The Bridge

Powerlord

6:03 PM

Hmm, I'm still stuck with VS2k8sp1 on my work compy.

I wonder if that'll change once they start rolling the Win7 images out to developer machines.

Arda Xi

I've been using 2k10 for like a year now.

Not for anything productive, mind you.

I thought WPF was some kind of revolution. Turns out it's just WinForms++

fail badp

the Space Chem demo irks me

I can see how you could sacrifice speed to minimize symbols... sorta

but I'm baffled as to the number of cycles

Powerlord

@ArdaXi I have 2k10 at home, but I don't exactly use .NET a lot.

Arda Xi

After doing Javascript for a couple months, it's nice to work with a strongly typed language again.

Powerlord

Someone just corrected one of my answers on SO from over two years ago. :O

Brant

6:17 PM

vs2010 is pretty great.

Powerlord

Speaking of which, SP1 should be available to the public now.

VS2k10 SP1

Oh right, that's the English language version link... I dunno if removing &displaylang=en would fix that or not.

Powerlord

6:28 PM

Can StackExchange's answer window do superscripts?

Apparently it does if you use the HTML <sup> tag.

Brant

Yes.

Powerlord

Can StackExchange's answer window cook me dinner? I don't feel like cooking tonight.

user30

insert bacon

2

Powerlord

HEY! When I make bacon comments, I don't get stars, but Thomas does? :O

user30

I'm just too baconsome.

Powerlord

6:39 PM

You misspelled bacawesome.

user30

No, I didn't.

user30

I spelt baconsome correctly.

user30

bacawesome: 232 results
baconsome: 4030 results

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald That's only because it's correcting baconsome to Bacon some

user30

No, it's not.

Powerlord

6:42 PM

@ThomasMcDonald If you're using Google it is.

user30

It's searching for baconsome as well as other variations of it, including bacon some.

user30

Same for bacawesome/bac awesome.

Powerlord

For example, the first result: "Quote Details: Sir Francis Bacon: Some books are to... - The ..."

user30

@Powerlord See above.

user30

Still, baconsome > bacawesome. Says Google. And me.

Powerlord

6:43 PM

I WILL NEVER ADMIT DEFEAT!

throws bacon at @ThomasMcDonald

user30

eats provided bacon, enjoy your dinner

Ronan Forman

neither are correct google.co.uk/trends?q=bacawesome%2C+baconsome

Powerlord

NOOOO, my secret weakness!

user30

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald Everyone defected to BLUDIT

user30

6:46 PM

@Powerlord ±_±

Powerlord

Hey, I play TF2 on REDDIT's Great Lakes and Midwest servers.

I'm allowed to associate Reddit with TF2.

user30

@Powerlord In the same way you can associate Reddit with wtf, programming, Minecraft, trees, circlejerk, f7u12, pics, funny, and a myriad of other subreddits.

Powerlord

@ThomasMcDonald Since I don't visit reddit, I wouldn't associate it with anything else. ;)

Arda Xi

Surely there's a bacon reddit.

baccit

Powerlord

We all need bacon carrats.

baccarrat!

Baccarat <-- Whoops, I still misspelled it

It was a bad joke anyhow, and now I get to snooze... er... participate in a meeting.

Arda Xi

6:55 PM

Refined metal is expensive. :(

Powerlord

@ArdaXi Pssh, sure it is.

Arda Xi

18 weapons.

Bob

7:13 PM

1

Q: Do all Pokemon B/W Wifi features work with WPA2?

I've learned that original (and Lite) Nintendo DS systems do not support WPA/WPA2 Wifi encryption, but the newer hardware (DSi, 3DS) does. I've also learned that this only applies to newer games, and that older games require WEP, even on newer systems. Finally, I've learned that Pokemon Black ...

GnomeSlice

7:25 PM

It's a sad day when @GnomeSlice can't design a better community advert than @Mana.

Mana

But...@Gnome that's every day.

GnomeSlice

@Mana Hence my constant state of depression.

Mana

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Arda Xi

@Mana And you call me a jerk.

