The Bridge

FEichinger

3:00 AM

@spugsley The quote.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@spugsley presumably the terrible tv synopsis.

GnomeSlice

I'm wearing two pairs of pants.

spugsley

@FEichinger :/

LessPop_MoreFizz

If it's acceptable for network television, it's not flag worthy goddamnit.

FEichinger

@LessPop_MoreFizz While I agree, "language!" is kinda relevant.

Mostly because, as I said, we had just gotten out of a flag mess.

GnomeSlice

3:01 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Trailer Park Boys was on television

Penny Dreadful is on TV and it had a weird sex scene with an invisible demon

Unionhawk

Isn't the bridge in a perpetual state of just got out of a flag mess?

FEichinger

@Unionhawk Actually, the Bridge had been surprisingly clear of flags for weeks.

It just started to get messy again a few days ago.

Trent Hawkins

@GnomeSlice so were scrambled 'adult' channels that you could juuuust make out if you fiddled with your vertical hold.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@gnomeslice cable tv != network tv

spugsley

@GnomeSlice I want to watch this show. Is it good?

Unionhawk

3:03 AM

Shh details

LessPop_MoreFizz

Penny Dreadful? Its thoroughly meh.

GnomeSlice

@spugsley I watched a couple of episodes. It was a little hard to follow. Very dark.

Didn't really grab me though.

FEichinger

@spugsley "it had a weird sex scene with an invisible demon" is not an immediate sell for you?

spugsley

@FEichinger sadly no. American Horror Story had lots of weird sex but I fucking hated it

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Spugsley if you're going to watch a weird 19th century drama on cable, watch The Knick because holy shit The Knick is good.

FEichinger

3:04 AM

@spugsley That is truly disappointing.

spugsley

@LessPop_MoreFizz hmm never heard of it. I'll take a peek

StrixVaria

@spugsley I didn't understand what people liked about this. I watched the first season. It really seemed like they were making it up as they went along.

spugsley

@FEichinger it is much disappoint

FEichinger

@spugsley ಠ_ಠ

spugsley

@StrixVaria I know! It was completely senseless

LessPop_MoreFizz

3:05 AM

Clive Owen is a brilliant doctor in a hospital in NYC in 1900

GnomeSlice

Penny Dreadful also has a monster willie in it

spugsley

@GnomeSlice willie like penis?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Directed by Steven Soderbergh who is brilliant.

GnomeSlice

Yes. Frankenstein's monster.

spugsley

hmm

LessPop_MoreFizz

3:06 AM

Like I can't talk up the Knick enough. It's something special. Also super gory so don't watch after eating.

GnomeSlice

I have been watching Breaking Bad

And it is pretty excellent.

Was kind of expecting more tits though

But I mean Game of Thrones next, so I guess I'm covered

Lazers

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LessPop_MoreFizz

@Gnomeslice ... Honestly.

spugsley

@GnomeSlice I fucking love Breaking Bad. It just gets better and better.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Please. Develop a goddamn filter.

spugsley

3:11 AM

@GnomeSlice only the first and second season. It gets much less booby over time

GnomeSlice

@spugsley It just keeps getting better, I know!

LessPop_MoreFizz

GnomeSlice

I'm into season... uh three? now? The cartel guys just tried to [redacted] Walt

spugsley

@LessPop_MoreFizz you can't really talk :/ Last night you posted a link about animal sex

2

LessPop_MoreFizz

The redacted word is hug everybody.

spugsley

3:12 AM

@GnomeSlice Omg I wish I had never seen it so I could go back and watch it all over again without knowing what would happen

GnomeSlice

Lol

Also his wife found out that he's a [redacted]

And she's trying to [redacted] him

lumbricus lubricant

@LessPop_MoreFizz Is what is on this question true?

spugsley

@GnomeSlice bahahaha

lumbricus lubricant

2

Q: Is there a home of New York-style pizza in NYC?

Much like how when visiting Buffalo, and trying to get a bite of Buffalo Wings, anybody can go to any bar or restaurant to try one, but the "original" wings are at the Anchor Bar. Or, for example, if anybody wants to get a bite of the "first" hot dogs, one can go to Coney Island and go to Nathan'...

food-and-drink new-york-city

I didn't really have much time to visit pizza shops when I was in the city

What I regret was not taking your advice

We visited Coney Island, but I totally forgot about ToTonnos

I also visisted some decent place near Central Park

other than that, didn't get much of a taste of pizza

and I visited the Jamaica station and I booked it out of there, so sketch

well, visit as in, I accidentaly rode the 7 train too long and ended up at the end

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Lumb more or less. It's close enough that I don't feel like posting an in depth correction.

lumbricus lubricant

3:18 AM

sweet, thanks, I'll just accept that one, and will probably visit it the next time in nyc

and is it true like the commenter mentioned that you need to really soak up all the oil from the pizza?

