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@murgatroid99 Hey, I saw there's an iPhone app for Duolingo now, do you know if there's any Android version in the works?

SaintWacko

12:32 AM

@Lazers This question made me facepalm so hard

@Fluttershy Only 100%? You really should strive to get 110% next time.

@Wipqozn This isn't Symphony of the Night.

@Fluttershy Uh huh, sure. SUUUUUURE.

Someone suggest a browser game. I'm currently stuck at my aunts and require entertainment.

@Wipqozn Akaneiro went live.

12:38 AM

@Fluttershy I see.

That appears to be a game I need to download though.

Yep... It went live before the Kickstarter ended.......

@Wipqozn It's browser based...

Oh, I think I found it.

You just had options to download it on steam too.

@Wipqozn Ahh. Gotcha.

12:50 AM

Zach Weiner comments on r/economics! Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised

He does do a lot of comics on economics

Sounds like XSeed is going to bring Ys I & II Chronicles out in English sometime soon. On PC no less.

@Fluttershy What is that game like?

@StrixVaria It's a fun little puzzle platformer. The humor is classic Double Fine/Ron Gilbert. The platforming can be a bit wonky at times, but otherwise it's fine. And it's morbid.

1:16 AM

Le sigh

@Powerlord Is that related to Yggdra Union?

I never did finish Yggdra union, got stuck on a mission

@RavenDreamer No. Ys is much older than that.

Plus Ys isn't an RPG, let alone a TRPG

Ys is all about charging at trees at perfect angles.

@Powerlord What are those games anyway? I've seen some of them on Steam.

@FAE hardcoregaming101.net/ys/ys.htm

1:31 AM

@GraceNote So action-RPG-y then.

@GraceNote Interesting how one of their Ys Eternal screenshots shows English text.

Ys Eternal never had an English release, so it has to be a fansub

Unless they also called the PSP port Ys Eternal

@Powerlord This is not uncommon among articles at Hardcore Gaming 101.

Ys 3 is also a sidescroller. Except in its recent re-release (Ys: The Oath in Felghana). Surprise!

I like how they're still recently updating and active yet the site design is still very 90s.

@FAE You could say it's hardcore oldschool.

1:37 AM

<body bgcolor=black LINK=YELLOW ALINK=WHITE VLINK=ORANGE>

Hardcore old school alright

I didn't even know raw HTML let you set visited/active link colors...

@FAE Reminds me of Geocities...

@GraceNote Do you have a thing for redheads? Or just lancegirls. (Speargirls?)

@RavenDreamer Latter.

@GraceNote Dang... Was hoping for the former. =(

1:50 AM

@Fluttershy Are you a redhead and on the market?

I'm not sure why that is a "dang", otherwise.

@RavenDreamer The former. No to the latter.

Oh, yeah. I guess you are looks at Tristan's picture.

@RavenDreamer Just because I'm spoken for doesn't mean it isn't nice to be sought. =P

Man... I'm accidentally all kinds of words tonight.

Is that not adorable?

It is not adorable.

1:57 AM

@RavenDreamer What is this from? Like... the reference, I mean.

Spirited Away

It's Noh Face.

Ah. I haven't seen that.

You should fix that.

Go see it! Absolutely!

I know. =(

2:00 AM

Okay, time to work on collision, I think.

Or, debug collision, rather.

@RavenDreamer Shouldn't be too hard. Introduce your face to the desk. Presto! Instant collision!

murgatroid99

@FAE I don't know. I actually haven't been on Duolingo in a while

@GraceNote I'm working on a Meteos clone, actually.

Because why not.

user15026

@Fluttershy No comment.

Because you could be doing a Kirby clone instead.

2:02 AM

@GraceNote That would require art that is something other than squares.

@murgatroid99 Aw, okies.

I do not more than squares.

You should more than squares some time.

I've tried. I don't have the time or patience to dedicate to learning art that would prevent me from programming in the meantime.