GnomeSlice

insert bacon

Mana

7:28 PM

@Arda It takes one to know one, eh? EH?

GnomeSlice

...I saw that starred and was hoping it would do something... :(

Arda Xi

I thought it took two to know one.

@GnomeSlice What would?

GnomeSlice

1 min ago, by GnomeSlice

insert bacon

@Mana You can do anything at GOGCOM.

Mana

Yes Mike, I get it, it's a Zombocom reference.

You've told this to me THREE TIMES.

GnomeSlice

This, IS, GOGCOM

Arda Xi

7:31 PM

Zombocom is broken for me :(

Mana

Once in the comments, once on Facebook, once here.

GnomeSlice

@Mana No, just in the comments.

Brant

►

Your nuclear questions answered.

2

GnomeSlice

7:48 PM

@Brant lolwut.

Powerlord

@Bob Did anyone answer this yet with the correct "Pokemon B/W do not support WPA/WPA2"?

...did they change the styles at SO, or is my browser not loading them properly?

31

Q: Why is StackOverflow naked?

It seems just wrong... IMO it is looking awful... Will this be like that for now on? :S

discussion stackoverflow design

Bob

8:04 PM

0

Q: Old point&click game

I dont know what is name of game i have played in 1990 or later. I remember i have started male, in a little village. I had to take grapes to an old man with long white beard, he was little crazy. I dont remember anything more. My English is bad because im from Poland. If someone knows the title ...

pc adventure

Powerlord

and now I know!

Bored. Entertain me!

Brant

HI I'M ON META STACK OVERFLOW AND I FEAR CHANGE

Mana

Welcome to the internet Brant.

Powerlord

@Brant In this case, the change was to make unanswered questions less visible.

Arda Xi

So what are they going to do now? Make them glow in 2 days time?

Ronan Forman

8:16 PM

@Powerlord ustream.tv/pennyarcade

Powerlord

Specifically, unanswered questions used to have black text on a red background in the Number of Answers section.

At least I think it was black text... I forget,.

Brant

They basically just swapped the background and foreground colors

I think it looks better.

Ronan Forman

notch just joined chat!

Mana

@Ronan Huh?

Arda Xi

@RonanForman How do you know?

Ronan Forman

8:22 PM

the link I posted of penny arcade being drawn, notch just joined

@ArdaXi he tweeted

Mana

oh

Arda Xi

Ah, I don't follow @cwgabriel

Powerlord

Have I mentioned that I don't like Penny Arcade?

Also, real notch or fake notch?

Mana

Real notch

but different chat than the one I was thinking of

Ronan Forman

@ArdaXi no notch tweeted

Arda Xi

8:24 PM

@Powerlord I like Tycho's character on Poker Night.

@RonanForman Yes, he tweeted @cwgabriel.

@cwgabriel watching and chatting!

Tweeted by notch on March 17, 2011 at 8:15 PM in reply to cwgabriel

Hence I didn't see the tweet.

GnomeSlice

@Mana I was thinking of this chat.

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice i should have specified

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman What with the whole 'fakenotch' joining Gaming yesterday.

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice i didnt know that

Powerlord

Did the Envelope topic on Meta really get deleted?

GnomeSlice

8:31 PM

@RonanForman Oh, he's been merged with The Spaminator

Bob

0

Q: Name of old mech arcade game

I remember going to the arcade/GameWorks in the early 90s for birthday parties. I know in Indianapolis they had this mech game where 10-20 people could play at once. Each person would get into their own pod, and the screen inside would wrap around you close to 180 degrees. You would pilot a mech ...

arcade teams

Powerlord

Bleah, I don't have the rep to undelete topics at Meta.

Ronan Forman

@Powerlord they mentioned bacon...

i can never remember markdown

@Powerlord are you naic224 cause he talks about bacon all the time

Powerlord

8:49 PM

@RonanForman No.

GnomeSlice

9:02 PM

murder

Ronan Forman

you seen the zangief kid that was murder

GnomeSlice

Justified.

