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12:16 AM
@ton.yeung The one I'm wearing.
@ton.yeung That's why it's called the hipster hat. One, the name is before it was cool. Two, it's not actually a hat.
That's "ironic". shoots a nearby hipster in disgust
@ton.yeung Hipsters have a very weird understanding of irony, in that they don't understand it at all. Alanis Morrissette didn't help matters.
 
12:31 AM
he, he, if i wear the Frosty the Snowman hat it looks like Lelouch has a pacifier one of those pipes that people get in their necks used to suck out the blood in their wind pipe
i reckon there is no had my avatar can't wear perfectly.....but since i'm not looking to obtain hats i wont find out if i'm wrong
 
1:03 AM
@Memor-X you could just photoshop all hats onto your avatar...
@kalina it's like a rainbow of hats; I get it
 
@MarkS. i don't have the effort to do that either
 
I tried watching spice and wolf like 3 times; I've seen 7 episodes into it. I wanted to like it since everyone says it's more mature than similar-looking shows, but I just didn't see it, and I wonder what I was missing.
 
1:18 AM
same
 
1:32 AM
people probably just can't get into because despite the supernatural element there's very little use of it apart from Holo using it to inflate her ego. Second season borders on Netorare at the start which i hate but that's just because Laurence is a complete idiot for 1, even having that competition and 2, imaging that carp to begin with
still i liked it and wished more of the series was translated, manga is still ongoing and i wouldn't mind reading the light novels are still being released and the DS Games would be in japanese so seeing english patches for them would be rare
 
Spice and Wolf?
 
no, learn mandarin and read chinese translations
 
@ton.yeung yeh i know, but it's a slow process because i'm using English as a base so my brain has to carry that extra step
@MarkS. defeats the purpose of learning a language if it's just to read the translation
@Braiam yeh, Spice and Wolf
@ton.yeung well i know Bad English, does that count
 
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I'm bored.
Finals are done.
 
@memor-x Chinese grammar is easier, coming from English, than Japanese. Also, I wasn't being entirely serious with my suggestion (although there are better reasons to learn Chinese)
 
1:38 AM
@MarkS. Chinese grammar is fairly straightforward.
@ton.yeung Ugh, don't get me started on the characters. I'm just happy with being able to converse in Chinese.
@ton.yeung Pinyin definitely makes things easier when you're typing online and whatnot.
You can just double-check your character choices with a standard dictionary.
@ton.yeung Cursive? You mean Traditional?
@ton.yeung I'm sorry, I don't want to spend five years to write a paragraph.
 
@Yuki say that to the guy who is at work testing the hell out of a site that should have been deployed if the server wasn't messed with, and can't leave for another 5 hours
 
@Memor-X He has something to do. My current objective (take my finals) is complete. I am in an existential crisis.
 
In Japanese, what I can understand when spoken way outstrips the kanji I know readings for. The SKIP method is nice, but it still takes me a while to look words up
I barely handwrite in English, so I gave up on handwriting Chinese characters...
I didn't realize it was an arcade game...
That's the arcade game: The Typing of the Dead 2. The first game got an English translation for PC/dreamcast, but not the second.
 
2:14 AM
That's not really anime-related. Typing mania is moreso: somoe.org/typing
 
2:28 AM
the preview for the final episode of kyousou giga was the best
 
@MarkS. Does this have multiple songs? I couldn't find any way to change the song. (Maybe I have to unlock others first though.)
 
It has many songs. At the initial screen with the chihayafuru background, use up and down arrows to change song. Left and right change difficulty folder (see difficulty folder in top right)
@LoganM
 
Okay, looks like it has a pretty good collection.
 
now just beat the Lucky Star OP...
There's a youtube of the world typing champion doing arrietty's song on this
 
I was hoping they'd have Maware! Setsugetsuka, but I don't see it. Would be fun to see if I can type 回れ anywhere near as fast as they say it.
 
2:40 AM
the Kaiba OP has a ton of typos in it (as well as bad sync), which is a problem for a game like this.
 
