The Bridge

1:04 PM

I hate it when snows overnight but I didn't know it snowed so I'm going out to my car expecting to not have to brush all the snow off but then because it snowed I do

And that's how you make a really terrible sentence kids.

badp

are you italian

BlueBarren

is there a stereotype for Italians having bad grammar? Because if so then I'll say yes

Kevin van der Velden

@BlueBarren italians are just all around terrible CC @badp

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Notifications not going away

I've updated the game multiple times - I just recently switch my game to a new phone and Temple Run 2 keeps telling me I have artifacts I have yet to collect coins for. However I've already collected them but the notifications won't go away.

temple-run-2

badp

@BlueBarren not grammar. grammar isn't quite the right level

spelling is at letter level

grammar is at word level

this is sentence (cluase?) level

BlueBarren

1:09 PM

Either way

I'm just bad

you could say I'm bad...p

badp

not sure what the correct name for it is

syntactical?

BlueBarren

tacti-neck?

BlueBarren

1:21 PM

I asked a question on MSDN and they said it didn't belong there because I'm apparently Unit Testing

even though I'm not

Maybe I misinterpreted what the person was saying, for those curious

arda

yay DEPRESSION

YAY suicidal plans

BlueBarren

@arda um stop?

please?

don't do it?

Unionhawk

Uh

BitLocker?

Why recovery key?

God dammit

EVERYTHING :CLAP: IS :CLAP: BROKEN

> Drive Label: ******* OSDisk

yaaaaaay

EVERYTHING STATUS: [ ] NOT BROKEN [x] BROKEN

4

lol reboot fixed it

god dammit

fredley

1:36 PM

@Unionhawk Have 👏 you 👏 tried 👏 turning 👏 it 👏 off 👏 and 👏 on 👏 again?

Unionhawk

Well everything is still broken

fredley

Pretty scary that bitlocker can bork itself tbh

BlueBarren

@Unionhawk this seems relevant now

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Lack of new missions in GTA5

Does anyone have any idea how to get around the "lack of missions" in Grand Theft Auto 5 .... I have been stalled after Chop and seem to be just doing pickup journey's with Tonya. So little was going on that I ended up driving around the entire "world" which took hours and was very nice, but not ...

grand-theft-auto-5

BlueBarren

@Lazers2.0 how are you supposed to answer that? The guy can play the game however he wants

Timmy Jim

1:49 PM

@Vemonus can't believe I used "their" instead of "there". thanks. My brain was thinking its easier to type their for some reason.

Unionhawk

Dropped a clothes boat on it

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE

I got one of my... 6 items to fix today done

(by remembering what the name of the TFS server was)

Now I need to wait to hear back from my manager to fix 3/4 left, then wait until 9:30 to get the last one

Also VISUAL STUDIO 2015 IS COOL

BlueBarren

@Unionhawk sounds like your morning is going to be soooo exciting

Unionhawk

It's going OK

This is more exciting than "Hey did you fill out your I-9?" "No because I didn't have my social security card yesterday"

I'm pretty sure I still need to do a federal tax form or something but idk

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Yes.

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

1

3D printing in French

Proposed Q&A site for the tools and applications of 3D printing for french speaker

Currently in definition.

arda

2:02 PM

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment there isn't even a french so

badp

calamary decency

Kevin van der Velden

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment there's barely enough traffic to the non-french 3d printing site

I think the description is correct: "for french speaker", singular

Private Pansy

@badp "The side ham of shame"

arda

2:20 PM

@BlueBarren I'd rant on why I'm feeling this way, but even the fact that I'm ranting (and therefore concerning people) is depressing to me.

BlueBarren

@arda if it helps rant, I don't mind being concerned

Private Pansy

I love how he describes progress in terms of which items he wants to pick up next

arda

@BlueBarren It doesn't help. I just get some relaxation for a few hours and continue to suffer the very next day.

BlueBarren

@arda D:

Unionhawk

2:35 PM

Is it lunch time yet?

