The Bridge

Trent Hawkins

00:06

Was moving my computer, and what I thought was a convenient and sturdy hand-hold... was not. The front panel came off and the pc fell 3 feet directly onto it's back.

Everything's fine internally (a couple SATA cables came off), it boots... but the front panel usb/audio connections had their pins bent.

Yuuki

Disney's Mulan - Official Teaser

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:|

I don't like the idea that they're making this a "girls can do fighting too" because that's neither the message of the original fable nor the message of the original Disney animated film.

> According to The DisInsider, Mushu, a character that was voiced by actor Eddie Murphy in the original Disney animated film, will be replaced by a Phoenix in the live-action remake. That isn't the only change the site is reporting, however, as it goes on to say the movie will only use the original music as instrumentals, instead of having the characters sing the songs.

No singing is a good choice, even though I really like the music in Mulan.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Why does the move Leech Seed have so many odd quirks?

The move Leech Seed sets a volatile status on the opponent Pokemon, draining its HP. However, I've noticed there are several strange quirks that are unique to this move that make me think it is somehow implemented differently from the other moves. It's not the only move that casts a volatile stat...

pokemon-ruby-sapphire-emerald

forest

00:53

Is there anything wrong with the above question? I got a downvote but no explanation, so I've been looking through the rules to make sure it's acceptable, and it appears that it is. Is there something specific I should do to better make my question fit the format of this site?

I wager that the reason for the DV was because I posted some code, though I have no need for programming help and only posted it in case it was useful, since the typical places I looked for an answer (Bulbapedia, etc.) were of no help.

Yuuki

01:07

The question seems to be asking whether Leech Seed is coded in a unique way, which isn't really something that's in our wheelhouse.

forest

@Yuuki I already know it's coded in a unique way. I want to know why it behaves differently. The only reason the code is there is in case it helps someone else find the answer faster.

As far as I know, questions about glitches and game quirks are on topic.

Nik3141

The question looks fine. Sometimes someone random will just decide that they don't like something or other about the question and downvote it. It costs 0 reputation so I'm sure some people just go around downvoting because they can.

forest

oh

Well hopefully it gets an upvote before someone reflexively downvotes a -1 question.

Should I remove the code so it looks less like I'm trying to get someone to analyze the code?

Nik3141

No

forest

Ok, I'll keep it then.

Nik3141

01:15

You explained that it was there just in case it helps, and what it does, making it clear that no analysis is fine.

The only way I could see improving this question (and I don't know anything about Pokemon) would be giving examples of other moves it is different from.

forest

Well, all of them.

It's the only move I've ever seen that behaves that way.

Nik3141

Oh, well I guess if I played Pokemon I probably would've known that.

And someone upvoted it anyways, and I did too, because that is the type of question that is good on Arqade: it asks about some type of quirk, bringing it to the attention of people who might not have known about it and providing a search result to other people with the same question.

forest

Yeah. Honestly I was surprised no one else noticed this, or at least talked about it on the popular Pokemon forums or wiki. It seems like it has some pretty surprising quirks.

Nik3141

All the more reason to point it out then

GnomeSlice

I see some new faces. Welcome

forest

01:21

o/

The Mattbat999

Hello

pppery

Who, exactly, is being welcomed?

The Mattbat999

Heck if i know.

Maybe forest?

forest

Maybe. I'm new here at least.

pppery

... although I guess I'm not really in a position to speak, having come back from a three-month break only a week ago.

The Mattbat999

01:26

Oof. I took a break after the mod election

Not 3 months tho.

I am still shooting to have visited the site 365 days in a row.

Nik3141

It was very unfortunate: I got to 74 days and then got the flu and forgot one day.

The Mattbat999

Oof.

forest

I imagine a curl script in a cron job to log in would be cheating. :P

The Mattbat999

I am at 292 days (i think?)

Nik3141

Yeah I've been just keeping the page loaded on my phone and refreshing it right after I turn off my alarm. It's basically a habit now.

