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13:01
*wipes glasses* - wow, there's a lot of dust on my screen
I was a tournament last name, and the best part was folks trying to spell and pronounce my name (I went with Wipqozn)
you were what?
@Wipqozn Isn't it wip as in whip, and qo as in CA of call, zn as in zn.
@ardaozkal No
Roughly "Whip-cousin"
13:04
wizcoupon
Is how I pronounce it
Where was this?
@KevinvanderVelden Same, but I don't read the I in cousin.
It's clearly pronounced Turtle.
@ardaozkal yeah
TIL: Turtle is an old man.
huh, so that's how that works
neat
@KevinvanderVelden Whip-kwozun
Or actually Whip-kozzun
@fredley That is one of the dumbest lifehacks
I'm honestly surprised it wasn't already on the site
@Sterno Me too! Your question was the only one in the bagel tag
13:10
@fredley the news caster just pronounced it wrong
Go to lifehacks chat you clowns
i want to talk about D3
I thought you hated D3?
Games are off topic in this chatroom
@fredley is a expert.
13:11
@GnomeSlice then talk about it
i had never played it until recently
I remember when it first came out you were complaining about all the upvotes the questions got.
OH SO NOW YOU'VE DECIDED TO CONFORM TO THECROWD
@Sterno Not as much as you and @Whip-Kozzun
Well yeah, i complain about that all the time
TIME TO TURN IN YOUR HIPSTER CARD @GNOMESLICE
13:11
I was not having fun with D3 yesterday until my wizard got Disintegrate. Then it got super fun.
I didn't have a problem with the game
you know what, nevermind
@GnomeSlice [tag:=[]
Aah that doesn't work :(
@KevinvanderVelden [tag::(]
:(
[tag:;)]
weird
[tag:*]
Looks like anything that's a special char in MD is ignored
Probably regexes to blame
[tag:]
13:15
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Conspiracy Theories

Proposed Q&A site for enthusiasts of Conspiracies (conspiranoids), ranging from government agenda, media manipulation or even aliens among us (like the ones stored in Area 51).

Currently in definition.

@fredley I like where the tag directs to
#lifehack
Your mom is a special character.
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Stupid chat.
Ruining my lame jokes.
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Q: This subject matter is already covered by skeptics

fredleyIt seems like most questions here would fit under the scope of skeptics SE. There are many on related topics already there: Are there public laws dealing with extraterrestrial contact? Has man walked on the moon? Does Disney's Ducktales say “Ask About Illuminati”? Proposal: Conspiracy Theories

13:19
People who make their own fake movie trailers and then label them "Official Trailer" on YouTube should be beaten and shot.
@fredley I bet the user will come back with some complaints about Skeptics which are basically "they won't let me post crap"
@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment I like how someone asked "Did Area 51 exist?" on Area 51.
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I think my favorite part of Darkest Dungeon so far is reading all the angry posts by angry people who hate it, and then all the angry replies by the angry people who like it. Exhibit A
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Q: My GTA 4 social club is not opening

OG7MasSo I recently installed GTA IV on my computer i did the online activate and then tried to start it (with the LaunchGTAIV.exe) and it said this. How do I fix this? Oh and I tried reinstalling The social club, so don't bother asking if i did so.

AFAIK GTA IV cracks open in CMD
You can open whatever you want in cmd
13:25
No, I mean
Back in GTA IV days, I cracked it. Nearly all cracks involved opening the "LaunchGTAIV.exe" and it'd open a CMD screen before launching
There is no hard evidence the person is using a crack, so we assume good faith.
Forgive me for always disagreeing with assumptions of illegal content
I bought the game last year and it didn't have a CMD popup or smth.
Always
But we might choose to 'innocently' ask if they are, then burn the question to the ground if it turns out they are.
13:27
> Long time D&D player and game master here. Even stopped playing when I got honorarily banned for life from local D&D events - as a player. My parties tended to win a lot. They'd let me be dungeon master no probs XD

