Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

Logan M

03:00

Harder to say much about PPCG. At least some of the voters didn't appear to be bots when they first started getting reset votes.

Sp3000

Question bounties? :o

Sakamoto

03:41

0

Q: Is it physically possible to turn a mahjong tile white with a super grip?

In the manga Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku, the protagonist Junichiro Koizumi is able to use "goumoupai", the ability to turn any mahjong tile into a white/haku tile simply by gripping it with immense strength, usually leaving the tile dented. Sure, the manga frequently goes overboard with the abilities...

retag

Logan M

@Eric Looking into it further, Users actually increases if you do nothing at high traffic levels. So long as you don't spam downvotes, you should be able to get through graduated site phase without any upvotes except when you're in the red.

Eric

Figured. It didn't seem to do anything important.

Logan M

Yeah, the only thing it does afaict is keep you from dying.

Eric

Speaking of all this, PPCG is up again and they're still #1 on the leaderboard.

Logan M

So eventually, it should be like 1/2 answer, 1/3 downvote, 1/6 ask.

@Eric They've been going for a while now.

Eric

03:44

in The Bridge, 4 hours ago, by 0-frame links

@AshleyNunn Well, I have undisputable proof anime.SE is behind this

Interesting?

Logan M

nah I saw it 4 hours ago

Eric

Yeah, was just flagged now.

Logan M

guy has no idea what he's talking about. But I don't feel like arguing with idiots in a room I don't frequent.

Yuuki

Just saying, you guys should definitely not validate that. StackEgg has already ticked off a lot of my "this is making me angry" flags. Abusing the chat flag system will not help matters.

Logan M

I didn't validate it.

Don't know who did.

Yuuki

03:46

@LoganM Reworded it to be less accusatory.

Logan M

Okay, it wasn't validated.

Eric

I invalidated it. I pretty much invalidate every flag unless we actually need mods.

Rainbolt

Your bot legion broke. It refuses to restart after a win.

Logan M

I would have voted "not offensive" but I'm pretty conservative these days with flags from rooms I don't frequent, since I have binding votes and all.

@Rainbolt Yeah that's an annoying issue that @Eric still hasn't fixed for some reason.

Eric

It still wasn't fixed that time?

Logan M

03:48

nope

Rainbolt

Just thought I should ping someone. I watched it go around three times before I said something.

Logan M

we would have noticed eventually, but thanks.

Eric

Oh, for the love of...

I found the issue.

And updated

Logan M

:/

That guy's the same guy who we explained that we don't view this as a competition at all.

There's just no reasoning with some people.

Rainbolt

Who is the same guy?

Memor-X

03:55

@Rainbolt @Runer112 apparently

Rainbolt

Are you confusing me with runer112 again?

Logan M

in The Nineteenth Byte, 4 mins ago, by Runer112

anime are not good samaritans, as they want to crush the contest with their bots

Yuuki

VTC StackEgg as offensive

Logan M

@Rainbolt No, not really.

Memor-X

@Rainbolt no i couldn't be bother typing the name so i just used the @ ping to auto complete

Rainbolt

03:56

Oh good

Memor-X

i do it to HoiHoi-san sometimes because i want to get the h's right

Taisho

Logan M

I think the biggest problem with StackEgg is that they made it a network-wide thing. There's too much ego involved as soon as you're pitting sites against each other.

Runer112

alright, we got to 10 with sheer human will

I'm happy with that

your botnet can claim first place now

bjb568

@Runer112 Right.

Memor-X

03:58

@Runer112 actually you didn't

in The Nineteenth Byte, 50 mins ago, by Runer112

griefed by our own bot

you own bot?

Logan M

Let's just stop arguing.

Runer112

as you can tell, it wasn't very good

and basically did nothing to help

bjb568

in The Nineteenth Byte, 32 mins ago, by GiantCowFilms

https://gist.github.com/GiantCowFilms/836d4cb31de8ae87ab7f

Runer112

and nobody uses that

as you'd be able to tell by our wildly split votes sometimes

bjb568

Kind of suspicious that a bot was made for nobody to use…

Runer112

03:59

lots of human error

he made it

bjb568

Or different bots?

