The Quill and Tankard

He was asked about the real world equivalent of the Others, and he answered that the closest to it would be climate change. He talked quite a bit about it and said humanity needs to unite to face this threat and that it is urgent.

TheLethalCarrot

12:32 PM

Lol

store.steampowered.com/app/733990/…

Jarko Dubbeldam

I don't wanna know howmuch they made just from the sales

TheLethalCarrot

I wish I came up with it, people will buy it just to make a point haha

Jarko Dubbeldam

well, it has 38 reviews, so at least $38

TheLethalCarrot

I know haha

Edlothiad

What is it, steam is blocked at work

Jarko Dubbeldam

12:43 PM

Case opening simulator

TheLethalCarrot

A game where you can open loot boxes without all that pesky game play in between

Edlothiad

Lol

TheLethalCarrot

An obvious stab at loot box games and an attempt to cash in on other people that don't like that system but are stupid enough to buy that game to "make a point"

Best part is it's on sale for 1% at the moment saving a total of 1p so it'll be featured higher on steam haha

Edlothiad

1:48 PM

God I'm tired and can't be bothered to work

TheLethalCarrot

I know that feeling haha

Edlothiad

Just snacking on christmas cookies around the office.

TheLethalCarrot

Nice

We have Roses I think

Oh no ignore that Quality Street

Edlothiad

We had this waesome thing yesterday, it's called La Marmite D'Escalade

It's the dopest thing ever, it's like a chocolate cauldron filled with marzipan and gelée, and someone smashes the cauldron and everyone snacks on it

it was round for ages

and this morning we had croissants.

TheLethalCarrot

Lucky get :P

Edlothiad

1:57 PM

Ye was p good

We have stuff almost always, but it goes quickly so you eat it at 9 and then the afternoon when the food coma from lunch kicks in and gosh it gets tough

TheLethalCarrot

Hahaha

This tub was bought yesterday, there's 6 people in the office, I've had 8ish of the chocs, and the tub is almost empty

Edlothiad

Why are people starring entirely off-topic discussions, that really bothers me...

TheLethalCarrot

I dunno

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot I'm one of the nicer eaters in this part of town

The other guys all seem to know that you gotta be a shark

TheLethalCarrot

Me too but I may have to change that if I ever want any haha

I might start hoarding bits in mt desk haha

Edlothiad

2:00 PM

23 hours ago, by Skooba

@TheLethalCarrot Earthquakes are hungry Dragon. It is known.

This was gold yesterday pahaha

@TheLethalCarrot That's what one guy did yesterday, took a ridiculously large chunk of chocolate was like, "so that's today through to thursday", took another half the size and said "and friday"

TheLethalCarrot

Lol

@Edlothiad It is, I starred that one

Edlothiad

Cracks me up every time I read it.. pahah

Also disappointing freefolk meme run today

TheLethalCarrot

I haven't looked for a while

Edlothiad

2:26 PM

It's been meh

The Sandor one I linked yesterday I thought was hilarious

TheLethalCarrot

Stark one?

Edlothiad

Ye

amflare

@TheLethalCarrot wtf

why

TheLethalCarrot

I don't know haha

amflare

whenever I try to hit HNQ here, it almost never worsks

TheLethalCarrot

2:34 PM

Lol

amflare

but my random questions on other sites are just showing up left right and center

TheLethalCarrot

Are your other site questions gatey too? :P

amflare

It'll probably get closed in the next hour or so, so that'll pull it off the HNQ at least

Edlothiad

Ba dumm tssss

amflare

@TheLethalCarrot No, just the answers. I don't need to ask questions about gates

TheLethalCarrot

2:36 PM

Well gatey in nature, we all know you have intimate knowledge of gates

amflare

"I'm building a gate at work but I'm about to go on vacation. How can I excuse my slacking off for the next 3 weeks?"

