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Server went away
Server is back!
@SaintWacko Eh?
@Fluttershy I started on the Arqade Minecraft Server
@SaintWacko Oh. Gotcha!
00:23
OH MY GOD WHAT. THERE IS A NINTH BOSS IN THIS GOD FORSAKEN PLACE
How many bosses are enough bosses for a side quest?
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@badp it's Hell, did you think there'd be 8?
I mean the eighth was overwhelmingly underwhelming, you could hold A for most of it
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Q: How do I prevent a second player from entering an area occupied by another player?

rmarendaI am building a gambling machine that uses command blocks to take money from, and give money to a player, It also sends game messages to the player via command blocks. Therefore I want only one player in the gambling machine area at a time. Is there some way to read a flag at a distant location t...

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Q: How can I make red stone respond to a player having no money in their account?

rmarendaI am building a gambling machine, and I would like to do an error check. When the player wants to play the game, they need to have X dollars in their bank account. If they have less than the amount they want to bet, they should not be able to place a bet. Is there any way to get a red stone flag ...

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What game incidently?
@World Engineer I'll tell you, seven looked like a respectable number to stop at. Or three. Or one
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00:26
@badp Dark Souls?
Chrono Trigger. Black Omen.
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ah
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no idea that existed
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huh
What, the game or the place?
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00:27
@badp the game
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I know what Chrono Trigger is, played most of it
Oh, Black Omen is just the name of the sidequest
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ah
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I forget where I was when I got tired of it
well, the place where the side quest takes place
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00:28
I think in the future somewhere
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I can't recall
If you'd just gotten in the future you stopped roughly midway. Yeah, that part is gloomy and grindy somewhat
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I can't recall why it was that I stopped, probably just switched to something else
I still can't believe I'm being shoved the end game down my throat with no chance to stock up on basic items like heals or revives
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I tend to play several games at once
00:30
I only have 1 heal left. If this guy uses chaos twice I'm fucked
@Lazers VTC'd as dupe of this
@fredley Any idea why I'm not finding any copper in the "New Miner" world?
...Or why the server keeps crashing?
@SaintWacko It's because your computer knows that it isn't Terraria!
@Fluttershy I don't have a Terraria server to play on!
Anyone here have any Earbuds
I'll give my Unusual hat for it :3
00:44
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Not Q/A just fun!

Proposed Q&A site for me and my friends!

Closed before being launched.

Just watch
you will go crazy
THE BOSS PILE KEEPS GETTING TALLER
tenth boss
Is this quest actually an infinite boss generator
My only hope is a bottomless pit, those tend to work well
Uh. The walkthrough revealed that the gate between the eight and ninth boss does not, in fact, bring me to 1999 like the warp animation suggests
So I suppose it isn't fair to call this still part of the quest
01:01
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Q: How Do I Open the Command Options in Battlefield 3 for the PS3?

MitchI play on the pc and can bring up the commands to spot enemies, call for ammo, etc but my son plays on the PS3 and we can't figure out how to do those same actions. Anyone got an answer? Thanks!

o.0 I just sidestepped an arrow
From about 3 blocks away
Alas, poor server, I knew him well
01:27
The Atrocity Archive has characters that uses words like "autodarwinate". I think I'm going to like this book.
LET THE FAKE DAFT PUNK LEAKS BEGIN.
01:45
WHATS UP CHICKEN BUTT
@spugsley YOUR FACE
@YiJiang'sEvilClone in the chicken's butt? :(
@spugsley Well, if that's where you want to put it, no one's stopping you
@spugsley Stuffing.
... @spugsley's face up a chicken butt ... That's a new one.
01:53
After much curling up in bed and crying, soul searching and reflection, I'm now back, and decided to write this script:
$('#chat').on('click', '.monologue', function(evt){
    var img = $('<img>', {
        src: 'http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/312/8/7/twilight_sparkle_by_thenaro-d4fks5i.png',
        css: {
            height: 140,
            position: 'absolute',
            marginTop: -106,
            left: evt.clientX - $(this).offset().left - 63,
            zIndex: 10000
        }
    });

    img.on('click', function(){ $(this).remove() });

