; now it's a comment on this other answer of his.

Wipqozn

@KevinY

> Censors like mana are the ones that ofend people

That was an answer he posted?

Nick T

@Mana DON'T CENSOR ME BRO

Wipqozn

@NickT CENSOR ALL THE THINGS

Lazers

1

Q: How Does the Fable 3 co-op chat work?

I've been playing some Fable 3 co-op, and I can't figure it out! How can I chat with my co-op partner?

pc fable-3

0

Q: Anyone else disappointed at the sound of the first Deux Ex: HR DLC?

It's call the Missing Link and it's about what happened to Jensen during the 3 days he was missing while aboard the ship ride to Shanghai. He's captured by Bell Tower security, beaten up, and all his mods are disabled. After that, he gets to wander around the ship trying to escape, or as we know:...

spoiler story

John

01:20

@Wipqozn -1 not enough exclamation marks.

Nick T

@John -1 NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL

John

@NickT IS THIS BETTER!!!!????!!!!???1111ONE

Nick T

don't berate my downvoting squad

John

@NickT Hey, I agreed with you, remember?

Nick T

Lets see how much we can drop Mana's reps, go

:P

John

01:22

Haha it wouldn't matter anyway. Mana has all power.

......scary.

Nick T

$/TeX$

:(

Wipqozn

Personally, I think @Mana has become completely corrupt with his new found power.

John

With 89 questions, each of us could inflict 178 rep worth of damage.

@NickT What's so sad about that?

Nick T

I have cos(x)**2 + sin(x)**2 and that should be 0...

but it's 1

:\

John

@NickT from __future__ import division :)

Nick T

01:26

OH GOD WHAT ARE THOSE DOUBLE UNDERSCORES

John

@NickT That's the name of the module......

Wipqozn

@NickT What does the ** stand for?

John

It's a built-in Python module.

Nick T

^

John

@Wipqozn Typically it's the power operator.

Nick T

01:26

@John you weren't here for the Ruby stuff?

John

@NickT Um.....no.

Nick T

4 hours ago, by Nick T

@ThomasMcDonald OH GOD PYTHON IS SO UGLY 15:00

Wipqozn

@John Interesting. Was unaware of that. The few languages I've used powers in, there was a function for doing so, not an operator.

Nick T

4 hours ago, by Thomas McDonald

found the video

^ from that video

John

@Wipqozn I don't know why, but some languages have both. Python, for one.

@NickT -1 NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL

Nick T

01:28

^ is usually XOR

in C, Python...

Wipqozn

Isn't || normally XOR?

John

@NickT I might have watched that, but it's over an hour.

Nick T

@John or do you mean python has a pow()

Wipqozn

Oh wait

nevemrind

Nick T

|| is logical inclusive OR

John

01:29

@Wipqozn I thought that was just OR...

Wipqozn

was thinking of OR

@John yeah, realized that after I sent it

John

@NickT Python has both Math.pow() and a power operator.

Nick T

ah

Google supports ** though [example](http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcos(0.4)**2%2520%2B%2520sin(‌0.4)**2)

meh

John

@NickT Google supports everything.

Nick T

god, eff the markdown parser

@JeffAtwood fails

http://www.google.com/search?q=cos(0.4)**2%20+%20sin(0.4)**2

oh wait, it was supposed to be 1

oops

John

01:34

@NickT Or for a simpler example

Nick T

exp(jx)exp(-jx) = 1

John

@NickT Wait so you had it right all along?

Nick T

How's that an example, that's just 82

HAHA MARKDOWN > YOU

John

@NickT Simpler example of Google supporting ** obviously. ;D

Nick T

FOILED AGAIN

there's no ** in that

John

01:35

-_-

THERE WAS BEFORE I HIT ENTER!!

example

Nick T

fail

stop failing

John

The chat is filtering out my **.

I put 8**2 and chat puts 82

8**2

example

Seriously view edit history on my most recent example and you will see.

GnomeSlice

@wipqozn Up for a game or two?

Nick T

what gaem

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice I was actually just heading off to bed.

Nick T

01:38

y u no invite meh :(

Wipqozn

@NickT Frozen Synapse.

