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1:00 AM
I'll let you know if I die
 
;p
 
@Mateo I doubt SE would ask you to spam them -_-
 
Already did.
I will accept my ban for a chance at a hat.
 
1:00 AM
well, they did do the hairboat thing last year...
 
Found a guy with Odinson who hasn't closed a question on his site since two hours ago. Seems unlikely to be about the dupehammer.
 
I keep finding people without it who did dupehammer things recently - but on SO
 
1:04 AM
sent a help ticket offering $12 million in unicorn.
 
lol, I did the same
 
I requested a quote.
 
Hey! @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ @David I need to close something also! how about I vote to reopen it, you do the second vote,, and I then vote to close it again?
 
You know what would be a great hat
Jon Skeet's face as a mask
 
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Q: fluid button in physics

AJHPlease help. I am following the ICE text tutorial and I have my text selected and I'm trying to use 'fluid' in the 'physics' section. The tutorial says the fluid button should be there but it isn't. When I select my plane the fluid button appears but not when the text is selected.

 
1:07 AM
woo, they are making another shape!
wonder if it is a heart again
 
someone smash this with a diamond:
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Q: How do I set a cloth rest position?

JustinI'd like to drape a cloth over an object and set the resting position as the new starting position for further simulation. I've tried doing this by running the simulation for 80 frames, pausing, applying the Cloth modifier, then adding a new cloth modifier to the mesh. Unfortunately, this does no...

 
yep, they all managed to sit down this time
 
@X-27GetHats uh
Another hat!
Wohoo
 
I need 5 Uvs on this:
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A: Apply the explode modifier for usage in the game engine

X-27This is not possible to do using the explode modifier through the particle system. However, you can use a rigid body simulation to simulate the debris, and animate each piece. Those animations can then by played in the game engine.

it isn't that good, you can unvote after I get the hat.
 
@X-27GetHats Created an account just for the purpose.
It looks good since it got accepted.
 
1:16 AM
same
 
Timey Wimey and the close-vote hat aren't coming in for me.
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats Thanks! you made an account just to vote?
 
1:17 AM
wow. I might just make one to give you the 5 votes iin a day hat :-)
 
@X-27GetHats UVed
 
what site?
 
Don't. They will get rolled back.
 
I've um.... experimented... before... and 5 is a safe number to do. 6 is pushing it and you need to be careful with 7.
 
1:18 AM
And I just edited/voted on a new post, so I should get Greeter soon too.
I'll be posting a question before it is over, and I'll let you know.
You got your 5.
 
Thanks Everyone!
 
np
 
5 votes on that answer, another hat coming my way (I hope)
 
I'm waiting for three hats...
How major do the edits have to be?
 
yay! living in the future hat :-)
 
1:20 AM
Some were pretty major, others were just one-character formatting/grammar mistakes.
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats anything more than a tag edit.
 
Like, one had '--' that was clearly supposed to be a markdown line, which is '---'.
 
Yeah. try not to do that @Hosch250
actually try and edit them pls
 
Well, it was a good edit.
 
Another mystery hat: Archimedes. Undo has this on Meta.
 
1:22 AM
I read the rest of the post, and there was nothing else to fix.
 
Someone superping undo and ask him how!
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats also -- turns the next line into a <h1> style block
 
Supper time, see you later.
 
@X-27 to Tavern!
 
Nah.
 
1:22 AM
@Quill The next line was blank.
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats just sayin :P
 
@Quill I know, but it was just a random '--' in the middle of the post - it wasn't part of any markdown because it was already visible.
 
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 14 mins ago, by hichris123
@Doorknob It's called Archimedes for figuring out a secret hat, not Eureka. ;)
 
yikes
 
1:25 AM
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 hour ago, by Undo
I think that hat is awarded when you vote to close a question as a dupe, and someone dupe hammers it after you
also probably this
 
Do you think you get a hat if you ping or comment to this user?
balpha ♦, Berlin, Germany
22.6k 8 76 112
he is the "unicorn lord"
 
hehe, one way to find out
 
if any of you happen to have accounts here, my first question:
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Q: Part identification in this dimmer switch

DavidThe dimmer in question is a 3 poll LEVITION 600 watt 120VAC 60HZ dimmer. The three red boxes in the picture below are what I'm questioning. What are those three pieces (and what do they do). Here are some more pictures of the dimmer switch. This is how the circuit fits in with the contacts an...