I'd imagine that would be about as big a problem as the songs on osu! which aren't properly timed. Basically makes it impossible to do unless you mute the music.
 
nice
@LoganM it's worse because I know English so that even with the sound off and even if I ignore the lyrics I know, I still autocorrect typos the game has
恋は戦争 doesn't have you type あああああああああああ. Immersion ruined
Rise (2nd GIG OP) is harder than I thought
 
@ton.yeung It's funny the whole way through
 
2:56 AM
finally got a B on Rise, and that's good enough for me.
 
3:41 AM
When a question like this anime.stackexchange.com/questions/6404/… is subject to closure, how do we figure out what is on and off topic?
It falls under bother categories as defined in the help center
 
@krikara Help center explicitly says that "Questions about the Japanese language [are off-topic]". The tag wiki for also says "Questions with this tag must still be primarily about anime or manga.". I think I have a meta post on this also.
At the end of the day, we're a site about anime and manga. It's fine if you have a question about anime/manga which involves Japanese language stuff. It's not okay if you have a question about Japanese which involves anime/manga.
Just like it wouldn't be okay to ask "Do Japanese people lock their houses when they leave? I saw in X show that someone could break in to someone else's house because it wasn't locked and I'm wondering if this is common in Japan."
 
Does that mean all related questions to be considered on topic has to be about a very specific instance of Japanese used? Because if we ask about Japanese and Manga both in a general sense, it seems that the Japanese part will always take precedence.
 
@krikara Yes, in most cases. Unless the question is actually specific to anime/manga and it's definitely done differently in other media.
Basically, if you're asking here, you're asking about anime/manga, not Japanese. If I can answer it solely by telling you about things in Japanese, then your question is off-topic. If you don't know enough Japanese to tell whether it can be answered that way, then you shouldn't be trying to ask questions about a language you don't know about on a site that isn't dedicated to that language.
 
4:02 AM
I like how the top network question is currently closed.
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Q: One word for Christmas?

HugoIs there a single word that means "Being merry at Christmas" but excludes being merry or happy at New Year?

 
@Eric I don't see this one at all on the list.
Maybe your list is cached more than mine..
 
Could be. I'm not sure exactly how the caching on the SE network works.
 
@Eric Basically, everything is cached as much as it possibly can be.
 
@LoganM It's hard to say how they're doing the caching though. ASP.NET has a built-in caching mechanism but that would be global, and if we're seeing different cached results then it wouldn't be using that.
Unless we're accessing different servers.
 
Since they have to load the hot questions list every page visit, it might be that's stored as a cookie somehow.
 
4:06 AM
Could be.
 
Anyway I have no idea. I don't know anything about programming so I'm just techno-babbling and pretending I know what I'm talking about.
 
Yeah, I know. But that's what makes it fun.
 
What do you see if you go to stackexchange.com/questions?
 
@Eric i like the top answer and the top comment, just missing one n could change it to you sounding like a masochist
 
First one for me there is "Print your code backwards - reverse quine" on Code golf.
 
4:27 AM
lol does that question deserved to be closed as opinion based? The question seems legit, but the answers seems opinionbased
Can't someone simply answer there exists no such word in English and get it over with?
 
@krikara Are you talking about the Christmas question?
 
Yeah
 
ELU closes like 50% of all incoming questions, so it's not really surprising at all that this one would get closed.
 
5:01 AM
Need to either make more witty comments or get more people to upvote my existing ones for that hat.
I never thought getting comment upvotes would be hard.
 
5:57 AM
peanut gallery?
lol, I got that one today.
 
I am so getting a Fate/Extra Nero and Tama Tapestry just so i can get them to talk back, even if the AR component may just have a couple of phrases it's worth it to have them talking
 
@Mysticial I'm pretty close. I have a 2 or 3 comments at +2 and the rest at +1. Unfortunately the activity here just isn't that high so it's slower to earn those kinds of hats.
The unicorn hat is the same thing on meta. I'm really questioning whether I even have a chance at that here or if I should just go make some witty remarks on MSO.
 
I'm wondering if I'm lucky for my last post on SO to reach 100.
I doubt it though.
It's falling off the month list in a few days.
 
