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3:00 PM
Still haven't figured out what I want.
 
oh god, the tags on superuser are HORRIBLE
 
@BenBrocka My laptop is in a dock, so it may supply that functionality
 
@MarcoCeppi Not well I tried this but it didn't work.
 
ninetales isn't spelt ninetails?
really?
 
I'm getting the whole movies & tv thing again where I just can't be bothered with editing tags
 
3:01 PM
@RonanForman Yeah, that's a pretty old post
 
If I could get two monitors with 2xhdmi + audio out + dvi/display port
 
@MarcoCeppi I don't know why it would have changed.
 
that'd work
 
And terraria hasn't updated in ages anyway.
 
Anyone suggest monitors that might accomlish that? :/
 
3:02 PM
shrug
 
A monitor with audio OUT?
 
@djsmiley2k monitors with 2 HDMI in?
 
@djsmiley2k what are you trying to achieve?
 
@BenBrocka yes....
 
@tiddy audio out (3.5 for headphones) is fairly common, at least for monitors with speakers
 
3:05 PM
@kalina need something I can connect my 360 + PC too
currently I use a VGA switchbox, so the ideal thing is hdmi.
 
Oh monitors with speakers
Those things
 
@djsmiley2k There are certainly TVs that do that and are roughly monitor sized
 
or audio out.
@BenBrocka yeah and have TV prices :/
 
Just look for a TV with a DVI port basically
 
you should be able to find a monitor with a DVI/HDMI that is switchable
I doubt you'll find one with 2x HDMI in though
 
3:05 PM
And I'm not sure if a TV is fast enough etc? ....
@kalina and then my other monitor being what? I want two identical ones...
 
@djsmiley2k get more than one of them?
I didn't think that was that hard...
 
TVs usually have a "game" display mode which will let you disable the prostprocessing crap to reduce input lag
 
PC has displayPort + DVI-I (I think, maybe -D) + HDMI
 
so if you buy three monitors that each have a DVI and a HDMI
 
3:06 PM
one of them runs off DVI with your xbox plugged into HDMI
one runs off HDMI
and the other runs off the displayport with an adaptor
 
I only want two monitors :P
 
I fail to see why this is so hard
THREE MONITORS OR GO HOME
 
WHY STOP AT THREE.
 
3:07 PM
@kalina it becomes hard when you actually try and BUY them
@MarcoCeppi because I PAY THE BILLS
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone No, it doesn't. They say it is, but I couldn't find the source in their downloads section.
 
@MarcoCeppi I was thinking about expanding my setup to 5
 
@kalina is actually a monitor salesperson, but only for sets of 3 monitors
 
@djsmiley2k WELL YOU NEED MORE SKILLS :P
 
I'm still not sure what the issue is regarding finding these monitors
 
Jin
3:07 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone where is my tag line-height???
 
@tiddy this
 
@Jin I... uh... hang on, let me fiddle around the sandbox first
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone stop fiddling around with yourself in the sandbox
 
I have a 5 year old LG 24" that I use to play PS2 or PS3 on sometimes w/the second monitor displaying my desktop
 
@kalina I'd love to go home.
 
Jin
3:08 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone p.s. i'm aware of the anonymous hero box thing on english. there are a few sites i need to tweak based on their designs
 
PaperStare @kalina
 
@kalina  à² _ಠ
 
So one hdmi+DVI|DisplayPort works
 
THREE MONITORS IS THE IDEAL NUMBER OF MONITORS FOR GAMING
 
@MarcoCeppi IF I GET THIS JOB THEY STILL HAVEN@T CALLED ME ABOUT THEN ILL GET 3 MONITORS
 
Yeah, you could hit a adapter/electronics store and get any Component/HDMI/DVI adapter
 
they might not take so kindly to you hitting them though
 
eww
 
better to ask nicely
 
@djsmiley2k Good luck! \o/
 
3:10 PM
@Jin 1.2 em looks the same as the 13pix on my display
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Go ahead. Show me where it includes any OS licence. :)
 
Jin
@BenBrocka yeah 1.2 = 13px computed
 
I know you can find the code (it's on Sourceforge too, a bit hidden), but that doesn't make it OS. You can find the code for Windows 2000 too, after all ...
 
@MartinSojka You... can?
 
