The Bridge

Dragonrage

23:00

i said me.irl, not me_irl

RedRiderX

me_irl is great

as is anime_irl

Frank

@Wipqozn If they get close, I'll try to negotiate.

user15026

@twobugs I probably look like a hippo in a bathing suit splashing about but I don't care, swimming is fun

Frank

But with how it went down, I don't have much faith.

GnomeSlice

boooo

Okay that gif is really annoying now

two bugs

23:04

Hm, I think it's a Pizza night

GnomeSlice

user15026

@twobugs I think tomorrow might be pizza night for me.

Dragonrage

Aug 5 '10 at 7:09, by Jeff Atwood

gaming is the only room populated 24/7. you guys are hardcore. :)

user15026

Because I never feel like cooking after Saturday work

two bugs

I never feel like cooking so I just heat up frozen stuff :P Luckily Trader Joe's is right next to my apartment and has great frozen offerings

GodEmperorDune

23:07

@twobugs trader joes is great

i'm surprised they let you in

being a fan of the most terrible zelda game

two bugs

You're not even trying

user15026

@twobugs Trader Joe's is one of those things that is mythical to me, like Girl Scout cookies

GodEmperorDune

yeah i know

i'm sorry @twobugs

i'll troll better

badp

@GnomeSlice I do that every time

GnomeSlice

You're italian!

two bugs

23:10

@AshleyNunn I think there's a place in Vancouver called "Pirate Joe's" where the guy just buys Trader Joe's stuff in America and drives across the border :P

It's weird how they refuse to open any Canadian stores

badp

@GnomeSlice I didn't know it was a typically Italian thing to say "you too [enjoy your meal]" to the delivery guy

user15026

@twobugs I am so very far from Vancouver :(

GnomeSlice

What is trader joes?

user15026

@twobugs Yeah, you'd think they'd make mad money

GnomeSlice

@badp I'm saying you should know better!

badp

23:11

@GnomeSlice I almost never took delivery in Italy

two bugs

@GnomeSlice Specialty grocery store. They're kinda midscale but they carry a lot of their own brands and stuff you generally can't find elsewhere

GnomeSlice

@badp I guess that makes sense

two bugs

They're actually owned by one of the Aldi companies (there are two Aldi companies, both German, Aldi North and Aldi South)

I don't remember which one runs Trader Joe's but the other one runs the Aldi chain in North America

Dragonrage

so it looks like ill win my fantasy draft, even though i dont have the best team by a long shot

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs i've never heard of aldi

badp

23:13

I have, though not in Munich I don't think

Dragonrage

i just got lucky that every team i faced underperformed that week

so, i won by a series of fortunate events

two bugs

@GodEmperorDune I think they're pretty new to America, but they're an older German chain

(I read a lot about Trader Joe's on Wikipedia one day)

I also know that Trader Joe's had caviar so cheap they were accused of it being black market caviar. That's pretty hilarious.

badp

what a patch

GodEmperorDune

trader joes dominates here in LA. there was a supermarket strike in the mid 2000s where all the other chains closed for a few months but trader joes stayed open because they actually paid their people well

a lot of people found TJs during that time and never went back

badp

@GodEmperorDune a few months?!

GodEmperorDune

23:16

Southern California supermarket strike of 2003-2004

The Southern California supermarket strike of 2003–2004 was a labor strike by the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW) against four supermarket chains in Southern California. Management and the unions arrived at a contract after twenty weeks, with both sides claiming victory. == Overview == On the labor side, the primary party was the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), although deli workers were represented by UNITE HERE and also struck. On the management side, it involved the supermarket chain companies Albertsons (then an independent company), Ralphs (owned by Kroger...

user15026

They're one of those places where it's probably all built up in my head and the stuff isn't all that awesome necessarily but blogs and stuff that review their stuff always make it sound like a magical food wonderland

badp

> with both sides claiming victory.

thaaaaaat's politics!

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn no it literally is a food wonderland

i've eaten most of what they have and there are only a handful of things i didn't like

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune they do tend to be a bit pricier than other places, but most of the stuff they have is good quality

two bugs

@badp Haha, to be fair NIS is like a super low budget dev. They probably have 2 or 3 people supporting it at most

badp

23:19

I appreciate the honesty

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage food prices on most other things have risen to the point where it's not as big a gap as it used to be

Dragonrage

btw i foiled @fredley's porkchat.

