The Bridge

FEichinger

15:00

I love how I can just stay away from my PC for an hour or two and come back to another +30 rep.

Kevin van der Velden

@FEichinger simple solution. Self delete your question

If that's still possible

Jason Berkan

He can't delete it at this point.

FEichinger

@KevinvanderVelden It's answered.

So I can't.

Origami Robot

@JasonBerkan Don't worry, I will sacrifice my account to save yours.

Kevin van der Velden

Bleh

Unionhawk

15:01

@fredley I--wh--uh--er--

FEichinger

@OrigamiRobot ♥

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot Such heroics.

FEichinger

You were precognitive, weren't you?

Origami Robot

@FEichinger No, I am a robot.

Tim Stone

@OrigamiRobot The gentlest of men. My hat's off to you.

Origami Robot

15:03

I didn't know you wore a hat.

Tim Stone

@FEichinger No one hates doge, they just doge like it.

Origami Robot

I guess you don't anymore, because it's off to me.

Tim Stone

@OrigamiRobot SE sent me a moderator hat

Powerlord

Firefox 28 doesn't seem to like The Bridge and lags when I scroll up and down, but only on this tab.

Ben Brocka

Good news! Upcoming PS4 update to add Share enhancements, rich video editing, HDCP off, more: http://bit.ly/1eRX9hq http://t.co/udWNE0xseZ

Tweeted by PlayStation on March 19, 2014 at 3:04 PM

Unionhawk

15:05

Oh good, someone found the star button again

Ben Brocka

Burn HDCP, burn

Yuki

I'm just gonna guess either someone just found the star button or someone cleared the stars on "Good morning, Bridge" again and we have another protest.

Kevin van der Velden

I'm gonna guess someone is being an idiot

That's usually pretty damn accurate in my experience

Raven Dreamer

@fredley It was struck through. clearly ironic.

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden True in either case

Origami Robot

15:06

Well we know who it isn't.

Frank

Yep, someone's being an idiot.

StrixVaria

What is going on? :(

Powerlord

Ha, I just saw this on The DailyWTF's forum

Kevin van der Velden

Idiots are invading the bridge

Powerlord

StrixVaria

15:07

I blame @Wipqozn

Unionhawk

1 min ago, by Unionhawk

Oh good, someone found the star button again

Origami Robot

I support mass starring.

Powerlord

Assuming that uploaded properly since work in blocking imgur again this week

> There are stars in space, but spaces aren't allowed here.

Name the game!

user15026

....*goes back to bed rather than dealing with this because, well, she can do nothing via mobile and really it is childish behavior*

StrixVaria

@Powerlord Mavis*Beacon*Teaches*Typing

Frank

15:09

Whoever it is will run out of stars before long.

Unionhawk

Since cleared stars don't refund, this person's bound to run out soon.

Powerlord

@StrixVaria Nope. I want to say that's the right era, though.

Ben Brocka

@AshleyNunn Mod tools are useless for mass-starers anyway

Unionhawk

Though at this point I suspect it's more than one

user15026

Other than clearing yeah, but that's not mod only anyhow.

Powerlord

15:10

> Skipping threes and skipping fives is how one derives the answer to this wordy tale... you cannot win, you're bound to fail.

(same game, same puzzle, but this time it's Sta... er... the bad guy taunting you)

Tim Stone

@BenBrocka Chat should probably raise a flag for n stars in a given period

Frank

Feel free to owner me, and I'll clear out the stars.

Origami Robot

Clearly they want the stars to be cleared so they can complain about it.

user15026

@timstone that would be effective.

Ben Brocka

@TimStone That or some way under Room to find recent mass-starers

Unionhawk

15:11

@OrigamiRobot Probably

I blame @FEichinger

user15026

There should also be a less time consuming way to clear them.

Origami Robot

And to clear them is to give them far more attention than they deserve.

user15026

@origami in some rooms, it would be more of a problem than it is here, I think.