I know! I'll get @jin to draw stuff for me!

Stick with basic polygons. You don't need to jump from "not more than squares" to "FULL FLEDGED GAME ART NYORWOOOOOIL!!!!!!!!", you can do the mediary portion of "more than squares but still just polygonal stuffs". Can even make it like a thing about it.

2:07 AM

I do have that guy.

He looks pretty usable.

Woo! The book club I'm participating in starts tomorrow! =D

user15026

@Fluttershy I have a jealous of your book club! What book are you reading?

@AshleyNunn Lamb. =3

user15026

@Fluttershy Oooh, I haven't read that yet, but I have heard good things.

2:16 AM

@AshleyNunn It is one of my favorite books.

1000 views on this question in two days, and not a single upvote.

Whereas I asked this one a week ago, half the views, and nine opvotes.

sounds like viewers who aren't Arqadudes.

or Arqadettes

Popularity, thou art a stone cold meanie.

@fbueckert I guess a bump couldn't hurt...

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh, I'm not asking for upvotes.

I'm just commenting on the strangeness of it.

2:19 AM

Oh, that's simple to explain.

Q: Can I hide my helm without buying dye?

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I've crafted my first Rare item. It came in the form of a ridiculous looking helmet. I am aware there is an item called Vanishing Dye that will make whatever item dyed turn invisible. This would be useful in hiding my silly little hat, but I honestly don't feel the 300+ gold is worth spending ju...

diablo-3

6k views. 2 votes.

Arqade users are not necessarily the same as people who come to the site through Google

This site has some serious Google juice.

There are SO questions with 10k+ views and zero upvotes

In other news, I'm really close to getting 10k views on another Mount and Blade question. <_< I did not know this until just now.

@Fluttershy Please. What is that, a .003 conversion rate?

@RavenDreamer I'm bad at numbers.

Q: What can I do with Dragon Bones and Scales?

2:22 AM

I have a question with a 0.00018635334 conversion rate.

80

I've started slaying dragons (like all good Dohvakiin must), and with each beastie I down, I'm getting close to 200 lbs of loot, mostly in the form of Dragon Bones and Scales. These two items are high weight, and high value, but I can't seem to find any actual use for them, especially since most ...

skyrim

That's way less votes / view than you.

Like, orders of magnitudes, less.

Subject Change I think I'm going about this the wrong way.

Good god people other than me are crazy good at fighting games

Is there a way to see questions sorted by view? Like, all questions, not just my own.

you can search for high view counts

like views:100000 or something

Or use the data explorer

The data was last updated on 13 Jan

Yeah, click my question

By the way, this is by far the most viewed question on this site. Congrats. — BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft Feb 14 '12 at 6:55

2:28 AM

@RavenDreamer Woo! I have a question on that list! =D

Also, thanks!

gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/103438/revisions does anyone want to take a guess what the answerer meant when he said "put buses on the door"?

@RavenDreamer 430K views. Whew.

@Fluttershy Don't thank me, thank Justice Fruit Pies!

@YiJiang'sEvilClone What... the hell...

@RavenDreamer I added Tags to the list data.stackexchange.com/gaming/revision/94658/113281/…

Makes it far more interesting to see which tags are the most viewed

44 questions with more than 100k views

2:33 AM

wow, moxxie's thing is that popular?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Ugh. looks too much like work.

As in, I work with databases for a living.

@RavenDreamer Eh, through some magic database shenanigans which @TimStone is probably involved in, you just have to add Tags to the list of columns to get a nicely formatted list of tags each question have

2:49 AM

I did no su...Oh, yeah.

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Q: How to quick duck in CS-GO

When you duck in cs-go there is penalty or smth that makes you slower at second duck. But they can make duck spam like shown in the video How can they do it? ...

counter-strike-go

Here's a question for you math types.

to whomever posted the let's go meet the bronies video... you're evil

I don't think I'll ever be able to get that out of my head

How much money do you need in a 2.01% Annual yield checking account to earn more in interest than a 1% cash back credit card?

user15026

@Ktash Whatever it is totally awesome.