The Mattbat999

01:31

Lol. I check the review queue every day.

pppery

@forest It wouldn't just be cheating, it probably wouldn't work

forest

> The exact amount of activity required to count as a visit is not public information

Oh well that would be easy to find out, and easy to automate with curl.

pppery

77

A: What are the badges I can earn on each site, and what are the exact criteria for earning each badge?

Participation Badges Return to Top Autobiographer bronze; awarded once Enter something in the “About Me” field of your user profile (source) Previously awarded only for filling in all profile fields; today, only the "About Me" description field needs to be filled in Caucus bronze; awa...

The Mattbat999

Heck I have been doing my stuff legit. My level of insanity is unsurpassed

Nik3141

Bruh hecking people with integrity.

Fun fact: there is no adjective form of the word integrity.

The Mattbat999

01:35

Integral

Nik3141

No that's the area under a curve in calculus or a person who is central to a group.

The Mattbat999

🤔

forest

I think it's integrous.

Nik3141

Oh maybe

The Mattbat999

Heck.

Nik3141

01:36

Idk if that's an actual word though.

forest

Yep it is, according to en.wiktionary.org/wiki/integrous.

> In common usage, integrity is much more common than its adjectival form, integrous.[1] Most speakers and writers opt for an etymologically unrelated synonym — such as honest, decent, or virtuous — when trying to express an adjectival equivalent of integrity.

The Mattbat999

Hmm... interesting.

pppery

@TheMattbat999 It depends how you define insanity. One could say that my tendency to systematically go through old minecraft questions and edit/flag them could easily be considered insane by some.

Nik3141

Well I think we can all agree that in practice, there is no adjective form because no one uses the word 'integrous'

yeah I wondered about that

The Mattbat999

@pppery nah. You are simply doing the community a service. I have noticed you correcting alot of tags for Minecraft questions... kepe up the work

Nik3141

01:38

yeah it's nice to have someone updating old stuff

The Mattbat999

Idk, i seen pppery was the editor in almost every review queue of late.

Nik3141

bruh youtube.com/watch?v=ljNL3FxzKlE

The Mattbat999

Can't watch it. Was is it?

Nik3141

And then there's me trying to give people harry potter powers gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/353437/…

sethbling making an enderclock

It's a custom datapack where an enderman places blocks in a clock that updates itself.

The Mattbat999

Whoa. Sounds complicated

Nik3141

01:43

Yeah it's pretty epic. No clue how it works, but very epic.

The Mattbat999

How i survived many of my best video game moments still confuses me to this day

Like in Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind when i got jumped by 4 Ash Vampires and still managed to win.

pppery

@TheMattbat999 But the task I'm doing is something that should not be necessary; the community should have caught these mistagged/off-topic questions when they were posted, not required me to find them years later.

The Mattbat999

@pppery true, true

Wipqozn

Strange Things 3 was fantastic

cc @fredley probably

Kevin

I has a sad :( I am going home and not taking my girlfriend with me

The Mattbat999

01:54

That sucks...

Nik3141

Yeah I started putting the mc version in all my questions like (Java Minecraft 1.14.3) to make that easier, but it hasn't really caught on yet.

@pppery

pppery

@Nik3141 What were you pinging me about?

The Mattbat999

I hardly ask questions at all. I suck at asking good questions.

pppery

I've never asked a single question in any StackExchange site.

And have 3.5K rep on one site and 2.9K on another

The Mattbat999

Wow. I have asked a few here and there. My highest voted answer (and post) was actually my simplest.

Nik3141

01:58

Oh just the thing about the question titles.

The Mattbat999

What?

Nik3141

oh ppery asked about why I pinged him

Honestly the only reason I signed up for this site was the Minecraft wiki sucks at explaining what commands do and I wanted to write a datapack to allow you to bottle your xp by throwing a glass bottle in a cauldron.