LessPop_MoreFizz

The short answer is, yes, the original Lombardi's was probably the 'first', but is not under the same ownership anymore. Lombardi had several family members and apprentices that branched out, and there are a number of places that are under continuous family ownership one or two generations removed from the original Lombardi which are generally better.

lumbricus lubricant

Like Totonno's, right?

GnomeSlice

@spugsley omg and Jesse's girlfriend [redacted] in her sleep and then her dad [redacted] at his job and it made a huge mess

Walt should have [redacted] her

rglawekbjsisrd

he was there

but she was being a huge bitch

and she knew his name

spugsley

@GnomeSlice omg you don't even knowwwwwwwwwww AHHHHH

LessPop_MoreFizz

Tottonnos is one, Patsy's in Harlem is another, Grimaldis, Johns on Bleecker. And a few others are either operated by descendants or students of Patsy Lamcieri

GnomeSlice

3:20 AM

@spugsley have you watched The Walking Dead?

I watched through that before BreakingBad

it was awesome

spugsley

@GnomeSlice I am not caught up. It got weird :/

I made it to season 3 I think? Idk

GnomeSlice

Got weird at which part?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Lumb for your typical cheap corner slice, blotting off oil with a napkin is a common thing - I do it because I end up burning the roof of my mouth if I don't. Plenty of people don't. Or do it because they want less grease/oil. YMMV, and it depends heavily on the quality of the slice.

spugsley

@GnomeSlice things with Andrea and Rick's horrible acting

GnomeSlice

Rick's acting is kinda weird yeah.

Andrea is just a dumb blonde

I should go to bed, I have to work tomorrow

meme scientist

3:27 AM

mhm

LessPop_MoreFizz

> An industrial, fully-funded 3.5 year PhD studentship is available to study the fundamentals of heat-stable chocolate , based in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnolog

PhD in Chocolate.

Im back

mhm

Brb

3:44 AM

oh my god. I REALLY hope this is a joke. nypost.com/2014/08/18/…

but sadly, I don't think it is

ughhhh

Frank

@spugsley I'm gonna guess it's written by a guy.

spugsley

@Frank nope. The writer is a pretty well known NY Times contributor named Doree Lewak

Frank

And I'd be wrong.

spugsley

"I imagine the catcall stretches back to ancient construction times, when the Israelites were building the pyramids, with scores of single Jewish women hiking up their loincloths, hoping for a little attention."

No.

Frank

@spugsley It's a bit of an iffy situation; some girls dress for exactly that reaction.

spugsley

3:47 AM

@Frank most girls dress the way they want to dress and regardless of their choices shouldn't be called out, good or bad :/

Frank

@spugsley I'm not saying catcalls are good or bad; just saying that there's no real right answer.

As evidenced by her take on it; she obviously wants guys to.

spugsley

and where is the line? How do you distinguish which women are "dressing for it" and which aren't?

Frank

@spugsley I don't think it's a line.

It's based on the personality of the girl.

And when in doubt, err on the side of caution, and don't.

spugsley

I can't get behind that line of thinking. There should always be doubt.

Frank

@spugsley So catcalls are always bad?

LessPop_MoreFizz

3:51 AM

Alaskan native tribe invests in survival video game to shed light on their culture.

This is super super cool.

FEichinger

Can we please leave the gender debate at the door?

spugsley

@FEichinger no.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Catcalls are super super not cool.

spugsley

@Frank yes

LessPop_MoreFizz

@frank yes. Yes they are.

spugsley

3:51 AM

always. 100% of the time.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz This is awesome!

Frank

I don't see how. Just look at the article; she's saying she loves them.

And that's totally an out of context flag.

But, fine, whatever. Flag it and that just means the discussion gets cut short.

spugsley

@Frank and she is one woman in millions. I'm saying it's impossible to have absolutely no doubt that a girl wants to be catcalled.

FEichinger

It's a sad day when I happen to agree with @Frank of all people.

