The Bridge - 2012-03-29 (page 4 of 9)

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1:00 PM

We were in this... place, I dunno, apartment building or something, and I found you two, and there was some sort of... party I guess going on? I remember going up some stairs and running into the roommate of someone holding a party, you two were like out on a balcony or something.

@FAE RB?

@Wipqozn Rock Band

@FAE ah, gotcha.

I dreamed about GSE people arguing about how to handle two particular questions.

@OrigamiRobot Yep, that sounds about right

1:01 PM

Apparently dreamt is not a word?

@FAE that doesn't sound like @OrigamiRobot :P

I bet @OrigamiRobot's real name is either David or Robert.

@IanPugsley I love balconies.

or WALL-E.

@IanPugsley Well you guys were like, distinctly avoiding the rest of the party.

1:02 PM

@FAE That sounds like me.

I don't think you were actually there for the party, you just happened to be there, if that makes sense.

@Wipqozn Try again.

Also, we have quite a few Michaels on here.

@OrigamiRobot George.

@Wipqozn George... Michael?

@Wipqozn We could do this all day.

1:04 PM

@OrigamiRobot I dunno, your name's not like, super uncommon.

Stephen.

@FAE But we're talking about @Wipqozn here. He's Canadian

or Steven. however you want to spell it.

Wrong

Brad?

Lisa?

Mitch?

1:07 PM

Negative

Are you sure it's not DAvid? You seem like a David.

@Wipqozn I have three uncles named David

Ben?

Alex?

@OrigamiRobot Wow, 3?

@OrigamiRobot I only have two.

1:08 PM

@FAE One isn't directly related in any way.

Oh!

I bet it's Patrick.

Nope

@OrigamiRobot Ah, married in?

@FAE Nope.

Oh! I know.

I bet it's Timothy.

1:11 PM

@Wipqozn Nope

@OrigamiRobot trolololol

tips hat

Now try to guess MY name.

Which I have always kept a secret on here, and have never told anyone.

@OrigamiRobot One of those people whom you call an uncle but is in reality just close to the family?

I'm going to go with "Wipqozn"

1:16 PM

@FAE I have an entire other family that falls under that category :P

@Sterno Close, but no.

@OrigamiRobot Haha, nice.

Although that would be awesome.

then I'd see people struggle with my name in RL too!

Well, then I'm going to have to go with Celine Dion, as it's the only Canadian I can think of. YOU MAY CHOOSE BETWEEN THE TWO

@FAE I'm actually closer with them than most of my actual family.

1:18 PM

ugh, I need some sort of number system for people who want to complain and/or troll. preferably one that runs out of numbers quickly

@OrigamiRobot Yeah, I know how that goes.

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Q: Do habitats all take the same amount of space?

As I take the time to clear rocks and trees I'm trying to space plan. I'm also curious if upgrading from a small to a large habitat causes it to change size. Do all habitats take up the same amount of X-Y map space?

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Q: What is a "channeled ability"?

A couple abilities in Starcraft 2, such as Neural Parasite, indicate they are a "Channeled Ability". What does this mean?

Blood relations don't really take much priority to me. Family comprises the people who've got your back and who love you. The idea of "familial obligation" because of blood is also very strange to me.

@FAE I concur.

@FAE I was by far closer to my not-a-grandma-grandma than any other person probably ever. At least so far.

1:23 PM

@OrigamiRobot I'm also adopted, so this colors my point of view on the whole "blood relations" thing. I've had so many people ask if I want to find my "real parents" to which I respond "I already have, they're the ones who raised and cared for me."

And I have some... not-so-great family members who are blood relations of my parents and stuff that have done things that really make me consider them not family anymore. So that whole "flesh and blood > all" has always puzzled me.

@Wipqozn Dilbert

@IanPugsley So close!

@Wipqozn Dogbert?

@IanPugsley Close!

@FAE I assume that's how I would be. I'm always confused at the portrayal of finding birth parents on TV (fictional and non-fictional), but I'm not really in a position to analyze anyone's motivations.

@FAE I can relate 100%.

Being in trouble with the law is a recurring theme on one side of my family.

1:28 PM

@OrigamiRobot Well for some people, they just want closure on the question of "Why?" type thing. My sister's put a lot of work into trying to find her biological mom, but to no avail. She also had way more info on her birth certificate though, like town and hospital. My only had province, which... is not a promising place to start from.

@OrigamiRobot Oh, hey, you finally turned green.

@GraceNote Still red for me.

(my sister is also adopted, we're not biologically related, but I'd probably punch someone in the face if they said she wasn't my sister on that basis)

@Wipqozn Clearly a demonstration of inferiority

@GraceNote I blame the fact that he turned green for me first on the fact that I live in the future.

