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5:02 PM
Wait, what's happening in San Diego other than SDCC?
 
If I were going, it'd be because of work
 
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Q: PS4 DLC code and region

Dai-chanI'm looking to buy the Rocket League Collector's Edition, I already have the game, but I want the codes of DLCs coming in this edition. My PSN account is Brazilian but I'm currently living in Japan, so I wanted to buy the game at any store here or on Amazon US... My question is: I will be able to...

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Q: Half Life (Part 1 )

rahuldaroxI have reached the Anti Mass Chamber in Half Life. What to do next and how ?? I am roaming around there but do not know actually what to do now. Please help me out..

 
@StrixVaria It's between Dark Souls and Ori for me.
 
I still haven't even played Ori
 
5:13 PM
@twobugs Do iiiiiiit. It's so good!
 
Yay, I have compiled the DLL! I wonder if it works
 
@badp Pretty sure almost every "dating" site uses bots
 
@Fluttershy I intend to! It looks beautiful and I love platformers
 
@twobugs I'll guess no
 
@twobugs Yay! Probably my favorite Metroidvania since Symphony of the Night, to be honest.
 
5:16 PM
Meanwhile, in fredley monstrosities...
 
what in the fuck is that
also RIP phone battery: murdered by Pokemon
 
@MBraedley I'm inclined to agree - there is 0 documentation for this other than "This function requires a DLL"
 
@Unionhawk It works, that's what it is
 
That is a nightmare.
 
todo: bring a USB charger (including power block) to the office on monday
 
5:18 PM
@MadMAxJr If it's a nightmare and it works, it might still be a nightmare, but it works
 
@fredley You know something is wrong when the AI has an easier time with pathfinding than the human
 
@fredley Did you like, want to create your own roundabout, between a highway, a tunnel, and a road?
 
Until that one day you have to close a lane for repairs and the traffic system is so backed up neighboring states are complaining.
 
@Fluttershy I should play that game some more. It's beautiful
 
Was trying to build something similar to ^^
 
5:19 PM
Dear jesus
 
If you have to implement the A* algorithm to figure out which exit you need to take, there's a problem.
 
But joining/crossing roads is difficult over water
It's semantically similar to that, but messier
 
I would never design a highway terminus like that ever
 
@fredley This statement strikes me as a bit redundant.
 
@Fluttershy You're a bit redundant
 
5:21 PM
you take that back
 
@Unionhawk Well I wouldn't either, but I didn't really design it at all
 
@fredley Sometimes I think I am sometimes redundant.
 
@PrivatePansy That's different because it's not actually a roundabout as a terminus
 
@PrivatePansy Oh I have that one too
 
5:23 PM
This actually looks like it's probably dumber than it looks
 
Hm I appear to have compiled this DLL for no reason because despite people thinking they use this file they apparently don't
 
@fredley Now this actually looks fine
 
@Unionhawk Because someone else made it
 
5:24 PM
WELL
THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S A GOOD DESIGN
pretty standard NS/EW junction
 
@fredley snore
 
This one has broken ankles though
 
That reminds me of the super-optimized Sim City 3000 city some guy made and then to make the story more "interesting" someone else tried to make it into a story about some horrible dystopian art thing
 
hang on
Does that
no
 
A CIRCLE OF ROUNDATRAFFICS THE LIKES OF WHICH THE WORLD HAS NEVER EVEN IMAGINED POSSIBLE
IT WILL BASICALLY BE LIKE GOING STRAIGHT FROM ANY POINT TO ANY OTHER POINT
EXCEPT THE OPPOSITE OF STRAIGHT
AS FAR REMOVED FROM STRAIGHT AS MATHEMATICALLY POSSIBLE
SOME ROUNDABOUTS MIGHT BE VERTICAL
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PICK UP A TESLA AND ACCELERATE REAL HARD FOR THOSE
WE COULD ALSO HAVE SOME NASCAR STYLE OVALS FOR OUR AUSTREURASIAFRICALLY CHALLENGED FRIENDS
THOUGH I AM MORE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE TRAFFIC MOEBIUS STRIPS
 
5:26 PM
Please tell me that isn't a 90 degree angle in a highway
 
until you can do ↑ that, don't even bother
 
Not even just a 90, a 90 degree elbow
er, you know, S bend or whatever
 
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Q: Do I need to be in range of a PokéStop to gain the benefit of a Lure Module?

