The Bridge

fredley

3:00 PM

I used to do it living in Cambridge

badp

I suppose I could have that if I paid for it

but no one does

fredley

Only problem is you have to remember to get it in early in Summer otherwise it'll go rancid sitting on your doorstep

Jason Berkan

@badp That's how pop cans / bottles are dealt with here.

badp

@JasonBerkan "yay"

Lazers

0

Q: After which point is building extra buildings gives diminishing return

So in the kittens game I am at the year 239. My building count is ridiculously high now(93 catnip fields, 62 aqueducts, 56 pastures, 47 mines and etc). I was wondering if it is possible to have a list to determine after which point there is no need to construct a specific building because the ra...

kittens-game

fredley

3:00 PM

@JasonBerkan Wow, you actually call it pop?

I've never met anyone who called it pop

user15026

@fredley What the heck do you call it?

Jason Berkan

@fredley I'm old. Soda pop FTW.

Rapitor

@AshleyNunn soda.

fredley

@AshleyNunn Depends what it is. Lemonade, Coke, Ginger Beer

user15026

@JasonBerkan Only thing we have deposit on is beer cans/bottles and some wine bottles

fredley

3:01 PM

This class of things are called 'Fizzy Drinks'

user15026

@fredley It's pop.

Jason Berkan

@fredley Lemonade is not a fizzy drink, you crazy British person.

fredley

@JasonBerkan uuuuhhhhh yes it is

-ade implies fizzy over here

StrixVaria

@fredley Lemonade is not a kind of soda.

fredley

@StrixVaria Yes it absolutely is

And I keep my trousers in the boot.

user15026

3:02 PM

It can be fizzy sometimes, but generally isn't.

StrixVaria

Lemonade isn't carbonated, though.

Jason Berkan

I worked with a British person, and I had to make lemonade for him. Sprite / 7-up != Lemonade.

fredley

@StrixVaria Totally is.

user15026

Like then it is usually called "sparkling lemonade"

Powerlord

@fredley popvssoda.com

fredley

3:03 PM

@JasonBerkan That is what we consider lemonade

@Powerlord it's not pop or soda

user15026

@fredley no! lemonade is lemons + simple syrup + water

Jason Berkan

@fredley I know. I worked with a British person.

user15026

@fredley Okay, that is the most confusing thing I have learned today.

5pike

We call it generally limonade for carbonated and Saft for un-carbonated.

fredley

@AshleyNunn So if I ordered a gin and lemonade at a bar, what would I get?

StrixVaria

3:04 PM

@5pike Saft just means "juice".

user15026

@fredley You wouldn't.

fredley

@AshleyNunn :(

StrixVaria

@fredley wat

5pike

@StrixVaria Yes. That's the generic term we use.

fredley

I'm assuming you also all know about squash?

Orange squash, blackcurrant squash etc?

Rapitor

3:05 PM

flip phones are instigators

user15026

@fredley Only because of British TV.

5pike

@fredley Nope, first time I heard that.

StrixVaria

This is squash.

fredley

@AshleyNunn The smell of orange squash is one that'll slam any British person straight back into their childhood. Serve with party rings for maximum effect.

user15026

@fredley WTF is a party ring

StrixVaria

3:06 PM

@fredley What is a party ring?

Rapitor

a ring that parties?

StrixVaria

I'm going to guess he means onion ring.

Let's see how off base I am.

user15026

That was my first instinct too

fredley

Biscuits with hard fondant on

Rapitor

@fredley wut

fredley

3:07 PM

Oh god I said biscuit

5pike

@fredley Ultra British mode engaged

StrixVaria

@fredley These don't look like the kind of thing you'd serve with squash.

fredley

@Rapitor It is part of a class of edibles known as 'party food' that includes certain biscuits/crisps and miscellaneous dippables

user15026

Oh, I have had those, they aren't very yummy

Chippies

@fredley zuccini squash the best squash!

fredley

3:08 PM

Also things on cocktail sticks, e.g. sausages, melon cubes, cheese

user15026

@Chippies Nope. Spaghetti.

fredley

@AshleyNunn SACRILEDGE

Chippies

@AshleyNunn wat

fredley

@StrixVaria They absolutely are

Chippies

there's a spaghetti squash?

