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Arda Xi

10:00 PM

@Bob Kill it with fire.

Bob

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Q: Create a free high-quality scrollable map for a game online?

I am looking for a service where I can upload some images that compose a 2D map, mark certain locations, and let others view/pan/zoom through this map via a URL. Are there any services that let one do this, without hosting one of the free mapping tools on my own? (I quite like Google Maps softw...

maps

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Anything for those who I love ♪

Arda Xi

@GraceNote eep

Grace Note

@Bob Alright. I'm at odds about this one.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote backs away slowly

Grace Note

10:05 PM

It's in the form of a problem solving.

So kudos for that.

@ArdaXi Family-type love! We're like one big, happy family. Or are you the type who is embarrassed to be hugged by aunts and uncles?

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Didn't I tell you I was autistic?

Grace Note

Back to the question, the only thing I'm concerned about is people drawing it as not really being game-like

@ArdaXi No, you haven't

Arda Xi

Who cares about the question? We're talking about me now.

badp

It is a webapp-rec question...

I'd like to answer it (in a comment) before I close it.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote I have said it here. I recall @IvoFlipse telling me it was too 'mainstream' these days.

FallenAngelEyes

10:08 PM

Hrm, seems sort of a generic resource, not quite specifically about gaming.

Grace Note

@ArdaXi You make the faulty yet accurate assumption that I'm always here

@badp But it's something that can be structured away from an itemized list

Arda Xi

@GraceNote You're being oxymoronic. That's unlike you.

Grace Note

@ArdaXi I'm always here. Just not always.

badp

I guess that's the closest @Grace can ever be to moronic.

Grace Note

So it's accurate. Just faulty.

Arda Xi

10:09 PM

Accurate means correct in all details; exact

Grace Note

Yes. It is an accurate depiction. I'm always here.

Arda Xi

If my assumption was correct in all details, it could never be faulty.

badp

Honestly, @Grace, if it was a practical problem we'd have better tagging than "maps"

WoW? Minecraft? OpenTTD?

I don't think it'd make a difference honestly in the answering

Grace Note

@badp Recording video gameplay didn't have a specific game it needed

badp

but it'd help me agree there's a practical problem behind the question

Grace Note

10:11 PM

@ArdaXi It's correct in all the details, it's just wrong, that's all.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote As such, you're being oxymoronic, and by contraction, moronic.

Grace Note

I haven't denied that

badp

@GraceNote The link to the practical problem is in the first sentence of my FRAPS question :)

Arda Xi

I love making people insult themselves.

It hardly happens here because everyone is so self-deprecating.

Grace Note

@badp Which is kinda what the grounds of this dispute comes on. The matter of fitting in our scope.

The idea of why one might need maps depends on the scale of maps. The user provides an example for WoW

badp

10:15 PM

Fair enough.

Now let's see what can be done about answering it.

Arda Xi

@badp The point of questions on this site isn't to answer them. We just have debates about how we can justify closing them.

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Grace Note

Speaking of Arda being a girl, I need to determine our 6th heroine.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote And you wonder why I like to insult you.

Brant

@ArdaXi Maybe it's confirmation bias, but that's been all too true lately IMO.

Grace Note

No, I don't wonder in the slightest.

Arda Xi

10:17 PM

@GraceNote Oh, good.

badp

I see Mana fled once realizing what the topic was.

Arda Xi

@Mana keeps running out. We need to figure out how to fix that.

Grace Note

I suggest constructing a giant floating fortress.

badp

@GraceNote We do have one.

It's the StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership.

Grace Note

tzenes has to be the lead heroine. Then Arda, for being the person who was on top during the private Beta. Tim Stone gets a slot just because the concept of his character is too good. The next two I figured I'd draw as Oak and badp, who are 3rd and 5th in the ranks. Then I think a 6th should be rounded out from somewhere.

Arda Xi

10:20 PM

@GraceNote I was on top until shortly after July 27, 2010

When did we launch?

badp

I guess @GraceNote is left to be the genderless disembodied commentator?

@ArdaXi July 7th? circa?

ChrisF

I can't believe I'm still on the first page overall:

Arda Xi

I mean, I managed to stay on top even after not visiting the site for 2 weeks.

ChrisF

gaming.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all

Grace Note

Juan is exempt because he's got to be like King of the nation. LessPop is exempt due to his manly, radiant orange beard. And Raven Dreamer is exempt because I'm debating making him the unlucky childhood friend for being Player 2

Brant

10:21 PM

I can't believe @GraceNote has only ever downvoted once.

Grace Note

July 7th, roughly, yes, is when we started.

