The Bridge

HazyKingdom

3:00 PM

@TimStone lol sometimes that scenario can be a good thing?

Nzall

when I read that I had a good chuckle at how crazy Dogecoin is

Elizer

Dogecoin? Sounds weird.

Kevin van der Velden

@TimStone I don't know about weird-ball-sports-ball to say

Nzall

the Quarterback is the guy who throws away the ball at the start of the game, protected by the offensive line

Essentially, Trump is on the wrong side of his wall

Yuuki

@Nzall So of the two, who's the OG OG?

@Nzall ... and Mexico will pay for him?

Nzall

3:11 PM

Sorry, gotta go home now

DanmakuGrazer

I heard you guys like tweets

Trump is Lucille Bluth level out of touch. https://t.co/exEZB7sT4E

Tweeted by BrianMets on May 12, 2017 at 5:43 AM

BlueBarren

Arrested Development got pretty funny after the first half of the first season

I found the beginning to be weird or cringing or both a lot of the time

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: What exactly are cattle?

At the end of every level, I'm getting a bonus added to my score for how many cattle I hit. However, everything is so flashy and bright that I'm not quite sure what they're talking about. I think it's referring to the golden cows on pedestals that occasionally show up, but on level 3, I consiste...

polybius

DanmakuGrazer

Is there a way to automatically join rooms?

KutuluMike

you can set up favorites.

and join all of them at once.

Kevin van der Velden

3:23 PM

Or just never leave

Chippies

@DanmakuGrazer I'm pretty sure if you don't manually leave, you don't leave

DanmakuGrazer

I leave when I close the browser, I think

Chippies

@DanmakuGrazer I don't think so. I've been in different rooms and I stay in them even if I close the tab

I've been in some rooms for days without ever actually opening it in the browser

DanmakuGrazer

Weird

They keep resetting when I close my browser/computer

Chippies

might be a cookies thing, Idk

Beedrill

3:24 PM

If you leave all rooms then it may reset everything.

I can't even remember the last time I did that.

DanmakuGrazer

I keep Bridge open

Chippies

my bridge tab hasn't been closed for more than a chrome restart at a time for years

DanmakuGrazer

But the others vanish from the "other rooms you're in" list

Beedrill

@Chippies Yeah, I leave it open both at work and at home so even if I restart one I don't technically leave the room.

BlueBarren

I turn my computer off every night

so I close my Bridge tab everyday

Chippies

3:26 PM

I don't visit other rooms for more than just a quick glance when something's going on there and it gets linked here, so I can't say I got much experience with that

@BlueBarren that's so oldschool :P

last time I actually turned my PC off was for a windows update for couple hours while I had a nap, because I accidentally clicked "shut down and update", instead of "restart and update"

I think the last time before that was sometime last year, when I was out of town for a couple days

if windows didn't nag me to restart with updates, my PC would have a really high uptime counter :P

BlueBarren

I just don't see a reason to leave it on all the time

Yuuki

Hmm... has anyone here ever kept listening to a song because you really enjoy the melody/harmonics even though the lyrics have long since started gotten annoying/stale?

BlueBarren

especially if I know I won't use it 8 hours straight

Beedrill

@BlueBarren So that you can sit down and use your computer immediately instead of having to wait a few minutes.

I also get to preserve my state from my previous session much more easily by not shutting down between.

BlueBarren

@Beedrill I have Windows 10 on an SSD, boot times are nothing

Beedrill

3:30 PM

@BlueBarren However fast you have it boot, it's still not faster than not having to boot.

Chippies

@BlueBarren for me it's mostly because I have like 30 tabs open in chrome and I don't like having to deal with whatever auto-plays when I start up chrome

it also used to be because I'm on IRC and I like to keep log of what was going on, but since I got a Pi and I'm running the core of my client on it, it doesn't matter anymore

BlueBarren

@Beedrill well I like to be power conscious and I also don't want to hear it whirring while I sleep

user15026

My tattoo made it into Patrick Rothfuss' latest blog post! Admittedly it's a bunch of people with Kingkiller tattoos but still mine is there and it is first

Beedrill

There are pros and cons, I was just giving my reasons to leave it on.

