The Bridge

cazc_941

00:08

n00b.io/g

it says 'same rules as agar.io but fps style' but I'm just seeing an fps

Ave

ew unity (/s)

cazc_941

Can any of you figure out how to play Tethernum

... or Tethernum 2

Was looking for updates on Pioneers, looks like he's made a few more other things. Like this.

There's a how to play in the bottom right but I still can't figure it out

eigen.pri.ee/blazinfingers

Ave

00:28

wait is today wednesday or tuesday

confuse

I'm super confused some of my wednesday calendar fits wednesday and some of it fits tuesday atm

Memor-X

@Ave Wednesday 11:24 AM for me in Australia, UTC+10.

Chippies

01:21

@cazc_941 wow, what garbage that game is

I couldn't even turn more than 90 degrees because of the mouse centering

and at one point I couldn't look straight ahead, because my camera was pointing up and every time I pulled my mouse downwards, it would center back up

what a shit camera implementation, like holy crap

cazc_941

Yeah I saw on the front page on Reddit... Not sure why

Chippies

I actually wonder if it would work better in fullscreen

cazc_941

Yeah I mean that didn't happen to me

Chippies

nope, just as unplayable as in windowed

the problem is that the mouse cursor isn't locked to the center of the screen, it's just hidden and every time you move it out of the game window, it centers back to the center, but it also moves camera with it

I assume it somehow works fine for some people, which just makes it an even worse implementation due to not being consistent

user15026

01:43

I am home, all the non-clothes things are unpacked, I have a cup noodle and tea :D

user15026

(I came home with like three different types of tea)

Memor-X

02:00

Winterbash is over now

Congrats @Isuka for getting the most hats on Arqade

Trent Hawkins

@Ash ooh, what types?

user15026

@TrentHawkins Constant Comment, which is a black tea with orange and spice (subtle but gooood), Tazo's Glazed Lemon Cake tea (which tastes like a liquid lemon cake), and Trader Joe's Red Refresh tea (blend of hibiscus, rosehips, lemongrass, peppermint, orange peel, lemon verbena, wild cherry bark)

Trent Hawkins

@Ash Lemon Cake one sounds nice... I have a banana nut bread one - unfortunately while it SMELLS perfectly like banana bread, it doesn't taste very banana, just nut.

user15026

@TrentHawkins ah, this one tastes lemon cake like - it even tastes like a little sweet like the glaze

Unionhawk

02:34

At the best steakhouse in town as part of a Christmas present ama

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

1

استک‌اورفلو به فارسی

Proposed Q&A site for پرسش و پاسخ برای برنامه‌نویسان متخصص و مشتاق

Closed before being launched.

2

Google

Proposed Q&A site for people who have questions about Google products, such as Chromebooks, Chromecasts, Google Home and its variants, Google Chrome, Google Docs, Google Glass, Google Earth, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Play, Google Maps, Google Photos, YouTube, etc

Currently in definition.

7

Zenbot

Proposed Q&A site for collaborators and users of the open source trading bot zenbot.

Currently in definition.

1

Fishing

Proposed Q&A site for fishing Enthusiasts

Closed before being launched.

Lazers 2.0

03:01

0

Q: Professor palin not unlocked?

In the painful quest to palin, i just decided to take a 5k ly straight line trip. I have achieved the distance after 3 and a half hours travel time. Before i make the return trip, i would like to wait until Palin is unlocked. I can confirm i have met the criteria from Qwent, i can also say i ...

0

Q: Is my controller broken?

Whenever I play first person shooters, I push the left stick up, and my gun shoots. Lt is to walk. But when I go to my controls, it is set to default, which is left stick to move, and Lt is shoot. Is it the game, or my controller?

xbox-360 halo-4 call-of-duty-black-ops-3

Unionhawk

03:14

Duuuude consider this drink:

Cognac, creme de cacao, heavy cream, nutmeg

Plus a bit of vanilla ice cream

quartata

03:42

Just put rum in a vanilla milkshake

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How can I retrieve a Pokémon from the Dream World after it has closed down?

