The Bridge

Tim Stone

00:18

Nooo ;_;

Sepia Lazers

0

Q: Re-evaluating the text of our Game Identification close reason

We've been discussing the topic of Being Nice in comments on Game Identification questions, and it kinda struck me as a bit odd. Not the part about comments being snarky/rude (and that's definitely something to keep in mind!), but that we needed to leave clarifying comments to explain downvotes &...

Frank

Ooh, new Secret World Chronicles in August!

GnomeSlice

01:11

@badp you got a loss even though you won?

Sterno

@GnomeSlice Yeah, I thought so too

GnomeSlice

@Sterno Man, it's HARD though

I just got to the second area, and regularly get fucked up by any given enemy I find

Sterno

2nd area was rough

To be fair I'm only on like the 4th

(with DLC)

GnomeSlice

Also apparently I have DLC yeah

There's like a spacesuit guy that I farmed in area 1 for some cool gear although I don't really think it's much better than anything I have or had

The first boss took a bit until I got a much stronger weapon

Frank

If anyone's interested, there's an idle game I've been playing for...several months now. It's called Idle Campions; uses D&D characters (with official licensing!) with a large amount of staying power.

ASCII-only

01:24

@Frank :| it's just a CotLI reskin (same devs)

Frank

@ASCII-only Same devs, sure. I haven't played CotLI, so I don't know anything of theirs beyond Idle Champions.

ASCII-only

@Frank it's basically exactly the same AFAICT (except one has D&D theme)

Frank

From a quick perusal of it, yeah, it looks similar.

Sterno

01:53

I had fun with Idle Champions for a bit and then remembered I hate idle games

4

Frank

@Sterno And yet, you keep trying them.

Sterno

Yeah

They're always fun for the first few hours until you hit the hardcore grind

I liked how you position people for buffs though

Frank

That's why it's an idle game, though; it sort of plays itself.

Chippies

I've been playing NGU for over a month now and it's one of the best idle games I've played

Sterno

Some characters just seemed like complete trash though that you should never really choose

Frank

01:55

@Sterno It's super gear dependent. And with event characters, it gives you many more options, as they switch with the defaults.

Ullallulloo

@Chippies Yes, I'm really liking NGU, especially with how often it's updated.

Chippies

@Ullallulloo yeah, the regular updates that are actually good updates is a huge pro for the game

well, not "regular", but often

Frank

If there's a non Kongregate link, I'd probably try it again.

But I reeeeeeeeally don't like Kongregate.

Chippies

in the settings there are resolution options, but when you click on them, it says you can't change resolution on kongregate, which sort of implies that there is a non-kongregate option as well, but I can't find it and I don't think it exists

GnomeSlice

Anyone up for a few games of Overwatch

@Sterno @StrixVaria @Yuuki

Sterno

02:07

I'm taking a break from OW

GnomeSlice

I've started it up again recently

no worries

Sterno

I'd kind of become a tank main and playing a tank does not feel good in that game right now

GnomeSlice

Yeah I always end up as a tank now

I mostly just play Orisa

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Be right there.

MBraedley

02:43

> Indoctrinate the new SW Developer

Thank you, PM (I think that was you). That made me laugh

GodEmperorDune

03:09

@MBraedley assuming control!

MBraedley

Today was a 1 step forward, 2 steps back day, and is also approaching a 12 hour day, so I think I need all the levity (and alcohol) I can get.

Also, need to remember to set my phone to airplane mode to preserve battery life tomorrow.

Memor-X

03:30

@MBraedley i have to do that on a daily basis

Memor-X

03:44

#Rumourfile confirmed: a fox made its way onto the 57 tram at the West Maribyrnong terminus last Friday. It jumped off when the driver got on, didn't have a myki apparently http://bit.ly/2jFGPfm

Tweeted by RossAndJohn on May 7, 2018 at 10:23 PM

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: My minecraft crashes when I have more than 3 mods

Everytime I try putting more than 3 mods for my minecraft it just crashes. (also it doesn't give me a crash report) I'm not completely sure what is happening so can somebody please help me

minecraft technical-issues mods minecraft-mods

Memor-X

dam those craft foxes

MBraedley

04:29

Biggest question I have now is, how many hours do I put on my timesheet for today?

