The Bridge

fredley

16:00

I think I need to watch AD again

KutuluMike

@GnomeSlice if no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives picks from the "top 3"

so if you had three candidates and all of them got 0, the house would just pick one.

not sure if you had more than 3 candidates how you'd pick the top 3 from that...

GnomeSlice

I'd pick the three least clownish

sommerjj

@Nzall I think 80% of Curse Premium subs are sold to people who just want to update addons. I nearly bought it yesterday when I had 30+ updates

murgatroid99

I think that's such a narrow and improbable edge case that they don't actually have a way to deal with it

GodEmperorDune

i can definitively say that if no one voted, GiantMeteor would win

Ronan

16:03

@GodEmperorDune Would have already won.

GodEmperorDune

@Ronan well yes

sequoiad

@sommerjj I only use 3 addons

DBM, Tellmewhen and some wierd balance bar one i wont even need anymore

GnomeSlice

Man I'm hot but at least I look swaggy

GodEmperorDune

wat

what's swaggy?

sommerjj

@sequoiad I used to be like that, and then I went down the rabbit hole of serious raiding. Then suddenly I needed ALL THE ADDONS. And I don't even have ElvUI or custom unit frames

GnomeSlice

16:09

@GodEmperorDune having swag

sequoiad

@sommerjj I've done serious raiding (as ranged DPS), didn't feel like all the addons were necessary?

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice i see...

sequoiad

some of the guilds i tried though got really sniffy if you didnt have all the addons and still get 100+ fps though

GnomeSlice

wwouldn't addons make it slower

OKAY, PANIC.

We are deploying a fix to the web tier now. ETA 3.5 minutes for a full deployment.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on July 20, 2016 at 3:15 PM

Stack Overflow is now coming back online. Details to follow.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on July 20, 2016 at 3:19 PM

SaintWacko

16:11

@sommerjj Wow, that's a lot

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: What am i supposed to do?

I am in a very delicate situation.i am in level 4 of Pokemon go and just need 200 more xps to go in next level but the problem is that i have no more pokeballs.Also,there are no pokestops available. What do i do?

pokemon-go

1

Q: Do all Playstation consoles use 3.3V for controller port signalling?

I have read conflicting reports of what voltage Playstation 1 and 2 controller ports use. Some say 3.3V, some say 3.7V and some say 5V. Does anyone know for certain that all official Sony hardware is 3.3V, or were some machines 5V?

controllers ps2 ps1

sommerjj

@sequoiad They aren't really, its mostly just QoL. DBM and maybe GTFO are the only "mandatory" raiding addons imo. You don't need Recount/Skada, but most people want to see their meters

SaintWacko

I use 12

plus ElvUI

sequoiad

oh yeah i have recount, but it's always hidden so i forget about it all the time

a lot of what were addons have become built into the default UI as well, like range radars

sommerjj

Custom unit frames are super helpful for healers and leaders, and my uses Exorsus Raid Tools because it streamlines a lot of stuff

SaintWacko

16:14

I mainly like WeakAuras2

sequoiad

i healed through Cata though, with the default frames and mouseover macros

sommerjj

WA scares me, there's so much you can do with it

sequoiad

Tidyplates was the other one i used for a while to track multi-DoT effects

GnomeSlice

Stephen's Sausage Roll looks so good

Increpare makes fantastic games

Stephen's Sausage Roll - Official Trailer

►

Average ratings are... high. Like 10/10 high

destructoid gave it 10

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice not gonna lie, i thought this would be more nsfw based on the name

GnomeSlice

16:17

rps loved it

sommerjj

As a DK I use compact runes, and would want something equivalent if I played another class. Having my resources and cooldowns in the middle of the screen is so much better than looking all over (and away from the boss)

sequoiad

yeah i've seen people do crazy things with WeakAuras

GnomeSlice

4.5/5 metacritic

expensive but i may bite

havent played a good puzzle game in a while

GodEmperorDune

so what is the object of the game? to get the sausages into the grabby thing?

