The Bridge

Unionhawk

1:08 PM

looks at the star list lol, I'm so going to get banned for that in like 7 hours

Private Pansy

#alternativemath

Unionhawk

"I literally could not give any less of a shit"

BlueBarren

1:26 PM

oh the temptation to look at Reddit while at work

curse you temptation!

Lazers 2.0

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Q: World Painter Custom Object Problem

I've been using World Painter recently to make custom terrain for some of my builds. But for my most recent terrain I've made my own custom trees which I've turned into schematics using mcedit. They load successfully as custom objects in World Painter, except I've been experiencing a problem putt...

minecraft

Unionhawk

...why does this

srs

This worked yesterday why is it brokennnnnnnnnnn

In such a horrible fashionnnn

BlueBarren

because it woke up on the wrong side of the bed

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk the Swearing message?

There, that should help you avoid a ban @Unionhawk

Unionhawk

Excellent

Or something

Hmm

Oh that's why it doesn't work

Damn

Arperum

1:45 PM

@Wipqozn But what if he was aiming for a ban to raise productivity?

Note: I am not interested in that.

Unionhawk

I was not aiming for a ban

I was aiming to express my feelings on the issue

Which happen to be only profanities

BlueBarren

I'm going to dropkick him I swear

he's humming again

You know I have hearing protection at work, I should just start wearing it all the time

you're not allowed earbuds or headphones but they encourage hearing protection

sure they don't encourage it in the office but I haven't heard a no

Unionhawk

This is a disaster

Sterno

That's what @uni said

Unionhawk

ok

Sterno

1:57 PM

That's also what @uni said.

BlueBarren

that's what my mom said when I was born

Sterno

@Wipqozn The game really strains my suspension of disbelief, which makes it less scary. I mean, zombies/monsters/etc you could lol at me for even saying that, but I mean (without being too spoilery to others) I definitely should have bled to death very early on, but it just sort of stopped bleeding. And it constantly has a guy jump in from off-camera despite there being no way he could have gotten there short of teleportation

Also, I don't know if it's the voice acting or writing or what, but the main character actually seems not all that surprised or scared by what's happening.

Ronan

"Oh huh. Zombies again."

Unionhawk

Maybe he knows it's RE*7* and this shit was bound to happen

Ronan

looks at camera, puts hands on hips, music plays

Unionhawk

2:04 PM

laugh track

Ronan

I told my roommate not to leave the T-virus out again!

Unionhawk

yay code works again

Private Pansy

So apparently it is possible to segfault hard enough to kernel panic from userland

Or maybe it's just Xcode

Fluttershy

@Sterno I was wondering about the uh, noticeable lack of anything to stop the bleeding. I wasn't sure if that got explained.

Unionhawk

~Magic~ ooooo

or something

badp

2:15 PM

your sheer DETERMINATION

your skin simply refused

Sterno

@Fluttershy Nope

I mean, not at 3 hours in or wherever I am

Maybe it turns out at the end you're an android

Fluttershy

I want to play it, but I know it'd be way too scary for me.

Unionhawk

2:35 PM

YOU IDIOT UNI

nothing to see here

Tim Stone

HMMMM

badp

my shitpost bookmark folder grows

Unionhawk

@TimStone In my defense, it would have been an appropriate message today, although it'd be about resisting the climate science gag order instead of "today is MLK day"

Sterno

Real talk: Why do S.T.A.R.S. officers only carry pistols instead of, say, rocket launchers? By like game 4 they know they'll need that shit.

Unionhawk

Because rocket launchers aren't hitscan weapons, obviously

badp

2:49 PM

solution: railguns

quartata

Railguns aren't hitscan either, they're just really fast

Unionhawk

Railguns can be hitscan

Technically so can rockets

But that'd be really dumb

SaintWacko

@quartata Same with pistols

Unionhawk

Technically no real weapon is hitscan

quartata

Are we talking real life or Quake life here

Unionhawk

2:53 PM

Practically speaking, they can be approximated to be in video games for ease of development

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk My computer would like to say that lasers are as close as we'll get

quartata

Yeah bullet travel is a nuisance to lag compensate

Unionhawk

@SaintWacko Literally as close as we'll get and technically they still have a speed

The speed is 1*c

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk Yep

Unionhawk

but that's still <infinity

SaintWacko

2:55 PM

@Unionhawk Right after you said this, my computer popped up a printer connection notification that just said "laserjet" :P

I think it's a fan of planes with lasers

quartata

What about an ansible based shock collar

Yuuki

@quartata What about a magic McGuffin based bear trap?

quartata

Well if we're doing that clearly scrolls of power word kill are the way to go

Yuuki

So TIL that when Ashton Kutcher went on a fruit-only diet for the Steve Jobs movie to mimic Jobs, he was hospitalized for pancreatic failure after one month.

