The Bridge

James

00:01

@AnnaLear Oddness.. Mods from other sites can just shove whatever they want on to this site?

Anna Lear

It can be done as a courtesy, but we have the migration rejection mechanism for a reason. It's arguably subpar in some situations, but in 99.9% of migrations, it works out fine.

@James Yep. Although your phrasing is way more alarmist than necessary. Nobody's trying to "shove" random questions onto Arqade.

James

@AnnaLear I honestly am considering the Sci.Fi site sending us an ITG post because of how everyone comes here to rag on their site.

But.... that is probably just my cynical funny bone being tickled :)

GnomeSlice

Wow, I couldn't get to the north pole to fix my pipeline, so all of my crew died of thirst.

user15026

@AnnaLear pictures people shoving stuff through giant brightly coloured plastic tubes labeled "Arqade Internets"

user15026

@GnomeSlice That doesnt sound good

GnomeSlice

00:03

I lost.

user15026

@James Haha I like cynical humor :P

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice ACCEPT HIS GRATITUDE!!!ONEONE111ONEOENEN11!!!!!!

user15026

@Wipqozn grins So insistent.

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn All caps works so well for @MarkTrapp so I thought I'd try it out.

user15026

@Wipqozn Pretty effective, I would say.

user2334

00:10

@Wipqozn Sorry turtle, you can never be me

Wipqozn

►

user2334

Terrapin!

Wipqozn

►

user15026

@Wipqozn best use of MLP.

Wipqozn

user15026

00:12

@Wipqozn Heck yes I do.

user2334

@Wipqozn WHY DID THE MUSIC START PLAYING OUT OF NOWHERE

Wipqozn

►

user15026

@Wipqozn Why does that always work.

user15026

@Wipqozn Ah, this one I have seen.

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn Because it's Guile's theme. It goes with everything. Everything.

user15026

00:15

@Wipqozn I know. It is incredibly creepy.

Wipqozn

@MarkTrapp I DON'T KNOW MAN I, I JUST DON'T KNOW

user2334

Oh. Ok.

Wipqozn

The Sonic Rainboom is one of my favourite guiles theme, because it's actually superior to the music in the original video.

user15026

@Wipqozn This is so true.

Wipqozn

Not to mention it syncs up so damn well.

The way it flickers when she does the back-turn rainbow.

user15026

00:19

Heads up: #stackoverflow and #stackexchange will be failing over out of New York in a little under an hour

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on October 30, 2012 at 12:16 AM

Wipqozn

right here youtube.com/…

user2334

Presented without comment:

user2334

-1

A: When did Star Wars take place?

Star wars tales volume 5 ways was a comic that was writtin a few years ago. you can seriously look it up. the wikipedia article said: "Han Solo and Chewbacca are aboard the Millennium Falcon when they are attacked by Imperials. They are forced to leap to hyperspace blind and end up in our sola...

Wipqozn

bah, that video is a couple seconds late.

@MarkTrapp why did he quote it like that.

All that scrolling I had to do.

The worst part is he's so proud of it. Just so happy to have been able to help.

user2334

oh man that's a quote? I thought it was just a string of non-sequiturs

Wipqozn

00:21

You just don't want to shoot him down!

user2334

this is an order of magnitude less funny now THANKS WIPQOZN

Wipqozn

No problem!

Always happy to ruin things.

user15026

@Wipqozn Everyone has to be good at something.

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn but no ones good at everything!

Tim Stone

@MarkTrapp I'd rather jokingly look it up.

Wipqozn

00:24

I love that commercial.

Tim Stone

@AshleyNunn Run away from the hurricane, Stack Exchange!

user15026

@TimStone I know, right?

user2334

@TimStone Every time I see a Star Wars continuity-with-other-Universes question I am sorely tempted to close as NC or NARQ until I see the answers that demonstrate canon or almost-canon sources showing a connection

GnomeSlice

@MarkTrapp I'm guessing "A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away" isn't an acceptable answer.

user2334

But seriously, I didn't realize he quoted a paragraph. I thought it stopped at "Han Solo and Chewbacca are aboard the Millennium Falcon when they are attacked by Imperials." Which would've made the conclusion that it took place in 1800 hilarious DAMN YOU TURTLE

user2334

00:27

It happened a long time ago. Probably long enough ago that the answer would have no meaning to us. Perhaps along the lines of saying "a billion billion X", where X is years in this case. While it is a real number is not readily fathomable and therefore is meaningless. — Xantec Jul 29 '11 at 15:41

Wipqozn

Oh thank Zeus, NBC is no longer making that stupid dwight spin-off of the office. Maybe they will finally let the office rest in peace.