SirBraneDamujThere is a PokéStop outside of my building. It's not far at all, but it's just far enough away that I am not in range of it while inside. I have to go downstairs and walk about 50 feet to get in range (also it's raining right now!) If I go outside and set a Lure Module on the PokéStop, would I s...

 
5:27 PM
MAXIMUM OVERROAD
 
A six level interchange in Shanghai, China
 
user image
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I want to buy city skylines now just to show @fredley up on how great my highways can be
and how inadequate his highways are
 
@fredley Highways that double as amusement park rides!
 
China designs better interchanges than me
 
5:28 PM
@fredley The fuck's wrong with you
 
Would a question about a Pokemon GO API be on topic here?
 
@Unionhawk hahahaha
 
In the field of road transport, an interchange is a road junction that typically uses grade separation, and one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one highway to pass through the junction without directly crossing any other traffic stream. It differs from a standard intersection, at which roads cross at grade. Interchanges are almost always used when at least one of the roads is a controlled-access highway (freeway or motorway) or a limited-access divided highway (expressway), though they may occasionally be used at junctions between two surface streets. == Terminology == Note: ...
 
@Unionhawk Well there was a well-designed interchange there, then I needed to add bits, and then I needed to optimise a flow, and then...
 
@fredley now THAT is ART
+1
 
5:30 PM
@KazWolfe There's an API?
 
Waa confirmed less annoying then hype
 
@murgatroid99 Exactly.
 
now you just need to design signage for the intersections
 
@fredley one thing led to another and now you've designed a winding country road, except it's an interchange not a country road
 
@KazWolfe Generally, asking about things that don't exist is not encouraged
 
5:30 PM
I'd like to ask if one exists, so I can check if the servers are up or not.
 
It obviously exists in some form because that Server Status page exists.
 
@KazWolfe You'd probably be better off asking something like "How can I check if the Pokemon GO servers are up?"
 
I think I should stop making @fredley feel inadequate now
 
@murgatroid99 Well, I can do that easily. I'd like to find some way to do it programatically so I can run it in the background without relying on a third-party service
 
5:31 PM
@PrivatePansy These were designed by real people though, that's cheating
 
@fredley IS NOT REAL: DATA ACCEPTED
 
@PrivatePansy it's amazing,because driving it you'd only ever see 2 turnings
 
If pokemon go is based on the niantic ingress API, I thought players manipulating the API calls was a bannable offense?
 
@djsmiley2k That's the same with mine too, except there's a lot of spaghetti
 
My really dumb friend is able to play Pokemon Go with no problems and I extra hate him now
 
5:34 PM
@Unionhawk Real person. @fredley can still be a real pork chop.
On the Internet nobody knows you're a pork chop.
 
made of diamonds.
 
oh. we know. we know
 
@Dragonrage cough:
You think that's bad?
 
Which chat theme is that?
 
5:40 PM
@KevinvanderVelden is that with the purple?
 
@Dragonrage no, that's as is on GDSE
 
ah
 
It's happened multiple times that you'd link something and then people went "Got a link for that?"
 
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Q: Do Pokémon evolve in Pokemon Go?

ABcDexterMy question is basically comparing the Nintendo versions of Pokemon and newly released Pokemon Go. Do Pokémon evolve in Pokémon go? If yes is the evolution same as that in previous versions where you had to train your Pokémon to gain exp from battle and then level up. And at different levels, P...

 
@KevinvanderVelden for me, it isn't completely horrible, but it is pretty bad, especially if you have any color blindness
 
5:43 PM
It's #416d63 versus #333333
 
@KevinvanderVelden I can just about tell it apart
@KevinvanderVelden irony
 
Yup, it's possible. But you don't see that it's a link unless looking for it
 
it is a contrast of 2.16:1, which is better than read vs normal text we have
 
It's not about the background:foreground, it's about the difference between link and not link
 
if they fail the background:foreground test, they shouldnt be used as different foregrounds on the same page
 
5:48 PM
@Dragonrage That's not how this works
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Do you have an iPhone? My company has hired a firm to develop an iOS app aimed at people who travel a lot, and they are looking for beta testers. No details on what exactly you'd be doing, but supposedly anyone who takes part will get a $20 iTunes card, so if it's something you're interested in let me know.
 
