The Bridge

two bugs

19:00

That reminds me, I need to read the SFF meta more

Mike

spoilers, character tags, and heavy-handed closing of questions always spark meta battles.

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The few times I go there it's incredibly fascinating

Dragonrage

we get both sff drama and lifehacks drama here

Mike

before I abandoned the site I was trying to coordinate a site-wide retagging effort.... no one seemed to care too much.

basically lost me the election :)

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We get lifehacks drama in the sense that several of our users want to actually sabotage lifehacks.

GodEmperorDune

19:01

i am sad that flower + fire in little alchemy does NOT result in a fire flower

Dragonrage

@twobugs several others are actively trying to help it

two bugs

ham.se is a great name for a site

Well, URL

Dragonrage

then the rest simply dont care

Wipqozn

anyways I gotta head off

talk to you guys and gals later

Mike

Lifehacks seems like one of those sites that I'm surprised gets hosted on SE.

two bugs

19:02

@Wipqozn Hope everything is okay for your sister, man

Dragonrage

so windows 10 doesnt have reenforced concrete, therefore im not getting it

Mike

just doesn't seem like a good fit.

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@Mike I think most people are, but it's best to let it succeed or fail on it's own merits.

StrixVaria

Lifehacks: Experts at nothing. Kind of clever users of some stuff sometimes.

Mike

I also feel that way about CR and PPCG, though, and both of them appear to be flourishing

StrixVaria

19:03

Especially SCUBA gear.

Dragonrage

lifehacks needs to figure out a lifehack to get it to suceed

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Mike

ahaha

Dragonrage

i can ask a question there and it will go on hnq

pretty much guaranteed

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At the risk of beating a dead horse I think people should be careful with how they interact with other communities. Even if you're honestly trying to help their SE, you have to be tactful about it.

We've had people from Stack Overflow show up and try to Educate Us Gaming Savages and we get reasonably frustrated by that.

Mike

we get one of those every few months.

people who come in and complain about how we don't "follow the SO rules". as if they're the first person from SO to ever find another SE site.

Dragonrage

19:06

@Mike i started on so, then quickly moved to arqade

i like arqade better

Mike

I would wager that the majority of SE users started on SO

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I started on SO, but I find Arqade much more approachable

Yuuki

Joke's on you, I started on Lifehacks.

user15026

I just got called heartless and uncaring. Today is fired.

user15026

@Yuuki Lies and shenanigans

Mike

19:07

@AshleyNunn you are heartful and caring.

Yuuki

So I drowned in lava.

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Dragonrage

@AshleyNunn afaik those two dont apply to you in any way, shape, or farm

Mike

(is heartful a word?)

Yuuki

Luckily, all my valuable tools managed to survive.

Dragonrage

@Mike afaik

Yuuki

19:07

Though I did lose a stack of redstone.

GnomeSlice

@twobugs I am approachable aren't I

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn wat

Dragonrage

@Yuuki thats what you get for playing minecraft

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Yeah, I am displeased.

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@GnomeSlice You are! Playing Destiny with you is a lot of fun :)

GnomeSlice

19:09

Yea we gotta do that again!

Dragonrage

i came to arqade to get rep so i could do something i needed to on SO, then i decided to stay

Mike

@Yuuki I just lost an entire fortress because it decided to elect a vampire as mayor.

Dragonrage

@Mike there are vampires and mayors in minecraft?

Mike

no. dwarf fortress

Dragonrage

oh

Mike

19:09

:)

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@Mike You let Donald Trump become mayor of your fortress?

Mike

possibly.

he did order me to build a wall.

he didn't make the goblins pay for it, though

Dragonrage

#makethefortressgreatagain

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn i don't see how anyone could talk to you and walk away with that impression

Mike

my mayor ate my bookkeeper and my chief medical dwarf before I noticed.

two bugs

19:11

@AshleyNunn You deserve a much more appreciated job than customer service :(

Mike

and all the other dwarves got depressed. and what do they do when they get depressed? .... go talk to the mayor.

Yuuki

The one thing I hate about Mekanism is how all the machines make so much noise.

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Because I couldn't magically make someone appear at their house to fix things.

user15026

@twobugs I am so tired of being lowest level customer service, to be honest. I want to work in tech so I know I gotta do my time as helldesk monkey of the lowest echelon but some days are just impossibly hard.

two bugs

@Yuuki Did you ever keep playing the new Thief game? I was trying hard to like it but the levels were just wearing me down. The hub area and side missions were kinda neat, though.