Because seriously, fuck off NBC. You should have let the office die with dignity a few years ago.

GnomeSlice

42

Q: How much in-game time has passed between Portal 1 and 2?

At the start of Portal 2, it's clear that time has passed. You've been woken up every few months for physical and mental fitness tests, until something goes wrong and you're left in stasis for much longer. How long is Chell, your character, in stasis? How much time has passed between the end o...

portal-series

Tim Stone

@Wipqozn They're NBC, making terrible decisions is what they do.

GnomeSlice

@MarkTrapp Is your point that it's a terrible question?

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Did you even look at what he linked?

user2334

00:28

@Wipqozn Eh. Bigger news is that they aren't canceling Up All Night and but instead changing the format and making it into a multi-camera sitcom. WHY WHAT SKELETONS DOES CHRISTINA APPLEGATE KNOW OF

murgatroid99

@MarkTrapp so it happened before the universe?

Wipqozn

He was linking to an answer, not the question.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Just the onebox.

Oh

No, I just looked at the title.

My bad.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice SHUN SHUUUUUN

user2334

@murgatroid99 idkmybffjill. Eh, comments. Whatcha gonna do? The superior answer is the one with science.

Wipqozn

00:30

@MarkTrapp He left an open bracket akjfasjdfkasdljfasdlkfj

user15026

We are on generator power, so going to failover #stackoverflow to our other datacenter at about 9 PM EDT. Good thing we just tested this!

Tweeted by kylembrandt on October 30, 2012 at 12:29 AM

Wipqozn

I HATE WHEN PEOPLE DO THAT

user15026

So, half an hour.

user2334

@Wipqozn you're an open bracket. Where? I WILL CORRECT IT SIR

Tim Stone

@AshleyNunn I think that the windiest bits may have passed me now, but it's hard to tell because the NBC/weather.com hurricane tracker has not updated with 8:00 pm position data yet.

user2334

00:31

Nevermind, I see it. But I don't know where the closing parenthesis should go

Wipqozn

@MarkTrapp Nor I. There's no natural place for it go.

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO!??!?!

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn take out the open paren?

user15026

@TimStone Yeah, we are going to likely get more wind and such here, but nothing big, I don't think

Wipqozn

@murgatroid99 That's what I'm thinking. It looks like it was a typo.

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn It looked to me like he wanted to parenthesize something, but the sentence ended up not going that way

Wipqozn

00:34

I think he's just evil, and wanted to ruin my day.

user2334

@Wipqozn pssst. I fixed it for you. By replacing the parenthesis with a comma

Wipqozn

@MarkTrapp You're a hero.

user2334

\o/

Wipqozn

user2334

Wifi tethering man

user2334

00:37

UNLESS AT&T AMIRITE GUYS DAE HATE AT&T

Wipqozn

Reddit user made a replica Myst book with an embedded computer inside it. It plays all the Myst games.

user2334

►

user2334

for the lazy --^

Tim Stone

@MarkTrapp With the money you'll be saving by not having electricity, you can afford to turn on the tethering feature for extra $$$!

Wipqozn

tortoise swoosh

GnomeSlice

00:42

@MarkTrapp This is sick.

@fbueckert Have you played Star Wolves or Space Rangers?

I tried one of them... or maybe both of them, I forget... and they were too complicated for me to figure out.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Both. Not really a fan.

GnomeSlice

This is a lot like those.

I started over.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice I figured you would. :P

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert How do you get fuel? I see I have some fuel mines as flags on my map so do I just... leave them there and they generate fuel?

fbueckert

Wait until you're introduced to Alchemists.

GnomeSlice

00:43

@fbueckert I had no choice, everyone died of thirst.

I couldn't get to the north pole to defend the pipeline.

Not enough fuel.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Have you clicked on other territories?

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert The only territories I can click on are ones with things in them.

Oh, it says 'neutral'.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice And...?

GnomeSlice

Huh.

There's a build button, apprarently.

Wait, it sent a little truck out.

How do I determine who goes in the truck?

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Click on Base

GnomeSlice

00:46

Oh, it's the people in the scientific bay.

Roger.

At least, for this one it is.

Okay, what the hell did I just build there

Trent Hawkins

Time to play a classic! Quest for Glory time!

GnomeSlice

Aaand lack of fuel means I can't reach this mission

@fbueckert How do I even know how much fuel I have? And how the hell do I get more.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice What did you JUST do?

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I built some thing, okay. But now I can't interact with it.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice What was to the left of your Build button?