Frank

@spugsley But that contradicts your statement. Catcalls are not always bad.

spugsley

3:54 AM

@FEichinger Stop. Not wanting to discuss things like this is the other half of the problem. If it makes you uncomfortable, you're welcome to bow out, as I frequently do when discussions here make me too anxious.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@frank they are always bad because the harm done by them when they are unwelcome is so much greater than any harm done by her not getting that momentary attention.

Frank

@LessPop_MoreFizz So because guys misread the situation so often, it's better to not do it at all.

GnomeSlice

I need to go to bed.

spugsley

@Frank okay. Sure. There are some people that like them but that doesn't mean they aren't always bad. It continues to further a behavior that's damaging more than uplifting.

FEichinger

@spugsley Yeah, I'm not going to be sorry for being sick of seeing this shit crop up everywhere, with a zealousness to it that is just as terrible as the things it's calling out.

Frank

3:56 AM

Now, I'm not advocating that it's something people should do, or even something I do.

FEichinger

And, frankly, when flags get involved after I nicely asked for us to avoid this subject, I do get annoyed.

Trent Hawkins

@Frank Because it is inherrantly impossible to read the situation.

spugsley

@TrentHawkins yes. Exactly my point.

Frank

For girls you don't know, yes, absolutely.

spugsley

@FEichinger that was you asking nicely? It wasn't. It was you being snarky.

GnomeSlice

3:57 AM

Hey, I have a cool idea.

FEichinger

6 mins ago, by FEichinger

Can we please leave the gender debate at the door?

GnomeSlice

Lets talk about video game.

FEichinger

That was a perfectly nice question.

Frank

You have no idea if that's the sort of thing they'd appreciate, so, yeah, don't.

spugsley

@Frank okay, I'm totally with you there. If it's a girl you personally know and she wouldn't feel unsafe by your outcry. Sure, go right ahead. But that is definitely not the usual case. Can we agree on that?

Frank

3:59 AM

@spugsley We sure can.

spugsley

:D

@GnomeSlice lol I like video game

Frank

That's the whole point I was making; if a girl I know is knocking it out of the park, I'm gonna let her know.

If she's comfortable with me telling her that, anyway.

spugsley

@Frank absolutely :) I didn't realize that was your point and I am all for that. I thought we were talking strangers. When I hear the phrase "catcall" I don't think "nice compliment on female friend"

Frank

@spugsley I think that's where the article writer was coming from; I was getting the feeling she knew the guys.

spugsley

@Frank oh. I didn't get that at all. If that's the case, I wish she would make it clearer

GnomeSlice

4:01 AM

I'm pretty sure he's wrong about that.

Frank

I just reread the beginning part, and now I'm not seeing that anymore.

GnomeSlice

> when a total stranger notices you, it’s validating.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@frank yeah, the author of that article is not talking about compliments from friends.

She is specifically pushing back at the growing movement to make it clear how unwelcome street harassment is.

spugsley

@LessPop_MoreFizz yup. I think she was going for controversial but it does make me sad that she really does find that sort of thing validating. It's scary. It's the kind of thing that makes me walk with my keys between my knuckles just in case I need to stab someone who starts following me

LessPop_MoreFizz

@spugsley this is also the woman who wrote an advice book on how to "cope with not being married"

GnomeSlice

4:05 AM

wat

@spugsley chill stuff if you need it

I need to go to bed

goodnight

Frank

I think it's safe to say our society is still very male oriented, and is very slow to equality.

spugsley

@GnomeSlice night!

@Frank agreed and it makes me sad that some women (like that writer) have issues with internalized misogyny. And I'm totally sorry I jumped down your throat. I am usually very happy to receive a compliment from my male friends :) just ask @Ktash

Frank

@spugsley Remember, I dance with a ton of women I don't know very well. Last thing I want to do is make them feel unsafe.

stizzle84

@gnome night

spugsley

@Frank Of course :) You definitely don't strike me as the type which was why I was like "Wait, whaaaat" when I thought you were in defense of something like that.

Frank

4:11 AM

@spugsley I do lots of devil's advocate, because I like to argue.

spugsley

@Frank Yup. I have a husband like that hahaha

Frank

Just to make sure that we're not losing a point that might be valid. Yeah, the overall message might be bad, but she could have something in there that's worth talking about.

spugsley

@Frank I agree. Obviously, it's cultivated some discussion and that's a good thing

stizzle84

Can any 1 read my chat list my i just got a new wifi system

Frank

@spugsley And it wasn't cut short by out of context flags!