    $(this).prepend(img);
});
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It does about what you'd expect it to do
@YiJiang'sEvilClone ...
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Hello Bridge!
I'm easily amused
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@yijiang lacking any real code knowledge I am not sure what it is supposed to do
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Ah. Very nice.
01:57
@AshleyNunn Try running it
@AshleyNunn Hello @AshleyNunn!
@YiJiang'sEvilClone You are a crazy person.
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@yijiang how?
@AshleyNunn Ctrl + Shift + I, copy paste the code into the console, hit enter.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I AM SO TIRED OF DOLAN WHY ARE THERE SO MANY DOLANS
@FEichinger You ain't see nothing yet. meta.stackoverflow.com/a/72984/150097
02:03
@spugsley They are a large, prominent and wealthy family.
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone That...so.much.Christmas.
@AshleyNunn The candy canes and lights are animated gifs.
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AH! TWILIGHT IS EVERYWHERE
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone That is glorious
The next step in the script is to have it resize the image so that Twilight is always looking at where your mouse pointer is when you click it instead of just shifting her on the X axis
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02:06
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I approve.
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Totally sang this when I got my awesome pickles from the fridge just now
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@AshleyNunn was the mess delicious?
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@WorldEngineer hahaha yes
After playing To The Moon finally, my first thought was "why are they using a bunch of StarCraft sounds?"
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02:21
although I forgot to photograph
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@AshleyNunn I forgive you :)
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@WorldEngineer Yeah, I totally just was like OMNOMNOM and then was like, oh, crap.
user image
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I think I may have permanently scarred @badp with this screenshot
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@AshleyNunn Have you read "The Name of the Wind"?
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Good job!
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02:25
@WorldEngineer I have not, but it is on my to-read list.
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@AshleyNunn it's the best thing
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone poor @badp
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@WorldEngineer Oh?
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the sequel might actually be better
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best fantasy I read all last decade
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02:26
the sequel might be the best all this decade
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to be fair I don't read much fantasy anymore (there's CS books but those are more horror than fantasy)
Rainbow farts again?
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@WorldEngineer After finishing teh Mistborn books, I am hesitant to start new fantasy stuff because they were so good and I am scared other stuff will just disappoint me
@FEichinger I have no idea why he just spotted this screenshot
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@AshleyNunn Rothfuss will not
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02:27
so right now my GoodReads stuff is all like YA and fluffy contemporary stuff
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@WorldEngineer So I have heard, which is why I want to check it out. I suspect also I am waiting to start the more brain-y reading until after my school projects are done.
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@AshleyNunn it's definitely brainy, it's got a ridiculous amount of plates spinning off screen
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it is, however, one of the best written books I've ever read
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in terms of sheer technical skill
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@WorldEngineer Nice :)
02:30
@AshleyNunn Discworld won't
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@SaintWacko I hope not!
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Related to that, I inherited a bunch of Discworld stuff from a friend who is moving to the States and thus wanted to get rid of some things to move as little as possible. Someone will have to help me figure out, based on hte random pile I recieved, if I can actually start any of the storylines with what I have
Discworld is more like 5 different series and a bunch of independent books that take place in the same fictional universe and are written by the same author.
Instead of a traditional "series"
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@Powerlord Yeah, but there are some storylines, yeah?
@AshleyNunn Do you have a list of which ones?
02:32
1 hour ago, by Yi Jiang's Evil Clone
The Atrocity Archive has characters that uses words like "autodarwinate". I think I'm going to like this book.
cc @AshleyNunn ^
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I can make one, hold on :)
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone oooooh, I am intrigued
But the ones that begin storylines are.... lets see.... "Guards! Guards!" for the Watch, "Wyrd Sisters" for the Witches, "Mort" for Death, "The Colour of Magic" for Rincewind (and the Wizards generally)... but it's one of Pratchet's earlier works and not as good as his later ones.
Which series's am I missing there?
@AshleyNunn Basic premise of the book: With sufficiently advanced mathematics and computational power, it is possible to summon Eldritch abominations from alternative universes
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Okay, I have Interesting Times, Pyramids, Hogfather, Guards! Guards!, Carpe Jugulum, Sourcery,Thief of Time, Lords and Ladies, Eric, and the his book Johnny and the Bomb, which doesn't say "Discworld" on it so I am assuming is something separate.
02:34
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A: What order should I be reading the Discworld books in?

