The Bridge

@fredley BRB implementing Internet Protocol over WhatsApp

...isis asks turkish soldiers to leave is lands. They threaten burning them too (someone asked me to translate the message at end of the terrible video, this is the tl;dr). Jesus, what's wrong with people?

@arda ...

As much as I love a good blackening, that seems to be in poor taste.

I nearly clicked. It was a good attempt.

2:13 PM

@mikeTheLiar Yes I wanted some good clickbait but was unable to find one

This one was good, but was... too problematic, likely.

Oh c'mon, the burning <-> blackening joke didn't land? Seriously though, I have the sense of humor of an autopsy.

But anyway. Is there a definitive answer as to if Arkham Knight on PC is still unstable? It's on sale and I'm considering getting it but if I'm just going to end up frustrated I probably won't bother. Reports on the internet are inconclusive, and most of them are at least a year old.

Interesting. It looks like the "Recent Reviews" on Steam have gone from "mixed" to "very positive" over Knight.

"Overall" is still mixed though.

"over knight" <~~ i see what you did there

@mikeTheLiar The original influx of extremely bad will take forever to fix I guess. (I don't know a thing about the current state of the game)

@KutuluMike No you didn't, I'm the goddamn Batman.

@mikeTheLiar You're on fire today.

2:19 PM

@mikeTheLiark martha?

pokes weird bug with a stick

@arda something something two spells and burned his sweetroll

Q: World of Tanks redownloading everytime I log in?

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I recently logged back onto World of Tanks on the Xbox 360. I downloaded the recent update, as normal, and played for some time. When I logged back on the next day, it started removing the content from my local storage and redownloading the game all over again! Surely Wargaming can't release so m...

@PrivatePansy HMMM

I used to drive a silt strider, till i took and arrow to my sweetroll

2:25 PM

Speak quickly, outlander.

Adam Ruins Everything - The Drunken, Pagan History of Christmas

@KevinvanderVelden Would have been much easier if it was Telegram. WhatsApp doesn't have an API, as far as I know

@PrivatePansy not an official one, but there is a client

Hmmm. Could make this work then. The phone itself probably can't access the internet, because it's too locked down, but if you tether it to a computer...

@PrivatePansy it doesn't, and bans abusers. I thinked of some kind of simpler bot though, like one that can allows you to search youtube videos and send them to you etc. -- I don't use telegram either though. I'm not going to detail my reasonings (though I can if you are willing to read), but I prefer signal, which afaik has an api.

2:29 PM

@arda The point is to abuse the services that are unrated by the carrier

I don't actually know how they actually implement it though

@PrivatePansy I understand. Hence I mentioned that they ban abusers. The search and send youtube one would work for example

Fluttershy

Man... Nothing says "Happy Holidays!" quite like a sinus infection.

So supposedly this Ebola vaccine was 100% effective in a study of 6000 patients

Take that 2016!

\o/ bug one fixed.

continues prodding in the super weird duplication bug

@Wipqozn but wasn't Ebola a 2015 thing

gharrgarbl

2:45 PM

@arda i want global earthtime

Finally got the english level thingy's grades. I hit max in speaking (c2 level ^^), got very high grades on grammar and pretty high ones on rest. #1 on school. Overall score of all topics is 61, which estimatedly converts to 90 on IELTS, which is only 5 points under C1 of CEFR. Considering I didn't prepare and was rushed, that's a pretty nice score.

@djsmiley2k Yeah same.

I'll be taking the VY8436

also its year 12016

so that Netherlands may experience the joy of badplessness

Naturally this offer won't really apply to y'all.

@djsmiley2k Unix epoch maybe?

2:46 PM

Existence is pain

Pain is mandatory

Existence is mandatory

Existence is mandatory?

in other news i marizaned a cake for the first time today, it looks awesome

nah, 'modern human' years

@badp ...

MANDATORY PAIN WILL CONTINUE UNTIL EXISTANCE IMPROVES

(sorry if I got your messages wrong, but "badplessness" and "existence is mandatory?" made me link that just in case. That and my seratonin levels are above average today, which messes with my head a lot. No more pain tho! Just random side effects!)

