The Bridge

John

7:00 PM

I am really curious what that said.

colorfusion

"s"

John

Oh, hehe

colorfusion

Was playing skyrim with this open in the background

Trying to fix that weird double cursor focus thing

Yuuki

I wonder how quickly you can finish each phase.

Kevin van der Velden

@colorfusion there's a mod that fixes that completely

Matt Giltaji

7:01 PM

if you guys see weird voting (other than restarts) it's lag on my funky phone

colorfusion

@Kevin I've got that, but it still happens

John

@MattGiltaji Do you have cold fjords?

Kevin van der Velden

Huh

This one? nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36125?

Never happened to me

colorfusion

Yeah

Rapitor

don't do nothing. ever. you lose 2+ hearts

Matt Giltaji

7:03 PM

no, my god donut worm internet is broken for duck shake

Rapitor

@MattGiltaji Gnome is that you?

John

-3

Q: Why am I suspended from chat?

I just got suspended from chat for posting inappropriate content. The message was: Just restarted movies and tv How is this inappropriate?

Wipqozn

@John I love shog

Yuuki

@John Piss people off, they will get their petty revenge.

John

@Wipqozn ikr

Matt Giltaji

7:06 PM

@Wipqozn normally i don't, but today i do

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Something something Lifehacks.

Wipqozn

@MattGiltaji I don't always agree with shog, and at times he can be an ass, but he's always blunt. He doesn't put up with any bullshit, which I like.

Rapitor

bad start to final phase.

Wipqozn

Don't try to pull shit on shog and act innocent, because he'll call you out on your bullshit everytime

Matt Giltaji

@Wipqozn i i have nothing against shog's personality, i disagree with his conclusions often

Wipqozn

7:08 PM

1

Q: Methods to unlocking Mewtwo in Melee

I understand how Mewtwo is unlocked, but I am curious if anyone had a method to reach 20 hours of battle play time quickly. My other alternative would be killing Pokemon in the wild continually.

super-smash-bros-melee

When I saw this I thought mewtoo got released and I missed it

Nathan Osman

Anyone seen the StackEgg game?

Rapitor

@NathanOsman hamstare

Matt Giltaji

@NathanOsman its all we've been discussing for hours

Wipqozn

@NathanOsman TIL we have an ebooks site

John

@NathanOsman No, no one has

Nathan Osman

7:08 PM

>:)

Code Golf is getting too far ahead.

So I wrote this UserScript...

John

@NathanOsman They have been raiding other sites

and resetting them

Nathan Osman

If you install the script, it will attempt to restart theirs :)

Rapitor

Nathan Osman

Just leave a tab open with the game running and the script will do the rest.

Matt Giltaji

@NathanOsman i don't think we should stoop to that

John

7:10 PM

@NathanOsman I must go on record as protesting further raiding, especially since like 3 Code Golf people are still in this room

Wipqozn

@GraceNote You' so rad. Just thought I'd ping you with that.

Nathan Osman

Lol... it's just a game.

Matt Giltaji

if you want to bot to do an optimal strategy for your site, go ahead

Rapitor

I don't think our current phase will get us a 250 win like last time

we had areally shitty start to it

Matt Giltaji

but don't nuke others' sites

Rapitor

7:11 PM

there we go

Matt Giltaji

@Rapitor proper use of a flag, i think

Rapitor

@MattGiltaji that's what i've been trying to fire off since start of phase xD

Matt Giltaji

@Rapitor soz

Rapitor

max out one then flag

Yuuki

Well, class is over. Gonna do something more productive than StackEgg. Like buy Harvest Moon or something.

Matt Giltaji

7:13 PM

@Yuuki we can still win this with your help

Rapitor

PPCG got 5th win, but i still think we are gaining.

John

What was that flag?

Rapitor

aw i missed the flag.

murgatroid99

@John scroll up a little

Yuuki

Tangent: when your subwoofer is big enough to the point where I hear the vibrations of your car's frame over the actual bass, you should stop.