Chippies

@BlueBarren my PC is silent at idle and in a different room than my bed, so that's not an issue for me either

BlueBarren

3:32 PM

I could put my computer in sleep mode if I wanted it to be quiet

but why not turn it off?

Chippies

@BlueBarren this I agree with. Sleep mode is silly

if I'm putting my PC in sleep, I may as well turn it off

there's nothing wrong with turning the PC off, there's pros and cons for both and we just prioritize them differently :)

SaintWacko

Sleep mode used to make sense, because it was so much faster to go in and out of sleep mode

Yuuki

@Ash :D

SaintWacko

But with the advent of SSDs and faster HDDs, there's not much of a difference anymore

@Ash Nice!

I have no idea what that icon is, but it looks cool!

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How can I get more shields?

In Pure and Classic mode, you get shields at the end of each level. I believe that you always get 2, but I could be wrong. Is there any other way to get shields, like during a level?

polybius

Avery

3:41 PM

Here's what a London GP sees when trying to connect to the NHS network https://t.co/lV8zXarAXS

Tweeted by ruskin147 on May 12, 2017 at 2:53 PM

insert facepalm

(to those at work: it's cryptolocked)

(well, wcry 2.0)

Private Pansy

Huh, from the story linked several tweets down, it seems like this is spreading fast. Wonder how it's doing that though

Avery

"We are having a nationwide ransom attack on the NHS...emergency patients are being prioritised" https://t.co/SuWvTxJVEP

Tweeted by SkyNews on May 12, 2017 at 3:02 PM

Chippies

@SaintWacko I used to have a PC which would often not come back from a deep sleep mode or if it did, a lot of things wouldn't work properly and a restart was needed

fredley

@Avery It's fine, they have backups

...right?

Avery

@fredley ha

HAHAHAHAHA

I bet a couple million lives they don't.

well no, that's what they bet when they chose not to backup probably

Lazers 2.0

3:52 PM

0

Q: On eventide, what can you do if you send one of the balls out of the play area?

On Eventide, if you leave the island, you abandon the shrine challenge. But if you throw one of the balls so far away that you have to leave to get the ball, what can you do? Did you just make yourself have to die and restart the challenge?

zelda-breath-of-the-wild

Avery

:thinking:

Elizer

@Avery What exactly are you thing about?

Avery

It seems like a very uncommon set of things to buy together

a book about protests and a yubikey

Tim Stone

I mean she'd recommend buying a Yubikey, so not that crazy

BlueBarren

@Lazers2.0 @Yuuki I accidentally dropped one of the balls in the water, was super annoying to get out

it kept slipping

Avery

3:58 PM

ugh I need a yubikey

Elizer

@Avery For what? and what exactly does a yubikey do?

Avery

A yubikey is a U2F thumbthingy, basically used as a form of two factor authentication.

Elizer

@Avery english please.

BlueBarren

@Elizer it does the thing with the stuff

Mad Scientist

U2f is only one specific 2fa standard

Avery

4:00 PM

You know how your bank messages you with a 6 digit code or you can use the app etc? (also google etc allows this too)

Elizer

@Avery yes.

Avery

This is intended to provide an alternative to that.

Elizer

Ah.

Avery

It's more, much more secure. SMS is considered insecure, even.

There was an attack recently.

Mad Scientist

The expensive yubikeys support more stuff than u2f

Unionhawk

4:01 PM

Phishes these days ask for your 2fa sms number

Avery

Yeah, the more expensive models allow PGP etc too.

which is cool but I'm broke >_>

Elizer

So back to the whole NHS cyber attack, is there a way to do anything about that? Like anyway to find out where the code came from?

Mad Scientist

U2f is probably the most secure 2FA type, but not supported as widely as other methods

Avery

@Elizer It's too early to say anything.

It's on "We're running around with our hair on fire." mode atm.

