The Bridge

Ben Brocka

14:00

Terrorists bombed the helmet manufacturers

Sterno

If you don't buy more helmets, the terrorists win.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

badp

@tombull89 Helmets op, nerfed

fbueckert

14:16

@Lazers sigh

Can a mod clean up the comments on that?

@TrentHawkins Internet's back?

Trent Hawkins

@fbueckert nope

Ender

it bugs me when vet SE users from other SE branches show up in Arqade and bitch and moan about our rules.

fbueckert

@TrentHawkins Damn.

Guess I gotta yell at MTS some more.

Ender

As if they didn't already know the deal or something.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina Watch "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".

Trent Hawkins

14:19

@fbueckert ok, i'm lost, are we being mutually sarcastic as per usual? harder to tell in chat.

badp

@Ender ?

fbueckert

@TrentHawkins Yes. Yes, we are.

Trent Hawkins

@fbueckert ok good.

fbueckert

@TrentHawkins I got your text.

Ender

@badp the most recent instance of my rant occured here gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/109469/… but realistically this stuff happens every week in some Question or another

Trent Hawkins

14:19

Also, haven't had tea yet... which reminds me.... off to the store for sugar!

fbueckert

@TrentHawkins Internet more important than sugar?

@Ender And then we get an upvote on it because we're being mean to the poor new user.

Ender

lol

Trent Hawkins

@fbueckert More important than tea.... just barely.

tombull89

@badp Still want to see a frostbite-powered Battlefield 2142 sequal - probably the online shooter I've logged most hours on.

fbueckert

@Ender "Oh, no! New User! He must be welcomed! We must bend over backwards to ensure he stays and likes it here!"

Never mind that he didn't even bother to read the FAQ at all.

Ender

14:23

Thats seriously how I feel some of these people act. It annoys the hell outta me. Especially when we are made to look like the 'bad guys' because we're enforcing the standard.

Lazers

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Q: Can copy the DVD to install the game (is there any disc protection)?

My desktop doesn't have a disc drive so I'm planning on copying the files from the DVD to a USB key via a different computer, then copying that to my HDD and installing from there. Before I start these long copies: Is this going to work, or does the installer do any sort of DRM check on the inst...

starcraft-2

fbueckert

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A: Why are moderators or high-rep users quick to vote-close a question on Arqade?

I'd like to push back against the thought that closure is a bad thing. We're far from the only SE site to have this problem. It's part of what comes with the territory as the site grows. We'll get new users that don't bother reading, think this is a forum like everybody else, and ask their coo...

Upvote that, then, please.

badp

@Ender Replied

fredley

Please go and upvote all of my answers on old Minecraft questions in a serial fashion

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Ender

Hear Hear!

djsmiley2k

14:29

meoq.

tombull89

One thing about playing vanilla-only Minecraft is that I can't answer any FTB or Tekkit questions :(

badp

@McKay That's why it's encouraged. It doesn't follow that unless you explain, you don't get to vote. It doesn't follow that someone needs to explain. By the way, what's more offputting than having your question closed is having random people start an argument in the comments area of your closed question. — badp 1 min ago

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@fredley Nobody ever does serial upvoting (or downvoting) on me.

I feel unloved.

fbueckert

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I get revenge downvotes!

kalina

@LessPop_MoreFizz you say this every time

fredley

14:30

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I got downvotes once

LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina And I will continue to until you take my very good advice on the matter.

kalina

@fbueckert just like you to push back!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Ender On a related note, shopping advice question needs votes.

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone or unhated.

fbueckert

@kalina Rules! We have them for a reason!

Ben Brocka

14:31

@fbueckert Not sure why that got so many downvotes

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Some people have a vendetta against me.

kalina

@fbueckert obviously

fbueckert

And others believe new users are more important than us veterans.

badp

@BenBrocka You want a nasty reply? It was posted in a weekend

kalina

new users are important

badp

14:32

We get spikes of activity on weekends... and with those come users that aren't normally active here

At the same time, our regulars get less active during weekends.