In Pokémon Black 2, I sent a Pokémon to the Dream World back when it was still active. When I try to wake it up using Game Sync now, the game just tells me that the service has shut down. Is there any way to get it back? I would be surprised if the Pokémon's data is actually deleted from the gam...

pokemon-series pokemon-bw2

Sepia Lazers

04:41

0

Q: Rename [monkey-island] and related tags → [the-secret-of-monkey-island]

We have tags such as monkey-island that were made when we had a 25 character tag limit. Now that we have a 35 character tag limit, I propose that we expand these out monkey-island → the-secret-of-monkey-island (6 questions) monkey-island-se → the-secret-of-monkey-island-se (3 questions) monkey-...

discussion tags tag-rename-request

Ave

05:45

@Unionhawk sounds lovely

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: What's the highest skill level one can increase up to before potentially wasting skill points?

Assuming one has Comprehension perk and with regard to bobbleheads, what's the highest skill level one can have before start wasting skill points? As in let's say my char has 99 level repairing skill, then I find two books that increase the character's repairing skill by 1 point, 2 if s/he has c...

fallout-3

0

Q: Why can't I plant things?

I have an underground farm in a singleplayer world, and every time I try to plant carrots, potatoes, beets, etc. (except wheat) it just pops right out of the ground. I have the right lighting and amount of water. Any idea what's going on??

minecraft

Lazers 2.0

06:32

0

Q: Skyrim on the ps3 no mods

So I recently did my started the dawngaurd dlc and I wanted to cure my seeks off werewolf (despite the Vampire Lord removing it) or didn't work so I stated the purify quest for vilkas and it told me my follower left me services I walked out Serena came out with vilkas and he walked back inside I ...

skyrim

Trent Hawkins

07:07

Oof... "All Intel Processors Made in the Last Decade Might Have a Massive Security Flaw"

Private Pansy

@TrentHawkins The Register's article is the source, and it goes a bit deeper theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw

It also has some rather cute analogies for how CPUs work

Trent Hawkins

depending on exactly how big the performance hits are (5-30%)... wonder if we'll be seeing any questions about games suddenly not working well.

GodEmperorDune

@PrivatePansy yeah we were discussing this a bit in TIF

Ave

08:29

hm, to update or not to update, then.

my perf isn't already too great, can't afford a potential hit of 30%

Private Pansy

Don't think you'll have much of a choice, unless you feel like compiling your own kernel

Ave

09:12

I can stick to uh

4.14.4

and just wait to get hacked

welp. this'll take down a lot of stuff:

> Microsoft's Azure cloud – which runs a lot of Linux as well as Windows – will undergo maintenance and reboots on January 10, presumably to roll out the above fixes.

I might need to set up a backup system tonight that'll kick in while those are down.

yuuup, I got a mail about it

weirdly, I read that and was like "oh this is already done probably"

(bc Ihad a notice on portal saying "we had to restart this VM")

> issuing a planned downtime notice for 10th of jan and then starting pre-emptive redeployment for today

people will be mad at me but meh

good service

problem is, uptime is 18 days.

so the server obviously didn't go down, it was just random issues on microsoft's end

Lazers 2.0

11:00

0

Q: Meaning of triangle with eye in "Life Is Strange"

I am just after first episode of Life is Strange. Few times I noticed a triangle with eye. For example: in school bathroom, on wall near school, in Chloe car and Chloe room. What this symbol means in this game and why is it in it?

life-is-strange

Kevin van der Velden

Octavia's anthem is a pretty cool quest :o CC @WarframePeople

Ave

11:20

@Lazers2.0 it's illuminati

Lazers 2.0

11:31

0

Q: Gran Turismo Sport Editions

I've ordered GT Sport "Day One Edition", however, right after that, I noticed, there are a few more editions of the game including "Digital Deluxe Edition". Each edition comes with "additional" cars. Does it mean those cars are simply "unlocked" or players who Deluxe edition will have more cars ...

