The Bridge

BlueBarren

14:01

I think I'm super irritable this morning

every consistent noise this morning is bothering me

this guy blowing his nose 4 times in a row

someone rubbing their hands together

it shouldn't bother me it just is

Wipqozn

Okay let's move on to not discussing this user. I suggest we talk about how awesome I am.

BlueBarren

it's one of those morning

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn that'll be a very short conservation

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden because my awesomeness defies explanation?

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn because there's so little of it

(it being your awesomeness)

BlueBarren

14:04

I'll rate that burn 4/10

mostly due to originality

Unionhawk

WeRateBurns

BlueBarren

and the lack there of it

Wipqozn

@BlueBarren I'd rate you 4/10

Unionhawk

WeRateUsers

BlueBarren

I'm at least a 5

Wipqozn

14:05

Cc @Dragonrage @GodEmperorDune on that sick counter burn

badp

@Wipqozn I'd rate your rating 1/10 You Didn't Even Try

Unionhawk

I rate @Wipqozn 12/10. As in December 10. Because he lives in canada. Idk this is a really stupid joke

BlueBarren

wait if you're calling me 4/10 does that count as mod abuse?

badp

btw

today is a very important date!

Sterno

I'm late for one of those.

badp

14:07

it's 2016-13-31

palindrome date!!

BlueBarren

well not with the year in there

13-31 is

badp

the year has become window dressing at this point

it's always going to be 2016 forever.

Unionhawk

Even 31-13 is :o

badp

@Unionhawk yeah dude

it's good stuff.

BlueBarren

also it's 1-31

where are you getting 13?

Unionhawk

14:08

@badp until at least 2020 yeah

Sterno

In other news:

> The wall, the ban, even the lousy cabinet picks--all are intended distractions from what's really going on, orchestrated by (President) Steve Bannon. He is the power behind the throne, carrying out his oft-stated agenda of overthrowing the government. Trump himself is no more than a pawn in Bannon's shadow game. The remaking of the NSC is only the tip of the iceberg.

Why do I even Facebook?

badp

@Unionhawk but is it really

BlueBarren

or are you thinking 1-3-1

because that's a little better

Kevin van der Velden

It's also 11*11*11

badp

@Sterno poor poor delicate weak precious poor poor sweet precious weak sad poor Trump

BlueBarren

14:09

where is this other 3 coming from?

Kevin van der Velden

@BlueBarren it's the thirteenth month of 2016

badp

@BlueBarren do try to keep up

BlueBarren

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Kevin van der Velden

In @badp-ania

BlueBarren

you know sometimes you guys are kinda lame

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Kevin van der Velden

14:09

@BlueBarren sometimes?

badp

2016 is yuge

BlueBarren

all the time

badp

almost 14 months

and counting

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk that's not how Canadian date formatting works

badp

yo calendar so fat we don't know it has no end

BlueBarren

14:10

you do realize if we don't increment the years trump will be stuck in office, right?

Unionhawk

@Wipqozn That's what makes it even better

And worse

At the same time

badp

@BlueBarren by that logic he never would have entered office

Arperum

@BlueBarren Actually he'll never start. Since he starts in January 2017, and it is still 2016

BlueBarren

and that's how I saved the world

badp

alas time goes

BlueBarren

14:11

now praise badp as your modrater

Kevin van der Velden

@BlueBarren false, you just pointed out how we saved the world, cause we're awesome

badp

even if 2016 doesn't

BlueBarren

@KevinvanderVelden I call dibs on being the hero

And I just called dibs before you

therefore I am the hero

Kevin van der Velden

@BlueBarren pff, we already know your grasp of time is faulty

BlueBarren

doesn't change the fact I called dibs

you can't disregard the rules of dibs

otherwise there would be nothing sacred left

badp

14:13

I hate to break it to you

Kevin van der Velden

True, but I think that if you properly understood time you'd see that 1) we called dibs before you and 2) you didn't call dibs at all

badp

but this is 2016

there is nothing sacred left.

it was already over before it even begun.

