The Bridge

Lazers

11:06

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Q: Is there a way to reduce the risk of a disaster?

In patch 1.9, disasters were introduced to replace the earlier random system of bad things happening. Now you can see exactly what conditions in your nations raise the progress to a disaster happening to what monthly degree. For example if you are not in a war and have low manpower, you will ge...

europa-universalis-4

Wipqozn

11:21

> user9983

RIP @OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria I'm currently not room owner.

I had to double check though.

5pike

@Wipqozn what happened?

Wipqozn

I'm never sure if I'm room oner or not. sometimes I've been room owner for a few days and didn't realize it.

@5pike He deleted his account

5pike

@Wipqozn where? On Arqade? Or sitewide?

StrixVaria

Just on Arqade, and it was like a year ago that he did it.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria dam it @StrixVaria, you ruined my fun!

you're a monster.

He did it around the time of the last elections.

Although he stopped using the site long before that.

5pike

11:25

Ok, that I know. I thought he ragequitted the whole of SE for some reason.

Wipqozn

@5pike nah, just came across a question of his, and was all THOSE WERE THE DAYS

Kevin van der Velden

11:36

@Wipqozn It's easy to check you know, just see if there is anything WRONG with the Bridge. If there is, chances are you are a room owner.

5pike

@KevinvanderVelden The WRONGNESS starts, as soon as he enters the room.

Kevin van der Velden

Naah, it's just WRONG if he's in here but not room owner

Lazers

11:53

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Q: Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead Demo+ Arma 2 Original

If i buy Arma 2 (Original) and get Arma 2 Operation Arrohead The Demo. Whould i be able to Play Arma 2:DayZ?

steam

Wipqozn

I'm so loved.

Private Pansy

@Wipqozn False. Nobody likes you.

5pike

@Wipqozn Yeah, we love to hate you.

Wipqozn

@PrivatePansy :(

5pike

12:08

@Wipqozn Your suffering fuels the bridge.

Arperum

@5pike That's @Unionhawk. You're being slow again, Slowpoke!

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum multiple people can be wrong at the same time

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Yea, but @uni causes all-round WRONGNESS.

Kevin van der Velden

True, true

Next friday sabaton and delain and battle beast!

Next week friday*

fredley

I know what I'll be listening to this Friday

Kevin van der Velden

12:19

Good music?

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden lolno

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden The sound of my own sobbing

Kevin van der Velden

Your loss

@fredley that's not music!

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden It's still audible. Just.

5pike

@KevinvanderVelden It's to some people

fredley

12:20

@5pike Wait, did I say my own? I meant @Wipqozn's

5pike

@fredley That as well.

fredley

@5pike Your use of It's there troubles me

Kevin van der Velden

It's just a contraction

5pike

@fredley Why? it's = it is, right?

fredley

Since the emphasis in that sentence is on 'is', it ends up on the apostrophe instead. It's like a missing step on a staircase.

Lazers

12:24

0

Q: If I delete a game from my machine, is it deleted from Steam?

Say I buy a game on Steam, download / install it on my machine, and then delete it. Does it stay in my games library on Steam and can I download it again? And if so, what about my saved game data? Does that persist on Steam for a game which has been deleted from my machine?

steam

Private Pansy

@5pike Hmmm, because some people (like me) actually reads "it's" as "it's" instead of mentally expanding it out and reading the sentence

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Yay! I'm looking forward to it :D

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy which is the correct way cause you won't know what it's expands to until you read the rest of the sentence (it is, it has, possessive 's)

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Wouldn't the third one be "its"?

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum aah true

But who remembers that

Arperum

12:29

@KevinvanderVelden I just did!

Kevin van der Velden

Lies

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden That's my sister. She's not here.

Kevin van der Velden

Just when you need her

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden She's having a secret meeting with @5pike's brother in Vietnam or something.

ALso: going to see Hexa Mera and Basement Critters tomorrow. Yay! (@KevinvanderVelden won't like the vocals though)

Kevin van der Velden

I have no idea who they are =p

Arperum

12:34

@KevinvanderVelden Local bands. Hexa Mera sure is, and since Basement Critters is support I assume they are too.

I know the sound/light technician from Hexa Mera.

