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There's a few PS3-only titles that cause me to dust that thing off, admittedly. Gran Turismo used to be one of those, but 4 kinda ruined things for me and I switched to Forza on the Xbox 360.

animuson

3:52 AM

Ratchet & Clank is a PS-Exclusive

jadarnel27

I've never been able to play racing games well. I always lose, and never seem to get any better.

Tim Stone

@animuson This.

animuson

So is Sly Cooper :)

mootinator

GT4 sucked, but GT5 sorta redeemed the series =)

animuson

@jadarnel27: I hear ya, I hate racing games. The only one I've ever really enjoyed was Need for Speed: Undercover because it actually had like a story behind it.

mootinator

3:53 AM

I like starting a 24 hour race.

jadarnel27

I loved playing the sports games on Xbox Kinect, until my friend's dog bit me. Apparently, I was agitating it with all my jerky movements.

mootinator

Then laughing at myself 2 minutes in and turning the PS3 off.

Tim Stone

I actually completed one of those once.

jadarnel27

@animuson I did think that one looked cool, although I never played it =)

@animuson Ah, I loved that on PS2. I still have it somewhere, actually =P

mootinator

I just finished N4S Undercover for the Playbook. That anything like the original? :P

animuson

3:56 AM

Oh, well they're remaking all of the PS2 ones for PS3. The first collection of three comes out on August 28 and includes a demo of Sly 4. There's also a brand new one they're making for whatever anniversary that's going to be released on PSN.

jadarnel27

That sounds awesome.

animuson

^ The first HD collection is already available in Europe. I think it's PSN-only though.

But Europe doesn't get the demo of Sly 4. HA

They actually bumped it up a month. It was originally scheduled to release October 2. Imagine our surprise to get it bumped up all the way to August 28. o.o

Now that we've transformed the Tavern into the Gaming chat-room....

jadarnel27

Right. We should get back onto the topic of...

mootinator

Tabletop gaming!

Dice eh?

Cards eh?

animuson

Canada eh?

jadarnel27

3:59 AM

Trollz, EH?

Tim Stone

@animuson Well...for select definitions of story. :P

mootinator

A big ol stein of beer eh?

I'll have a Pil.

jadarnel27

I figured we're supposed to talk about who to blame things on. And bugs discussion support waffles.

mootinator

jadarnel27

@mootinator What about the weirdos that don't drink beer?

A big ol stein of milk.

mootinator

4:02 AM

Mountain Dew?

Or milk steak.

Or milk.

Or cake.

@mootinator That works, though I'm more of a Pepsi guy.

mootinator

Oooh, I have leftover cake I need to eat. Good call.

animuson

4:03 AM

I just bought a whole cake for myself. :o Again.

mootinator

That thing cost an arm and a leg, as far as cakes for 2 year olds go.

animuson

I also couldn't help going to McDonald's and trying their new spicy chicken bites.

jadarnel27

I tried their s'mores pie the other day. Meh.

animuson

Why do I bother getting a plate? I'm the only one eating it. I should just eat it straight off the whole cake...

jadarnel27

Brown.

animuson

4:07 AM

Ohhh, I can get a coupon for a free Powerade now. :) I think MyCokeRewards makes you print your coupons though, and my printer is broken. :(

jadarnel27

You could have just said "...and my printer is a printer."

Apr 26 at 4:48, by jadarnel27

I'm going to break my printer into 4 equal sized pieces. And then indiscriminately grind the 4 pieces into dust.

animuson

Mine just stopped working because it's old. :/

jadarnel27

What movie is that from?

animuson

A movie.

jadarnel27

I see. I get the "Call me, maybe" reference (unfortunately), but not the movie thing.

Jim Henson's Labyrinth.

status-mystery-solved

animuson

4:22 AM

@jadarnel27 No no no no no no no no no. Where's the Wikipedia onebox!?

jadarnel27

Who do I look like, @PopularDemand?

Oneboxing Wikipedia pages is for nubs.

*noobs

*n00bs

Lucifer

5:03 AM

1

A: How do I replace white spaces from the string in Android?

Possible duplicate of : Remove white spaces from a string

Tim Stone

Hmm....

I don't understand how that got by the trivial post -> comment converter...

Ah.

Lucifer

and that answer got 2 voteups .!!!!

animuson

So vote it back down?

It'll end up deleted anyways...

Lucifer

5:19 AM

i downvoted and surprise , someone has upvoted it again

Tim Stone

@animuson :P

animuson

@TimStone I CANNOT HELP MYSELF!!!

Tim Stone

Hahah

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone is @animuson causing trouble again?

Tim Stone

When isn't he?

