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16:01
Any Nexus Challenge 2.0 takers?
If you wanna play with someone who has never played HOTS
But has played possibly too much dota
That sounds perfect, actually
I have barely touched HotS myself
Wait, which server?
Gimme a few minutes I have to download it
Whichever, I'm generally on european but don't care
(I can get better ping to america then certain americans CC @Unionhawk)
Alright, that's where I am
@DanmakuGrazer "That" being Europe or America?
16:06
I am Yourdoom #2422 on it
@KevinvanderVelden my internet is substantially improved now with new router and modem
@Yuuki That being Europe. My message came barely after the one mentioning America
@KevinvanderVelden I think I sent a request
Just a few more gigs till it's all in
Who wanted me neopets account?
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Q: Why do my levels reset after enchanting?

ayyLmaoI am new to this site, I detected a weird bug on my spigot server (1.7.x-1.8.x). Basically, every time I enchant an item or use the anvil to repair/enchant items, my levels do not drop, they just reset to their previous state. I also noticed this happens only to me, and I am the only one on t...

16:13
It has arrived!
hmmmmmmmm i don't know my birthday appently o_O
@djsmiley2k Fake birthday, I assume. You said you were too young
well my birthyear is 1984
i doubt i'd have entered anything else tbh :/
@djsmiley2k Now you have to remember what year you were born 18 years ago the day you made that Neopets account.
@Yuuki I did something like that when I made my PSN account, it makes my life a real pain
good thing I barely use anything Playstation
16:18
Frederick Douglass also angry when he saw what was happening during WWI https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/859028755423133696
Context: trump claimed a former president (and genocidal racist) was "upset at the American civil war". Unfortunately the person was dead 15 years before the American civil war started
Does Trump believe that we live in that weird Doctor Who episode where time has collapsed into a singularity and all eras exist in the same moment?
In which case, where is my rocket-powered flying locomotive?
@Yuuki "alternative time"
@GodEmperorDune "alternative facts"
@Avery yes that is the refrance
also good morning evening!
16:31
@GodEmperorDune Or is it the alternative refrance?
@Yuuki doctor who theme plays
@GodEmperorDune Blue telephone box flies through vortex
I miss Doctor Who
I stopped watching once they got to Peter Capaldi
because I found the show was starting to suck
and apparently it got even worse
Is this one even on topic here? Seems to be sort of game dev but also not.
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Q: Pure Story Game

user186391So... Last time I had a discussion with my buddy about whether there was a difference between a story game and a pure story game. Here is his definition: These games consist 100% of a story (not a multiplayer (eg CoD, Battlefield) But also no Openworld (example: Fallout)) If in such game...

The tag is 100% wrong though
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PIVX

Proposed Q&A site for PIVX (Private Instant Verified Transaction) developers and community.

Currently in definition.

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Stack OverFlow in Italian

Proposed Q&A site for italian speaking community

Closed before being launched.

16:43
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Q: Pure Story Game

user186391So... Last time I had a discussion with my buddy about whether there was a difference between a story game and a pure story game. Here is his definition: These games consist 100% of a story (not a multiplayer (eg CoD, Battlefield) But also no Openworld (example: Fallout)) If in such game...