GnomeSlice

19:13

Those people are just clowns

Yuuki

@twobugs I have a problem with not finishing games.

GnomeSlice

I'm the same way though, one unhappy customer out of a hundred makes me feel like shit

two bugs

@AshleyNunn Yeah, that honestly sounds like a job I absolutely could not do

user15026

@GnomeSlice yeah, and I know it's confirmation bias, but it still sucks

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@Yuuki Me too. I just gave up and deleted it to make room for The Division. Maybe I'll return to it someday because I do love the Thief games

Although that series might be dead forever now

GodEmperorDune

19:15

@AshleyNunn unacceptable! Bridge crew, Roll out! we have some canadian kneecaps to break

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune so we have to enforce the stereotype? if canadians arent polite, we have to go teach them to be or something?

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune I need about 8 hours to just leave my state, let alone make it over to Canada.

Mike

@Yuuki my ability to finish games has been ruined by too many casual games.

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"Alright customer, I was able to mobilize our special task force to your house right away! The bad news is they're all going to vote to condemn your house as off topic."

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki i'm in california, it's a longer distance for me

Dragonrage

19:16

why cant everyone just be polite and courteous

Yuuki

18234 Main Street has been closed as "too localized".

Mike

@Dragonrage then who would run for president?

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune i have to go get a visa i think

@Mike a person who was qualified to do the job

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I don't think we have one of those

Mike

I'm pretty sure that anyone actually qualified to do the job would need to be smart enough not to run.

Dragonrage

19:18

@Mike maybe if you asked them nicely, and others treated them courteously they might be more inclined to

badp

@Yuuki what road has 18,234 civic numbers

Yuuki

@badp Probably one in Texas, I'd imagine.

user15026

@badp We get rural roads with fire numbers of 6 digits

Dragonrage

wildemere st in detroit

Mike

@Dragonrage sounds sketchy.

badp

19:20

@AshleyNunn usually for those cases we just refer to the mile marker

Dragonrage

@Mike bonham ave, carson ca

Unionhawk

Yeah, like sea base is 73800 Overseas Hwy, which is just Overseas Hwy MM 73.8

Dragonrage

@badp there are quite a few of them.

badp

@Unionhawk I was about to ask what does MM stand for.

Dragonrage

@badp monstermoose

badp

19:23

this street has 10,000 distinct civic numbers?

that's like 2 km

Dragonrage

@badp well it has the number 18234 on it

badp

with would mean 5 houses per meter

Dragonrage

@badp probably apartments

just build up

badp

that's cheating

Dragonrage

@badp so report them

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19:25

@badp America is very efficient

Typically there will just be big # jumps for some reason or another

Dragonrage

also not every street starts numbering from 1

some randomly start from like 3000 for no apparent reason

djsmiley2k

@twobugs wut u say bout me D:

badp

I will have to report Detroit to the grand tribunal of twitch tv ministry of double twitch stream viewer counting matters which will smite you down for your illegal unstandard offsets and discontinuities in twitch tv accounts address civic number boosting fraud operations

Dragonrage

@djsmiley2k ur ugly and you cant read good?

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@djsmiley2k It's fun to play Destiny with you, too! @GnomeSlice was just fishing for compliments :P

GnomeSlice

19:27

Sure was

Dragonrage

@badp i think you should report all of America for that.

we are very consistent about being inconsistent

we dont even have standardized state sizes

djsmiley2k

lol ok

i saw I hada hilight, but culdn't see the actual hilight

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We do have standardized congressional district population sizes, just not shapes or areas.

Dragonrage

alaska is ~424x bigger than rhode island

Tim Stone

@badp The road doesn't actually end at those points, FWIW

badp

19:31

@TimStone that's cheating

Tim Stone

Your mistake was thinking that an American road has to be contiguous, and that we number things sequentially

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You thought logically, and that was your downfall!

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Dragonrage

i fell for the star bait. I blame @Wipqozn

Tim Stone

ardaozkal

@Unionhawk IDC, ALA I'm writing for windows universal, I should be ok.

Tim Stone

19:33

'MURICA

badp

I'm going to go ahead and blame this on gerrymandering sage nod

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One of the most important Freedoms is Freedom From Logic

That's in the 1/2th amendment

badp

The Halveth amendment is important, but not as much as the Twominuspij-th

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There's also a clause stipulating every American is entitled to Ghost Freedom, but recent supreme court rulings have suggested it's Freedom of Ghost, not Freedom from Ghost.