version-differences gran-turismo-sport

Ave

11:42

@Lazers2.0 grabs a particular bat, puts on jim sterling voice TRIPLE A

Memor-X

12:07

@Ave aside from the bullshitery NISA pulled with The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel where stock levels determine tiered bonus stuff for the one product (ie. less stock = lower tier) JRPGs generally only have the one Limited Edition. if there is more then one they generally are the same but with more stuff in the more expensive ones. not the crap pulled by western AAA where different editions are different items

ie. Final Fantasy Type-0 Day One Edition had a Steel Case and Soundtrack, Deluxe Edition had the Steel Case and Soundtrack plus and Art Book and Manga. Agarest Generations of War 2 Day One had the artbook and soundtrack, Limited Edition had a small blow up doll of one of the Maidens of the Pillar, Felenne

Arperum

@Ave I was thinking the same, even without even playing the game. Or knowing anything about it.

Ave

12:24

yeah it's sort of like an edgy reference to illuminati Ithink

I mean, I can't prove that, so I won't post that as an answer, but I REALLY don't think that it's something else.

Frank

12:38

@Memor-X This seems to be a response to digital sales; margins are dropping off of what little there is in physical sales, so in response, they're flooding the market with multiple versions.

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

12:51

2

Canada

Proposed Q&A site for anyone interested in Canada.

Currently in definition.

1

South Africa

Proposed Q&A site for south Africans, Anyone who is interested in the Culture / Landscape , Country

Currently in definition.

Ave

13:11

oh no

I made a huge mistake

Sterno

13:38

@Wipqozn EO5?

Yuuki

Hoi

screams in Sanskrit

Kevin van der Velden

CC @Arperum for screaming, one should always CC @Arperum when there's screaming

Wipqozn

@Sterno decided to play mario and luigi instead. Wasn't feeling like something as involved as EO5.

Arperum

joins in the screaming, but not in Sanskrit

Hoi

13:50

@arp bharati cakāra āsti agni asva janu padānām

Kevin van der Velden

Google translates that as "Remove from india"

Hoi

Lmao

Yuuki

huh

Bear in mind that this was yesterday not today.

Private Pansy

Oh, it's Fahrenheit

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: When will Brawhalla's 2nd PS4 Ranked Season end?

I would like to get my glory in Brawlhalla for Season Two, but it must wait. I've used other websites (one said December 2017, the other said 3-4 month, whitch I belive). I wasn't in Season One, so I couldn't find out when IT ended. Plus, Brawlhalla doesn't tell me how long is left, so I couldn't...

ps4 brawlhalla

Maximillian

14:07

@KevinvanderVelden That platforming was grueling, but it was a neat quest.

Kevin van der Velden

The third phase was me just going "Okay, can we stop with the knocking me off platforms bit? Thank you." every 10 seconds

Maximillian

"I finished it! Why is it not doing anything?" one red mark on other side of ring

fredley

14:20

quora.com/Is-there-any-palindromic-music

cc: @Wipqozn @StrixVaria

StrixVaria

@fredley That's really neat.

fredley

I know!

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Is there a way to make the initial block smaller when building a ship?

When you start a new ship via your drone in Avorion, the initial block is quite big. I'd like to build with smaller blocks. Is there any way to make the initial block smaller?

avorion

0

Q: How to get video playback in Birth of the Federation under recent Windows version?

I managed to install "Star Trek: Birth of Federation" (BotF) on Window7x64 on the default path C:\botf. I can start the game with compatible mode set to "Windows XP SP3". Unfortunately, the intro video and galactic power intro video aren't rendered properly within the game. How can I get BotF ...

technical-issues windows-7 windows star-trek-botf

Kevin van der Velden

14:57

glares at fissures GIVE ME WHAT I WANT >:(

Arperum

glares at server WHY DO YOU GIVE WEIRD PROBLEMS WHILE EXACTLY THE SAME CODE ON A DIFFERENT SERVER DOES NOT?

Yuuki

@Arperum Environment maybe?

Arperum

I glared in a good way!

I found the different file. It is some setting in the web.config. Which is a weird place to go look for this problem.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How do you unlock Hue and Saturation on Benq RL2455HM Gaming Monitor?

So i have my benq rl2455hm hooked up via HDMI to my PS4 and on every source,the Hue and Saturation Settings are grayed out. Is there any way to make these settings accessible?

ps4

0

Q: Is there a way to reset specific worlds on ark xbox one?