GodEmperorDune

its like a cheaper whole foods but about the same quality level

two bugs

I remember being really sad when I bought some Trader Joe's pre-cooked shrimp and it was just kinda tasteless and bland when I heated it up

But that's about the only thing

Dragonrage

@twobugs did you put sauce on it?

GodEmperorDune

23:20

their pineapple juice is fantastic

two bugs

Oh, some of their bottled sauces aren't so great. Which is shocking because they actually have really good precooked stuff

@Dragonrage Yeah. I used their red curry sauce I think? Which is also kinda flavorless.

Yuuki

@twobugs How on earth do you make curry of all things flavorless?

Dragonrage

@twobugs i havent tried that one.

two bugs

RIGHT????

Yuuki

It's like dehydrated water.

two bugs

23:22

It's weird because they have really good frozen Indian stuff so I was like "Ah, their curry sauce must be great"

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki too many spices compete and end up canceling each other out

i've done that before

user15026

At least @worldengineer is gonna mail me girl scout cookies so I can scratch that particular want off of my bucket list

user15026

(yes my bucket list is mostly food and trains)

two bugs

@AshleyNunn I see nothing wrong with this

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Curry doesn't need a lot of spices. Like literally three at most. It just so happens that those three spices tend to be very flavorful.

two bugs

23:23

My Steam product queue seems to regularly break

user15026

@twobugs They're two of the things that make me happiest. (Well, trains kinda also encompasses mass transit in general, but trains are teh best kind of mass transit. Subway trains, railway trains, they're all good)

two bugs

Trains are awesome and I wish America had better railroads :(

GnomeSlice

wasn't america literally built with a railroad

or was that canada

two bugs

The railroad was a big factor in settling the western coast

Yuuki

Trains were a major part of American expansion, yes.

Dragonrage

23:25

then cars happened

Yuuki

In fact, railroad barons played the major role in what's now called The Gilded Age.

two bugs

But nowadays passenger rail is second fiddle to freight rail, and even then the infrastructure is aging and not amazing.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Call of duty: bo3 bullets taking so long to be counted as hits

On multiplayer on bo3 If i use the kuda or the hvk-30 for example, I would go and shoot someone but it seem to take 0.5-1.5 seconds for the hitmarkers to appear. Is this my internet being slow or teryarch's servers being slow and laggy. By the way my ping is 20-50ms and my ps4 is wireless. (I can...

Yuuki

Hmm... I wonder if we're in a second Gilded Age right now?

two bugs

I've taken the train before, it can be nice if you're in the "sweet spot" of about a 5 hour trip. Takes roughly the same amount of time all said and done as it would to fly, and generally far cheaper

user15026

23:27

@twobugs Me too. Although I like subways. Me and a friend are working on going on all the TTC lines. (although it's pretty small, as far as subway lines go, but it's still fun)

two bugs

At least the trains I took never seemed to reach more than about 50 mph. Very low speed rail

user15026

(TTC being Toronto transit commission)

two bugs

That's cool! My city is pretty small so they only have busses, but I like our bus system (aside from the random gotchas they have)

Dragonrage

we have some metros here, but the dont have a metro line going from my house to my work

GnomeSlice

metro is a grocery store here

user15026

23:29

@twobugs Yeah, KW only has buses (we are building LRT right now tho), but Toronto has buses and subways and BEST OF ALL it has streetcars!

Dragonrage

if i want to take the metro, i would go from san bernardino county to la, then back to orange county

user15026

(I looooove streetcars almost more than trains)

two bugs

Streetcars are great!

user15026

(sorry I could talk transit for a while, I really like it.)

two bugs

You should get a job in transit :P It'd be great to have someone passionate about it!

GnomeSlice

23:30

I was just about to suggest that

Just not customer support because that will make you not like it

two bugs

Customer support seems like it would make you hate anything

user15026

@twobugs I'd love that so much tbh

two bugs

So Anonymous, or people claiming to be Anonymous, claim to have released Donald Trump's personal information. What they hope to accomplish with this is... unclear.

If you want to expose a candidate, opening them up to identity theft is not a wise idea.

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs but how tremendous is the information?

@twobugs like how trump doxxed that senator's personal phone number?

two bugs

He did that? Classy.

Dragonrage

23:33

@twobugs not sure who would want to steal trump's identity though

two bugs

Or Scooter Libby (I think it was him) revealed an active CIA agent because her husband was critical of the W. Bush administration?

GodEmperorDune

yeah, he was having some disagreement so he gave the number out at one of his rallies and told his supporters to call it

user15026

O.o

Dragonrage

Like why would you want to pretend to be Trump?

