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7:00 PM
@GnomeSlice Whoever filled out that text somehow skipped an 'al'
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz 'al'?
 
It's describing Austria.
 
Oh, hahahahahaha.
I didn't realize that.
 
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@LessPop_MoreFizz See, this is totally correct: you need the primetime news team to put it into context.
 
7:23 PM
@Wipqozn It is indeed from that album. It's one of my favorites of all time
 
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Q: What are the highest skill level sets on tiny tower?

summerbrunetteI have been trying to get the best skill sets for each of my bitizens and the best I can find is 98798 and 89789 but they are only for blue and purple stores. What are the best/highest combinations for the other jobs so I have the strongest skill level for all of them?

 
@James How do I fix a version mismatch in DayZ?
Or rather, an instance where I have the right version, but it is still telling me I have the wrong version.
 
7:47 PM
Jun 18 at 2:47, by QAtash
This is winning
 
@Fluttershy The launcher usually takes care of it
 
@James It is not...
 
@Fluttershy Might just be that that server is messed up or its talking about Arma 2 version instead of DAyZ which that launcher is a bit more.. annoying with.
 
@James He is talking about the Arma 2 version
 
8:22 PM
@OrigamiRobot My six launcher needs to update but for arma 2 patches I would some times just do the patches myself as the six launcher is annoying with that thing
 
@Fluttershy He moved the mumble server, but I don't know where.
 
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Q: What's the most effective method of protecting your Trade Depot route?

libertasI have a 3 wide hallway leading into my base up to the Trade Depot, in the book I was reading this is how I was told it would be accessible to caravans. However, this wide entry way is allowing monsters such as a recent group of Giant Flies to get in and interrupt my dwarves as they travel around...

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Q: What should we do about dupes that don't answer the question?

EnderThis question was asked today, and was shortly flagged as a dupe. However none of the original question's answers address the specific details highlighted in the second question. I was informed that doesn't change the fact that the second question is a dupe. Well, if its closed as a dupe, then ...

 
@RonanForman Like... The IP and stuff?
 
@Flutter No, like the files.
 
Oh.
who is voting this duplicate? Is reading and comprehending that hard? — Hackworth 2 hours ago
No, it is not that hard. Regardless, it is still a dupe.
 
8:39 PM
@spugsley I assumed as much. Glad you enjoyed it.
 
@James New UHC?
 
@RonanForman Can Do
 
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@MarkTrapp Fuck that!
 
8:46 PM
@OrigamiRobot Hey... Stop being a dick.
 
user2334
Friends don't let friends be a dick.
 
I don't take orders from Wil Wheaton
 
@Mark Did you enjoy the opening ceremony?
 
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@RonanForman I didn't get to see it because I didn't realize NBC time-delayed the time-delay for the west coast and refused to put it online
 
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@OrigamiRobot So who do you take orders from then eh?
 
YouTube?
 
user2334
@James Robot Wil Wheaton
 
user2334
@RonanForman Nope, blacked out in the US and the IOC has been taking down YouTube videos within minutes of upload
 
@James Well, @spugsley likes to try to boss me around
 
user15026
8:50 PM
@OrigamiRobot But the more important question is do you actually take her orders? :P
 
@AshleyNunn Typically, no
 
user15026
@OrigamiRobot Fair enough. :P Theh who do you take orders from? Or do robots not have overlords?
 
user2334
OrigamiRobot ain't part of your system: his dad's not a phone! Well, maybe he is, I dunno.
 
@RonanForman Haha wrong link
 
@AshleyNunn ERROR 789: JOKE NOT FOUND
 
8:54 PM
@Mark Do NBC not have it online?
 
user2334
@RonanForman No, they refused to put it online because they think online audiences aren't smart enough to understand what's going on
 
user2334
> NBC Sports spokesman Christopher McCloskey said the opening ceremonies "are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them."
 
But do they not just put the broadcast online? That'll have 'context, which our award-winning production team will provide'
 
user2334
They provide the broadcast feed online for people who have cable (you have to authenticate in order to see it) for everything except the opening ceremony. You could only see that on TV
 
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It's really just about ratings: it's their belief that everyone will watch it regardless of what restrictions they place on it, so by funneling everyone to the TV, they get better ratings so they can sell more ads
 
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8:59 PM
(TV ads being far more profitable than online ads)
 
Then how do you watch it now? Because it's no longer on TV, it can't retroactively lower the ratings.
 