Wipqozn

@fredley I won't fall for anymore of your tricks.

fredley

@Wipqozn bookmarking this for future reference

Wipqozn

@fredley Bookmark away!

fredley

@Wipqozn I will

Wipqozn

@fredley Good!

fredley

12:36

@Wipqozn Well then!

Arperum

I should answer more questions. I decided to post an answer (first one since december): suddenly 40 rep.

Kevin van der Velden

Our reps are palindromes

I have no idea why I saw that but

Wipqozn

@Arperum Yeah, posting answers is a great way to make rep. Strange,eh?

STRAAAAANNNNGGEEE

STRAAAAANNGNGNGENGEKGJNKNSKGNSDKLDJADLKSAJD

watermelon

Kevin van der Velden

Someone reboot the turtle

Arperum

ex-turtle.

Private Pansy

12:46

@KevinvanderVelden kill -9 @Wipqozn.exe

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy unis style kill with windows style filenames? ಠ_ಠ

5pike

@Arperum Just ask some more questions, you'll also get rep, but you don't have much to do.

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden :P

Arperum

@5pike I did ask at least one question last month (too lazy to check it it were actually two questions)

Private Pansy

(The command was intentionally eyebrow raising)

Rapitor

13:14

\o

Kevin van der Velden

o/

Wipqozn

-2

Q: Answers which contain standard solutions and hacks

I've read a lot of answers in the last few days that predominantly recommend a non-hack answer to the question, but also save themselves with a paragraph or two containing some kind of hack. Here are two examples: How to shred papers/letters without using a shredder machine In this example, ...

discussion scope answers

> But that's insane: if an asker presents a problem, someone else provides a conventional solution to it, and the asker is satisfied with this solution... Then it's not the answerer's fault that this isn't a Lifehack question! What you have to guard against here is the temptation to keep around every question that gets an answer, even if it becomes apparent that the asker does not want - and the problem does not warrant - a hack.

uuuugggghhhh, why does this site still exist

SaintWacko

/me yawns

Morning, Bridge

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn Because things take time to die

Morning @SaintWacko

Wipqozn

cc @Sterno

Lazers

13:27

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Q: Tropico 4 Modern Times

How can I switch from Modern Times to normal campaign?I played some classic campaign and then I tried Modern Times and now I want to switch back to normal.(Sorry if I misspeled some words,english is not my main language)

tropico-4

fredley

Just buy a new pack

Kevin van der Velden

Wait wait wait, what? If you rename an HTML file (with a table in it) to a .xls file, excel will try to convert it to an actual excel file

fredley

Just buy a new ruler

Just buy a new house

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley Wrap your house, top to bottom, in ductape

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden Keep some pet spidervoric spiders

Kevin van der Velden

13:28

Also fun!

Rapitor

@fredley shoot it with a gun

fredley

@Rapitor hahahaha

@KevinvanderVelden dat feature bloat

SaintWacko

@fredley I'm voting to close this as a duplicate of this

3

Wipqozn

Although I agree with everything you've said, it seems like the core problem here isn't that someone asked a non-lifehack question, but that there's no way to determine if a question requires a Lifehacks solution without the asker already knowing the answer. This is one of the core problems the site has, and it still hasn't been resolved, despite being in beta for 2 months now. I really don't see problems like this going away because of that. — Wipqozn 1 min ago

Lazers

0

Q: Dragon Ball Xenoverse collecters edition

I'm planning on getting Dragon Ball Xenoverse for PC via steam. If you pre-order you get special content but I want to wait for release so i can see how it turns out. The same content is in the collectors edition. Can you purchase the collectors edition even after the game is out for a while so i...

steam

Arperum

13:38

@fredley Burn it down. All of it.

fredley

@Arperum Thought you meant lifehacks.SE there for a minute

Arperum

@fredley Good place to start.

Lazers

-1

Q: Is my gpu temperatures high? How can i lower it?

I've recently bought a Gigabyte R9 280x 3gb gddr5 graphics card, and honestly, i'm pretty happy with it. But one thing i'm concerned is with it's temperature. After one hour or so playing, its temperature goes to 70-72C. I've only tested it with two games Resident Evil HD remaster Skyrim (with...

technical-issues hardware

fredley

@Lazers Move further North

LessPop_MoreFizz

HI CHAT.

