The Official Status Thread
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
For this purpose, the last thing I want is another cloud app.
Oh no! Not to saying that attempting to use said shitty app would have been the right choice either.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
status in Ieper waiting for the last post
Will standing on my designated dot with a mask
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@Zecc
The Last Post has sounded daily at the Menen Gate in Ieper since 1928 in honor of the soldiers of WW1. If you are in these parts it's a recommended stop.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiWL2BCfhGg&ab_channel=EduardCabuy
but local city covid regulations has you standing on a dot (thus keeping distance) and wearing a mask ... the sanity of these rules is something for the ... let's just say that if you where not on time for the event you had to wait outside of the area with dots ... so you had a bunch of people held up there by police without distance or mask obligation
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@Luhmann And why was Will standing on your designated spot?
Admittedly my reading comprehension wasn't stellar there , but missing capital letters and word in your post didn't help.
Thanks for the clarification.
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Status, Saturday: was best man at my friend's wedding.
Status, yesterday: both my social interaction and my physical batteries were about as dead as my phone's battery:
"Running on 1% remaining for the last 8 hours, but still hanging in there" makes for an incredibly apt metaphor about how I felt about it in the end. Basically dead, but last man standing. After over a year of not leaving my desk, wouldn't have believed I get back pain from just, well, standing up all day.
Status, today: still tired, back at work and having to deal with stupid shit like writing project reports, inviting customers to meetings, and proof reading paper drafts.
On a bit of holiday starting Wednesday though.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status, Saturday: was best man at my friend's wedding.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
If you continue to pursue delivery information, you are going to destroy reality.
Considering what reality currently is, @HardwareGeek please continue pursuing that information.
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@dcon But reality in TX is not nearly as bad as your reality in CA, for mostly that I won't post here, so I'm not quite as inclined to do that, although I certainly understand your reasoning.
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
you are going to destroy reality.
That's coming from you.
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Status: not actually depressed any more, but left feeling what I can only describe as ennui.
I guess it's an improvement.
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Status: Beat Slay the Spire with the dumbest deck imaginable. Played as Watcher, and by the end my only form of attack was Sands of Time. Not one, not two, but THREE Sands of Time. And my only form of defense was basic Defend cards + Like Water. According to run history, the final fight took 22 turns (for comparison, usually it takes no more than 10). I can't believe I even reached the boss with this tactic, much less beat it. By the end of the fight, only one SoT reached 0 cost.
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Status: god help me, I actually want to contribute to a large open-source project. Let’s see if the motivation holds long enough to actually produce a local build, let alone implement what I want :/
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Let’s see if the motivation holds long enough to actually produce a local build, let alone implement what I want :/
Huh, that reminds me I also wanted to do that... Let me check... apparently last October.
I got as far as building it locally and patching their Shlemiel stuff, but never signed up for the 11 step process of contributing something. I still have the simpler patches to the python bridge laying around somewhere but I can't find the rest of the patches I made to the c++ side, so all these performance improvements will be "lost in time like tears in rain."
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
I actually want to contribute to a large open-source project.
Ugh, it's a huge C++ monster. They tend to be impenetrable at best…
Let’s see if the motivation holds long enough to actually produce a local build, let alone implement what I want :/
Yep. I try to avoid contributing to any project written in C++ if I can help it precisely because building the project tends to be annoying as fuck.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Ugh, it's a huge C++ monster. They tend to be impenetrable at best…
Not to worry, they say they refactor it so much that they stopped trying to keep the documentation current!
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@Gąska wow. That doesn't even sound viable. Well done.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
building the project tends to be annoying as fuck.
I'm convinced maketools is an elaborate troll.
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Status: Spent all afternoon fiddling with a static HTML document which takes 30 seconds to regenerate.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
building the project tends to be annoying as fuck.
I'm convinced maketools is an elaborate troll.
So the real question is, which @boomzilla wrote make
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
building the project tends to be annoying as fuck.
I'm convinced maketools is an elaborate troll.