GnomeSlice

00:50

It says 'excavation site' and 'fuel mine' are on that territory

@fbueckert 'fuel mine'.

Does it just automatically generate fuel?

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice And...?

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert And I have no idea how to actually MINE fuel.

Oh wait what.

Now it says I can build a fuel mine or an excavation site

...What the hell did I build first, then?

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice See the nice thin blue line?

GnomeSlice

Yeah, I sent someone out to build a fuel mine now, I guess I built a thing that captures the territory.

Which is dumb.

Aaand everyone died of thirst.

@fbueckert Is there any way to save it AFTER beating a mission?

Every time I re-load it it's the mission start of my last squad mission.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice What's to the left of your Globe button?

GnomeSlice

00:58

@fbueckert I don't know, I'm back in the mission, but I definitely tried the escape menu.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice The Escape button is tricky on the Geoscape.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert Oh. Wow. Okay.

Why didn't it autosave, then?

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Autosaves happen at the beginning of combat.

GnomeSlice

arg

@fbueckert Ah, 'save game'.

Wow, that wasn't obvious.

@fbueckert So once I've built a fuel mine, does it just automatically generate fuel?

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Click Overview

GnomeSlice

01:08

@fbueckert Yeah I couldn't make any sense of that screen.

I see a fuel symbol on 'acid plains' and I just built a fuel mine there. But I saw that same symbol there last game and I HADN'T built it there.

Fuel production is '1' it says...

But I have two fuel mines...

Or something.

Oh balls, I built one in a neutral territory.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice No, you didn't.

You can't build mines in Neutral territory.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert Well, I did, I'm pretty sure.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice You didn't.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I built something, then I built a 'fuel mine' in this territory, that's what I was doing when you were telling me how to build stuff.

I can still build a geological probe, but the mine is done...

I know I built it here... weird.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Any mines you have built show up as little squares around them.

GnomeSlice

01:11

Then WTF. I had this... oh, you know what it was.

user15026

FYI

GnomeSlice

It's because I had to start back at my last mission.

user15026

#stackoverflow and #stackexchange failover out of New York is starting, hang on for a momentary outage

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on October 30, 2012 at 1:07 AM

GnomeSlice

So my progress was set back.

Derp.

user2334

wow, SciFi.SE's maintenance page is ugly

user15026

01:16

@MarkTrapp That blue is hard to read.

Tim Stone

There's supposed to be a background image

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I haven't had anyone shoot any friendlies yet, does that still happen in Afterlight?

user2334

inc immediate meta post when it comes back up

user15026

@TimStone Ah, that would explain it

Tim Stone

But it's specified as cdm.sstatic.net instead of cdn.sstatic.net, heh.

fbueckert

01:17

@GnomeSlice Oh, yeah. Much more often than Aftershock.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert ...How do you make them do that, then?

My units always just say 'I can't do it!' when someone is in the way.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice It's supposed to be an accident.

Notice the little percentages when attacking something?

user15026

@TimStone Ah, that explains it.

fbueckert

Sometimes you get one over a friendly when they're close to the line of fire.

Tim Stone

Now taking witty suggestions for Content Delivery M_____

user2334

01:19

user15026

@TimStone Monster.

Tim Stone

Suggestion accepted.

user2334

Content Delivery Metrorail?

Yi Jiang

Ahahaha

Mixtape

GnomeSlice

Aaand the game just crashed.

Nice

user15026

01:22

Content Delivery Meringue.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert Sort of, but I don't make much sense of it.

I thought it was like 'chance to hit' or something.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice That's exactly what they are.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert But there's two of them.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice And you think your guys are skilled enough to thread the needle without hitting a secondary target?

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert What's the purple one, then? Chance to hit friendly?

fbueckert

01:27

@GnomeSlice Color of the unit shooting.

Purple would be unit #5.

Fluttershy

Evening, everyone!

GnomeSlice

Okay, now I only see one number for %

user15026

@Fluttershy Evening!

GnomeSlice

wtf

I'll just ignore it.

Whatever.

Fluttershy

So, I had something in my eye a little bit ago. In my effort to remove it, I scratched my eye. x_x

Tim Stone

01:30

Argh, trolled by the read-only mode global auth again |:

GnomeSlice

Lmao one of my guys died and the other guy said Vendetta on you...!

user15026

@Fluttershy Eergh, ouch :(

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert Oh, it shows the percentages of each unit attacking that enemy?

I get it.

What does it have to do with friendly fire though?

Wipqozn

It always hate when I turn the light on in the room and disturb the cat.