Memor-X

@MBraedley 8

atleast that what i would do unless it was pre-arranged i was working overtime

MBraedley

my overtime goes into a flex bank

Memor-X

oh hey, Valve has a link to a page detailing Australian Consumer Rights

> On 24 March 2016, the Federal Court of Australia found that Valve Corporation had engaged in misleading conduct contrary to the Australian Consumer Law in representing to Australian consumers via the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Steam Refund Policy that consumers had no entitlement to a refund in any circumstances and that Valve had excluded, restricted or modified statutory guarantees of acceptable quality. A link to the Federal Court judgment appears here:

http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2016/2016fca0196

i wonder what prompted them to add it on the store page though

Lazers 2.0

06:39

0

Q: How to make a character in Rimworld with specific stats?

I want to make a scenario, where two friends crash-landed on a frozen tundra planet. These two friends have specific skills, injuries and start with a very high and positive relationship. Through the scenario editor I can choose starting items, research items etc, I can even choose the planet I ...

rimworld

Lazers 2.0

07:14

0

Q: Pokémon Green Version

Ok so I recently got the Pokémon Green version (English translated) and was wondering if there’s any way possible to debugging it or making a brand new version of my own English translated (not bugged)? due to certain glitches that it came with. For instance the “end” selection for when making/re...

pokemon-series

0

Q: How to change the language of Steam games?

Some of the Steam games in my region have single language support only, next to them it is written: Notice: Purchases made in this region will only receive the Russian language. mostly games from Ubisoft have that restrictions. how can I change the language of the game for example to Eng...

steam

Kevin van der Velden

07:37

@Memor-X they were legally required to do so as part of the order

@Arperum nice, you're gonna need to build a second wall at some point to be safe-ish from biters

Nzall

08:01

Stephen Colbert spoonerizing Unpaid Parking Tickets is my highlight of the day so far

Especially considering it's in a bit about China, so he said Unparked Paiking Tickets

Everyone In China Is Getting A 'Social Credit Score'

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Private Pansy

This kills the villager

@Nzall That's racist

Lazers 2.0

08:22

0

Q: CS GO skins not working

My CS-GO skins are not working in offline or in online multiplayer mode. I've seen this question, but it talks only about online multiplayer mode and my skins are neither loading in offline nor in online. Any ideas?

counter-strike-global-offensive

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden I first need to finish the first one

Kevin van der Velden

Also s/biters/spitters

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden rampant also adds all sorts of other biter/spitters

Private Pansy

'World of Warcraft' Currency Is Now Worth 7 Times as Much as Venezuela's Cash

Amazing, and really sad

WoW tokens are relatively new IIRC. I wonder what effect it had on gold miners

Nzall

08:38

@Memor-X Just so we're clear: This doesn't mean that Valve needs to reduce the strictness of their refund policy in Australia, right? Australians have the same 2h/14d restrictions as the rest of the world, right?

Kevin van der Velden

Nope, australians have a better policy in accordance with australian law

Nzall

@KevinvanderVelden Really?

Kevin van der Velden

Of course, user agreements can't trump the law

fredley

@Arperum Just belt a ring of bullets around your perimeter

Nzall

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, I know that, but I was under the impression that australian digital goods laws were similar to those of the UK or Belgium

Kevin van der Velden

08:49

Yes but they haven't been sued over here yet

Nzall

@KevinvanderVelden Didn't Germany sue them a couple years back?

Jutschge

@PrivatePansy There are a lot less of them. They still exist but it's not as profitable anymore. Most people buy directly from Blizzard instead of some shady website (and that's great).

Before WoW tokens everyone and their grandma was buying gold from miners.

Nzall

@Jutschge Also, the value of gold has sharply decreased in recent years because of the token

Because the Token puts an upper limit to how much people are willing to pay

Jutschge

Yup. I kinda like it. You can pay your subscription with gold now and you can buy gold from an official source. It's win-win

Nzall

Like, the token value have increased tenfold compared to when they were released, at least in the EU

Jutschge

08:53

Also since gold doesn't really do that much in WoW it's not really p2w

Nzall

Also, the value of the token is increasing far faster than the asking price for boosts etc

Private Pansy

@Jutschge What do people buy it for then?

Jutschge

@PrivatePansy You can buy mounts and consumables with it. I mean yeah it does take some grinding time away but the endgame is still about skill.