Rapitor

3:08 PM

@Chippies think she means spaghetti squash

Chippies

oh wait, that's the one with noodle things inside it

StrixVaria

@fredley Are you thinking of the same squash I'm thinking of? I put a picture above.

Powerlord

Well, making all the buttons for an Audit Task on completion wasn't what I had in mind, but... I think I'll leave it as once it's merged, auditors can no longer review, merge, cancel, or reject it.

Chippies

never had that one

StrixVaria

I can never trust the words you Brits use for food.

4

Blem

3:08 PM

fredley

When I have moved into my new house, I will throw a British party for you all

Powerlord

(I meant to just hide the Merge button)

user15026

@Chippies Yep, you cook it and then you run a fork over it and then it is like weird strings of squash

fredley

We will have biscuits, squash, lemonade etc.

You will all be very disappointed.

user15026

@fredley Sounds good to me

Chippies

3:09 PM

zucchini squash, sliced and fried with egg and flour, put on a slice of fresh bread - divine

5pike

@fredley Also crumpets?

fredley

@StrixVaria No

Chippies

but it has to be one of those big squashes, not the tiny zucchini stuff

Rapitor

@fredley none of those sound compatible.

fredley

It's a sort of sweetened juice concentrate

StrixVaria

3:09 PM

@fredley So...orange juice?

fredley

Typically diluted 4/1 with tap water

@StrixVaria Actually very different

Squash doesn't really taste like anything else at all

Chippies

fredley

@Rapitor This is what you'll find at a typical kids party over here

Chippies

best squash ever!

fredley

@Chippies Marrow

StrixVaria

3:10 PM

@fredley Just to confirm, is "orange juice" to you the way you refer to freshly squeezing oranges (the fruit) into a glass, with no other required preparation?

user15026

@fredley Okay, we get like juice concentrate in a frozen thing that I mix with water

StrixVaria

Wait so is "squash" the same as our Tang?

fredley

@StrixVaria Yes, orange juice is the juice of oranges

Jason Berkan

@AshleyNunn That's what I was thinking. It's unfrozen frozen juice.

Chippies

@fredley ooh, someone with squash knowledge finally told me what squash this is!

fredley

3:11 PM

@AshleyNunn That's different. We have concentrate-based orange juice too, but that is very different from squash

user15026

@JasonBerkan yeah

Chippies

I only know it in Latvian, in English I refer to it as zucchini squash, because it's basically a bigger zucchini

user15026

@fredley Why would you buy the squash if you had to mix it with water

Powerlord

OK, why is my SVN commit window showing deleted files in it seeing as how those files never existed in the repo to begin with?

user15026

@Chippies Yeah, here we have tiny zucchini and then GIANT zucchini

StrixVaria

3:11 PM

@AshleyNunn Why would you buy Kool Aid?

fredley

@AshleyNunn Are zucchini courgettes?

Powerlord

(I can tell they're deleted because they show up as brown instead of blue (files in repo) or black (files not in repo))

user15026

@StrixVaria That doesn't come in a bottle thing

fredley

Courgettes grow into marrows

user15026

And I generally don't like koolaid

StrixVaria

3:12 PM

@fredley I think you're just making up words.

Jason Berkan

Kool Aid is pointless. Here is some flavour. Add your own water and sugar.

Rapitor

I have no idea what's going on anymore.

user15026

@fredley Yeah, if I am following right. We just use one word for both.

fredley

bbcgoodfood.com/glossary/courgette

> The courgette is a variety of cucurtbit

StrixVaria

> They have a deep green skin with firm pale flesh and are also known as zucchini.

There we go.

fredley

3:13 PM

bbcgoodfood.com/glossary/marrow

> The marrow is actually a courgette that has been left on the plant to grow a little longer

> Size matters

Batophobia

StrixVaria

I wonder if you have a crazy word for "eggplant". That seems like the kind of thing the Brits would have a crazy word for.

user15026

Eggplant is so icky

Zero Stack

^^^^

Rapitor

@StrixVaria I want to know Australian naming for these things. they have the best naming

fredley

3:15 PM

@StrixVaria Aubergine?

