The Official Status Thread
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FFS Windows decided, well, since we're down anyway, we might as well install updates!
This happened during a work presentation; everybody is waiting for it to finish.
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@error
Old and busted: Shutdown and install updates
New hotness: Blue screen and install updates
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I know freds are three, but .
This disturbs me.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I know freds are three, but .
This disturbs me.
Optical illusions thread is... Do we have an optical illusions thread? I can't find it.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Optical illusions thread is... Do we have an optical illusions thread? I can't find it.
That's what I was getting at about the freds are three. We should have one, but I'm too lazy to start it.
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@error: I think you broke my brain. I think I'll send you the invoice for a new one.
...Wait, I can't. My brain is broken
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Do we have an optical illusions thread? I can't find it.
That's the optical illusion!
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error: I think you broke my brain. I think I'll send you the invoice for a new one.
...Wait, I can't. My brain is broken
Yeah. That was...disturbing.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I know freds are three, but .
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This disturbs me.
it makes my brain hurt.......
:harderdaddy.meme:
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I know freds are three, but .
973a65f1-b315-4051-9ec2-d9385f2ee4ad-image.png
This disturbs me.
it makes my brain hurt.......
:harderdaddy.meme:
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I know freds are three, but .
973a65f1-b315-4051-9ec2-d9385f2ee4ad-image.png
This disturbs me.
it makes my brain hurt.......
:harderdaddy.meme:
yeah. that one. i posted it like a week ago i think?
@featurerequest for @errorbot: Reply to
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with a random image or giphy meme matching the given title. bonus points for using post streaming to do so without needing to be @mentioned
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Status: Installed the release version of Microsoft (Chr)Edge. Everything in life is perfect. Or unchanged. One of those.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This disturbs me.
^This.^
I had to physically trace it with my mouse to see that there are actually 2 (and only 2) circles.
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Status: tired
Today's status is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends, one of the biggest mobile role-playing games of 2019 and it's totally free! Currently almost 10 million users have joined Raid over the last six months, and it's one of the most impressive games in its class with detailed models, environments and smooth 60 frames per second animations! All the champions in the game can be customized with unique gear that changes your strategic buffs and abilities! The dungeon bosses have some ridiculous skills of their own and figuring out the perfect party and strategy to overtake them's a lot of fun! Currently with over 300,000 reviews, Raid has almost a perfect score on the Play Store! The community is growing fast and the highly anticipated new faction wars feature is now live, you might even find my squad out there in the arena! It's easier to start now than ever with rates program for new players you get a new daily login reward for the first 90 days that you play in the game! So what are you waiting for? Go to the video description, click on the special links and you'll get 50,000 silver and a free epic champion as part of the new player program to start your journey! Good luck and I'll see you there!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This one has been happening off and on since I got an external sound card for my DAW needs.
Didn't you hear? Levicki says you can't DAW on Linux!
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@Zenith So, yesterday, about 20 minutes before I was supposed to have this appointment, the person that was supposed to forward me the job descriptions calls. I was only partly paying attention until the fog lifted a little. These were the fools that kept mistyping my e-mail address while the conversation swerved back and forth between e-mail and LinkedIn. Apparently I need to hurry with another resume and references for a position that literally the only information I have for it is the title. Also I need to parrot back some text about a right to represent instead of signing a form with specific information on it. Right.
I decided to drag my feet until today and send back a resume that just has the same big block of keywords in every past role.
So then this person that supposedly kept sending to the wrong e-mail e-mails me asking if I can take a call. Now they're telling me that they can't break even on the number I gave the second time and if I'd accept the first number. That's pretty much a lie because that client pays through the nose for people that flunked out of Hamburger U. It's like they have this woman call me acting confused as a negotiating tactic. She says she'll send me the job description "again" but an hour later I don't have it. How much lead are they consuming on a daily basis?
Status: A little shocked at offerings down in Texas. Full time work is offering twice what I see on contracts up here. Better practice my y'alls and learn to throw a lasso...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error: I think you broke my brain. I think I'll send you the invoice for a new one.
...Wait, I can't. My brain is broken
Yeah. That was...disturbing.