2:51 PM

🤔

My mobile is also busy philosophising on the matter

If existence is mandatory then who was arda xi

Was arda xi phone?

Was phone the bleeding war-scarred mermaid angels?

arda xi was bad mod

@arda a common misconception. That's just what he was going to make

but arda xi also felt pain

can things that do not exist feel pain

yes, but only pain that does not exist

deep

Q: Should we standardize our tag formatting?

Is pain that does not exist not pain?

Sepia Lazers

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Based on comments in this meta, the possibility of standardizing tag formats might be beneficial to the site. For instance, we have tags for the Final Fantasy games (always stylized officially with Roman numerals (e.g. FFI, FFVII, FFXV, etc)) in the form of Arabic numerals: final-fantasy-1, fi...

discussion tags

2:56 PM

Yes, is pain.

So existence is pain means that if you exist you feel pain that exists and if you don't exist you feel pain that does not exist

For all pain remains mandatory

Does God feel pain

God can do everything in most religions so he can do that

Best steam deals of the Winter Sale (it started btw!)

liesp

Unionhawk

What day is it

@arda not ielts, toefl. ugh

@Unionhawk free-starbait-day?

I voted Borderlands 2 for "villain in most need of a hug"

I think someone needs to give Handsome Jack a hug

3:05 PM

@BlueBarren did you play tps? He's a dick.

@arda I can't believe I fell for that

Tempted to delete your account out of spite

^--- so proud

@arda never finished it, found it way too boring. Plus you voted by game not character

I voted portal 2. I think someone needs to give GLaDOS a hug [IDK why but I want to check if there's any gladosxchell fanfic now]. She could kill us, but she didn't. Also uh, portal 2's ending.

@KutuluMike Cheater

Q: Minecraft Server Unavailable to friend in same apartment building

3:08 PM

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Okay so, here is the problem (and this seems to be the problem for both of us if we are trying to access something that the other has hosted): I have a global IP of 99.99.99.127 (Not my real global IP, but you get the gist), three floors down in the same apartment building and with the same ISP h...

minecraft hosting

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Q: frozen minecraft screen

when I get on my friends realm, I can see everything, but my screen completely freezes and Minecraft wont respond, I tried waiting and restarting my computer, then went back on but the screen still ended up frozen! Can someone tell me what the problem is?

minecraft

0

Q: I can no longer hear people over voice chat

I have been able to hear voice chat fine previously, but recently everyone has been effectively muted - I think this is following a sound driver error - I have checked my settings and voice chat is turned up to 100 Not a single thing has changed aside from updates, Why can't I hear anyone anymore?

rainbow-6-siege

That app takes all the thrill and challenge out of friday

It's like playing the Bridge on Easy Mode

there's glados x chell fanfic....

@arda Dude, this is the Internet.

GLaDOS x Chell is tame

@Wipqozn You should turn in your mod hat for falling for that.

@JasonBerkan My ego

3:11 PM

Also, Steam keeps sending me e-mails that games on my wishlist are on sale. I checked yesterday, and out of 75 games, literally one isn't, so...

@JasonBerkan so it's right then

Gifs will continue until morale improves.

@JasonBerkan how do you have 75 games on your wishlist? Do you not bother buying any games at all?

goes searching for quotestack

My morale is fine. A few hours of work and then I'm done until 2017.

3:15 PM

@arda are you telling me you haven't read the chained glados portal critique slash bdsm fanfic article?

@BlueBarren Nope. I don't play the games I have, why add to the list?

@JasonBerkan I understand that and do the same thing but how does your list get to 75?

@BlueBarren Have you met @GnomeSlice?

@badp Um I think chained also is a part of bdsm so uh -- I didn't.

There, now is the gif pushed offscreen.

:(

3:16 PM

ftfy

Any game that gets linked in here, or I read a review and I think it looks good, I add to my wishlist. Someday I'll have time to play them.