sequoiad

@sommerjj that's why i used a balance bar for my Druid main that moved it to middle of screen, never found i needed that with any other class

mainly play ranged and healer though

can imagine it's a more pressing need for melee and tanks

GnomeSlice

16:20

@GodEmperorDune yeah you gotta cook them on multiple sides but if you do a side twice it burns

or something

GodEmperorDune

well now i am hungry for sausage

2

GnomeSlice

apparently it gets really weird, which is par for the course with Increpare

two bugs

Hearthstone done. It's so nice to hate the RNG rather than Niantic

sequoiad

@GnomeSlice thatnks, now i really want to play I am Bread again

sommerjj

@sequoiad Whats your thoughts on the new balance druid? I had been leveling a balance/resto and had a blast with the balance mechanics. I thought I might use my legion boost on him but now that balance is just another resource and you're forced to be a fat chicken I'm not so sure =/

sequoiad

16:23

I actually havnt played the new mechanics yet except for 20 min on a mate's beta

GnomeSlice

Fat chicken?

two bugs

I'm kind of worried that my W10 lock screen is still in Chinese

sequoiad

Boomkin, Fat Chicken, Lazer Turkey, Oomkin

two bugs

@GnomeSlice One of the classes in WoW transforms into a large owlbear

There are lots of lovingly crafted nicknames

GnomeSlice

owlbear

two bugs

16:25

Yes owlbears are things

sequoiad

@sommerjj I enjoyed what I played, yeah it goes a long way away and closer to the generate and spend type mechanic of other classes

two bugs

sommerjj

Its as ugly as it sounds. You look like a fat chicken/owl/humanoid hybrid. With antlers

GnomeSlice

Neat

sequoiad

the Ion Cannon

sommerjj

16:26

You used to be able to glyph an alternate astral form where you looked like a regular person with stars on them but they removed it, forcing you to use the ugly owlbear

two bugs

They removed Glyph of Stars? Haha

Hey Druids, enjoying the nice new transmog system we built into the game? Not anymore!

sequoiad

spam Moonfire! aka how to get your Tank to hate you forever in 30 easy seconds

sommerjj

GnomeSlice

re: swag

sommerjj

No more of this form.

GnomeSlice

16:28

two bugs

Ugh, I'm just sad that this next 1.5 months until the WoW expansion hits is going to be awkward

Have to relearn my character only to discard it

GnomeSlice

don't play for 1.5 months

sommerjj

What do you mean? Class changes are up so your toon will play the same when Legion launches

two bugs

@GnomeSlice I wish

@sommerjj Dropping this character in Legion

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Pokemon Go - Can 2 of the same Pokemon with the same CP have different stats?

I was recently talking with my friend about leveling up Pokemon in Pokemon Go. We weren't exactly sure how Stats work in this game, or other Pokemon games for that matter, but we are curious if the main thing we should look at is CP, or if there are other stats that we should look at, that say co...

pokemon-series go

0

Q: Pokemon Go closes on its own?

I have an Android phone and I recently downloaded the Pokemon Go app. Every time I open the app and get to the start screen where it shows the picture of Gyarados the pop-up box comes up and asks that the user be aware of their surroundings. Everytime I click the okay box, the app freezes up a li...

pokemon-go

arda

16:35

@GnomeSlice just if wow wasn't using a subscription system

two bugs

I'm also playing for the intervening 1.5 months because I enjoy it, but I am annoyed by this aspect

I could easily unsub and then resub

I'm sure it'll be less frustrating when they fix some of the stuff broken by this patch

GnomeSlice

FUCK i just ate something so I won't be able to get blood drawn today

fucking fuck

sommerjj

During the 1.5 months we'll have invasions, demon hunters unlocked and broken shores and between all that there's running around grabbing all the transmog stuff you can get your hands on

two bugs

I still need to figure out what I'm maining in Legion, but I'm confident it won't be Mage. I don't like the direction they're taking the class

GnomeSlice

be a panda

sommerjj

16:39

I'm struggling between sticking with my DK or switching to Demon Hunter. Because mentally I'm a 13 year old boy

two bugs

That's a race, not a class. But I am. Panda master race.

Demon Hunter is really, really cool

I should play the beta more

Dragonrage

if, we could like stop just going around adding technical-issues to everything, that would be great.

sommerjj

I love Frost and Blood DKs but then Blizzard gave us double jumping and glaives

two bugs

It seems to be just one person and I agree

Dragonrage

technical-issues is worse than wipqozns-socks

two bugs

16:41

I've never really 'settled into' a spec. I usually switch once or twice per expansion

badp

en.arguman.org/vim-is-better-than-emacs

Wipqozn

@fredley What

two bugs

I'm trying to get big into class fantasy though in Legion

sommerjj

I still haven't figured out what to boost to 100. I thought maybe druid but its looking like not so much anymore. I might boost my horde Warlock just so I can see the Horde specific content in Legion

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Can Aerial Ace be dodged?

