The Official First World Problems Thread™
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The only game I have with no borderless windowed mode is Skyrim, and it doesn't have a minimap.
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Please, tell me more about this 2240 Mbps plan you have.
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Look, blakeyjunior, if it takes me under a minute, or even 30 seconds, it isn't a download worth mentioning. Apparently it takes you considerably longer than that?
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If Comcast's cheapest plan is over 30Mbps, they must have pretty expensive plans.
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Yes, I'd like to switch away from them, but a couple MB/s is pretty nice for the cheapest thing available at my apartment complex.
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nvidia drivers takes multiple minutes for me to and I've got 50/50 Mpbs. And then the geforce experience goes on to declare an error and invalidate the download.
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The only game I have with no borderless windowed mode is Skyrim, and it doesn't have a minimap.
WoW has a borderless windowed mode and a minimap.
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You have the genre correct, but the publisher wrong.
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nvidia drivers takes multiple minutes for me to and I've got 50/50 Mpbs.
My phone can download them faster than that.
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You have the genre correct, but the publisher wrong.
No: I was making a suggestion in case you wanted another game that fit those criteria.
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I prefer not having to pay money to have a job.
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FWP: no WiFi signal on the crapper
FWP: Lights in the bathroom are on a motion sensor that auto-shuts off after 5 minutes. If you've got intestinal issues, finish up in the dark!
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@PleegWat said:
nvidia drivers takes multiple minutes for me to and I've got 50/50 Mpbs.
My phone can download them faster than that.
Yes, but can nVidia's servers upload faster than that under peak load? I would hope so, but...
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FWP: Lights in the bathroom are on a motion sensor that auto-shuts off after 5 minutes. If you've got intestinal issues, finish up in the dark!
Two words: selfie stick.
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@FrostCat said:
@PleegWat said:
nvidia drivers takes multiple minutes for me to and I've got 50/50 Mpbs.
My phone can download them faster than that.
Yes, but can nVidia's servers upload faster than that under peak load? I would hope so, but...
That's what I was implying. I might have been exaggerating a bit but it doesn't fill up my line.
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I prefer not having to pay money to have a job.
And I hope you appreciate how fucking long it took to find that post using Discourse's shitty search options.
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IIRC Guild Wars doesn't have a subscription fee, so it doesn't quite fit the pay money for a job thing.
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AND YET it does have purchase price.
If it was a World of Tanks or Mechwarrior Online screenshot, there is reason to doubt he paid money. BUT NAY! It is a Guild Wars 2 screenshot and SURELY MONEY HAS PASSED-HANDS!!!
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FWP: @blakeyrat can't admit when he's wrong.
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NAY! For Blakeyrat is NEVER wrong.
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@blakeyrat said:
NAY
@accalia, I think you broke him.
ick! no. i wouldn't touch him if you paid me
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FWP: no WiFi signal on the crapper
I would be pulling cable as soon as I was done pinching a loaf.
Not even kidding. I would have to have service there.
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I prefer not having to pay money to have a job.
So you're not a fan of "Eve: Online"?
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FWP: Lights in the bathroom are on a motion sensor that auto-shuts off after 5 minutes. If you've got intestinal issues, finish up in the dark!
My BIL is a pharmacist for one of the big chains. He was telling me how their thermostats are now controlled remotely by corporate and the pharmacy gets hot behind the counter.
Me: "Is the temperature sensor behind the counter?"
Him: "Yeah, but there are no controls on it. It is just a sensor."
Me: "You don't need controls, just increase the temperature of the sensor so that it thinks it is hotter than it is so it feeds you more cool air. Tape a box over it with a small heat source inside."
So, I guess what I am saying is...you need a quadcopter. Not wanting to shit in the dark seems like a damned good reason to buy one.
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@Polygeekery said:
pulling cable
Is that a euphemism for some gay sex act?
Didn't think about it during the first read, but now that you mention it, "laying a cable" is a swedish colloquialism for taking a dump. Don't want to know what the reverse of that would mean, though.
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Some minor radioactive source?
Anything with that much decay heat doesn't count as minor!
To get 1 Watt which should be enough to raise a small plastic box a few degrees you'd need half a kilo of Plutonium. Giving a whopping 1.19 x 1012 disintegrations per second.
Edit: I thought we had MathJax?
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10% of critical mass. Sounds pretty minor to me
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Didn't think about it during the first read, but now that you mention it, "laying a cable" is a swedish colloquialism for taking a dump. Don't want to know what the reverse of that would mean, though.