Powerlord

Your sixth heroine should be bacon

badp

Is that a candidation, @Powerlord?

Grace Note

@badp Self insert is meh to be a heroine. I'd be better off being a giant Extended Photon Belt Wave Cannon stationed in town square, that has to fire off at a climactic point in the game.

ChrisF

and I'm on the first page for rep this month - gaming.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=month

Grace Note

10:22 PM

120, nice.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote I would've at least sounded like a girl if you'd asked me roughly a year ago, you know.

badp

@GraceNote A dating sim with lazers. Intriguing.

Grace Note

@badp This is Gaming Stack Exchange. Anything without lazers would be terribly incomplete.

Like our ASK QUESTION button

@ArdaXi Eh, I can always hire a voice actress if I wanted to go that far.

Powerlord

Boxing ourselves into sci-fi are we?

badp

@Powerlord It's our general theme, no need to make up a new one.

Grace Note

10:24 PM

It can't be less than modern, at the very least.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Good luck finding a faux-British accent with a little hint of Dutch.

Brant

Whoa, I vote a lot.

Grace Note

Plus, without a Wave Cannon, we'd be defenseless against the Bydo.

badp

@Brant I also edit a lot. (Take that, @Mana. :P)

Brant

(You're welcome for all the rep.)

badp

10:25 PM

@Brant Obliged.

Although I think that page counts self-edits, retags and all sorts of stuff that doesn't count for the editing badges.

Grace Note

It does

Brant

Correct.

Copy Editor is awarded for 500 edits, nobody on Gaming has it yet.

badp

I thought Mana was getting pretty close, though.

Grace Note

I find it amusing that McKay is 4th in edits for all time, despite no edit activity since September.

And he's almost half the edit count of the next user

Arda Xi

@GraceNote No activity whatsoever since January.

Grace Note

10:28 PM

McKay was more active during the beta. I wonder what happened.

@ArdaXi Which consists of 2 comments, one in January and one in October

badp

Let's not go off-topic, however. 6th eroine.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote I was too.

ChrisF

The edits total counts edits to your own posts though. I'm down as having 885 edits on Super User and don't have the Copy Editor badge - which is actually for edits to 500 posts.

Powerlord

What are these heroines for anyway?

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Can you give my character glasses?

Grace Note

10:29 PM

@ArdaXi You're still around. In chat, in the elections, on Meta...

@ArdaXi Sure. ♪

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Well, yes, but hardly on site.

Grace Note

@Powerlord A theoretical visual novel/dating sim on Gaming Stack Exchange. Purely for mental exercise and amusement.

Powerlord

Uh... OK

Grace Note

@ArdaXi You still didn't up and mostly vanish when we graduated.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote From the perspective of the site I did.

badp

10:31 PM

@Powerlord Although, with a female war-scarred etc. tsundere mermaid there's really no competition.

Grace Note

Technically, "female" and "mermaid" are redundant. Since "female" came first, we'll just drop the mermaid aspect.

Powerlord

theregister.co.uk/2011/03/07/android_pwn2own_bug_killed <-- Whoops

badp

Mermaid is more specific.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Thanks for giving me my legs back. Any idea when I'm getting my masculinity back too?

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Probably if I ever get around to doing fun artwork.

Arda Xi

10:33 PM

Good.

Grace Note

I had an amusing scene where you debated against LessPop for being allowed to sit in his bar and drink on account of your heritage.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote The debating part sounds like me, but... heritage?

Grace Note

Unless I'm mistaken, you're old enough to drink, neh?

badp

Raven Dreamer hit 5k rep since the start of the year (precisely). Go @Raven!

Grace Note

At least, last I checked, when we did an age comparison it was noted that I could not use the "Too young to drink" excuse if I were your age over there.

Arda Xi

10:35 PM

@GraceNote Ever since January, yes.

Depends. If it's got 15% or over, I'll still have to wait 2 years.

Grace Note

Right. The rest of the debate was on metaphysical and philosophical grounds that it kinda got away from me. Something about sitting in the Netherlands while also being at a tavern in New York.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote I can see that working... a couple decades ago.

Of course it wouldn't be called New York then.

badp

@GraceNote Easily solved by moving New York in the Netherlands.

Arda Xi

@badp You mean like it was, decades ago.

badp

...or at least Manhattan.

Grace Note

10:39 PM

Is LessPop in Manhattan? I don't actually recall which part, and New York is pretty big...

