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Unionhawk

12:00

StackOverflow also deserves what they get, to be fair

MBraedley

> #define if while

that's evil

Unionhawk

That's the most evil thing I can imagine

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How to expand to an other island in way of gold and steel?

Cannot figure out how to expand to an other island in way of gold and steel?

wogas

two bugs

> #define strcpy(a,b) memmove(a,b,strlen(b)+2)

Some coders just want to watch the world (slowly) burn.

GnomeSlice

@StackExchange I have been here twice as long.

Unionhawk

12:04

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!

HELP HELP WE'RE BEING REPRESSED

Grace Note

I'll violence your inherent

Unionhawk

:o

ardaozkal

@twobugs #define strcpy(a,b) memmove(a,b,strlen(b)+999999999)

some don't want it to burn

Unionhawk

> In python, a really common one:
> `object = None`

GnomeSlice

Copy Girl Gameplay preview 1

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@PrivatePansy Tag your music better.

Private Pansy

12:14

@GnomeSlice Google Play Music doesn't read metadata. Otherwise you can just tag a bunch of text files as expensive music and have it give you free music

fredley

@Unionhawk #define volatile is by far the worst Because it probably wouldn't be noticed immediately (unlike most of the others)

#define if while will become immediately obvious, and it's going to show up in git blame really easily.

Unionhawk

Oh god, yeah, that would be bad (I had forgotten what #define identifier <blank> did but it's literally as it says, define the identifier as nothing)

two bugs

@fredley I think the strcpy ones are probably the worst. In my experience people aren't going to notice very quickly if there's just a byte or two extra

Unionhawk

#define double float is also pretty silent but probably innocuous in most applications

MBraedley

@Unionhawk Until you start getting into things like DBL_MAX (I think that's what it is).

Unionhawk

12:20

Hmm. Yeah.

Well, either way, with the possible exception of define volatile, all of these will be discovered eventually (that one is an order of magnitude more evil)

Arperum

Dammit @uni the colorscheme of your current gravatar is not good. it looks like some weird mountain side blurb.

Unionhawk

Well... your face looks like some weird mountain

Rapitor

o/

Unionhawk

So...

Arperum

@Unionhawk At least my face has foliage.

Unionhawk

12:23

Hang on, I'm reverting

Okay, reverted, now we wait for caching

Arperum

\o/

Grace Note

@Unionhawk Wow that was a very swift backing down

Unionhawk

@GraceNote It doesn't look good in the tiny version, to be fair

Private Pansy

@Arperum Yeah. I already said that, but @Unionhawk doesn't listen

It looks like a black quarter circle. No contrast.

Oh but you're back to normal now

So that's alright then

Arperum

@PrivatePansy He listened to me! I can influence things \o/

ardaozkal

12:27

0

A: How to report a "toxic" player in Heroes of the Storm?

My question is wether Blizzard needs proof of someone being "Toxic" or not. Because i've seen so many players being little babies and report someone for playing badly with their character.

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune I tend to agree, but I hadn't seen the Gerudo Valley one

Grace Note

@Unionhawk That or people need to invest in better eyes

Unionhawk

Probably also accurate

Arperum

@GraceNote I need to invest in new glasses anyway.

These ones are getting old and scratchy.

Grace Note

@Arperum My glasses are half opaque and I still could see a Ganondorf

Arperum

12:31

@GraceNote So I might also need to invest in a better screen?

Grace Note

That or you need to look with your eyes and not your nose.

Private Pansy

@GraceNote On the 16x16 icon the avatar looks like... pretty much nothing

It's indescribable

Actually, wait

It looks like one of @badp's better attempts at art

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Unionhawk

So you're saying @badp's art is indescribable?

ardaozkal

@PrivatePansy so his art is "pretty much nothing"? lol

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk What I'm saying is it merely wants to make me gorge my eyes out with a fork rather than throw myself out of the window

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Unionhawk

12:33

Well I think @badp's art is fantastic

Grace Note

After years of needing to make sure I don't call out the wrong people in chat, I've become accustomed to working with 16x16

ardaozkal

32x32 is better

Grace Note

It is but that ain't not gonna not happen on the usual circumstances.

