The Bridge

James

8:00 PM

@DesignerGuy Np

fbueckert

@DesignerGuy You can kill the accuracy bit of the question.

It adds nothing to the question.

OrigamiRobot

You can also use the little arrow on the right side of a message to reply directly to that message

DesignerGuy

@fbueckert - I think I did?

fbueckert

@DesignerGuy > (assuming a relatively accurate shot; maybe an 8 on a scale of 1-10)

user2334

No, keep that

user2334

8:01 PM

Some weapons and items are way awesome if you're a pro, but only if you're a pro. Setting the parameters for skill is a good way to define correctness

DesignerGuy

@fbueckert What's the reasoning to remove it?

OrigamiRobot

@MarkTrapp Some are only good if you're pro much

DesignerGuy

@MarkTrapp - agreed. that's why I added it

Trying to ask "DPS" with spread as a small factor

fbueckert

@DesignerGuy Oh, I misread the statement.

user2334

@DesignerGuy your question is good as it is now; I voted to reopen

fbueckert

8:02 PM

I thought that was taking weapon accuracy into account, not player accuracy.

DesignerGuy

@fbueckert - No worries. Just making sure I understand the rationale :)

@fbueckert Should I clarify?

OrigamiRobot

@DesignerGuy Also, you don't need to put the game title in the question title. That's what tags are for.

fbueckert

@DesignerGuy Might be a good idea; I'm probably not going to be the only one to misread that.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert I thought the same thing. I already fixed\ it.

DesignerGuy

"assuming a relatively accurate shot by the player"

oops. alreayd updated

already*

OrigamiRobot

8:04 PM

You can also delete all your comments now :P

fbueckert

Also, can we get a mod on that question to clean up the comments? Or @DesignerGuy, can you remove most of the comments that no longer apply?

Wipqozn

@DesignerGuy I may be a tortoise, but that doesn't mean I'm slow!

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn turtle*

user2334

terrapin

fbueckert

@Wipqozn Yes, yes it does.

user2334

8:05 PM

We didn't re-elect Obama just to call terrapins tortoises

3

OrigamiRobot

@MarkTrapp Terrapins are turtles too, but they are not tortoises

Another question saved. I take full credit.

user2334

@OrigamiRobot The British think they are, according to The Wikipedia. They call anything that's not a sea turtle "tortoise"

OrigamiRobot

The British also call it Aluminium.

user2334

True facts: the main plot behind AC3 is the right to call fresh water chelonians by their true, Algonquian name: terrapin

OrigamiRobot

And they frequently use s instead of z

Lazers

8:09 PM

0

Q: Grand Theft Auto: IV Won't load or render

I recently purchased GTA: IV, played for about two minutes and realized that nothing was rendering other than cars. I judged where I was going by the map for a while, I was floating constantly! Then, the next day I tried to hop on and sort it out, loaded the game after making no changes and now I...

pc gta-4

DesignerGuy

Took care of the extra comments. Thanks for the help guys!

Wipqozn

@DesignerGuy You're welcome. I take full credit.

James

I have rebuilt my database, reseting PS3, cutting power from PS3, cleaning it dry. Cleaning it wet. — Ice 1 min ago

OrigamiRobot

5 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot

Another question saved. I take full credit.

Too late!

James

Is cleaning it dry and cleaning it wet the guy just being frustrated... or... odd? :)

Wipqozn

8:12 PM

@OrigamiRobot I also took full credit for the joke.

You clearly stole it from me.

OrigamiRobot

I am always right (@Wipqozn is handsome)

2

See? The credit is mine.

SaintWacko

@MarkTrapp Astrochelonians are better

badp

Hey guys

0

A: What determines whether or not I become the Squad Leader of a given Squad?

So far I have noticed it seems to be rank based which makes sense, Why would you have a seargent giving orders to a colonel?

This seems to be an answer, what am I missing?