So I'm happy about that.

LessPop_MoreFizz

4:13 AM

@stizzle84 nope.

spugsley

@Frank YAY! Always a good thing!

stizzle84

Lol thx fizz

LessPop_MoreFizz

Elsewhere, in terrible, rage inducing articles, about subjects other than gender politics

> Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me

I just... I can't.

Frank

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, I read that. It's the whole issue with police authority in the first place.

spugsley

"No officer goes out in the field wishing to shoot anyone, armed or unarmed." False.

Frank

4:17 AM

It's essentially, "Comply, or I will hurt you."

Which has absolutely nothing to do with co-operation, and everything with fear.

spugsley

"...and outright challenges to my authority." Really? Your authority.

stizzle84

@frank its actually comply or i will use forse

Force

Frank

They're basically saying, "Do what I tell you. It doesn't matter if I might actually be wrong. If I am, you can sue the city."

And that NEVER backfires.

spugsley

" and officers are rarely at fault. " More false.

Frank

But that's the end to my discussion for the night.

spugsley

4:20 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz yeah I just got here. No. Just. Wow. No.

Origami Robot

@LessPop_MoreFizz To combat this, I'm going to go watch some youtube videos of people telling the police "No"

stizzle84

U think they lie @spug

Frank

@spugs, sorry, didn't mean to make you uncomfortable with the whole catcall debate.

stizzle84

@robot hi!!

spugsley

@Frank all good :) Not uncomfortable at all. Just glad for some good discussion that ended well. Doesn't happen often enough.

Frank

4:21 AM

@spugsley Reasonable debate is somewhat of a lost art form on the Internet.

spugsley

@Frank bahaha such truth

stizzle84

@spugs who is that in the picture

spugsley

@stizzle84 which picture?

stizzle84

Yours

spugsley

...um...that's me....

stizzle84

4:23 AM

Ohhhhhhhhhh

LessPop_MoreFizz

@origamirob good plan.

stizzle84

Y did u change your black and white 1

LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRob the newest Beyond Belief is soooooo goooooood. Pterodactyl Jones is my favorite.

Origami Robot

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm not even close yet

LessPop_MoreFizz

I can't wait until you get to the Jupiter stuff in Sparks Nevada. It is so great.

spugsley

4:26 AM

@stizzle84 because that was an older picture of me and this is me right now :)

@LessPop_MoreFizz omg. I want my name to be Pterodactyl Jones....

Origami Robot

@LessPop_MoreFizz "Am I free to go" is a fun youtube seach

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot lol I'm sure

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Spugsley Pterodactyl Jones is responsible for one of my all time favorite sentences: "She had a body like the Indy 500, all curves and explosions."

@spugs cool

4:32 AM

@origamirob the problem with these idiots is that they are doing this at a border crossing, where, legally, you actually really do have substantially fewer rights.

See also: sovereign citizen morons.

►

This one is my favorite.

Origami Robot

@LessPop_MoreFizz Most of them aren't mexico/US borders, they're just places in the US near borders.

stizzle84

Well im off to bed!!

Origami Robot

At least TMK

Or state borders

stizzle84

No not state

Goodnight

Origami Robot

@LessPop_MoreFizz When I first found out about the whole sovereign citizen stuff, I tried to find anything on the subject and couldn't.

The only thing I could find was basically "yes this a thing, trust me"

Sepia Lazers

4:36 AM

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Q: I cant vote please help

I cant vote please help. One day I got onto arquade, only to realize I can not vote is this a bug? If so please help. I have already tried reseting my entire computer.

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LessPop_MoreFizz

►

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh my god I am dying.

@OrigamiRob oh it's definitely a thing. If you want I can dig up the crazy YouTube videos where they try to explain how the only law that applies to them is maritime law and they have no names and generally just go off the rails.

There is one dude in NH who appears in court weekly to fight citations for shit like having a couch on his lawn and tries his dumb sovcit verbal judo on judges that are clearly tired of it and posts all the hearings on YouTube.

Origami Robot

@LessPop_MoreFizz I've seen the videos, I meant people claiming all the stuff about maritime law and all that are basically just saying "this is true, I know it"

I couldn't find anything about that stuff anywhere else

LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRob it is because they are crazy people and it is not true.

Origami Robot

@LessPop_MoreFizz The Natural Living Man?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Basically they read crazy implications into laws that are not there. Shit like assigning weird and arcane significance to the use of capital letters.

