The Bridge

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

08:05

yawn

spyder

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Meh... It's Friday)

badp

08:31

@Patrick based on transcript most of them just went to sleep

kalina

Hello morning

that was the best 50 minutes of sleep I've ever had

Blem

morning @kalina

been up for about 3h now, maybe I should get some breakfast

badp

Yo pyro. Mmmmmph of the hudda hudda hudda to you too

kalina

@badp eh?

the MS Surface pro has been released!

badp

Hudda hudda uh

kalina

08:36

Time to buy the most expensive portable gaming machine I'll ever own

badp

Meh. Call me when the MS Paint Pro is out

kalina

inb4 "How can I optimise Tomb Raider for touch screen controls"

spyder

@kalina good morning

kalina

"How can I optimise Bioshock Infinite for touch screen controls"

"How can I optimise Quake 3 for touch screen controls"

etc...

spyder

@kalina RUSE

badp

08:38

"You can't you dummy. Please hand in your gamer card for crimes against humanity."

kalina

Civilisation 5 already has a "touch screen mode" if it detects you're running Windows 8

fredley

@kalina You've won the gold tag badge: touch-controls

kalina

@fredley earned*

fredley

@kalina You treat everything like grinding

kalina

@fredley how long do I have to sleep these stupid consistent hours before I'm meant to be feel invulnerable?

fredley

08:46

@kalina You're actually doing it?

kalina

you implied that I should

fredley

If so: about a week

@kalina If I told you to jump off a cliff etc. etc.

kalina

8 hours 45 minutes of sleep per day, starting at 10pm

it's destroying my life

I have 7 TV episodes from 5 different series that I haven't watched due to BEING ASLEEP

fredley

@kalina That's a lot of sleep to start out with

kalina

and I turned up to work on time

like, two days in a row

in fact, I was 15 minutes early today because I got bored of waiting for it to be 9am

fredley

08:47

@kalina Impressive.

kalina

this is all your fault

fredley

@kalina :(

kalina

if my energy levels start spiking at 6am, I am going to end up taking a morning run or something

and then I will hunt you down and end you

spyder

@kalina O_o

kalina

@spyder o_O

fredley

08:48

I am destroying @kalina, it seems.

kalina

seriously though, it's not even 10am and I have excessive quantities of energy

spyder

@kalina My eye was twitching because of your words

kalina

I prefer my energy to be unleashed at home time

spyder

:D

kalina

@spyder you read it as aggressive wording, it is intended as playful tongue in cheek

I'm sure @fredley isn't worried/offended/cares at all

especially since this conversation apparently makes him right

(don't tell him that)

spyder

08:50

@kalina why so serious?) I know that was a joke

fredley

@kalina I'm secretly happy, is this bad?

kalina

@spyder you are NEW

@fredley I hate you

fredley

@kalina Some things never change

kalina

I don't like feeling tired at 10pm

spyder

@kalina and?..

kalina

08:51

I don't like turning up to work on time

fredley

@kalina It's ok, I didn't hear

kalina

I don't like waking up at an hour I previously associated to "bed time" at the weekends

Blem

kalina

@fredley YOU MAKE ME UNHAPPY

sadface

so like, in a week, I can revert to my normal sleeping pattern?

I actually have an app on my iphone which monitors my movements during the night using the accelerometer

previously I used to sleep between 2 hours and 15 hours a night

depending on the day

fredley

@kalina No! Have to stick at it. Although I would say the hours you're sleeping are quite long. You could do with less.

kalina

08:55

and the "quality of sleep" percentage was between 30% and 60%

not sure how quality of sleep is calculated

the last few nights I have slept for literally exactly 8h 45

with a "quality of sleep" of 85-95%

badp

so boring

kalina

I know

life should not be so predictable

fredley

@kalina Hooray!

kalina

I enjoyed sleeping for 15 hours

@fredley I'm serious, if I wake up after 8h 45 minutes this weekend, without an alarm

fredley

I like it, because during the day I feel superhuman, compared to how I felt before

kalina

08:57

you are in serious trouble

fredley

@kalina ...which you will

kalina

serious trouble...

