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01:52
What happened to the "General" room?
Is this it now?
 
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08:52
:10826 yep
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Q: Should this (kind of adult-themed) nethack question have been deleted?

sepp2kOk, so back in August I saw an entry in a public nethack highscores file that listed "choked on an attempt at self-fellatio" as the reason of death. I've asked a question about this here, which was then promptly deleted for being too adult-themed. I've also received a nice email by Juan Manuel a...

lol, this means we cannot discuss succubi and mancubi on Gaming?
BS
 
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10:24
in Game Development on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Oct 11 at 2:32, by Ricket
If a quadtree falls in the gamedev chatroom and nobody is online to hear it, does it make a sound? (is that sound 8-bit?)
10:44
:10834 They're called inncubi and NO!
bah.
:10834 Well, unlike the message that sparked my question, there's nothing sexually explicit in the messages about foocubi, so that should be fine.
You and your beloved policies :P
:10837 No, we can't discuss it or No, it does not mean, we cannot discuss it?
It is thoughtcrime!
10:46
@badp I'm not saying you can't think about whatever you want in that strange mind of yours
I'm just saying it doesn't show up on the front page of gaming
Bold titles help the site get popularity. See "How can I know if a corpse is safe to eat?"
and the question title wasn't "How do I f-bomb nurses"
besides, if the problem is the question title, it can be edited
no need to go all the way and delete the question!
Make your arguments on meta, but I think you're going to lose this one
 
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12:09
Good afternoon all
@Gaming, the AI questions seems rather subjective. Unless Blizzard makes an official statement, the question is only inviting conjecture
 
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15:24
aaaaaaaggggggghhhh
I'm so tired of studying Calculus.
Go die, epsilon-delta proofs, die
15:38
Then stop studying for a while.
screw you, MIKE.
THAT'S RIGHT WHERE'S YOUR ANONYMITY NOW
BAHAHAHA
ahem
@Mana aww what did our poor little epsilon friend did now? :(
It's trying so hard to be as small as possible to get out of your way...
He killed my father(prepare to die)
but seriously
what does it all meeeeean
You're just exploring what happens extremely close to areas of interest
either because you just can't see what happens exactly there, or because you don't care much about what happens there and instead want to know the difference between that point and its neighbourhood.
In the first case you're doing limits, in the latter case you're searching (local) extremes.
You blew my cover foo'
16:06
What are you people's thoughts on meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/1278/…
Generic, useless tag.
I can't understand why you're fighting so hard for it
I must be in error, if I'm the only one who sees any merit in it.
In that case, we should probably junk it.
to be honest I'm still hazy on which tags are really useful
platform/game-specific tags are useful
IMO, anyways
but aside from that...
Indeed. By game-specific you mean like [halo-reach] I'm assuming?
Yeah.
16:15
Those are probably the MOST useful of the tags
I can't imagine people filtering searches on game-info
Well the name is pretty ambiguous.
But a similar tag with maybe a different name could be useful.
also, the tag name is poorly understood, as shown in the comments where you were disagreeing with that guy on the meaning
yeah
hm, maybe?
I don't know.
My opinion is that it isn't really a problem right now, but once we have a much larger userbase?
Anyways, I gotta get back to studying, bro.
16:17
And hundreds of more questions?
shrug
Take care man
:P
I gotta go out and do photog anyway.
Cheers.
do what
Photography.
oh
16:17
Midterm
Mike, you're so...in touch with nature. I'm amazed.
anyways peace
16:53
:10887 and yet jeff hates them
@badp I think thats a bit of an unfair statement
he doesn't think that game specific tags are "bad" or dislike them. He just doesn't think we need to tag every game
17:09
okay, let's be more accurate
Jeff says game tags are toxic.
>:
We'll find out in six months I guess?
Six months?
Tags used only once in six months are removed.
Re...moved?
Metal Gear?!
ugh
ever since that Sonic & Knuckles question came up
I have the theme stuck in my head
I can hear it playing over and over again
17:16
you might as well link it now
Good evening all
Evening @Fall
ah jesus @Mana, now I'm having flashbacks
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Q: How can I compare two sets of 1000 numbers against each other?

baklapI must check approximately 1000 numbers against 1000 other numbers. I loaded both and compared them server-side: foreach( $numbers1 as $n1 ) { foreach( $numbers2 as $n2 ) { if( $n1 == $n2 ) { doBla(); } } } This took a long time, so I tried to do the same comparison client s...