Mad Scientist

U2f is completely secure against fishing, which is very nice

Elizer

4:03 PM

But in theory, could someone do anything about it without paying the money?

Avery

more :thinking:

Mad Scientist

Restore from backup

Yuuki

@MadScientist And then the backup crashes.

Elizer

@MadScientist but assuming they don't have backups, what could be done?

Avery

Paying the money or hoping that there's a bug in it

Mad Scientist

4:05 PM

If you don't have backups, you were screwed even before the ransomware, you just didn't notice

Yuuki

@Elizer I would say that assuming a national healthcare system doesn't have backups is problematic for a whole host of reasons, but this is bureaucracy we're talking about...

Avery

When you're trying to make a point on twitter (that I'm liking!) and this happens:

I HAD MORE TO SAY, but my computer decided it was time for Windows updates! (>.<)

Tweeted by AnaMardoll on May 12, 2017 at 3:48 PM in reply to AnaMardoll

Elizer

I really just wish fictional characters were real so I could send Jack Bauer or someone like that to get the idiots who ignited the cyber attack....

Avery

You're wrong.

While the "bad guys" are in fault, so is NHS.

For not having a fallback plan or secure systems.

Elizer

@Avery Good point.

Yuuki

4:11 PM

"Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive??" - One person's journey with SCIENCE.

GnomeSlice

4:25 PM

@Yuuki yes

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice It's a bit difficult to say that in general all pop lyrics are getting more repetitive. That would involve taking a census of all the pop songs released year by year. The more accurate conclusion is that repetitive pop lyrics are getting more popular.

But in essence, yes.

GnomeSlice

@Yuuki Barbara Streisand is the artist and Duck Sauce is the song, not the other way around

Yuuki

Taking 15,000 songs from the Billboard Hot 100 certainly provides you with a lot of data points, but it comes with the selection bias of choosing popular songs.

GnomeSlice

Grumble

Yuuki

Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand (Official Video)

►

No, Duck Sauce has a song titled "Barbra Streisand".

DanmakuGrazer

4:31 PM

Barbra

GnomeSlice

Oh wtf

Lol

TIL

@Yuuki before reading I assumed it meant are lyrics less unique across songs

Like more pop songs today are about the same shit

Yuuki

Ah.

That would be a difficult thing to quantify.

I'm not entirely sure it's something you can number-crunch.

badp

@Avery yup, it's been happening to several large companies

GnomeSlice

Look for words and quantities but yeah probably not

Chippies

@Yuuki just feed the algorithm with lyrics off of top-40 charts

badp

4:33 PM

elmundo.es/tecnologia/2017/05/12/59158a8ce5fdea194f8b4616.html

Chippies

wouldn't necessarily mean it's about the same shit, but you could figure out if it uses same words

Yuuki

@Chippies Well, you could do that. I was thinking concepts though.

Like "is this song about drug addiction?" You could certainly draw a strong conclusion just by seeing whether certain keywords pop up, but it's more of a qualitative judgement than a quantitative one.

Chippies

@Yuuki that would be harder without an AI of sorts, but on a basic level, if the songs use mostly same words, it's possible that they also sing about same stuff

GnomeSlice

You'd have to like compare songs from one era and find a list of all the most overlapping words

And then that with modern pop

Maybe

Chippies

speaking of music, I wish these were more frequent:

The Ten Worst Songs of 2016

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Kevin van der Velden

4:41 PM

A reminder for @Arperum to go get dungeons 2 =p

BlueBarren

something something aawwww

cc: @Ash

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Is there any significance to the "big name toys" in Fallout 4?

Scattered in among the random junk in Fallout 4 are a couple of recurring toys, that are of rather large size. You find parts for a Giddyup Buttercup (and a complete one, at one point), a lot of Jangles the Moon Monkey, and even some alien toy. Is there any significance to collecting these beyon...

fallout-4

0

Q: Can I build my own cymbal monkey traps?