Wipqozn

@badp Hi badp!

badp

Not a great awesome answer, I wouldn't frame it and print it on t-shirts, but an answer anyway

user2334

8:23 PM

@SaintWacko Googled that, only found fanfiction, thus my response is ಠ_ಠ

Wipqozn

@badp I concur. Bad answer, but still an answer.

badp

@Wipqozn Nevermind, another ninja outran me

SaintWacko

@MarkTrapp The first web result and the first image result are the only important ones

Wipqozn

@jqan is the most ninja of most the mods. Most of the time I forget he even exists.

user2334

user2334

8:25 PM

@SaintWacko First result --^ The ಠ_ಠ stands

SaintWacko

@MarkTrapp Wait, really?

That's not my first result

Wipqozn

@SaintWacko Results are personalized, so clearly @MarkTrapp is a closet brony.

3

SaintWacko

2

user2334

THESE ALLEGATIONS ARE OUTRAGEOUS, EGREGIOUS, PREPOSTEROUS

SaintWacko

@MarkTrapp My first result

user2334

8:27 PM

Oh, that's number 3. Number 2 is a heavily tattooed woman

user2334

Oh, do you have Safe Search set to strict? When I do that it becomes the first result

user2334

I normally keep it on "Off" because I like to live dangerously

5

Ullallulloo

@MarkTrapp So even Google knows that ponies are inappropriate.

Wipqozn

@Ullallulloo I find this to be a very amusing comment.

user2334

@Ullallulloo Oddly, the pony still shows up as #2. Google is black magic

James

8:29 PM

@SaintWacko Dont give @Wipqozn any ideas!

OrigamiRobot

Google is deep magic.

SaintWacko

@James Ah, he could never compete with an astrochelonian

user2334

Invader Skoodge

I should include "-pony" in every google search I run from now on.

6

user2334

6th result --^

SaintWacko

8:30 PM

@MarkTrapp Turtles all the way down!

@InvaderSkoodge I'll bet you could write a userscript to do that automatically

OrigamiRobot

@InvaderSkoodge You can't talk. Your were a pony at one point!

Invader Skoodge

@OrigamiRobot I was gir.

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot Techncially he was a pony-gir hybrid.

OrigamiRobot

My assertion that he cannot talk still stands.

Invader Skoodge

I wasn't really a pony. It was a disguise to try to infiltrate.

OrigamiRobot

8:32 PM

You were a pony and then you were a unicorn.

Wipqozn

Which reminnds me, the new season starts next month.

Invader Skoodge

I was a unicorn, but that's a different thing entirely.

And that was also your fault.

OrigamiRobot

I ONLY WANTED YOUR PIG TO COME BACK

3

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I miss his pig.

FAE

@Wipqozn I thought it was this month.

OrigamiRobot

8:33 PM

@Wipqozn DONT TELL HIM THAT BAD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU TELL HIM THAT

Invader Skoodge

I'm not messing with my gravatar right now. I'm RDPed into work via a loaned laptop from work and I don't have a mouse. I don't want to do anything that involves clicking that I don't have to.

Wipqozn

@FAE it used to be, but it got pushed back to dec.

SaintWacko

@MarkTrapp No, it's off here too

Invader Skoodge

It's so laggy to do anything on here it's like I'm living in the 90s again.

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko The plot thicks.

Invader Skoodge

8:35 PM

I can't even see the words I type until I'm 3 words later.

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot Thicks?

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko So thicks.

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn Saturday

SaintWacko

@murgatroid99 Tuesday

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko Prickle-Prickle

Wipqozn

8:35 PM

@murgatroid99 Really? I could have sworn it got pushed back.

FAE

@Wipqozn Aw, really? :( What day?

@InvaderSkoodge I learned back when I was at my parents' place that chat's pretty much unusable on dialup.

Invader Skoodge

@FAE Yet StarCraft worked on dialup without any lag.

Programmers today are getting complacent.

OrigamiRobot

@InvaderSkoodge I know! Just look at my software. I was very lazily programmed.

Wipqozn

4 mins ago, by murgatroid99

@Wipqozn Saturday

Lazers

0

Q: Which rifle does the highest DPS with only headshots?

Which rifle does the highest DPS (damage per second) with only headshots? Between: Battle Rifle DMR Carbine

halo-4

1

Q: How does the game scale with multiple players?

Pretty simple, but does the game scale the difficulty up/down at all depending on how many people are playing the campaign?

halo-4

Wipqozn

8:40 PM

I was wrong.

Scumbag lazers.

