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14:00
That picture you linked looks like Falcore
@Sterno same
If you don't know who Falcore is, I weep for your childhood
@Fluttershy have you done Hemwick Charnel Lane yet in bloodborne?
That was my favourite location so far I think, super atmospheric.
@GnomeSlice I've only just beaten Gascoigne.
@Sterno I recognize the reference, but have never seen the movie it originates from. Not having a single TV in the house when growing up might be part of the reason.
14:02
I did old yarnam after father guacamole
Dark Souls had some pretty scary shit too
@Sterno I don't remember never ending story having that much lightning-skeleteon-dragons
@GnomeSlice Still not as buttock-clenchingly terrifying as creepers used to be
@GnomeSlice Dark Souls did have some scary creatures. But just that image of the church giant gives me chills. And makes me really scared to continue. >_>
@fredley fortunately we have tesla coils against the creepers
Creepers were just scary because you knew they could wreck your shit.
@Fluttershy giant church?
Oh the mask guy
those guys are fuct
have you found the guys carrying the telephone poles yet
14:06
@GnomeSlice hsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
@KevinvanderVelden YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA GETITOFGETITOF
@Arperum Proper fight-or-flight stuff
@fredley flight, always pick flight
@KevinvanderVelden But which direction?
Unless you have a few blocks of dirt or something I suppose
14:08
the snatchers are pretty damn scary too
they can one hit you early in the game
@fredley If you hear a hiss, but don't see a thing, it's probably behind you and you should run forwards.
:P
@fredley Playing too much super hostile maps will do things to your brain.
Hey Guys
@fredley Towards water. Then you can switch to fight.
@YoungGuilo Welcome.
14:11
@Yuuki water just makes it harder to run from the creepers
Just a quick question.... How long does a fully committed sight take to be in BETA?
@GnomeSlice Haven't seen any guys with telephone poles yet, no.
@Fluttershy There's like two of them.
They're kind of silly but they can wreck your shit
@KevinvanderVelden They float, so you attack from below.
Swim up for a bit to hit them and then sink down.
Rinse and repeat until they're dead.
Oh yeah that works in deep water, I assumed the 2 block pools of uselesnes
14:16
0
Q: Can I replace my own mod in Ingress?

james.garrissI control a portal, and on this portal there is a mod that I placed. It's a common mod, and I would like to replace it with a better mod, a very rare one. Is there a way I can replace the current mod with the better one?