That tag really needs more exposure.

But then again, it's already starting to lose it's impact; it's becoming too mainstream.

Ronan Forman

are we hipsters

tag hipsters. get it!

it needed explaining, it was quite obscure.

Bob

0

Q: Do items left on the ground in the wilderness stay there overnight?

I have too many items to carry home; what should I do? Nobody in town is able to help me carry it back. I don't have enough AP and food/water to make the round trip. And nighttime is falling really soon.

die2nite

Sadly Not

@GnomeSlice Making murder less mainstream means editing it out of some questions.

Mana

9:11 PM

@Grace :( Why must you hound me so?

Powerlord

Don't make me start singing Lady Gaga songs! >:/

Sadly Not

Whoa, psychic.

Grace Note

@Mana No, I already gave you 18 seconds between when I saw you post and when I posted my comment. ♪

Mana

So impatient, geez!

Sadly Not

@Mana Careful you might scare her off! Grace appearances are both short and rare.

Powerlord

9:13 PM

@SadlyNot They are? You must be new here...

Grace Note

I actually am going to vanish in a minute. But hounding was necessary. ♪

Sadly Not

@Powerlord Old enough to know she vanishes about 5 seconds after appearing.

Powerlord

@SadlyNot Oh, that's just because she's a rogue.

She's really still here, you just can't see her.

Grace Note

Technically, super assassin idol.

9:14 PM

So, I was thinking of what to have for dinner. I was thinking a salad with bacon bits.

Sadly Not

Weak:

►

Powerlord

Actually, I was thinking something without bacon, but I wanted to use the bacon tag.

Mana

That is horrible.

Also we need more good tags that aren't game names!

Powerlord

9:18 PM

I was going to pick up a grinder (sandwich) at Mancino's yesterday, only to find out they were closed due to a "change in management."

Sadly Not

I suppose no one wants to watch the vid lol.

Mana

@Sadly I've already seen it

Sadly Not

Ahhhhhh

Mana

:)

Powerlord

nerfnow.com/comic/91 <-- I always love this comic. :D

Sadly Not

9:19 PM

@Mana What's your last name? Out of curiosity.

Powerlord

My avatar makes me think of that comic all the time.

Sadly Not

I think I've been over this with you already ... :S

Powerlord

Mana is his last name. Secret is his first name. ;)

Mana

Biggs.

Powerlord

LIES! His last name is Wedge!

Sadly Not

9:20 PM

@Mana K.

@Powerlord Is spy crab trolling still respected?

Mana

It fits me like a glove, what with my astounding height of...get this...5'10".

Powerlord

@SadlyNot Not really.

Mana

And weighing in at 120 lbs.

Sadly Not

@Powerlord Thought so.

Powerlord

It doesn't help that you can't crab if you're using Your Eternal Reward.

Sadly Not

9:21 PM

@Mana Wtf. You may need to watch that video again, then make that, then it eat. And repeat.

Powerlord

YER is great on defense on Payload maps, btw.

<3 silent backstabs. :D

Sadly Not

@Powerlord I'd play TF2 if my laptop could handle it. The performance has been constantly dropping. L4D2 surprised me by improving though.

I actually get 30 fps!

Powerlord

@SadlyNot I'm surprised L4D2 has a better framerate than TF2... L4D2 usually has more going on at once.

Sadly Not

@Powerlord I dunno. TF2 seems like a slopfest to me. It's never run properly.

Even COD4 performed better.

For all the games that use the Source engine there's a wide range of performance issues.

Powerlord

@SadlyNot Weird. Now, granted, they've updated TF2 so many times that I wouldn't be surprised if some bugs in the rendering system have snuck in.

Just recently, I noticed they'd made changes to the particle effects system again.

and as a result, the Medic's heal gun beam and flames look different... again.

Sadly Not

9:25 PM

@Powerlord I haven't read updates carefully enough to see if they actually work on performance. Lots of bugfixes though so no one is complaining.

@Powerlord I don't think they'll ever finalize TF2

Mana

So.

