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7:00 PM
if(thing != null) { thing.do(); } else { throw new Exception("I am so good at Java") }
 
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@Unionhawk Sounds like you are having not the best day :/
 
@Unionhawk can't you put a real big if around everything?
 
@BlueBarren no
 
@Unionhawk but y tho
 
by throwing an exception by hand instead of letting the computer do it for you you're writing more code and manually asserting your dominance while achieving absolutely no practical goal
which is going to look absolutely spectacular on your cv
a Suboptimal variant is the one where you do nothing in the else branch other than logging something in the void
 
7:02 PM
I mean
 
which is guaranteed to hide all of the bugs
and make sure your logs truly are as useless as they can be
 
I think I can make this work by just throwing an if(collection.count==0) objThing = new thing; else objThing=collection.first(condition)
which might be ok
 
what are you doing, actually handling exceptions?
you must mock your caller for misunderstanding your interface, silly Unionhawk
Your code is perfect, the caller is the stupid person
 
uni
 
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Q: Can you test for a player whose score does *not* equal a given number in Minecraft?

DonielFIn Minecraft, is it possible to test for a player whose score does not equal, say, 5 (i.e. if their score is less than 5, greater than 5, or null)?

 
7:04 PM
especially if your code is on the frontend
 
the way to go is simple
just make a script to restart your program when it crashes
 
because then you can call your user stupid
 
@badp I mean the caller is me until I check this in, so I mean
 
and you very well know that it's true
 
also:
My son Donald did a good job last night. He was open, transparent and innocent. This is the greatest Witch Hunt in political history. Sad!
 
7:05 PM
@Unionhawk blame the source of data. who put this garbage in the database?
 
> innocent
> Witch Hunt
he's using that phrase again
 
HOW
HOW CAN ANYONE BE SO... EVERYTHING
 
@KevinvanderVelden because it works Kevin
 
Isn't there a ben garrison comic where there are witches with torches and a wanted poster with trump's face on it
 
@realDonaldTrump ITS BEEN MONTHS AND NOT ONE PIECE OF PROOF HAS COME OUT
um
DJT Jr posted it?
like actual proof?
 
7:07 PM
As the historical documentary Pirats of the Dutch Thing Revenge of Salamander clearly shows, if you're a witch you work for the government and if you're not you're witch hunted. Sad
Like there are two women in the whole movie
 
we did it
I think
 
I mean
History
 
@Avery Someone needs to ask Trump who the victim of the greatest witch hunt in political history is: him or his son.
 
@Yuuki but then whoever asks that question would be fake news
 
To be fair, a single witch hunt can have multiple targets =p
 
7:12 PM
All we really know is some lawyer somewhere smashed their computer, and another lawyer printed out an email and stuck it in an evidence folder
 
@KevinvanderVelden I'm banking on Trump not knowing that.
 
Also: googling witch hunt in an incognito tab shows 3 "Top stories" about trump
 
so this impeacxhment thing
it gonna really go crazy?
 
probably not
maybe
 
from a Non US point of view, it sounds pretty bad
but the country is weird so dunno
 
7:21 PM
Realistically speaking probably not
but you know
the fact that this is a gamechanger for the democrats helps
 
@djsmiley2k It sounds really bad to a lot of us in the country, but the problem is the rest of the people in this country who think that he's some kind of savior against the evil liberal/communist Obama/Sanders conspiracy.
 
it's the idea of the thing too i guess
@Beedrill lol
1. first ur education system needs fixing
 
but it's in the domain of the special prosecutor now so
 
tfw you write a tweet and it ends up being 140 characters, perfectly.
@djsmiley2k and healthcare
 
then in 40 years, you'll have a chance.
 
7:22 PM
@djsmiley2k The right doesn't want to fix it because education leads to less people as insanely far right as they are.
 
and social security crap needs to go and you people need decent IDs
 
@Beedrill indeed
 
@Beedrill the KY GOP posted some statement about how Sanders appearing in their state is proof that the Democrats are going towards costal liberal elites
 
whereas here the right are trying to ensure the system ends up broken...
long games :/
 
Which 1) sanders is not a democrat and 2) sanders is basically a socialist what
 
7:23 PM
I think we should say that we've all had a nice 200 year run of it, it was fun while it lasted, and just all move to Canada.
 
@Avery IDs?
 
@djsmiley2k ID cards or whatever.
 
@Unionhawk ah so your version of Corbyn
@Avery not sure how that's going to help anything..
 
Pretty much
 
he's not allowed to win, because if he did, things might actually change?
 