Chippies

@AshleyNunn you can slice eggplant, put tomato and cheese on it and cook in the oven and it makes these nice little cake-thingies :D

fredley

Most of our words for food are the french words for food

Chippies

I think you have to peel the eggplant though, the peel is tough and slightly bitter

StrixVaria

@fredley Is that actually the word you use for it? I've never heard that before, but a Google search confirms it's the same thing.

fredley

Which is why it's a cow when it's in a field (Anglo Saxon peasant word), and Beef when it's on a plate (French aristocracy word)

5pike

3:16 PM

@AshleyNunn Eggplant is the weirdest name for this vegetable. It's freaking purple. Who looked at it and said "Yeah, let's name that thing eggplant"?

fredley

@StrixVaria Yes. Never use eggplant.

@5pike It's like pineapples all over again

StrixVaria

@fredley This is one of my favorite pieces of etymology knowledge.

fredley

@StrixVaria Same goes for all meat. One class of people farmed them, another ate them.

StrixVaria

5pike

@StrixVaria OHHHH

fredley

3:17 PM

Cow/beef, pig/pork, sheep/mutton. Latter are all essentially french, former anglo-saxon.

StrixVaria

That's what it looks like when it first starts growing, before it gets big and purple.

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5pike

@StrixVaria I didn't know that. Makes total sense now.

fredley

Game: try and describe the British food just from the name, no googling.

Up first: Toad in the hole

5pike

@fredley Is it a sweet pastry or similar?

StrixVaria

@fredley I'm going to go for caviar spread into the hollowed out hard-boiled egg white.

Jason Berkan

3:19 PM

@fredley Egg in toast, is it not?

user15026

@fredley I want to say eggs in the middle of a toast

fredley

You are all wrong

Zero Stack

@fredley egg something

fredley

Sausages in batter:

StrixVaria

Kind of like a disgusting fishy deviled egg.

Jason Berkan

3:19 PM

@fredley Why would you eat that?

fredley

@JasonBerkan Because it's delicious

Zero Stack

@fredley I want that. In me.

user15026

@fredley What even is that

fredley

Note: these are proper sausages, not horrible American ones

StrixVaria

@fredley This actually looks pretty good.

Rapitor

3:20 PM

@JasonBerkan it does look pretty tasty

Chippies

these are awesome

5pike

We used to have that for Christmas.

StrixVaria

@fredley Are you referring to "hot dogs" when you say "horrible American sausages"? Because those aren't the only "sausages" available here.

fredley

@Chippies Sausage rolls

Chippies

what you linked though just looks weird

StrixVaria

3:20 PM

@Chippies Pigs in a blanket.

fredley

@StrixVaria I'm aware

Next British food to describe: Spotted Dick

Rapitor

@fredley not good.

Zero Stack

@fredley Beer?

Chippies

@fredley I've heard that one!

5pike

@fredley A meat pie?

Chippies

3:21 PM

no idea what it is tho

Rapitor

i've heard that one, don't remember what it was. just that it is very weird

Chippies

@fredley I would assume it's a sort of a sausage...

fredley

Very dense doughy pudding with raisins/dried fruit in, usually eaten with custard

5pike

OHHHH

Rapitor

nope, wasn't what I was thinking of

StrixVaria

3:22 PM

@fredley I'd eat it.

Rapitor

definitely don't want to google spotted dick at work, either.

fredley

Next up: Eton Mess

(The food, not the current Government)

Rapitor

@fredley fish

user15026

@fredley Fruit and meringue and some other stuff maybe

user15026

I know it is dessert.

fredley

3:25 PM

@AshleyNunn Spot on!

Rapitor

this game is amusing

fredley

Cream, fruit and meringue all mixed up

Powerlord

Why are we suddenly posting food pics?