One of the strangest traps in Fallout 4 is the motion-sensitive cymbal monkey trap: a toy monkey that starts playing the cymbals when you get near it, with a trigger attached to it. You can't pick these up, or disarm them for parts, or anything. But is there a way (possibly a mod) to make your o...

fallout-4

0

Q: Bounding box mod for 1.11.2 Vanilla

I want to install the bounding box mod for 1.11.2 Vanilla but i have no clue how to do this and where the file goes.I am playing in a single player world so i have access to all the files.I just need a video or an explanation on how to do this and put it in the right spot so i can use it.

minecraft

Yuuki

> If TMNT was based off gaming developers instead of Italian artists, then what would be their names?
> Kojima, Miyamoto, Newell, and Molyneux.
> Newell can't possibly be the third one...

BlueBarren

Newell is the only name I don't know

DanmakuGrazer

Gabe Newell?

Never heard?

BlueBarren

4:56 PM

oh right

I just derped

I'm so used to just "Gabe" or "Gaben"

3

GnomeSlice

Lole

Isn't Nintendo like third party hell?

BlueBarren

I've heard they're very strict on some things

making development more difficult

everyone likes to say it's the hardware's fault but I've heard it's actually more about how Nintendo deals with stuff

but that's all hearsay so who really knows?

fredley

GET HYPE

BlueBarren

5:12 PM

@fredley what is it?

fredley

@BlueBarren EUROVISION

MBraedley

@fredley I don't think I'll ever understand Eurovision

fredley

@MBraedley Bafflement is all part of it

BlueBarren

@fredley linking another yt video only perpetuates my problem

Yuuki

@MBraedley There is some knowledge that is simply unattainable by mere mortals.

fredley

5:15 PM

GET HYPE

Yuuki

Okay, time to decide on food for today.

GnomeSlice

@Ash did you ever try C.A.T.S. on Android?

Crash arena turbo stars or something

It's cute

BlueBarren

@Yuuki hmmm it's a noodle day imo

Yuuki

@BlueBarren Ramen it is then.

badp

@fredley oh is it national Piffle, Eurovision day? :flag-it: :flag-it: :flag-it:

#festivaldisanrexit

Elizer

5:48 PM

Is anyone else playing cards against humanity right now?

MadMAxJr

I need to dig out my set of that for the next hangout.

Elizer

@MadMAxJr Thing is, we're playing during school....

Yuuki

After trying all the ramen in this place, I think I'm going to stick with tonkotsu.

Beedrill

I've still never had real ramen.

I should make a point to try it.

MadMAxJr

Good stuff when you can find it.

Yuuki

5:54 PM

You should visit, I can show my regular stop.

And also authentic Chinese beef noodle soup as well.

MadMAxJr

Hmm. I found we DO have a local ramen joint here.

Yuuki

Although Houston is a bit of a boring place to vacation.

Beedrill

There's one I know of close enough to me; I've just never gone.

It's not really a place you want to bring young children too, so that adds difficulty.

I've never been to Texas; I'm not opposed to going, but I just don't really know why I'd choose Texas over Florida or California if I'm going to fly somewhere else in the country.

MBraedley

"Hmm," I though, "why isn't this method working? I told it to process those messages." Answer:

void Contacts::AISMessageHandler::handleAISNameMessage(MESSAGEFACTORY::Message & message)
{
}

fredley

@MBraedley lol Java

That signature contains 'Message' 5 times

Beedrill

5:59 PM

That looks like C++, not Java.

MBraedley

@fredley It's actually C++, as evidenced by the namespacing and explicit pass by reference

MadMAxJr

They do a tonkotsu bowl here...

TONKOTSU – 12
rich heritage pork broth – braised country pork jowl – mustard greens
black garlic – wood ear mushrooms

fredley

@MBraedley whatever

MBraedley

But to be fair, the levels of abstraction presented in that one method signature is indicative of the Java like nature of some of this codebase.

Yuuki

@Beedrill Texas has pretty and interesting stuff. They're just not in Houston.

Beedrill

6:04 PM

I'm sure it does; I just don't know what any of it is :P

Yuuki

Big Bend is beautiful, especially if you go in the spring or fall. Austin has a lot of cultural stuff and great food (although good luck getting your hands on some Franklin barbecue). The Riverwalk in San Antonio is always lively.