I've noticed and heard that in Pokemon games, aerial ace cannot be dodged( Proof/Source ) Does this mechanic implemen in Pokemon GO?Can aerial ace be dodged in Pokemon GO?

pokemon-go

Wipqozn

16:45

@fredley IT sounds like it's in a cemetery to. What.

two bugs

I need to decide what to boost, too. I have everything at 100 except for Warlock, Rogue, and Hunter (they're all at 90-92)

I have two of those 300% potions on me so I can conceivably just boost 1, level the other normally, and speed level the other

Dragonrage

is there a way of locating questions that i asked that were deleted?

Wipqozn

arda

@Dragonrage yes

sommerjj

Rogue is tempting with the new Pirate spec.

arda

16:48

@Dragonrage gaming.stackexchange.com/users/recently-deleted-questions/…

Wipqozn

> This is the only road to the cemetery,

I can't even

> We don't actually notice when a car is driving through, unless we happen to be on the balcony or looking through one of the interior windows.

> Or when they crash through your kitchen

Dragonrage

@arda it wasn't recent

arda

@Dragonrage ah, cc @mods

Dragonrage

@Wipqozn do you have a minute to help me locate an old meta question i asked that has disappeared (i assume it was deleted)?

Wipqozn

@Dragonrage Dependson ow long the minute is. What was the meta about?

Dragonrage

16:53

it was a feature request about close votes. i had linked this question on it if that helps

Wipqozn

@Dragonrage meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/11167/new-close-reason

Sterno

Why would anyone ever buy that house?

Dragonrage

@Wipqozn thanks

Wipqozn

@Sterno Someone asks him that, and he says it was because it was just the perfect house for him. I think he might be drunk. Always.

Sterno

Yeah

Or maybe it was $5.

Lazers 2.0

16:56

0

Q: Pokemon go forgot my password and email linked to the account

I forgot the email I had linked to my Pokemon account. I was logged out after my game crashed and I also don't know my password all I do know is my user name. Is there and way I could retrieve my password or email?

pokemon-go

GnomeSlice

two bugs

Old man yells at piles of sandstone

(It's an interesting article)

SaintWacko

@twobugs Why discard it?

two bugs

Mage is quickly becoming Not Fun

SaintWacko

It's certainly simplified a lot

I'm still enjoying my frost mage, though

I'm going to start a hunter, too

Since they got a lot of changes in Legion

two bugs

17:03

I don't like how they removed multistrike. Arcane is straight up broken right now (in a bad way) and Fire is the competitive spec atm

Fire is just weird and I don't like the playstyle

SaintWacko

Yeah, I couldn't ever get into it

two bugs

I played Frost a bit and it seems decent but not really competitive with Fire for raiding right now

djsmiley2k

can anyone deliver my baby sooner plz :/

wife really isn't getting the 'moving around lots helps the baby' thing D:

two bugs

@djsmiley2k Try contacting customer support :)

sommerjj

Might try survival hunter. It seems interesting compared to the other two. I had a BM/MM hunter at 100 but I hate the playstyle.

djsmiley2k

17:05

@twobugs hah trying to figure out who that'd be in this situation

SaintWacko

@sommerjj Yeah, I'm starting a gnome hunter to try out new Survival/MM

two bugs

Survival was fun from what I played

Frank

Spam

sommerjj

In WoD MM was the only raiding spec and the play style was "dump focus, then stand there and channel to get focus back". The rotation was like 3 buttons

two bugs

Survival is about pooling Mongoose strikes for maximum damage, from what I can tell

Dragonrage

17:08

@Frank i got there 3 seconds late to flag it

two bugs

Since that's your big thing, you get 3 charges, and each one increases damage of successive ones

I'm really interested in Demon Hunter, Warrior, Paladin, Death Knight, Survival Hunter, and Monk this expansion

Guess I have my work cut out for me on the beta

GnomeSlice

fuckkk i got my own doctor at my walkin

oh boy

Frank

It is currently 40 degrees outside, with the humidity.

