The Bridge

6:01 PM

@JasonBerkan Soon, kids will be asking where you bought those amiibo

@Batophobia They are much smaller than that. And my kids know what they are - my eldest has played with me (he gets to control a squad).

MadMAxJr

Most of my eldar elites were unpainted.

My Guardian troops were how I learned to airbrush. And the first batch wasn't too good.

For tabletop minis, don't spend a lot of time and effort on troops who turn to ask if so much as a pistol is pointed at them.

Now my box of Relic Knights, they're all unique pretty snowflakes, so they can all have a nice paint job.

Rapitor

looks like the egg is starting to get a little trolled again

still dominating it, tho

murgatroid99

@Rapitor The one user voting for Reset every round isn't very effective, though

John

I've been watching PPCG's egg, there has been people voting to reset for about 20 minutes now

It seems to only be one person now

Rapitor

6:10 PM

@John i mean... they deserve it sure. but being jerks in response isn't my idea of solution

John

I'm not sure they understand how voting works

murgatroid99

@John One one hand, two wrongs don't make a right. On the other, it's hard to feel sorry for them

John

@Rapitor agreed

@murgatroid99 agreed

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 yep

John

@murgatroid99 Don't worry though, they are feeling sorry for themselves plenty enough to make up for it.

Rapitor

6:11 PM

i would've just wiped their slate back down to last place and let him play legitly if they really want to win

John

Sadly, @Rapitor isn't running SE

Matt Giltaji

@Rapitor they would probably take everyone else down if that happened

Rapitor

@John trust me, this is a good thing

John

Hehe

@MattGiltaji They already said in their chat if they get reset even once they're going back brigading everyone again

murgatroid99

@John That's real mature

Rapitor

6:13 PM

@MattGiltaji the idea would be the stupid reset option would be removed

but they'd probably just spam "do nothing" then

which is also useless

John

53 mins ago, by John

Some of these people seriously sound like your standard 13 y/o on the internet.

murgatroid99

I like one of the suggestions on that Meta.SE question: remove the reset option, and reset if there are no inputs for 100 ticks or something

Rapitor

@murgatroid99 just remove the reset option unless the egg dies or you win. it's that simple

murgatroid99

@Rapitor or "close", which often doesn't really help

Matt Giltaji

@Rapitor or actively try to crash it by driving users up and quality down

MadMAxJr

6:15 PM

We have to go back in time and stop hats. That is the only way to prevent this.

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji >Lifehacks

MadMAxJr

Not just site hats. Like. The concept of hats.

Rapitor

when we get our third win PPCG will realize we are hot on their tail and probably will raid

Frank

Burn

user15026

Well this interview will be a waste of my life.

murgatroid99

6:16 PM

@Rapitor then we can go on meta and say that they're blatantly violating a rule

Matt Giltaji

@Frank ugh, flag lag

Rapitor

@murgatroid99 what would happen tho? i doubt the site would be shut down for breaking rules on an april fool's game

Matt Giltaji

@Rapitor maybe some bans

murgatroid99

@Rapitor I'd just hope for shutting down their egg or resetting their leaderboard score

John

@Rapitor I dunno, Fools or not, rule breaking is rule breaking.

user15026

6:18 PM

I am sitting at a marketing meat grinder that I have already interviewed at a few months back who just changed their name and they are setting off so many of my alarm bells

Yuuki

And here come the restart votes.

John

@AshleyNunn :(

Frank

@AshleyNunn Nothing says you can't just get up and walk away.

John

@Rapitor Anime got a third already. PPCG is more worried about them.

Rapitor

@John are you still keeping an eye on their chat?

John

6:19 PM

@Rapitor I am

Chippies

Immigration wants proof that I live with my legally married wife in Canada, while I have no job to support myself alone.

user4704

@AshleyNunn Abandon ship.

Chippies

Sometimes I wonder how dumb is the government

Rapitor

@Chippies many dumbs

Frank

@Chippies Very.

user4704

6:20 PM

14 dumbs, to be exact.

murgatroid99

@Chippies OK, I'm going to be different and say that that's not a stupid question

John

This just in: PPCG mod participated in the raids.

-4

A: When something that was supposed to be fun became not fun

Sorry, don't have time to write a full-fledged response, but... Who cares? I'm not saying I'm encouraging this behavior and people should keep doing it. I'm not saying it's ethically, morally, or in any way right. I'm not even saying that I didn't participate in it at first. But what I am sayi...

user15026

@john I was going to mention that but linking is stupid hard on my phone

Chippies

@murgatroid99 seems pretty dumb to me, besides, why does it even matter, since we're actually married

murgatroid99

> It's only a joke, so why do you care, but winning is really important

Chippies

6:21 PM

anyways, g2g to bank for some statement or somthing, afk

Matt Giltaji

@John next question, is ppcg the new lifehacks? film at eleven

John

On one hand, I kinda get it

Their site is literally built for exploiting loopholes in games

whereas ours is for actually enjoying them

Frank

@John But there's a difference between exploiting loopholes, and making the game unfun for others.