@YoungGuilo Oooh Mythology got full commitment!
yay got yearling badge
@Rapitor grats
@Sterno I... I was -5 when that came out apparently
14:21
@KevinvanderVelden now i feel super old
@KevinvanderVelden -7
@Rapitor -4 it seems
@YoungGuilo We'll find out sooner or later :)
@YoungGuilo whenever the SE overlords decide, I think there's a bunch of set up to do from it
cc @GraceNote re: overlords
EMBRACE YOUR TITLE
@KevinvanderVelden se has its own creation myths, i suppose
14:28
@GodEmperorDune well, not so much creation myths as titles
@KevinvanderVelden You are failing to get the reference.
@Sterno I'm fairly sure the only ones not calling them the SE overlords is... well, themselves
@Arperum there is a reference there?
@KevinvanderVelden i woke up 20 minutes ago, not at my sharpest yet
@KevinvanderVelden We are talking about the eventual launch of mythology.se
@RobertCartaino - I am still here, still reading answers, and still seeing bad medical advice. Yet it isn't being vetted. Clearly it is the case. One answer recommended eating a product for pain relief that is used topically for pain. The answer isn't easy, and can't be discounted as occurring when it's not occurring. This is a health site, and "do no harm" should exist here as well. — anongoodnurse 17 hours ago
Robert really wants Health to work even though the medically inclined people there are saying "All the wrong answers are winning"
cc @Wipqozn get in on this drama
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14:32
That's alarming.
@Sterno i think skeptics was a one in a million shot and worked, they keep trying to repeat it to no avail
@Sterno That's bad. really bad.
@GodEmperorDune the upside of skeptics is that noone dies from bad advice
@KevinvanderVelden true
So, is today really only Wednesday?
14:35
@KevinvanderVelden Yea, people could very well die from some diving equipment that ended up faulty because someone used it to blow dust out of a pc.
cc @Unionhawk
@Powerlord yes ='[
But on the upside, it is nearly done-working-o clock on wednesday
@KevinvanderVelden glares
@Powerlord That does mean I can go eat at my parents and don't have to cook myself though.
@KevinvanderVelden i didn't even start work yet >.>
Oh right, at least my new external HDD arrives today.
14:36
@GodEmperorDune Start living in the right part of the world.
I can finally move some old files to a different drive so I can start adding new, important things.
Like videos I created to make Lets Play things on Youtube.
@KevinvanderVelden Skeptics actually covers a lot of the topic that appear on Health as well
14:38
@LessPop_MoreFizz That wouldn't happen to be Lipton Iced Tea, would it?
@MadScientist though, in my limited experience, more often in a sense of "Is this claim true?" and always requiring citations?
@Yuuki Dunno
@Batophobia love that canadian 4th panel
14:40
It's more abstract on Skeptics, and because we only allow notable questions it is pretty much always about stuff that is already out there, and we're trying to find out if the advice is correct or not. We're also mostly dealing with medical claims that are already dubious for some reason
I can tell its going to be that kind of day
I just stopped my local test environment because we needed to reboot the machine the dev appserver was on.
...can anyone see the logic problem there?
@Arperum He keeps saying "The community just needs to vote right!", people say "but they're not", and he ignores them
@Powerlord your local env is not local at all?
@MadScientist Yeah, I mean there could be a theoretical case where there's a claim (like "miracle mineral solution") and people providing evidence that it's true and people then dieing from drinking bleach
@Sterno "People need to vote responsibly!"
14:42
@GodEmperorDune No, the logic problem is that my local dev environment includes a local appserver.
But I don't think that's likely (and it hasn't happened yet so)
If he'd rebooted the dev DATABASE server, I'd have to shut it down. I couldn't care less if he rebooted the dev appserver.
@Sterno really very bad.
@Powerlord ah, makes more sense now
@fredley @Wipqozn is always causing problems
14:44
I can't imagine why they won't let me have a local copy of the database server that has several hundred GB of spatial data in it.
@KevinvanderVelden Dubious stuff like that has no chance at all at Skeptics, so I think we're good there. The areas where we are weaker are also areas that don't cause harm like political stuff
@fredley Is this comic just non-sequiturs or something?
@Powerlord pretty much
14:45
@fredley So, it's a Penny Arcade clone then? Except sometimes funny?
@MadScientist I thought you were saying that the same problem could occur with skeptics (i.e. bad health advise causing harm), that was the most likely scenario I could think off
I.e. when there's evidence that is deemed reliable that is wrong
Why do you people keep removing your messages, I wanna see =[
@KevinvanderVelden i don't see how drinking bleach could ever be seen as reliable
@GodEmperorDune google miracle mineral solution
@KevinvanderVelden I merged my last two messages together.
It is a real thing that is being sold for real
14:47
@KevinvanderVelden It could, but it doesn't really happen as far as I can tell.
@KevinvanderVelden still? i thought that was over and discredited
'cause I wanted to make it clear I was insulting Penny Arcade, not Exocomics.
@MadScientist yeah that's my stance, I was pointing out how far into the unlikely we would have to go =p
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Q: What is Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS)?

rjstellingPromoted by Jim Humble, Miracle Mineral Solution is claimed to cure a wide range of ailments. But what exactly is it, chemically speaking?

@GodEmperorDune in the sensible communities yes
14:47
That was one of the first questions
@MadScientist that's... no.
@Rapitor Yes
It can cure cancer you know!
no.
(ಠ_ಠ)
> Recent responses to criticism in the media:

This breakthrough can save your life, or the life of a loved one.
The answer to AIDS, hepatitis A,B and C, malaria, herpes, TB, most cancer and many more of mankind's worse diseases has been found. Many diseases are now easily controlled. More than 75,000 disease victims have been included in the field tests in Africa. Scientific clinical trials have been conducted in a prison in the country of Malawi, East Africa.
14:50
@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, if you're dead, you won't have cancer no more.
@KevinvanderVelden i'm reminded of alfred hitchcock's cure for a soar throat
WHAT NO NO (*U(*#%@W%##%
HIS REPLY:
- that MMS is neither a cure nor a treatment for any of the things you claim it can treat or cure