It's so humid, your sweat won't cool you off.

Trent Hawkins

@Frank I believe it. I was outside mowing in it.

Frank

@TrentHawkins I took a five minute walk, went, "screw that", and came back in.

Sterno

17:11

I'd never actually watched a Dollar Shave Club commercial. It was pretty cool

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice oh, are you going to talk to them about the, uh, private thing?

@Sterno OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD

Older than my phone

Dragonrage

@Frank how are you going to catch Pokémon now?

Frank

@Dragonrage Today? I'm not.

Gonna game and do things inside.

sommerjj

Melee classes represent, now that you mention it I might boost a Warrior because I've always been secretly jealous of them

Sterno

@Wipqozn I more or less acknowledged it was old in my link, rendering your criticism invalid and you a fool. A FOOL!

Dragonrage

17:12

@Wipqozn is your phone older than @Stern'old?

Wipqozn

@Dragonrage It might be

It's probably more outdated than sterno

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn yes, and get an STI check

Trent Hawkins

@Frank and here I was going to suggest we take a drive to the forks.

Frank

@TrentHawkins I was just at Polo park.

Slim pickings.

Sterno

I was reading this article on Dollar Shave Club which led me to actually finally watch an ad for it

Interesting because it directly relates to what I do for a living

two bugs

17:14

Shaving?

Trent Hawkins

@Frank two of the biggest places here are reportedly The Forks and Assiniboin Park. Many potential in close proximity.

Dragonrage

@twobugs he is a barber maybe

Frank

@TrentHawkins I might be up for it later. I just got back, though, so I don't wanna leave again right away.

Dragonrage

is having 10/12 answers with a negative score reason to protect a question?

reading through the description on the priviledge, it seems like it is only used for "me too" or "thanks" answers, but I have seen it used to dissuade low quality answers as well on other sites.

Tim Stone

@twobugs Father Time needs to keep his beard an acceptable length

Sterno

17:20

Do you guys know if you can buy the bag slot/pokemon slot upgrade more than once?

two bugs

@Sterno A whale is born, this day

NBN-Alex

@Dragonrage I think it's more like a "Beware of Dog" sign, while not activly dissuading, enough of a "this looks offical" to scare off most 1rep people from trying without a good cause

Dragonrage

10

Q: What are the maximum bag space and Pokemon storage? How many upgrades are needed to reach the limits?

In Pokemon Go, bag space and Pokemon storage are limited. First, what are the starting limits? More importantly, there are upgrades for 50 Bag Space and 50 Pokemon. How many of each of these upgrades these can be purchased? With all upgrades purchased, what are the resulting limits?

pokemon-go

Sterno

@twobugs Hell no.

Dragonrage

@NBN-Alex if it is protected, it requires +10 rep to answer

two bugs

17:22

"I'll just buy 10 more pokemon upgrades, what's the worst that could happen?"

Sterno

If you were going to buy coins for real money there would be literally no reason to do gym battles

NBN-Alex

@Dragonrage forgot to move the one, sorry D:

Sterno

Stardust, maybe, I guess

NBN-Alex

@Sterno prestige and e-peen

Dragonrage

@Sterno crushing other peoples' hopes and dreams isn't sufficient reason?

William Mariager

17:24

Can anyone recommend some games with similar combat to Divinity: Original Sin?

Kaizerwolf

for anyone playing pokemon go, are you still having issues with pokemon step-distances not updating?

trying to make sure I'm not going crazy

Dragonrage

@Kaizerwolf yes

William Mariager

Off the top of my head, I can only come up with Temple of Elemental Evil.

Kaizerwolf

there is a rhyhorn near my work. and it's been around for like 2 weeks now

and I cannot for the life of me track it

Dragonrage

niantic still hasnt figured out how to fix stuff yet

Kaizerwolf

17:25

also isn't Diablo kind of like Divinity Original Sin? or am I thinking of the wrong game?

murgatroid99

@Kaizerwolf I thought that any single pokemon would only stick around for 15 minutes or so

William Mariager

@Kaizerwolf Well, they're both RPGs, but Divinity is turnbased :)

Kaizerwolf

@WilliamMariager ah okay my bad, thinking of something else

user15026

Good things - rest of my computer bits have been delivered. Bad things - theyre literally sitting at my front door and my landlord isn't home so it gets to sit there til I get home.

