The Official Status Thread
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Or you could just ask.
Or you could just print menus and have waiters. You know, like a normal restaurant. No, you're right, a series of non-obvious hoops (some involving smartphones/internet) for customers to jump through is much better. That'll go over super awesome in a state that's almost as old on average as Florida.
Status: I'd like a pepperoni pizza. Thanks for the battleship margaritas.
Lost my badge between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. That's always fun. Finding all sorts of other dumb stuff though. Apparently I bought a copy of the Switch remake of Link's Awakening back in January. I've almost rebought it no less than a dozen times since.
I also found a tattered printout of the that I've wanted to submit to the site for years. This was where the Indian micromanager expected me to put this other Indian's broken date parsing code in my library. Wow, it's a doozy. Not sure if I should post it.
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Status: Finished Syberia II.
It has occurred to me the name of the protagonist, Kate Walker, appropriately reflects the main gameplay element.
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Status: brain needs coffee
Wow, these notifications are loud. I should mute my speaker volume before I join this meeting so it doesn't interrupt anyone.
joins meeting using laptop speakers
Weird, no one's saying anything. Well, I guess they're still getting set up.
5 minutes pass
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I think this is called a Freudian slip. Your subconscious was trying to avoid this meeting.
Filed under: Dr. Obvious, psychologist.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
So you could just sit there until you decided to storm out because you didn't know you had to go up to the bartender to order food.
Or you could just ask.
This situation calls for aggressive, near-panicked pantomime, IMO.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
So you could just sit there until you decided to storm out because you didn't know you had to go up to the bartender to order food.
Or you could just ask.
This situation calls for aggressive, near-panicked pantomime, IMO.
It's behind you...
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
So you could just sit there until you decided to storm out because you didn't know you had to go up to the bartender to order food.
Or you could just ask.
This situation calls for aggressive, near-panicked pantomime, IMO.
It's behind you...
Almost looked, but I have an amulet vs those.
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Seriously, having to join a meeting and watch 20 people "test" your application for the first time should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Or you could just print menus and have waiters. You know, like a normal restaurant.
Sorry, coronavirus. We can't have things that multiple people touch, and we furloughed all our waitstaff, so...
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
This was where the
Indianmicromanager expected me to put this otherIndian'sperson's broken date parsing code in my library based on non-technical reasons. Wow, it's a doozy. Not sure if I should post it.Yes, definitely post it.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
the idiot expected me to put an idiot's broken date parsing code in a library based on non-technical reasons. Wow, it's a doozy.
Yes. Definitely post it.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Seriously, having to join a meeting and watch 20 people "test" your application for the first time should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
If you wrote it properly the first time, the users would intuitively get sunshine and rainbows out of it
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Seriously, having to join a meeting and watch 20 people "test" your application for the first time should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
If you wrote it properly the first time, the users would intuitively get sunshine and rainbows out of it
It'd be equally nerve-wracking regardless.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Seriously, having to join a meeting and watch 20 people "test" your application for the first time should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
If you wrote it properly the first time, the users would intuitively get sunshine and rainbows out of it
It'd be equally nerve-wracking regardless.
You got 20 people to test something?!?!?
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Seriously, having to join a meeting and watch 20 people "test" your application for the first time should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
If you wrote it properly the first time, the users would intuitively get sunshine and rainbows out of it
It'd be equally nerve-wracking regardless.
You got 20 people to test something?!?!?
Yes, but not testers. Randos.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Seriously, having to join a meeting and watch 20 people "test" your application for the first time should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
If you wrote it properly the first time, the users would intuitively get sunshine and rainbows out of it
It'd be equally nerve-wracking regardless.
You got 20 people to test something?!?!?
Yes, but not testers. Randos.
Even better, they use applications like drunken monkeys.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Seriously, having to join a meeting and watch 20 people "test" your application for the first time should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Do you mean for you, or for the testers?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Seriously, having to join a meeting and watch 20 people "test" your application for the first time should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Do you mean for you, or for the testers?
Filed under:
I hope they suffered as much as I did.
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Status: These are almost verbatim. I try really hard to only cover one or two points in two or three sentences so as not to overwhelm people. People seem to have less working memory than your average calculator 30 years ago.
(address1, April6): Is registration for 2021 open? I had two tables before the last show was cancelled.