I will hold you responsible for everything

badp

@kalina You were gullible enough to follow his advice

fredley

@kalina I told you in no uncertain terms what would happen

kalina

@badp it was meant to prove that he was wrong

fredley

08:59

@kalina fail

badp

@kalina oh, I'm sorry, special snowflake :P

kalina

you know what else is messed up?

badp

"your face"

kalina

I am currently so hungry that I feel like I should have eaten breakfast

fredley

@kalina Eating breakfast is a good thing to do while waiting to go to work

With all that time in the morning, you can make an epic one

kalina

09:00

@fredley I'm sorry, I don't want to designate a portion of my day as "waiting to go to work"

fredley

13 mins ago, by kalina

in fact, I was 15 minutes early today because I got bored of waiting for it to be 9am

kalina

@fredley that doesn't mean I'm happy about it!

fredley

Those 15 minutes were breakfast!

kalina

in fact, in case it isn't obvious, I'm very unhappy about it

fredley

@kalina If you're waiting around in the morning, go to bed a little later and get up a little later

badp

09:01

@fredley but she bwoke the wools! She didn't stay perfectly unmoving in bed for 8h45'00"

kalina

@badp eh? You're missing something important I think

badp

I think it's better that way

fredley

@kalina @badp can't count

badp

Having a clue is boring

kalina

@badp I went to bed at 10pm, I listened to the sound of waterfalls until I passed out - which literally took 30 seconds, I have never fallen asleep like that before, I slept for 8 hours 45 minutes until 6:45am

badp

09:04

@kalina oh then that's just poor planning

kalina

no actually, it was a tweak over the night before

the night before I went to bed at 9:30pm and woke up at 6:15

went "wtf?!" and smoked a joint and went back to bed

badp

...but I guess it was fair to expect that you were going to just roll around the bed, unable to sleep, for three hours or four to start with

kalina

I don't normally fall asleep like that, no

badp

@kalina happens when you try and radically change sleep patterns

fredley

@kalina I've got my pre-sleep tossing down from 2 hours to 15 minutes

2

kalina

09:06

normally I will go to bed at 1am, watch tv shows until 2am, try feebly to sleep until 3am and then fall asleep

16 secs ago, by fredley

@kalina I've got my pre-sleep tossing down from 2 hours to 15 minutes

you can't back out of it now

fredley

@kalina True

kalina

2h15 is quite impressive for self stimulation

fredley

Unlike you, I don't delete things other people have starred

badp

hands @fredley a "free out of jail mod abuse" card, expired.

fredley

@kalina Stamina

@badp \o/

kalina

09:08

screenshots have been taken, MOD ABUSE ALL YOU WANT

badp

@kalina photoshopped

fredley

@badp It's easier to modify the HTML of the page than Photoshop

badp

@fredley (but that requires more effort to type out!)

fredley

@badp ....

badp

"browser inspected!" doesn't sound quite the same

kalina

09:09

@badp yes, "faked" is really hard to type

badp

@kalina but then I don't get to make silly remarks like "the reflections are all wrong"

THE SILLY REMARKS MATTER, PEOPLE.

kalina

the reflections?

...

sigh

badp

@kalina and the light sources are all inconsistent

fredley

@badp This part of the crowd is just a clone of that part of the crowd

badp

@fredley the edges are unnaturally hard

fredley

09:11

@badp I can tell by the @pixel's

@kalina of interest?

kalina

@fredley doesn't look tall enough to accommodate my interests

fredley

@kalina Ha. Why is the tallness of the thing itself an issue?