Runer112

we downvoted him where he posted it

Rainbolt

hides the evidence under the table and shuffles away slowly

Runer112

and told him we weren't going to use it

thanks for backing me up, Rainbolt

Rainbolt

This isn't a banding thing.

I'm here because... well... I don't really know. Just to hang out I guess

Memor-X

04:00

and i'm done, i made a little bet that he would come back and gloat that they wasn't using bots. now that i won the bet i can ignore him

Rainbolt

I do watch a lot of anime

Runer112

you guys are really friendly

great embodiment of what stackexchange is about

Logan M

Friendly is good. I like friends.

bjb568

1 min ago, by Rainbolt

This isn't a banding thing.

Yuuki

6 mins ago, by Yuuki

VTC StackEgg as offensive

Rainbolt

04:02

@bjb568 Please don't pull a message from this morning. Please don't pull a message from this morning. Please don't pull a message from this morning.

Memor-X

though it's weird to see people double post with a space between their posts and no dotted line

Rainbolt

Because yea... this morning I was all about that raid. I even got chat suspended for it FOUR HOURS LATER.

Sp3000

@Rainbolt Welcome to the just-want-to-chill-here-because-it's-nice club

Rainbolt

Oh wait. That does look weird. I meant this isn't a banding thing like we aren't here to form the PPCG posse inside of Anime club.

I mean... just in case there was any confusion.

Yuuki

SO HOW ABOUT THAT SUMMER ANIME LIST? I HAVE TO SAY THAT I'M NOT TERRIBLY INTERESTED IN ANYTHING ON THERE. WELL, AT LEAST NOTHING REALLY GRABS MY ATTENTION.

Rainbolt

04:03

Nevermind :-/

@Yuuki Link?

bjb568

in The Nineteenth Byte, 3 mins ago, by Calvin's Hobbies

@PhiNotPi Here's the requested bot. It waits til there's 1 second left then clicks the option with the most votes. Defaults to Ask in a tie.

Yuuki

@Rainbolt Should be pinned.

Mar 21 at 3:02, by ʞɹɐzǝɹ

Summer Anime 2015

Logan M

@Yuuki Non Non Biyori will be the best series in summer this year.

Not even any serious competition.

Rainbolt

My monitor is extremely tiny. You have at least three pinned posts. If I leave a few rooms I can probably see more.

But keep in mind... not everyone's transcript is the same length

Runer112

@bjb568 as you can probably tell, that strategy doesn't really help at all, except to rarely edge out nothing/restart ties

Logan M

04:04

Yeah, 5 pinned posts is excessive.

Sp3000

Durarara? Maybe. Haven't seen it myself though.

Yuuki

@Sp3000 You'll have to watch the first season, probably.

Runer112

if no human votes for a useful option, it won't either

Logan M

DRRR is very good, but it's really far in.

Yuuki

And then the first part of the second season.

I really don't watch much anime these days.

Logan M

04:06

Yes, you've got 3 cours to catch up on before you can watch the one that airs in the summer.

Yuuki

It's mostly manga now since I read faster than I watch.

Logan M

I'm sure I'll end up watching half the shows that air then, but none of them look very interesting right now except a few sequels.

Rainbolt

I will probably watch at least one episode of Chaos Dragon

It's the only one under the fantasy action genres right?

Sp3000

I meant what might be popular in summer :P

Not sure what I'd watch myself though, not great first impressions

Logan M

God Eater will probably be the most hyped series because ufotable. No guarantees it'll actually be good though.

Yuuki

04:08

@LoganM I didn't particularly like the game.

Although that's probably because it was a horribly done Monster Hunter clone.

Logan M

The impression I got was like that.

Yuuki

Ish. Clone-ish.