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@RonanForman You don't. It's over. I guess you wait until they sell the overpriced DVD in a couple of weeks
 
user2334
Or proxy into a country like the UK that has it online
 
My point is the rating thing no longer applies.
 
user2334
It's considered a live event: there's no value to NBC to showing it after it happened, so there's no benefit for them to placing it online. Instead, they'll package it as part of their merchandizing later on
 
user2334
9:02 PM
There's still value in talking about highlights and selling B-rolls to other networks throughout the next couple of weeks, and of course selling commemorative DVDs and whatever
 
Did they put adverts in the ceremony then?
 
user2334
Of course: they cut out large portions of the ceremony to place ads
 
Your county sucks.
2
 
user2334
'MERICA
 
user2334
But yeah, broadcast networks are free and privately owned, so here, the TV programming isn't the product, it's the audience. Advertisers are the customers
 
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9:07 PM
I could've gotten rabbit ears and watched it on the TV had I known beforehand it'd be blacked out online, but come on, it's 2012
 
I'd say proxy. You really ought to see the first half.
 
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Eh, eventually. I did want to see sheep and an indifferent sovereign, but the moment's gone for now
 
Oh no! The queen is the best bit, I'm really not going to spoil it.
 
The whole is greater than the sum of its part, and with the Olympics, it's summing boredom.
 
Have you not seen sheep before?
 
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9:11 PM
@RonanForman Oh, I've seen all the image macros on Reddit. The queen, it appears, was not amused
 
@Origami How dare you! It was great.
 
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@RonanForman Oh I've seen sheep, but sheep in an Olympics Ceremony as representatives of a country to the world? That's something else!
 
@Mark That's because she's sitting next to Phil the greek, and he was probably making racist jokes.
 
@RonanForman If by "great" you mean "wholly uninteresting" then I agree.
 
What? It had bird bikes!
The rest of the Olympics I don't care about.
 
9:20 PM
@RonanForman Wow, this video is great, especially the interactive transcript.
 
10:01 PM
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Q: Steam (Mac) game location

Steve HansellA few months ago, I restored my Mac from a Time Machine backup. Now, when I try to play a game on Steam (Civ 5 for example), Steam does not seem to be aware of the location of the game. I found the game on my hard drive, located at: ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/sid meier'...

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Q: How much available space per game in the Steam Cloud?

pootzkoIs there a way to find out how much available space does a game have in the Steam Cloud (it seems that this varies depending on the game)? Also, is there a way to see how much of the available space is already used up (except by manually checking save game folders on your hard drive)?

 
@Red Thank! The next one is the best.
 
10:20 PM
Aww. Did I miss some more drama?
 
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@fbueckert Yeah: Kristen Stewart cheated on Robert Pattinson for months with the director of Snow White. Now, RPattz wants a man-to-man talk with the guy
 
@MarkTrapp Pfft. Old news.
Everyone knows that the only drama that matters is Arqade drama.
 
user2334
Well, here's the thing: the director of Snow White is OrigamiRobot. What a twist!
 
@MarkTrapp Oh, so we have him to blame for the crappy movie, do we?
 
user2334
And breaking Robert Pattinson's heart
 
10:26 PM
@MarkTrapp She is definitely not my type. Too many organs.
 
user2334
Well this escalated quickly
 
@MarkTrapp Also, this statement can be summed up as, "Primetime space is the only thing that matters, and you're all stupid for wanting to watch it while it happens."
 
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@OrigamiRobot This is a touch disturbing
 
Also: I have 12 stars for that meetup suggestion? Holy crap, guys, even if SE doesn't sponsor us, we should totally do something like anyways.
 
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@fbueckert I am a relatively poor student-mouse, but if it can be done on a thinner than shoestring budget that would be funsauce
 
10:30 PM
@AshleyNunn You and your sauces.
 
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@OrigamiRobot Things are better with plenty of sauce
 
@AshleyNunn I couldn't disagree more
 
user15026
@OrigamiRobot but messy fun is good fun
 
anyone tried prototype 2?
 
user2334
If you're considering getting the PC version, TB said it was a really bad port
 
10:50 PM
@Fluttershy ^
 
@Wipqozn I lol'd.
 