Grumpy Lazers

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Q: How do you harass early game as Warlock

I often read that Warlock is a good early babysitter and harasser. Can anyone explain how to build and play a Warlock in early game to harass an enemy carry such as Anti-Mage ? What skills/items should I take early on ?

kalina

@fredley the reason!

fredley

@kalina Surely the height of your ceilings is the issue?

kalina

09:20

yes, I didn't look at it properly

great, so not only do I have to wake up early with loads of energy, but now today the shit is going to hit the fan and I'm going to be expected to work

fredley

@kalina aw

Just realised the article I'm reading about performing a certain database migration is on a site called "Ponytech - Technology for ponies". FML

kalina

09:40

I just got accused of being "too bouncy today", while being stared at by people

accidentally a word -.-

badp

@kalina It's Friday you freak!! You're supposed to feel shitty and miserable and counting the seconds to 5pm.

fredley

@kalina You are getting down, which is the appropriate action for this time of week.

badp

...if you're the owner of the most disliked video on Youtube anyway

kalina

@fredley this is all your fault

@badp my "freak" remains locked up until very specific conditions are met

fredley

@Ponytech is to blame!

badp

09:49

so not clicking that link

kalina

@badp why not?

fredley

@badp It's a SO user profile, what's the worst that could happen?

badp

kalina

@badp that's an Arqade user

fredley

@badp Quite. That't the worst that could happen, and you created it!

badp

09:51

@kalina so there's at least some expectation of sanity

On SO all bets are off!

It could get me to push myself through the edge and even best that masterwork of mine

kalina

I'm bored

I have somehow completed all of my work for today

I normally leave that until the end of the day -.-

badp

@kalina Rollback everything, quick, before they bust you!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

10:19

@badp Why must that be the last thing I see when I go to bed, and the first thing I see when I come back home?

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone this time it was in context, I swear!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

*glares*

Also, today I got a taste of Coronary Heart Failure in a box!

KFC's double down burger. It was absolutely disgusting.

kalina

"double down" ?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Take your normal KFC burger, replace the deep fried chicken in the middle with hash brown and bacon, and the buns with deep fried chicken

kalina

I just got asked if I'm on drugs!

HOW RUDE!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

10:28

@kalina Well... you are, aren't you?

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone NO!

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone No, it's worse. Tonight she's gone to sleep like one's supposed to.

kalina

read up all messages since 9 for context

oh, 9 my time

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Is BST UTC+1 or -1?

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone this does look like a heart attack in a bun

badp

10:29

She's gone to sleep... at 10pm thunderstorm and lightning

@YiJiang'sEvilClone +1

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone seriously, it's easy, "from where I started hating on @fredley"

fredley

@kalina This was a very long time ago now

kalina

@fredley no, I thought you were really cool right up until the point where you destroyed my life

it's a clever way of getting me to come to London in August

specifically so I can set fire to you

fredley

@kalina \o/

kalina

how much I hate you right now won't compare to the amount of hatred you will receive if eating an additional time per day results in me gaining weight

badp

10:33

I suddenly realized that I can't attend the London meetup because... uhhhh... my cat farted and I need to keep a tight control on her food for the next 10 years

sure

yeah

fredley

@kalina eating a good breakfast helps you lose weight

badp

sounds plausible yes

kalina

@fredley I have just eaten, I still feel starving

fredley

The sooner your metabolic system kicks into action, the sooner it'll start burning calories for you

badp

pssst: good breakfast = milk + coffee (+ optionally biscuits).

kalina

10:34

I just ate bacon and eggs in a bread roll!

fredley

By not eating in the morning your body thinks shit I'm starving, better lay down some flab

kalina

I say ate

no, I won't go there

and I can't sit still

I'm going to go and scare everybody and ask if they need any help with their work

fredley

What have I created?

badp

@kalina I'm sure that if you started doing pushups the rest of the office would agree that you need to go home earlier today. then post creepy things on Facebook about it.

@fredley There's a reason why The Man keeps us starved for sleep man!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina You're actually asking for more work? Where is @kalina and what did you do to her?

fredley

10:38

@YiJiang'sEvilClone @kalina is still in bed. I don't know who this person is.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@fredley Must be another evil clone

badp

@fredley Don't try to claim ignorance. I'm afraid I have to ban you

for unleashing this monstrosity onto London

I mean, you've seen Hellgate: London, right? That was bloody terrible.

kalina

@badp I think you're missing some pieces of information here, they'd all record it and upload it to youtube

I now have 5 support cases to look at!

yay, overpaid for support work

badp

@kalina How else would they post creepy things about it on Facebook?

kalina

creepy from my context, I don't think they'd think it was creepy

what they think is creepy is that I've just taken a bunch of cases off them

badp

10:41

It's all in the camera angle

kalina

they basically just said this:

3 mins ago, by Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina You're actually asking for more work? Where is @kalina and what did you do to her?

badp

argh what happened to my sound

@kalina must have stolen it

kalina

nooo not me

little angel over here, wouldn't steal anything

you certainly wouldn't ever catch me if I did

badp

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Windows is truly best operative system

kalina

operative system?

