@ShadowWizardLoveZelda You just need to fly then

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda CGA I think

games of the era had a small range of colours you could switch from

@JourneymanGeek No, no, follow-pls, share-pls, upvote-pls, edit-improve-pls. Oh, dear, that was all the wrong pls-requests.

Now, I can get picking R/A flags over spam flags, but close votes… How is that a never-ending problem…

@ElementsInSpace I guess N means NAA? ;)

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard Nearly, it’s equivalent to naa- (Not an Answer, and suppress reply)

@ElementsInSpace ah, thanks

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@JourneymanGeek oh no! @Zoe see what you've done.... :D

@JourneymanGeek wings too heavy :(

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda yeah yeah :P

@JourneymanGeek indeed. Think my first game with VGA was Golden Axe, and I was really impressed.

:-D

@ElementsInSpace k

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Is that pink thing a bird or a snake or a fish or a dragon or a dinosaur or an alien or what?

Or is a turtle, because it says “Turtle Village” in the background?

@ElementsInSpace LOL!! hehe, thanks for the laugh. But yeah, going to look what it really is, I called it "bird" when playing, among friends, but obviously it's not really a bird. There were several mounts like that, this one being the "weakest", able to only hit with its tail, and there were two kinds of dragons, breathing fire. Perhaps more that I forgot about.

@ElementsInSpace ah, no, that's just the name of, well, the village the characters are going to. After that boss battle they cross a bridge shaped as turtle.

Chicken Leg! ;) /cc @Elements

Thank you

:)

charging @ElementsInSpace for 1 wizard coin

:P

denying the charges

So it is a bird and a serpent and a dragon.

But it’s not a fish or a dinosaur or an alien. Or a turtle.

@ElementsInSpace probably, never really checked it myself. When I played it, I didn't have internet yet - I got it from a friend on floppy disks, like all games back then. :D

I think its a wyrm, but the taxonomy of dragonish things is messy

@JourneymanGeek meh, not sure the gave developers themselves put much thought into this, they just created something that looks unique and fearsome. ;)

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Its a better answer than what I first thought :D

@JourneymanGeek hmm? What answer?

there's this greek classical art object called a phalloi...

sounds like phalic! Googling eagerly :D

it is

quite

ah it is!

:-DD

But how is it related to anything we said here before? lol

now to see if derpy or Tink gets mad at me first :D

It reminds me of the thing in the image from Golden Axe

@JourneymanGeek You might get the scorn from @SPA but usually Tink doesn't care much. :D

(unless we refer to her avatar of course. ;))

this is the video game I remember the earliest :D

@JourneymanGeek nice! Played it on my first phone I think, well, version of it. My first game was Bumpy, let's see when it was published...

'85

hmm... weird.

1991, but I'm sure I played older games.

Need to run chkdsk on my memory. :D

Maybe... played the old games, on... older PC... but... ahh.

Well need to make sense, hope to have it soon. :D

My step father also had a computer, fact I somehow forgot until... now? lol

So the bumpy was there, the older games, on the PC we had originally.

lol

we had a XT then a 486, a PII, I think 2-3 PIVs, a core 2 duo, a core i7 3770 and now a core i9 9900k, and maybe a half dozen laptops over time

oh and dad has a core i5 8th gen and a mac now

hi, @JNat. Please ping me when you have some spare time, I need an employee for a private message. Thanks in advance.

@SPArcheon any employee, or CM?

employee preferred, any will do.

someone involved in the community could work better.

ah, but employee without diamond can't start a private room. So either a CM or a developer, I guess.

How wonderful, people can't login again to Stack Exchange. Amazing how they don't check after deploying changes.

One time, well, can happen. But when they keep breaking it, it's just annoying and show they don't really care, which is a pity. And it's for silly reasons, the one week ago was some hidden layer they added, now there's some missing JS binding or whatever they use to make the buttons work.

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Sigh

Things they can easily spot if actually testing the login after the major changes they're doing there behind the scenes.

I wonder if this is related to main-meta sync breaking

@Zoeisonstrike nah, don't think so.

@SPArcheon dunno what the nature of the issue is, but it might be better to use the contact us form...?

@JNat I could I suppose, but I don't know how often it gets read. Anyway, nothing I can't live without, probably more useful to you folks for internal policies

@SPArcheon we have folks on top of that form on a daily basis (minus weekends, of course); I don't know what the exact expected response time is, but someone will definitely read it — I can also mention it's coming in, if it's somehow urgent

like I said, it is nothing really important. After all, "ignore this user" exists.

Why you need a CM to deal with a chat user?

You can flag, ask RO/mod to handle the situation if the user won't stop on their own etc. No?

FWIW, I probably use the contact link too

(well or some other modly form of escalation, same feeling)

@JourneymanGeek Am I correct in assuming you know?

nope

But if it was my site(s) I'd know what was happening, and it'd be escalated if needed >_>

Did you hear that?

Shadow's Den is no more.

