The Bridge

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

10:02 PM

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Proposed Q&A site for application/Software developers using the Swift language looking for some help, guidance, partners or anything else swift related.

Currently in definition.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: I can't update Minecraft Pocket Edition

Okay, so I play Minecraft on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. (I play Minecraft Pocket Edition.) Recently, the new update for 1.0 came out on Google Play Store. Me and my sister tried updating, but it says we both don't have enough space. We only have 2 games on our tablets each, and a bunch of spa...

minecraft-pocket-edition

BlueBarren

can I get another invite to the arqade discord? Invite timed out

Wipqozn

OKAY SO

BlueBarren

so?

Wipqozn

I'm finally home from the gym, ate my food, and got settled into PJs. I also took the time to look into those flags from earlier.

4 hours ago, by Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice it's embarrassing for the president elect of the united states of america to tweet about an actress calling him out on being a shitty person

That message there is perfectly okay, ain't nothing wrong with it

4 hours ago, by Yuuki

> I don't know if I'm laughing harder at him calling Meryl Streep "overrated", him misspelling "overrated", or that he's so predictably stupid that everyone on earth expected him to embarrass himself somehow by posting on Twitter late at night after the Golden Globes and it came true.

This one thought does cross into breaking be nice towards public figures, which Stack Exchange has made pretty clear isn't okay anymore

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A: Does the Be Nice policy require SE users to "be nice" to people who are not SE users (e.g. public figures)?

Let's read that "be nice" policy: Whether you've come to ask questions, or to generously share what you know, remember that we’re all here to learn, together. Be welcoming and patient, especially with those who may not know everything you do. Oh, and bring your sense of humor. Just in case. ...

Specifically the "predictably stupid part"

also not callin gyou out or anything @Yuuki, but it was just the most at hand example for a thing I've been meaning to mention

We've all been saying stuff like that for months, myself and many other mods are included in that list

buuuuuut calling Trump "Stupid" or an "idiot", or saying the same things about his voters, is the kind of thing we need to stop

Memor-X

10:10 PM

@Wipqozn can we just say collectively all humanity is stupid?

Wipqozn

@Memor-X sure

but back to SUPER SERIOUS BUT MORE SO CASUAL FRIENDLY

No matter how true we might all think "Trump is stupid is", it doesn't mean it's fine for us to say it. Same goes for his supporters. BEcause...well, if you guys all started calling me stupid, even if you thought I was, that doesn't suddenly mean it's okay

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn there were flags?

Kaz Wolfe

@KevinvanderVelden there were.

Wipqozn

and yeah yeah once again, I know, the mods have been guilty of this too (myself included), but we all need to make a collective effort to stop. We can still talk about politics and all that, and post links to stuff going, but we need to be nicer / more careful with how we talk about it

@KevinvanderVelden yeah

Kevin van der Velden

Was mine validated :O I'm curious

Wipqozn

10:13 PM

1 hour ago, by bwDraco

Whoever is going through the transcript and flagging political messages, please cut it out.

@KevinvanderVelden I have no idea

Jolenealaska

I loved this:

5 hours ago, by Yuuki

Or even funnier, the top comment on the Reddit post is "Alright, who had 6:27 AM? You get the pool."

Wipqozn

This... really isn't a good time for that @Jolenealaska, trying to address chat for a minute here

I mean that's pretty much all I had to say. Just keep in mind going forward that "be nice" applies to Trump and his supporters too. I mean we never really know whose lurking in chat here, and we want this place to feel welcoming. P

Jolenealaska

Sorry, that one seemed to me to be an example of not crossing the line. I apologize for the timing.

Wipqozn

@Jolenealaska I agree, but you jumped right into the middle of the flow :P

BUT YES DIAMONDING COMPLETED

PLEASE RESUME MOSTLY REGULAR BUSINESS

Kevin van der Velden

To be fair, I don't really want to be welcoming to a subset of his supporters, specifically people like the KKK

Kaz Wolfe

10:17 PM

but then you're not being nice!!1

ArtOfCode

Actually, that's a pretty good illustration of why care needs to be taken - because different people see the same message in different lights. If you're going to be mostly inoffensive to at least the majority of people, you need to take viewpoints into account.

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden I agree 110%, and if someone comes in and starts talking about how great the KKK is please, let me know, because I'll quite happily kick'em out of chat

Kevin van der Velden

Bup bup bup. I said welcoming.

arda

@BlueBarren give me your username and I'll pm it to you

Kaz Wolfe

@ArtOfCode The notion that you need to take care in your actions offends me!

Wipqozn

10:18 PM

@KazWolfe just stop, seriously

Kevin van der Velden

I can be... well nice is the wrong term. I'll be polite

Kaz Wolfe

noted, i'll shut up.

Kevin van der Velden

And I'll flag for mods @Wipqozn, don't worry

ArtOfCode

If the KKK turn up here and start having a reasoned political discussion, they're entirely welcome to do so. It's only if they start on the hate that they can leave.