Nzall

The way tokens work is that they're mostly sold by people with disposable income and not as much time to play and bought by those in poorer countries where a 15 EUR sub is a lot

Jutschge

In PvP consumables are disabled anyways. Gold really doesn't help there. And for Raids/Dungeons you might need consumables or enchants for your gear but if you're actively participating in high-end content it's sponsored by the guild

Also you generate a ton of passive income through gold missions. And you can do those on your phone.

Basically anything that gives you a big advantage is either super cheap in terms of gold (like you get 10x that amount while leveling to max) or only available through playing.

Nzall

09:01

Actually, I'm mistaken in that comparative value of tokens and boosts. Prices have comparatively stayed roughly the same

Jutschge

@Nzall Are you talking about leveling boosts or Dungeon boosting?

Nzall

boost prices have been increased tenfold too, so the point that you need 13M (when gold cap is 10M) for a full boost in mythic + mount

Jutschge

Because Dungeon/Raidboosting really depends on the server you're on

Nzall

Pretty much every article on eu.battle.net states prices around 13M

Jutschge

We're currently boosting people for 10m on our server (with mount)

The boss alone is 3mil afaik

But we're somewhat expensive with boosting mythic+ 200k for a +15. (Super quick way to make money though lol)

Our raid boosting income goes into financing the next addon while the m+ boosting is personal income

Nzall

09:06

Yeah, and if you convert that to EUR through the token, that's roughly 600 EUR

even the boss alone is 200 EUR

Private Pansy

Huh, wow

Nzall

thing is, that's still cheaper than what you get on gold selling sites

an 11/11 boost with mount according to the site I consulted is 900 EUR

which is crazy if you think about it

Jutschge

@Nzall I mean taking down argus as 19 is somewhat hard tbh. It took us about 4 months to get to this point.

Nzall

@Jutschge That's true

and even that boost I just checked asks you to do at least somewhat decent DPS

especially if doing selfplay

Jutschge

And also if you're selling the mount it means someone in your main raiding team has to pass for it. (unless you're among the top guilds worldwide)

Nzall

09:11

and you need at least 930

Jutschge

Wtf. We actually tried a boost lately with our "Guild mascot" (He's not really a great player but a super fun guy) and we just told him to die at the start of the fight

I mean it was definitely harder than usual but doable.

Arperum

@fredley Still working on trying to produce them fast enough to complete the wall and turret circle, once that's done I'll redo the production chain.

Jutschge

Boosting guilds should be able to handle a boss as 19... Other things sound like a scam to me.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Hitman 2016 storyline

I just bought the new 2016 Hitman for PC and I played a few mission. I couldn't understand from where Agent 47 came from. When he tells Diana that "They called me 47", I was confused who called him 47 and why? Am I missing something here? Should I play other Hitman games like Absolution to unde...

hitman-series

Nzall

@Jutschge So honest question: you just tell the boosted character to just die asap on all bosses? or just those where they can wipe you if they're not playing correctly?

Jutschge

09:14

@Nzall Only on the ones where they can be dangerous. (Imonar, Varimathras, Aggramar, Argus, Coven)

But they are no healing priority. We usually mark them so our healers know that they don't have to go out of their way if they fuck up on another boss.

Before we started doing that I was often messing up my ramps as disc priest because I though "holy Crap I gotta save this guy". And then I realized it was the guy we're boosting.

Nzall

Question: would they cause issues if they released during Argus and started collecting orbs alongside the designated guy?

Not even talking about entering the tree and rezzing, just collecting orbs away from the other guy so they don't accidentally knock them back

Jutschge

Argus is somewhat tricky. We Tell them to go in last at the start of the phase(only after everyone else rezzed because of the explosions) and then they usually insta-die because they don't know how to dodge the mechanic.

And we just tell them to soak orbs. And our designated soaker does the same.

Argus is just a fight where one person can fuck up waay too much.

fredley

10:32

bxt.github.io/Nazareth-Knot/more/tanzhausnrw.html

Ave

@fredley what's this

I mean, it looks cool

fredley

Just a neat thing

Arperum

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I DIED ON THE DARK ROOM WHILE TRYING TO UNLOCK THE FORGOTTEN

FRUSTRATION

Private Pansy

@fredley Balls

3

Arperum

Also: my stats reset to stupid low every room, to then go up while fighting constantly.

I don't know what caused that.