Kevin van der Velden

13:50

HI FIZZ

fredley

@LessPop_MoreFizz LOW CHAT.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fredley SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE CHAT.

Thai crown prince’s poodle, Air Chief Marshal Foo Foo, has been cremated

RIP Air Chief Marshal Foo Foo

5pike

Had the dog actually the title of Air Chief Marshal?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@5pike yes. Yes it did.

5pike

Hahahaha, nice.

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:04

It was a commisioned officer in the Thai Air Force.

Arperum

@LessPop_MoreFizz Is the rest of the airforce the other pets of the royals?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Arperum no I think they have real planes and pilots and guns and bombs and missiles and such.

Arperum

@LessPop_MoreFizz Fun. All under the command of a dog. Let's just hope that the next Air Chief Marshal is not a cat, because I wouldn't trust a cat with deadly weapons.

Rapitor

war start

Frank

14:20

@Rapitor And this is the main reason it takes millions of dollars to get anything done in the states.

StrixVaria

@Rapitor I hope the FCC wins. I guess it's good that there's some measure to challenge government decisions in general, but it sucks that that measure requires all the money and that this particular one is being challenged by the biggest assholes on the planet.

Rapitor

i just like how they try to convince us that net neutrality is a bad thing...

Frank

@Rapitor "We no longer make millions upon millions upon shaking you guys down! Of course that's a bad thing!"

StrixVaria

I had to explain to my dad a few days ago that it was a good thing because all he had heard was misinformation from ISP campaigns.

I still maintain that only two kinds of people would ever oppose net neutrality: Those who don't actually understand it, or ISP moguls/politicians paid by ISP moguls.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria If you didn't maintain that you'd be wrong.

Frank

14:26

@StrixVaria Don't forget Republicans who idiotically think net neutrality is a partisan issue.

Wipqozn

Net Neutrality is a good thing. Period.

StrixVaria

@Frank They fall into the former category.

Rapitor

@StrixVaria i think those who don't understand it is by choice, because it takes less than 5 minutes to see how good it is.

StrixVaria

@Rapitor There's also the possibility that they are incapable of understanding it because they're just stupid, in which case they should just go try to remember how to breathe somewhere away from any responsibility.

Frank

The stupid part on the ISP's end of this whole thing is that they'll take advantage of Title II regulations when it suits them, but utterly ignore them when they stand to make a larger profit without them.

You can't have it both ways, guys. Pick one and stick with it.

Sterno

14:32

@Wipqozn I still don't know how to implement, then, whatever the hell it is he's talking about.

It really seems like "Someone left a conventional answer and the asker liked it? Quick, close the question as off-topic!"

He's not giving any indication about how to detect that ahead of time

Oh well, at least they're back to the position where downvoting non-lifehack answers is dumb

But it doesn't address at all the fact that the site isn't working

LessPop_MoreFizz

@StrixVaria here's the thing though: even if you're not an idiot/kleptocrat opposing net neutrality, there are very real concerns about the mechanism being used to implement it that the ISPs have a legit grievance with. (I don't agree with them, but calling their argument evil or imbecilic prima facie is disingenuous.)

Wipqozn

@Sterno Yeah, I got the same vibe too, and was going to point it. Decided not to. feelf ree to though.

StrixVaria

@LessPop_MoreFizz In my understanding, this Title II thing would force some companies to have to actually split into two entities, so I can see how they would have a strong objection to that.

Sterno

@Wipqozn Nah. I'm done.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Common Carrier status dramatically changes the regulatory framework under which they operate and dramatically upends decades of assumptions and capital investment.

Jason Berkan

14:36

I still don't understand how net neutrality (treating all packets the same) has anything to do with making the ISPs be nicer to consumers.

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan It doesn't, but hopefully the latter is a side effect of the former.

LessPop_MoreFizz

It gives the FCC massively expanded rights to regulate and control the behavior of ISPs.

You might (I do) think that's a good thing, but it is nowhere near as clear cut as you are making it out to be.

StrixVaria

Net neutrality as a concept is clearly a good thing for all but potentially the ISPs. This specific way of implementing net neutrality has some nuance and reasonable objection from the ISPs, sure.

LessPop_MoreFizz

'Some nuance' the specific means of implementation is literally taking a wrecking ball to their entire business model, just to impose one rule on the wreckage.

