The Bridge

Dragonrage

00:04

@Ash :( i hope that the strike is over soon. that sounds terrible to deal with

not sure if biking would be feasible. it would definitely be cheaper, but would take a lot longer. also its probably still really cold given that canada actually has winters

Yuuki

Speaking of biking, I was looking at bikes over lunch today and test rode one. It was felt really nice but damn, bikes get expensive.

Dragonrage

@Yuuki they do. i want to get a new bike, but im not sure what type

my last one was like 100$ mountain bike, and it worked fairly well, but it was really heavy. it did have the advantage of kevlar reinforced tires and self patching tires though

Yuuki

I didn't see a single bike in this store for less than $400.

I'm thinking I might shop elsewhere because that's definitely a specialty place.

Dragonrage

i havent checked prices locally yet, but id suspect theyd be similar. the area i live in is really big on biking, and there are a lot of serious bikers here, so all the shops are probably higher end bikes

Lazers 2.0

00:27

0

Q: Continuing downloads on Steam

I purchased Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege a while ago and I was waiting for a good time to download it so I wouldn't go over my monthly quota. So earlier this month I started downloading it but had to stop after 35GB, with about 40GB remaining. Then I finished my new build (Ryzen R7 2700X) and s...

steam

Lazers 2.0

01:08

0

Q: minecraft forge 1.12.2 time out, port cannot be reached

I have ran into a weird problem. I have ubuntu server which hosts vanilla minecraft server on 1.15.1. Everything works fine, port 25565 is forwarded, dynamic dns is pointing to my server, players join using the dynamic-dns service ip. Now I wanted to host rlcraft server. Using forge 1.12.2, ser...

minecraft-server minecraft-forge ubuntu

Unionhawk

01:35

I have become 2.5% damage/accuracy bonus and 6 prayer bonus more powerful

And I look cooler and more like I'm good at the game

I'm not good at the game but it's important to look that way

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: What did you guys like about the “Warriors” animation from league of legends?

I just wanna know y’all’s thoughts on it. I thought it was great.

league-of-legends

Memor-X

@Unionhawk change the grey to blue and you look like Arturia, enough to make you look pro at sword

Unionhawk

02:26

I think it's not even a max hit over regular void or my calculator is wrong I can't tell which

Actually no it's marginally better as a ranging pot fades out

And a max hit unpotted

Nice

Lazers 2.0

02:49

-1

Q: Looking for this type of game:

I am looking for a specific type of game, not like a name but like an idea of titles. I am wanting to play a RTS that is like AoE but has more thinking aspects to it but has the design of AoE like building and stuff like that but I want a more logical aspect to it, not like Paradox games but more...

pc

Lazers 2.0

03:10

0

Q: How can I filter out or remove achievements sceenshots?

PS4 takes screenshot for every achievement I get. Because of that my Capture Gallery is cluttered with these useless screenshots (some of them are memorable black screens). How can I see only screenshots that I took? Is it possible to filter our or drop all achievements screenshots?

ps4

user15026

@Dragonrage its not feasible much because the roads I have to take are a) 4 lanes of very busy traffic with no bike lanes b) winter

Dragonrage

@Ash :(

Lazers 2.0

04:33

0

Q: (ComputerCraft) Squeegie Program (Using Thirsty Turtle from PeripheralsPlusOne)

Hey y'all first time using lua in years, and highly inexperienced in it in the first place. I wrote this program to go down a BuildCraft Quarry hole in the nether and remove lava as it finds it, but as I'm inexperienced, I'm getting issues and need help. Code: local left = true local descended...

minecraft-feed-the-beast minecraft-mods minecraft-computercraft

Memor-X

06:08

Yakuza 3-5 getting a HD Remaster, out next month

> Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4 & Yakuza 5 on 2 Discs

curious how that is split

Feeds

Dragonrage has added Wipqozn to the list of this room's owners.

Lazers 2.0

06:55

0

Q: Keyboard on PS4 through PSTV remote play

I have a PSTV (or VitaTV, depending on where you're from) that i solely use for remote play with my PS4. The PSTV is of course by my TV, the PS4 is in the cellar. PS4 uses a Powerline adapter for a steadier connection, PSTV is connected via LAN as well. So now i want to use a keyboard for chatt...

ps4 keyboard ps4-remote-play ps-vita-tv

Lazers 2.0

09:58

0

Q: Connection failure

when I connect my 360 with AV cables I do have a picture but using an HDMI cable it doesn't show I even tried different ports and changed cables but I always get the same results, Please help

minecraft-java-edition-realms

Lazers 2.0

10:38

0

Q: Can I use Hammer of Fighting without sufficient Dark Elixir?

