The Bridge

GodEmperorDune

16:04

Also his argument that news feeds and the like feed you the same content you already like applies just the same to blogs. If you read everything posted by a blogger who discusses x, how is that different from following someone who discusses x on Twitter?

LessPop_MoreFizz

> A whistle-blower anonymously published a highly sensitive report obtained from an Australian spy agency on the website 4chan, but his document was soon automatically deleted after it failed to gain much attention. Those 4chan users who did view the document dismissed it as "fake and gay".

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune tl;dr Blogs aren't popular anymore, I'm a blogger, waaaaaaaaaah~

2 hours ago, by Martin Sojka

@Yuuki It's 4chan. Everything is dismissed as gay there.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GodEmperorDune this is really wrong but I don't have time to refute it because I'm about to go drive. But the tl;dr is I like things that are TL.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki yeah that about sums it up

@LessPop_MoreFizz not sure what TL means in this context

Wipqozn

@GodEmperorDune Your mom just about sums it up!

OH BUUUUURRRRNNNNN

YOU GET A LOAD OF THAT SICK BURN @TimStone?!

I'M OUTTA HERE GENTS

GodEmperorDune

16:12

If you are talking about long form articles, such as the vice and gq pieces you normally link, those are excellent but they are not blogs; blogs were never up to that level of quality

Wipqozn

SEE YOU IN THE BURN WARD @GodEmperorDune lololol

Tim Stone

@Wipqozn I can feel the heat from here, like I opened a hot oven

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn take it easy...:)

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What is the benefit of being on an esport team for a non team based game

Many professional gamers are on a team for whatever game they play. This makes sense for games like League of Legends where you play with your team mates, but what about games like Hearthstone where the games are always 1v1? Why not just play independently?

Yuuki

@Lazers2.0 Because they subsidize your lifestyle?

I imagine that's how that works.

You get an initial viewer boost because now you're affiliated with a big-name team.

And they get more viewers because, ostensibly, you're good at what you do (which is why they hire you).

And then they subsidize you spending more of your time gaming rather than having a normal 9-5 job or something.

Depending on how many viewers you pull.

GodEmperorDune

16:19

Are esports still a thing?

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune ... Yes.

Prize pool for the big year-end League of Legends event is in the millions, IIRC.

Arperum

@GodEmperorDune I hope that's sarcasm.

Yuuki

And the viewership is pretty gorram huge too.

Arperum

esports is booming business.

Yuuki

Massively booming.

MadMAxJr

16:20

Isn't the DOTA 2 international going on still?

Private Pansy

@Yuuki I think the question is why players form teams for 1v1 games.

It would be as if tennis players form teams to play against each other

MadMAxJr

Like, millions of dollars in prizes, actual arena audience in Seattle?

Rapitor

an obvious confirmation that needed to be made. "Fallout 4 doesn’t end when the main story is over and there is no level cap. You can keep playing and leveling."

Yuuki

@PrivatePansy To be fair, that's how the ATP started.

Private Pansy

Actually, it's not unprecedented. Golf has the Ryder Cup, where a team of European golfers compete against a team of American golfers

Yuuki

16:22

Kendo is ostensibly a 1v1 thing, but kendo teams exist because they structure team matches in a certain fashion.

Just because the game itself is 1v1 doesn't mean you can't make a team meta-game out of it.

Private Pansy

Yeah

But that's not quite what the OP is asking for either

eSport teams for the sort of games he's talking about don't really act like that either

Yuuki

If my initial response isn't what OP is asking and your response isn't what OP is asking, then I have no clue what OP is asking.

user15026

Is it something we can even answer, really? (I love that most of my eSport knowledge has fallen out of my brain)

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn I need help doing this. Please advise.

