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6:00 PM
Alex Castellanos
 
well, you're no Big Daddy Clinton, but I've heard much worse
 
Ann Coulter
I could list political pundits all day
 
btw why is doctype.com linked from the trilogy if it isn't a SE site?
 
isn't it se 1.0?
 
6:03 PM
How to Geek isn't SE either
 
I wonder if there is any code sharing or if its just a rewrite (like linux -> unix)
 
Jin
no code sharing at all.
 
not even open source parts like markdown?
 
why should HTG be SE @CRoss?
oh scratch that
 
How are the views on the blog?
 
6:06 PM
God damnit @jeff
stop playing with our tags
 
Well, genre tagging is something we did consider.
 
no, not that: mukashi-mukashi-tokoro -> MMT
 
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Q: How do I get past a Cliff in Mukashi Mukashi Arutokoro

tzenesSo I'm at a cliff in the 5 or 6th screen of Mukashi Mukashi Arutokoro ni Totetsumonaku Naka no Warui Twintail no Shimai Himesama ga Irasshaimashitatosa, and I can't figure out a way past it. I've provided a screenshot: I've tried standing on top of the pollen from the mushrooms but that is to...

 
there
as much as I support common abbreviations like mmt and fps I don't feel like redoing all those meta threads again
 
6:12 PM
I don't want to have the fps conversation again
 
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Q: Last Chance-- Top domain name: pauseforhelp.com. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

Robert CartainoJin is ready to start working on your logo so we need to finalize the site name choice. The top-voted choice, quicksave.com, is not for sale. The only viable candidate is "Pause for Help" (pauseforhelp.com), which we are currently holding. If anyone has any awesome, last-minute brainstorming su...

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@Juan/@Jin, plz to pin ↑
 
Jin
pinned
 
kind of you, thanks
 
I was going to comment "I played ZvZ once. Our creeps touched." But that sounded more and more weird the more I thought about it.
 
6:19 PM
haha
 
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A: Last Chance-- Top domain name: pauseforhelp.com. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

badpWhat I don't like about pauseforhelp is that it really isn't gaming related. A troubled programmer can pause coding for help on StackOverflow, for example. ThatOneLevel.com has a stronger gaming feeling.

 
"Zerglings, they're all dead, attack stalkers"
 
yeah...
zerglings don't last long against zealots
 
btw world1-1.com isn't taken
stageone.com is
gamingoracle.com isn't taken but then it'd look like we'd only answer while on LSD
escforhelp.com also isn't taken and nowadays that's the universal key for pausing games (whereas you can pause the rest by just doing something else).
 
Computer Games
not Console games
 
6:28 PM
._.
I'll have to settle for being yet again in the minority
 
Jin
because you're a ninja
but to be honest, "Pause for help" is literally what i do when I need answers on games as I play. I pause with "Start" button or "P" key on a computer.
 
Being locked into .com makes things so hard tbqh
infiniteliv.es is availiable!
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Buy it and redirect
 
good call
 
@Jin So you don't pause CSSSSSSSSSS for help with IE rendering?
 
Jin
6:30 PM
i suggest to post all your recommendations on the thread
 
wow, that reminds me of goatse.cx
 
Jin
@badp there's no literally action for pausing for csssss help
 
how would you pause CSS?
hit stop on the webbrowser?
 
by doing something else.
 
I do most of my CSS in firebug
 
6:31 PM
Also cleverdomainna.me - I might have to snap that one up for myself...
 
It's just, "pause" isn't a verb that only makes sense in gaming
go tell stackoverflow to your grandma
go tell pauseforhelp to your grandma
 
Jin
but grandma isn't the targeted audience of the site. most gamers would get the reference.
 
yes, 'cept grandma understands what "pause for help" means...
 
I don't think grandma would get "pause for help"
 
...not in the way we mean it.
 
6:33 PM
She's probably say: You want me to do what now?
no I mean at all
 
Wait -- pause isn't a verb commonly used in English?
 