@Wipqozn php on iOS, sounds like a winning combination to me
 
(That offer extends to everyone, but @LessPop_MoreFizz is the only one I know who is always traveling)
 
@Wipqozn yes plz to email keith@lesspopmorefizz.com and also include in email if I am cool to forward it on.
And now I am out again.
 
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Q: Can I request a trade?

DGarvanskiRight to the point - can I request a trade in NHL 13 in "Be A Pro" mode? I was drafted into the Anaheim Ducks after my first season in the OHL but now it's been 3 seasons and I really want a change of pace and team. I know that there is an option to request a trade in the NBA 2k games, but is the...

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Q: What will power a Smeltery?

rivermont - Will B.I am playing the Journey to the Core modpack on the ATLauncher. I have a functional smeltery from TK, but no lava to power it. I know the a YouTuber used molten pyrotheum, but I haven't found any of that. I have searched multiple wikis, and they all only mention lava. How can Tinkers' Contruct ...

 
5:53 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz yeah you're welcome to extend the invitation. I'll pop you an email where you can contact me if you know anyone else who would like to take part.
 
6:06 PM
ugh no battery
>_>
 
@Unionhawk ugh, no servers
 
So much pokemon go talk at my intern meeting
TEAM MYSTIC GO
 
@Unionhawk TEAM ARTICUNO*
 
I'm also on team mystic
 
we can all be cool together than :)
 
6:11 PM
is that an articuno joke
 
TEAM VALOR
 
TEAM POTATO
 
TEAM LVL 4
 
@Arperum Get to 5 and join mystic
 
6:13 PM
Dead servers are deaded for me
 
@Arperum Get to 5 and join Valor.
 
@KevinvanderVelden THen GO catch some Dratini or something on the way to work while you have to stop at a crossroad.
 
@Unionhawk it's blue so that's the plan for me
 
@KazWolfe Servers dead.
 
@Arperum I am not taking out my phone while driving
 
6:14 PM
@KevinvanderVelden Good
 
@KevinvanderVelden Not while driving, while standing still.
 
I thought about yellow though
 
Protip: Don't Drive and GO.
 
But went with blue
 
Also: there's like 3 crossroads on my path where you have to stop
 
6:14 PM
@Dragonrage Indeed.
 
Protip: Go RED
You get to be edgy!
 
Ooooo ps4 update
 
Does it play pokemon go?
 
@KevinvanderVelden Driving with your phone out is The American Way
 
If the car is moving you don't touch your phone with your hands as a driver.
 
6:17 PM
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Q: How should I prepare for gym fights?

AlokWe can visit gyms after level 5, and presumably fight against the local pokemon which will actually be the first time fighting (so far, I have only collected pokemon, if there are fights pre-L5 please tell me how). All of my freshly caught Pokemon are unevolved and none of the obtained candies h...

 
@twobugs being in the bottom 10 for car accidents per car is The Dutch Way
I prefer ours
 
@Arperum if you are the driver, don't touch your phone till you are not driving
 
@Dragonrage I don't care to look at my phone when waiting for a red light.
 
Still illegal =p
 
oh, i look at my phone a lot, because I have it in a holder, and it acts as my gps
 
6:19 PM
@KevinvanderVelden True.
 
so, I caught a sandshrew earlier, but my game crashed.
then when i reloaded the game, it was still there, so I caught it again
 
you're super effective
 
I've got a caterpie and a weedle
 
I can't log in right now
 
Yeah
Same here :'(
 
6:25 PM
@murgatroid99 all of the servers have been down for ~1 hour
possibly 2 now
 
Is there a server checker somewhere?
 
@Dragonrage It's not 2. I was playing less than 2 hours ago
 
There is this one, but I have no idea how they do it.
 
6:26 PM
it is somewhat accurate.
 
The same way the app does it probably
I mean it's not that difficult to capture a few packets and try them
 
if it says they are down, you can't get in, if it says they are up, you might be able to get in
 
@murgatroid99 2 according to the server thingamajing
 
@KevinvanderVelden But what specifically are they looking for in these packets?
 
A reply?
Damnit you're going to make me look it up aren't you?
 
6:27 PM
Well, no, because it replies.
There isn't anything to look up, which is why I'm asking.
The server replies regardless, I'm pretty sure
 
Look up = make my raspi a wifi hot spot, capture the packets and see what they contain
 
So many garbage answers popping up during this Pokemon Go thing..
 