The Mattbat999

Wow.

pppery

I'm apparently so prolific at retagging questions that I reached the too-many-pending-edits limit in only ten minutes

The Mattbat999

Idek why i signed up honestly, but i have made a name for myself.

Nik3141

02:02

I feel like there should be some sort of exemption for people who are trying to fix other people's bad grammar.

pppery

Exemption from what? The suggested edits limit? There is, and it's called "have >2k rep"

Nik3141

but you have 7.3k...

oh is the suggested edits limit different from too many pending edits limit?

The Mattbat999

Heck you don't have any real power around here till you get a diamond.

pppery

The rep number shown in chat is an sum across all sites. I have 3.5k rep on CGCC (formerly known as PPCG), 2.9K on stack overflow, but only 500 on arqade.

Nik3141

oh

The Mattbat999

02:04

Lemme go and review some of your edits...

Nik3141

yeah I tried doing the fixing grammar thing but then got yeeted for "changing the OP's original meaning"

pppery

@TheMattbat999 I strongly disagree. I've probably caused over 100 questions to be closed by using only the "flag posts" privelege that I earned at 15 rep (AKA at the beginning, because I got +100 assoc bonus)

Nik3141

...hard to determine meaning when there's no sentence format

The Mattbat999

@pppery i meant classic "Mod Abuse"

pppery

I've come across what I consider Mod Abuse twice already, when a mod reviewed a question with four close votes as "Leave Open"

The Mattbat999

02:07

~~I am kinda joking around, but ok~~

Nik3141

see I feel like people are too eager to close and put questions on hold, rather than just using their brain cells to figure out what the person means and edit it. If the person meant something different, they can re-edit to fix it.

for example: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/354029/…

but maybe that's the expectation on this site idk

The Mattbat999

I had a Pokemon question almost ruined because someone changed what i meant.

Nik3141

unfortunate

The Mattbat999

That was long ago, before i started this account.

Back in the dark ages

Nik3141

lol

pppery

02:09

No, no, no. no, no. All closeworthy questions must be closed, lest they fall into the backlog for users like me.

22 mins ago, by pppery

@TheMattbat999 But the task I'm doing is something that should not be necessary; the community should have caught these mistagged/off-topic questions when they were posted, not required me to find them years later.

Nik3141

in the linked question it was pretty clear what they were asking, I think people just didn't want to bother with getting them to say it explicitly

pppery

Refusing to close questions contributes to that backlog

The Mattbat999

Some questions really have to be closed.

Nik3141

I'm not suggesting not closing bad questions, I'm suggesting not immediately closing non-good and non-bad questions

meaning ones that are right in the middle, average, run of the mill questions

pppery

19

Q: How to make 20 minutes (1 day) delay?

I am getting tired of manually managing my chicken farm, so I have invented this automated design: The step from eggs to chicken is easy, and it's even simple to make it happen in batches - every time dispensers are filled using hoppers, a comparator activates clock until they're empty again. ...

minecraft minecraft-redstone

Some duplicate questions acquire 19 upvotes and go unclosed for four years

The Mattbat999

02:12

Wow.

Sometimes things just get lost in the arhives.

pppery

14

Q: How can I make a Random Number Generator with vanilla redstone?

I'm working on a game for my Minecraft server that includes the element of chance. The idea is that there are 6 buttons. One of them (randomly determined by redstone circuitry) results in wealth, prizes, etc. The other five result in doom. When you enter the room the doors close initiating the ...

minecraft minecraft-redstone

Other duplicate questions attract 14 upvotes and go unclosed for six years.

(I flagged both of those questions as duplicate myself)

Nik3141

Yeah I find it really annoying that I will spend 4 hours thinking of how to word a minecraft-commands question in order to not have it downvoted into oblivion, and then someone comes along with this: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/353776/…

19 upvotes

The Mattbat999

Yep, things can get messy in a community of over 100k people

Nik3141

what does marking duplicates actually do? does it mark it as a bad question or does it just provide a pointer for more possible answers for later people searching?