I mean, I believe the ISPs should be classified as common carriers, but dont fool yourself into thinking that that is a minor implementation detail.

Jason Berkan

And only one part of the FCCs proposal actually deals with net neutrality. The rest of it, as @LessPop_MoreFizz points out, deals with regulating how the ISPs do business.

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:39

Common carrier status is everything. The whole kit and caboodle.

StrixVaria

A short-to-medium-term loss for those companies for a long-term gain for everyone. I don't think this is minor, and I don't think it's going to happen quickly. In prepping my dad for what would change, I estimated it would take AT LEAST a decade before we even start seeing the change positively affecting us.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Net neutrality is the minor nuanced little detail.

Jason Berkan

And yet the entire thing is framed as "net neutrality".

LessPop_MoreFizz

It's more than a short to medium term loss.

Sterno

Darkest Dungeon has many bugs. It's still fun, but yeah. Bugs.

For anyone who was on the EA fence

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:40

It's literally one step short of a complete government takeover of the industry.

(Which I am 100% for! But let's not kid ourselves about what it is!)

Wipqozn

@Sterno not being feature complete is going to make me wait

I'd rather just wait until full and play

not like I've got a shortage of things to do until then

Sterno

Yeah. Bad Rats 2

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan They are sort-of related. The fact that many, many people have exactly one choice of ISP means that the ISPs have a stupid amount of power over their customers, which affects the way they want to do business. Rather than expanding into new markets, they're happy gouging the customers in the markets they have, and thus there is very little competition. Notice responses from ISPs in markets where Google Fiber even started moving; their service got better overnight.

Saying they're the same is disingenuous, yes.

But they are both important issues.

Blem

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn Same. I'm not going to get it at least until there is a win state.

Wipqozn

14:44

@StrixVaria Plus, you know, the internet should be a public utility.

Jason Berkan

I still see no correlation between treating Netflix packets the same as Google packets and no competition in the last mile to my house. I mean, my complaint is that everyone says "net neutrality" when really they mean something else (in addition to net neutrality).

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn I can see opposing arguments to that, although I personally agree.

Wipqozn

And having no regulations on something which should be is just a bad idea.

@StrixVaria The way I look at it is this: If you don't have access to internet, you're extremely crippled. In today's world, not having access to affordable internet is another way to make it harder for low-income families to get ahead.

Frank

The problem is that ISPs that aren't engaging in skullduggery or shenanigans with with customers have absolutely zero issues with Title II.

Yuuki

@Frank Those exist?

Frank

14:45

@Yuuki Mostly smaller ones.

But yeah, they exist.

Wipqozn

It's also why schools should include computer literacy as part of their eduction. If you graduate from high school without computer literacy today, you're fucked.

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan Having no competition and no net neutrality is a huge issue. Fixing either one or the other would probably solve the problem, because with competition people would be free to choose the net-neutral option if they wanted. This proposed solution would aim to fix both.

So they are related, at least the way the US markets are set up.

Frank

And, really, Comcast and Verizon brought this on themselves.

The FCC tried a lighter touch.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Frank eeehhhh the FCC tried a legally dubious kludge

Frank

@LessPop_MoreFizz In order so that they didn't have to enact Title II.

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:49

There's a reason they lost in court, and it's not that Verizon pays its lawyers more.

@Frank it's always been under title 2.

Yuuki

►

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria If I could pay for faster access to Netflix, I would.

I don't care about net neutrality. I do care about local competition.

LessPop_MoreFizz

The question is and always has been whether ISPs are common carriers. And there are a lot of fairly good arguments as to why they shouldn't be!

Frank

@LessPop_MoreFizz And that's what the FCC was recognizing when they attempted to regulate them.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Listen, I agree with the conclusions you get to most of the time. I'm just saying that your view is kind of overly manichean and maybe a little bit too much tech journalism and not enough other journalism.

Frank

14:52

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm a programmer. Black and white is what we do.

Are there some grey areas? Yeah, there are. But my basic stance about this comes down to:

Fuck ISPs.

StrixVaria

@Frank Don't speak for all programmers.

Rapitor

@Frank 1s and 0s more like it

Frank

@Rapitor If we want to get reeeeeally pedantic, on and off is correct.

