The Bridge

arda

5:01 PM

bbc.com/news/world-europe-38369962

RedRiderX

@arda Uh oh

arda

> The gunman shouts: "Don't forget about Aleppo, don't forget about Syria" and uses the Islamic phrase "Allahu Akbar" (God is great").

BlueBarren

saw that on the tv

shit is going south

badp

I mean shit went south a while ago in Aleppo

BlueBarren

anyone want to go hide in Nunavut with me?

badp

5:04 PM

apparently the first genocide in the era of Facebook!

because Facebook is perfect and solves all the problems.

BlueBarren

@badp I was more referring to everything happening with Russia

badp

@BlueBarren afaik this is an happening with Russia

arda

putin is going to kill us: data confirmed

Unionhawk

yep

BlueBarren

yeah that's my worry

especially being so close to the US border

arda

5:05 PM

I'm in turkey though

BlueBarren

if they get hit (with a nuke) I might as well be dead too

Unionhawk

I apologize for the fact that Trump is probably going to help

arda

that's the actual issue right now

Unionhawk

:/

BlueBarren

@arda stay safe

I always worry when situations like this happen

arda

5:07 PM

I'll spend my last hours playing bad rats. o/

BlueBarren

it breeds chaos and anarchy

or seeds it I guess

Wipqozn

@arda Good call

arda

hmm

BlueBarren

man reddit bothers me sometimes

arda

5:25 PM

> And then at the last stretch of its run, 2016 wondered:

'Can't we still fit in WW3 somewhere?'

BlueBarren

or at least get WW3 started in 2016

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do you record games on Wii

Hey I need cheap ways to record on wii using GameCube games any good recording devices or solutions out there?

BlueBarren

so when we all die 2017 we can still blame 2016 for being at fault

Yuuki

@BlueBarren It'd be just like 2016 to make us wish at the end of the year that 2016 never ends.

BlueBarren

@Yuuki in reality doesn't every year suck?

Jason Berkan

5:29 PM

Y'all need to get old. 2016 wasn't that bad.

@JasonBerkan wat

@JasonBerkan wat

@JasonBerkan wat

Good debate skills, there.

Yuuki

Speaking of "wat", apparently the "wat" lady died earlier this month. Although I don't have any reliable sources on that so take that with the entire salt derived from everyone in 2016.

Wipqozn

5:36 PM

I think @JasonBerkan was around for the black plague, so by comparison this doesn't seem so bad

arda

ferdinand v2

Yuuki

@JasonBerkan I was not aware we were Lincoln-Douglas'ing.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: I tried to install EFF but skyrim doesn't work anymore. What should I do?

It simply doesn't load I installed this. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12933/? I run skyrim it doesn't load. It just quit. Is there a log file or something where I can see what's wrong? Does the mod works with skyrim special edition?

skyrim

GodEmperorDune

speaking of 2016 and death, good luck @arda, i heard about the russian ambassador, i'm sure this means more crackdowns

i see i've been inb4'd... meh

Yuuki

@JasonBerkan It can be argued that this is the case for us in North America. For people in the Philippines and @arda in Turkey on the other hand...

2016 is most definitely a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.

GodEmperorDune

5:47 PM

@Yuuki not to mention Syria

arda

I need a drink

GodEmperorDune

2016 (and the rest of the world's indifference) has pretty much fuct syria

and there's that leader in the congo who is refusing to leave office after losing the election and might start another civil war

makes the shenanigans in North Carolina seem like a schoolyard argument

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune While that sucks, it's a bit sad that seems about par for the course as far as Central Africa goes.

Yay, colonization!

Jason Berkan

@Yuuki If you restrict it to just the countries where bad stuff happened, every year is bad year.

Unionhawk

Every year is a bad year

GodEmperorDune

5:50 PM

@Unionhawk but is every year the worst?

Unionhawk

Yes

GodEmperorDune

let's go to our expert on being the worst, @Wipqozn

Yuuki

Well, @Wipqozn gets older every year so pretty much.

Unionhawk

twitter.com/search?q=2015+was+the+worst

BlueBarren

is @Wipqozn even that young?

Wipqozn

5:51 PM

I'd probably need to defer @JasonBerkan on how bad a year is compared to other years, since he's seen more of them than I have.

Unionhawk

twitter.com/search?q=2014+was+the+worst

etc

BlueBarren

it's always an age thing with you people, isn't it?

2017 was the worst

@Unionhawk was?

yes

5:52 PM

hmmm

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn i'm not sure if i'm older than @JasonBerkan

Yuuki

@Unionhawk The fact that all of those Twitter search results turn up complaints about sports and One Direction disbanding is a bit telling though.