Wipqozn

@Yuuki excellent

@Unionhawk no

Unionhawk

damn

Is it lunch time UTC though?

like 2 hours ago

Ronan

@Unionhawk No, that was hours ago. You've missed it

No lunch for you!

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: Need help on Terirra on PS4

I just need people to play with on PS4 add me BiGBoY99_XXL I've already killed the eater of worlds and eye of Cthulhu many times to gather loot a good armor an weapons an I've just killed scalatron an just started going down in there an i neeed help going in there a looting the place any advice o...

terraria ps4

0

Q: What features have been replaced with paid-for DLC features?

A number of Steam reviews for EU4 express sentiments like the following: Fun for a while, then once you realise they announce DLCs and remove content that was already in the game/charge for content that should've been in the game from the get-go or in a free DLC, then you realise how far you'...

europa-universalis-4

Yuuki

2:51 PM

Yay, budget shortfalls in Texas because we plan our budgets 2 years at a time!

Kevin van der Velden

@Lazers2.0 that name

BlueBarren

3:08 PM

man I really don't know what I'm doing xD

Yuuki

@BlueBarren 2017 in a nutshell.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Why does minecraft not open when trying to open it with launcher

I have tried redownloading minecraft and java,logging in and out and turning my laptop on and off. this is the error script or whatever. --- Minecraft Crash Report ---- // I let you down. Sorry :( Time: 1/10/17 3:02 PM Description: Initializing game org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not ...

minecraft skyrim pc

-1

Q: Why do Pokɚmon evolve so quickly?

Doesn't evolution take millions of years? Wouldn't it be more realistic for the player to wait millions of years for one Pokɚmon to evolve (who cares if they die waiting)? And why does the Pokɚmon ITSELF evolve?!? I thought the generations after an organism would evolve!

pokemon-series

Yuuki

@Isuka You. I like you.

BlueBarren

@Yuuki for sure

SaintWacko

Man, I cannot wait to play WoW today

Yuuki

3:13 PM

@SaintWacko My friend, on the other hand, is not excited.

If the patch changes are as stated, Demon Hunter is going to drop hard in the damage rankings.

Kevin van der Velden

@Lazers2.0 because it's a game? It's not real, it's not science, sherlock holmes was a book character

Yuuki

Which will also screw over our Mythic+ group.

SaintWacko

@Yuuki I just started a DH, but they're currently a lot of fun

I hadn't looked at their changes

Ele shaman is getting buffed, though :D

Arperum

@Lazers2.0 Also: what the hell happened to your "é"?

BlueBarren

@Lazers2.0 I like how the user's name is "TheBestQuestionAsker" and the only question he's ever asked has -9 downvotes and is closed

Kevin van der Velden

3:16 PM

@Arperum it evolved

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Theorycrafting says they're going to be bottom 4 DPS.

Kevin van der Velden

Surprisingly quickly even!

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Clearly

Yuuki

Bolstering week is going to be "fun".

We can barely manage timers on Bolstering +10 as it is because between him and me as Frost DK, we can output some really good burst AoE.

badp

@Yuuki -1, not enough Pokɚmans

Fluttershy

3:24 PM

@SaintWacko I actually did the math last night for how long I actually played WoW back when I played. I want to try playing it again, but then I remember that number, and it makes me rethink things. :P

Yuuki

@Fluttershy I feel like Legion is a lot more grind-tastic than previous expansions too.

But at the same time, the content is good.

Seriously not a fan of the current legendary system though.

Jason Berkan

Why?? Why do I live in this frozen country?

Kevin van der Velden

Because you're too lazy too move

Sterno

It's that or Trump

Unionhawk

Free healthcare?

@Sterno flegged for being meab to trump :(

Jason Berkan

3:31 PM

Free healthcare ain't all its cracked up to be. And I could move to a warm, non-US country.