I am currently playing ark survival evolved on the Xbox one. I am on the island map. I want to be able to go into ragnarok or the center map and just mess around with commands and fly mode and stuff, then when I beat the island I can come to ragnarok or the center and reset all the stuff I did us...

ark-survival-evolved

Kevin van der Velden

Maybe if you're writing a python app =p

Arperum

15:08

Nope. C#

Kevin van der Velden

Then it's the first place to look, unless it's .netcore

StrixVaria

@fredley Also I finally started watching Bojack again, finished up some of the other stuff I was doing. I have 1 episode left in season 2. Man that episode where he goes to New Mexico :|

fredley

@StrixVaria "BOJACK NO" intensifies

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Once I figure out the offending thing I'll probably scream some more in here.

StrixVaria

Also that line to Owl lady. "You didn't know me. You fell in love with me. Now you know me." :|

Arperum

15:16

@Lazers2.0 I think this is more a question for some hardware SE type thing.

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune So I heard this month's IotM is pretty good.

Hoi

I think that test went sorta okayish

SaintWacko

15:32

This test is going to take 138 minutes...

At least it did last time

Oh wait

Are you talking about a test in class?

fredley

@StrixVaria Yeah. S2 is where it really starts to shine/get really dark

Frank

@Arperum I don't think a gaming monitor is actually gaming specific. Its just a label.

Hoi

@SaintWacko yes my Sanskrit test 😛

SaintWacko

@Hoi Lol my first thought was a software test

Hoi

Nope I am Hoi the linguistics girlfriend with no knowledge of computers/programming/games whatsoever. I am only here to hoi @arp hoihoihoi

Frank

15:47

@Lazers2.0 The tag wiki suggested edits are copied from what appears to be the Steam game page.

ToxicFrog

16:00

Let the record show that the NieR: Automata soundtrack is fantastic.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How is multiplayer in Civilization V possible?

I have only played Civ V single player, but I see that there is a multi-player option for those who use the online Steam version. How can this work? When I play it takes many hours and I save the game and play over the course of several days. How is it possible to have a multiplayer game with st...

civilization-5 multiplayer

Maximillian

Man.. Gotta love it when bugs get logged that are only reproducible in PRODUCTION.

Unionhawk

All Dungeons No Doors TAS in 2:21:32 with commentary

►

Yes

The dumbest TAS in the world

fredley

HOI IS ARP SOCK: DATA ACCEPTED

Unionhawk

16:15

Other than I guess club penguin banned% TAS

StrixVaria

@Unionhawk Does this use a lot of wrong warping or does it just glitch through walls to get to loading zones on the other side of doors or is it like even crazier than those?

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley surely more like @Arp's sock

Unionhawk

Some of both I believe

StrixVaria

I kind of want to watch it, especially since it's commentated.

fredley

ARP IS AVE SOCK: DATA ACCEPTED

StrixVaria

16:18

There are a lot of doors in that game.

The Gohma boss fight requires you go through a door to get to it.

As does the Water Temple one I think. I can't even fathom how that run works.

Kevin van der Velden

Oh hey, my warframe settings were only at medium. The game now looks a lot better

Unionhawk

First door skip is 15:00, clipping through door of time

Hoi

Am I a sock?

ToxicFrog

16:35

Socks all the way down?

Yuuki

@fredley Wait, so @Arp is dating himself?

Ave

@fredley :avethinking:

Yuuki

I'm confused.

Ave

@Hoi everyone on bridge is an ash sock except you

also good morning

user15026

@Ave and that's just because the nanites haven't caught up yet

user15026

16:41

Well, at least some things are predictable...I thought I got through yesterday with a minimum of tears but right on schedule I have the "back to normal life and don't know when I will see him again" sadness

user15026

This is the worst worst worst part of LDR/marriage

Ave

hug

user15026

Sorry. I feel bad for complaining :/ I do appreciate the hugs though

cazc_941

Can anybody figure out how to play this

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki I haven’t played with it much but it looks like it generates powerful items that disappear at rollover

Open source, 1998: RTFM Open source, 2018: You will be very, very lucky if there is a manual, and luckier still if the manual describes anything remotely resembling the program

Tweeted by mcclure111 on January 2, 2018 at 7:38 PM

@Ash yeah it’s the worst :(

Yuuki

16:55

@GodEmperorDune To be honest, I'm not a fan of this recent trend towards "make things that disappear at rollover".