BlueBarren

Hold on, I'm thinking of a rebuttal

badp

I mean it has but only barely

Unionhawk

Hold on

BlueBarren

14:14

I got this, believe in me please

Unionhawk

If 2016 was over before it even begun

THEN WHO WAS PHONE

badp

@BlueBarren We're fresh outta chances

Yuuki

@BlueBarren kinda?

Tim Stone

@Sterno To be fair, Bannon has been quoted describing Trump as a "blunt instrument" with which to achieve his goals, so while that's a little hyperbolic it's probably not entirely without merit

BlueBarren

@Yuuki kind of

badp

14:15

LAST WEEK WE ALL GAVE HIM A CHANCE

BlueBarren

is that better?

badp

BUT THE VERY NEXT DAY

HE THREW IT AWAY

Kevin van der Velden

5 mins ago, by Kevin van der Velden

@BlueBarren sometimes?

badp

THIS WEEK, WE'RE ALL OUTTA CHANCES

Kevin van der Velden

INB4

badp

14:16

SUCKS TO BE YOU BUDDY

Yuuki

@KevinvanderVelden There's a slight difference.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki same thing

Unionhawk

YOU'RE A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE

Kevin van der Velden

Unless you were wondering about word choice and not implication

Yuuki

"Sometimes" implies frequency, "kinda" implies amplitude/intensity.

In this particular sentence.

Unionhawk

14:17

That's true

badp

ONCE BITTEN AND TWICE SHY

I KEEP CHECKING, IT'S STILL 2016

TELL ME GUYS IS THIS GONNA END?

Unionhawk

probably

We're all going to die in 2012 anyway

badp

IT'S STILL THIS YEAR, I HAVE THIS PEAR

BlueBarren

look on the bright side

badp

there are many this pears like this but this one is mine

BlueBarren

14:18

at least the switch comes out in a month and since it's portable we can just take it to hell with us

badp

you know what's also portable

this pear

BlueBarren

like the fruit?

badp

take it anywhere

take it everywhere

you can't take it off

this pear forever.

Jason Berkan

Sometimes I wonder what a drunk @bapd would be like, and then I realize - how would I tell?

8

BlueBarren

I thought @badp is always drunk

badp

14:20

@JasonBerkan the Badp American Police Department would never drink on the job

except during lunch breaks

but then does that really count?

I mean it's an American Police Department. Standards are pretty low.

BlueBarren

it is your lunch break

Private Pansy

@badp Badp American Department of Policing.

badp

@PrivatePansy nah, he said "bapd"

Jason Berkan

Hey, I did. What's up with that, @autocomplete?

Private Pansy

@badp Well I'm sure we all know that most Barium are filthy criminals who need to be kept in line by a strong police force

badp

14:22

depends on their country of birth really

EXTREME VETTING HOWTO

1. IS YOUR COUNTRY OF BIRTH MOSTLY NOT-NOT-MUSLIM
YES - goto 2
NO - goto REGULAR VETTING

2. DOES THE PRESIDENT HAVE PERSONAL BUSINESS TIES WITH THAT COUNTRY
YES - goto REGULAR VETTING
NO - you are a TERRORIST FOREVER

Private Pansy

@badp Man, Monopoly: President Trump Edition really sucks

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy one person gets the orange hamsterhead and starts with hotel on all the properties, then the game starts

Of course, that's probably a better game then regular monopoly because at least it'll be over fast

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Do type matchups have an effect in Pokemon Duel?