Major lashback in the comments
That's nuts.
17:39
The question is nuts
and the popularity it's getting is nuts
I've read much better answers with less than 10 score
Yeah.
Also my new Kindle fits in my pants' pockets :3
x3
18:20
man, there are so many awesome Sonic & Knuckles remixes
 
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19:43
@badp didn't you already know about that podcast? :P
19:55
:10941 Actually, nope.
I don't listen to podcasts.
So I'm listening to this one begrudgingly.
was mentioned before on meta
Lol, playing Civ 5 and Washington declared war on me (Elizabeth)
I now own New York, neighbouring my own York
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Q: n52te: program a long mouse button press

jcollumI have a Belkin n52te. I'm using the Razor programming software to program it. What I'd like to do is program it to hold down the right mouse button for 5s and then let go. I've tried recording that but it didn't work. I've tried putting a 5000 ms delay between the Button Down and the Button Rele...

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@ArdaXi you're welcome (I blame @Macha for retweeting your reply)
Catherine is interesting
> We have been defeated. That makes me your captive. There are worse fates, I suppose.
:10950 0 google hits for that sentence
That's what Catherine of Russia says when you defeat her
oh. Civ5.
21:14
"I need to pick my battles"?
:10949 You called?
:P
:10957 uuuh, nope, what makes you think that? :D
@badp I'm now lost since there are now two contexts here
:10960 Indeed, I picked one over the other. I picked my battle. Currently, I care more about discussing foocubi than I care about discussing wallhacks.
21:20
Also, they integrated chat into that SE All in one bar.
Although wallhack discussion can be interesting still.
:10963 cough StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™
@Macha The comment I quoted is on a different question
Now I'm lost.
> "Clearly illegal" according to what legislation? ;) – badp 10 hours ago
> @badp Are you actually interested in arguing against that stance? If you're actively opposing this, bring it up with Jeff as that is where that is based from. – Grace Note♦ 44 mins ago
> @Grace I need to pick my battles :) – badp 27 mins ago
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To my understanding, most of the site legality is handled under US law.
21:25
US law decides what we can discuss, not what can be done.
Discussing a crime isn't a crime.
It's the first step to fight crime back, actually -- understanding it.
some discussing of crimes is a crime in the US
hrm, examples?
conspiracy to comit
21:29
In the criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future, and, in some cases, with at least one overt act in furtherance of that agreement. There is no limit on the number participating in the conspiracy and, in most countries, no requirement that any steps have been taken to put the plan into effect (compare attempts which require proximity to the full offence). For the purposes of concurrence, the actus reus is a continuing one and parties may join the plot later and incur joint liability and conspiracy can be charged wher...
This one?
if you and I sit down and discuss how to pull off a bank robbery and then I go and do it, you can be help accountable, even if you didn't think I was going to do it
Conspiracy to Commit is different from Conspiracy
"...if a person agrees with any other person or persons that a course of conduct shall be pursued which, if the agreement is carried out in accordance with their intentions, either -
(a) will necessarily amount to or involve the commission of any offence or offences by one or more of the parties to the agreement, or
(b) would do so but for the existence of facts which render the commission of the offence or any of the offences impossible, [added by S.5 Criminal Attempts Act 1981]
he is guilty of conspiracy to commit the offence or offences in question."
so even if you don't commit the crime yourself you can be held accountable
they key point is that you agree with the action, not that you think its going to be implemented
Under section 2(1) the intended victim of the offence can not be guilty of conspiracy. Under section 2(2) there can be no conspiracy where the only other person(s) to the agreement are: [...] (c) an intended victim of that offence.
there are also laws pertaining to "aiding and abetting"
:10987 that means you can't conspire to commit a crime against yourself
21:34
If one cheats in a game and another don't, the other is an intended victim :)
And what if someone cheats in a game elsewhere based on the advice you gave?
except "Activision Blizzard" is the victim here
:10991 how does the other guy know what games do I play?
@badp How does the other guy even know who you are?
cheating in a video game isn't a crime, conspiring to enter into a contract you have no intension of upholding is
21:36
:10995 er? what contract?
Terms of Service
besides, I got it wrong, what counts here is if SO, Inc. can be considered of committing a crime or not -- I'm not subject to the US law.
that's not true
US law prevents you from falsely entering into a contract
:11001 entering a contract is not something you do through SO
21:39
Didn't Jeff say that we allow stuff that can get the reader, but not the site, in trouble, caveat lector?
@Arda Roughly.
It's more of a "If we can't determine the legality, it's in their hands" kind of thing.
Cheats seem to satisfy that definition anyway
I need sleep
I"ll be back later
I'm going too
21:40
Did I scare you all away?
:(
The full quote of Jeff fits in the one-box~
no :)
:11011 That's what I referred to, yes.
@Grace did
she may not be a meanie but...
I mean, look at their notes!
:11019 They're... graceful.
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♪~

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