TheLethalCarrot

I knew you had to be a gate engineer haha

Though if you was you wouldn't be slacking off

You're the Chuck Norris/Jon Skeet of the gate world

You don't need to fix the gate you look at it and it fixes itself

amflare

hahaha

Edlothiad

Woah, that's a big claim to make

(Although Jon Skeet is hardly that impressive anymore)

amflare

idk man, 1 mil rep is still kinda impressive.

Edlothiad

2:43 PM

The next guy is just behind

TheLethalCarrot

Well if I was Jon I'd be bored of the majority of SO nowadays. Probably nice just to sit back relax and spy on people at Google

Edlothiad

lol

TheLethalCarrot

Even if all my answers only get 1 upvote each now, seems likely, I should still get gold GoT :)

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot it's necessary, my friend

TheLethalCarrot

What do you mean?

amflare

2:52 PM

You know...

not to rain on any parades or anything

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot I swear I explained it to you already paha

amflare

but if I just went and wrote 190 spam GOT answers....

Edlothiad

It's 200 positively scoring answers that are not community wiki

So it's necessary for each to get an upvote otherwise they won't count to the tally.

amflare

I'd still only have bronze :/

Wut!

thats bs

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Oh no I'm saying the number of answers I need is now greater than the score I need

Edlothiad

2:54 PM

Hmm maybe it is BS

I thought they needed an upvote

> You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.

That seems entirely flawed

amflare

This old Star Wars answer of mine is at -1 but still seems to count for my total answers

So maybe it was changed

Ed, do you have a link to any meta posts about putting comments into answers?

Easily accessible, I mean. If not, I'll go find it myself

TheLethalCarrot

I have 126 GoT answers (what is shown in my tag count) and a few of them are at zero score

Edlothiad

@amflare Nyet, why?

There you go, total lie

TheLethalCarrot

Well 9 zero score

amflare

Some jackass is calling me out on doing it

Edlothiad

2:59 PM

I'm pretty sure it's not ok

amflare

And I know for a fact we have talked about it somewhere

Edlothiad

Where?

amflare

I'm pretty sure it is. The whole "comments are for now, answers are forever" thing

Edlothiad

As in which answer

amflare

the -1 answer I was talking about

-1

A: What happens to a Jedi's ashes?

There is no indication in either Canon or Legends as to what is done with the ashes. It is likely that they were kept in urns in vaults under the Jedi Temple. In Legends, the Corellians compressed ash into synthetic diamonds, so there is some precedent for alternate means of preservation. Histor...

Maybe that was an SO discussion...

TheLethalCarrot

3:00 PM

I've read plenty of discussions saying that if you answer in the comments it's fair game for anyone else to use it in their answer

Edlothiad

Meh, it does seem like an answer for the sake of answering rather than trying to answer the question at hand.

TheLethalCarrot

Though I'm not sure if there is a consensus on crediting; it is probably preferred

amflare

@TheLethalCarrot This is what I'm trying to find

@Edlothiad I honestly don't remember, this was one of my first ever.

TheLethalCarrot

I don't think I've read it on here though

Probs SO

I seem to remember Shog or Boltclock saying something about it

Though I could be making that up

amflare

At least I did the research to find out if the comments I apparently ripped off were correct.

Edlothiad

3:06 PM

Sure you can take comments doesn't mean your answer is better than a bunch of comments strung together.

TheLethalCarrot

Answers are usually a bunch of comments strung together :P

The problem is comments are meant to be used to clarify something about the post they are on, it's just most of the time they aren't used like that

amflare

This is close but not as clear as I'd like it

TheLethalCarrot

Seems close enough to me

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Bad answers are a bunch of random comments poorly strung together, yes

TheLethalCarrot

Tha was slightly tongue in cheek

Edlothiad

3:19 PM

Be careful not to bite down on it

Too late

@edl

What's that?

@Edlothiad looks like a graph

Edlothiad

Oh, how did you do that?