I have a Hammer of Fighting that I want to use, but I don't have enough storage. My Dark Elixer storage is only 240,000, but my Bowler troop that I want to upgrade has a storage of 280,000. Would it work if I use Hammer of Fighting without enough Dark Elixer storage?

clash-of-clans

-1

Q: StackExchange just rude for no reason?

I've noticed that any time I post a question, it gets immediately down voted to 0 or below. I see that with almost every post that gets posted there, they also get down voted immediately. Spare me the lecture about there being re-posts of questions that have already been asked, I already underst...

world-of-warcraft dragon-age-inquisition

0

Q: Joining GTA V online error

After starting GTA V (Xbox one) and after choosing play online I get this message on the screen: "Could not download files from the rockstar games service to play gta online" , after accepting it it starts to load online again but same message appears. It appeared from one day to an other and can...

grand-theft-auto-5 grand-theft-auto-online

Sepia Lazers

0

Q: Are hardware settings on-topic?

I would like to ask about nVidia GPU's, G-Sync monitors and in-game framerate capping. In this instance, specifically for Destiny 2. I've had a read of Superuser on-topic advise, and it prohibits video game questions. However it would be relevant as a hardware specific question. Then on the oth...

discussion allowed-questions

Nzall

You know something is really trending when a badly written version of the hashtag is also trending

Jutschge

I love how the media somehow manages to create mass panic when there's a new "supervirus" in a densely populated area. And meanwhile the common cold is still pretty much the deadliest virus out there but hey whatever... nobody cares about that, right?

Nzall

11:17

@Jutschge People die of common colds? Every time I had a common cold, it was just about a week of sniffling and feeling miserable and then it's over

Memor-X

@Jutschge not confusing the cold with the flu there are you?

Nzall

oh right, that's probably it

Memor-X

also a bit of a difference, from my understanding there is no vaccine for the corona virus yet so you get it, it's a gamble if you live or die. with the flu we have vaccines to help us and other remedies for if those fail

granted though we may have been desensitised to how bad the flu can get thanks to the vaccines. i know there are some idiots who think that because they have the Flu Shot they wont get it no matter what but it's not making you immune

Jutschge

12:32

@Memor-X eh yeah lost in translation again

GnomeSlice

Altered Carbon season 2 next month!

Invader Skoodge

@GnomeSlice Nice, finally.

GnomeSlice

Honestly I just assumed it would end there

Must be new characters?

Invader Skoodge

I think the same character but a new actor.

Given the plot.

GnomeSlice

Oh yeah possibly

I guess he's still trying to find a way to bring back.. uh...?

Been a while

Invader Skoodge

12:37

Yeah, I don't exactly remember.

Netflix sometimes has recaps that you can watch before a new season.

Hopefully they do that for this.

GnomeSlice

I remember like about her just not her name

Stack inventor lady

I think that might be the only important bit going into next season

Invader Skoodge

The series is based on a book series, and the first season only covered the first book IIRC.

GnomeSlice

Everything with his sister and Poe seemed pretty well wrapped up

Hm I didn't know there was more than one book

Well I'm stoked either way if it's gonna be as good as season 1

One of the best shows I watched in recent years imo

Nzall

12:55

> Paladin: So WHY has no one killed this Lich?

Wizard: Great question! Her phylactery is the ONLY copy of the perfect Ravenloft video-game: equal parts Symphony of the Night, Planescape: Torment & Silent Hill 2.

All:

Paladin: Crap.

Warlock: I HEARBY SWEAR OBEDIENCE TO THE LICH.

source: twitter.com/boomer_kid/status/1221872388868124672

GnomeSlice

13:07

I don't get it

Nzall

@GnomeSlice do you know what a Lich's phylactery is in D&D?

(and probably Pathfinder and other tabletop RPGs as well)

If you don't: Essentially, a Lich is immortal as long as their phylactery isn't destroyed. Even if a Lich totally gets desintegrated, it can come back to life from the phylactery.

In this case, the joke is that no one wants to destroy the phylactery because it would mean destroying a priceless object

At least to the extent a video game can be considered priceless

Wipqozn

That joke is weeeeaaakk. BRING ON @Yuuki! KING OF JOKES!

YUUKI YUUKI YUUKI

Except pretend they're saying @Yuuki instead

also this gif because it's so terrible:

It's two frames. Why would someone even make this.

Nzall

@Wipqozn Probably jerrypandering

Wipqozn

@Nzall Not sure what that means

I'm not familiar with the Jerry Springer show, outside of the fact it's one of those shows that just makes money off shaming poor people and minorities.