SaintWacko

Ugh my flight has been delayed an hour and a half

Nik3141

02:16

unfortunate

Unfortunately, thinking about how to say this question for about 6 hours (during the entirety of the school day) did not save it: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/350881/…

Kevin

Where's you flying to @SaintWacko?

pppery

Are you ready for an even more extreme example ...

Nik3141

maybe?

pppery

your unsureness has been noted

Nik3141

I choose the red pill

Lazers 2.0

02:20

0

Q: What is the Enderman's java file?

I am trying to find the enderman's java file (Model file) and I haven't been able to find it in the models folder of minecraft. Any idea on where the model is or where I can download the actual JAVA file from?

minecraft

0

Q: How to give a named item!

I have been trying to use the /give command to give a named book but I can't seem to give it. I keep on getting the output of * Line 1, Column 2 Missing '}' or object member name. Please help!

minecraft-commands minecraft-bedrock-edition

Nik3141

The enderman java file one isn't a bad question in meaning, but is executed poorly. Generalizing it to ask where to find a mob model would make it more search findable and an actually useful question.

And fixing all the problems with terminology inconsistencies and the typos.

That second one is very bad, and I'd suggest marking it as a dupe to my question from about a month ago

ill link it

@pppery It is basically a dupe of this question: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/350591/…

pppery

No, it's not. That's a Java Edition question and the new one's a Bedrock Edition question.

Nik3141

Oh Bedrock edition nvm

pppery

Possible duplicate of How do you add NBT tags to commands in Minecraft Pocket/Bedrock Edition? — pppery 3 mins ago

Nik3141

ye

Unionhawk

02:24

1-1 — Cadence of Hyrule real voice shopkeeper

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heck yeah

Continuing to throw money at my screen until a cadence of hyrule soundtrack appears in my bandcamp account or whatever

pppery

@Nik3141 Said descisions must be taken with far more sureness. </joke>. Seriously, though, I've been so reluctant to provide my example because the question passed the close vote review queue, despite in my opinion clearly deserving closure, so I'm worried that linking it here may be improper.

Ben

Hey, can someone help me find a question/answer about Minecraft mob skin templates? It was asking about like, where to put the head in the png file, etc.

Nik3141

Why? Discourse is free here.

The one with the enderman java thing? I think it was asking about where to locate the default one that comes with minecraft

Ben

@Nik3141 Yeah, there was another one earlier, about the layout of the png file. There's a specific template to follow - this panel is the face, this panel is the back of the head, etc

Nik3141

Oh ok

Frank

02:32

@pppery The big thing to remember is that those reviewing may not necessarily be Minecraft experts.

There's nothing in the process to guarantee reviewers are knowledgeable about the problem space.

pppery

I don't think that's why, but OK, I'll bring the question up anyway.

12

Q: How many possible outcomes will there be to my Minecraft lock?

I just built a lock for a door in Minecraft. The user has to pick the correct four colors out of twelve. Order doesn't matter. What is the probability of the user guessing the correct colors?

minecraft minecraft-redstone

Nik3141

I guess it's too much to ask people who don't know about a subject to not vote on it

Frank

That problem doesn't even have anything to do with Minecraft.

It's pure stats.

Nik3141

Well it does

but it's just combinatorics

pppery

Some questions, despite being purely mathematics with a tangential relationship to video games, get 12 upvotes, go unnoticed for 8 years, and get 3 leave open reviews.

Nik3141

02:35

like just do 4 nPr 12

pppery

@ppery thanks for this absolutely useless comment 8 years later. glad you weren't here back then. — Soup Jun 26 at 15:48

... and attract a mildly aggressive comment from the poster when I comment on theirt off-topicness.

murgatroid99

Question standards have changed over the past 8 years. That's almost the entire lifetime of the site

And honestly, your comment wasn't going to do anything. It notifies the author and maybe one of the other commenters, but it doesn't otherwise bump the question or get it on anyone's radar

pppery

I did flag the question as well, on June 26, a few hours after that comment.

