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00:04
Never knew there was a chat FAQ. That thing should be pinned.
00:26
lionel messi
@Johan whirled cup or NBA finals? :P
 
1 hour later…
01:52
Hello.
Hey, if it isn't...
Come stai?
I'm good.
Gracias.
Good.
What have you been up to tonight?
Well, nothing, really. There's been an issue with my laptop and I'm preparing it to send it over to the HP Service Center.
Election in 18 hours!
I've no idea what'll happen though.
Except the Town Hall Chat.
And I've no idea when that'll take place during the 9 day period.
Oh, and the voting of course.
02:00
Oh, dear, is it serious, with your laptop?
Yeah, there will be voting at some point...I don't remember.
It is serious. But they'll get it working hopefully.
Hardware?
The story is a bit more complicated than that.
Initially, it was a hardware problem.
Wait, brb.
OK. So, there was a problem with the motherboard.
And so they replaced it because it's under warranty.
But then the OS won't install from the recovery discs.
It probably has to do with Win 8 OED not latching properly to the motherboard.
Oh no!
OED?
Oops. I mean OEM
Haha.
02:06
Haha after all those discussions!
The D key is miles away from the M key
Apparently you've been thoroughly indoctrinated by EL&U.
Heh
I did get the OED2 v4.0 btw.
Though I still use the COED at times.
Great!
Primarily because it also includes audio pronunciation.
02:07
Ah.
Makes sense.
Augh, 17 hours to get two more nominees!
Why do you need two more?
For getting into the primary, I think.
A guy asking a couple: "Who do you think is the Lannister in your relationship?"
Any idea what Lannister refers to?
02:19
Game of Thrones.
House Lannister is known for its devious plots, I guess.
I see. OK.
Based on House Lancaster, no doubt.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 What happens when we enter the primary? And what when we don't?
So... what qualities do you think "the Lannister in a relationship" would have?
@Cerberus We vote people into the final phase. When we don't, we go straight to 'choose your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice'.
IIRC.
And we also get to downvote.
And also we can vote on all of the candidates. I think.
Oh, OK. You could characterise them as the one who is cunning or something.
02:25
@Alraxite Yes, up or down. That's how they make the final round.
IIRC.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 OK noted!
My son got me a PS4 for Father's Day. Nice gift.
Wow!
That is quite the present!
It's pretty sweet.
What games will you play on it?
02:32
My son ignored me.
I'll start with Watchdogs. Kind of a cross between Assassin's Creed and Grand Theft Auto.
Cool.
Could be fun, although I have played neither.
But I also have Transistor, the new title from Super Giant Games.
I have a fever, I know it now. I need to go lie down.
02:35
@Cerberus Moar cowbell!
Quoi?
I'm not a cow: dogs lie down too.
@Cerberus Get well soon!
Thanks!
@Robusto Have you played The Last of Us?
@Alraxite No. My son played it and said it was fiendishly difficult.
02:36
The gameplay?
And he plays games on insane difficulty.
@Alraxite I guess.
The game's known for its story anyway.
Oh, oh I know. Have you played The Stanley Parable?
@Cerberus You too. Have you played it?
It's not on consoles
@Alraxite No.
There's not much to it once you finish every part of it. And the game is primarily story telling.
So you may as well watch someone do a complete walkthrough on Youtube and you'll know about it just as much as anyone who has played it
02:41
@Alraxite No, but I have heard of it.
Hmm. I don't think it can run on XP though...
Alas...
Well, anyway, as long as you can run Youtube videos you pretty much have the game.
Transistor is a science fiction action role playing video game developed and published by Supergiant Games, and the studio's first title since the release of their critically acclaimed Bastion. The game was released on May 20, 2014 for Windows and PlayStation 4, with other platforms possible in the future. Gameplay Transistor utilises an isometric point of view. The player controls the character Red as she travels through a series of locations, battling enemies in both real-time combat and a frozen planning mode referred to as "Turn()". Using the latter mode drains Red's action bar, and ...
This has a pretty cool story. And the music is great, just as it was in Bastion.
Bastion is an action role-playing video game produced by independent developer Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. In the game, the player controls "the Kid" as he moves through floating, fantasy-themed environments and fights enemies of various types. It features a dynamic voiceover from a narrator, and is presented as a two-dimensional game with an isometric camera and a hand-painted, colorful art style. Bastions story follows the Kid as he collects special shards of rock to power a structure, the Bastion, in the wake of an apocalyptic Calamity. Th...