Dragonrage

@twobugs so ghosts are people too?

Chippies

19:37

@badp how much is a pij?

inb4 approximately one pij

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@Dragonrage Only when they possess a corporal entity.

@Chippies Roughly the product of pi and j, duh.

Chippies

@twobugs ghosts are pretty good at possessing though

Dragonrage

@Chippies its 1 girl, with unique tastes

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Hm that should have been "corporeal entity"

I have failed you all

Dragonrage

@twobugs is there a class on advanced possessing to learn how to do that?

Our star list is still pretty bad.

badp

19:41

@Chippies pi times the root of -1

EXACTLY

not roughly

Dragonrage

@badp have you urban dictionaried pij?

Chippies

@badp you don't know the exact value of that! No one does! IT'S NOT A REAL NUMBER!

Mike

ℯ^ⅈπ

@Chippies actually, it is known exactly, it's exactly ln(-1)

Dragonrage

i = ln(-1)/pi

Mike

stupid definitions of real numbers.

Wipqozn

19:46

@twobugs THanks. She's currently at home resting, and is feeling fine. On some pain medication of course

Dragonrage

@Mike ln(-1) = pi(i)

Mike

@Dragonrage ℯ^ⅈπ + 1 = 0

murgatroid99

@Mike +

Dragonrage

@Mike its +

Mike

that's what I said

Dragonrage

19:49

put the 1 to the other side and take the natural log of both sides

and you get pi(i) = ln(-1)

Yuuki

How to give a flying f--k.

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Lazers 2.0

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Q: minecraft dual wield fortune swords stack?

Does holding two looting III swords add together? Can I get higher drops with both? Also I am having trouble posting because the "quality" filter does not understand brevity.

minecraft

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki what game is that?

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune GTAV, I assume.

Dragonrage

one of my questions has 1 vote, 1 answer, and 11 views

user15026

19:58

@Dragonrage Very symmetrical with the numbers :)

GodEmperorDune

wow, i'm up to 107 in the alchemy game

this thing is intense

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune have you done rain + earth

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage yep

i am systematically trying everything against everything else, in alphabetical order

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune then you can burn it if you havent already

GodEmperorDune

and with itself too

@Dragonrage yep

i just created light

108

Dragonrage

20:09

i just made salt

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

1

Shopify

Proposed Q&A site for shopify developers.

Currently in definition.

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage nice

i made CO2

Dragonrage

i just made a wall. #makelittlealchemygreatagain

GodEmperorDune

but have you made a bank?

lol, i just made SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

MadMAxJr

Wow. I just made way more money than expected in steam...

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20:17

Those Doodle God style games always annoy me after the initial phase cause I feel like it devolves to just guessing

MadMAxJr

I had a unusual TF2 hat. I put it up for sale ages ago and forgot about. "I'll just put this out there, nobody would ever pay that."

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs systematically test every single combination

who needs guessing?

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Brute Force is somehow less fun to implement

GodEmperorDune

well yes, my hand is starting to hurt

but its the only way to be sure

also the setting "don't mix previously combined elements" is very helpful

lol, shuriken!

sadly star + fire does not equal the dc comics character

djsmiley2k

does very cold water and icing sugar = frozen pond?

And if anyone remembers what game that is from I'll be amazed

Lazers 2.0

20:34

0

Q: What happened to IndustrialCraft? Is there something similar?

I used to play with industrialcraft through technic all the time a could years ago. Now that I'm playing minecraft again, I want to play with it again although I can't find much up-to-date information. Is industrialcraft still in development and compatible with the latest version of minecraft?...

minecraft minecraft-mods

GodEmperorDune

@Lazers2.0 play FACTORIO!

although this seems software rec

WOOT, just created life

ardaozkal

All right, this is niice.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Craftbook Collect: Sort enchanted Books

Is there a way to sort enchanted Book with Craftbook? With /iinfo i get IDs like the following: 403#G 403#4i 403#2L I simply tried to use this as ID, but it didnt worked (collected just all). I googled aroung and tried other possibilities, but none of them worked. 403:34 --> is of enchantmen...

minecraft minecraft-server

ardaozkal

got this to run, and now using my pebble as a media remote.

Chippies

@ardaozkal don't you have media keys on keyboard?

GodEmperorDune

20:46

made a unicorn

life is super reactive

ardaozkal

@Chippies I do, but I sometimes connect my pc to TV and watch movies there, too lazy to get up and change volume/pause it etc or to install a proper kodi remote to my phone.