StrixVaria

This is how @FEichinger is protesting clearing the Good Morning stars.

He's making us hate clearing stars.

FEichinger

@StrixVaria Which hasn't happened this time, so it's not me.

Unionhawk

15:13

@FEichinger A LIKELY STORY

Wait... shit

FEichinger

@Unionhawk Sucks that I got starred as well, huh?

Unionhawk

That kinda just proved it right there.

Origami Robot

I confess to being the mass starrer.

user15026

@feichinger unless you have a co-conspirator ;)

Origami Robot

I hired @Unionhawk to only star my messages so you'd never know.

StrixVaria

15:14

Ok I just cleared a ton of stars but I have work to do so someone else please un-fuck the room.

Origami Robot

2 mins ago, by Origami Robot

And to clear them is to give them far more attention than they deserve.

StrixVaria

@Mod team please figure out who did this and ban them forever. That will solve the problem.

user15026

@origami letting them clutter the star list is also allowing them more than they deserve.

StrixVaria

Someone with backend database vision could figure out who did this.

Origami Robot

@AshleyNunn Single starred messages move off hte list pretty quickly if there are more highly starred messages.

Unionhawk

15:16

How about if you get more than like, 5 stars cleared in a short enough period of time, then you're done starring for the day. Or something.

Frank

Mods can see who flagged something, shouldn't stars be the same?

Unionhawk

Having to have 20 stars cleared before you're done is way too many

Yuki

I wonder if this is our version of the "Indian Hacker Team": Elect us as mods or we'll spam random stars in the Bridge.

user15026

@frank I suspect Stars are considered low level chat stuff and thus relatively unimportant.

StrixVaria

@Unionhawk Or banned.

Unionhawk

15:17

@StrixVaria Repeat offenders will be deleted from time and space

StrixVaria

@Frank I don't think they can see the flagger for offensive flags, just mod flags.

Powerlord

@Unionhawk Baelfire isn't a good solution to this problem.

Unionhawk

@StrixVaria The data is there for mods, but slightly hidden

Frank

@StrixVaria To my knowledge, who flagged what is exposed to mods.

Origami Robot

@Frank That's an unintended loophole.

Unionhawk

15:19

@OrigamiRobot You're an unintended loophole

Frank

Room owners need a user script to autoclear stars when turned on.

StrixVaria

HamUnstar @all

Unionhawk

@Frank No. But I do think there needs to be an easier way to do it. And a way to stop it before it gets out of hand.

fredley

HamStar @StrixVaria

Well that doesn't work any more

StrixVaria

Glancing through the user list, almost everyone here is a regular, and anyone who is not a regular has been idle for a while.

Mad Scientist

15:21

@OrigamiRobot Not sure, it also could be intendend and just nobody ever bothered to write the UI for it

StrixVaria

You can star things without un-idling, but that would take a lot of planning.

Frank

@StrixVaria You can star through transcript, I believe.

StrixVaria

@Frank Oh is that true?

Frank

Yes, you can.

Tim Stone

Starring doesn't change your position in the room list, only posting messages.

Frank

15:22

@fredley I just starred this.

Origami Robot

17 minutes of star talk.

Tim Stone

Many of the "inactive" people have been seen recently, so they are still actively connected to chat too.

StrixVaria

So the fact that you can star through transcript means you could be doing this without even being in the room.

Unionhawk

@Frank No, I'm almost certain that's not true.

Frank

55 secs ago, by Frank

@fredley I just starred this.

Unionhawk

15:23

@Frank status-norepro

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk You have to do it through the action menu.

Unionhawk

Ah I see

...

Origami Robot

NOOB

Tim Stone

It's not as convenient as being in the room, unless you wrote a userscript to change the behaviour.

Frank

@Unionhawk Down arrow, star as interesting.

StrixVaria

15:24

There's only one course of action we can take now.

Delete all the accounts.