Unionhawk

> that ain't not gonna not happen - Grace Note 2015

Ronan Forman

> I love being misquoted - Grace Note 2013

Private Pansy

12:42

Also relevant, Millie has achieved @badp level of truck driving

Ronan Forman

@PrivatePansy Are you reading Ozy and Millie for the first time now?

Private Pansy

@RonanForman No, I'm getting old dailies

ardaozkal

> I'm get - Private Pansy 2016

Ronan Forman

@PrivatePansy Yeah I get them too, your comment sounded like it was in the present.

ardaozkal

And I'm post (SHOTS FIRED)

Private Pansy

12:44

Well, it is today's rerun

ardaozkal

Is One way heroics plus worth buying?

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Strategy for aoe2 to reach castle age

What is the most effective startegy to go to castle age in the least time possible? What is the ideal number of villagers on each resource?

age-of-empires-2

Grace Note

@ardaozkal Yes

ardaozkal

wow, the no-screenshot code of W10 is very strong

It turns out black

no application can capture it. Steam chat needs this.

Unionhawk

I'm going to guess you're doing something wrong.

ardaozkal

12:56

nah
ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().IsScreenCaptureEnabled = false;

Yuuki

Steaks, lava-seared to perfection.

Unionhawk

I'm going to still say you're doing it incorrectly

@Yuuki cc @TimStone, probably

ardaozkal

@Unionhawk what should I try it with

Unionhawk

iunno

ardaozkal

puush, gyazo, sys default can't capture it

it just returns #000000 to that pixel

Yuuki

12:58

Oh, looks like they doing fish too.

And hot dogs?

And they took one steak and cooked directly on the lava.

fredley

@Yuuki 'to perfection'

'to a crisp'

Yuuki

@fredley Eh, more like Pittsburgh rare. Almost black on the outside, but still pretty rare/raw on the inside.

Called "Pittsburgh" rare because the steelworkers in Pittsburgh used to take a piece of hot steel out of the forge and just slap a steak on it to cook.

The outside would be cooked almost black but the inside would still be cool.

Also known as "black and blue".

Unionhawk

Yeah, cold on the inside is a no go for me

Rapitor

blue steak is delcious. if it's a good cut

Unionhawk

Medium rare is where it's at

Yuuki

13:05

Topp & Co. Tom Kerridge cooks a steak in our workshop

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"Workshop" here being a blacksmithing workshop.

Unionhawk

induction steak

Wait that would probably not work because steak is not metal

Yuuki

They use a pneumatic hammer press to tenderize the meat.

Rapitor

its got iron

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Gears of War Chronology

With the release of Gears 1: Ultimate Edition coming down before Gears 4, I wanted to replay the games correctly. obviously, its chronology is 1, 2, 3 but where does judgement fit in to the game cycle?

gears-of-war-judgment

ardaozkal

@Yuuki that gave me a weird but awesome feeling

The idea of it

Kevin van der Velden

13:08

@Unionhawk "probably"

Unionhawk

probably as in "I don't actually know what sorcery is involved"

MBraedley

Yes, it took a lot of work to make the cards and pieces, but it's worth it--the players are way more thorough than the tax prep people ever were.

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Kevin van der Velden

Induction, i.e. a strong rapidly fluctuating alternating current

MBraedley

I should try that at the next International Tabletop Day

Private Pansy

@Yuuki I thought the point was to tenderize, not liquefy the steak

Yuuki

13:10

@PrivatePansy It pretty much tenderizes with one hit.

fredley

@MBraedley inb4 kickstarter

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How do I reset my Minecraft PE

How do I reset the whole of my minecraft-pocket-edition because I have created a theme park worked and a griefer came into it and destroyed but I don't want to delete it!

minecraft-pocket-edition

0

Q: How to craft weapons in way of gold and steel?

Cannot figure out how to craft weapons in way of gold and steel or ff it is possible at all?

wogas

FAE

13:32

@badp I think I might have to take a rain check, I'm sorry. I just woke up today to find out that a friend of mine passed away unexpectedly. We weren't like, besties, but I'm still kind of in shock and feeling weird right now.