Chippies

@ardaozkal I can't see a reason to pause a movie without getting up and if I'm getting up, I may as well reach for the keyboard to pause it while I'm at it. But I don't have a fancy phone or pebble either, so there's that...

nor do I watch movies, come to think of it...

GodEmperorDune

and now i made @Wipqozn (egg + sand)

ardaozkal

Well, I can run any kind of commands from my pebble, so I think that finding a better usecase if possible.

user15026

@GodEmperorDune What are you doing?

ardaozkal

20:53

@AshleyNunn probably littlealchemy.com

GodEmperorDune

5 hours ago, by fredley

/work

@ardaozkal yep

ardaozkal

yep

GodEmperorDune

jeez

i'm brute forcing it

ardaozkal

Heh, I tried doing that too, but it got confusing once I got to 50

Nate Kerkhofs

Good news everyone! I may have a job by the end of the year

MadMAxJr

20:59

Bit long to get a job.

Nate Kerkhofs

by "job" I mean a full paying job

I have an internship that starts the 11th of april

that will last 8 weeks

depending on how the intership goes, i'll get a paid training on the job to learn the skills and navigate the autism perils, and if that succeeds, I'll be employed

the paid training can last anywhere from 3 to 12 months, but this company seems like it'll be better suited than the last one I worked for

djsmiley2k

Autism perils?

Nate Kerkhofs

poor word choice

Mike

@GodEmperorDune I have a onenote table.

Nate Kerkhofs

I assume you know I got asperger's syndrome

djsmiley2k

21:02

I don't know

Nate Kerkhofs

well, you do now

djsmiley2k

and I don't know how it perticularly affects you

I'm somewhere on the spectrum

Nate Kerkhofs

For me, it basically means 2 things:

djsmiley2k

but i manage to work, mostly

I figure it like this, autism isn't really a new thing

and as it hasn't died out, it must mean that people with it have survived to work previously, and then reproduced.

Nate Kerkhofs

1. I need proper guidance from the employer concerning what I need to do, with a proper planning and analysis

djsmiley2k

21:03

yup

instructions are good.

uncertainty is bad

changed plans are bad.

Nate Kerkhofs

2. I prefer to get explanations for the things I need to do

so I know why I'm doing them and why I'm doing them in a particular way

djsmiley2k

yup

Nate Kerkhofs

The good thing about this company is that they appear to be a much better fit for me than my previous job, which was from '13 to '14

djsmiley2k

well that's good :)

I'm starting to get to like the place I'm contracting at

it's slowly growing on me

Nate Kerkhofs

first off, they don't do custom work, so all development is based around their own product

2. they have a much more professional build cycle (so no more logging on to a VM to build your software with the proper license key)

3. I'm a pure developer, and don't need to manually send out mass mailings to 12K addresses via Outlook

and a bunch of other improvements as well

Yuuki

21:09

Maybe I'm not understanding correctly but I don't see how any of these are autism-specific so much as good practices pretty much anyone looks for in an employer.

I highly doubt there are people who prefer working for someone who has literally no plan whatsoever.

djsmiley2k

@Yuuki it's not so much 'I hope the employer does this' than 'I Cannot work like this'

my last job just drove me mental

with the ambiguity of things.

Yuuki

@djsmiley2k Ah, that makes sense.

Lazers 2.0

21:24

0

Q: How do I destroy a block on a computer version of minecraft?

When I am on the Minecraft app on my computer, no matter what I do, I cannot mine blocks. Can you help me?

minecraft

Nate Kerkhofs

@Yuuki neurotypical people usually can take the mental stress of performing tasks in a suboptimal environment. In my case, I actually became close to depressed from how I struggled with my job, doing the things in an environment that was not at all adjusted for my needs

I imagine that @djsmiley2k had similar issues

user4704

@Lazers2.0 Click harder.

user4704

<_< >_>

user15026

@JoshPetrie That was my thought too. :P

ardaozkal

Donald Trump's grammar 'typical of children aged 11 and under'

user15026

21:26

I want to know how they determine that.

user15026

And really, all that proves is that he is speaking in language that will be easily understood

Yuuki

Yay, Civil War Mark II is already looking like it's going to be s--- as well!

two bugs

@NateKerkhofs Huh, I actually think I have a good idea what you mean

Nate Kerkhofs

@AshleyNunn @JoshPetrie first: you have to hold down the button to mine stuff, not mash it

second, there are other reasons why stuff doesn't break, like the user being in adventure mode or spawn protection being enabled in that area

ardaozkal

@AshleyNunn they don't explain how exactly, but probably vocabulary is about shorter and less complicated sentences (claim from "When we speak, we usually use less structured language with shorter sentences"), grammar from common words from age probably (claim from "The grammar used by Donald Duck in his speeches as he campaigns to become the Republican presidential airbender corresponds to that used by students aged 11 and under.")