 
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7:16 AM
Ever wonder where you favorite studio originated from? See the family tree:
It' interesting that Bones, DEEN and Manglob all stemmed from Sunrise
 
7:29 AM
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Q: Why does Madara take no damage?

krikaraI'm not sure if I have missed anything in the past, but Madara seems unphased by every attack. Sasuke stabs a sword through his arm, but this isn't a problem. All the tailed beasts stomp on Madara with their tails, and Madara doesn't even evade. Instead, he tanks the attack like it is no big de...

 
7:54 AM
@Krazer The AIC part of this is confusing as expected.
 
 
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2:46 PM
TL;DR: Yu Yu Hakusho is a cowboy story of redemption with a healthy fear for death. Counter intuitive to many Eastern ideas focused on only growing stronger
 
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Q: Why is most anime centered on fighting?

C-dizzleSomething I have always wondered, why is most anime centered on fighting? DragonBall Z, RWBY, Bleach just to name a few. I've seen some that aren't, but it seems to be few and far between. Is this something that just relates to the Japaense lifestyle?

 
3:23 PM
0
Q: Are real-life products always connected to the show they have on their packaging?

kuwalyWhen I was in Japan, I remember seeing products such as razors with Neon Genesis Evangelion on the packaging, which I found a bit weird, considering that it isn't something that (I remember) showed up in the show. I was wondering: is all/a vast majority anime/real life product placement done as a...

 
Today's episode was just as good as I expected it to be.
Even if the flashbacks were a bit on the long side.
Yup
 
3:46 PM
Just realized I need to get starred for a hat for some reason.
Blah blah I love lolis star this message plz.
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lol that is really too easy
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@ton.yeung thx
Next time I'll try to come up with something more creative when I'm star baiting.
Unfortunately I'm in the middle of an exam right now so I can't really do anything creative.
 
4:21 PM
@Krazer You're too fast I didn't even get a chance to comment on that one.
 
@LoganM the madoka one? xD
@Eric antejolifi to you~
 
@Krazer Santastic.
 
4:36 PM
@Eric you got me all kringled up
 
@Krazer Whoa there, cowboy.
 
@Eric There, FIFY.
 
@MadaraUchiha Fix it back. :P
 
@Eric don't worry it's just falala with some yuleglee
 
4:39 PM
@Krazer Yuleglee is my favorite!
@ton.yeung High on Christmas spirit.
 
@Eric high on jollitude
 
@Krazer This.~
 
@ton.yeung Not really, but I suppose Eggnog would do it.
 
5:29 PM
@kalina Do you know how to get the unicorn hat? (I see your point)?
 
@MadaraUchiha 5 comments, each with at least 2 upvotes, on the site's relevant meta.
All since the start of WB
 
@LoganM I see
Well I'll have to work on that
 
Currently I'm trying to figure out how to get "Eureka" and "I'm not listening" (also "IG-88" but this one is incredibly confusing). I'm guessing the latter has something to do with rejecting suggested edits but I don't know what. No idea on the former.
 
@LoganM You've fallen to 7th place :P
 
5:51 PM
@MadaraUchiha Yeah I know.
Have to actually work today.
Hopefully by the end of the day I can get back into 2nd or so.
In other news, I figured out "I'm not listening". I need to reject a suggested edit to one of my own posts.
Which is hard because I don't seem to get many suggested edits at all. I think I've had maybe 3 in my whole time here.
Speaking of hats, @JNat is there anything else you want me to include for the bounty?
I can say more if you want explanations of anything else. It's understandable if you're waiting for now awarding it to see if anything else comes in tho.
 
@LoganM or mso
which is far easier
@LoganM incognito -> suggest edit -> tab back -> reject edit
so difficult
 
@kalina I've said this before, but I'm doing this without any of what I consider cheating.
 
everybodyelsedoesit
 
Maybe I'll do that if I get desperate.
@kalina MSO is the meta for SO, and you get the hat on SO if you do it there.
 
if you ever reach the point where you're "desperate" for hats, you should probably set fire to your life
@LoganM network wide leaderboards are the only ones that matter!
 