Rapitor

should make it an actual thing

fredley

@Powerlord This has been the topic of conversation for the past hour

badp

3:27 PM

darn Minotaur

fredley

American food confuses me though. What are grits? Sounds like what you put on the road in winter.

Rapitor

@fredley you very well could. Grits are awful. It's like oatmeal, but uses corn instead.

Grits

Grits refers to a ground-corn food of Native American origin, that is common in the Southern United States and eaten mainly at breakfast. Modern grits are commonly made of alkali-treated corn known as hominy. Grits are similar to other thick maize-based porridges from around the world such as polenta. "Instant grits" have been processed to speed cooking. The word "grits" derives from the Old English word "grytt," meaning coarse meal. This word originally referred to wheat and other porridges now known as groats in parts of the UK. Maize, unknown in Europe in the Middle Ages, is a food derived from...

fredley

ew

badp

how complicated does breakfast need to be

milk and cereals

done

fredley

@badp Or toast

badp

3:31 PM

not enough coffee?

milk and coffee, then.

Rapitor

@badp british breakfast is pretty bonkers from what i've seen

badp

or just coffee.

Rapitor

baked beans

badp

We do owe british breakfast our thanks for giving us the gift of carbonara

Batophobia

Breakfast in general is odd. Just skip to lunch

badp

3:32 PM

but not our understanding :P

fredley

@Rapitor That's not breakfast

badp

@fredley That looks like slightly rotten nutella

fredley

@badp It's honey

badp

can't be. Not enough of that last strand of honey

fredley

@badp Set honey > Runny honey

badp

3:33 PM

way too tidy

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria This is the correct opinion.

fredley

@badp It's a flipping stock photo

Chippies

honey for breakfast = stomach can't handle that

fredley

@Wipqozn You are both weird

badp

@fredley It's probably plastic

fredley

3:33 PM

Milk is great when it tastes like anything other than milk

Trent Hawkins

All this talk of breakfast has far too little bacon.

fredley

@badp Potentially

Wipqozn

@TrentHawkins Bacon sucks.

Chippies

@TrentHawkins I'm eating bacon and pancakes with maple syrup right now

Rapitor

Full breakfast

A full breakfast is a breakfast meal, usually consisting of bacon, sausages and eggs, often served with a variety of side dishes and a beverage such as coffee or tea. It is especially popular in the UK and Ireland and in UK-influenced cultures, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. It is sometimes referred to as an English breakfast or a "full English breakfast". Sometimes it may be shortened to "full English" or "fry-up". The phrase "full breakfast" differentiates it from the European Continental breakfast, traditionally consisting of tea, milk or coffee...

Wipqozn

3:34 PM

Also, I had Seafood Chowder for lunch. It was good,

badp

hitbox.tv just sent me a newsletter. In Italian.

I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR THIS

Trent Hawkins

@Wipqozn ok, I was ok with your avatar change until now, but this means war! ... where's that user script?

Jason Berkan

@TrentHawkins I went to de-owner him, but couldn't. I was sad.

Batophobia

Sep 18 '13 at 10:32, by fredley

0

Q: Set fire to people in chat

How many times have you been overwhelmed by your desire to set fire to people in Stack Exchange chat? Well now you can! Arqade Fire Arqade Fire is a chat message immolation tool that will burn away messages. It adds a small extra button next to flag, star and reply that will quickly incinerat...

script chrome-extensions chat

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fredley has added Wipqozn to the list of this room's owners.

Jason Berkan has removed Wipqozn from the list of this room's owners.

Jason Berkan

3:37 PM

FOR BACON!

Wipqozn

@StackExchange what?!? NO!

Rapitor

all this food talk is making me hunger very much. Lunch is still a while away.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn Who pinned this? I want to know so I can put them on my ignore list forever.

Wipqozn

THAT'S NOT WHY I ADDED YOU AS ROOM OWNER!

YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn I'M SORRY. OUR VIEWPOINTS ON BACON ARE SIMPLY INCOMPATIBLE!

Wipqozn

3:39 PM

@Powerlord @fredley did.