NEW: Trump to Bloomberg: “If it would be appropriate for me to meet w [Kim Jong Un], I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it."
We're going to all die for a reason so stupid we can't even imagine it yet
@TimStone well sure but isn't it also a good thing that Trump is open to talking to people and he doesn't just want to bomb them to oblivion?
Yesterday he said maybe he'd do nuclear war over North Korea so I dunno
Well he probably shouldn't be saying stuff like that if he's open to negotiations
@TimStone and he invited duerte over to the white house and duerte passed
16:49
BREAKING: Trump tells Bloomberg he's open to raising the gas tax to pay for infrastructure. https://bloom.bg/2qpV5uO
Oh wow today is quite a day
Seems like Trump is very 'open'
Everyone thinks the President controls the price of gas and get angry when it goes up so Trump found the one way it could actually be his fault
@BlueBarren open to negotiations != personally meeting with other leaders != being honored to meet with someone like Kim Jong Un
@TimStone higher gas taxes means people buy more fuel efficient cars
it's actually a decent policy for reducing fossil fuel use
unfortunately it kinda raises the prices of everything else too
@GodEmperorDune if they're not going to talk about the current situation/negotiate then this is by far the worst time for Trump to "just visit"
@BlueBarren negotiation at a country level is almost always done by teams of diplomats and negotiators on both sides
16:52
@GodEmperorDune Higher gas prices in general, yeah. But I doubt any of that was part of his thought process and I suspect his base would just be angry at prices rising
@GodEmperorDune well that's true because if Trump visited or Kim Jong Un did I have no idea how either would feel safe
unfortunately for trump, he hasn't filled most of the positions at the state department to do these negotiations so the US has really shot itself in the foot on this
Does anyone actually expect these positions to get filled in at any point?
@TimStone Not sure "honored" is the right word...
@TimStone Because him chatting up Duterte didn't cause enough outrage, so he decided to also want to chat up Kim Jong Un.
17:01
Is this that point in time where every American acts out that Mitchell and Webb skit?
@TimStone He also said he's considering breaking up the big banks
It's like he has zero awareness of what comes out of his mouth
@TimStone I mean, I'm all for financial regulations and anti-trust actions.
Yeah, but the only way that's actually happening is if he hires the rest of Goldman Sachs and there's just no one there left to run it
17:34
I think my work flash drive (which I paid for) is about to die.
Mind you, I did recently pulled it when safely remove drive failed.
@MBraedley Sounds like you're using a Kingston.
Yep, but it's one of their higher end ones.
And it is at least a year and a half old.
Sounds like you need to borrow some safety equipment from @BlueBarren before things get fiery.
That flash drive is prone to fire hazards.
This jambalaya is different from most jambalaya I have eaten.
Mostly in that it is a soup, not a rice dish.
I swear to God I just spent ten minutes trying to figure out what this pot shop has to do with JavaScript. It's a… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/858375691334696961
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17:41
@HazyKingdom Kingston has made many different flash drives.
@Yuuki That sounds like gumbo, I think you've been played
It's a USB thumb drive, just to be clear.
@TimStone I blame Whole Foods for trying to be weird.
There was one time when I also had a soup-like jambalaya, which was from Randall's. And it wasn't all that bad. Better than this for sure.
@TimStone hue
It had more veggies and meat and therefore was denser than this one.
Which made it seem less like a soup.
17:46
@Yuuki Campbell's Chunky chicken and sausage gumbo is probably the second best gumbo I've had, the best being basically home made at the cafeteria for one of my co-op placements. Sounds like yours wasn't even up to the Campbell's standard.
@MBraedley Ha, I'm just kidding dude, I love Kingstons, I've been using their data traveler series (USBs) for a while now. Everything seems to be broken today though.
aghhhhhhh
@MBraedley Well, at least it was made with cage-free and organically sourced ingredients!
Actually, it looks like it was going slow only because it was a lot of small files, and the sectors may have been corrupted.
some pro erdo person from... france... replied to me and I regret checking their profile
now I'm intensely depressed
17:50
I wonder how they do it, growing cage-free rice.
@Avery who cares what somebody else thinks
@Avery That's what block is for (assuming you're talking Twitter)
@GnomeSlice when said somebody else can vote, then I care :)
@MBraedley well, good point.
@Yuuki How do they keep it from wandering away from the farm?
@Avery that's the great thing about voting, not everybody has to vote the same way
17:52
The real question is how Whataburger can make inorganic beef taste so delicious.
@Ash this is a really cute and fun little freemium game
I can't even tell it has no carbon.
@GnomeSlice whatever I don't feel like arguing right now. That wasn't my point though.
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Q: In Mario Party 4, what is the reward if you win the '5 turns left lottery'?