MMS has been proven to destroy pathogens. It is used for water purification, sterilizing and disinfecting surfaces in hospitals, and a thousand other sterilization jobs. I found out that dozens of patents had been issued proving that MMS kills pathogens. What I did is show the world what those patents have been proving for 40 years—that MMS (chlorine dioxide produced from sodium chlorite) kills pathogens, even in the human body. I proved this when the medical profession couldn’t do it because
YES IT DOES KILL PATHOGENS THAT IS CORRECT IT IS BLEACH IT KILLS DAMN NEAR ANYTHING
> kills pathogens, even in the human body
closes tab before more rage
Yeah, and then it kills the human
14:52
by the same logic, drinking alcohol is great when you're sick becaus alcohol kills germs
@GodEmperorDune Or setting yourself on fire
@5pike you'll be warm for the rest of your life
@5pike does a handgun actually kill cancer cells in a petri dish?
wouldn't it just fling them all over the place?
@GodEmperorDune I'm pretty sure the impact/friction destroys them.
14:53
@5pike shoot it with a gun is always the answer
i happily accept my name on to various lists.
@GodEmperorDune It might fling a couple around, but it'll also kill at least some.
HOME TIME
CYA CHAT
@AshleyNunn my biggest KSP achievement is having a kerbal do a 10km fall, and survive.
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@arperum I don't really play much because like I said, I am only really good at making things go boom
@AshleyNunn You should get Besiege then
It's "Make things go boom - The Game"
14:59
@GodEmperorDune Ask, I think it was @OrigamiRobot, about the Bridge Creation Myth
@AshleyNunn Same here, or the above "whoops" situation where I had a kerbal leave his rocket just to plummet 10km lower into the asphalt. And somehow survive.
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Q: Matching the controls of Mortal Kombat X with my Logitech F310

TheAdamGaskinsMy friend recently purchased Mortal Kombat X. I have Mortal Kombat 9 on steam (from some sale I'm sure) which I've never played, but I want to start practicing for when we hang out. I stayed up until 2am last night playing... I started out having my butt handed to me by the lowest level AI, spen...

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@arperum he must be made of industrial strength kerbal stuff.
user15026
Huh, according to the new profile, I have reached 2.2 million people. That's more than I expected.
i've reach 1 mil.
I'm so sorry.
user15026
15:04
Also the stock text when people don't have anything in their about me box makes me giggle.
what is it?
@AshleyNunn 2.2 million kittens, what?
i dislike that my top tag is minecraft...
ask more SoS questions
user15026
@Rapitor something about people wanting to keep an air of mystery about them.
~2.4M, whoo!
user15026
15:07
@powerlord I have no idea what you are meaning here.
Clearly you must play more of the Kittens Game.
Although I think that went out of style months ago
@Rapitor Mine is , I think, so you're better off in my opinion.
NEW PROFILE PAGES HAVE LANDED
EVERYBODY PANIC
Oh wait, it's . Whew.
15:09
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Q: New profile page design devoured my gold badges

Shadow WizardI have four gold badges on Arqade and very proud of them. However, I just noticed they are all missing from my new profile page! Can I please get them back? :)

@SepiaLazers INB4
@Sterno Shut. Down. This. Site.
@Sterno Bloodborne was enough to justify my PS4 purchase.
Person goes on vacation. Takes entire week plus an extra day off. The week they come back, they work a full day, then leave 1.5 hours early the next day, then leave 7 hours early today.
@Wipqozn I kept telling you that and you were all "boo hoo I have so many games"
@Powerlord They're doing it right.
15:15
@Sterno Suuure they are.
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Q: Do mutes persist between games?

encheIf I mute someone in a public matchmaking game in DotA 2 (from the in-game menu, clicking the microphone button to make it red), will this persist into other games?

@Sterno Yes. You were the hero all along . @5pike was the true villian.
They barely survived the chopping block when we cut the number of GIS staff in our office.
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Q: Visited links are invisible on new profile

fredley Some of these words are links! Can you tell which ones? I can't, because having visited them, their colour is almost identical to regular text.

15:21
Good, can I get going home support?
@Powerlord perhaps later
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Q: Installed GTA 5 Steam version greyed out, Discovering Existing Files, then completely redownloads game?

OfflineYesterday I was playing GTA5 Steam Version just fine, today the "Grand Theft Auto V" font-color in my Steam Library isn't white anymore just greyed out, also the Installation button returned, all fine and good I thought, I had this Problem before, Steam would just find the existing files and I'm...

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Q: Can we replace the GitHub Profile field with Steam ID?

LessPop_MoreFizzNew profiles are here! Yay! There are fields for relevant social links like Twitter and... GitHub? I mean, GitHub makes tons of sense over on the mothership, but here at Arqade, we're about using software, not making it. And a Steam Profile is something that would fit pretty perfectly in the sam...