MBraedley

@FAE Wow, that sucks. Remember the fond times.

fredley

@FAE :(

Grace Note

@FAE Uf

FAE

He'd been having some heart problems the past couple years but he was on the mend and looking forward to getting well again but... yeah.

fredley

@FAE That really sucks

skill patrol

13:42

The hardest thing is trying to not think about it right now.

Let the initial shock pass...

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How to change I change languages in Jetpack Joyride?

Recently Halfbrick updated an update for Jetpack Joyride and it automatically changed the game language to my System Language (pt-br). The biggest problem is that their translation to pt-br is a piece of crap, full of errors and it just ruined the game's atmosphere. I don't want to change the sys...

android

skill patrol

...some say to try and keep yourself busy.

ardaozkal

0

A: Can torches cause fire?

This has happened to me many times but it obviously wasn't a torch it was either a fireplace, lava room, a lava pit right by your house, or if it was multiplayer someone may have griefed it. So you should really watch your surroundings becuase you probably would have Known if you seen the things ...

Unionhawk

You don't need to post everything you flag in chat. It'll go into low quality review.

5pike

@ardaozkal You don't really need to post every questionable answer here in chat. If the answer is bad, flag it appropriately and move on.

FAE

13:47

@fredley Yeah, it's really shitty and unfair, but death usually is. Just weird feels right now.

StrixVaria

@ardaozkal Seconding @5pike. Just flag. Flags will be handled. It's not the end of the world if that answer survives a few extra minutes.

GnomeSlice

He probably probably didn't need three people to tell him that

GodEmperorDune

@ardaozkal the-toast.net/2014/02/06/linguist-explains-grammar-doge-wow

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Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice the last few times didn't work so

skill patrol

@FAE please pardon my comments if they seem insensitive

Unionhawk

13:50

@GnomeSlice I said it first (inb4 it's not a contest)

Martin Sojka

Funny, I'm never in shock when someone close dies; it's just a part of life. My first reaction is to inform everyone who knew the person, then ask the immediate family if I can help. Last year it was a grandmother of a cousin, a close friend of the family at 56 (both cancer) and a cousin's son at 5 months; this year nobody so far.

FAE

@skillpatrol Nah, it's okay.

GodEmperorDune

@MartinSojka that sucks

the previous ones, not this year

argh i fail it this early in the AM

FAE

@MartinSojka Everyone deals differently. I'm pretty bad at that whole acceptance thing still. I'm sorry for your losses.

skill patrol

^

FAE

13:54

My childhood best friend's mother died suddenly in June and that messed me up pretty bad.

Yuuki

My grandfather died when I was 14 and it messed me up because I didn't really feel anything.

Didn't feel sad, didn't cry.

FAE

@Yuuki It can be hard when we feel like we're not dealing with stuff in the "right" way

Yuuki

Still feel kinda guilty about it.

skill patrol

These things take time

Yuuki

7+ years is a hella lot of time.

5pike

13:57

The thing really is that everyone deals with this differently. There is no right or wrong way

FAE

@Yuuki I know I'm just like Random Person B on the internet, but you don't have to. It's okay. Not everyone mourns, not everyone feels grief.

two bugs

@Yuuki I had a similar experience but I was younger. My maternal grandmother passed away when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. It was weird. I didn't really know her that well and she didn't really seem all that pleasant.

It was just kind of like "Oh. She passed away."

GodEmperorDune

i lost my grandmother a little over 6 months after my father in law... it was like i was grieved out

ardaozkal

@GodEmperorDune many article, so tldr

FAE

There's no like, set amount of tears you have to shed before it's deemed "enough" to have mourned someone.

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Yuuki

13:58

Even now, when I think back on it, it's just "oh, that happened". Followed by "really, that's all you have to say?"

GodEmperorDune

@ardaozkal much better :D

FAE

@GodEmperorDune Oof, that's rough.

