The Bridge

user20683

12:00 AM

@AshleyNunn yeah, I've felt crummy myself today

user20683

not "oh God gonna die" but more "yerg".

user15026

I am in the "curl up in a small ball and hate everything" stage because I am hungry but everything hurts to eat except Popsicles (which are almost gone) and soup

user20683

Note to self: Voltar is not your playstyle

Private Pansy

I'm drawing up a list of stuff which I may want to buy with my new found "wealth"

A 3DS XL would be nice I guess

user20683

@PrivatePansy wealth?

Private Pansy

12:09 AM

Recruit's allowance

Fluttershy

@WorldEngineer Have you tried Clank? Clunk? Whatever his name is?

user20683

@Fluttershy I've tried all of them

user20683

I like Raelynn, Gnaw, and Derpl.

Fluttershy

@WorldEngineer I like him. :3 He's pretty fun for me when I play him.

user20683

Genji's pretty solid too

user20683

12:15 AM

Clunk didn't quite gel for me

Fluttershy

I feel like I should point out that I haven't played much. Only a couple of games.

user20683

@Fluttershy ah

user43095

12:29 AM

Whee finished my exit project. It's pretty shitty, but it'll do

user43095

@LessPop_MoreFizz Happy now?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@jeffreylin_ Wat.

Scootaloo

@LessPop_MoreFizz Hi.

user20683

Okay, Derpl is amazing

user20683

1:00 AM

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Q: Is there a way out of being stuck in base in Siege Mode as Derpl?

I teleported back to base in Siege mode as Derpl and now I'm stuck there due to "E" being both the shop key and Siege mode deactivation. Is there any way to transform back into Walker mode other than the hotkey?

awesomenauts

user20683

You may laugh at me now

user20683

to be fair though, it was "in-character" at least.

LessPop_MoreFizz

user20683

@LessPop_MoreFizz I've a confession to make. I'm not into Game of Thrones.

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LessPop_MoreFizz

@WorldEngineer That's okay, you're better off for it.

But tonight, people who are into the TV show and have avoided book spoilers are going to cry.

They are going to cry a river of tears so deep you could sail it around the world.

user20683

1:04 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz See I never could get into the books

LessPop_MoreFizz

It is going to be magnificent.

@WorldEngineer You're better off for it, GRRM is a monster and is going to die before he publishes again.

user20683

they contain two things I hate. Needless character death and too many viewpoint characters.

user20683

Needless character death is a factor in the real world, it should be avoided as a story device.

StrixVaria

@WorldEngineer It's not exactly needless.

If characters never died in stories there wouldn't be any tension.

It would be awful.

user20683

@StrixVaria yeah but there's a fine line between "dramatic death" like say Obi-Wan and needless.

Private Pansy

1:06 AM

@StrixVaria There are better ways of creating tension than repeatedly killing off characters (*cough cough* Rory the Roman *cough*)

user20683

@PrivatePansy that wasn't for tension, that was for teh lulz

LessPop_MoreFizz

@WorldEngineer There are actually fewer deaths than people talk up. The thing about GoT is that it pulls a false protagonist switch with the very first person that gets killed off, which amplifies the perception.

i.e. replace Obi Wan with Luke dying in the first Star Wars movie, and then have it be Han's story and you have Game of Thrones.

I don't think anyone truly major has died since then on the tv series.

Well, until tonight....

Ktash

Arqadians.com and Arqanoids.com are now under development for use in our marathon. Now you can just pick your favorite.

user20683

no Arqanauts?

fbueckert

Or Arqanadians?

StrixVaria

1:09 AM

To be fair, though, I don't like ASoIaF because GRRM forgot he was writing to entertain and thought that pure grit is actually worthwhile.

Ktash

@fbueckert I'm not Qanadian

user20683

@StrixVaria Black Company is pure grit.

Private Pansy

1:26 AM

Fluttershy

@WorldEngineer I've been fighting for this for months... It's a wasted effort.

Grumpy Lazers

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Q: Is there a way out of being stuck in base in Siege Mode as Derpl?

I teleported back to base in Siege mode as Derpl and now I'm stuck there due to "E" being both the shop key and Siege mode deactivation. Is there any way to transform back into Walker mode other than the hotkey?

awesomenauts

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Q: How to put the "red" pie chart on mac?

When I am on my Mac and I want it to show the "red" pie chart it only shows the other one which doesn't show me the numbers above that mob and I want to add the "red" chart?? Please help me fast!!

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Fluttershy

Yessssss! Crest of Artorias get! (cc: @Wipqozn)

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy You go girl.

FEichinger

@GrumpyLazers Holy mother of tags.

Fluttershy

1:33 AM

@Wipqozn Also, got the AotA DLC today. :3

Wipqozn

35 secs ago, by Wipqozn

@Fluttershy You go girl.

Scootaloo

@Wipqozn Wait what? I thought Fluttershy was a dude.

Not the one from the show I mean OUR Fluttershy.

@Fluttershy right?

