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9:00 AM
@5pike That's true. Like seriously. Nearly $100k for any game is way too much.
 
@5pike is that an alpha or why did it get so much?
nevermind i clicked the link
 
@Wandang A rare game - Nintendo World Championships
 
I reported a but in KoL
Got the best response ever
> I don't think this will ever change, so odds are you'll have to either smash your computer, or move on with your life. ;)
 
but = bug?
 
but does equal bug
It was the worst kind of bug: a haiku bug
Cheerful orange blobling
will dissolve your enemies
with cheese food product.
> I think that the haiku writer here considers the word "orange" to be one syllable. Now that's something to get irrationally upset by! Even I'm a little steamed. I've tried pronouncing it, but it just makes my mouth feel ugly.
 
9:09 AM
@5pike and how can you actually check if its the original and not a datacopy? heck if i knew how to produce copies i would start now
 
@fredley Ok, just making sure - considering the wacky nature of KoL there may have been something about butt reporting I was unaware of.
 
@TrentHawkins Sorry, it was too late to edit
 
@Wandang I don't know. He posted a photo of the circuit board of the game. That might count...
 
zzzZZZzzz the os x update is slooooow
grabbing some coffee
 
Ved
Hello All
 
9:17 AM
@Ved Hi
 
Ved
So silence today here @5pike
 
It's still early
 
Ved
ok
 
there.... is... no... coffee
everything is lost
 
omg panic
 
Ved
9:24 AM
coffee machine is not working ?
 
@Wandang Oh God. Better end it now. There is no hope
 
re
60 min for os x update
switched to windows with my 2nd machine
@Ved no filters :'(
and the tab machine has no tabs
 
Ved
half time spent in meetings only, to decide that what we need to do in rest time :D
@Wandang Oh so sad
 
@Ved isnt that what meetings are for? ಠ_ಠ
 
Ved
@Wandang but half time is tooooo much
it takes 1 hour to decide what is to be done in next half hour
 
9:30 AM
i am totally down now... mondays without coffee? thats like cotton candy without sugar
instead salt ಠ_ಠ
 
Ved
:D
 
That reminds me, coffee time
 
@Ved sounds to me like you are working for a big company that gets nothing done like valve, microsoft, etc
 
@Wandang Man, that's evil. Would be great for a prank...
 
Ved
@Wandang joke of the day
 
9:31 AM
morning people
 
Ved
good morning
here its 3 PM
 
@Ved smaller companies normally do not have long meetings. at least i would guess that
@Blem NO COFFEE
 
Ved
@Wandang partially correct
 
@Wandang I have gotten a cup of coffee, ½L cola zero and a cup of hot chocolate
 
9:32 AM
in german fairy = fee
so coffee fairy = cofffee:D
@spyder quite accurate
@Blem .... you cruel man
FUCK YOU APPLE
6
update threw an error
now i need to format
thanks for that
"secure your data, format and reinstall"
best part "your hard drive is damaged"... why should i reinstall on that then!?!?!ಠ_ಠ
 
@spyder Coffee => Stop Code?
Somebody is a designer and not a coder. <code/> would be better syntax.
 
@fredley agree
 
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Q: Where do i find all of the daedric quests and artifacts in skyrim

Nortonator369I am a level 22, two-handed, Heavy Armor, Blacksmith, Nord, Warrior and The only quest I Completed was the "Mind Of Madness with Sheogorath which was hilarious, and i would like to know where to find the rest of the daedra quests are.

 
@fredley maybe the coffee itself includes an opening tag <code> ?
 
 
9:44 AM
@Blem Will write coffee for code
 
ha i'm done. if i cannot fix this mac this week i get a lot of trouble
friday is presentationday
 
19 days to go
 
@kalina morning honey
 
...
 
i had no coffee and my mac crashed to bits. i need to compansate my grumpyness with friendlyness
ಠ_ಠ
 
9:49 AM
I never compensate my grumpiness with friendliness
@Sterno what does the fox say?
 