Yuuki

@twobugs The thing is, I knew my grandfather pretty well (he lived with us for months at a time) and I loved him.

GodEmperorDune

@FAE yeah, luckily it was a slow moving thing so i had a chance to say goodbye.. still tough though

ardaozkal

too long, did read

Yuuki

13:59

I can understand not really grieving if you don't know the person and you don't really like the person. For me and my grandfather, it just feels... wrong.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki i totally get you

two bugs

@Yuuki Hm, well I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with your response. Death is a fact of life, if anything, I think your response is more mature.

FAE

@twobugs I dunno, I think that implies that mourning through grief and sadness is immature and I don't think that's the case, IMO.

two bugs

I mean, I've been sad when pets I grew up with passed away. The first one was really hard. After that I think it's been a lot easier. I just try to keep on going.

fredley

Grief is part of the healing process. Let it wash over you.

skill patrol

14:01

Death would be easy to accept if there was no such thing as love.

two bugs

@FAE I worded it poorly, but I was thinking of my dad who is a very overly dramatic individual. I think that is an immature response, but it's also not really my place to comment on how he deals with grief.

FAE

@twobugs Some people are super emotional and all.

Yuuki

Question: why do people come back from baby changing stations with the same baby?

4

cc @spugsley

GodEmperorDune

yeah, people need to grieve in their own ways

two bugs

Yeah, that's true.

GnomeSlice

14:03

@Yuuki shittyaskscience?

5pike

@Yuuki Baby oil is not made out of babies

two bugs

Oh wow, ISIS beheaded some famous antiquity scholar because he refused to lead them to more stuff to destroy. Major respect to the scholar, though.

Martin Sojka

@GodEmperorDune Well, yes, but they were all going to die sooner or later anyway. The only important question for me regarding death in the family is if I'll have to bury my younger brothers or if one of them will have to do it for me. So far, I'm determined to be the one with the spade in the hand.

ardaozkal

right, down

xkcd.com/526

FAE

@MartinSojka This sounds like you have nefarious plans...

Kevin van der Velden

14:07

@MartinSojka pro-tip: Make sure the police never finds the spade by throwing it in a sea somewhere else

Private Pansy

@MartinSojka Do you live in a family of insurance statisticians?

Martin Sojka

@PrivatePansy Heh, no. We just all have (different for everyone) conditions which can easily kill us off early (diabetes, epilepsy due to brain damage and heart problems) so it's kind of a running bet about who of us kicks the bucket first.

Also, we need to make sure our children, nephews and nieces are taken care of. :)

Private Pansy

Also, can anyone provide a sane explanation for why 30 undergraduate students decided to classify Sherlock Holmes as science fiction?

Martin Sojka

They've only seen the movies?

Unionhawk

@PrivatePansy No

GnomeSlice

14:11

Speaking of shittyaskscience

Private Pansy

@MartinSojka I've seen one of them. They were terrible, but they were most certainly not scifi

GnomeSlice

Unionhawk

I, by definition, cannot provide a sane explanation

GnomeSlice

That comment

Martin Sojka

@PrivatePansy I mean, the newest ones, with Robert Downey, Jr. Did you see those slow-motion moves and rewinding of time? Totally Matrix-like, man.

Private Pansy

14:13

Also, 12 people classified Doctor Who as not scifi. This is on a survey which provided for a 'Not sure if this is scifi' and 'I don't know enough about this to classify it properly' option

GnomeSlice

Private Pansy

@MartinSojka I've watched the first but not the sequel

GodEmperorDune

@PrivatePansy maybe because doctor who is nonfiction

fredley

GnomeSlice

I wish I were witty enough to contribute to SAS

two bugs

14:14

Subway Jared is pleading guilty to child porn charges. Yikes.

FAE

@twobugs Yeah. x_X

GodEmperorDune

> trust me, i'm a greenologist

Private Pansy

@GodEmperorDune Reeeeeeeaaaaallly?