7:24 PM
@djsmiley2k liberals hate socialists more than fascists
 
not sure who's what now
other than fascists are the bad guys
 
@fredley profit goes to emily's list apparently
 
2 hours ago, by fredley
Proceeds go to Emily's List
 
tbf, proceeds != profit.
I think.
 
@ mods/people that can delete non answers - gaming.stackexchange.com/a/313005/178511
 
7:33 PM
I don't think there's any rush to delete that?
 
No just pointing them out since they've put up two in a row now
 
@BlueBarren So... profits != proceeds except when profits == proceeds.
 
also the whole thing with all the quotes (especially "Because we're worth it.") reminds me of the ads for feminine hygiene products.
 
Thanks, English.
@Avery I think that's the point.
 
7:35 PM
That's generally how English works
mmmm twizzlers
 
user15026
That feeling when you can hear a co-worker has some sort of video game music playing that you recognize but can't name....
 
user15026
@n_palum This is what flags are for :)
 
user15026
@Avery That's likely the point, all things considered :) It very much mimics/mocks lady advertising. It's delightful in the sense of they did a really good job but it's also awful because yep, that's a thing
 
i need like 1153 more rep before i can vote to delete answers i think
 
7:51 PM
oh no... I really shouldn't have eaten that entire bag of twizzlers
 
@Ash Yeah I flagged it - and I didn't actually ping anyone, just wanted to point those out in case it became a repeating occurrence with two back to back
 
user15026
@BlueBarren oh boy thats very much licorice. You gonna survive? :/
 
@Ash well it was only a 90g bag but the serving size was 4 pieces (I think there was a total of 10). I dunno, someone might need to call my mom, she'd set me straight
"BlueBarren why did you eat all those twizzlers!"
 
GAAAAH
I can't get rid of these hiccups
 
user15026
Because they were tasty, duh.
 
7:57 PM
@SaintWacko simple solution guaranteed to stop hiccups: Hold your breath for 10 minutes
 
@KevinvanderVelden I'M ABOUT READY TO TRY THAT
 
@Ash they're only tasty in the moment
and after that the regret sinks in
 
Okay, think I got rid of them
That took way too long
 
@SaintWacko you know that being scared makes them go away, right?
What if i told you that trump will be re-elected in 2020?
 
@Avery I'm a liberal American; I spend every day scared
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8:03 PM
To be fair, do realize who you're talking to and where she lives =p
 
insert that one hulk quote
 
yeah it could be worse we could be in a middle eastern dictatorship
(instead we're in a north american dictatorship lololololol not really)
 
all bad is bad and all requires pointing out. so I will not say "lol you guys have it easy"
 
It's probably only a matter of time until we have a president->dictator referendum too so it's fine
 
yeah no way mate
americans aren't as sheeple
you organize an event here, and police just poof
next thing you know you're arrested for relations with terrorist organizations and you can't even see your family.
 
8:10 PM
I actually wonder what the protestors outside Rob's office were arrested for
probably something really dumb
 
Violating his safe space?
> Trump said in his campaign that if I voted for Clinton, I would be stuck with a criminal president under constant federal investigation from day one.
Turns out, he was right. I voted for Clinton and I'm stuck with a criminal president under federal investigation from day one.
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That's not in the ORC, so probably something stupid like "without a permit" or something
 
or "disorderly conduct"
 
@Unionhawk "too orderly conduct"
They're up to something, I just know it! Nobody's that polite!
 
8:14 PM
"Rob Portman Thinks You're A Socialist From New York (misdemeanor 4)"
 
[[protesting with intent]]
 
(he did actually say that about the protestors)
(he's an idiot)
(apparently)
(there are socialists in ohio too)
 
they just sent out a health & safety crossword puzzle at work...
 
8:32 PM
lol i can just imagine
infact ,i think I had one at a old job
 
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Meta PixelHow can you tell if you have the demo for American Truck Simulator? I already have the client on my computer but I don't see where you can check if you have the demo or full version.

