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12:01
@fredley :(
> You need to have a specific problem. You, not anyone else, not an idea you have that could be a problem. It needs to be specific and you need to state your very problem in your question. SE is best at solving actual problems, don't skip that part.
That's requiring everything to be too localized.
@Arperum eh, not really. Think you're just reading too much into it.
We have the same thing, basically, if only unofficially.
It needs to be an actual problem you face, and don't be vague. Give us details.
"I can't beat the game" is not good question
"I can't beat the boss" is better, but not great
@Wipqozn Ah, yea, point made.
"I can't beat the boss because of X" is a great question
Such a good OST
Thanks for updating your post to remove that fourth point. I've seen that misconception from a lot of people, so I just wanted to stop it from spreading further. We might eventually decide all medical questions should be off-topic, but for now, at least, they're on-topic. — Wipqozn 12 secs ago
This is terrible.
I wonder how long it will be until I get the chance to decline a beta mod nomination.
12:36
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Q: When was the Platinum sale on PS4 for Warframe?

Code ClownIs there a history of Platinum sales in the PSN store? As there is no rebate daily reward, when is the best time to buy Platnum?

12:51
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Q: Content ending ? Spacebase-df-9

GEnGErI Know the Game is not finished! But do I miss some content ? My base is huge i have succeeded in all Goals from the game. I survived the Raider attack and now im wondering if there is anything else to do.

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Q: Best adapter for Wii on HDTV

Mathias BoeckxI'm short on inputs for everything but hdmi ports on my tv and my wii gives blurry images on my tv screen. So I decided to buy a hdmi adapter for the wii. I heard there were good and bad editions of it and a quick Google search only led to more doubts, there are so many of those things floatin...

13:24
@KevinvanderVelden some jurisdictions don't have at fault insurance. I don't know how that works in car vs pedestrian
@Unionhawk huh
Kentucky doesn't, for example. Your insurance pays for your car and your expenses.
Most states and I have no clue but I assume Canada have some forms of liability insurance
(that is, the dude who is determined to be responsible for the kablosion is responsible to pay)
Arg why is the cleaning laptop with scuba at +5
Stop
That is not a good idea.
Fucking buy canned air.
There is such thing as a stupid question and that is proof
Wtb 24 rep for the sole purpose of downvoting that question
Gives you 24 negative rep That's rep to right?
Sure close enough m
Now you just need a gold tag badge so you can insta-close it and 20k reps so you can vote to delete right away.
13:39
No fuck that
I've got greater chances of being a mod than doing that
Which sadly isn't a completely inaccurate statement
What? You don't want to gold tag badge for on lifehacking?
If more than one question about it gets asked I will start hunting people down
Fun times getting to work this morning. And the coffee machine is broken. Not the way to start a day.
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Q: How do i kill Ambassador Brenner?

Adrienne Livingstonso im at the part where you are in Ysa, doing the Uprising quest. now i want to kill Brenner but i cant seem to kill her. ive tried again and again to kill her, it will not even hit her. does anyone know what i can do to kill her?

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Q: Possible to kill Astrid without committing crime?

Noctis SkytowerWhen my character killed Grelod the Kind, it was with a crouched sneak attack from behind using a conjured sword in her personal bedroom with the door closed. This did not increment any of my crimes -- assault and murder counters remained at zero. Is it possible to do the same with Astrid in the ...