2:55 AM

@Ktash It might have been me. <_<

@Fluttershy It's you! :P

I didn't even get all the way through listening to it the first time before it was in my head

Nah, I've already watched it before.

Also, the fact that it has Tara Strong in it makes it way too official lol

@Ktash Oh, in that case you need to listen to this youtube.com/watch?v=2ixvsV-ahI0

@Ktash Read the credits. One of the show's writers wrote it.

2:57 AM

@Ktash I could probably ruin your entire day with another "official" MLP video........

Fine, I see how it is...

@RavenDreamer Wait, what?

Also, Dig Dug the Comic

In case you were looking for something fun

3:14 AM

@TimStone I have a credit card with 1% cash back, and a debit card with 2.01% annual return, (assuming I make 30 transactions / month) and I am trying to decide which is a better deal for me.

@RavenDreamer It depends on how much you spend on those 30 transactions.

@StrixVaria I make 30 purchases a month currently, so my buying habits would not change in this theoretical.

If you spend $1000/month then that's $10/month, or $120/year. 2% annual yield you'd need $6000 in the account to match $120.

@RavenDreamer The point is that if you're getting %back, it's about the total amount you spend. The number of purchases is irrelevant.

Oh, good lord, it's not even close.

Okay, I'll stick with the debit card, then.

'specially since my biggest payments (rent) can't be put on the card.

Thanks, Strix.

No problem.

I have to do similar math except I don't know where you get a 2% annual return on a checking account.

Q: Saving in Minecraft Pocket for iOS

3:23 AM

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Minecraft Pocket Edition for iOS doesn't seem to be saving correctly. After resuming the game, up to half an hour of progress from my last session has been reverted. Right now I am just exiting to the title screen before leaving the game. I also have Minecraft for Android, and it doesn't seem to...

minecraft-pocket-edition

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Q: What good is the armor rating of an item?

How highly should I prioritize the armor rating of various item pieces in Lord of the Rings: War in the North? Is it worth picking up and item that has slightly less armor with a higher stat rating (dexterity or power for example)?

lotr-war-in-the-north

3:34 AM

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Art Material

Proposed Q&A site for artists who want to find and share material (video, audio, graphics, text, designs) with other artists.

Currently in definition.

This is going to end well.

Chat, talk me into (or out of) playing the Witcher 2 on Dark Mode.

DO IT.

Coronus

You know you want to.

@LessPop_MoreFizz There's really no reason not to... Right?

@Fluttershy Well, there's the fact that it's really really hard and I could be doing something else.

Like, for instance, watching House of Cards as of tomorrow.

or playing VTM:Bloodlines since I just reinstalled that

Or drinking.

I could be drinking.

user15026

3:46 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz That sounds like a good option as well.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Better option. Drink and play The Witcher 2 on Dark Mode.

Death to solution-rec!

@Fluttershy I approve of this option.

user15026

@Fluttershy This sounds like the best of all plans.

@Fluttershy I think that will not end well for Geralt.

3:49 AM

The only way it could get better would be if he recorded it for our viewing pleasures.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Only one way to find out. =D

@TimStone I don't think it would be all that entertaining tbqh. There really aren't all that many hilariously different ways to die in the Witcher 2. It's mostly just you got stabbed because you let something get behind you. Again.

Coronus

@TimStone I'll get the popcorn.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Would there be webcam involved?

@Coronus No.

At best you'd get audio of me saying 'Oh fuck' and 'damn it!' a lot.

Coronus

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'll take it.

3:53 AM

well, it's not happening tonight. methinks sleep early is the order for tonight.

4:08 AM

Would you like to be creeped out? Do you have a Facebook account? WELL YOU'RE IN LUCK! IT'S CREEP TIME!