Unionhawk

@Frank Yup, I see it now. I use that as often as I use the reply button inside that dropdown, so...

Powerlord

@StrixVaria I think we should start with @StrixVaria, then @Kermit

Ben Brocka

Heads-up developers: here's an update on new PlayStation support for GameMaker:Studio, Unity and MonoGame tools: http://bit.ly/1dd6eXp

Tweeted by PlayStationEU on March 19, 2014 at 3:07 PM

Niiice. Lame as GameMaker sounds, Risk of Rain and 10 second Ninja are Gamemaker games

Powerlord

Wait, so I can see the Kermit image, but not the one I uploaded earlier?

Lazers

0

Q: What server spec would I need for these servers

I'm currently hosting a MineCraft and TeamSpeak server on my web hosting account, which works but they aren't great, so I'm going to switch so something else. I'm thinking either pay for another server hosting account somewhere and just use that for hosting MC, TS etc, or building a PC to leave ...

hosting

Kevin van der Velden

15:27

Oooooooh

The new oculus rift dev kit is available

Tim Stone

0

Q: Provide a way to determine which user is spamming stars in chat

As a compliment or alternative to not refunding cancelled stars, it'd be nice if chat would auto-raise a flag identifying someone starring n items in x minutes, or at least provide a list of unsually active starrers that could be consulted when there was a problem. While star-spam is fairly low ...

feature-request chat moderator-tools chat-stars

k

@Powerlord Animated gifs are their own deterrent, or something.

Frank

@TimStone "unsually"?

Tim Stone

I blame Chrome's spell check for flaking out sometimes.

Sconibulus

I don't know if the meta mods are quite aware how SHINY stars are...

or how easily distracted The Bridge is

Lazers

0

Q: Is there an alternative method to unlocking story-mode characters?

One of the things I do at my office is murder everyone in MK9. It would be best if I had the maximal amount of characters with which to exact vengeance on my coworkers. However, while we can find 15 minutes for a few quick rounds, playing through the story mode to unlock cyber Sub-Zero and Quan-...

mortal-kombat-9

Origami Robot

15:34

@TimStone I downvoted this for breaking my headcanon again.

fredley

[Goes to the bridge to star every message, just to see what happens] — Robert Harvey ♦ 1 min ago

GnomeSlice

@TimStone coughsoundcloudcough

Unionhawk

Wait a minute. Cleared stars are refunded currently?

GnomeSlice

Cargo! The Quest for Gravity is $2 (80% off) on Steam

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk I assume so, based on the linked question.

GnomeSlice

15:38

Very strange game, but pretty fun.

Unionhawk

THAT'S LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD

Tim Stone

I'm not aware of anything stating that was changed.

Jason Berkan

I find it funny that we are now using the comments on the meta question to derail it... The Bridge wins again!

3

Origami Robot

@TimStone I WILL SCIENCE THIS

Tim Stone

SCIENCE!

Powerlord

15:40

Remember Me is on sale on Steam this week.

I didn't play it when it came out, but I think I might for $10

Unionhawk

You might as well science whether or not you can star when suspended by banning @OrigamiRobot too

2

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk Will do

@TimStone Scumbag rate limiting.

GnomeSlice

So Gamejolt launched this new thing: gamejolt.fm

Tim Stone

I know, right? It's the worst.

GnomeSlice

It's a randomized playlist of all the game music on the site.

Interesting.

If you like game music, check it out I guess

Origami Robot

15:47

Cancelled stars are not refunded.

Unionhawk

9 mins ago, by Unionhawk

THAT'S LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD

Tim Stone

@OrigamiRobot I'm confused though, since I'm fairly certain more than 20 messages were starred. So I guess multiple people were involved.

Unionhawk

Wait. I read that incorrectly

...

Tim Stone

Oh, did you try and star a different message than the one I cleared the star on by the way? I don't think you can restar the same message.

