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Chippies

03:00

This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is the shell. Windows' standard user interface is called Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x have a different shell, called Program Manager. The programs in this list don't restyle the Windows shell, but replace it; therefore, they look and function differently, and have different configuration options. == §See also == Comparison of Start menu replacements for Windows 8 Comparison of X Window System desktop environments Des...

ooh, I think I was totally using this one

and it supports win 8, apparently, neat

although it's ugly for today's standards

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah...kinda

lol, it's incredible how much of an effect Windows has on the design/UX of everything.

Windows 8 came out with the flat UI and everything went flat. Like, seriously.

I find that the faux-3D stuff looks almost bad now :P

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness well, everything is run on windows, so it has to match, kinda :P

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies Yup

Chippies

tbh, I find the taskbars pre-win7 to be disgusting :P

I just realized that UI (and performance) have been my main driving factors for switching to a newer version of windows...

RPi Awesomeness

I don't find them disgusting, they're somewhat nostalgic for me. XP & Vista I actually quite like the look of sorta kinda.

Chippies

03:06

@RPiAwesomeness they waste so much space though and they're just not as good, lol

RPi Awesomeness

I think my biggest problem with 7's theme was how bright it is. I prefer dark themes on my stuff - not exactly sure why. It's not bad otherwise.

@Chippies Yes, that is true.

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness change the colour scheme? lol

RPi Awesomeness

And 7 got really awesome when I discovered a custom Ferrari theme pack someone had put together. That was back when I was really into Ferraris

I still like them, but my tastes have broadened in fancy cars

Dmod inbound! /me ducks

spugsley

guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuys

Chippies

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaals

Yuuki

03:09

giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirl

spugsley

I'm so boreddddddddddddddddddd

RPi Awesomeness

^ Was my wallpaper for a while

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness such a typical fancy car, not hipster at all

spugsley

cars are boringgggggggggggggg

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies ... It's friggin swedish. And screw hipsters.

Tim Stone

03:10

@spugsley Woah. Woah. Woah.

RPi Awesomeness

The whole hipster thing is ridiculous IMHO

Chippies

last time I cared about cars was when I played Gran Turismo 2 a lot

I was an expert in cars

I knew all the car models

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

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Tesla Coils

Proposed Q&A site for enthusiasts who share interest in and operating tesla coils.

Closed before being launched.

1

App Improvement

Proposed Q&A site for uses who want suggestions of improvement on their published app.

Closed before being launched.

2

Answers to Life's Questions

Proposed Q&A site for the opportunity to create better answers to life's questions. Here is the answer to Yahoo Answers and Askville from Amazon. We've all searched the Internet for a question to have one of those sites come up top with ridiculous answers.

Closed before being launched.

Chippies

now I don't know anything about cars and I'm fine with that

RPi Awesomeness

I've got a friend who's super into cars. I like them, but I'm not a car nut.

Chippies

03:11

last racing game I actually cared for was NFSU2

Unionhawk

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment ...

Tim Stone

lol @ NOPE

RPi Awesomeness

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment wut.

Unionhawk

@TimStone more like LOLNOPE amirite

RPi Awesomeness

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Pshaw. I can be mod super maximus on this site. The answer would be 42 for everything.

Tim Stone

03:12

@Unionhawk Yes, you do you man.

Lazers

0

Q: How do I make working security cameras in Minecraft PC? (no videos please)

I'm making an Escape the Prison, and I need security cameras (yes, that work) for my map. I appreciate help. Thanks, -Phyxia

Unionhawk

@Lazers "How do I make X in Minecraft" questions bother me, but I'm not sure how much they bother me

RPi Awesomeness

@Lazers Mods Mon Ami. Mods. You're going to need some serious command block wizardry otherwise.

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness how would you make them output what they're seeing though?

RPi Awesomeness

You'd need skills like Etho, TangoTek, and MumboJumbo combined to get that thing done in any decent manner

spugsley

03:16

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment @sterno needs to stop with all these proposals.

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies Exactly my point. It would be some crazy stuff to get that working.

spugsley

we need to have an intervention

Chippies

Idk what the extent of command block capabilities is

Unionhawk

@Chippies It'd get messy at best but it may be possible

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies You can do some pretty sick stuff with them

Unionhawk

03:16

For definitions of the word possible

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness well, you could teleport yourself to the location of the camera and freeze movement

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies My thought exactly.