Nathan Osman

7:14 PM

You flagged my post?

user15026

What a waste of time. They were an hour late and are looking for telemarketing or those people who annoy people while they are shopping

John

@murgatroid99 Oh

@NathanOsman I don't personally blame you, just don't think it's a good idea to add more gas to the fire

murgatroid99

@NathanOsman Maybe one of the 3 PPCG people in here did. And honestly, I wouldn't blame them

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 same

Nathan Osman

Flags are for offensive messages.

Rapitor

7:16 PM

Flags for today has been used for espionage

as all rooms see flags

Yuuki

Okay, when your go-to strategy for winning a game is crippling the other competitors, you are a sociopath. Plain and simple.

6

Matt Giltaji

@NathanOsman some people might feel that linking to a bot to nuke the game when someone hits 90% is offensive

murgatroid99

@Yuuki that's excessive

Nathan Osman

@MattGiltaji It's just a game.

Wipqozn

This is the best April Fools ever.

3

Matt Giltaji

7:17 PM

@NathanOsman then there is no need for a bot

murgatroid99

@NathanOsman then why do you care?

colorfusion

@Yuuki There are a lot of games where you have to stop the opponent scoring as well as scoring yourself

Jason Berkan

@NathanOsman I think you may need to consider what chat room you are in.

Sterno

var that = this; is all the proof anyone needs that javascript is terrible

Nathan Osman

There's even an open question on Code Golf soliciting code for a similar bot themselves.

Yuuki

7:17 PM

Well, let's keep it applicable to non zero-sum games.

Wipqozn

@Sterno (since I know you starred that): I want to go play bLoodborne, but I'll miss all this drama.

Yuuki

@colorfusion And this is not a zero-sum game.

Sterno

Wait, did this stupid Stack Egg thing come up again?

Matt Giltaji

@Sterno it never left

Sterno

@Wipqozn I starred nothing. I just got back into chat to complain about javascript

Rapitor

7:18 PM

@Sterno its lifehacks level of drama

murgatroid99

@NathanOsman We don't think doing this is OK. We can't control what they do on their site, but we can control what we do on ours

Wipqozn

@Sterno It hasn't been dropped. It's glorious.

John

@Rapitor even worse. Lifehacks doesn't come invade our front page.

Wipqozn

@Sterno Now I'm sad.

Nathan Osman

@murgatroid99 Fair enough. That's fine.

Rapitor

7:19 PM

@John this is true

Yuuki

@John wut.

murgatroid99

@NathanOsman also, it's against the rules

Nathan Osman

Where are the rules?

murgatroid99

@NathanOsman the ? next to the X

Matt Giltaji

restarts kicking in, be on watch everyone

murgatroid99

7:19 PM

In the game

Nathan Osman

@murgatroid99 Oh, I see it.

murgatroid99

> May I be a jerk and ruin other sites' games? – No.

Yuuki

inb4 "nothing is forbidden, everything is permitted."

Nathan Osman

@murgatroid99 Okay, I didn't see that.

Fair enough.

Matt Giltaji

@Yuuki that was the crappiest part of the ac series

Rapitor

7:20 PM

Yuuki

Which, by the way, is seriously misquoted I think.

Sterno

@Wipqozn I starred it now just to make you happy

Nathan Osman

@Rapitor Thank you for the freehand circle.

Sterno

That'll make this hurt even more.

Wipqozn

@Sterno You rock.

Stack Exchange

7:21 PM

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

Yuuki

@MattGiltaji I think it's taken too much out of context.

Matt Giltaji

@Yuuki a lot of adolescents think it is deep when it is actually quite shallow

Stack Exchange

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

Sterno

Oh man, that went the wrong direction

MadMAxJr

It would have been less painful if they had just changed the CSS of all the stack pages to look like 1996 Geocities.

Sterno

7:21 PM

I guess I just have to build you up so I can break you down later.

Rapitor

@NathanOsman anytime.

murgatroid99

Can I be a room owner?

Stack Exchange

Wipqozn has added murgatroid99 to the list of this room's owners.