If you know the RPC endpoint, I might be able to reverse engineer some things
 
Pokÿmon Gorbage
 
hello @MudWarrior warrior
@MattE.Эллен Pøkęmœñ Gærbågė
 
6:31 PM
flags as offensive
 
Oh we can do better than that.
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Perfect.
 
flags as summoning old one
 
interesting.
 
@MadMAxJr you went there :(
 
> items available in the beta include: Poké Ball, Great Ball, Ultra Ball, Master Ball, Potion, Super Potion, Hyper Potion, Max Potion, Max Revive, X Attack, X Defense, X Miracle, Razz Berry, Bluk Berry, Nanab Berry, Wepear Berry, Pinap Berry, and Special Camera
> - references to Google Cardboard have been found within the game’s data
 
6:33 PM
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@KazWolfe what is a special camera?
 
@Dragonrage I have no idea.
> There are also several things hinted at that imply type advantages and other multipliers can influence battle. These include:
> Stamina Bonus, Base Stamina, Base Attack, Base Defense, Effectiveness, Individual Stamina, Individual Attack, Individual Defense, Type Effectiveness, Multiplier, Move Power
 
@Fluttershy I haven't played Ori. I considered Shovel Knight but then I never even finished a casual playthrough of that game.
I liked it, I just forgot about it.
 
> Pokemon Moves have several attributes of interest:
> Has Type
> Has Power
> Has Heal
> Has Accuracy Chance
> Critical Chance
> Has Stamina Loss
> Has Trainer Level Min
> Has Trainer Level Max
 
@MadMAxJr time to downboat
 
guys, i found a cool thing to do on lijang tower
 
6:36 PM
Also some references to something called "forts"
 
i wish i could make pokestops
there are only like 3 within a mile of my house
though there are like 50 within a block of my work
 
the closest gym to my house is a high school so it has superlevelled pokemon there at all times
all those kids with free time on their hands
 
someone should setup their own servers and reverse engineer the game so we can actually play it
 
Fun fact about that
id 28915
opcode QUERY
rcode NOERROR
flags QR RD RA
;QUESTION
pgorelease.nianticlabs.com. IN ANY
;ANSWER
pgorelease.nianticlabs.com. 299 IN A 130.211.188.132
;AUTHORITY
;ADDITIONAL
They have a single endpoint for their API.
 
6:41 PM
@KazWolfe are you serious?!
 
I would assume this is their load balancer, but this is just one endpoint.
 
and its not even rest
 
of course
 
It's RPC
Yeah, this is a load balancer for sure, but this single server is probably getting DDOS'd by all the traffic.
 
@KazWolfe load balancers are designed to handle such things
 
6:43 PM
@GodEmperorDune I know. You still have millions of people trying to connect through a single server.
At least set up an rrDNS to have multiple load balancers in the way
 
@GodEmperorDune that's a DNS resolve
@KazWolfe I don't see a problem
A simple TCP multiplexing on that single IP is perfectly functional
 
@KevinvanderVelden Load balancers still have peak capacities
 
@KevinvanderVelden i meant the earlier url that ends in RPC
 
A load balancer can't magically expand a 10Gbps link into a 100Gbps one
 
;QUESTION
pgorelease.nianticlabs.com. CATCH THEM ALL
;ANSWER
Nice try Wireshark
 
6:45 PM
@KazWolfe if its a bandwidth problem, more servers in the same datacenter is not going to solve that
 
;AUTHORITY
nianticlabs.com. 299 IN SOA ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com. dns-admin.google.com. 0 21600 3600 1209600 300
;ADDITIONAL
 
I highly doubt that for any game the limit is going to be bandwith
 
@GodEmperorDune Multiple redundant rrDNS links will still ease up some of the traffic
 
@KevinvanderVelden not on the datacenter side anyway
 
Well yeah
 
6:46 PM
I don't know how this one works, but some load balancers just keep a connection long enough to direct the client to an actual RPC server
 
Air
@KevinvanderVelden Depends how heavy the phone is, some of those fitness bands are pretty flimsy
 
Instead of acting as a reverse proxy that all RPC traffic goes through
 
Or heck make it even lower level and just dumbly forward the TCP packets
 
Is it like an F5 balancer or something?
 
oh, hello @Air
 
Air
6:47 PM
o7
 
If it was just a dumb redirect, it would be just fine being a single IP
But we don't know these things and Niantic won't tell us
 
i mean we are into super speculation mode now
 
Yes this is all speculation
 
I heard Niantic's server is just one server
And they just say "game servers" to make you think it's load balanced
 
@Unionhawk There is one known A record.
 