SPECIAL AGENT WINDOWS REPORTING FOR DUTY?

I HAVE RESOLVED A SUPPORT CASE

the first one in two years

fredley

10:48

Special Agent Windows-7 reporting for duty

kalina

incidentally I've been here two years

so... yeah

fredley

@kalina is helping people, what is the world coming to?

kalina

@fredley because of you a dangerous precedent has been set today

fredley

@kalina Remember that the prize for digging a hole is a bigger shovel

kalina

►

(Jamie Hyneman Tests the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Goggles)

fredley

10:57

@kalina These things would be so awesome for Minecraft

If only it didn't take a few second for the world to load when you turn around...

badp

Ah, Latin languages

> LAS TIPICAS CANCIONES QUE NO SABES COMO SE LLAMAN, Y TE TIRAS LA VIDA...

spyder

@fredley We say in such situations, "Initiative beats initiator"

badp

something about that is just so direct and genuine and colorful and lively

damn business grey, boring English

Like, you can't translate that to English without draining it of its immediacy and imagery and you don't even need to know Spanish to understand that.

fredley

@badp You can make it much more floral though.

kalina

I don't get what is so difficult, I have just resolved and closed all five of these cases

I've learned my lesson and am not asking for more though

badp

11:04

@kalina no! damn. You should've waited till the end of the work day

You're doing this all wrong

kalina

did I say closed? I mean I queued up the emails to send at 4pm

fredley

@kalina Evil

badp

phew

that still leaves you with one hour though

kalina

administrative work to close the cases obviously

fredley

Scientific study finds most attractive level of facial hair (male)

spyder

11:07

@fredley british scientists?

fredley

> a threshold of density and distribution may be necessary for beards to function as an attractive signal.

@spyder Australian

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Oww my stomach. I really shouldn't have eaten that...

spyder

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Better be hungry than eat whatever food)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Why do you end your sentences with a right parentheses?

spyder

@YiJiang'sEvilClone unaccustomed keyboard on my new Android. Hit a wrong keys sometimes. My old phone uses WM6.5

kalina

11:25

no... energy is depleting

badp

@kalina welcome back to humanhood

kalina

this is normally the time that my energy starts rising

it's weird

badp

@kalina uh, you can be an early bird or a late owl but I don't think you can be both :P

kalina

nocturnal please

badp

nocturnal people don't go to bed at 10pm

kalina

11:28

tell me about it

badp

10pm is when all the US people start getting online and the internet really wakes up!

(Sorry Australia, your bunch isn't internetty enough)

fredley

@badp Australia internet is dial-up speed anyway. Even with them all online it's the equivalent of one US/European city's bandwidth

spyder

USA internet is not so fast, btw

As far as I know

badp

In other news, Arqade turns 1,024 days old in a few hours!

fredley

@badp That's a number

OrigamiRobot

11:36

@fredley What's all this about a SkyBlock server?

fredley

@OrigamiRobot No idea

OrigamiRobot

It just came out of nowhere.

badp

Is it safe to assume that Ian Carroll is Evan Carroll's evil twin?

ducks

Raven Dreamer

@Fluttershy @FAE yo

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: How do I install Too Many Items on a Mac?