Sterno

> In December 2015, Gillette filed a patent infringement lawsuit that claimed Dollar Shave Club used its patented formulas to manufacture copycat blades.

Patent law is so weird

Dragonrage

17:27

@Sterno why would you need a cat blade?

Kaizerwolf

@murgatroid99 maybe there's also glitches with when pokemon leave the area? the rhyhorn sticks around for a loooong time, sometimes closing the app and relaunching helps

Sterno

@Dragonrage There's more than one way to skin a cat.

Kaizerwolf

@Dragonrage so he can become catwoman

two bugs

@Sterno That was a really interesting read

murgatroid99

@Kaizerwolf I remember reading about a bug where pokemon would not leave the tracker if they go out of range

Dragonrage

17:28

@murgatroid99 i can confirm this is accurate. I walked 1.5 miles in on direction, and the bulbasaur never changed position

Kaizerwolf

bleh. You would think, with raking in supposedly $1.2 million a day from this game, they could pump out bug fixes in no time

Unionhawk

Well, there's also the 3 step bug

Ellesedil

So I had a 600 CP Eevee nicknamed Rainer evolve into a Flareon this morning.

Unionhawk

@Ellesedil Have you used this trick to evolve an eevee into a vaporeon before?

The consensus seems to be that it won't work twice

Ellesedil

However, it was freshly caught and I did not close and re-open the game.

Kaizerwolf

17:29

@Ellesedil I read somewhere that the needs one evolution to try it before it will actually work

Unionhawk

Hmm

Kaizerwolf

but it seemed kinda fake and very old-wives-tailish

Ellesedil

I was pretty sad :(

Dragonrage

@Kaizerwolf they are making tons of money, why should they fix anything?

Unionhawk

Kaizerwolf

17:30

I may have just gotten lucky with naming one Rainer and having it be a Vapenation but who knows

murgatroid99

@Kaizerwolf Now that I actually work on software, I sympathize a lot more with the time it takes to develop, test, and publish bugfixes

GodEmperorDune

i was giggling at the innuendo in the starlist when i realized that i was the one who said it and that's why i can't star it :(

murgatroid99

@Kaizerwolf That trick seems to have been pretty thoroughly confirmed

Kaizerwolf

yeah I do get the time it can take to bugfix and whatnot, especially when rolling out to other countries

but afaik they still have only one server in Cali

GodEmperorDune

@Kaizerwolf scaling problems are notoriously difficult to debug and fix

Ellesedil

17:31

I did use Rainer once before to evolve an Eevee.

Unionhawk

I think the consensus is that it will only work once per evolution

Ellesedil

That's lame.

GodEmperorDune

especially when you can't replicate them in a test environment

Kaizerwolf

$1.2 million a day could buy you servers in every locale necessary, and still have room for profit

Unionhawk

Vaporeon being OP is lame

Ellesedil

17:31

@Unionhawk True

Unionhawk

Type effectiveness being 1.25/0.8 is lame

murgatroid99

@Kaizerwolf As I understand, they are basically doing that

Unionhawk

@Wipqozn is lame

Ellesedil

@Unionhawk Also true.

murgatroid99

It's not like they just have a box sitting somewhere in California

Kaizerwolf

17:32

ooh got him

GnomeSlice

Glad that's over with

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How to keep the spawnchunks loaded without generating the nether or end

I'm on a creative server and I have the ability to use cheats, commandblocks, etc. I want to keep the spawn chunks loaded entity processing when no player is online. All solutions I know of work by transferring entities to the nether, the most common one used in iron farms spits poppies through a...

minecraft

GodEmperorDune

thank you pokemon-go, there's my second steward badge

Kaizerwolf

steward badge?

arda

1000 reviews

GodEmperorDune

17:35

@Kaizerwolf 1000 reviews from a single review queue

Kaizerwolf

ah, thanks

GodEmperorDune

i have one from close votes, just got one for low quality

Ellesedil

I just tested it and my "Sparky" did indeed become a Jolteon.
Niantic, you sneaky bastards..
EDIT: It doesn't work twice, however. Looks like naming them is a one time deal for each evo.
EDIT 2: However, my friend said it worked for him 4 times in a row - he got rid of the nicknamed one's nickname before evolving the next, though. I want to test this out some more.