Rebecca Chernoff

5:33 AM

fair point.

animuson

@Rebecca: No, just voting to delete that question we closed. Nothing to see here...

Rebecca Chernoff

oy

Tim Stone

On the one hand, I can't condone deleting anything of mine. On the other hand, I inexplicably thought that it already had been deleted...so doing so would just be aligning reality with my perception of it, which I can get behind...so I'm conflicted.

Rebecca Chernoff

hmm, yeah, that doesn't consider answer short-links at all

Tim Stone

I think that feature predates the /a/ links by at least a few months, so that's not surprising.

animuson

5:44 AM

My dad asked me if I'd mind spending a couple weeks in Lincoln to take care of my grandparents. o.o

@TimStone: I was so busy trying to bat signal you that I forgot to upvote the question! :o

Tim Stone

:O!

animuson

Hehe :D I fixed that now, though.

Tim Stone

So, what'd you say to your dad?

Ah, should see if I can fix the @mention issue with the userscript before doing the digests.

animuson

I just stared at him like he was crazy.

Tim Stone

IF ONLY I COULD EASILY INSTALL THE UPDATED SCRIPT. -_-

At least they made it drag and drop, I suppose.

Yay, fixed.

Lucifer

6:07 AM

Good, answer got deleted and i got my -1 Rep back :)

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone 4.5 to be exact. (:

Tim Stone

Ah ha

Lucifer

How many total SO users ? any idea ?

Tim Stone

The site directory says that there are 1,270,141 registered Stack Overflow users

Lucifer

6:29 AM

ok, i found(till now) false votter/sock puppets user in 3 digits, i wonder how many are still there ?

animuson

0

Q: When user can flag over question and answer that how can reviews?

I am using the stackoverflow , but little questions are aries into my mind can anybody give me brief understanding about flags? When Numbers of the user can flag the question and answer then that question and answer how to review. Who can review that question and answer? If the flag question an...

Can someone translate the title, please?

Lucifer

I think OP wants to know how flag queue works ( review process )

he is from my state Gujarat, India, so i can understand his poor (h)english

Ya review flag process — Neon Samule 3 mins ago

Tim Yi Jiang

11:38 AM

Tim Yi Jiang

11:57 AM

Hmmm, should users with less than 1k rep be able to split Primary vote count?

Tim Stone

12:48 PM

8

A: Who can split the votes in the primary election

Vote counts for the primary election will be visible for all who have enough reputation to vote after the next deploy.

jadarnel27

@TimStone That's...weird.

He's not being very clear :D

Flexo

I got an error on SU when I tried it

(I have less than 1k there)

Tim Stone

Hmm, I'm in the odd position of not being able to test myself.

jadarnel27

Samesies. I don't have enough rep to vote.

But I trust @Flexo's assessment.

Flexo

> An error occurred during vote count fetch

Tim Stone

12:57 PM

Yeah, I tried on Server Fault and got the same thing.

Guess that change got reverted in some fashion, seems like a bug.

jadarnel27

1:51 PM

I don't really see the big deal here. The guy discloses his affiliation, and writes complete answers, then links to relevant articles on his website. All he really needs to do is (like Marc said) indicate that there is a paywall on the other side of that link.

/rant.

Popular Demand

2:07 PM

I may have to frame that.

jadarnel27

Hahaha

Flexo

@jadarnel27 it does look like the only reason he's writing most answers is as an excuse to post links to his paywalled content

it's not much different to writing "hey I'm awesome, hire me" at the end of every answer

jadarnel27

@Flexo But his answers appear to be helpful and correct; no one's being forced to pay for the additional content behind the paywall.

@Flexo Well yeah, it's definitely kind of artificial in some of the answer I've seen now.

Flexo

@jadarnel27 they're helpful and correct without the link. The only person the link adds value for is the poster himself

jadarnel27

2:23 PM

@Flexo I don't think that last sentence is necessarily true, though. It would (presumably) add value to anyone willing to pay the subscription.

Anonymous

Given that there is an index on OwnerUserId and the user only has a few hundred posts, can anybody tell me why this query would be timing out?

Anonymous

SELECT Id as [Post Link]
FROM Posts
WHERE OwnerUserId = 13924
AND Body LIKE '%ffconsultancy%'
OR Body LIKE '%fsharpnews%'

jadarnel27

But I recognize I'm in the minority as far as my opinion on this spammer thing. Perhaps I should just move along.

jcolebrand

When @TimStone gets here, he should be able to ... he's helped work on that project a few times

Anonymous

(I thought that only looking at a small sample of his answers was unfair when we have the data to check all of them.)