I'm frankly amazed at the ammount of rage. And I'm no macho "deal with it type", I made my favorite D&D character into a character in a non-fiction book I wrote, if that's not attachment IDK what is.
I... what?
@fredley just did
How do you make your D&D character into a character in a non-fiction book?
@ardaozkal You could have been a lot more subtle, but whatever.
Also what kind of monster puts their taskbar at the top of the screen?
Good faith would be something like "Which version of the game is this? Boxed or steam?"
@fredley The side is clearly where it should go.
13:29
@twobugs Yeah, that's a much better way
can you combine the two answers or should I do it?
If you launch in with an accusatory tone you're much more likely to get a defensive comment in return
@Sterno He was playing as the smug jackass, which is incidentally the title of his autobiography
@fredley I do
@fredley edited to make it look friendlier.
13:30
That's... not really friendlier
I just gave you a perfect example
@TimStone What kind of base stat bonus does the "smug jackass" class have?
@fredley My grandfather does. It's annoying. And sometimes results in bugs like having the top of windows hidden behind it.
@Sterno He wrote a book about how good he is at D&D.
EVERY OTHER APP IN THE WORLD puts the menu bar at the top. Yet for some reason you're a freak if you do that with your OS. No, YOU ALL ARE THE CRAZY ONES
@PrivatePansy +10 Charisma, but only when looking in mirrors
13:32
@TimStone +10 to Bluff (self) checks
@Sterno Apps having menus at the top is a good reason to put the OS menu at the bottom
I rotate my taskbar because I am the most evil person.
Although Apple's HCI research did prove that putting the taskbar at the top was easier to hit with the mouse
@fredley The top specifically? We know this to be true for all edges and especially corners, but why the top specifically?
@PrivatePansy Think, assuming right handed, top left is the easiest place to mouse to
Try it
13:33
I assume that since most apps put navigation at the top people are already used to hovering up there
I do hate when programs only have drop down menus from the top and I can't access them unless I move my taskbar
@twobugs But then that would be maddening. "Time to click the little X to close this pro---- goddamn taskbar!"
@fredley It's only a problem if the taskbar pops over top of the app. Not a problem if it pushes it down. I just turn off auto-hide so it always takes up that position
It would be interesting to measure, but I reckon unless I'm using PS my mouse probably stays in the top 50% of the screen most of the time
@Sterno autohide is the worst
@Sterno don't like corpses?
@Wipqozn Actually, I do, but I was bothered by the fact that I didn't see it in options, and wanted to know why.
I'm playing with all the default options
I actually think I find it easier, not harder, with corpses
13:38
@fredley I keep my task bar on the left, the windows button is still in the same place, and I have more horizontal space than vertical, so I want to sacrifice that instead.
@RonanForman just moved taskbar to left, and for some reason my button is on top
@ardaozkal I meant the same place as when it's on top, which @fredley was saying was easiest to hit.
@RonanForman oh
Also all the icons take up more space horizontally, so having the bar on the side fits more in.
@RonanForman I used to do this
13:43
Whoa I didn't even know this was possible
I have my dock on the right
@fredley I just tried that on my work mac, but the dock won't show up on my second monitor at all.
@RonanForman Yeah, my 2nd monitor is left, so have to have it that side
@fredley Ah yeah, it only appears on the outer side of my setup.
I use spotlight for everything anyway.
me too
13:45
What kind of abomination docks to the right?
Dock is useful for knowing whats open
I BET HITLER DOCKED TO THE RIGHT
@fredley True. Because osx never closes anything. Grrr
@RonanForman close all windows, app still running
this is the worst
@fredley Especially because I have it "remember what's loaded" on startup. Which doesn't actually mean that. It means it starts up everything that I thought I closed.
13:47
What's also the worst: No Apple dev sites work at all on anything other than Safari
It's like they made them break
@RonanForman Yes, ugh
@Sterno ORLY?
Open Chrome, Chrome opens 40+ tabs
@fredley I'm glad there's someone who agrees with me it's stupid.
@RonanForman At least have an options to auto-quit apps with 0 windows left
I haven't used OSX in over ten years.
13:49
Oh, hey, Halifax might finally get an IKEA (again)! Pretty sure we've been the biggest market (both in terms of metro and regional population) in Canada without an IKEA.
Is that even the most recent OS of theirs anymore?
@StrixVaria yup
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Q: Getting Mac OS X applications to close after last window closed

wfaulkI know it's just a pet peeve, but I hate it that Mac OS X's Preview.app stays open when it has no windows open. Is there any way to make it close when its last window is closed? Since I don't see any option inside Preview to make that happen, I imagine that the answer might be applicable to oth...