Chippies

last time I played minecraft, command blocks didn't exist :/

they sound fun though

Unionhawk

They make redstone questions annoying as hell

Because inevitably it's "I am making a map and I want this thing. How do I make the thing work."

Chippies

can't command blocks pretty much replace redstone?

Unionhawk

03:19

@Chippies They can, kind of, not really?

Chippies

or I suppose you'd still need some redstone to activate the blocks

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies Whoa there, showing yer age bud

Unionhawk

They can execute commands given a redstone signal

@RPiAwesomeness Command blocks have only been a thing for...

More like you're showing your age

Sir

Chippies

well, I do remember playing minecraft multiplayer sp back when multiplayer sp didn't have damage implemented yet

fun times

RPi Awesomeness

@Unionhawk I know that, Sir. Minecraft isn't even 5 years old yet...

@Chippies Classic :)

Chippies

03:21

@RPiAwesomeness if you mean classic mode, then no

it was survival

wtf does SP stand for?

anyways

RPi Awesomeness

o.O I is confused

Chippies

survival in multiplayer had all the crafting and gathering and mining implemented

RPi Awesomeness

It was survival mode...in SMP...sans damage?

Chippies

but you couldn't take damage

oh yeah, SMP, not SP

RPi Awesomeness

Isn't that what Minecraft was originally?

Chippies

03:23

damage was implemented in single player survival

RPi Awesomeness

Ah

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness originally it was what classic is now

RPi Awesomeness

I see

Chippies

SMP had mining and crafting

but no way to take damage

RPi Awesomeness

First time I played was 1.6.4 IIRC?

Unionhawk

03:23

@Chippies Holy shit a game called minecraft had mining and crafting?

TELL ME MORE

RPi Awesomeness

So, I'm fairly new

Chippies

@Unionhawk ironically, it did not have mining and crafting before survival

so it was more like PlaceRemoveBlocks, rather than MineCraft

RPi Awesomeness

I wonder why they removed the damage noise. I find that funny.

Though I could see it getting annoying

Chippies

WOAH, my imageshack.com account still exists!

I didn't know imageshack itself even existed anymore

RPi Awesomeness

imgur FTW

Chippies

03:28

so ancient

I built all of those, except the cat

@RPiAwesomeness imgur didn't exist back then, I don't think

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies Probably didn't, but times have changed.

Chippies

Hmm, Launched February 23, 2009

I guess it just wasn't popular back then

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies Impressive pixel art!

Chippies

> On October 22, 2012, Imgur released a user-submitted gallery, which allows users to submit directly to the Imgur gallery for public view, comments and votes.[6]

this is probably when imgur became what it is now

RPi Awesomeness

MegaMan FTW

Chippies

03:30

galaga :P

good times...

RPi Awesomeness

I should try emulating the actual originals...I only ever played the ones with the cards - Cybeast Gregar IIRC

Awesome game that

Chippies

oh yeah, this was an awesome tool

Unionhawk

God, back when pixel art was cool

Chippies

it rendered your minecraft map in isometric view

RPi Awesomeness

Wow. You were really into those pixel arts :D

Unionhawk

03:31

@RPiAwesomeness That's what was cool back in Alpha 1.1

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness it was either that or build stuff and I'm not very creative with building stuff

there was nothing else to do in SMP back then :P

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies Man, that server looks like MunchGamer's server did back when he actually was active :P

Chippies

OH YEAH, WE BURNT DOWN A FOREST!

that was sick

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies lol

Chippies

before they reduced the spread of fire

a tree caught fire and everyone from the server went to try and save it

RPi Awesomeness

03:33

Imagine burning down a 1.7 roofed forest O.O That would be awesome. And laggy. Laggy as heck,

Chippies

like 10 people or so

RPi Awesomeness

lol

Chippies

but the fire was spreading way too fast and far

soon after that they nerfed fire

RPi Awesomeness

Sounds like some epic story xD

Chippies

yeah, pretty much every tree on the island burnt down

the fire spread distance and rate was insane

RPi Awesomeness

03:34

lol

Unionhawk

Fire tick was changed to be based on difficulty, so it's pretty aggressive on hard difficulty

I think that change was... 1.5?

Chippies

@Unionhawk didn't know that

I wonder if it's still as aggressive as it was back then though

Unionhawk

Dunno maybe

Chippies

if something caught fire back then, there was little you could do

RPi Awesomeness

So that's why people used half slabs way more.