Flexo

2:27 PM

seems wikipedia have already blocked him for spam

jadarnel27

SELECT Id as [Post Link]
FROM Posts
WHERE OwnerUserId = 13924
AND (Body LIKE '%ffconsultancy%'
OR Body LIKE '%fsharpnews%')

Anonymous

@jadarnel27 Oh boy. Thanks.

jadarnel27

;-)

Tim Stone

Heh :P

Anonymous

91/430 = 21% overall, assuming he only uses those two domain (I haven't checked very closely.)

jadarnel27

2:35 PM

That's pretty high, but not as high as I expected from the statements being made in that question.

jcolebrand

@jeremybanks What's in Data.SE is not "all of them"

Flexo

how many are real answers and how many are link only?

jadarnel27

@jcolebrand Pretty sure Jeremy's aware of that =)

jcolebrand

You're missing anything since the last data dump and anything that's been deleted

@jadarnel27 I assume that most people in here with less than 10k meta rep aren't.

Anonymous

@jcolebrand True. But unless this is truly recent it's a nearer approximation than just taking the top tenth of his posts, which the current top post is doing.

jcolebrand

2:37 PM

And even that's chancy

jadarnel27

@jcolebrand Ah, gotcha. Better safe than sorry.

Anonymous

I'll disclaim appropriately. :)

Flexo

3:00 PM

looks like someone serial downvoted @casperone a few hours back

Popular Demand

@Flexo Sorry, that guy just really annoys me sometimes. Er, I mean, uh, nothing.

jokerdino

hey guys

i am looking for an answer that had a link to a data query which helped you churn out a rough meta reputation

Flexo

@jokerdino why not just look at the real rep?

jokerdino

the real rep? i need the query for other meta sites.

Flexo

oh I see per-site meta

jokerdino

3:05 PM

i mean, i know i can find the rep on MSO. but i don't have the luxury on child meta sites

Popular Demand

9

A: Any way to find out who are the top meta.site.SE users?

I asked this question because I'd like to know if there is any way this is (or could be) built into the site. However... The Data Explorer can be used to analyze users/questions/answers since it has access to the per-site Metas. So, I put together Top users by calculated rep to give a rough ca...

jokerdino

@PopularDemand tada! nice.

just what i missed.

Popular Demand

I've still got it!

jadarnel27

@PopularDemand Overachiever.

jokerdino

i was gonna say the answer was made by a SE mod and Anna Lear commented on it

but i was half wrong there

ooh wait. I actually have it favorited in Data.SE

Popular Demand

3:11 PM

Whoa. When did Jaydles become an employee?

Flexo

@jeremybanks - shortest posts first. Shows the link only ones: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/75698

jokerdino

Hmm I don't belong in here. Back to the bat cave. Thanks for the link neways!

i be hanging around later.

jadarnel27

@PopularDemand I've never heard of the guy. Interesting.

I also don't know who he would be on the Team page.

Popular Demand

3:29 PM

He doesn't seem to be on there.

jcolebrand

jaydles?

jadarnel27

Apparently, he's the "VP of Community at StackExchange."

Anonymous

Well, that explains why he's not on "Stack Exchange"'s team page, doesn't it?

Rebecca Chernoff

@jadarnel27 tis a bit out of date

jadarnel27

@jeremybanks lol

@RebeccaChernoff Alrighty =) Does the next update include animated pictures for Jin and Jeff Atwood?

Rebecca Chernoff

3:39 PM

heh

jadarnel27

4:00 PM

Haha, Question title that doesn't describe the problem =)

jcolebrand

I was hoping that was a link to the meta Q

@jadarnel27 the real Q (cc @Reb) is does the next update include more-accurate-to-natural-visage pictures for Chris :p

Rebecca Chernoff

...

jcolebrand

lulz

I'll assume that means that Chris is really a moving puppet. Gotcha.

headline: rchern confirms Chris is a sockpuppet literally

I kill me

Rebecca Chernoff

@jcolebrand more like "omg people give it up already" heh q:

jcolebrand

heheheehehe

I wanted the sockpuppet joke, tyvm

If anything we need three more of Chris so that there is always one on duty.

jadarnel27

4:09 PM

@jcolebrand Ha, right. I was just referencing the Meta Question for that real life example =)

jadarnel27

4:20 PM

Hey @TimStone, have you beaten Diablo 3 on inferno?

Tim Stone

I have not. :(

I'm stuck in Act II

jadarnel27

Ah, that's where my brother's stuck. I have not quite beaten Hell yet, so you guys are both ahead of me =)

Tim Stone

Hmm, do I have you as a friend on there? (Did I already ask that before?)

mootinator

What's this. It's Diablo 3 playing day?