6:02 PM
Not sure if MSO's meta tag counts towards being a unicorn on MSO tho.
@kalina agreed
 
dammit somebody got two more hats
 
@LoganM Check your inbox
And yes, I meant "The hat" not "The flag"
Typo :P (twice)
 
6:33 PM
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Q: Stack Overflow is getting a place of its own

Tiny TimWe've grown considerably as a network since the days of the original trilogy, when the prospect of growing into a network of over 100 thriving Q&A sites was a distant glimmer in a cloudy night sky. Today, Stack Overflow continues to graciously host discussions about the entire network on its extr...

We're gonna have a MSO and a MSE
@LoganM I don't think so, no. I was just waiting to see if anyone else had anything to say
 
Damn. I might lose my 10k on meta.SE.
 
no they already said what they're actually doing is moving MSO and renaming it to MSE and then creating a new meta for SO
 
@MadaraUchiha Rejected as "too minor".
 
Oh, I thought they were going to migrate all the SO-specific stuff.
At least that's what Jeff's initial post was.
I haven't finished reading the new one.
 
7:02 PM
@LoganM Got your hat?
 
@MadaraUchiha yup
Back in a tie for 4th place now
 
Wait, today's not the 20th yet, how do people get that hat lol?
Anyway....
STAR MEH!
 
@MadaraUchiha NO ¬¬
 
@Braiam Obey!
 
@MadaraUchiha There you go
 
7:13 PM
 
I get the feeling more people would star your messages if you wrote something loli related
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See?
 
Let's test that claim
My Rinnegan produces lolis. Indefinitely and Infinitely.
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@MadaraUchiha .LIES
 
@Braiam Yin-Yang techniques, I can create whatever I want whenever I want!
 
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Q: Winter Is Coming?

FlykI just got awarded the "Winter Is Coming" hat - it's still the 19th? The hat is for the 20th! What is going on?

 
7:15 PM
LOLIS!
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Wow, I got the hat too!
 
When did hats start?
Oh, December 16th.
Yeah, my last star was on December 10th, so I'm able to completely avoid that hat unless I accidentally say something people find amusing.
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@Eric Like that?
 
... DAMMIT. JNAT, WAS THAT YOU?
 
Muahahahahahah
@Eric Enjoy your new hat!
 
... Dammit. I'm up to 7 hats once the script executes.
This has been a horrible Winter Bash.
 
7:19 PM
@Eric Tied with me and @Krazer, on 2nd place
 
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Q: How did madara get rid of sasuke's amaterasu?

AneeshmgJust as soon as madara was revived(ing) sasuke used amaterasu on him and from the scans it seemed that his armour and his hair was caught in it but the next scans showed the black flames sorta fading away...how was he able to do this?..he did not have rinnegan to suggest that he absorbed it if so...

 
@Eric That'll put you around page 50 on the network leader boards. Bad enough to be pathetic, but not bad enough to convince people that you weren't trying.
 
@LoganM That's the absolute worst place to be.
@JNat -_-
 
I think we should make this year's winter bash resolution to get @Eric the most hats we can
 
@JNat You'll have to kill me first.
 
7:21 PM
Meanwhile, @LoganM 's message is up to 20 stars now! Awesome
 
@JNat It's actually been stuck at 20 for around a day now.
 
@Eric No, I'm isolated on second place now, just won another hat :P
 
But that is still twice as many as any other message we've ever had.
 
@LoganM Oh, just noticed it
There are a lot of loli lovers here
 
We need a loli hat.
 
7:23 PM
... I wonder
 
@JNat Actually @Eric is up to 9 hats, putting him in 2nd
 
@LoganM 9? Here?
 
... I got 3 at once. What the f.
 
if my ISP were administrated by lolis, I wouldn't swear so much at them for my crappy router :(
 
One for the star today, one for having two stars since the start of December, and a secret hat.
 
7:24 PM
@Eric You got the hat for being starred today, the hat for being starred twice during WB, and the hat for having a lot of hats.
 
@Eric Nice, you're on the run for number one!
Or maybe just #2.
#1 is @LoganM, and I doubt anyone will get more hats than him
 
If I won, my entire year would be ruined.
 
@JNat I only care about the network rankings though. I wouldn't mind if someone passed me here as long as I'm still near the top network-wide.
 