JohnP

For those that missed it recently, RC/Modeling proposal: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/82797/…

Wipqozn

@JohnP I thought that proposal had lot more followers....

and questions...

Frank

14:55

@Wipqozn Reboot.

Wipqozn

@Frank, which proposal am I thinking of?

Frank

Got closed.

Wipqozn

@Frank Oh, well then

JohnP

@Wipqozn reboot.

Wipqozn

The important thing is that Lifehacks has been given a chance.

JohnP

14:56

The original suffered from limited scope early, and when I expanded it later, it was too little too late, so it's rebooted with the operational scope added from day one.

Frank

@JohnP I still think just model building is a fine scope, but I'm not opposed to expanding it out into operations.

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn We could merge them. "How do I remove ice from my car windshield, with an RC helicopter."

LessPop_MoreFizz

OMG OMG OMG shoutfactorytv.com IS A REAL NEW WEBSITE THAT EXISTS.

SHOUT FACTORY MADE A STREAMING VIDEO WEBSITE PEOPLE.

JohnP

@Frank I thought the same, but I can see where it comes in. For example, why would operating a model rocket be necessarily different from operating a RC boat that you built? Or plane?

Kevin van der Velden

@JasonBerkan "Mounted flamethrower. Alternatively, model rockets!"

JohnP

14:57

Cars are mostly plug and play, but ::shrug:: oh well.

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan It's foolproof.

LessPop_MoreFizz

IT HAS MST3K AND HOME MOVIES AND ROGER CORMAN MOVIES AND AND AND AND AND

Jason Berkan

@JohnP At the end of the day, making the scope slightly bigger means a better chance at reaching sufficient number of people for a community.

Kevin van der Velden

The dark secrets of the bird world

Frank

@JohnP ...that's a fair point.

I guess my experience is limited to static models.

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:59

Shout Factory are the best awesome cult TV/Movie/Music archival people in the world and now they have a streaming video service!!!!!!

JohnP

@JasonBerkan That's what I'm hoping. I'm still surprised that model building hadn't been an SE site already, you'd think there were a lot of people that would look for it.

Jason Berkan

@JohnP There have been a number of proposals, but they were all too limited in scope.

Model railoading only. Warhammer only. etc.

Wipqozn

RC and Modeling makes sense to me. People that do RC as a hobby do a lot of custom work.

JohnP

@JasonBerkan Yeah, I saw some of those. We already have a couple upvoted questions on miniature painting/sculpting, which is good.

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn Join us. We'll get you painting your 40K models in no time.

Wipqozn

15:01

@JasonBerkan Nah. NAAAAAAAAAHH.

LessPop_MoreFizz

GUYS. GUYS. I AM HYPERVENTILATING IRL AT THE EXISTENCE OF THIS.

Wipqozn

I'm just not all that fond of the painting, and I have other things I'd rather do.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Shout Factory TV WOOOOOOOOOOO

JohnP

@Wipqozn Yes. I've done static models, rockets, I paint D&D mini's and had one disastrous foray into model glider where I couldn't tell up from down on the controller.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz It has Reboot and Bob Newhart shows, so it's awesome in my book.

Jason Berkan

15:01

@Wipqozn Pfft. Give up reading. Nothing good has ever come from reading. :P

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan I suppose that's true

Lazers

-1

Q: Improving Tiny Feet Preconstructed

I purchased the Tiny Feet Preconstructed deck, and I'm new to the game. I wonder how I can improve this deck? Which cards should I be looking for, generally and specifically?

scrolls

Wipqozn

hitler was able to read, and look what he did!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn And Gary Shandling and Doby Gillis!

Rapitor

@KevinvanderVelden birds are weird

fredley

15:02

Here's a tool to make you feel inadequate

Yuuki

Jason Berkan

> Sorry, the requested video is not available on this device.

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Oh dear, be wary of any birds.

Jason Berkan

No love for Canucks.

Wipqozn

@fredley THis...just makes me sad.

Yuuki

15:04

Actually, I think that'd be an appropriate .gif for every time that @Wipqozn gets de-ownered.

Wipqozn

It doesn't make me feel inadequate, just sad.

Frank

@Wipqozn I never tried it until I started building models.

fredley

@Wipqozn mission accomplished

JohnP

@Wipqozn Then don't look at the average salaries of american football/baseball/basketball players.

