The Bridge

2:18 AM

@Wipqozn Well that looks fun and relaxing

minecraft minecraft-commands minecraft-pocket-edition

3:31 AM

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Q: Minecraft Command Issues

So, I’m building a small village on a huge flat top hill. I can’t be bothered to mine out all the grass. I can’t use commands to build the actual road because you can only use commands for white concrete. My problem is the command block says cannot execute command because the location is out of t...

Dragon Age 4 - A Franchise in Crisis

4:19 AM

►

seeing multiple videos talking about this and Jason Schreier's article on Anthem and Dragon Age 4 and yeh, really hoping that Bioware gets their shit together because i loved Dragon Age Origins and hear good things about Dragon Age Inquisition

and assuming the footage in the video is Inquisition then it looks even better than i had seen previously

4:48 AM

facebook.com/…

> Most news outlets are only showing the blurry zoomed in picture of the black hole so I'm posting the entire zoomed-out image of the black hole and everything it is consuming. The tiny black spec in this image is 6.5 billion times the size of our sun. This thing is HUGE.

user15026

Daaaaang

Q: What are the differences between the final campaign boss in the original Borderlands and in the GOTY Edition?

5:30 AM

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The final campaign boss, "The Destroyer" in Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition has been reported to be "tougher", and "more challenging, engaging and rewarding" than its previous iteration in the original Borderlands. What are the differences between the final boss in the original Borderlands...

borderlands-goty-edition

6:25 AM

@Lazers2.0 wait, is there a difference between PS3, PC and PS4 GOTY Editions?

Q: Are items with +0AC are only aesthetic or do they bring some defense or other benefits?

7:08 AM

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I am finding items with +0 AC all over the place, also my starting characters have them Since they have +0AC it would imply that in fights they don't add any protection, they do weight more than zero however so discarding them would allow me to carry more loot. Are items with +0AC are only ...

temple-of-elemental-evil toee

7:27 AM

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Q: How can I fix this?

I've never delt with something like this. Can anyone please help? ---- Minecraft Crash Report ---- WARNING: coremods are present: llibrary (llibrary-core-1.0.10-1.12.2.jar) CreativePatchingLoader (CreativeCore-1.12.1.jar) ForgelinPlugin (Shadowfacts-Forgelin-1.12.2.jar) ObfuscatePlugin ...

minecraft

@Lazers2.0 VtC because we don't provide support for Modded Minecraft.

8:11 AM

Morning chat

Morning @Kevin

Morning @Kevin

Morning @Kevin

@Ave I hope I didn't get you into trouble last night. Someone flagged your chat message about trans girls

Ave

8:28 AM

@Nzall did they? Yikes.

I'm actually goddamn sick tbh.

Like

I'm 👏 sick 👏 of 👏 casual 👏 transphobia.

9

hugs

Guuuh people suck

Well, #notallpeople

8:51 AM

trans girls are awesome, transphobes can go in the sea

9:28 AM

Fuck, my unittest worked on the first run and now I'm unsure whether my code actually works

Buns Glazing

10:30 AM

(p sure the souls shot is photoshopped with the black hole on top)

@BunsGlazing Praise M87

10:52 AM

just cried reading this ngl

Tweeted by stairwellspirit on April 11, 2019 at 8:07 AM

TL;DR: romance at a gym

Note: careful if you read the replies, stairwellspirit used the replies to plug an 18+ account

@Nzall aw that's cute

Belgium is finally getting a Human Rights Institute

12:01 PM

Ya know, it's kind of amazing how out-dated the xkcd map of online communities is:

I'm waiting for the day when, if you tell someone 'I'm from the internet', instead of laughing they just ask 'oh, what part?'

Best trivia I learned while working on this: 'Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.

he released a new one in 2010

Ooooh

Did not remember he did that

Surprisingly much less outdated?

It's 9 vs 12 years but the older map seems much more outdated to me

@Kevin That's mainly because Facebook made a monster growth

Possibly

And also just less things that died?

And blogs being much smaller

12:24 PM

@Nzall Pretty sure a 'V' needs to be added to the end of 'Final Fantasy XI'.

I think the XI servers are dead, Jim.

@Nzall But then again, 2010.

@Yuuki FFXIV wasn't even a thing in 2010

Oh wait, it was

I think it was 1.0 though.

but it was closed pretty soon after because it had severe issues, to then be rereleased 3 years later

Which was kinda unpopular.

yup

12:29 PM

@Memor-X Except for the janky face animations in Andromeda, the issue with the recent Bioware games hasn't been graphics.