I'm sure the pantogram is great, but having to spend resources every day to make some pants is annoying.

I guess it allows them to play more with the power budget since almost every old IotM equipment like the Pantsgiving were kinda OP.

Although I need to remember to equip my Juju Mask.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki yeah same

I like fire and forget iotms

Use the iotm to grind out some sweet loot, then have it sitting in closet or wherever for when I need equipment with those stats

I think genie bottle is my recent favorite

Private Pansy

@GodEmperorDune My favourite are those libraries whose documentation consists mainly of the maintainer telling you how great and amazing the library is

GodEmperorDune

@PrivatePansy yeeeeeep

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune I keep forgetting to churn out pocket wishes.

Which means I lose like 150k in potential meat a day.

Private Pansy

My favourite recent example is the Redux middleware documentation page. 3/4 of it consists of negative examples of how every other possible solution sucks. redux.js.org/docs/advanced/Middleware.html

Yuuki

17:04

> BotW players: "I hope the DLC gives us enough orbs to get max stamina and max health."
> Nintendo: "How about we do that except instead of max health, you get max health - 1?"

cc @Unionhawk

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki I can send you my mafia script for it if you want

I’m using those wishes for fighting monsters for factoids but my daily script puts the remainder into pocket wishes if I forget

void convertWishes() {
	int wishesLeft = 3 - get_property("_genieWishesUsed").to_int();
	if (wishesLeft <= 0 || $item[genie bottle].item_amount() == 0) {
		print("No wishes available.", "red");
		return;
	}
	for i from 1 to wishesLeft {
		main@genie("wish");
	}
}

you'll also need to have github.com/Ezandora/Genie installed

oh and import at the top of the mafia file

import <genie.ash>

Yuuki

I should just add it to a breakfast script.

And if I want to use a wish, I can just use a pocket wish.

GodEmperorDune

exactly

user15026

@Yuuki breakfast script?

GodEmperorDune

@Ash kolmafia is a helper program for kingdom of loathing

Yuuki

17:15

@Ash It's one of the default scripts that KoLMafia comes with. It takes care of a lot of housekeeping and the daily free stuff (like clan amenities).

GodEmperorDune

you can use to automate away repetitive tasks or just play kol normally though it so that it can keep track of how much meat and items you made today, and provide hints on what various choices do or what monsters are weak to, etc

i use the automation heavily

Maximillian

I thought open source software manuals was "Read the in-line comments of the code."

GodEmperorDune

@Maximillian nah its "read the uncommented code that only a genius like OP would understand"

Maximillian

Manual: "Get a CS degree, read the code"

Next years manual: "If you can't read it, just find some smart friend who did codecademy."

Yuuki

PSA: If you're having programming troubles this week after coming back from vacation, check if maybe there's an issue with hard-coded dates.

(i.e. hey, it's a new year maybe someone wrote something that's hinging on it being 2017)

Ave

17:25

I'm not exactly having issues with dates but I moved my bot to a new server yesterday and setting up locale and all that is a fun way to start a day (as in, the day after school I guess).

Yuuki

...

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki wat

user15026

@Yuuki oh neat

Tim Stone

@Yuuki Amazing it got that reference but nothing about horses

(I assume the tie-in is this group)

Maximillian

.ninja is a domain?

Awesome.

Lazers 2.0

17:46

0

Q: Can I new-game-plus Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel with a different character?

Once completed the game, you are offered to re-play it in new-game-plus mode, that is, keeping your stuff, level and perks. The increased challenge of having tougher enemies around makes it a new experience. However, I'd like to try a different character (e.g. Fragtrap instead of Athena). Is the...

borderlands-pre-sequel

Sepia Lazers

17:57

0

Q: What to do if I find an answer, but I don't have permission to post from the author?