Popular Demand

A small group of adventurers banding together to defeat an ultimate evil, meeting in a tavern? Come on.

jcolebrand

4:24 PM

@mootinator shhhh, don't tell anyone, I've not started playing it yet

mootinator

@PopularDemand You're right, too farfetched.

jadarnel27

@TimStone No, you don't. But you can request me via my gmail =)

I just read this new post, which has some interesting stuff in it: MESSAGE FROM MIKE MORHAIME

@TimStone I'd give you my BattleTag (awesomely, it is "brown"), but it's useless without the 4 digit code that I can never remember.

Tim Stone

Hahah, I'm at the office now anyway...so remind me later.

mootinator

@jadarnel27 I love the first reply.

jadarnel27

Hahaha, right.

mootinator

4:33 PM

<-- mootinator#1455

Shocking that I would use that as a BattleTag, I know.

jcolebrand

Holy crap Kevin, when did you get to 6k rep?

mootinator

It's been trickling in slowly.

I think Tuesday, though.

Nope, last Thursday. Time flies.

Had I known this was going to be such a popular question, I might have made a more comprehensive answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/5072804/…

jadarnel27

@mootinator I'm appalled.

jadarnel27

5:40 PM

lulz

@sixlettervariables - I'm not wasting any more time on this. I think this question is bollocks and only exists because the OP got into a comment bun fight, whereupon feeling injured in some way wanted to have a bit of a moan and "have something done" about this user. If he'd done the proper thing and just quietly flagged for mod attention, we'd have reviewed and dealt with whatever we saw was necessary. Instead we have this school playground tattle tail righteous horror crap that's gone on. Jeez. — Kev 18 mins ago

Chris

I think that comment from Kev is crap

mootinator

You want CRAP? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE CRAP!

Chris

Fair enough

Daniel Fischer

I've seen the unfortunate consequences interacting with J.H. can have on people before, therefore I'm not surprised.

Chris

I just don't think that it is very fair to dismiss the real concerns that are raised here with a broad brush like "school playground tattle tail righteous horror crap"

I don't know or give a crap about J.H., but if I can start throwing paywall links on my answers, I'm going to -- I have mouths to feed and student loans to pay

jadarnel27

6:07 PM

@Chris Just to be clear, I wasn't trying to be dismissive by linking the (now deleted) comment - I just thought his rant was amusing.

I know we disagree on the topic at hand, but I always try to be civil. And I sort-of understand the concerns of the other side.

mootinator

6:43 PM

is raging right now.

Tim Stone

7:31 PM

@mootinator Did you try to install Oracle from shell too?

mootinator

Ha.

No, a combination something which can't be discussed on a public forum, and a tech demo I was adding into an existing project but every time I have time to work on it, I just spend the whole time trying to get all the dependencies to work properly. For the second thing, I just started a new, empty project so I don't do that again.

Tim Stone

Well, at least it sounds like the second issue was relatively easily solved.

Daniel Fischer

Ha, @jadarnel27 beat you this time ;)

jadarnel27

Hahaha. You win this time, Fischer. five seconds grumble grumble

Daniel Fischer

7:46 PM

But you beat me on the close vote.

jadarnel27

I didn't notice that.

Tim Stone

Yeah well, I beat you both to the delete vote, so hah!

jadarnel27

Are you bragging about being late to the party? ;-)

Daniel Fischer

@TimStone Yeah, that was hard, wasn't it?

Tim Stone

Hahah

jadarnel27

7:54 PM

I don't even kind of understand the most recent edit to that self promotion question.

Evan Carroll

9:26 PM

How did this guy get to be product manager over careers version 2? meta.stackoverflow.com/users/184698/will-cole

Certainly, I'm more qualified to do his job and I'd like to nominate myself to replace him.

Will has been on Stack Exchange for 4 months now, and all he has got was 500 EXP from asking some questions about baseball. He obviously shows very little passion for Q/A, and moreover has no activity on StackOverflow -- stackoverflow.com/users/1440629/will-cole

How could have gotten the job offer before me? If it wasn't for me SE would have long devolved into an even more unbearable place than it is today.

I think Jeff owes it to me to at least put me on retainer, and remove any bans and filters still present.

It's funny that I have more EXP than he does on MSO, and yet I've been banned for a year and half. At one point, I was told I was a disruption to the community. I bet right after Jeff put down the phone he started cold-calling people randomly to hire the next product manager for Careers v2.

Chris

9:45 PM

His being sane probably played a big part in the decision.

Just sayin'

Anonymous

11:14 PM

@jadarnel27 It probably would have been better if your title had been kept. >_<"

animuson

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