@JarkoDubbeldam what's that

Jarko Dubbeldam

3:31 PM

Graph (discrete mathematics)

In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a graph is a structure amounting to a set of objects in which some pairs of the objects are in some sense "related". The objects correspond to mathematical abstractions called vertices (also called nodes or points) and each of the related pairs of vertices is called an edge (also called an arc or line). Typically, a graph is depicted in diagrammatic form as a set of dots for the vertices, joined by lines or curves for the edges. Graphs are one of the objects of study in discrete mathematics. The edges may be directed or undirected. For example...

graph

Edlothiad

Ah ok, thanks

Jarko Dubbeldam

yw :)

Edlothiad

Late answer = re-open votes? Man's not trying hard enough to get re-open votes

amflare

@Edlothiad is a google sheets chart

Edlothiad

@amflare Have you been recording data yourself?

amflare

3:34 PM

I started tracking about a month ago so that I knew if a queue was one that I needed to review or could pass on, then I back filled the data at approx 1 month intervals

Edlothiad

How did you backfill the data? Count?

I don't really want to count 2k FPs

amflare

review > queue > my history > hide skips

scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/…

put your user id in

Edlothiad

So count, effort

amflare

Each page is 50

it was like 20 minutes to back fill

Edlothiad

20 minutes I could be napping!

amflare

3:41 PM

fair enough

Edlothiad

Also each page is 50, 40 pages... that’s a lot of pages

amflare

I'm glad to hear you have your priorities in order

o_O

hot damn thats a lot of pages

Edlothiad

I can’t nap though, so i’ll Just do that 😄

2000 is a lot of reviews

Would be cool though

amflare

Hello @Naman, what brings you to these parts?

Edlothiad

He just wants a pint of mead, is that too much to ask for... the rebellions have all the inkeeps ok their toes watching out for possible evil-doers

Can’t trust anyone anymore these days, not surf all these kings around

amflare

3:44 PM

how does one ok a toe? Is there a toe standard?

what happens if your toe is not ok?

Is the toe confiscated?

Edlothiad

Jhees I have no idea where all those mistakes came from, but their ingrained in Stone now...

Oh on their toes.

Don’t know how with became surf though...

TheLethalCarrot

What's an appropriate amount of time to wait to post my answer? :P

amflare

self answer?

TheLethalCarrot

Aye

I thought that went without saying :P

amflare

I've done it within 45 minutes before, but I'd wait a day or so to be able to ding the FP twice and not get as much DV for self answers

TheLethalCarrot

3:55 PM

I've started waiting 30-60 mins or until an answer is posted haha

I get bored waiting too long

Oh well posted now

Bael the Bard

0

Q: Where is Valyria located in the world of Planetos?

I was recently having a discussion with another user about whether or not the Doom of Valyria could have had a hand in the odd season lengths that occur in Westeros. Their point was that following large scale volcanic activity a long winter could occur due to all the extra debris in the sky. For ...

amflare

How is your answer any better than the other one?

TheLethalCarrot

Their answer is literally just an image

Mine as some description on where the city is and a couple of maps to show where it is in relation to other known places

Not saying it's better though, just that I have more info in mine

amflare

I mean, Westeros is the important landmark, which the first imag has. I suppose the extra text is useful...

Edlothiad

You sure this isn’t a dupe of some “is there a map of the known world” asoiaf?

amflare

4:09 PM

thats fair

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Is there a question on those lines?

Edlothiad

I’d be surprised if there wasnt

TheLethalCarrot

Let me have a look, I don't think I've seen one before

amflare

I see no question

TheLethalCarrot

I don't

I am surprised though since you mentioned it

amflare

4:12 PM

Either in GOT or ASOIAF

TheLethalCarrot

I did the same search haha

Do you have a source for this, is this a canon image? — Edlothiad 4 mins ago

I know you're prompting the user but I think it's a crop of The Known World map

Also if you were wondering I did genuinely have this discussion which led me to think about it

Did an especially long, brutal winter follow very soon after? That would seem to be the natural follow-up of volcanic activity of that magnitude, because of all the particulate matter that would be thrown into that atmosphere. newscientist.com/article/… — PoloHoleSet 18 hours ago

Edlothiad

I wasn’t claiming there was just that there may have been

amflare

Gentlemen, who is planning to see star wars this weekend and will you insist on discussing it in here?