Private Pansy

@Yuuki I don't believe Heathstone has that sort of group meta game you're talking about

Yuuki

16:24

(I have so much LoL info in my head and I need to get it out to make space for the rest of my CS degree)

Private Pansy

They aren't so much 'teams' as a group of players playing under the same branding, if I understand it correctly

Yuuki

@PrivatePansy Not officially. But if there were team tournaments, I imagine that's how they would go.

@PrivatePansy Then I think the reasonable answer is my initial response.

Can't see any other reason for it.

user15026

@Yuuki I am confused why you are saying this to me.

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn Most of your eSports knowledge has fallen out of your brain.

I need help forgetting.

badp

You need help giving less of a fuck about something? That's what the internet is for.

user15026

16:30

@Yuuki Ah. I solved it by getting a different job so I didn't have to pay attention anymore

Yuuki

HOLY F--K, THE NEW FANTASTIC FOUR MOVIE IS 9% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: destiny wont let me play unless a hard drive is in wich it already is

ok so my destiny is saying that I need a hard drive even though I have an Xbox hard drive in the system right now, and with over half the space still available. please I really want my destiny back help me please

destiny

0

Q: Is the GTA V transferring to the specific system or your account

i had the PS3 version of GTA and I transferred my progress over to a friends PS4, but on my PSN. I am planning to buy a PS4 soon and I heard that the transfer is a one time thing. Is that true, and if so, does this mean my one transfer was used on my friends system? Or is the transfer to my PSN, ...

grand-theft-auto-5

Yuuki

NOT EVEN PIXELS IS THAT LOW.

two bugs

@Yuuki It looks and sounds really, really bad.

But hey, it's technically a movie so they get to hold on to the rights!

Yuuki

@twobugs Did you hear about what they did to "It's clobberin' time!"?

Martin Sojka

16:32

@Yuuki Slightly better than 2% per hero!

two bugs

@Yuuki Yep. YEP. YEP.

That's like, next level stupid.

Unionhawk

Nope. NOPE. NOPE.

GnomeSlice

Apparently Fat Beets came out last year and I didn't even notice.

Another game for my new phone.

Private Pansy

@Yuuki Wow, that's the new low we're trying to beat here?

Unionhawk

the land of ten thousand nopes

two bugs

16:33

Too many nopes.

Unionhawk

nopeoverflow

GnomeSlice

You know what a good movie is

Tim Stone

> Counting Roger Corman's unreleased stab, this is the fourth Fantastic Four movie. It's also the fourth whose producers seem embarrassed at the thought of making a Fantastic Four movie.

lol

GnomeSlice

Dope (film)

Dope is a 2015 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa and starring Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Kimberly Elise, Chanel Iman, Tyga, Blake Anderson, Zoë Kravitz, and A$AP Rocky. The film was produced by Forest Whitaker, executive produced by Pharrell Williams, and co-executive produced by Sean Combs. Dope debuted in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, which started on January 22, 2015 in Park City, Utah. At the festival, the film received offers from at least six production companies and film studios before its...

Yuuki

It's shaping up to be even worse than Catwoman.

Even worse than Catwoman.

two bugs

16:35

It's a shame, too. People actually like the Fantastic Four. They deserve a good movie.

Tim Stone

> An outstretched, moronic, drama-less time-suck that somehow manages to be less fun than Pixels, which was only slightly more enjoyable than slamming a door on your face.

:D

Yuuki

MBraedley

@TimStone Wow, that's harsh

Yuuki

@twobugs I love the Fantastic Four. Especially with Spider-Man. Peter and Johnny are hilarious.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki I lolled

Tim Stone

16:37

@Yuuki It dropped to 8%

Unionhawk

8%! 8%! do I hear 7%?

GodEmperorDune

But Kate Mara, y u keep doing shitty movies?

MBraedley

@GodEmperorDune I have faith in The Martian

Martin Sojka

In any case, I'm looking forward to RedLetterMedia covering it. They already had fun with Pixels.

two bugs

@Yuuki This reminded me of how bad Green Latern was. That's another hero who deserves a good movie and just hasn't gotten one

GnomeSlice

16:38

@twobugs YES

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs such a shame

GnomeSlice

Or at least a new (good) televison series

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How did the designers of Super Mario Brothers 3 expect anyone to find the first Warp Whistle?