GnomeSlice

@NickT Frozen Synapse.

@Wipqozn No worries, have a good one.

John

Whoa....reality is a lie

3

Nick T

don't have that game, must be terrible

John

@Wipqozn Good night.

Wipqozn

01:41

@John Gosh darn ya, now I need to read this before I leave :/

John

@Wipqozn Heh heh sorry about that. :P

GnomeSlice

Since movement is not possible in a single instant of time, movement is not possible in ANY instant of time. Hence, it is physically impossible to make Scrooge advance even a single pixel.

Wipqozn

This really gets my nerd on.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Don't say it like that again.

Nick T

@John Reminds me of the speed-runs of Mirrors Edge where they race Jackknife

Wipqozn

01:43

I really wish I had my old physics teacher e-mail. He would really enjoy this, giving what it is obviously a parody of.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Which is?

John

@NickT Youtubing that now. Kinda intense.

Wipqozn

Zeno's paradoxes

Zeno's paradoxes are a set of problems generally thought to have been devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides's doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion. It is usually assumed, based on Plato's Parmenides 128c-d, that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradoxes because other philosophers had created paradoxes against Parmenides's view. Thus Zeno can be interpreted as saying that to assume there is plurality is even more absurd than ...

Nick T

It also reminds me of day 1 in P-chem where we're describing models for atoms and the initial argument against a model was like: electrons that accelerate give off energy (synchrotron light), so if they orbit the atom they'll constantly give off energy and will ultimately collapse. Therefore, atoms cannot exist.

but they obviously do

Kevin Y

@Wipqozn That's what he changed it to.

(Hooray for late replies!)

Nick T

01:47

Mirror's Edge is probably one of the prettiest games to watch speedruns in

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though I've played it so I know what's going on generally

Wipqozn

Okay, well I am now off. Night all.

John

@Wipqozn Good night. (Again. :P)

@NickT hyperventilates

GnomeSlice

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John

02:14

Well it's curtains for me. Good night all.

Lazers

02:42

0

Q: Deus Ex: Human Revolution tie in to Deus Ex

At the end of Deus EX Human Revolution and after the credits there is a goodie with some dialog that ties Human Revolution to the original Deus Ex, which is then followed by the Human Revolution title accompanied by the original Deus Ex title music. Is this simply an easter egg for those of us t...

deus-ex-human-revolution deus-ex

Nick T

03:07

Are questions like this deleted eventually?

-4

Q: Anyone else disappointed at the sound of the first Deux Ex: HR DLC?

It's call the Missing Link and it's about what happened to Jensen during the 3 days he was missing while aboard the ship ride to Shanghai. He's captured by Bell Tower security, beaten up, and all his mods are disabled. After that, he gets to wander around the ship trying to escape, or as we know:...

spoiler story

I don't get the argument "keep these questions as an example of what not to do" when if someone googles something like that it brings them here. That sends the wrong message. (And there's probably only a 20% chance that some random internet person would understand what the closed thing is about)

Tim Stone

In that post's case, the system will kill it after 30 days if no one does it manually.

Nick T

@TimStone what's the threshold for auto-delete

Lazers

03:22

0

Q: Do I need to have play to Myst for playing Riven?

Hmmm I need to enter more than 30 caracters and I wanted to write that title says everyting :-) I've finished Myst 15 years ago and I'm now ready for Riven. Do I need to remember the story of Myst of both games are independants ?

myst riven

Tim Stone

19

A: What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean?

How can a post be deleted? You can delete your own posts unless it falls into one of the exceptions below. Moderators can delete any post. Users with a reputation >= 10K can vote to delete a question after it has been closed for 48 hours. At >= 20K, users can vote to delete as soon as it is clo...

(the criteria are kind of lengthy, so linking was easier, heh. See the last two bullets in the first section)

Mana

03:44

NAMIR. DIE ALREADY. GEEZ.

Tim Stone

LAZER HIS ASS

Also, I always knew it was a bad idea to get surgery performed in mainland China. WHY DIDN'T I REMEMBER?