 
@kalina What is there in 19 days?
 
@Arperum I become 21
 
@kalina Ah. I have a bit less then 2 months of being 25 left for me.
 
@kalina Is that a big day in the UK? is there something new you can do legal that was not legal before?
 
9:53 AM
@Blem not really, no
 
@Blem only americans use 21 right?
but driving and shooting is ok for kids i guess
 
@Blem 1. Adopt a child, 2. Apply for a licence to fly an airplane, helicopter and similar, 3. Get a licence for lorries above 7.5 tonnes, as well as some mass public transportation vehicles like buses
 
@Wandang prety sure, there is a couple of clubs in DK that has some different age restrictions, but that can be anywhere between 18 and 30
@MartinSojka I am pretty sure @kalina is not planing to adopt a child, so she will be getting a licence for a big vehicle
 
The first one is a bit silly considering you can legally conceive a child at the age of 16, but old laws change slowly.
 
@MartinSojka i am glad that 16 year olds are not allowed to adopt a child. oh the horror!ಠ_ಠ
 
10:08 AM
 
@Wandang They still need to pass all the other checks regarding being self-sufficient, mentally ok and so on, which most of them wouldn't. On the other hand, my grandmother married when she was 15, and her children are just fine (those that survived the war, anyway).
 
> mentally ok and so on
damn...
 
21 is the last birthday you get to look forward to
Birthdays plumb new levels of 'meh' after 21
 
10:25 AM
 
10:39 AM
 
Ok, that one is tricky:
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Q: can't install the game special ops the line (black box)

user67775While installing the game in my pc....it keeps reaching 8.0% installation and then it stop and a messages pops up that: An error occurred while unpacking: Unable to read data! Unarc.dll returned an error code: -6 Error: file read opera...

Black box is a group that shrinks and cracks games
So - what do we do?
 
FAE
@5pike There are many reasons that it couldn't work due to the fact that it's cracked which we can't troubleshoot, and that's one of the reasons we don't accept questions about pirated games.
 
@fredley I stabbed a flag into it.
 
@FAE Ok.
 
@Arperum Still not dead
Come on Bridge
 
10:52 AM
@fredley Bridge is asleep, post SPAM
 
FAE
@fredley Already flagged/VTD'd
Blegh, mornings.
 
@FAE Double blergh, monday mornings
 
Someone's got a case of the Mondays!
 
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Q: can't install the game special ops the line (black box)

rayozWhile installing the game in my pc....it keeps reaching 8.0% installation and then it stop and a messages pops up that: An error occurred while unpacking: Unable to read data! Unarc.dll returned an error code: -6 Error: file read opera...

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Q: NeverWinter: Stucked in the Old Magic quest

JCalcinesIn the Old Magic Quest, I have to bring three arcane tomes to a man but I only have found two of them. There are three locations maked in the map and I checked the three all but there is one location where I couldn't find any book. In that place I have to move a plank for entering through a wind...

 
FAE
11:11 AM
@KevinvanderVelden I had a really bad, restless night of sleep. Kept waking up several times an hour.
 
@FAE o/
 
FAE
@FEichinger \o
 
\o/ PANIC!!
 
@FEichinger \o/ @FAE
 
(That was a "Hey, yeh ... me too!")
 
FAE
11:13 AM
@FEichinger Oh, I thought it was a hello. <_<
 
I don't usually say hello to a single person when I'm the one arriving ... :P
 
FAE
I didn't get a lot of sleep, man, I dunno what's going on!
 
@spugsley Me too. That Wipqozn guy's a jerk.
 
@Wipqozn Remember where @OrigamiRobot got chatbanned for saying that @OrigamiRobot was a jerk?
 
@Arperum well jeah, but he was named gnomeslice at the time, everyone knows that calling yourself gnomeslice is grounds for banning
 
11:26 AM
@KevinvanderVelden I am aware.
AAAAAAAAAAAGHRGRBL. All the wrong words.
 