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No one must know.
Looking at new profiles... LMAO at @GraceNote's People Reached total on Arqade.
15:27
@Yuuki we know, we all know.
@LessPop_MoreFizz That... feels really wrong.
Is that the 'worst' Rep to People Reached ratio on the site? Play more obscure games Grace.
@Yuuki Look at the tags that Grace has rep from, and it explains it completely.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I know why and it makes sense. It just feels wrong.
(By comparison, look at Galactic Ninja and Oak - Oak has double the rep, half the reach. Thanks )
@GraceNote Is the one on the right MSO? Because, yeah numbers there are gonna be lower, what with it not being hit by The Googles.
15:29
Whereas I have less rep and quintuple the reach.
new profiles make me hungrier for rep and badges
dammit, i must fill those progress bars!
@LessPop_MoreFizz Yes. But I also have an order of magnitude more posts on MSE for a longer period of time, which is also why the higher rep value. It amuses me ultimately is what it does.
Jay Hanlon on April 15, 2015

In the time since we started working on the profile, generations of dinosaurs were born, fell in love, had families, and were killed by a comet. Or climate change, or maybe texting and driving or some nonsense like that. Anyway, as of today, it’s live on SO and about half the network, and we’ll be rolling out to the rest over the next few weeks. And it was worth the wait:

Unfortunately, the designers said I could have… like two, maybe? At most. So, we went with that:

The Profile Page lets you show others a summary of what you’re all about. Share your interests, favorite c …

I wonder how I can see my most influential posts.
~4.4m people reached
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15:30
Skyrim is a really strong predictor of high reach numbers.
...I'm confused by your disparate number choices, fredley
@GraceNote Copy pasted from wrong profile first time around
Reached is also recorded for meta, interestingly
@AshleyNunn Yea, he even disappeared on the crash. resulting in me saying "well, don't need to organise a funeral for him", on the next launch I noticed that he was just standing there on the way to the launchpad. I was very confused.
15:32
@badp is king of meta apparently
Order of magnitude more reached than anyone else I can find
@Wipqozn I kept you from making a rash decision. If that makes me the villain, then so be it.
@5pike Why did you give @Wipqozn a rash?
@fredley He's ~120k, Grace is ~90k, I'm ~55k, and you're ~40k, and after that it drops off fast.
@fredley Not surprised.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Ah yeah, didn't check @Grace
15:34
@fredley Technically still an order of magnitude though.
But to out-meta @Grace is an achievement in itself
@fredley Yeah, there's a lot of super influential early meta posts there.
I haven't written much in recent days while badp's been churning away at keeping this place afloat.
@Powerlord I wish I could. He definitely deserves one.
I want to see reached/ranked stats
15:35
I reached >500k people. I can certainly live with that.
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@sterno Jay references those egg videos I'm the latest blog post. Made me think of you.
In particular, I want to see the high reach/rank outliers
High rank/low reach in particular would be an interesting phenomenon to investigate
@fredley This sounds interesting to study
"Rank"? Like rep?
@Yuuki yeah
15:37
I want to see most influential posts. Because I really want to know how I've reached X number of people.
I don't think I've posted anything to .
Never mind, I have 5 posts.
@Yuuki It is a competiton after all
Whoo, #50 of all-time!
@AshleyNunn Easter set my daughter off to wanting to watch them all the time again
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A: How do I start a new game when a save file already exists?

YuukiAt the opening sequence, press the following button combination: Up + B + X. This should prompt you for deleting your save file. The Up + B + Select no longer works on the X/Y series at the main menu, the button combination must be done at the opening movie sequence.

This is one point but basically it's going to be stuff like this.
That is also my most-upvoted answer. Huh.
While my most upvoted post (question) has <2k views.
15:42
Only one of your Skyrim posts even has 5 digit views.
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@sterno lucky you.
My most viewed is still this travesty of a question
I'm going to guess this post is my most viewed one.
15:45
Wow, corpse is only 17k views
@fredley Wow. I was #1 in March? How did that happen.
@Rapitor It's just not the same as the Luigi death stare
@Powerlord i've always preferred the DK... face to them all
5k flags is a lot of flags, right?
At least for us?
@Yuuki yarp
user15026
15:56
@yuuki Yeah, it's a pretty decent number. Why?
Nothing. Just noting that you can see how many flags other people have raised now.
user15026
Augh I can't stop playing Pokemon Rumble World. It's such a simple game but I loooove it
@Yuuki Is that @Frank? I bet it's frank.
user15026
@yuuki that made me laugh a lot.
16:09
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Q: Does which character you play affect weapons drops in Mass Effect Multiplayer?

eidylonDoes anyone know if the character you play a Mass Effect multiplayer round with affect what drops you get in a packs bought in the store between games? Me and my friends, we have not gotten weapons drops in AGES. My one friend played the Talon mercenary last night for the first time, and sudden...

