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06:19
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Q: What is the point of Bounty Hunters in SPAZ?

StarPilotI wonder what bounty hunters bring to SPAZ other than a couple of new ship hulls. What are they actually useful for? Other than adding targets for me to blow up. I played through SPAZ a couple of times before bounty hunters were added and the game was fun. But on a recent play through with boun...

Finally, spring arrived in Switzerland! T-Shirt time! yay
06:36
Is the tags on this site broken for anyone else?
@YiJiang'sEvilClone yes, background is transparent
Firefox 21 beta here.
I use chrome
Similarly broken on Chrome
And Internet Explorer 10
Don't like what they did with tags, to be honest
I think... they replaced the image with :before shadow element
The top and bottom padding need to be tightened up though
cc @Jin
And of course the tags need a background color
The tags need to be more lazer!
06:55
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Q: Accessing other countries Netflix?

pandorymI have US Netflix running on my PS3, and I just noticed Canada Netflix has access to Community season 1-3 while I don't have access to any of the seasons. Is there any way that I can access those seasons? Please and thank you.

See, this is what you get when you introduce the Japanese to ponies
user15026
07:27
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I didn't know it was possible to make it cuter
@AshleyNunn The Japanese have that... effect on things they come across
08:08
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Q: How to get sushi coins faster?

TonsensonI just started this game and as in almost every 2nd Kairosoft game you first have to find out how this and that works. Now I learned that the sushi coins (the special currency as in every kairosoft game) is again really important and you should take care of getting them really quickly and in part...

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Q: Is GTA Vice City for Android faithful to the original version?

Ben ParsonsI didn't play Vice City the first time around, and was just wondering how similar the new version (versions - I assume this question applies to iOS as well) is to the original.

08:26
lol simcity.
toothpaste?
morn
morning
I am officially powered by sugar at the moment
aren't we all?
maybe
I'm not normally though
08:46
I thought it is coffein that is the source of all human power...
PEBBLE IS FINALLY HERE OMFG
Backed my first Kickstarter 18 months ago, and this is my first delivery
@PatrickStalder I want to get me some o' that coffein
pebble?
@PatrickStalder not quite
I found that since I started drinking coffee (which is like the last 6 or so months) that it's harder to be awake without it
@kalina Caffeine addiction kicking in?
\o/ reliance on drugs.
08:59
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I wouldn't call it an addiction, I know what an addiction feels like
/me relies on sugar :/
I never used to consume that much sugar either
@djsmiley2k Kickstarter smart watch
Oh yes
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Warning - Java(TM) Installer
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* You are running the following platform: Windows 8 Pro with Media Center.    This Java(TM) Platform works best on the following platforms:

Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5 or later
Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 or later
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows XP


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OK
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09:09
@badp How old is this Java thingy you're trying to install?
I have absolutely no idea, but I'm not installing that thing.
It's new enough to deprecate Windows 95 anyway!
so that must be like 2004 am I right???
The new tag design is ugly
They look like boxes with one side chipped
Java + Windows 8. Shudders.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone surely you mean "slightly more ugly than the last one"
oh lord
this thing requires Java Web Start
Java Web Start
09:20
Reminder for all you British and wannabe-British Arqanoids:
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Q: The Great British Arqade Meetup

fredleyThe other post was getting a bit long and convoluted so let's have another stab at this. This is for the London meetup. You don't actually have to be British, but it helps. Some people have suggested early August as a good timeframe, so lets see how that works for people. Fill out your availabi...