1:30 PM

@FAE What's it like living in the future?

...oh no... Rift added fishing...

@Fae is it better then WoW?

@FAE Yea, I meant more the idea of finding them because "they are your 'real' parents"

Closure is perfectly understandable.

@Paralytic Having never really played WoW, I dunno. I only played Rift briefly enough to come to the conclusion it was not a game I wanted to put a lot of time into (did a free trial thing).

@James it's weird about when you can send gems again, but after a full day you should be able to send them to anyone

1:32 PM

@OrigamiRobot Gotcha.

@Paralytic DM;HF (doesn't matter; has fish)

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I <3 the NY Post

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@Wipqozn I suspect I have found your first name, but it might be a trick

@Ian haha i enjoyed fishing in WoW till it made me actually want to go fish

@IanPugsley Oh?

Well, he spelled it wrong, but yes.

That is to say a y, not an i.

1:36 PM

cursory Googling FTW!

Mar 12 at 2:26, by Wipqozn

@BenBrocka When I first read that, I misread "brain" as "brian" and was going to point out you spelled my name wrong.

@IanPugsley He says it all the time in here, haha.

@FAE I'm kinda in a unique position in that I was practically raised by my not-a-grandma-grandma. I stayed at her house most of the time, but sometimes I stayed home.

And it was also on his nomination. :P

@FAE I wanted to see if I could find it on another site

1:36 PM

@Paralytic Fishing is fun. :D

@IanPugsley Fair enough, partial points to you.

@OrigamiRobot Aaaah, okay.

@IanPugsley Ah, well. Good luck.

Assuming you're planning to find my last name as wel

if you just wanted the first, congrats.

@Wipqozn I knew a Bryan once. He was a colossal ass.

@Fae i miss fishing, hard to get a license in Germany being an American

1:38 PM

@OrigamiRobot That was probably me.

@Paralytic Yeah, me too. I need a license here in the Netherlands as well if I want to, and I've just never bothered.

@Wipqozn No, he was genuinely a bad person.

@OrigamiRobot Oh my.

@yah even if i did end up getting one id only be able to fish in a specific area least from my understanding of it all.

@fae **

1:41 PM

@Paralytic A-you can edit your messages, either by pressing the up arrow on your keyboard to go to the last couple messages you posted, or by clicking on the arrow on the left and choosing "edit". :) B-that's a really weird typo.

I should watch through those movies again.

And finish reading the third book...

@Wipqozn I did a rewatch of the extended editions last year, was fun.

@Fae haha i think i just forgot to put your name in the tag entirely

@FAE I watch the movies about once a year.

@Wipqozn I have a hard time getting through Tolkien because his style is so dry.

1:42 PM

@FAE Yeah, I know.

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@Paralytic Also, you can reply directly to a comment in chat (and have peoples names auto-entered into the text field as a result) by mousing over the line of text you want to reply to and clicking the little reply arrow on the bottom right corner.

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Q: SE Chat Modifications -- Keyboard navigation and commands for chat

Screenshot Use /command shortcuts to perform common chat tasks: See message history inline: Easily preview replied-to messages: And much, much more... About Legends tell of a prolific Meta Stack Overflow chatter who despised using their mouse above all things. In an effort to keep t...

That's why I haven't finished the third book.

That script gives some keyboard shortcuts you can use too

@LessPop_MoreFizz hmmm that is definately helpful

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1:43 PM

@Paralytic This has the added benefit of allowing people to backtrack and see what message is in reply to what, which makes it much easier for multiple parallel conversations to be going on. Which tends to happen quite a bit around here.

@LessPop_MoreFizz thats pretty cool, just noticed the arrow on the left side of the message which is what im guessing your refering to. seems i have much to learn still

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(you'll also notice, if you're looking in that area, the star icon. Click on this anytime @Wipqozn uses a sad smiley ( :( ) or anytime someone says something which, taken out of context, could be embarrassing or incriminating.)

@LessPop_MoreFizz The latter is why a certain someone spends so much time in the starred list. Says a lot of things which look bad out of context.

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Also any time I say something brilliant, hilarious, and/or insightful. Which is often.

@LessPop_MoreFizz haha

1:47 PM

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@OrigamiRobot I'm famous!

@Wipqozn That's my line!

Give it back.

@OrigamiRobot I know.

shades

@OrigamiRobot Never.

shades

That's right, just put some shades over my shades.

shades

oh hey, I need to calibrate RB with my new tv

that's right, just put some shades over my shades which I put over my other shades.

