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@Lazers2.0 Super Marion bros? XD

SaintWacko

@djsmiley2k Maaaaaarion. The pluuuuuumber.

9:11 PM

@SaintWacko That reminded me of the "sharoooooon" quote (not that much of a quote but whatever) from south park.

Q: how to extract games from steam to my pc without downloading

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HOW TO EXTRACT FILES FROM STEAM TO MY PC WITHOUT DOWNLOADING Please tell me a way :p. I will be thankful sir

steam

wow the downvotes

XD

Steam doesn't come with every game pre-installed. To get a game, you'd have to download it from Steam's hosting servers. — Texenox 11 hours ago

tht reminded me of an xkcd

But still, my scheme for creating and saving user config files and data locally to preserve them across reinstalls might be useful for--wait, that's cookies.

> I will be thankful sir

because there are no women on the internet?

Q: Minecraft Launcher Troubleshooting

download and runs on the fly

sounds like...

TV

Lazers 2.0

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My minecraft launcher won't let me do anything! When I click minecraft launcher it will not let me log in to my account! My account is not stolen but I have Java 8 Update 77! After downloading Java 8 Update 77, my minecraft stopped working. Someone please help! (Note: It is a Java problem or a Lo...

minecraft technical-issues

9:16 PM

@ardaozkal reminds me of a question I posed to a lecturer in Uni

It seems children have some iniate ability to 'know' certain things

How can we differenicate against them inheriting memories of very specific things from their parents vs evolution/natural selection causing those behaviours

Ok, not really massively the same but still.

I went so far to propose a baby is born with all knowledge, but forget most of it due to lack of use, before they are old enough to make use of it. ;D

@djsmiley2k yeah, many religious people use that to say "SEE, ALLAH EXISTS!"

and then we found....

mice/rats passing on 'memory' via some kind of biological link between generations

And I was amazed.

bbc.co.uk/news/health-25156510

I still don't see why you'd ever get a 'fear of spiders' via genetic mutation

While it is VERY VERY VERY unethical and taboo, human cloning can help reveal many stuff about genetics imo.

@ardaozkal nod

I wish I could just take a copy of my brain

not to 'run' it in the cloud

but to allow others to experience it

you sound like Charlie Sheen

9:20 PM

It is easy to run all 9gag users on cloud.

@KutuluMike ... yet it's there

mice, within a few generations

@StrixVaria Might not be back early enough to play

passing on biologically, a fear of something

'Babys only fear 2 things, darkness and falling'

but, WHY?

Ok, fine

@ardaozkal I've been watching Orphan Black again

while (true) { NineGag.Post(reddit.OpenSubreddit("/r/funny").Rising.SelectAll()); Task.Sleep(60000); }

9:21 PM

niceme.me

o_O

coolstoryb.ro

@Unionhawk You are the last person I would expect to post that

@Unionhawk nicememewebsitewebsitewebsitewebsitewebsitewebsitewebsite.websi…

@ardaozkal You could as well try that on mice or something like that. I don't think there's much more to learn with humans than that.

@GnomeSlice Always happy to shatter expectations

@ardaozkal This is precisely what I expected

Congratulations on doing literally the opposite of shattering expectations

9:23 PM

I can't even get it to load

Q: Why doesn't Duck Hunt work on plasma or LCD screens?

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I'm told that the original Duck Hunt (NES) works fine on all CRT screens, but fails to register successful hits on a plasma or LCD screen. Why is this? Is there a fix for it?

nes monitor

Makes me think....

so can't I, I added too much websites. Remove one website.

LIGHT GUNS WILL WORK ON LED TVS!! :OOO

@MadScientist I think that cloning smarter animals might help a lot too.

@GnomeSlice It's not real, but nicememe.website is for a while

9:24 PM

@Unionhawk well, nicememewebsitewebsitewebsitewebsite.website

nicememewebsite.website

I don't see much of any knowledge gain by cloning, except for getting better at cloning itself

It takes a dumb joke and makes it dumber

Which is what the internet does best, really

@MadScientist Memory transmission on mammals is something I would want to be researched more.

You're probably talking about epigenetics. And while that is interesting, I think the importance is sometimes overblown in the popular media

9:26 PM

Oh boy, we're talking about video games as art in our philosophy class!

Goddammit not leaving until 7

@MadScientist Can't it be used for literally "living forever (moving memories and experiences to clone when old/sick)" (I know that clones don't live that long) ?

@ardaozkal Clones don't get memories. And there is no way to transfer memories that currently exists, and not even any way that we could imagine in the near future

well djsmiley linked this: bbc.co.uk/news/health-25156510

I don't think we're entirely sure yet how memories work specifically

9:29 PM

Which says that some animals do, at least mice.

@GnomeSlice No problem, I might not get a chance to play tonight anyway now.

That's epigenetics, and that's not really memories as you think of them.