Nzall

@Wipqozn It's a pun on Gerrymandering, using the words Jerry (the name you used) and Pandering (as in pandering to minorities)

So someone made that gif to pander to Jerry

Yuuki doesn't have a monopoly on bad puns

Wipqozn

13:17

No, but he's the KING of them. THE KING.

GnomeSlice

13:49

@Wipqozn I see it more as a show that gives a public platform to people who just really want to air their dirty laundry for some reason

😅

Sepia Lazers

14:02

-2

Q: StackExchange just rude for no reason?

I've noticed that any time I post a question, it gets immediately down voted to 0 or below. I see that with almost every post that gets posted there, they also get down voted immediately. Spare me the lecture about there being re-posts of questions that have already been asked, I already underst...

discussion

Lazers 2.0

14:42

0

Q: Incapacitating Dahl Quest

Towards the end of the game, you can incapacitate Dahl instead of outright killing him. This opens up an option to leave the station, as well as allow for any crew members you've saved to leave. I'm a little confused on the events here. I went with the following ending, so keep this in mind: ...

prey

Yuuki

14:57

@Nzall Yeah, they're good pans, nsull

Nzall

@Yuuki are you calling me a sul?

Yuuki

@Nzall I feel like that should be a compliment, calling you an all-powerful star dragon that created the cosmos.

Nzall

Dutch profanity

Dutch profanity can be divided into several categories. Often, the words used in profanity by speakers of Dutch are based around various names for diseases. In many cases, these words have evolved into slang, and many euphemisms for diseases are in common use.Additionally, a substantial number of curse words in the Dutch language are references to sexual acts, genitalia, or bodily functions. Religious curse words also make up a considerable part of the Dutch profanity vocabulary. Aside from these categories, the Dutch language has many words that are only used for animals; these words are insulting...

Sul is a dutch insult meaning dork

Jutschge

Brb calling my friend a "scrotum violin"

Yuuki

And A Sol (Aurelion Sol) is a character from League of Legends that is the aforementioned thing.

Lazers 2.0

15:02

1

Q: Are the damage supers worth it?

I was playing co-op Cuphead with a friend of mine, and we were playing the first plane stage (Threatenin' Zeppelin). I was using each EX attack one at a time, while my friend was saving it all up for the super attack, as we did not know which one was more efficient. Of any of the super attacks (e...

cuphead

Yuuki

Anyways, the real reason why no one's killed that lich is because typedef struct able { bool myPhylactery; };.

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice @Wipqozn uses the Bridge to air his dirty laundry

Trent Hawkins

@SaintWacko Mostly just his socks.

Yuuki

15:48

2

GnomeSlice

@Yuuki hue

Yuuki

Having not looked at the post (and rules), I'm guessing Screenshot of the Week is reserved for your own screenshots, right?

Jutschge

@Yuuki yeah there's a deleted post about it even afaik

yup : gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/14865/64410

GnomeSlice

do deleted posts count as rule?

Jutschge

Eeeh... Deleted as in: sombody posted non OC and it was deleted with the comments discussing it

GnomeSlice

15:55

Ya I can see it asked before clicking lol

SaintWacko

@Yuuki Does it actually have to be taken this week?

Yuuki

@SaintWacko I don't think so?

Unionhawk

@SaintWacko My thought is no, especially for this one

it's potentially hard to make weird stuff happen within a week

GnomeSlice

I have some real good ones from mad max on ps4 but theyre a few years old now

oo wait glitches and bugs

word lol

Yuuki

ugh, i've got two screenshots i want to post and i don't know which one

GnomeSlice

15:57

Apparently at some point in the past I uploaded like 500 screenshots from rooks keep

wish there was an easy way to get rid of them in a batch

steam

Nzall

I wish I still had my screenshot of the Cloudburst tank being stuck in the GCPD basement

GnomeSlice

wow I have a lot from skydrift too

Jutschge

Hmm I still have some screenshots lurking around somewhere on my pc... no recent ones though

Yuuki

Okay, so which one do you guys think I should post: one from Fallout 4 of a glowing mirelurk missing their entire body yet still over half health or one from Fallout: New Vegas where it turns out that the ending montage is literally you standing in the room with the montage on a black screen in front of you (I somehow glitched into third-person while the ending played)?

SaintWacko

I like the second one lol

Nzall

16:11

Digital Homicide Resurfaces With Some Incredible Bullshit

►

Oh joy, Digital Homicide is back...

GnomeSlice

kinda wanna post but also not really a bug

Invader Skoodge

Cool new apparent feature of my work computer: YouTube videos never actually load and play.

Just spinning gray loading animation forever.

I wonder if they'd work in Firefox.