TheLethalCarrot

4:28 PM

I'll probably see it (don't know when though)

If I see it I will keep discussion minimal

amflare

Okay. I'll probably see it Friday, so I'm not overly worried. But I'd have ducked out of this channel for a day if necessary. No big deal.

TheLethalCarrot

I haven't booked anywhere yet so might not even see it this weekend haha

Edlothiad

@amflare I'm going tomorrow ,suckers

TheLethalCarrot

lol

Edlothiad

No one and nowhere is safe until you've seen it

amflare

4:39 PM

@Edlothiad damn eruos geting an full day head start on us

TheLethalCarrot

Doesn't bother me reading spoilers about it

I'm assuming the only two big reveals will be how Rey is connected to the main lot and who Snoke is

I'd say Leia dying would be a big reveal but seeing as they finished filming when Carrie died and have said they won't CGI her I think it's a safe bet

Edlothiad

@amflare 2 days bro

amflare

D:

Edlothiad

At least you're not chin, 5th of Jan

TheLethalCarrot

Enough time to censor everything they want censoring?

Edlothiad

4:46 PM

:shrug:

TheLethalCarrot

4:56 PM

@Edlothiad It's here in time for SW

winterbash2017.stackexchange.com

amflare

T-794 rep to rank 100

TheLethalCarrot

Nice one

There's a few active members between you at the moment though

amflare

Buzz and Gallifreyan, Though Gallifreyan hasn't been terribly active rep-wise for about 3 months.

Buzz might beat me though.

Which will be annoying

Edlothiad

You're already in the top 100?

Nope nvm

amflare

111 atm

TheLethalCarrot

5:06 PM

Buzz is 3rd this month and you're 48th so probably haha

amflare

actually, 108 once the rep league updates

@TheLethalCarrot he has me beat for the quarter as well

TheLethalCarrot

Damn

amflare

the-last-jedi should change some of that though.

Maybe I can even answer a question about a gate!

TheLethalCarrot

I'm sure it will

I'll make sure to ask one :P

amflare

haha

TheLethalCarrot

5:10 PM

You and Ed are going to have a wave of FP to do

Edlothiad

It ain't easy being cheesy

I'm going to see if I can get some gold worthy Q&As in

7360 till first page :/

TheLethalCarrot

If you get an early question on a popular event you're riding that gold train all the way

If you're the first to ask a major question about the biggest event in the film you're basically sorted

Edlothiad

Will I be the first?

I need to be, need to channel my inner fool to ask bad questions

I mean inner confused watcher and have questions

TheLethalCarrot

Yup simple/easy question about a big event on a popular film at the time the film is released = gold

Edlothiad

I need triple gold

Can I self answer :O

TheLethalCarrot

5:17 PM

Isn't that against your ethics? :P

Edlothiad

Ye but triple gold.

TheLethalCarrot

lol

If you see it early I'm sure triple gold could be easy to get

Edlothiad

Gotta super concentrate, and find out when all these books come out, etc. etc.

amflare

5:46 PM

@Edlothiad You do that, I'll give the obvious answers, benefit for all.

Edlothiad

Pfft if there not answered with 2 hours i’m Self answering

I doubt i’ll Think of a good question though

amflare

@Edlothiad "Which ____ was at ___?"

"Why did ____ do ___?"

"How come ____ did not ______?"

"Where did _______ get _____?"

"What did ____ mean when they said ______?"

"Who was the ______ at _____?"