But it attracted 3 leave open reviews

Nik3141

There are so many dumb minecraft-commands questions that we should just make a wiki on everything a beginner could want to know about commands.

Frank

It's best to just flag; commenting doesn't do much except to give them a target.

Nik3141

02:39

idk if that's against policy with the whole Q&A thing

murgatroid99

@Nik3141 Sound like something that would be good, just not here

Frank

@Nik3141 We could...but I feel like that would be a massive undertaking. Arqade isn't meant to be a general reference site for all things for all games.

Nik3141

Yeah but then we refer them to an outside site, which apparently is also discouraged

SaintWacko

@Kevin Back home to Tulsa. I've been up in Michigan visiting family

Currently in St. Louis for a (supposed to be) short layover

Nik3141

I mean I am making a youtube series on how to do datapacks: I'd be willing to write it but only if it isn't going to be crushed as soon as it's posted.

murgatroid99

02:42

That really looks like something that belongs on an actual wiki, not a Q&A site

Nik3141

yeah ig

pppery

minecraft.gamepedia.com?

Frank

If you feel these issues with Minecraft and how we approach them are flawed, I encourage you to post about it on Meta. If you feel that it's a problem with the community itself, you can post an answer on our Community Check-in meta post.

Actually, posting about it in the check-in is probably a good idea, regardless.

Minecraft tends to attract our largest number of low quality questions, I think. If you have a good way to help fix that, we're listening.

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Kevin

02:57

Im at the gate

Crew just boarded

BA 272 and then BA 442 for people interested

Nik3141

wait for me

The thing Nzall posted about in that community check in seems good.

pppery

03:18

1

Q: How do I send items to a gregtech machine only if it is not running?

So I have an array of gregtech machines (induction furnaces at the moment, but I want to set up rotary macerators, singularity compressors, industrial centrifuges, centrifuge extractors, etc). Each array consists of 8 machines and I have 8 arrays per machine. I want to make sure that if all 8 mac...

minecraft-feed-the-beast minecraft-mods

I don't seem to be able to suggest an edit to this question (the system is whining "edits must be 6 characters", even though tag-only edit suggestions are usually OK), but the question needs minecraft and minecraft-redstone added.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Disappearing Villagers - Minecraft Bedrock Edition

I've Been having a problem in my man-made village where some of my villagers have disappeared. I know zombies aren't the problem because it's lit up and they can't reach it, but I think the problem might be bad reputation but I'm not sure and don't know much about it.I really need help because I'...

minecraft minecraft-bedrock-edition

forest

03:55

@Frank Why is that anyway. Is it just that a lot of children are asking questions?

Trent Hawkins

@forest Possibly because on the surface Minecraft is easy for persons of all ages and skill levels to get into. But it also has a fairly complex underbelly that can do many fancy things. Things that tend to require a more in-depth understanding than the average player does (often, yes, because the asker is younger)

user15026

@GnomeSlice its so lovely. I like it very much.

Memor-X

05:15

Epic Blocks Steam Users From Free/Discounted Remasters With Exclusivity Deals

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to be honest it's not just Epic is to blame (though still a dick move that Epic is only doing to to take the monopoly for themselves and fuck the consumer), it's the studios behind these remasters who want more money. sure we're not entitles to free/discounted remasters on the same platform but doing so would foster a better relationship between a studio and the customer.

Memor-X

05:57

oh cool, i just jumped up like 60 or 70 levels from redeeming those tokens for that grand prix badge on Steam

and yet no notification on my level up bonuses

forest

06:42

@Memor-X That kind of thing is why I pirate exclusively.

If game companies didn't pull moves like that, I would be far more sympathetic with them.

Nzall

07:19

@Yuuki Hang on, no "make a man out of you"?

