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New Mobile Phone OS from Microsoft

@OrigamiRobot Hwah?

First person walking in stations confirmed (probably not yet)

21 hours ago, by Yuuki

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

@OrigamiRobot Further on, I qualified that as applying to non zero-sum games.

Of which, StackEgg is not and MtG is.

4:12 PM

I didn't look for context (did you forget where you said this?) and I don't even know what that is.

I also don't know what StackEgg is, but from the looks of things, it's stupid.

The room was heated, there was a point that needed to be made, and I think we're pretty much done here

@OrigamiRobot Have you not been paying attention for the past day?

@OrigamiRobot You're correct.

twitter.com/CERN/status/583147747710263296/photo/1

@Rapitor What do you think, sub-250?

4:15 PM

@Yuuki hmm. either sub or really close

user15026

Club Nintendo announced the final Elite status gifts, they're all downloads.

@Rapitor Was still kinda experimenting with my strat in the early parts of the graduated phase and I strayed a bit on occasion too.

Oh great, someone just joined the StackEgg.

Now I can't experiment.

Then again, it's kinda set in stone about now.

@Unionhawk That is super boring to me.

In other news, cargo/mining drones

Rusemaster

Okay guys

Yeah, but I can't think of anything else

Rusemaster

4:22 PM

gaming.stackexchange.com/a/212130/18916

@OrigamiRobot YES

Cargo scooping is so annoying

Rusemaster

Why the heck did Frank call this not an answer

I'm legitimately confused

I tried mining once

It was annoying

But it could be profitable

Well, now combat income is buffed, so it's definitely moot

Redbox for pets

@Rusemaster It looks like a comment to the accepted answer

user15026

4:26 PM

@Powerlord Kind of, but it does work as an answer. Not the most stellar one ever, granted, but an answer.

I think it's an answer, just an inferior one to the accepted answer.

@AshleyNunn "kind of"? It says also right in the text

@OrigamiRobot also refuel drones so you don't have to leave small buddies behind on your adventures

@Rapitor Progress is going kinda slow, so I don't think it'll be sub-250.

user15026

@Wipqozn This. :)

Hanako - Samurai Pillow Fight REVEAL

4:31 PM

@Rapitor Completion time: 255 days.

There we go. I just invited basically everyone in the company to our goodbye lunch next week. Let's see how that goes.

Q: How can I automate StackEgg Clicks?

lol

1

The StackEgg is fun, but I'm at work. Sitting around watching the egg timer, just won't do. How can I macro a click so that the egg gets my input, without me having to actually click? How can I participate without wasting my day?

javascript

So, (not April Fools, I just found out today), Google now includes the response header "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" if you search for "terry pratchett"

user15026

@murgatroid99 I am not sure what that means

4:36 PM

@Rapitor Oh yea, duh

@AshleyNunn There was a push when he died to have web servers send this header, similar to a Diskworld clacks tradition that he wrote about

user15026

@murgatroid99 Ah :)

@murgatroid99 i thought we could check response headers in chrome dev tools, what am i doing wrong?

@MattGiltaji you have to go to network, then reload the page, then click the item for the actual search page

@murgatroid99 ah, i see it now, thanks

4:40 PM

@MattGiltaji I just spent about 10 minutes trying to find it myself before mentioning it here

Q: Is there a Free2Play Trading-Card-Game with good 2v2 mode?

-1

I love Hearthstone, but unfortunately hearthstone has no 2v2 mode and it will not in the near future :-( Similarly I also loved BattleForge which had a 2v2 mode and Trading-Card (TCC) elements. Unfortunately it was not F2P in the beginning. When it became F2P the problem was that the "old gamers...

hearthstone

@murgatroid99 I believe this particular practice first appears in Going Postal.