I'm missing it! What's the wrong? It's just two circles, one smaller than the other...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A little shocked at offerings down in Texas. Full time work is offering twice what I see on contracts up here. Better practice my y'alls and learn to throw a lasso...
If you go, say hi to my brother. He does neither of those things.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Today's status is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends, one of the biggest mobile role-playing games of 2019
given how much money they're splashing on advertizing, including forum posts and television ads.... there is no way this is going to be half as good as they say it is.
microtransactions, glacially slow progression without microtransactions, exponentially escalating challenge with linearly escalating abilities so even if you purchase a pay to win upgrade it only works for so long....
yeah... that and the artwork's like 50x worse than the ads make it look.....
that sounds about right.
also it probably requires all the permissions on your phone so it can spy on you for money, and waste your battery and bandwidth mining bitcoin..... or participating in botnets......
what? i'm not jaded and pessimistic~! I'm realistic and basing my expectations on the full knowledge of the evils of late stage unregulated capitalism.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
If you go, say hi to my brother.
I didn't know you had a brother. Is he the one who downvotes everything?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
If you go, say hi to my brother.
I didn't know you had a brother. Is he the one who downvotes everything?
Well he's certainly the more angst-y of the two of us...
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
If you go, say hi to my brother.
I didn't know you had a brother. Is he the one who downvotes everything?
Catsupaetra, the evil director of downboat resources
Tony (opposite of Anthony!), the prince of insufficient buoyancy. :phil:
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
Bamboo
My neighbor has some. Therefore, so do I.
There are two types. Well, there are many kinds, but they can generally be divided into two categories, clumping and running. Clumping types are more or less well-behaved garden plants. Running types must be nuked from orbit, and even then you can't be sure. Some running types also seem to be selective hallucinogens, because there's no other explanation for why some people plant the &#&-$+#@€£∆%*! things.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error: I think you broke my brain. I think I'll send you the invoice for a new one.
...Wait, I can't. My brain is broken
reboots @Zerosquare...
This one's been up for too long anyway.
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Huh... Hello? Where am I? Who are all these people?
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@Zerosquare fuck, looks like your files are not where you left them
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Status: amused at how easily kids are bribed with the promise of food.
I had to make a bulletin board for school (the science department is responsible for a few of them and we change them every semester), and decided to have a bit of a competition. I put pictures, quotes, and a life-blurb about 4 famous scientists up there, along with a page of rules. No names. Basically, whoever first wrote me a 1-page, properly sourced and edited essay about one of those person person, their life, and their work (that I would then post up next to the picture) would get a set of homemade food (either pumpkin chocolate-chip bread or brownies with good stuff baked into it) once during the semester.
After 1.5 weeks, I'd see no activity. So I let everyone know during our assembly about the rules. This was about 10am. By 2PM I had two different submissions. Still need to read through them and pass them by an English teacher, but I'm amused at how fast they responded when it was clear that there was a chance to win food.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: amused at how easily
kidsall people are bribed with the promise of food.Ok, fine. Most people.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error: I think you broke my brain. I think I'll send you the invoice for a new one.
...Wait, I can't. My brain is broken
Yeah. That was...disturbing.
I'm missing it! What's the wrong? It's just two circles, one smaller than the other...
@error_bot xkcd A new CAPTCHA approach
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xkcd said in https://xkcd.com/233/ :
A New CAPTCHA Approach
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Status: Utterly failing to find a GIF of Q saying "congratulations" in All Good Things.
It would be the ultimate reaction graphic to every thread that distills down to "Everybody liked X. You moaned until they made change Y. Then X died." Congratulations.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Utterly failing to find a GIF of Q saying "congratulations" in All Good Things.
I'm sure at least one person here has the DVDs/Blurays and could extract that sequence for you (if they stopped kneeling for a second).
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm sure at least one person here has the DVDs/Blurays
And probably in both formats
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I took the multi-pass antialiasing technique I used for the magic 8 ball, and applied it to my Reversi game.