Fredy31In Mario Party 4, if you pass through the lottery house, you get a lottery ticket, that is used in the '5 turns left' event. That lottery ticket has 3 random faces, chosen randomly with the characters in the game. What do you get if you win this lottery?

18:08
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Q: What are these options on the kart selection screen?

Chase SandmannThere are a few new features in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, some of which are enablable on the kart selection screen: I figure the one in the middle is motion controls, but I have no idea what the other two are. We tried playing with them off and on and didn't really notice a difference. Even the "...

So I just received a google alert of my name on... this.
Why are a whole bunch of our PMs wearing yellow scarves?
(I'm talking about Canada)
*MPs
18:23
@Avery what is that?
@GodEmperorDune someone added my gpg key to their trustlist as ultimately trusted, which is... very risky, tbh.
@Avery but why is that fact publicly searchable?
because they also uploaded it to pastebin which got picked up by a crawler which then downloaded it for their site, it seems.
President Trump's comments on the American Civil War and Andrew Jackson are sparking a lot of debate. https://twitter.com/i/moments/859083631746265088
@TimStone hue
18:53
I don't think I can type today
that's two times I've made a mistake today that I was too late to edit
I was going to say - unless you used speech-to-text just now; there is evidence on my screen to the contrary.
I'm not so sure
are you looking at that sentence?
it seems pretty awful
It might even be the worst
Do you think it would be inappropriate for me to propose to this woman while she eats her chocolate cake over his tears
GUYS
TURKEYBLOCKS INVITED ME TO MEET THEIR TEAM
18:57
THAT'S SO GREAT (I think? What's TurkeyBlocks?)
also deadname heh
(What are you talking about?)
@BlueBarren turkeyblocks.org and @turkeyblocks
@Frank subscribe to them on what?
what is the point...?
18:58
@BlueBarren ...
@BlueBarren It's spam.
Who cares? Its spam.
Hey do we still flag duplicate answers?
@DanmakuGrazer When did we ever?
@DanmakuGrazer CC @Wipqozn
Also, no.
18:59
@Frank don't give me that look, there are multiple platforms to subscribe to people on
Don't flag duplicate answers.
I've always done it and now my flags are getting rejected
@BlueBarren It's probably youtube.
@StrixVaria what if it's copy pasted?
@BlueBarren If it's literally an exact duplicate then flag I guess.
19:00
@Avery probably but there's no definite proof of that
If it's just the same info written by a different person then don't.
@DanmakuGrazer you're supposed to downvote it and it'll appear in review queues IIRC
Like Icarus we have flown too close to the sun https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/859114944427683840
@TimStone holy shit that whole thread from earlier is gold
19:01
@Avery so I'm looking at turkeyblocks.org but how do I actually see this mystical project they're talking about?
@BlueBarren scroll down for news or visit the twitter.
@DanmakuGrazer Where in there do I ever say to flag duplicate answers?
@ToxicFrog Right? :D
@Avery oh I was expecting a cool map or something...
derp
@Frank How else do you delete them?
I can't remember who told me to flag as low quality, too
19:03
ugh I might actually go to istanbul you know. They're cool people.
@DanmakuGrazer Down vote, and use the low quality queue.
Well that ain't helping
@TimStone just finished it and wow. That was a thing of beauty.
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A: What constitutes an answer duplicate and how should we flag them?

FrankHere's what you do: You downvote the post and move on. Once the post accrues enough downvotes, based on it's length and quality, it automatically gets punted into the Low Quality review queue. Once it's there, you Recommend Deletion. The biggest issue is that people don't downvote duplicate an...