Also, I unlocked anew class in Etrian Odyssey, so I swapped out my Medic for an Arcanist. It's a character that can inflict binds (think bondage, rawr) and ailments on an enemy. I named her @FAE.
 
@Wipqozn I assume an anew is loosely related to an alot?
 
FAE
@Wipqozn :D
 
I'm not sure how to get rid of empty space in gimp so this will have to do
I just need to figure out how to save this as not an xcf...
 
GIMP confuses the hell out of me
 
11:36 AM
@Wipqozn export
I think
 
@5pike Yeah, just found it. Thanks anyways though.
You'll need to zoom in to see it.
 
that's a lot of white
I think it needs a freehand circle to highlight where the image is
 
@kalina gimp confuses everyone
 
@KevinvanderVelden oh goodie, and I thought it was just me
 
I... I grabbed the wrong image >.<
I need to do it again FML
 
11:40 AM
BTW: That's the crop tool
 
@5pike That leaves behind a transparent layer, which is what all that white is.
 
The hell?
It crops for me
 
There. cc @FAE This is you.
There we go. I just didn't know how to use that button apparently.
I was cropping the layer via the right click, but I had to double click the crop tool.
 
@Wipqozn Now you've cropped too much, bits of @FAE are missing
 
YOU PEOPLE ARE THE WORST
 
11:43 AM
@Wipqozn I think that the buttons have many features...
 
Except @5pike.
 
Gimp is a mess.
Overly complicated UI, lack of some crucial features.
 
@FEichinger This. I've tried and tried, but I still have to pirate Photoshop.
 
FAE
@Wipqozn I like it! Even has purple on her staff, neat.
 
@5pike is super helpful. Although spelling his name with a 5 is horrible since it means I need to remember to click the 5 when typing.
@FAE Yeah, I figured you'd like that colour scheme. It was my favourite one.
 
11:44 AM
GIMP isn't that bad. You just need to invest a bit of time.
 
Photoshop and gaming are pretty much the only reason I still run a dual-boot.
 
@FEichinger Also this. Everything I want to do these days I can do on the web, except for Photoshop.
 
Then again, usually I do vector graphics nowadays anyway, so Inkscape is almost perfect.
@fredley Meh. I don't like webapps.
 
@FEichinger I do.
 
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11:48 AM
@Wipqozn It is on a picture on the internet, so it must be true!
 
@FAE I can't tell if it's a staff or the handle of a really long and impractical blade.
 
@fredley are you still on life support?
 
@FEichinger O Gods, Inkscape. The amount of fail they managed to cram into the filters is unbelievable. Try it out, add a bunch of simple filtered objects (even something as ubiquitous as "blur" will do) and watch it slow down to a crawl.
 
@badp No
 
11:50 AM
@fredley A classic.
 
@fredley phew.
 
@badp Although I still have chest pain, and it's annoying
 
@MartinSojka To be fair, there's little in terms of filters that needs to be done on vector graphics.
Inkscape definitely can't replace Photoshop - and it's not intended as such.
 
Inkscape is meant to be Illustrator anyway, isn't it?
 
Pretty much. Bit more focused than Illustrator, but yeh.
 
11:55 AM
@FEichinger If you have any kind of background/foreground, you need blur to distinguish them unless you're doing highly abstract style. Same for movement (motion blur), light effects (bokeh), reflection (especially off anything not 100% flat, like water surfaces), ...
 
@MartinSojka ...that sounds more like a pixel shader than something .svg should support
 
@MartinSojka That seems like something I really would do in a raster editor instead.
I can't think of an instance where you'd really need that - and get satisfying results with - in a vector graphic.
 
@badp SVG filters are very close to fixed-pipeline shaders..
 
@MartinSojka Fair enough.
I wonder what the browser support for them is
SVG support tends already to be not awesome to awful
 
@badp Surprisingly good, after a quick test.
 
12:03 PM
@FEichinger like, IE6 surprisingly good?
 