External influence can modify certain genes, that's the epigenetics part. The sequence doesn't get changed, but you can change how much of that genes is produced. And that change can be inherited

You guys should watch Orphan Black, and play SOMA

> Thus epigenetic can be used to describe anything other than DNA sequence that influences the development of an organism.

Ah, I see.

I love how media and lessons get me interested in something but then it is not that interesting when you research it.

@StrixVaria being the jungle guy is fun but I feel like all I do is pop out to kill guys and dont help any othrr way

or is that what's supposed to happen

9:33 PM

@GnomeSlice Killing guys is super beneficial for your team.

I would just enter a lane when my team were fighting

If that's what's happening you're doing a good job.

I didnt get a lpt of kills but i got assists and made them retreat

@Unionhawk Well then I know what we're doing as soon as you can pry yourself away from Stardew Valley long enough to finish the first one :p

@GnomeSlice thats pretty much a jglers job in mobas

9:33 PM

@GnomeSlice Assists are even better, because that means your allies got the kills.

that and helping control objectives

I think in Paragon that's less important.

But your goal as jungler is to feed your allies.

@John I don't even remember where we are in that map rn

Yeah, jungler's job is to scare people into not playing properly for fear of being killed.

Which moba is @GnomeSlice feeding in?

9:34 PM

Among other things.

I think we were working through some etho/vaks section

@John paragon

@John paragon i think

by Epic Games, maker of unreal engine, unreal tournament aaaand JAZZJACK RABBIT.

oh

9:34 PM

I thought feeding was a noob thing

@StrixVaria do you play league?

that had holes in the bedrock walls

@Unionhawk Yeah like some underground lab

@GnomeSlice "feeding" the other team is bad

@GnomeSlice that'sthejoke.jpg

9:34 PM

also smite looks boring

i looked it up

it's flat

It means giving them XP by dying repeatedly to them.

or gold

Oh okay

"feeding" an ally is a good thing. It means making sure that your allies get kills on enemy team guys.

if you play league and i havent added you, my summoner name is SmG Dragon

9:35 PM

@Dragonrage I used to.

@StrixVaria my last 3 games I was positive or neutral

@Dragonrage StrixVariaXIX if you want to add me.

k/d

No clue when i'll play again.

@GnomeSlice Nice!

Howie has a fun combo

use his ult, watch for which way the baddie runs and then use a nade to toss him back in

I got a few kills that way

9:36 PM

@StrixVaria well i know 2 others from the bridge that play. if we get another, we could play as a premade 5

Stellaris sounds like it has potential.

I'm actually surprised at how often Bioshock has been mentioned in this discussion (clue: it's zero times).

cc @Wipqozn, because he loves Paradox games.

@Dragonrage I have RL friends who play, so if the goal is a premade 5, having me might make it easier.

That said, I almost never play, so...

@GnomeSlice That's pretty sweet.

Games that have been mentioned: Braid and FEZ.

9:37 PM

my most kills is still only like 4

@GnomeSlice How long you been playing this? a few days?

I am also on my way tp meet a girl from tinder for coffee

@John yeah like 2

@John it has been out for a few days though

@GnomeSlice sounds like you're doing great then

Mobas are notoriously hard to learn

@GnomeSlice congrats!

9:39 PM

how are the graphics?

@Dragonrage Unreal Engine, nuff said.

@Dragonrage amazing

it lools like smite except completely different and not bad

@John I feel like I have a harder time with RTSs.

Yeah so far the learning curve on this hasn't felt as bad as a traditional rts

9:40 PM

@Yuuki I feel like you would be in the minority there, but have no actual stats to back that up.

That said, mobas are pretty much team rts

eeeeeh

@John Despite being Asian, I don't have well-developed micro skills.

Paragon - Hero Overview: Howitzer | PS4

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graphics

@Yuuki stop breaking the stereotypes okay

thats not allowed

9:42 PM

@Yuuki They aren't all as micro-intensive as SC2

Airmech is about the only RTS i plsyed with any regularity

@John Asians play MOBAs a lot though (esp. LoL and Dota 2), Jason probably wouldn't be in the minority.

and it's kinda of a moba rts hybrid

@ardaozkal Are we just going to pretend Korean SC2 was never a thing?

There used to be a game

9:43 PM

also the meta just became "spam tanks' so I stopped playing

Y'know, even though everyone here probably knows my real name, it still feels weird to have people use it.

@John We have like 2 wools left or something

I think

I didn't know it

where you made your tanks and planes etc.

Like, the area we're in then the last area

9:44 PM

@Unionhawk I think this is correct

yeah

user15026

@Yuuki Yah, that's a little weird

@GnomeSlice Which actually makes it even more disturbing that @ardaozkal just used it.

Oh, but TR2 is 1.9 so we should wait for some bugs to get ironed out in 1.9.1 at least

I guess tower defense is an RTS and I love those

@Yuuki To be fair, i never looked or asked

@Yuuki sorry, I prefer using chat name while mentioning online identity, but rl name when mentioning as a person. I'll stick to Yuuki from now though.

