The Bridge

10:01 PM

@SaintWacko Again? O_o

Ugh, today has been crazy

user15026

@twobugs That it has, and I still have 2 hours left. But luckily this is the quiet part of my night. All that 100% needs to be done is programming an ATA and I can do that in my sleep

ChromeSlice

Did anybody watch the video i posted drunk last night

And have any thoughts

two bugs

10:16 PM

Well for me I was running all around the office all day moving stuff, then I had to stay late to solve some really dumb problem. Tried to go to the gym, but it was packed (parking lot literally full) so I just came home and started dinner while I do some bodyweight exercises

Racked up almost 10k steps just at work though

ChromeSlice

I agreed with more of it than I expected to

like almost all of it

two bugs

I didn't watch the video because the title alone had me rolling my eyes

ChromeSlice

Not as down with some of the inflammatory rhetoric, but then again the point of the talk was to demonstrate the problems of "political correctness" so it was strangely appropriate

@twobugs It's a good talk

murgatroid99

If I'm thinking of the right video, I opened it, saw that it was an hour long and had "college Republicans" in the description, and decided I had better things to do

user15026

@twobugs We are down a tech today (and we are small enough that one person being gone off the phones matters) and we had some tricky service calls so I was talking to techs a lot and then literally at the last moment today I got a device to program that needs to be ready for 8 am tomorrow. Never programmed this type of device before but I have a clear enough doc that I managed to get through it. :)

user15026

10:18 PM

@murgatroid99 Yeah, that was my reaction as well

ChromeSlice

It's worth watching

Full of fucking annoying interruptions from the audience though

some asshole making a big show of walking out with his fingers in his ears halfway through

some girl screaming at them continuously

user15026

It's not something I have interest in interacting with

two bugs

@ChromeSlice Possibly, but I've never seen a "Political Correctness is bad!" thing that had more to it than "Black people can call me 'cracker', but I can't scream racial slurs at them - what gives?"

ChromeSlice

That's fine, i waited till you were gone before posting it anyway

user15026

@ChromeSlice Nah, I was still there.

ChromeSlice

10:20 PM

@twobugs This has more to it than that

@AshleyNunn Well, i dont think you would enjoy it

but who knows

two bugs

Perhaps it does. But if it's made by the college republicans I'm probably going to pass

ChromeSlice

Its not

user15026

@ChromeSlice I know I wouldn't.

ChromeSlice

It does take place at a campus though

Also a lot of the audience seemed to want to make it into a talk about Islam which I wasn't as interested in

Also don't let the first guy's opening remark put you off it

He's a clown

Dragonrage

In my race and racism class in college, I learned that I am responsible for all of the problems in the world.

ChromeSlice

10:25 PM

Right?

I like their idea of "intellectual diversity"

Yuuki

I got about a few minutes into it and stopped because the heckling got extremely annoying.

ChromeSlice

That's a good way to explain the thing i was trying to articulate about trudeau the other day

@Yuuki It gets a bit better, Crowder does some crowd control

I think that's part of why he's there

Wipqozn

well so much for clenaing my apartment. Clearly Dark Souls 3 was more important.

@ChromeSlice knows what's up

ChromeSlice

Huh, I guess it was put on by the republicans. But it's not about that kind of politics @twobugs

murgatroid99

@ChromeSlice And yet, negative opinions about political correctness often correspond with social conservatism, which is generally Republican-aligned (in the US)

ChromeSlice

10:38 PM

Yes, but they don't talk about like, the election or any of that

idk much about those to be honest

two bugs

Oh the discord different names for different servers isn't active yet. Bleh.

Dragonrage

I like how white priviledge tries to tell me that part of my priviledge is being able to see people of my race pretty much everywhere

two bugs

We... should probably change the subject.

Yuuki

@twobugs It is.

Right-click the server icon.

two bugs

@Yuuki Really? Hm, let me try that

Yuuki

10:40 PM

There should be a context menu with the option "Change Nickname".

ChromeSlice

@twobugs Why? I kind of wanted to hear if anybody had any opinions on it...

Unionhawk

Hang on it's also a permission I think

ChromeSlice

I can make another room, one sec

two bugs

Because this is going to go sour

ChromeSlice

That's a good attitude

Unionhawk

10:41 PM

@twobugs Try now

two bugs

I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt @ChromeSlice

I don't think you are bringing this up in bad faith

But I don't think this kind of discussion will end up well

ChromeSlice

Don't participate then

two bugs

You are free to ignore my advice /shrug

ChromeSlice

I have been thinking about such things a lot lately

and you guys are my friends

and I was just wondering if my friends also had opinions on such things

(they are allowed to be different opinions)

Yuuki

I hear about "political correctness gone wild", but I've personally never experienced any such situation.

Sterno

10:43 PM

Discussing politics on the internet can turn otherwise reasonable people into raging assholes.

Wipqozn

I was going to google something but I can't remember whaat it was, because I was trying to figure out what @ChromeSlice was talking about

two bugs

Absolutely, this is just a powerful and contentious issue that tends to bring up a lot of strong feelings and emotions

Wipqozn

This is terrible

I hate wanting to Google something and then forgetting what you wnated to Google

what if it was super important?!

Yuuki

<20 minutes, folks.

two bugs

@Wipqozn MAybe you should Google "what did I want to google"

ChromeSlice

10:44 PM

@Yuuki I've been seeing stuff in my local paper recently about things happening on college/university campuses in the states

Now to be fair, my local paper is pretty desperate for news some of the time

Well, if anybody is interested in discussing:

srs bsns

Room for political discussion, and other srs bsns that would o...