@Eric Lol, the last two weeks could ruin your entire year?
@LoganM Not likely to happen, though
 
@JNat If they meant that I had a lot of hats, yes.
 
7:26 PM
/me will find ways to ruin @JNat year >:)
 
@Braiam I still don't know how to get your hat.
 
@Braiam You need to hurry, then :P
@LoganM Maybe he doesn't know it either :P
 
I only did what I do every other day... answer questions, burn through the close queue, issue lots of flags, vote to delete stupid stuff, a normal day in AU
 
@LoganM It's based on the IG-88 from Star Wars, so maybe you can find some hints on the Wiki.
 
@Braiam I know. What's strange is the diversity of people with the hat. I don't see any connection between some of them.
 
7:29 PM
@Braiam AskUbuntu = AU = Alternate Universe. That explains a lot.
 
> later became one of the galaxy's most infamous bounty hunters.
 
@MadaraUchiha Boom. Madara wins a cookie.
 
@Eric Already read it. I'm just not sure what the reference is.
 
@Eric I want my second eye.
43 secs ago, by Madara Uchiha
> later became one of the galaxy's most infamous bounty hunters.
 
7:30 PM
When I read it the other day, I got the feeling it had something to do with bounties too.
 
I've considered that. There's already a hat for bounties though.
 
@LoganM Probably post an answer after the bounty was offered and then get it.
 
Also, I don't remember if it was regarding this hat too, but someone mentioned something in the lines of "if you keep a bounty open for x time"
 
But I'll look into it and see if anything makes sense.
 
Now, with all of this said, Braiam's last bounty was on December 4th.
Bounty earned, that is.
 
7:31 PM
@Eric And offered?
 
@JNat 22 hours ago.
Wait, hang on, these aren't sorted.
 
@Eric And how long ago did he win the hat?
 
December 12th was the last bounty earned.
 
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A: Borders and Title Menus disappeared on ubuntu "pop-up" Modal windows

BraiamThis is just your window manager (I'm guessing Unity) that crashed. Unless is not something big, just restarting should bring things to normal.

This is it, I believe.
 
@MadaraUchiha that was today...
 
7:32 PM
@JNat I don't know how to check that. D:
 
@Braiam When'd you get the hat?
 
@LoganM pro'ly remembers, no?
 
@JNat You mean it remembers previous bounties? I can't think of any other hats that work that way.
They're all for things that you do during winter bash. Except maybe the mod hat.
 
@LoganM No, no. I meant you probably remembered when @Braiam got his hat.
 
7:34 PM
that is + 2 days
 
@JNat It was very early. Like Monday or Tuesday. I don't remember exactly when but he was the first person I saw it on.
 
I think that it has more to do with assasination than bounty...
 
How likely is it to be answering a question that got migrated?
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A: error while loading shared libraries: libQtGui.so.4 when starting Opera Mobile Emulator

BraiamIf you are using the 32-bits version, just install libqtgui4:i386: sudo apt-get install libqtgui4:i386 If you are using the 64-bits version then libqtgui4:amd64 is for you: sudo apt-get install libqtgui4:amd64

 
@MadaraUchiha Too early. WB started on the 16th.
 
7:37 PM
No bounties awarded or received between 16th and 19th.
 
Hmm
 
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A: Winter Bash 2013: Secret Hats

Shog9They're not really all that secret if we give it all away so easily, are they? Here are some hints - if you can figure them out, you're on your way to some SECRET hats: ...then I took an arrow to the knee. Earned ten of the most meaningless points on the 'Net I live... AGAIN! He ain't no drag...

 
It has nothing to do with answering a bountied question, even though it doesn't win him the bounty, then. Because @LoganM answered mine and got nothing.
 
what is the "Earned ten of the most meaningless points on the 'Net"?
 
@Braiam I've read this. It is still really obtuse to me.
 
7:39 PM
@ton.yeung yeah...
 
@Braiam That one's the one you get for getting 5 comments with at least +2 upvotes on a meta site.
@ton.yeung That one is impossible AFAICT. Unless it isn't site based.
 
