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9:00 AM
I require some form of rocket fuel today though, I didn't get much sleep lastnight and I think I've gone a bit too long without proper sleep
 
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Q: What is the optimal number of creep tumors per creep route?

tenfourIf you are spreading creep using a single tumor, the next tumor will be ready before the creep has spread to its full extent. More creep tumors will make the creep spread faster. But, too many creep tumors and you will essentially be wasting queen energy (assuming you're continuing in a single d...

 
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A: What weapons/tactics are suitable for high-level Cruisers?

LeeSimple Tactics ^_^ Arrays for cruisers/ non turning ships lol Cannons dual or heavy for escorts and for Science well with a a balanced sett up its a trial and error thing lol

This post makes my brain hurt
I don't know enough about the game, and in comparison to the other answers on the question I'm inclined to flag it
 
9:16 AM
@pixel If you think so, sure. But at least downvote it.
Oh, and comment.
If you're inclined
 
I will downvote it, I can't comment on something that has 'lol' at the end of each line
 
What happens if we replace every full stop with 'lol'?
 
The post contains no full stops either
so nothing
 
Ha! Oh you :P
 
:P
 
9:20 AM
 
game-identification questions on average appear to get views twice as fast as other questions
 
Replaced every question mark with 'lol'
The results may make your head hurt
 
-.-
Or confuse league of legends players
 
@pixel How many game identification questions do you have to form a meaningful sample?
 
FAE
@YiJiang ahahaha
 
9:22 AM
@YiJiang there is no meaningful sample, just random 'out of thin air' statistics
 
@pixel Right. 84% of all statistics are made up on the spot
 
That's the one
however this morning's question is gaining views twice as fast as the two questions raised around the same time, and many of the questions raised before it
which will likely continue throughout the day
 
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Q: What is the optimal number of creep tumors per creep route?

tenfourIf you are spreading creep using a single tumor, the next tumor will be ready before the creep has spread to its full extent. More creep tumors will make the creep spread faster. But, too many creep tumors and you will essentially be wasting queen energy (assuming you're continuing in a single d...

 
at least until it's closed anyway
 
I feel like the Zerg tag in this question should be nuked, thoughts?
 
9:23 AM
and then again in a couple of days when it is reopened
I feel like the zerg tag shouldn't exist but I was overruled
 
are we still using subtags this way?
ok, so you know what i mean, but the site has decided against it then?
 
and in fairness, following the other examples were game subtags are used, it should be called sc2-zerg
@Ender no and yes
 
ok
 
they're fine for diablo-3-class, tf2-class, game-expansion, etc
 
should i retag it to sc2-zerg or leave it as is?
 
9:24 AM
but "only if there are enough questions", which is ambiguous
nah the tag would need renaming by a mod
 
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@Ender It's been determined to leave as is.
 
kk
 
@pixel The idea is if [subtag] will not be confused with a similar concept from another game, it's okay to leave out the game name
 
FAE
Because zerg, protoss, and terran are unique enough terms across gaming
 
just another of those inconsistencies
@FAE zerging is a strategy as well, in fairness
I don't understand why we have tf2-engineer etc though, since they only have a couple of questions on them
 
FAE
9:26 AM
@pixel Which still originated from SC, and we don't allow use of that term in particular on non-SC questions.
@pixel It's not so much "if there are enough questions" but "Can this be considered a unique area of expertise?"
 
oh I know, I'm surprised it doesn't end up getting tagged more frequently out of context anyway
 
Sonic The Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone (Hooky Dubstep Remix) /bragaboutawesomemp3s
 
@FAE the 'rule' is still applied very inconsistently
 
FAE
And the argument was made that the various TF2 classes required enough expertise to warrant their own class tags.
 
@FAE The ideal behind the phrase 'unique area of expertise' appeals to me
I certainly feel the races of starcraft do involve such a specialization
 
9:28 AM
Humble Music Bundle is out, by the way. Well, you all should know this by now.
 
DING!
 