Kevin van der Velden

slowclap Now that's method acting

quartata

3:00 PM

Oh wow. I always wondered how much his fruit only diet (instead of going for the treatment right away) affected him

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk unless we get some kind of weapon that fires through wormholes or something

Unionhawk

Missiles with warp drives on them or some shit yeah

quartata

I think Jobs did it for like 8 months after the tumor was discovered

I suppose this illustrates it

Jason Berkan

No wonder I suck at FPS / TPS. The fact that there are weapons you don't have to lead with never even occurred to me.

Kevin van der Velden

@quartata IIRC it was pretty well treatable in the first month or so after discovery, after 8 months not so much

SaintWacko

3:02 PM

@JasonBerkan One of the reasons I'm so bad with Widowmaker

Yuuki

From what I've read, while pancreatic cancer is usually a terminal diagnosis, Jobs had a particularly rare/unique version that was actually quite curable.

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk or the Schlock mercenary long gun

SaintWacko

Also, have you played Tribes?

Jason Berkan

I don't play things I suck at.

Unionhawk

I feel like clicking on people should be easier than clicking on where you think people will be

Kevin van der Velden

3:03 PM

Which is basically a beam weapon that tears a hole through spacetime creating a wormhole and instantly hitting the target you're aiming at

SaintWacko

@KevinvanderVelden I've been trying to decide whether that counts

@JasonBerkan It's an FPS that doesn't have any hitscan weapons

@KevinvanderVelden It's not technically an instantaneous shot, it just makes it so the starting point of the projectile is wherever you want

Also, I love how Schlock Mercenary quotes are showing up everywhere

quartata

I mean if we're using wormholes clearly the proper solution is a gun that goes back in time and kills the target's parents

Kevin van der Velden

@SaintWacko depends on what you count as instantaneous, does a shot from a gun start at the ignition or at exiting the barrel?

Yuuki

@SaintWacko I feel like there were one or two hitscan weapons when I played. The chaingun?

Kevin van der Velden

@quartata while wormholes can theoretically be used for timetravel, you'd need a wormhole that's open at the time you want to arrive at

SaintWacko

3:06 PM

@Yuuki It's been a long time since I played, I'm not sure that was around then

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden Pulling the trigger

So potentially even miliseconds prior to ignition

Yuuki

@SaintWacko I haven't played Tribes Ascend, it was an older one.

Like Tribes 2 or something?

SaintWacko

@Yuuki Oh, okay. I've only played Ascend

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk so then nothing counts because every trigger requires travel time as a safety feature

quartata

@KevinvanderVelden This isn't Worldbuilding we're clearly handwaving any logic

Unionhawk

3:07 PM

@KevinvanderVelden I mean competition rifles for example have negligible travel time

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk negligable isn't 0 =p

Yuuki

There was also the Laser Rifle for sniping.

Unionhawk

Nothing is 0

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Can I choose which Zeds I play as?

I started experimenting with the VS Survival multiplayer mode last night with a friend, where one team plays as Zeds and the other team plays as humans. I spawned as a Slasher and an Alpha Clot in the first couple of waves, then spawned as a Husk, and finally, a Scrake. However, when it was my f...

killing-floor-2

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Q: how do you give friends admin on gmod without a password to the server

So i was playing gmod with a friend and he couldn't use some admin items and i wanted to give him admin, but the tutorials we found said something about a password. we don't use a password when play we just connect via ipv4 and the connect command. so how do i give him admin.

pc

Unionhawk

It doesn't matter anyway because c<infinity, and c is as fast as we can do it (as far as we know)

Jason Berkan

3:08 PM

@SaintWacko Interesting. Though now that I think about it, my sucking is more than just aiming problems, though I have no doubt that I would lead with every weapon.

