The Bridge

Avery

8:03 PM

unrelated:

congrats on 666 network-wide rep

badp

protip: if you're playing a board game with elimination

and someone needs to go to the bathroom

please don't pick that person as soon as they're back

at least let them say something

BlueBarren

Oh I totally forgot I was 666 rep

thanks for reminding me

ToxicFrog

@Ash which one is "this"?

@Ash I thought the Paradox books suffered from Typical Romance Novel Issues, but also had a bunch of power-armoured knights with thermite swords fighting zombie velociraptors in space, which I was for some reason very in the mood for at the time. I probably won't be rereading them at any point, though.

user15026

@ToxicFrog Typical Romance Novel Issues???

user15026

@ToxicFrog Mount Char

ToxicFrog

8:13 PM

@Ash "lack of communication and consent violations are soooooooo romantic"

Avery

ugh yes that's really annoying

ToxicFrog

@Ash I realize that's not how the ones you read roll, but you read a higher class of romance novels than the ones I was exposed to growing up~

@StrixVaria I haven't read Prince of Thorns, but I didn't even make it halfway through Lord Foul's Bane

user15026

@ToxicFrog ah, yeah they suffered hardcore from that

user15026

Also the worldbuilding was weird and I felt like they were trying too hard for quirky diversity points

BlueBarren

8:31 PM

I probably wouldn’t need 8gb of ram on a phone, right?

Avery

you never know

my phone has 2 and it's not really enough, though I think that 4 would be enough for me

ToxicFrog

@Ash I don't remember getting that vibe, but it's also been a while.

Anyways, I loved the Monpress books and I'm hoping that the Heartstrikers books are more like Monpress than like Paradox.

djsmiley2k

8:49 PM

twitch.tv/djsmiley2k

lkets do this

tonight it's rocket leauge

Yuuki

8:59 PM

> Nintendo Switch Named One of the '25 Best Inventions of 2017' by TIME

wew

@djsmiley2k Rocket League's on the Switch now!

djsmiley2k

wut

no watcvhers

D:

DanmakuGrazer

@Yuuki lolwat

Unionhawk

Switch is a great console

Yuuki

I definitely consider it one of the best purchases I've made, gaming-wise.

Unionhawk

Also were there even 25 things invented this year

Yuuki

9:08 PM

@Unionhawk Some of them are questionable like the iPhone X, others don't make sense unless you read the context.

Avery

@Yuuki this is incorrect

Unionhawk

god dammit

Avery

Who watches netflix shows that fast

Like

Yuuki

Like makeup was another one. Which doesn't make sense until you realize that the particular makeup invented was one for dark skin tones, which are way under-served by the industry.

Avery

I mean I usually watch loong shows (6-7 seasons usually, at 10-40 episodes each) but still

Unionhawk

9:10 PM

Besides are we not considering there could be fractional show-watching

Yuuki

Hey, someone made a companion for mile-long legs teddy bear:

Chippies

@Yuuki his arms are fake! :O

djsmiley2k

@Yuuki that's horrifying

Chippies

@Avery they probably meant episodes

MBraedley

@Unionhawk Well since the steps aren't all equal in height, that could be happening, but if that's the case, why not draw a slope for each episode?

djsmiley2k

9:18 PM

sigh

games

aren't making

me happy :(

Tim Stone

@Yuuki Hahahahahhah

badp

9:31 PM

@djsmiley2k competitive games are like that

single player games ftw

djsmiley2k

lol yeah b ut BoI didn't help either

can you get endophin shortage?

badp

play something more chill

djsmiley2k

hue annoyed me too

badp

what is that, @GodEmperorDune reacting to things?

Memor-X

@KevinvanderVelden oh? so does that mean they can totally ignore future events set out by the other series?

user15026

9:34 PM

@Avery it likely means eps not full shows

GodEmperorDune

@badp hue

Memor-X

@KevinvanderVelden don't know what this spore drive is but they might not choose to do it because of moral implications like during that episode where Voyager was stuck in that dark subspace and tye created a "federation" with other species to help escape and refused to use a key component they needed because it was stolen from someone else

cazc_941

I think star trek should just stop working further and further into the past and just keep moving into the future

Like a normal show

user15026

Re: Spore drive, I assume at some point it will be a grand disaster becuase as it is it's not really tenable tech if you need to plug a person in and whatever

user15026

Like I assume part of Discovery will be "yeaaaah okay Spore drive was a bad idea"

user15026

9:40 PM

@cazc_941 But each show is effectively it's own contained thing, and most of them have been further in the future

MBraedley

And there's the whole "eugenics war was bad let's not do that again" point for not allowing genetic manipulation.

badp

@GodEmperorDune 50 shades of hue

djsmiley2k

can you get dopamine depletion?

Chippies

@Fluttershy @Yuuki am I missing something or are there only 2 public events on Titan?

@djsmiley2k yep

you can also become "resistant" to dopamine

djsmiley2k

would it feel like the entire universe just fell aaprt?

resistant?! :O

GodEmperorDune

9:48 PM

@cazc_941 the issue is that having magical tech to solve all the problems leads to logical inconsistency. So like every planet has to have some reason why they couldn’t beam off it at the first sign of trouble

Chippies

if you do things that produce lots of dopamine, doing things that produce less of it, won't feel as good anymore

djsmiley2k

so if you were bipolar

the highs cause lots....

GodEmperorDune

So they go into the past so that the tech is not reliable anymore

djsmiley2k

so you stop being high

you crash

Chippies

just go have a nap or something. You need a break

djsmiley2k

9:49 PM

D:

its 10pm

Yuuki

SURPRISE!