Dear homestarrunnerdotcom: please let this be you guys actually back, and not just a see you at Halloween

Going Postal

Going Postal is Terry Pratchett's 33rd Discworld novel, released in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2004. Unlike most of Pratchett's Discworld novels, Going Postal is divided into chapters, a feature previously seen only in Pratchett's children's books and the Science of Discworld series. These chapters begin with a synopsis of philosophical themes, in a similar manner to some Victorian novels and, notably, to Jules Verne stories. The title refers to both the contents of the novel, as well as to the term 'going postal'. The book was on the shortlist for both the Nebula and Locus Awards for Best...

@Unionhawk Did they update again or are you referencing the Halloween toon from last year?

er... I meant to link to the book on Wikipedia. Whoops.

@Powerlord they posted a video on the youtube

There's a YouTube link on the website

As of like a week ago

4:47 PM

@AshleyNunn When a clacks tower operator dies, they send his name along the clacks towers as a way to make him, in a way, live on

user15026

@SaintWacko This is something I've not encountered yet. Clearly I need to read more. :D

@Yuuki not bad, we did a 251 without a set formula, though

Q: How Can I automate StackEgg clicks?

0

The StackEgg is fun, but I'm at work. Sitting around watching the egg timer, just won't do. How can I macro a click so that the egg gets my input, without me having to actually click? How can I participate without wasting my day?

stack-egg

0

Q: EagleHorn Bow (hunter's most famous weapon) Disenchant value

Last year, Blizard has upgraded disenchanting value of this weapon to be equal to its crafting one (for some time). Since i know that disenchant value only changes when a card is nerfed, and knowing that that card has not been nerfed,Does anyone know why did blizzard do that?

hearthstone

@Lazers Fucking

Arg

@Lazers This seems close to abuse and/or programming.

4:51 PM

@Frank there was an almost identical one on so

It is programming, someone on SO said it belongs here

It does not

user15026

@Frank There was....what @MattGiltaji said

I can...sort of see where they're coming from.

It is a game. And we do often help with other tasks of this nature.

gamedev maybe

@Frank I don't think we ever actually allow questions that just ask for a program to play a game

4:52 PM

@Frank but do we provide code for playing web games?

user15026

@Frank Considering we close a lot of "help me make a thing" for Minecraft, I don't see why this one should stay

@murgatroid99 Oh, I missed the part of, "How can I macro?"

@AshleyNunn Also a good point.

You mean you missed the core of the question?

user15026

Someone often makes a comment going "we don't provide code" so us doing that kinda makes that implied policy a little....wonky, no?

Minecraft has made everything wonky

user15026

4:54 PM

Anyways, its the time of day where I have to find my interview clothes.

Let's be perfectly honest here

user15026

@Unionhawk truth.

I love it when @Frank defends the existence of a question. IT's great.

Close all questions!

Shut down Arqade and play StackEgg instead!

@Unionhawk never close, always downvote

4:55 PM

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is about automating a process on a web page. — Frank 5 secs ago

There.

com.google is the only good April fools this year. Well, that's not entirely true

That said, I can see it being in somewhat fudgy territory.

Meh

WestJet #SmartSeats: the best way to board a plane

2 hours ago, by Frank

That one wasn't bad.

When someone on SO is like "this belongs on Arqade"...

4:57 PM

@Unionhawk pretty much all of the google ones are fantastic

Like

Everyone else, learn from google

Or maybe that's the problem

Yep, that's the problem

New Back to the Future Movie Trailer (2015)

@Frank We should tell him to go ask his question on LIfehacks.SE

(don't actually do that)

Never mind, there are no good April fools pranks

@Wipqozn You do that.

4:58 PM

@Unionhawk I know of good one

Stack Exchange

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

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

TOO SLOW

FUCK

@Unionhawk The AskHistorians one linked in the star list is pretty good

5pike

@Unionhawk You're to slow

:(

4:58 PM

@murgatroid99 askHistorians does fantastic jokes every year. This is their best one yet.

@5pike I know, that's what I said

5pike

@Unionhawk Ah, I thought you meant the turtle. Nevermind

@Wipqozn I'll probably actually subscribe to AskFantasyHistorians, if it actually becomes a thing

No, I wouldn't preemptively say TOO SLOW before removing him

This will require a few more delete votes, since it's positively voted

4:59 PM

I'd do that after

Or just a downvote.