I always turn the light back off mind you, but still. For those few seconds I feel like a monster.

user15026

@Wipqozn Mine always looks at me with huge eyes, like "YOU MONSTER WHAT IS THAT LIGHT AUGH"

James

01:45

OMG

Site is in ReadOnly mode!?!@?!?

Nooooooo....

... K.. Panic is over. :)

Wipqozn

@James It's almost like their is an on-going storm or something.

Login is currently unavailable

The feature you're trying to use is currently unavailable.

We're doing a bit of maintenance right now and have put the site in read-only mode so that you can still access all the questions, answers, and general knowledge goodness.

We'll enable all features of the site as soon as maintenance completes.

XOXO,
The Stack Exchange Team

awww, xoxo. how sweet.

user15026

@Wipqozn That is kinda lovely.

James

@AshleyNunn I dunno, they took the sugar and didnt even buy me dinner :(

user15026

@James hugs, gives you a cupcake

James

@AshleyNunn Awesome :D

user15026

01:48

@James Cupcakes make everything better

James

So I feel like a fool today... I bought the updated book for Skyrim to include Dawnguard and Hearthfire and such... But I saw a hard cover version of it on Amazon's page but not by amazon but I went ya know, we really banged around the other book so maybe hardcover is a good idea again so Ill snag that.

Wipqozn

user15026

@Wipqozn Twilight why you so angry

murgatroid99

@AshleyNunn did you see the spoiler clip?

Brian

y r the interwebs borke?

user15026

01:49

@murgatroid99 No

James

Book arrives today after a week and it ends up being the same hard cover CE edition of the book I got the first time around.. I go back to amazon and low and behold, it is the same exact book linked to as the hard cover edition of the book... its just the paperback that got updated to include the new content :/

user15026

@Brian SE Is failing over to their other datacenter.

Brian

Damn you sandy! damn you!!

murgatroid99

@AshleyNunn there is a video of the first 8 minutes of Season 3 Episode 1.

Brian

oh well, not that i needed to do any non read-only stuff anyway

murgatroid99

01:50

that's what that picture is from

James

It is very windy and rainy on the east coast of america... and for some reason there is a lot of networking connectivity hardware over there :)

user15026

@Brian It will be back up as soon as the failover finishes whenever that happens.

user15026

@murgatroid99 Awesome!

user15026

Dear body, lets not be sick anymore. Its boring.

murgatroid99

@AshleyNunn Spoiler if you want to see it

user15026

01:51

@murgatroid99 Awesome, thanks

GnomeSlice

I feel like I'm getting pretty good at this.

James

@murgatroid99 ... How the hell does a pony hold on to a helmet with out any thumbs... or fingers!?!?

Wipqozn

It's funny because it's true.

user15026

@Wipqozn OMG SO TRUE

Wipqozn

I'm certain every Canadian has been in this situation more than once.

user15026

01:57

@Wipqozn I know I have. A ton of times.

Ullallulloo

@Wipqozn So has every American...?

Wipqozn

@Ullallulloo IT'S DIFFERENT BECAUSE I SAY SO

Oct 1 at 16:04, by Mark Trapp

CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR TRUE

GnomeSlice

SICK, ALIEN ASSISTANCE

Um... okay, I accepted their offer, what do I actually DO now.

Fluttershy

So... Are they having to switch over to some other server? Or are we down til the storm passes?

murgatroid99

@Fluttershy they're failing over to Oregon

Brian

02:04

Until the gaming gods will it, ArQAde must suffer read-only mode for @GnomeSlice's offenses

4

GnomeSlice

@Brian ...What?

Fluttershy

@murgatroid99 That usually take a while?

James

@Brian I star it just so other people will see it, go WTF, and carry on :D

Tim Stone

@Fluttershy They've only done it once, those few weekends ago.

Fluttershy

@TimStone Gotcha.

Tim Stone

02:05

So it'll probably take a bit, but (fingers crossed) hopefully everything'll go smoothly.

James

@Fluttershy I can see it taking a while to completely migrate all the environment and system data of SE to another site.. or is it just G.SE that is moving?

Ullallulloo

@James Other sites are down too.

James

@Ullallulloo Then yeah, with SO's what, 8000-10000 question rate over 8-9 hours.. I can see it taking a while :D

The saddest part of this whole thing.. is our lazers have faded out :(

I keep forgetting SE chat does not force me to live with odd typos :)

Brian

I was going to make a cool scotty reference for not having enough power for lazers but i couldnt think of one so you get this instead

and apparently there is no server status for SE

James

@Brian Can always just go with the classic 'Were giving it all we got Captain!'