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk excepting wormholes again =p

SaintWacko

@KevinvanderVelden You could easily make a gun with just a capacitive button as the trigger

Kevin van der Velden

@SaintWacko that's still limited by C, the EM field still needs to change

Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden try{} catch(Wormhole) {}

SaintWacko

@KevinvanderVelden True. It is a trigger without travel time, though

@Unionhawk throw BigBang

Yuuki

3:10 PM

@Unionhawk 0 != 0

Unionhawk

A competition level rifle has such short travel time you could probably sneeze on it and it'd fire

(speaking from experience, well, not literally sneezing on it)

Kevin van der Velden

@SaintWacko travel time of an EM field counts >:(

Unionhawk

(some have two triggers to compensate for this: one harder "set" trigger, and the hairpin "fire" trigger that's activated by "set")

I am still not a fan of parts of this code that I wrote

:/

\:

Kevin van der Velden

\:/

Sterno

That is the appropriate feeling

Jason Berkan

3:15 PM

@Unionhawk Congratulations! You have taken your first step towards becoming a professional programmer.

Unionhawk

Most of it feels fine but some of it feels really gross

Jason Berkan

A large chunk of my code is awful, but deadlines.

Unionhawk

Good thing this isn't even supposed to go in the current DEV branch, so I can sit on it

SaintWacko

Bah

Unionhawk

(it's scheduled for next month's DEV)

SaintWacko

3:16 PM

Should have piped this MySQL import through something that would give me a progress bar

Yuuki

> ~~A large chunk~~ All of my code is awful

Unionhawk

I should see if I can make this work better in a different way tbh

Jason Berkan

Nah, put in // TODO: See if I can make this work better. and be done.

Sterno

Okay, watching streamers play RE7 is fun

Unionhawk

Do they all just scream unconvincingly all the time?

Like a goddamn Pewdiepie impression?

Lazers 2.0

3:20 PM

0

Q: Can Mystery Gift send more than one item at a time?

Can I receive more that one item via Mystery Gift? I've just updated the Pokebank to get the Mewnium Z, and Brigette suggested me that I have earned a lot of Pokemiles (which can be turned into BPs). So here's the question: can I send the Mewnium Z and the BPs together via Mystery Gift? Or does...

pokemon-sm pokemon-bank

Unionhawk

@Lazers2.0 Wait, MEWNIUM Z?

Sterno

@Unionhawk I don't know. I'm watching TimTheTatman. It's good stuff

Unionhawk

Tim is a funny dude

Oh man, CDOT is closing highways for avalanche mitigation

Sterno

His top donation sound is someone yelling "OH MY GOD!" and one came in right when he was opening a door at a tense part. Made him jump.

Unionhawk

PLS TO SEND SOME SNOW HERE I WANT TO GET ONE MORE DAY OF SKIING IN THIS SEASON

Jason Berkan

3:24 PM

If there was some easy way to move it, you can have all of mine.

Unionhawk

They should actually be able to start snowmaking operations again soon

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Mew(two) probably has a unique Z-move.

Unionhawk

Oh man, they closed

> We are suspending operations Wednesday 25th, meaning we will have no skiing, snowboarding, or snow tubing activities. Today is the last of the unseasonable weather (upper 50's, windy... ugh)! The warm wind is the worst on the snow and tonight we will get a good look at how our stockpiles fared and how quickly we can re-open. There are snowmaking temperatures in forecast, and we are optimistic about making snow again Thursday night.

THEY CLOSED

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk sends an envelope containing snow to @Unionhawk

Sterno

LOL IF THEY CAN MAKE SNOW THEN HOW CAN GLOBAL WARMING BE REAL?

Unionhawk

3:27 PM

> Acre-for-acre, we have the best snowmaking operation in the country, and coupled with the best snowmaking crew, this warm spell will soon be a distant memory. Friday looks even better for snowmaking, and we're excited about the chances for natural snow on Sunday! That's what winter is supposed to be like! Check back for updates. We will put it back together as soon as possible. Don't lose heart... there is a LOT of winter left!

I mean, it'd still be relatively mediocre skiing regardless

Because, Indiana, mainly

Sterno

HEY NOW

Unionhawk

@Sterno Ohio skiing isn't any better

Yuuki

@Sterno YOU'RE AN ALL-STAR.

Unionhawk

Honestly Perfect North is probably one of the better tiny hills that exists

But it is still a tiny hill

Plus it's right on the Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana border, so it's not even really Indiana, practically speaking

Yuuki

3:44 PM

@Ash @Frank So there's a Fire Emblem mobile game coming to iOS and Android in early February.