Mana

Oh my god, he died. HE DIED I WON

I BEAT HIM TIM WITH MY 10MM PISTOL

Tim Stone

<3 10mm pistol

It was the only weapon I made an effort to upgrade, heh, even though I was trying to be relatively non-lethal.

Nick T

can you pistol whip people?

Tim Stone

I don't think so, but you can bury an armour-piercing round into the base of their skull from the shadows.

Nick T

03:50

:P

Lazers

04:24

1

Q: Will leaves decay from trees we "make"?

Will the leaves of the tree i plant artificially (leave surrounding a wood Block that is put by me) decay away?

minecraft

0

Q: Server commands on Minecraft usernames with spaces

I am running a Minecraft dedicated server with about five players on it. One of my friends has a space in his Minecraft usernames, and this seems to break commands like give and tp. Is there a way to get around this?

minecraft dedicated-server space

Nick T

05:11

http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/champion/lux-62

lets say I wanted to just look at Garen builds

what, oh what, would I change it to

GUESS A FRIGGIN NUMBER

Stack Exchange

06:40

0

Q: How to fix Opening game with wine access violation problem

I have problem on laptop, when i try to open game with wine, i get access violation error etc..

wine game

0

Q: OpenGL ES 2.0 and games

I tried installing Angry Birds but found that it throws an error: "OpenGL ES not detected." I have a relatively old PC configuration here: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHZ 1GB DDR RAM 56MB onboard graphics card. Is it possible to run OpenGL ES 2.0 on this machine? Do I have to update my computer or ...

gaming opengl

badp

@NickT 42

badp

07:04

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Lazers

0

Q: Help Identify: Mid-90's Flight/Action Game

I remember this game being out some time around 1996 or so, maybe earlier. You flew around a futuristic planetary environment, and had to remain close to these energy towers. Part of the game included improving your drive so that you could fly farther from the towers (the towers power your craft,...

identify-this-game old-games retro-gaming 90s flying

Arda Xi

Those joke references in Picus in DX:HR were kind of lame though.

There's lots of references though.

user30

08:33

user30

yay

user30

@badp hahahahah.

user30

that was surprisingly good.

FallenAngelEyes

08:55

Morning all

Lazers

09:47

0

Q: Handheld dilemma.

I'm looking into getting my 7 year old kid a handheld game device, there seems to be numerous versions out there and I'm not sure where to start in researching these. She loves Star Wars, so it will have to have that game(s). I've seen several version of Nintendo's DS and a Sony PSP at a local ...

ds psp comparison handheld

LessPop_MoreFizz

09:57

Ugggggghhhhhhhh airports.

FallenAngelEyes

10:08

Heya @Less. Where are you stuck?

badp

10:23

@LessPop_MoreFizz Could be worse. Could be in Italy (today is a strike day)

Mana

10:48

0

Q: Handheld dilemma.

I'm looking into getting my 7 year old kid a handheld game device, there seems to be numerous versions out there and I'm not sure where to start in researching these. She loves Star Wars, so it will have to have that game(s). I've seen several version of Nintendo's DS and a Sony PSP at a local ...

ds psp comparison handheld

Any way to salvage this?

badp

@Mana I was going to comment and close, then the comment got real long and I answered instead

Can you ever forgive me

Ronan Forman

So what's everyone think of the 1.8 trailer?

badp

the 1.7 trailer was better

Ronan Forman

Yeah, because it had more hatters in it.

LessPop_MoreFizz

11:03

@Fallen: was home in NYC for the holiday weekend. Am now en route to Seattle.

FallenAngelEyes

I forgot I had my volume turned way up to listen to a low volume youtube vid and the highlight noise just gave me a heart attack

Are you in JFK then?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Indeed! (though that statement only has a 1 in 3 chance of being right, as you well know.

FallenAngelEyes

I hate flying through there

LessPop_MoreFizz

The new delta terminal at JFK isn't bad. There are iPads built into counters all over the place for free use.

FallenAngelEyes

Long tarmac waits suck

Wow, fancy

LessPop_MoreFizz

11:06

JFK is the least objectionable NY airport.

FallenAngelEyes

I've never been to La Guardia

Just JFK and Newark

LessPop_MoreFizz

Well, if you fly JetBlue or Delta anyway.