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn Really. I should know because I'm livestreaming it into an auditorium

family-room.ew.com/2012/10/18/my-little-pony-season-3-premiere

FAE

@Wipqozn Oh. Well then.

Wipqozn

@murgatroid99 YOu're such a cool guy.

tiddy

I'd argue a lot of the lag you would see from this chat would be due to your own CPU and memory chugging through the complex JS this app uses

SaintWacko

@tiddy Seriously, this thing is fancy

user2334

8:43 PM

I blame it on the re-election. Thanks, Obama!

OrigamiRobot

If you wanna be a badass, [insert coin] on dialup.

@MarkTrapp Romney could technically still win! A lot of people would be in trouble, but it could happen.

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn I run the brony group at my school, and I have been planning this for a long time

tiddy

@SaintWacko Fancy or not your browser requires a lot of resources to handle the massive amount data being pushed to it every second from this page

Invader Skoodge

@OrigamiRobot This voting system is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

SaintWacko

@tiddy I know, that's what I was saying. This page is fancy

OrigamiRobot

8:45 PM

@InvaderSkoodge At least Obama ended up with the popular vote so it didn't completely fail this time.

murgatroid99

@OrigamiRobot I thought he couldn't win if he already conceded

user2334

@OrigamiRobot It's just a little airborne! It's still good, it's still good!

user2334

@murgatroid99 Concessions don't affect the process. Electors haven't even voted yet: they do that in a few weeks. Then Congress certifies the results. One could technically get elected under duress

OrigamiRobot

@murgatroid99 I don't know how concession works, but the point is nothing is super-duper-double-no-backsies official yet.

Ullallulloo

Also, Puerto Rico voted to become the 51st state.

user2334

8:49 PM

@Ullallulloo Sorta. They voted on a non-binding resolution to reject their current status as a commonwealth, but only narrowly voted for statehood assuming you ignore all the people who left the "what should we do if not Commonwealth?" question blank

user2334

Because they aren't a state, Congress decides what happens to them, and they could ignore the results (but most have committed to not doing that)

OrigamiRobot

@MarkTrapp 25.6% according to ~~the facts~~ Wikipedia

murgatroid99

@MarkTrapp You can't refuse?

badp

Since the amount of spam I monthly receive has reduced over the years to one fourth of historical levels I decided to fix it and put my email address I never bothered to hide really in bold in my profile

murgatroid99

@MarkTrapp I thought it was like 60% or something for statehood

badp

8:55 PM

I excitedly await new developments of my Spam folder

user2334

@murgatroid99 You can refuse to take the oath of office, sure: but that doesn't happen until after the electoral college votes and Congress certifies the results. If for example, Obama refused to take the oath in January, Biden would become president

SaintWacko

@badp signs up @badp for everything

OrigamiRobot

@murgatroid99 61% of the 70% that actually put anything down.

SaintWacko

@MarkTrapp "y'know what? I changed my mind"

badp

@SaintWacko It's funny how protective of their email address people are when email addresses are a dime a dozen, whereas your real full name is just one and you can't really change it

user2334

8:56 PM

@murgatroid99 33% of the people who voted on the first question (Should PR remain a commonwealth?) left the second question (What should we be instead?) blank. If you count those as "no statehood", the statehood option didn't get a majority

user2334

There was some controversy because only three options were available for the second question (independence, statehood, or free association), but there are a number of other alternatives

badp

/me is reminded of the utopia that one might call the "United States of Europe"

out of curiosity what happens when a state (say, Texas) really does want out of the US? Does the US constitution say anything about that? Does it have to declare war or something or..?

user2334

@badp A state can't leave. The last time states tried that we had a civil war to settle the question of whether a state can leave, and the answer was "nah brah"

user2334

The constitution has no provisions for secession, though: it's really just the precedent of the civil war

badp

At any rate I'm still disappointed "word template war declaration" gives no relevant results

M'vy

9:05 PM

hum...

badp

"We, people of (insert name of your people, state or country), as a result of (insert name of act that causes directly this war) are (appalled/forced/compelled/glad) to declare (civil war/war/conflict/permanent angry staring) in the general direction of (insert name of the people, state or country you are entering war with)."