One of the Warp Whistles in Super Mario Brothers 3 is hidden in an unusual way: to find it, the player has to hold down the down button on a specific platform until Mario falls into the background of the world, at which point the player needs to run behind the normal exit into a secret room. Thi...

super-mario-bros-3

0

Q: Xbox wont boot but green lights come

I have a jtag xbox. I usually play games on the HD (extrnal) I added a game in my hard drive today and when i put it on my xbox, xbox turned on but in the starting got stuck and the screen seemed to be shaking. Harddrive was acting madly. I turned it off. I checked the HD it had virus so i remove...

xbox

MBraedley

@GnomeSlice Not a fan of House Of Cards?

GodEmperorDune

@MBraedley I hope so as well

Unionhawk

16:38

So like, not Green Lantern in Teen Titans Go artstyle?

GnomeSlice

@MBraedley Is it about the Green Lantern?

two bugs

I don't remember who wrote this but someone summed up the disappointment perfectly with a line like:
> They managed to make a movie about a fighter pilot in space who makes things with his mind boring.

Oh, I guess formatting doesn't work like that.

GnomeSlice

@Unionhawk I dunno, an animated series would be alright if it wasn't horrible.

two bugs

Well, I don't care! #smashthestate

GodEmperorDune

House of cards season 3 is wavering, I hope they fix with season 4

MBraedley

16:39

@GnomeSlice Oh, you were talking about Green Lantern, not Kate Mara

GnomeSlice

@MBraedley I don't know who that is

Yuuki

@twobugs Some dark part of me wants to see a Green Lantern TV series as a police procedural. I mean, they are space cops.

GnomeSlice

The Green Lantern is overwhelming to read about.

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice sue in the new shitty fantastic 4

GnomeSlice

I read some of the earlier green lanter + green arrow recently

MBraedley

16:40

@GnomeSlice imdb.com/name/nm0544718/?ref_=nv_sr_1

GnomeSlice

barely scratched the surface

two bugs

Golden Age Green Latern is pretty cool, too

GnomeSlice

@MBraedley Some actress I guess

GodEmperorDune

The parallax arc was nice

MBraedley

@GnomeSlice She's in Fantastic 4 and the upcoming The Martian

Yuuki

16:41

> "'Fantastic Four' is so bereft of all the things we expect from a superhero movie — humor, excitement, adventure, awe — that it plays like a drawn-out pilot episode for an upcoming TV series no one would ever watch again." - Rene Rodriguez in the Miami Herald

MBraedley

Also House Of Cards

GnomeSlice

pls gib movie

Yuuki

@MBraedley She looks good in The Martian.

two bugs

New WoW expansion announced. The premise is even more underwhelming than I thought.

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice I dunno why, but I don't really like this art for Guy Gardner.

GodEmperorDune

16:42

@GnomeSlice is that from blackest night?

Yuuki

Assuming that's Guy Gardner.

MadMAxJr

@twobugs Is WoW an incremental yet?

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Considering he's wielding both the Red and Green Rings, I think that's actually Brightest Day.

GnomeSlice

It's just the first picture I found from when he was the hybrid red and green

two bugs

@MadMAxJr I really want Blizzard to make one, actually. A Blizzard incremental would be great.

GnomeSlice

16:42

I thought that was Hal

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Nope, that's Guy.

GnomeSlice

I've not read much of the actual comics, just synopses on comics websites.

two bugs

But no, they're focusing on the most boring villain doing more boring stuff.

Yuuki

Hal has Green and... Indigo, I think.

GnomeSlice

The ending of the GL movie left it open for the Sinestro Corps war, but I doubt they'll make another after the failure.