There are some plates and figure abilities that give bonuses to various types, but I have not observed any effect (increased damage, decreased miss chance, for example) in matchups where I would expect one figure to have a disadvantage (water v. fire, fire v. grass). Do type matchups between figu...

pokemon-duel

Unionhawk

We do have temporary injunction protecting people who are already here, now

badp

also when you pass go you get 400$ from Mexico and put them straight into the wall fund

owned by the orange hamsterhead

Unionhawk

14:26

Though many CBP agents have disregarded those orders

badp

now you know where those $400 come from when you pass go

you win when the wall fund reaches $16,000,000,000,000

Private Pansy

@badp This game is terrible. Can we play Bingo now?

badp

@PrivatePansy maybe next year

SEE WHAT I DID THERE, BECAUSE THERE ISN'T GONNA BE A NEXT YEAR

GnomeSlice

badp

pictured: the winning strategy at Trump Monopoly

@Unionhawk too bad we failed at executing it

Nzall

14:32

Unionhawk

@badp That's the current action plan

@badp Withhold consent and filibuster until the travel ban is taken care of

badp

so never

Unionhawk

and also vote no on Jeff Sessions and Betsy DeVos

and probably more

badp

Trump has already said they're only going to lift the travel ban given the countries on the other end cooperate

Tim Stone

Ollie is still free. There is still hope

badp

14:33

Iran has already replied with a middle finger

Tim Stone

Also Oprah is coming to 60 Minutes

badp

so never.

Unionhawk

@badp I mean judicially and legislatively

We already have temporary victories on the judicial side, so there's a pretty decent chance it won't hold up in court

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk that's fair

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk When you say legislatively, you mean Congress passing new laws that overrules Trump's executive orders? Because I don't really see that happening

EOs cannot contradict legislature, but I don't see the laws actually passing

Unionhawk

14:36

Several republican senators have already come out against it. The current plan is to turn up the pressure and make sure that acting on that is a priority 1 item

Private Pansy

Speaking of the judiciary, the BBC's take on the legal challenges mounted against the order: bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38766364

Nzall

I'm curious: People are using the first amendment to fight against the #MuslimBan. The text of this amendment states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Trump isn't part of Congress, right? He's the POTUS

Unionhawk

I don't think any judge would ever interpret 1A that pedantically

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Once Containment bugs, can College of Winterhold questline be completed

Don't know if it's necessary to put this here, but: spoilers ahead! So I've run into the bug on the Containment quest, whereby it doesn't trigger after the completion of Revealing the Unseen quest. After the explosion caused by Arcano, I was asked to find the Arch-Mage, but the Containment quest...

skyrim pc

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Q: How to allow only one cracked account join my server

I have a minecraft 1.11.2 vanilla server that i want only premium accounts to join. But, I have a cracked account, obtained using mineshafter, that I want to be made able to join. I could set online mode to false, and that would allow my cracked account to join, but then other peoples' cracked ac...

minecraft minecraft-server

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Q: Anyway to complete an assignment by save editing or console commands?

I completed Feros before grabbing the freelancer's data, so now I can't complete the assignment. Is there anyway to complete that assignment with console commands or editing the save?

mass-effect

Kevin van der Velden

Yes, historically it has been interpreted as no-one may do so

Otherwise individual states can do so

Unionhawk

14:49

Well, no, that's covered in like, 9A

"Anything not in here is left to the states"

And the converse is true, "anything that is in here is not up to the states"

Jason Berkan

Dumb question - approximately how long would any legal case against the refugee / immigration executive order take?

Unionhawk

We have emergency injunctions now, one of them expiring 2/5, but we expect some additional ruling prior to that

Kevin van der Velden

Presumably? Long

Unionhawk

I have no idea though

Jason Berkan

Just wondering, given that the EO is 90 / 120 days long. Why not wait it out?

Yuuki

14:52

@GnomeSlice Who shows off their Pokemon binder and doesn't show shiny foil original Charizard?

BlueBarren

I'm having that moment where I think I'm actually accomplishing something

Kevin van der Velden

@JasonBerkan because that would mean people are barred from going home for 120 days?

BlueBarren

On the note of pokemon cards some scummy kid stole my holo pidgeot when I was little

Yuuki

@JasonBerkan Where would you wait it out?

Unionhawk

@JasonBerkan A lot of refugee stuff will probably expire, so odds are a lot of refugees would have to start over from the beginning

Yuuki

14:53

In this case of this one guy, he got redirected to Saudi Arabia.

Unionhawk

Additionally, it blocks Syrian refugees indefinitely

Jason Berkan

That's right, I forgot one bit was indefinite.