FAE
@pixel Then I'd suggest documenting the cases of inconsistencies you find and bringing them up on meta if there's not already a post addressing the particular instances you've found.
 
if I cared that much
 
That's actually a good idea.
If I was more 'aware' of said inconsistencies I would help. Sadly you seem to be talking about TF2 a lot, and I know nothing about it.
 
@Ender It's a game about fancy hats.
 
FAE
9:31 AM
@pixel I'm... not really sure why you're bringing it up if you don't care? If there are a number of legitimate cases where you feel this is being inconsistently applied, then it should be brought up on meta to be addressed.
 
wow. Hunger forgot to award his bount, and it went to crappy answer. I'm upset.
two good answers a 6 voted elses and a 3 voted mine and the bounty goes to some 1 vote nobody who didnt even write a complete answer
Or spell his username correctly. -.-
Bounty OP. FIX IT RIOT>
 
Better nerf irelia.
 
@Ender not really a reference to TF2, I noticed TF2 as I work from small tags to large tags when burning stuff
@FAE Mentioning stuff in chat doesn't constitute me caring enough to make a meta post, I was answering @Ender in relation to the zerg tag
 
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A: Force a repair of Star Wars: The Old Republic

palswimSince I can't post more than 30000 characters, I couldn't put a Base64 string for all of the version files that the game uses. So, I've posted the second-most-important set of version files in this answer. A Base64 (decoder) string of a ZIP file containing the assets_swtor_en_us.version and movi...

wtf is going on here
I don't even think my mobile can load that page
 
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@badp No idea.
 
9:39 AM
also somebody with access to the mod room that doesn't exist or the public assembly can do me the favour to ask why does the site allow people to post answers at a quality score of -50
 
@badp Does this guy know that file-sharing exists? oO
 
wow
that is a zip file containing assets_swtor_en_us.version and movies_en_us.version
 
"The mod room that doesn't excist" lovely.
 
@badp do you want the second post flagging and the first post having the base64 string editing out with a comment leaving about using alternative solutions?
 
it'd be best to just reupload the files sanely
you heartless person you
@ender for a moment I thought the typo was mine
also hi guys.
wave
(_(
)_)
 
9:51 AM
o/
can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong with flagging btw, like the last 5 things I've flagged are all disputed
 
@pixel Links to what you've been flagging please.
 
It's been deleted?
 
I got a 'disputed'
even though I flagged it for the action that was taken
 
@pixel What did it say?
 
9:58 AM
I don't remember and can't see deleted posts
 
Maybe post one we can look at.
 
@RonanForman I'm not stating current stuff, everything I flag ends up getting deleted, I'm questioning why I get disputes for such things even though the intended action is still carried out
 
@pixel That is odd.
 
so that I can stop doing whatever it is that is 'wrong' and stop getting disputes
In that case, Apa had made one post, then followed it up with a second post which was a one liner, that worked perfectly well as an edit to his first post
 
@pixel Disputed just means at least one 10k user disagreed, if a mod disagrees strongly you'll get a "declined". You can safely ignore the disputed status, check what happened to the post later to get the best idea whether your flag was valid or not
 
10:00 AM
so Alok added it to his original post and I flagged the second question
@MadScientist "disputed" is not "helpful" though - if it wasn't helpful then the intended action wouldn't have happened surely
 
i have had this problem in the past
other mods have made mention that it was likely a misclick mistake
click unhelpfull instead of helpfull
i chocked it off to that
 
@pixel The disputed handling is just plain stupid, it got pretty messy with the flag weight when it still existed and they changed it so that disputed flags never count. It doesn't make much sense to me now, I would just ignore that part of flag handling
 
well if it can happen that frequently, I wouldn't put it down to a "mistake" because a mistake occurring that frequently is called negligence - I am much happier thinking its something I'm doing wrong and seek advice to stop it happening rather than sitting here going 'you're all negligent' if you know what I mean...
 
@pixel Maybe a 10k user hates you...
 