@Yuuki cc @GnomeSlice
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Q: In black ops 1 how to unlock all clasifed weapons and camo?

NoahSo I had this game for while call of duty black ops the first version and I played this game a lot but I haven't found out how to get every weapon and the gold camo. I'm in rank 33 and I herd that to get this weapon I need to be level something but I'm in rank 33 so should I get it by now?

So profiles now have a predicted 'impact' field, on how many users your content may have affected.
<SarcasmMode>Can this be a potential death toll on Lifehacks?</SarcasmMode>
@LessPop_MoreFizz Have you seen anybody with a linked GitHub profile? I've looked a bit on SO and I can't find one.
i'd link my github, but it's empty :S
user15026
16:25
@yuuki people have, because there's been bug reports about it not displaying the logo or whatever properly, I believe.
I normally don't go to lunch for another 30 minutes, but since everyone around me has decided now is the perfect time for phone conversations, I think now sounds pretty good.
Oh god, my YouTube watch later queue is over 400 videos now. Thanks a lot, Daredevil! And International Tabletop Day. And hell, the Game of Thrones premiere. Basically I'm blaming anyone other than myself.
9 hours left on the bounty for my SU question. Would really like some help with that.
16:46
@MBraedley Win10 is beyond my troubleshooting skills, sorry.
@Wipqozn You really need to get in on this Health.SE stuff
@Sterno I know. It's terrible.
Woo 1m people reached. I can be happy with that
Also good morning allegedly people
user15026
@unionhawk still a person last I checkdd
user15026
Unless you mean allegedly it is morning
16:51
Both
Really
Umm small question: Is it possible to download GTA5 from an official source if I have the activation key? My first CD is scratched for whatever reason lol.
@Jutschge probably not.
@Jutschge Try steam. You might be able to register your game there via the CD key. Maybe.
Retail keys don't work on steam.
Only through the Rockstar Social Club service.
@Wipqozn yeah laready tried that... invalid format
16:52
if all else fails just torrent the installer and then use CD key
@MadMAxJr Oh,w ell, try that.
thats still.. kind of legit
Dear person in charge of this operation: all classes are canceled, why the hell do we have a meeting
I don't see anything wrong with torrenting a game you legally own, but can't use because you were shipped a defective product.
@Unionhawk to spite you. :D
16:53
@Wipqozn your isp might
mine tried to give me crap for torrenting ubuntu images
@GodEmperorDune I think it's been proven torrenting content you own isn't illegal. It's considered relocating the data or something.
Probably depends on the country.
@Wipqozn Congratulations on identifying a morally grey issue. You are now qualified to fly a Firefly class starship.
@MadMAxJr Too soon
@GodEmperorDune did you tell them to suck it?
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@GodEmperorDune the one nice thing about my current set up, is that I have no idea what the isp says about anything, because it's not under my name and the upstairs people never talk to me unless I have to let people in to do work.
user15026
16:55
Like utility people or what have you.
@Unionhawk i kindly emailed them a link and screenshot of the main ubuntu page where it directs users to torrent the isos to save bandwidth
@MadMAxJr Thank's a lot man worked like a charm on rockstar social club
Now the sad part. I think that's a 60GB download if it can't install from disc
Well yeah that's why I bought it in the first place... But still faster than torrents I guess
That might actually make a great question with an accepted answer... You'd probs get mad rep for it.
16:57
Yeah but I needed a quick answer my heart seriously stopped for a moment lol
OH CRAP HES GOING INTO CARDIAC
speaking of rep, i shake my fist at the OP who accepted my answer on SO without upvoting it
It's fine, I'm not in this for imaginary internet points. He had a practical question, I gave him a practical answer.
Fine
FINE
The real solution is to not play GTAV. It's terrible.
16:58
You're... Terrible. Also.
@Sterno GTA has always been the game you dick around with at your friends place for 30 minutes, and then never play again.
Try Bloodborne
But really, 5 was bad
Unrelated to GTA being terrible
I'll never have another game like Saints Row 3. I'll have to take GTA 5 somewhat more seriously because I will never have a hovercraft jetfighter with a solar death ray.
After 6 years of LoL I wanted to try another AAA title^^

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