Last month I asked a question about the luck-based Mario Party 2 minigame "Day at the Races". I wanted to know if each of the 4 selectable racers had an equal chance of winning. A few days after posting my question, I came across a Pastebin post from 2015 which documented the odds for Day at the...

discussion specific-question allowed-answers etiquette

Ave

18:07

@Unionhawk I think that zeldathon mission is over

and now I need to post this:

user15026

There, set my t-rex memo holder and my super cute Liz Climo cartoon calendar up. I feel better about life.

user15026

(Seriously if you don't know of her cartoons you should because they are super cute)

The Mattbat999

Wow. I fought Duke Fishron, and he completely rekt me in like 3 seconds. Almost literally.

cazc_941

@Ave avclub.com/…

Ave

@ArielDumas PROOF #zeldaistheboy #caseclosed

Tweeted by ETZithrow on December 17, 2017 at 10:48 PM in reply to ArielDumas

accurate

cazc_941

18:17

lol

The Mattbat999

18:37

@Ave lies

Ave

@TheMattbat999 how dare you call hideo kojima, founder of nintendo a liar

GodEmperorDune

My cousin’s grandma Grand Maggie recently told my aunt “I think there’s an opossum in our owl house” and Aunt Molly said “what makes you think that?” and Grand Maggie sent her this picture

Tweeted by katiesays_ on December 21, 2017 at 8:49 PM

cc @ash

murgatroid99

Did you know that Nintendo was actually founded in the late 19th century?

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 i did

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Yep, I definitely think they may have a possum

Ave

18:39

I did too

StrixVaria

> By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as cab services and love hotels.

user15026

@murgatroid99 Yep, and they originally did card game stuff (hanafuda, etc)

GodEmperorDune

but only because i read that factbook about nintendo a while back

user15026

@StrixVaria Every time I hear that I mentally picture Mario themed love hotels even though I know Mario wasn't a thing yet and that makes me laugh every time

The Mattbat999

@Ave cause Link is the male hero.

Yuuki

18:42

IATA stands for International AirporT Abbreviation.

> KUL - Kingdom of Loathing

cc @GodEmperorDune @Ash

Ave

@TheMattbat999 no, zelda is the hero

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki damn by the internet rules i have to fly there now

StrixVaria

@Yuuki Usually it's funny or interesting because of its accuracy instead of just being nonsense.

This is possibly the worst XKCD I can remember.

Ave

this feels dumb

the hillary one was, eh

Maximillian

STL = Silent Hill. Accurate.

GodEmperorDune

18:44

i mean when you've made 2000 webcomics, some of them are going to fall flat

StrixVaria

@GodEmperorDune True.

user15026

@Yuuki I find it weird that they just used the legit answer for YYZ

user15026

(But not YYY)

StrixVaria

@Ash The closest airport to me is EWR which is nonsense in this chart. It's Newark Liberty International Airport in reality.

user15026

This feels like kinda a lazy comic

Maximillian

18:46

(STL is Saint Louis. East Saint Louis may as well be Silent Hill.)

The Mattbat999

@Ave no Zelda is the princess you gotta save in just about all of the games. I never even played it and I know a little bit about it. And I know they refer to the princess as Zelda and the hero as Link

Ave

@TheMattbat999 no, zelda is the hero

Kevin van der Velden

I thought zelda was the potato

Ave

link is link

Kevin van der Velden

No that's @Uni

The Mattbat999

18:47

@Ave no Zelda is the princess. I know cause I seen someone play it and the game called the princess Zelda.

ToxicFrog

I thought zelda was the cat, and link was the thing that turns object files into executables

Kevin van der Velden

No that's a linker

Ave

now I wonder

ToxicFrog

aah

Yuuki

@TheMattbat999 Are you implying that princesses can't be heroes?

That's sexist.