@pixel Check if a mod or the community acted on your disputed flags, if all those posts were subsequently deleted, your flags were very likely good. The final outcome is the best way to judge flags
 
10:05 AM
@MadScientist so 24 helpful 3 disputed 1 declined 1 pending 1 with no status at all - the only one I should care about is the declined?
 
@pixel Yes, declined means a mod thought the flag was invalid
 
what about the one with no status at all?
and is the declined message (assuming there is one) shown anywhere?
 
@pixel They haven't been acted on yet.
 
@Pixel I think its more likely they just dont like your Avatar.
;-)
 
@Wipqozn no, not acted on is shown as pending, I mean one that doesn't have a status at all
 
10:07 AM
@ronan 10kers can't see who flagged what. It's a mod only thing.
 
@RonanForman Damn it @badp. Beat me by half a second.
 
9 comments flagged
7 deemed helpful
1 declined
7 + 1 != 9
 
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Q: Counter Strkie fy_buzzkill map's hidden chamber

TrueBlueHow do you get inside the hidden chamber(s) behind the escalators in Counter Strike 1.6 fy_buzzkill map.

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Q: What item is more preferable as Katarina: Hextech Gunblade or Will of the Ancients?

WarbaI have been thinking about this for quite some time now. When I have my Ionian Boots of Lucidity and I got "Hextech Revolver" as well as "Rylai's Crystal Scepter" and Rabadon's Deathcap what path should I take with the "Hextech Revolver" and why? Is it situational or is one choice better than the...

 
@pixel It's shown on the flag
 
@MadScientist ok, I must have missed it and there isn't a history of these things so I'll just pay more attention in future
 
10:09 AM
On that page you should see which flag was declined and why
 
@MadScientist I'm aware of the page, its called a summary and doesn't have a 'next page' link
but ta
 
@pixel It has for me
I can see all my 300+ flags on there
 
Not for me, and to rule out me being blind if I do a search for the word 'declined' it returns the result from the side bar and nothing else
 
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A: How do I power Redstone through a block?

jhonI've just received a free Minecraft Giftcode! You can get one too! minecraftcodes.me <<

 
@pixel Might be a bug
 
10:14 AM
woohoo
I found another bit of weird behavior actually as well
If I edit tag wikis and go to review
 
@MarkTrapp: I managed to get another highly-voted SciFi answer closed with my close whispering flag skills:
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Q: Any novels set in universes where P=NP?

Dr GI wonder whether anyone has written a novel set in a universe where P=NP.

 
hungnnh
 
the suggested edits counter includes my tag wiki edits when I'm not on the 'suggested edits' page, but doesn't when I am
as obviously I can't approve my own at my current rep level
but I would be of the opinion that it should permanently hide my tag wiki edits from the counter until such a time that I can
rather than behaving inconsistently like that
@MadScientist yeah I don't get that, I may not have enough flags yet to have that though
 
@pixel Is it a declined comment flag?
 
10:17 AM
user image
2
 
@MadScientist yes
 
@pixel Completely ignore those, they decay after a few days and are then declined.
 
That would explain the lack of entry on the page?
Would be more intuitive if those were labelled as 'timed out' or something
 
This may have already been discussed, but wtf is going on here:
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A: Force a repair of Star Wars: The Old Republic

palswimSince I can't post more than 30000 characters, I couldn't put a Base64 string for all of the version files that the game uses. So, I've posted the second-most-important set of version files in this answer. A Base64 (decoder) string of a ZIP file containing the assets_swtor_en_us.version and movi...

Is this ok?
 
10:25 AM
@QAdley I'm going with "yes", but we should turn one into community wiki and post.
The character limit is what shut him down.
 