@JasonBerkan how big is his wishlist?

@badp aha I found it

@BlueBarren Basically every game on Steam, last time I checked. It used to shock me when I went to a store page and it didn't tell me that @GnomeSlice wanted it.

And apparently my list is now 87. My memory is going in my old age.

@JasonBerkan so it doesn't shock you anymore that Gnome doesn't wish for literally every game?

3:19 PM

@GnomeSlice is at 1,366 on his wishlist.

STEAM SUMMER SALES 2013 IS HERE!

the source

@badp You become numb.

@JasonBerkan IOW Gnomeslice is white noise to you

STEAM SUMMER SALES 2014 IS HERE!

MORE

Jontron - That's All Folks! [A Talking Cat!?!]

Current status of @GnomeSlice and @JasonBerkan

/cc @GodEmperorDune

3:22 PM

Every Steam sale I plan on culling my wishlist, because if you aren't going to buy a game at 90% off, you just aren't going to buy it, but I always find something better to do.

gaben.tv

@JasonBerkan but maybe it isn't a matter of price! maybe it's a matter of crave

gaben memes will continue until I get to 1000 games

Maybe if you crave something you should get it immediately!

Purchase! Consume! Reproduce!

Spend!

Keep the econony going

Saving is for chumps

You only exist once

YOEO doesn't quite roll off the tongue

3:26 PM

well time to get downvoted into oblivion

Also not strictly true, since all of you figments of my imagination seem to reconstitute yourselves every time I open this tab

here goes my ability to comment on any post

It's weird how my imagination keeps being fixated on @badp

I must be a masochist

WOOHOO. weird bug squashed.

@PrivatePansy if only I were a sadist! Wouldn't that be just perfect

3:36 PM

@badp it wasn't bad.

> "Test complete," GLaDOS stated quietly with a smirk.

50 Shades of Grey Auditions - Saturday Night Live

wait so there is an actual fanfic of that?

@badp yes, nsfw.

I was talking about game-ism.com/2008/04/04/still-alive-shes-free

aah finally a good block! Turkey blocked sourceforge now.

@badp oh.

3:38 PM

Sad trombone

But yeah enjoy the fanfic you made me read.

I WOULD NEVER (opens in incognito mode)

oh okay so this guy is allowed to be a butt face but when I do it I get all kinds of punishments

FINALLY. TAKE THAT CHAPTER.

@BlueBarren Talking about trump or something on this website?

3:44 PM

@badp no I was posting a question on SO that was relatively open ended

Q: How do I (effectively) kill bees?

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I've been having a rough time killing bees with finesse. Given their small size and ability to fly, it seems nearly impossible to stab them in the back. Since the Finesse rating is (at least partially) based on how many backstabs I pull off during an encounter, I typically get no higher than a ...

final-fantasy-15

Link? I am powerless to do anything but point and laugh, mind you

Q: Is it Possible to Read Specific Block of Text

-3

Is it possible to use Streamreader (or I guess something other than Streamreader) to read a specific block of text? An example would be that I have chart like data in a text file that is separated by date and I want to read each day's data separately. Example of the data is shown below. Blu...

c# file-io

well it's -3 now

@arda That is... actually really awful

it's probably because it sort of sounds like I'm asking for code but that wasn't my intention

3:48 PM

@PrivatePansy yes.

I mean, I thought erotica was easy, but no

There's no easy way to write an erotica between a mute female and a huge roof-hanging computer.

6

@BlueBarren the downvotes are there because not even Perl offers the API you want

You have an unknown amount of data to load and well you'll have to deal with it :)

@badp I thought it was because SO discriminates against the unexperienced....

What Cody said essentially

3:52 PM

@badp and see I didn't think of that until I posted there

So you were helped yes?

As additional advice I would suggest you to build a small chart for your parser to help you have less spaghetti than you otherwise would

Tim Stone

mmm spaghetti

Q: Finite State Machine parsing

So your file might be empty or start with blue, but if you find red or green or the lines in between (yellow?) then the file is wrong

After blue you need to find red or yellow.

