🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Yeah, but it's a lot less bad than it used to be.
True.
Used to be you'd put a half dozen chickens in a pen and come back the next day and there'd be nothing left.
Hell, sometimes that still happens to me, and digging pits instead of using fences doesn't help. I've heard that the animals suffocate in the wall, so people suggest using glass blocks instead, but I haven't tried that. So far I use fenced pens that exactly cover one full chunk, and that seems to work.
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Glass blocks help, but don't totally eliminate animal suffocation.
TRWTF is we have an auto-chicken-farm which collects eggs and stores them, then you can throw a switch to have them launched by a dispenser to spawn new chickens in another room. Occasionally people turn it on and forget about it, and eventually the server grinds to a halt and there is literally 5 - 10 minute lag times for any action whether it be chat, swinging a weapon, or opening doors. Cleaning up after such incidents is rather painful. Great XP though, killing thousands of chickens in a 10x10 room.
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Glass blocks help, but don't totally eliminate animal suffocation.
TRWTF is we have an auto-chicken-farm which collects eggs and stores them, then you can throw a switch to have them launched by a dispenser to spawn new chickens in another room. Occasionally people turn it on and forget about it, and eventually the server grinds to a halt and there is literally 5 - 10 minute lag times for any action whether it be chat, swinging a weapon, or opening doors. Cleaning up after such incidents is rather painful. Great XP though, killing thousands of chickens in a 10x10 room.
EDIT: WTF Discourse, how is this too similar to something I just posted?
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EDIT: WTF Discourse, how is this too similar to something I just posted?
Oh, because you double-posted without telling me...
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One of my players/friends almost brought down the whole server with an ultra-compact fully-automatic chicken farm. He was annoyed the next day when he logged in and the glass was smashed and all the chickens dead, until I told him how slowly the server was running while he was gone.
Another player set up a testing circuit that would ding twice a second and then logged out and forgot to disable it.
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Oh, because you double-posted without telling me...
did you get a 500 error and think it didn't post, so hit reply again? It's doing that today, but it's lying--it really did post.
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Yes.
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Yeah, but the primary concern with steaks is the potential surface contamination. If you know what you're doing, you don't need to worry so much about the internal temperature. The internal temperature guidelines are much more important for ground meats and poultry.
Or steaks put together using meat glue.
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One time I wrote a custom implementation of the Minecraft server that kicked people from the server if they clicked on things. I posted it on a Minecraft server listing website as a PvP server and almost instantly got a hundred people on it. A few people asked to be admins immediately. I obliged because the only command on the server was the one to make people an admin.
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I'll be streaming minecraft later today. Or well, at least two of my group will be streaming, we haven't figured out if my husband and I can both stream.
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You going to provide a link and an estimated time? I'm playing WoD today but I could take a break.
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Ampelfrauen.
http://mashable.com/2014/11/15/germany-gender-equality-streetlights/
I'd provide a quote, but I'm on mobile, so CBA, and the URL itself provides sufficient context...
Edit: OK, so I didn't expect that to onebox.
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...Discourse why*? Lol. This is the link. I'll be playing in about 5 hours from now (6pm eastern)
(*The preview for this post shows my avatar, really huge, for no reason. Baked it oneboxed into a video stream)
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Actually, the standard traffic light icons used in Germany are pretty gender-neutral:
I have no fucking clue why Dortmund seems to have adopted the GDR version. It's WESTERN GERMANY, not EASTERN GERMANY. And yeah,the GDR traffic light icons are awful and the female version is appalling:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Ampelmädchen_-Dresden.jpg/262px-Ampelm%C3%A4dchen-_Dresden.jpg
Pigtails. Seriously.
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Oh brother:
Take it away, @discoursebot (yes, I know it's probably not really Discourse' fault.)
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@FrostCat - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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gender-neutral:
What do "male" traffic light icons look like? Because there's the whole "male is default" problem to get around (where the male stick figure and the 'default' stick figure are identical, only the female is differentiated, so the default is read as male and there is no neutral).
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Oh, these are the male communist socialist eastern German ones:
NON-STANDARD, btw. For some reason they have been encroaching the western parts of Germany in some places, for example, Babenhausen and apparently Dortmund.
The actual default is the one I posted earlier, though.
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Those are pretty nifty, actually. Overkill for traffic lights, but nice looking.
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Abraham Lincoln: Presidential Fuck Machine. Bad idea.
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Bad idea was streaming. My computer died trying. You can see me go to the end on channels chaosred or green room gaming instead (right now!)
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Also a bad idea1, one boxing Twitch which will attempt to auto play videos on mobile.
1 For Discourse, not for users. Just another nail in the "this wasn't built for mobile" coffin.
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http://imgur.com/gallery/gmIhHXK
A wedding present.
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there is no autoplay on mobile even if you want to
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can't see your image
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Every time I enter the topic on mobile, it switches to streaming video and sits on a loading spinner.
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what device?
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An Android phone, so I'm sure the official response would be "your device is shit too bad won't change".
My iPad wouldn't even show anything, and that's in desktop mode.
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No , I would actually tell you "your device is shit " if you said iPhone.
There is one big issue they are able to direct you to a stream directly they did not embed it in a player.
so invasive.do you know if the stream was live would it actually start playing without clicking play?
and here is some double irony
Final conclusion
Twitch.tv will need its own onebox with a similar functionality like the youtube player.
by default to only load an image.
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by default to only load an image
That's what it was doing in preview: loading my gravatar really huge.
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That is priceless.
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More ill thought out road sign bollocks. In the UK this time...
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Annabel Honeybun is a real name...
MPs have been criticised for employing a member of staff to hand-strip the leaves from its trees because it is more cost efficient than raking them up.
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Wouldn't that damage the tree?
I guess dead trees are more efficient to clean up after...
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Apparently not the way they're doing it.
She was, essentially, (very lightly) pruning the trees, not just stripping the leaves. This is, if done correctly, actually good for the trees. My impression from reading the article is that she knows what she was doing, and was doing it correctly.
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Tssss ... Belgium isn't even on the list.
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Midterms stress sex....with sheep.
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I don't know what you did there, but no thanks.
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All I did was paste a link to my channel. The rest was Discourse magic >.>
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Discourse magic >.>
this... this belongs in this thread.
also probably in the discopaedia
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Discodefinitions are always welcome!
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I'll let @Yamikuronue submit that one. i've done enough damage to that thread.
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Discourse magic
In any case, might I suggest shortening it to "Discomagic"? That at least is consistent with other terms we have. Of course, you could always aim for discoursistency ...
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you could always aim for discoursistency
You can aim for it, but it's hard to hit a(n erratically) moving target.
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eeeh... not really. it's amazing what you can do with a couple of million kilos of whatever you have handy traveling at 99.99% the speed of light....
the stuff doesn't even have to be explosive, just let kinetic impact do most of the damage.
Oblig XKCD: http://what-if.xkcd.com/20/
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