user2334

@badp Close enough

M'vy

hm... no friend on warz, league of legends EU is down, I can't connect to my old MC server and Gaming ones do not exist anymore... I'm beginning to think games hate me this week.

badp

@MarkTrapp Hm, it's silly that text is on Wikipedia when Wikisource exists just for that reason

OrigamiRobot

We, people of robot, as a result of @Wipqozn's turtle breath are glad to declare permanent angry staring in the general direction of wherever we want.

badp

9:11 PM

Sounds reasonable

OrigamiRobot

pin plox kthxbai

We are also accepting applications for robot citizenship

To be a citizen of robot, you have to be:
1. Not @Wipqozn
2. Fuck it lists are hard. You're in.

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot So am I in or...?

Also, Tortoise > Robot

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn Do you meet all the criteria?

Arda Xi

@OrigamiRobot I'm not @Wipqozn!

5

OrigamiRobot

@ArdaXi Congrats. Now you are formally allowed to stare angrily at whatever we want.

Arda Xi

9:18 PM

@OrigamiRobot Yay! Lemme try. ಠ_ಠ

OrigamiRobot

A true patriot.

SaintWacko

ಠ_ಠ

Renegade angry staring!

OrigamiRobot

@ArdaXi is now Prime Minister of robot.

Arda Xi

\o/

OrigamiRobot

Keep up the enthusiasm. You'll go places in robot.

user15026

9:20 PM

I meet the criteria AND I own a hug gun. Am I in?

OrigamiRobot

Of course

Arda Xi

I'm not sharing! >:(

OrigamiRobot

@AshleyNunn is Head Cupcaker of robot.

user15026

@OrigamiRobot YES

Arda Xi

Oh. Good. I am okay with this.

OrigamiRobot

9:23 PM

Your first job is to make cupcakes that have angry staring faces

user15026

@OrigamiRobot I can do that.

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko The enemy of my enemy is my friend

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot This statement is false: I am lying.

OrigamiRobot

All robotians will commence angry staring at @fbueckert

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot Yeah, that's what I thought last night, until the things trying to kill the Covenant started trying to kill me

@fbueckert ಠ_ಠ

fbueckert

9:27 PM

@OrigamiRobot I don't think you can resolve that statement. Therefore, your logic circuits have been burnt out, and you're just a husk of fried circuitry now.

user15026

@fbueckert ಠ_ಠ

Ronan Forman

@OrigamiRobot WRONG! The enemy of my enemy is my ally.

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko It was probably a mistake. They just got confused.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert I don't actually think that's a paradox

fbueckert

And I have nipped the fledgling robot army in the bud.

OrigamiRobot

9:28 PM

@RonanForman I never made any claims about the enemies of your enemies.

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Think it through.

SaintWacko

I am, and I'm pretty certain it's logical

Or at least, it can be taken logically

fbueckert

If I am lying, how can the statement be false?

SaintWacko

Because that's the definition of falsity?

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert So? I just stored the string in my database of things said by fbueckerts.

SaintWacko

9:29 PM

If the statement that you are lying is false, that means you are telling the truth, which means the statement that you are lying is false

It reinforces itself instead of contradicting itself

fbueckert

@SaintWacko It's two separate parts.

OrigamiRobot

The statement "I am lying" is indeed false as you claim. You are telling the truth.

fbueckert

If I'm lying, then the statement is true.

Is the statement is true, then what I'm saying can't be a lie.

SaintWacko

Well, you put it in the wrong order to apply it like that

OrigamiRobot

1 min ago, by OrigamiRobot

The statement "I am lying" is indeed false as you claim. You are telling the truth.

SaintWacko

9:31 PM

You started with the assumption that it was false, not that you were lying

Logic'd!

OrigamiRobot

Read "this" as "the following" because that is how you structured it.

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot Exactly

OrigamiRobot

This is an example of a fruit: banana.

fbueckert

Fine. We'll put it in the proper order, then.

I am lying. The previous statement is false.

OrigamiRobot

That is also true. "I am lying" is false.

fbueckert

9:35 PM

Hmm.

OrigamiRobot

@Fluttershy do you want to be a citizen of robot?

fbueckert

I am telling the truth. The previous statement is false.