I feel like I need to acquire a taste for coffee.
13:52
Coffee is tasty
@Yuuki Drink it until you can't stop
Coffee sure does have a taste shudders
It's a great addition to all this sugar.
I like my coffee like I like my double entendres
Coffee is the lifeblood of an engineer
13:53
@OrigamiRobot Heretic. Coffee must be drunk black.
If you're not drinking espresso, you're doing it wrong
I don't see the point in that.
@JasonBerkan Indeed.
@OrigamiRobot Because coffee is delicious, and if you weaken it with sugar/milk you don't get to taste it properly?
If your coffee doesn't taste delicious, you're making it wrong
@JasonBerkan I can't do that. Maybe it's just because I don't drink top quality coffee, but I need some milk to take the edge off the taste.
13:56
Get 100% Arabica, brew it right
If you're not getting a thick full head of crema you're doing it wrong
@MBraedley A little bit of cream/milk is better than sugar, IMO. But I dislike mixing flavours (i.e. bitter + sweet).
There is no bitter when I'm done with it.
If I wanted bitter, I'd just eat baking soda.
@JasonBerkan And I use sugar too, but only one pack. When I'm making it at least. Tim's and McDonald's coffee I take double-double.
@MBraedley One pack*?
@KevinvanderVelden a teaspoon
13:59
I just imagined that in a cup of coffee
I imagine it should at least be drinkable then
Or... chewable maybe
@fredley From Kona.
@KevinvanderVelden That's a waste of sugar :(
Actually, I'll admit to using sugarlumps to soak up espresso, and consuming entire cups with this method
One teaspoon? Does that even change the taste?
@Arperum true, poor sugar =[
Make cookies with it instead!
14:00
Damn, I got 6 upvotes and 3 favorites overnight with this question.
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Q: Ski Jumping Pairs?

YuukiSo I found this game on YouTube and, quite frankly, it's hilarious. It's a game about ski jumping pairs, in the vein of some sort of Olympics-esque competition with some seriously surreal moves. From the videos in the sidebar, I think this might be part of some kind of series? The creator of the ...