@Cerberus Ah, you should most definitely play Braid. It works on XP. You'll love it.
02:44
@Alraxite Braid is awesome.
Bingo!
A different kind of game, in which you can undo any action.
But it's still hard!
The story! The story!
Hmm, I don't remember on which difficulty I completed it on
Was there even a difficulty setting?
The developer of Braid is working on a new game. The New Yorker did a piece on him, and the reporter was trying out the new game. The reporter got into a tight spot and asked for a clue. The developer said "The clue is you're doing it wrong."
Jonathan Blow, the developer is.
Haha.
I think I have heard of a game where you could reverse time and stuff.
02:52
I also like Halo.
Of course, almost every single game is on the Xbox.
And I don't own an Xbox...
But I still like it.
I have an XBox. Actually, two. But this PS4 is better.
Yeah, well those Xboxes are probably the 7th generation ones.
I put a braid in my hair.
You're playing!
03:00
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Pix or it didn't happen. ;=)
That's hard to do. I just tried.
Selfie with braids is hard?
Yes, without mirrors.
It's on the back of my head, y'know.
Why without mirrors? Don't you have a bathroom?
@Alraxite Don't recall atm.
@Robusto By which I mean Xbox 360.
03:07
@Robusto it was in use.
@Alraxite Of course.
And Xbox One was released November last year.
So, if you got it before that, then it's definitely not One.
@Alraxite I wouldn't have an Xbox One. Microsoft lost, Sony won. Period.
I'll only want an Xbox One because of Halo.
I still play Halo CE.
And it was released in 2001.
I don't want a spy in my game room, watching what I do. Also, fuck Kinect. If I want to exercise, I'll exercise. If I want to play a video game, I'll do that.
03:12
I think they have just recently released a Kinect-less Xbox One.
Anyways, bed. I don't want to leave chat on all night in case someone feels the need to ping me early in the morning.
You can turn off your speakers.
Or, you know, hundreds of other options.
Actually, that'll be a good alarm clock.
You can set KitSox to ping you when you want to wake up.
I think you can do that.
@Robusto You sleep near your computer with the sound on?
@Cerberus Damn it, you'll wake him up.
Can someone please tell me how I can post a link to my question in meta: meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/4732/… The title is too long and I'm unsure of how to link it by question number (or even how to find that.) Thanks
03:22
@Alraxite Oops!
@Cerberus lol, apparently yes.
@medica Not sure what you mean.
I want to link to that meta question, but for some reason, it doesn't work in an answer, it stops after girly-g, then doesn't link.
@Cerberus even tho it seemed fine here. (?)
Huh.
Maybe it works only on SE, but not elsewhere? (I was trying to put it in a document)
03:25
Where are you typing this?
(My documents allow me to form links to other sites.)
@medica It links for me?
Oh, in text edit on my computer
It stops after g, but so does the normal URL of the question.
@Cerberus yes, on this site it does for me too, but not outside of it.
03:26
But I have to get some sleep. I really felt I had a fever as I came home, but I took another Ibuprofen.
@Cerberus right! it stops, and the link doesn't work
Hmm that is strange.
Oh, how did your date go?
Well!
03:27
Which is why I only came back an hour or so ago.
Hmm, even better!
I warned him about my fever...
good
But, you know.
Now it's bed time.
Good luck on your quest!
and what did he say (hopefully, I don't care)
OK, thanks, gnite
03:28
@medica So does TextEdit normally converts a link to a hyperlink whenever you insert one?
yes, it does.
That is indeed what he said. Although frankly I might have preferred "OK let's not", because now I may have infected him.
Oh, well.
Bye, both!
But with this one super-long title, it doesn't
poof
Do you put http:// in front of it?
03:29
yes
Oh.
Well, that's all I had got.
I copy everything that's in the address line.
I don't have Mac.
So I can't test.
OK, well, I guess I'll leave out the link. It won't ruin anything.
Thanks for your help, though! :)
@medica You think it's due to the length limit?
03:32
That's what it seems to be due to. It works fine with shorter links.
meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/4732/
I'm not OH, Thank you! How did you find the number?
Okay, try that. It's shorter.
That's great! Thanks! :D
Well, you first truncate the 'word for....' part.
Then you're left with that.
You're welcome!
03:34
Hmmph. I am so not tech savvy.
Thanks again.
Backspacing isn't really difficult.
Backspacing=Hitting the backspace key.
 