@badp Like "it works on modern browsers without setting your PC on fire"
 
@FEichinger As in, kalina didn't contribute code to any of them?
 
@badp I will not comment on this.
 
There's a (NSFW) vector image on Wikipedia Commons I like to use for tests. Firefox takes a few seconds. :) (The file name is "Anime_Girl.svg", so you can about guess the contents).
 
(No, not those flags)
 
12:12 PM
@fredley Second one is a fail. Curry is a British national food, not Indian.
 
@MartinSojka British but also Indian.
Butter Chicken (which is what they should have called it) is actually that colour
 
I'm very sure there are a lot of masalas which are used with chicken dishes and would have that or a close colour. Just none of them are called "curry". ;)
 
@MartinSojka Yes, but curry == Indian for most of the English speaking world.
Curry just means 'mixture of spices' anyway, so it's not wrong
 
Is this funny?
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Ignorance shouldn't be spread. :D
 
12:18 PM
@3ventic where is that?
 
@Blem Stack Exchange
 
@MartinSojka Too late for that
 
> No sense in worrying about something you won't be around to clean up, that's our motto!
O_O
 
@3ventic there is street view at stackexchange?
 
@3ventic SE is on Google Streetview?
 
12:19 PM
Yes.
 
@3ventic ...link
 
@3ventic Seriously considering filing a bug report on meta about that Arcade machine
Should be Arqade machine
 
@fredley Typo, obviously
 
@3ventic finally
 
12:23 PM
 
hi there
 
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Q: Spelling error: 'Arcade' instead of 'Arqade'

fredleyI spotted an instance where it mistakenly says Arcade instead of Arqade. Given it's the name of the site, this is a pretty serious error.

 
@fredley You should also contact X-Arcade
 
@5pike With what?
 
@fredley That they spelled arcade wrong. It's obviously arqade
 
12:27 PM
cc: @LessPop_MoreFizz
 
I blame google auto-correct — Oded 40 secs ago
haha
 
@Blem EMOTION
 
 
@3ventic their downstairs area is a maze
I hope they have some navigation software thing
 
Yeah
Don't worry, Google can give them directions.
 
12:31 PM
@3ventic I don't think they work inside buildings
Like, you can have maps and multiple floors but I'm not sure about directions. Mostly a problem of positioning I'd assume
Also you might have to be a museum or maybe a shopping mall.
I dunno.
 
You can do old fashioned directions
 
@3ventic Find all 42!
@Unionhawk "Go five cubicles hexacles down the corridor and ask again?"
 
I found there Monetization Plan
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@Blem but how do you make money out of bags with dollar signs on it? Merchandise?
 
12:34 PM
@Blem It's . . . brilliant
 
@badp But it's empty!
 
@Arperum backtrack
 
omg
why
apple why
so much torture
"Some debugging features require you to enter your password. Enabling Developer Mode authorizes Xcode to perform these functions without requiring your password for each session."
WHY would i start an development environment if not for developing?
do apple folks start photoshop to listen to music?!
they really force me to hate them
 
@Wandang well it's simple, apple just develops the software but doesn't debug it
 
@3ventic there is more than one!
 
12:40 PM
@Wandang apple pls
 
@KevinvanderVelden "do you want to enable the music mode in itunes? prepare for the consequences"
 
 
@Blem are that ladylegs?
btw i fixed my mac
it is crucial for a mac to have keyboard and mouse while it is installing a new os because suck it
 
Wind chill of "really really cold", class isn't cancelled T_T
 
@Wandang think so, there is also nail polish on the hands
 
12:43 PM
so i reinstalled without beeing able to do anything and watch the installbar to go forward for 60 min
because general drivers for all keyboards would be to MUCH right?
even if there is NO prompt through the entire installation
@Blem does not say much. trust me
 
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Q: How do I light an unlit torch?

z7sgI have crafted a quality torch (unlit) and now I want to light it but I can't work out how. I've tried combining it with my campfire or the lighter but it just reverses the torch into wood and kindling.