Tim Stone

02:09

@James The database is automatically synchronized between the two data centers now with SQL Server 2012's always-on feature, so hopefully not quite that long. Still takes some time to make sure everything's transitioned correctly though, I imagine.

GnomeSlice

Oh, sick

@Brian Seriously, what do you mean?

James

@TimStone Just with the high volume that the site can see I can see a bit of time for the caches to calm down and sync and replicate then start the migration process.. etc.. But there again I do not know exactly how the tech works in the background I just guess from what I see and move on from there :)

@GnomeSlice He was making a joke man, even I can see that from here which is why I gave it a star :)

GnomeSlice

@James I got that, I just don't get the joke.

James

@GnomeSlice Its one of the things you should be rubbing your hands together and cackling over the perceived power that @Brian assumes you have over g.SE :)

Putting out a nice evil laugh and the like.

rubs his hands together Muwahahahahahaha!!!!!!

^^ Something like that :)

Brian

damn these sandy image photoshops

i'm being fooled left and right

GnomeSlice

02:14

fuck I lost a territory

@fbueckert What do I need to get 'energy'?

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice The joke is you're a criminal. You have offended the gaming gods. OFFENDED I SAY.

user2334

terrapin*

James

@Wipqozn That was my desktop background for a very long time.

Its now this:

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Research. Lots and lots of research.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert Do I need some kind of structure?

Like a mine or something

fbueckert

02:26

@GnomeSlice Nope; energy you can't mine

Wipqozn

I hope none of our NY bridge members have died.

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn so do I

The site is back

Yi Jiang

> HAVOC AS STORM COMES ASHORE - Power Out in Manhattan as Storm Surge Floods Tunnels; New Jersey Slammed

NYT headline

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert So how DO I get energy?

What, do I need to research, then.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Research, dude. I just told you that.

GnomeSlice

02:35

@fbueckert Research what? I have a shitload of things to do.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Try reading.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I did, but thanks for being a dick about it.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice You could just ask a question on the site.

It's not in read only mode anymore.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Dude, I'm helping, and you're busting my ass for being nice.

Screw you, too.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn It was in read only mode earlier?

Wipqozn

02:36

Let's all just calm down, and hug.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert You just assumed I didn't read them. =[

I did. None of them mention energy.

Give me some credit.

Also, sorry.

Oh wow, I was wondering why this building was taking so long... I had nobody in my civil engineering building.

Yi Jiang

Ground Zero is being flooded

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice I don't even have extra energy yet; that's a midgame thing.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert Rah, I want to build a new lab.

Okay.

Sorry for bitching at you.

@fbueckert Wait, does this have something to do with my civil engineering?

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Does what? Can't research energy?

GnomeSlice

02:42

@fbueckert you replied to my thing about civil engineering.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice I just replied to your last message.

Damn, almost lost Harald. Chief crit him.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I got him killed on purpose this time around because his daughter is really cute.

lolololol

SO MANY THINGS TO RESEARCH

Brian

Hrm is going to a midnight release worth it just so i don't have to go to the store on the way home tomorrow

Wipqozn

I must say, I'm rather curious as to why this managed to attract so many down votes:

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Q: Off-topic consistency

Consider these questions: How do I tell if my graphics card is defective? Is there a way to get Windows to handle Shift + numpad keys differently? Launching Minecraft lags computer How to force controller IDs in Windows 7? Crysis 2 causes "Do you want to change the color scheme to improve ...

discussion

GnomeSlice

The hell do I get 'Drone Assembly' from.

I have drone disassembly...

murgatroid99

02:54

@Wipqozn probably because it looked like he was arguing "these other questions didn't get closed, why should mine?" like everyone else who asks an off-topic question and then justifies it with another question we missed.

I didn't vote, but that's kind of what it looks like to me

Wipqozn

@murgatroid99 To be perfectly honest I didn't get that sense at all, but I can see how someone could have gotten that impression.

fbueckert

Ooh, Pyrotechnics Lab.

@GnomeSlice Hint: Check your base.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I checked my research, didn't see it.

fbueckert

@GnomeSlice Did I say check your research?

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I didn't see anything in my base either

fbueckert

02:57

@GnomeSlice I'd doublecheck that if I were you.

GnomeSlice

@fbueckert I will when I get out of my mission. I just looked in the production screen and saw that I could produce drone parts, but I was missing 'drone assembly' which was required.

fbueckert

Woo, Heavy suits!

Tim Stone

They're remaking Red Dawn? >_>

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