The Official Status Thread
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I have a UPS on lots of stuff that it is not entirely necessary for here. This last summer we had our power knocked out for several hours (high winds, tree limbs and overhead utilities) and when my neighbor came over I invited him in to watch a movie. I can keep everything on the network (except the servers) up for ~1.5 hours. The TV in the living room will stay up for a long ass time. 3 hours I would guess? Maybe more?
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Status: Playing CoD, eating Doritos, drinking Mountain Dew while wearing my Gears of War shirt.
TODAY I AM A STEREOTYPE!
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Only if you're also screaming "Noob!" and bunch of racist, sexist and homophobic slurs into your voice chat.
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I don't plug in the headset. Generally.
Tempted to use the female avatars and see what happens.
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I don't plug in the headset. Generally.
Fun fact, in my Halo 3 days my gamertag was 80% avoided due to trash talking. I rarely used a headset, and when I did I was always in party chat with friends so nobody could hear my anyway.
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By God, it feels like it's been weeks since I punched anyone.
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Tempted to use the female avatars and see what happens
"Shwo us ur boobs!!!11!!1"
"You're not a girl."
Plus, rape and or death threats if you turn out to actually be able to play the game.
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I tried it for 3-4 rounds, the result is: everybody wears so much armor nobody even noticed.
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Status: Apparently I registered a Twitter account years ago and forgot about it. It just got hijacked and I got a flurry of emails about it, but was able to reset my password, unfollow everyone, and delete all the spam tweets. Back to forgetting I have a Twitter account.
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Tempted to use the female avatars and see what happens.
In Skyrim, you would not even be safe from being harassed by NPCs.
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Free Internet on a browser that works about as well as IE 2.0.
I don't surf the internet on my Kobo but the connection is handy for syncing with Pocket
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Re headset discussion:
You know, I thought most of this stuff was exaggeration most of the time. Then someone linked me this:
What in the holy mother of... These are what we consider gamers these days? These guys actually COMPETE on CHAMPIONSHIPS?
Where do I turn my gamer card in? I mean, I don't play much due to the lack of time anyway, but if I also have to be associated with this... Say what you want of EVE Online (a.k.a. Excel in space) crowd, they (and formerly me) might be a special kind of uber nerd, but freaking hell, at least they are (mostly) SANE.
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Status: and the storm cleared up pretty much instantly, and now it's blue skies. Weird.
You must be new on this coast.
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WTF are you talking about, I was born in Bellingham.
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Over here across the river, we all know that our weather comes from an RNG.
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But that's the thing. COD is a game designed for normal people, whereas EVE is designed for 'nerds' or 'real gamers'. It's interesting where the bad behavior gamers are famous for mostly lies.
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You know, I thought most of this stuff was exaggeration most of the time.
It's part of the reason I flat-out quit playing FPSes: I couldn't get players who were mature enough to do something as simple as capturing a B*****ming flag, never mind position themselves properly, focus fire, and communicate!
Where do I turn my gamer card in?
Right over there.
Say what you want of EVE Online (a.k.a. Excel in space) crowd, they (and formerly me) might be a special kind of uber nerd, but freaking hell, at least they are (mostly) SANE.
I cannot like this enough. It's strange that Eve gets the rap it does for perceived hostility to new players, when that "toxic behavior" is mild trolling/chain-yanking and blowing your ingame stuff up, not the kind of toxic trash-talking, SWATting, packet-spamming garbage (and while we're at it, don't forget the "I'm going to come to your house and..." crowd!) that characterizes seafood-land, or the entire MOBA landscape for that matter.Heck, Eve players, as a general rule, are A-OK with in-person meetups. Can you say that about most other online game communities?
But that's the thing. COD is a game designed for normal people, whereas EVE is designed for 'nerds' or 'real gamers'. It's interesting where the bad behavior gamers are infamous for mostly lies.
PDFY, for starters. As I said above, I find it hard to understand how some folks say the Eve community is "toxic" when it's downright tame compared to the filth that grows in the land of the airport shrimp cocktail...
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The moba crowd is funny. DOTA players think LoL is bad, because Valve rewards you for being nice. 5 years ago, they were the most toxic community possible, and tended to ban people for even considering playing without a proper team (in an engine where things like 'teams' were nonexistant). Now any of us who have ever played HoN just laugh at them all, because HoN specifically lets you taunt people when you kill them, and very low moderation. Trolls everywhere, and people who can't take it end up in LoL.
(I hardly play, but it's always fun watching the rage fly in my friend's matches)
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As I said above, I find it hard to understand how some folks say the Eve community is "toxic" when it's downright tame compared to the filth that grows in the land of the airport shrimp cocktail...
Especially when hearing people like these swear at their own teammates while remembering all the "GG"s and friendly banter with my opponents I had in local after the battle.
Except with Goons of course. Goons are born trolls. Hell, they'd fit right in here, if only their smack was a tad more mature.
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Trying to figure out if the woman in the video that inspired this video is carrying a tazer in each hand.
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They are microphones. The camera was in her boyfriend's backpack, who was walking in front of her.
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That makes sense. Pity, they probably should have been tazers given some of the guys in that video, like the one that silently walked beside her for 5+ minutes.
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Yeah, that one was a creep. A good portion of them were just guys trying to strike up conversation with a beautiful woman though, by saying hello. I have to believe that these are the worst incidents that they came up with, in 10 hours of walking through NYC. A couple of creepy fellows, and a lot of guys just trying to talk to a girl with a great rack. Not exactly earth-shattering.
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True.
I don't know NYC so I can't say if the neighborhoods they picked were the kind where you might expect that sort of thing or not either. There are certainly parts of my town where you could expect to get more like the creepy ones than not if you did a similar experiment.