Isn't there some in the FAQ or something that says you can answer an already answered question if you feel you can answer it better?
19:05
I need to share this with someone, but I'm not sure who.
Add more info, throw in your own perspective, etc.?
@BlueBarren I vaguely recall something like that, although I'm not sure where the line between suggest edit vs. add comment vs. provide alternate answer is
@BlueBarren Then its not longer a duplicate answer.
@Frank fair point I guess
I guess it really depends on what's a "duplicate answer"? Obviously a straight up copy and paste but beyond that...?
Does it add anything new? No? Duplicate answer.
Allowances are made for answers posted near the same time, but beyond that, if you're not adding something new, it doesn't deserve to stick around.
19:10
@TimStone holy shit
Flagged this as very low quality, it got accepted. This was declined
Don't freaking flag.
If its a dupe, downvote, and vote to delete through the low quality queue.
9 mins ago, by Avery
@DanmakuGrazer you're supposed to downvote it and it'll appear in review queues IIRC
It won't appear
It's still there
Probably a good idea to comment that it adds nothing to existing answers so other reviewers see it.
19:11
Yup
That answer doesn't appear in lq because someone upvoted it.
Pity upvotes are worst upvotes.
I see
That answers that, at least
If it gets more downvotes, it'll appear.
But people have to be willing to do so, and that's generally an issue here.
19:15
It took me forever to earn the right to downvote
@BlueBarren checked it, it's youtube.
I think people generally don't downvote answers much because it costs rep
@Avery so are you going to subscribe? They did ask you know
It's, you know
The prisoner dilemma
@BlueBarren maybe.
19:16
@Avery is their content any good?
No.
Should wrong answers be deleted?
@DanmakuGrazer iirc you get the rep back if it's deleted? or is it only if the user deletes their account?
@DanmakuGrazer I would figure they should be downvoted
@DanmakuGrazer downvote -> LQQ -> delete.
19:17
@DanmakuGrazer factually wrong, no. harmful, yes
@GodEmperorDune As soon as the answer gets deleted.
@Avery shame, I had high hopes for that user
My rep page looks like a ping pong ball with all the ups and downs.
@GodEmperorDune That's what I feel too
But then why do downvotes - for any reason - cause a question to appear in LQQ?
Eh
It's no big deal in the end I guess
Just not very intuitive
@DanmakuGrazer For such things as non-answers, duplicate answers, word vomit, questions as answers, you name it.
19:21
@Frank can you not look at another user's rep graph?
@BlueBarren you can.
it's on activity tab
also hot damn frank, that's a lot of DVs
@BlueBarren Not the rep losses from their down votes.
Its private so you can't figure out who down voted what.
@Avery I upvote rarely, downvote frequently.
@Frank I guess that makes sense
higher rep users are more likely to downvote bad answers
I'm not going to reach 20k anytime soon so I have a 5k buffer for downvotes
It's fun
19:24
mainly because theyve been around a long time and they dislike bad answers, but also because losing a few rep isnt a big deal when you have several thousand
@Dragonrage well that probably goes back to what @DanmakuGrazer was saying about the prisoner dilemma
@DanmakuGrazer I'm living on the edge, not even at 1k yet
Fun fact: only about a third of my down votes still apply. The rest is on deleted content.
@Avery how did you see the votes cast breakdown?
i was around 3k rep before i even asked a question on the site
@BlueBarren scroll down.
19:26
Or up
@Avery derp
@Dragonrage I haven't had anything to ask
@BlueBarren thats how it was for me for awhile
when it comes to gaming I'll either figure it out myself or I'll find an existing resource on the internet
You won't get much rep out of asking questions anyway
If a question is worth asking, not many people will upvote it
If it's a very dumb question for a newly released game, expect 30+
@DanmakuGrazer that irks me a little because why do people even need to ask those questions?
19:28
@BlueBarren If I wanted to be cynical, I'd say just for points
Like my most upvoted answer I feel is the simplest of solutions
If I didn't, I'd say they genuinely missed some part of the tutorial