Origami Robot

Wait, I mean cleared stars are not refunded. If I cancel my own star, it is refunded.

Kevin van der Velden

15:51

@Unionhawk were you wrong again?

Origami Robot

@TimStone I did indeed.

Tim Stone

Okay, just making sure we covered all the bases.

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden Just, shut your face.

:P

Kevin van der Velden

^,^

GnomeSlice

19

A: How do you get the different color birds in flappy bird?

Your bird is randomly assigned a colour every time you start playing. When you die and start over, you get a new colour. The colours were not available at launch, but were added in a later update. Your friend may have an older version of the game. Since the game is no longer available for dow...

This is not a +19 answer

grumbe grumble popularity contest grumble

Unionhawk

15:53

If you really have a problem with people upvoting that, then maybe posting it here periodically isn't the best way to handle that.

Jason Berkan

@GnomeSlice What is a +19 answer? Relative vote counts only matter within the question. Outside of that, they have no meaning.

Which is why I think question vote counts are irrelevant. What are you comparing them to?

SaintWacko

@GnomeSlice I don't understand what you mean by "popularity contest". I really don't think that's valid here

GnomeSlice

@JasonBerkan I guess

Origami Robot

@TimStone Even if I clear my own star, I don't get it back.

The only way to get stars refunded seems to be unstarring your own star.

SaintWacko

@JasonBerkan To some extent, although there are clear differences between good and bad questions

Origami Robot

15:55

@JasonBerkan A miserable pile of secrets?

Jason Berkan

@SaintWacko Yes, but you cannot compare a +2 to a +10. Often the only difference there is the number of eyeballs that saw the question.

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot I know that's a game reference, I just can't remember to what

@JasonBerkan Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I agree with you there

GnomeSlice

Today's Listening

badp

Out of curiosity is anybody else consistently complaining about the removal of "Good Morning, Bridge" stars other than FEi?

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice saw the crosspost to Gamasutra, interesting read

FEichinger

15:57

@badp @Arperum, for one.

Or @KevinvanderVelden ... I dunno, their gravatars are confusing.

Unionhawk

@badp I've seen other people complain, yes. I really don't care, personally, and don't see why it's a big deal. But apparently it is. I dunno.

@FEichinger @Arperum == @KevinvanderVelden

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk clearly

FEichinger

@Unionhawk I just said their gravatars are confusing!

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum has been complaining, I don't like it out of principle because other peoples don't like it

Unionhawk

@FEichinger Therefore they are the same person QED. I'm not sure what other conclusion you can draw here.

Origami Robot

15:59

@TimStone You can suspend me for 30 minutes if we really need to test starring from suspension. I'm about to go to lunch so I wont be here anyway.

Kevin van der Velden

So, I've been expressing my support for the complaining I guess?

FEichinger

@Unionhawk No, I said I'm not sure which of them it was, but I know it was one of them. YOU ARE WRONG. ACCEPT THAT FACT. EMBRACE IT.

Origami Robot

TOO LATE I'M LEAVING

GnomeSlice

Why can't we ever discuss things like adults in here?

Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice because adults are boring!

badp

16:01

Kevin van der Velden

Also, most of us are adults, therefor anything we discuss we discuss like adults

GnomeSlice

@badp What's the highest tile you've gotten in Threes so far?

That game is hard man

badp

768

Frank

Well, that was easy. Got myself an interview.

GnomeSlice

@badp WTF

Wow. I've gotten 192 a couple times, that's it.

Frank

16:03

@badp Not I. I honestly don't really care.

GnomeSlice

@badp I'm going to ask a Q about threes in a bit, maybe you can answer

badp

GnomeSlice

@badp Jesus Christ, that's like 10x my best score too

Also does the leaderboards button do nothing for you too?

badp

@GnomeSlice Every new level of tiles is worth much more than the previous

GnomeSlice

@badp Yeah, I know.