6 hours later…
09:08
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Q: Base on vs Based on

Kick ButtowskiI was wondering to know whether there is any difference between base on and based on? for example, Base on what I have seen, If you guys keep having such a awesome attitude, I bet you can be another Turkey if I do not make a mistake in world cup 2002. Should base on stay like that or change t...

The comments are, um. Well, have fun for yourselves.
09:30
fun indeed!
@Cerberus No. My office is down the hall from my bedroom, and all the doors happened to be open. And for some reason the ping is disproportionally loud compared to other sounds on my computer.
09:58
lol someone just favourited the spam
10:57
@RegDwigнt When does the delete option become available?
Check the Lawler Score on this behemoth.
@RegDwigнt that was an awesome.
@Robusto But now you're awake, aren't you?
@Cerberus What's your point?
@RegDwigнt Brilliant!
I'm a fan.
@Robusto My point that I hope I'm not wakepinging you now.
Which would be correct in Dutch.
Now I get the "a awesome".
I have made it a requirement of going to bed that I close the chat window now.
Or close a door?
11:34
Why would I want to close a door?
My house is too noisy for me to hear pings anyway, when they're several rooms away.
Mine is not.
To block the ping!
> Promotions or willful marriage.
I think I need help with this.
> Lottary & lucky nomber
And this.
@Cerberus But then heat builds up from all the computers I leave running and it becomes stuffy in there.
Hmm OK.
I suppose that's a good reason.
11:35
Why would you question whether I had a good reason for doing something?
Congratulations, you have my blessing to close the chat window!
Or...you could mute the sound, lest some other program decide to make noise at night...
You know I like nothing better than questioning you.
And typically people don't angrily ping me and keep editing their pinging post. I encountered the corner case yesterday morning.
People do that to me.
@Cerberus You need to get out more often.
But I'm sick.
And I have to go to work.
dog eyes
11:37
Typically we don't have people flying into chat in the wee hours full of high drama with angry posting on their minds.
@Cerberus Do you have a job outside your domicile?
Yes.
Or I wouldn't be going there!
What are you sick with?
I am always pung at night while I'm away. I always wake up to see several pings—okay, wrong phrasing here—I always have pings when I wake up.
I don't know, maybe a cold with a fever.
Or some kind of flu. Let's find out!
Yes. If it spreads to the rest of Amsterdam, it must be the flu!
Taking an Ibuprofen now...
Oh, yeah?
I actually had a date yesterday. I warned him.
11:47
It was the least you could do.
Yeah, perhaps I should have cancelled the whole date...
But!
But then . . . no date.
0
Q: Fluctuate vs. oscillate

ValI understand that you say hesitate in the moral context. But what is the difference between oscillation and fluctuation? Might be you could contrast these with swinging. Is there any difference when to use which?