1:50 PM

@Wipqozn If you don't give me my line back right his instant, so help me Eris I will cry.

shades

@OrigamiRobot Make me.

shades

@Wipqozn T_T

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Can robots cry?

Do they have tear ducts?

wouldn't tears cause premature rusting?

@LessPop_MoreFizz GIR's not exactly uh, top-of-the-line, design wise.

Though he survived with cupcakes and tuna inside him!

Man, I love this video:

1:54 PM

is it nap time now?

I probably won't read the book, but I should watch the movie.

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I wonder if they sparkle

@Wipqozn I kinda want to read the book. My friend read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by him.

stack exchange system for relationships in today's SMBC

1:56 PM

@OrigamiRobot I am remarkably grossed out by this

@IanPugsley In the grand scheme of things, there were much grosser things in that show. Like Pustulio.

@OrigamiRobot i miss invader zim

@Paralytic We all do.

Hello

@FAE definitely true

and the first time I saw that, it didn't bother me, but for some reason it does now

2:00 PM

haha

You've had the time to think about it now

@FAE I never really considered how many things I may have seen as a child might horrify me now

it's a little disconcerting actually

@IanPugsley Keep thinking about it and let it sink in.

@FAE I have a bit of a morbid curiosity about stuff like this actually

I have a terrible memory - I can remember some bad stuff happening, but I can't actually picture it

I wonder if I've intentionally repressed anything

@IanPugsley Obviously you should go digging!

My memory used to be good, but after 4 concussions, it's kind of shot now.

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@IanPugsley The answer is yes.

It is always yes.

2:07 PM

@FAE I've had two but they were fairly minor (no hospitalization or anything)

I still remember a lot of things from my childhood, but I forget details now about stuff I've read or played or watched in the past 5 years. My retention is terrible, and my short-term is like nonexistent.

@IanPugsley Have had like 3 major, and 1 minor. Maybe 2 minor.

Major being the either hospitalized or the kind where you're like, not allowed to sleep long for fear you won't wake up

@FAE I was kept awake for my two just in case

@IanPugsley My last major one was Jan. 2010. I couldn't play videogames for 2.5 months

I almost went crazy.

@FAE holy shit

I was out of commission for the day, I can't imagine how bad yours must have been

I couldn't even read books for the first couple weeks. :/

Couldn't really be online either. Reading websites, plus the refresh from my old CRTs made it pretty bad.

after the first couple weeks, I could manage listening to audiobooks.

2:13 PM

that's so awful

I was so bored.

And it was the middle of winter here with a lot of ice and snow, so going outside and walking on slippery sidewalks was not a good idea either.

So yeah, I had crazy cabin fever.

Hospital stories? I've got some good ones.

@OrigamiRobot do it

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Q: I don't remember all my ME2 choices. Can I look them up somehow?

I played through ME2 rather haphazardly, saving, reloading, and branching games. I'm not sure what choices I made in the savegame I ended up importing, especially with respect to the heretic geth etc. Is there a way, perhaps with some savegame magic, to get a list of the choices I made in ME2?

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Never had a concussion, but have had brain surgery 3 times that I can remember, and twice as an infant. So I sympathsize with @FAE and the whole can't play stuff, can't read, etc.

2:16 PM

@IanPugsley No time right now :(

@AshleyNunn Oh man, that's awful. :(

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@FAE People always say that XD I am just like hey, I am not dead, and I can function as a normal adult, so I call that win. :)

@AshleyNunn Truth!

What for, if I may ask? And if it's personal info, forget I asked. :)

@OrigamiRobot I LOVEDED YOU PIGGY

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@FAE Haha no worries - was born 3 months early, had a brain hemorhage, developed hydrocephalus, they put in a shunt, it failed, they put in a new one (that covers the two infant surgeries)..at 5 the tubing needed to be added to because I was growing faster and taller than expected.....fast forward to 2000 - shunt fails (this is expected, they last roughly ten years (or so), gets replaced, fails again 2 weeks later, gets replaced....tahdah, no problems since. :)

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2:21 PM

Hydrocephalus (), also known as "water in the brain," is a medical condition in which there is an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the ventricles, or cavities, of the brain. This may cause increased intracranial pressure inside the skull and progressive enlargement of the head, convulsion, tunnel vision, and mental disability. Hydrocephalus can also cause death. The name derives from the Greek words ὑδρο- (hydro-) "water", and κέφαλος (kephalos) "head". Signs and symptoms The clinical presentation of hydrocephalus varies with chronicity. Acute dilatation of the ven...

