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Wipqozn

1:00 PM

Oh hey, it's @twobugs

err @TimStone

point is, back to work

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I'm going to pretend you're calling me the obnoxious jerk and I'll start sobbing

Tim Stone

I'm glad I inspire such responsibility

Private Pansy

@TimStone That should go onto your resume

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I wonder if Shog9 includes links to all his ownages on his resume

Tim Stone

@PrivatePansy "I just show up and people get right to work"

Manager Mode++

Derpy

1:03 PM

....

^ best cosplay ever?

Private Pansy

Oooo FCBD is coming up

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How do i defeat eye of cthulu

How do I defeat the eoc because I got him to half health with just a gun and a broadsword for the servants but it became day time.

Wipqozn

holy fuck it exists

developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/…

I know think wordpress is an even larger piece of shit

It wasn't showing up in google, and I couldn't find it (although, to be fair, I didn't search the codex). It's just not linked or referenced anywhere in the codex from what I can see

all the other thumbnail or image attachment pages link to every other one, but none of them link to that

what even the fuck

like what even the fuck

Derpy

yo @b_jonas. Exploring the room?

or are you too planing stealing PrivatePansy ponies plushies?

Wipqozn

I used to think wordprss had a decent codex, not anymore

and my google searchign makes it seem like not many folks relize it exists

I only found out since I got an error for trying to declareit

I should have just dumped it in my code, but I always like to read up on the codex first to make sure there isn't some weird "gotcha" before I put it in

fredley

1:14 PM

@Wipqozn You should contribute to docs-beta.SE

Wipqozn

@fredley I'm not sure what that is

docs-beta.stackexchange.com/users/…

oh nifty

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Someone at my last job with a technical but not programming background was using Wordpress to maintain the site before I started there

fredley

@Wipqozn It's the Next Big Thing

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I was really impressed she managed to do as much with at as she did

fredley

collaborative, example-driven docs for everything

I want it for gaming so we can replace all those shitty game-wiki sites

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1:15 PM

Yeah, I remember your great pitch of Warlords of Documentation

fredley

@Wipqozn docs-beta.stackexchange.com/documentation/wordpress

Wipqozn

@fredley I can't join, or the araa 51 page is a 404

fredley

@Wipqozn Oh, must be invite-only

Private Pansy

@Wipqozn Must be invited I think

Wipqozn

That would make sense.

Private Pansy

1:16 PM

The A51 link is just a holdover

Wipqozn

@fredley Interesting

@fredley The worst part of game wiki sites is when there's 3 of them for one game, and everyone uses different ones

fredley

I have no idea where invitations come from

Derpy

@fredley isn't gamefaqs enough?

fredley

@Wipqozn This

@Derpy Might be enough, but I reckon we could do much better

Wipqozn

Dark Souls has two at least, Might but a third.

and neither of them is good on mobile

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1:17 PM

@Derpy No, absolutely not

Wipqozn

wikidot just doesn't have a mobile site

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Gamefaqs is bad

Wipqozn

and fextralife does, but it's completely fucking broken. The hamburger menu doesn't work, so it's literealy just on the page and covers your screen.

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The DArk Souls wikis both have pretty glaring flaws

Wipqozn

oh huh, seems to work on m y browser

completely borked on my phone though

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1:18 PM

Anyway one of the biggest flaws with Gamefaqs is NO EDITING

Wipqozn

wikidot usually turns out pretty good

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There are plenty of shitty FAQs with blatantly wrong info

And it's just up to the FAQ writer to fix it. They never do.

Derpy

@twobugs that because it is just a repository. Ye have to do the comparison by yourself. :P

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Basically the only improvement GameFAQs has had in the past like two decades is the option for simple HTML in guides

Derpy

anyway.... you asked. I am linking this to the Tavern. Maybe shog9 will think about this and give you a doc beta too. ^_^

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1:20 PM

@Derpy If you're going to admit you have to cross reference multiple guides then I think that's plenty reason alone to say Gamefaqs is not "enough"

Wipqozn

well that's annoying

Derpy

@twobugs Ehy, Twily likes reordering books, I like cross referencing guides -_-'

Wipqozn

OPINIONS INTERNET

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn We should make one canonical one then so there can be 4 for every game.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria too lazy to grab relevant XKCD, but you all know the one I mean

you have a function that normally returns an array. What do you return in the case you have an empty array? The empty array, or false?

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1:24 PM

@Derpy Why? It's awful user experience to just admit that large tracts of guides may be (at best) inaccurate.

You might like it, but a lot of people don't.

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn An instance of a class that looks like an array but causes a seg fault whenever you try to do anything with it.

Tim Stone

@Wipqozn FILE_NOT_FOUND

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@Wipqozn return wipqozn

Kevin van der Velden

@Wipqozn is it an error to have an empty array? Or is it just that there were no results

Wipqozn

@KevinvanderVelden No results.

Kevin van der Velden

1:26 PM

Then the empty array

Ronan

I agree.

Wipqozn

I'm deciding if I should bitch that this function returns false instead of an empty array

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn Yes you should.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria Excellent.

StrixVaria

Things that work on arrays tend to just nicely do the right thing on empty arrays.

Wipqozn

1:26 PM

Add this to the list of reasons I hate Wordpress

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Returning false is not the absolute worst thing but it's stupid nonetheless

Kevin van der Velden

"Here are the results, there are 0" vs "WHAT DO YOU MEAN RESULTS? THERE ARE NO RESULTS HERE CRASH IF YOU THINK THERE ARE RESULTS"

Ronan

@Wipqozn Is the empty array falsey in your language?

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria Exactly

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I mean it could return a string of like "There is no array here"

Or a random number

Oh, that could be the .rand function

Wipqozn

1:27 PM

@twobugs Never do this

Kevin van der Velden

@twobugs shudders

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It could return a word problem your code has to parse and solve to find the actual array

Wipqozn

@twobugs is a monster

@monsterbugs

Derpy

@twobugs ...Why I continue to end up like this?? I was joking

StrixVaria

Just make every variable that gets passed to and from a method into a String, and use lots of toString and fromString methods.

That way nobody gets confused about return types.

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1:28 PM

@Wipqozn Your Best Bugs

Apparently I'm really good at designing horrible programming languages. I need to leverage this.

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Kevin van der Velden

@StrixVaria stringly typed everything!

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@KevinvanderVelden YES

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How to get the dryad easy

While I was playing a blood moon it was 12 am and before I could defeat the eoc he fled I just want the dryad. Plz help.

terraria-console

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Q: GeForce Experience (Game Management) doesnt finn WoW

Well hello there, i have a problem with my Geforce experience software, in which it doesnt find the WoW. It does find other games, such as CSGO or LoL, but it refuses to find wow, i tried through preferences to target the file, but still it doesnt show up. Any ideas how to fix that?

technical-issues world-of-warcraft

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Q: Can any request be completed though Mission Replays?

So looking at some of the requests i can get in Akademia they seem to be wanting me to partake in battles such as killing imperial MAs and using a skill to make so many skills. One of the Requests i can find in the Lounge was asking for SPP and there was a note saying that SPP gained from the Mi...