:D

It... evolved.

@SPArcheon is it the star troll? Or something else?

@JourneymanGeek depends: are you talking about the "Chicken Leg" (yes, that is the official name)? In that case, I always hated those, starting from the name, following with their appearance and ending in how they were completely useless.

So, fell free to insult them.

huh

that actually points at my 'first' guess

^ @ShadowWizardLoveZelda recognize this one do you?

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda o/ missed your mention, just saw a red thingy when I visited SO (dang, it's been a while!)

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda yup :D

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Very Great Advancements

@SPArcheon That looks like a giant oxygen-deprived thing...

@Marco Mostly punctuation marks in answer - Post contains 36 marks of '.' out of 59 characters

No problem, I quickly read the question without thinking it through.

Messages in Thai are not allowed, right? :P

hello

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda u pinged me

hmm?

the................

...................................................

@Wolf I did not

@Marco not really, it's considered NAA even if the actual meaning is fine.

naa?

@Wolf well yes but looks like you don't really say much except dots. So....

Never mind, I guess.

@Marco Not An Answer

Ah yes, I agree, there are 2 problems then.

@Marco which are?

Written in Thai and is not an answer.

@Marco ah, not really. I ran it via translator and it's attempt to answer, if posted in English it could be fine.

Oh yeah, you're the one who said it wouldn't be an answer haha. That's why I initially commented only about it being written in Thai.

I didn't flag because I could just cast delete vote, which is better. (doesn't look like author is going to edit, most of those just ignore comments.)

@Marco I did? Where?

"@Marco not really, it's considered NAA even if the actual meaning is fine."

But maybe I misunderstood.

@Marco I thought you meant I said it before, or somewhere else. :)

Anyway, such answers are indeed not valid, and should be deleted one way or another.

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Hmm... no...

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Ok, no problem.

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda With flames and explosions.

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact nah. Usually it's just crap so need to be silently cleaned up. ;)

I hope it is not considered xenophobia against Thai language.

:D

@Marco nope, not at all. Applies to any non-English post.

(except of course language or localized SE sites.)

I know, I'm just kidding.

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Yeah, of course.

@Marco hard to tell sometimes! :P

!!/kid Marco

:(

chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9820719#9820719: but I even sent a smile here.

@Marco ah but took you a while to send it, and I sent my message before noticing. ;)

Ah, ok haha

@Marco so, in case you plan to stick around, better get to know you better, if you're up to it. Where are you from? I'm from Israel, as can be seen in my profile as well. :)

oh wait this reminds me somehow that I missed some pings here. Let's see....

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Compressed in vacuum.

@SPArcheon actually...no. Why?

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact eww

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Ok, nice, I wish Israel good luck at this bad time in history. I'm from Brazil.

@g3rv4 lol, well, you noticed now. So, what's up? How are you and your family doing?

@Marco nice, and thanks! Any bit of support is appreciated these days, actual or virtual.

Sure.

You are welcome.

So Marco is your real name?

Yes

I'm thinking about proposing an interdisciplinary website at Area 51 that relates Machine Learning with other scientific areas.

Well my name here isn't real of course, but I already shared my real name in the past, it's Yahav. So, hi, Marco! :-)

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Nice. Hi!

(Shadow Wizard is my online persona, the name I'm recognized by - kind of like pen name for writers, so I can't just change it. ;))

I understand...

@Marco well, unless you can arrange 200+ followers in advance, my friendly advise is that you better not waste the time on it, as it would be terribly hard to gather enough people ranomly.

Even with 200+ people who would agree to follow it, still lots of work and possible obsticles.

Oh, I see, I was just vaguely thinking about it. Thanks for suggesting I don't do this.

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda I can imagine how laborious it is.

argh, my head reminds me it's aching, took a pill 6 hours ago and looks like its effect is weakening.. probably dentist hurting my teeth didn't help.... anyway guess I'll call it a night...

(it's 11:30pm here)

Oh, this is bad. Good night!

thanks!

And get better!

I will! I had worse. :)

Great

what the. dba.stackexchange.com/q/338544/264529 asker's comments here don't have user link or special written-by-asker background highlight

Bizarre

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Why?

hiya, I have more exciting SEDE developments, who wants in

need a couple of beta testers

Hiya, I'd just like to say hello, don't need to be let in.

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact :wave:

👋

@ShadowWiz That sounds a bit weird to me. The fact that you can't use the <table>, <thead>, <tbody>, <tr>, <th> or <td> tags makes it impossible to use HTML tables directly.

Of course, a Markdown table is implemented via an HTML table.

But that's not really relevant to a site user who wants to make a custom table using their own HTML code. Eg, Markdown tables could be rendered via SVG, rather than via HTML <table>.

@ShadowWizard BTW, quantum computer scientist Scott Aaronson recently made a blog post about the current situation in Israel. scottaaronson.blog/?p=7845 The discussion in the comments is (mostly) quite intelligent and civil.