I drink my coffee with a little half and half. I skip the sugar because I'm trying to be healthier.
The 3 favorites is what I'm really impressed about.
On a question, no less.
I just pour some sugar in the cup till it looks right.
Then while the coffee cools, i forget about it and waste at least half.
COFFEE MACHINE IS FIXED! I can start working now!
tea > coffee
14:05
Yes, all the this
I started with tea, but it's not working for me.
@Yuuki questions get tons of votes for some reason, even when there's literally no research effort (no offense).
Tea is great because I can still drink it when it's not warm anymore
@StrixVaria The votes I can sorta understand because of that effect, but the favorites?
@StrixVaria they get upvotes when the are done "correctly" because its so rare that we reward those questions more.
14:07
@Yuuki Oh yeah I have no idea about that.
But I have to remember to bring tea whereas coffee is always present at work.
Maybe people who want to play the game or watch the video later?
I guess. The video is pretty hilarious.
There is even less logic to favorites than there is to votes.
This is a thing.
Why is this a thing?
14:09
Pretty sure people think it's a super-upvote
@OrigamiRobot It's a star, that's like five upvote arrows put together.
@Yuuki I can only agree with this, is there also a reddit.com/r/fullmoviemp3s ?
And then you start them at the same time
Is there any way I can remove/rename a file named " " if I only have ftp access to it(I have delete/rename rights)?
deleting via Filezilla results in "501 Invalid number of arguments"
@Arperum Use the delete command with \s instead of just a space?
@Arperum del whothefucknamedafilethis.why
14:13
Not sure if escaping it will work.
@OrigamiRobot itsprobablytheresultofahack.cn
IT WAS THE HACKERS. Always dem damn hackers
I foun this file while cleaning up after a hack.
A lifehack?
14:15
If you are cleaning up after a hack, surely you can get more than FTP access to the server.
cc @SternoI BLAME YOU FOR THIS
@JasonBerkan I do not have more access...
@Wipqozn That's not going to ping him fakeStrix.
Fake Strix?
@OrigamiRobot For some unknown reason @Wipqozn's avatar is linked to Strix in my brain, and I can't unlink it.
@Wipqozn That's more than half the length of my ITG post!
14:17
So everytime he posts something, I think it is Strix posting and I get confused.
That makes no sense.
Your brain is broken.
@Wipqozn for LH mod
Go to the supply cabinet and get a new brain.
I require tales of ToME deaths.
3 hours ago, by Arperum
@KevinvanderVelden 404: Brain not found.
14:18
@Sterno My first character is still alive.
I've only played for 20 minutes, but she is still alive.
@JasonBerkan This happened to me for a long time. Don't trust the sand worms.
@JasonBerkan I read "daughter" for some reason...
@Wipqozn there is something deeply, fundamentally wrong with you.
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@Arperum has spread is brain funk to me!
@StrixVaria I'm completely out of control.
@Sterno I know.
14:20
@Sterno His avatar for a start.
@Rapitor If anyone nominates for me LH mod after I close my post saying I don't think the site can work then I'll be very sad.
@Sterno I only have tales of Elite stupidity
@Wipqozn brb, nominating @Wipqozn.
@Rapitor gimme!
@Yuuki You're a monster. Leave the poor Lifehackers alone.
14:21
Is is better than @Unionhawk trying to take on an Elite Anaconda?
In a practically stock Viper
@OrigamiRobot an NPC sidewinder thought it'd be wise to open fire inside of a starport.
Every time someone says "anaconda", Baby Got Back starts playing in my head.
I thought this was going to be your stupidity.
@OrigamiRobot i dont think anything will top that. unless @uni tries taking on a capital ship next
14:22
@Arperum I don't understand this at all. Our avatrs look nothing alike. Not even a little.
Less interested now
my stupidty is usually getting stuck on things, like entrances to landing pads, or being eaten by stars
yesterday, by Unionhawk
@OrigamiRobot @Yuuki So I'm not ready to fight big ships (blew up at a capital ship, almost got blown up by an anaconda with 70k bounty)
He already did
I spent so much time on that meta post which I should have spent working. This is terrible.
@Wipqozn tldr
14:24
@Wipqozn - segway? Seriously? It's segue. :P
@JasonBerkan well, it wouldn't be me if I didn't make spelling errors.
I'm finally equipped for combat (gimballed cannon on med hardpoint, 2 beam lasers on small hardpoints and an A3 shield). so todays adventures after work will be... interesting
Also, I can't believe I'm bothering to read this.
@Sterno The site is going to attract low quality answers, and is one of the major problems for the site.
@JasonBerkan I can't believe I bothered to write it.
@Wipqozn you should have just said "the site is awful and only awful people like it"
14:26
@Sterno That would just be mean!
you know what we haven't had in a long time? an incremental.
Well, I don't fully agree with you, but I don't care enough to write a response.
@JasonBerkan VICTORY
ToME is best incremental.
Also good, because I don't know if I feel like writing a response to a response right now.
Man, Lifehacks is exhausting.
14:28
@Rapitor No new good ones have been posted to the subreddit for them in a while :(
I really wish HeroVille would update again.
@StrixVaria @fredley needs to make one for us.
Well, for you guys. I'm not not getting sucked into an incremental.
I like the idea of that one a lot, although the specific execution in first few patches was pretty meh.
Incrementals are the worst.
@StrixVaria this mining incremental seems pretty interesting so far
@Rapitor Hadn't seen this one. I saw another mining incremental that was a terrible Clicker Heroes clone and didn't link it here.
14:45
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Q: How to play steam games without launching steam?

EchoFive(This is relevant to OP -- just backstory on why I don't want to use steam) (Another note: This isn't a help request on pirating -- keep reading) I had purchased the Mass Effect trilogy over the holidays with a gamestop gift card I was given, got to play the first two in the series, and then bro...