Yuuki

2017 now with more 2016 flavor.

Arperum

Plus there is no guarantee he won't extend the ban once the 90 days are up.

Unionhawk

He's also lowered the cap of refugees to 50,000, which is the lowest that number has been since 1980, when we're at a height in the crisis now

We let in roughly 75,000 last year, and POTUS44 upped the cap to 110,000

Kevin van der Velden

14:55

Also, just allowing bigots to do what they want as long as it's only for a limited period is a bad idea

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden That too. Very much so.

Because that would result in them being able to build up to even more fucked up stuff.

Kevin van der Velden

"Well you'll only be send to Auschwitz for a limited time" IS NOT A REASON TO LET IT HAPPEN

Yuuki

@KevinvanderVelden I mean, these days Auschwitz is more of a museum and it means you get to go to Germany so I'd rate that as a net plus.

quartata

@badp So how does your "forever 2016" calendar handle leap days?

Wipqozn

@Yuuki you're a net plus

Yuuki

14:58

@quartata There are no leap days, only @badp.

Anyways, given that Affleck has been the lead in a lot of his directed films, I'm a little suspicious of this statement.

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki poland*

Yuuki

Reading between the lines, I feel like he was pushing back against the studio too much and they're forcing him out of the director's chair.

Unionhawk

same thing (no it's not) shut up

Kevin van der Velden

It was returned to poland after the war ended

Yuuki

AFFLECK: I'm not gonna direct the movie if the script's not good. *one month later* AFFLECK: I'm not gonna direct the movie.

Tweeted by mrbowers on January 31, 2017 at 1:46 AM in reply to mrbowers

Unionhawk

15:00

We need an upside-down thinking emoji

@Unicode get on it

Kevin van der Velden

There's no meta-character for upside-down rendering?

Get on that @Uni code

Unionhawk

I dunno

quartata

Surprisingly no.

Unionhawk

All I know is that upside-down-smiley is a thing

quartata

Consideing Unicode has transitioned full time from making meta characters to making emojis we'll probably never see it either

Wipqozn

15:02

@Yuuki I mean, this shouldn't come as a surprise

Yuuki

> In a twist of irony, Aquaman is shaping up to be the best DC film.

So Michelle MacLaren dropped out of Wonder Woman, David Ayer clearly had Suicide Squad cut to pieces. And the Flash movie lost two directors and is now undergoing a day-one rewrite.

Basically, DC Cinematic Universe is turning out to be a massive shitshow.

Unionhawk

well... that's good

We'll see how it holds up

Private Pansy

@Yuuki Wait, hold on, is the title of the movie actually The Batman?

Wha?

Yuuki

@PrivatePansy I mean, where can you go for a title, there's been so many Batman movies.

Unionhawk

Batman (2006)

Private Pansy

15:11

Is it going to be 90 minutes of a man flapping a black cape making bat noises?

Unionhawk

110 minutes, probably

Maybe 125 or so

Yuuki

@PrivatePansy I mean, given previous performance, that's probably be better than what they have on the table right now.

Unionhawk

MAYBE EVEN 180

but probably not

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk I think that's against the Geneva convention

Yuuki

Relevant

> Wonder Woman coming out only a week after Pirates 5, and Justice League hitting theaters right in between Thor and Star Wars. Not to mention Coco, the next Pixar movie after Cars 3 releases only 5 days after Justice League

WELP

DC Cinematic Universe on suicide ~~squad~~ watch.

Jason Berkan

15:16

So I have quit playing XCOM 2. I don't like it.

Kevin van der Velden

But who will overthrow the alien oppressors now @JasonBerkan? Are you just gonna leave it to trump and @Wipqozn?

Jason Berkan

@KevinvanderVelden In my XCOM games, I always won, so the alien oppressors never took power.

Kevin van der Velden

@JasonBerkan they were actually simulations ran in your head, you already lost. The aliens were just learning from you

Yuuki

@KevinvanderVelden Well, that just makes a little too much sense.

So XCOM: EU/EW was all a dream?