Jin
@badp grandma won't get it in the sense that applies to gaming scene.
 
though I guess my grandmother wouldn't say anything, but that's beside the point
hey grandma look what I found on pause for help today
 
@Jin so non gamers would misunderstand what the site is about, all the better :P
 
yeah I don't think she's going to parse that
 
6:34 PM
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A: Last Chance-- Top domain name: pauseforhelp.com. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

LessPop_MoreFizzAre we still locked into .com? If not, Infiniteliv.es is availiable as of now.

 
Jeff says we are. .com gives more trust to our site
 
Jin
@badp non gamers won't be on the site at the first place. people come to the site if they google something gaming related. right?
 
@Jin possibly
 
Jin
it's like if the math site chose the domain LongLiveEulersID.com it may not mean anything to non math geeks.
 
As Jin said earlier, naming is hard
 
6:38 PM
No doubt
 
Evening all
Oooh, naming
 
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Q: What is metagame?

Łukasz LewWhat is so called meta-game in Starcraft 2? What other games have this meta-game?

 
For me, the problem with pauseforhelp.com is that it's just not terribly unique or catchy. It works but... well that's it. It just works.
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Whereas Stackoverflow is something that I feel wins a character of its own.
But if I had any better suggestions, I would have made them so... :)
 
To be honest, so long as we don't have a name like that, @java, we should just not get any name
> No response on Infinite Lives. And everyone--absolutely everyone--that I market-tested "That One Level" on hated it. So I went with this communities highest voted choice, "Pause for Help." I has hoping to hear some better suggestions here. We should be able to do better. – Robert Cartaino♦ 4 mins ago
 
@badp Agreed. We really need to focus on pushing for a better name.
 
6:42 PM
Can we put a bigger banner on the front page? Get some more casual users involved?
 
@Gaming Someone else explain it
 
cointocontinue.com
 
pressstarttocontinue
actually that's kind of long
 
continue.com isn't taken.
 
... not too bad ...
 
6:45 PM
@badp That's... not bad.
 
you know what, suggest that
 
insertanotherquarter.com
 
Posted
 
hm @ continue.com
 
Jin
continue.com is taken
 
6:46 PM
OpenDNS.com says it isn't...
 
@Jin Seems to just be squatted though
 
Nameservers for continue.com:

ns1.pr-server.ru returned (NORECORDS)
ns2.pr-server.ru returned (NORECORDS)
 
@badp Whois says it's registered and just not pointed anywhere
 
=///////
 
one more continue
one life left
 
6:48 PM
My litmus test is I imagine myself having a conversation with someone in which I'm trying to convince them to go to the site for help. If I can say something like "Dude, like, you should totally go post your question on <name>. Radical!" without the name being too out of place, that's good.
 
please press start
@Java the problem I have with that conversation is that I could add .com on to anything and it starts to make sense
or .org
 
% By submitting a query to RU-CENTER's Whois Service
% you agree to abide by the following terms of use:
% nic.ru/about/servpol.html (in Russian)
% nic.ru/about/en/servpol.html (in English).

Domain name:             CONTINUE.COM
Name Server:             ns1.pr-server.ru
Name Server:             ns2.pr-server.ru
Creation Date:           1998.07.17
Updated Date:            2010.03.02
Expiration Date:         2011.07.16

Status:                  DELEGATED

Registrant ID:           EMSYCTH-RU
 
Dude, go ask that question on 4chan.org
 
@tzenes True, but bonus points if you can leave off the TLD and still make sense. And even then, names that are three or four word phrases tend to break the conversational flow.
 
one life left is taken sadly
I think 3 syllabus is a nice target rate
 
6:51 PM
I'd agree, 4+ syllables starts to sound a bit unwieldy I think
 
you-die.com is taken but youdie.com isn't.
 