> deleted by Frank, Unionhawk, Wipqozn just now

DELETE POWER

Then the roomba will clean it up.

Oh, wait, there's an /r/AskScienceFiction

DEATH TO ALL QUESTIONS

5:00 PM

Also, I'm going to get banned later for that

Or maybe not, since I didn't call anyone a jerk

@murgatroid99 Yeah, I think that's been around for a while.

@Unionhawk I want to flag this so bad.

If you had talked about starring, I'd star it.

Too bad using flags that was is irresponsible.

@OrigamiRobot PSA: FLAGGING STUPID SHIT IS IRRESPONSIBLE

@Wipqozn I can tell. There was a meta post on AskHistorians asking for today's fun to become an actual thing on another sub, and someone pointed out that that sub already existed

@murgatroid99 Yeah, I saw that. Did you see what /r/subredditdrama did?

@Unionhawk I shall resist the urge to flag this.

5:05 PM

@Wipqozn yes, when I tried to open the comments on a post

they actually got me, at first

@murgatroid99 I wasn't fooled, but then again I went to /r/subredditdrama this morning just to see what their joke was.

/r/wheredidthesodago is great. Everything is basically unclickable because it's moving around so much, and it's even more dramatic in comments

So I caught on right away. Easier to know it's a joke when you're looking for it.

Introducing Google Actual Cloud Platform

@Wipqozn The problem was that it was yesterday. I still wasn't completely expecting April Fools jokes

This is why I love Google April Fools jokes. The production values are impressive

@murgatroid99 oh, haha. I didn't see it until today.

5:09 PM

@Wipqozn My first instinct was to check /r/SubredditDramaDrama, which said it was a prank in the comments

@murgatroid99 ...nice

Hmm, the loss of the name really is hurting. Neither Wal-Mart nor Target have Story of Seasons in stock.

Although they do have Lost Valley, that piece of garbage.

user15026

@Yuuki Because they didn't get it, or because the copies are gone?

@Yuuki Boo.

I don't think they got it. It's not even mentioned on the Target site.

user15026

5:13 PM

(also, I was like "well duh of course Target wouldn't..." but then I remember you're in America, where they aren't selling off everything ever forever.)

I had to hit up a local EB Games to find an extra copy.

@Yuuki best buy?

Huh. Rory from Doctor Who is joining the Flash/Arrow TV series.

Fancy

One off or recurring?

@Frank I thought he was joining the ATOM spinoff

5:17 PM

Not a clue.

polygon.com/2015/3/31/8319299/…

I don't know enough about the DC universe to say whether this is a recurring role or not.

@Frank yeah, spinoff

Yeah, as @murgatroid99 said, spinoff so probably recurring :p

@murgatroid99 What does ATOM stand for? I'm not familiar with that one.

@Frank last few arrow episodes...

@KevinvanderVelden Oh, so massive spoiler?

5:19 PM

spoilers

Yeah

Course, it's from a comic book

Also I think it started before the end of last season so

I am really liking the Flash, though.

@Frank Advanced Technology Operating Mechanism

It's good

It's got a good sense of humor.

It's not really a spoiler

5:20 PM

@murgatroid99 ooh yeah the acronym isn't true

@Frank yeah. It's gotten...interesting recently.

@Unionhawk That makes me sad. I wanted to come back and beat it on hard later

:(

Speaking of flash, new episode incoming to a PC near you (or well, near me)

I mean, if we really want, we can pop into creative or something and reset some redstone, but it doesn't reset on its own.

I don't think it's that big a deal

5:23 PM

What are we talking about?

Minecraft map we're playing

Aah

We would've invited you, but timezones

Heh

If I'm not mistaken, our usual playtime is around 4am for you

5:25 PM

No prob, probably would have passed on it anyway, haven't been interested in minecraft much

@John I'm CET

Maybe 3, then

or 5

whichever way that goes

More importantly your'e in Europe and you sleep at sane times

Unlike some others that know who they are (have, before)

@Unionhawk midnight isn't that sane but yeah

Wait, are people flagging it now if you say things like "Code Gulf is jerks?"