Unionhawk

Meh

GodEmperorDune

i know @sterno has a few years on me

Wipqozn

@GodEmperorDune I doubt it

@GodEmperorDune @JasonBerkan is older than @Sterno

GodEmperorDune

5:53 PM

@Wipqozn headcanon rekt

Jason Berkan

I'm the oldest here, unless there's been some changes I haven't heard about.

Unionhawk

But it's funnier to ignore that and just call @Sterno old

3

Yuuki

Sure, Vox has that thing about how 2015 was the worst year for drug overdoses, but I think 2016 has surpassed that figure.

Wipqozn

Yeah @JasonBerkan has been the oldest bridge regular for as long as I can remember

GodEmperorDune

i guess sometime in the 80s was worse than 2016

Unionhawk

5:53 PM

@Yuuki hooray heroin plus elephant tranqs or whatever

narcan resistant heroin, wheeeeeeeeeee

GodEmperorDune

actually @JasonBerkan what would you put as worst year, if not 2016?

Unionhawk

1787, probably

Jason Berkan

@GodEmperorDune 1939?

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune I would venture 2011.

2

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk more like narcan too expensive to be available

Jason Berkan

5:54 PM

I'd honestly rather live through 2016 Turkey than 1939 Poland.

arda

triggered

BlueBarren

@JasonBerkan is that because you've actually lived through both those years?

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune That's actually not a huge issue around here, but there were a lot of deaths around here this year related to actually exactly what I said

arda

@JasonBerkan Well, if you'd like to give it a shot, you're welcome to fly over here.

twitter closed YAAAAAAAY

Unionhawk

heroin plus some tranq, which caused overdoses to be more common, and they didn't react to narcan

arda

5:56 PM

jesus christ

Wipqozn

@arda Well that's not good

BlueBarren

@arda what do you mean "twitter closed"?

Wipqozn

@BlueBarren I think his country blocked twitter

Unionhawk

Turkey Blocks

@TurkeyBlocks, Turkey

Mapping Censorship in Turkey in Real Time | Tweets on #PressFreedom #HumanRights #Democracy #Law

76 tweets, 9k followers, following 0 users

arda

also uh, how does one open a wine bottle? asking for a friend.

Wipqozn

5:57 PM

@arda I think you just smash it against a wall

Yuuki

@arda Do you have a corkscrew?

arda

@Yuuki Let me check

Tim Stone

Yeah, they're already blaming Gulenists, of course

KutuluMike

@arda it definitely does not involve a lot of lube and glute exercises

BlueBarren

@Wipqozn well that's a tad oppressive.

Tim Stone

5:57 PM

As if no one would have any legitimate reason to be angry at Russia >_>

@Wipqozn This is only partly incorrect, incidentally

djsmiley2k

@arda you can use a shoe...

Tim Stone

How to Open a Wine Bottle with a Shoe

►

GodEmperorDune

@arda with a sword

Wipqozn

I think you can mail it to someone to open for you

I volunteer @GodEmperorDune

djsmiley2k

@GodEmperorDune 1666

wait a second

Yuuki

5:59 PM

@arda You should ask on Lifehacks.

djsmiley2k

1066

2016

IT'S A SIGN

arda

@Yuuki I do

djsmiley2k

was 2006 crap, and 1996?>

BlueBarren

@djsmiley2k 1996 was the best year ever, I was born

djsmiley2k

1936....

BlueBarren

6:00 PM

also N64s

Unionhawk

Goddammit between you and @arda I feel old now

Help

BlueBarren

no feel young

do a backflip

it'll make you feel young

Unionhawk

I FUCKING GRADUATED COLLEGE*†

*PENDING SOME NONSENSE

BlueBarren

I graduate college in two years

Yuuki

@djsmiley2k So what you're saying that is that Half-Life 6 is going to end really badly?

djsmiley2k

6:01 PM

damn right

Yuuki

FCUK

Unionhawk

†ALSO PENDING A FINE OF SOME MONEY BECAUSE I LOST MY KEYS

Yuuki

FINE

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk wooo!

djsmiley2k

Any other worst years ending in 6?

Tim Stone

6:04 PM

@Unionhawk This is appropriately you tbh

Unionhawk

It's at least $125 for improper checkout, and probably however much it costs to change all of the locks in the house

SO PROBABLY WAY MORE

since the house has...

5 locks?

Jesus

Lazers 2.0

1

Q: What determines the ability to fast travel?