Game Start
too bad GameOver is taken
that's really the best choice
 
mariox3
?
 
pressstart.com is squatted
 
@badp no, trademark
 
6:54 PM
please press start
I'm pretty sure that's not tm
 
I can see people screwing up the 3 s's
 
mario/moria.... coincidence?
 
yeah, its kinda ugly too
I guess we could reg both please press start and please pres start
 
press-start.com?
 
sidechallenge.com? no
 
6:55 PM
I'm not sure I want to type that name in though
 
how about PauseForHelp.com?
 
if it was good enough, @cross, we wouldn't be discussing other names now
 
@Cross I feel like that's the lowest common denominator
everyone agrees to it, but no one really likes it
 
Agreed
 
meh, meeting
 
6:56 PM
But we can't find anything better that's not taken :(
 
Thrown Controllers
 
onemorelevel.com is taken
onemorestage.com is not
 
that's got zing to it
 
however, onemorelevel.com is also gaming related
@tzenes how about computer gaming? :)
keyboards aren't controllers (yes technically they are but that is not the point)
 
@grace cuts to the core of it: the site itself does a good enough job of saying 'come here for help' - the name of the site needs to say 'come here for games'
 
6:57 PM
they're a kind of controller
 
@badp When you get that caught up in inclusiveness you miss the forest for the trees.
 
Its my point
 
Yeah I like Thrown Controller but it does have the problem of really only applying to console gamers.
 
People aren't going to ignore the site because OMG CONTROLLERS IT MUST BE ABOUT CONSOLES.
 
I just think Thrown Controllers has ZING
 
6:58 PM
What we need to pay attention to is does the name convey the fact that the site is about videogames.
 
like Stackoverflow, has ZING
 
everything else will, I think, follow from that.
savepoint.com is just a squatter atm
 
Jin
i'd avoid parked domains
 
lavajumping.com
not taken
and absurd in all contexts except gaming
 
Hmm.... I guess not every programming language has the concept of a stack overflow in the daily practice of the language... so in a way Stackoverflow itself isn't terribly inclusive of all languages.
 
Jin
7:00 PM
 
That's because the infamous wow leeroy was two ee's.
 
Jin
oops.
 
I think throwncontroller is a fun title that encompasses what we're about. If we end up getting PC fanboys who complain over semantics, they're probably not people we would be able to help anyway :P
 
What about One More Life? Slight variation on One Life Left.
 
@FallenAngelEyes :(
 
7:02 PM
Like "I can beat this... just one more life."
 
onemorecoin.com is taken to squatters
onemorelife.com is taken to squatters
 
D'oh.
 
I'd agree that keyboards/mice can include controllers. I've definitely played pc games before and ended up frustrated enough I wanted to hurl my poor logitech mouse out the window.
 
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A: Last Chance -- Top domain name: pauseforhelp.com. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

tzenesI really like Thrown Controllers. I realize it doesn't feel exceptionally inclusive to PC gaming, but it does convey video games in general (where as thrown keyboards does not), and frusteration, the need for help. And given our large base of PC games *cough*Stracraft*cough*, I think its fair t...

 
+1
Incidentally
 
7:04 PM
Yeah I'm liking ThrownControllers better than PauseForHelp, at least.
 
@Jin is that site for real? is it a joke? its so hard to tell. If its a joke, its a really good joke, if its serious....
 
@tzenes Parked/Squatted
 
This is kind of a luxury problem that we're all focusing on, the biggest thing right now I think is...
Congratulations guys, we're making it out of beta! :D
 
@tzenes I'm afraid that's for real
 
too bad
that could have been a really funny joke
 
7:05 PM
@FallenAngelEyes We can still fail when out of beta if we screw up bad enough, naming is an option
wait a second
click here FREE vial of miracle water
okay it isn't for real. Definitely not a real reverend of any self-respecting church at any rate.
 
Okay, I'm looking at the shorter term victory here, @badp :P Especially considering Jeff expressed his doubt about how well the site would succeed at the beginning. I think so far we've at least met, if not exceeded, expectations. :)
That doesn't mean we should get lax, but I think it's something we can all be proud of. :)
 
@badp I've seen crazier.
 
Jin
@badp not a joke. i wish this was a joke iccmworldwide.org/index2.htm
Flash intro... so intense... what does this mean...
 
endgame.com is up for a quote
 
endgame makes me think of MMO stuff, gameplay after level cap, more than that the game has ended
throwncontrollers is apparently parked :(
 
7:13 PM
@Jin Haha, so awesome. It's like Christianity is an anime fight!
 