The JBM/JWH one is a reference to John Hardin.
None of those seem to relate to Star Wars, though.
 
@Eric AFAICT It's a reference specifically to his gun, which was nicknamed "Lightning".
I think that one is the one for FGITW
 
@LoganM Probably.
But it's probably time limited by 1min or something.
 
@ton.yeung Some people did that with Doge and it was incredibly annoying.
@Eric We could actually test that.
 
7:42 PM
@LoganM We could. It wouldn't be the first time I asked a question and you answered it within a minute.
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Q: From what series is this odd lolicon poster?

EricI recently saw this image of an approximately high-school-aged boy with a young girl under his arm, pointing up at the stars with the text "lolicons are diseased!" (Note: No offense intended from the image.) Are the characters found in this image from an actual anime or manga, or are they just...

:P
 
Anyway I have one FGITW hat so I'm not sure there's another one..
 
@LoganM Perhaps comptetive downvote?
 
Chuck Yeager doesn't seem like a FGITW hat, honestly.
 
(assassinate)
 
@Eric it is...
 
7:43 PM
I got it for posting after 30 minutes, and Memor-X got it immediately after.
 
@Eric I'm pretty sure it is.
But it could be time limited by something like 1 hour so that it's not really hard at all.
@Eric Wow I really took less than 1 minute that time. That's really fast.
 
@MadaraUchiha maybe flagging post fast?
 
@Braiam Perhaps
We can test that one here.
 
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A: Is SO Saying that Chuck Yeager was a Secret Soviet?

Tiny TimI will say, figuring out why you earned this hat might present you with a very bright opportunity. Or you could wait, all will be revealed in the end ....

"A very bright opportunity"...?
And apparently it's only "sorta" fast answer.
 
Flags are possible, but it's definitely not "a lot of flags" because I saw people who had it and had just earned citizen patrol.
I thought maybe it was spam flags, but I have one on Arqade and that didn't count so it must require at least a few if it's that.
 
7:48 PM
@MadaraUchiha What's your underling doin'?
 
@JNat Testing hats
How long does it usually take for a hat to appear after requirements were met?
@LoganM
 
@LoganM yaeger?
 
Chuck Yeager is not related to flags. I haven't flagged anything since before Winter Bash.
 
Heh, I can also test spam flags, but I don't want to incur a -100 penalty on anyone, my vote is binding :D
 
@MadaraUchiha My last two appeared within less than a minute
 
7:50 PM
@LoganM so then it isn't rapid flagging.
Otherwise I would've gotten it (although perhaps it doesn't work for moderators?)
 
@Braiam No yours
 
@Eric I think it is the FGITW
 
@MadaraUchiha Depends on the site. On SO it's like an hour max. On other sites usually a few minutes.
@JNat The post above suggests that isn't everything.
 
@MadaraUchiha Oli has it
 
@Braiam Who?
 
7:52 PM
@JNat It can't be. Memor-X has it and he has not had a FGITW answer.
 
But where did he get it? On the site he moderates?
 
yeah
 
I'm not talking about the Chuck Yeager
 
has to do with FGITW and votes
 
7:53 PM
I'm talking about the one you're currently wearing
 
ahh... mine's weird
 
@Braiam Yes it is. That's why we want to know how it works lol
 
Is there any way to see everyone who has gotten a specific hat?
 
@Eric I think not
 
None that I know of, no.
 
7:57 PM
Anyone know how long an account merge request typically takes to get a response?
 
@LoganM No idea
 
@LoganM Couple days usually. I've seen it happen within the day sometimes.
 
I put in one a few hours ago on MSE to try to get over 3k rep so that I can review some close votes there and get robocop.
 
Ask your mods to speak with the Community Managers to speed it up if you need it more urgently.
 
@MadaraUchiha Not terribly urgent, but sooner is better.
I don't have a great chance at getting robocop here and I'd rather not grind 145 more MSE rep unless I have to.
 
7:58 PM
@LoganM Which user asked for the merge, you?
 
@ton.yeung Mods != Community Managers
 
@MadaraUchiha Yes
 
@LoganM I'll see what can be done
 
@ton.yeung Oh, sorry. I misread the sentence :P
 
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