 
HamStare @Wandang
 
@Wandang ಠ_ಠ
 
@Blem btw that would be the weirdest sexparty ever if all would have animalheads
 
Ved
Back
 
12:45 PM
why do you guys hamstare me at once every time
2
can @Unionhawk trigger @fredley
wb @Ved
 
Yes
 
HamStare @Wandang
 
@Wandang ಠ_ಠ
 
lol!?
 
@Wandang anyone can trigger the hamstaring
 
12:46 PM
HamStare @fredley
 
@Wandang "What Does The Fox Say"
 
Ved
@Wandang t
 
I'm going to assume the unicorn was Joel Spolsky all along.
 
HamStare @badp
 
@badp ಠ_ಠ
 
12:47 PM
You broke it
 
so fred is our slave
@badp what does the cock say?
 
...
....
Wat
 
c'mon...
 
@fredley As a moderator, would you disable the hamstare script, since you'd be lending the mod weight to automated disapproving stares of whoever felt like using them?
 
I'm off to the frozen. If I die, set my gravatar to badp 's, so I can confuse badp.
 
12:52 PM
Important, hard-hitting question!
 
Batman works at SE and has an unopened barbie on his desk
 
@Sterno The HamStare script would only be usable by other mods
 
 
@fredley make me a mod, fixed :)
 
@Wandang yes!
 
12:53 PM
@Blem you have a strange workplace
 
@Blem wut?
 
@Wandang I dont work there
 
@Blem Lies. Assuming this is a picture of @Blem at work
 
I work at a boring consulting agency where they want people to wear suits and ties
 
@Sterno I dropped by medic in favour of an Arcanist. I do plan to use Medic for it's subclass once I unlock subclassing.
 
12:54 PM
@Blem is Barbie Batman
 
@Blem I refused a job offer because they wanted me to wear a suit.
 
@Arperum I usualy don't wear suite and tie either, but i do wear nice dress shirts
 
@Blem I go to work in bandshirts, client meetings? -> band shirt, but in those cases I make sure that there are no skulls or something like that on them.
 
@Blem i have such a big smile on my face right now. you lighten up my day
i have no customer contact so i am allowed to wear whatever i please
i already came with a jogging suit and nobody cared
 
1:17 PM
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Q: Where did 'Soon™' originate?

Nick TI've seen coming Soon™ attached to some Valve and Blizzard products, but did it start with one of them (and if so, which)? What was the first game (or other product) that was to be launched with the blatantly tongue-in-cheek Soon™?

 
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Q: Minecraft SP help

GCS kingson23My sister is using minecraft SP and she wanted to download mods so much but she had no idea on how and stuff like that. Can minecraft SP even download mods? If can,please teach me!

0
Q: Falskaar - quest stuck in Bearclaw cave

RexI'm supposed to get the key from Bearclaw cave. I can see the quest marker on the floor, but there's no damn key anywhere to be found around it. I tried looking for the quest ID so I could reset it, but it's not documented anywhere I could see. Any fixes?

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Q: Do small-resolution resource/texture packs really have an effect on performance?

Ryan CarlsonI've seen 8x8 and smaller resource/texture packs that claim to increase performance, but then other people comment saying that there is no difference. Who is right?

 
@Arperum Shouldn't that be closed for historical trivia?
 
@Wipqozn that will probably be sufficient.
 
@Arperum I like wearing suits, but having to wear one everyday for work seems a bit too much for me.
 
@Yuki I don't even own a suit.
 
1:24 PM
@Sterno Most likely, yes. In EOU I just used delay heal, so it's not like I was healing every turn anyways. Dismiss Heal + Party (or line) heal should be sufficent to always keep my party from dying. Especially since my Fortress (buffs+shielding) and Arcanist (binds+debuffs) will ensure my party is taking decreased damage a lot anyways. I also have a Nightseeker which can inflict ailments like paralyze or blind to help reduce how often my team takes damage.
 