I'm kind of developing a theory where if you raise a problem on meta on a Tuesday and you do the same on a Saturday, you'll get the same replies but with vastly different scores.

fbueckert

@kalina Not that I really care.

badp

Maybe it's confirmation bias however.

kalina

@fbueckert you do, you look hurt

Ender

@badp interesting theory

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert Gee, I wonder why. :P

fbueckert

14:34

@kalina This maniacal grin looks like I'm hurt?

@LessPop_MoreFizz And that's the one I spent time thinking about, too!

badp

What's worse, since on saturdays there's less meta activity, it's easier for questions to raise on the community bulletin

kalina

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Ender

@less_pop while ive already upvoted that before I logged into chat today, how is it shopping advice

badp

...and those are featured rather prominently

fbueckert

@kalina Me. Most of the time.

tombull89

14:35

@kalina Mr. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnderson.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Ender What ~~games~~ emulators can I play in the background.

kalina

@tombull89 no it's not, that's Mr Bueckert

Ender

what does that have to do with shopping?

LessPop_MoreFizz

It is blatantly a request for a recommendation.

kalina

@Ender it has the word "What" in it

down with all of the what!

Ender

14:36

SHOPPING

fbueckert

@kalina More blanket bans! I approve!

Ender

and its a emulator Req, not a game req. Emulator Reqs arnt off topic

kalina

what's wrong with shopping

I spend at least one week per year shopping

Ender

Does that make sense? NO. But it is what it is.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Ender Please don't split hairs like this.

Ender

14:37

So confused

kalina

split hairs are definitely bad

that's a sign you're not looking after your hair very well

fbueckert

Here:

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Q: Where to get cheap and good 5.1 Surround Sound Headphones?

I am looking for my first set of 5.1/7.1 Surround Sound headphones, with microphone, to use with my PS3. I've looked on the web for some but they all seem to be nearing the £100 mark. My budget for a set of these headphones is £50 and I want to stay under that if possible. Does anybody know of a ...

ps3

Fight over that.

Ender

LOL

OMFG

NO

GOD NO

tombull89

wtf

Ender

MAKE IT STOP!!!!

tombull89

14:38

WTF

Unionhawk

Get it off the screen. Quick!

Ender

flood chat!

kalina

have you ever had one of those moments where your brain registered something but then rejected it

tombull89

Sorry, shopping advice is off-topic on Arqade. — fbueckert 26 secs ago

Ender

for the love of GOD FLOOD!

fbueckert

14:38

Good, blocked.

kalina

If I flood, I'll get chat banned

again

fredley

Sorry guys, is that better now?

kalina

by @badp

tombull89

Sorry, shopping advice is off-topic on StackExchange FTFY

kalina

for chatting

tombull89

14:38

WTF

kalina

.

Unionhawk

@fredley NO

phew

tombull89

resizes screen

fredley

@tombull89 It's a good album.

kalina

awww @fredley you got flagged

badp

14:39

...

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tombull89

@fredley I'll take your word for it.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Awwww

kalina

I wanted to click 'invalid' but instead I clicked 'not sure'

badp

see you in 30 minutes, fredley

kalina

favouritism I guess

tombull89

14:40

Seriously? Flagged for that? Jesus, people.

kalina

YOU BANNED FREDLEY?

Manishearth

@fredley don't do that. Linking is OK, oneboxing something NSFW -- not good

tombull89

Damn. The Bridge is a harsh master.

badp

@tombull89 honestly you need to take the matter up in the Teacher's Lounge, not here

fbueckert

I just adblocked the pictures.

kalina

14:41

if only I could find out who flagged him

it was you, wasn't it @fbueckert?

badp

also, welcome back @fbueckert

kalina

Because of you @fredley is banned

Manishearth

@badp He's not a mod

fbueckert

@kalina Of course not.

tombull89

@badp I'm not a Mod.

fbueckert

14:41

@badp Bwuh? Welcome back?

badp

@Manishearth a mod confirmed the flag

kalina

Fresh off a bad vibe from being downvoted on meta, you flagged fredley and got him banned

Manishearth

@badp Me

fbueckert

@kalina You're so mean to me!

kalina

and now you're manically laughing

badp

14:41

@Manishearth ...

Manishearth

1 min ago, by Manishearth

@fredley don't do that. Linking is OK, oneboxing something NSFW -- not good

djsmiley2k

wtfh ow did fredly get banned?

fbueckert

@kalina Well, yes. But that's a default action.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hang on, I'm getting a strange vibe here

djsmiley2k

Oh

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

14:42

Is this the conversation we have almost every single week?