Nzall

10:57

Oh wow, Chinese NBA internet nicknames are amazing

> Steph Curry - 库昊 "fucks the sky"

This is an extremely elaborate pun. One of Curry's phonetic names is 库里 (ku li) and the second character is a combination of the characters 日 ("sun") and 土 ("ground"). But 日 is also slang for "fuck." Given Curry's penchant for launching shots into the sky, Chinese netizens apparently felt it would be more apropos to name him "fucks the sky" instead of "fucks the ground," so they replaced "earth" (土) with "sky" (天) in the second character.

A thread of Chinese internet nicknames for NBA players. China is crazy for the NBA, but official sources use boring phonetic transcriptions, failing to take advantage of Chinese characters having both sound and meaning. Chinese netizens have "improved" on these official names.

Tweeted by nick_kapur on May 7, 2018 at 4:04 PM

for the source

Private Pansy

@Nzall Uh... I'm not at all up to date with Chinese slang, but I would take this with a punch of salt

Nzall

@PrivatePansy Nick Kapur is a historian specializing in Japan and East-Asia

Private Pansy

里 simply means inside. I've never heard anyone decompose it into 日 and 土 before (but I wouldn't discount it either). Never heard of 日 meaning "fuck". It may be a slang usage, but the word itself really does just mean the sun, and also gets used where you might use "day" in English

So it's not really a swear word. But again, Chinese Internet culture is weird, and I'm totally out of touch.

So maybe I guess?

ASCII-only

@PrivatePansy well, this is the internet we're talking about

Ave

god turkish slang is so weird

ASCII-only

11:06

@Ave what kind of language is god turkish

fredley

@PrivatePansy ~~Chinese~~

~~Internet~~

Private Pansy

Speaking of which, I learnt the other day that ecchi comes from H (as in the letter, pronounced eh-chi), which comes from hentai, but now ecchi means something different from hentai

Ave

words like almond and ball and motor and nutella and some other words etc have REALLY unexpected meanings, and that's just a tiny part of the slang that I remember.

ASCII-only

@Ave ok well tbh this isn't that different from English

Ave

oh no am I taking a dive into weird english slang now

please don't, I don't want to even know

ASCII-only

11:10

@Ave well really even normal English slang

fredley

> ~long~
~long~
...

Ave

I regret that being told about any of those turkish stuff

Nzall

@PrivatePansy Purely out of curiosity, what's the difference between ecchi and hentai? Assuming you're comfortable explaining it in here. I'd rather not google the difference at work

Ave

@Nzall one is suggestive/lewd anime/manga, one is anime/manga content that contains actual pornographic content.

Nzall

@Ave So essentially softcore versus hardcore?

Lazers 2.0

11:11

0

Q: Connected my ps4 controller to a ps3 now can't connect it back

I need help. Since one of my favorite games was BO2 on ps4 I wanted to play them again, so I unpackaged my ps4 and connected it to my ps4 controller. But when I was done and wanted to connect it back the ps4 controller wouldn't sync to the ps4, I've tried so many different solutions for about 4 d...

ps4 controllers fortnite-battle-royale

ASCII-only

@Nzall not exactly

Nzall

or pinup art versus porn?

ASCII-only

yeah that's a lot closer

Ave

depending on how you define softcore and hardcore, it can be, yeah.

Nzall

Okay, I think I get the idea

Ave

11:16

I mean, it's sort of like the difference between rating:q and rating:e on most boorus

Private Pansy

@Ave The Chinese slang for masturbation is "beating airplane". No, I don't know why either

Ave

"pulling 31" is the turkish slang for it

I have no idea what the number represents

Private Pansy

It could be a homophone

Ave

it's not

I found an attempt to try to understand why it means that from 1999, but it's in turkish

(tl;dr: according to "arabic ebced" e is 1, l is 30, and el means hand)

to be fair çekmek can have multiple meanings, "fotograf çekmek" means "[to] take a photograph" for example, and "masayı çekmek" means "to pull desk".

turkish is a weird language

ASCII-only

11:32

English is clearly the weirdest language

Ave

as someone who's fluent in both, yes, english is very fucking weird

I wonder which language I should learn first, esparanto or dutch... or maybe I should continue portuguese.

ASCII-only

@Ave ~~Klingon~~ ~~Quenya~~ ~~Sindarin~~ ~~Poison Monkey language~~ Lojban

Ave

hm, will consider.

ASCII-only

ok apparently wikipedia lists "Furbish" (Furby language) as a language?

Arperum

@Ave I've heard that Dutch is difficult for non-dutch speaking people.

Then again, there are a couple people in here who could help by giving you (contradicting) advice.

Ave

11:40

@ASCII-only when I first read "furbish" I assumed it was a furry language

ASCII-only

@Ave :| ok

Nzall

@Ave I personally think Dutch might be somewhat more useful than Esperanto. There are roughly 15X as many people who speak Dutch compared to Esperanto

Speaking Esperanto is more of a novelty, like Klingon or Sindarin

ASCII-only

@Nzall that doesn't mean they'd be common wherever anyone is

Nzall

11:55

@ASCII-only True, the popularity of Dutch is mainly confined to specific regions in Europe and former Dutch colonies

ASCII-only

@Nzall yeah. so really there shouldn't be that much difference imo

Kevin van der Velden

@Ave learn dutch! \o/

Memor-X

@KevinvanderVelden really? i thought that was the refund system. like i know Valve got into trouble about not disclosing stuff but that was in Norway, unless the page i linked to chnages depending on where you are

Nzall

@ASCII-only Quick question: does anyone in this chatroom actually currently speak any Esperanto at all, or know someone who does?

Kevin van der Velden

They had the refund system before the final verdict came in I think

Nzall

11:57

Because even if you learn Esperanto, it's like 1 or 2 million people globally

so like 1 in every couple thousand people

ASCII-only

@Nzall in person? no. online? a couple of people over at Puzzling.SE

Memor-X

@Ave cat, there's a book on it in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

Ave

nya!

@KevinvanderVelden I know a very little bit of dutch and I might work on learning more

Memor-X

@Ave there;s a bit more too it, like

in Maid Café (メイド喫茶), Jun 9 '17 at 12:16, by Memor-X

Nya~~go = Hello

and

in Maid Café (メイド喫茶), Jun 9 '17 at 12:17, by Memor-X

Mya~uun = You are welcome, squishy pink thing

Ave

oh my god

my messages around that

Nzall

12:06

@Ave I mean, you're not the only person to watch hentai, by far

Ave

I don't, though

Nzall

and Maid Cafe probably is a chatroom where you can expect somewhat more gawdy talk

@Ave so that was just a somewhat dumb joke to fit in?

Ave

yeah

Nzall

You're not the only person to do that either

making dumb jokes to fit in is pretty much the main saving grace of the Internet

Ave

I generally don't enjoy watching sanything, outside very specific types of youtube stuff

Nzall

12:10

That and the feline footage

Unionhawk

so ynab does weird things if you have a positive transaction on a credit card that isn't a payment

lol

I think it's figured out

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Delaying field research quests

It it wise or even possible to not turn in completed field research quests in order to turn them in on another day? For example I'm in a highly active area on a Saturday and usually busy during the week. I would then complete one quest on Saturday and keep three quests completed without turning t...

pokemon-go

Memor-X

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Development May Be in Serious Trouble

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Ave

@Nzall wdym

Nzall

@Ave Cat videos and the ... other ... kind of videos

Memor-X

12:24

seeing the acronym they use, FFVIIR, makes me think of Megadimension VIIR which was the original VII (Victory 2) improved and with VR

Wipqozn

shouldiblamecaching.com

cc @TimStone always helpful

Memor-X

Sterno

Well, Pillars of Eternity 2 is out. Time to go play Pillars of Eternity 1

Ave

@Nzall I'm not a big fan of the whole "animals being adorable" thing, sadly

Memor-X

12:45

Andrew Watt sent me a Cease and Desist Letter

►

that Data clip matched the reaction perfectly

but also a take away from that is what the lawyer said about privacy

This little pug wearing a bow tie is too much

►

@Ave ^ that change you mind?

Ave

no

Unionhawk

13:28

Apparently there's a potg bug on the new overwatch map

killing the robot gondoliers counts towards the potg system

Yuuki

13:52

@Memor-X May be? I thought this was already confirmed?

Memor-X

@Yuuki confirmed != no problems. remember that Final Fantasy Type-0 and Final Fantasy XV were originally Agito Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII and according to the video XV was very inefficient in the development

Yuuki

@Memor-X I meant that I thought it was already confirmed that the FFVII remake is going through development hell.

Memor-X

@Yuuki oh. could have been. last i heard was that they were going to try and pull the Episodic shit on us which is only going to work if it's just 1 Episode per PS1 disk but i find it doubtful they'll do that. didn't know CC2 was working on it at first

Lazers 2.0

14:22

2

Q: Do i need the Complete Edition of Horizon Zero Dawn to get all the items?

I have the original Horizon Zero Dawn which my mum picked up a garbage sale. While looking at the Complete Edition of Horizon Zero Dawn to see what DLC it included to determine if it would be cheaper to rebuy it or just download the DLC for the original it lists Horizon Zero Dawn. The Fr...

horizon-zero-dawn

1

Q: Is there a way to save invite codes in Stardew Valley Multiplayer?

I purchased and play Stardew Valley through GoG, but my friend has it through steam. In order for us to play together, one of use has to provide an Invite code to the server every time we wish to enter the game. Is there a way to save the server/invite code so we don't have to go through this ha...

stardew-valley

Lazers 2.0

14:56

0

Q: Super fast pickaxe with no drops

I was wondering if it's possible to make a pickaxe that either breaks stuff really fast or that clears like a 3x3 area at a time without dropping any items? I'm trying to make this in 1.13.

minecraft minecraft-commands

Arperum

@fredley @KevinvanderVelden I got a bullet belt going now, which is very much needed.

Kevin van der Velden

Nice

Got spitters yet or still only biters?

Arperum

spitters and the bigger biters.

Kevin van der Velden

Fun times

Arperum

I'm still very much in a serious arms race.

The repairing the wall all the time is annoying though.

So I might have to add a bunch more turrets.

(Whenever I play it, I do stream it too, but I'm taking a break now.

Next up is fixing/setting up a new sciencepack creation part.

because currently it has all it's iron stolen by bulletcreation.

Kevin van der Velden

15:06

I'm at work anyway

Arperum

I also need to automate the copperstuff, and the feeding of my furnaces.

because I am currently still dragging coke to the furnaces myself.

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

1

Magic

Proposed Q&A site for sleight of hand enthusiasts and magicians that want their questions answered. (And who want to answer questions)

Currently in definition.

Lazers 2.0

15:29

-5

Q: how do you make your own bed wars on xbox? i can never join bed wars on the severs

hishdfsjdfhskdfsbghkdfgskjfsghfsjfgsjdfgskfhgskfhgsdjkfhgskdhfskfhsdfskdfgskdfhj

minecraft

0

Q: How best to preserve a rare old game disc while continuing to use the software, and does anyone know the value on this disc?

My son and I have a game that is slightly older than he is, which is in a limited-edition set. The set is Jet Set Radio Future with Sega GT 2002 (full, playable games) that came with the original X-Box back in the day. The volume label when placed in the disc tray is "X-Box Demos". By sheer l...

xbox-360 emulation drm xbox jet-set-radio-future

Dragonrage

@Lazers2.0 people should just flag nuke this instead of vtc

Yuuki

@Arperum And everyone knows this runs the risk of you getting addicting to your own supply.

Private Pansy

Nick Explains Tumblr to his Dad — CoolGames Inc

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GnomeSlice

15:46

@Sterno did you have crash problems with The Surge

I got up to play some at like 2 AM cause I couldn't sleep and it crashed three more times on me

Like every ten mins

Video error

AMD somethingorother

Private Pansy

16:58

There's an anime this season featuring horse racing except the horses are now high school girls

I mean, I really shouldn't be surprised... but I'm surprised

> In a world very much like our own, great race horses of the past have a chance to be reborn as "horse girls"—girls with the ears and tails of horses as well as their speed and endurance. The best of these horse girls go to train at Tokyo's Tracen Academy, hopefully moving on to fame and fortune as both racers and idols.

user15026

That's....certainly something

Private Pansy

It's also a mobile game tie-in

So that explains it... I think? It's Kancolle but with horses

badp

meanwhile at Google

Google I/O'18: Google Keynote

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Private Pansy

Meh. These aren't dev conferences anymore

badp

clearly you do not develop emojis

Mad Scientist

17:10

@badp what were they thinking with a half-empty beer and grey foam ;-)

badp

high contrast :P

user15026

@badp They fixed the cheese :D

Private Pansy

Yes Google, the only thing I was missing from Gmail is to be able to autocomplete Taco Tuesday

And now it's perfect

Unionhawk

oh shit it's the photos segment of io

oh man that document scan is... I wonder how well that actually works because holy shit

what sorcery

hello

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk Eh... that's not terribly interesting

Colorize is... more interesting

Unionhawk

17:19

yes

I mean more their demo of a weird angle

in particular

Private Pansy

The document scanning one is classification + computer vision, both of which have pretty standard solutions

"Yay! Our chips generate more waste heat than before!"