In fact, in all of the recent problematic game launches this year, none of the issues have been graphics.

Dragon Age 4 is definitely going to look pretty, but there's already concerning signs.

@Yuuki oh i wasn't really commenting on the graphics, more the battles you see like that Dragon Battle

12:53 PM

@Memor-X Dragon Age indeed had some amazing boss fights. I loved fighting against and killing all the dragons

There were like 7 or 8 dragon battles like that, one in each zones plus a couple more in one of the zones

1:20 PM

0

Q: HTC Vive display is blurry

I recently bought a HTC Vive and on all of my games it looks blurry. I asked a friend who also has a Vive on what I could do, he said change the resolution percentage in Steam VR. I tried this and nothing worked, I have also tried to adjust the headset lenses (backwards and forwards and side to s...

steam-vr vive

1:54 PM

Reminder: Binaural recordings are weird

(Scroll down to the bottom of that page)

2:06 PM

@SaintWacko So there's an emergency exit 6 feet to my right that doesn't open from within the stair well (so people might knock), and I hadn't read the description before playing it.

> Frequency Range 22 Hz to 17.5 kHz

Oh good, it might not be my hearing after all.

(I'm sure it's dropped some (maybe to 19 or 18.5kHz), but I was getting worried when I only started hearing the tone at about 17kHz)

Q: Is there a way to find out how many items total (games, software, videos) are available in Steam Discovery Queue?

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I know there are regional restrictions that prevent certain items from appearing in restricted countries, but in general, how to calculate the number of games which you could go through if you browse through all the items in the Discovery Queue?

steam

2:21 PM

If anyone here is familiar with CBT, this is a nice project on GitHub about it github.com/Flaque/quirk

@Moacir Huh, that's neat

@SaintWacko If this works as it is proposed, its pretty good. They try to explain everything they do and why they do it

@MBraedley Hahaha

It's so realistic

Did you go try to let someone in?

@Moacir Yeah, LadyWacko's been really interested in CBT. I sent it over to her

@SaintWacko Best part is that it is open source, so you can be sure things are not doing what they should not, and even do minor fixes

2:36 PM

@Moacir I do always appreciate that

Q: Does the Construction Office conduct repairs?

3:18 PM

0

I'm playing through the scenario where the volcano goes off ever so often and wreaks havoc on my buildings. Question is; would an additional construction office help in faster repairs? Or teamsters? Or none of the above?

tropico-6

0

Q: Why aren't Minecraft datapack functions being registered?

I am writing a datapack to allow endgame items that work sort of like guns, because creepers are annoying. The following code is in a function, but I can't find it with /function in game. I have other functions in the same file which are registering, so is there anything about the contents of the...

minecraft minecraft-commands

Q: Why did I lose my right wing after disassembling it on War Thunder's Battlefield Engineer?

3:38 PM

0

I disassembled my right outer wing and it gave me high lift devices. Now I can't assemble the right outer wing anymore. Where should I look? War Thunder Battlefield Engineer

war-thunder

my dad, asking about my camping trip: have you thought about taking a spork? me: no, I— dad: because then you'll have both a spoon me: dad: and an orc

Tweeted by innesmck on April 12, 2019 at 12:44 PM

Cc @ash @yuuki @wipqozn

Maybe it wouldn't be the best thing to have an orc with you on a camping trip.

Wipqozn

@GodEmperorDune Excellent

@Yuuki It would be if it was your friend. Could protect you.

Could carry a lot too

@Moacir I haven't unlocked the one from the obelisk yet

user15026

4:00 PM

@GodEmperorDune giggles

user15026

Hey @ToxicFrog (or anyone) how much do you know about editing an epub? I have a copy of the Kitab-i-Aqdas where every time it has a little underline thing (because it's using Arabic or Persian words and it uses this little combining macron in it) it says {COMBINING MACRON BELOW} instead of actually putting the thing in, and since it's not needed per se, I was wondering how hard it would be to edit it to find/replace all of those and remove them

user15026

But I know nothing about these things.

user15026

(If the easier answer is "Find another file that doesn't do that" I can, this was just the free copy from Kobo)

Editing them is pretty easy

An epub is just a zip file full of HTML and CSS files

Calibre has a built in epub editor, but you can also just unzip using 7-zip or whatever, open the HTML files in your editor of choice, and find-replace "{COMBINING MACRON BELOW}" with ""

Then zip it back up and away you go

user15026

Oh, I didn't realize Calibre had an editor built in!