benstrawOne thing about discworld that is important to realize, in the 35+ or so books there are really 5+ different threads that hardly cross at all. The witches stories (which later expand futher into his childrens series - The Tiffany Aching series). The wizard stories featuring Rincewind, Archech...

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@YiJiang'sEvilClone Fascinating. Author?
@AshleyNunn Pyramids and Interesting times are standalone. Guards! Guards! starts the City Watch story.
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@AshleyNunn Charles Stross
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@Powerlord Something tells me I am going to have to slowly acquire more books, then. :)
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@WorldEngineer Good to know, I will try to check it out at some point, the premise sounds interesting
02:36
@AshleyNunn Charles Stross. It's written in his usual style. If you haven't already, go read Accelerando. It's free, so no excuse there :P
Thief of Time is kinda/sorta standalone, but has characters from the History Monks and Death storylines in it.
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh, I can do free. goes and looks for it
To be honest, you could start the Wizards with Sourcery, as the two books starring Rincewind before it were... not up to Pratchet's later standard.
Oh wait, Wikipedia is telling me that Interesting Times is Rincewind and the Wizards storyline not standalone. Whoops.
(I haven't read Interesting Times yet)
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02:39
@YiJiang'sEvilClone ooh, and epub no less.
Speaking of Discworld books, has anyone here read Equal Rites? It's weird seeing Granny Weatherwax acting so... un-Weatherwax-like in that book. :|
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone Neergh, started reading it on my computer just to see if I would like it and now I don't want to stop :P (I have projects to do!)
@AshleyNunn Lobsters is really good :P
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@YiJiang'sEvilClone Don't tempt me! Doing things! Important things! (I am entirely joking)
Oh right, I was confusing Interesting Times with The Truth
02:47
@Powerlord WHAT? The first two?
Also, where has the server gone? :(
@SaintWacko Yes... The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic are not up to Pratchet's usual standard. One could argue Equal Rites isn't either.
@Powerlord Well, I think they were the first two books
I like them, though
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I am excited to read more Pratchet - all I have read of his is Good Omens that he did with Gaiman
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Right here
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03:12
I dont wanna be an English student anymore
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If I have to use a dictionary constantly to figure out what you are trying to tlel me there is something wrong.
03:23
That's a little late for that conclusion, no?
Minecraft Server is fun, but ermagerd the lag
Ah, screw it
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@FEichinger shush you
@AshleyNunn >.<
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@FEichinger I just hate Barthes
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his work always sounds like he threw up dictionaries
03:32
@AshleyNunn Can't imagine why. :P
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@FEichinger because he uses STUPID WORDS
STOOPID?
Good night, Bridge
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@SaintWacko Night!
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@FEichinger He uses words like syntagm and erethism and diegesis
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03:38
@AshleyNunn I know what one of those means
@AshleyNunn See? The world needs people like you so people like me understand words like those.
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A: Why do my chickens keep dying?

bobThe best Answer: just shoot the chicken. also, penis. that is all.