@Rapitor I got a sapphire with my first click!
Those orcs in the dwarf starter dungeon are not my friends.
@Sterno Man, Gimli, quit dying! Gonna let that pansy elf beat you at killing orcs?
Gimli would be a Bulwark
14:53
@OrigamiRobot yeah i got one really early on too, i think it does that on purpose to get you started. the store in this game is rather dumb. you need a furnace(500k) to smelt, but to use the furnace you need oilpump(100k), but you cant even use the oilpump without piping(5mil).
@Sterno Does he use a shield?
I thought so.
I thought he was a two-handed axe kind of guy.
so you basically need 5.6mil before you can even start doing things
14:53
ROBOTS
@Yuuki That's what I thought.
I guess you're right.
Still, he didn't seem to have the berserker mentality
@Sterno Putting his head down and charging into the middle of enemies isn't a berzerker mentality?
@Lazers 1. I'm pretty sure he's lying about actually owning the games, and 2. Even if he did, any answer would just be "Piracy 101".
In Warhammer fantasy, the dwarf berserkers are crazy dwarves attempting to die to the biggest possible monster, so they mindlessly charge anything big and dangerous.
14:55
@Wipqozn He has a bit of a point with the free games, but you're right about #2. The only real answer we could allow is, "You can't." And that's not very useful at all.
Man, I completely forgot to VTC that.
Oh well, I got a comment with 4 upvotes, that's all that matters.
My current ToME guy hasn't gotten a single escort quest :(
@Yuuki Five
@Rapitor DIamond get
5m
@Wipqozn I know, I can't explain it. It just happens.
14:58
@Arperum Maybe this just means you've lost your mind.
40 mins ago, by Arperum
3 hours ago, by Arperum
@KevinvanderVelden 404: Brain not found.
That doesn't sound like developer intent. THat sounds like unclear what you're asking
@Yuuki Unclear...what @Sterno said.
He's wondering what's in the game that he hasn't done
That's not developer intent.
But it's certainly unanswerable in its current form
15:01
But doesn't tell us what he has done, other than, "Completed all goals".
And shit, @Frank and I just agreed.
Yeha, was just about to say the same.
It's just really poorly written post.
Well, I just voted unclear, but I was the only one.
I misunderstood it at first too.
Uhg, that close reason
15:02
@Sterno Blame @Wipqozn
The only thing I can think of is if by "Goals" he means an actual in-game list of goals.
@Wipqozn probably
In that case, we could answer the question.
If he can clear it up we can reopen.
I guess. But opinion-based is definitely right out.
@Yuuki I could see it, actually.
"Hey, I've done everything! What else can I do?"
15:06
I believe we have questions like that on the site already.
@Wipqozn Some, yes.
I believe there's one for Pokemon X/Y.
But if there is an actual list of in-game goals I could see it making sense.
Honestly, most questions for the dwarf-esque type games I can see working for those questions
@Wipqozn I couldn't see it working for Dwarf Fortress.
Although the answers would basically all be the same. "You set your own goals, here are a few examples to give you ideas".
It's too open ended to be able to provide decent answers.
15:09
@Frank I'm looking at it from the POV of not "Give me some ideas of what to do in this game" and more "What do I even do in this game?". People who aren't used to these no objective just do what you want games will go in having no order what they're suppose to do
The answer is "Do what you want."
They're not great questions, but I do think "What am I supposed to do", in a game without any objetives and is pure do what you want, is a legit question we can answer.
@Wipqozn I understand your viewpoint, and I don't think Arqade is a good place to give primers on games. It's far too broad to really be all that useful.
@Wipqozn And this is one of the main reasons I'm not a fan. This is, in all honestly, a pretty terrible answer.
Hmm... now I'm thinking I shouldn't have VTC'd that question, at least not on the reason I gave.
Choosing the wrong VTC reason is a pretty small thing to concern yourself with.
> Swedes Are Going Nuts For This Kids' Song About Genitals
@Frank Well, yes, because it's lacking in detail. A good answer to that question would be more fleshed out. Something more like "The game is goaless by design. The player is intended to make their own objectives, and their own fun. Some players just have fun trying to make their fortress as large as they can, others try to build a fortress in seeminglly impossible situations, and some people just try to make crazy in-game dwarf powered inventions. [This question](link) is good guide...