(Also if you're not wannabe-British, but could be dragged to London for some meab beer)
First watchface I install: Fuzzy Time. I have paid ~£100 for a watch which is less accurate...
I am ready to be off work again
@kalina That was quick
@fredley somebody actually downvoted it O_o
@Blem I know. Maybe they were Irish or something.
well, I turned up, did my thing, realised it is so much more fun to wake up at 5pm
the idea of meeting up with a bunch of people off the internet in London of all places is not that appealing
no offence
09:24
@kalina Can you suggest a better destination that more people might be able to easily get to?
@fredley I think the italics may have been used to sparingly
@kalina Fair enough. But after you'd met them, they wouldn't be off the internet any more right?
@fredley no they wouldn't, but it would only take one wild retrosaur to appear and I would end up punching somebody in the face
@kalina You can wait until the list of attendees is confirmed
maybe
09:29
@kalina \o/
Or we can have a secret meetup for non-meabies only
I said maybe, that is a synonym for no
@kalina D:
hey it's better than saying "yeah I'll go" and then not
@kalina being in others' face punching range is a concern.
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@badp especially since you're planning on going
09:33
@kalina AFK MOD ABUSE
@kalina This is true
might just turn up specifically to punch @badp in the face and then leave again
Honestly I'm not even sure if I can go or not
talk about backing down
I just might have an internship starting this August
@badp with?
09:36
TMI, Inc.
Too Much Information specializes in fredleyward mod abuse worldwide
It's like the natural extension of my current position
(it'd be with Google, but I've only now planned the first phone interview stage so I'm more scared than excited)
@fredley Just remember that in terms of meetups, a reply of "yes" means maybe, "maybe" means no, and "no" means fuck no
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yes yes yes...
@badp I've interviewed there twice. First time, I turned them down, second time they turned me down, so we're even.
Their office is the fitness
@fredley It'd be in Munich, if it happened
For now they've told me to sign up on TopCoder to "prepare for the interview", first they took a shitton of personal data and then their shitty Java applet doesn't work.
So that's a good start.
Yeah, it's a tough process.
In many ways
Exhausting day of interview
@badp Google gave you the shitty Java applet?
09:41
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Everything at Google is Java
They compile Java to JVM to JS for production
Yes, JVM bytecode to Javascript.
@fredley *twitch*
If this was the firewall it'd be the first time the Windows Firewall ever blocked anything
What the flying !@#$% I don't even- shit is this
@YiJiang'sEvilClone ehealth
ehealth like it's 2001
>>> $('script').length
333
I give up
/*
** Copyright (c) 2008, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
** All rights reserved.
*/
They have JavaScript written by Oracle. How did they manage to do this?
09:50
my get up and go appears to have got up and gone
please help me find it
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Q: Graphical glitch with new tags

fredleyAside from being ugly, there's a graphical glitch with the new tag design: A white line down the left hand side when on a blue background.

@badp I was about to say this
-.-
AMG BEST QUESTION ON ARQADE EVER
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Q: Minecraft and GTA like games

ttouchI have been playing minecraft and GTA (Multi theft auto mainly) a lot of time. From GTA I like the guns and cars part and from minecraft I like all the sandbox part. Is there any game that can combine the pros of the 2 games? I've tried a lot of mc mods, but the driving/weapon part is never the s...

@YiJiang'sEvilClone
I have a total of 49 moderator flags available to me each day now
flags all the things
09:56
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Q: Minecraft and GTA like games

ttouchI have been playing minecraft and GTA (Multi theft auto mainly) a lot of time. From GTA I like the guns and cars part and from minecraft I like all the sandbox part. Is there any game that can combine the pros of the 2 games? I've tried a lot of mc mods, but the driving/weapon part is never the s...

Holy mother of nesting
@YiJiang'sEvilClone That rubber duck looks terrorizing
10:12
screw it, I've done enough naughty things this week
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eats bacon
o bacon and tomato on brown bread, please wake me up
sleeping helps
@djsmiley2k being able to sleep helps
exercise
and no mind altering substances.
I don't need exercise
who said anything about mind altering
I don't remember taking a load of acid this weekend
I AM FUCKING DODGE CAPPED
the tomato tried to evacuate my sandwich but missed me
how to quote again?
10:18
click arrow next to message > right click permalink > copy link > paste into chatbox > enter
1 hour ago, by kalina
I found that since I started drinking coffee (which is like the last 6 or so months) that it's harder to be awake without it
Well there's one mind altering substance.
lol, I suppose you're right but I'd never classify it as such
indeed,
but didn't you take stuff over the weekend
and was still under the influence yesterday morning?
I took many stuffs over the weekend
and I'm still partially under the influence now
all of the primary effects have expired and I'm left with too much energy to sleep but not enough motivation to actually do anything
@kalina The arrow itself is a link. You can drag the arrow down into the chat input box, or just right click and copy link
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10:22
@YiJiang'sEvilClone interesting...
well, at least I learned something today
3 mins ago, by Yi Jiang's Evil Clone
@kalina The arrow itself is a link. You can drag the arrow down into the chat input box, or just right click and copy link
sweet
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Q: Netflix Questions

pandorymThere seems to be a few (not a lot, but a few) questions about Netflix and how it relates to various video game systems. I understand that Netflix is not a video game, and therefore I understand why my question would have been closed as it is not related directly to a video game; I just would li...