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki it's actually canon btw

badp

15:19

@quartata ezy pzy, there's just going to be a febpentruary 29, 2016

and a febnonuary 29, 2016

and a febdecaternary 29, 2016

and a febdecaheptuary 29, 2016, in the very unlikely case we make it that far

Unionhawk

I propose that it's actually 2016-11-91

Yuuki

@KevinvanderVelden Well, I knew that that the Commander was abducted by aliens and turned into a tactical computer overmind, but I didn't know it was canon that XCOM: EU/EW are actually the kind of simulations that the aliens ran on you.

Unionhawk

instead of 2016-13-31

badp

@Unionhawk that's the eternal september scheme

Unionhawk

that's november but I understand what the refrance

badp

15:21

I thought there was no need to deprecate months in addition to years

Kevin van der Velden

@Yuuki I don't know about EU/EW, true

badp

df7cb.de/projects/sdate

hmmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Kevin van der Velden

Oh no

Unionhawk

wait

Wake Me Up When September Ends

"Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a song by American rock band Green Day, released on June 13, 2005, as the fourth single from the group's seventh studio album, American Idiot (2004). The song was written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong regarding the death of his father. The song became a hit single, peaking at number six on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also a top ten single in the United Kingdom, Belgium, New Zealand, and was a number one single in the Czech Republic. In the United States, the song became symbolic after Hurricane Katrina, where it was dedicated to victims of the disaster and...

:thinking:

badp

Kevin van der Velden

15:24

@badp are you going to make the thing?

badp

@KevinvanderVelden maybe a js library.

Kevin van der Velden

I guess I'll just have to see if I can fork the thing for you then

badp

I don't use mutt or xclock

Kevin van der Velden

Well yeah, but it wraps localtime and gmtime, so applications that use those would work

Sterno

@JasonBerkan There must be something wrong with you.

Jason Berkan

15:29

Probably.

Sterno

Did you like the previous XCOM?

Unionhawk

Hmmmmm

Jason Berkan

@Sterno Absolutely loved it. One of the best games I've ever played.

Unionhawk

Fidget Cube hasn't updated status

Sterno

Huh

Unionhawk

15:30

Supposedly it delivers today

Sterno

I felt like XCOM2 improved upon it so I'm surprised you disliked it

SaintWacko

@Arperum My dice arrived yesterday

Arperum

@SaintWacko \o/

Unionhawk

Dammit DHL

SaintWacko

@Arperum They're not bad, although they're nowhere near the quality I was expecting when I backed them

Jason Berkan

15:31

XCOM felt like a game of chess. Movement, strategy, picking the correct order to do things. XCOM 2 feels like a boxing match. Punch the guys while they punch you.

Yuuki

So following along logically, XCOM 3 should be like chessboxing.

I feel like they could've used some adjustment with the concealment mechanic.

Arperum

@SaintWacko Same. I'm not convinced about the fairness of the dice either. I should do some statistics thing at some point.

SaintWacko

@Arperum Plus, it doesn't roll for crap on a hard surface

And the LEDs are poor quality

Yuuki

I don't like that taking out one squad within one or two turns still alerts other squads, including the one on the other side of the map.

Sterno

@JasonBerkan Like, who can burn through the other's HP first?

SaintWacko

15:36

At least, I assume they are. It may actually be something inherent in it

Jason Berkan

@Sterno Very much so. And destructible cover means the correct action is always explosives.

Sterno

Oh, yeah, that part was true. Grenade launchers were OP

But I played most of the game able to avoid injury

That part felt the same to me

Yuuki

@JasonBerkan Wasn't there destructible cover in the first one?

Jason Berkan

@Yuuki Only some of it was.

Sterno

Not to the same extent

Arperum

15:38

@SaintWacko There is a difference in strength between different LEDs for sure.

Yuuki

Fair enough. I feel like cover made too much of a difference in this one as well.

Which exacerbated the effect.