Wipqozn has removed murgatroid99 from the list of this room's owners.

Rapitor

oo me too

Sterno

If you want room owner powers, just go run for mod on lifehacks

John

7:22 PM

@StackExchange I blame @Sterno for this.

Wipqozn

@Rapitor sorry man, we can't all be room owners! That would be crazy.

murgatroid99

@StackExchange dammit

Jason Berkan

Someone stop @Wipqozn. He's mad with power.

Yuuki

@MattGiltaji It has layers but people just takes it as a license to be a sociopath.

Rapitor

@Wipqozn just lock down the room!

Stack Exchange

7:22 PM

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

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan Thanks for the reminder!

Matt Giltaji

@JasonBerkan it's april fools, why not have wipqozn deowner everyone else for a change?

Rapitor

0

Q: your eyes are fine

dude no way this is just good old truth

xbox-360

2

wat

John

@Rapitor favorited, apparently

murgatroid99

@Rapitor for some reason, that's really funny

Chippies

7:24 PM

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

Sterno

Because it'll stir up more drama, I'll just leave this Playing to Win article here

Arperum

@Rapitor nd I succeeded in closing it!

Matt Giltaji

dammit, misclick

Sterno

@Rapitor This is almost as good as HOW EVERYTHING OUT

John

Oh sheesh it's 3:30. Stupid egg. Later Bridge

Matt Giltaji

7:26 PM

where is the traffic?

Rapitor

@MattGiltaji traffic comes when everything has 2+ hearts

i think

Wipqozn

Okay, I'm going to actually play video games now.

Matt Giltaji

@Wipqozn cmon, play stackegg

Wipqozn

........I think I'm going to buy pillars this weekend................................

Rapitor

@Wipqozn story of seasons

Matt Giltaji

7:27 PM

also someone should grab the js while stackegg is still up and make it into a real incremental

Wipqozn

@Rapitor I'm not even a little tempted

Rapitor

@Wipqozn fine then.

Powerlord

@MattGiltaji Noooooo

MadMAxJr

Pillar of Seasons, there, now everyone is unhappy.

Powerlord

Meanwhile, I'm supposed to be "playing around in Oracle MapBuilder"

Because that's such an effective use of my time

Mad Scientist

7:28 PM

I think the Drinking Horn of Moderation might be bugged, I'm pretty sure Aloth isn't supposed to have 26 Intelligence

murgatroid99

10

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 ...

Matt Giltaji

@MadScientist there is a save/reload bug with companions

Lazers

-5

Q: your eyes are fine

dude no way this is just good old truth i promise you i have one for a LONG time trust me

xbox-360

Wipqozn

@Lazers Too slow

murgatroid99

This says it's when answers and quality are high

Powerlord

7:29 PM

@MadScientist Gamestopping Bug: Do not equip the Drinking Horn of Moderation

wtf

Mad Scientist

@MattGiltaji I don't think this is it, because this happened after I was in the area where I recruited Aloth

Rapitor

@murgatroid99 hm, ok then we should work on answers/quality pirority

Mad Scientist

Well, Obsidian never changes

murgatroid99

@Rapitor that answer gives a strategy that seems to work very well

Rapitor

strategy for jumping into graduated site is questions 4 heart then immediately flag to get everything 1 heart, and go from there.

Wipqozn

7:30 PM

Hearing people complain about bugs makes me want to wait, though!

And I already want to wait, so win-win!

Matt Giltaji

@Wipqozn sometimes bugs are fun

and it's nowhere near as buggy as d3 was at launch

Batophobia

@Wipqozn But once the best bugs are gone, no one will talk about it

Powerlord

@Rapitor You know that number of flags remaining is part of your rank, right?

murgatroid99

@Powerlord I think it's the last tiebreaker, though

MadMAxJr

@Wipqozn This is what I should have done with Wasteland 2. There were some /huge/ issues at launch.