Yuuki

cc @LessPop_MoreFizz

GnomeSlice

@fredley do you have a link that doesn't try to install a virus on my phone

Private Pansy

14:15

23 people thought that Iron Man was not science fiction

GnomeSlice

@Yuuki nice background

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice it's @fredley, you already know the answer

two bugs

swiftkey.com/en/united-states-emoji

fredley

@GnomeSlice eh?

two bugs

Breakdown of popular emoji by state

FAE

14:16

@PrivatePansy Getting the feel that people have a very narrow/wrong view of scifi o_O

fredley

Yuuki

@FAE ALIENS.

Sterno

Rapitor

@fredley wood.

Sterno

That's just an embarrassing way to go

Private Pansy

14:16

@FAE This is from the ~120 students reading the Science Fiction and Philosophy module

I'm cherry picking the weirdest anomalies, and seeing if any of you have any sane explanation

GodEmperorDune

@PrivatePansy :/

Rapitor

@Yuuki all those lowstat

fredley

@Rapitor beef

FAE

@PrivatePansy ... :|

two bugs

@Sterno socks

Sterno

14:17

KILLED BY @WIPQOZN'S SOCKS

2

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What should I do when it rains blood?

At the end of Act 3 of Path of Exile, there is a boss that causes the sky to rain blood (or something that looks much like blood -- perhaps strawberry jam?) This dealt considerable damage over time to my Duelist despite quenching my thirst with a flask of healing. This killed him. Luckily he wa...

path-of-exile

-5

Q: How to buy easy gold wow with 5% off?

is result in injury.If white bear heel pastor's smoke jack snow mushroom together, that meet is swept a hit. Can not lock out a target!The original white bear wants to open to decay Shu, but this skill doesn't have resource lockup target.This time the white bear feels very headache, in re this ki...

world-of-warcraft

FAE

@PrivatePansy Did they not cover the term "speculative fiction"?

Private Pansy

Also, less than 30 people have read The Man in the High Castle or The Left Hand of Darkness

fredley

I'm down to only 3 dead dwellers!

two bugs

I found out that Sy Fy is adapting Childhood's End to a TV series

FAE

14:18

@PrivatePansy I have not read the former but I'm super psyched the latter just came out in e-form. It's been a while since I read it and my copy is still at my parents.

two bugs

I'm morbidly curious now

Private Pansy

@FAE No. Basically, we arrived for our first lecture, and the lecturer immediately handed out a survey with 200 items and asked us to fill in a bubble sheet on whether each of them are 'Definitely scifi', 'Definitely NOT scifi', 'I can't tell if it's scifi or not', 'I've heard a little but not enough to decide' and 'I've never heard of it'

Yuuki

@Rapitor But there's two Manny Cooks.

Rapitor

too many cooks

Unionhawk

Goddammit @Yuuki

GodEmperorDune

14:19

@PrivatePansy i would ace that shit

FAE

@PrivatePansy Huh. Interesting. Also apparently there's no room for "just has scifi elements" or something.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki i lolled

Sterno

If any of you were thinking about reading The Strain, don't.

Private Pansy

@GodEmperorDune It's not a test. Also, some of the items get weird

two bugs

@PrivatePansy I mean, I could see really pedantic people messing it up.

Unionhawk

14:20

@Sterno I wasn't.

Private Pansy

@FAE The lecturer sort of touched on that afterwards

Sterno

@Unionhawk Oh, well, you should read it.

two bugs

Like the jerk who is me saying "Well technically, Star Wars is science fantasy..."

Kevin van der Velden

I have new pets!

Private Pansy

Aug 15 at 11:34, by Private Pansy

This was one of the slides. The lecturer was pretty funny

GnomeSlice

14:21

Kevin van der Velden

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden new rats?

Kevin van der Velden

Yes <3

Private Pansy

@GodEmperorDune blog.nus.edu.sg/sciencefictionphilosophy/files/2015/08/…

Sterno

Bad rat?

FAE

14:22

@PrivatePansy that's hilarious

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno No! Adorable baby rats

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden b'awwww

fredley

meanwhile

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE I had 2 ones about a year old (fairly young) but one died, so now I have 3 rats!