Sterno

GAME SERVER CONNECTION FAILED... RETRYING

Yuuki

@twobugs The problem with this kind of avoidance is that it just engenders ignorance on both sides. If nobody talks about it, the problem just festers. And if you can't talk about contentious issues with friends, who can you talk about them with?

Sterno

When you're discussing politics on The Bridge, you're not doing it just with friends. You're doing it with any person who happens to wander by. And you're leaving a transcript of your conversation for anyone who happens to come by later. It's not analogous to just sitting around your living room with friends having a chat.

two bugs

@Yuuki Absolutely, but at the same time you need to take more things into account. The internet allows for extreme degrees of hyperbole, and it tends to lead to very charged discussions.

ChromeSlice

@Sterno How about discord, then

SaintWacko

10:46 PM

@Sterno I was just about to try it myself >.>

two bugs

I just don't want to read anyone trying to kill each other. Because that would be drama, which would make @Sterno happy, and we can't have that.

Sterno

@ChromeSlice Sure. I'm not actually saying don't attempt to have a conversation here. Just that, despite you seeing this as a friendly place, and generally it being so, and me also betting that most people in here willing to engage share similar political views, it can still get messy fast.

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Haha, yeah, I preordered it earlier, then canceled it

Sterno

Hell, we couldn't even discuss Gamersgate in here

ChromeSlice

@Sterno That's true, but I would hope we're all adults.

Sterno

10:48 PM

or whatever people want to call it

ChromeSlice

Yes well, Gamergate is a whole other thing

Incidentally, one of the speakers was mad involved with that for a while

Dragonrage

@Sterno i think my political views tend to differ quite a bit compared to the rest of the bridge

Sterno

@ChromeSlice If anything, it should have been less divisive and more civil than politics

ChromeSlice

He's an ...interesting guy

two bugs

@Sterno Their sales are great!

Lazers 2.0

10:49 PM

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Q: What drops the twins in Terraria pc

I keep trying to fight hime but it only gives me the hand. Whats the easiest way to fight the golem and get the possessed hatchet in Terraria pc.

terraria

Yuuki

@Sterno What's so contentious about a digital distribution platform for games?

two bugs

(That has to be the most unfortunately named website)

Sterno

@Dragonrage That can be a problem too. If you're in a room full of people you consider friends and have a minority view, it can be very hard to discuss without souring things or feeling ganged up on

ChromeSlice

@twobugs They sold the company after #Gamergate happened

It's not owned by the founders any more

Sterno

@Yuuki They really need to just rename

two bugs

10:49 PM

@ChromeSlice Hah, smart move

ChromeSlice

And pretty sad

two bugs

Honestly using "gate" as a suffix is just a bad idea at this point. Sooner or later a thing will happen and people will call it thinggate

murgatroid99

@Sterno Except that it was politics. And more personal to people here because it was also about sexism

Yuuki

@twobugs Gategate.

Sterno

@murgatroid99 Gamergate is politics?

two bugs

10:51 PM

@Yuuki Also a thing

Yuuki

@twobugs Gategategate?

ChromeSlice

Social Politics I guess

Sterno

Do Trump and Bernie have different views on Gamergate?

(actually, they probably do)

ChromeSlice

Not that kind of politics

murgatroid99

@Sterno Are US national elections the only things that relate to politics?

two bugs

10:52 PM

@Yuuki Soon, maybe

user15026

Plebgate

The "Plebgate" (or "Plodgate", "Gategate") scandal in the United Kingdom concerns an altercation between Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell, the Government Chief Whip at the time (who later resigned because of the incident), and the police, which took place on 19 September 2012. It gained notoriety initially for the conduct claimed of Mitchell and again two months later when, subsequent to Mitchell's resignation, CCTV and other evidence was revealed which appeared to call into question some of the evidence against Mitchell. Leaked police logs, later apparently backed up by eyewitness evidence, suggested...

Sterno

> Simple Definition of politics
: activities that relate to influencing the actions and policies of a government or getting and keeping power in a government
: the work or job of people (such as elected officials) who are part of a government
: the opinions that someone has about what should be done by governments : a person's political thoughts and opinions

I mean, if Gamergate had government involvement, I missed it

not saying it didn't

two bugs

Anyway Gategate was the guy who made the open cities mod in Skyrim deciding that there should be closed Oblivion gates all over the province of Skyrim because it was his vision

ChromeSlice

I don't think it did

two bugs

He forcibly included it in the Open Cities mod

Or what @AshleyNunn just posted :P

Sterno

10:53 PM

If you go waaaaaay down the definition list you do get to:

> the total complex of relations between people living in society

So sure, it's politics. But not really the kind we're talking about

murgatroid99

@Sterno Google includes this definition:

> the assumptions or principles relating to or inherent in a sphere, theory, or thing, especially when concerned with power and status in a society.

Sterno

I think that makes every discussion politics

Yuuki

And by that definition, culture.

ChromeSlice

Also, a game @Mana worked on is on Steam

Sterno

Anyway, I enjoy that I can count on every discussion on The Bridge devolving into pedantry!

We don't even need @badp for that!

ChromeSlice

10:55 PM

Maybe this was a bad idea

user15026

@ChromeSlice It looks pretty fun but my Steam doesn't work yet so I am sad I can't pick it up :(

ChromeSlice

just forget it

Yuuki

user15026

(I am still very frustrated that Steam doesn't work)

Yuuki

-30s ish.

Tim Stone

10:55 PM

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Tweeted by reckless on May 2, 2016 at 10:47 PM

Sterno

@Yuuki +1 hour server queue

Tim Stone

shuts down the entire internet

user15026

Stupid question, what is Overwatch? What kind of game?

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srs bsns

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