Matt Giltaji

7:32 PM

@Powerlord i think its a tiebreaker

Rapitor

@Powerlord yeah, but times cleared is more important

Matt Giltaji

i am not sure, but the 251 days seems out of reach this run

Rapitor

definitely

Matt Giltaji

is everyone praying to rngesus?

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji yeah, because we're not following the strategy

Rapitor

7:33 PM

we had a few 'do nothings" in beta phase and a really bad start in graduated.

Matt Giltaji

at what point to we want to restart rather than mess up our average?

Rapitor

never restart

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji never, because number completed is most important

Rapitor

clears are most important

this run looks like 28X

just guessing

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 gotcha

murgatroid99

7:35 PM

@Rapitor I'm betting over 300

Matt Giltaji

yay traffic

Rapitor

alright, now we got good control

Powerlord

glares at Oracle

murgatroid99

The moral of this game is that users don't matter, as long as we have good quality questions and answers

Powerlord

So, I need to bind themes to a basemap when I create the basemap.

So, I need to bind the theme to a basemap when I create the theme.

Matt Giltaji

7:37 PM

@murgatroid99 bit of a freudian slip on se's part?

Powerlord

I just assume people can spot the problem with those two pieces of logic.

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji Or, considering how much we're not supposed to vote on the user, consistent with policy

Rapitor

@murgatroid99 right, priority looks like 1. Questions, 2. Answers, 3. Quality, 4. Users

murgatroid99

@Rapitor that's how I've been voting

Rapitor

quality may be more important than answers, at least in graduated phase

not certain

leave em at 50/50 and let RNG decide ;p

Matt Giltaji

7:40 PM

@Rapitor my new theory is that ties go to whoever selected first

Rapitor

possibly

murgatroid99

I'm also pretty sure that close votes are almost always bad. It sacrifices 2 questions for 2 quality

Arperum

@murgatroid99 yea, that's bad.

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 unless your quality is horrible and dv is not cutting it

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji but it just makes you spend more time recovering on questions anyway

Arperum

7:42 PM

@MattGiltaji gain 2 lose 2 is zero earned total.

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 questions recover quickly

Rapitor

@MattGiltaji everything is 1 a turn.. how is it quick?

Lazers

0

Q: How to start skylanders team talk game on wii u

Loaded disc & a short run through is shown & then appears stuck on element symbol. The game does not continue to start playing. Tried turning off and putting disc back in. Have removed all downloaded games so memory free.

technical-issues

Arperum

@MattGiltaji while they are recovering, they also lower answers.

Matt Giltaji

fine fine

Rapitor

7:43 PM

hm, we are making really good ground actually.

Matt Giltaji

there is also some sort of decay formula

if we crack that, we have this

murgatroid99

@Rapitor max traffic really accelerates it

Rapitor

indeed

@MattGiltaji it seems like the descriptions in the options themselves give a pretty good explanation of how it works..

Sterno

@murgatroid99 I'm surprised that question does not have a "sabotage the other teams" strategy posted

Frank

@Sterno I suspect that would get downvoted in a hurry.

Rapitor

7:46 PM

@Sterno we aren't PPCG...

Matt Giltaji

@Rapitor i mean the decay over time, not when boosting one hampers another

murgatroid99

@Sterno As long as the leaderboard isn't involved, other sites aren't relevant

Rapitor

ah, yeah

Powerlord

Reading the descriptions, you'd think that downvote would advance the decay on Users one step.

murgatroid99

That's asking for a strategy for quickly finishing your own stack egg

@Powerlord I'd bet that's true

Rapitor

7:47 PM

@Powerlord it most likely does

Powerlord

and that upping questions slows the decay on answers one step

or not

That one's fuzzy

Matt Giltaji

i wonder if they'll post an explanation on meta.se in a few days

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji there probably aren't many people who care about the exact algorithm

Arperum

wait what, this round increased both users and answers.