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno there are places other than Trumperica

SaintWacko

@Yuuki Yeah, the legendary system is annoying, but the Legion content is amazing

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden Not after January 20 no

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk it'll take a while for him to take over the world

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk I've been practicing my Russian in preparation

Unionhawk

3:32 PM

@KevinvanderVelden The senate is working hard on this already

probably

Kevin van der Velden

I mean sure, he'll have access to a military larger than the rest of the world combined. BUT DETAILS

(actually is that true? I'm not sure)

Unionhawk

Probably

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Side note: do you has an open slot for a DPS for raids? :D

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden Who knows what China has

And India's army is not inconsequential

Kevin van der Velden

Oh no, 42.8% of spending, not >50%

Unionhawk

3:33 PM

If anything US plus Russia could become a thing

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk that would be 50.0%

Yuuki

The group we've been talking to about teaming up for raids has been incommunicado for awhile now, though we're currently chalking that up to holiday stuff.

Kevin van der Velden

(russia is 3.6%)

Unionhawk

What

SaintWacko

@Yuuki I'm not sure about the main Alpha group, but we do in the Omega group

Unionhawk

3:35 PM

Okay fine, then we'd just have the largest combined nuclear arsenal by like 6000

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden You're saying that 42.8 + 3.6 = 50? What math are you using?

Unionhawk

That way we can focus on the important things: eliminating Jeff

Yuuki

@SaintWacko How long do your raid nights go? I usually have to drop out by 11p.

Isuka

@Yuuki That hurt my eyes.

SaintWacko

The Omega group is a more laid-back raiding group. It started out as sort of a training group, but everyone liked the atmosphere so much that we all stay in it, despite the fact that Omega is just barely behind Alpha in progression

@Yuuki What's your local time relative to server time?

Fluttershy

3:36 PM

@Yuuki Holy hell. More grindy? Don't get me wrong, I love a good grind. It's why I play Destiny, FFXIV, and stuff like The Division, but damn... I've already spent 2,892 hours in Azeroth grinding for gear that was outdated on day 1 of a new expansion. I don't think I want to invest more time there.

Arperum

@Fluttershy That's a lot of hours

Yuuki

@Fluttershy It's grindier but at least it's less of a daily grind.

SaintWacko

@Yuuki This. There's a grind, but it doesn't feel like a grind

Yuuki

Daily quests aren't really a thing in this xpac. You have emissary quests every day, but you can hold three at a time so you don't have to do them every day.

If you're not a fan of dungeon grinding, you can just do one high-level Mythic+ dungeon and get good gear from a weekly chest.

I mean, if you're pushing bleeding edge progression, you're still grinding Mythic+ dungeons.

But that's for 1% of 1% of 1%.

@SaintWacko Although if you're like our tank who still hasn't gotten a legendary on any of his characters, it sure feels like a hell of a grind.

SaintWacko

@Yuuki Ouch

It took me a long time to get my first legendary

But I have two on my ele now

Kevin van der Velden

3:40 PM

@Arperum no, I'm saying that 42.8 + 3.6 + 3.6 = 50

Yuuki

@SaintWacko My first legendary was a pretty darn good Blood ring back when I was planning to be our secondary/off tank.

Kevin van der Velden

Because you have to subtract it from the global as well, not just add it to america

SaintWacko

@Yuuki I'm looking forward to opening my chest today. Finished a M+8 a couple nights ago

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Very nice.

We only barely missed out on completing a +10 Arcway last night.

SaintWacko

@Yuuki I have the third and fourth best legendaries for my spec

@Yuuki Volcanic can go straight to hell

Yuuki

3:41 PM

Had the last boss at 4% and then my router died.

SaintWacko

@Yuuki Waaat

Kevin van der Velden

Yay always connected gaming \o/

SaintWacko

They weren't able to finish it without you?

Unionhawk

I mean

SaintWacko

@KevinvanderVelden ...It's an MMO...

Unionhawk

3:41 PM

Yeah

Kevin van der Velden

Wait I thought you were talking about diablo 3

NEVERMIND THEN

Unionhawk

No WoW

SaintWacko

@KevinvanderVelden Haha

Unionhawk

Now you look like quite the fool

Kevin van der Velden

I'll allow it

Yuuki

3:42 PM

@SaintWacko As melee, I don't really notice Volcanic. Teeming and Necrotic can f--k right off though.