@JasonBerkan Well this is just terrible.

Batophobia

@Powerlord Probably as a public notice for just how terrible @Wipqozn is

2

fredley

@Wipqozn lies

Sconibulus

@Batophobia this is the best script ever

fredley

@Sconibulus Thanks

Wipqozn

@Batophobia I assumed this was the reason.

@Sconibulus It occurs to me that the existence of this script gives me the freedom to have my gravatar be whatever I want.

Sconibulus

3:45 PM

@Wipqozn because if we don't like it we can incinerate all your messages?

Rapitor

@Sconibulus he could incinerate all of ours

fredley

@Batophobia It was

Wipqozn

> A long exposure of our planet as seen through the windows of the ISS's Cupola Module [4256 x 2832][OS] by Don Pettit, NASA astronaut

Batophobia

Looks cool

almost like some kind of tech hardware

Chippies

Golden Joysticks: Vote and receive XCOM: Enemy Unknown free, courtesy of Green Man Gaming

2

fredley

4:00 PM

@Batophobia it is

Jason Berkan

@Chippies Definitely time to create a second Steam account.

Chippies

@JasonBerkan I'll just throw it on wife's account, probably

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria: Your title got rolled back agian, in case you didn't notice

Feeds

Sterno has added Wipqozn to the list of this room's owners.

Sconibulus

@Wipqozn ...is edit-warring a mod ever a good idea?

user15026

4:04 PM

Edit wars in general are a terrible idea

Jason Berkan

@AshleyNunn I was just typing that in.

Sconibulus

well yes, obviously, I just meant a worse idea than normal

Jason Berkan

Nah. If you get in an edit war, you can expect a mod to step in. Doesn't matter whose post it is.

user15026

@Sconibulus Doesn't matter who it is. Mods can be wrong - please always question decisions if you think they're wrong. But edit warring for any reason is just pain and sadness

Chippies

@Sconibulus definitely, because a "normal" edit war might get past a mod, but when you edit war a mod, they are very likely to notice

@JasonBerkan do mods get notices for all edits or something?

fredley

4:07 PM

@AshleyNunn @StrixVaria Locked it.

Jason Berkan

@Chippies No, but us regular users can raise flags to them.

Chippies

@JasonBerkan so my point still stands, a "normal" edit war may be missed by mods, whereas an edit war against a mod is much more likely to be noticed :)

user15026

@Chippies The real answer here is don't get into an edit war, and then the noticibility matters not at all

Chippies

@AshleyNunn of course

gahh these pancakes are absorbing all the maple syrup, they're like sponges

Origami Robot

@Sterno Yes, finally.

@Chippies Add moar syrup

Sterno

4:19 PM

WAIT A MINUTE

IMPORTANT QUESTION

In Canada, does maple syrup come in a bag or a jug?

Jason Berkan

@Sterno In a tree.

Sterno

You buy an entire maple tree from the store and bring it home? That sounds unwieldy.

Jason Berkan

We all have a maple tree tapped in our back yard.

Origami Robot

I thought you guys lived in maple trees?

Or in the antlers of a giant moose.

Sterno

Canada sounds terrifying.

5

Origami Robot

4:24 PM

If you die in Canada, you die in real life too!

fredley

I went to Canada once, it was awful.

Jason Berkan

@fredley I know. The lemonade was uncarbonated.

Wipqozn

@Sterno nah, Canada isn't so bad. So long as you avoid the grizzly bears you do just fine.

fredley

*shudder*

@Wipqozn What about the meese?

Wipqozn

@fredley There's no avoiding the meese. You just need to hope you don't die.

You just need to hope that when a meese sees you, it decides it doesn't want to kill you.

fredley

4:26 PM

:(

gif of the day

2

Lazers

0

Q: When should I summon Ancients?