 
@Unionhawk Someone reported a false 911 emergency for which the protestors refused to unblock the doors and they were arrested for criminal trespassing I think
 
Ok well god dammit to everyone involved in that situation then
 
He then dismissed them as socialists from New York
 
yes
 
8:36 PM
As you know
As I see now
>_>
 
I got the email from ODP
and was about ready to just fire off a "fuck you rob" in the constituant box
 
The invention of email has proven to be a very bad thing for Crooked Hillary in that it has proven her to be both incompetent and a liar!
:|
 
I mean tbf the protestors weren't wrong about the medical emergency being fake so I guess there's that
 
lol
 
There is that, but like, that's really not their job to determine so
there are people who get paid to find these things out
and they were already there
 
8:41 PM
The invention of email has proven to be a very bad thing for Trump in that it has proven him to be both incompetent… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/885237611383717888
 
Can this bill pls die though so I can stop hating everyone for it
 
Yeah, it's tough. I won't die even if they forced a bill through but some of those people might so it seems plainly wrong but I also don't know how I'd react under the circumstances
 
(the answer is no Mitch preemptively delayed August recess lolololololololol)
 
The amount of times that Trump's tweets have come back to bite him is just... mindblowing.
 
@TimStone it is unclear if my premiums would go up in practice but they could in theory
I am very much preexisting condition list
 
8:44 PM
It would just be the most delicious irony if the one thing that does in Trump's presidency is emails. Emails about Clinton's emails.
 
So that's cool
 
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Q: Is it possible to only allow a person to open a chest if he has an item in his inventory in Minecraft?

DonielFIn other words: If a person has, say, a gold ingot named "Bob" in his inventory, the chest will open and he may view its contents. If such an ingot is absent, he will be unable to view the contents of the chest. What I'm trying to do is develop a safety deposit box system, where if a player has ...

 
@Avery Was going to call you out on using "proven" twice in so many words but then I realized why you did. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
tfw your linguistic standards for a 16yo non-citizen/national girl whose native language isn't english is higher than the POTUS
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> grinded ground
 
8:52 PM
that says a lot about the potus. seriously.
 
lol we've circled back to "Jim"
We must find Jim. https://apnews.com/e18f254c4ac84e6bab4ceed56401cc65/Trump-in-Paris:-The-curious-case-of-his-friend-Jim
 
If Trump gets taken down by emails I will believe in a God and that She is a poet.
@TimStone odds that this friend is jim comey?
unrelated @Avery where did you start when coding avebot? any online resources?
 
Uh wow. DOJ settled $230 million lawsuit that led to Magnitsky Act with Don Jr.'s Russian lawyer two days before tr… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/885228590610120705
 
(context, my company is looking into slackbots)
 
Ahahahahah c'mon
 
8:56 PM
@GodEmperorDune avebot isn't a slackbot but IIRC there are a number of slack libraries. Might help looking into those.
 
@TimStone I bet his last name is Miller, or Barron. His first name might also actually be John
 
@Avery yeah avebot is a discord bot, but cool, good tips
thanks fam
 
anytime
 
Aah that moment when you get fed up with waiting on bots and just automate the creation and activating of bots in factorio
 
@KevinvanderVelden i automated bot creation but not activation yet, looks like there is room to improve!
 
8:58 PM
Activation is just putting them in a roboport
I typically connect the roboport to an inserter with a circuit network, set the roboport to export robot statistics and just make it insert while there are less then 200 (or whatever) inactive bots of that type
 
yeah but i have tons of roboports
 
Doesn't matter, just put it in one
 
oh yeah? nice
i didn't realize they would sort themselves out
 
Yeah they form a complete network
 
what ratio of logistics to construction do you use?
 
9:00 PM
They'll get sorted when they come back from being busy, but 200 fit into a roboport easily
@GodEmperorDune non really, I just use the philosophy of "If I have to wait for it, I don't have enough"
 
hehehe
 
Which is why I set it to inactive as well, if they're all busy, add more
Also I learned a thing! You can set the deconstruction planner to only deconstruct rocks/trees
(right mouse it to a gui with whitelist and blacklist options)
 
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cazc_941After taking off in Simpleplanes and flying around over the ocean for a while, I've found a lots of tiny islands all over the place, and a few really big ones that unlock new spawn locations once found. Large islands appear to also have many discoverable 'locations' around them as well, like air...

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Q: Where is the Kraken?

cazc_941I've heard talk that there's a giant sea monster hidden as an Easter egg in SimplePlanes. Most people call it The Kraken although apparently it's referred to in the game files as Cthulhu. Where is this beast?

 
=== tests for reference equality in JavaScript Objects, right?
 
That feeling when you inherit a WordPress made by someone who clearly didn't know how WordPress works
 
9:14 PM
So if obj1 === obj2 evaluates to true, they are the same object not just equivalent in values?
 
@Yuuki that's a good question
 
Unless they're numbers? I think
Yeah, numbers === is type and value check
 
@RedRiderX Yep, just tested it. obj1 = { 'test': 1 }; obj2 = { 'test': 1 }; and obj1 === obj2 evaluates to false.
 