Well, I guess I do notice Volcanic when the healer and ranged DPS just died and now we're screaming our heads off trying to reset the boss before he wipes the rest of us.

SaintWacko

@Yuuki My problem with it is that as an ele shaman, I'm used to volcanoes and lava everywhere. It took a couple runs to train myself to be concerned about it. The healer got so annoyed at me the first time I ran a volcanic M+

Wipqozn

Silly @KevinvanderVelden, tricks are for kids

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Yeah, we have an ele shaman on our group. He also despises Volcanic.

SaintWacko

Add that to the fact that ele shamans don't handle high-mobility fights all that well and it's a mess

The new Icefury build will help with that a bit

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Preaching to the choir. My DPS drops like an anvil on high-mobility fights because of Icy Talons.

SaintWacko

3:44 PM

Gives some more effective instant casts

Gaaah I want to go play so badly

Kevin van der Velden

To be fair: You were talking about demon hunter and he's in diablo as well

SaintWacko

Oh, you never did answer, what's your local time compared to server time?

Yuuki

@SaintWacko I am Central Time, so...

SaintWacko

@Yuuki Oh, perfect!

Raid time is 7:45-10:30, then

I'm Central, too

I couldn't remember where you lived

Yuuki

I can typically hit 300k on most boss fights, I've almost broken into 500k on stationary fights like Xavius when I don't get hit with debuffs. But on fights with high mobility, I can barely break the mid-200s.

SaintWacko

3:45 PM

Wednesday and Friday

Yuuki

Losing Icy Talons stacks huuuurts.

SaintWacko

@Yuuki I was usually doing around 313k in that +8

Generally I'm closer to 350k

So I don't get hit quite as badly

I've gotten good at stutter-stepping between casts

What is Icy Talons?

Yuuki

@SaintWacko It's the BIS first tier talent for Frost DKs. Whenever you Frost Strike, you gain a buff that increases your attack speed by 10% (stacking up to 3).

It lasts for like 5 seconds.

So it's really hard to keep up in high-mobility fights.

It was even worse when I didn't have the artifact trait that increased the range of Frost Strike.

Right now, the range is like 12 or 18 yards, it used to be melee-range.

SaintWacko

@Ash This is my problem with the whole respecting people who disagree with you in politics. I respect someone's right to have a different opinion. I don't respect someone's right to hurt someone based on their differing opinion

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden WHere did that second 3.6% come from?

Unionhawk

3:50 PM

@SaintWacko This would be so much easier if we could flag Donald Trump tbh

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk Donald Trump has been banned for 1460 days

3

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum I just typed out what I was doing and realized I am indeed mathing wrong

This is terrible, I blame @Wipqozn

SaintWacko

@KevinvanderVelden You're just all sorts of wrong this morning! :P

Kevin van der Velden

@SaintWacko I'm apparently doing my @Uni impression

Unionhawk

Now all you have to do is go "NO WAIT I'M AN IDIOT" which apparently passes for starbait these days

arda

3:54 PM

I hate people :)

Unionhawk

Yeah

Pretty nearly 100% of all awful things have been done by people

Wipqozn

I'm too bothered to see what this conversation is all about but I'm just going to assume there's drama and ban @Unionhawk

oh this is about Trump

Unionhawk

I mean

arda

Mine was about people in general.

Wipqozn

I literally jut saw @Unionhawk saying he's not an idiot and assumed drama

wait I misread that

Unionhawk

3:56 PM

Why would you do that

Wipqozn

Man I blame society

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn is this about trump?

Unionhawk

Ah I see

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk I just don't think you're an idiot

Kevin van der Velden

Oh wait yeah 3 messages of it is

Unionhawk

3:56 PM

@KevinvanderVelden What isn't these days tbh

Kevin van der Velden

But @uni saying he's an idiot wasn't related to trump, that was a different conversation

Wipqozn

I'm so confused

but I need to go

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Just regular old facts.

Unionhawk

Oh god the old version of this tool was a piece of crap lol

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn farewell turtle o/

Unionhawk

3:59 PM

unhandled exception when double clicking on items in the list

excellent

I'm glad I didn't develop this

Kevin van der Velden

Some application I was forced to learn for a semester at school crashed when you doubleclicked between row headers in an excel interface

Unionhawk

Nice

Kevin van der Velden

So everytime I tried to autosize those...