user15026

4:07 PM

I just assumed this was going to be difficult :P

I think you can just right-clic -> edit ebook

1, 2, 3, it's easy as—{COMBINING MACRON BELOW} A, B— {COMBINING MACRON BELOW}... 3...

user15026

I'll have to check tonight, because as much as I wanna read this, the Arabic and Persian bits are gonna keep coming up, so I am going to keep having to mentally stitch things like "Mashriq al-adhkār" back together because it has a pile of those little macron things in depending on how you transliterate it

Oh this is unrelated to the French President

it should be possible to automate that, although it may be a bit more work

4:09 PM

I thought he was rudely inserting himself into your books

user15026

snortgiggles not quite

(like, is it just deleting occurrences of that, or does other work need to be done?)

@GodEmperorDune FUUUUUSIIOOOOOON HA!

user15026

@ToxicFrog Nothing else needs to be done, I just need those bits to not be there

@Ash ok, you can probably just open it in the calibre editor, find-replace, save

user15026

4:15 PM

@ToxicFrog Excellent, I will do that tonight then

user15026

Thanks, I knew you'd probably know what to do

I've had to fix my share of busted epubs.

user15026

This was the first time I've had one where the transliteration was unreadably bad

user15026

like I have had some wobbles sometimes with Baha'i texts and the transliteration, but I could figure it out

user15026

this one though, I dunno what happened with it

4:21 PM

For me it's usually OCR errors (for scans of older stuff), or busted footnotes, or in one memorable case some kind of CSS disaster that resulted in most of the text being white-on-white

user15026

oh that sounds terrible :P

user15026

I'm just surprised it's so broken, because I got it from Kobo themselves, like it's not one I converted from PDF from the Baha'i library or anything.

user15026

Thanks for the help :)

Astrophysicists are all like, “ah, yes, this important piece of technology? It’s called the Very Very Very Long Extra Big Spectrometer Device. This other one? We call it NINJATURTLE for short, and that stands for Nitrogen Inspecting Nice Jiggly Astronomical Technology...Urtle.”

Tweeted by kt_bop on April 10, 2019 at 10:30 PM

Replies has a list of real life examples

@GodEmperorDune The James Webb Telescope is actually short for Joyful Awesome Mega Enormous Super Well-made Egregiously Bombastic Biggest Telescope.

4:37 PM

@SaintWacko The one that requires 10 lunar?

@Ash Have you seen the Quirk think I linked earlier?

user15026

@Moacir I did not. scrolls up

user15026

Ah, okay

@Ash I'm not at all surprised, for two reasons

user15026

That sounds neat but as usual I see "oh it's on GitHub and my brain stalls going "how do I even interact with this"

(a) historically my experience has been that Actual Publishers have worse quality control on their ebooks than pirates working out of a garage with a home-made book scanner and free OCR tools

4:39 PM

@Ash There is a link for an app already on the play store

(b) I've heard enough rants from authors about how awful industry ebook publishing/conversion tools are

I think there is also an apple version

Private Pansy

Got into work this morning and my work laptop (along with half the office) was stolen

user15026

@ToxicFrog yeah, I suspect this was the UHJ (or whoever, but lacking anyone else, I'll say them) being like "oh hey we will try our best here" and falling into your point b (because the online copies aren't having these issues)

user15026

@Moacir Oh, cool

user15026

4:41 PM

@PrivatePansy what omg that's awful

@Ash like, a friend of mine was recently talking about how much fun it wasn't that they author stuff in GoogleDocs, but their publisher only ingests files in a specific MS Word format and also doesn't support certain formatting things

Private Pansy

This is going to be really annoying

And if you do something that it doesn't support, sometimes it rejects the file, and sometimes it mysteriously works, and sometimes it claims to work but emits a busted epub

user15026

@ToxicFrog noooo thank you

user15026

all of that sounds frustrating

4:50 PM

As hell, yes.

Q: In Minecraft 1.12.2 Modded, How do I change a bow's accuracy?

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I'm trying to make a (very simple) 1.12.2 mod, and I need to change the accuracy of a bow to be very low, but make the damage high. I can't find anywhere how to do this. Can it be done? If so, how? Thanks!

minecraft mods

Private Pansy

→ 1 message moved to Trash

5:13 PM

Every generation has a legend. Watch the brand-new teaser for Star Wars: #EpisodeIX. https://t.co/fWMS13ekdZ

Tweeted by starwars on April 12, 2019 at 5:08 PM

It's Recettear but a cat cafe: kickstarter.com/projects/1885319905/…

Q: Concealed Trapdoor Command Block Trapdoor

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I want to create a trap with an iron trapdoor hidden by a carpet. When a player stands on a carpet, the carpet disappears for five seconds and the trapdoor beneath it opens, and the player falls into a lava pit. I have managed to activate iron trapdoors by creating an always active command blo...

minecraft minecraft-commands

5:32 PM

Thank god, I'm Chinese.