GnomeSlice

@InvaderSkoodge Forward thinking

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: What does Guppy's paw do in wrath of the lamb?

I got Guppy's Paw and I do not know what it does..

the-binding-of-isaac wrath-of-the-lamb

Wipqozn

16:48

@SaintWacko Accurate

GnomeSlice

urgh fucking somebody just killed me out in teh wilderness for no reason in dayz

Didn't even see him, heard a few shots far away must have been sniping

hope he likes shotguns

I had a ton of buckshot and slugs

Wipqozn

TIL people still play Dayz

Did the stand alone version ever get better than the mod?

GnomeSlice

I dunno never played the mod

my buddy bought me this a month or two ago

I'm still pretty new, I haven't killed anyone with firearms yet for example

but I also dont go around shooting at everyone I see

Yuuki

That's why I don't like public servers. I play 7 Days To Die with my friends, which is similar to DayZ, but we play on a private server so it's literally just us vs. zombies.

And maybe it's our settings, but that's already difficult enough as it is without having to worry about someone destroying our base and looting everything because we went on a week-long hiatus.

GnomeSlice

I actually really like the public interaction

but some guy sniping randoms for no reason is meh

it's one thing to engage people in the 'pvp areas' so to speak, the military bases, airfield etc

I was in the middle of nowhere towards the spawn area of the map

at least he didnt get my pepsi

OKAY, PANIC.

17:17

twitter.com/StackStatus/status/1222200462331404288

Lazers 2.0

17:45

0

Q: Crashing EVERY time

It started about last month and I don't know if it's because of my mods that I have installed or what. my game crashes every time after about playing for 30 minutes.so can someone take a look at this log and say what's wrong with my game!!!Also this is my BOSS log.I just realized that when I fast...

the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim

MBraedley

18:03

@Lazers2.0 Yep, this is a repost because the previous question was closed

Lazers 2.0

2

Q: What are the video game references in these books?

I saw this screenshot of a bookcase from the upcoming DOOM Eternal being passed around on a Discord I frequent recently (numbers added by me): Clearly, each book is a shout-out to another video game - I can recognize several of the references, but not all of them, and it's left me curious what...

game-identification doom-eternal

Unionhawk

@Lazers2.0 >:|

Mage Xy

Didn't we ban these types of list ID questions? I vaguely remember a meta discussion about it.

MBraedley

18:18

@MageXy Unbounded list questions were banned. I'm not sure about this type.

Wrigglenite

This is a puzzle, and last time I checked puzzles were off-topic

MBraedley

@Wrigglenite huh?

Wrigglenite

10

Q: Gaming 'Puzzle' Questions

Recently (and in the past), there have been questions about gaming related puzzles. Things such as the following (I don't think this is an exhaustive list): What's the name of these games? Which games do the 'K' and 'U' come from in this logo ensemble? Puzzle - Gears of War Cheating/Nintendo Pu...

discussion allowed-questions

The fact that the question got tagged as game identification makes me scratch my head

Unionhawk

At least this one is slightly less arbitrary than "I found a thing on reddit that some random reddit user made", but only slightly

murgatroid99

I think this isn't exactly like those puzzle questions because the "puzzle" itself is in a game

Mage Xy

18:25

I don't think it's really a puzzle question. Those "puzzles" are artificially created by cropping out other identifying marks. The new question is more of a trivia/reference question about easter eggs, which I think is fine?

MBraedley

@MageXy This is my perspective as well.

Mage Xy

I'm trying to find the meta discussion I mentioned earlier but if I can't find it/it doesn't exist, I'm fine with leaving the question open.

Unionhawk

Doom Eternal is also scheduled to release 3/20/20 which also makes this fun

overall >:|

murgatroid99

Another thing, am I the only one bothered by the fact that about half of the answer is in the question?

Mage Xy

@murgatroid99 At least they've done some research beforehand? :P

MBraedley

18:31

@murgatroid99 I mean, I would have answered while asking, making the answer CW, but that's just me.

Mage Xy

@MBraedley That's probably the correct way to do it. (CW optional)

Wrigglenite

@MageXy Is this not a puzzle?

I mean, it's found in a highly anticipated game, but it's still a game identification puzzle with no visual artifacts

If anything, it's worse in that regard than cropped images

Mage Xy

I guess I don't really see it as such. It's similar, sure, but I think the core of the question is about what each book is referencing, like an easter egg.

Wrigglenite

In fact, I've seen puzzles exactly like this over on Puzzling.SE

They're riddles

Trivia

All I ask is that we're consistent, and not just allow this one question because it's about a game that people like

Unionhawk

It's definitely a kind of puzzle/trivia, but I still think it's slightly distinct from the reddit ones because it appears in a game (unless I'm missing another "appears in a game" example that we destroyed)

murgatroid99

18:43

I think I actually agree with you now that it's game identification. It's literally "what game is this" 17 times

Mage Xy

Yeah, I can see that.