(address2, April6): Gimme till this weekend and I'll be contacting all veteran
vendors, including you.
(address1, April24): Any updates?
(address2, April25): Do you still want your two tables this year?
(address1, April26): Yes. Is the price still $X? Your pages aren't updated with 2021 info yet. BTW, I can still only pay by check or invoice. I've attached screenshots for how to send invoices.
(address2, April26): Will start sending out invoices later this week
(address1, May12): Hate to keep pinging you but Wolf lifted restrictions this week. Should I expect to see my invoice soon?
(address2, May16): Send a PayPal payment to address1.
(address1, May16): Is there anybody else helping you run this show that I could speak with?
(address2, May16): I'm handling everything this year. Sup?
(address1, May17): I need an invoice. Payment requests don't accept credit cards. I shut down my PayPal account when I closed my eBay account.
(address2, May17): Let me know what email to send it to, and
we can send you one. It will come thru my business - Derpworld Derrigibles.
(address1, May17): Send the invoice to this address.
(address1, May24): sends a money request
(address3, May25): If you need a credit card style invoice, we can send you a credit card payment request via Authorize.net, our credit card processor.
(address1, May25): Alright, please send a credit card request via authorize.net.
(address1, June4): Any chance I could get that authorize.net invoice this weekend? If that's not possible, can I just pay in cash when I arrive on-site in August?
(address1, July6): Seems like you're still having trouble figuring out how to use PayPal so I've attached some instructions.
(address1, July10): I forwarded these instructions because I'm never sure which e-mail you're using to organize this show.
(address2, July12): It's not that, it's just that we can't send you the invoice that you're wanting. We can do it the way we're doing it with everyone else though.Last time I talked to this mook, he was sending an invoice. Was he planning to, I don't know, tell me he couldn't figure it out?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Was he planning to, I don't know, tell me he couldn't figure it out?
No, it's easier to not understand that until you give up. Much easier.
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@Gribnit That's about where I'm at. I might ask again if there's somebody else I can talk to. Or other questions to appear interested and then ultimately not show up. Honestly even if I jumped through the hoops to put money in a PayPal account to pay this idiot I don't have any confidence I'd actually have a table when I showed up.
Edit: Yeah, see, this is why. On the Facebook page, they posted a list of vendors they were still waiting for payment from back in June and I wasn't listed. He's also telling people to contact him at a different address than I've been hearing from. I'm sorry, if you're running an event like this, you pick one address and it shouldn't be your work e-mail.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Last time I talked to this mook
You know what you do to mooks in games. I suggest doing the same to him.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Last time I talked to this mook
You know what you do to mooks in games. I suggest doing the same to him.
Like in Mook Racing, Mookball, Mook Tennis, Mookers? What?
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Status: Gmail mysteriously died.
I blame A/B testing...
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@Tsaukpaetra breakpoint? Either they're doing something strange and ill-advised, or
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I blame A/B testing...
Or someone was trying to put it in the Killed By Google thread...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Last time I talked to this mook
You know what you do to mooks in games. I suggest doing the same to him.
Quick saving...
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Srsly if I could have one superpower it would be save states IRL.
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@error would an IRL save state include the state of your brain at the moment?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error would an IRL save state include the state of your brain at the moment?
Most of the time. Plus some ads. Gotta pay for it somehow.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error would an IRL save state include the state of your brain at the moment?
You seem to be hinting at a fatalistic universe with no free will and everything predetermined with the initial state at the big bang.
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@error you seem to be hinting that everything that exists in the universe was created by the big bang.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error you seem to be hinting that everything that exists in the universe was created by the big bang.
My understanding is that that was point of minimum entropy, and time has been proceeding toward maximum entropy (the "heat death" of the universe) and that time as we understand it is only meaningful in terms of entropy increasing. IOW time "starts" there.
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@error so where does the free will come from? Is it a result of the big bang too? Or is it something else that's beyond the material plane of existence? Can you assign state to this something else? If so, it makes sense to be included in the IRL save state of everything, right? If not, what would be the point of an IRL save state if it doesn't restore the world exactly as it was?
Let's say you save, punch someone to see what happens, and reload. Let's assume you have a soul or whatever and are able to remember that you just punched them so you don't do that again. Would the other person also remember that you punched them?