Whenever I need to travel for a quest, I hop in the Regalia and select the quest location I wish to drive to rather than walking the whole distance. A majority of the time, taking the scenic route is the only option available when driving. There are also times when I can fast travel to the quest ...

final-fantasy-15

djsmiley2k

3. THE PLAGUE (BLACK DEATH) ARRIVES IN ENGLAND - 1346

Unionhawk

4. The ultimate brexit occurs - 1776

5. the less ultimate brexit occurs - 2016

djsmiley2k

lol

Unionhawk

6:13 PM

6. The Da Vinci Code released in theaters - 2006

Yuuki

@Unionhawk 2016 Brexit is just revenge for 1066 Brentrance.

djsmiley2k

1996 started on a monday, that's fail.

1996 was designated as:

International Year for the Eradication of Poverty

yeah, we failed bad

BlueBarren

@djsmiley2k nooo '96 was the best year

it's the reverse of 69

it's a comical year

Unionhawk

I don't understand

djsmiley2k

96 was the year that planes crashed, according to wikipedia

Unionhawk

6:17 PM

Why does being related to 69 make it funny

Yuuki

@BlueBarren By that logic, 1337 would been a great year but that's when the Hundred Years' War started, so...

djsmiley2k

8 plane crashes

BlueBarren

@djsmiley2k don't planes crash every year?

@Unionhawk because I'm immature?

djsmiley2k

Shush! the stats don't lie!

BlueBarren

@Yuuki I'm not understanding...

Unionhawk

6:18 PM

I don't get it

Yuuki

@BlueBarren Wow, I'm old.

I'm so old that kids these days don't know 1337.

BlueBarren

@Yuuki I know about the Hundred Years' War I just don't get how 1337 would also be a comical year

Yuuki

I mean, I guess it lasted longer than it had any rights to, but still that went by quickly.

Leet

Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative alphabet for many languages that is used primarily on the Internet. It uses some characters to replace others in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance. For example, leet spellings of the word leet include 1337 and l33t; eleet may be spelled 31337 or 3l33t. The term leet is derived from the word elite. The leet alphabet is a specialized form of symbolic writing. Leet may also be considered a substitution cipher, although many dialects or linguistic varieties exist in different online...

BlueBarren

@Yuuki with that connection I get it now

arda

youtube down

turkeyblocks.org/2016/12/19/…

BlueBarren

6:31 PM

how does turkey even go about blocking these sites?

doesn't twitter or youtube have control on their sites access

Yuuki

@BlueBarren The Internet is a series of ~~tubes~~ cables.

BlueBarren

@Yuuki just pulling the plug then?

Trent Hawkins

@BlueBarren I'd assume either ISP or infrastructure level control by the Government.

Yuuki

@BlueBarren A little more nuanced, but that's essentially it.

At some point, your Internet connection goes through hard-lined wires. And that infrastructure is controlled and managed by someone.

Arperum

@BlueBarren China does a whole lot of blocking too. ANd probably half of the rest of the world does some degree of blocking too.

Kevin van der Velden

6:36 PM

@Arperum CC @fredley

After all, everything bad in the UK we blame on him

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden especially cc @fredley

Yuuki

Today in Idioms And How To Use Them, "tip of the spear" != "tip of the iceberg".

arda

@BlueBarren no, its hard to understand, but Ill explain

you dont directlu connect to a site. your requests gets routed through a lot of points

BlueBarren

and the government controls those points?

Lazers 2.0

-3

Q: I'm an aspiring map maker

I'm just a kid who wants to make MC maps. But in my current project, I need to know when a player has died ONCE. If anyone has the command for that, please tell me.

minecraft

arda

6:41 PM

there are 2 blocks done, dns and ip. they stopped doing dns omes here so Ill explain ip

When connecting to a site, you have to go through those points. You really dont pick which ones itll go through

the isp owned ones in turkey check the ip youre connecting and put your connection into a loop if it is a blocked ip, essentially making internet seem slow while actually youre being censored

tor, vpns and proxies can go through this, but they banned common ports and tor

Yuuki

@BlueBarren Not always.

But in cases where the government doesn't control those points, they can certainly provide pressure and influence on the ones who do.

arda

for example, isps

KutuluMike

> Russia's ambassador to Turkey assassinated in Ankara

arda

packet capture of a censorship last year

Yuuki

"Far cry" is part of an idiom that means "a big difference". "Farcry" is a video game series that is arguably getting blander and blander by the year.

arda

6:49 PM

@KutuluMike yup

Sterno

Far Cry 1 best Far Cry

Yuuki

Never mind, apparently the video game series is also "Far Cry". So I have no clue where this person is getting "farcry" from.