@MarcoCeppi well my spys tell me they are telling everyone on thursday
 
3:12 PM
Did your tweaking suddenly make tags transparent? They're blue on favorited tag questinos now
 
but sounds like they've already made their decision
 
@BenBrocka He forgot about their background-color, yeah
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A: Formatting sandbox --. --; --, --" --' --= -- -- -_-

Yi Jiang's Evil CloneChupa chups brownie croissant. Icing tiramisu gummi bears cookie. Croissant cookie cake donut soufflé gummies fruitcake macaroon. Brownie gummi bears jelly-o carrot cake. Pie caramels chocolate bar. halvah cheesecake sweet roll donut powder gummies. Cheesecake cookie cotton candy gummies cupcake....

 
@BenBrocka OH NOES, HE BROKE IT
 
Might want to look at this @Jin
 
@Jin Whatever is equivalent to 10px
 
3:13 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone that looks to me like its missing a border-bottom
visibly anyway, I cba looking into it further
 
@kalina It's just clipping
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone it's broken, you call it clipping, I call it broken. We can both be right, there's no need to fight
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah, it was partially leaked in 2004.
 
Why does imgur not do smallboxy thing.
Anyway, thats how I figure I'll cable stuff
 
Just IDCLIP to the CSS
 
3:16 PM
@djsmiley2k You need the file extension. You need to link to the actual image, not the imgur page
 
IDSPISPOPD > IDCLIP
 
@MartinSojka It's not really hidden, provided git://git.code.sf.net/p/synctocloud/code master is the real thing
...sure, you need to click through to ohloh to find it from the homepage
 
@badp There is, as he says no OSS license though
 
@djsmiley2k wouldn't a monitor with DVI and one HDMI work? Just plug in both via DVI or DVI + DP/HDMI?
Though I've heard HDMI isn't as good for PC, I forget why though, might have just been because of the bandwidth required for >1080p res
 
@BenBrocka yup that picture is me realising that it only needs one hdmi.
Still the audio is possibly annoying depending on what cables I have lying about
 
3:26 PM
If you dont use HDMI, you could have a simple component -> headphone jack
for the 360
instead of pumping audio through a monitor and then back out
 
@tiddy if I don't use hdmi it's VGA.
aka it sucks.
 
10 MINUTES???
 
OH NO
 
Oh shi--
 
WHAT DO WE DO
 
3:33 PM
PANIC
 
I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT THE BRIDGE
8
 
I guess at times like these, we'll just have to... not chat?
 
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH
EXCEPT @KALINA
 
@OrigamiRobot no you don't
sigh, too slow
 
Nooooooo....
 
3:34 PM
EVERYBODY PANIC
WE'LL NEED TO BE PRODUCTIVE!
 
wtf is D-Sub ?
 
4:03 PM
I'M BACK
 
annnnd we're back
 
OH GOD
 
I win \o/
 
Dear StackExchange: I am sorry for refreshing The Bridge 2000 times during your 10 minute maintenance, your 'currently offline' page is not as entertaining.
 
DAMN YOU @djsmiley2k! YOU BEAT ME BY LESS THAN A SECOND!
 
4:03 PM
Rawr!
 
@Wipqozn hahah I was looking at the page thinking "if we are back, why is no one chatting".
So yeah, I think I found the monitor I love.
 
@kalina I didn't even have to refresh. I just left it on and when chat came back on, peops started talking again~
 
D-Sub? like a D-Sub chord?
 
@M'vy appently it's the connection for VGA
 
@GraceNote I started typing out a sarcastic response to @djsmiley2k's "what is d-sub" and the "unknown error" message was doing my head in
 
4:05 PM
 
@kalina Ahha
 
the downtime was counter productive
 
@GraceNote Same here. It's pretty fancy.
 
I got less work done than normal
 
@kalina Is that possible?
 
4:06 PM
@Wipqozn yes, normally I am not hitting refresh
I just tab between windows
I am nearly 25% to mortarboard from suggested editing!
 
@fredley Alice killed @OrigamiRobot?
 
Yay, Electorate!
 
Why is it when the Bridge is down I find all the things?
 
I can just taste the gold
 
4:07 PM
@fredley Because you're not busy being distracted by The Bridge.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone electorate where?
 
@kalina Here, Arqade
 
IS ARQADE HAVING MODERATOR ELECTIONS?!
 
Now I just hope either - new job (instant monitor upgrade) or money left over at end of the month...
Half way there.
 