ToxicFrog

18:48

so a linker is a thing that makes links

Ave

> package not found: zelda

aur disappoints me today

ToxicFrog

runs ld, gets a pile of sword-wielding guys in green

user15026

(I feel like this could dissolve into a tumblr style "no, that's x, Y is <different thing that sounds similar when spoken>")

The Mattbat999

@Yuuki no, but in that specific game, the Hero is a male named Link (or @Uni)

Ave

@TheMattbat999 hero is zelda though, the link proves that

more proof: twitter.com/i/moments/942165790677225472

Maximillian

18:50

The hero is that guy who just walks into your house and smashes up all the pottery.

GodEmperorDune

@TheMattbat999 (the context missing here is that there is a meme of people who haven't played the zelda series calling the male hero "zelda")

The Mattbat999

@Ave no, the Hero is the short guy who looks kinda like @Unionhawk.

murgatroid99

Are we really just going to rehash that stupid argument from that AV Club article?

GodEmperorDune

it's an older joke that somehow became a new meme

Ave

OH

FAM

in Discussion between Camilo Vasquez and user66297, 14 mins ago, by Camilo Vasquez

@JoséOrdoñez hola ejjejee

The Mattbat999

18:51

@GodEmperorDune one day people will know Link is the hero, unlike how some people will never learn that Skyrim is not a video game series.

Ave

the nicest message ID to date

GodEmperorDune

@Ave so nice

🍁👍🍁

Ave

that's nice overload

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Gta 5 online not working

I've just gone to play gta online but my character is not loading and saying error but it will let me make a new character

gta-online

Steven Vascellaro

19:06

I just noticed that there's a tag for madden-25, which released in 2013

I'm just imagining the tagging confusion 7 years from now

> uses madden-25-2013 or madden-25-2025

user15026

@StevenVascellaro If we are still here then, we'll figure it out ;)

Ave

Bingo! #kpti #intelbug

Tweeted by brainsmoke on January 3, 2018 at 2:28 PM

beautiful

Lazers 2.0

-2

Q: What Is The Highest Possible Score In Your School?

Please Answer In 30 Digits Like 123456789012345678901234567890

super-mario-bros

GodEmperorDune

@Ave this is proof of concept for the intel hardware bug?

Ave

yup

Tim Stone

19:15

Yeah

lights the world on fire

fredley

@GodEmperorDune rekt

Ave

it's due to that one speculative thing

(who thought that that was a good idea anyways)

GodEmperorDune

and the speculative lookups are related to branch prediction?

Ave

worst problem is...

GodEmperorDune

@Ave consumers buy based on speed, not security

but the security has a huge risk of blowing up later and tanking sales, like this scenario

Ave

19:17

Steven Vascellaro

I literally bought an intel i5 two weeks ago

Should I be returning it?

Ave

perf hit will happen no matter which cpu you're using so

no

@GodEmperorDune well, it seems like all major cloud providers fucked up

because they do really need security

otherwise the price isn't justified

GodEmperorDune

@StevenVascellaro unless you are switching all your stuff to AMD or in a position to wait for the hardware fix (months at least)

user15026

Can someone ELI5 the intel thing for me?

fredley

I just removed the "Intel inside" sticker from my laptop. Security by obscurity FTW.

Tweeted by martijn_grooten on January 3, 2018 at 3:47 PM

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Kevin van der Velden

19:20

@Ash Uuh, intel did something wrong causing an issue in the processor itself. Exploits can do some assembler magic causing them to be able to do things software says they shouldn't

And because it's a processor/hardware issue there's no real fix, only work arounds

GodEmperorDune

@Ash so in order for computers to do anything useful, they need part of the computer (the kernel) to have godlike powers

Steven Vascellaro

@Ash From what I understand, there is a critical CPU bug in virtual memory. It can allow programs to access private restricted parts of memory

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/…

GodEmperorDune

the rest of the computer can't have those godlike powers, so they ask nicely and a specific thing will be done by the godlike entity on their behalf

Steven Vascellaro

The bug itself hasn't been disclosed yet, but it's already been patched for Linux. A Windows patch has either been released, or is releasing soon

GodEmperorDune

to keep everything safe, the godlike entity is supposed to check that a thing is allowed before doing it