Unionhawk

KutuluMike

@arda it was nice knowing you guys

arda

@KutuluMike indeed

Yuuki

6:53 PM

@Unionhawk Also apparently she changed her YouTube name?

I could've sworn that it was RebeccaBlackVEVO or something.

badp

@TimStone /cc @Sterno

RedRiderX

@arda are the blocks always permanent?

Yuuki

2011 CONFIRMED WORST YEAR ON RECORD.

4

badp

pls

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Guild Chests in the new Clash Royale update

Are there daily donation limitations or cool downs for contributing to the guild chest? What I know: I know how much gold and how many/what types of cards are given with each chest level. I know you have to contribute at least one crown during the event to receive the rewards. ...

clash-royale

fredley

7:02 PM

@Yuuki Confirmed

Wow I beat @Wipqozn by two days

I mean, he's definitely not my sockpuppet or anything

Yuuki

Whew, I'm 2012.

fredley

Why would you even suggest that?

But then

BlueBarren

man why is my published asp app not working?

fredley

And somehow

However

Yuuki

@fredley So what you're saying is that one could argue that 2011 is when the robot revolution began?

fredley

7:08 PM

@Yuuki It actually began on 10-10-28

BlueBarren

@fredley not to be confused with 10-28-10 though

fredley

@BlueBarren or 28-10-10

BlueBarren

@fredley or 10-10-28 (I switched the year and month)

fredley

or 01-01-82

BlueBarren

hmmm

1982?

Lazers 2.0

7:12 PM

0

Q: How to optimize Pharah's fuel consumption?

Is there a pattern of activating Pharah's thrusters that lets you stay in flight for longer? Both just the hovering and when combined with her Jump Jet.

overwatch

djsmiley2k

@Yuuki tip of your tongue?

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley 2010 confirmed Okay

Lazers 2.0

-4

Q: cant stop fnaf mod from crashing

every time I try using the mod this report shows up: ---- Minecraft Crash Report ---- // Why is it breaking :( Time: 12/19/16 2:05 PM Description: There was a severe problem during mod loading that has caused the game to fail cpw.mods.fml.common.LoaderException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java...

minecraft technical-issues mods

djsmiley2k

chat.stackexchange.com/users/320/djsmiley2k

D:

Yuuki

@djsmiley2k You didn't change user id.

This is you.

BlueBarren

7:25 PM

don't worry guys

I'm 2016

I am the messenger of the apocalypse

Yuuki

"Moral" != "morale".

djsmiley2k

@Yuuki shush

holy crap i been here awhile

GnomeSlice

Wipqozn

7:42 PM

@fredley I could have sworn you were a user far longer than I. Well TIL.

Yuuki

I am apparently on an adventure to find a usable toilet in this building.

GnomeSlice

lololo

Wipqozn

@Yuuki That sounds terrible

Wait is Friday really from 2011?!?

I can't believe it's that old

How long have we been memeing that?!?!

I know @Fluttershy started it

BlueBarren

@Wipqozn Friday is a lot older than 2011 ;)

Wipqozn

May 12 '12 at 5:08, by Fluttershy

►

@Fluttershy started Friday in 2012

2

So it took us a while to catch up

Yuuki

7:45 PM

@Wipqozn Well, only one floor has an out-of-order toilet. The other three I've gone to all smell terrible though.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Lightest infusable shield/weapon?

You can infuse a weapon/shield with simple or as blessed gems, two-hand a weapon and still get the effect. My question is if there are some that can be used for that with the less weight. I know that most small shields weight 1.5 but is there anything lighter?

dark-souls-3

MBraedley

@Wipqozn verified

@Yuuki Because their toilets haven't yet been marked as out of order

Wait, is there a hat for getting a starred message today?

Unionhawk

I dunno

No

It doesn't look like it

KutuluMike

@Wipqozn Friday is spreading, it's infected the C# room on SO

I blame you guys

fredley

May 12 '12 at 5:35, by Sterno

I need to start linking this video in here every Friday.

SaintWacko

8:02 PM

@KutuluMike That's awesome

arda

So I have a new profile picture

user15026

@arda I love it!

Dragonrage

Someone may want to burn that user who just had their question burned.

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice And more importantly, trying to figure out an intragalactic currency exchange system so the aliens will pay for the space wall.

Unionhawk

@Dragonrage Oh, yeah, this friendly looking fellow

I'm sure he's a nice guy

MBraedley

8:07 PM

There we go. I just didn't properly understand the condition for the NeverEnding Story hat

Dragonrage

@Unionhawk yea. His question got burned faster than I could scroll to the bottom to flag it

Also, I seem to have gotten a 925 hat or something.

feature-request hats on mobile

Yuu

that thread was gone faster than i could flag. nice job!

arda

(sauce)

badp

meanwhile in Berlin

do we know anyone there?