A new tab popped up with an icon of a pyramid with an eye. The only option here is a button that says "Summon Ancient". The mouseover text says it costs a hero soul and talks about picking between 4 random Ancients. What do Ancients do? When would be the best time to Summon one?

clicker-heroes

Chippies

@fredley can you get that in slow-motion?

fredley

@Chippies probably

Blem

5

Chippies

@fredley Ah, that's all I wanted to know, Thanks.

fredley

4:36 PM

@Blem omg

Unionhawk

Sep 19 at 16:45, by Unionhawk

Blem

@fredley sorry about ruining your gif of the day

fredley

@Blem :(

Lazers

0

Q: How does Ascending work?

The next upgrade I am likely to get is "ASCENSION" for Amenhotep. The mouseover text on the ability says it restarts the game and gives a single hero soul. Does anything else cross over (heroes, gold, achievements, etc.)? When would be the best time to Ascend? Should I wait until I unlock all...

clicker-heroes

badp

@Blem A Microsoft that was

fredley

4:39 PM

@badp And will be again

badp

@fredley Zombie Ballmer?

fredley

@badp Ballmer is immortal

Unionhawk

@spugsley yep, orc poetry is a thing

Rapitor

@Unionhawk well they need entertainment somehow.

fredley

@Unionhawk That's the fourth worst poetry I've ever seen

Sterno

4:43 PM

@fredley The real gif of the day

8

fredley

@Sterno So literal

Rapitor

@Sterno god damnit where's that incineration script again?

fredley

@Rapitor I should make a user script that puts a permanent link to the burnination script on the page somewhere.

Would people find that useful?

Unionhawk

@fredley (the joke is he's an orc why the fuck do you expect him to be good at poetry)

Blem

@Unionhawk could be worse, he could be a Vogon

Powerlord

4:47 PM

Today's Listening

2

user15026

Blergh. It is pouring out and I forgot to put my umbrella in my work bag :(

user15026

I think I will wait for a bus home

Sterno

♫ looking forward to the weekend ♫

Blem

@AshleyNunn We have company umbrellas at the office incase it rains and you didn't bring one

user15026

@Blem THat would be so awesome

Frank

4:56 PM

Woo! New company phone!

Rapitor

@Blem our parking lot floods when it rains and we have to wade to our cars in the rain.

Being florida rain... it floods.. often

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ps3 borderlands

Wipqozn

5:13 PM

@Sterno It's time like this I'm reminded why you're so gosh darn fancy.

Lazers

0

Q: At what point is it more efficient to build ships than harbors?

With the cargo ships upgrade, every ship gives a 2% bonus to harbor capacity. I've noticed that my harbors cost ~290 scaffold, ~2800 slab, and ~4000 plate, which with the 105 ships I have give an additional 1437 wood storage. On the other hand, building 3.94 ships provides about 8k wood storage...

kittens-game

Wipqozn

Also, @NOPE, you killed chat, so you should @GTFO. Mna, I'm so clever.

Unionhawk

@Wipqozn Mana*

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk Typos are the worst.

Sepia Lazers

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Super Smash Brothers 4 is a bit of an odd game. It is currently out on the 3DS and is coming to the WiiU, but there are apparently going to be version differences. An example from the link above, The 3DS version features an exclusive mode called Smash Run The 3DS version also includes a S...

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Wipqozn

5:16 PM

Man, I just want to go home and play Shadows of Mordor. I blame everyone but myself.

Unionhawk

@Wipqozn Join the club.

Frank

@Unionhawk I'm not in this club! I am very happy about that.

Unionhawk

Population: Everyone but @5pike and @FEichinger. And @Frank.

Wipqozn

Also, @YourMom.

Jason Berkan

Et moi. Je déteste FPS / TPS.

Frank

5:19 PM

@JasonBerkan You detest third person shooters and first person shooters. Got it.

Unionhawk

But it's not a sho-- eh, whatever

Jason Berkan

@Unionhawk True. Close enough, though, gameplay wise.

Unionhawk

A more apt description gameplay wise is "it's basically assassin's creed from a combat standpoint"

"and many other standpoints"

SaintWacko

@Rapitor tommedley.com/files/burn.user.js

Wipqozn

@FAE I hate when that happens. I don't mind 3D, but I don't feel it really adds much to the experience, so I'd rather just save my money and see it in 2D.