This was also software where the first lesson was "Well the developers haven't supported this for years and don't want people to use it. BUT WE'LL LEARN IT ANYWAY"

arda

I hate people even more now.

Kevin van der Velden

At least the acronym for the class was dutch for BOAT (BOOT)

Unionhawk

4:03 PM

Anyone offended by avatar changes should blame @KevinvanderVelden for this one

And, really, just, know my avatar set by now

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden So you could be safe while everything around you ended up sinking?

Unionhawk

Because I haven't uploaded a new one in like a year and a half

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk If anyone blames me I'll also change my avatar

Arperum

@Unionhawk Going back to one you used for a long time is harmless, multiple links to a person are possible.

Unionhawk

Good, well, while caching is a thing... eh nevermind it should be fairly obvious

Kevin van der Velden

4:05 PM

Refreshing it brought the boat out for me already

Unionhawk

o

Well there you go

fredley

Desert Bus, Excel edition

badp

@fredley pls

Unionhawk

why would anyone do this

badp

@Unionhawk because it wasn't a thing

tbh something closer to Desert Bus would be having to press down exactly once loosely every ten seconds

Unionhawk

4:17 PM

current mental image: dessert bus

Is it lunch time yet?

Kevin van der Velden

Hmmm dessert bus

Q: Do you see a bus that drives around giving dessert or do you see a bus made out of dessert?

Unionhawk

See that's the thing, I'm wondering which it would be

Probably the first, right?

Or like, a bus that takes you to super local dessert shops

You know, like a brew bus

Except with chocolate

MBraedley

@fredley I just completed the challenge in about 1 second. Granted, my control key may have been pressed at the time...

Unionhawk

This is clearly an untapped market

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk And icecream!

MBraedley

4:21 PM

@Unionhawk Lunch time is over.

Axelrod

@BlueBarren Ah, ok.

@badp We need to take it into VR. Desert Bus: VR edition, wherein you have to sit there and hold the wheel, tilting it slightly once every ten seconds, for 6 hours per trip.

With your foot on the gas.

SaintWacko

Yay, my Aeron arrived!

Kevin van der Velden

@Axelrod ... there is a vr game jam coming up

Axelrod

@KevinvanderVelden Also, 8 hours*

Lazers 2.0

4:39 PM

1

Q: How do I land my plane without crashing?

After beating the game, you are able to unlock the Regalia Type-F (spoiler tag for those who haven't seen it yet and want it to be a surprise): When taking off for the first time, I was warned that failing to land it properly would result in a Game Over. The instructions seemed fairly straight...

final-fantasy-15

fredley

Dessert Bus is just DLC for Desert Bus, it places a dessert on the dashboard.

Unionhawk

Fancy

I has a yubikey VPN token

noice

No, nonce

Fancy

4:51 PM

0

Q: Is there a (cheaty) way to cross oceans?

Crossing oceans in Dwarf Fortress in adventure mode is a tedious and unrewarding task. There is no fast travel, so player has to guide his adventurer across several world map tiles (which are HUGE) manually under the constant threat of advancing ice walls and aquatic predators, while experiencing...

cheats dwarf-fortress-adventure

Chippies

@Lazers2.0 I like how he puts "spoiler tag" after the actual spoiler

Kevin van der Velden

Why does it even need the picture?

Anonymous

@badp Grammar is how utterances fit together, both above and below the word level. Grammar can be broadly divided into syntax (above the word level, how words and larger pieces fit together to make sentences) and morphology (below the word level, how words are formed from smaller pieces).

Anonymous

My first message in The Bridge, and I'm already off-topic :-)

Anonymous

I joined on the off chance there was some GDQ chat going on.

Kevin van der Velden

4:56 PM

@snailplane pedanticism is always on topic on the bridge

Anonymous

Woo hoo!

Kevin van der Velden

And not currently, but there are several people here who view it

arda