After red there's more red or yellow.

If you write some code to deal with blue red yellow and green separately you will have some sort of basic structure for your thing

After yellow comes green, or blue, or nothing

etc.

Like literally draw a graph with this stuff

5

This picture depicts finite state machine parsing "nice" string. The question is how would it look like in JS code? EDIT Picture from link above:

javascript fsm

Your problem is like this except of course you have whole lines instead of letters and branching possibilities

@PrivatePansy so uh from the height of your life long experience as pony erotica fan fiction reader do you like think the link should be like uh flagged and stuff

@badp Ewww, and uh, it's not like there's any graphical imagery

The poor writing is more offensive than the content

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

kk

4:14 PM

1

Perl Programming

Proposed Q&A site for people who have questions about the Perl Programming Language

Closed before being launched.

Q: On minecraft pe (0.16.2) the hangar button isn't working

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I have a Kindle Fire HD I've had Minecraft for almost 2 years with it I get this new update it's been a bit laging but nothing really too severe I was able to see my skin for 2 days then I could only see part of the skin like the hair or the feet the rest was black so I restarted my Kindle and th...

minecraft-pocket-edition

@badp I was helped but at the cost of 3 downvotes, I'm getting dangerously close to below 50 rep again

thanks for the help though @badp

@Yuuki Heh

Adam Ruins Everything - Why Trophy Hunting Can Be Good for Animals

4:32 PM

Huh

Is steam down for anyone else?

@Wipqozn That's if trophy hunting is well-regulated.

@Yuuki yes

The whole thing about Cecil showed that trophy hunting regulations are murky at best.

@Frank Huh. Someone crunched the numbers and apparently SAO (in-universe) sold worst than the Virtual Boy.

@SaintWacko steamstat.us

yes

4:47 PM

Bah

For some reason when I launch it in offline mode it doesn't let me use any of my Starbound mods

user15026

There is a gentleman on this bus who is delighting himself by showing off all of the myriad noises his body can produce

user15026

I think he is the only one who is entertained

@Ash Ew

To be fair, there are worse ways that sentence could have ended

> There is a gentleman on this bus who is delighting himself by showing off-

Or even just

> There is a gentleman on this bus who is delighting himself

user15026

This is true

5:11 PM

well I just got downvoted for calling someone out... tune in next week to see if I get a single upvote

Dear america, we have brexit, we didn't need your storm as well

Q: What is the most sold game on a specific platform in the video games' history?

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Since the release of the really first video game, many games have been sold in the entire world and on many different platforms. But which game can be considered to be the most sold game on a specific platform of the whole video games' history, and on which platform? For this question, I am look...

gaming-history

@Yuuki Well, yeah. They had a hard limit of 10k.

@Frank ... how on earth did that make it to market?

5:22 PM

And after they announced it was a death game, ain't nobody buying it except collectors.

@Yuuki The company didn't know it was going to be like that. 10k was supposed to be the first run.

I can't imagine any investor would be like "triple-A funding and you want to limit launch day sales to 10k? I'm totally on board!"

Mr. creator got fancy and didn't tell them he screwed them over.

@Frank That's still mindboggling. I can't imagine anyone investing a game production company would be okay with a launch day printing of only 10k.

If you think about it, limiting the first run to what your servers can handle is a good thing.

@Yuuki Untested tech. No idea what the market was.

Guaranteed, they printed more than that, but didn't release it due to the gong show of launch day.

Then you compare to related markets. Like the MMO market.

5:26 PM

@Yuuki And server load? How do you handle estimated server load with thousands of people running around?

@Frank It's a good thing for user experience. It's a hairpullingly bad idea from the view of any investor.

@Yuuki Seeing as how it was the first vrmmo, a bad experience would kill the entire genre.

@Frank From a financial standpoint, it is far more profitable to correct for server load after you've sold a whole bunch of units and hopefully have made back at least more than 5% of your dev costs.

That said, it was a bad experience. So bad, players died.