GodEmperorDune

i think i found the identity thief

RedRiderX

23:35

Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos (CVPR 2016 Oral)

►

user15026

Sorry, America. Beg all you like but Trudeau is ours.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Kerbal Space Program Antennae

In my current version of the game (1.05) if I have a Communotron 88-88 extended and use it to transmit data, it will automatically retract and thenceforth be unable to be re-extended since the required button will be missing from the right-click menu. Is there a way to either keep it extended or ...

kerbal-space-program

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn cmon, let us borrow him for like 4 years

8 tops

GnomeSlice

I'm convinced he's actually going to do a very good job

Even 'bad' Canadian politicians are still pretty good though.

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Noooope. He's ours and he is pretty fantastic and you can't have him.

Powerlord

23:38

Even bad American politicians... er... aren't... Hitler or Stalin?

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn Would you be okay if we took a genetic sample and maybe cloned him later on down the line?

Unionhawk

@Powerlord give him time

BIRTHDAY DINNER

user15026

@Yuuki Maaaybe

Unionhawk

(soon)

Frank

@Powerlord Except Trump.

He's almost there, and he's not even elected yet.

Powerlord

23:40

@Frank I was going to say that, but I got distracted.

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk grats

@Frank trump is more mussolini than hitler

#pedantry

Powerlord

Mind you, I blame The Bridge for this despite no one on The Bridge ever mentioning Trimps to me.

Dragonrage

@Frank dont blame him, blame the toupee

Yuuki

@Frank I'll be the first one to admit Trump would probably be the worst president ever but I at least have to give him the benefit of not having yet committed genocide.

GodEmperorDune

or berlusconi if we are going into italian politicians

user15026

23:41

Hm. So far, the only downside to going back to Canadian Netflix is I need to find a different way to finish watching DS9

Powerlord

It's an incremental, so it must be The Bridge's fault

Frank

@GodEmperorDune Eh. It's close.

@Yuuki Key word: Yet.

He's certainly working his way towards it.

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn but daredevil is out now!

Frank

That said, he's the absolute best thing that could happen to Canada, short term.

user15026

@GodEmperorDune I've not watched that

GodEmperorDune

23:42

@Frank trump?

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune ive watched the first episode so far

user15026

@Frank How do you even.....

Frank

@GodEmperorDune Yep.

user15026

Okay, that's logic I don't follow

GodEmperorDune

because the rest of the world will be a smoking ruin and canada will pick up the pieces?

Frank

23:42

@AshleyNunn He'll crater the US so hard, Canada will be awesome.

RedRiderX

@AshleyNunn We could just annex Oregon.

GodEmperorDune

@Frank i'm sure we'll drag you down it us

Frank

Long term, the whole planet is nuclear wasteland, because Trump.

RedRiderX

Maybe Minnesota too.

Powerlord

@Frank You realize that if Trump becomes President, he'll control the US Military? Which would stop Canada from taking over.

Well, unless all our armed forces decide to surrender.

user15026

23:43

@Frank I don't think that's how it works

Frank

@Powerlord We'd even ask nicely!

RedRiderX

@Powerlord Well that's why Canada has to act now

Yuuki

... I would actually welcome Skynet being created before the November election.

Frank

@AshleyNunn The policies he would enact would ruin the US' economy to the point our dollar would be fantastic, we'd have US refugees, and we'd be in a bit of an industrial renaissance.

Of course, that only lasts until he loses his temper and launches a nuke.

Then we're all done.

user15026

@Frank I highly doubt US people will be able to declare refugee status

GodEmperorDune

23:44

@Frank except that the world economy is so tightly coupled that if the US tanks, everyone else goes down too

as we saw in 2008

Dragonrage

what would happen if all candidates running presidential nomination were simultaneously assasinated?

user15026

(although I suppose that would making getting @worldengineer here easier)

user15026

@GodEmperorDune This

Powerlord

@GodEmperorDune Well, there's a reason that China stopping pinning the yuan to USD

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn Wasn't there some news back that Canada wouldn't accept US citizens as refugees if Trump was elected?

user15026

23:44

@Dragonrage There are likely backup plans

Frank

@AshleyNunn I dunno...many of the things he's saying means Muslims would probably claim persecution.

GnomeSlice

I still think he'd get assassinated.

user15026

@Frank Yes, but it's a process and I don't see it being as easy as "trump won save me"

user15026

at least not for a good while after

Frank

@AshleyNunn No, it won't be.