@RonanForman ytesssssssssssssssssssssss
OSX is no worse than Windows IMO
They each have a roughly equivalent number of cretinous design decisions
@fredley At this point I know the ins and outs of Windows and have no desire to learn something new.
I only used it ten years ago because we had to for some course in high school.
13:52
@StrixVaria I'm in the same situation. I last knew Windows with Windows 7, the newer OSes scare me.
Adjusting to changing versions of Windows is still quicker than an entirely new OS.
@fredley 10 is pretty much the same in my experience
The start menu just looks a little different
Ugh why did I take the early train today? I just looked at the clock and on most days I'd be just arriving at my desk.
This is the worst.
I swap between OSX for work and Windows 10 at home.
It seems like The Bridge is constantly at war with Trains
13:54
@StrixVaria Oh yeah, but I'm happy with Mac OSX, and Cygwin is terrible
@Wipqozn I usually have a heavy damage dealer in the back ranks who often can only do strong attacks against ranks 3 and 4, so it was frustrating before when enemies would move up closer. Sure, my front line could hit them, but often in my parties my front line is doing defensive rather than offensive stuff
Or they have the "hit 2-3 guys at once" abilities that do less damage
Also, seriously, melting every enemy who looks at me in Diablo 3 with Disintegrate is a surprisingly good time.
Kind of feel like I'm swinging around a gigantic lightsaber
Hitting two ranks at once not hitting a big enemy twice was a big disappointment to me
@fredley Apparently the guidelines say that an app should quit if all its windows are closed unless it can still do stuff, it seems no one follows this though.
@Sterno Doing firebirds? That's a very satisfying build
@twobugs Well, I'm level 36, so not quite yet. But I guess eventually I get that set
13:56
@RonanForman It can still open a new window!
@Sterno Feh, casual!
And yeah, doing your Chapter 1 season journey rewards you with set pieces for a class of your choice
@fredley Heh. Actually the only programs I have this problem with are excel and the terminal.
Good morning @fbueckert.
@twobugs I completed chapter 1. I didn't seem to get anything. I figured you had to do all the chapters
@RonanForman Chrome does it too
Do I have to go claim it somewhere?
13:58
Oh, maybe it only rewards them at max level?
You should get in-game mail
@fredley True, although I never close chrome. And it does technically still allow notifications and things.
@twobugs I thought the rewards were for later chapters, once you're at level cap.
3 green sacks that say they create set items
I finished chapter 1 and don't have anything.
You can definitely get set bonus rewards from chapter 1. I did at 70
I was powerleveled because I am Hitler.
13:59
You finish chapter 1 at level 35.
Anyway, I've been playing on PS4 instead of PC because it's more convenient, but that means I'm missing out on some seasonal stuff I guess.
I don't really fell bad about that.
Well, I probably wouldn't want my set pieces before max level anyway, right?
Yeah, any gear that's not from level cap is literally worthless.
RedQuites didn't close XCode :(
There's a season 1 chapter objective to reach 35, but you don't have to do them in order
@fredley I can't install it without root anyway.
14:01
@StrixVaria Nah, if the legendary bonus is good, you can cube it to get the bonus.
@Arperum Oh, right.
I agree on mostly useless.
It's also a forgotten soul, at worst, which can be useful later.
Here are the Haedrig's gift ones
I need to read up on the cube
14:02
ALso: the setitems are for tasks in chapter 3 & 4 of the season journey.
Hit 70, Kulle on T2 or higher, GR20 solo
Also, holy shit, I'm sick of my wizard saying "If they could see me now!"
Yeah, I was confused because my friend just said "Hey we're killing Kulle RIGHT NOW" and then I got the mail
@Sterno I am so good, I astound myself.
14:07
dammit firefox, take a proper screenshot of the whole page, and not just the visible part.
@Arperum Developer tool has a screenshot tool
You can also take screenshots of individual elements
@PrivatePansy Yes, but the --fullpage is not working.
@StrixVaria I haven't played on PS4 since before the expansion. How different is it in terms of content? Has it mostly kept up with the PC patches?
@Sterno It's the same as the PC version except it doesn't have seasons.
The patches come out at the same time for each.
It doesn't play well with fixed elements, but otherwise it always works. How are you taking the screenshot? With the little camera button on the developer tools toolbar?
14:12
I wonder why they don't do seasons. Even if they don't have the always-online requirement, it seems like you could still build in the journey rewards stuff
PS4 also has trading and nemesis monsters, which are completely not in the PC at all
I think the issue is that people figured out how to hack gems pretty easily, massively overpowering everything
@Sterno They had some wishy washy reason before but more recently they said they're considering it.
It's no excuse, granted
@MBraedley first thing I thought of as well
14:15
@MBraedley You know, the Sherwin Williams logo always seemed kind of evil to me
in blood
"Kind of"?
That's like full on evil paint cartel
I imagine most slogans sound evil if you append them with "in blood".
"Don't be evil... in blood"
Challenge Everything In Blood
@RonanForman Most don't have dripping red liquid
14:18
@Sterno It doesn't help their case, no.
Okay, this Star Wars Heroes game just got REALLY stupid
Up against 4 enemies, every single one of them hits my entire team with a grenade
Then they just focus me down
Wait, wait, I think I know the response to this
"git gud"
Did I do it right?
@Sterno You sure did! Have a sticker!
In this case "gitting gud" would require real money
Puts a frowny face sticker on @Sterno's forehead
Hmm... bridge people! We should play secret hitler on tabletop sim sometime :O
14:24
Wow, I can get a guaranteed 4 star character for the low low price of $25!
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Q: How much more CpS do kittens give?