Origami Robot

4:42 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yea I remember him talking about something in all capital letters

LessPop_MoreFizz

Mainly they are just crazy people.

This 911 call is incredible

I'm dying.

spugsley

4:56 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz omg what even

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Spugsley she is a Sovereign Citizen, which is a special flavor of crazy person that believes laws don't apply to them because their name is not printed in capital letters on their birth certificate or some similar nonsense.

More info here.

spugsley

I am going to bed but I am definitely reading up on this craziness tomorrow. Wow

LessPop_MoreFizz

Closely related, and also worth bookmarking: rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land

Once you've done some more reading about these crazies, ping me tomorrow and I'll link you some hilights from my hilarious collection of YouTube videos of them trying to confront the government and failing.

> A lot of freeman ideas revolve around bizarre interpretations of entries in Black's Law Dictionary[2] — a favourite reference for freemen — and inventing or seeing distinctions where there are none to support their beliefs (such as "policeman" versus "police officer," "understand" versus "stand under," words in CAPITALS having a different legal meaning to those in lower-case, etc.).[26] A lot of pareidolia with words and concepts is used to derive and justify ideas in freeman theory.

Origami Robot

@LessPop_MoreFizz I've seen the videos, I just have no idea what they're basing their claims on.

LessPop_MoreFizz

> Freemen believe that an individual has two personas. One of them is a physical, tangible human being, and the other is their legal person, personality, or strawman: a legal fiction created when a birth certificate is filed with what would normally be considered someone's name (e.g., JOHN SMITH), capitalization being a particular obsession.

> They believe their birth certificate is their legal person, and will attempt to present it in court when said person is called for, rather than identifying themselves as that person.

@OrigamiRob the two wiki articles I linked do a decent job of explaining it.

Fundamentally, they just read way too much into homonyms and capital letters and words that end in -ship.

(Yes. Really. They think that "citizenship" is derived from "citizen-ship" and that people are treated as boats under the law.)

Origami Robot

5:10 AM

> This gives their legal arguments a hilarious nautical theme.

Trent Hawkins

So, effectively, armchair lawyers with a thin grasp of the English language and even thinner grasp of legal language... + crazy.

Origami Robot

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This is the first one I saw

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LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRob no, this is not the NH guy I am talking about. The one I am referring to is named Ian Freeman, and if you google his name, it will take you down a very deep rabbit hole of crazy.

Lazers

5:59 AM

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In the Profile window accessible in the hero selection screen under the Heroes tab, there is a progress bar that tells you what paragon level you have and gives you a 'percentage completed' indicator. The example that I have provided indicates that paragon level 123 is approximately 4% of the ...

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Ktash

6:14 AM

@spugsley Hello beautiful. You rang?

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Arperum

6:38 AM

@Lazers Hardware rec.

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7:04 AM

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7:35 AM

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Q: cant join dawnguard if currently werewolf they hunt you like wild game

you cant join as a werewolf they tried to mow me down the moment i entered the zone, got a farmer killed(my companion) before i could leave the zone. can you join then get it back and them not try to mount your pelt on their wall?

skyrim

0

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I have not gotten a high enough score to recieve a medal in Swing Copters. How many points do I need to earn medals?

swing-copters

badp

man, I might be playing at Easy but combat in Ys is quite fun.

(I don't trust those games to be reasonable at Normal)

5pike

@badp Which Ys are you playing?

badp

Origin.

(The only one I have)

I'm still not a fan of the "2D sprites in 3D world" technique but...

5pike

7:50 AM

That was in the recent humblebundle, right?

badp

Yeah.

Arperum

8:31 AM

Ok, this was bad. Spotify played an ad for a rap-artist, so suddenly I had rapmusic instead of metal. I think they should maybe look into directing their ads to people who actually listen to that kind of music.

I do not like rap. At all.

badp

meh. I like the word plays found in good rap songs.

Martin Sojka

Yeah. Don't push @Arperum, 'cause he's close to the edge. ;)

badp

Whereas my stereotypical metal lyrics song headcanon goes like GHYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DEATH MURDER WHORES BITCHES SATAN LOUD NOISES EXPLOHSIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONS ***GHYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH***

like, Markdown cannot do it justice.

Arperum

@badp sabaton.net/discography/the-art-of-war-2008/…

badp

@Arperum WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT MINDCANONS

Arperum

8:36 AM

@badp KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Martin Sojka

@badp Those tend to be shorter though. (Yup. That's the full song.)