NAA? Offensive? Both? Either?
Offensive kills it more easily.
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@FEichinger Also, I can totally explain to you how 1+1=3
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@AshleyNunn so can I in about 5 different ways :P
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03:39
@WorldEngineer I just learned this today
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there's the false proof method and about a dozen ways in various programming languages
@WorldEngineer Don't forget binary.
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that too
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kind of
1 and 1 is 3.
@AshleyNunn Anyways, there's a ton of ways to have 1+1=3, that ain't amazing. Gotta step up your game there.
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03:42
@FEichinger Shush you
@AshleyNunn No, shush you!
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that's language dependent
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1 and 1 = 1 in Python
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so does 1 & 1
Python sucks anyways. :P
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03:43
@FEichinger that's not a safe place to stand
It's a pain in the arse to use, for the most part.
There's a lot of stuff that's by far worse, but I just can't stand python at all.
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@FEichinger Rubyist?
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I like Python so far
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Python's classes are a bit wonky but fairly easy if you're not stuck in the Java trap
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they are merely dictionaries
03:47
@WorldEngineer Nah. For the most part I have to stick to PHP for Web, C for Client and Java for Server. And I'm a conservative when it comes to Web anyway ... Good-ol' HTML + PHP. Screw JS. If your site doesn't work without JS, screw you.
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I generally don't have too many particular bias
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Objective-C earned my wrath over documentation rather than the language itself
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and iOS's needless fiddliness
That is true. But if you know how to do it, you can do a lot of magic with it.
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Objective-C is a really well designed language, just totally alien terminology
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03:51
Haskell is Black Sorcery but you pay for that power with sanity
The problem I have with python is that magic just doesn't seem to fly well with a language that bites you for stepping on its tail.
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I'll agree to that
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Python has little in the way of "tricks" but it gains predictability in due measure because of it
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Ruby lets you basically do whatever
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and Perl literally does
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03:55
but what I do I know. I "like" the ideas behind APL.
Office bunny hates his job.
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@Fluttershy OMG THIS I LOVE THIS
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ALSO I FEEL LIKE THAT BUNNY
@AshleyNunn I do too! I'm calling it a night. Gotta wake up early tomorrow so I can run before it gets too hot.
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@Fluttershy Sleep well!
03:57
@AshleyNunn You too when ya go!
G'night, Bridge!
YUP IT'S OFFICIALLY MY BIRTHDAY
:3
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@spugsley HAPPY BIRTHDAY OMGYAY cake and sparkles and streamers and party hats and those little weird paper birthday favours that make noise when you blow them
@spugsley HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOW I AM SLEEPING FOR REAL!
@AshleyNunn I LOVE ALL OF THOSE THINGS YAAAAAAAAAAAY
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04:04
@spugsley YES
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I love birthdays, for serious
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@spugsley Happy Birthday
@AshleyNunn me too :3 I'm trying to convince the husband to give me my present now that it's midnight
buuuuut he's not having it :p
this was my actual birthday present though :)
waterfall adventure!
@FEichinger NO WAY
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04:06
@spugsley @IanPugsley GIVE HER HER PRESENT IT IS HER BIRTHDAY OMG
BIRTHDAY DOLAN!?! HOW FUCKED UP IS THAT?!?!?!
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@spugsley WATERFALL! AWESOME!
@spugsley I found that horribly appropriate. :P
@FEichinger I can't deny that but still HATE IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION
@spugsley Awwwwww. :P
04:07
:p
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@spugsley you look about the same weight as your wedding.
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with regards to the waterfall picture
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no gainage that I can tell
@WorldEngineer that is like the best compliment I have ever had, srsly
and sadly
but true
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In any case, it's time I took something akin to a sleep
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04:12
or a nap
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or a not waking period
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or something
or just another cup of coffee.
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04:30
I am eating caramel from a jar. This is bliss.
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Q: How do the bow-related Archery skill perks affect crossbows?

galacticninjaI noticed* that some of the Archery skill perks are bow-specific or bow-related, based on their descriptions. I would like to know how they affect crossbows. Does the 'Quick Shot ' archery perk (can draw a bow 30% faster) affect crossbows? Does it make the crossbow reload speed faster? What ab...

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Q: Why did my squad die in the final push by Hammer to the beam in the ending of Mass Effect 3? Was this just me or did other's get this too?

