@OrigamiRobot Nope, although Tungsten is pretty cool

I'm currently backing for two steel and two aluminum

@DaveMcClelland You'd think it'd be hilariously obvious for anyone passingly familiar with hardware or videogames

Although I'm thinking of upping to 6 aluminum, so I can get one of each color, and two black

Then again many of the highest rated posts on UX are hilariously obvious as well

@SaintWacko Now that green is available, I want 15...

3 of each color.

@OrigamiRobot Heh

@Wipqozn it's fine, it's fine. no... biggie, y'know. just... work hard on blog posts and... sniff I'll... be going now.

@agent86 Your tears are delicious.

@SaintWacko The Damascus do look sexy though.

@OrigamiRobot Yeah, but they can't possible be as balanced

@Wipqozn IM NOT CRYING

@BenBrocka You'd think, but my dozens of upvotes beg to differ :/

@DaveMcClelland If anything people seem to like and upvote hilariously obvious things

@BenBrocka It appears so

Someone needs to make a game designed to run on Bacon

@Powerlord Isn't that game Breakfast?

@SaintWacko Did she ever confirm that she'd do polyhedrals?

@OrigamiRobot It sounds pretty likely

@Sconibulus Yes, but Bacon was only a minor character in the first Breakfast. He got a much bigger role in its sequel, The Baconing.

She hasn't 100% confirmed it, but considering how successful her other two projects are, and the following she's built up, she has no reason not to do them

Since @AshleyNunn no longer has 999, I should totally spoil it for her. It turns out that Rosebud was the sled.

I really want Tungsten, but no way am I spending that much money on them

Luke's father is soylent green

The butler did it.

Everyone killed him.

One of them really wasn't dead.

Link is the bad guy the whole time

(I've only read two of Agatha Christie's novels)

Can you guess which two Agatha Christie novels I've read based on the spoilers I just gave? :D

It was the Deku Butler in the Forest Temple with the Hookshot

Anyway, with 999, I could make random crap up because it has 5 different unique endings.

It was Miss Peach in the Carriage House with the Horseshoe.

Yay, chat doesn't work in the latest dev Chrome

I stopped using Chrome.

Uncaught ReferenceError: StackExchange is not defined

@badp The company went out of business when you weren't looking.

oh! Fun.

@badp lol

gooooogle fiiiiiber

gonna geeeet it

boooooyah

really?

well, probably not immediately. but they're coming to austin, tx next

This is grounds for instant banning from the entire internet

I live in the 'burbs, so I won't be part of the first deployment.... but hopefully it will spread to my area after a while. might just have to move :P

yawn

@badp your face is grounds for banning from the entire internet, BURN

@agent86 This is why I don't brag about my face.

@agent86 lucky

@badp don't worry your face is low-bandwidth enough for non-fiber speeds

Hate mobile chat? Upvote me!

Hate upvote begging? Downvote this!

@fredley You can already see stars. menu → this room

@kalina Though I do hate upvote begging, I hate mobile chat more.

@badp I will amend...

@tombull89 FRAPS?

urg its so cold in here

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@kalina Here, it's incredibly nice outside, but for some reason it's cold inside -.-

@SaintWacko I don't even know what it's like outside, my eyes aren't open enough yet

regardless it will be dark soon

@kalina You know, Summer is coming.

Not the best time of the year to be nocturnal

@badp I like in the UK, we don't have a summer

@badp Who migrated this?

@fredley Guess

@badp I literally have no idea

why is that on meta.gamedev?

@badp Fail. I think you should un-mod yourself immediately.

I think he should set fire to himself immediately

I can't

I am legally obliged to ignore all advice from Kalina involving fire.

sad days

I guess I'll have to force the switchover from fire to ice sooner than I had planned

Speaking of which, how come upgrading to Django 1.5 breaks everything?

@badp Makes me want to log into gamedev just to upvote that comment.

@fredley Because it's Django?

@Powerlord Django is pretty reliable, but some things are breaking in very strange ways indeed.

@badp I'm still gigging at this 5 minutes later.

@kalina I am so famous.

no

@badp Oh noes, it has been fixed!