But...now that you foreign bastards mention it, "pulling cable" does involve using ladders, rope and lube...
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"I'm here to snake your drain pipe"
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"I'm here to snake your drain pipe"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6caV3JpsqHI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhiw5DLeytQ
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I just noticed that I've got a few “Google Chrome Helper” processes running. 75 of them to be exact…
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FWP: finding out that the second crapper in the holiday house has excellent WiFi signal! flush
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Freedom can be very difficult to live with. You can do anything you like. But what is it you want to do? And with whom? And what do they think of you now that you're extremely wealthy?
Persson explained: "In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor."
He added: "Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead."
(missing paragraph space courtesy of Discourse)
I honestly feel for the guy and hope he finds his way soon.
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Oh boo hoo.
Here's a tip for [mb]illonaires who feel sad: find a smart person (or a group of smart people) and tell them "I'll pay you $10,000 for every day of my life that I feel happy and fulfilled". They will literally dedicate their lives to making your life better, now you just listen to their advice.
I swear, people suck at finding solutions sometimes.
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Maybe he could make a second hit gam-- oh wait, Minecraft was a complete fluke and Notch is an untalented idiot.
It pisses me off that he has more money than, say, Sid Meier. Or even Peter Molyneau. Sure, his recent games have all been disappointments, but Black and White and Dungeon Keeper series are ten times the game Minecraft is.
Then again, I wager Sid Meier has no trouble going to sleep at night.
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Or even Peter Molyneau.
That guy. The one who doesn't know what 'truth' is. Like, more-so than you, even. To the point of hilarity. But, admittedly, he worked on good games. Then too, mentioning that he has character flaws is probably harassment, these days.
But I do get why Minecraft is more successful than games I'd consider clearly better games. It's mostly that it isn't in any way time-bound, while also being multiplayer. Add to that that it will never feel 'done', and you have a situation where expectations are low, and anything the game does is therefore amazing. It doesn't do it for me; I got bored fairly quickly. But when you get into crazy tasks like building a subway between towns, you can really get into it, and it's basically as many dumb tasks like that as you can think of.
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But I do get why Minecraft is more successful than games I'd consider clearly better games. It's mostly that it isn't in any way time-bound, while also being multiplayer.
The same is true of Terraria, which is a vastly superior game.
But when you get into crazy tasks like building a subway between towns, you can really get into it, and it's basically as many dumb tasks like that as you can think of.
Right but:
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That's not fun at all, and
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If you're going to do it, you should do it in Terraria which is a legit fun game.
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Oh, I agree fully. Terraria simplifies all the things I didn't like about Minecraft, has actual combat and platforming mechanics, and looks better, even. Still, I've met people who have played a significant amount of both and prefer Minecraft.
This mostly seems to have to do with liking a less structured game, but building is also generally more interesting in 3D. Minecraft doesn't feel like a game to me, because I don't feel like I have goals, but for some people, that seems to be exactly why they like it. If I want that kind of 3D building, I have Space Engineers.
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Still, I've met people who have played a significant amount of both and prefer Minecraft.
I also know stupid people.
This mostly seems to have to do with liking a less structured game,
Terraria is exactly as structured as Minecraft.
If I want that kind of 3D building, I have Space Engineers.
Except Space Engineers is also boring after the first two hours. You can play Terraria for months without ever running out of stuff to do.
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Building 3D objects can be fun for endless amounts of time. But I agree, having an actual game in it is generally nice.
Luckily, Space Engineers lets you make one of those too, if you want.
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Luckily, Space Engineers lets you make one of those too, if you want.
Unless it's been hugely patched, the game mode in Space Engineers is basically "Unceasing Tedium: The Game".
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If you play survival solo, that's exactly what it is, though adding oxygen added a bit more urgency... just not much.
Multiplayer, it's more fun, because you can multitask more.
However, it's creative mode is infinitely better than Minecraft's, just for having gravity, physics, symmetrical building, and the ability to instantly make pillars or walls.
And then you have the scenario editor. It's really basic, but you can do a lot with it.
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However, it's creative mode is infinitely better than Minecraft's, just for having gravity, physics, symmetrical building, and the ability to instantly make pillars or walls.
And a world that's like 20 yards across.
Oh wait, no that sucks shit.
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It's 300 years across, with randomly-placed asterioids and ships.