GodEmperorDune

16:43

@Yuuki I consider blackest night/brightest day the same arc, was lazy with typing

GnomeSlice

Also they kind of opened it up with Parallax so I guess they're out of stuff to do anyway

Yuuki

I'm pretty sure Kyle uses Green and Blue in Brightest Day.

Tim Stone

Oh man, these critics

GnomeSlice

I thought green and blue corps just worked together well

Tim Stone

> It's an amazing feat to have produced a movie where every decision made seems to be the wrong one.

Yuuki

16:44

@GnomeSlice Like Honest Trailers said, "Ha, they thought they were going to make a sequel? That's adorable."

Tim Stone

That's a burn @Wipqozn would be proud of

GnomeSlice

@Yuuki I don't know what that is either

Yuuki

two bugs

I mean, Blizzard is bringing back a villain who sucked so much he died offscreen in TFT =/

GnomeSlice

Warworld would be a cool movie too

Yuuki

16:46

> "'Fantastic Four' feels like a 100-minute trailer for a movie that never happens." - The Hollywood Reporter

@twobugs ... Tichondrius?

two bugs

@Yuuki Gul'dan.

GnomeSlice

I thought it was Annihilus

Yuuki

New class.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki who is that pic supposed to be?

two bugs

We already had him as the main villain this expansion, and he sucked.

Yuuki

16:47

@GodEmperorDune With the crash test dummy?

Tim Stone

> Finally, a superhero movie without action, character development or a plot.

Yuuki

That's Doom.

Tim Stone

eheheh

Yuuki

Yes. That's Doom.

GodEmperorDune

What a shitty doctor doom

Yuuki

16:48

@GnomeSlice Annihilus would've been great.

two bugs

He looks like one of the robots from I, Robot

GnomeSlice

@twobugs What, no he doesn't

wait that's doom?

two bugs

At least Illidan is coming back in WoW

GnomeSlice

That's a cool look, but it doesn't look like Doom

Yuuki

Annihilus would've functioned really well as a starter F4 villain. He's pretty straightforward in his motivations and goals.

So you don't have spend much time on his characterization.

GodEmperorDune

16:49

the older fantastic 4 had a much better doom

Yuuki

Unlike Doom.

two bugs

Doom is okay but you really have to characterize him well.

And then not overuse him

COUGH.

Yuuki

GODDAMMIT, YOU'RE REMINDING ME ABOUT BATTLEWORLD.

RYV seems like the only interesting thing to come out of Battleworld/Secret Wars so far.

So Demon Hunters can be leather armor tanks?

I wonder how that's going to work.

Evasion tanking is risky as f--k.

GodEmperorDune

I though demon hunters were ranged... Blizz y u do dis?

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune That's Diablo.

Warcraft Demon Hunters have always been melee.

two bugs

16:53

Evasion Tanking never works well as a game mechanic.

Honestly I'm not excited for this expansion.

Yuuki

@twobugs I imagine they'd only be able to tank in their demon transformation form.

But that's not reliable either since in the RTS games, that form was temporary.

I can't imagine them making it a permanent toggle form like Druids.

Makes no sense lore-wise.

two bugs

I'm just really frustrated with this reveal. So much is already done. They clearly intended the current expansion (Warlords of Draenor) to be a filler expansion while this was getting a lot of dev time.

SaintWacko

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Should've gone to a grocery store.

SaintWacko

Reminds me of this

My Blackberry Is Not Working! - The One Ronnie, Preview - BBC One

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Yuuki

17:02

Current popular Christian Facebook meme:

(That's a picture of Charles Manson)

SaintWacko

Niiiice

GodEmperorDune

Well played

user15026

Actual current popular Christian FB meme, or one that the rest of the internet has claimed is such?