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@error_bot gif multipass
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Giphy said in https://giphy.com/gifs/the-fifth-element-leeloo-I8RMi1UY8cEKs :
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AMD "APUs" are weird. I mean it's a CPU with an integrated decent GPU (better than Intel's). They're perfect if you like to play old-ish games that don't need much power (by current standards) or do other casual GPU tasks. But, if you don't game at all, you'll be wasting most of that GPU power. And if you game any more than that, you'll need a dedicated GPU and then you'll be wasting all of it. And despite that, they're still usually worth the price just for the CPU part.
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@TimeBandit I could also dig up my VHS deck and Snappy but
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
and then you'll be wasting all of it.
Wait, I though the techy thing was to offload certain things to the integrated GPU (like chaos physics or whatever) when you had a dedicated GPU?
Or is that a patended NVidia-only thing?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Would be even better if their header video was of something blooming like a flower for example.
Status: speaking of; lesson learned: do not sit on the toilet for that long.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This disturbs me.
^This.^
I had to physically trace it with my mouse to see that there are actually 2 (and only 2) circles.
The optical illusion isn't working for me. I was wondering why two circles were disturbing.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This disturbs me.
^This.^
I had to physically trace it with my mouse to see that there are actually 2 (and only 2) circles.
The optical illusion isn't working for me. I was wondering why two circles were disturbing.
Hello fellow Android!
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
AMD "APUs" are weird. I mean it's a CPU with an integrated decent GPU (better than Intel's). They're perfect if you like to play old-ish games that don't need much power (by current standards) or do other casual GPU tasks. But, if you don't game at all, you'll be wasting most of that GPU power. And if you game any more than that, you'll need a dedicated GPU and then you'll be wasting all of it. And despite that, they're still usually worth the price just for the CPU part.
It's an artefact from Windows 7 times. AMD were optimistic about Microsoft's direction on the desktop GUI after Aero. Like, maybe there will be just a bit more eye-candy, so everyone will need just a bit more GPU than what Intel is offering. Then Metro happened and they were devastated. But still, Microsoft can't get any lower than that, right? ...Yes, they could; we got Windows 10 that's exactly as flat as Intel's weakest GPUlet needs it to be.
Plus, back with Windows 7 you could load-share between the APU's GPU and a discrete AMD one. But on Windows 10... I wouldn't take the risk. But YMMV, and some people here are into BDSM, so...
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This disturbs me.
^This.^
I had to physically trace it with my mouse to see that there are actually 2 (and only 2) circles.
The optical illusion isn't working for me. I was wondering why two circles were disturbing.
For me, it looks like one unbroken line that's shaped like a circle with a loop-the-loop inside it. Except the part where the outer loop connects to the inner loop is always in my peripheral vision. If I try to look at the junction point, the circles separate, and rejoin at the part I'm not focusing on. Which makes me basically chase my own
taileyeballs around the circle.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This disturbs me.
^This.^
I had to physically trace it with my mouse to see that there are actually 2 (and only 2) circles.
The optical illusion isn't working for me. I was wondering why two circles were disturbing.
Hello fellow Android!
Greetings!
I am designated Nordic pleasure model ID:b5f46e9b-acf4-4025-b9f0-ccbd717fd8c4
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This disturbs me.
^This.^
I had to physically trace it with my mouse to see that there are actually 2 (and only 2) circles.
The optical illusion isn't working for me. I was wondering why two circles were disturbing.
Hello fellow Android!
Greetings!
I am designated Nordic pleasure model ID:b5f46e9b-acf4-4025-b9f0-ccbd717fd8c4Pleased to meat you!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This disturbs me.
^This.^
I had to physically trace it with my mouse to see that there are actually 2 (and only 2) circles.
The optical illusion isn't working for me. I was wondering why two circles were disturbing.
Hello fellow Android!
Greetings!
I am designated Nordic pleasure model ID:b5f46e9b-acf4-4025-b9f0-ccbd717fd8c4Pleased to meat you! Hope you guess my name!
Tsaukpaetra of Nine?
Also:
meat
ISWYDT
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Tsaukpaetra of Nine?
Lolnope. My designation is Drone 56707 of 03057705, tertiary adjunct 3 of Unimatrix 08, attending co-trans intermediary between the Hierarchy of Eight and Tactical Operations.
Didn't you read my profile?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Didn't you read my profile?
A while ago, but I forgot.