That was like the best part of the original Mulan

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Minecraft LAN Problem 1.14.4

My brother and I are on PC Minecraft, and I'm trying to connect to him when he opens LAN to go to his world. We're finding that whenever I connect to him, I'm getting the error io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel$AnnotatedConnectException: Connection time out: no further information: But that's onl...

minecraft

Wrigglenite

07:36

@forest Unless I'm reading this wrong, this looks like it's asking why the developers had to (or decided to) code something a certain way, which is not really our scope. It might be on-topic on Game Dev, but I'm not familiar with their rules

forest

07:53

@Wrigglenite No, it's asking why Leech Seed behaves as it does and why it is so buggy.

It's not fundamentally different from asking what causes MissingNo.

And it wouldn't be on-topic at Game Dev because I'm not developing a game.

Wrigglenite

Possibly retrocomputing

I'm not sure I understand the question as it's written. It might be worth rephrasing it, if possible

forest

Are you familiar with gen III Pokemon? I'm not sure how to rephrase it. What I've observed is that Leech Seed behaves differently and does not obey certain statuses like Attract.

At least, I can't think about how to rephrase the two quirks I've listed.

@Wrigglenite Can you be more specific, anyways? That'll help me focus my efforts.

Wrigglenite

"Why" questions can be a bit of a grey area here

forest

Hm, should I word it as "what causes" then, instead?

Wrigglenite

We're better at answering "How" or "Where", for example

Well, it's not a matter of phrasing

forest

08:01

Because I'm curious for the root cause, not an opinion on intention.

Wrigglenite

By root cause, do you mean what in the code causes it to behave this way?

forest

No. Im curious if there's any technical reason for this. For example "Leech Seed is a special move and doesn't interact the way you'd expect because this-and-that". I don't need to be pointed to the code.

If the answer is that it's simply a bug, I'd be happy with that as well.

By "technical reason", anything from an in-universe answer to an answer explaining some fact about Gen III that I didn't know to the simple statement that it's a bug would suffice.

Wrigglenite

Technically, only the developers could categorize it as a bug, so some members of the community might see that as developer intent

forest

Even laymen refer to bugs in games without being developers though.

I don't see how it's different from a question like "Why do I get stuck in this wall if I walk into it from an angle" or something, and I've seen questions like that. I mean if it's totally off-topic, I'll delete it, but from my quick check of the help center and looking for related questions, I concluded it was topical.

Wrigglenite

It's not closed, so the community has not decided (yet?) that it's off-topic

Which in the end is the only real way to see if something is off-topic

forest

08:12

I see.

Wrigglenite

I'm just providing a reason why people might be voting for it as off-topic, and downvoting it

forest

Are there votes for it to be closed as off-topic? I don't have sufficient rep to see.

Wrigglenite

Generally, without looking at the code, I'm not sure what kind of answer one can provide other than "because it works that way"

forest

Then what about questions about MissingNo that are accepted?

Those didn't require code, despite having technical answers.

Wrigglenite

Again, the real measure of whether a question is off-topic or not is, fortunately or unfortunately, whether it is closed or not- that is, whether the community thinks it's on-topic or not

It can make matters confusing when trying to draw lines

forest

08:15

Ah. That's why I asked if there were existing close votes on it. If so then I think I'll remove the code so it doesn't look so much like a generic programming question at first glance.

Wrigglenite

Some areas are more blurry than others, and the subject of some questions might be popular enough to push people to vote it to stay open

There is no objective off-topic/on-topic decision, for better or worse

forest

ah

Wrigglenite

But your question is probably going to stay open

forest

Well I guess that's what community consensus and Meta are for.

Wrigglenite

It has received two votes so far, I can't see it exploding

forest

08:17

I think it received two down and four up (just from memory).

Wrigglenite

Sorry, two close votes

forest

ah

Wrigglenite

I do think this kind of edge case might be better handled on meta, though. If the question gets closed or if you just would like more opinions, feel free to ask there

I expect the answers to be mixed though, as shown by the score and the close votes

I think the question would benefit from a better explanation of the kind of answer you're expecting, though

Just to clear up the confusion

forest

There. I've completely removed the code since I do think it made it look like a game dev question.