Rainbolt

I read the description for God Hunter and decided it would be a mecha probably. Is it?

Logan M

But it does have better character design IMO. Monster Hunter is too 3d for me.

Memor-X

@LoganM Fund Eater, Money Eater. dam not nearly as good as Unlimited Money Works or Unlimited Fund Works

Logan M

04:10

@Rainbolt Not especially, at least from what I know.

Rainbolt

I will probably watch it too

Yuuki

@Rainbolt Nope.

I'm guessing you're thinking mecha because "weapons called God Arcs"?

God Arcs are actually handheld weapons. Modular things that switch between a gun mode and a sword mode.

And have some special attack that turns into a giant mouth to bite pieces off the monsters.

Taisho

Sakamoto

0

Q: Can women be Makai Knights?

We know that both men (e.g. Mendoza) and women (e.g. Ema) can be Makai Priests. And, of course, men can be Makai Knights (Leon, Alfonso, Germán, ...). But can women be Makai Knights? In episode 24 of Garo: Honoo no Kokuin, This seems to suggest that women cannot be Makai Knights. Is this in...

garo

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

@ton.yeung I just rectified a potential deployment disaster, other wise I'd write a small paper on it

Memor-X

04:21

@Taisho what

Taisho

google.com/searchbyimage?image_url=https://googledrive.com/host/… | tineye.com/search?url=https://googledrive.com/host/… | saucenao.com/search.php?url=https://googledrive.com/host/… | iqdb.org/?url=https://googledrive.com/host/…

Memor-X

hmm, it's apparently Marisa

Logan M

Yeah, it's a weird Marisa fanart.

Memor-X

@LoganM i wouldn't say weird. i like her clothing style.

Logan M

we now have a restart troll. Doesn't seem to be doing much, but worth keeping an eye on.

Memor-X

04:26

*image pops into head of Marisa dressed like that as the groom at her's and Reimu's wedding*

man, should really start looking to getting into Touhou sometime soon

Logan M

Of all the possible pairings, why would you pick Marisa x Reimu?

Memor-X

@LoganM i only know 3 characters, Reimu, Marisa and Remilia

Logan M

...

plz learn thyself some more touhous.

Memor-X

@LoganM reason why i said

1 min ago, by Memor-X

man, should really start looking to getting into Touhou sometime soon

been meaning to for quite a while

Logan M

At the very least, you should learn the playable characters in the main series.

Sp3000

04:30

My experience with Touhou is basically a lot of doujin music and failing at easy mode :(

That easy mode.

Sakamoto

0

Q: what's the name of a anime series

The series is about a boy who's best friend's father was the worlds most wanted man but when she was being born her father whent to the hospital to see her but was killed and his soul was transferred to the boy when he was born which was the same day and place which gave the boy a scar and now t...

identification-request

Logan M

Easy mode really is easy if you go about it the right way. But most people who try don't know how to do it right.

When you're learning, you should plan to bomb lots of spells. Don't even try to capture them. If you do that, you'll find the resources they give you are actually quite generous to beat the game.

Sp3000

Hmmm k. Now I feel like playing...

(If I can find where I put the files)

bjb568

0

Q: Which sites should we raid next?

As you know, StackEgg is a game in which each site tries to grow their egg whilst surviving raids from other sites. This thread will be our planning center. Put in the answers proposed targets and times. Vote up if you can join in. Put in the comments when other sites are planning to raid us so w...

discussion

Sp3000

No need to post it, it's getting VTC'd

Frosteeze

04:44

@bjb568 well that convinced me that we should turn off our bots /s

Memor-X

April 1st 2015. after every logged in user used a StackEgg Bot on the Anime and Manga Stack Exchange Site, at 11:59 PM the running of every bot began to meld into the next Chat Bot that posted, giving them life as an AIDA

!!lolis

HoiHoi-san

Lolis are the best!

Memor-X

i would have thrown my computer if Taisho had posted then

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

anime wallpapers 1000 of them, grouped by series

Memor-X

@ʞɹɐzǝɹ you have them?

