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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
I'm just old, or games industry is shit?
Probably both, but also the list is kind of garbage. Ring Fit Adventure came out this year, and it's not only an original idea but very well executed. Bloodstained also came out this year. There's that Souls-like game that's set in Japan. But no, none of those are good enough for the list. Instead, have an iOS Arcade matching puzzle, a walking simulator or two, and a goat simulator simulator.
Baba Is You is an interesting and very outside-the-box puzzle concept. I enjoyed the free-to-play original version, but it was far too short. Apparently the version on Steam is a lot longer and has a few more words, sprites, and environments.
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@djls45 From what I've seen, Baba Is You does sound like a good, fresh idea, and I had no problem with its inclusion on the list.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Vixen But then none of the ordnance will work and the manufacturer will be safe. Checkmate militarists
well if the artilery doesn't work, we'll try the tanks. and if they don't work we'll storm the building with our demolition team, and if they can't bring the building down we'll have our jet fighters drop guided bombs on it, and if that doesn't work we'll have our bomber drop bigger bombs on it, and if that doesn't work we'll.... we're not sure what we'll try next, but it'll be nastier! maybe we'll get some chlorine triflouride and dump a whole bunch of it on your roof. That should do some damage!
The ultimate option is using the CEO for testing whether the infantry have sharp bayonets. That really doesn't need a lot of expensive ordinance to get right.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
The ultimate option is using the CEO for testing whether the infantry have sharp bayonets.
Only one company would dare sell products to an army like that:
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BWAHAHAHAHA
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What’s wrong with their IT that these idiots even have the permission to do that?!
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@topspin The first rule of telecoms is that telecoms are always the worst. This applies to everything, including their IT.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
BWAHAHAHAHA
Somebody in the comment section of that article remarked that it might have been more fun if they somehow redirected to the call center where this monstrous thing lives: (Noise warning for headphone users if you try to play the sample at the end of the article - turn that volume down)
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
turn that volume down
Ah, yes, Soundcloud, that embeds a player with no volume control. I remember it.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@topspin The first rule of telecoms is that telecoms are always the worst. This applies to everything, including their IT.
My experience when I was in telco was that people tended to be convinced that old telco tech was far superior to the IT tech, so no need to bother with learning to use the IT stuff.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@topspin The first rule of telecoms is that telecoms are always the worst. This applies to everything, including their IT.
My experience when I was in telco was that people tended to be convinced that old telco tech was far superior to the IT tech, so no need to bother with learning to use the IT stuff.
Can confirm.
Source: worked for a WISP that got bought by their telco competitors, said telco proceeded to spend over $1M on AdTran PRI/Fiber chassis routerishes (plus having to train us all on everything) in order to expand our VoIP offerings, rather than learn anything about the Asterisk system we had set up on Cisco / MikroTik network hardware (with the implication that our core network was going to fully transition to the AdTran stuff).
Never did I think I would see stuff with a higher cost to performance ratio than Cisco gear.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
rather than learn anything about the Asterisk system
Sounds like the right choice to me.
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@HardwareGeek
Well, OK, you're not wrong.Though I'm still a little proud of the MySQL-based approach I had for multitenancy that was only like 75% stolen code and had 0% GUI other than MySQLAdmin.
But I've often said in my current job... Asterisk would be a way better phone system than Skype, except for the supportability problem.
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@JBert It's a platform game where you don't actually jump. Instead you can only invert gravity.
"VVVVVV" is, I assume, a reference to the spikes usually present in such games (including this one).
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@JBert
No mention of the re-do of the armored vehicles that left ample room for the drivers?
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The group called the ad “irresponsible and tasteless.”
“It is extremely destructive and damaging to impressionable children viewing the commercial. We all know children repeat what they hear,” they continued.
One Million Moms called for the public to sign a petition urging Burger King to cancel the commercial, “or at the very least, edit out the cuss word immediately.”
This isn’t the first time the group, which claims its mission is to “stop the exploitation of our children,” has used its platform to call out a commercial it does not agree with.
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One man, completely stunned by the Impossible Whopper’s tastiness says: “Damn, that’s good.”
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The Forester Ultimate Customized Kit Special edition, or F.U.C…well, you get it ... is a customized version of the compact SUV on display at the Singapore Motorshow.
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With house apparently meaning some kind of temporary structure made of a light frame covered by tarps, which then were likely set ablaze by a cinder which emerged from the smokestack...