3

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I don't know, which conversation are you thinking about?

Manishearth

I don't mind unsuspending if you guys really want it.

kalina

@Manishearth YOU BANNED FREDLEY?

badp

...I've already unsuspended actually

fredley

Unbanned somehow

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

14:43

@kalina I don't know, the one about... flags, other rooms... something something mods.

Manishearth

@badp ah

tombull89

Crikey. I though SF was mental enough.

fredley

@badp Thanks

Did not expect to get a ban for that.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Just remember: At least our flags aren't as dumb as Math's.

4

Manishearth

@LessPop_MoreFizz Agreed

kalina

14:43

@fredley you deserved it tbh

2

fredley

@LessPop_MoreFizz Not even once

@kalina It's an unsettling image, but I wouldn't say it's beyond the pail. It's an album cover ffs.

badp

at any rate, thanks for trying @Manishearth :)

fbueckert

@kalina Hey! First you attack me for maybe flagging him, then you say he deserves it!?

kalina

it was like a slightly weirder GnomeSlice wildly appeared

@fbueckert I do not have to explain my double standards

badp

Flag handling is hard. It's hard, and nobody understands

2

kalina

14:44

@badp you like hard things though

4

fbueckert

@kalina Women. There's just no winning with you.

badp

@kalina Some of them.

StrixVaria

@fredley Nirvana has an album cover with a baby penis on it. Is that appropriate for The Bridge too?

kalina

@fbueckert glad you worked it out, only took you ten months!

fbueckert

@StrixVaria I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no. No, it's not.

fredley

14:45

@StrixVaria No, but then that's nudity. There are plenty of game covers I could post with much more exposed breast that would be considered acceptable.

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Yea, that's what I'm doing now. Too bad cart systems use Blutricity.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Blutricity is a pain

badp

@StrixVaria That's completely different from a girl in a bra

fredley

Wish it could be converted from something else

fbueckert

@kalina I worked it out long ago. I'm just too polite to bring it up very often.

LessPop_MoreFizz

14:46

@fredley Maybe not beyond the bucket, but certainly beyond the faint color.

badp

also I wouldn't know until I saw it

fredley

@badp ~~girl~~ man

Manishearth

@fredley Well, while handling the flag I had to quickly shift tabs, so ... yeah :P

badp

shush

OrigamiRobot

Whoa, what did I come back to?

badp

14:46

we've certainly suspended Gnomeslice for Youtube thumbnails in the past

tombull89

Depends on your defection of "offensive".

fredley

@Manishearth Eh, fair enough. I mainly had it for the creepy stare, rather than the breasts

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@OrigamiRobot The usual. *sigh*

kalina

@badp you*

fbueckert

And with that, productivity must resume! Back to work, slackers!

Unionhawk

14:46

@OrigamiRobot Wait, what are you trying to power?

badp

@kalina no

StrixVaria

@badp IT'S ART MAN

kalina

@badp no u

djsmiley2k

o_O fredley is back?

/me is so confused right now

fredley

I'm tempted to go and post some classical nude sculptures, but that would be a GnomeSlice path of action.

kalina

14:47

@djsmiley2k this is not irc

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

4 mins ago, by badp

...I've already unsuspended actually

OrigamiRobot

@Unionhawk Carts.

djsmiley2k

@kalina sadness.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Do keep up.

kalina

@fredley this would be very gnomeslice

good news though

one month left until the return of GnomeSlice!

StrixVaria

14:48

1 min ago, by StrixVaria

@badp IT'S ART MAN

Unionhawk

@OrigamiRobot And that runs blutricity how? /me is confused

fredley

@kalina Wow, that was a swift 5 months

Grace Note

...this is what I have to greet the week with?

fredley

@StrixVaria Well quite

djsmiley2k

i wanna meet this guy and ask him about why his avatar is so haunting.

kalina

14:48

@GraceNote salut

@fredley wasn't it three?

Tim Stone

@GraceNote It's my birthday, if you'd rather greet the week by giving me cake.

fredley

@kalina Oh I thought it was 6 months

Grace Note

@TimStone Happy Birthday~

kalina

@fredley got reduced iirc

StrixVaria

@fredley It was lowered to 3 for some reason.