...on getting you started building your first fortress. Once you've got those basics down, you should check out the [wiki](link) for more advanced concepts and ideas for wht to do next"
15:15
@StrixVaria I just found a potion in ToME that gives me an extra life. THIS CHARACTER IS GOING PLACES
@Sterno At least one more round!
@Wipqozn Yes, that would be a decent answer to a pretty bad question.
@OrigamiRobot He's already level 12 out of 50. That's practically like beating the game.
@Frank I think it's just another example of <insert relevant @LessPop_MoreFizz meta here>.
@OrigamiRobot nothing can ever beat escaping with 1% hull and a breached canopy.
15:16
@Sterno Do you have to drink it before you die?
@Unionhawk What if it was vs an actual player?
@StrixVaria Yeah. You drink it and next time you die you'll resurrect.
I had to look it up. The flavor text made me think I'd become a vampire or something.
@Sterno Pretty cool.
That means you should just throw yourself at any challenger now. You can't lose.
@OrigamiRobot then my chances of actual escape drop to zero
@Sterno Potion of zombification :D
15:19
I've basically one upped @TimStone by taking longer to figure out what was going on
@StrixVaria I ALREADY DO THAT
I mean, maybe I could have run away from that level 25 venom wyrm that killed me in two rounds. BUT THAT IS NOT THE BERSERKER WAY
@Wipqozn yes i mean the in-game goals list. — GEnGEr 4 mins ago
@Frank I posted that in MH by mistake. Also too lazy to click back over and post this there.
@Wipqozn Yep, saw that.
Is that enough to reopen? Not sure of the content in-game.
@Frank My dad has this on a shirt
@GnomeSlice Your dad needs to stop being so awesome.
15:25
Also I knew the capital ship was a bad idea, but I didn't know the magnitude of bad idea. It only cost like 4k at the time
Well I guess it's good I have that extra life...
There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those who understand binary
Those who don't
Those who realize this joke is in trinary
Those who realize the previous group is mistaken and it's actually in quaternary
That's worse than the people who think the 42 thing is a joke in base 13
and so on
> I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13.
15:28
@OrigamiRobot Heh.
@KevinvanderVelden yes I know it isn't
@Unionhawk If it is, i don't get it
@GnomeSlice Holy old link Batman! Now I'm reading the transcript and trying to figure out why I was in a hotel in October of 2012.
@Unionhawk I was providing the quote that proves that group wrong
@JasonBerkan ?
ohh
15:29
Oct 2 '12 at 17:03, by Jason Berkan
Nice. It edited my post rather than adding a new one. Crappy hotel wireless...
@Unionhawk 54?
@OrigamiRobot the question is what do you get when you multiply 6 by 9. Do that in base 13 and you get 42.
Or something along those lines
It's a stupid theory, and not correct
Well the math is, everything else about it isn't
The usual
I probably just made someone in math cry
Sorry!
15:31
@GraceNote @FAE starrmazer.com
Ah - I was at a developer's conference.
wordpress setup with user/pass as admin/wpadmin: say hello to "hacks" (and 7 month old viagra spam on the contactpage). Yes, I changed it. Seriously.
@Unionhawk Where did that question come from?
@OrigamiRobot Scrabble tiles.
15:33
@Wipqozn It is my favoritest conspiracy theory ever now.
@OrigamiRobot towards the end of whatever the last book is.
@Unionhawk not the last book, I think there are two (if you count the one not made by douglas adams) after it
Oh hey, I forgot to link the weird headline I posted above.
@LessPop_MoreFizz pls no
15:35
@Unionhawk end of the second book
@KevinvanderVelden 3
(Yes, that's borderline NSFW, because it's about genitals. but it's also for children - it's not porn or something. Also, it's in Swedish. You should be smart enough to know whether it's appropriate for you to click on that in your own environment.)
there are 6 in total, including the one by that other guy
Well whatever
15:37
The restaurant at the end of the universe
@LessPop_MoreFizz That never works for me.
So, 4 after that
4.1 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4.2 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
4.3 Life, the Universe and Everything
4.4 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
4.5 Mostly Harmless
4.6 And Another Thing...