Sadly Not

Sup maaaaaaaan.

Mana

It's Friday, and your friends pull up in a car.

Sadly Not

And you say:

Mana

Kicking in the front seat, kicking in the back seat.

Which seat can you take?

Powerlord

9:27 PM

@SadlyNot Sure they will! And then TF3 will come out.

Mana

There are four people in the car and five seats.

Sadly Not

@Mana I don't get it.

@Powerlord Really? There is no call for it. Unless they pull a MNC and add DotA to it.

Powerlord

@Mana I call shotgun!

Mana

Me neither, but these are the questions raised by this truly amazing song:

►

Powerlord

grabs the shotgun

Sadly Not

9:28 PM

@Mana NOOOOOOOOOO

IT IS NOT FRIDAY

Powerlord

Just for that:

►

Sadly Not

@Powerlord Shoot her in the head!

Powerlord

Clock says it's going home time. I should go home.

Sadly Not

Is anyone participating in Dream.Build.Play?

Powerlord

After deciding what to do for food. Had I remembered to pull ground beef out of the freezer, I could have made bacon cheeseburgers or something.

Sadly Not

9:30 PM

@Powerlord Microwave ain't that bad.

Mana

> go home
'home' isn't a direction!

GnomeSlice

78 new messages! D:

Sadly Not

@GnomeSlice I have failed you.

Alas, I cannot raptor-safari harm's way for you.

GnomeSlice

@SadlyNot Whyyyyy.

Mana

@SadlyNot And you're right, it isn't Friday. According to this video, it's actually essay night.

> I am Thursday's child!

Powerlord

9:31 PM

@Mana: I'd go east, south, south, west, west, west, south, press down button, enter elevator, press G button, exit elevator, west, south, west.... wait, this is taking too long. I mean, that's just to leave this building.

Mana

Truly intelligent, inspiring words from Rebecca Black.

Sadly Not

May her soul burn with the fire of a thousand suns.

Powerlord

Wait, my last three directions were wrong... it's north, west, north from the elevator lobby

Sadly Not

@GnomeSlice Why or why not?

Mana

My spirit burns like the sun and I shall dry you like a prune.

GnomeSlice

9:33 PM

@SadlyNot I actually don't even understand what you mean by 'raptor-safari' something.

Sadly Not

@GnomeSlice It's to take a game you've never seen before then sink 12 hours into picking every aspect of it apart until you become an expert.

GnomeSlice

@SadlyNot I see. In that case, shame on you.

Sadly Not

Guess who started it. And yes I can coin my own terms, however stupid ._.

GnomeSlice

Wait a minute, are you that other guy with a new name?

Mana

@Gnome is clueless.

Arda Xi

9:36 PM

Hmm, I actually have to host my own server to play a decent game of HL2DM

Anyone wanna play?

Mana

Whose internet sucks now?

Sadly Not

Baaaaaaaam

Arda Xi

@Mana Was that directed at me?

Mana

No it was uh directed @sjohns

Sadly Not

@Arda is clueless.

sjohnston

9:37 PM

Whatsa huh? I wasn't paying attention

Arda Xi

@Mana continues murder plans. Writes down: Mana.

Sadly Not

@sjohnston .... you know.

Mana

@sjohns stares

sjohnston

Pfft. My internet is thoroughly adequate

Mana

You want to go?

Sadly Not

9:38 PM

Depends. a/s/l?

GnomeSlice

Oh man. Internet throw down. Here we go.

Mana

MALE/MALE/MALE.

Sadly Not

@Mana OH SHI-

Arda Xi

@Mana You're a male male-year-old from Male?

GnomeSlice

Which I'm not, so I guess this is where you disconnect.

Sadly Not

9:39 PM

@GnomeSlice D:

GnomeSlice

Your chatting partner has disconnected

FFFFFFUUUUUUU-

Mana

@Gnome clearly has an effeminate face, as indicated clearly by her gravatar

I don't know how anyone could think she was a guy. Ever.

Arda Xi

@Mana You thought I was, didn't you?