Tim Stone

14:49

\o/

fredley

@TimStone I can only supply lies

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Only on the main site.

Tim Stone

@fredley This is an acceptable substitute.

badp

@GraceNote Why hello beautiful. I was trying a conspiracy theory about weekends on meta but surprise! chat flags

kalina

@OrigamiRobot you mean no GnomeSlice in chat?

noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

fredley

14:49

@TimStone The sky is green. Monday is a fun day. It is Friday.

kalina

@badp A wild chat flag appears, Manishearth bans everybody

badp

@TimStone You've already gotten a freehanded circle, man. Don't be so greedy

fredley

@kalina It's super effective

Tim Stone

@badp True, true. My bad.

fredley

MOD ABUSE STAR CLEARING

djsmiley2k

14:50

@badp why no more picutres which make my eyes bleed? I msis them

kalina

I am going to go and be productive for 7 minutes 11 seconds

brb

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Every time you star @kalina she blames me anyway.

Ender

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Q: List of Kerrigan's Abilities

What are Kerrigan's Abilities in the campaign for the new Heart of the Swarm expansion? Ability Name: (If applicable/available) Energy Cost / Cooldown: Description: Kerrigan Level Available: (This would be a good reference to have for other questions asking about specific abilities.)

starcraft-2

wtf?

fredley

@OrigamiRobot It wasn't even passive aggressive!

badp

@djsmiley2k You can always see my best of

Ben Brocka

14:51

@fredley I should star this just so I can clear it

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

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fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Replace balloons with cake and ribbons with lies

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I plan to recycle this image infinitely, for all Bridge celebrations

agent86

have some cat gifs while I clean the flag queue

OrigamiRobot

@Unionhawk StevesCarts2 things are according to the videos I've seen.

Tim Stone

14:53

@YiJiang'sEvilClone :D

OrigamiRobot

Grace Note

Are there many (any?) Starcrafty folk in here at the moment? Anyone actually interested in the current things or is the current room mostly those who have empty front pages due to ignored tags?

Lazers

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Q: List of Kerrigan's Abilities

What are Kerrigan's Abilities in the campaign for the new Heart of the Swarm expansion? Ability Name: (If applicable/available) Energy Cost / Cooldown: Description: Kerrigan Level Available: (This would be a good reference to have for other questions asking about specific abilities.)

starcraft-2

fbueckert

@GraceNote Not participating in the contest, but I do play Starcraft on occasion.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GraceNote What @fbueckert said. I don't have the front page filtered, but I'm also not paying much attention.

Grace Note

14:57

I'm actually trying to gauge thoughts on the contest, actually. Actually.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Oh dear, @Aarthi is here /hides

Aarthi

@YiJiang'sEvilClone CC WIKI WITH ATTRIBUTION REQUIRED

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I'm starry and crafty, but not Starcrafty.

Aarthi

JERK.

Blem

@GraceNote I am a starcrafty person, but i am in the midle of a lectureat work

badp

14:58

@GraceNote Is it just my impression or participation is lower? tzenes isn't around, after all.

Aarthi

@badp that's what we're thinking, too. I'm wondering if it's because there just were less questions in this game...

Grace Note

@Blem Oh, for a second I thought you were in some kind of super-corporate "Lectureat" position, like a bureaucrat or proletariat. Well, whenever you have time is fine~

@badp This is what we're concerned about.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp I don't see Oak around either

Ender

my video card has two slots thingies

one is for inserting it into my motherboard

tombull89

Ooh. New patch for Supreme Commander 2 after two years. Guess I'll be playing this evening.

Ender

14:59

the other is on top of teh video card, whats it for?

StrixVaria

I don't think people got nearly as hyped about HotS as they did about SC2.

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oak is around, but mostly flag handling as far as I can see

agent86

@Ender likely crossfire/SLI or what have you

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

gaming.stackexchange.com/tags/starcraft-2/topusers

tombull89

@Ender Que?

StrixVaria

14:59

When SC2 was announced I was at the edge of my seat because of the nostalgia I had over SC1.

Ender

@agent can you clarify (screenshot incoming , gimme as second)

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