@Frank And a bad investor experience would kill off all funding for the entire genre.

5:29 PM

@Yuuki The company that made it folded under all the lawsuits it got.

Well, I'm off for the holidays. Everyone have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

@Yuuki Would it? It would just turn off those investors.

@Frank Investors talk to other investors. They're people too. I mean, kinda.

Tangent: what the hell is up with these UIs?

"You can only see allied health bars either through a convoluted menu or looking straight at them. And even then, health bars can be hidden by player models getting in the way."

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

well it looks like this guy is on the offensive to downvote my profile

@BlueBarren Don't worry about it, serial downvoting is usually detected fairly quickly and reversed.

5:32 PM

looks like it was already

and he keeps trying too by the looks of it

Well then his account will probably be suspended soon.

I wouldn't worry about it.

tbh it kinda brings me pleasure

@Yuuki And someone else would take the risk later on.

Q: PS3 external storage filesystem formats?

-1

I haven't been able to find concrete information about what filesystem formats the PS3 is able to read for external storage (flash drives, etc.). What formats does it support? (FAT32, NTFS, ext2, etc.?)

ps3

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Q: Strange misprint on "Dragonball Z: The Legacy of Goku" cover

A friend on mine owns two versions of this game, Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku (in Italian Il destino di Goku): The left one is the original version published by Atari. The right one is the newest version published by Infogrames. The strage thing is that the left one has a sort of misprin...

version-differences dragonball-z-legacy

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Q: Counter-Strike: Global Offensife corrupt update file autobuy.txt

A recent Steam update has broken my CS:GO copy. Now when I try to update I get CORRUPT UPDATE FILE and upon hovering it points me to autobuy.txt I have tried running CS:GO using the csgo.sh file from bash, and it booted fine. Of course, in insecure mode.. I have tried contacting Valve about t...

steam counter-strike-go

that system is preventing him from doing all this

5:34 PM

Look at our current vr ecosystem; the creators are funding the development of games, so that there is demand for their headsets.

@Frank None of these games have the kind of prestige (and funding) that SAO was building up to before release, IIRC.

@Yuuki No, because it was a completely new genre.

And it was being developed by a third party.

Which, if it succeeds, is a massive profit for you. But that's the risk.

There's "taking risk" and whatever the f--k SAO was promised as.

That said, we're sorta poking a plot hole of a light novel.

I don't think he thought the business aspect through as much.

The game aspect is pretty terribad too, tbh.

Q: What's the point of "A Kingdom Past"?

5:47 PM

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It seems to indicate that you should replicate the Kingdom, based on this image, but nothing seems to happen when you do. What's the point of this image?

super-mario-run

ffs guys

someone fixed my scrolling issue

\o/

chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features

this^

@Frank Sorry, I didn't mean to kinda call out SAO or anything, I just finally did some reading on the background and watched a few clips and you're pretty much the only person I know who's watched it.

Sword Art Online?

I've watched that

@Frank always thinks I watch it, too

GodEmperorDune

@ash hours later i realize that i missed a chance to make a "you're welcome" joke and now i feel terrible

Q: How Do I Get My NPC's Back Into My House in Terraria?

5:57 PM

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In Terraria, I have houses for all of my NPC's and they were all moved in but then I went exploring and most of them were all outside in one spot and when I tried to move them back in it said "This Is Not Valid Housing". Can someone help me. I tried restarting my games. I tried going exploring. P...

terraria-console

dammit steam! let me online!

@Arperum Lol I was thinking the same thing

ow. apparently all of steam is dead.

GodEmperorDune

@Arperum what did you do?

Humble is giving away steam keys for Grid and I was going to redeem it.

6:04 PM

@GodEmperorDune start up my pc.

@Arperum That'd do it

GodEmperorDune

maybe gaben forgot to pay the AWS bill

@Arperum how am I going to vote in the steam awards?

@BlueBarren First you buy me a new pc.

@terror organisations: pls to stop trying to blow shit up.