Strings with === are also true
 
CNN has obtained video of Trump with some of the Russian businessmen who figure prominently in the Don Jr. emails. NEXT in @CNNSitRoom.
I mean, that's kind of expected?
Guess the question is, when
 
9:21 PM
I'm expecting/hoping, just a little, that we're going to find out that Trump was actually Russian the whole time, and isn't eligible to be president
 
lol
 
Counternotices succeeded again
cc @Avery I guess
 
@murgatroid99 that wuold be the best.
 
@Unionhawk someone needs to sue her
 
She's already being sued
Her original plan was to represent herself
She also CCs people completely unrelated to the lawsuit (sid-alpha) who can then publish said emails
See also: youtube.com/watch?v=WXhx7r1nqgI for someone clearly not realizing how the law works
 
9:30 PM
@Avery yeah prob
 
oh right
 
I think technically that should already be happening given that's how counternotices work
 
she was ranting about them using her middlename which she considers deadname.
 
@KevinvanderVelden this is not a good plan but good luck
 
@Unionhawk she has apparently since then started trying to get a lawyer
 
9:35 PM
@KevinvanderVelden this is a better plan but good luck
 
Yeah this is not going to end well for her
 
No
When the list of creators you're up against includes tb etc
You're going to have an awful time
 
Actually she's pretty much just going up against the company that made the game
Also from the actual lawyer who is also a youtuber because sometimes 2017 pokes through and awesome stuff happens in 2016.2
 
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Q: Is there a way of extracting game info from sc2?

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@Lazers2.0 Is this a valid question?
 
9:47 PM
Not for gamedev, maybe for here? I 'unno
(yes I know nobody suggested it yet, someone always does)
 
Seems to be more of a reverse-engineering question.
 
Oh hey, apparently alex also violated an NDA
 
@KevinvanderVelden Oh wow that guy is actually representing Imagos.
 
9:51 PM
@Unionhawk The answer is yes
 
How would you define "Soulslike"?
 
@DanmakuGrazer "It's like Dark Souls"
 
@RedRiderX it's a good video, exploring roguelike and metroidvania as genres and how those are always measured by "likeness to Rogue" and "likeness to super Metroid"
Which causes things to get super samey
Vs where doom clones evolved to something beyond
 
@RedRiderX But in what ways?
 
Yeah genres help inform consumers but shouldn't really directly inform game direction.
 
9:57 PM
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Q: Mob farming help

The clash royale pro 7205I need to get wither skeleton skulls but I can't get any. I am playing on Xbox 360 which means that there are very small worlds (less than 900x900)and there is one extremely small nether fortress. I can't farm wither skeletons because they won't spawn. I spent hours looking but none have spawned.

 
@RedRiderX So... every game?
 
@Yuuki Yes
 
@DanmakuGrazer In the way that there's at least one review that calls it "the Dark Souls of X".
 
@Yuuki That's not very helpful
 
10:01 PM
Early access isn't a genre =p
@Yuuki "It's like dark souls in the ways that make dark souls special"
 
@DanmakuGrazer Exactly like Dark Souls!
 
@KevinvanderVelden Well anything is a genre if the label communicates aspects of a game.
 
"Unfinished" or "On the xbox" aren't genres
Not one worthy of the term anyway
 
early access is almost a genre, because majority of early access are some sort of survival games
games that are never completely finished
 
That just means that most early access games are in the survival game genre
 
10:08 PM
@Unionhawk Also yeah that is a pretty good video
 
@KevinvanderVelden I'm not saying early access is a genre, but if things under a certain title are mostly the same, then can it not be considered a genre?
a genre is a descriptor of things
it sets up certain expectations
 
Yeah
 
What use is a genre that includes this entire list: store.steampowered.com/genre/Early%20Access
 
I'd be okay if developer-wont-vanish-into-sand-probably didn't become a genre.
 
So while "On Xbox" doesn't feel like a genre "Flash game" does
 
user15026
10:10 PM
@Chippies Except they're not, really, in the case of Early Access
 
@KevinvanderVelden What use is the genre FPS?
 
Besides, would the genre change the second the game is out of early access?
@RedRiderX it has a first person camera, and the primary interaction is shooting
 
user15026
Early Access is not a genre, its a temporal state of development.
 