9:45 PM

No problem. Everyone has their own preferences, but I just prefer being called @Yuuki here.

calling you arda still feels weird

user15026

@ardaozkal In general, use whatever name people use in here when referring to them unless they state otherwise, it's the safest option

because of old arda

When in doubt, go with 'clown'

(not actually)

@clown i agree

4

9:47 PM

@clown whats weird about ArdaXi was that his name wasn't Arda but Arien.

holster something

user15026

@ardaozkal shrugs it's an internet handle, they don't always have to follow logic

Nate Kerkhofs

So there has been a lot of NPM today on my Twitter feed. Something about a open source contributor who pulled all his libraries after he got a copyright violation or something and inadvertently broke thousands of projects?

@Yuuki hue

Nate Kerkhofs

Can anyone explain what's going on with that?

9:48 PM

@ardaozkal My name isn't really Strix, in case you assumed that for some reason.

You're not actually an owl?

Nor am I a ghostly chandelier, a fish, or a robot in a dog suit.

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@NateKerkhofs There was a library yesterday that somehow got unpublished and broke a ton of stuff

Arperum

@StrixVaria MY HEADCANON. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.

@NateKerkhofs Or advertantly, the way I hear it.

9:49 PM

github.com/azer/left-pad/issues/4

@StrixVaria suuuuuuuuuuuuure, Mr. Varia

My name, however, actually is Frank.

Boring

With internet growing, it is easy to find everyone's name here, however, I'm not a stalker.

@Yuuki its weird that my employer blocks i.imgur.com but allows i.stack.imgur.com

9:52 PM

@stalker what's my real name?

@GodEmperorDune turkey has i.imgur blocked too, but not i.stack.imgur

@ardaozkal ...the whole country?

@GodEmperorDune Probably filters on "i.imgur.com" instead of "*.imgur.com".

@GodEmperorDune Matt Giltaji

9:53 PM

@Yuuki well worth the star, thanks

@GnomeSlice yes.

whut

@ardaozkal so you admit that you are @stalker

how

OK, yeah, it looks like that guy did unpublish his NPM packages on purpose. That's pretty dickish

9:53 PM

@Sterno Not a RB link? What world is this?

@ardaozkal If that's all you take to find everyone's name, you're going to be supremely disappointed.

@murgatroid99 I don't really blame him. NPM was a bunch of dicks to him, so he just moved to github.

@GnomeSlice DNS blocks.

i'm surprised that everyone was relying on such a basic function

@StrixVaria He broke a huge number of projects because he was feeling bad

9:55 PM

Well NPM shouldn't have been dicks.

What did NPM do to him?

Nate Kerkhofs

@ardaozkal My real name is obvious, but can you find my nickname?

@KutuluMike Removed one of his projects for coincidentally being called "kik" which is the name of some company.

Even though it didn't do anything remotely similar to what that company did.

BAM

I win

@Frank It takes just googling the username or going over some other links on profile to find most. (your name on meta is initial and surname afaik)

9:56 PM

from what I've read, they were being told he was violating someone else's trademark and wasn't cooperating.

@StrixVaria Whatever NPM did, breaking other people isn't a reasonable reaction

@ardaozkal 'tis. But that's not the point. How do you know that's not a different screen name?

@Unionhawk not sure if you actually found me or its just a coincidence but that is actually part of my real name

@KutuluMike The way I hear it it's like those DMCA claims on YouTube that are mostly bullshit.

@GodEmperorDune This is actually a coincidence

9:57 PM

DCMA is copyright. Trademark law is completely different.

@murgatroid99 I'm actually really glad this happened overall, because it brings a bunch of really interesting questions into the spotlight.

it's pretty easy to tell if a trademark complaint is legit: 1. am I using their trademark? 2. Did they have it first?

So even if it sucks for a bunch of people who used his code, in the long term it will hopefully wind up being a good thing.

@StrixVaria Like "why does NPM let you unpublish packages?"

@StrixVaria like why are you importing a third party module when all you need to do is pad a string with spaces?

9:58 PM

@murgatroid99 yeah, for example nuget doesn't.

Two great examples already!

@Frank I don't.

@GodEmperorDune It broke a lot of stuff because of transitive dependencies

@ardaozkal Exactly. So it's a non-starter.

@murgatroid99 so other libraries imported it because they needed to pad a string with spaces

9:59 PM

@Frank Yeah, well how do we know your name is Frank?

Somewhere along the line, someone needed to pad a string and decided to use a library for it.

@GodEmperorDune It only has like 8 direct dependencies. Which is pretty small for an old module

I bet you're secretly a Jeffrey

@Unionhawk @fredley, @Ronan, @Wipqozn, and @TrentHawkins can all vouch for it.

Or a Michael.

9:59 PM

@Unionhawk or geoffrey