Lazers

0

Q: How do you increase RAM use for Fallout 3

Whilst playing Fallout 3 with mods my game appears to crash more then it normally would do, I have checked to see that they are not conflicting mods to make sure that is not the cause of the problem and have come to the conclusion that the game is not allocating itself enough RAM(I think its abou...

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Kevin van der Velden

@badp links to any symphonic metal

Arperum

Also: not even about war or anything. Blind Guardian - The Bard's Song cc @badp

That's actually a balad. And it's awesome when played live.

Kevin van der Velden

Also Sonata Arctica's "What did you do in the war dad". Which is the opposite of glorifying war

Arperum

8:43 AM

@KevinvanderVelden Price of a mile isn't exactly glorifying it. Pretty sad song.

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah I know

Wasn't implying that price of a mile was glorifying it =p

Martin Sojka

Coming from Sabaton, I'd guess it's about something like the western front in WWI.

Arperum

ALso: gonna see Sabaton in February (again (seen them three times this year))!

@MartinSojka It's about Passchendaele

Martin Sojka

Close enough.

Arperum

Also: they have songs that are not about WWI too.

Martin Sojka

8:47 AM

They tend to have songs about stuff, mostly military campaigns, which didn't end well for anyone involved.

Arperum

Yup, their latest cd focuses more on single persons though. Or about a single regiment or such. Mostly single persons.

The cd before that was completely focused around Charles XII, King of Sweden starting from 1697.

fredley

@murgatroid99 I took two compilers classes :-P

I wrote a (toy) compiler from scratch, it was fun!

Martin Sojka

@Arperum Gustavus Adolphus, actually ... whose weakening of Poland-Lithuania and several German states allowed for friggin' Prussia-Brandenburg and Russia to raise. Thanks a lot, jerk. As I wrote earlier, the whole affair didn't end well for anyone involved.

Arperum

@MartinSojka True.

Martin Sojka

Charles XII just continued on the same path, trashing Saxony-Poland-Lithuania and associated states while looking for God knows what and in the end leaving Sweden broke, weak and devoid of something like a third of its male population, so they got mixed up easily.

(Local history is fun as long as you didn't have to be there to live it)

Arperum

9:02 AM

Living it sounds like would be unhealthy. Wars are always bad for everyone involved.

badp

Martin Sojka

@badp +1 Sierpinski for the effort.

Arperum

@badp Do you have a link to that song?

badp

mindcanon://badp/songs/genres/metal

Dude my knowledge of music is only slightly above zero. There's like classical which is old and expensive and occasionally awesome, then there's normal songs which are only bearable if you tune out the words, then there's rap where words are basically a musical instrument and metal where everybody is angry and disappointed and screams and the instruments scream, then there's 8-bit/chiptune which is like "look at me! only one handed!", Jazz which is like metal only sadder and more polite

...and everything else is probably bullshit terms people use to make themselves feel more important

Please don't destroy what little I know :P

I just usually limit myself to songs in video games because they tend to be happy with taking second stage and let me focus on other things

fredley

@badp The same applies to music genres

badp

9:13 AM

I understand Serious Sam 3's soundtrack is metal? That one wasn't too bad.

I HOPE THIS ZERO-EFFORT CONCESSION WAS SUFFICIENT TO SATE YOUR RIGHTFUL OUTRAGE AT MY DISPLAY OF COMPLETE AND TOTAL IGNORANCE

fredley

9:31 AM

perspectivemockups.com

Lazers

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Q: What is the name of this UT2003 mod?

I have seen a version of UT2003 with an interesting single-player. Instead of ladders where you just have to defeat everyone, there are two "divisions" in each of three game types (CTF, DOM2, BR). Divisions each play a robin round, with four best teams advancing to play-offs. Presumably, you have...

mods unreal-tournament-2004

Martin Sojka

@fredley The hell?

Jutschge

@Lazers Mod Identification is off-topic right?

Kevin van der Velden

@Jutschge I'd think it would have the same rules as game identification

Jutschge

hmm okay

fredley

9:36 AM

@MartinSojka It's a real thing

I'm assuming @GnomeSlice made it

Arperum

9:51 AM

Lol, I did some super tiny change in a project, forgot to report back, report back an hour later with "it's done" and get the reaction "super fast work, thank you"

I'm confused, how can you possibly think that changing an url can take more then an hour...