GodEmperorDune

@badp now that’s what I call saturation

Yuuki

@Chippies Titan's smaller than the other planets/areas/zones, I think.

Chippies

@Yuuki it is very small

Yuuki

And a lot of it is indoors and difficult to navigate quickly.

Chippies

9:50 PM

feels kinda weird to have a milestone that requires me to go back and forth between two events

@djsmiley2k if you play games all the time, you won't enjoy them as much eventually

taking a break for few days helps

djsmiley2k

yah

cept

crushing depression

Chippies

@djsmiley2k in my experience, pushing the games on yourself is just gonna make it worse

you won't enjoy them and you will feel worse for it

do something else for a bit

it's 10pm, go to bed early

djsmiley2k

LOL hwo did that go in xD

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Help me run the numbers on a perfect IV ditto

So I am currently playing Pokémon Sun version and am attempting to collect a ditto with perfect IVs. I’m using the SOS battle method with an Alola raticate that knows hidden power. It has only one resistance which is dark type because I know a hidden power from a Pokémon with perfect IVs is a dar...

pokemon-sm

-2

Q: What is your favorite game?

I just want to know, there may be cool games that I have not heard about and you guys can help me to find them.

xbox-one

Yuuki

2

> Limiting yourself to 140 characters is the Dark Souls of Twitter.

cc @Unionhawk

Memor-X

10:07 PM

@Yuuki the Chinese can be scary when that happens

@Yuuki git gud

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki limiting yourself to 420 characters is the dank souls of twitter

@cazc_941 hue

fredley

Meanwhile, in excellent Twitters

Maximillian

Aaaaaugh need to stop mentally humming Superstar Saga battle theme.

GodEmperorDune

10:22 PM

@fredley wat

wat is this irl bojack

fredley

@GodEmperorDune I mean, that knife game one though

GodEmperorDune

@fredley yeah

who commissions these?

my favorite subgenre of these might be confused old ladies clinging to a handgun

nope, new favorite

user15026

@GodEmperorDune afaik from shit I've read, no one necessarily commissions them, people just make them and add them to sites like that and hope someone will want them for soemthing

GodEmperorDune

@Ash well my powerpoint deck clearly needed a guy in a horsehead snorting cocaine

2

murgatroid99

Well, when somebody does need that, gettyimages will be glad they already have it

Yuuki

10:36 PM

@Ash Did you take a look at that music theory blog about BotW I posted yesterday? I CC'd you since I figured it was something you'd be interested in.

user15026

@Yuuki oh, thats where that tab came from!

user15026

(I had opened it in a tab and then forgot until late last night when I finally read it. It was kinda neat seeing how they put the stuff together. Some of the theory went over my head a little but it was still neat)

Yuuki

10:57 PM

I particularly liked the part where he talked about certain characters having looped themes and others having non-looped themes.

fredley

Neopets launched on this day back in 1999. Created by Adam Powell and Donna Williams, you created and care for digital pets while earning Neopoints and trophies while playing games.

Tweeted by RPGSite on November 16, 2017 at 3:50 AM

Yuuki

Pretty sure my account's been deleted.

Maximillian

Crushed a bug from one of my most notorious bug reporters.

Minor victory!

Whoever decided we should just pass everything through the URL between pages needs to be glared at.

GodEmperorDune

Imagine civilization has ended. Here's how to calculate Pi with a pump-action shotgun: http://bit.ly/1mB1bRe

Tweeted by pickover on November 16, 2017 at 6:54 PM

@fredley woooooooooooooow

SaintWacko

@GodEmperorDune Wait

If civilization has ended, wouldn't it be easier to just pile up sand?

Yuuki

11:04 PM

> Dumoulin and Thouin then fired 200 shots at the aluminium foil, peppering it with 30,857 holes.

You're attracting a lot of zombies with that gunfire.

user15026

@Yuuki that was pretty neat

user15026

@fredley I have my second Neopets account still. my first one got hacked

SaintWacko

@Yuuki And wasting tons of ammo

These scientists wouldn't last very long in the apocalypse

GodEmperorDune

guys you could win a zombie nobel prize by recalculating pi

user15026

"sand or rice (which would presumably be in short supply in the post-apocalyptic world)" Rice okay maybe but sand?

user15026

11:06 PM

Although I guess sand would be shitty to count

fredley

Yuuki

@Ash I definitely have more appreciation for BotW's soundtrack after reading that blog.

SaintWacko

@fredley Lol

fredley

user15026

@Yuuki I don't know a lot about it because I've never actually played the game and I've only seen a couple people play it

Yuuki

11:17 PM

@Ash BotW's soundtrack has been a common sore point, a lot of people have complained that it doesn't have the memorable music and melodies that the series is known for.

user15026

@Yuuki Ah, okay :)

user15026

It's a game I'd be interested in trying, were I to get a Switch at some point

user15026

Although I feel like it would frustrate me some from what I know of it

Yuuki

The combat is definitely more punishing than previous Zeldas.

Enemies seem to hit much harder, often for multiple hearts, unless you're wearing tough armor.

user15026

eeeergh

Maximillian

11:24 PM

I bet some people have Neopets older than their kids now.

Chippies

@Yuuki early game is harder than late game, oddly enough

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Moira, heal thyself

What are Moira's options for healing herself? With no shields to regenerate, are my only option health packs, other team healers, and throwing a heal orb into a tight space? If so, how can I ensure that the orb stays relatively stationary (so as to maximize the self-heal)?

overwatch

0

Q: Use Keys in Key Locker

Straightforward question, can Keys be used while inside a Key Locker, such as remote charging or being consumed to link portals? Or do I have to take them out in order to use them?