MaddieIn the final push at the end of Mass Effect, my squad was crushed by a flaming flying Mako instead of being airlifted out and witnessing a teary goodbye between Kaiden and my Shep (I romanced him and brought him along to the final push). Instead, a Mako crushes them, and I can see my squad's name...

I just found out that the girl who played Reggie Lass from Dead Like Me voices Princess Cadence in MLP:FiM
05:17
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Q: Is anything outside the solarsystem where Kerbin resides?

WhettingstoneSo, I wanted to recreate the Voyager and see how far into space I could launch a probe. As it stands now I've gotten past the highest orbit of the outermost planet (Eelo) and when I quit the game just now the probe was about 150 billion meters (atleast I think it was meters) from the sun. Can ...

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Q: Syncing vertical and horizontal mouse sensitivity makes vertical mouse movement very slow

galacticninjaI tried syncing my vertical and horizontal mouse sensitivity based on the current top-voted and accepted answer on the question: How can I sync vertical/horizontal mouse sensitivities? The [Controls] section does not exist in my Skyrim.ini file so I added one at the end of the text file and adde...

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@Powerlord That show is one my to watch list. (Dead Like Me)
Can't sleep? Want to play a game? Try naming the episodes which inspires each outfit here: karzahnii.deviantart.com/art/Hu-Mane-Six-303118268
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06:11
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I suck at that
07:42
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Q: Heartfire House Freeze Glitch

monkeyman1188Now ive built all 3 houses in heartfire, and i have moved into one, Lakeview manor, with my wife and adopted kids LOL but there is one problem, everytime i add something to chests, to wardrobes, drawes etc, the game freezes after a little while, and depending on how much ive put in, i wont be ab...

08:09
So Dr Who....
wow lag. :<
Still downloading the latest episode
@Lazers hi :)
@YiJiang'sEvilClone is Navi's voice computerized or did a voice actor do it?
Navi from Zelda? I can't say, I haven't actually played the game in question
08:25
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Well I wasn't sure. In Ocarina of Time shes only got like 3 or 4 lines that she won't ever shut up about "look, listen, hello".
Since you havens played not much you can tell though.
Wikipedia lists a Japanese voice actor, so I assume the English translation must have one of it's own
Navi was voiced by Kaori Mizuhashi. I don't really think they would need to redo her lines since they are simple words.
> She is one of the few characters with any voice-acting in the series, and the only character who (aside from Beedle Link in The Wind Waker) actually uses English words, such as "Hey", "Look", "Listen", "Watch out" and "Hello".
Ah ha
I almost forgot hardly any of the characters talk XD. Most everyone seems to speak in grunts and weird noises.
08:42
mmeh
I've got a washing machine to fix, urrrrghhh
sounds fun.
Narrowed down the trouble spot - the water inlet somehow isn't supplying the washing machine with water
Unfortunately I have no idea on how to check which part of the inlet is causing problems
:/
where is the inlet on the back, top or bottom?
@Scootaloo I wish more modern RPGs would go this way (or simply use nonsense talk like The Sims) instead of place-wasting, expensive and modder-unfriendly full voice acting ...
Heh, looks like we (Vanu Sovereignty) are well on our way to secure the next "longest continuous Indar continent lock" on Miller, despite still being the smallest faction of the three. PlanetSide 2 can have some awesome strategy layer if people just care about it enough. :)
08:55
wooo I survived until 10am and haven't fallen asleep yet
Well fuck. I can't see anyway of even getting the inlet out without doing some sort of permanent damage to it. I can't even move the washing machine forward a little to get a better look
The damn thing is ridiculously heavy, or glued to the floor in some way. I can't get it to bulge a millimeter
what are you trying to do
There's a plastic tube that connects the water mains to the washing machine. I'm trying to remove it to see if there's anything clogging the tube or the inlet
It's unlikely, since Singapore's tap water is portable, so there shouldn't be too much sediments in it, but it is possible some calcification has happened and clogged the tube enough that the washing machine can't draw water
@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's strange for a washing machine to be glued to anything, they tend to move and shake a lot and this breaks down any glue rather quickly. It might be secured in place somehow though, check for screws and the like.
@MartinSojka It's not secured as far as I can tell. This machine, unlike the previous one, doesn't shake much during the spin cycle. It might have a very heavy brick in it to act as a dampener though
09:07
@YiJiang'sEvilClone if you put water in the drum, does it drain normally?
@djsmiley2k Yes.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone ok that confirms it's not one thing - a backing up problem due to water not draining at least (I've had that due to 5 cats).
Could it of slid backwards slightly (just enough infact) to compress the inlet pipe?
Not sure, but the washing machine doesn't look like it's moved. Besides, as mentioned above I can't get it to move, at all
Well, putting cats into a washing machine is just asking for trouble with some wet and rather angry cats ...
09:24
I have to admit I feel a little bit tired this morning
@kalina Long weekend?
@fredley yeah it started on the 22nd of March
@kalina Wow, that is a very long weekend
and ended up with wandering between nightclubs and abandoned warehouses yesterday
Hiya!
09:35
Yawn
@kalina Sounds like fun
@SaintWacko No and no...
@fredley I am still a little bit wired
@kalina With...
...stuff
fortunately nobody here is familiar with the obvious symptoms so I'm just sat here doing my usual thing
I tried getting to sleep lastnight and failed miserably
lol
drugs are bad mmmkay
09:47
8 hours of rolling around in bed listening to the wind
@kalina He's a tireless storyteller, that's for sure.
I am limited to 6 hours sleep a night. Bizarrely, I am less tired during the day
10:07
don't really feel "tired" as such
@kalina Exhausted?
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Q: How do I make effective use of the Mortar?