I'm working off-site and this place has no silverware of any kind to offer.

I went to get some take-out to bring back and I forgot to get some plasticware.

user15026

Couple of pens as psuedo chopsticks?

Luckily, I can use these wooden coffee stirrers as makeshift chopsticks.

user15026

Ah, that works too

So thank god I'm Chinese and I grew up using chopsticks.

user15026

You're saved, you don't gotta go hungry!

5:35 PM

I'm going to have to remember to get a sandwich or fried chicken or something next time.

I haven't been able to bring food from home because there's some work being done on the kitchen.

user15026

That sucks :(

Q: How can I re-enter "Fragile Existence" (level 9) after I changed it into Baba?

5:55 PM

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While playing level 9 ("Fragile Existence") I accidentally spelled Level Is Baba and got back to the world map with said level replaced by Baba: Now I cannot enter the level again, as Baba moves away as soon as I try to enter the level: But I haven't solved the level yet! How can I re-enter...

baba-is-you

0

Q: How many Rusted Keys do you need to get red items most of the time?

Having a single rusted key allows you to open rusty lockboxes, but will usually give you white items. Having more of them increases your chances at green or even red items, but I don't know at what rate. Testing a run with 1 key, I got 5 white items in a row, while i got 5 red items in a row on a...

risk-of-rain-2

@Moacir No, I have that one. Apparently there's some rare portal that takes you to an obelisk

@SaintWacko Oh! I got it. The celestial portal

@Moacir Yeah

Want to know how to get it?

Jutschge

Yaaay I got a new job

6

6:01 PM

@Jutschge Hey, grats!

@Moacir I'll ask a couple questions lol

Is the portal showing up random?

Jutschge

Thanks :D

@SaintWacko Not exactly, at least not in my experience

@Jutschge Are you moving from defensive mage item to enchanter support item?

@Moacir Is it showing up based on progress or do I have to do something specific?

Also, do you know what the box in the snow area with the time on it is?

user15026

@Jutschge thats awesome news.

6:09 PM

@SaintWacko If you progress long enough they appear at the same place

where you can keep progressing, and will from that point on always appear on the same place

@SaintWacko Its an unlock, but you need to get there in 10 minutes

Buns Glazing

6:36 PM

There are a few things that always seem to be in the same place

The newt altars, the legendary chest in the lava zone, the lock box under the thing (although I've seen at least one more there but don't know if it's recurring as well)

I got the celestial portal on my first time playing easy (which was the first time I made it past level 1). Mercenary was my first unlock lol

Ave

ISL (now IST) is so big and confusing

Bigger isn't always better folks.

@Moacir Okay, I figured that was the case

@Moacir Okay, thanks. I was trying to get details without completely spoiling it lol

I haven't actually played anything but medium yet

Also, I had a fantastic game last night. Engineer, had two pretty powerful turrets, three wax quail, and the jumpees

So I could bounce around the level super fast

Also, I learned that if you wax quail jump into a slope it redirects you into a super high jump

To the point that whenever I accidentally did it in the lava level it would launch me so high I'd go through the ceiling and get teleported back down

Unionhawk

If you were part of the Star Wars universe, what side would you be on? #StarWarsCelebration

Tweeted by starwars on April 12, 2019 at 5:58 PM

hm

Tim Stone

6:52 PM

lmao

@SaintWacko I was trying my best to give you the most generic answer

Also I have no idea if there is a dificulty requirement

user15026

@Unionhawk well the dark side keeps saying they have cookies.

4

I'm on whatever side Han is on.

@JasonBerkan You're dead?

7:09 PM

@Yuuki The undead Rebel side.

@Unionhawk The Force should be a power available to all life and concentrating it in the hands of one family is not egalitarian. Take back the means of midichlorian production! #EatTheSkywalkers

@Unionhawk tag yourself i'm the fire burning down the fancy jedi tree

@Yuuki Technically they only are one family because they kidnap the kids using the jedi mind tricks to convince the parents

7:24 PM

Sees acronym in document. Goes to table of acronyms. Acronym isn't listed. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

user15026

@MBraedley ruuuude

@Ash If I hadn't worked so hard, I wouldn't have this problem because I wouldn't need to be reading new documentation.