@Wipqozn Posting files as Base64 encoded strings. Interesting idea.
Also, our site is too legible, we need isometric text
 
mmMMMmmm food
cheese and onion baguette
 
11:04 AM
 
@qadley rofl, it works on opera mini
like on a symbian mobile with 40 megs of ram roughly
this browser keeps surprising me
 
@badp That's very impressive
is Opera mini the one that does everything server-side?
 
uhhh sorry I meant opera mobile
 
A worthy lunch! Could we find more like that?
 
so everything client-side. Impressive indeed
I also have opera mini for those pages full of images. It's faster but chat and stuff don't work :(
also font rendering is much uglier
 
11:12 AM
@pixel: Re your flagging concerns: Are you misusing the "Not an Answer" flag? A lot of users use the Not an Answer flag incorrectly. It's not meant for wrong or poorly written answers. It's meant for things which make no attempt to answer the question. I always mark misuses of the NOt an Answer flag as invalid. That could be why you're receiving so many disputed flags.
excuse me while I edit that message 100 times.
 
wow that was an excessive amount of pings
now I feel bad for the blame @Wipqozn spam from yesterday
and yeah it could be, I know at least one of those instances was that
but I didn't link that one today as it was discussed yesterday
 
beeep beeeeep beeeeeeeeep.
 
@badp beeep bop beep boop?
 
or, to be more in theme with today
dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong.
(get it? Get it? Huh? Huh? HUH??)
 
@badp No.
 
11:19 AM
Today is the start of the olympic games. All churches in the UK, including whatever if any is collected to the big ben, rang their bells 50 times today in celebration.
apparently. ask thomas.
 
So that's what that was.
 
the church here didn't
guess this village doesn't care about the Olympics
 
@RonanForman Did it wake you up?
 
I'm only repeating what news sources reported :(
 
@Wipqozn Don't say that about @badp!
 
11:23 AM
@OrigamiRobot bop boop beep beep
 
@pixel Does your church have bells?
 
beep beep beep booop?
 
@Wipqozn You are disgusting.
 
@OrigamiRobot How was your pizza?
 
@RonanForman of course, it chimes on the hour every every 24/7
 
11:25 AM
@Wipqozn It was very pizza.
 
@OrigamiRobot Interesting.
 
@pixel How annoying, the church near me isn't that bad, but it does do it at annoying times.
 
Where did you guys head to after you got back @OrigamiRobot?
 
It means sleeping needs to occur within a 15 minute window between chimes
 
@RonanForman Like at every full hour?
 
11:27 AM
full chimes + hour counts on the hour, and then chimes every 15 minutes
24/7/365
 
@Wipqozn Ummmm we rana round a bit and then Tristan and I made an Elektro run.
He found a bigger pack
 
even better when the clocks go forward/back, it takes them 2-4 weeks to correct the time
 
@PatrickStalder No just in the evening, and for about 30 minutes.
 
@OrigamiRobot So are you guys still camping out at that deer stand?
 
@Wipqozn We didn't make it all the way back because it was night by the time we left.
Also, this
 
11:28 AM
@OrigamiRobot That's actually an Arma 2 change.
Oh, that site is actually accurate.
 
@pixel Fail.
 
@Wipqozn I know, it says that.
 
A lot of people have been claiming it was something Rocket did, which is wrong.
 
Rocket being the guy that thinks Dayz is in alpha?
 
@OrigamiRobot Ah, okay. I probably won't be around tonight (helping someone move). Although if you guys are playing tomorrow let me know.
@pixel Assuming you mean the creator of DAyZ, then yes.
 
11:40 AM
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Q: With Steams graphics "auto updater" for ATI Radeon, can I just have the drivers?

tombull89Steam, the other day, offered to keep my drivers form my ATI Radeon card up to date. I though that's not a bad idea because the amount of updates I get can get a bit annoying so I'm fine to let Steam do it for me. Let it download and install, and now I'm the not-so-pround owner of the ATI Vision...

 
12:06 PM
Time for a blast from the past:
Oct 23 '11 at 17:16, by Ronan Forman
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@OrigamiRobot Those were the days...
 
@Wipqozn I foresee a comeback
 
12:22 PM
When a question shows up as active, how can I tell what about it is... active?
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Q: How can I unlock the whole city on the PC version?

The Mad PandaI would like to play the entire city without playing through the game, I only play for sentimental reasons (for the good old days). I would like to unlock the whole city, and there is no "cheat code" for this. I won't play multiplayer or do any other thing with this. I only play single player on...