@KevinvanderVelden It's sane by comparison

@Sterno YUP

5:26 PM

Oh wait no, I'm CEST now

Flaggers are jerks

UTC+2

James

@Sterno Sounds like a jerky thing to do to me

So I probably shouldn't say "Code Gulf is Jerks" then?

DO IT I DARE YOU

@Sterno You should totally say it

5:26 PM

@Sterno Yeah. Code Golf is really upset that people are upset at them for being jerks.

@Sterno Code Golf people have been flagging far tamer stuff than that for a while now

I actually don't have a problem with what they did.

So are they still raiding?

I'm just trying to understand if saying

CODE GULF IS JERKS

4

is getting flagged

@John Don't know, don't care

5:27 PM

@Unionhawk I probably shouldn't either

Literally

@Sterno FLAG BAIT DENIED

My daughter was vomiting all night and I'm home with her. NOW I'M MISSING THE DRAMA

@Rapitor merely testing a hypothesis

@Sterno I'm so sorry. If it helps, I beat another boss in Bloodborne last night.

@Sterno STAR BAIT GRANTED

5:28 PM

@Wipqozn I don't even know how far ahead of me you are

This is where I'm at in my life right now

I'm still at the "randomly machine gunned to death from afar" place

I've also got stackegg on adblock

@Sterno You've beaten two bosses, right?

@Rapitor Pretty sure if they did they only raided PPCG (after PPCG raided them) and I know they made a script but they said they didn't use it.

5:29 PM

Granted, I haven't been around for most of it, but you guys seem to be taking this Code Gulf thing way too seriously

So I force myself to disengage for my own sanity

@Wipqozn correct

@Unionhawk You really needn't have bothered

@John they hit us too.

No, I really needed to

It got bad

5:30 PM

@Rapitor Anime? Are you sure?

@Unionhawk well, it's not like you have any sanity to protect so

@Rapitor we don't actually know they did

Jason Berkan

Are we winning StackEgg? Will @Wipqozn delete his account? Do I care?

@JasonBerkan No, and yes, and no.

@JasonBerkan No, hope so, and hope not.

5:30 PM

@Sterno tbh the thing that bothers meisn't what they did, it's how they have reacted when peple told them to not do that.

Reddit just went to new levels of sinister. r/thebutton

Like, I almost asked to be banned last night so I would go to sleep and disengage

That's how bad it got

Every registered user before today may push the button once to reset the 60 second timer.

@Wipqozn Yeah. I prefer when the reaction is "Yeah, maybe I'm a jerk, but suck it up! I'm winning and you're losing!"

@JasonBerkan We are currently losing.

5:31 PM

@Unionhawk There was one mod that really looked like he was going to put The Nineteeth Byte in timeout

I was really sad he didn't

@John yeah, when PPCG gave up on their egg last night from all the restarters they were getting, came over here to help us with ours. since there was only one other competitive player that were known using scripts..... pretty easy to deduce

That would have been amazing, but probably would have started another fire

@Rapitor Not true. I know of at least 3 sites that had scripts freely available.

Q: Where can I find rubies for enchanting?

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I thought I'd start enchanting some stuff, starting with the Blunderbuss for my Cipher. I have the necessary level to enchant it to Exceptional, but I'm missing some required ingredients: I have everything but the two rubies, and no idea where to get them. The merchant for crafting stuff in my...

pillars-of-eternity

@murgatroid99 We're the highest site that hasn't raided another site. Close enough?

5:36 PM

My daughter is asleep. POE or BloodBoner?

@Sterno Clearly Path of Exile.

@John that we've condoned anyway. I'm sure we've had a few rogues.

@Rapitor That hasn't organized to raid another site.

How about that?

@John Fine, I'll start using FYSMD:JSDRPG like @LessPop_MoreFizz wanted

-thumbs up-

5:37 PM

@Sterno I have no clue what that means

@Rapitor :D

@Rapitor obviously, we can't control everyone on the site, or even in the chat

@murgatroid99 I think there's a pretty clear consensus here, though.