Fire Emblem Heroes

Fire Emblem Heroes is an upcoming free-to-play tactical role-playing game published by Nintendo for iOS and Android devices. The game is a mobile spin-off of the Fire Emblem series, and is scheduled to be released worldwide on February 2, 2017. == Gameplay == Beginning with a grid map that measures 8x6, players are able to summon characters from the Fire Emblem series to attack opposing enemies. == Development == The game was first announced by Nintendo as the third mobile game made under the DeNA partnership in April 2016, alongside an Animal Crossing mobile game, originally set for release that...

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Does Dark Souls II SotFS have the patches built-in?

I don't understand if DS2 SOTFS for PS4 comes with the patches or not, especially the fix for weapons breaking because the game ran at 60fps.

dark-souls-2-sotfs

Frank

@Yuuki It'll be interesting to see how it plays.

Chippies

@Yuuki this sounds like it's probably gonna be like the few other games from the Heroes series, i.e. Heroes of Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes and Plants vs Zombies: Heroes

Jason Berkan

Clash of Heroes was an OK game.

Chippies

I liked it. I heard the PvZ:Heroes game was pretty good too

Jason Berkan

3:55 PM

I enjoyed Clash of Heroes right up until the end - when you fought the same hero type as yourself. It really showed that without unique abilities / units on each side, the game was essentially random.

user15026

@Yuuki Yeah, I pre-registered or whatever for it on Android. It will be interesting to see how it plays.

user15026

@Chippies I liked that game well enough when I played it.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What size are the Orokin, Corpus, and Grineer containers in Warframe?

I'm curious because I'd like to be able to make a case mod that's Warframe themed.I have an ITX build so I would have to buy another case other than the AZZA Z that I currently have.I think the grineed container would be the easiest to make but the orokin seems interesting as well. I can't figure...

warframe

Lazers 2.0

4:22 PM

0

Q: Does a Legendary Card obtained as an arena reward resets the 'Pity Timer'?

It's a widely accepted idea that there is a 'pity timer' when opening card packs in Hearthstone, meaning that after X number of packs opened without a Legendary card, your next pack will always contain (at least) 1. After a recent 12 wins run (Yay!) My reward contained 1 pack, a bunch of gold ...

hearthstone

Wipqozn

4:42 PM

@Sterno There's an even worse moment with the bleeding out stuff, but it might actually make sense for why it happened then.

Lazers 2.0

4:55 PM

-2

Q: What is the save number for restoration glitch?

I managed to pull that out and have a 22k percent fortify alchemy ring. Say I want as big as possible but I want it to be save and free from glitch. What should I do? I noticed that pass 100k price items doesn't improve speech at all. Kind of strange.

skyrim

Yuuki

5:06 PM

... I have found the Promised Land.

6

BlueBarren

@Yuuki oh look, they're thinking of me. There's an IE support option at the bottom

RedRiderX

@Yuuki There's also this css-tricks.com/centering-css-complete-guide

If you can use flexbox though go for that.

Yuuki

5:25 PM

While we're talking about programming stuff...

> As the saying goes, emacs is a great OS, lacking only a decent text editor.

Unionhawk

With the right 90-degree rotation, any effect is a side effect.

Tim Stone

Mexican designer tries to highlight the impracticality of building Trump's wall by including a Macy's in it

It's absurd on so many levels but including a Macy's of all things made me laugh

Yuuki

Well, some good news?

badp

@Yuuki not really

I mean

this is what Berlusconi did after he gave up in 2008

leave the country to the academia

I mean, don't get me wrong

they're good people, yook

Yuuki

Yeah, I guess it's mixed because it means now these people are running for office instead of doing things like cancer research or physics.

badp

5:36 PM

but politics is something else.

politicians welcomed they mostly because they found themselves with their back to the wall

and didn't want to push the button

surprise surprise

the academia found itself with their back to the wall, except worse

and had to push the button

and people were like

"holy shit"

"we tried politicans and they failed us"

"we tried the experts and they failed us"

"what's left? ah let's go for the comedian"

and I'm not talking John Oliver 2024

I'm talking about a very dark place

where you have a party that says

"politics are terrible, politicians are terrible, we must do away with it all, so we made a party"

they just stop short of saying "so we can too get our own comfy chair in the power systems and the nice benefits"

Aaron Hall

@Yuuki Fact check: mostly false. I cite the vim keybindings of evil-mode.

badp

@AaronHall you're making @Yuuki's point there

and now you have a left party, a right party, and a end-of-politics-but-that-kinda-looks-like-an-alt-right-party-but-no-really-direc‌t-democracy-yoooooo-love-and-peas-the-internet-is-amazing-meme-magic-guys-we-are-‌going-to-destroy-the-system-post-politics-it's-where-it's-at-we're-different-no-r‌eally-guys party

Aaron Hall

I do? I say we force everyone to vote on that.