Steven Vascellaro

19:22

Fixing the bug essentially requires cutting performance of CPUs in half

GodEmperorDune

in this case, a regular entity can access some of the secret godlike knowledge when its not supposed to

user15026

@GodEmperorDune oooooh that is ungood

GodEmperorDune

because the godlike entity does the thing without checking it is ok first

Ave

@StevenVascellaro not really.

estimates are 5-30%

Steven Vascellaro

@Ave Ah, ok

That's much more reasonable

Kevin van der Velden

19:23

Worstcase 30%

user15026

@GodEmperorDune so now regular things can do that and I can see how that will be a badness thing

Kevin van der Velden

And also that's only on things that require kernel level access (i.e. syscalls)

Mad Scientist

it looks like it affects mostly stuff that does certain kinds of IO, e.g. databases. So probably no change for desktop users, but quite a headache for servers

Ave

does anyone know if it's patched on linux?

Steven Vascellaro

From what I read, AMD chips aren't affected

@Ave Yes.

murgatroid99

19:25

My understanding is that it affects any jump to the kernel, including context switches

GodEmperorDune

@Ash the fix for this is that instead of having regular entities talk to the godlike thing on the other side of the room, they have to leave a written note, leave the room, then the godlike entity comes into the room, reads the note, does the thing, leaves, then the regular entity comes back into the room

Mad Scientist

@Ave In on of the older stable releases, and on the current release candidate for the newest Kernel. But not in any distribution, I think

GodEmperorDune

so it's slower

Ave

I (accidentally) updated to 4.14.10 but didn't restart yet

user15026

@GodEmperorDune that would take more time! Okay this is helping

Steven Vascellaro

19:25

I believe this is the Linux Update

lwn.net/SubscriberLink/741878/eb6c9d3913d7cb2b

Ave

@MadScientist it's probably on arch, really

user15026

(thank you for actually using 5 year old language, @GodEmperorDune because that helped a lot)

GodEmperorDune

\o/

Steven Vascellaro

Yeah, his explanation was a lot better than mine

(Probably because I don't fully understand it myself yet)

Mad Scientist

and du and stuff like that will be much slower, as it's almost entirely syscalls

SaintWacko

19:37

@Ash Hopefully I'll actually be on Warframe tonight. LadyWacko had to work and couldn't get into the office last night, so I couldn't really play anything out there

Ave

I can't see any patches on torvalds/linux

GodEmperorDune

@SaintWacko make sure to stop by the dojo and click the celebration thing in the great hall for free endo

ToxicFrog

@GodEmperorDune it's not even "the godlike entity does the thing" -- the CPU does it, then realizes after the fact it wasn't meant to and (imperfectly) discards the results. In this analogy, the mortal can infer this about the mind of god by precisely listening to how their prayer echoes off the walls even if it isn't answered.

GodEmperorDune

@ToxicFrog for ELI5 it's close enough

user15026

19:55

@GodEmperorDune yeah, it did what I needed in terms of it making sense

user15026

@GodEmperorDune yes, this was awesome :)

user15026

@SaintWacko Cool beans! @WorldEngineer and I are just kinda getting me caught up on things because I couldn't play all week. I mean I still don't get (and don't care) a lot of the finer points of the builds and mods and whatever but I am having fun with the running around hitting stuff.

user15026

I've never really been one to get into all the crunchy bits of a thing anyhow

Maximillian

Early to mid game, you just pick what looks cool and go shoot/stab stuff.

Once you start doing quests with a marker of level 30-40, you have to start paying some attention to your build. 50+ You most definitely have to understand how mod builds work.

user15026

@Maximillian Or you have to have people in your life who will help you (because trust me, I know myself - if I try to figure out the details I will get stressed and upset and quit)

SaintWacko

19:58

@GodEmperorDune I know what all of those words mean...

Except "endo"

@Ash That's the part I'm looking forward to

GodEmperorDune

@SaintWacko endo is the juice for improving your mods

Maximillian

I think step 1 is finding the mod called 'Serration' for your shooty rifles.

SaintWacko

Mmm, mod juice

GodEmperorDune

@Ash well the big axe makes everything crunchy as it smashes through them

@Maximillian pressure point for melee too

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