Unionhawk

@arda (sauce)

arda

8:13 PM

@Unionhawk (Pear)

badp

are you all right @MadScientist?

Mad Scientist

@badp ?

badp

@MadScientist bbc.com/news/world-europe-38373867

Mad Scientist

wasn't following the news, I'm not in Berlin

fuck 2016

arda

ugh great, my bridge page won't stop loading because it is "looking up pbs.twimg.com"

Mad Scientist

8:19 PM

now the terrorists know that they don't need a bomb, a truck is enough

GodEmperorDune

@MadScientist they learned that in nice i think

djsmiley2k

I called it

next up, infrastructure attacks to cause panic

Sterno

@fredley I am a man of my word when trolling is involved

djsmiley2k

blow up some motorways around a busy city, THEN start shooting

MBraedley

@arda Add it to your adblocker, at least temporarily.

Mad Scientist

8:20 PM

@GodEmperorDune That's what I meant. They're repeating it now (assuming it is a terrorist attack, which it looks like right now)

arda

@MBraedley I enabled vpn instead

badp

@arda glad to know that it works?

arda

@badp they can't really take it down. Worst case, I'll use a HTTPS proxy.

which is mostly bulletproof, as long as ip isn't banned.

Kevin van der Velden

Hmm, should I ping @Wipqozn every time I finish a book or shouldn't I?

GodEmperorDune

@KevinvanderVelden you should ALWAYS ping @Wipqozn

Wipqozn

8:28 PM

@KevinvanderVelden I always encourage people to read

Kevin van der Velden

I FINISHED A BOOK @Wipqozn

Dragonrage

If we want @Wipqozn to get pinged more for books being read, we should have @Ash ping him for every book she reads

BlueBarren

You guys can read

?

I can't

Dragonrage

@BlueBarren I think so. I mean I can understand what you wrote with those weird little symbols

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage that many pings so quickly would qualify as spam

arda

8:31 PM

@BlueBarren I know at least 5 people in bridge who likes reading (Me, Ash, KevinValDerVander, wipqozn, dragonrage)

BlueBarren

@Dragonrage You're doing a lot better than me then

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune she can modabuse her way out of that in sure

BlueBarren

@arda I should read but I just don't

Dragonrage

@arda you forgot me.

arda

@Dragonrage added, sorry.

GodEmperorDune

8:31 PM

@Dragonrage maybe she already pings @Wipqozn in the sooper sekrit mod only chat

arda

Oh and there is @StrixVaria. 6.

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune maybe. That would be cool. We should make a bunch of rooms and add @Wipqozn as owner and ping him in all of them

I read the inheritance cycle in a day and a half.

arda

OOOOOH right I can't believe I forgot you.

Dragonrage

I finished Harry Potter in ~3 days

arda

I remember the inner-sound-while-reading talk

Kevin van der Velden

8:33 PM

@Dragonrage I should reread those

My fallback for the challenge is currently all of dresden files currently released

Dragonrage

@KevinvanderVelden they are pretty good :)

arda

@KevinvanderVelden Same. I think I already have those on my kobo, might aswell reread.

Dragonrage

@arda subvocalization

Kevin van der Velden

Also the first 8 I've already read twice so it'll be super fast

arda

@Dragonrage aha, yup, that.

Dragonrage

8:35 PM

I can't wait for more of the kingkiller chronicles

Kevin van der Velden

@arda or as I think of it the "I really want to pay attention to this and read it slowly and in detail"

Dragonrage

Or the storm light archives

Kevin van der Velden

Yesssss, to both of those

Dragonrage

I'm thinking the storm light archives will come faster even though he is writing like 5 series at once

Kevin van der Velden

The difference is that as far as I can tell sandersson is actually writing

Dragonrage

8:37 PM

Brandon Sanderson writes very quickly.

Patrick rothfuss not so much

Yuuki

And yet people who take months to upload a new chapter still have plenty of spelling and grammar mistakes along with numerous other errors in prose (such as use of idioms) and rather obvious plot contrivances.

Mad Scientist

Sanderson is nothing if not consistent in his writing speed.

Yuuki

Like how every random person in this one story seems to know sign language.

Mad Scientist

And I think the draft for the next Stormlight is finished already

Yuuki

I mean, I can forgive the former. Catching those mistakes are an editor's job. Well, I guess the latter is also an editor's job...

Kevin van der Velden

8:40 PM

@Yuuki the difference is that sanderson writes a book, gives it to an editor and starts writing a different book

Note the editor bit