Matt Giltaji

@John that is a crap reason

user15026

Hahaha my interview is now 22 min late and people just keep pouring in. We are out of chairs.

Rapitor

6:23 PM

from my visits to the site it was more multiple ways to do various things in code, the most efficient way possible. not much to do with games. a lot of the puzzles/golf wasnt even games.

John

@Frank They even have a tag for it

murgatroid99

@Rapitor yeah, from the hot questions, it's almost never games

Matt Giltaji

@John king of the hill is about being competitive, not sabotaging other entries

John

Fair enough

in The Nineteenth Byte, 38 secs ago, by Hosch250

We should write a bot to intercept restarts.

Yuuki

@John No, it's more along the lines of PPCG's activities being almost entirely self-centered. There is no such thing as multiplayer cooperative code golf.

MadMAxJr

6:25 PM

Area51 is free of this madness.

John

Heh

@MadMAxJr To Area51!

MadMAxJr

BUT. It has the paranormal proposal

John

From Area51!

Matt Giltaji

raid incoming it seems

John

I don't see one coming from PPCG atm

Is there another place to be checking?

Matt Giltaji

6:26 PM

@John i'm watching game itself, we are getting more restart votes now

Frank

Can you see the players?

Matt Giltaji

@Frank nope

Frank

We win, anyways.

user15026

Ooh, got a phone call from what appears to be a recruiter judging from the phone number. It's a good day to be me

Matt Giltaji

woot, 3rd down

Yuuki

6:27 PM

Whoo, 251 days.

Rapitor

that run was pretty perfect

Frank

@AshleyNunn Yay!

@Rapitor Other than the reset attempt.

Rapitor

@Frank that doesn't use a day, though

i dont think

Powerlord

You know how I was wondering why LifeHacks still exists earlier? That also applies to Code Golf, but Code Golf doesn't even have the benefit of being backed by staff.

murgatroid99

@Powerlord Worse than either of those, in my opinion, is Puzzling

MadMAxJr

6:29 PM

My god all of SE is now Salem.

John

@Powerlord Shog said it's a jokey site, too.

murgatroid99

It's mostly just riddles

Rapitor

code golf can have experts and such.

murgatroid99

Puzzling is basically the reason we banned ITG, incarnated as a site

John

in The Nineteenth Byte, 1 min ago, by Geobits

Damn, Arqade just had a 251 day win. We should watch them for a while, they're obviously doing something better since our last couple have been ~25 higher...

Powerlord

6:30 PM

Code Golf is basically the reason SO banned the code-golf tag, incarnated as a site.

Except with added trolls

Lazers

0

Q: Why is this spot's callout called "mustang"?

Someone told me that this spot in the rafters above A site on de_nuke is called mustang; however, I have yet to understand why it's called mustang. I know the other side is referred to as heaven, but why is this specific spot referred to as mustang?

counter-strike-go

Yuuki

@John Oh dear.

murgatroid99

12

Q: What is the optimal strategy for the launched site in Stack Egg?

The Stack Overflow instance in particular seems pretty poor. How should it be done to achieve the best performance? How is there such a difference between different sites?

stack-egg

Geobits

Nothing like being quoted in a misunderstood manner ;)

Matt Giltaji

4

Q: Stackagotchi Strategery

Dear kind sirs and madams, I have found participating in your tomfoolery once again, as in the past, to be quite invigorating! I cannot properly convey my appreciation using mere words, but may it suffice to say that this has made my birthday quite merry indeed! Sadly, I find, however this year...

discussion april-fools stackegg

Frank

6:32 PM

@Geobits We're gamers. This is what we do.

Geobits

Agreed, and on the internet it's what we all do :D

Matt Giltaji

yay, public beta

John

in The Nineteenth Byte, 24 secs ago, by Runer112

time to keep an eye on arqade

Frank

Still getting the reset votes. sigh

Matt Giltaji

we may want to start hoarding mod flags, in case it comes to that tiebreaker

Yuuki

6:35 PM

@John VTC PPCG as humongous jerks.

4

user15026

Wonder how long i should wait past my interview time....

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji that's pretty unlikely, though

Frank

@AshleyNunn How long has it been?

John

@Yuuki Now they're getting mad at me in their room for quoting that in here

user15026

@frank 38 min

John

6:36 PM

in The Nineteenth Byte, 15 secs ago, by Optimizer

Looks to me that John is suggesting that Arqade raids PPCG

whoawhoawhoa

does anyone see anything remotely like that?

Frank

@AshleyNunn Do you want the job?

John

anywhere?

TheBestOne

in The Nineteenth Byte, 1 min ago, by Runer112

@John I pretty clearly said keep an eye on, not raid

user15026

@john not at all

Yuuki

@TheBestOne What on earth would you keep an eye on us for if not to raid?