Unionhawk

03:40

Wood slabs didn't burn back then, that's true

(because they were retextured stone slabs don't ask)

Chippies

fun glitches

I think you can still get these, just not as often

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies Yeah. 1.8 made X-Ray glitches really hard.

Unionhawk

I mean, if you have an opaque but transparent block in your head (piston push a piece of TNT or glowstone into your face) you can see

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah, they fixed that :P

Chippies

that glitch in the screenshot persisted even if running around

was a pretty common glitch too

Unionhawk

03:44

@RPiAwesomeness Did they?

I don't believe you

Chippies

relogging in the server usually fixed it, but not always

Unionhawk

Those types of things are virtually gone

RPi Awesomeness

@Unionhawk I'm pretty sure. They at least made it far more difficult to achieve

Unionhawk

I still don't believe you

Chippies

woah, found a photo of myself 5 years ago, I looked older back then than I do now...

old me is old!

LessPop_MoreFizz

03:47

IP over Avian Carriers

In computer networking, IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC) is a humorously-intended proposal to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by birds such as homing pigeons. IP over Avian Carriers was initially described in RFC 1149, a Request for Comments (RFC) issued by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) written by D. Waitzman and released on April 1, 1990. It is one of several April Fools' Day RFCs. Waitzman described an improvement of his protocol in RFC 2549, IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1 April 1999). Later, in RFC 6214 released on 1 April 2011, and 13 years after the i...

spugsley

@Chippies X.x you have long hair?

Unionhawk

@RPiAwesomeness ...Sure enough. Huh. WHATEVER

Chippies

@spugsley shorter at the moment

LessPop_MoreFizz

@spugsley new Sufjan is prt gud.

RPi Awesomeness

@Unionhawk Whoa. You look very norwegian.

Unionhawk

03:49

>_> that is @Chippies

You nubface

Chippies

I managed to confuse people without trying

spugsley

@Chippies that's good. Because long hair is a problem for me

Chippies

@spugsley I only cut my hair like once-twice a year though, so it will grow back :P

spugsley

D:

RPi Awesomeness

D: I find that thing minorly hilarious

D:

Chippies

03:50

I hate cutting my hair, I look so lame with short hair :(

but I can see things, so that's a plus

RPi Awesomeness

lol

Chippies

I am at the stage where I can see my hair hanging over my forehead

eventually it covers my eyes and it becomes an issue

RPi Awesomeness

One of my friend's hair is like that. He also tends to wear exceptionally loose pants...and so we joke with him that when he runs he has to use two hands. One to hold his pants up and and one to hold his hair up so he doesn't smash into anything.

Chippies

@RPiAwesomeness as a skinny guy who used to only wear cargo pants and had long hair, I can confirm that

RPi Awesomeness

lol

Chippies

03:53

a quick google search told me that baggy pants are more accurate of what I was wearing...

the day I found a belt that could fit me was the best day

terraria, before the oceans on the sides had infinite water

wife and I drained the ocean and flooded hell

fun times

RPi Awesomeness

Dude. Terraria looks lke so much fun.

Chippies

Lazers

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I have been reading in various places that the Hero Assault mode in Battlefront 2 (available by default only on the Mos Eisley map) is available on more maps with an xbox live patch. I've been trying to figure out how on earth to get this patch, and I can't figure it out. I'm playing on a 360, a...

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Q: Why does the Steam Market keep refunding my crates?

I sell Mann Co. Crates on the Steam Market, putting up 20-30 at once every now and then (I have probably 120+ on the go right now). Every now and then, Steam takes my oldest bunch of crates, removes them from the market, and re-drops them in my backpack. Why?

steam

Chippies

the blue is water, lol

they made it so water evaporates in hell now and the oceans have infinite water

so can't do that anymore

RPi Awesomeness

@Chippies Congradulations. You influenced the development of a game. You must now give all the credit to your wife or else she will never forgive you :D

Chippies

04:02

@RPiAwesomeness all credit?! Excuuuuse me! I did a lot of the work and I took the screenshots!

RPi Awesomeness

:D

@Chippies In your opinion, is Minecraft or Terraria better?