@murgatroid99 YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME

@Sterno BloodBoner.

@John You're better off

@Wipqozn I think so too. But I just realized I have a work phone call in 25 minutes so I'll wait until after that. I'll just troll lifehacks in the meantime

5:38 PM

Every time I hear PoE I think Path of Exile

1 min ago, by John

@Sterno Clearly Path of Exile.

@Sterno Bloodborne

@Sterno I'm alittle sad I know exactly what that means.

Fine, I shall now shorten Pillars of Eternity to PILLET

@John highfive

5:38 PM

@Sterno That works

@SaintWacko :D

@Sterno I really think FYSM:JSDRPG is better choice.

I'm so full

@Wipqozn You forgot a

I had an amazing turkey leg for lunch

Q: Where are Pillars of Eternity portraits located on OSX?

5:40 PM

0

I have some custom portraits downloaded and need to put them in some directory but have no idea where the portrait directory is on OSX (game installed from Steam). I've tried ~/Library/Application Support/Pillars of Eternity but no luck, they aren't there.

steam os-x pillars-of-eternity

user15026

@SaintWacko like a whole turkey leg?

@AshleyNunn Yep

user15026

Awesome.

cooked with rosemary

The cafeteria at work did a "Thanksgiving in April" for April Fool's

You're making me hungry

Which is good cause I'm gonna go make me some dinner

5:42 PM

Dammit, now I'm hungry, which is bad because I'm going to be in class for a while.

CURSE YOU

user15026

@SaintWacko that is brilliant. I approve.

YOU JERK

user15026

I ate before I left, so you can talk food all you want. :)

Oh, good. Daycare gets Good Friday off

I do so love taking time off work so that daycare can have a holiday

I wasn't planning to get anything, but then they had a turkey leg just sitting there waiting for me :D

5:44 PM

According to what I just wrote, this function returns a nool.

user15026

@sterno just send the child to me, I am home then. I know how to take care of kids! Watch Dora and those egg videos and I'm good, right?

Hosch250

Being reset trolled still?

@AshleyNunn Pretty much, yeah

user15026

I can do that.

MBraedley

Dear everyone: If you don't know what timezone that something will be used in, and that something is very dependent on what the real time is, use UTC. Assume everything is in UTC, unless a timezone offset is supplied.

5:47 PM

I prefer to use American Time

Which corresponds to whatever time zone I'm in

(or, if I'm traveling abroad, wherever my house back home is)

> Homestar, everybody knows the Internet already ruined April Fool's Day. On February 7 2008 ironically enough.

@MBraedley I'm pretty sure Pacific Time is the one true time zone. After all, that's where Google is

(that day has to be a reference but I don't feel like figuring it out)

Back my kickstarter to obliterate the sun and time becomes irrelevant!

Q: Question about global skills + undo in shop

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Is using the 'undo' in shop an advantage for champions with global skills? 3 scenarios I can think of is : Say, Ashe has ult and gold around 1600. She can buy the rod for + AP which is beneficial for her ult. Another is Kart, where he can cast his ult with the rod, then undo after, and go wit...

league-of-legends

Jason Berkan

5:49 PM

I always thought Eastern was the one true time zone, as that is the time the TV commercials tell you when shows are on.

user15026

Works for me.

@JasonBerkan They always say stuff like 10:30 Eastern/9:30 Central and Pacific

MBraedley

@JasonBerkan "8PM Eastern, 5 Pacific"

Eastern is the one true time zone

@Unionhawk I'm so glad they are back.

Jason Berkan

5:50 PM

@murgatroid99 Right, with Eastern first.

@Rapitor I hope this is officially back. That quote sounds like they are

@Unionhawk they've been officially back for a while..

I mean

MBraedley

Although on the radio (CBC specifically), it's "2PM, 2:30 in Newfoundland"

They did April Fools and Halloween

And they uploaded everything to YouTube, which probably took 3 months to process

5:51 PM

> A federal judge has rejected AT&T's claim that it can't be sued by the Federal Trade Commission, which is trying to put a stop to the carrier's throttling of unlimited data plans.