Sadly Not

@Mana He may have guy-brows but he's definitely workable.

Mana

It's like thinking that Arda isn't a blonde mermaid.

STARS FOR THE STAR GODS

Arda Xi

9:41 PM

Hey, you guys are learning! You're only starring the messages around mine!

Sadly Not

Haha, and then I read @GnomeSlice status "Just when you thought you had me figured out..."

GnomeSlice

@Mana Ouch, yours all disappeared.

Sadly Not

You are one cryptic mofo.

GnomeSlice

@SadlyNot I'M A 17 YEAR OLD ANGSTY GIRL, I ADMIT IT.

Mana

@Gnome I wonder who withdrew them.

Sadly Not

9:41 PM

@GnomeSlice I like that in my women.

GnomeSlice

@Mana Oh look, they're back.

Mana

I don't know what to say anymore.

Arda Xi

Tossing props around on my own is boring :(

Sadly Not

Have we delved to far?

Arda Xi

Amuse me!

Mana

9:43 PM

No, only @LessPop delves too far.

Sadly Not

Could this possibly be the most offensive page on the internet?

Mana

I think Gnome straddled the line once too when he posted my Barbra Streisand hit

GnomeSlice

@SadlyNot :

►

@Mana I had to, it was such a work of art.

Sadly Not

Pro tip. If you go into the archives of that page, you contract spontaneous explosion.

GnomeSlice

^ Steve Hughes, talking about being offended.

Arda Xi

9:46 PM

@GnomeSlice Talk about being offended.

GnomeSlice

"Who cares if you're offended!? Nothing HAPPENS."

Sadly Not

@GnomeSlice Careful now...

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice Have you checked?

GnomeSlice

"Mummy, he called me an idiot! Don't worry about it, he's a dick!"

He's a comedian. Watch it.

Sadly Not

T'was good.

Yeah, I forgot that changing my name would confuse some people.

I used to be 'KinkiTinki' when I played COD4. As a 14 year old girl.

GnomeSlice

9:49 PM

9

A: How Many Ways Can I Run Over Those Raptors?

I'll post some kills you haven't mentioned, as well as acts that do not seem to count as special kills. This list gets updated as I find new ways to maim raptors. Pictures will be added if I remember to capture the moment. You can see the points for each kill in the pictures, so they approximate ...

Arda Xi

@SadlyNot Wait, so, who were you?

GnomeSlice

Wonder why it hasn't updated your name on your answers...

Mana

Hahaha, I remember when I was a girl. Good times.

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi thethinman

...I think.

Arda Xi

Oh.

Sadly Not

9:50 PM

@GnomeSlice Probably because it's comm wiki

@GnomeSlice Bug?

Mana

@Sadly No, Gnome.

Sadly Not

@Mana Should I meta it?

Arda Xi

I'm bored. I'm going to try my Markov thingy again.

Mana

Lemmeh run a quick Meta SO check

Sadly Not

Sure. I won't post, meta doesn't like me.

Arda Xi

9:52 PM

You forgot to tag as Unless...no, I can reply to do a better release schedule reeks aww yeah. (actually 6: I'm so late playing Phoenix movie for all the villains of the year: type up 5 facts about 15 French people. looool cake. on the Annie cool? ...Oh. :&lt; Makes walking around the eyes, it artist, you're good business this season! the same universe as Baccano. I should start up in an hour, yeah? "Yeah cool, no problem." Silly TwitterBarPhone, you'll have graduated.

Sadly Not

@ArdaXi uh buuuh?

Arda Xi

@SadlyNot I'll do you. Do you have Twitter?

Sadly Not

@Feeds Hi! How are ya?

Mana

@Arda STARES

Sadly Not

@ArdaXi Better question, if I did, would i use it?

Arda Xi

9:53 PM

@SadlyNot So long as you have a couple tweets on it, it'll do

Sadly Not

Oh wait, I have better things to do. Like push my face into a blender.

@ArdaXi No offense to you, however.

Arda Xi

sighs.