Oh, this should be good.

Makes me wish I had a facebvook.

I have a thing for colored graphs.

arghibargle you need a wolframalpha account too

I ALREADY GAVE YOU MY PERSONAL INFO

Weather at Birth.

Thanks Wolfram Alpha.

Hmm. Chart porn.

4:18 AM

I didn't get a word cloud because I apparently don't post enough

But I'm ok with that.

FUCK GAME LOKS MUCH end

Holy Romney indeed.

user15026

I apparently say "awesome" a lot

user15026

@RavenDreamer Hells yes I am.

user15026

4:26 AM

Although having my parents on my FB is an amusing thing - I posted a curse-word laden update at 230 am when something outside scared my cat, made him yowl-screech and wake me up. My dad read it today, and called me to comment on my potty mouth.

...at least you're talking?

user15026

@RavenDreamer This is true. It was just funny - a total case of "Ashley forgets her audience includes 2 old pastors and her parents"

Q: How do I unlock the yellow gun?

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I know the green gun can be used to solve wall puzzles, which cause cycling loops of blocks, but i can not get past the yellow wall to reach the yellow gun :/ help? (http://i45.tinypic.com/20935n8.jpg)

Retrosaur

Wat happened to GnomeSlice

how did he get suspended

I thought it was just a chat ban

> In the dwindling moments of the conference, the mic was handed off to a reporter from Denmark, who worked up the courage to hammer home the truly difficult question. "What color is your toothbrush?", he asked. "I love your question! It's multicolored," Beyoncé replied. "Blue and white... blue and yellow, maybe?"

JOURNALISM.

@Retrosaur He was warned. He disregarded warning. Action was taken commensurate with original warning. Further details are not worth rehashing or wasting time on. It was never 'just a chat ban' on the table.

user15026

4:32 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I don't know what is worse - someone asked that, or the fact that she had no idea. (Then again, I might be weird for knowing the colour of my toothbrush, I don't know.)

@Retrosaur He was accidentally banned on the main site when his chat ban went into place. Instead of waiting for that to be resolved, he used a sockpuppet to circumvent the ban.

Trying to avoid bans leads to longer bans, m'kay?

Retrosaur

@RavenDreamer m'kay :3

@AshleyNunn I will say that this is a remarkably effective way of dispelling a lipsync controversy, if a bit of a stunt.

@LessPop_MoreFizz If Beyonce is singing until her feet bleed...

Retrosaur

@RavenDreamer then we'll be swimming in blood when the song ends

4:34 AM

I'm out. Peace.

@RavenDreamer I think the 'feet bleeding' is a reference to dance rehearsing.

Since, y'know, Super Bowl halftime show is going to involve some elaborate choreography.

@AshleyNunn I once posted "Henceforth, I shall be referred to only as Testiclese, Lord of the Pants" as a friend's Facebook status after he left his computer unattended. He got pissed off because his mom and his grandma saw it.

user15026

@Fluttershy hahaha remind me to never leave a computer with FB unattended around you

@AshleyNunn Would be wise. <_<

When I was in Iraq, a buddy of mine took a picture of his testicles, put it on a thumb drive, and went around setting it as the desktop background for anyone who left their computer unattended and unlocked. Within the first week, he got nearly everyone we went over with

user15026

@Fluttershy Oh maaaaan, that is awful. but hilarious.

4:50 AM

Win + L is a real lifesaver ;)

user15026

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah, I usually leave my machines locked and password protected

5:04 AM

Sometimes I get places on the internet, and I have no idea how I got there... (Not safe for anyone)

A: What happens when I get attacked by another player?

-1

My answer is exactly the same as the one above so just give me best answer. ;-)

"Gimme da reps!"

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert That's my downvote!

user15026

@Ktash What. How. Why.