4:10 PM
Gabe Newell confirmed terrorist?
 
@kalina Electorate is the gold voting badge. Now, if you start seeing Caucus and Constituent badges flying around, that's when you should start being worried
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone of course, yes, my mistake
 
I've had that badge for ages, I expected that everybody else had it too
 
4:11 PM
@kalina I don't tend to vote on questions I don't play, and as it happens that means I can't vote on most questions here
 
Laters
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I vote on content
lots of content gets voted on
mainly upvoted, but sometimes I downvote too
 
@Retrosaur You can't hotlink 4chan images
@kalina I find it hard to vote on content which you have no way of determining the correctness or quality of
 
I know, but it was easier to cpy the image from there
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone you can vote on questions, you don't need a solid understanding of the game to know that they've spelt everything correctly and it doesn't look like the worst question in the world
 
4:15 PM
We literally do not see anything other than a 4chan logo. Also, that joke is in really poor taste
2
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yes, it is, not really apprioate for The Bride. I love me my horribly offensive jokes, but there's a time and a place. The Bridge is not the place.
 
@kalina I tend to require questions to be a little better than that to get an upvote. I do like upvotes to mean "I also have this problem", but like I said I don't play nearly enough games to have come across the same problem as another user
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone well personal preferences, my upvotes mean "didn't cause an aneurysm while reading and could be useful to others"
 
Jin
@YiJiang'sEvilClone @fredley i pushed a fix for the tags. will be on live after the next build
 
I often upvote for interesting
 
4:29 PM
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Q: How do I increase difficulty in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night?

Maurycy ZarzyckiI am a big fan of Castlevania: SOTN and I've completed the game at least twice so far. And the game is far too easy. Are there any ways to make the game more difficult during a normal course of play, something which won't require me to remember to not collect some items or so, but also any commun...

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Q: Tremulous with unlimited building: Should aliens focus on destroying nodes or repeaters after destroying the human reactor?

PetrWhen the alien team destroys the human reactor, and there is a limited time before humans rebuild, what's a better tactic - focusing on destroying nodes or repeaters? By killing nodes, aliens have a chance of winning right away, and low node count slows down spawning humans, making it harder for...

 
Cat spring has officially started, ladies and gentlemen
 
@BenBrocka Ooooh, you have an admirer!
 
That only makes sense if it's my question
 
4:44 PM
He can't leave comments on your post
Don't take it personally, though. Winters are tough. Gotta keep warm, dood!
 
@Wipqozn I have more subroutines than that.
 
 
@badp cat spring?
 
@OrigamiRobot You know that time of the year when you sigh deeply and change your drawers to spring-summer clothings
 
His cat got into the slinkies
 
4:55 PM
@badp I don't have drawers.
 
@OrigamiRobot wardrobe?
 
There is no difference between winter and summer clothing for me 5/7 days.
 
to spring/summer from fall/winter
@OrigamiRobot That's because you're just a microwave.
 
I have to wear khakis and a polo regardless.
 
Well, you know when microwaves like you explode spontaneously when they're close to people?
 
4:58 PM
If it's winter, I just add my heavy coat.
 
Yeah, my cat's not doing that. She still can't explode on command.
 
TIL @OrigamiRobot works at Target
 
@OrigamiRobot Okay. Kitten's taking off the heavy coat.
 
You could have just said shedding to begin with.
 
Parker always has a heavy coat
 
5:00 PM
That would've been too easy
 
I haven't really noticed any change in the hair buildup
 
@BenBrocka It's not so much change in the hair buildup as massive hair loss
 
Artie (the pugsleys' cat) sheds year round.
 
Well they always renew their hair
ooooooh Chrome update
maybe chat now works there
 
@badp Chrome or Chromium?
 
5:05 PM
plz to work plz to work plz to work plz to work plz to work plz to work
 
I AM HOME
 
@kalina Grrr...
 
@SaintWacko don't grrr at me, I was at work before you woke up.
 
@kalina I want to go to there :(
 
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Q: Bioshock Infinite FOV (keep it constant)

TotoIs there a way to keep the FOV (Field of View) constant in the PC version of the game ? (I couldn't find any tweak for that by Googling). I really don't like the FOV and mouse sensitivity variation when the character is running (it's inconvenient, useless and distracting to me), and if possible w...