There's lots of braindead questions. We do expect effort...but popularity ensures simple questions get massive approval.
I don't farm points because I generally only ask things about games that stump me, most of those are already answered, and I have no desire to moderate this site.
@DanmakuGrazer "how can I determine if a corpse is safe to eat?", add and this is what you get:
19:30
i think my most upvoted question is at least decently useful
Once I broke 75 rep I didn't care about rep
@Avery Ooooh, yes
HNQ bait
My best question ever was on Stack Overflow, then it was closed after a shift in moderation policy. :(
Hence why I downvote so much.
@DanmakuGrazer no, and neither should duplicate answers
19:31
Quality is getting harder to come by, but it is still there.
also duplicate answers shouldn't be downvoted.
but that's just me.
I am so not clicking a link into skeptics.
@badp Yes, they should. They offer nothing of value, and that's literally what the downvote button is for.
19:32
The downvote button is for stuff that is wrong
Duplicate answers should be released into the wild and hunted for sport.
They just dilute the signal to noise ratio.
@badp And useless.
What dilutes the signal to noise ratio is having correct but late and wrong answers mixed together
it sends mixed signals to readers
@MadMAxJr Next April Fools?
I think Stack will give up on elaborate April Fools
After seeing war break out over the egg thing.
19:36
It is now 1/2/2 ASE (After StackEgg).
@DanmakuGrazer I'll fork doom and add stack integration
Some sites have recovered, though none have regained their old vigor.
monsters are bad answers and you shoot them to downvote them
Egg what now?
@Avery Bosses are well-formatted answers that get upvotes even if they're wrong
19:37
It was a very dumb April Fools game that got way too serious
@MadMAxJr well that doesn't sound too bad
They'd probably do something simpler. Random poker tables where you bet your site rep as chips.
@DanmakuGrazer I like this idea.
@MadMAxJr ooh, I like this.
but csgo skins instead of rep, maybe
something something underage gambling
That already exists and it's called scam artist.
Of course any sufficiently advanced april fools game will be ruined by bot scripts.
19:40
something something that cs go underage gambling thing that got a lot of people in trouble
@MadMAxJr Make it require DDR authentication
that check mark that says you're not a robot
2 factor DDR authentication
@MadMAxJr "After you've successfully authenticated yourself, we'll send our best, most talented dancers to the address you've selected and have them authenticate themselves on your DDR mat"
@DanmakuGrazer That sounds vaguely NSFW.
Phrasing? (cc @fredley)
19:45
@DanmakuGrazer we've got the best dancers, absolutely tremendous
@Yuuki You wouldn't want a stranger to authenticate on your mat?
Hmm. I may need to swap to two factor Taiko Drummaster authentication.
@MadMAxJr I don't want random strangers pounding in my room.
@Yuuki Be glad it's not Twister authentication
@Yuuki wut
19:47
@DanmakuGrazer naked twister authentication is my kind of authentication (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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@BlueBarren l-lewd~
@Avery there's only 1 way to prove you're not a robot
stop
wut wut wut
19:50
if i raise a mod flag on meta, does it go into a special queue on the meta site, or does it go into a special site-wide queue?
@Dragonrage A queue on meta
@DanmakuGrazer dang, this trumps my auth method
There's a link to the meta queues from the main queues page.
(for the regular queues)
@MBraedley ok, thats what i thought.
19:52
At least I'm pretty sure that's the case. I'd assume the mod queue works the same as the other queues in this case.
@BlueBarren No, the other cat is just small.
@MBraedley well yes but that other cat is overly round
user15026
There is a Chinese restaurant on this street called Duck Lord and I think that is a fantastic name.
@BlueBarren that is a huge watermark
thanks, mods. you guys are the best
@Ash Duck Lord, Lord of Ducks. Baron of Waterfowl, Prince of Mandarins, He Who Rules Over All Mallards.
19:59
@badp I didn't even notice that... am I blind?

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