Chippies

I've been told Terraria is expecting another major update (been expecting for last 9 months or so), so I'll have to play some more when that happens, lol

@RPiAwesomeness different games, can't compare

I prefer Terraria though

RPi Awesomeness

That's all I was wondering :)

Chippies

it has bosses to kill and tons of cool weapons

RPi Awesomeness

If I get Windows *which I may for Windows 10) I'll have to install that :)

Chippies

04:04

mining and crafting is a huge part of the game, but you do it to craft armor and kill bosses for loot

minecraft is more about mining and crafting and building creative stuff

in terraria, you're limited to 2d, so building creatively is also limited a bit :P

I do prefer Terraria by far, because it has goals you want to achieve, unlike minecraft

I could never figure out why I should play minecraft

RPi Awesomeness

That is true

Chippies

once you have achieved everything though, there's not a lot to do

RPi Awesomeness

Minecraft is more about building things and I think is a more creative game, Terraria is more about killing and looting and stuff and collecting things

Chippies

it will take couple of weeks at least to get the best gear though :P

mining and exploring is a big part of Terraria, but the main difference is the combat

in minecraft, combat is boring and almost non existant

it's basically a chore

in Terraria it's awesome

at first you only have boring swords

but later you get different types of weapons

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah, it is rather boring in Minecraft. Minecraft is best for building and mini games

Chippies

04:08

there's a whole bunch of different melee type weapons, ranged and magic weapons

at end game, magic is insanely awesome

but melee is still satisfying

the first time you fight a boss, it's usually at least a little challenging

the later bosses are quite challenging with the gear you can have before you kill them

building a hellevator with 2 people is so much better than by yourself though

(hellevator is a vertical tunnel that goes from surface to the hell level of map)

Lazers

05:20

0

Q: In Temple run 2 coin changes to flower shape after playing sometime

In Temple Run 2, I have completed Level 8. I have unlocked Scarlet and Barry bones. After playing a while the coins turned from diamond shape to flower shape. How do i bring back the coins?

temple-run-2

No. 7892142

07:38

@Chippies Even after that, they sometimes are.

Lazers

07:59

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For now few weeks I decided to get a Legendary Weapon, all the recipes are pretty simple but yet quite expensive. -T6 components are easy to find or at a reasonable price. -Since the last Update (16/03/2015) WvW maps don't count for the map completion, So I have the Gift Of Exploration. -Bloo...

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5pike

Morning @bridge

No. 7892142

hi qt

Arperum

Morning

@Chippies Let it grow some longer, there is the annoying period when it's hanging into your eyes, but once you can put it behind your ears, you're set.

@spugsley That's not long hair! That's kinda short hair. It's probably ten years since my hair was this short.

5pike

08:49

spam

Arperum

@5pike Already gone by the time I clicked.

No. 7892142

Ninja spam.

Kevin van der Velden

You're all just slow

5pike

@KevinvanderVelden That's my text!

Kevin van der Velden

Well then you should be faster in saying it! And I can say it too as I flagged it myself

5pike

08:53

Alright.

fredley

09:25

How is this closed as a duplicate of a newer question?! — Tom Medley 45 secs ago

Arperum

@StrixVaria My parents regularly have green eggs. As in: green shell, I remember them having one chicken that had eggs with a blueish colour.

5pike

@fredley The fuck?

fredley

@5pike If you have two identical questions, both with good answers, you should merge them

5pike

Yeah, totally.

No. 7892142

@fredley New is always better, obviously.

Arperum

09:29

No. 7892142

man i could go for some hard boiled eggs right now

5pike

Hard boiled eggs are awesome

2

Arperum

> ~~Hard boiled~~ eggs are awesome

ftfy.

No. 7892142

I wouldn't eat a raw egg tbh.

fredley

Eggs are only acceptable once they've been fried in some way

Fried/scrambled/omlette

These are nice eggs

Eggs baked into things like cakes are also good

5pike

09:32

@No.7892142 Only in a prairie oyster

Arperum

@No.7892142 Been there, done that. It's all kinds of pukeinducing because of how it feels in your mouth.

No. 7892142

All this egg talk reminds me that soon will be the time of eating about half a dozen eggs per day for a week, aww yes.

Arperum

@No.7892142 Why?

5pike

@Arperum EASTER

No. 7892142

@Arperum I hear in Thailand (?) they eat half-bred eggs, essentially chicken embryos.

Arperum

09:33

@5pike That's chocolate eggs

5pike

@Arperum And normal eggs.

No. 7892142

@Arperum no, actual eggs

also found it

Kevin van der Velden

No

Arperum

@No.7892142 Nope. Just nope.

No. 7892142

NSFW Chicken Embryos

fredley

09:33

No

Kevin van der Velden

Chocolate eggs all the way

5pike

@No.7892142 NO

Arperum

19 secs ago, by Arperum

@No.7892142 Nope. Just nope.