Frank

6:37 PM

@AshleyNunn Then just leave. Not worth your time.

user15026

@frank not really, it's setting off many flags.

user15026

Also I got a message from what appears to be a recruiter who called while I have been here

Rapitor

@Yuuki so if they get reset they have a scapegoat

TheBestOne

in The Nineteenth Byte, 9 mins ago, by Geobits

Damn, Arqade just had a 251 day win. We should watch them for a while, they're obviously doing something better since our last couple have been ~25 higher...

John

@Rapitor They are already saying I'm trying to make you guys raid them.

Rapitor

6:38 PM

oh boy here we go

user15026

Oh god they are calling more people asking them of they will be here soon.

Frank

Can we just...y'know, have a friendly competition?

user15026

This is a mess.

John

@AshleyNunn You have no idea

Rapitor

@TheBestOne because we play games, we know how to win them fairly

Yuuki

6:39 PM

@TheBestOne Still doesn't explain why PPCG wants to "watch us" if not to know when to raid.

John

@Frank Friendly? What's that?

Frank

Rather than trying to torpedo other sites?

Runer112

@Yuuki Because you guys just had a really fast win and we're curious how you pulled it off

well, I am at least

Geobits

@Yuuki I clearly said that your number of days was better than ours and we should watch what you were doing so we could get ours down. That's why we're watching.

Rapitor

@Runer112 balance the hearts.

murgatroid99

6:40 PM

Well, somebody's trying to restart us

Runer112

it looks like you guys are doing basically the same we're doing

Rapitor

more hearts = more progress bar growth each turn

Frank

@murgatroid99 At least two people.

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 Pretty shortly after they said they should start "watching us" too.

Powerlord

9

A: What is the optimal strategy for the launched site in Stack Egg?

So far as I can tell, this is the optimal strategy for the launched product. Every round, choose the top item from this list. If an item is 4 hearts, then go on to the next level. If an item is red, it deserves immediate attention. Raise the Questions via ask to 4 hearts. Raise the Answers via ...

This is what we're doing

Geobits

6:41 PM

Yea, we figured out the basics, we're just trying to optimize it. We've ended up at around 275 days the last couple of runs.

John

@Frank There seem to be exactly 2 in PPCGs egg, too

Frank

@John sigh

murgatroid99

@Powerlord approximately

Frank

What part of abuse are people not understanding?

user15026

There are now 10 people waiting. I have been here for 40 min, and nothing is happening. This is ridiculous. I hate being a good person - I feel like I have to see this through, but holy crap on a stick.

Lazers

6:42 PM

0

Q: How might I find the Hammerhead?

In the Saints Row series, there exists a muscle car called the Hammerhead. The Saints Row Wiki does not state any information on locating the vehicle in Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV, and I'm really wanting to find it in the PC versions of these games. Could I get a nudge in the right d...

pc saints-row-the-third saints-row-4

0

Q: how do you run minecraft pc manually?

i was downloading minecraft forge and it said had to run minecraft manually at least once first

minecraft

Rapitor

there is a restart vote at the start of every single turn, that makes me think a script is involved

Frank

@Rapitor Sounds like.

John

@Rapitor I noticed that on PPCG, too

it's instant, every single round

@Rapitor I do know there is a script working, but don't know where it came from

Rapitor

seeing has the game has no userlist (why?) we can't really determine who has it

Geobits

I know Anime has a bot going, but I think it's more for raising their own egg than raiding. Not sure.

Sepia Lazers

6:44 PM

-2

Q: StackEgg and Arqade"s Pride

There is no other choice for us than be 1st. Let's show them how we handle video games here on Arqade.

discussion

Geobits

For those of you wondering... chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/20844243#20844243

Rapitor

@Geobits well I can't say for anyone else here (although I'm pretty certain) we aren't/won't raid PPCG.

John

@Geobits Ah, I knew Anime was involved, but for some reason thought the script came from elsewhere.

Unionhawk

I can't keep up voting. We're probably going to be roboreset

Yuuki

Okay. That is not what the chat flag system is for. It's already abused to hell, we don't need to make it worse.

Unionhawk

6:50 PM

Shame that people continue this.

Rapitor

@Unionhawk just wait until voting is near over and break the tie

looks like the restart voter is gone. neat-o.

i wonder how sites with 1-2 players wouldnt be sweeping the floor

the best cooperation is playing alone

Powerlord

I've never cared much for Spiderman, he's just a thinly-veiled allegory for puberty.
Hair growing in weird places? Strange feelings never experienced before? Spraying white goo with a wrist action?
I'm certain most men are familiar with all that.

Made me lol

Matt Giltaji

ugh, I want to help but can't find the game on mobile and my work Internet is crapping out

Rapitor

and they're back

Lazers

0

Q: Where can I find some smithing potions in Skyrim?

I'm wanting to know where I can find some smithing potions around Skyrim. I'm level 42 and I have tried looking at the alchemist shops and traders, but I just can't seem to find any.

skyrim xbox-360

John

6:57 PM

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/252393/…

ahahaha

Aw, no onebox

Rapitor

he's not wrong

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