Kevin van der Velden

Hmm, should something like that be modflagged or regularflagged?

Wipqozn

10:19 PM

@KevinvanderVelden If someone comes strolling into chat talking about how great white supremacy is just set them to ignore and flag'em. I'll happily come down with my hammer OF GREAT JUSTICE.

user15026

As an addendum - when we ask for stuff like this, making hyperbolic jokes about things that need to be flagged or whatever, is not constructive.

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden Doesn't hurt to do both

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn cool

Wipqozn

@ArtOfCode That's true too

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Hey, the Kolonel's Krispy Khicken may be worse than Popeye's or Church's, but it's not that bad.

Kevin van der Velden

10:20 PM

@Wipqozn I can politely say that kind of thing isn't welcome here though, assuming no mods immediately rush in after the flagging (which I do find unlikely)

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden yup, go nuts

although you might be better off ignoring them. Also room owners can kick users now, so that's a thing.

Yuuki

Okay, typing "khicken" almost made me throw the keyboard out the window involuntarily.

Memor-X

@ArtOfCode i can't even think of how you would know a faceless avatar is a member of the KKK

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki good, you should feel bad

@Memor-X they can state they're part of the KKK

user15026

We're basically just looking for constructive discourse. I know it can feel difficult because of feelings because this stuff directly affects people's lives and livelihoods. We just want to try to make things a little more welcoming, I guess is the way to say it.

ArtOfCode

10:21 PM

@Memor-X they may well proclaim it in a profile

Kevin van der Velden

That is not in and of itself ban worthy

user15026

If they say they're part of the kkk or whatever, fine. If they come in here and start tearing people down because of what they believe, not fine.

Yuuki

@KevinvanderVelden Although spelling it "itsself" is definitely ban-worthy.

user15026

Believing a particular ideology is fine, being an asshole because of it is not.

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Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki it's my second language, sue me =p

Repeat after me... me: I will not make the dumb hyperbolic joke. "I will not make the dumb hyperbolic joke"

Yuuki

10:24 PM

Does believing I'm an asshole make me an asshole? :thinkingface:

Wipqozn

Well that's about it then

BACK TO REGULAR BUSINESS

Yuuki

3 hours ago, by Yuuki

I kinda wanna do a summer Bridge movie series where I personally pick a number of movies and put them all up one after the other over the course of a weekend.

Thoughts?

So like a summer marathon of "Movies That @Yuuki Liked In <Insert Year>".

Wipqozn

@Yuuki I might pop in for some of those. No way I'd stay for the whole thing though.

arda

I really like Bridge and don't really get annoyed by any kind of discussion here, but tbh anytime politics are brought up, bridge turns into a shitshow, which is not fun to read or be a part of. I think that keeping politics out of bridge, at least for some time, is the path we should follow.

user15026

And yes, please flag the things. Also, anyone who gets flagged, try to take it how it is meant. It's more meant to be a half hour to think about perhaps taking a different approach to things. It's not a reflection on your worth as a human and it isnt meant as an unending hatred of you or your presence here. It's more that it should be a clear indication that you should adjust behavior.

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user15026

10:26 PM

@arda Banning a subject broadly like that is tricky. How do you draw the line? What does keeping politics out look like?

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki I mean, I like the idea, but I think it's over the line with the rights thing

Memor-X

@Wipqozn IRC will drag humanity down

Yuuki

@arda I understand the sentiment but avoiding political discussion is part of "The Problem".

Wipqozn

@arda Yeah we know, but banning political discourse would be our last resort.

Yuuki

Or at least, some people think it contributes to "The Problem".

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, good point.

Man, we should all just establish a Mars colony or something (if we can't agree on Canada) and I can do these movie nights in person.

arda

10:30 PM

10/10, my phone is literally shocking me.

Wipqozn

@Yuuki I'd be fine with everyone moving to Canada

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki when the dutchlands start sinking under the sea and we finally start building giant underwater domes you're all welcome

arda

actually I will not

user15026

@Wipqozn there are a bunch of giant old Victorian houses near me with like ten bedrooms for sale. We could house a lot of bridge.

user15026

@KevinvanderVelden I will come and watch the fish.

Kevin van der Velden

10:32 PM

@Ash come for the fish, stay because otherwise you'll die from decompression sickness

Yuuki

@Ash You need to team up with @murgatroid99 and @StrixVaria and finalize the @Ash Overmind-Google takeover of the world and then we can all move to the Bridge.

arda

be the bridge^TM

Yuuki

Rule #1 of The Bridge: Be the person /r/WholesomeMemes thinks you are.

Tim Stone

> Long ping times may be experienced with some WiFi adapters.

raises brow

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How can I move or copy a witch hut into a specific location of my map?

I want to farm witches because of the resources they provide when killing them. I've watched lot of tutorials on how to farm them but all of them involve using a witch hut that is generated by the world in a swamp. I've tested this in a new creative world and worked as expected. Now I want to do ...

minecraft

Kevin van der Velden

10:36 PM

@TimStone interesting

I wanna know how that happens

Tim Stone

Right?

user15026

@Yuuki this is a perfect foolproof plan.