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden Aw, what happened to the one?

two bugs

14:23

@PrivatePansy Ahahaha Thomas the Tank Engine

I forgot about that

Private Pansy

Like I said, some of the items get weird

two bugs

Sonic the Hedgehog (games or comics) :|

Let us never speak of the comics

GodEmperorDune

@PrivatePansy your prof has such an awesome writing voice

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE she got sick, I noticed she was very skinny after I got her back from my parents (I was away on holiday) but she still ate and was happy and everything so I didn't think anything off it. Then I noticed it kept getting worse and was preparing to take her to the vet and she died before I could even go :(

Sterno

Holy shit, it's Congressman Peter Russo with hair.

FAE

14:24

@twobugs lol I had the comics

Kevin van der Velden

FAE

@Sterno I have never seen him with hair

Kevin van der Velden

Also for reference with the older one (SO TINY)

GodEmperorDune

> 4. Katy Perry, "E.T." (song)
15. Katy Perry, "E.T." (video)
16. E.T. (film)

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden Oh no, I'm sorry :(

@KevinvanderVelden b'awwwww

Sterno

14:25

@FAE Behold, hair!

I didn't realize it was him at first

Kevin van der Velden

So now I have 3 rats, and in 2 weeks I am petsitting 2 guinea pigs, ooh and another rat

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How can I farm most effectively for portal keys in a short timespan

When planning Ops that require many keys for a particular portal, I find farming these keys can take a very long time, for example: capture the portal drop any existing keys for that portal (or pop them into a capsule) hack the portal wait 5 minutes for cool down do steps 2-4 again until burn ...

ingress

Kevin van der Velden

It's not going to be busy here at all

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden are they bad?

Kevin van der Velden

3 mins ago, by Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno No! Adorable baby rats

GnomeSlice

14:25

Jean and Jordan are the best

5pike

@fredley A flashlight would be more useful.

two bugs

@PrivatePansy This is way cooler than I thought t would be

fredley

@5pike they also have that

Private Pansy

@GodEmperorDune I emailed him about an issue with the blog, and he replied saying that he has no insight into the technical workings of the blog and to "Wait a day and hope the natural tech healing process somehow takes over."

5pike

@fredley Yeah, just saw that.

two bugs

14:26

Especially including older stories that people probably wouldn't say are sci-fi now but basically helped define the genre

Sterno

@KevinvanderVelden So are they rad rats?

2

GodEmperorDune

@PrivatePansy so awesome

Private Pansy

@twobugs @GodEmperorDune If you're done with the survey, here's the results: blog.nus.edu.sg/sciencefictionphilosophy/2015/08/18/…

GodEmperorDune

@Sterno starbait status: accepted -- ehh fuck it you know what i mean

FAE

@PrivatePansy Your prof knows Bravest Warriors and Steven Universe :D

@Sterno Wow, I wouldn't have either

Private Pansy

14:27

@FAE I know! The list is surprisingly current

two bugs

> More people saying Star Wars is Sci Fi than Star Trek

>:|

FAE

@twobugs ...what

fredley

@pri I've got the survey but no the results

Private Pansy

@FAE The difference is only 5. The two of them are the top results for items that are identified as scifi the most

2 mins ago, by Private Pansy

@twobugs @GodEmperorDune If you're done with the survey, here's the results: http://blog.nus.edu.sg/sciencefictionphilosophy/2015/08/18/survey-results-the-pe‌ople-have-spoken-what-is-sf/

FAE

@PrivatePansy Also wow, he has one of Janelle Monae's albums on there

fredley

14:30

4 people though titanic was sci fi?

two bugs

People thought Halo wasn't Sci Fi

Private Pansy

@fredley That was pretty funny. I have no idea what they were smoking

Unionhawk

Halo is canon, we have Cortana now.

please

two bugs

@Unionhawk Sci Re? Science REALITY?

Private Pansy

Also, more people thought Bravest Warrior is not scifi than otherwise

Unionhawk

14:31

YES

Private Pansy

Which is really, really weird

GnomeSlice

Whats bravest warrior

Is that like Deadliest Warrior?

FAE

@PrivatePansy whaaaat

hoooooow

Private Pansy

I guess there will be a few errors, like people misaligning their bubbles

FAE

@PrivatePansy Wow, so many people who haven't heard of Perdido Street Station

Private Pansy

14:33

Since this is a rapid fire survey

Yuuki

@fredley Celine Dion time travelled so she could sing while the Titanic sank, obviously sci-fi.

Private Pansy

@FAE China Mieville is surprisingly hard to find here. I only managed to find a copy of Iron Council

FAE

@PrivatePansy Ah, that makes sense.

Private Pansy

16 people thought the Book of Genesis is scifi

FAE

@PrivatePansy lmao

Sterno

14:35

@PrivatePansy Well, to be fair...

Unionhawk

>_>

two bugs

@PrivatePansy It's at least 50% Sci Fi ;)

Private Pansy

I thought those were more like calibration questions

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy how is it not?

Sterno

I'd say Fantasy rather than sci-fi

Private Pansy

14:36

Yeah. Classical mythology.

two bugs

Damnit my pre-lunch meeting got morphed into a lunch meeting

FAE

@PrivatePansy 74 people never heard of Fahrenheit 451 T_T

two bugs

I do not approve

Private Pansy

@FAE Well, this is Singapore... Animal Farm is on the syllabus though

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno fantasy is, in my understanding, a subgenre of sci-fi?

Sterno

14:37

To be fair, a lot of "classic" sci-fi is pretty damn boring to read now, since the ideas from them have been recycled so much. I can't really fault people for not reading the old stuff

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden I really disagree

If anything it should be the other way round

two bugs

@Sterno And a lot of it is just science now

20,000 leagues under the sea? Oh boy, a submarine rolls eyes

Private Pansy

@Sterno I have read a lot of classics, and most of them age really well

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy True, but I'm talking about classification in book stores and libraries and such

Private Pansy

Although it depends on which definition of 'classic' you're talking about

SaintWacko

14:38

@twobugs That sucks

Kevin van der Velden

Lord of the rings is in the sci-fi section

Private Pansy

I meant the Golden Age era of scifi

Sterno

Brave New World never predicted Tinder!

two bugs

I would honestly classify Sci Fi and Fantasy as completely different genres

FAE

@Sterno 70s scifi definitely has a certain feel to it. Also not always super progressive regarding women. Hi, Ringworld.

SaintWacko

14:39

@twobugs Oh, definitely

Private Pansy

@KevinvanderVelden Really? Huh.

two bugs

@KevinvanderVelden wat

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy it is over here, there's no fantasy section, there's a sci-fi section that has fantasy and sci-fi

Private Pansy

@twobugs Yeah, same. My response to @KevinvanderVelden is if I had to choose

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden Not at the ABC I don't think.

Sterno

14:40

70s sci-fi had some great ideas but terrible characters, usually. I'd rather just read something now with the same idea and actual characterization to go with it.

Unionhawk

Lots of places have a Science Fiction/Fantasy section all rolled up into one package.

Sterno

re: almost anything by Heinlein

Private Pansy

The responses was evenly split on whether Minecraft is scifi

Sterno

e.g?

i.e.?

ONE OF THOSE

FAE

@PrivatePansy oh neat, Station Eleven's on here

Kevin van der Velden

14:42

@FAE never been there unfortunately =p

Private Pansy

@Sterno I sort of put Heinlein with the authors from that era

@FAE Yeah, but I think less than 20 people from the class have heard of it

FAE

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@KevinvanderVelden WHAT

@KevinvanderVelden it is the BEST THING

Sterno

e.g. it is!

FAE

especially if you're a scifi/fantasy reader in the NL who prefers to read in English

Kevin van der Velden

I know! I've heard of it from you but I haven't been to amsterdam since I know of it

Or, was it in amsterdam?

FAE

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@KevinvanderVelden There's 2, one in Amsterdam one in Den Haag

Kevin van der Velden

Aah yes

FAE

The one in Amsterdam is bigger

they also participate in Free Comic Book day!

Kevin van der Velden

Sweet

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