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan Oh, goodbye forever then

Frank

15:04

And now, I love it. There's so much skill you can have in it.

fredley

@Yuuki brb

Wipqozn

@JohnP I know they are grossly overpaid, this just shows how much.

Feeds

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

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn Except for the CFL. I earn more than most of them.

JohnP

@Wipqozn The ones that get me are the guys that come in with signing bonuses of 10 million+ before they ever even practice.

Wipqozn

15:05

At least those football players don't have ownership in the bridge!

@JasonBerkan Poor CFL.

JohnP

@JasonBerkan Meh, they're Canadians. Does anyone really care about Canadians?

::ducks and runs::

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden See, I don't even mind them earning a lot of money, since their careers usually only last 10 years, but they just earn so, so much.

@JohnP Well, we prefer you guys to think that way. IT'll make it easier when we decide to invade.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn well, do keep in mind that they have to basically make a lifetime wage + lots of medical bills that'll come from that job in 10 years max

Jason Berkan

@JohnP Only some of them. The majority are failed Americans.

JohnP

@Wipqozn You can't invade. We'd hear you sharpening your skates first.

Frank

15:07

@KevinvanderVelden Don't forget lifetime injuries.

JohnP

@JasonBerkan Well played. :)

Kevin van der Velden

@Frank that falls under the lots of medical bills =p

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria #notallprogrammers

JohnP

All right, got all day meetings today. Later all.

Wipqozn

@JohnP That sounds terrible.

Kevin van der Velden

15:08

Can I just go home and read my new What If book?

Feeds

Grace Note has removed Wipqozn from the list of this room's owners.

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden No

@StackExchange I probably deserved that.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn =[

Grace Note

@Wipqozn Whether or not you did depends on how much you may or may not have heard about something called "Besieged"!

Frank

@KevinvanderVelden I don't mean the financial costs; I mean the concussions and other injuries that prevent them from ever being completely normal.

Wipqozn

15:09

I sometimes forget that @GraceNote is always watching.

Jason Berkan

Why did @Wipqozn losing room ownership cause my browser to refresh? Does SE know of our secret deal?

Kevin van der Velden

@Frank those are all real and I'm not discounting them, but the reply was solely about them being overpaid

Wipqozn

@GraceNote Never heard of it, so I guess that means I deserve it.

I'm correcting that mistake though.

Oh, that's that game @GnomeSlice has been talking about.

Grace Note

A thing

Hm. Either that's not showing up or I crashed everything.

Wipqozn

@GraceNote What a horrifying way to die.

It eventually showed up in chat for me. Just took a while.

Grace Note

15:13

Yeah but it started to metrically slow my system down

StrixVaria

Opening that up in a new tab slowed down my entire browser. But it was so worth it. What an amazing war machine.

Grace Note

But yeah basically I can gather that this game is all about making siege engines. This one is decidedly less horrific and probably more impressive.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria It's as amazing a it is horrifying.

Can you imagine being killed by that thing?

StrixVaria

It creates a burning iron maiden around you.

Surprise! Iron maiden.

Wipqozn

I'm showing this game to my boss. This is exactly the kind of game he loves playing with his kids.

fredley

15:22

16

Kevin van der Velden

Oh

fredley

:19913839 yes, that's where I grabbed it from

Kevin van der Velden

There is a thing in it!

5pike

@KevinvanderVelden Fredley improved it

Kevin van der Velden

That I didn't see

Frank

15:28

I got my second Reversal badge! \o/

JohnP

@Wipqozn Yeah, well, the price of management. But, our visitors have yet to arrive. That is the privilege of upper management :p

@Frank \o

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Q: What are the When and Wheres of Supply Drops in Crafting Dead?

I'm trying to determine where to be for supply drops at what time on the Charland 3 Server. It seems to me that they are random, but I did some poking around in the config files for my singleplayer worlds, and you can set the times and locations of the drops. However, I can't find the server loca...

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Frank

@JohnP o/

So you build model rockets, eh? Anything else?

JohnP

@Frank Model cars/planes, I've built to sell RC aircraft, and I paint miniatures for D&D. Although a lot of that has been very limited, I've been competing martial arts again and work and a new baby take up a lot of time.