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn It's always hard to tell

Rapitor

Battleborn: Can’t Get Enough (Gamescom 2015 Trailer)

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user15026

17:03

@SaintWacko aka I am kinda tired of the lolz Christians look at them not knowing how to internet

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn too late I already lolled

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn It becomes further confused when someone grabs the manufactured image to post as a joke and then is taken seriously and it's passed around.

user15026

So I kinda want to call citation needed on this one.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Will my borderlands 2 restart if i join a friends game?

I am further in borderlands two than my friend and I was wondering if I join his game will it make me restart the missions I have already completed? Or effect my storyline in anyway?

borderlands-2 borderlands

user15026

@Yuuki Well, yes, that's what I mean - was this started honestly, or as a trolling attempt?

user15026

17:04

Because, well.

Yuuki

You can't really [citation needed] (supposedly) viral content though.

user15026

@Yuuki You can to a point, there are whole sites devoted to figuring out the genesis of various memetic content

GodEmperorDune

Although this is not a "don't know how to internet" as much as "unfamiliar with cult leaders from the 70s"

Yuuki

There's a page called "Rise Up For Equality" that apparently posted it seriously, but I can't follow the link.

Because I don't Facebook.

user15026

And really, it is more "I get it, people not fact checking is funny but I spend too much time on Tumblr, the land where NO ONE fact checks to be easily amused"

GnomeSlice

17:06

@Rapitor dude this looks dope as fuck

Yuuki

Although apparently that's a satire account. Poe's Law is hard, man.

user15026

(I've tended to stop believing stories where it is lolz group x doesn't realize thing y they posted is actually terrible because z as they are often manufactured, there's usually parody/satire sites involved. etc.)

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn stop making me think, I just want to lol

GnomeSlice

Good morning! My mom posted a drawing of someone's Sonic OC with a bible quote on it to Facebook

Tweeted by stripedbird on May 15, 2014 at 2:08 PM

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Sorry, my "hey I am one of those Christian-faith-having-people" frustrations are just edging out here. I apologize.

GnomeSlice

17:10

Me too, but I still find that last one amusing.

Yuuki

two bugs

Ugh, hard to work when my dumb friends are texting me nonstop about WoW

Yuuki

Never... never change, Japan.

Rapitor

@Yuuki I know that guy, he's pretty swell.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki I want to go to the bank of raptor now

Yuuki

17:12

@GodEmperorDune It's actually a hotel.

Unionhawk

You're a hotel

Rapitor

rude.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki even better, I don't have any yen

Rapitor

@GodEmperorDune how would you stay at the hotel then

Yuuki

@Rapitor I wasn't surprised about playing after the storyline (of course you do, although New Vegas did it weirdly), but apparently there's no level cap.

Tim Stone

17:15

shakes fist at gmail

Yuuki

Arby's to Jon Stewart: Thank You for Being a Friend

►

user15026

@TimStone ?

Tim Stone

It's broken :(

Ohhh…Gmail is broken because the British sent their top agent to assassinate it. Makes sense. http://t.co/4Jwq4fjuls

Tweeted by tmslft on August 6, 2015 at 5:16 PM

user15026

Boo :(

user15026

@TimStone Ah, that would do it ;)

MBraedley

17:22

@TimStone closed as cannot reproduce

Yuuki

@TimStone That's not @fredley's user ID...

two bugs

I'm trying to think of a good 007 one liner but I can't

Tim Stone

@MBraedley It's been touch and go all day for me. It's back now but it's still being reluctant to let me download this attachment

GodEmperorDune

call me bugs, two bugs

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Bugs. Two Bugs. Too Many Bugs.

Tim Stone

17:23

Oh, there it goes again

Rah

fredley

@Yuuki RUMBLED

two bugs

I wonder why people go AFK all the time in Destiny. Typically it's when they queue for something with matchmaking. I don't get why you would afk though, as the matchmaking is near instantaneous (for me at least)

I mean maybe I'll glance at a book or an internet post or something while it's loading, but I don't go afk for like 1-2 minutes on something that takes 30 seconds :|

GnomeSlice

17:38

my sister just texted me that she and my cat have discovered youtube videos for cats

user15026

@TimStone Now it is being stupid for me, too - trying to delete an email and it goes "yup, deleted" except...it isn't.