I'll try rewording it to better explain what I'm looking for as well.

Wrigglenite

Yeah, the code probably gives off a "why was it coded this way?" feel

forest

08:24

I thought that since the first DV but someone else told me I should keep it, so I hesitated.

Especially when more than half the post looks like a Stack Overflow question. :P

Wrigglenite

It's relevant information, but it's probably better suited in an answer than in the question

forest

yeah

Wrigglenite

> I've noticed there are several strange quirks that are unique to this move that make me think it is somehow implemented differently from the other moves

I think the word "implemented" here also gives off the impression that you're asking about code

forest

Yeah I should reword that as well. My first guesses are always about the technical side of things.

right

Wrigglenite

If that's not what you're asking, it should be a little clearer

forest

08:32

Yeah I changed it.

Wrigglenite

This is one of those questions that is interesting but also might veer too far into the technical side of things, meaning people might think it's unanswerable here

It's probably not going to get closed, but I don't know if you'll get a satisfactory answer

forest

My guess is I won't, otherwise it'd likely be explained on Bulbapedia already.

But it doesn't hurt to try.

Private Pansy

09:51

Singapore Netflix has Haruhi TV series and the movie

Strangely it has both broadcast and chronological order, under two different items with the exact same. I’m sure this is not confusing at all.

forest

Good thing I don't use Singaporean Netflix. I couldn't stand to see the Endless Eight again.

Private Pansy

You know you can just skip ahead since this is streaming, right?

They aren’t putting this out one episode a week (although it would be hilarious if they did force you to wait a week between each episode for the proper Haruhi experience)

I wish there was a filter to get rid of all the soft core porn anime which Netflix has somehow accumulated over the years

Ave

10:08

honestly I have no fucking idea why I am still paying for netflix

I don't use it

yet I pay for 4k

sure my mom uses it rarely but why am I paying for it

Private Pansy

If you want you can use mine. No 4K though.

Ave

thanks for the offer

but i don't think that my mom would be very happy if she couldn't watch black mirror or whatever

in other stuff

new dedi new dedi new dedi new dedi bridge I'm excited

Private Pansy

The thumbnail for Rosario to Vampire on Netflix is a character licking soft serve ice cream off her face and hands which is very classy and definitely appropriate

@Ave Neat, how much are you paying?

Ave

@PrivatePansy 25eur for this

going from a SB24 which I paid 21eur for

which had i7-2600, 16gb of ddr3, and 2x3tb drives on raid1

Private Pansy

That’s quite a lot of hardware for €25

Ave

10:14

I'll go for raid1 again so we're at a loss of 1tb usable space

but these are enterprise drives sooo

@PrivatePansy it's server auction- it's not fresh hardware

currently the SB24's drives have very significant power on hours as a result

27169 on drive 1, 57102 on drive 2

and one is a WD Red while other is a Seagate Barracuda

so especially drive wise you pick the short straw

Private Pansy

At least they aren’t the same manufacturer or age so you won’t get simultaneous failures

GnomeSlice

10:46

I don't know if I can do this. I'm back to work this morning. I dropped a tray of bread already by mistake and like screamed at it

Nzall

11:12

@PrivatePansy You do know that Netflix thumbnails are based on what Netflix thinks is appealing to you, right?

Like, Netflix has dozens of thumbnails for each series and they often switch them around to see which makes you click more

Memor-X

11:26

if a CPU has 12 cores and it's base clock rate is 3.8 GHz, can i expect that to be for even only 1 core is used? or is that the speed if all the cores are in use?

like i'm asking because i have been told that Emulators don't use more than 1 core and Emulators are one of the main things i play

Nzall

@Memor-X Each of the cores will run at 3.8 Ghz

Memor-X

@Nzall ok thanks

Moacir

I think the reason they are now focusing on cores is because they stopped focusing on the Clock Rate

If I am remembering right, Intel once in an event apologized, and said that there is no need to it be faster or something like that, so they are focusing all research on cores