@Quill but mods (like me) cant do that!
 
 
1:28 AM
@David do it on another site
@X-27 maybe only meta chatroom could tell
 
@Quill right. (*hits head*)
 
really @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ? hat edit
 
. . .
I was going to edit tags
But you did before I finished
I got it BTW ;)
 
Hiya folks
 
1:35 AM
Hi
How many hats?
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ We think there's 41
 
@Undo you got any info on the hidden hats?
 
@Undo ok. Any confirmed secret ones?
 
1:36 AM
It looks like @Undo has a secret one on Meta.
 
I got Archimedes, presumably for guessing Odinson
 
and the dupehammer one is a secret one too
 
@Undo again? sigh.
 
wait on SO for that one
 
1:37 AM
what did you guess?
 
@David Odinson
 
12 mins ago, by Quill
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 hour ago, by Undo
I think that hat is awarded when you vote to close a question as a dupe, and someone dupe hammers it after you
 
@Undo me too.
 
Eh?
I thought that was awarded once-per-hat
 
the staff manually award it, so...
 
1:38 AM
@Undo no,no I came to the same conclusion about that hat
 
Hrm
 
Odinson . . . so I mark it as a dupe, and a mod squishes it?
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ Gold tag badge holder
 
?
Oh
I see
Didn't see tag for a minute
 
we just gotta report the SO ones fast I guess
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Q: Winter Bash 2015 Secret Hats

EranI just got my first Winter Bash 2015 secret hat, so I decided to start the traditional Secret hats and how to get them spoiler question.

 
1:41 AM
Woo Hooo! Silver!
 
so far we have "Odinson" = quickly closed as a dup, "Archimedes" = find a secret hat. any other yet?
 
I've not get got Timey Wimey, even though I've got the rest.
 
I just dupe hammered a question asked a few days ago... I didn't get the hat.. so I guess it has to be "quickly" after it was asked....?
 
Marked as dupe, what do you think? blender.stackexchange.com/questions/42966/…
The concept is the same
 
1:43 AM
@JoshCrozier during the winter bash, no doubt.
 
@David I just closed it during the winter bash - stackoverflow.com/questions/34229946/…
 
Wow. I'm 9th network wide!
 
And never mind.. I just got the hat.
 
Odinson
 
1:46 AM
Whoa, I'm in the third slot
 
How in the world am I tied for first?
 
We need gandalf here! he is the only gold tag badge holder on B.SE!!!!!!
 
@Undo No idea
@X-27 Yeah
 
I was late to the party... (deletes answer)
 
I think the dupe needs to be posted since the start of WInter Bash though
 
1:49 AM
If I could manage to get meta.stackexchange.com/a/270791/215468 accepted for a few minutes I'd get a hat for it. So meta.
 
please any users from electronics 2 more UVs electronics.stackexchange.com/q/205968/94416
 
@David I haven't seen any other secrets in the wild yet.
Does anyone understand what the "you all get a hat" one is supposed to mean?
 
?
The one about site wide having 20 unique ones?
 
@MikeMiller I think when your site has 20 different hats, you get that one.
 
1:51 AM
Oh, I see. Freebie.
 
Third on the network
well, tied for third
 
If anyone needs help getting the Odinson badge on Stack Overflow, I can dupe hammer JS, jQuery, HTML, CSS and CSS3....
 
@JoshCrozier we just need to post them here first and get everyone the hat, I suppose
 
If I had the reopen or undelete, I could be tied for first!!!!!
 
@Quill Yep. Let me know if you want me to hammer one.
 
Oh odd, #1 is 7 and #3 is 6
 
The position of first is in jeopardy!!! someone with a diamond reopen this:
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Q: Blender to Papermodel?

DemonLordx64I'm trying to make papermodels out of my Blender projects, and all Google says is Papakura, which I cannot get because I have Linux and WINE does nothing. Is it possible to do this with Blender?

 
@JoshCrozier sounds good.
 