Well, trump is bad with short and less complicated sentences:

62

Q: Donald Trump's run-on sentences

In every Trump speech, almost every sentence is a run-on sentence. Here is a quote from one of his speeches last year Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finan...

sentence sentence-structure run-on-sentence

Nate Kerkhofs

21:39

So basically, trumps doesn't just act like a petulant child, he talks like one as well.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duch and talks like a duck, it is either a duck or a confused chicken

ardaozkal

(also yes, Duck and airbender is from extensions)

@NateKerkhofs TSA disagrees!

Nate Kerkhofs

@ardaozkal The TSA is in no authority to determine what is and what is not a duck

Dragonrage

@NateKerkhofs lets just make it simple. If it's a duck, it's a duck, if it's not a duck, it's not a duck

Nate Kerkhofs

@Dragonrage StackOverflowException on line 38 of file DragonRage.cs

two bugs

@Dragonrage What about gooses?

ardaozkal

21:43

someone mentioned C# and now I'm happy.

Dragonrage

@twobugs what's a gooses?

if you are looking for the plural form of goose, it is geese. which are not ducks, because they are not ducks

two bugs

Gooses is a word.

ardaozkal

Exception on line 42 of file ardaozkal.cs

Dragonrage

ah, gooses: A tailor's pressing iron with a long curved handle. -I would say not a duck, because it isnt a duck

Nate Kerkhofs

@ardaozkal Wait, so you just throw a bog standard Exception? what kind of shoddy code work is that?

I did a typo and accidentally googled for gooches

Dragonrage

21:45

@NateKerkhofs his exception threw an exception

ardaozkal

@twobugs goose ‎(plural geese)

user15026

@ardaozkal Can you either turn off that extension or edit your messages to not use it

Nate Kerkhofs

Apparently, google does a redirect to Gooch's, a bike manufacturer

ardaozkal

@AshleyNunn I'll try to edit it out next time.

I've been using Trump -> Duck for ages though.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: What mechanics control the path emblems on the player cards?

In Fire Emblem Fates, when you view a player card, it displays the three emblems of each path. I have seen them in numerous different states, but I cannot find anything online which explains exactly how they work. I imagine that when they are lit up (as with Birthright and Conquest below), it sig...

fire-emblem-fates

user15026

21:47

@ardaozkal Yes but it doesn't make your discourse very clear

Dragonrage

so there is a guy on the street outside serenading people with irish ballads

Yuuki

@Dragonrage So he's punching people in the face?

Nate Kerkhofs

@Dragonrage At least he's not charading with Irish balls

Dragonrage

@Yuuki no?

serenade: to entertain (someone) with a serenade.
"a strolling guitarist serenades the diners"

Yuuki

I was more making a joke about "Irish ballads".

Argh, why can't comic writers get characterization straight? This upcoming Civil War event is one where Cap should be on Tony's side.

Why does characterization have to go to s--- whenever a Big Event(TM) comes along?

Dragonrage

21:54

which side of the civil war are you on?

two bugs

Crossover events are usually pretty silly

Yuuki

@Dragonrage I'm on the side that wishes there was good writing in crossover events.

Or at least marginally competent writing.

two bugs

I haven't been impressed with many of the recent ones, honestly. Especially Marvel's.

Yuuki

This current one's going to essentially be Minority Report.

And Cap's siding with the "imprison future criminals" group.

two bugs

Yikes, one of my Facebook friends just posted a Ted Cruz Climate Change video

@Yuuki Meh, maybe this is setting up Cap as a Skrull or something? I usually dislike that kind of plot twist

I mean, I can't imagine ANY reason for Cap to be pro "imprison the (currently) innocent"

Mike

21:57

@Yuuki the Supergirl / Flash crossover is expected to be a masterpiece of writing excellence.

hides

two bugs

I haven't followed the New 52 since they axed Static Shock. I'll never forgive them.

Dragonrage

anyone know how much of flash/arrow i should watch before watching LoT?

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