Hopefully this is a real story

Trent Hawkins

Banana scones... yum.

@Powerlord that sounds too mundane to be a joke

user15026

So I realized I have no idea what the woman I am waiting for looks like and she has no idea what I look like.

Ha

That's awkward

user15026

And since we are just at a Tim Hortons, I have nothing to go on. So I will just sit and wait and see what happens.

5:53 PM

... Guildwars 2 has every player running around pretending to be a plane...

Ah, GW2! I remember buying that and then never playing it

@Sterno Next time you want to buy a game, just buy me MtG cards instead. It will be cheaper and someone will actually use what you buy!

@OrigamiRobot I'm a little sad that after I donated about 30 unopened packs to my comic shop, they went out of business a month later

So, don't donate to @OrigamiRobot or he'll go out of business?

Aww

6:03 PM

Hmm, if I ever get a chance to convert this code to JPA, I'll have to remember about the @Inheritance, @DiscriminatorType, and @DiscriminatorValue annotations.

Alok

Just started playing StackEgg, its surprisingly fun :)

@Alok Sshhhh we don't talk about that anymore

If you enjoy it, enjoy it, and don't attract too much attention D:

No fun allowed.

Alok

Haha ok ... its like whack a mole though, hard to keep all the stars :p

Any fun you are having detracts from the fun ppcg are hav... DAMMIT @UNIONHAWK STFU

6:18 PM

Oh snap, catfight (Aisling Duval vs Senator Torval in a "who can free the most slaves" competition cc @OrigamiRobot)

@Unionhawk time' to collect more slaves

well, one side is freeing them

Well, more accurately, I think Torval is taking unregulated slaves and making them imperial slaves

@Unionhawk basically its bring slaves to torval or duval.

Right

Well, slaves to Torval, Imperial slaves to Duval, I think.

6:22 PM

well im in a vulture with barely any cargo no. i suppose i could dump some savings into a type 6 and get some slaves moving around..

New Atmospheric Effects In Kerbal Space Program

ciemiss is really close to me

I'm thinking about moving to another system to hunt a while. Having a whole faction hostile on you is dangerous

@Unionhawk why, how?

djsmiley2k

urgh how long does a game of stackegg take :/

6:28 PM

@djsmiley2k a run is usually aorund 280 days for us

djsmiley2k

265 days have elapsed – your Site is fully graduated.

@Rapitor I very much prefer getting the drop on my targets, and not have wings of cobras on my ass

(if you haven't experienced it yet, hunting in the same area over a long enough period of time causes the faction you hunt to become hostile, and attack you on sight)

Which translates into finding a large expensive target, and getting interrupted by a wing of sidewinders or something

And sidewinders are dangerous in packs

I should pick the game back up after break.

Q: I lost my car that i bought from the inter net

-1

I bought an car from the internet and stored it in my garage. I took it out for an spin and died and now i can't seem to find my car.

minecraft

we should totally add fysmd-jspdrpg as a synonym of pillars-of-eternity

6

Probs gta online

6:36 PM

@Unionhawk I'm guessing, yeah.

Either way

Wat

@Unionhawk I concur.

Welcome to MS-DOS Mobile

them useless flags

@Unionhawk I've been pretty much exclusively hunting in Empire space. i am allied with them.

@Rapitor it was validated, though

you gain rep for killing wanteds

user15026

6:51 PM

well, that went a thousand times better than yesterday

@AshleyNunn good news?

user15026

@MattGiltaji I didn't wait forever, and they will let me know tomorrow

user15026

They seemed to like me

both of those are great to hear

user15026

yeah, I am pretty happy with it, no matter the outcome. I was awesome.

user15026

6:57 PM

I have "Limited Edition" Lemon Ice Gatorade. While it is tasty, the fact that it is all "limited edition" is weird. Although it was a better random choice than yesterday's meat chips.