It's true. I'm getting calls from movie stars already.

@FEichinger uh. I didn't know you could fix that. I thought migration chains were not a thing that could happen.

Hmm, now that the question has been migrated yet again I believe you can actually double vote on @badp's comment

@YiJiang'sEvilClone yes you can

Migrations are so fun it's a crying shame we don't do them more often

@badp I assume someone cleared the meta.gamedev.SE Q's migration history.

that Leaves me wondering what happened to the copy on OUR site.

It was killed.

murder'd, if you will.

Oh it still works mostly fine. gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/113381/…

@badp I always wondered what happened to those questions that got kicked between two sites repeatedly before they placed this no double migration check

The post exists three times, but the target has only one migration. YAY CHAOS!

In the mod review queue, the button says "flag or disagree." But clicking it only allows me to flag - how do I disagree?

@DaveMcClelland invalidate

"disagree" = "flag as something else"

"I do not agree with the existing flags on this answer, they are incorrect and should be ignored."

@kalina Where's that at?

I don't like being forced to think this much so shortly after waking up

@kalina Ah, there we are. Reading is way too much work. Thanks

so I am going to watch random American TV shows until I do wake up

Shower

you should, you smell

@DaveMcClelland Disagree should really be a distinct button...but it's currently another flag

@kalina New Girl

@OrigamiRobot I've watched all of those

It's still going!

@OrigamiRobot I wonder why you like that.

Shut up!

Sitcoms? Ewww...

Shouldn't you be playing Monster Hunter 3?

oh right, yeah ok so there is probably one new episode of it

@Sterno I am at work.

@OrigamiRobot The question stands.

PSA: Black Mirror is awesome, and you should watch it.

@RonanForman At first it was just for Zooey Deschanel, but as a bonus, it turned out to be an amazing show.

Oh, man, you guys locked down the Monster Hunter 3 room. Jerks.

?

@Sterno It was a preemptive move.

@OrigamiRobot this is debatable

@Sterno You can request access btw

@badp I fear the bitter sting of rejection.

Especially since I only want to talk there to troll.

There should be a button just for that

@Sterno Who are you even trolling?

@kalina No, it isn't.

@OrigamiRobot it is, the show isn't that great

so poor in fact, I had forgotten all about it until you mentioned it just now

Yes, it is.

@Sterno @fbueckert locked it down yesterday when certain users essentially shut down the bridge, and then another user did the same to the escape pod.

@OrigamiRobot It would have been you, but apparently you own it now. Damn it.

@Sterno I bought it just to troll your trolling.

@Wipqozn really? I missed the escape pod part

I should get around to taking that game out of the shrink wrap.

@badp the stupid "lack of private room" thing meant retro found it and started pasting parts to the guys we were avoiding

@badp Shut down is probably too strong of a word.

oh, I guess the 'saur was at it again

@kalina You can run but you can't hide.

@badp Not until well after the pod was jettisoned.

@badp actually it looks like we did a pretty good job of avoiding

I don't know why anyone would want to watch sitcoms. Doesn't the Bridge generate enough drama all on its own?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone the bridge usually gets moderated before the drama reaches its peak

Yesterday night

...with exceptions

@kalina Too be fair, I'm not in a good position to argue. Even if I didn't like the show, I'd watch it.

I was quite surprised when it got evacuated

@kalina Except for when it doesn't.

if I was moderator, the first thing I'd do is ban everybody

If I was mod, I'd just make everyone else mod and watch the site implode.

Nice nomination speech

@badp thanks

well technically the first thing I'd do is work out how to ban everybody

but same difference

@OrigamiRobot Is there an attractive force between mods, some kind of moderator-gravity?

It probably involves buying Stack Exchange

@RonanForman Probably. My research isn't complete yet.

I have @BenBrocka and @AshleyNunn tied up for testing.

@RonanForman Read that as moderator gravy; started considering how best to barbecue moderators

The result is very loud, but I don't know if that's due to properties of mods or if that's just normal human behavior.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I know all about this, fire is my super power

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I read it that way too at first.