Frank

@JohnP I've found that much of the tiny details are way too fine for me.

I just build gunpla, and that's easily enough for finicky detail.

JohnP

15:36

I use a magnifying lamp. I'm not very good at them yet, I just started recently.

Wipqozn

@fredley cc @BenBrocka

Frank

I'm still learning new things with every model I paint.

Still haven't found a way to get something white to look metallic.

Matt E. Эллен

@Frank glitter?

Kevin van der Velden

Glitter bomb? :o

Frank

@MattE.Эллен Not sure if that would do the trick.

JohnP

15:40

@Frank Painted white, or cast white (Like the Reaper Bones line?)

Matt E. Эллен

fair enough

Kevin van der Velden

Just make it so that if anyone complains it shoots glitter at them

Frank

I've tried several different types of pearlized white.

Matt E. Эллен

@KevinvanderVelden lol

Frank

It doesn't really do much beyond kinda sorta metallic.

@JohnP Not sure I understand the difference.

Wipqozn

15:41

@KevinvanderVelden You're the worst kind of person. You monster.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn That is high praise coming from you

Frank

@KevinvanderVelden If I did that, the ground would very shortly be covered in glitter.

And it would Never. Come. Out.

JohnP

@Wipqozn When you get the miniature, is it a white resin? Or are you painting white over a different base (Such as a silver cast miniature)?

Kevin van der Velden

@Frank That is the point behind glitter

Frank

@JohnP White resin.

Wipqozn

15:43

@JohnP It's blue

Frank

For reference, this is the current model I'm building:

I can get metallic colors on the rest without issue.

I need something to make the white seem less plastic-y.

Batophobia

Anyone played Moon Chronicles?

Kevin van der Velden

If only we had some kind of site to ask this question on =[

Batophobia

Looks kinda Metroid Prime-ish

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JohnP

@Frank I generally wash them, file any casting/mold lines, do a very light spray paint (krylon) coating, then "wash" them with a dark grey/black color.

Then you can paint over that.

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That's on painting true metallics.

Frank

15:45

@JohnP I've done other metallic colors no problem. My last paint job was a ton of metal.

JohnP

Yeah, white is tricky. Maybe dry brushing to produce highlights/shadows?

Frank

Jan 15 at 1:09, by Frank

For the moment, I've just replaced white with a silverish type color.

It still works, but it sorta avoids the whole issue.

@JohnP There are some techniques I can use to provide shadow and depth. I think that's probably what I'm going to do with the current kit.

Sterno

Sometimes I feel like my main contribution to chat is to unpin the stuff that LessPop pins that no one else cares about.

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Also, @GraceNote should go save Lifehacks from itself.

JohnP

@Frank Hrm...maybe, possibly take a pearlescent white, add just a touch of silver metallic and a gloss medium and water to make a white metal "wash", and lightly go over it with that?

Arperum

Dammit me! Stop being stupid and figure this threading issue out already.

Frank

15:51

@JohnP I should mention: I airbrush.

These models are way too big to hand paint in any reasonable time frame.

That said, I can chrome stuff all day long.

JohnP

@Frank You could use it as a finishing technique.

Holy ####, I just saw that one of the old school minis I just got for a song goes for $150+ on ebay.

Frank

Hmm. I wonder...I could use my shadowing technique, and then spray my pearl white on top. That might work.

Would also cut down on the amount of airbrushing I'd have to do.

JohnP

I never learned airbrushing. I'm jealous.

Frank

@JohnP That last picture up there is a product of nothing but.

MBraedley

@Frank Does that include using a wash paint? I'm not sure how effective that would be for this type of model though.

Frank

15:57

@MBraedley Nope. I'd be airbrushing black along the edging and detail lines, and then lightly spraying white on top.

Of course, that's taking spray paint to a level of control I don't really use a lot of.

StrixVaria

@Unionhawk I just realized with this new OoT glitch, if they find a way to reliably get the bottle in the Deku tree, any% is destroyed again.

MBraedley

@Frank What about using your airbrush with white paint? More control. You may need more/different nozzles though.

StrixVaria

Even if it's RNG, if you can do it in under like 4 minutes, you can skip the entire escape, river, and chickens.

Frank

@MBraedley Yeah, more control. But I don't really have a metallic white airbrush paint.

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