tombull89I've recently unlocked the Mortar for the Support kit which I've been wanting to get my hands on to take out pesky snipers. I've managed to get a couple of kills before someone hunts me down and shoots me in the back or I get killed by an enemy mortar. I also have difficulty hitting moving people...

also not the word I would use
I duno, I just feel a bit... off
probably a bit dehydrated
must be that
and probably hungry, on which note... breakfast van time
One of the italians in our office has brought in an exceptional espresso pot. Which reminds me...
10:36
Nobody wanted to share, so now I have a quad-shot mug of espresso to myself.
This can only end well
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Q: Should we post on games that are still in Beta (Private or Public)?

dewordeI'm a member of the Solforge beta. It's a great game, and I'm beginning to run into a few things where I could ask Q's on Arq (regarding tactics, as game stability is obviously still an ongoing issue) What's the policy on asking questions of games that are still in Public/Private beta.

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Q: Who owns the Homeworld IP?

ClassicThunderHomeworld So I read it was going up for auction April 1 but I can't figure out who got their hands on it? I know teampix was trying to get a hold of it but can't find if they succeeded or failed. Anyways for all I know THQ still has it but I was wondering if anyone knew who currently owned the IP?

@Lazers Is this on topic?
@YiJiang'sEvilClone doubtful
Throwing in an OT vote on that, and a duplicate vote on the Meta question
10:49
Who the hell is @SepiaLazers is that his girl friend?
Is @SepiaLazers the meta version of @Lazers?
According to @SepiaLazers about page: "Meta lazers are too meta for a picture to hold."
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm not sure which I like better.
I love the original most I think.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone this is a bad sign...
@Scootaloo Scoots.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Ya that was my second choice.
Collectors Edition runs very good, but the Majora Mask has some bad audio problems.
You could just call yourself Link
@AshleyNunn The Concrete Jungle is a free novella set in the Laundry Files universe, if you're interested in the series
10:55
@YiJiang'sEvilClone the game even tells you that it has audio issues, but I don't mind.
Ha! Why not play the original, then? There are also N64 emulators available
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Also I know that, but I don't really like it. Plus that name has only been used a million other times before.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Because I own a copy of "Zelda: Collectors Edition". However I don't own OOT for N64. Plus I want to play version 1.2 not 1.0.
The GCN version (Collectors Edition) uses the 1.2 version of the game.

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