(explosives were found in Brussels this afternoon, next to the turkish federation building)

I'm kinda curious how hard the people at valve are panicking all over the place with their everything being broken.

6:27 PM

you know that feeling when things are so broken you just go 'welp.....damn' and dont even try and fix em?

terrorists, you're doing it wrong

@Arperum Well doesn't this happen like every year?

It's weird, I've worked in both the water, and energy infra.... and damn, if I was a terrorist, the things I'd do :O

Q: My Internet Went Down While Hosting My Minecraft Server

-2

My internet went down while hosting my minecraft server, Will the server be ok?

minecraft hosting

@djsmiley2k You'd go place piles of shit in the main water supply?

@Arperum in simple terms, yeah

if a single company has over 3000 sources of water

how can they respond to alerts at all of them at once?

how can you cause mass panic easily?

you don't hit the 'big' power stations

you hit all the local substations in each neighbourhood around a city

while taking out all the main roads

no one notices a random bag at the side of a road

you need to move 100 bags at once?

6:40 PM

@SaintWacko Yeah, not sure why.

go to a homeless shelter, offer each guy £20 to take a bag to a location and leave it there

sure, some won't do it

hell, some might even tell the police

@Yuuki Nah, man, no worries. I've seen it, I enjoyed it, but the link to reality is virtually nil.

am i scaring you yet?

while you're at it, lets hit the mobile stations too, because cutting of comms makes more lols

again they're not protected, they got no real securitgy

and no one is going to notice you going around photoing each one

In this city, there's 3 fire stations, 3 police stations

wouldn't be hard to ensure they can't get out

Ullallulloo

It's up!

/me stops

someone might come knockig on my door

but I'm just a guy who worries too much :/

6:51 PM

@djsmiley2k You're now on no-flight list.

:)

it wouldn't be hard to get hundreds of $2-3 drones

flood around airports

these terrorists with their whole 'oh look at us we got a bomb'

pffft, you don't know terror

Russia knows terror

look what they did to ukraine, and the lack of comeback on that

@djsmiley2k I do.

I don't mean you

I mean the terrorists, are utter failures in pretty much everything

ah

but this is getting.... political or something

and people might not like it, so lets stop

As for you knowing terror, I'm saddened you've experienced the things you have :(

I remember when the riots were happening here, and that day we all got sent home from work because the HR director's husband worked in the police and they got some warnings...

That was terror.

Nothing actually happened, but still

Unionhawk

7:06 PM

Why Are Kids So Obsessed With Think Pieces?

Tweeted by thinkpiecebot on December 23, 2016 at 6:12 PM

🤔

@Unionhawk 2meta4meirl

> An item on your steam wishlist is on sale

Thanks steam. I hope I don't get these everyday of the sale.

Tim Stone

(You will)

Unionhawk

Some Trump supporters shocked by his planned parenthood plan, never Googled Mike Pence

> An opportunist being opportunistic? Well, I never.

7:30 PM

I'm making cheeseburger soup again.

Only adding taco seasoning to the beef. So....taco cheeseburger soup?

I... I have a new avatar

It is not a dragon

Q: Is there any way to prevent Minecraft from caching DNS ?

7:44 PM

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I have a Minecraft server hosted in my local network, and a hostname associated to it on a dns server. When I change the dns record and update the ip of the server (new ip, same hostname), Minecraft still uses the old ip (I see it in the log console) and therefor won't connect to the server. Whe...

minecraft

@KevinvanderVelden well lucky for you it's good, and you'd be looking at a suspension right about now

I'd correct your wording but I'm afraid I'll be suspended so you didn't make a mistake

@KevinvanderVelden oh, whoops

Guess I better suspend @RedRiderX

Seems fair

Q: Is it possible to run in offline mode with mods enabled in Cities: Skylines?

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Steam was down earlier today. When that's the case we can still launch steam in offline mode and play some games. Upon starting Cities and loading a save game, I noticed that the mods that I have installed from the Steam Workshop did not work because I was offline. Is there any way to by-pass thi...

steam cities-skylines