LGA is a shithole.

FallenAngelEyes

I don't hit up Delta very often

and JetBlue doesn't do international iirc

or if it does, it's never in my price range

LessPop_MoreFizz

And EWR is a shithole unless you fly Con-nited

FallenAngelEyes

Yeah, I usually fly Continental or United through there

LessPop_MoreFizz

11:08

JetBlue dies international, but I don't think transatlantic.

FallenAngelEyes

Ah gotcha

EWR has some seriously ghetto areas in that place

LessPop_MoreFizz

I like delta because they don't charge me for an exit row. Everyone else does. :(

FallenAngelEyes

That sucks

LessPop_MoreFizz

Newark is a Shithole of a city. Why expect the airport to be an improvement?

FallenAngelEyes

Haha

I've been to New Jersey at all really

just in the airport

Mana

11:10

@badp No

FallenAngelEyes

other than like taking a bus through a little bit from my parents' place to NYC or something

Mana

Also peace, heading to Torontoooooo

badp

@Mana Then I won't try

FallenAngelEyes

cool Mana, how come?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@mana wow. Bro. We are like, going to pass each other in mid-air.

Sky-five.

3

FallenAngelEyes

11:11

lol

LessPop_MoreFizz

To reiterate, uuuuuugghhhhhh airports.

FallenAngelEyes

Agreed

Spelling fail

LessPop_MoreFizz

Also, uuuugggghhhh airplanes. Middle seat fail. I hate booking last minute like this. :(

Ronan Forman

Why are you flying?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Because I need to be in Seattle. And I am in NYC. There is no faster way between the two.

Ronan Forman

11:25

Why do you need to be in Seattle?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Work.

FallenAngelEyes

I hate middle seating

I'm a window person, m'self

I like to be able to just plop myself there and go to sleep and not have to worry about waking to let others out

How long is the flight from NYC to Seattle anyway?

LessPop_MoreFizz

6 hrs.

FallenAngelEyes

so about the same as the fastest flights from NYC to AMS

LessPop_MoreFizz

Score, empty exit row aisle seat with an empty middle next to it in the row ahead of me. Yaaaay.

FallenAngelEyes

11:40

So you're actually on the plane now?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Airplane mode time. Back when the wifi kicks in. Later.

FallenAngelEyes

Later!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fallen: yeah, taxiing.

FallenAngelEyes

lacking a smartphone and the ability to take flights with wifi, I'm still always kind of amazed at how connected we can stay nowadays

Agh, my American friends can play Dead Island already :(

I wonder when @BrettWhite's getting the gifted Steam versions out. Has anyone received theirs yet?

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:17

@FallenAngelEyes l2VPN.

also, Internet in the sky is fucking magic.

FallenAngelEyes

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm pretty sure that won't help with Steam's built in region lockouts

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FallenAngelEyes Umm... yes it will, people do it all the time.

FallenAngelEyes

Well either way I can't because I don't have the game yet :P

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FallenAngelEyes Different problem!

FallenAngelEyes

Ergh I need to clean up my HD

over half a TB worth of crap in my Games directory

Ronan Forman

12:22

Isn't the abbreviation HDD?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@RonanForman Maybe she needs to clean her television set.

@RonanForman Or her motorcycle.

Ronan Forman

@LessPop_MoreFizz ??

oh.

FallenAngelEyes

lol

Wipqozn

12:37

my word. It's just a little bit past 9:30am. I can't believe I woke up so late.

Ronan Forman

Late? That's early by my standards

FallenAngelEyes

morning @Wipqozn

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn 9:30 AM. Are you in far eastern canuckistan?

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz Nova Scotia to be exact.

@RonanForman It used to be for me as well, but things change.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn Yup, figured.

Wipqozn

12:41

When you get older Ronan, old like me.. things change...

LessPop_MoreFizz

@RonanForman Yeah, enjoy that while it lasts.

I woke up at 4:30 this morning. :/

Wipqozn

I could tell you some stories though @RonanForman, of days in my youth. Oh my the times I had.

Ronan Forman

I've got another week until college starts

Wipqozn

@RonanForman First year?