@OrigamiRobot Pfft. You don't get it do you? The organs are the best part.
 
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@Wipqozn This is the most beautiful thign.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Too squishy.
 
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10:57 PM
@OrigamiRobot You don't like squishy things?
 
@origamirobot especially the squishy ones.
 
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Q: How long do corpses remain?

KovikoWhile constantly killing the same enemies for reputation, I noticed that an unlooted corpse remained in an area where I thought that I killed all of the enemies at the same time. It makes me wonder if that corpse remained there because it still had loot on it, or if I forgot to loot more than one...

 
I gotta say; Sanderson sure knows how to do world building. His Mistborn series, especially, hooked me within the first chapter.
 
@MarkTrapp His man concern is about texture quality so far... over and over again.. and honestly I do not care that much.. I want to play a game, not look at a game being played most of the time :)
 
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@James His largest complaint is that mouse acceleration is tied to the framerate, making mouse control useless
 
11:10 PM
@MarkTrapp yeah but I have a 360 controller so I think I am good ;)
 
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Q: OpenGL games won't open due to X11

ComplexBeastFor some reason, any OpenGL game I try to play crashes when it wants to open the window. Let me give you an example from running teeworlds from terminal: imnotanerd@sys76laptop:~$ teeworlds # skip to the error [5015be1f][gfx]: unable to set video mode: X11 driver not configured with OpenGL [5...

 
@James From playing the first one, I definitely won't be playing the second. First one was the same thing over and over again. Fall from sky, kill everything, grab goal, rinse and repeat.
 
@fbueckert First one sucked, inFamous trounced it So hard into the ground
 
@James Indeed.
 
@fbueckert This one looks like it cant suck as much as inFamous 2 did :)
 
11:14 PM
@James Infamous 2 sucked? I haven't played it, but based off of the first one, it should be fairly decent.
 
@fbueckert Sucked enough that I made it through like one section before I stopped playing
 
@James Huh. I only picked up Infamous because of the PSN hack. Glad I did, though.
 
@fbueckert I got it because it looked neat, I was floored when I played it. I think I went start to finish 3 times in that game.. I went through prototype made it about half way and just got fed up with how hard it was to control
 
@James I made it roughly the same, but I just stopped playing; it wasn't very good at all, and doing the same thing over and over just bored me.
 
@fbueckert It looks like 2 has a pretty detailed story, I shall see I guess :)
 
11:18 PM
Some games do it right; Serious Sam is all about shooting everything. But they let you have fun with it.
 
@fbueckert How do you pronounce your name?
 
@Fluttershy Username? You don't. I pronounce my last name bick-ert.
 
@fbueckert So... I'll just call you fibickert. =P
 
@Fluttershy Or, y'know, you could just call me Frank. :P
 
@fbueckert That's less fun to say. =D
 
11:29 PM
I'm still trying to decide if DayZ is worth £25.
@James What was causing the lag in that video anyway?
 
@RonanForman Lag?
 
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Q: How can I measure the effectiveness of my Macro?

ayckosterMacro involves producing constantly, keeping your resources low and hitting the optimal production cycles. Having said that there is an optimal Macro for any given Build Order. I want to know what the optimum amount of workers, army, production facilities and upgrades is for a given time, like @...

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Q: In the No Mercy heist, what kind of infected is the patient turning into?

AntoIs it possible to know what the infected patient is going to be ? It looks like a special infected "Boomer", but it's hard to say. Also, what's the most advanced stade of mutation that's observable in the game ? If you play long enough, will the patient finish his transformation ?

 
@RonanForman Currently, it is if you can get it to run. If it's a day like today where it's making me want to punch my fist through my computer monitor, I do not think it is worth the cost.
 
Well FPS drops, you cut twice.
@Flutter Why?
 
@RonanForman I spent three hours trying to connect to a server today. I spent a total of ~10 minutes actually playing.
 
11:33 PM
How often is it like that?
 
@RonanForman More often than it should be... =\
I'm also speaking for myself, as @Wipqozn @OrigamiRobot and @FAE had no trouble playing today.
 
I think I'll buy it, those issues shod be patched out eventually.
Actually, how laggy will joining American servers be I wonder…
 
user15026
Holy crap on a stick, Bastion is the first game in a long time I can't stop playing because the story has grabbed me by the ankles and pulled me under.
 
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