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum well, there's the time it takes to actually do something, and there's the time until you can actually do it

As in, if you're super busy and something low prio is given you'll leave it for a while

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden True. But doing it then got it of my schedule and that way I can work without an annoying break on the important stuff.

Private Pansy

10:14 AM

Jewel Staite AMA!

Wipqozn

GOOD MORNING GETLEMEN AND GENTLELADIES

Kevin van der Velden

GOOD MORNING MISTER TURTLE

Wipqozn

HOW ARE YOU TODAY MISTER VELDEN?

Kevin van der Velden

WORKING AT HOME, SO NOT BAD

> You've been in 2 very popular shows which have been cancelled.
As an actress, how do you deal with the disappointment of your show being cancelled?
[–]JewelBStaite[S] 2090 points 14 hours ago
Have you heard of wine?

Private Pansy

> First off, Thanks for signing my back a while back. Secondly, what's the weirdest thing someone has asked you to sign?

> A boob. A genuine female boob. Then she had my signature tattooed on her genuine boob. Do you like how I chose this as the first question to answer? Oh, get ready.

Arperum

10:30 AM

@Wipqozn WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING MISTER OZN?

Wipqozn

@Arperum That's MISTER oz- oh, wait, that's what you said.

Lazers

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Q: Why do ADCs always go for damage over armor?

Considering bot lane, it is customary for the ADC to build ONLY armor or armor pen while the support builds his gold income and sightstone. The idea behind this is for the ADC to be able to dish out as much damage as possible while depending on his support to keep him alive. I get this - it sound...

league-of-legends

Kevin van der Velden

@Lazers because they're attack damage carrys?

I dunno I don't play lol, but in dota it's basically "because the rest of the teams job is to make them not die so the carry can make the enemy team die"

Arperum

More damage = more killing sounds like reasonable to me.

"Offense is the best defense" and all that.

Kevin van der Velden

Yeah, a support generally builds a mek for armor and healing for the rest of the team, some carrys are good with an assault cuiras which is + attack speed and + armor. In addition to negative armor for the enemy team

But that can also be an item for a support (in lower skill games that last a long time)

Private Pansy

10:38 AM

Jesus Christ you're having a what at this tech convention?

Martin Sojka

A tech showcase. By the way, is there a requirement for the booth babes contest to be female, or can I sign up?

Kevin van der Velden

All the wats... and the facepalms

Private Pansy

I'm the interest of gender equality I'd say go right ahead! Not sure how you'd look in a bikini though

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy mankini

Wipqozn

Paradox is doing an AMA on their recently annouced city builder

Kevin van der Velden

10:42 AM

@Wipqozn I read off their recently announced city builder, and was all ready to pose questions to the game :O

Martin Sojka

@PrivatePansy As fabulous as only an almost-40, overweight, grey-haired European man can look! The girls have no chance. The only problem will be getting my huge hairy balls to not stick out all the time ...

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Private Pansy

Welcome to Singapore - thoroughly modern, yet strangely backwards looking at the same time

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy meh, I don't doubt this could just as easily have happened anywhere else =p

Private Pansy

Quite sure tech shows elsewhere in Europe and America have discouraged if not outright banned booth babes

Kevin van der Velden

CES doesn't, E3 doesn't either

Private Pansy

10:47 AM

Don't think any of them would even think of drawing in their audience with a bikini show

Martin Sojka

They discourage their objectification, not the use of models for promotional purposes.

Kevin van der Velden

PAX does though, eurogamer does as well

Private Pansy

It's kind of offensive to have them stereotype their target audience as young single men who'd have nothing better to do than to look at booth babes at a tech show

Wipqozn

I love Paradox <3

Martin Sojka

I don't mind tech shows hiring models (... of any gender - throw in some cute guys in there as well, please?) to present their stuff, as long as the the focus is still on their products and services and I can talk to actual technical staff. It's a giant waste of everyone's time otherwise. I'm there to talk business, not look at boobs; I have the internet for the latter.

Private Pansy

10:55 AM

I feel like vandalizing the advertising for Lucy to say 'Only people who use 10% of their brains believe human beings use 10% of their brain'

Wipqozn

> Great question - to be honest we can't answer that right now. A few more months of development when the simulation layer is more mature we'll be able to give you a more accurate answer. Is there a population size where you go: "Fuck I have to buy this game now" - that would be helpful for us to know.

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