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I have spent some time in NYC. It depends on the area. If they had walked around Manhattan for 10 hours they would not have gotten anything because it is mostly business people sending emails on their phones who never make eye contact with anyone while walking. Do the same thing in Brooklyn or Queens and all bets are off. There are some interesting folks in Brooklyn...
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Of course, the more feministically inclined would make the point that a beautiful woman is not there for you to try to talk to and that saying hello is harassment.
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So injuries from walking into lampposts or out into traffic are a common thing then.
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Of course, the more feministically inclined would make the point that a beautiful woman is not there for you to try to talk to and that saying hello is harassment.
Yeah, well, fuck them. Relationships start with attraction which leads to conversation. I love my wife, and she is an immensely intelligent and driven woman. That is why I love her. But we met because she is gorgeous and I wanted to have sex with her, so I went and talked to her.
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Ah yes the hypocrisy of "don't talk to me unless I want you to". They never seem to complain when the guy who says hello is someone they're interested in talking to.
My personal favourite is still "I'm not dressed this way for you to look at me". That's fair enough but if you're going to go out in public dressed like that, people are going to look. One tries not to stare since it's crass or drool (unless it's been a long day) but don't expect no looks. There are cultures in the world where the women dress provocatively because they want people to look at them. See "Clubwear".
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Status: limping along on a 2007-era Packard Bell laptop that started out with Vista (basic) and was reinstalled with XP before I got it.
Fortunately only doing PHP/WampServer stuff but egad this is painful. Trying to do much here is just borderline futile. I can get the odd post reply in but anything of substance like PMs that I owe replies to... ugh. I already gave up trying to read them once
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"I'm not dressed this way for you to look at me"
Yeah, well, I like breasts and I can easily see yours so it is hard not to look.
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I got tired of a pizza place the next town over not caring that their customers were always calling me, so I started taking orders.
In college, our number was one digit different than Domino's. We got a lot of wrong numbers. What happened depended on the mood of the person answering the phone: Tell them the right number, take the order1 and call it into the right number for them, take the order and do nothing, or take the order and call it in with ... modifications. The one I remember is asking Domino's to spell out "Happy Birthday" with jalapeños (because Domino's doesn't have anchovies).
1I don't know whether Domino's takes credit cards over the phone, but they didn't then, so there was no financial information involved.
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But it didn't last long.
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@Intercourse said:
Yeah, well, fuck them. Relationships start with attraction which leads to conversation. I love my wife, and she is an immensely intelligent and driven woman. That is why I love her. But we met because she is gorgeous and I wanted to have sex with her, so I went and talked to her.
My new biography.
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Felt sick of my job yesterday, then sick from the food poisoning of lunch. Played basketball after work, then softball.
Called out sick from work, 50/50 because of the hatred of my job, and from being sick.
Around noon, it was 10/90, my body did not feel well. It was like those video games where someone is "poisoned", and their body turns green. That's how I felt today.
Dropped my wife off for a flight to Vegas for a long weekend without her wedding ring, let's see how that goes.
Drinking vanilla vodka and orange soda pop. Creamsicles are delicious.
Watching Jeff Beck play with a hippie permed chick on bass and a guy that has a windowless panel van on drums.
It's been a long week.
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Status: cold.
The ventilation system is acting up again, and some bastard sprayed me on my way to work. Pants wet. Week terrible. No motivation whatsoever.
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Here, have a new pair of :pants:.
... No emoji for that, either? REALLY?
Oh right, we do have
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Status: cold.
The ventilation system is acting up again, and some bastard sprayed me on my way to work. Pants wet. Week terrible. No motivation whatsoever.
On the upside, it's 20 degrees outside. In mid-November.
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On the upside, it's 20 degrees outside. In mid-November.
Not over here it ain't. My conky claims it's 13, which is not bad, but still, combined with this weather it's pretty miserable.
Also, I broke Discourse, again:
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It was +5°C on my way to work.
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And now I can't edit my post above, it just keep returning me to the editor on reload.
Damn you @discoursebot are you broken again or just hate me?
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+9°C but too much rain & wind
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Status: broke Asterisk in some weird way. Keeps asking my softphones for SRTP even though I turned it off. Regular phones work. Confusion abound.
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; IMPORTANT NOTE: The applicationmap is not intended to be used for all Asterisk ; applications. When applications are used in extensions.conf, they are executed ; by the PBX core. In this case, these applications are executed outside of the ; PBX core, so it does *not* make sense to use any application which has any ; concept of dialplan flow. Examples of this would be things like Macro, Goto, ; Background, WaitExten, and many more.No Goto? So, in Asterisk terms, no AEL macros?
cracks knuckles
Status: Extreme ugly hack mode: ON!
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@Intercourse said:
In Skyrim, you would not even be safe from being harassed by NPCs.
Not going to watch, but could you point me to an article detailing the racial makeup of the harassers?
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seafood-land
land of the airport shrimp cocktail...
Could someone clarify the reference here, please, for a guy who mostly plays solitaire?
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Status: IT WORKS! It's silly and hacky, but it works. Needs some error checking and algorithm tuning, but it will do.
Considering putting "Can make Asterisk do whatever the fuck I please" on my CV under skills if I go job hunting again...
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Could someone clarify the reference here, please, for a guy who mostly plays solitaire?
First one: Call of Duty -> CoD -> cod -> seafood.
Second one is a cross between the first reference and the literal airport-lounge shrimp cocktail experience that Alton Brown sang about on his Edible Inevitable tour...
(FYI: his live show is fantastic, don't pass up a chance to go to it.)
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On the upside, it's 20 degrees outside. In mid-November.
Sounds fucking cold. Fortunately, we're in the 50s / 60s.
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