Fluttershy

shrug

Scootaloo

@Fluttershy :(

user20683

@Scootaloo Gender is ambiguous here.

user20683

1:46 AM

;)

Scootaloo

@WorldEngineer Still it is nice to know.

It shouldn't be too hard to guess my gender.

user20683

@Scootaloo if only from the standpoint that English lacks gender neutral pronouns

Ktash

@WorldEngineer English has gender neutral pronouns...

user20683

@Ktash kinda

Scootaloo

I'm confused.

StrixVaria

1:49 AM

@Ktash You don't want to call a person "it", though.

Ktash

StrixVaria

@Ktash This is missing the "singular" case.

user20683

@Ktash those are implicitly plural

Scootaloo

@StrixVaria What do they mean? I'm confused.

Ktash

Their/they can be used singularly for gender neutrality

Singular they

Singular they is the use of ' (or its inflected forms, such as them or their) to refer to an entity that is not plural, or not necessarily plural. Though singular they is widespread in everyday English and has a long history of usage, debate continues about its acceptability. It typically occurs in these situations: *Indeterminate gender – when they refers to an individual person of unknown or unspecified sex, as in, for example, "One student failed their exam". This usage is known as epicene they. *Indeterminate number – when they has no definite antecedent, or can be interpre...

StrixVaria

1:50 AM

@Ktash I'm not going to get into an argument about this because it's stupid.

user20683

@Scootaloo pronouns where you can use them without knowing what the subject's gender is.

StrixVaria

But suffice it to say that the language needs a singular variant of that.

What we have is not in a good state.

Also "themself" makes me cringe so bad.

Ktash

Well, you can take your pick, if you'd like

Scootaloo

@WorldEngineer So pronouns are gender neutral or they can be gender neutral?

StrixVaria

Historically male was used when the gender wasn't known.

I'll stick with that for now.

user20683

1:52 AM

@Scootaloo they can be

Scootaloo

@WorldEngineer So it's optional?

user20683

@Scootaloo depends on the language

StrixVaria

@Scootaloo "she" is female. "it" means the same exact thing but is gender-neutral.

user20683

In French or Spanish, no

user20683

in Chinese, they don't have grammatical gender, same with Turkish as I recall.

user20683

1:53 AM

in Arabic...it gets complicated.

Ktash

Gah, I really wish good Chinese delivered to me!

Scootaloo

Well I'm talking about English.

@StrixVaria Anyway, I corrupted my Emerald save today.

user20683

@Scootaloo kinda? Historically, all pronouns were gendered. Now days there is a debate on the subject of whether plural non-gendered pronouns are acceptable as singular or not. I personally detest "Ze".

Scootaloo

@WorldEngineer Who is actively debating on something so trivial?

user20683

@Scootaloo English scholars

user20683

1:56 AM

and before you say "but people shouldn't do that". Pick a fandom and I'll show you a triviality that people will fight over.

Scootaloo

@WorldEngineer So they argue semantics for a living?

@WorldEngineer Nah, I'm good.

user20683

@Scootaloo yes

Scootaloo

I'll take the high road for a change.

user20683

@Scootaloo Philosophers argue the semantics of semantics

Scootaloo

@WorldEngineer How exactly do you do that?

I didn't think you could argue the meaning of meaning...

user20683

1:58 AM

@Scootaloo go to Philosophy.SE and find out.

Private Pansy

@WorldEngineer Chinese does have gendered pronouns

user20683

@PrivatePansy Mandarin? I thought it didn't, perhaps I've confused it with something else.

Private Pansy

他她它 are for male, female and objects respectively

Scootaloo

@WorldEngineer I'd rather not.

user20683

@PrivatePansy ah, apparently written chinese does and spoken doesn't. Huh

user20683

1:59 AM

learn something new everyday.

Private Pansy

The three words have the exact same pronunciation, yes

Scootaloo

@WorldEngineer How do English Scholars determine when the debate is over?

FEichinger

@Scootaloo You assume that a debate has to be "over".

Ullallulloo

@Scootaloo When someone dies.

Scootaloo

@FEichinger So there doesn't have to be an exact ending?

I would think that there has to be an ending so the results can be documented.

FEichinger

2:01 AM

@Scootaloo That's the flaw right there.

user20683

@Scootaloo I give you the Talmud as the ultimate counter example.

Scootaloo

@FEichinger Well how do you decide what and what not to document if there is no definitive ending?

FEichinger

Most sciences nowadays don't have some "exact ending" - it's a collective "We can agree on this".

Scootaloo

@FEichinger It just feels incomplete.

FEichinger

In fact, that isn't even down to science: Debates in general never have an "exact ending". Everyone holds their own position - it's a final consensus that marks the end.

user20683

2:03 AM

@Scootaloo Welcome to Life.

user20683

This is true even of Math or Physics.

Scootaloo

Eh.

Seems like a living hell.

FEichinger

1 min ago, by World Engineer

@Scootaloo Welcome to Life.

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