@FallenAngelEyes yeah, It looks like by a company that might sell it, but I don't know
 
Damn
Well, dinnertime, later all
 
Okay, I am off to go out for the night and eventually imbibe large amounts of alcohol and such, so I will speak to all you fine people another day. Good luck domainhunting!
 
7:29 PM
btw @tzenes regarding your blog post: your voice isn't annoying and I think you did a fairly good job of keeping the viewer entertained
you didn't have those dead-silences in the middle of your talk
 
@Ivo I tried
 
and your feedback sounds solid
 
I know the content is good, I still worry about the presentation
I tend to slur words
and say "um" and "ah" alot
 
what and day9 throwing hot chocolat over his keyboard?
and talking about how cute the gamers are?
 
yeah, but that's exciting
that's entertaining
have you ever heard Day9's masturbation story?
 
7:32 PM
I don't wanna know
but tell us anyway
 
Its definitely NSFW
There are some amazing lines in here
 
@FallenAngelEyes that was the idea
Is it me or @Robert is kind of angry at us? :)
 
@badp we're redesigning the site in the 11th hour
I think he has a right to be
we had 70 days to come up with a good name and research it
 
to be honest no SE is spending 70 days fully into their naming
 
sure, but the point is we've had time
 
7:41 PM
and we've been told that our names are horrible despite the voting just now
 
In all fairness thatonelevel is kind of horrible
 
In all fairness pauseforhelp is kind of terrible
anyway -- if any of the proposals was good enough we wouldn't be here anyway
 
I don't think its terrible so much as its not good
 
so lavajumping.com doesn't cut it eh?
 
well that's kind of the point. He doesn't care what name we choose as long as he can buy it, but he wants us to pick one
I dunno, lavajumping sounds more like a geologist fan club from iceland
I guess it could work, but it doesn't scream gaming to me
 
7:44 PM
you mean people can actually jump inches over lava?
I think that's something only possible in games.
 
or just think the idea of jumping over lava is cool
 
I think the one level looked great the way it was, I don't know if there's no ring to it
but it looked great
 
yeah it did look pretty, but its such an ugly name to say
 
google "can you jump over lava"
mostly it's game questions
 
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Q: C64 - Pools of Darkness - End Battle

The SasquatchI dusted off the old Commedore 64 a little while ago and found some old save games for Pools of Darkness. All of the games were at basically the same place. The final set of fights in the game. Each of the parties I had and different make ups to them, but I remembered that I couldn't ever man...

 
7:46 PM
@badp 0 results
now I kind of wonder
can you jump over lava?
it is possible?
 
lavainmycastle
@tzenes 218k results
 
?
 
@tzenes You probably can but get burned in the way
 
7:47 PM
oh, well you had quotes on there
don't blame me for copy/pasting
 
yeah, it was quotes around the search term. Sorry
"google can you jump over lava?" reads bad.
anyway.
 
or, Google: can you jump over lava?
it doesn't look like you can, incidently
its too hot
 
yeah, that's what I was thinking.
 
does anybody know if this works?
 
@JuanManuel no way in hell
 
7:52 PM
:(
 
generating extra traffic is the best way to kill latency at routers
more packets take a longer time in routers' queues
 
so it's all a lie?
 
and network traffic, just like highway traffic, can dramatically get much worse with just a bit more cars
although I may not have the full picture
 
here's something that applies to @tzenes
 
the script seems to address a few peculiarities of the Windows networking stack
I merely studied general networking
so @Juan there might be a point about it
 
7:56 PM
@Ivo ouch
 
it sounds reasonable
ack pairing
I'll try it tonight
 
just kidding @tzenes ;) we appreciate your input
 
An alternative to lavajumping is slimepool.com, also not taken
 
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A: How can I reduce latency while playing World of Warcraft

Ondrej SlintákI personally use Leatrix Latency Fix. It dropped my latency from ~250ms to ~60ms on all European realms I tried (currently on Draenor).

 

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