Nzall

Yeah, at this point clock rate has pretty much reached a peak

I think Intel has a server CPU with 56 cores

And AMD has a consumer CPU with 24 or something like that

Moacir

Which, to be honest, you have to be pretty hardcore to use all that

Nzall

11:38

Depends on how well optimized the product is you're using

Moacir

Also, I am not sure how Windows do its threading. I am unsure if there is a setup or configuration to do something like "Nothing else uses this core except X"

I know you can force something to be on a specific core

Nzall

you need to set process affinity

Oh wait, that's for "only use this core", not "only use this core for this program"

Ave

haha yes

new server has 2 WD Reds with 45139 and 45140 uptime hours

they'll both die at the same time won't they

at least serial numbers are fairly different

Nzall

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Q: Does Windows have a "this core may ONLY run this program and should otherwise be idle" setting?

Someone in The Bridge, the main chatroom for Arqade, our gaming site, asked whether they can fully dedicate a CPU core to a specific program, to the point that if that program isn't active, the core isn't either. https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/50945749#50945749 Also, I am ...

windows cpu core

Chippies

12:21

are nouns, verbs, adjectives etc "grammar" as a group or is there a different name for it?

@Nzall that is not always true

many cpu's (especially mobile) throttle cores as more of them kick in

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Was Pandaria, Broken Isles, Kul'Tiras and Zandalar also affected by the Cataclysm?

I was wondering if Pandaria, Broken Isles, Kul'Tiras and Zandalar were also affected by the cataclysm. When questing through these places, none of the NPCs say something about strange things happening over the last years, the earth shaking or anything. So my question would be: Were these plac...

world-of-warcraft

Lazers 2.0

12:45

0

Q: command block problems

so i'm playing in my survival world and i set up a command block to kill all animals and me being the idiot i am instantly decides to hook it up to a red stone clock and i cant get into the world anymore without being instantly killed i don't know the coordinates of the command block and im also ...

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Moacir

@Nzall Noice. I wonder if it is pratical to do something like that too

user15026

13:00

@Chippies if just words, not necessarily? Context?

Moacir

@Chippies Grammatical relations

Nzall

@Chippies Lexical Categories

glossary.sil.org/term/lexical-category

Moacir

Oh

Wow

There are tons of terms for everything

So an adjective is a lexical category of a grammatical relation?

Private Pansy

13:25

@Nzall Yes, I know the thumbnails are automatically generated, and like every part of its recommendation algorithm it’s somehow precisely tuned to give me shows I never want to watch

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What are the exact effects of luck?

From what I read here and there, luck has the following effects: Increase critical strike chance Increase mob (item/shards) and destructible objects drop rates Not sure that it affects chests that reappear... Does anyone know the exact effect ? (an approximation would be nice as we...

bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night

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Q: How did the Hive achieve space travel?

As we've seen across the Destiny franchise the Hive have used ships to travel across the galaxy and also to deploy troops to the surface of worlds. As a seemingly unintelligent species, how have the Hive achieved space travel?

destiny-2

Nik3141

13:36

Wait so Lazers 2.0 just brings up any new questions from Arqade?

Unionhawk

Yes

Nik3141

oh

interesting

Nzall

13:50

I assume those are protected against XSS

Unionhawk

It just grabs it from gaming.stackexchange.com/feeds so probably

Nzall

Hmm, I want to try and see if adding </title> to the start of the title breaks that

but I'm not entirely sure where I should create that question, and chances are they already checked for it

Unionhawk

it looks like it sanitizes text based on <title type="text">Were Pandaria, Broken Isles, Northrend, Kul'Tiras and Zandalar also affected by the Cataclysm?</title>

Nzall

Thought as much. You don't become the biggest programmer-related site on the web without accounting for such easy things

<[[!CDATA]]> probably also is escaped

Oh wait, it tried to do something to that

time to check the sandbox

Unionhawk

yes I assume it throws it in makehtmlsafe or whatever before it goes into the feed

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