> Grapes of Rat

Kevin van der Velden

Daaww

fredley

6:25 PM

Meanwhile, in Reddit gilding

DanmakuGrazer

WAS

MBraedley

@fredley If anybody deserves the gold, it's the person who posted "Some"

GodEmperorDune

6:47 PM

@fredley wut

@MBraedley yeah

BlueBarren

so does anyone else have troubling doing anything at work on a Friday

or am I just a deadbeat?

A thug if you will

GodEmperorDune

@BlueBarren why not both?

badp

@MBraedley I mean, you can right this wrong if you think it needs righting!

MBraedley

@badp Not sure how much gold I have to give.

badp

as much as money can buy!!

Chippies

6:50 PM

GodEmperorDune

i still don't understand what reddit gold is

MBraedley

Ah, right, that how that works. Yeah, no. No gold to give.

@GodEmperorDune It's how the site makes money.

GodEmperorDune

also i still don't understand how "you're an all star" is such a big meme

Chippies

@GodEmperorDune oh maybe because it's just the best song ever?

just ask Neil Cicierega

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies wut

rebecca black has some fightin words for you

badp

6:56 PM

@Chippies that's got to be illegal

Chippies

@GodEmperorDune I've heard some good renditions of Friday, true. Not a huge fan of Rebecca's performance though

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune Rebecca black or @Sterno?

BlueBarren

@Chippies I would poop my pants if I saw this

Chippies

@BlueBarren maybe it's a dry-cleaning company van

BlueBarren

@Chippies that would be a great coincidence

Chippies

6:59 PM

@BlueBarren sure, a "coincidence"

Beedrill

@Chippies soundcloud.com/neilcic/mouth-sounds

I've had this tab open for I think 2 months.

BlueBarren

@Chippies secret marketing techniques

Chippies

@Beedrill there's 2 more albums. I got them all on my phone

Beedrill

@Chippies Oh I've listened to them all.

I actually thought the tab was the 3rd album, not the 1st, until I just went back.

DanmakuGrazer

The Surge looks nice and colourful

Beedrill

7:01 PM

The one with the Home Improvement into into the Disturbed grunting killed me.

Chippies

the latest album is really good, although not as much all-star centric

the YMCA one is a masterpiece :)

Beedrill

@Chippies So depressing.

Chippies

@Beedrill I thought it was more motivational and uplifting

it starts out sad-like, but it builds into this motivational and uplifting epic

GodEmperorDune

@Beedrill wut even is this?

Beedrill

@GodEmperorDune Incredible.

DanmakuGrazer

7:05 PM

twitch.tv/totalbiscuit If anyone's interested

Or not

badp

@GodEmperorDune payfornothing.club

Chippies

@GodEmperorDune either you're joking or you've been under a rock for the last eternity. HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THE BEST ARTIST/SONGS/ALBUMS EVER?!

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies i feel like someone threw a ton of 90s songs into a blender and it spat this out

Chippies

@GodEmperorDune I guess it could seem like that to an average music listener, but if you actually took your time and paid attention to it, you'd realize that it's a masterpiece

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies what substances were you on when you did this analysis?

perhaps the canadian deep freeze got your common sense

oh no he's about to butcher nirvana

Chippies

7:13 PM

completely serious though - there's just so much effort gone into the music, if you have ever tried making music, you'd understand

GodEmperorDune

i'm sure he put a lot of effort into it

but that doesn't automatically make it good

Chippies

@GodEmperorDune I mean, that's, like, your opinion, man

I'll admit, some of the songs are kinda wacky (for some reason he puts the wacky songs in the beginning of the album, maybe to weed out the people that can't appreciate the ART)

but there's a lot that are great

the newest album is a bit more consistent in quality, imho

Beedrill

These albums are truly art. I'm not even being facetious.

Chippies

soundcloud.com/neilcic/mouth-moods

give this one a try

Beedrill

You don't listen to them like you'd listen to the pop they use.