@KevinvanderVelden not necessarily talking about this example, but a genre can change as the game is being developed regardless if it's in early access or not
 
user15026
Yes, but the Early Access label is guaranteed to change at some point
 
10:12 PM
@Chippies well yes, the concept of a game can change, but the game doesn't change, just that the date on the calendar changed
 
either way, genres should only give you a general idea of what to expect, rather than describe the game completely
 
user15026
(okay yes development hell is a thing but lets be optimistic here)
 
are we debating steam tags now?
 
user15026
Nah, genres
 
No, genres
I inb4-ed you on my screen :(
 
10:12 PM
@KevinvanderVelden @ash wins
 
user15026
yessss
 
user15026
all the cookies for me
 
the only genre i need is , the dark souls of memes
cc @Avery
 
hue
 
user15026
waits for someone to make a game with that title
 
10:17 PM
I don't want to google.
 
@Ash it probably exists already
@Avery agreed
 
user15026
There's a dank souls mod for dark souls.
 
user15026
Also for GTA, weirdly enough
 
also a bunch of videos.
 
user15026
haha yes many many videos
 
10:19 PM
hue
 
toke. Now that's a word I didn't hear in a loong long time.
cannabis culture has a TON of words.
 
@Avery wait you're serious?
 
yup
 
why do you think we use oauth TOKEns?
 
@ave why is your avatar still broken?
 
10:25 PM
@RedRiderX works on my screen
 
@RedRiderX because I'm too lazy to file a bug report
 
hm, I just force refreshed and it broke
 
@GodEmperorDune psh, I use u2f now
 
I guess at some point earlier the avatar hosting was fixed and then it broke again later
 
user15026
@Avery what's the issue?
 
10:26 PM
@Ash its a broken link
 
@Ash they avatar doesn't show up since they changed it
 
@Chippies she/her pls
 
@GodEmperorDune thanks
 
it worked at first, then it got broken, then it worked again, but force refreshing made it not work again
@GodEmperorDune force of habit :/
 
10:27 PM
@Chippies just a gentle reminder :D
 
itsnotevensingulartheybutwhateverfloatsyourboat
@Ash basically, full size image works, downscaling api thing that chat and everywhere uses fails.
 
user15026
@Avery ah. :)
 
user15026
@Avery I tend to use singular they when I don't have a known pronoun set for someone because then I'm not assuming a swing in either gender direction. But in your case, I know it's she/her.
 
user15026
I guess for most of the time, they/them feels like it has the least loaded offence potential, and I don't wanna accidentally hurt people.
 
@Ash that's what I do too, but that was a silent thingy for chippies
 
10:29 PM
@Ash they/them is the safest option
 
user15026
Makes sense, was just kinda dropping a thought that was kinda connected but not really
 
wheniwritelikethis it's usually because I feel like it's kinda rude and don't really want to be read but I want to get it out and stuff
it's my equivalent of irl's "silent speech no one can hear"
 
user15026
@Avery like a under your breath kind of thing?
 
user15026
(Just trying to map it to real world speech)
 
yeah
 
user15026
10:31 PM
Ah, I get that
 
user15026
I read it as very fast speech with no breathing
 
user15026
Completely unrelated thing!
 
user15026
Backpacker is a rather entertaining trivia sort of game.
 
user15026
I've been playing it a bunch on my phone lately.
 
user15026
It so far has reminded me I don't know much about American history :P
 
10:36 PM
@Ash Not available in my country!? WTF GOOGLE
 
@Fluttershy Wait, it's not available in the US?
 
@Yuuki Nope.
 
Looks like I have to cancel that star...
:|
 
HUE
an app about US history that is not available in the US
rated 2017/10
@Ash there is actually a decent book called "don't know much about US history" or something to that effect
 
user15026
@Fluttershy awww, really?
 
user15026
10:40 PM
That sucks, it's fun.
 
weird, it's available here.
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune adds to TBR
 
ameri-people can use apkpure if they want to check it out.
 
user15026
Ah, looking at their site, they make a few games I like :)
 
in the ios app store, backpacker is a magazine about hiking
 
user15026
10:43 PM
Their site just says available on iOS and Android: maginteractive.com/games
 
user15026
sorry :(
 
user15026
I'm not used to having things you don't get!
 
user15026
(Except Letterkenny. It's a damn shame you guys don't get Letterkenny. That show is AMAZING.)
 
oh my
you know you're in for a fun ride when apt is throwing segfaults
 
so I did what my TFTS gods told me: I turned it off and on again.
 
@RedRiderX It's like being caught during a police sting and saying "well, the police didn't have any drugs".
 
Not really because it wasn't a sting, but "I wanted to buy drugs but the dealer didn't have any" isn't really a strong defense.
 
@Yuuki but you don't understand, he's new at this
 

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