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Also, that's not going to happen on account that I would never set foot on American soil. (No offence)

badp

@GraceNote He does frequent it a few times a week, afaik

Grace Note

@ArdaXi None taken. I think I recall you explaining it at one point, with Mechko

Arda Xi

I should start keeping files on people. Especially the mysterious ones.

badp

I'm glad I'm nowhere near mysterious; just a ninja.

Arda Xi

10:41 PM

@badp You're too easy, Santi.

Grace Note

In one of the previous communities I was in, I mysteriously got the reputation of keeping tabs on people, and their social weakpoints that could be used to subjugate them to my will. It was a very baffling conclusion.

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badp

@ArdaXi I just don't care winning against you, Ariel.

tunes in the tune while walking away for a while

Arda Xi

Feb 22 at 23:16, by Arda Xi

I feel as though that one question is going to finish your entire psychological profile on me.

You then said

Feb 22 at 23:16, by Grace Note

Ooh, no, the psychological profile is already done. We're working on aesthetics. ♪

Grace Note

@ArdaXi For Arda. Not Ariën.

Arda Xi

Pff...

I'm way too easy too. But you... all I've gathered so far is that you're probably 23 years old somewhere in the Chicago area.

Grace Note

10:44 PM

23 is spot on, nicely nicely. ♪

Arda Xi

Feb 25 at 1:17, by Grace Note

@ArdaXi I've never had to deal with that in 23 years, @Arda

Grace Note

I'm far more East, though.

I used to think that rough US geography was slightly intuitive, but then a Canadian told me a story that took place on the East Coast, in Pennsylvania...

Arda Xi

Jan 6 at 19:10, by Grace Note

I'm east coast US, Juan is in Argentina.

Right, you said that.

Grace Note

Chicago's central.

Arda Xi

Can't blame me for not knowing American topology.

Grace Note

10:46 PM

As mentioned, I no longer can even be surprised.

(Pennsylvania is not East Coast)

Is your last name 4 syllables or 3? Or maybe 5, if I'm really unlucky at parsing it?

Arda Xi

3.

Grace Note

If you don't mind the question, that is

Arda Xi

You probably won't be able to pronounce the second.

Grace Note

Hol - thui - zen. And no, I cannot make that ui construct properly, I don't expect.

Unless it's Ho - lthuiz -en. Then I'm doomed.

Arda Xi

Holt-hui-zen

Grace Note

10:48 PM

Ah

Arda Xi

And my first name has either 2 or 3 syllables.

Grace Note

I pronounced it the same as Aryan. Which I guess is 2 syllables.

Arda Xi

3, actually.

Ar-y-an

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GraceNote Philadelphia is decidedly 'East Coast'.

Pittsburgh is decidedly not.

Grace Note

@LessPop_MoreFizz I only hang around in Pittsburgh, primarily

LessPop_MoreFizz

10:51 PM

@GraceNote Well I'm sorry to hear that.

Arda Xi

makes notes

Grace Note

I'm so deep into Pennsylvania that I'm practically in Ohio, as it were.

Aside from ridiculous residual static electricity, Pittsburgh is pretty nice.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GraceNote Also "Y'ins".

Grace Note

@LessPop_MoreFizz Pardon?

Arda Xi

So, we've got: "23 year old half German half Taiwanese probably female, possibly male, in Pittsburgh."

Scared her off!

FallenAngelEyes

10:57 PM

@Grace I despise driving in Pittsburgh

stupid... bridges...

LessPop_MoreFizz

Pittsburgh English

Pittsburgh English, popularly known as Pittsburghese, is the dialect of American English spoken by many residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and parts of surrounding Western Pennsylvania in the United States. Overview Many of the sounds and words found in the speech of Pittsburghers are popularly thought to be unique to the city. This is reflected in the term "Pittsburghese," the putative sum of these features in the form of a dialect. However, few of these features are restricted solely to Pittsburgh or the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Instead, many of them are found throughout so...

> Speakers of Pittsburgh English are sometimes called "Yinzers", in reference to their use of the 2nd-person plural pronoun "Yinz", a feature that is likely more salient than many others because it has no equivalent in Standard American English... The feature has been interpreted as pejorative, indicating a lack of sophistication. Use of "Yinz" (more often pronounced younz or yunz) extends into eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia,

Ivo Flipse

@ArdaXi what was mainstream? I missed where the conversation was going

Arda Xi

Oh hi @IvoFlipse, did I ping you again?

Conversation was going to me being a cyber-stalker. At the time I think we were discussing autism.

Ivo Flipse

that autism is becoming mainstream?

Arda Xi

I recall something like that. No?

Bob

11:06 PM

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Q: Closed tag for closed questions?