I've only gotten a 192 like three times

badp

16:07

@GnomeSlice It says I'm in the top 2% and @Ian's best score is 6921.

Ben Brocka

2% of the users control 98% of the trees

badp

For some reason I'm 22nd on the global leaderboards for "most 768"s

Tied for 1st at 1.

(Those leaderboards track the amount of 768s you had at game over.)

Speaking of which, only one person is on the Most 6144s leaderboards with an unlikely 2.

GnomeSlice

Weird, when I press the leaderboard button it just shows the loading thing and then does nothing

badp

1,124,250 points.

...only 29 people on record with a 1,536, too.

Those are strangely low numbers.

GnomeSlice

News on GameMaker:Studio, Unity and MonoGame developer tools for PlayStation systems

@badp Game hasn't been out on android for very long

Wipqozn

16:12

@StrixVaria Me too, that guy's a jerk.

Also I have no idea what I'm being blamed for and I'm too lazy to look at the surrounding context.

badp

@Wipqozn World hunger.

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn mass starring, again

Wipqozn

@badp Oh, well I did just have a delightful meal cooked by my grandmother. I suppose you could say I'm taking food out of the mouths of the poor.

GnomeSlice

I didn't do it. — GnomeSlice 38 mins ago

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden Sounds about right.

@GnomeSlice Don't worry. We only blame you for flags, not stars.

GnomeSlice

16:17

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There's a new Oddworld game coming??

:o

@kalina @Frank shallow-space.com

Ben Brocka

I thought was revealed around last year's E3

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice I never played the first ones.

I've heard good things though. A bit of a cult hit, isn';t it?

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Me neither, but mostly because I didn't have the means.

Everyone says they're good.

@BenBrocka Have you heard anything about Organic Panic lately? Is it out yet?

Ben Brocka

Not yet, there was an update a bit ago though, sounds like they're finishing up all the ports

GnomeSlice

Sweet.

Ben Brocka

16:24

Oh, here's the post: kickstarter.com/projects/1168870049/…

I guess they're prepping the pc beta

GnomeSlice

So apparently the Humble Weekly Sale - SEGA is different if you live in Germany

Typing of the dead is switched for sonic all stars racing

weird.

@BenBrocka I assume PC is coming before the other platforms?

Ben Brocka

they have an ("indie") publisher now so they might be launching simultanious. Their first build was 360 though and they were actually working on porting TO PC when I talked to them ages ago

3ventic

Is this new?

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka Oh, word

StrixVaria

@3ventic Huh. I'd never heard of that before.

Ben Brocka

16:29

@3ventic no, was rolled out in beta a while ago with a bunch of channels

Unionhawk

@3ventic It's recent, but not totally new

Ben Brocka

Got a revised version of that Tap Tap sketch from a while ago

3ventic

I can't find the place where you set the video that it recommends when someone watches one of your videos..

Ben Brocka

@3ventic channel trailer?

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka You should see if you can get a review code for Running with Rifles and Coin Crypt

Ben Brocka

16:30

should be a button in your channel that says "+ channel trailer" if you don't have one

I really need to make one of those

Unionhawk

@3ventic I think what you want it under Channel Settings->InVideo Programming

badp

@BenBrocka It should be 15 minutes of you getting stuck in all sorts of things. Because you're so full of spikes.

Ben Brocka

If I ever get an animated intro I want it to be a Tap Tap falling in from the sky and crushing a keyboard

3ventic

@Unionhawk That was it, thanks

Ben Brocka

I was thinking just a brief explaination that I play video james and snark and here's random ass clips of games I played and liked

Wipqozn

16:35

@BenBrocka Man, now I want to play Dark souls 2.

Thanks a lot @BenBrocka.

Ben Brocka

Are there adorable near-invincible anthropomorphic spikeballs of death in Dark Souls 2?

Frank

Took no time at all to get sucked back into FF X.