GodEmperorDune

23:45

@GnomeSlice i'm still surprised that obama hasn't been assassinated. there are a lot of very angry, hateful people who think he is single handedly responsible for all of their problems

user15026

all these people who are like "I will just move to canada" - guys, I have an American SO, we are trying to do this thing - rest assured, I've researched - it takes time and money and we don't just let anyone in

Frank

Most of what I'm seeing is that Trump is so bad, Americans will flee their own country to get away.

Dragonrage

i actually wrote a paper as to why anything that disrupts the usa economy will disrupt the world economy

GnomeSlice

@Frank Most of them won't.

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune I'm sure there's been attempts but the Secret Service is apparently actually competent when they're not being distracted by Colombian strippers.

Frank

23:46

That doesn't engender much confidence in someone who wants to run the most powerful country in the world.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki or that time the ptsd guy hopped the fence and ran inside the white house before they got him

user15026

There are three real ways right now - get a job to sponsor you, get family to sponsor you (or marry a Canadian), or use the fast track entry thing but that just puts you in a pool of people for job stuff and gets you less choice in where/how you end up here

user15026

(and all of those take time and money)

user15026

(sorry, this is a sore point, for me, because, well.)

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn waiting? an american? well i never

user15026

23:48

@GnomeSlice Yeah, most of them won't - they'll just complain about it liek they did when the US does anything people don't like because people just think Canada is a magic resolution to all their problems

Dragonrage

@AshleyNunn maybe its because you have maple syrup

user15026

@Dragonrage So does Vermont

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn canadian is better

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune also vermont is rather small compared to canada

so canada has more

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Probably :) I get mine usually from local people so I don't know :P

two bugs

23:49

Pizza is here!

Coronus

@AshleyNunn I'm sorry I want to be Canadian.

user15026

(Seriously, come sap flow you see stands ALL OVER THE PLACE with people selling it

two bugs

@AshleyNunn Did you ever play Cities in Motion? Seems like you might really like it

I only played 1 (I own 2, its on my backlog) but 1 is... well, it's for transportation enthusiasts :P

user15026

@Coronus Oh, you're more than welcome, but just...you can't just show up :P (I wish, though. Then I would just buy the huge Victorians for sale near the park that are like a bajillion dollars but have like a bajillon bedrooms and invite you lot all to come live here)

user15026

@twobugs my problem is I like trains and buses and streetcars but I am horrendous at planning

two bugs

23:50

It's one of the most brutal games I've ever played. First level is like, early 20th century Berlin and you have to completely redesign the transit network

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs if only you had a PhD at playing games

two bugs

I have a PhD in playing video games, NOT transit planning!

Frank

@twobugs There's a game for that!

Fluttershy

A jury awarded Hulk Hogan $115m. o_o

user15026

@Fluttershy For?

GodEmperorDune

23:54

@Fluttershy wat

Fluttershy

@AshleyNunn Gawker Media released a video of him cheating on his wife.

> The retired wrestler Hulk Hogan was awarded $115 million in damages Friday by a Florida jury in an invasion of privacy case against Gawker.com over its publication of a sex tape.

GnomeSlice

good

two bugs

Let me start by saying Gawker is 100% and completely in the wrong

But... WHY WOULD YOU MAKE A SEXTAPE OF CHEATING ON YOUR WIFE?????

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs i would make a joke with some hulk hogan saying, but i don't know any

Fluttershy

@twobugs Allegedly, he didn't know it was being recorded.

two bugs

23:57

@Fluttershy That makes a lot of sense. And it just makes the whole case even crazier

Frank

@Fluttershy This one's conflicting, it seems.

Not sure anyone's in the right on this one.

GnomeSlice

legally, hogan

Fluttershy

@Frank Hogan is morally wrong for cheating on his spouse with his friend's wife. But Gawker is legally in the wrong.

And morally.

Coronus

@GnomeSlice and morally?

Frank

@Fluttershy It...depends.

If he knew he was being taped, he has no standing.

GnomeSlice

23:58

@Coronus Probably not, but that's not relevant to his case.

Fluttershy

@Frank No, he still would. Because he didn't give Gawker permission to release the tape.

Frank

@Fluttershy He doesn't have to.

Mike

@twobugs as I understand it.. he was sleeping with his best friend's wife while his best friend secretly taped it.

Frank

If whoever filmed it released it, that's on them, not Gawker.

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