Yuuki

7:17 PM

ugh

Chippies

I find that it's best to leave the music in background while doing other stuff at first listening and then eventually the greatest bits will get your attention anyway and eventually you can just listen to it all like you would with "normal" music

GodEmperorDune

@Beedrill so what is the proper way to listen to them?

Yuuki

TSM won that match but it was such a poor-quality game.

Chippies

26 secs ago, by Chippies

I find that it's best to leave the music in background while doing other stuff at first listening and then eventually the greatest bits will get your attention anyway and eventually you can just listen to it all like you would with "normal" music

to be able to listen to it like you would with "normal" music, you have to be able to recognize and appreciate the effort gone into the making of it all

listening to it in the background helps ease into it

it's a lot to take in if you're not used to his style

GodEmperorDune

yeah i don't have time for music that needs an adjustment phase

Chippies

7:20 PM

the first time I listened to it I thought "what the hell is this?", but it was catchy enough to leave playing and I learned to love it within 10-15 minutes

it's music you can listen to again and again and learn new things about it every time

there's also a ton of easter eggs hidden in the songs

Beedrill

It's art more than it's music.

Chippies

Neil Cicierega's Hidden Secrets In Mouth Silence

►

GodEmperorDune

meh i say

GnomeSlice

Mouth moods was the best one

Neil cicierega is just brodyquest for me tho

BRODYQUEST

►

CC @Beedrill

Avery

7:36 PM

@Elizer ooh bad idea

cah is not exactly sfw

MBraedley

Alan Wake is onsale on Steam for 90% off, right now, and then won't be available for sale after that. Get it while you can.

3

GnomeSlice

There was a guy who commented about his life every day on that video for a year @Beedrill

BlueBarren

hmm free smoothies in our cafeteria

yum

GodEmperorDune

@MBraedley the twitter thread on this is great

@remedygames @steam_games @remedygames is a shame. Alan Wake has soudtrack issues, Quantum Theory have stupid deals… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/863071530481315841

Tweeted by GorgasmX on May 12, 2017 at 4:41 PM in reply to remedygames

@GorgasmX @steam_games We dont have issues with the Block button.

Tweeted by remedygames on May 12, 2017 at 4:51 PM in reply to GorgasmX

MBraedley

@GodEmperorDune You just got pwnd, GorgasmX!

Lazers 2.0

7:46 PM

0

Q: Are there any MOBAs that are not toxic?

I like playing League of Legends. The mechanics are fun. The toxicity is not. I do not want to be in that environment, but I still want to play. Are there any MOBAs that are not toxic? Or are all MOBAs toxic by nature?

moba

MBraedley

@Lazers2.0 No. Also kinda off-topic.

GodEmperorDune

@Lazers2.0 lol

@MBraedley yeah this reads like "identify this game with criteria = non toxic moba" to me

BlueBarren

@Lazers2.0 That comment though

DanmakuGrazer

Also gamers are not games

Chippies

@DanmakuGrazer that's just semantics

of course the game is not toxic, but if the (vocal) majority of players are toxic, then the atmosphere in the game is toxic

DanmakuGrazer

7:53 PM

I'd say no

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies yeah, that semantic distinction doesn't salvage the question IMO

DanmakuGrazer

That's not true

Chippies

@GodEmperorDune of course not. I was just replying to the fact that @DanmakuGrazer seems to be picking on the part where the guy is asking for a "non-toxic game", when it's the gamers that are toxic, not the game, which is a moot point

GodEmperorDune

@DanmakuGrazer maybe in a single player game, a toxic community doesn't affect the game too much. but in a game that has a high level of multiplayer interaction...

HazyKingdom

he must main ryze

DanmakuGrazer

7:55 PM

Nah, I'd say no

Feel free to disagree if you think questions about players are okay on here

GodEmperorDune

@DanmakuGrazer this specific question is offtopic regardless if it is about games or players

DanmakuGrazer

But it's not about games

If it were, we could discuss its on-topicness

Chippies