Ben Brocka

So I found the best Octocat image

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka I can do that.

StrixVaria

@Frank I don't think I would enjoy playing FFX again at this point.

GnomeSlice

16:41

> Copod is a roguelite where you have to survive as a small creature in a strange world. All you want is to find a flower to impress your mate so you can continue to the next generation, but there are many other creatures that are in your way. Find eggs to hatch friends to help you out or sacrifice them for more health. Kill and scavenge for varied powers that you give you a temporary abilities and get evolutions to improve your odds of survival.

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StrixVaria

Every game is a roguelike or roguelikelike or roguelite or something nowadays.

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice How much? Probably want something super short, maybe 10 seconds. I don't like long intros myself so I don't want to subject viewerrs to 'em

Arperum

@StrixVaria And you are not the first to complain about that :) I remember @yuki going on about it multiple times.

Ben Brocka

@StrixVaria Really? I think the combat system has aged well, ATB without the waiting

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka Depends. Would you be able to provide visual assets? Preferably vectors.

StrixVaria

16:44

@BenBrocka Yes, I still like the combat system. Everything else about the game, though, I don't want to deal with.

Especially Blitzball.

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria I watched my sister play FFX and blitzball looked like the best part

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice unfortunately no. Have been thinking about but haven't done/bought any visual assets for the channel. Aside from the avatar commission above (think it looks better now?)

People either love or hate blitzball. Personally I just spammed Sphere shot and got bored quickly

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka Better than what? The previous revision? Or your current one.

It would be better if it were coloured

Also, you're Sir Tap Tap, he should have a sword or a crown or something

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice It's a sketch it'll be colored

spugsley

@KevinvanderVelden Thank you! :D @FEichinger and I are VERY HAPPY!

Ben Brocka

16:48

The Sir was just added so I could have a unique, short name. It might be cute to have a tophat or monocle on something sometime but I'm not sure I want it part of "official"/common avatars

I don't actually like honoricfics

FEichinger

@spugsley ಠ_ಠ

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice I just meant better than the prev sketch, good enough to be colored. It's a cheap commision anyway so I don't really want to ask for more changes anyway though

Unionhawk

@spugsley Lies. @FEichinger has one state: grumpy.

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka Yeah, it looks pretty good.

Wipqozn

@Arperum @StrixVaria was complaining about things before complaining about things was cool.

spugsley

16:49

@Unionhawk I know. But he is happy grumpy

Ben Brocka

Arg my MGS Ground Zeros will arrive AFTER Second Son

Never getting a newegg preorder again if it doesn't have Shoprunner 2 day shipping. Which apparently preorders lack

FEichinger

@spugsley No, he is not.

spugsley

@FEichinger you say no but really you're saying yes :D

Wipqozn

Man, I miss the days when @StrixVaria used to call everything stupid. I can't remember the last time he called something stupid.

FEichinger

@spugsley ...

StrixVaria

16:52

Mar 15 at 1:54, by StrixVaria

This is stupid.

Not really that long ago.

Ben Brocka

@Wipqozn That was stupid

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn Also it's not that infrequent.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn You so stupid!!!!

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka That's unfortunate, but I can probably still help you out. Let me know when you decide you want something like this done.

Powerlord

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Ben Brocka

16:54

@GnomeSlice I can talk out some ideas later on Steam or something

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka Sure.

@BenBrocka do you know if you're getting your avatar commission as a vector?

Ben Brocka

PNG I think

Wipqozn

I deserved all of this.

badp

Oculus Rift Dev Kit v2 (!= Crystal Cove) on sale today for $350

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria It seems I've just been missing it. My word. How stupid of me.

fredley

16:59

One of the downsides of being a high-rep user is that you can't use tag-wiki edits to offset downvotes

badp

@fredley It's okay, you're a mod anyway

fredley

@badp I know, but cap

I could feasibly cap for a third day off the doge question

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