Ullallulloo

@fbueckert I'm giving an abuse flag. :P

5:24 AM

@AshleyNunn No one know...

user15026

......dear University, why the CRAP is your HR site CLOSED from midnight to 7 am?

user15026

I mean, really, who CLOSES THE INTERNET

Late night internets are expensive

Ullallulloo

►

(Note: the sound's just been overlayed over a .gif; the original's been lost.)

user15026

6:03 AM

@Ktash Yeah, they must be. ARGH.

user15026

@Ullallulloo I WILL STILL CLEAN MYSELF

Q: How to avoid killing my best buddy?

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My first and very bestest buddy Josip is, well... a few bullets short of a full clip. His crazy, hare-brained schemes have gotten us both in a spot of bother quite a few times. For example, his definition of 'ambush' seems to be: Stand in the middle of the road and shoot a shotgun at an on...

far-cry-2

Ullallulloo

mondecolore.deviantart.com/art/Baby-Eeveelutions-342462770

user15026

so much cuuuuuute

Q: How often can I change my mind about vampirism or lycanthropy?

6:41 AM

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I'm not sure whether I want to become a vampire or a werewolf, or just remain a normal human being. I'd like a chance to explore all my options. I know there are ways to cure vampirism and lycanthropy. And I'm pretty sure there's ways, at least with vampirism, to re-acquire the conditions. Wh...

skyrim

7:50 AM

Salutations

Q: What is the fastest path to the blue gun?

8:20 AM

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If I reseted my save of Antichamber, I am not sure I would easily find the blue gun again. What is the fastest path to the blue gun, starting from the beginning room?

Q: There are 4 slots but I have 3 blue cubes. How do I open this door?

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In Antichamber, one of the first puzzles with the blue gun involves 4 slots, but I have only seen 3 blue cubes on this floor. How do I proceed to open this door?

Q: What is the black floating ghost?

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I have noticed a black floating ghost in the room adjacent to mine. It passed through just above the yellow gun. What is it? Is it a bug?

Q: Is there a time machine to solve the puzzle to get the yellow gun?

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To access the yellow gun, there are many locked doors in a transparent tunnel, and the switches to unlock the doors are outside the tunnels. If I activate a switch to unlock one door, I don't have enough time to block the door before it closes. How can I build a timer to get enough time to blo...

@badp *yawn*

Good news is that my headache all but vanished

it almost always does overnight

Yay!

Okay news is that my latest meta fatigue isn't at least in the negatives

Bad news is that I have to get off bed

Q: Creep Score Ratio Questions

8:53 AM

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(1) What is a good CS ratio I must get on each meta-function (AD Carry, Jungler, Middle Lane, Support, Top Lane) at 10, 20, 30, 40 mins of game? I want to improve my CS but I don't know about the average target values in each function. I know that some events can change the score drastically, b...

league-of-legends

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Q: What defines a hyper carry?

In League of Legendes, what defines a hyper carry? What the champions can fit the role and why it isn't used more frequently?

league-of-legends

0

Q: How to complete the puzzle in the "Highest Point" room?

I am trying to complete the puzzle on the highest point room to get the red gun. I think I'm controlling the yellow gun wrong. Is there a way to drag through glass that I'm not getting?

9:51 AM

*yawn*

Meraj99

10:03 AM

whats with the antichamber question spam?

gonna play LoL

cya

Q: Which abilities can be cancelled by Lulu's Polymorph?

10:32 AM

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Lulu's Polymorph changes the enemy into a squirrel for a few seconds, slowing them down, and also preventing them from attacking and using abilities. It seems to cancel some abilities, like Death Lotus from Katarina, or Warwick's ultimate. However, there are a lot of other abilities which are...

league-of-legends

*yawn*

Just finished my first game for #OneGameAMonth -- super pumped to keep going for the rest of the year!

Tweeted by SecretofMana on February 1, 2013 at 5:03 AM

woot woot.