Unionhawk

I love that since this is their platform they are actually doing live captions

Private Pansy

It's delayed by about 5 seconds where I am

Which is just long enough to be annoying

Unionhawk

captions? I mean yeah that's fairly standard TV caption timing

I'm watching it muted so

Private Pansy

Ah, okay

badp

17:24

finally you can use your mobile if you look like this

Private Pansy

It doesn't fix the delay even if you're not watching live

Unionhawk

lol

That

is an interesting change and I wonder how it'll actually work

lol

what

sorcerery

WHO HAS AN IOT POPCORN MAKER

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk More importantly, how can we hack it to fill the house with knee deep popcorn

badp

Unionhawk

lmao actually that last one sounds cool but lmao

badp

17:32

Unionhawk

(new I guess option? for google assistant to respond positively to kids being polite to google home)

Private Pansy

Is JJ Abrams directing this thing?

Google is introducing... digital photo frames

Unionhawk

I think technically they're more going for like, the alexa with a display type deal

Private Pansy

Ah, no, it has a touch screen. So... a thicker, uglier and tethered tablet

Unionhawk

digital photo frames that also do other things

and connect to the internet

yes

a stationary tablet

Honestly digital photo frame that connects to google photos is decent on its own lol

Private Pansy

17:36

It's an Android tablet, except worse

badp

ah yes, youtube tv, for those who are EXTREMELY geographically privileged

Ronan

I guess not needing a battery would make it way cheaper

Private Pansy

I would expect the touchscreen to be the most expensive part

Unionhawk

Oh neat, they're... just bringing Now Launcher features back

>_>

Private Pansy

I don't think slapping a battery to that thing would be hugely expensive

My $30 alarm clock has that (optional batteries)

Ronan

17:38

Yeah but they're not as powerful and flat

badp

@Unionhawk sigh

yes, please help me connect me with my hairdresser

I need it

Unionhawk

@badp Honestly, the pixel launcher is pretty good though

Private Pansy

@badp You can get your food delivered while getting your hair dressed on your way home and listening to hiphop. Hands free.

This is the future!

Unionhawk

I am disappointed that I haven't seen departure times in the where they hid now launcher's feed (in pixel launcher) though lately

badp

excellent, just place calls for me

twitter must be blowing up right now

Private Pansy

17:42

"Hey Google, can you book a Turing test at 4pm tomorrow for me? kthx"

Unionhawk

I 1000% do not believe this interaction aside from this test probably executes exactly like this

oh my god

mass google assistant phone calls asking for holiday hours

GnomeSlice

@Ash noooo, it's better on the bottom cause otherwise condiments slide off

Unionhawk

Oh man, google assistant telling me to log off is actually 100% what I need

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk "I'm sorry Dave..."

badp

finally, youtube comes with a built-in earthbound dad

now I just need him to wire me money instantly

Unionhawk

17:50

Any IO talk for the next segment will be automatically redirected because it's about Google News sorry I don't make the rules

(this is not a thing that I will be doing actually)

Private Pansy

See, I don't understand this. It doesn't seem like they understand what the problem is.

They've made the recommendation algorithm tuned to push fresh and interesting content to users so they're addicted to YouTube

Then when people do get addicted they add a "Go the fuck to sleep" reminder to YouTube

Instead of, you know, looking at the recommendation algorithm

Unionhawk

I mean, surface level, but like, deeper level the recommendation algorighm causes some more interesting issues too

which is for actually and for reals within the realm of room 64176

Yuuki

@badp I agree with cheese above the patty, but that bottom bun better have mayo or something.

Or the bun better be toasted.

Or it'll be soggy from meat juice.

Unionhawk

status-bydesign

ok but actually, rolling subscriptions into a google signin is cool and good

badp

Kevin van der Velden

17:59

@Yuuki You don't like the meat juice?

quartata

@badp is this going to be your response to everything now

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