Or did a moderator already kill whatever activity was on it?
 
@OrigamiRobot Never!
 
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A: How can I quickly earn money / experience in Pocket Planes?

Quick Cash LoansTake quick cash loans as many times as you like from us, you can use cash for making emergency payments online.

 
@Koviko it looks like an answer was added for June 28
hmm, nm
 
FAE
@Koviko There's a deleted answer from 2 hours ago.
 
@DavidB But my active list shows a user with 1 rep did something to it.
@FAE Ah, okay.
 
FAE
12:24 PM
Which was nothing but spam, pretty much.
 
I'm off by 1 (month)
 
FAE
@Wipqozn VTD'd
 
@FAE Yeah, that's right. You VTD that answer.
 
FAE
@Wipqozn Geez, the pings. :P
 
@Wipqozn You are the queen of multiple pings due to spelling errors. <_<
 
12:28 PM
@Fluttershy whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Them be fighting words boy!
You. Me. Pistols. Flag Pole. Dawn. Be there or be circle.
 
@Wipqozn wat
 
hardly seems fair, pistols vs flagpole
 
@Wipqozn <_<
 
@DavidB Yeah, true. I'll just use my fists. Using a flagpole would give me too much of an advantage.
@Fluttershy BE THERE OR BE CIRCLE
 
@Wipqozn I'd really prefer to be hexagonal.
 
12:30 PM
Also, I found this really unusual video guys:
 
@Wipqozn NONONONONO! Not this again!
 
I think you should all give me stars for it, and then give amusing reactions to the content in said video.
 
@Wipqozn Again...?
 
And then give me credit for having found the video.
 
It's just a kiss
You don't kiss your animals?
 
12:31 PM
@Wipqozn It was already disturbing enough the first time...
 
@Wipqozn When bestiality doesn't work, try reviving the video game music discussion.
 
@Koviko Oh I'm pretty sure I achieved what I tried to achieve by posting that video.
 
So does anyone want to help me enter this?
 
12:40 PM
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Q: Crysis 2: Stuck with non-reloading DSG-1 in campaign

Andrey ShchekinSince I found DSG-1 in campaign and run out of ammo for the first time, it sits in my inventory with 0 ammo. I cannot pick up any new DSG-1. Is it a known bug? Is it possible to force game to drop the buggy DSG-1 so I can take a new one, for example, using some console commands? Are there any o...

 
@FAE That guy seems to be mad.
 
FAE
Little bit.
 
I accidentally clicked spam, if I flag again, does it create 2 flags or change the flag's reason.
 
FAE
Unsure.
 
Or wait. HE is his MOTHER. What gender is that now?
 
12:41 PM
It says I'm not allowed to flag again, oops.
 
He is basically calling himself a bitch... Intelligence seems to be endless with this person.
 
@Wipqozn My Walrus video was much more unusual.
 
He also tried to edit the other answer.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Why does your website have no cookies?
 
Oh snap. They changed the way mines work in the last BWE. It's just a skill now, no longer a tool kit. A huge improvement. Before it was just a tool kit which gave you five identical skills. Which was kind of... silly.
More so since the best plan was to just stack all the mines on one spot and then lure enemies to it.
 
12:44 PM
@PatrickStalder wat
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Your website. I was disappointed to find no cookies there...
 
@PatrickStalder There is nothing there.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz You want to tell me you ate all the precious cookies?
 
What are you talking about, there are cookies at lesspopmorefizz.com
 
@RonanForman That's just one cookie.
 
12:51 PM
@Wipqozn Better?
 
@RonanForman No, because now I want cookies.
 
@RonanForman You can not fool me so easily.
I bet @Wipqozn ate the cookies.
 
@PatrickStalder I'm not sure, but I think Patrick just called me fat.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz you know how the other day I joked about raising a question for that song full of game melodies as ?
well, somebody went and did the exact same thing
it's a shame that over the course of the day it has nearly been closed
 
@Wipqozn No that is not what I was talking about.
 

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