The Official Status Thread
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
play time
I think play time involves a St Andrew's cross. There'll be one at the party this weekend; you're coming, right?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Sick at home with a cold.
And yet I just answered a work email, because apparently there is never a time when the posterior excrements aren't about to hit spinning blades.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I think play time involves a St Andrew's cross.
Without doing any further research, I'm going to assume that this refers to some Scottish flag fetish.
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@hungrier If only there were a thread where you could Ask Me Anything.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I think play time involves a St Andrew's cross.
Without doing any further research
Don't.
I'm going to assume that this refers to some Scottish flag fetish.
Wrong.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Nearly fifteen milliliters!
Oh boy, I’m not particularly picky, but that sounds sad.
Work in progress! Not like it's needed at present.
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Status: apparently "close the community guest applications" actually means "hide the button that leads to the community guest applications, which at time of reading leads to a page that says they're closed". Ugh, it's too early for this...
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@Gąska use bombs? Use ancient arrows? They almost always drop enough bits to make another arrow to replace the one you used.
You're trying to beat a robot to death with bits of metal. Get a shield and parry its lasers. Get the armor that makes you take less damage from them.
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@AyGeePlus nevermind, pulled up walkthrough for how to get Master Sword. Gonna grind a few more puzzle shrines so I get hearts and then I'll come back prepared. Fake difficulty at its finest.
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@Gąska It requires you have enough lateral thinking to recognize that "just bring more swords" is a bad solution to "my swords aren't durable enough to beat up this robot".
You appear to have decided on 'get a better sword'?
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@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
decided on 'get a better sword'?
I would have decided "get a rocket launcher".
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@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska It requires you have enough lateral thinking to recognize that "just bring more swords" is a bad solution to "my swords aren't durable enough to beat up this robot".
Why? The math checks out. The only problem is I underestimated how much durability I need.
You appear to have decided on 'get a better sword'?
More along the lines of "get the durability of 20 swords for the price of one". As a bonus, Master Sword is super effective against guardians.
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@Tsaukpaetra Link is equipped with a mark 1 bomb factory attached to his hip and a good throwing arm, so if you're willing to accept a cavepunk rocket launcher...?
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Why? The math checks out. The only problem is I underestimated how much durability I need.
I really hope this works out for you, because there's peculiar style points for an entire strategy based around "the first thing I thought of, only more so".
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@AyGeePlus nevermind, pulled up walkthrough for how to get Master Sword. Gonna grind a few more puzzle shrines so I get hearts and then I'll come back prepared. Fake difficulty at its finest.
There are five kinds of fake difficulty, in addition to The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard, a sub-category of this:
I fully expected this to include a link to Mario Kart. I was not disappointed.
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@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
a good throwing arm,
Someone must science if he can throw the distances I would be staying at.
But then again, fucking cartoon physics...
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@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Link is equipped with a mark 1 bomb factory attached to his hip and a good throwing arm, so if you're willing to accept a cavepunk rocket launcher...?
I'd use them all the time if the damage wasn't so pitiful. As it is, I'm only using them on the weakest enemies (at least after upgrade, it takes just one to kill a red bokoblin, not two).
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Status: Just got through working out the logistics of replacing all the Helpdesk's client asset equipment with new stuff.
Ordered 10 Windows 10 laptops from our depot for the techs. Had to put in an order to return 36 Windows 7 machines. Damn integrations...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I finally found a 532nm green laser pointer small enough to carry. It runs on a single AAA battery and is smaller than the little Streamlight flashlight I always carry, definitely small enough to keep in a pocket at all times without being awkward. According to the product description, it's a 1 milliwatt laser.
It showed up today and it's brighter than hell. The sticker on it declares it to be a 50 milliwatt laser.
Alrighty, attempt #2 showed up. Different seller, different model, and the picture clearly showed a 1mW power rating on the laser pointer's sticker. Cost about $5 and shipped from Korea. But now that it's here, the actual sticker declares this one to be 100 milliwatts.
All I want is an eye-safe green laser pointer that runs off a single AAA battery and is not much larger than the battery. Why do they all have to lie and be 100x more powerful than the product description claims?
Just ordered cheap AAA battery green laser #3 via ebay. Description claims 5 mW which is consistent with the blurry picture of its sticker that says < 5 mW, but at this rate I'll probably end up with a pocket-sized Death Star superlaser that can obliterate entire worlds.
I wish I could find these on more reputable sites, but all the green lasers everywhere else are physically far too large for what I want. (I do have a few decent actual <5 mW green lasers that are eye-safe, but they're way too large to comfortably carry in a pocket.)
Green Laser #3 showed up today. Green Laser #3 is not 5 mW as advertised. Green Laser #3 is 200 mW. Green Laser #3 makes black electrical tape smoke. Green Laser #3 makes 50 mW Green Laser #1 look like it barely functions.
I give up.
I guess I just can't give it up. This time I turned to an online laser pointer shop instead of ebay. Ordered three more keychain lasers. These guys have a combobox to select the power level of the laser so we'll see if that actually works. I ordered a 5 mW 532nm green, a 5 mW 405 nm (bluish-purple), and also a 50 mW 405 nm because 405 nm is fairly hard to see and a more powerful one might be pretty cool.
If the green one is actually 5 mW and not 1.21 GW I'll be happy.
I think I finally won the game. The three lasers showed up today. None of them have any markings or power ratings on them, but based on brightness compared to my other lasers, the green one is definitely somewhere in the 5 mW range. It's still quite visible (green lasers usually are), but it's not eye-searing and you can't see the beam mid-air in bright light like with the others.