 
5:06 PM
@kalina You're home? But then who was phone?
fades into invisibility
 
@OrigamiRobot you want to come to my house??
@badp poor
 
@kalina Not particularly. I can't swim that far.
 
I was going to make some comment about our power outlets being different and you not being able to charge upon arrival but gave up before I committed to it
 
I would have simply responded that I don't run on electricity.
I am fueled by spite and you have plenty of that.
 
@kalina being a disabled creeper, I suppose just a lightning would do
and he's bound to get one or so as he swims through the ocean.
so he'll be fine.
 
5:11 PM
@OrigamiRobot I would give you too much spite though, you would overload
Is that the event that results in you killing all humans?
hmm...
 
nah. He's now harmless
 
@kalina Are you coming on to me? I don't think robots and cotton candy can ever be happy together.
 
@OrigamiRobot you are strange
 
rolleyes
 
5:16 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Thanks, now I am aware of all the NEPTR/BMO Rule 34. I hope you're happy with yourself.
 
Speaking of Rule 34, the next book on my reading list is Halting State
Also, Pimpf, the short story published with The Jennifer Morgue, is about video games. Neverwinter Night, to be more specific.
 
@Mana please never change
 
@badp What chat room are you ashamed about?
 
@badp mouses/(mouse is) towards 'Change Gravatar' button...
 
Jin
is bioshock infinite as good as they say?
 
5:25 PM
$('#present-users .avatar img').prop('src', 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9bed80a3291bbaeec9895a71682173ce?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG');
$('#present-users .avatar img:odd').css('transform', 'scale(-1, 1)');
 
@Jin I really, really enjoyed it. If you take it slow and pay attention to things, it really is one of the most well designed games I have played in a while.
 
@Mana NoOOO THIS ONE IS BEST
 
5:26 PM
@kalina Grats
 
I'm currently bored and easily amused
 
@kalina wat
 
Jin
@Mana I heard nothing but good things about it. I never finished the first bioshock...
 
@badp I know right
 
@Jin Did you ever play Prince of Persia: Sands of Time?
 
5:27 PM
I feel offended that the system felt I needed to be tested!
 
Since when is this a thing that exists
 
Jin
@Mana no
 
oh.
 
Jin
@badp it's for anonymous users
 
@badp Sometime recently "Users are now shown a persistent (but dismissable) banner linking to /about on the site."
 
5:28 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I only got it on the first page load tbh
 
Sometime early April / late March I believe
 
...that's because I got logged in in the process I suppose
 
Jin
it's there for new users who don't know much about our sites. (we found out that people don't click on About).
 
well what I was going to say was -- I would most liken the game towards that one, in terms of the nice way that the characters are developed, the banter, and the overall sense of adventure the whole-way through.
 
5:29 PM
I also really really really want to be playing it again right now.
 
@OrigamiRobot lol
 
Jin
@OrigamiRobot where did you see that at?
 
@Jin Some SE site.
 
Jin
@OrigamiRobot hmm which one?
 
I don't remember. It was a long time ago.
 
5:31 PM
@Jin looks like MSO material?
 
No, it wasn't there.
 
or sketchy
 
Maybe BCG
 
Probably Sketchy
 
@badp It's not. The design looks like Sketchy
 
5:31 PM
The font's a pretty dead giveaway
 
Jin
@badp no. that captcha image belonged to the Sketchy theme, which we murdered in the back alley long ago.
 
@Jin booo.
 
@Jin :( I miss sketchy
 
...although I miss the old tag graphics more. :P
I wonder if there is a reason for that change
 
Jin
i had several other drawings made for Sketchy but never made it
 
5:33 PM
like, "we're going to give you such long tags we have to preemptively make the tag padding smaller to compensate"
 
Jin
^ the original 404 page for Sketchy
 
@Jin .. Sketchy the person? :)
 
@James Ninja pages
 
Jin
@James we like to anthropomorphize our themes.
Prgrammers.se has Whiteboardy
and the old physics.se had Chalkie.
RIP Chalkie
 
So Tomb Raider is already on sale for $33.49
 
5:36 PM
@Jin So where does Sketchy come from? Cause I play with a guy who goes by that name and I think he would find it amusing :)
 
ARGH
Chat is still broken on Chrome
 
@badp Tried disabling extensions?
 
@badp How so? I am on chrome
 
Also, which channel?
 