I have downloaded Too Many Items mod but I don't know how to apply it. What are the steps for doing this on my Mac?

minecraft

kalina

12:03

I am going to spend the rest of my day speccing up a pc to take to i49

badp

so, um, this is a good moment to figure out how to flash Cyanogen in my Nexus 7 :/

kalina

you make it sound like you don't mean that

badp

I don't want to do it

but I'll be really needing the hotspot feature that is locked out of the stock firmware for no good reason in the next few days as this household changes telephony and ADSL operators

kalina

I should be getting my new phone soon

it should actually be here already but it isn't

I was so looking forward to fucking about with it all day

but alas, no phone

and no by "fucking about with" I don't mean "testing the vibration settings"

I'm bored

It feels strange having achieved everything I needed to do hours ago

badp

12:23

@kalina You said that.

kalina

@badp actually I am just repeating something that one of my colleagues said

badp

No matter, nobody here suggested that

kalina

"you are looking forward to this new phone quite a bit aren't you?" "yes she can't wait to test out the vibrate settings"

badp

@kalina You must be consuming a lot of flamethrower ammo at work

I'm surprised you have enough for the rest of the internet

kalina

@badp yes, I do

spyder

12:29

@badp no, RPO Shmel

kalina

several of them are being nicer to me than normal, on account of me doing their work for them

it won't last though

fredley

@kalina Sue for millions, never work again

kalina

@fredley I can't sue them for that

fredley

@kalina Sexual harassment? Pretty sure this fits the bill.

kalina

@fredley you would call that sexual harassment?

fredley

12:33

@kalina Yup

kalina

I'm not that easily offended

if I started complaining about that, they'd probably bring up how I browsed to penisland.net on every PC that was left unlocked the last time they went into a meeting

fredley

@kalina Well done.

kalina

what? I'm immature, this isn't new information

on all the cards that supported it I also made their display invert and appear upside down

and swapped the left/right clicks around

fredley

@kalina You are evil

kalina

along with writing an email to the CEO stating "you suck, I quit" and leaving the mouse hovering over send

I am not "evil" as such, I just enjoy having fun

and teaching silly support people to lock their PC via demonstration is the best way of teaching

OrigamiRobot

12:38

Someone tell me to get dressed and go to work.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Stay naked and in bed

badp

@kalina so you find out sooner than I do

Blem

@OrigamiRobot Robots don't wear clothes

badp

You cannot back up application data (like progress in games) of Android apps unless you root your device

OrigamiRobot

@fredley I can't. I need to work 6 hours today.

badp

12:39

rooting it requires you to wipe your device

OrigamiRobot

@Blem I'm trying to fool the humans.

badp

Rooting it might also void your warranty

fredley

@OrigamiRobot there's loads of day left for that to happen

kalina

@badp I will keep this in mind

@badp I don't care about warranty

badp

I'd expect this kind of shit sandwich to come from iOS, not Android, but...

kalina

12:40

my love affair with iOS is so over.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp I think Carbon doesn't require rooting

kalina

I wouldn't really use the word "love" either

fredley

@badp Why? Allowing applications to interfere with each others data is a terrible idea

badp

@fredley okay but I want to keep my save data

fredley

Making this a permission doesn't solve the problem - users are dumb

OrigamiRobot

12:41

@fredley If I don't work, I don't get as much human currency.

fredley

@badp Rooting does not void your warranty, as it is reversible

@OrigamiRobot What does a robot want with human currency?

Sconibulus

batteries are expensive...

and he probably needs paper for repairs occasionally

badp

I guess all I can do is plug it in my computer, copy paste everything to my hard drive, reinstall everything then copy paste it back into "Internal storage"

still... sigh

fredley

@badp Root, install root file explorer, be happy

badp

@fredley I don't have root!

fredley

12:43

@badp Get root!

badp

@fredley I must first unlock the bootloader!

fredley

@badp No you musn't!

Phone model?

badp

So how do I do that with a stock Nexus 7?

Android version 4.2.2

fredley

@badp ibtimes.co.uk/articles/434720/20130213/…

OrigamiRobot

@fredley I have to keep up the facade

badp

12:47

> Backup the important data and settings on the tablet using one of the recommended custom recovery tools such as ClockworkMod (CWM) or TWRP, as it creates a complete image of the existing tablet set up. Avoid using either Samsung KIES or ROM manager for data backup, as they lack flexible options.

so first I need to back up my data!

(I'm being only partially facetious here)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Eh, have you tried Carbon? I do think it works without root, by the way of a Windows app

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'll try that.

uh, so the Google ADB drivers are just three .dll files

do I just dump them into System32 or something?

(come on Carbon setup start working)

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