So the real question is, which @boomzilla wrote make
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@error_bot smbc nothingverse
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Number One Dad
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Status; hooray!
Wait... What?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status; hooray!
Wait... What?
Your package plan phone is coming in a new phone package plan. What's not to get?
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Status: My epidermis is not only showing, it's peeling off in large swaths. Got the sunburn almost 2 weeks ago, and now it's finally peeling. And itching. The stupid heat doesn't help with comfort either. Or the nasty grass with its filthy pollen.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait... What?
I have so many questions.
Forget the 5G, apparently AT&T is convinced I don't even have a 3G phone!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait... What?
I have so many questions.
Forget the 5G, apparently AT&T is convinced I don't even have a 3G phone!
I think their plan is to replace it. With, some other phone, presumably. Beyond this all is unclear.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I have so many questions.
@Tsaukpaetra tends to have that effect, yeah.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Got the sunburn almost 2 weeks ago, and now it's finally peeling.
Sounds like your biological processes are really laggy. Do you want me to reboot you, to see if that fixes the problem?
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@Tsaukpaetra Your phone doesn't support the LTE bands the Death Star is using, and since they're turning off 3G and below networks later this year they're sending you a new phone. They're trying to be cutesy by saying that "your" phone is in the incoming package instead of your hand. It... falls flat.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
It... falls flat.
that tends to break them, I hope not!
I'm really interested in what kind of flipping phone the end up sending me.
And whether they'll deactivate my actually-supports-4G one I'm using now...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm really interested in what kind of flipping phone the end up sending me.
None. Probably not folding either.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Your phone doesn't support the LTE bands the Death Star is using, and since they're turning off 3G and below networks later this year they're sending you a new phone. They're trying to be cutesy by saying that "your" phone is in the incoming package instead of your hand. It... falls flat.
If that's indeed what they wanted to say, it was among the most confusing ways to say it imaginable.
But I still have questions about the stuff before. Like, the previous "unlimited extreme" plan apparently used to be not quite unlimited and just got
even more unlimitedbetter, with now up to 40GB of data. Which, I guess, is a higher limit than the previous unlimited limit?!This sounds like it's coming directly out of a no quack generator. Their marketing drones need to be shot into the sun.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Their marketing drones need to be shot into the sun.
Not just theirs.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
with now up to 40GB of data. Which, I guess, is a higher limit than the previous unlimited limit?!
The 40GB is for hotspot tethering, it's unlimited otherwise. At least, that's what it seems like it means?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
At least, that's what it seems like it means?
good. GOOD. (steeples fingers)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
She/they and he/they are occasionally used by non-binary people.
But what he was talking about would be more like "she/their" or "they/her".
And as much as I can accept that you name/dress/feel whatever you want, I'm not going to remember that you're using female singular for subject pronouns, male singular for object pronouns, and plural for possessive pronouns. Heck, chances are I can't even remember your name, anyway.
I just saw someone on twatter () using "she/they/he", so actually different subject pronouns instead of subject/object/possessive. I'm not sure if I've never seen this before, but it's certainly less frequent to see it, enough that it was noticeable to me. On the one hand, this makes a lot more sense, on the other it's kind of exhaustive so it also feels like not actually providing any more information than just not putting it there.
Anyways, just an aside I noticed when I googled that person after watching their youtube video why The Rise of Skywalker "is an embarrasment". Which is an 80 minute long rant about how fucking dumb this trainwreck of a movie is, and I enjoyed every single minute of this more than anything in the TRoS. Not that the content of the clip is actually that great, or worth to be that long, but it's a funny blakeyrant that felt like a good way to vent how incredibly pissed I still am at this movie.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I just saw someone on twatter () using "she/they/he", so actually different subject pronouns instead of subject/object/possessive. I'm not sure if I've never seen this before, but it's certainly less frequent to see it, enough that it was noticeable to me.
Yeah, I've seen similar before but it's less frequent.
There's a degree to which the specific format doesn't necessarily matter as whichever one it is, it's clear (to people who know about the whole pronoun 'thing') that the person is specifying their pronouns.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm really interested in what kind of flipping phone the end up sending me.
None. Probably not folding either.
And...
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And whether they'll deactivate my actually-supports-4G one I'm using now...
... they'll turn that off too. Of course.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm really interested in what kind of flipping phone the end up sending me.
None. Probably not folding either.
And...
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And whether they'll deactivate my actually-supports-4G one I'm using now...
... they'll turn that off too. Of course.
You should have called it!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I just saw someone on twatter using "she/they/he"
Anyone asking me to use those - well, it'll last for that session of that conversation. If I can't remember people's names, how the hell can I remember arbitrary pronouns!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You should have called it!
I'd upvote that post, but I'd rather give it a instead...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyways, just an aside I noticed when I googled that person after watching their youtube video why The Rise of Skywalker "is an embarrasment". Which is an 80 minute long rant about how fucking dumb this trainwreck of a movie is, and I enjoyed every single minute of this more than anything in the TRoS.
Not surprising - Mr Plinkett's reviews are a lot more fun than the prequels. Possibly more fun than entirety of SW.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I just saw someone on twatter using "she/they/he"
Anyone asking me to use those - well, it'll last for that session of that conversation. If I can't remember people's names, how the hell can I remember arbitrary pronouns!
Fortunately they're specifying all 3 of them, so you're likely to accidentally get the pronouns right once you've forgotten
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyways, just an aside I noticed when I googled that person after watching their youtube video why The Rise of Skywalker "is an embarrasment". Which is an 80 minute long rant about how fucking dumb this trainwreck of a movie is, and I enjoyed every single minute of this more than anything in the TRoS.
Not surprising - Mr Plinkett's reviews are a lot more fun than the prequels. Possibly more fun than entirety of SW.
Yeah, but unlike most people I actually enjoyed the prequels, for all their faults. But Ep. 9 was so terrible, I'm not sure even Michael Bay could've made a worse movie out of it. Or Uwe Boll, for that matter.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyways, just an aside I noticed when I googled that person after watching their youtube video why The Rise of Skywalker "is an embarrasment". Which is an 80 minute long rant about how fucking dumb this trainwreck of a movie is, and I enjoyed every single minute of this more than anything in the TRoS.
Not surprising - Mr Plinkett's reviews are a lot more fun than the prequels. Possibly more fun than entirety of SW.
Yeah, but unlike most people I actually enjoyed the prequels, for all their faults. But Ep. 9 was so terrible, I'm not sure even Michael Bay could've made a worse movie out of it. Or Uwe Boll, for that matter.
I kind of liked first two prequels the first time I saw them. But they proved to be unwatchable for me ever since. The third one I hated even in the cinema (and I love watching movies on big screen, even bad ones).
Last one I saw in a theater was Rogue One. It was so terrible I would prefer to wait for my friends in the lobby, doing nothing, than watch it with them.
I see no point in watching anything SW from then on.
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
Last one I saw in a theater was Rogue One. It was so terrible I would prefer to wait for my friends in the lobby, doing nothing, than watch it with them.
I see no point in watching anything SW from then on.Well then, I'm afraid to mention that Rogue One > Force Awakens > root canal treatment > Last Jedi > hammering a rusty nail in your eye > Rise of Skywalker.
But good choice not watching the later ones.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Rogue One > Force Awakens > root canal treatment > Last Jedi > hammering a rusty nail in your eye > Rise of Skywalker.
I have no opinion on the movies (I haven't seen them), but I find your post amusing.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
Last one I saw in a theater was Rogue One. It was so terrible I would prefer to wait for my friends in the lobby, doing nothing, than watch it with them.
I see no point in watching anything SW from then on.Well then, I'm afraid to mention that Rogue One > Force Awakens > root canal treatment > Last Jedi > hammering a rusty nail in your eye > Rise of Skywalker.
Ah, but root canal is bearable with enough anesthetics. For those movies nothing short of narcosis is enough.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
it's clear (to people who know about the whole pronoun 'thing') that the person is specifying their pronouns.
How dare you?