Oh, by the way, the one I linked was Mana.

I'll do another one.

> I'm just installed this TwitterBar thing! It's horrible! both were pretty cool guy, but I'm not quite is pretty awesome Q&A site for the evening...by just as epic as O Charitable Thief, if not in your first year of college "magic exists lol". starting to hear the difference between FLAC and V0 audio files with Chrome to support a good cause: TwitterBar thing! It's cool bro. No need to apologize or anything. stares gods are pleased. of my social acceptability, summed up a count of you.

Mana

It's basically a compilation of random strings from my tweets

Arda Xi

@Mana Not quite.

Mana

well whatever

Arda Xi

9:55 PM

Basically, what it does is grab a combination of words from your tweets and makes a text based on them.

Mana

the basic idea is you got the tweets and you got the thing and then you gotta thing, y'see?

Arda Xi

Based on which words follow which.

eblong.com/zarf/markov

> With luck, you'll have to do a better job of describing the only time anyone ever going to death for three monitors at once, aww yeah.

Bob

0

Q: Can't beat GTA San Andreas first mission

I just started playing San Andreas on my PS2 and I keep failing my first real mission "Sweet & Kendl". I have to follow my hoomies on a bike. However I keep falling of the bike and when I'm finally back on my bike, all my homies are long gone and there is no indication (arrow or something l...

grand-theft-auto

Sadly Not

@ArdaXi This is more interesting.

How do i put things in a code block?

Arda Xi

@SadlyNot 4 spaces in front.

Sadly Not

10:00 PM

In front of every line? Oh dear.

Even in chat?

                                  #include\
                                  <stdio.h>
                     #include                <stdlib.h>
                     #include                <string.h>

                    #define w "Hk~HdA=Jk|Jk~LSyL[{M[wMcxNksNss:"
                   #define r"Ht@H|@=HdJHtJHdYHtY:HtFHtF=JDBIl"\
                  "DJTEJDFIlMIlM:HdMHdM=I|KIlMJTOJDOIlWITY:8Y"
                 #define S"IT@I\\@=HdHHtGH|KILJJDIJDH:H|KID"\
                "K=HdQHtPH|TIDRJDRJDQ:JC?JK?=JDRJLRI|UItU:8T"

Bonus points if you can figure out what it does without running it.

Hint: it's related to markov.

Also, not my code.

Arda Xi

I don't do C++ unfortunately.

Sadly Not

Gtg. Good night broseph stalin.

Arda Xi

Huuuuuu

fail badp

So I'm stuck in Space Chem before the demo is even over

(Level 3-1)

Arda Xi

"starting to hear the difference between FLAC and V0 audio files with Chrome to support a good cause: TwitterBar thing! It's cool bro."

Tweeted by SecretofMana on March 17, 2011 at 9:57 PM

That explains that.

sjohnston

10:07 PM

huh, apparently by tacking on fake referrers to your url, you can bypass the NY Times paywall

Arda Xi

Chat needs an API.

I NEED MOAR DATA.

sjohnston

Out of curiosity, those of you here who use twitter: how many people do you follow?

Mana

118

sjohnston

I'm perplexed by the people who follow hundreds or thousands

Arda Xi

About as many as people follow me. 167

sjohnston

10:10 PM

I have something like 30, and that's a lot to keep up with

Mana

@sjohns I never read all of it

Arda Xi

I have Streamie open constantly. It's rather easy.

Mana

only just the latest stuff

Arda Xi

I do read all of it.

> Since the dawn of software development, the single biggest threat to reliable information has been end-users. After decades of the existence of computers, why do we still need to inform users that "the Start Date should always be less than the End Date"? Since User.Current.Electrocute() won't be added to the .NET Framework until .NET 4.0, most of us generally have to resort to displaying some kind of UI cues to politely tell the user what they've done wrong.

fail badp

10:31 PM

@sjohnston It is public info, but 66

Even like that now I have three screenfuls of tweets to catch up with

although most people probably only bother to look at the top three or four tweets

oh man

last thing I needed: