The Bridge

8:06 PM

@GnomeSlice: Well, I'll (removed) your (removed), too!

room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, which is aiming its lazers as we enter orange alert condition. Have you voted in the elections yet?

GnomeSlice

I'll have to remember to go through the digest and cast my last vote.

I think passing out these ones randomly would be most ungood.

espais

funny, i made sure to vote in this but somehow missed the last local election

Moshe

Hi all. @Josh fancy meeting you here.

GnomeSlice

@espais The voting just opened.

Josh

8:09 PM

@Moshe hey there

Moshe

@Josh I'm here to plug Nippon. :-)

espais

@GnomeSlice just voted!

GnomeSlice

@espais :P

Moshe

Anyone here got an iOS device?

Powerlord

@Moshe Nope, sorry.

Moshe

8:14 PM

@Powerlord I know, you answered me a moment ago.

badp

room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, which is deploying its lazers as we finally reach red alert. Have you voted in the elections yet?

Moshe

If anyone here has an iOS device, please check out my game, Nippon: itunes.apple.com/us/app/nippon/id415518235?mt=8&ls=1

Nippon is a turn based trading game, a throwback of Dope Wars for Palm.

Thanks!

badp

Vote for the new mods. How are votes counted? Who is running?

2

:498956 Yes, I was looking again for it.

Brant

@Moshe I does!

espais

@Moshe: port it to windows mobile and i'll check it out :p

badp

8:24 PM

:(

Powerlord

Voting for someone who's not running? That's talent!

Moshe

@espais Send me a WinPhone and I'll port it.

@Brant Great, please check out my game. If you like it, please rate and review in iTunes, so that other people get to see it and enjoy! Nippon on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/app/nippon/id415518235?mt=8&ls=1

Powerlord

You need a WinPhone to port it? I thought you just needed Visual Studio and XNA Framework 4.

Moshe

@Powerlord I need a testing device. ;-)

Brant

I want to do some iOS development, but I just don't like the idea of Obj-C very much.

WRU garbage collection?

Moshe

8:27 PM

@Brant It's a bit hard to stomach at first, but the frameworks are so awesome once you get over the square brackets.

@Brant WRU = ?

Brant

where are you

Moshe

@Brant Ah. Please, it's simple. If you call`retain` alloc new or copy, you call a corresponding release or autorelease.

And, autorelease is kinda like a GC anyway.

Brant

My day job involves a ton of asp.net mvc/jquery, so I'm basically a web guy. I've been toying with some of the mobile webapp frameworks like sencha touch and phonegap, but...

Moshe

@Brant I was starting web but then switched to iOS.

Powerlord

@Brant I still haven't learned asp.net MVC, :/

Of course, I work mainly in Java where I work. :/

Brant

8:29 PM

@Powerlord please tell me you aren't using webforms...oh, good.

Moshe

I gotta run now, but please check out my game and spread the word. If anyone wants, star my post so that other folks can enjoy. Have a great weekend!

15 mins ago, by Moshe

If anyone here has an iOS device, please check out my game, Nippon: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nippon/id415518235?mt=8&ls=1

Powerlord

@Brant Actually, the .NET devs here still do use WinForms.

Brant

I've actually never done any client-side .NET development, unless designing reports counts. I don't know anything about what the WTF-factor of WinForms is like compared to WPF or whatever the new shiny is.

(actually, could a mod move this over to Programmers? Maybe someone there will chime in.)

Powerlord

er... sorry, I meant WebForms. WinForms for the occasional client-side app, but we do very few of those these days.

Feeds

9:01 PM

0

Q: Terran Scout Buildings Absorbing Damage

When playing XvT, Terran's often employ a barrack's or a factory as a cheap scout. I've also seen a lot of cases where they will like to fly the scout over one part of your base (say your main base) while then flanking with their army and attacking your natural. The reason for this is that ofte...

starcraft-2

Mana

Yo guys, can we undo our votes after we vote?

badp

@Mana Yes, partially

GnomeSlice

"The King is back, and he's in top form." - Cheat Code Central: http://bit.ly/fcZkMH

Tweeted by 2KGames on February 11, 2011 at 8:38 PM

Mana

Okay. Uhm.

kicks Gnome

badp

View Grace's entry then click "3rd choice", "2nd choice" and "1st choice" for her, in that order

Mana

9:12 PM

@badp I understand.

Josh

9:22 PM

@GraceNote and everyone else, I see I have a slew of corrections to make to the digest. I have been stuck in unpleasant work meetings all afternoon and will make corrections ASAP. Thanks!

Powerlord

Hmm... head home or stay here for another hour?

Feeds

0

Q: Stack Exchange wide gaming night!

Hi everyone! By posting this, I feel like this will become one of those Facebook parties where the entire house gets trashed... Crossing my fingers that it will not be like that! Just for the fun of it, a few of us are trying to hold a gaming night - So far it looks like there are going to be q...

discussion stackexchange fun games

Powerlord

9:38 PM

@Powerlord In case anyone was wondering, the answer to that is... Bacon.

Mana

fffffffffffffff

SO HUNGRY.

UUUUUUUUUGGGGHHHH.

Oak

Wee elections!

Now I just need to decide who to vote for :\

badp

1 hour ago, by badp

Oak

Nice edit :)

Actually I voted for you, @badp. I'm counting on your very high activity, since we need someone to replace me!

And I'm pretty sure that my online hours here ⊂ your online hours here

GnomeSlice

@Oak What are you talking about? I voted for you too.

kazzamalla

9:45 PM

@Oak I'm sad you aren't running. Like @badp I keep scrolling up and down the voting pages even though I know I won't find you there.

Oak

I appreciate the support @badp @Gnome @kazzamalla but I think you overstate the importance of us mods :)

Many other good candidates

So many good ones, in fact, I'm having trouble with my vote.

badp

um, I think I'm stuck again \o/

but this time around it's just figuring out what item to use

unless I switched one star too many

Nyuszika7H

Hi! I'm just looking there for 2 mins, good night :)

badp

nite

Oak

So, any ideas how I can best abuse modship for the next 3 days?

GnomeSlice

9:53 PM

I really cannot get enough of this Chiptune Artist.

Even though most of his stuff is from 2005 or earlier.

badp

@Oak Make a ton of private hidden chat rooms from which to complain about new mods from and plan conspiracies.

GnomeSlice

Timbral

@Oak Delete good questions and then repost them as your own.

Oak

@GnomeSlice but most good questions are answered and I can't copy the answers...

badp

@Oak merge.

GnomeSlice

@Oak No, but you can delete them and make us answer them again.

It's what I would do.

Oak

9:56 PM

@badp actually now that I think about it I can go through all the chat rooms and make myself owner :)

GnomeSlice

Er, wait a minute...

@Oak Heh.

@Oak No you can't.

@badp no?

No. Not here anyway.

@badp why, can't mods be owners?

badp

9:59 PM

@Oak sure they can. Still you can't make yourself owner here.

Oak

Why, what's so different here?

badp

not now, I misclicked a minute ago.

Nyuszika7H

night :)

Oak

@badp but that's minor... I need to change myself to an owner of the mod room or something :)

badp

@Oak that might work...

Oak

10:01 PM

Is any of our candidates living in Japan or Australia or something similar?

Or are the timezone options only the Americas and Europe?

GnomeSlice

Life Expired Man, this guy is good.

An Eskimeau Experience

GnomeSlice

10:21 PM

Wow, Timbral is a chat-killer, apparently.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice Gah, I hate when I see something wrong but I can't call it out because I can't name it :(

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi Eskimeau vs Eskimo?

That's the way the artist spelled it. Did you give it a listen?

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice No. Eskimeau is definitely wrong.

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi Well, then I have no idea what you're talking about. :P

Arda Xi

It's either Eskimo or Esquimaux. Not a portmanteau of both. Anyway, I didn't, I can't listen to anything atm.

@GnomeSlice I do. Eskimeau is a portmanteau of two of the different spellings. It's half English, half French.

That's like calling something a biscookie.

GnomeSlice

10:23 PM

Maybe that was the point?

Arda Xi

Oh, that's what it's about?

GnomeSlice

No idea. It's chiptune. Instrumental.

Arda Xi

Exactly. So it's wrong, and I want to know the name of the 'mistake' (or stylistic device, if you prefer)

GnomeSlice

Looks like he was born in Gothenburg, sweden.

@ArdaXi Mis-spelling?

@ArdaXi Star it anyway, it's great.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice I thought there was a specific name for a portmanteau of two alternative spellings...

GnomeSlice

10:25 PM

@ArdaXi Even I've never heard the term portmanteau so I can't help you there.

@ArdaXi Melting Pot?

@Arda I know where you can ask though. Head over to the English SE chatroom.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice A portmanteau is a combination of two words, like Wikipedia (wiki and encyclopedia). The word has an awesome etymology.

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi Aha, I can imagine.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice (Lewis Caroll)

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi Evan Carrol.

5

Q: Curiouser and curiouser...

Is "Curiouser" in fact, a word? (Yes, this question is very short, but that's really all I need to ask.)

meaning etymology

Someone edited "curiouser" out of my question on SU, so I had to find out. :P

Turns out I was wrong.

Arda Xi

It's definitely a word. Only the most pedantic will count it wrong.

A lot of words have been coined by Caroll.

GnomeSlice

10:33 PM

It's not actually.

See the question for details.

Arda Xi

> Let me just state (for the record) that if you are wondering if this would be considered a word in the pure linguistic sense (rather than in Standard English), then I think that most linguists would say yes; it probably has been around long enough and is well-established enough to be considered a word.

GnomeSlice

The general consensus is that you can pretty much use it wherever, but technically it's not an English word.

sjohnston

Can anyone point me to where I can see graphs of SE2.0 sites' traffic over time?

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice It's not a Standard (read: Pedantic) English word, no.

But a lot of acceptable words aren't.

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi Of course not. I wasn't asking it was acceptable though. I was just curious.

Arda Xi

10:35 PM

@GnomeSlice I was curiouser.

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi iseewatchoodidthar

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice ∎

(Literally nobody will get that)

Someone starred it. They must have understood it.

GnomeSlice

I did. And did not.

I just liked the character.

Arda Xi

Google it.

GnomeSlice

"Your search - ∎ - did not match any documents."

:(

I think I'm doing it wrong.

Arda Xi

10:40 PM

Try Wikipedia-ing it.

Google doesn't support non-ASCII. ;-)

Short version: It means QED.

GnomeSlice

And I thought I was smart.

Hold on, I need to Google that one too.

Arda Xi

It means quod erat demonstrandum.

GnomeSlice

End of proof, basically. ok.

What were you referring to?

Arda Xi

LOL

GnomeSlice

Pah.

← Idiot.

@ArdaXi :

in English Language and Usage, 50 secs ago, by Martha

Can't think of such a word, but this might be a good question to ask on EL&U.

Dammit, it looks like I broke YouTube...

Powerlord

10:52 PM

What a horrible night to have a curse... why hasn't Konami ever remade Castlevania 2 as a non-Engrish mess?

CV2 is one of those rare games that is unintentionally Guide Dang It.

Feeds

Stack Overflow Blog: Stack Exchange API 1.1 and Improved App Gallery

Posted by Jeff Atwood on February 11th, 2011

We just rolled out version 1.1 of the Stack Exchange API. To see what’s new, browse the revised documentation at:

Rebecca took an informal survey of the API developer community at Stack Apps, and determined that what everyone wanted most (beyond v2 of the API, yes, I know) was an improved application gallery. So we’ve made the default page on the site the application gallery, and spruced it up to be more visually friendly to average users.

This should make it easier for Stack Exchange users to find your app and start using it! Do bear in mind that we heavily promote stackapps.com both with house ads, and in the footer of every Stack Exchange site we launch. So developers, we have your back. If you build on our API, we will continue to fully support you in every way we can. …

Powerlord

@Feeds I wonder if they rolled out any fixes for @YiJiang.

Yi Jiang

@Powerlord Hmmm, no elections route

Will have to wait for the next version then

GnomeSlice

►

More Timbral. This one is probably my favourite.

Chat-kill again. :S

Arda Xi

11:16 PM

@GnomeSlice I used to do that...

Feeds

0

Q: Can you do a "new game+" in Muramasa: The Demon Blade?

Started playing Muramasa recently and was wondering if once I've beaten the story I will be able to start the game as the girl or guy again and keep my level and weapons. In other words can I beat the game multiple times with the guy and girl and retain my XP and weapons?

wii muramasa-the-demon-blade

Josh

11:36 PM

The Town Hall Chat Digest is now available! PLease submit any corrections to @Josh.

Brant

That kinect laser question keeps getting weirder and weirder

GnomeSlice

Top 10 Best Xbox 360 Multiplayer Games http://bit.ly/f4WLPU

Tweeted by LevelUpGameGear on February 11, 2011 at 10:50 PM

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