Is it worth having a closed tag (as well as "[closed]" in the title) as this stackexchange site seems to have a lot of closed questions and a closed tag would make it really useful to put it in the ignore tag list. Apologies if this has been asked already. Cheers Jared

discussion feature-request tagging closed-questions

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice: Bleah, why didn't you warn me Harm's Way was a racer?

Ivo Flipse

I do believe they diagnose people with mental illnesses a lot faster than 'in the ol' days

just as we now die of too much noise and 'fijnstof'

FallenAngelEyes

@Ivo Have you gotten the guitar yet?

Ivo Flipse

haven't seen it available anywhere yet

Arda Xi

It does have its perks, though. I just read an article about watching computer screens at night disrupts sleep by disrupting melatonin release.

And I laugh at that because my body hardly makes any melatonin by itself, which means I take it in pill-form, which means I don't have to worry about disrupting its release, and I can do whatever I want before I sleep.

Ivo Flipse

11:13 PM

yup and I was watching Nicholas Carr on the news talking about attention disorders, I started reading Google Reader after 4 sentences :P

FallenAngelEyes

@Arda Use F.lux

Arda Xi

@FallenAngelEyes I do.

FallenAngelEyes

I wish melatonin helped me get to sleep

and yeah @Ivo, me neither :(

Arda Xi

@FallenAngelEyes I have a prescription.

FallenAngelEyes

ah gotcha

badp

11:14 PM

BTW @ArdaXi I wanted to apologize for the last "Ariel", the truth was I would've typoed your name anyway (didn't have the time to check your profile and stuff) and decided to go for the half-funny typo instead.

Arda Xi

@badp It's Arda for you.

FallenAngelEyes

I tried taking melatonin to help me sleep but it didn't help me get to sleep at all. It did, however, make it nigh impossible for me to wake.

Arda Xi

@FallenAngelEyes I wouldn't suggest it for normal humans.

badp

@ArdaXi Fine, Ariën.

Arda Xi

@badp ARDA FOR YOU!

FallenAngelEyes

11:15 PM

Under normal circumstances, I can easily sleep 12-14 hours a day.

Powerlord

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FallenAngelEyes

If nothing wakes me, I just sleep.

lmao @Powerlord

Arda Xi

I need only like 7 hours. If I sleep longer, I get a headache.

Powerlord

I always love that image. :D

Arda Xi

@FallenAngelEyes Point is, I take this about 30 minutes before going to sleep, and I literally fall asleep the moment I hit the bed.

STOP STARRING THAT

Ivo Flipse

11:16 PM

I'm still going to get it @FallenAngelEyes and then we're definitely going to host that gaming session!

Arda Xi

@GraceNote I need your dagger.

FallenAngelEyes

@Ivo We keep asking at our game store, still no news. :(

EA's EU distribution blows.

Ivo Flipse

I haven't seen it on Amazon either :(

Powerlord

Mana was rapidly disappearing.

FallenAngelEyes

You'd think they don't want us to spend 300 euro on a guitar+midi controller

Arda Xi

11:18 PM

@Powerlord Have a @Mana potion.

@FallenAngelEyes You guys are crazy.

FallenAngelEyes

@Arda For an electric guitar with midi support that can also be used as a game peripheral, that's actually a really good price.

(though I'm not refuting the fact that we're crazy)

badp

@ArdaXi Actually if that one's the syllable that must be pronounced like an attempt to spit catarrh, I guess a better pronounce guidance would be Ar - rrrrgh - yan, which incidentally makes your name piratey. :P

Arda Xi

@badp There is no g in Ariën is there?

badp

No, there isn't, but we're only poor foreigners. It'll have to make do.

Arda Xi

At least @IvoFlipse and @FallenAngelEyes should know how to pronounce it.

@badp It's not even close.

badp

11:25 PM

I imagined, I just liked the mental sound.

Also the spelling of "catarrh" is bonkers.

Ivo Flipse

11:38 PM

btw @badp a little birdy just told me, that if we can show that getting embedded Youtube helps the sites, it might be built in sooner, rather than later

badp

@IvoFlipse That's unsurprising, except I wasn't really driving for embedded Youtube

Ivo Flipse

well, support for Youtube video's then, in what form is open for discussion

but if we can prove that it improves the quality on certain answers, it will jump the priority list somewhat

badp

Well, I can try use youtube links more in my answers, or rather make them more visible.

Ivo Flipse

great, now we just need to convince others to do the same :)

Grace Note

11:59 PM

@ArdaXi Accurate outside of the whole Pittsburgh element. At any rate, I do have to vanish again.

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