"When did ______ do _____ mentioned during _____?"

fill in the blanks and you'll be golden

Skooba

7:05 PM

@TheLethalCarrot further reading: washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/04/24/…

Edlothiad

9:15 PM

@amflare Literally

amflare

go away

I have more FP I need to review

Edlothiad

Damn why couldn't you make that one message. I'm starring it, as even though I hate off-topic stars, this can be on-topic

@amflare There's enough to share, my lovely

I skipped the close vote review on TLC's question, because I didn't want to let emotion cloud my judgment #TheJediLiveOnInMe.

amflare

@Edlothiad The valaria one? It seemed pretty cut and dry to me

Edlothiad

@amflare You should be messaging me not reviewing!

> amflare reviewed this 30 secs ago: Reviewed

I went through the effort of reading it, it's not a dupe

amflare

@Edlothiad I was messaging you. Then I went and reviewed.

@Edlothiad yeah, thats what I meant. I'm not sure why anyone thought it was a dup.

Edlothiad

9:24 PM

People are stupid, worth getting a mod to take a look, probably not

Ah well TLC's self answers went haywire

amflare

Really?

I may or may not have wrote a script to hide all user name boxes, so I can't tell who is asking or answering anymore.

Edlothiad

Why?

Not that it really matters, the people I expect LQPs from have implanted their styles in my brain

Ok lie down time and reading

amflare

@Edlothiad I got tired of people telling me to stop voting by user. So now I can just DV all the crap without fear.

Edlothiad

NO WE TELL THAT GUY TO MERGE HIS ACCOUNTS

also stop reviewing so quick so I can get a chance...

amflare

Because telling him that again will make him do it this time

:/

Edlothiad

9:29 PM

(beware of low effort reviews, I might just let the big guns you're slacking for quick stats)

amflare

Which you know to be patently false...

Edlothiad

I love leaving him comments

Especially because I've gone through enough of meta to confirm his identity and parent user.

@amflare Well given that most of your reviews are leaving the comment "do you have a source for this" one could say you're not really putting in the effort to inform the user what it is they're doing wrong, why we like sources or how they can improve ;)

It'd only be a week out

I however don't really care as I believe it's effectively impossible for you to beat my 5 month 9 day time

amflare

@Edlothiad I feel like a request for source is fairly self evident... They failed to add a source and they should do so.

Edlothiad

Why should they, what needs sourcing, etc.

amflare

Unfortunately, sourceless answers are not really something I can edit in.

Because otherwise their assertion is baseless.

Edlothiad

9:37 PM

I was just poking the bear

amflare

@Edlothiad I think I'd have like 13 days left or some such.

Edlothiad

I should be spending less time on sites like this as my addiction to quick easy dopamine highs has caused me to become less functional in my everyday life

@amflare Ye something like that, lol god I'm sad...

amflare

@Edlothiad This is why I stopped answering so many questions recently. I needed a break from the little green +10s

So what the deal with VoC? I'm guessing they are an old user from before I joined up?

Are they one the redacted mods?

Edlothiad

Ye it's really unhealthy, and I wasn't aware of what was causing it, but I knew it was bad, and I saw that video going viral recently and it made me realise what the cause was, made things very clear

amflare

"that video"?

Edlothiad

9:41 PM

@amflare The one with the facebook exec

Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital, on Money as an Instrument of Change

►

amflare

I'll need to watch this

Edlothiad

@amflare Without saying anything that's not on meta, they were a user (Darth Satan/ Darth Melkor/ now User 8719) that fell out with another user due to a "plagiarism" debacle, they were upset by another user having posted the same content, and then quit when they lost support of the site. They came back after several months and created the "Victim of Circumstance" persona. Their parent user also has "Victim of Circumstance" on their bios on all their network sites.

The writing style is also identical to User8719 (the parent user with VoC in their bios)

amflare

gotcha

@Edlothiad damn, he is right

Edlothiad

@amflare Ye, it blew my mind.

amflare

10:21 PM

I'm out for now, have fun with the FP

Edlothiad

10:31 PM

I'm off to bed in a sec

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