7:52 PM

I have come to the realization that Gwen Stefani is a prophet beyond peer. She sang "I ain't no hollaback girl" years before anyone said "don't @ me".

2

I am confused

8:10 PM

I forgot who had a video about building lego

jaysbrickblog.com/2019/04/13/…

8:21 PM

@Moacir I think that would be me

@MBraedley I think it would. I think you may be interested in the linked article

It's not minifig scale though

It is not?

It has minifigures inside of it

No, it's like 1/2 or 1/4 minifig scale. Might be microfig scale, in which case it'd go well with my Saturn V.

Oh, I got it

8:30 PM

Ah, simple amusements

Someone coming into a meeting dropped his mouse and the batteries popped out

He then set his mouse down on the table and went back to get his cup and one of the batteries rolled away and fell into a chair

I could have said something then, but I was really looking forward to him going to reassemble the mouse and discovering a battery was missing

It was everything I hoped it would be

Q: Can Dragonrot kill/incapacitate some NPCs making some interactions impossible after a bunch of deaths?

0

When NPCs talk about Dragonrot, it really seems that at some point the dragonrot can kill. Thing is, if it does kill some major NPCs, it would make some functions impossible; example, if the sculptor would be to die, how can I equip new shinobi tools? So can Dragonrot kill some NPCs and thus ma...

sekiro-shadows-die-twice

Nope, not microfig scale either. Microfig scale is about 1/100, and minifig scale is about 1:40. This set is about 1:250, if Wikipedia is to be believed.

This is a re-release, so the dimensions may vary

I'm going from the Lego shop page.

Any *fig sized capital ship is going to be HUGE.

8:44 PM

@JasonBerkan I'd be hard pressed to call a CR90 a capital ship. It's a corvette. But yes, even a microfig scale model would be 1.5m long

(i.e. bigger than the Saturn V)

Yeah - I guess I used the wrong term. It's not a small fighter sized ship, though.

some light reading about minifig scale megaconstructions: wired.com/2012/02/…

Fun fact: the number of plastic needed is roughly the same as the amount of plastic that's ever been made that's not considered waste, and the number of bricks needed would roughly require a million years to produce at current speeds.

OKAY, PANIC.

9:11 PM

Heads up: We have maintenance scheduled for next week. More details can be found at https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/326718/planned-maintenance-scheduled-april-17-18-2019-at-1100utc-800pm-us-eastern

Tweeted by StackStatus on April 12, 2019 at 7:10 PM

Q: ESO basic game: what are the regions I can't access?

10:30 PM

0

Got a bunch of treasure maps and it's annoying how it's not immediately clear which I have access to from the base game. I don't buy any additional dlc as a rule of thumb. I think Murkmire, Vvardenfell and Hew's Bane are off limits and I can ditch those treasure maps. Any others? Pet hate games ...

the-elder-scrolls-online

Tim Stone

After his approach shot on the 14th hole, a security guard makes contact with Tiger Woods. https://t.co/0DNpWn1AkI

Tweeted by CBSSports on April 12, 2019 at 10:19 PM

lol, the announcer reaction here is just amazing

Q: How do I add items to my inventory?

11:11 PM

0

I'm using CTRL + SHIFT + ~ to open the console, but I'm not seeing any way to add individual items to my inventory after enabling cheats 1.

risk-of-rain-2

user15026

@ToxicFrog It took me a while because I couldn't find/replace as it needed me to put something in to replace and wouldn't accept any sort of null character, but I find/backspaced through ALL the different files and now it is clean and tidy :D

user15026

So thanks for telling me about Calibre's edit book function because that made it so simple.

11:25 PM

@Ash you're welcome! I'm surprised it wouldn't let you just leave the "replace" box blank, though, that works fine for me

user15026

yeah, it was like "noooo you can't leave this blank" but it made it acceptably simple to just backspace the thing out when it found it so it was okay

user15026

(I am amused that taking those out shrank the book from 330 pages to 300)

Super weird.

I wonder if we have different versions and this is something that's fixed in mine or something.

user15026

@ToxicFrog I am using a older version here, so that might be it?

user15026

I realized I missed a couple so I will try on my updated version at home and see what it thinks, but 3.14 at least was like "NO LEAVING THE REPLACE BOX BLANK"

11:28 PM

I'm on 3.27 here

user15026

(which I know is many versions behind)

user15026

I think I am 3.40 at home?