The 405 nm bluish-purple ones are a letdown. One was supposed to be 5 mW and the other 50 mW. The two are the exact same brightness and they are noticeably dimmer than my other, larger 405 nm laser rated for 5 mW. Oh well.
But I got my keychain-sized AAA-battery green one...that's all I wanted.
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@mott555 I just hurt my neck while installing an AAA-battery into a laser pointer. It hurts like hell and I can't even twist my head to the right now.
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We'll be doing a mummification demo this Saturday.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
We'll be doing a mummification demo this Saturday.
This year I'll be the mumm-er not the mumm-ee.
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Status: Replaced SATA drive dock with IDE/SATA multiple wire adapter. Drive that was erroring all over the place now reads perfectly.
Sadly, file copies out of the VM still hang on occasion, requiring a restart of the VM and deleting the last failed file before restarting the copy. Nothing's easy. :/
Anyone need a tower server case? It's got 12 drive bays!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
We'll be doing a mummification demo this Saturday.
This
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 I just hurt my neck while installing an AAA-battery into a laser pointer. It hurts like hell and I can't even twist my head to the right now.
Is not the proper way to deal with that
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
that's all I wanted
🎶 it's like having ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife!
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone need a tower server case? It's got 12 drive bays!
Tempting, but I'm already in the red on my budget, and having an empty case will just nag me to fill it...
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Status: Windows is forcing me to notice that I have no NIC, and to discover the tiny text-that-is-not-a-button needed to continue.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon It's nothing a
littlelot of duct tape won't fix.It's a "something is not moving but it should" problem. The preferred solution is WD-40.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon It's nothing a
littlelot of duct tape won't fix.It's a "something is not moving but it should" problem. The preferred solution is WD-40.
You've never seen a mummification demo.
Filed under: I legitimately wish you could all come to the party tomorrow.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Windows is forcing me to notice that I have no NIC, and to discover the tiny text-that-is-not-a-button needed to continue.
How do you expect to sign in with your microsoft account without it ever having been on the network?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon It's nothing a
littlelot of duct tape won't fix.This sorta thing?
Probably SFW but just in case
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I legitimately wish you could all come to the party tomorrow.
I have school tomorrow
Oh, BTW.
Status: I have school tomorrow
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon It's nothing a
littlelot of duct tape won't fix.This sorta thing?
Probably SFW but just in case
It'll start like that, but the real fun will be when I cut strategic holes in the wrapping and insert things into them.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It'll start like that, but the real fun will be when I cut strategic holes in the wrapping and insert things into them.
Sounds like a party indeed...though the thought of removing a bunch of duct tape from bare skin makes me uncomfortable.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It'll start like that, but the real fun will be when I cut strategic holes in the wrapping and insert things into them.
Sounds like a party indeed...though the thought of removing a bunch of duct tape from bare skin makes me uncomfortable.
She's going to wear some old clothes she doesn't mind getting destroyed, and they will be destroyed in the process, rather than depilate* her.
* Though depilators are fun.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Though depilators are fun.
I considered buying one for a while, since I kind of absolutely loathe having any hair south of my neck, but it's usually too time consuming to do anything about on a regular basis.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Though depilators are fun.
I considered buying one for a while, since I kind of absolutely loathe having any hair south of my neck, but it's usually too time consuming to do anything about on a regular basis.
They're a bit painful.
Which is why they're fun.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
They're a bit painful.
I assume you're referring to the more manual ones. I was originally considering one of those UV-based ones (which would probably not be that painful unless I fuck it up and somehow give myself a sunburn with it) but between them being something like $400 and my I haven't been arsed to actually buy one.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I legitimately wish you could all come to the party tomorrow.
I have school tomorrow
Oh, BTW.
Status: I have school tomorrow
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I wonder if I can find a web service for chess puzzles...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Windows is forcing me to notice that I have no NIC, and to discover the tiny text-that-is-not-a-button needed to continue.
How do you expect to sign in with your microsoft account without it ever having been on the network?
I ...don't? What???
No, I expect it to say something like: oh no, we did a little fucky wucky, and no connecty decky is found! If you have a dwiver whyver, put in the disky whiskey and clickety the magic "find my dwiver whyver" button. Or, clicken the "im sory, move on" button.
Instead I get nothing but some off-to-the-side text that doesn't look like a link or any other kind of actionable element, which, when clicked leads to a "no you stupid, we needs interwebs!" screen.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
No, I expect it to say something like: oh no, we did a little fucky wucky, and no connecty decky is found! If you have a dwiver whyver, put in the disky whiskey and clickety the magic "find my dwiver whyver" button. Or, clicken the "im sory, move on" button.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
painful. Which is why they're fun.
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@error_bot define sadism
define sadomasochism
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Merriam-Webster said:
sadism
sa*dism !sA-+di-zum; \ˈsā-ˌdi-zəm, ˈsa-\ nounInternational Scientific Vocabulary, from Marquis de Sade(1888)1 :a sexual perversion in which gratification is obtained by the infliction of physical or mental pain on others (as on a love object) compare masochism
2 a :delight in cruelty
b :excessive cruelty
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@error I know what it is. I’m just not into it.
YMMDV
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Status: Coded some Javascript to open a new window with some specific params and then POST a form into it, and it not only worked on the first try, but even works in IE
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Did you sell your soul to the devil to achieve that?