From wikipedia
@GnomeSlice You fail to even recognize things are NSFW
@GnomeSlice So, 1) I think you get treated more harshly than you deserve, 2) Part of the key is that the link itself is really really really obvious as to what it's going to, hence 3) it should also be really obvious what sort of judgement call I am asking people to make.
@LessPop_MoreFizz also, @GnomeSlice rarely gives warnings. People usually tell him something is NSFW,and then there's just a fight about whether or not it's NSFW
@Wipqozn Also he doesn't seem to remember that playboy is, by definition, not safe for work
I'm still here you guys
@KevinvanderVelden that's bullshit
4 mins ago, by GnomeSlice
@LessPop_MoreFizz That never works for me.
You brought it up
@badp no u (the url itself will be seen and employers will go "wtf" without looking at the content)
15:42
Well it probably helps if you link to the printable version in order to avoid accidental sidebar nsfw
@Unionhawk that's bullshit
@badp Yeah
@Wipqozn wtf all I was trying to say is that he might get in trouble for posting that thing despite the warning
It's how it works though
So
I wasn't trying to invite this discussion
ffs
ANYWAY
INITIATE BRIDGE DERAILMENT PROTOCOL
15:43
So it's still bullshit
@badp The world is bullshit. Deal with it.
@badp not really, any decent web filter will have that site blocked, and some places note when people hit blocked websites like that
Bullshit is not any less bullshit if it's social norm
It doesn't even matter if anyone ever sees playboy.com load. It's also a problem because the url shows up on logs.
15:44
And while some random sites are understandable, it's really hard to explain visiting playboy.com at work
@badp Yeah, well, sometimes you have to put up with bullshit.
Of all people, a man with a master's degree should know this
@KevinvanderVelden what are you doing on an internet chat website about videogames then?
@Unionhawk i still am always amused at cats' extent of problem solving is nothing more than just "move backwards".
@badp oh if you're saying what I think you're saying then I agree, but, well. This is the world we live in, playboy is ... playboy, it is the go to name for that sort of thing
15:45
heh
Goddammit the derailment protocols are not working
It is, categorically not safe for work. Even if certain work places won't have an issue with it
@GnomeSlice heh
@GnomeSlice heh
@Rapitor Only when something is on their face.
15:46
That actually sounds pretty neat
@KevinvanderVelden but do we care what employees would think about URLs or should we look at the actual content? #rhetoricalquestion
If Google hosts a goatse page is it any less blockworthy because no one would block Google?
@Unionhawk Doesn't play as well as it sounds, sadly.
I'm not saying anything about blocking! I'm saying you should warn people that "Hey, if your workplace is strict about this sort of thing, this site will raise all sorts of red flags so maybe not click it"
It's like a card game where you only get one card at a time, and you just decide where it goes on the field.
lame
*flagworthy #mobilechat
15:48
@GnomeSlice Welp
this is still kinda fun actually
Not very deep though
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Q: Darksiders messed up?

HunterAll tips and tutorials got reset along with Samael's prison too. The shaft is open but Samael isn't there. I was on the mission to return the Stygian's heart to Samael. What I did before was that I used one of the save game editors which was made for Xbox 360. I am playing on PC and was barely ab...

@GnomeSlice seems quite fun, but the UI could use some improvements
good UI is very important, imho :/
It would be nice if it gave you a choice between several units instead of just one
15:55
Morning, Bridge
I was building stuff and they were attacking the green thing
the green thing wasn't doing anything to me
I destroyed green thing and I lost
what
@Chippies If either team wins the war, you lose.
oh what, I get to build stuff for both teams?
that's... weird
Yes, did you even read the thing
@GnomeSlice what thing, no
it never said I have to play as both teams
15:57
tutorial
what tutorial, I didn't see any
@Chippies pls
tutorials are for noobs, okay
@Chippies Given that you seem to have no idea what you're doing... >_>
15:59
@Chippies Time spent on tutorials is time you could have spent playing!
@Unionhawk for that I blame bad UI
a good game shouldn't need a tutorial!

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