gen ref
12:04
Well, we could have kept the date strictly Platonic.
What are the chances of that?
1:1, or 100%.
That's not even a number.
it's an even number
12:09
I knew you would defend yourself thusly.
Well, low hanging fruit often taste just as good.
flatulence vs opulence
Farting and over eating often coincide, so what is the difference?
@Robusto I wouldn't have tried anything myself!
Hello, Nosy and Headie.
@Cerberus Playing hard to get, eh?
@Cerberus Is Nosy the opposite of Yessy?
12:14
Playing virus bomb!
I know Headie is the opposite of Footie.
Okay, time for work.
Adieu!
Au revoir!
You said time for work an hour ago.
@Cerberus This is much adieu about nothing!
No, Nosy is the opposite of "animal lacking a nose".
@Robusto No, I said I had to work today.
Bye!
12:15
@Cerberus You should post that as a question on ELU.
Haha yessy!
poof
> wat is antonum "animal lacking nose"?!??!
Then you could swoop in and gain mucho rep with a one-word answer: "Nosy!" (You might add "You're welcome!" to pad out the answer to the minimum length.)
> Elephants have long noses, so if you chop of an elephant's nose, it is an animal lacking a nose, so the opposite of that is a dead elephant with no nose. HTH QED
@Cerberus Typhoid Mary's got nothing on you!
@MattЭллен Shouldn't that be QED?
> also wut is oppsite of qED?!?!?
> QED means you know the answer, so the opposite is e.g. HTH LOL
12:21
@MattЭллен If you become a mod, are you going to lose your sense of humor? If so, you are honor-bound (honour-bound for you Brits) to reveal that now.
@MattЭллен No. HTH LOL is the opposite of QED LOL.
Or the converse? Inverse?
Reverse?
Some kind of verse.
Or maybe it's a chorus?
I won't lose it. I will probably hide it on occassions where I would usually let it roam freely.
@Robusto The middle 8 is the opposite of HTH LOL?
@MattЭллен You say that now. But what if you hide it too much? Then we would lose all the way around.
@MattЭллен It could happen.
Reality works in strange ways.
Yeah. It's pretty weird.
Aug 13 '13 at 15:09, by Robusto
@MattЭллен Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. Which means your code will only fail in production, at the worst possible time, at the most cost to all involved.
Today my code worked almost as expected. It's still in development. I worry exactly how spectacularly it will fail when it's released
12:30
See, the trick to not having code fail in production is simply not to have a release. It's so simple. Why didn't I think of it before?
I see. Google r so smrt
Think of the man-hours that could be saved by that one little ploy.
yes. we could fire the whole company!
@tchrist: I don't recall Brienne fighting Sandor Clegane in the book, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Thoughts?
@MattЭллен And put everyone on the dole! Brilliant!
so many man hours gained
profits would go through the roof
12:34
They would. Trouble is, nobody would be able to buy the product.
hmmm
we could get them to pay for a prerelease version
like on Steam
@Robusto So exclusive! The price would skyrocket too!
share holders would be extatic
@MattЭллен Yeah, I've fallen for that more than once. No longer, though.
@MattЭллен They would merely be static.
"Extatic" only applies if there are skateboards or BMX bikes involved.
Sounds like a marketing scheme gone wild
12:40
All marketing schemes are marketing schemes gone wild.
that explains a lot
13:23
6 hours to go and still only 9 candidates
I guess internet forum janitor just isn't enticing to some people
user116848
Hi everyone
user116848
@MattЭллен hi
user116848
Can I ask a quick grammar question
user116848
13:36
@MattЭллен This sentence "Tom asked me where did I hear about the vacancy?" is grammatically correct? Or should I say it like "Tom asked me where I had heard about the vacancy?"
user116848
I would use simple one. First one? No>
The second one is correct.
user116848
Why not the simpler one
The first one works only if you make it actual speech
user116848
Like?
13:37
Tom asked me "where did you hear about the vacancy?"
even then, you need to change I to you
user116848
okay..
user116848
Thanks but people say it like this. So they are wrong? Grammatically
grammatically that is not correct.
because it's not a question, it's a statement
you're telling me what Tom asked you, not asking me
user116848
Yes
so, really "Tom asked me where I had heard about the vacancy." should end in a fullstop
user116848
13:39
Oh yes. I put "?" My bad
user116848
you are right
no worries
user116848
So without ? first one is still wrong to say?
The first one is still wrong
user116848
Thanks
user116848
13:41
for the help
you're welcome
user116848
"He told me yesterday that I was not a good friend last year" Grammatically correct?
user116848
Or should I say it like "He told me yesterday that I had not been a good friend last year"
That is easier to read
user116848
13:45
Matt here why didn't you say second one? I applied the same principle in my previous example. Didn't I?
your first question used different structures to this one, they are very different examples
user116848
Can you give any similar
similar to which one?
user116848
Both of them
user116848
Previous and this one
user116848
13:48
If you want to. That is
user116848
Thanks
I was asked why I had eaten all the pies
@MattЭллен Why would you not eat all the pies? Silly question.
I was told, on Tuesday, that we had not been working hard enough
@Robusto mmmmm. pie
user116848
okay...
13:50
@MattЭллен Silly statement. Why would you ever work hard enough?
I was told, on Tuesday, that we weren't working hard enough.
@Robusto yeah! it raises expectations.
user116848
And this "Sara asked me why did I leave kitchen lights on" This correct?
user116848
So with "had"
yes
don't use "do support" when reporting questions. I think that's fair to say.
!!wiki do support
oh
no sox
user116848
13:52
"did" would convey that I do that every day
In the grammar of English, the term do-support (or do-insertion) refers to the use of the auxiliary verb do, including its inflected forms does and did, to produce negated clauses and questions, as well as other constructions in which subject–auxiliary inversion is required. The verb do can be used as an auxiliary even in simple declarative sentences, where it usually serves to add emphasis, as in "I did shut the fridge." However in the negated and inverted clauses referred to above, it is used because the rules of English syntax permit these constructions only when an auxiliary is presen...
@Farooq if that's what you want to convey (i.e. an habitual action) then use simple past, without do: "Sara asked me why I leave the kitchen lights on"
user116848
okay that I know
user116848
yes...
sorry, not simple past, simple present
"Doug asked me why I eat scorpions"
"Anne wanted to know why I run"
user116848
Nod

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