Kaizerwolf

I'm slowly learning all the badges and such. just passed the 30 consecutive days recently, but I have a lot to go for reviews and such

Ellesedil

reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4svayv/…

I did indeed have 2 Eevees nicknamed Rainer.

GodEmperorDune

17:37

@Kaizerwolf no worries, just contribute positively and your rep will go up over time and you'll get all the fancy privileges eventually

Kaizerwolf

@Ellesedil I don't have enough eevees to test on my end again. i got a jolt first time but my rainer did evolve to vapenation. could have been blind luck but we'll see

Ellesedil

@Kaizerwolf I have 7 Eeveelutions, and I've transferred one or two. I'll have plenty of chances to try this again, probably within a few days.

Kaizerwolf

i felt so proud, last night I caught a straight up 414CP Beedril, in one toss

GodEmperorDune

@Kaizerwolf nice

Ellesedil

I had 3 Eevee's/Eeveelutions named Rainer. I've renamed them all back to what they are. So, we'll give this another shot.

Kaz Wolfe

17:40

The Rainer/Sparky/Pyro trick only works on the first evolve.

Ellesedil

Only thing that sucks is it is going to take quite some time in order to prove it one way or another.

Yes, I see that mentioned.

Kaz Wolfe

You can only do it once per type.

two bugs

So despite my Windows lock screen being in Chinese, it links to the English stuff if I click on it. Curious.

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe According to the statement above, it works again if you delete the nickname after evolving.

Ellesedil

There's also others who are saying that it can work multiple times, and one person suggested making sure you don't have any other Pokemon nicknamed Rainer when you do it.

two bugs

17:41

I have MFA set up (to my knowledge). I'll have to investigate more at home

Ellesedil

Going to have to test it.

Kaz Wolfe

@murgatroid99 Huh. Interesting.

GnomeSlice

What pokemon is that

Kaz Wolfe

That may be a Niantic bug.

@GnomeSlice Fearow

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice fearow, iirc

Ellesedil

17:41

^

murgatroid99

@KazWolfe I'm sure that would come as a surprise to us all

Ellesedil

Evolve a Spearow and it won't be greyed out anymore :p

Kaz Wolfe

*reload*

Ellesedil

@KazWolfe Do you mean the nickname evolves? Why would it be a bug? You had complete control over Eevee evolutions in the games.

Kaz Wolfe

because niantic

murgatroid99

17:43

There's no way something like that is a bug

You can't accidentally have "If the name is 'Sparky', evolve into a Jolteon"

Kaz Wolfe

but you can have, "if the name is sparky and sparky hasn't been used before, evolve to Jolteon"

and depending on the implementation of "sparky hasn't been used before"

Trent Hawkins

Woo! Lured pokestop gave me a jynx

two bugs

Or it just tests the nicknames weirdly

murgatroid99

I was thinking it was a bug the other way. That the fact that it cares at all about what other pokemon have the nickname might be unintentional

two bugs

@murgatroid99 That's what I'm thinking

murgatroid99

17:46

Though I guess that's also kind of hard to do by accident

Ellesedil

well

two bugs

It's possible they're just querying the nicknames of all your pokemon or something silly

Ellesedil

That depends

right

If they're checking the entire list of pokemon names to see if Rainer occurs once, that's the bug.

Unionhawk

@twobugs Like, if this is the first pokemon in the list that has the name x

murgatroid99

@twobugs I guess. But you'd have to do something sort of convoluted to actually get the result we're seeing

@Unionhawk The question is: why would anyone ever write that code?

Unionhawk

17:48

/shrug?

arda

Uuuuuugh Im so hungry and have like 3 stuff I can buy and 2 I can cook. I've been eating the stuff I can buy in the last weeks and I got sick of them. I got sick of stuff I can cook too, plus water is extremely dirty here (very much lime), and I have to use a gas tank while cooking. (housefolk is visiting relatives and I decided to not go)

Kaz Wolfe

if they're checking for a pokemon named rainer when they should be checking if rainer was ever used in the past...

two bugs

@murgatroid99 They might be trying to do something like make a dictionary of all Pokemon names and then check the results...?

murgatroid99

Now I'm thinking Kaz is probably right: that it was only supposed to work once, and the way they're checking that isn't perfect

Unionhawk

It's the only even kind of reasonable explanation for that being unintended behavior

KutuluMike

17:49

@arda irony: you live in a country called Turkey and can't figure out what to eat.

arda

/Me wants to go back home where I can cook or buy loads of stuff

two bugs

I think speculating about whether this is intended or not is pretty hard to do

Unionhawk

Unless it is intended to only work once and they thought that would work as a thing

I dunno

Ellesedil

@murgatroid99 If that's true, then they'd have to store information against your trainer record indicating you've used up a nickname.