@kalina I thought your super power was sleepy?

thats my secondary super power

scribbles notes

Hrm

I just did my taxes and owe another $3500. I hate you, US Government.

@kalina Fire is wonderful

I have used a flamethrower to get rid of weeds before

@SaintWacko did you scream BY FIRE BE PURGED while doing it?

@kalina No, but now I wish I had

It wasn't a terribly good flamethrower

How did this instruct your local pizzeria to draw ponies on boxes thing become a meme? Some guy just posted his custom instruction asking for ponies to be drawn on an order for digital goods

missed opportunity

brb, making another @kalina MtG card

I like my current one though

It used propane, and the trigger was a little too sensitive, so if you squeezed more than a tiny bit, it would put itself out

I serious cannot tell if it's a joke or if he really is that dumb

@kalina I thought you hated it.

@SaintWacko I have done this. Good fun.

However, it would put itself out in a small fireball which would incinerate about a foot diameter of grass and remove the hair from my legs

So that was fun

Actually it was more like a hairdryer that was so powerful, weeds you pointed it at spontaneously ignited

@SaintWacko Manly hair removal: fireballs

aerosol + lighter

@kalina I like my gas flamethrowers to have a blowback valve

yes but hairspray is like napalm

I am a fan of my hands

@kalina Place aerosol next to candle. Shoot aerosol with air rifle. ????? PROFIT

@fredley Place aerosol can in fire

Someone on a scout campout did that once...

its a good way of getting a camp fire lit

@SaintWacko Yes, this happens often at festivals. Good way to get your face horribly mutilated.

@kalina It's a good way to put them out more like!

@SaintWacko Oh dear...

@fredley I was glad I was nowhere near that fire

I just heard the bang

@SaintWacko Not a clever thing to do.

Do the one thing the aerosol can has an explicit warning against. Sounds like a great idea!

@YiJiang'sEvilClone they also have explicit warnings against piercing the cans

Nevermind I gave up. Making flip cards is too annoying.

I was going to have pixel transform into @kalina when she became the target of a forum.

@kalina Fine if you do it witha rifle from a safe distance

@fredley "safe" is not usually "fun" though

@kalina Says the EVE player

I don't trust your sense of what is fun at all

If you pierce it at the right angle it could come hurtling towards your face like a RPG

@fredley I am not sure what this is supposed to mean

@fredley I just said that my super power is playing with fire, my sense of fun is better than yours

@kalina Is playing EVE fun?

@fredley no it's probably the most boring thing I've ever done with my life

@kalina My superpower is EXPLOSIONS.

and I would rather be playing WoW

EXPLOSIONS >> FIRE

@kalina Oh dear. Intervention time.

no

speaking of explosions, I wonder if my order will get denied if I purchase everything required to make simple plastic explosives from the same store again

@OrigamiRobot Engineering is actually mostly about avoiding massive explosions.

@kalina ...again?

@fredley And to avoid them, you have to create them to learn their secrets.

@fredley yeah, when I was younger we bought a bunch of stuff and made explosives using a recipe from the anarchist cookbook

and then took them to school

Just buy the stuff to make thermite.

but the second time we tried it the order got cancelled and the police were involved

@kalina I heard fertiliser bombs are much less conspicuous

@OrigamiRobot Thermite is awesome, and easy

You can make a bomb out of draino and aluminum foil.

@OrigamiRobot Thermite, while dangerous, isn't really explosive

I don't want to make a "bomb", I want small explosives I can throw at people

@OrigamiRobot And a pressure cooker

@fredley Aluminum + Rust. Done. Also magnesium for a fuse.

Bombs are pretty dangerous stuff, but thermite on someone's engine block is just hilarious

@OrigamiRobot Quite.

This conversation worries me

@OrigamiRobot "Aluminium", silly American

@SaintWacko Was tempted to make a sockpuppet @UKPolice account and swoosh in

@kalina Nope, Aluminum is the original spelling from the British discoverer.

@OrigamiRobot google your spelling

It was changed to Aluminium by a poitical magazine.

@OrigamiRobot So? Even though he was British he was still wrong

@kalina I am fully aware of the history.

> Most countries use the spelling aluminium.