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

04:57

imgur.com/a/B9zSo

2

@Memor-X yes

Memor-X

@ʞɹɐzǝɹ is that link you posted them?

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

@Memor-X you should check to make sure

Logan M

Or, you know, just scrape konachan.com to get everything.

Memor-X

@ʞɹɐzǝɹ oh yeh, i just looked at the first couple which looked like scenery images and scrolling down i see it is now

@LoganM if i develop a script that'll do it for me then i will

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

@Memor-X it's easy

I believe that you can do it

Memor-X

05:03

@ʞɹɐzǝɹ oh i can do it, just when i'll do it is another thing, i want to make some scripts for downloading scanlations and doujinshi from sites like dynasty-scan and mangafox first

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

> mangafox

hq sources only pls

Taisho

Memor-X

@ʞɹɐzǝɹ if i knew any i would use them, mangafox, manga-trader, nanofate and yuri-ism are the sites i use for anything that's not been localized

Eric

@Taisho Compared to your other images, this is a tad NSFW.

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

use batoto at least, they might not have it all but it's fair trade scanations

@Eric nah they're covered

just don't let a mad see it

Eric

05:10

Riiiight... :P

Memor-X

i'm tempted to post this as a comment to one of the answers on that results meta post

"ofcause we have bots, One is called HoiHoi-san and one is Taisho. i like Taisho for it's posting cute Shoujo Ai/Yuri images i wont have anyone say anything bad about our cute HoiHoi-san"

2

Unihedro

Hiya @bjb568

bjb568

Hi @uni

Logan M

3

A: When something that was supposed to be fun became not fun

What about bots guys ? So yesterday everyone in SE went all furious about how PPCG was raiding other sites and how it was not at all fun and how it was against the spirit of the game! And here we have anime who are not even playing the game and simply running bots to do the job. Speculatively, ...

^more people claiming that us having fun on our own site in our own way is somehow a problem for them when they don't even use the site, as well as perpetuating the false claim that we have anything to do with raiding them.

4

Unihedro

Nooooz! My computer at home is sleeping.

It's free for all now, since PPCG already won. — Unihedro 35 secs ago

Logan M

05:21

I'm not going to argue with them, but feel free to do so on your own if you're less drama-averse than I am.

Memor-X

@LoganM i would like to find some way to confirm that StackOverflow has bots running, i doubt anyone would complain us using them if SE is using them

Logan M

@Memor-X Of course there are bots all over the place.

bjb568

It seems there are some (more) griefers over here.

Logan M

Every program is a bot.

Memor-X

@LoganM i mean for StackEgg

Logan M

05:22

(which is to say, there's no realistic difference)

@Memor-X You mean other sites? Or you mean SE themselves?

It would be hard to prove for other sites apart from PPCG themselves and Arqade, both of whom started using bots for many of the same reasons we did (i.e. to combat against bot raids).

Memor-X

@LoganM most likely on themselves as i highly expected SE to have developed one from the very beginning.

Logan M

I doubt they'd bother.

possibly for testing, but I doubt SE employees are playing with StackEgg a whole lot.

That one was really pushing it. I'm not going to flag because I'm indirectly involved, but I really would have considered it otherwise.

Memor-X

ahh wrong acronym, i mean SO, StackOverflow

Logan M

You just mean SO users?

Who knows?

Memor-X

yeh

Logan M

05:27

possibly someone is botting it. Not especially well though.

Restart votes are skyrocketting. Up to 3 currently.

Eric

Yup, by bots.

All the restart votes come together.

Or did last time, anyway. There's at least one bot.

I wonder when they'll move to the Flag option.

4 votes that time.

Logan M

Yup, up to 4 reset votes.

Eric

They hit 40% that time.

If only @Hakase would wake up and update his bot.

Runer112

you guys sound awfully worried for not caring at all about the final scores

Eric

The bots were initially designed to prevent raids.