sensiwooThe upgrade for Kitten helpers says you gain more CpS the more milk I have. What is the exact amount that the kittens give? (just the percentage is ok)

@twobugs It's a small price to pay on the road to being on some leader board only 100 or so people in the world will look at.
I'm actually climbing the leaderboard rankings because they seem to be somewhat independent of power
I just reload to my "select a person to fight" list until I see someone with a higher rank and lower power
It's... worked pretty well so far.
@KevinvanderVelden You've been watching TotalBiscuits streams?
@Arperum well the youtube things
But yessssss
14:34
@KevinvanderVelden Same for me.
It's hilarious.
Mounting evidence for a new planet is cool :) I always held out hope because planets rule
Are voyager 1 and pioneer 10 already past the new planet's potential orbit?
I believe they're pasted the predicted perihelion (closest point)
Hm actually no, they're not quite at the perihelion
Uuugh such a clusterfuck this job
Perihelion is predicted to be ~200 AU, Voyager is at about ~130 I think?
14:42
Why am I being asked how a feature request is supposed to work? I'M THE GUY THAT BUILD IT, NOT THE GUY THAT ASKED FOR IT
@Sterno Makes sense. Plague Doctor is more effective against back row enemies.
@twobugs Nice! So if it does exist, we might actually be able to get a picture of it?
@nukeforum it has a predicted orbit of around 20,000 years
Right... but it's not impossible
The likelihood of it being in the right neighbourhood for our currently launched spacecraft is.... negligible
14:50
@KevinvanderVelden Was it only 20k? I have a number of 155k years in my head for some reason.
> One trip around the sun would take 10,000 to 20,000 years.
Also the predicted range is between ~200 AU and ~1000 AU cc @twobugs
@KevinvanderVelden My brain probably added a zero at some point. 15.5k is nicely in that range.
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Q: Is there any limit to my power?

Non-Master RaceSince Pocket Mortys is similar to Pokémon, does it have the same level 100 maximum? Also, is there a limit to how many buffs (+Attack, +Defense, +Speed) I can put on one character? If there isn't, can't you make a nearly immortal Morty?

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Q: What does the in-game score in Age of Empires II mean?

PatronBernardIt consists of two numbers, how do I interpret these?