6:48 PM
urmom is load balanced
are we still doing that?
 
@Unionhawk Note the authority Kaz Wolfe mentioned above: ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com
 
I heard Niantic's server is just one guy and you ask him if you find a Pokemon and he scribbles something on a piece of paper and hands it to you
 
I've been out for a while
 
That's the entire network infrastructure
 
This may or may not be a load balancer (I'm certain it is), but if it's "smart" it might be getting overloaded with requests
 
6:49 PM
That's Google Cloud. It's probably not just one server
 
Huh
Isn't like, the whole idea behind google cloud scalability or something?
 
Pokemon are cloud distributed.
 
@KazWolfe even "smart" load balancers are designed to be hard to ddos
 
Yeah, it is, but they're not using scaling
 
Please use an umbrella to not be hit by falling pokemon.
 
6:50 PM
@GodEmperorDune I've overloaded my own many a time.
 
@KazWolfe You're basing this on one DNS record?
 
@KazWolfe how big a site do you run?
 
@KazWolfe how do you know this?
 
@KevinvanderVelden If they were using truly automatic and full scaling, the servers would be up.
 
and what load balancer is it?
 
6:51 PM
"Servers are down so there's no scaling"... seriously?
 
@GodEmperorDune NGINX, decently sized site. Managed for other people.
I'm not saying there's no scaling.
 
@KazWolfe nginx is not a hardware load balancer
 
Oh right, I forgot, Niantic can't be doing anything in any remotely smart way becasue the servers are down
 
@GodEmperorDune I am fully aware.
 
that is software that runs on a linux server
 
6:51 PM
@GodEmperorDune I know what NGINX is.
 
@Unionhawk Their servers are just modded minecraft and we closed them all
We're the real monsters.
 
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Q: Does an incense stack with a lure module?

SPavelThere is a Pokestop near me, with a lure module periodically available from another player. If I were to go there, and then activate an incense, would that improve the amount of Pokemon I see?

 
Well, while we're speculating, I heard Niantic hired a bunch of Raticate to run their servers, forgetting that they only exist on their servers
 
@twobugs VTC as 2spooky4me
 
@StrixVaria all the promo footage of furi made it seem pretty clunky, but I know most of the people on the soundtrack. kicks ass
 
6:53 PM
@KevinvanderVelden I'm not saying there is no scaling. I'm saying that if they are using fully automatic scaling (Google's equivalent of AWS's Elastic Bean Stalk), it can't keep up with demand.
 
It definitely seems like there is geographic load balancing as people in some areas seem to be having far fewer issues
 
$15 for it but prob worth
 
we already know it is being split up by country
 
I heard that @twobugs actually consists of a caterpie, a weedle, and a beedrill
 
@twobugs though currently all servers have been down for ~2 hours
 
6:53 PM
If you say its good though I'm a lot more interested now, you're a fighting game guy
 
the @threebugs consipracy is real
 
@Unionhawk @threebugs confirmed
 
@KazWolfe without knowing their internal system architecture you don't know what the bottleneck is and can't say that with any kind of authority
 
@Unionhawk also, rodents like eating wires and insulation
 
I heard that anyone on Team Red is literally worse than @Wipqozn
Too far?
 
6:55 PM
@Unionhawk i'm on team red
so its true so far
 
@GodEmperorDune I'm not claiming it with any authority. I'm speculating based on my knowledge of systems and the apparent view of symptoms that the network is experiencing.
 
@Unionhawk @Wipqozn is the leader of the red team
 
@GnomeSlice The dash is a little unforgiving if you don't time it well, but otherwise it's really responsive so far.
 
@Dragonrage Hello @Dragonrage
 
The only clunkiness has been with my reflexes.
 
6:56 PM
I do know for a fact that their backend server(s) are running on NGINX.
    Status Code: 200 OK
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    Connection: keep-alive
    Content-Encoding: gzip
    Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:57:18 GMT
    Server: nginx/1.11.1
    Transfer-Encoding: chunked
 
Someone smart walk over to Niantic and hit the “fix servers” button. Thanks. #PokemonGO
 

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