Ronan Forman

Yup, but English college, so it's 16-18

Wipqozn

12:43

Oh wow. Quite a bit different from Canada. High SChool goes till age 18 for us.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn Brits are weird like that.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz Then I assume you're even older then I.

I assume you live in Florida too, and pretend it isn't hot.

Ronan Forman

Education in England

Education in England is overseen by the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. At local level, local authorities (LAs) take responsibility for implementing policy for public education and state schools. Full-time education is compulsory for all children aged between 5 and 16. Students may then continue their secondary studies for a further two years (sixth form), leading most typically to an A-level qualification, although other qualifications and courses exist, including Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) qualifications, the Interna...

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn I do not live in Florida, I live in New York City. Florida is hot as balls and I loathe it.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz So you're not that old then.

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:45

(Also, the swamp gas there makes people crazy if my relatives in Fla are any indication.)

Wipqozn

Old people like the heat you see, and all move to Florida.

LessPop_MoreFizz

As to whether I am older than you... I don't know. I know I'm among the older Gaming.SE users, much to my dismay, seeing as I am still under 30.

Wipqozn

I'm forced to agree though, I hate the heat. That's why I like Canada, you don't get too many hot days.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn I like having four seasons. New York has four seasons. It's quite nice.

Sad that I'm missing 90% of September in NY, it's kind of my favorite month weather wise.

Wipqozn

October is my favorite month. It's nice and cool, there are very little insects, no snow, and little rain.

user30

12:48

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FallenAngelEyes

@LessPop_MoreFizz I agree. I hate not having four seasons.

user30

I know you were discussing it earlier, but a link for the lazy.

user30

@Ronan You lucky git, we go back tomorrow

Ronan Forman

The year 13's do, they need an extra week for some reason

user30

chasms look decent

Ronan Forman

12:49

I just realised, when I went in last week, only have the school was there, and there were so many people

It didn't occur to me that a whole year was missing

Wipqozn

I return to my university schoolings on Thursday.

Ronan Forman

Wait university? I thought it was called college over there...

Wipqozn

We have both.

user30

that's ridiculous

Ronan Forman

okay...

FallenAngelEyes

12:51

@Ronan Canadians use the terms "college/university" more closely to how the Brits do

In America, college is used interchangeably for university

not so much in Canada

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes Depends on your region too.

I know Quebec does it slightly different then the rest of Canada.

FallenAngelEyes

@Wipqozn That applies to like everything in Quebec :P

Wipqozn

THose crazy Quebecers.

Ronan Forman

:1860072

Dave McClelland

@FallenAngelEyes Colloquially, this is usually true. I know schools in the US that call themselves universities because they're made up of multiple different colleges (each focusing on different areas of study)

Ronan Forman

12:55

@FallenAngelEyes What happened to:

12 mins ago, by Wipqozn

Oh wow. Quite a bit different from Canada. High SChool goes till age 18 for us.

Wipqozn

> . Generally speaking, universities grant degrees (e.g., bachelor's, master's or doctorate degrees) while colleges, which typically offer vocationally-oriented programs, grant diplomas and certificates

> Post-secondary education in Quebec begins with college following graduation from Grade 11 (or Secondary V). Students complete a two- or three-year general program leading to admission to a university, or a professional program leading directly into the labour force.

FallenAngelEyes

@DaveMcClelland True, but the average person will usually use them interchangeably

Dave McClelland

@FallenAngelEyes Yes, that's definitely true. Formally, though, there is sometimes a distinction

Wipqozn

From wikipedia of course. Does such an excellent job of summarizing things.

FallenAngelEyes

@Wipqozn From what I understand, Canadian colleges are kind of like American community colleges

Wipqozn

12:57

@FallenAngelEyes We have community colleges too.

We have colleges, community college, and University.

For the most part though, colleges tend to be focused on one field. Like a trade school, or a business school.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn US defines College vs. University differently.

Wipqozn

Community College is more broad, and is tied more closely to the government.

LessPop_MoreFizz

In general, a University grants multiple kinds of degrees. (Undergrad + Graduate, or BS + BA), whereas a College only grants one particular kind of degree. A University will often have 'colleges' as subdivisions thereof.

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