Yuuki

@AaronHall Question: why is a joke about only emacs almost always countered by something about vim? I bet you that if I said "nano is better than emacs", the first reply would be "vim sucks balls".

badp

vim sucks balls

emacs sucks balls

nano is tolerable

murgatroid99

5:43 PM

I like emacs

badp

st3 is where it's at

Aaron Hall

No, vim's got great keybindings.

badp

@murgatroid99 I think I could find emacs tolerable

Aaron Hall

So you can use them in emacs.

Yuuki

It's like "I think Nintendo might have a better game selection than Xbox." "Hey, the PS4 is a terrible console!"

I mean, sure. But we're not talking about the PS4, are we?

badp

5:45 PM

for as long as I can though I will just use my machine to write code, git push it to my hosts, debug with vim, then make do with nano for the rest

murgatroid99

I think something that people are missing is that the cited "evil-mode" is an emacs thing

badp

my machine's got like

pixels

mice

carets

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 Oh wait, I guess I parsed that sentence incorrectly.

badp

it's a good computer aren

Aaron Hall

It's ok, life's a game, you can recover from your mistakes, unless you jump into a bottomless pit or touch the sawblade.

Yuuki

5:46 PM

And so we come to the root of all truths: @Yuuki isn't really a programmer, he just hacks together bad HTML and JavaScript and pretends to be cool.

Aaron Hall

I thought that was the definition of a programmer.

Yuuki

@AaronHall I'm sure pocket protector is in there somewhere and I still don't have mine.

murgatroid99

I really think the emacs vs vim preference mostly just comes down to whether you're more comfortable with key chords or mode switching. There's nothing wrong with either, it's just how you prefer to work.

Aaron Hall

You can have both with evil-mode.

stays on message

badp

evil++; // evim

Aaron Hall

5:50 PM

I still don't get what the workflow would look like to program with cat or sed. ok, you can do heredocs and append with cat, I guess.

badp

I would like vim more if it was like split pane with ed

so you have the document at the top and an actual command line below and you can see what you're typing.

Aaron Hall

@murgatroid99 if you like emacs, you should fav-star chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/43541/emacs-orgmode and chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/17392/scratch

badp

room topic changed to The Bridge: General Arqade chat, wherein we have the worst emacs shills on the internet. Period. [jin-fanclub] [lazers] [murder] [-politics] [success] [wrong]

Yuuki

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Aaron Hall

6:06 PM

lol

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What all is different about the map in the Capture the Flag game mode?

The new event added a new game mode: "Capture the Rooster" (Flag). It's played on Lijiang Tower, almost. What is different about this instance of the map?

overwatch

Sterno

6:24 PM

My summary of RE7: Hero can survive grievous injury and magically self-cauterize wounds through apparently sheer force of will, but can't, however, kick down a wooden door or some boards over a window to escape, or climb up rock outcroppings over 1 foot high, or travel through mild forest underbrush.

cc @Wipqozn

Tim Stone

CHINA: State-media says new Dongfeng-41 missile, with 14,000 km range and 12 nuclear warhead payload, is part of deterrence against the US

Tweeted by spectatorindex on January 25, 2017 at 6:30 PM

yaaaaay

BlueBarren

Man where's Canada's missile then?

Yuuki

@StackExchange Well, at least the RO list is at an even 12 now.

Wipqozn

@Sterno Yes

Frank

...one of my coworkers just thanked me for being so responsive.

Yay for being appreciated, for sure. Yay for doing my job, I guess?

Lazers 2.0

6:45 PM

2

Q: Why am I wielding shoes instead of a bow?

I haven't played Diablo in about 2 days, but when I switched it on just now, I noticed that my demon hunter is holding a pair of shoes instead of a bow in her hand! What should i do? I added a picture here as well

diablo-3

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