Runer112

05:38

(for the record, I'm not voting to close)

Eric

If they fail to prevent raids, they've failed.

Runer112

restart, even

Logan M

@Runer112 I'm worried about losing the egg, not about a low score.

(not especially, mind you)

Runer112

you should consider updating your bot to only protect the egg, then

Memor-X

@Eric what, and make @Taisho go rabid and start killing people with images of pantsu

Runer112

05:40

if that's its purpose

Logan M

The purpose is to have fun.

Eric

@Memor-X Different bot.

Taisho

Hakase

I'm up!

Memor-X

@Hakase set your bot loose on all those who bad mouth HoiHoi-san!

Logan M

05:45

@Hakase Update bot immediately plz

Memor-X

*puts North on head and charges into battle*

Hakase

@LoganM it's already done

Logan M

thx

Hakase

I can't see is golf losing?

did they stop playing?

Eric

Yup. They hit 10 and quit. They basically won anyway, they had a superior strategy and overcame being raided.

Runer112

05:47

PPCG has been consistently griefed, but I think has finally thrown in the towel

oh, nevermind, apparently we haven't

but I have, because I'm not too hopeful of surpassing your strategy

Memor-X

@Eric PPCG, they won before they hit 10

Eric

@Memor-X Depends what you define as winning. There really is no winning in this.

Memor-X

@Eric well this says they won

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A: When something that was supposed to be fun became not fun

Code Golf has won the game Yeah. Code Golf is the winner of Stack Egg and can now enjoy the rest of the day basking in the admiration of the Stack Exchange network. We are as surprised as anyone that the game is over even before April 1 reached the timezones of most users, but the facts are unde...

Eric

@Memor-X Yeah, but the reason I don't like that is because he picked an arbitrary time to post it. Strategies were still changing. Arqade could potentially have taken them over.

He doesn't even say what the criteria is or was.

> We are as surprised as anyone that the game is over even before April 1 reached the timezones of most users, but the facts are undeniable.

What facts? lol

Memor-X

@Eric i assume it was the leader-board, PPCG can tie us on internet wins but win on the average days to win

Ero Sɘnnin

05:52

What did i miss? :/

Memor-X

@EroSɘnnin drama

Eric

@Memor-X I don't think they got their 235 so early. But there was also no evidence that 235 couldn't have been beaten.

Anyway, I have to go. I'll be leaving my browser open tonight. Hopefully it won't break everything when the event ends.

Logan M

@Memor-X That's (somewhat poorly written) satire. Or at least I think it is. He's poking fun at the concept of winning at all in something like this.

Ero Sɘnnin

@Memor I'm always the last one to know :'(

Memor-X

@LoganM oh, ok then scratch what i said then

Septian Primadewa

05:55

i cant find the stackegg everywhere

Optimizer

@Hakase @Eric We haven't stopped playing. This time is usually off peak for us and from past 12 hours we have been constantly getting raid by 3-4 restart users/bots. So for around 1 hour there, we were simply getting restarted, but we are back on track now.

Hakase

oh good

I mean… we're kind of on equal terms now

having been raided n such

Optimizer

I won't call this equal

but yeah, we both have 10 wins

Hakase

yeah, well, whatever, it's the closest it gets after everything now :p

Logan M

Yeah, for it to be equal, we have to be comparable, and this isn't anywhere near any sort of competition.

Ero Sɘnnin

05:58

Who's winning? Cant see leaderboards since I'm using the phone

Logan M

Define "winning".

Hakase

I don't even have a golf account

Optimizer

you guys care so much about winning

Logan M

By Jon Ericson's statement, PPCG already won.

Hakase

I don't care about winning, I only care for the top place

Logan M

05:59

@Optimizer if you say so.

Memor-X

@EroSɘnnin is it the second of April for you?

Optimizer

1 min ago, by Ero Sɘnnin

Who's winning? Cant see leaderboards since I'm using the phone

Memor-X

try this

Taisho

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