Gaming Topics From Outside

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Q: How to i convert this bath file to install a game whit it

Bat file is following : @echo off uharc x data.uha call restore.bat startw unpack.exe /nh startw inject.exe "streams.wav" startw regsetup.exe del data.uha > nul del uharc.exe > nul del startw.exe > nul del inject.exe > nul del restore.bat > nul echo ------------------------------...

installation games executable batch

@GamingTopicsFromOutside Ewwww

10:43 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You never installed a game in your bath?

11:33 AM

English Language Learners is now a thing. I want to downvote this thing; I want to look at it and shake my head slowly.

Sony to announce PS4 on February 20th

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@badp but some folks will need it...

I agree with you though - can't see it being good

11:49 AM

I don't understand how it wasn't closed as a duplicate of EL&U

@RoryAlsop Those people have ELU.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You know who proposed it? RegDwight, one of the moderators of ELU.

Oh, I guess they got sick of the ELL questions then

@badp probbly to keep the dross out of ELU, which really isn't about this basic stuff

Q: "government by two persons" is to "diarchy" as "government by simple majority" is to what?

Basically this is ELU saying "for crying out loud, look at these questions. You see this questions? We don't want them. Since we don't want to deal with the drama of closing them for being too easy, we'll make a site for them where we'll close questions because they are too hard."

It's as if we decided that the best way to handle game-rec was to create gamerec.SE

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As far as I know, the government by two persons is called "diarchy," three persons is called "triarchy," many persons is called "polyarchy." So, my question is, is there a word to define the government by the simple majority of persons? It's worth noting that "democracy" is not the word I'm ...

word-request analogy

↑ CLOSED BECAUSE IT IS TOO HARD

An "expert Q&A" that closes questions that are "too expert"

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@YiJiang'sEvilClone :D

11:51 AM

bangs head on wall repeatedly

@badp Logs in and upvotes everything

hahahahaha - <sigh>

@fredley I don't want to vote on questions, I want to vote on the site. AND CLOSE IT.

@fredley Thankfully I haven't got my headphones plugged in

@badp That window has passed. The only thing we can do is wait for it to die a slow, lingering death.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Not like you even need them anymore. You know what it sounds like.

11:53 AM

@fredley I'll have a fast and brutal death, thank you, followed by an apology blog post by Joel promising "no more."

And chips.

Thanks.

Q: How do I determine whether a question fits on English Language & Usage or on English Language Learners?

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It's been less than ten minutes since I've been on this page and already I have a dire need: A checklist on: how do I determine whether a question fits on English Language & Usage or on English Language Learners?

discussion scope

@badp 'fast and brutal' - the way we likes it

I thought they should've thrashed this out before the site goes into beta

@YiJiang'sEvilClone What do we do about popular, terrible A51 proposals?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone before it got in Commitment

or even got 5 followers

A: How do I determine whether a question fits on English Language & Usage or on English Language Learners?

11:54 AM

@fredley It's fine, I have the polka version stuck in my head instead

@fredley We point and laugh at them? I thought that's our favourite pastime on The Bridge

Well, it's all fun and games until one of them actually goes into beta

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This is something that will very likely take a few weeks at the very least to figure out, as ELL and EL&U figure out their boundaries, so to speak. Thus, very rough guidance follows: If you natively speak English or are fluent in it, it is more than likely your question belongs on EL&U....

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Well quite. New game for the Bridge: who can get the most terrible A51 proposal to beta?

^ The problem with this is that is that the fitness of the question now depends on who's asking it

Which is a terrible criterion, because that means there's no way of independently judging question, so how would closing questions work?

@fredley I would have been upset that our A51 proposal on Procrastination got closed, but I couldn't be bothered complaining

@badp We could troll ELL epically by creating a Meta suggestion that all answers be written in up-goer-5. And upvote the hell out of it.

@RoryAlsop Is there an A51 proposal on Apathy now?

11:57 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Who cares?

:-)

I stopped believing in the atheism beta, and it disappeared.