@nukeforum also relevant, we don't know where in its orbit it is
So we're looking for a nearly black thing in a very flat donut with an inner diameter of ~200 AU and an outer diameter of ~1000 AU
I don't like our chances
@KevinvanderVelden The think about space...
14:56
@nukeforum Actually, unless it's on the extreme edge of the predictions we could probably observe it from Earth
We may even have already observed it, we just didn't realize what it was
@RonanForman Yes, don't forget to bring your towel
But as @KevinvanderVelden says we have a large patch of sky to cover
It's all very exciting, either way :)
@KevinvanderVelden I was thinking of Red Dwarf actually.
Damn Brits and your campy Sci Fi
14:57
@RonanForman not watched nearly as much as that as I've read of HHGTTG
Also I think it's super cool that the voyager missions are now exploring interstellar space
@twobugs I think it's safe to say that none of the launched spacecraft (excepting spacebased telescopes) will see the thing
Yeah, sadly. It would have been super cool if we could send New Horizons past it with a minor course correction, but that would have been like a one in a billion
Probably more like a one in a billion chance of getting a lottery ticket to win being in range to have a pixel of it on your camera
15:00
We'll see :) It's not even confirmed yet, just a hypothesis
It'd be amazing if we could catch it on it's approach and send a probe there. Especially if some of the conjecture ends up being accurate (It being the core of a gas giant with a mostly frozen atmosphere)
Man, I'm going to play so much darkest dungeon tonight
I want to play Darkest Dungeon nonstop but I have to do things like work
Also raid
Also play Halo 5 because it is fun
Lifehack: How can I never have to sleep or work?
15:12
Woo, RPi swag!
I don't think I asked any questions since Private Beta
third panel perfectly describes how I feel about the current result.
Rep capping first two days of private beta ensures a pretty good jam-factory though
Oh God
This thing is awful and amazing
But mostly awful
I love it
@Arperum this also fits: explosm.net/rcg/fvhuvnqco
... that's the wrong link
You have to copy the permalink below
That's the one!
@KevinvanderVelden Pretty deep indeed.
It gets it right scarily often
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Q: fallout 4 very slow

Th3WolfI'm having a problem with fallout 4 The Game works fine on the main menu without any issues, but when i start a new game the game became very slow [the loading screen,Characters movement,...] except the sound. My Computer: HP Pavilion 15 Notebook (Windows 8.1 64bits) CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-...

Remember when we used to do other things? Before @StrixVaria ruined chat?
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15:32
I am very satisfied with the recent state of chat.
What the hell is going on right now. o_o
@Fluttershy someone linked the cyanide and happines comic generator
@twobugs Better or worse then the last time @StrixVaria linked an incremental?
15:34

This is the Bridge.

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Oh. Okay. I'll just... be... over here.
@Fluttershy Nooo be over here
Way more fun
@KevinvanderVelden Making inappropriate comics
@KevinvanderVelden Incrementals at least get starred and then people move on :P
15:35
is it totally random or
Seems to be per panel
@GnomeSlice You can lock individual panels and regenerate.
And you can lock them in
@twobugs if by move on you mean lose productivity for hours and hours while everyone discusses the best methods of hacking stuff
The best method of hacking is usually just open JS console and change the player.hasWon to true
15:37
@StrixVaria I know, I meant can any panel be in any spot
i saw the shhh one in the second and third slots already
@GnomeSlice Yes. Every panel has three characters linked to it, so you can build your own link once you know the characters of three wanted panels too.
@RonanForman haha
@RonanForman Your dad says you should be working
That Firaxis bundle has a lot of good stuff. I need to giftbomb a friend with that.
on point
@RonanForman He's also appalled at your tasteless sense of humour
@fredley I see.
@fredley There's a urmom joke in here somewhere
15:41
@PrivatePansy well we are talking about tasteless humor
@KevinvanderVelden well, we're on The Bridge
Besides, I'm also doing work for all you know.
Anybody here try the XCom Long War mod?
Uuuugh, Coworker: "Why did you implement $this?" "Because points to issue title, issue description" "Well we wanted $otherthing"

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