@SepiaLazers well played closers - no comments to tell him where to ask instead. wp wp.
@djsmiley2k careface
10:42
@kalina ok.
helping users, screw that idea.
@djsmiley2k I helped, I just didn't care too much about doing so
@djsmiley2k Welllll go right ahead. Nobody's stopping you.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone totally time to change my pillow cases
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I don'tr know where it should be
but if you've voted to close, you've indicated you know it shouldn't be there, and therefore know where it should be.
10:44
@djsmiley2k I'm sorry, I forgot I'm supposed to know everything.
@kalina you are.
@djsmiley2k Not exactly. The question not belonging here doesn't imply that it should belong somewhere else
@djsmiley2k knowing it is off topic does not mean you're required to know where it should go
Movies.SE seem to entertain Netflix questions, though I'm not entirely sure if what the OP is asking for is entirely legal
Let them decide?
@djsmiley2k migrating crap is bad
@YiJiang'sEvilClone 25AUD doesn't seem that expensive
Etsy thinks you're in Australia?
I've seen stranger things happen
@YiJiang'sEvilClone no, I ignored the overlay at the bottom telling me to change into english
doesn't appear to have had much effect if I'm honest
Sigh
i can't be bothered with rubbish.
Hopefully I'll hear about this interview today
I know they are discussing it
@kalina It should change your currency and inform you of the shipping fees on items
Ah, because the shop owner is in Australia
I mean, they are rather expensive as pillows go, but their faces are absolutely adorable.
10:54
mmm
blueberry flavoured redbull
Also, shipping. Bloody shipping.
A lot of people have started playing Mass Effect 3 again
I wonder if you can ask the shop owner to forgo the filling and just ship the casing.
He's back...
"answer" not linked due to content.
deleted
10:57
@tombull89 It's gone anyway
35 mins ago, by Yi Jiang's Evil Clone
@kalina The arrow itself is a link. You can drag the arrow down into the chat input box, or just right click and copy link
I did not know about the former bit.
it still surprises me that question keeps getting upvoted
@tombull89 It's kind of obvious, isn't it? When you hover over it you can see the URL on the whatsitcalled bar
I raised two very noobish WoW questions about a week after the last expansion came out
I already knew the answers, I just figured they'd be highly viewed questions
both questions have 100k+ views too
@YiJiang'sEvilClone yeah, I've always right-clicked, copy link location, and then pasted it in the chat box.
11:01
@tombull89 oh, you didn't know about drag and drop?
@tombull89 You can drag and drop any links around.
and images, as long as they're not a background image
You can even drag them into other applications
@kalina nope...guess these things aren't really documented anywhere (or are they?)
@tombull89 Common sense?
11:02
probably are somewhere
I always drag and drop images though
I just didn't know the arrow was a link, because paying attention is not one of my stronger points
@YiJiang'sEvilClone there's a lot of undocumented features on SE...
its not an SE feature
It's not?
Firefox does something nasty to drag and dropped images, converting them to BMP format which causes PNGs to lose formatting and animated GIFs to stop being animated, so I always have to right click and save as if I need them somewhere else
nope
11:04
Oh so it isn't. I always used middle-click to open links in a new tab.
@tombull89 All links and images can be drag and dropped anywhere in your browser
11:14
Holy crap this link dragging tip has changed my life
Ahahahahahaha
THE POWAH
Today, everybody learned...
Yeah, that's pretty neat. Just did it across tabs into a different room as well.
What are we learning?
stuff
11:30
Chat abuse
4 messages moved to Sandbox
chat messages got moved and I wasn't caught in the cross fire, does this mean I am behaving?
hardly possible
I must have messed up
I see, easier to believe you made a mistake than it is to believe I am behaving
hmm
@kalina Occam's razor
I see
I am bored and I am holding you all responsible
It's so bad that I'm currently browsing other SE sites looking for things I can be bothered to edit
11:41
This is quite tragic
Take a step back and look at your life
Then step back into the warm
Play videogames
Eat food
@badp I am at work
@badp I am not hungry
@kalina Lunch break
@badp I am not hungry
Eat, Shit, Sleep, Alleviate boredom, GOTO 10
11:42
@fredley Your digestive system is really fast.
@badp It's somewhat like your mother in that respect
@Badp lol mine really Is that fast
or I have some mental trigger upon eating
If I want to ask a question about Age of Empires II HD (tactics for playing online), should it be tagged with [age-of-empires-2-hd] and/or [age-of-empires-2]?
#markdownfail
it needs [tag:blah]
Did the game mechanics change in any way in AOE2 HD? if not I'd just make it a synonym of AOE2