Rapitor

I'm noticing we have a solid loop going

Matt Giltaji

7:48 PM

@Arperum must be the traffic

murgatroid99

@Rapitor Not quite. We have everything the same except users is 1 higher than about 20 turns ago

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 given the so audience, i'm sure there is a lot of interest in it

murgatroid99

But then quality just dropped faster.

Matt Giltaji

crap, what happened to quality

murgatroid99

I have a feeling that there's at least some randomness involved

Rapitor

7:49 PM

more users = lower quality

murgatroid99

I do think we've gotten slightly ahead of the decay curve

we're averaging fewer empty hearts at any one time

Rapitor

the longer the phase goes the less decay there is. i've definitely noticed this

Matt Giltaji

yeah, the 280 range prediction might be on point

Rapitor

towards the end of the phase everything will be pretty consistently 4

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji I'm starting to agree

Rapitor

7:51 PM

the trick is to get at that point faster

murgatroid99

@Rapitor I think you might be able to do that earlier if you follow a good strategy consistently

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 i think the early strategy has to be reactive to deal with the red stats

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji But I think you can do better by not voting for low stats until they hit red

Rapitor

@MattGiltaji maybe, i still think firing off a flag early on is best as it will give 1 heart to all

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 what we really should do is write up a bot to capture what is happening and throw it in a database

then figure out stats and whatnot

Sterno

7:54 PM

Does anyone here use SublimeText, and if so, can you tell me why I'd pay $70 for a license? Does it do anything other than get rid of the nag text? They must not want to sell me a copy because I can't find any information about why I'd want to pay for it on their site

Wipqozn

I can't believe I'm wasting time on this. I'm going backt o bloodborne.

Rapitor

that sounds like way too much work for a 2 day minigame

Matt Giltaji

@Rapitor its not work if you find it exciting

Wipqozn

@Sterno I used to work with someone who used it. Does that help?

MadMAxJr

@Rapitor Stackborne.

Sterno

7:55 PM

@Wipqozn That was immensely helpful. Thank you.

Matt Giltaji

@MadMAxJr stackboner, cc @GnomeSlice

Sterno

@Wipqozn So, I played a bit more last night and got to some guy who machine-gunned me to death

Wipqozn

@Sterno You're welcome!

Sterno

I think that's where I have to because I don't seem to see anywhere else to go at this point

Wipqozn

@Sterno Oh, so you must have bought that 10k "key"?

Oh wait, no never mind

murgatroid99

7:56 PM

@MattGiltaji Unfortunately, the JS is obfuscated

Wipqozn

you're in old yarnam, right, @Sterno?

Sterno

I like the creepy church lady(?.. creature? whatever?) who is all "send people here, they'll be safe!"

She'll totally eat them

@Wipqozn Yeah

Rapitor

anime got 4th clear

Wipqozn

@Sterno Yeah, probably

murgatroid99

@Rapitor yeah, but we're hot on their tails. And PPCG is still on 5

Wipqozn

7:57 PM

@Sterno You can kill the person wielding the machine gun, an they won't respawn. So there's that.

Lazers

-3

Q: how do you use a mod if you have the mod

How So if I down loaded magic wand mod on pe I enabled it still nothin please tell me specifically thanks so much guys

minecraft

Wipqozn

@murgatroid99 Does PPCG even count at this point?

Sterno

@Wipqozn Well, at the time I was all "Oh, maybe I shouldn't be here yet" and explored some other paths I hadn't yet. But they all dead-ended

Rapitor

@murgatroid99 they've been at 5 for a while. so unless they are still warding off restart trolls catching up will be tough

Wipqozn

@Sterno I think that's the only place you can go until you buy that "key" for 10k from the bath messenger.

Sterno

7:58 PM

@Wipqozn I only want to do that if there's no other way to get it

Wipqozn

@Sterno I just bought it, so I'm not sure

Sterno

I bought the key in Dark Souls to get into the garden area (or whatever it was called... had those semi-invisible guys) on my first playthrough and regretted not getting there the "normal" way

Matt Giltaji

restart bot is acting up again

Rapitor

@MattGiltaji what?

we haven't had a restart vote for a while.

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