@X-27 Let's not
 
To be honest, I'm supprised that that was closed as a dup
That's just a weak question in general
 
Definitely not within the Blender Scope
Actually, it would be okay if it was worded differently
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats you got a SEDE query for old questions to edit?
in that bundle of em you had
 
No.
I'm just browsing.
 
2:00 AM
There. no longer a dup, and better than before.
now re open!
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Q: Blender to Papermodel?

DemonLordx64I'm trying to make papermodels out of my Blender projects. Google's only remotely useful result was the program Papakura, which I cannot get because I have Linux and WINE does nothing. I want to be able to print my unwraped mesh (UV map) in a way so I can make a paper model. Is blender capable do...

 
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Q: How to find value in 2d array in javascript

user1079065this is my code var text = input.split(" "); var wordCount = new Array(); var i; for(i=0; i<text.length; i++){ if(wordCount.length==0){ wordCount.push(text[i], 1); } var index= wordCount.indexOf(text[i]); so now I have the index of the key and want to find a value correspon...

Possible duplicate of Javascript 2D arrayQuill 22 secs ago
 
@X-27 How does that help?
 
I hope people don't make bad posts, votes, &cet for the sake of hats, especially since there's so much good yet to be done...
 
yeah
It isn't a sprint, it is a marathon
Freudian slip there
 
@X-27 NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
@MikeMiller Yeah
 
2:03 AM
Only five votes left today!
 
I've noticed a few bad edits by our friend @X-27 for the sake of hats
Pretty annoying for me
 
He is annoyed that I'm ahead
 
your ahead?
were tied
 
@Quill @JoshCrozier what do you think? duplicate?
 
2:05 AM
and what is annoying to me, is that if you people weren't so follow the rules, be useful, don't game the system I could have bee in a three way tie for first!
 
This room winterbash is causing me to get next to no work done!
 
6 way tie
@Quill IKR?
 
there are still only 4 people with 7 hats
 
@X-27 Gaming the system is grounds for suspension, hat or no hat.
 
and when I first posted that there were only 2
 
2:06 AM
It's abuse.
 
yep
(There are a lot of mods walking around here too, so be careful)
 
@MikeMiller it will happen, every year.
(hence the hate haters..)
 
k let's not encourage it
 
Of course, I can get a hat if anyone here likes meta.stackexchange.com/q/188781/215468 enough to upvote it.
Thank you, anonymous voter ;)
 
how old are old questions to edit?
 
2:09 AM
I heard like a year
 
@Quill From one of the descriptions: "edit 5 questions that were posted more than a year earlier"
(You can click to see a better description..)
 
@Quill somewhere over 6 months
 
10 mins ago, by Josh Crozier
@Quill From one of the descriptions: "edit 5 questions that were posted more than a year earlier"
 
but a year will no doubt do.
 
A new question:
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Q: Why would we use Film Emulation?

NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇFrom what I can tell, this setting alters the exposure and other parameters to simulate a specific film, however why is this any better than exporting a RAW file format like .exr and then editing in post? It would seem that using a raw file format would give you much greater flexibility.

 
2:24 AM
It's disappointing to see that there aren't any bounty-related hats.
(unless they are secret of course..)
 
yeah
Why did my question get a DV?
 
@JoshCrozier i'll tell you if there's one for being generous on an old question soon, i guess
 
Hey, 1 vote on this and I get a hat!
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A: Is it possible to animate which characters of a text object are assigned to a material?

NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇBlender 2.76: This appears to currently be an unavailable feature. Some workarounds could be to assign a different material to each letter and animate the colors of the individual materials, but there is no built in way to do this.

Thank you anonymous voter :)
 
5 UVs please
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A: Precisely move the 3D cursor

DavidThere is a great addon called Enhanced 3D Cursor that makes positioning the 3D cursor much easier. After installing and enabling it there will be a new panel in the properties region. That is only part of the addon's power. Now when you press F10 or simply click and hold the LMB the 3D cursor...