@Wipqozn I bought this on Amazon the other day. Not sure when I'll get to actually play it, though
 
When I died in EOU it was normally because enemies just deal too much damage, and not because I wasn't able to heal quick enough. Once I started using Shelter Song and Immunizer the game became a lot easier since they did such a great job at negating damage.
@StrixVaria Which one did you buy?
 
Untold
 
Excellent.
 
It's 3rd in the queue after I finish what I'm playing, but since I have like 1.5-2 dedicated hours per day of play time while I'm on the train, it'll still go pretty quick.
 
1:27 PM
I plan to play Untold against at some point. well, first I actually need to go back and beat the super final hidden boss, but I do plan to make a new game in it as well.
I think if play again I might run a party with two alchemists + a hexer on the back line. Not sure what my front linners would be. Maybe a Dark Hunter and a Bard.
Bard should provide enough healing when I've got Shelter Song + Debuffs + Ailments + binds to negate/prevent damage.
 
I got Untold from the eShop when it was (not sure if it still is) on sale for $20
Currently playing story mode very slowly grinding my way through the floors
 
Epic stop motion action figure battles are epic
 
SELECT '/' + articleNumber + '-' + remarks, articleNumber FROM @xcooling somehow has the first column being NULL and the second one isn't. WTF SQL.
 
@Arperum no, because for the seven hundredth time, in spite of my regrettable turn of phrase, historical trivia is not off topic.
 
@Arperum uuh, that's not a WTF, remarks is NULL
Concatenation of a string and a NULL value returns a NULL value, regardless of whether the NULL value is the left or right hand argument
 
1:43 PM
@KevinvanderVelden fuck you SQL. Why do you do this to me? No fair.
 
There are lots of historical trivia questions that are off topic for other reasons "What was the first game with bullet time?" Is basically ITG. "Why does Mario wear red?" Is basically developer intent. And lots of others, are terrible questions that deserve many downvotes.
But they aren't off topic.
 
Oh, is that "Historical Trivia" debate coming up again?
 
There's no debate. Just a handful of people who haven't been able to grasp that I am an inarticulate dummy.
 
It feels like this comes up every few months and the result is always the same: Yes they're usually dumb, but they're not off-topic.
 
I don't think this one is off topic because it's trivia so much as I don't think the phrase (or its origin) has anything to do with gaming
 
1:46 PM
I regret ever writing those two words in combination. :(
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz The answer to "Why does Mario wear red?" is actually "Hardware limitations".
 
Good morning, Bridge
4
 
@Martin I know that. But thanks for missing the point.
 
@Frank Morning @Frank
 
@MartinSojka I don't see any references to the color being because of hardware limitations. The cap was hardware though
Also, morning.
 
1:50 PM
Unless it's asking for the origin of the phrase itself (which probably didn't originate in games either), its basically asking since when did software (or games, a subset of software) not have fixed release dates, the answer to which is since forever
 
@PrivatePansy I'd guess the question is, why/since when are blizzard and valve using this phrase
 
@privatepansy he is asking about the phrase itself, I'm pretty sure.
I have very strong memories of a blizzard CM using the ™ for the first time mid-BC and people on the forums mocking the shit out of it.
 
Ah, so it's actually a thing, fair enough
 
I wonder if the first game with bullet time did it entirely by accident
 
Wasn't it Max Payne?
 
1:58 PM
@KevinvanderVelden At least for the NES version (couldn't tell you about the original arcade machine, friggin' hard to get the exact specs for that), you had a palette of all of 54 colours, from which you could display 25 at the same time (though there are tricks to create more) and you had to pick three out of those for any sprite. Like Mario's spirte. This limits the colours you can use if you want the character to not blend with the background too much.
 
@Sconibulus @Sterno: "Back in my days, we didn't have any of this fancy bullet time, we had lag. And we liked it that way!"
 
like, all the bullets cause an FPS drop, and the game is coded in movement by frames, so time literally slows when there's too many bullets
 

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