@James Chrome 28?
@YiJiang'sEvilClone dev
 
5:36 PM
Try eating some pancakes. Pancakes fix everything.
 
@badp So, nightly? You'd sort of expect things to break with that
 
Not nightly
 
@badp Version 26.0.1410.64 m
 
Just Chrome +2
 
Beta, dev, nightly, canary. Right.
 
5:37 PM
Oh, I guess I should note that Chrome has never worked with being in multiple channels.
 
Jin
@James Sketchy is the name for the old Beta site theme. blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/…
 
Nope
Stable, beta, dev, nightly
 
But that is why I do not sit in multiple channels any more, just here :)
@Jin Ahh :)
 
Jin
I really need to spend one full day on fixing all the css stuff on Arqade
 
I dunno where canary falls there
 
Jin
5:38 PM
that's why you guys get for being the First of Everything (aka awesome beta testers!)
 
Firefox has stable, beta, aurora, nightly
 
I've got Aurora for Firefox
 
Aurora or nightly used to be called Minefield, which was a much more appropriate name, I think
 
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Q: Why is it called "1999 Mode"?

PileOfDutyI unlocked 1999 Mode for Bioshock Infinite, and I'm a little curious why they chose to call it "1999 Mode" instead of "Very Hard" or something like that. What was so special about 1999?

 
What do you call the cable that links hard disks to the motherboard again?
One of them is the eSATA cable I think, but what's the other one?
I think it's for power
 
5:43 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone power for drives comes directly from the power supply, not via the mainboard
 
Blah. This hard disk doesn't fit the enclosure either. Stupid OEM case...
 
That is an SATA power cable
 
Why are the new red meta tags so terrible?
 
Jin
Sometimes, I wish I never bought that scsi hard drive back in the 90s.
I could've invested in Apple stocks..
 
@Jin You should have invested in Granny Smiths. They are the best apples.
 
5:52 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Their reputation is mostly undeserved
Issues like chat's are few and far between
 
@OrigamiRobot I prefer Gala
 
Banned.
Fuji is 2nd best.
 
Fuji are good, too
 
Blah. MLP micro-series #3 Rarity appears to be delayed indefinitely.
 
@MadScientist an SATA... an???
 
6:03 PM
@James ???
 
What is and why do we need it?
There are only three questions with it and they are all questions
 
@OrigamiRobot Shitty browser plugin required for BF3
(because Origin and the game itself aren't enough)
 
Well if it's required for BF3 and not used for anything else, do we need to separate it from BF3?
 
it may, in the future be used for other Battlefields :)
yeah... burninate it
 
6:21 PM
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Q: How do weapons with status ailments work?

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I'd eat that cake.
 
It was cooked entirely with repressed rage
 
Yum.
 
6:45 PM
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
IT CAN'T BE UNSEEN
 
@Ullallulloo I want paper like that now
I also want to go home and play minecraft
 
7:05 PM
Anyone play SOTS: The pit?
Oh my god it's a nice looking roguelike
I'm buying it
 
@SaintWacko @Oak plays it.
 
I want to get it on Steam, but I also want to put it on my flash drive...
Oh, wait, I bet the Green Man and Gamersgate sales will just give me Steam keys
 
@SaintWacko Green Man says you need Steam, but Gamersgate says it's copies are DRM free.
 
7:34 PM
@RedRiderX Good, because I already have an account there
I hope they made The Pit properly hard
 
7:49 PM
Seriously?
Gamersgate doesn't just let you download games, you have to download and run their little downloader
Which, of course, doesn't work behind a proxy
 
@SaintWacko At least you don't have to download an installer to install the downloader to download the download for your game in order to download your game.
 
8:11 PM
the bridge has died! the bridge has died! clear! BZZT
 
GASP
 
Bridg iz ded. Nawt big surprize
 
:(
 
Hmm, I just found out that attacking a Rupture with a Maller on a nearly empty cap was a really stupid idea
 
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8:28 PM
@MadScientist a bit
 
@MadScientist What game is this?
 
@Yawus EVE
 
@Yawus EVE
 
@Yawus EVE, apparently.
 
@Yawus EVE
 
8:45 PM
Psh, what else would have a Rupture and a Maller?
 
@Yawus EVE
 
in Monster Hunter 3U, 2 hours ago, by StrixVaria
@fbueckert I never have enough dung.
 

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