Yuuki

@Ash I can just imagine the history books now. "The Imperium of @Ash-Google was established in 2017 when some users in a random Internet chatroom decided to take over the world so they could all live together, play games, and watch the occasional movie."

If it's too much of a mouthful, we can just call it "@Ashoogle".

Kevin van der Velden

@Shoogle?

@Shoog?

Memor-X

@Yuuki i read that as A Shoe-gle

Kevin van der Velden

10:41 PM

Same

Yuuki

@KevinvanderVelden @Shog... SEE?! I TOLD YOU GUYS THAT ALL MODS ARE ASSIMILATED INTO @ASH UPON ELECTION! YOU ALL SAID I WAS CRAZY, BUT HERE'S THE PROOF! WAKE UP LIFEHACKS-EEPLE!

OPEN YOUR EYES TO THE TRUTH!

Test

Tost

Tostitos

Also I'm glad someone noticed where I was going

Axelrod

10:47 PM

@arda JonTron + Drunk. Game Grumps fallout?

arda

@Axelrod His 21th birthday

celebrating with vodka

Yuuki

@arda Was that video released today?

arda

@Yuuki 6 years ago

Yuuki

@arda Oh good, I don't have to feel super-old today.

Axelrod

@Wipqozn The implications of the first are just as bad as the explicit statements of the second.

Wipqozn

10:51 PM

@Axelrod I disagree, but not getting into an argument about that. We're not acting on either flag.

Axelrod

@Wipqozn That's good. It's good to think before acting.

We had [a/some] similar flagger[s], but of the opposite political bent.

The mod community reaction to the flags was worse than the behavior.

It's a slippery slope, but one that you really don't need to fall into with a little distance.

And that discussion's over anyway. I want to know what changed with No Man's Sky to make it fun to play.

Frank

@Axelrod This is one of those elections that is near and dear to everyone's heart.

It's understandable tensions would run high.

Kevin van der Velden

@Axelrod Here's the list: .

Tim Stone

Mayer resigning as Yahoo! is scooped up by Verizon, renamed Altaba Inc

Yuuki

@TimStone lolwut

Pretty much the only thing Yahoo! has going for it right now is name recognition.

Tim Stone

10:58 PM

Yeah, it's unclear if that's just corporate rebranding or if that's the name they'll do business as

Yuuki

Buying Yahoo! and then changing the name completely defeats the purpose of buying Yahoo!

Tim Stone

(tbh I didn't read through the whole filing to see if it specifies that but I don't think it would)

Memor-X

@Axelrod the Foundation Update that added base building and getting more ships which you can use to transport cargo?

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

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Gridcoin

Proposed Q&A site for users of Gridcoin, the scientific cryptocurrency and blockchain-based solution to BOINC's distributed computing projects.

Currently in definition.

Axelrod

@TimStone Probably pull a Google and move all their PR-fatal projects to it.

@Memor-X Oooh

Tim Stone

11:01 PM

@TimStone Of relevance, David Filo, one of the cofounders, is also resigning his board seat

Yuuki

I still think it's a bit weird to add base-building and what seems to be mechanics for trading to a game ostensibly dedicated to exploration.

Axelrod

@Frank It's also the only one I've seen where even non-citizens had guttural reactions to one candidate or the other. We have a long way to go as a country. But that doesn't mean the response has to be full 1984.

Memor-X

@Yuuki well you need a place to store all the crap you keep finding and some people find it hard to explore more if they can't take their crap with them

Yuuki

Base-building implies finding a place (which feeds into exploration, sure) and then settling down and not journeying far from that place (which defeats the theme of exploration somewhat).

Axelrod

@Yuuki Exploration gets boring. People want to do something once they're there.

Else, they could have just sat for the last 10 years pressing "randomize" on the Spore creature creator.

Kevin van der Velden

11:03 PM

They'd have way more variety from what I've seen

Yuuki

Sure, but then don't market your game as exploration-focused.

E:D suffered from kinda the same problems as NMS on release but 1) it wasn't buggy as f--k and 2) they marketed it as a space sim and not an exploration game.

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice Buy STANDBY if you haven't heard of it.

Brand new today, reminds me of Dustforce.

Memor-X

what i find exciting is finding someone new who i can sell stuff to and go "here is my fleet of ships filled with all the rnadom shit i've picked up. how much can i dump on you and how much will you pay me to stop dumping on you"

Axelrod

The draw was exploration. The issue is that exploration is only fun when there's something to do once you get there. Fight a lizard man, get seduced by variously hued people of your favored gender. You know, the basics.

Memor-X

and thus Pandora was born

Axelrod

11:06 PM

There is *so much unobtainium here*. Why is there so much here?!
Because there's no recipes for BIS gear that use unobtainium. Duh.

@BlueBarren I actually have no idea.

Yuuki

Side note: I think I would have better appreciation for Avatar if they didn't name the mineral "unobtainium".

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