 
Oh darn
I'm out of votes!!!
21 more hours
 
2:37 AM
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ that is good. you need to ues all of them to get the voting hat.
 
nice
 
I need to start doing a lot of edits to get the only reasonable gold left for me on my home site (copy editor). I guess we get enough traffic to make that easy, though.
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ no idea why you Q was Dved
 
I don't get it either
 
2:40 AM
@MikeMiller how many you need?
 
@David: Only about 420
 
because (PS flags are easier)
@MikeMiller lol the badge is 500
 
Upvote this:
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A: Creating Light Streaks on Cycles

cegatonAn alternative method (tough a bit more tedious) would be not to use particles, and do the light streaks with curves. Giving them a slight bevel and and animating the bevel start and end, it would give you control on the resolution, curvature, start and end point, etc. EDIT To change the w...

that is such a great answer I might put a bounty on it.
 
2:41 AM
most things i'd flag i would rather just cv, and that puts it in the close queue
 
@X-27 I'm outta votes for 20 hours D:
Oooh, I might just tie for first . . .
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ :dream on.
votes expired.
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ I passed you two
 
2:44 AM
i wonder if close votes from mods with a tag badge still count towards odinson
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ nevermind (that was quick)
Speedy Delivery sounds like it is definitely an arranged only hat.
 
depends on the site
pretty easy to get on, say, math or SO
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ which did you get living in the future from?
 
Yep, I already have it on SO.
 
2:48 AM
@JoshCrozier wow, these smaller sites, not a chance.
 
@David The animated text one
 
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ link please
 
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A: Is it possible to animate which characters of a text object are assigned to a material?

NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇBlender 2.76: This appears to currently be an unavailable feature. Some workarounds could be to assign a different material to each letter and animate the colors of the individual materials, but there is no built in way to do this.

 
what does 'old' question mean? 6 mo?
and i assume the answer has to happen during bash?
 
@MikeMiller 1 year.
 
2:49 AM
I've heard 6 mo and 1 year
 
Hat is 1 year.
 
above q is <1yr old
 
40 mins ago, by Josh Crozier
@Quill From one of the descriptions: "edit 5 questions that were posted more than a year earlier"
 
6 months is for the Archaeologist badge.
We should pin this because it is such a common question.
 
Yeah, I did 1 year and got it eZ
 
2:50 AM
@Quill How much text did you have to change in the questions?
 
I was doing ones posted in like 2013
 
I have a bunch over 1 year, and I'm having a bit of trouble.
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats usually about 10-40 characters each
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats Enough to be meaningful ;)
 
I just did like 20
 
2:51 AM
To get the "Timey Wimey" hat you have to edit 5 posts 1 year or older.
7
 
that wasn't the 'old' i was referring to; sorry, my fault. anyway, this is still trivial to answer: in the livin' in the future description, old is just before winter bash
 
Of course, I first did a bunch of ones 10 days short of one year.
 
just go to like page 300
 
@Hosch250LookingforHats please make real edits. (and tag only probably do not count)
 
I'm on 485 right now.
@David I'm fixing grammar, like Jamal.
And cleaning up the formatting where needed.
 
2:52 AM
@Hosch250LookingforHats a) I don't think he knows Jamal b) please do
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A: Genetic Drift Simulator - Follow Up

QuillA few things to point out in retrospect: There's inconsistent quotation marks everywhere Lines like the following are confusing and hard to read: print_result += key + ':' + ratioPopulation[key] + ' ' These (throw) should be throw new Error as it includes a stack trace. Don't use snake case (te...

additionally a nice self-answer
I gotta get a +5 for the hat though, it might be hard...
also if you wanna see what the hats look like in color:
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 min ago, by balpha
@Doorhandle just put this in this javascript console on http://winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/: $(".wb-hatimg").each(function () { this.className = this.className.replace(/stroke-/, ""); })
 
I got it!
And the hats are in color for me.
 
i've no idea what that means. anything interesting show?
 
Well, it means the hats aren't black/white...
 
oh, but only the visible ones
 
There are invisible ones?
 
2:57 AM
no, just unlocked hats show in color
it replaces the css classes to show them
it doesn't show 'hidden' hats
 
@Quill let me know when you find the hidden hats. :)
 
I won't find any - I never do.
I wouldn't mind getting the toilet seat hat, though.
 

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