SaintWacko

@Arperum That, and the mixed color LEDs seem to have a fairly wide offset between the R, G, and B LEDs

Sterno

I did decide I just don't have enough gaming time to want to do a Long War campaign for XCOM2

SaintWacko

Which means that the color changes if you're looking at it from an angle

Yuuki

Like low cover for aliens cuts my accuracy by like 50-70% sometimes.

Arperum

15:39

@SaintWacko The online manual also says not to roll on hard surface for risk of repositioning LEDs...

SaintWacko

@Arperum Sigh...

I kinda want to look at making my own now

Because it's a really cool idea

Just not a great execution

Arperum

@SaintWacko Yes, the purple has some sides way redder and some way more blue.

djsmiley2k

death comes, to those who wait.

Arperum

@SaintWacko If you end up doing it, I might be willing to buy a couple. Go for D20's or something :p

SaintWacko

@Arperum Yeah, that would be neat

Probably won't be any time soon. That will cost money, and I'm currently saving for a big curved wqhd monitor

Jason Berkan

15:42

I won't spoil it, but the battle with the Axxxxx was seriously unbalanced.

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum HMMM

Arperum

I'm saving for a new roof that I should place between first of july this year and next year (because doing so would result in getting €3333 or ~€6820 back from the government (not sure which one)

Kevin van der Velden

How would you fit the numbers for a D20 in leds on it though

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Single bigger LED block per side, and part of it obscured by dice cover?

Kevin van der Velden

That's what I'm thinking off but that's kinda fake

Arperum

15:44

@KevinvanderVelden ur face is fake

Yuuki

@JasonBerkan Not to mention that it kinda comes out of nowhere... Although I guess I was supposed to evac in that situation or something.

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan @Sterno Yeah grenades are always the correct answer

MadMAxJr

I just wrote an executive order on my desk. It says MORE EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

Kevin van der Velden

Hmmm, I'm totally not looking at how to fold a D20 right now

Yuuki

> So, I had a laptop system board fail. Under warranty. No problem. Engineer comes on site. Does the job. All good.

10 minutes later, I'm called down to where he was working by a member of management saying that he must have been doing drugs in there because there's a syringe in the bin. There's about 10 members of staff all freaking out.

It's thermal compound.

Jason Berkan

15:53

Though going back to the boxing thing - it's more than just HP. It's the fact that enemies have 6 powerful abilities and I have 10 powerful abilities. It's giant power creep, when the original was move -> shoot and some abilities that broke those rules.

Sterno

A friend of mine just said "Games don't buy themselves" and then I just realized what the next big Steam innovation is going to be and how I'm stupid enough to go with it

Give Steam $100-$200 a month and it just buys games for me that it thinks I'll like

Autofill that unplayed game library!

djsmiley2k

i pay sony £40/yr to do that for me

BlueBarren

I wouldn't pay for that

djsmiley2k

why on earth is it gonan cost you so much?! :O

Sterno

AAA games, baby

Yuuki

15:55

@JasonBerkan I don't really remember anything ability-wise in XCOM 2 that wasn't in XCOM 1.

Well, I guess Insanity causing a whole host of debuffs and granting Sectoids early access to Mind Control is a bit fuct.

Jason Berkan

@Yuuki My grenadier with Exo Suit has so many abilities on his bar that they run out of hot keys.

djsmiley2k

@Sterno I know you're being silly, but... i get AAA games, like 3 years late

else I just can't keep up

Sterno

I don't try to keep up

djsmiley2k

I mean, as it's my birthday I just got FFXV otherwise, it'd be like 2 years down the line I pick it up

cheap as chips

Don't know if I should buy 1 or 2 tb drive for my ps4

not sure if 2Tb fits XD

Yuuki

@JasonBerkan Even with that set-up, I still think the only thing that wasn't in XCOM 1 was the flamethrower. Maybe. Was there a flamethrower in XCOM 1?

Kevin van der Velden

15:58

@Sterno humble bundle monthly and the before mentioned sony thing, and I think an ea thing

Jason Berkan

The flamethrower was part of the MEC suit in the expansion.

Sterno

Is the Sony thing "You happen to get a free game every month with your online subscription" or something else?

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