Kevin van der Velden

All the nopes

More NSFL than NSFW

No. 7892142

NSFW? Can I not post a piece of meat either?

fredley

09:34

NSF Whatever

@No.7892142 Most humans regularly eat meat. Most humans don't regularly eat embryos

No. 7892142

@fredley Interesting reasoning...

Arperum

@No.7892142 You can, but not one that is in the process of being cut of an animal.

fredley

Also, posting stuff like that is likely to get flagged.

No. 7892142

Oh well, whatever floats your boat, I guess.

Arperum

@No.7892142 6 eggs/day sounds unhealthy. I'm certain to be sick if I do that for a week.

fredley

09:36

@Arperum I did it for a week.

No. 7892142

@Arperum All a matter of getting used to it.

fredley

Staying in Germany with a host family. Host family is just a crazy old lady. 15 eggs scrambled with bacon every single morning. Amount of eggs kept increasing.

5pike

Kevin van der Velden

Needs more bacon

fredley

@5pike I never trust those Google oneboxes

Arperum

09:39

@No.7892142 Nope, my liver would be very offended. When I was a child I would end up sick every easter because I ate too much chocolate, same for saint-nicolas with oranges, or whenever I ate loads of eggs.

No. 7892142

@5pike Are you one of them egg council creeps?

Simpsons reference, don't mind me.

@Arperum Fair enough

5pike

@No.7892142 Damnit

No. 7892142

You'd better run, egg.

Lazers

09:55

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Wipqozn

10:06

Traffic Engineer gives some traffic advice cc @StrixVaria @OrigamiRobot @MBraedley @Chippies

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn This thunk interrupted me reading that exact page.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria haha

Lazers

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Q: Windows 8.1 or 10 preview for gaming?

My son is building a new GTX 980/4790K machine. He wants to know if he should install Windows 8.1 or the latest Windows 10 preview? Either way he'll reinstall a fresh Windows 10 when it's released, so a reinstall is coming regardless. Will Windows 10 preview be faster? Less reliable? Work with m...

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Q: Are there alternate methods to activate Steam CD Keys?

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Wipqozn

Really good read. I was already implementing his advice about having three types of roads: local, connecting, and highways, but everything else is new.

I still haven't done much of anyything, really, with public transit.

Today when I play I think I might take out a 60k loan from the bank and build all my highways.

I've got cash to do it, bu afterwards I'd likely be broke.

And I have other things to build too, like a university.

oh good, he posted the map: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/…

I've seen quite a few people with that map, and was wondering what it was,.

Map downlaoded!

Probably won't use it anytime soon, but now I 'll have it for when I want to.

MBraedley

10:51

@Wipqozn Yeah, I need to tear down a road an replace it with a highway through my "Uptown" area. Traffic's getting pretty bad around there.

Also, It looks like I'm working from home this morning.

Wipqozn

@MBraedley Same here.

Everyone at my dev office is doing the same, I believe. The buses aren't even running for at least another 2 hours.

GnomeSlice

11:07

Unreal Engine 4 【Retro Arcade Game Room】 i7 4770K GTX 780Ti 【1080p 60 Fps】

►

gib pls

MBraedley

Finding good torrents is starting to become very difficult.

Kevin van der Velden

Oh?

MBraedley

At least from the sites I go to. 720p files are hard to come by.

Kevin van der Velden

Huh, I don't have a problem with that

Though I only get series and not movies

MBraedley

@KevinvanderVelden Where do you go?

5pike

11:18

I know a very good site for movie torrents.

MBraedley

@KevinvanderVelden Same here.

Kevin van der Velden

Generally I go to eztv directly

eztv.ch

MBraedley

Also, some shows are never in 720p

@KevinvanderVelden I do too, and lately they haven't had the selection I expect.

Origami Robot

Dragon Force - Through the Fire and Flames - Tina S Cover

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Sometimes I think this is sped up

The speed at which some people play seems so impossible to me

MBraedley

Ha, even the truck plowing out the parking lot got stuck! So not going to work this morning.

No. 7892142

11:26

@OrigamiRobot That's alright though, you are merely a robot.

Origami Robot

Also:

Arperum

@OrigamiRobot There are other bands that play at completley ridiculous speeds. One example is Wintersun, they have pretty fast guitarwork on cd, but live they play even faster. (I don't think you'd like them though)

Origami Robot