Then again, this is a screenshot from a [soon to be released] game, so it does kinda have a valid artifact?

murgatroid99

A screenshot of a list of "what game is this" hints is not a valid artifact

The artifact has to be from the game you're trying to identify

Mage Xy

It has to be an artifact that people can reasonably assume references a game and not some other media. Doesn't have to be from the game itself.

murgatroid99

I'm pretty sure it does

Wrigglenite

It has to be from a game or, at best, official art of that game

Well that's not quite true

We do allow fanart when it's reasonable that it's of a video game

(and that's the tricky part)

But those books are not from the games they're referencing

Wipqozn

18:51

We wouldn't even need to be discussing this if we just banned all questions

Wrigglenite

The fact that they're books, or the fact that they're found in a game, doesn't mean much

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn Or at least all game identification questions

Wrigglenite

I could ask the same question without the screenshot, with the same information

It's a list of hints

It's game identification without an artifact to me

Wipqozn

@Wrigglenite Being in a game makes a difference. Not saying it shouldn't still be off topic, but something being in a game vs just not a game is a different, given our topic.

Mage Xy

@murgatroid99 I'm all for this tbh. Either don't allow any, or allow them all.

Currently we have to re-discuss every time an edge case comes along, and that's quite often

Wipqozn

18:54

Yeah, it is annoying needing to keep deciding where we draw the line

I'd certainly be fine with it, but the community overall seems supportive of the exception

murgatroid99

I just hate that we have this overly complex rules surface. It creates a lot of feel bad moments of people not really understanding why their question was closed, or why one was closed and another is open.

Wrigglenite

The rule is pretty simple

Do you have something we can see or hear that comes from that game?

In this case, the answer is no

Unless you're trying to identify the game the books are from

murgatroid99

@Wrigglenite My point is that we have this rule like "you can ask questions about this topic, but this subset is disallowed, but this specific subset of that subset is OK"

And as this conversation demonstrated, neither of those subset boundaries is entirely clearly defined

Unionhawk

yeah ID is often in a weird place

This one is, I think, more simple

relatively speaking anyway, we're not in any "I promise this is from a game" or "this may or may not be a game" weeds

Wrigglenite

Yeah this case seems pretty clear to me

Invader Skoodge

19:08

Blame this one for the confusion:

38

Q: "Here is a thing. Look at the thing. Do you see the thing? I would like to know what this Thing is Called." A plea for sanity

identify-this-game was a Bad Tag. It was applied to Bad Questions. It is gone forever, and I could not be happier. But it appears, that we have been throwing some babies out with our admittedly filthy bathwater. So, before I move on, I want to talk for a second about why identify-this-game is b...

discussion allowed-questions game-identification

That was posted shortly after ITG was banned wholesale and led to un-banning of artifact-related questions.

I downvoted it when it was new but it's at +38 despite that.

murgatroid99

Apparently I upvoted that post. I guess I don't really remember how I felt about this issue 7+ years ago

Invader Skoodge

I was more passionately anti-ITG at the time than I am about almost anything nowadays.

GnomeSlice

19:39

I'm like just never here any more

I haven't checked the site proper in weeks

MBraedley

Bending conan (package management) to my will sucks!

MBraedley

20:19

Dear Visual Studio: Please fucking tell me when you're trying to use a property sheet that no longer exists (i.e. try to reload all property sheets when a solution is compiled). Also, please save changes to property sheets when a solution is compiled. And give me some fucking indication that a property sheet isn't loaded without having to reload a solution. Property sheets are really useful, but you need to make them easier to use.

Tim Stone

20:34

> the escalator of the fry’s in campbell broke and they “fixed” it by just filling it with gravel. absolutely baffling

Incredible

Wipqozn

@Wrigglenite or if the picture appears to be part of some online trivia game...

I essentially agree 100% with @murgatroid99, including the fact I upvoted that WAY BACK IN THE DAY.

That post made more sense before we put the rule into practice, but as time has gone on, we've realized more and more issues with having this exception.

Yuuki

@TimStone On the other hand, a handicap-accessible ramp is visible on the right so at least there's that.

Tim Stone

Yeah, it seems…fine? I guess? But also imagine the meeting

Yuuki

I wonder how much the cost of the gravel (probably not much), filling the escalator in (probably more because labor), and maintaining the gravel (also probably a not miniscule amount) compares to maintaining the escalator.

Tim Stone