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Inadvertent advertising gets rewarded:
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@anonymous234 Come on, they got away with much worse than just a d-word.
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@Boner Understandable. Styrofoam is flammable.
burnt to a crisp
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
With house apparently meaning some kind of temporary structure made of a light frame covered by tarps
Having watched Discovery/whatever/etc, I'd have to agree with that...
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It's easy to spend money when it's not your money
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
The group called the ad “irresponsible and tasteless.”
“It is extremely destructive and damaging to impressionable children viewing the commercial. We all know children repeat what they hear,” they continued.
One Million Moms called for the public to sign a petition urging Burger King to cancel the commercial, “or at the very least, edit out the cuss word immediately.”
This isn’t the first time the group, which claims its mission is to “stop the exploitation of our children,” has used its platform to call out a commercial it does not agree with.
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One man, completely stunned by the Impossible Whopper’s tastiness says: “Damn, that’s good.”God I love one million moms.
They rarely get more than like ten thousand signatures to anything. I wish I had thought of starting an advocacy organization called "Every Programmer" or something. "All The Furries Who Make The Internet Go on line two, sir."
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
It's easy to spend money when it's not your money
He fully expects to make it back in tourism revenue. Monarchies are tourist attractions, like sports teams, CISOs, and Kardashians.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
Kardashians
I'll say they're a tourist attraction! would totally watch!
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
Monarchies are tourist attractions, like sports teams, CISOs, and Kardashians
The monarchy is literally the Kardashians of the UK, from the way people treat them.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
The monarchy is literally the Kardashians of the UK, from the way people treat them.
Honestly I think it's much smarter than having Kardashians. You get a tourism industry either way but if it's hereditary you don't have to worry about people spending all their money trying to become 'the next kardashians', and you pre-empt any competition that might split the tourism dollars across several sites.
Like this guy with that hat? He's a volunteer!
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
You get a tourism industry either way
We already have one
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
We already have one
Did you see Tony up there? Patriotic HAT.
Unless Trudeau himself shows up in a maple leaf helmet, you ain't got shit.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
Unless Trudeau himself shows up in a maple leaf helmet
Something like that?
you ain't got shit.
We have plenty of white shit, does that count?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
Unless Trudeau himself shows up in a maple leaf helmet
Something like that?
Davy crockett belongs to Texas now, but what do I care? Mess with Texas if you want. They're not all that.
you ain't got shit.
We have plenty of white shit, does that count?
Don't talk about your mother that way!
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@TimeBandit It does seem to be an odd sorting method though:
The search engines shown to new users will vary for each EU country, with the selection decided based on a “fourth-price” auction system. Each provider tells Google how much it’s willing to pay the company every time a user selects their product as the default. The three highest bidders are then shown to users, with the chosen provider paying Google the amount offered by the fourth-highest bid. This process is repeated every four months.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit It does seem to be an odd sorting method though:
The search engines shown to new users will vary for each EU country, with the selection decided based on a “fourth-price” auction system. Each provider tells Google how much it’s willing to pay the company every time a user selects their product as the default. The three highest bidders are then shown to users, with the chosen provider paying Google the amount offered by the fourth-highest bid. This process is repeated every four months.
It’s not stable from a game theoretical point of view, but if you knew your competitors are reasonable you could jump from 3rd to 1st place by offering <Dr Evil>1 trillion dollars.</Dr Evil>
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Do we need a Texas Man thread?
Edit: BTW, I've been here long enough to start learning a few things about Texas. Buda (allegedly) describes itself as "south of weird; north of boring." But it seems they have an adequate local supply of weird.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
Monarchies are tourist attractions, like sports teams, CISOs, and Kardashians
Chief Information Security Officers are tourist attractions?
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California
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@JBert
Standard sealed bid auction practice. By going "first loser" price, the theory is that each participant will in fact bid their actual valuation of the good, instead of shaving their bid to avoid the "winner's curse" of effectively bidding against themselves.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
Monarchies are tourist attractions, like sports teams, CISOs, and Kardashians
The monarchy is literally the Kardashians of the UK, from the way people treat them.
I think there might be some slight differences in the level of decorum expected from each.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@JBert
Standard sealed bid auction practice. By going "first loser" price, the theory is that each participant will in fact bid their actual valuation of the good, instead of shaving their bid to avoid the "winner's curse" of effectively bidding against themselves.Known as a "Vickrey auction".