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice d'aww

Lazers 2.0

17:55

0

Q: Detect lightning strikes

I'm trying to add some custom mob conversions like those of villagers/witches and pigs/pigmen (but here it is a block that turns into an mob, not a mob to a mob). What I can't seem to figure out about this is how to detect whether that lightning hit the block or not. Note: I would like to not us...

minecraft minecraft-commands

Unionhawk

18:08

@Lazers2.0 invisible creeper with no ai? maybe?

two bugs

Yay, I get to write some Python code

Nice break from all that Javascript and HTML

Kevin van der Velden

Yay!

James

Hmmm

Invisible Inc is 40% off

two bugs

I bought it a while back and still haven't played that

But it's from the people who made Mark of the Ninja, which was incredible

James

Well this chat is often filled with rage and praise for that game, hehe

two bugs

18:18

@GnomeSlice What's your PSN, by the way? I've been playing Destiny nonstop and need someone to play with

Wipqozn

@James Invisible Inc is fantastic

But also fuck that game

badp

@Unionhawk so something that explodes eternally?

Unionhawk

@badp No ai as in it just stands in a spot and doesn't do anything

badp

do you need an AI to explode?

Unionhawk

Yes

badp

18:28

Unconceivable. Simply explode the creeper. It should autonomously keep exploding.

It should have no AI to change the "am_i_exploding" flag back to false, after all.

two bugs

Exploding isn't their default behavior. It's just what we expect them to do. They only explode because of the societal norms.

badp

Irrelevant

Unionhawk

You're irrelevant

But that's irrelevant

badp

Everything about eternal creepersplosion gods is relevant.

Unionhawk

This is demonstrably not true

badp

18:31

truly you have not witnessed an eternal creepersplosion god.

My mindcanon has. It is glorious.

WHEN HAS MY MINDCANON EVER BEEN WRONG ABOUT ANYTHING EVER

two bugs

@badp Trains?

SaintWacko

@badp Me

badp

@SaintWacko When mindcanons clash with reality they are destroyed backwards and forwards in time, thus they never enter a state in which they exist and are wrong.

Unionhawk

@badp Your mindcannon is wrong about everything ever.

I should know, I'm an expert

badp

Mindcanons are always correct by definition.

Unionhawk

18:34

Um, I do believe I said I'm an expert. I should think I know what I'm talking about here.

badp

@Unionhawk And we are experts in dealing with PhWs.

You're exercising your right not to exercise your right to not exercise your right to be wrong on the internet, and I respect that.

MadMAxJr

shoulder turrets and mind cannons.

two bugs

@MadMAxJr Those are just infantry weapons. The real danger lies in the orbital hug cannons.

SaintWacko

Jul 4 '14 at 21:06, by badp

@SaintWacko MY HEADCANON

Finally found it!

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs you think too big, the real danger is the nanobot hug cannons that are infiltrating all of your fleshy organs as we speak

Unionhawk

18:38

ew

two bugs

@GodEmperorDune ...My god. They're hugging us at a cellular level...

SaintWacko

@twobugs It's a grey hug scenario!

GodEmperorDune

All will be hugged into the cybermachine god

It has been foretold

user15026

That wasn't supposed to be public knowledge yet.

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune God damn you by the way

Highly retroactive

IT WON'T GO AWAY

user15026

18:50

I always forget Yearling is a badge you can get more than once.

Unionhawk

Which, incidentally, means GODDAMN YOU @STRIX

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How many diamonds can a Diamond Ore drop in Minecraft

My friends and I are having an argument on how many diamonds a Diamond Ore can drop (on avg. or maximum) without any fortune levels on a pickaxe. My friend says there will always drop only one, but I'm fairly certain that's not true. Tested in singleplayer, I've had a few times where diamond ores...

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