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This is where my fine motor and depth perception issues come from :)

@AshleyNunn Aaah okay. So the shunt basically drains the extra fluid to elsewhere in your body?

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@FAE Yup, in my case, my stomach :)

I simply have no spleen. A car punched it out of me.

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@OrigamiRobot That was rude of it!

2:24 PM

Quite

@AshleyNunn I now choose to picture you as a cyborg pony with shades. sagenod

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@FAE Heck yes :D

That reminds me.

@AshleyNunn

13 hours ago, by Wipqozn

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Friend drew that for me ^

Finally have a chance to check out Realm of the Mad God.

@FAE I was unimpressed.

user15026

2:32 PM

@Wipqozn That is awesomesauce! :) You have a cool friend :)

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@FAE What sort of game is it? it keeps popping up on my radar but I dont really know anything about it.

@Wipqozn That is pretty great

@AshleyNunn It's advertised as kind of a bullet hell MMO. So sort of a twitchy group shooter.

Oh good, I can set the camera to 0 degrees rather than 45.

Yeah, my friends are awesome.

user15026

@FAE That sounds like something awesome that I would hate XD I like the idea of it, though - it sounds fascinating

2:35 PM

@AshleyNunn I only just started, but I know some people here were playing, but a bunch of them became disenchanted with it.

@FAE ohh right that, I never got to try that yet

Has everyone prepared themselves for this weekend?

What happens this weekend?

Damn, beaten by @GraceNote.

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@GraceNote Internet Jackass Day is coming.

2:40 PM

LoL

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Oh that too.

@OrigamiRobot oh zeus.

Not again.

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But mainly Internet Jackass Day

The horrors... the horrors...

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Also, HAHA SUCKERS I won't be around to help you with the LoL shit as I will be driving to NC

SUCKERS

SUCKERS I SAY

2:41 PM

Gotcha

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yea, but you get to experience our wonderful "climate"

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@OrigamiRobot :( I hate hot weather. :(

Unless you mean that it is raining a lot, in which case, all that means is I will have a lot of time off in your city.

Question for the Minecraft players. Anyone know of a good youtuber that does redstone tutorials and creations? I am looking to spark my redstone creations from basic to amazing.

@Adanion Sethbling

I mean NC usually doesn't know the meaning of comfortable temperatures.

2:42 PM

I'm technically unemployed now, so guess I can spend some time on fixing questions this weekend

It's actually been quite nice the past few days

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Q: Can I get more than one Cerberus Escapees?

Completing Mass Effect: Infiltrator once unlocks 1 Cerberus Escapee (according to the Galaxy at War screen), which equates to 40 War Assets inside Mass Effect 3 proper. A New Game+ of Infiltrator unlocks, but it seems to be equivalent to just picking missions from the level selector, as your pro...

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Q: What is Auto-casting in LoL?

I've been hearing a lot of people talking about auto-casting. I was wondering how does it work and how do you set it up?

league-of-legends

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Q: Abilities/Items that grant vision

Referring to my previous question and its comments, I want to know which abilities & spells grant the hero better vision than normal at night, day and both combined?

dota-2 defense-of-the-ancients

@Adanion youtube.com/user/sethbling

@FAE Looks promising, does he do walkthroughs on his schematics?

@Adanion Sometimes. He usually explains what he did, but doesn't go into like, beginner-level detail. He also usually has a link to a map in the description where you can download his creation and play with it yourself.

2:47 PM

@FAE Awesome! Thank you!

@Lazers Duplicate, please VTC.

@Adanion No problem. :) I'm not much of a redstone person myself, but my b/f watches his channel and I've seen some of this guy's creations. They're pretty impressive and he's quite creative. He's made stuff like an "invisible maze" and even Peggle

@FAE Almost beat ya

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@FAE Peggle? In minecraft?

@AshleyNunn Yus. One sec, lemme find the link.

This user will surely be a valuable addition to our fair site, especially given his first "answer"

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2:55 PM

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@BenBrocka Hahaha, glad to know I wasn't the only one thinking along those lines

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@FAE I don't remember, had you ever played the Witcher games?

@LessPop_MoreFizz I own a boxed version of The Witcher EE but I haven't played it yet.

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@FAE You really should. Especially given that the Witcher 2 EE is coming out in 3 weeks.

No better time IMO.

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@FAE That was super cool , and it makes me want to play Peggle again :)

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2:58 PM

I get the sense that it is right up your alley in many ways.

@BenBrocka Thanks for the flag!

@LessPop_MoreFizz I've heard really good things about it, but I've just never gotten around to it, haha. I know it was made in BioWare's Aurora Engine.

Which was the same as the NWN2 engine, iirc.

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