Status: Destroying dreams by applying a bit more critical thinking than most people are comfortable with.
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@Gąska So the first time I restore state I create a closed timelike loop that effectively is the end of time for me.
No, I don't think I'd remember, but I don't think it would always play out identically either.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
No, I don't think I'd remember, but I don't think it would always play out identically either.
Does it matter that it plays out differently if you can't remember the previous times anyway?
Anyway, as far as superpowers go, telekinesis has always been my favorite. Locked yourself out of your house? Just unlock it from inside! Hard to reach screw? Not anymore! Dropped something and you can't catch it because your hands are full? Never again!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Does it matter that it plays out differently if you can't remember the previous times anyway?
Well then from my perspective I just have amazing luck because if I don't like an outcome I commit philosophical suicide, er, I mean, reload.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyway, as far as superpowers go,
I gotta go with my-momentum-is-whatever-I-feel-like inertial control. May as well break all the physics at once, good and hard.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Does it matter that it plays out differently if you can't remember the previous times anyway?
Well then from my perspective I just have amazing luck because if I don't like an outcome I commit philosophical suicide, er, I mean, reload.
This particular conversation has never happened before, for instance.
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I've known someone with anterograde amnesia and she did get caught in loops, so maybe we are just deterministic state machines after all.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyway, as far as superpowers go, telekinesis has always been my favorite. Locked yourself out of your house? Just unlock it from inside! Hard to reach screw? Not anymore! Dropped something and you can't catch it because your hands are full? Never again!
Yes please. But I'll settle for just the telesthesia.
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Status: Foiled by spring config splatty noodles. Expecting next time to find a whole junior curled up in application.yml eating snack cakes.
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Status: New computer hardware is great.
The new mouse and short keyboard, both Corsair, arrived today. Love the new mouse. I don't have the problem where the line between single click and double click is blurred anymore. Also nice is that the two side buttons, which I could not seemingly avoid on any modern mouse, are far enough out of the way of my thumb that I probably won't hit them often. It has an odd cloth-like wire I've never seen before though. The keyboard is more of a mixed bag. As I expected, I can turn off the stupid LED backlight. But it's weird because my right hand is now resting over the edge where the number pad used to be. Maybe I'll get used to it, maybe I won't.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Gmail mysteriously died.
I blame A/B testing...
I blame the developer who was debugging Chrome's special handling of Google domains and forgot to clear their breakpoints.
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status trying to use my android store balance but I can't for some reason so I fire off an email to support and got this back.
Unfortunately, the Play balance that you want to use isn’t spendable for one of these reasons:
The currency of a gift card redeemed to your account doesn’t match your country of residency.
You‘re below the minimum eligible age.Those are possible reasons not something I can act on. I'm tempted to go to the small claims court for this.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Does it matter that it plays out differently if you can't remember the previous times anyway?
Well then from my perspective I just have amazing luck because if I don't like an outcome I commit philosophical suicide, er, I mean, reload.
Even going with "things don't always play out the same" (I see no reason to be sure about this one way or the other), what would happen if the range of possible outcomes is still restricted to something that doesn't pass your judgement of "favorable enough"?
So at one time you get lucky and have the best outcome available, but you still think "that sucks". There you go, groundhog day.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status trying to use my android store balance but I can't for some reason so I fire off an email to support and got this back.
Unfortunately, the Play balance that you want to use isn’t spendable for one of these reasons:
The currency of a gift card redeemed to your account doesn’t match your country of residency.
You‘re below the minimum eligible age.Those are possible reasons not something I can act on. I'm tempted to go to the small claims court for this.
Imagine a police officer telling you:
I'm giving you a ticket for one of these reasons
You went over the speed limit
Your rear light is broken
I don't like you
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status trying to use my android store balance but I can't for some reason so I fire off an email to support and got this back.
Unfortunately, the Play balance that you want to use isn’t spendable for one of these reasons:
The currency of a gift card redeemed to your account doesn’t match your country of residency.
You‘re below the minimum eligible age.Those are possible reasons not something I can act on. I'm tempted to go to the small claims court for this.
Imagine a police officer telling you:
I'm giving you a ticket for one of these reasons
You went over the speed limit
Your rear light is broken
I don't like youImagine when asking to clarify he gave you a link to buy police merch because that is what just happened to me. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