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot Yeah, that doesn't quite work either

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot Huh...?

fbueckert

@Fluttershy Join me in destroying the fledgling robot empire!

OrigamiRobot

9:35 PM

24 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot

We, people of robot, as a result of @Wipqozn's turtle breath are glad to declare permanent angry staring in the general direction of wherever we want.

21 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot

To be a citizen of robot, you have to be:
1. Not @Wipqozn
2. Fuck it lists are hard. You're in.

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Be a freelancer like me, and glare angrily at whomever you want!

@fbueckert ಠ_ಠ

@OrigamiRobot ಠ_ಠ

OrigamiRobot

TREACHERY

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot Just a demonstration of my power!

Fluttershy

I prefer to fly my own banner, thank you. ಠ_ಠ

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Yay, another freelance glarer!

OrigamiRobot

9:37 PM

So be it

badp

/nick Wipqozn

OrigamiRobot

I was going to offer you a very esteemed position.

user15026

No angry face cupcakes for you! :P

badp

@OrigamiRobot I have uploaded a boot up your metal asses!

/nick badp

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Little more ambiguous, but I still think that's correct

fbueckert

9:38 PM

@SaintWacko Hmm. This is harder than I thought.

Ullallulloo

This statement is false.

fbueckert

I am lying. The previous statement is true.

@Ullallulloo Damn, that's elegant.

I had forgotten about that one.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert I think "I am lying." Would have worked too

You kept ruining it with the second statement :P

OrigamiRobot

I was built by Eris. Your paradoxes have no power over me.

fbueckert

@SaintWacko My examples are from way back when, and not very clearly remembered.

SaintWacko

9:40 PM

@Ullallulloo Wait, no, that doesn't work!

OrigamiRobot

Everything is true. Even false things.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot You're all 1's, then!

SaintWacko

It reverses itself to say it's true, then remains true!

Ullallulloo

@SaintWacko If it's false, then it isn't false.

badp

meh

fbueckert

9:41 PM

@SaintWacko If you assume it to be true, then the statement is false.

If you assume it to be false, it's true.

badp

I'll skip the flood of adventure quest thing video clips images stuffs

SaintWacko

@fbueckert I guess if you leave the original statement as it is instead of changing it to reflect its current status, it works

OrigamiRobot

@Ullallulloo has sided himself with @fbueckert and @Wipqozn.

Let it be known.

fbueckert

@SaintWacko You don't change the statement.

You evaluate it, as either true or false.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert I don't, but a robot might!

fbueckert

9:42 PM

@SaintWacko That's how computers work.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert But how do we know @OrigamiRobot works the way a modern computer works?

fbueckert

And apparently, little things like paradoxes don't bother @OrigamiRobot. Which means he doesn't have the processing power required to be a threat.

@SaintWacko Eh. A computer = a computer = a computer.

OrigamiRobot

See even my buddy Wolfram has no problems

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Not at all! A quantum computer would behave quite differently than a modern computer!

Ullallulloo

@OrigamiRobot It doesn't have all that much power if you don't have the pro version anyway.

OrigamiRobot

9:44 PM

@Ullallulloo That just makes my point stronger

fbueckert

@SaintWacko It's still based on bits; they're just in different dimensions.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert is defeated. I demand he be stripped of his titles.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Weak computers don't try to resolve the statement.

@OrigamiRobot I have titles? Since when?

Ullallulloo

@OrigamiRobot You're saying that we have to pay you money for you to have intelligence?

OrigamiRobot

@Ullallulloo Yes, I'll set up a PayPal account.

SaintWacko

9:46 PM

@fbueckert You will be given some titles in order that they may be taken away

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Oh, I assumed @Wipqozn gave you titles. Guess you weren't cool enough.

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Eh. Easy come, easy go.

I still get to poke the robot with logical contradictions.

And since only weak computers won't try to resolve the statement, he's no threat.

Ullallulloo

@fbueckert Everything on this line is false. It's pretty easy to get info past him.

Arda Xi

@OrigamiRobot That explains a lot.

fbueckert

@Ullallulloo Shh. I'm making an implication that since he makes no effort to resolve the statement, he's a crappy computer.

Ullallulloo

9:56 PM

@fbueckert That too.

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