In college, I was friends with a guy who decided it'd be fun to build his own pipe bombs. One of his friends from home was visiting a weekend and the two of them thought it would be fun to blow some stuff up. One detonated early and his friend died. Then the police had to evacuate the dorm while they picked through his room for bomb materials.

@fredley with this in mind I should probably stop googling 'making plastic explosives with vaseline'

He's pretty damn lucky that happened back before school shootings/bombings were all the rage. He only got expelled for a year.

@fredley I respect the man who discovered it.

@kalina Incognito mode means the police can't track what you're doing, right?

@fredley I'm not stupid

@fredley Absolutely!

@OrigamiRobot I respect him as a chemist, not as an etymologist

> The spelling used throughout the 19th century by most U.S. chemists was aluminium

> Davy settled on aluminum by the time he published his 1812 book Chemical Philosophy: "This substance appears to contain a peculiar metal, but as yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state, though alloys of it with other metalline substances have been procured sufficiently distinct to indicate the probable nature of alumina."

> But the same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, in a review of Davy's book, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound."

@fredley That's right, aluminium is outdated

aluminum is where it's at

@SaintWacko Because that's what happens to spelling

"and then the period of American laziness started, and as a result a bunch of letters disappeared from words starting with the mass exodus of 'u'"

Are the British folks here making up more words again?

> The -ium suffix conformed to the precedent set in other newly discovered elements of the time: potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium (all of which Davy isolated himself). Nevertheless, -um spellings for elements were not unknown at the time, as for example platinum, known to Europeans since the 16th century, molybdenum, discovered in 1778, and tantalum, discovered in 1802.

WHY AM I STILL HERE DISCUSSING STUPID STUFF TIME TO GO HOME BYE

@StrixVaria Yep. Silly British.

@fredley poor you, being at work all day

at least I managed to get out of bed before you finished work

@SaintWacko The term Aluminum is older than Aluminium.

@OrigamiRobot See, we should stick to the classical spelling

That's why aluminum is better

@kalina IIRC, Vasoline + Gasoline = Napalm

@OrigamiRobot you realise that "vaseline" is a brand name whose spelling is not open to random interpretation right?

I don't care.

well you should, you spell everything else wrong, you might as well get something right

@kalina They'll probably call it petroleum jello.

@RonanForman lol jello

No, we call it Vaseline.

And whiners with entitlement issues did it again ...

maybe if they keep getting voted the worst company in America they'll do something about it

@FEichinger You mean intelligent people who realize EA is a terrible company?

@Fluttershy Compared to the Bank of America? Bullshit.

Bank of America was pretty bad

@FEichinger As someone with years of experience with both companies, I'm alright with EA winning again.

"Company does bad thing to make money." is the least surprising thing I've ever heard.

But you expect financial institutions to be bad

You are compairing a company that is bad at PR with companies that extort and kill people.

You don't expect it from video game companies

@FEichinger People screwed over by Bank of America can't afford the Internet, apparently.

@kalina No they won't, did you see their response to the poll?

@BenBrocka I read something along the lines of "we don't care, you're all wrong"

it didn't really sink in though

EA didn't care last year, they won't care this year, and all this result does is make gamers look bad.

@FEichinger Actually, I doubt it does. Part of the reason EA keeps winning is because apparently the only people who care about this and vote are heavily skewed towards gamers anyway.

Everyone else is too busy living life to care about a stupid Internet survey.

cc: @kalina

There have been multiple protests in the streets about Bank of America and BP so it's pretty bullshit to say "OMG ppl care moar about EA gaems" because of one internet survey

The other companies are absolutely not getting a free pass

@FEichinger They don't care? Then what was the huge blog post on their site about?

BP didn't even make the list...

@Powerlord Did you read the post? They don't give a flying about the result. They were basically saying "Get some fucking perspective, people. We know, we're shit - not where you think we're shit, though - but we aren't that bad."

@OrigamiRobot yes

I understand. We should start a support group.

Oh wait, we're already here.

this is not what I would call a 'support group'

We all support each others bad habits

@FEichinger The fact that they responded at all shows that they care at some level.