And the people who are reporting this working 3-4 times are very lucky.

arda

@KutuluMike well we have some chicken here... i.imgur.com/kvszwo3.jpg

murgatroid99

17:50

@Ellesedil That's what I mean by the "isn't perfect" part. It does seem most likely that they're using "does a Vaporeon already exist with the nickname Rainer" as a proxy for "has the nickname Rainer been used to evolve a Vaporeon", and it's simply not correct in all cases

I think that's the simplest explanation for the outcomes we're seeing

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Jesus, do you think you have one, or just decide dto be safe?

Kaz Wolfe

off topic: rainer is an amazing name

Ellesedil

In my case, I had 3 Eevee's nicknamed Rainer. I had already renamed my earlier Vaporeon back to Vaporeon. That's why I kinda think that they're just quering the list of Pokemon, or the list of Eevees, and seeing if the number of Rainer's are equal to 1 (as opposed to some other query).

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn just to be safe. had unprotected sex the last time

Sterno

TIL @GnomeSlice is about to be a dad.

GnomeSlice

17:52

Will probably be checking like bi monthly though

being reaponsible and all

Kaizerwolf

@KazWolfe I hatched a Hitmonchan and named him Jackie

GnomeSlice

@Sterno nah she was on birth control

Sterno

That's too bad. You'd probably have awesome dad stories.

murgatroid99

@Ellesedil OK, so you only had Eevees named Rainer, and when you evolved one, it didn't become a Vaporeon?

GnomeSlice

Probably not

I can't even take care of myself

Ellesedil

17:53

@murgatroid99 Correct. It became a Flareon.

GnomeSlice

@Ellesedil Are you team red?

Kaz Wolfe

no i mean Rainer would be an amazing human name.

Ellesedil

@GnomeSlice No, Instinct/Yellow.

GnomeSlice

Huh. nvm then

Ellesedil

@murgatroid99 So, either it does work once for nickname, or you need to make sure you have no other Pokemon/Eevees named Rainer.

GnomeSlice

17:54

@KazWolfe Phutureprimitive's actual name is Rain

Ellesedil

I'll be able to test this over time....

GnomeSlice

that's close

Kaz Wolfe

@GnomeSlice jealously intensifies

Kaizerwolf

@Ellesedil I think I saw somewhere that you can't have one named Rainer in your inventory, the others won't evolve to Vape

KutuluMike

@Kaizerwolf not even randomly?

murgatroid99

17:55

2 mins ago, by murgatroid99

@Ellesedil OK, so you only had Eevees named Rainer, and when you evolved one, it didn't become a Vaporeon?

Ellesedil

@Kaizerwolf reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4svayv/…

Kaz Wolfe

@Ellesedil i was about to say "why did that not ping me"

Kaizerwolf

@KutuluMike I think it still could randomly, but I don't really know, I haven't had the resources to test it myself

Ellesedil

I need 23 more Eevee candy to start testing this.

Probably a few days.

MadMAxJr

Shovel more eevees into the candy grinder.

GnomeSlice

17:57

There are a frightening number of people wandering around playing pokemon

Ellesedil

I do have 5 right now.

GnomeSlice

this is like what happened in Kingsman

Also found a dope picnic spot with three pokestops

Ellesedil

@GnomeSlice Nice

murgatroid99

The next time I evolve an eevee, I'll try with two Eevees named Rainer and no Vaporeons

That should help narrow down what the condition is

Ellesedil

@murgatroid99 It will help if it doesn't evolve into a Vaporeon. The only issue with testing this stuff is that randomization requires a large sample size.

Kaizerwolf

17:59

the biggest issue I see is there's only a limited window of time to test this, between having no eeveelutions to having too many of them

it makes consistent tests from one person next to impossible

arda

Aaaaat fuck I landed right in middle of convoys

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