@BenBrocka I don't think so, but I swear there were behaviors in 2 that weren't in the re-make.
11:56
In online play you mean, or AI behavior?
Am I bored enough to motarboard on superuser by editing 100 posts?
hmmm
Gameplay wise. I am fairly sure in the original you could "queue" research upgrades and the resources are taken out your pool when the research starts. In the remake this isn't possible and you have to micromange the upgrades.
I don't recall being able to do that, but it's been a very long time
I've still got my AOEII disks and manual at home, so I'll re-install it and see if I can find any differences.
hey er
so, our production server for your application just died
says one very panicked customer
I log in, server seems to be there
everything on it is dead
I check the server uptime and see this:
12:06
No patches in 513days?>
Nice.
oh well, time to reboot it
and realise no one in the company knows how to start those applications
12:25
@kalina Seems legit
So.... when will they finally call me about this job :/
least the server came back up
brief moment of panic
Nothing like restarting a server and then realising you can't rdp into it when you expect to be able to...
@tombull89 s/rdp/ssh/
@kalina hi
12:42
> I shudder. "You think I'm joking? He monologued at me. With PowerPoint." "He what? And you're still sane? I obviously underestimated you."
In this universe, supervillains monologue their dastardly plans to heroes with the aid of Microsoft PowerPoint
@fredley if i had ssh, there's little reason to restart.
Can I go back to sleep yet?
@OrigamiRobot I wish
I would love to be asleep right now
So i watched magic school bus, and went "meh?"
12:44
@kalina You should not be interested in my sleep.
@djsmiley2k Banned.
@OrigamiRobot I am interested in the concept of sleep
@OrigamiRobot pffft.
@OrigamiRobot I am only interested in "your" sleep to the extent of the funny things I could draw on your face with a sharpie
I think you want to murder me in my sleep. I'LL JUST NEVER SLEEP. THEN WE'LL SEE WHO'S LAUGHING.
It's me. From sleep deprivation.
@OrigamiRobot you don't know the meaning of sleep deprivation
try playing MMOs with people from the other side of the planet every day for a month or so
12:46
I have access to the internet. I know the meanings of lots of things.
@OrigamiRobot You know nothing.
1/10th of my way to suggested edit domination
@OrigamiRobot What do you mean by "Banned"?
Also @kalina sorry about yesterday.
@Scootaloo by fire be purged
12:52
@kalina so I take it that means apology not accepted?
@Scootaloo only that you say sorry every time you do this and now it's just another word, actions speak louder than words
@Scootaloo I mean @djsmiley2k is banned for not liking The Magic Schoolbus
@kalina What actions do you expect me to take within a chat room? I'm not always like that.
The main reason I said what I did was to justify the ban.
@Scootaloo actions that would indicate you're truly sorry would include "not doing it again" etc
@scootaloo Action #1 Stop Being Like That. (I wasn't around and have no idea what 'that' is in this context.)
12:54
A wild @LessPop_MoreFizz appears
I'm not wild!
debatable
@LessPop_MoreFizz Long story short: I asked for a ban and the mod. said no. So I said something rude to kalina in order to justify a ban.
You wish I was wild.
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@Scootaloo Getting banned is not a good idea, the fact you did this is just stupid
12:56
@scootaloo yeah, don't do that. Ask gnome slice next week about what good comes from seeking out chat bans.
@Scootaloo Choosing me as your method to get banned didn't bother me in the slightest, getting yourself banned because you didn't have the willpower to step away from the PC to chill out also didn't bother me on a personal level, it just made you look silly.
@kalina Pretty much.
@Scootaloo this isn't a good thing
@LessPop_MoreFizz No idea who "gnone slice" is.
@kalina I never said it was a good thing. I didn't mean to make it sound like a good thing.
@scootaloo he is currently serving a very very very long ban. He will be back soon.
12:57
@kalina it was just plain stupid on my part.
Stupid work.
@Scootaloo well, learn from it
@LessPop_MoreFizz How do you know he hasn't forgotten about SE?
@kalina I have/will.
@Scootaloo he still visits frequently
@Scootaloo we'll see.
@Scootaloo He comes in chat almost daily.
@scootaloo Trust me, he hasn't.
@OrigamiRobot I read this in English and wasn't quite sure if I agreed, I read this in American I still don't agree
I still get replies to things I say in chat from him via twitter/steam.
@kalina You are wrong. Typical.
@kalina It's kind of like being in a glass box when you're banned. You can only see people talk about you (or whatever is going on), but you can't defend yourself.
12:59
@Scootaloo you say this like I'm not aware what being banned is like

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